Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-29
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are used at the Louisville Exposition.
A WOMAN has brought suit against dry
goods firm at North Adams for criminal libel,
they having advertised for sale an account
against her for about $40, made four years
ago. by posting small hand-bills about the
town and sending them to Haverhill, where
she now lives, to have them posted there. The
poster gave the woman's maiden name and
announced that the goods sold her constituted
part OF her wedding outfit.
REV. JAMES p. SMITH, speaking at Frede-
ricksburg, Va, on Thursday of Stonewall
jackson, told this story: ''Jackson's power of
self-contrOl was wonderful. One day a warm
friend and admirer Yentured TO ask him
which way the army would move on the fol-
lowing day. Can you keep secret, sIrt'
asked jackson. yes, sir said the gentleman,
surprising he was about to obtain the desired
information. Then, sir retorted jackson, so
can ,"
NEW volcanic island has appeared of Cape
Reykjancs, at the southwest point Of Iceland.
1t was first noticed at the end of July, after
several earthquake shocks, but no one has yet
landed on its shores, and part of the conc
already appears to have given way. Such
islands have repeatedly appeared in the same
district since Iceland was first cOlOnlzed, and
at the end of last century a similar temporary
formation was occupied by the Danes as
New Island, p" but it disappeared in less than
a month.
THE intricate machinery in the "cutting'
room in a shoe factory makes it the most dam
gerOus room in the building. 1t is a rare
thing to find such a room in a large factory
that does not contain one or more employees
minus a finger or thumb. Sometimes fright
full accidents occur. The racer, a huge ma
chine modelled something after the gullOtine
OF France, Is used in cutting the sides of
leather IN strips. 1t contains knife four feet
long that would cut mans arm off as easy as
scissors cut thread.
THE PITTS FAMILY, of the lower end of the
Delaware peninsula, was of much note in
colonial days and for a century has been
classed among the Eastern Shore aristocrats.
The DIR. Pitts just convicted of manslaugh.cr
is now the most conspicuous member of the
family. His father, Judge Edward Pitts,
dropped dead in the Norfolk court house q
few years ago. Two years later Sidney Pitts,
a brother of the doctor and a young Virginia
lawyer. was shot dead in street duel in East
VILE, Va, by DIR. Alfred Thorn.
ALL the people in Ceylon, from the babes
just "feeliug their feet 20 old men and wo-
men, their steps Uottering on the brink of the
grave, wear gold and silver ornaments. They
even invent new places for carrying them,
and il is no uncommon thing TO see a Cinga-
lese belle with the top of her cars covered
with gold plate or wire, 4 large pair of rings
pendant from the lObes of the ear, gold or
silver circlet round her hair, her nose adorned
with rings, bracelets on her wrists, rings on
her fingers and silver plates on her toes.
1T is related that when Famine Yarmouth
was examining a revolver at White Lake, n.
", the other day, his small nephew and set
ter dog being near him, and a young girl
leaning upon the easement of a door q few
feet away, it was accidentally discharged,
and the ball passed through Warmouth's left
hand, struck the nephew on finger, taking 1t
off at the second joint, pierced hole clear
through the dogs right ear, struck stone on
the ground, glanced upward and lodged in the
easement OF the door, not two inches from the
girls head.
1T is not often that man is so enamored Of
military life that he is content to serve almost
half century as "high private in the rear
rank" but such a case has occurred at Wash
ington. ID. c., and the veteran has Just been
buried with military honors. The enlistment
extended from 1899 to the present time-a
little over forty-fiye years. He would never
take a commission, but preferred to shoulder
the musket, and when he came to 'ground
arms" for the last time all of his old contem-
poraries were dead, for he was 20 years old
when he enlisted.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, the poetess, pub
lished her first poem when she was IA. Speak
ing of this time, she said: IL CROPPED my way
up. When l began to write l didn't know 5
soul connected with the press-not even a
country editor. i did not even know where
but two or three well known literary papers
and magazines were published. A little girl
of my own age went to book store and
copied of the addresses of several of them
for me, and sent out poems TO most of them,
coOlly requesting the editors TO send me their
papers as pay for the poems if they accepted
them. The very first one sent to responded
favOrably."
Mr.. MEYER, noted as an arch@ologist, re.
Gently made an interesting discovery on the
Island OF Zapatera. Writing from Nicaragua
he SAYS: About forty-two feet under the sur
face of an old cemetery discovered a rock,
which, Judging from the figures it contains,
has served in remote tunes Tor astronomical
observations On this rock have found two
stone tablets, one OF which contains repre-
sentation of the world, part of Africa and
Asia. united Europe and this continent;
large continent is situated IN the Atlantic
ocean, which ] consider to be the mythical
lost Atlantis, mentioned IN some OF the an
cient authors. The other tablet contains IN
scriptions, OF which part is. undoubtedly
Phenician."
1T is distressing TO hear that the mania for
annexation, which RACES so fercely among
European races, has suddenly broken out
in violent form among the South Sea Island
ers. The great chief. Timpenbook, monarch
of Apimama, an island in the centre of the
Gilbert group. has suddenly annexed the
island OF Mai Nonti. Last December he de-
seconded upon Nan Month, pillaged it, killed
some score or more Of its Inhabitants, and
then carried of "a number Of prisoners. On
leaving his new conquest he hung his m ale
prisoners into the sea, and the worst OF 1t is
that he is so intoxicated by the victory that
he boasts he will annex all the islands in the
group in the same high-handed fashion.
TEE news that Sarah Bernhardt had grand