Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4 DANBCRY lCONN.) MAN recently went OF
to trade a horse which did not answer his
purpose. He returned with another horse.
$50 Of money in his pockets, 10 bushels OF pO-
tatOes, 10 pounds Of butter, o dozen eggs and a
watch.
\ CAR LOAD Of 10000 pounds Of fresh salmon
was shipped last Friday night from Dallas,
Oregon. to New York. the first that has ever
been shipped from Oregon to New York. The
railroad company guarantee that the time
consumed in transit Will not exceed nine
days.
CIRCULARS are being mailed throughout the
country announcing that Tuesday, May q,
has been named by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union as a special day
OF prayer, the particular objects being the
platform and candidates Of the various pO-
lltical parties.
4 WESTERN PAPER asserts that farmers in
Knox county, Indiana, which ranks high in
the production Of wheat, threaten TO quit
growing that cereal. on the ground that di-
rect and indirect taxes are 50 great that II
cannot be made 10 pay. and that farming has
ceased to be remunerative except IN rare IN
stances.
NM. MIGNOS AND TOUARD. who established
the refrigerating service at the Paris Morgue,
have made experiments with their system on
hams infested with trichine, and are said to
have proved that these are rendered wholly
innOcuOus by exposure during an hour 10 a
cold Of 20 degrees c.
ELLIOTT CoUEs, the Washington ornitholo-
gist, gives a terrible blow to the popular, in
deed proverbial, belief that the lark is an
early riser, and says that it is a laggard, get
ting up hours after earlier birds. Probably
the prOverb refers to the larks which begin at
10 O'Clock at night and are still vocal at
O'Clock IN the morning.
DIR. J. VI. BAKENBERG, Of St. Louis a few
days since met with an accident which viii
probably cost him his life. He attempted to
mix hvpophosphite Of iron and chloride OF
potash, when a fearful explosion occurred,
causing him to sustain painful burns upon
his chest. face and hands. The explosion
shattered all the glass in the Office windows.
THE Baltimore Manufacturers Record, in its
issue Of last week, has an article on what
the South has Done in the Four Months Of the
Present Year" 1t shows that a sum total Of
s55.504.000 has been invested in manufacturing
and mining enterprises. distributed as follows:
Kentucky. Sl,92),000; Alabama, Sll.lS2,0O0;
Virginia. S93S5. coo; Texas, $6.077. 900; Tennes-
see. S2,964, 600; Georgia, 81 S34, 900: Maryland,
s2.5l4.O00: North Carolina. 81, lSS, 900: West
virginia, 81. Isl 600; Florida. Si,Ss6,o0e: south
Carolina, Sl.l59.000; Louisiana. $1,000, goo;
Arkansas, sol, 900; Mississippi, S537 600.
a LITTLE BOOK of political recollections, just
published IN Kentucky, contributes new
story of President Lincoln, which is worth
quoting because of its apparent applicability
10 a recent conspicuous vOlte-face in our own
politics, and possibly, also, to the future de-
velopment Of the same incident. To pOlti-
cal opponent, who had tainted Lincoln with
his youth, he replied: Live long or die young.
| would rather die now than, like the gentle
man. change my politics, and, simultaneously
with the change, receive an office worth s., coo
per year. and then have to erect a lightning
rod over my house to protect a guilty con-
science from an offended God"
THE Cotton Seed Crushers' Convention,
which adjourned sine die in St. Louis Thurs
day last, decided to hold the next annual
meeting in New Orleans, subject to the call Of
the President. Mr.. J. W. Allison, Of Jackson,
Tenn. Saws the Globe Democrat: 1.-The re-
suits of the convention are not satisfactory to
some Of the delegates, and there is some COM
plant that too little enthusiasm was shown in
The work transacted. The trouble seems to
be q feeling between the Northern and South
ern manufacturers. The former say that they
can't compete on equal term with the latter
on account of the superior advantages Of the
Southern men for raising cotton seed, The
controversy remains unsettled, but efforts
viii be made to reach an amicable under
standing"