Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-10
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TIE town.of Kalamazoo, Mich, is said TO
have derived its name from he Kan AmazOo,
signlfying in the Indian tongue "a boiling
pot" II mas l4,ooo inhabitants, and Is a boil
ing pot Of industry.
THE latest thing in stockings does away
with carriers or supporters from above. The
hosiery is kept in its place by lacing from IN
der the knee TO the upper bulge Of the calf.
Thus the circulation Of the blood in the limbs
Is not impaired.
ARETURNED Western gold miner came up
TO the counter Of the Miners Arms on Front
street. New York. a day or two since and re-
ceIved $500 in English soTereigns for a 30
ounce bar Of gold. IL was the result Of %
years mining in Nevada and Montana. The
man was native OF Penzanee IN CORNWALL
and was about 10 sail for home.
OWING to the ravages Of the phylloxera, the
ground devoted to vine cultivation in France
has fallen in Il years from $4,000 acres to
$4,000 1.-THE total area OF the country beng
81. 62l. $40 acres. and the wine produced from
4 &c. 900 gallons to eco 800, 900 gallons. Less
than a SEVENTEEN Of the vineyards destroyed
have been replanted.
4 PARTY Of well-diggers were sinking a
well near swan Lake, jefferson county, Ark,
and when about 40 feet distance struck bed
OF shells Among the number brought to the
surface was perrified mollusk. having the
embryo features Of a human being distinctly
perfectly discernible and located near the
valvular point.
ONE Of the society events in Catholic CIR
cIes 10 days ago was the marriage of Caesar
Barnum TO Miss Mary O'keefe, sister Of a
leading dry goods merchant in Nashville. Tenn.
IL has just developed that notices were read
in the Nashville Catholic churches sunday
declaring the marriage null and void. Father
Scanucl. who performed the ceremony.
having ascertained that Barnum has
divorced wife IN New YOrk.
A SNAKE STORY, with the necessary affda-
Wits. comes in from the farm Of John Yard,
eight miles from Trenton, \. J. One Of Mr..
Yards cows was found every morning, on
coming in from certain pasture field, 70 be
as dry as though she had been MIXED. When
pastured in any other field she gave the usual
amount of milk. A watch was set, and it
was found that s large snake came early
every morning and took meal rom me COWS
udder draining II Of every drop OF milk. The
COW made no opposition.
THE Chicago stock yards, which were con-
structed about % years ago, are the largest in
the world. They are capable Of accOmmo-
dating 10000 cattle. $4,000 hogs. 10000 sheep
and l,500 horses. seventeen inherent ran
roads centre in the yards. 1t is estimated that
the number of carloads received and shipped
last year would make about 1900 trains Of
81 cars each. II placed in one train they
would reach from New York 10 It. Louis and
back. a distance Of about :, l46 miles.
Mr.. COPELAND, of Brockton, has nearly
completed the machinery which Is being
placed under the Union Fish Company's
wharf, PrOvincetown. This is an invention
Of Mr.. Copeland's in which the rise and fall
Of the tide is to be the motive power. The
work is only experimental, but everything is
successful thus Tar. The apparatus consists
Of float gliding up and down on studding
which turns wheel, making only four revO-
buttons a tide. This wheel is connected by
shafts and bolts to q series Of other wheels,
and in such 81 way that the terminal wheel
makes go revolutions per minute.
DRsPITE the business depression Of the past
two years the growth OF wealth in the South
has been enormous, and the increase in the
year ended Aug. 81, 1854. was greater than
that OF any Of the four preceding years. The
average annual increase Of assessed value of
DrOpertv in twelve Southern States in the
wears from 1879 TO 1883, inclusive, was $780,
000,O0o, but the increase IN the year ended