Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

UANJA 10 an lhJoNlcanU made from Aeulp.
and some Of the Asiatics who drink it are dis
tuguishlng themselves by the widest atroci-
ties.
SYNDIcATEs of English capitalists and no
blemen own 3, 200, 900 acres of grazing land in
the Western plains, together with the stock
4 thereon.
a FOOL in a Kansas village brushed his hair
upright and stood still for a noted marksman
to shoot of the ends of it. A scalp wound was
the consequence.
REM lREABLE BEDsTEAD made to order by
a milwaukee, furniture firm is "A feet wide,
and has nine compartments, each intended to
hold one OF the purchasers children.
THE case is mentioned of vineyard near
Malaga affected by the phyloxera, and sup
posed to have been utterly ruined, which
| nevertheless broke into full eaf and displayed
! fresh vigor after the earthquakes which re-
! Gently devastated the southern provinces of
! Spain.
THE bi-lingual bill of fare of q big Partisan
restaurant announces such strange meats as
eel in tartar. sole at Colbert, beef at fiamaude,
beef at mode, beefsteak with harlcots. mutton
. chOp at minute chOns of kid, and a chicken
at MarengO. The Grand hotel also offers
/ Irlsch stew la franchise.
IT is said that arrangements are being made
to reinvest that portion of the $3.50. 900 trust
fund raised for Gen. Grant which was in
/ vested IN the first mortgage bonds of the Wa
/ bash railroad. This reinvestment fund IS to
! be made on Aug. ]. because the trustees of the
Morgan estate desired to be free from the re-
sponsi bility attached to them.
Tony AURAY, heir to a French fortune,
orally started out to find perfect girl. He
saw Marguerite Vagnair in a theatre, and
fancied that she was the object of his
search. lie made her acquaintance, Courted
her, and won her love- Then his mania took
a mi agNaNI 1nA haws ffn-
ward attempting suicide. He is on trial for
his crime.
l0-P0UND boy was born to Mrs. Mary
Becker on Third avenue elevated railway
car, in New Y ork. on Monday. She was very
( kindly treated; a doctor. who was on the
| tram, volunteered his services; the ladies on
! the car furnished linen and wraps. and when
she was removed to Bellevue hospital the
railway officials did not charge her loo. fare
| foi the child.
TEXAS MAN, already aware that his boy
was dull of apprehension, observed during a
heavy shower that the youngster actually did
not know enough to come IN when 1t rained.
Much impressed by the result of this proven
! bal test, he applied to the court to have the
! little fellow adjudged idiotic and committed
/ to an asylum. The motion was denied, how
/ ever, no other evidence being presented to
sustain 1t.
THE theatrical season in London has been
disastrous to all except three managers
/ From melo-drama to farce hardly anything
has pleased the public. One Of Sims pieces,
usually popular with the masses, has bank
rupted the house in which il was finely pro-
/ duced; tragedy with Mary Anderson has
/ drawn very moderately, in spite of her fame
and Mrs Langtry WAS so entirely neglected
| that her manager Is said to have lost $4,000
/ on the engagement.
Mrs. RAY BERRY, "a petite brunette OF
I graceful figure and about % wears of age,
and numerous other ladies of Kansas City,
were devoted members of Rev. Or. Jardine's
/ church, where confession was heard, and
! penltents were eXhOrted to submit to pen
/ ance, lust as children to their mOthers;'' but
upon the discovery that DR.. J5rdlne's con-
/ structon of the phrase was most literal they
/ kicked IN every sense of the word, ana a ire
mendous scandal resulted.
THE time has arrived when the mackerel
must look out for himself. This is an age of
steam, ana one of the most successful of the
Maine fishermen has had steam vessel CON
structed expressly for mackerel catching pur-
poses, and VIII start on an expedition to test
her in about a week. The mackere is used to
the sailing craft. and knows that it cannot
| follow HIM under all conditions of wind and
weather, but the steam fisher has surprise
party in store for him, for as long as he keeps
| near the surface 1T can follow him.
NINE. PATTI has just terminated a very
delicate affair arising out of her divorce from
| tary affairs between the divorced couple
had not been settled, and that part OF the
! judgment by which the wife was condemned
to pay $4,000 francs year as allmony to her
husband has not been carried out. By an ar
| rangement just concluded by the legal repre-
sentatves of the parties, that pension has
just been redeemed by the payment of lump
sum OF AGO. 600 francs.
A GERMAN PATENT, taken out by NJ. Braun
Of Hamburg, proposes to refine impure copper
| it in the molten state with as little access OF
| air as possible. 1t is SAID that the cuprous
| oxide contained in the copper is vOlatized as
| chloride. Also all other impurities which
| may be present as oxides, or as metals which
decOmpose vapor of hydrochoric acid at high
1 temperature, are removed by this treatment.
| The result is stated TO be a copper OF very
great purity and tOughness, free from bubbles
| and of high cOnductlvity.
WIN. C. SIMONDs q newspaper compositor,
committed suicide on Sunday night by shoot
ing himself with a revolver while in bed at
his boarding house in Newark, n J. The
| shot was no. heard IN the house. and Albert
| E. Eemar, his bedfelloW, retired at o'clock
in the morning without lighting the gas, and
| with very little noise, supp0sing monds to
| be asleep. lie awOke about daylight and dis
| covered that he had been sleeping by the side
| of a corpse. The deceased was about Is years
Of age, and has relatives living in Washing
[ ton.
been attempted at a summer resort on the
Pacific coast. Each guest or family can
have separate tent. pitched in a grove over
| looking the sea, and provided with the rude
! furniture Of camp; but there is also a
! wooden hotel, n which an ordinary apart
ment il assigned to every visitor for refuge in
| case Of storm, or sudden dislike Of the canvas.
! Meals are served m general dining room, or
| in the tents, rs desired; and the bills OF fare
| include the primitive dishes OF campers,as well
| as the products of French cookery.
EDWARD GILLIAN, of Cleveland, o., who
shot himself and his wife on Saturday night
was buried Tuesday. The man was Roman
! Catholic, bat some years ago he was excom-
| municated, and no priest would consent to
| conduct the funeral services His daughter
refused TO allow Protestant minister TO
| otliciate, and consequently no prayer was Of
fercd and no hymn was sung. The funeral
| was attended only by few old people who
sat around the coffin smoking pipes. There
| was considerable trouble in securing pail
| bearers, but finally six men consented to act
The BODY Was taken TO the Catholic cemetery
/ bui. as Gillian had been communicated. il
was refused burial there, and thus the body q
the man who left property worth $4,000 was
buried IN potters field.
DIR. SAMUEL A. GREEN, the well-known
physician and member OF the Massachusetts
state Board OF Health, Is much interested in