Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-19

THE DAT CROP of Kentucky will be
large one.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, has population
Of very nearly $4,000.
THE COLLEGES building in course of
erection at Decatur, Texas, viii accom-
mOdate 500 students.
THE WHEAT CROP of Virginia. which
has all harvested, proves to be large in
quantity and superior in quality.
COLONEL KILLEBREw, of Tennessee,
has gone to Mexico to work the Polk
mines. He says they are worth 100000.
THE ESTIMATED population of Ireland
at the middle of the year 1882 was $685.
730. During that year SO, 1856 persons emf
grated.
DUBLIN has become so well composed
that government officials are beginning to
90 about without escorts of police and
detectives.
THE LARGEST lumber fleet that ever
left Bay City, Mich, started last Satur-
day. 1t numbered fifty-siX craft and car
ried %. 100000 feet of lumber.
FIGURING MILLS are being erected this
summer in various parts of Nevada.
Those already in operation make excel
lent flour and are kept running steadily.
THE LIGHTNING was not satisfied with
striking and killing Michael Poets, of
Albany. but stripped his clothing off his
back and lacerated his flesh. He was, by
the way, reading his Bible at the time.
AN ADVENTUROUS traveller has per.
formed the feat of walking across the en-
tire continent of Australia, a distance of
1000 miles in 100 days. Sometimes fully
100 miles interviewed between human hab-
itatiOns.
THE AGGREGATE value of real estate
transactions in st. Paul for the first six
months of 1888 is $7,992061, as against
So. 913,3S7 for a corresponding period in
1882. Two thousand buildings are now in
process of erection on property bought the
present season.
AN ALABAMA man has applied to the
managers of the Kentucky State Fair for
permission to exhibit his little girl, three
and half years old. She has three sep
arate and distinct tongues, the two
smaller being beneath the main one and
attached to it near the root.
THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE who was
dlscoursing on the young man of the
period. thus summed him up: eff drink
ing, gambling, base ball playing and de-
riding religion could be washed out, l
think / would say the young men of the
present day are just splendid"
THE ANNUAL revenue of st. PauPs
Cathedral, London, is now $4,000. OF
this sum 1000 is paid to the dean and
$1,000 each to the three canOns in resi-
dence. The maintenance of worship in
the Cathedral, independent of the stipends
to the clergy, costs $1,000 year.
AN IDIoTIC negro boy, who has been at
the Maury county Tenn poor house for
some time, has been found to be in the
habit of catching snakes and ground
squirrels and eating them i'll their natural
state. Nine snake heads were found on
his person and several dead snakes were
wrapped about his body.
THE STEAMSHIP ALASKA, which arrived
in New York Sunday evening, made the
trip from Queenstown in seven days,
eighteen hours and twenty-five minutes,
within eight and a half hours of her best
westward passage. She was somewhat
delayed by a severe westerly gale soon
after leaving Queenstown.
J. Moss, a Wisconsin cattle dealer,
registered at a hotel near the Chicago
stock Yards. He blew out the gas. The
clerk and the landlord tried to persuade
the rural guest to open the door and let
them in, but he yelled that he was no
greenhorn and they couldn't rob him. The
wise traveller, getting frightened, let him
self out the window by bed clothes rope
and campedFin a field. The gas has been
turned off,
A ROMANTIC freak Of the Sultan Of Mo
rocco, who is very rich, is lately pub
lished. 1t is said that he has large vaults
built one hundred feet under ground, sur
rounded by wall fifty feet thick, COM
posed of alternate layers Of metal and
stone. The approach to these vaults is
through a subterranean labyrinth, and is
defended by armed men, who, after enter
ing the service of the Sultan never see the
light of day again.
THE TRIAL of two villains for mock
marriage conspiracy has just ended at
Wheeling, VIVA. Mary Hanover, daugh-
ter of a farmer, 30 years old, and beauti-
full, attracted the eyes of two brothers
named Clayton. The younger succeeded
in winning her young heart, and per-
suaded her to a secret marriage. The
elder Clayton disguised himself as a cler-
gymen. and the victim thought herself
married. After four weeks Clayton told
her of her ruin. She returned to her father
and the rascals were arrested. The
Younger was sentenced to three years i'm
| prisonment, and the bogus clergyman was
fined $500