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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
The Alleged Pope's Toe.
Rome Letter.


The bronze statue of st. Peter is a very
fine one, and l saw men, women and chill
dren walk up to it and kiss the projecting
toe. Some came reverently with prayers
and clasped hands, others in a business
like way, and one tall, gray-haired man
paused with prayer-boOk at each step
from the outer door to the statue, then
bowling a moment with the deepest hui
mility he drew out a clean handkerchief,
wiped the toe and revereHtly pressed his
lips upon it, prayed a moment, kissed il
again and departed. A little girl who
could not reach it with her lips kissed the
end of her finger and touched it. We
went up to it also, but fear not so de=
votionally, to see it. The toe IS consider
ably worn away, although 1t mas been
once or twice renewed, and is highly pol
ished by the repeated wiping it receives
before being kissed. One or two among
us touched it with our fingers, but as
soon as we were gone from it priest wet
it with holy water and wiped off the here
tics touch.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
HOW CETYWAYO DIED.
Buried Sitting Upright in squar
Box.

Buried Sitting Upright in a Square
Box.
On Friday, the 8th inst, February, at
II a. M, a messenger arrived at Mr.. Os-
born's, says a letter from Ekowe to tie
Natal Mercury, informing him that Getty
wayo had just been taken ill. At , p. m.
another messenger came, stating that the
King was growing worse. He was then
under the care of native doctor. Mr..
Osborn asked the messenger whether
Cetywayo would like a white doctor to
attend him, and the Kings reply was
Eyes" Mr.. Osborn then sent over to the
camp for DR.. Scott, who on going to the
King found that he must have been dead
about an hour and a half The doctor
wished to have a pOst-mortem exam
ination of the body, but this
the natives refused. All the
Kings relations had by this time collec-
ted in the kraal, and received the tidings
in silence. The body was then tied to a
pole, in a sitting position, according to
Zulu custom. Next morning all the chiefs
came to Mr.. Osborn for a coffin, which
was made; it was a box three feet square,
covered with black cloth. The body was
at once put in it, in a sitting position, the
men singing all the while. l suppose the
body will be removed to Mahlabatini,
where it will be buried in proper Zulu
style in about month from to-day. All
the wives, girls and men whom the late
King liked would be massacred and buried
beside him, but l hope the English will
put a stop to such proceedings. Four wO-
men are now sitting beside the body
weeping night and day. 1t is hardly ne
cessary to state that very few are not
sorry that this has happened
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

NOTABLE feature of the upward turn in
the price Of cotton is the fact that one of the
largest mills in New Orleans has announced
its intention to shut down, as it can sell its
cotton on hand at better profit than to turn
il into fabrics.
THE New Jersey railroad tax bill is now
awaiting Gov. Abbet's signature to subject
all the railroad corporations to their full share
in the State taxes. The passage of this bill is
regarded a great victory for the cause OF
equal taxation.
THE severe strain on the eyes in Stimulating
blindness has nearly resulted in the loss OF
sight to Miss Maud Stuart, who played the
part of Edith" the blind girl, in ''Young
Mrs. Winthrop" She is now in Philadelphia
undergoing treatment.
THE New Ork Senate has passed Mr.. Daly's
bill requiring all telegraph, telephone and
electric wires in Brooklyn and New York to
be put underground before November of next
year. The action OF the Assembly and of the
Governor is now awaited with intense inter
est.
THE Exposition Cotton Mills of Atlanta,
Ca, reports net earnings for its first six
months operations, ending with March 81, of
per cent. Four per cent. of this was paid
in dividends and the remainder placed to the
surplus account. Considering the stagnatiOn
in the cotton industry, the directors exhibit a
pardonable pride in boasting of the result.
THE steamer City of Dallas. at New Orleans,
from British Honduras, reports that the
steamers Ivanhoe and c. W. Lord, Of the
Baltimore and Jamaica fruit fleet. were on
the Spanish Honduras coast between the goth
and SOth of March vainly seeking bananas.
Westerly gales last December blew down
most Of the banana stalks on that coast, con-
sequently there is very little fruit there this
season.
THE laborers at Fort Davis are MeXicans,
who have neither the ability to lead nor the
docility to follow. They pillow with a forked
stick and hoe with a root. They sleep on a
sheepskin and eat prairie dog and hominy.
They will beg you for a nickel and murder
you for dollar. They work three hours a
day and steal ten hours a night. They can
live on So a month when they keep themselves
and on So a day when you have to feed them.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
REPEATEDLY ROBBED.
Experience of Rich Old Farmer Who
Placed Neither Faith nor Money in


Placed Neither Faith nor Money in
Banks.
Isaac Steele, farmer living near Pc
trolia, Pa, says an Clean, \. Y, special
to the World, made large fortune some
years ago from petroleum found on his
property. He is an old man and lives
with his wife and daughter. Having no
! faith in banks it has been his custom to
keep from $4,000 to $1,000 600 slowed away
in different places about his house. Five
or six years ago be had the latter sum
locked up in number of boxes. One
day he was examining his treasures and
found it mouldy. He took the bills from
their boxes and spread them out in field
to dry. This singular proceeding became
nOlsed about the neighborhood and people
| tiocked from all directions to witness the
novel spectacle of a fortune scattered
about. For two days the money was thus
exposed, guarded by the old farmer and
| his wife, daughter and hired man. 1t was
then returned to its hiding places in the
| house.
Three nights afterwards Steele woke
up and found three masked men in his
room, who seized the old man and his
wife, and bound and gagged them.
While searching for money about the
house they were frightened by the APP
pearance Of Steele's hired man, who had
been to Petrolia. The robbers fed, hav-
ing secured $1,000.
One night in April, 1881, three masked
men broke into Steele's house again. Mrs.
| Steele was knocked unconscious and the
hired man driven into a bedroom at the
point of the pistol. Both Steele and his
daughter were soon OverpOwered, but not
before they had torn the masks from the
| faces OF two of their assailants and recog-
nized James James and William Mac
| donald, two well known residents of the
neighbOrhOOd. The noise of the struggle
aroused neighboring family and the
robbers fled. James and Macdonald were
| arrested next day and were sentenced to
i've years in States prison.
Every one then supposed that Steele
would put his wealth in a place of safety
after the second warning. Still Steele
stubbOrnly refused to bank his money
| Only a few days ago an acquaintance of
his found The old farmer sitting in his
| kitchen, while the floor, table and chairs
were covered with bank bills, which he
was drying again. There were $45,0 in
| the lot. On Saturday the news arrived
that masked burglars had once more Wis
! tied Steele's house on Thursday night,
and after binding and gagging the family
| succeeded in finding $4,000 before being
| frightened away. Their identity is not
| known. 1t is said that Steele has at last
| decided to intrIIst his wealth to a hank
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
A Case for FataIists.


Here is a case for fatalists, psycholo-
gists and such like individuals: Two
Partisan worEmen quarTeled the other
day, and one stabbed the other to death.
When the dead mans body was examined
it was found to be very extensively tat
tooed with many curious devices. The
most remarkable was a serpent depicted
on his breast with its head appraised as
if to strike his heart. Under the serpent
was inscribed the singular motto: sic
passe ma trompe, lie present me tour
mente, Pavenir m'epOuvante." The mark
of the fatal stab is exactly under the
words ''le present me tourmente." What
the moral of this incident may be l know
not, but perhaps the Psychical Society
will be good enough to deduce one. may
add that the tattoOed portions of skin
were cut from the mans body and sent
for preservation to the CHASTITY chamber
of horrors at the Prefecture of Police,
pwhere the relics of all sorts of crimes are
kept in sort Of museum,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
THEY MIXED THOSE BABIES UP.
A Queer Case Which is PuzzlIng the
New York Lauvers

A Queer Case Which is Puzzllng the
New York Lawyers.
Thecurious examination as to the iden-
tity of two-year-old baby which Mrs. sa-
villar Downing says is her child, and which
was secreted from her by it's father, Forest
). Downing, and which others say is Carlos
Wilson, born three months before Sayil-
lars baby, says a New York special of
the 18th inst. to the Philadelphia Times,
was continued to-day. Lawyer Secor,
who contests the claim, alleges that the
baby is really Carlos Wilson, and that
Mrs. DOwning's baby died and was buried.
Mrs. Downing's lawyer says that the baby
that was buried was a girl and not Mrs.
Downing's baby at all, but another baby
PANIED off upon her by the instigation of
her alleged husband, with whom she has
not lived since the birth of her child. DR..
WaterbuTn, who attended both babies at
the house of Mrs. Diener, where they
were born, thought the baby in court was
Carlos Wilson. He then examined the
baby, which objected strenuously, and
became quite uncertain as to which baby
it was.
Mrs. Diener was recalled. She said she
had observed that Mrs. Downing's child
had very small middle toes. She was
SURF uHe CHllu Ill COuTI was not IndI cnllu.
Then the baby was examined again, and
it cried. According to one Observer-the
father of five children, including twins
the middle toes were unusually small.
The examination of Mrs. Dener went on,
and she persisted in her story. Mrs.
Downing's lawyer tried to get her to adj
nit that the baby in court had Jumps on
his head like the humps on Mrs. Downing's
baby. Then the baby was again examined
and again wept. 1t will be examined
some more on Wednesday.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
An Ohio Mans Invantion

Charlie Kugle, an ingenious fellow in
GAINESVILLE, o., has constructed a sheet
iron hen that promises to lay him golden
egg. 1t is finished up to life, full size,
cackles, clucks and looks with one eye at
a time so naturally that it will deceive
the oldest hen-hawk in the county. 1t is
so arranged that when a hawk, mink or
polecat pounces ON to it the back springs
open, and the wings fly up and force the
assailant on to a ravenous buzz-saw that
makes LOO revolutions per minute. After
moving half a minute the saw stops, the
hen closes up, folds its wings, and begins
to cackle as though it had Just laid an
egg. One winding-up will answer for
three massacres, providing the rather
delicate machinery does not get clogged
up with too much blood, bones and feath-
ers. He set freshly painted one out in
the sun to dry last Wednesday, which at
tracted the attention of fine old cat be-
longing to a doctor who had been poking
a great deal of fun at the fool thing. The
hen is there, but the cat is hence.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
BRIGHT BITS.

THE first vehicle ever made: The whirlgig
of time.
NEW JERSEY has a donkey that eats raw
fish. Fish is noted as brayin food.-Phild-
delphja Chronicle.
THINGS have come to such a pass, remarks
the Philadelphia CAL, that even the milk Of
human kindness is badly adulterated.
THE next move in Maine will be for con-
stltutional amendment prohibiting the sale,
giving away or drinking Of bean water.
IT is all folly to say that love is blind A
fellow in love is very quick to detect if his
girl smiles at another chap.-PAijadSIphta
Chronicle.
THE story comes from the West that at an
evening dance recently a mob forced its way
into the building and hung up the fiddler and
the beau.-Drdke's IrdCeler's MagdsiRe.
AIMEE tells a reporter that she wears out
$3.50 worth of stockings every year. But as
stockings comprise almost her entire ward
robe the figures are not so very appalling
Electric Light.
A BENNINGTON man has patent on a fruit
jar. This jar has clamping arrangement
which renders it perfectly alright. easily
attached and readily opened. If it will pre-
vent the small boy from getting his fingers
INTO the ola lady's preserves 1t viii have big
sale.
call at - Wabash avenue. "Phat is it,"
asked the Irish cook. 'Pm the tuner" "Be
jabers, come in" said Bridget. Faith, I've
been tryin' all the blessed day to get the bed
stead in tune, an it won't chord at all, at all
Carl PretsePs Weekly.
HE-"Did you go the first night?" She
"Oh, yes; we always do. 1t is so delightfully."-
amusing, is itnot?" He-"What. you thought
the piece good, them" She-"Oh, the piece
/. really did not take much notice. Don't YOU
think, by the way, it would be much joller
without piece at allY'-Judy.
A sERIO-CoMIC lately returned from Mon
tana, was asked if they possessed any culture
out that way. Culture! You bet your vare-
gated socks they do! We can sling more cul-
ture to the square foot in Helena than they
kin in any camp in America. Culture! Oh,
loosen my corsets till l smile. 1.-THE Judge.
LITTLE NELL-"Why are lightning bugs
called blessings mammal" Mamma
"'BlessingsY | never heard them called
blessings" Little Nell-"But they are in
this book" Mammalian you sure?' Lit
tie Nell-"Oh, yes. Here it is: Blessings
brighten as they take their flight. ''-Phila-
deLDhia call
An extraordinary case: She-"Only give up
smoking for one year, and | have no doubt
that you will never touch tobacco again"
He-"Well, | don't know. ! did not smoke
enjoyed it hugely" She-"For fifteen years!
You must have been very young when you
began" He-'I was tifteen."-Lffe
No wonder spring poetry is bad this year.
Spring is an awfully hard subject to get any
poetry out of. But we suppose something is
expected and Wen try
Hail, horrid Spring. Hail, Rain and SnOw
Then let thy clustering billiards. blindly blow
Let chilling clouds shut out the cheerful sun,
And stop small boys from having any fun.
The rubber dealers smile in merry mood,
From seeming evil still educing good.
For morn, wet eyed, appears, mother OF dews
And bids us not forget our rubber shoes.
Boston 4 drertisey
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
PERSONAL.

Mr.. VANDERBILT has paid $4,000 for box
at the Abbey benefit.
Ex-Governor SIBLEY, of Minnesota, has
been spending the winter in the pine woods Of
North Carolina.
A. BRONSON ALCOTT has recovered from
his stroke of paralysis so as to be able to con-
verse clearly on every point.
MGR. CAPEL's voice still fails him. He VIII
remain in New York, and he cannot go tC
Boston to fulfill his engagements there.
CHIEF JUSTICE PARK, of Connecticut, has
been brought to book by the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for neglect
ing to feed and properly care for his cattle
and sheep.
MARY JANE BALDWIN, the belle of a Long
Island village, let a fellow fall in love with
her year ago, and let him blow his brains
out because she would not marry him. She
then took oath never to marry "during the
days of her life" Last week she let herself
down easy by marrying at midnight, and thus
kept her vow after a fashion.
GEN CLUsERET, of communistic notoriety,
generally believed and by some hoped to be
dead. is discovered to be living quietly in
COnstantinOple, and is thought to be wholly
devoid of all desire to participate in any more
revolutions. He protests to recent inter
viewer that he did all in his power to prevent
the murder of the Archbishop of Paris.
THE Empress of Austria is getting on in
years, but she is still pronounced to be the
most beautiful of the royal women of Europe.
She is proud of her hair, which is bountifully
abundant, and of her waist, which is girlish-
~ slender, and she maintains her fresh, clear
complexion by going to bed betimes and get
ting up early and by spending hours every
day on horseback.
DIR. WIN. II. DE COURCY lived in house in
Queen Anne's county, Md, built with brick
brought by the De Courcys from England
more than two hundred wears ago. This old
mansion, 'ChestOn." situated at the junction
Of the Back Wye and the Big Wye rivers, was
burned few days ago. Among the valuable
things saved were the family portraits,
brought over in 1862.
JOHN RUsKIN is rapidly redeeming his rep
utation among the fair sex of England. For
years he was conspicuous for his always cyni-
cal and sometimes c0ntemptuOus speeches
about wOmen's brains, and the weakness OF
women in art and literature especially, but
lately he has taken to buttering the sex gen.
orally and saying all sorts Of sweet things in
land fOrl the favor of females.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
A Generous senator.


While talking with Senator Wade
Hampton last evening a daughter of the
late Reverdy johnson came up with an
autograph album in her hand. This book
was for the names only of United States
Senators. The purpose of this lady is to
raise little contribution towards the
founding of a hospital for helpless
Southern soldiers at Richmond, work so
laudable that it would be like an offense
to argue the duty and glory Of it. This
book is to be sold when filled to any one
who will pay the most for it. Each Sena-
tor has subscribed s.. But the one thing
which the beautiful lady with radiant
face came in haste to tell Hampton was
this: One United States Senator-Was he
from the North? was he from the South
the East or the West? it was a secret,
and a precious one and sacred-this
Senator mOdestly set down the little So,
not willing to be known as giving more
than some Of his fellow Senators who are
not rich, and then slyly handed her a
check large enough to set two decimals to
the right All! there is heart in this
world after all, and don't you despair for
humanity.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
The civil Service Commission

\ few Of the Republican organs pre-
tend to fear that the Democrats will make
no appropriation for the support of the
I Civil Service Commission. What they
really fear is that there will be an ample
/ appropriation made. They would like
nothing better than to have the House
refuse to make an appropriation for the
salaries Of the Civil Service Commission.
They wouldn't want any better campaign
material. They will not, however, have
the opportunity Of saying that after hav-
ing proposed the civil service law the
Democrats made it imperative by starving
the Commission. An appropriation will
undoubtedly be made sufficient tomeet its
requirements. Judge Holman is the
Chairman of the subcommittee which has
charge Of the civil service appropriation,
and whether he believes in civil service
reform or not it is certain that the House
does, and it will take good care that the
necessary appropriation is made for it.
The law is not popular with the politi-
clans, but 1t is with the people. AS long
as the people are satisfied with it the
politicians are too wise to attempt to an
null it.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
FOLGER AS A LANDLORD.

Where Bliss Boarded in Washington.
Secretary Folger, it appears from the
testimony of George Bliss, ekes out his
official salary by keeping a boarding
house. This point was brought out in
the examination of special board bill.
1t appears that Bliss did not always stop
at the Arlington Hotel when he was in
Washington. During the months of Jan
uaTy and February, 1888, he lived at a
private house, and the following bills for
that period occur in the book of accounts
in the hands of the committee:
George Bliss Dr-TO board from January |
to February l, $lS3 So. Received payment.
FRANK SPERRY.
George Bliss, Dr-TO board from February
! to March l, $l64 70. Received payment.
FRANK SPERRY.
Mr.. Springer asked Bliss who Sperry
was, and if he kept a regular boarding
house. Bliss hesitated a little in his re-
ply, and then he said:
Il was at FOlger's house. / staid with
him during these two months, and those
bills represent my share of the mess ex-
penses. Frank Sperry is Folger's pri-
Yate secretary. He really had nothing to
do with it."
"But why did not Folger sign the
Youchers?"
sob, suppose he thought It would
look better TO have Sperry sign Them"
answered Bliss.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10

Political sins are usually soon for
gotten. Just as the Republican masses
in some sections were beginning to laud
Blaine as a model statesman, the New
York EUeniRq Post, Republican journal
Of the most respectable order, supporting
Senator Edmunds, dives into some reminis-
cences that will no doubt force the
plumed knight on the defensive, and so
destroy the elan of his henchmen. 1t
reyives the story of Blaine's action as
Speaker Of the House with reference to
the Little Rock and Fort Smith land
grant; his offer to sell Warren Fisher one
half of One-twenty-fOurth interest in the
Northern Pacific Railroad Immediately
after Jay Cookies contract had been per-
fected by additional legislation; also his
refusal TO surrender to witness Mulligan
certain letters which were supposed to
compromise him. He is accused of pur-
suing 4 sensational and theatrical policy
while Secretary of State, and of being
now the greatest master of packing poll
teal conventions in the country. Per-
haps, however, the Republican party will
take Blaine as its candidate on the promise
that he will settle the charges made
against him in the second volume of his
book.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-10
An Earthquake at OrchiIIa

Capt. John Holt, of the ship David
Stewart, which arrived on Saturday from
Orchilla with guano, says the Baltimore
Sun of the 18th inst, reports that while
lying at Orchilla the island was visited
by two shocks of earthquake. The first
was experienced at 1920 a. m. on March
3. Capt. Holt says he was in the Super
intendent's office on the island, which
made a very perceptible move at the time.
Those on the ship thought she had struck
bottom. On March another shock was
felt. Capt. Holt, at the suggestion of
Capt. d. R. Barrett, Jr., Superintendent
of Orchilla, made soundings of the har-
Dor before leaving, as it was feared the
earthquake had made some change in the
bottom. a buoy was placed to mark the
shOalest part found. When three miles
outside the harbor the Stewart struck
heavily against a rock, which caused her
to leak the entire passage. The rock
must have been heaved up by the earth
quake, as it is on no chart. 1t was three
miles off the harbOr, the east point of
which bore east southeast and the west
point west by south.