Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DETECTIVES are busily engaged IN searching
Loud n for the thieves who recently stole
$4,000 worth OF Belgian railway bonds in
Brussels.
THE present low rates of postage are
striking contrast with those OF fftY years ago,
when it cost for single letter carried not
oyer thirty miles SIC. less than eighty miles
lOc., less than $50 miles 1870, 40 miles 25c.
IN the famous church at Radegode, a; Pol
tiers, dedicated to the Queen Of Clothaire L
who afterward took the veil and was distin-
guished for her plety-there is shown on a
white marble slab well defined foot-mark,
winch Is called lie pas de Dleu," and Ia said
TO indicate the spot where the Savior appear
ed To the tutelary saint of the place.
A VISITOR to John Mccullough IN the asy-
lum says that MS likeness to his "Virginius"
in the mad scene IL startling and pitiful. He
imagines that he is again acting the part of
the deranged Roman. This il shown by his
assumption OF the poses which he employed
on the stage. and his reproduction of the gait,
facial expression. and even snatches OF the
language OF the familiar prison scene
SARAH BERNHARDT looks upon her next
American tour as one of the greatest money
making schemes OF her life, and all her ar
engagements are made with the principal
object OF reaping as rich a harvest as possible.
Her debts still are very great. their present
sum being about $3.50, 00n, ana she expects her
American tour not only to pay OF these. but
| to leave her a snug little fortune besides.
| She counts on bringing back profit OF
$25O,000.
ROMAN papers announce the death of Fed
ergo Garelli, well knowa as a popular poet
and light comedy writer in the Pedmoutese
dialect Two of his comedies, La Cabsna
del r. Gala ptuomO," dealing with incidents
In the late Kings mountain excursions, and
Mari una G arm a presentation of life
among the peasantry of North Italy, are IA
miliar throughout the peninsula. He was 5S
years old.
A wEATHER-BEATEN ROCK, on the top of
which are cuts of turkey tracks hacked there
in by the tomahawks OF braves. marks the
spot at Fallen Timbers, where on Aug 20,
1894, Mad Anthony Wayne met the warriors
of the Indian nations, and in bloody battle
crushed them. The greatest of the chieftains
who fought Mad Anthony was Turkey Foot,
and at the spot where he fell a monument to
marx he battle-ground is to be put up.
THE history of Frederic A. Cover, the
popular inventor and experimenter in bal
looming Whose fate since his recent ascent
from an English town isshrouded in mystery,
would make a fascinating romance. His
mind WAS original In distinct degree; he
had presence. tact and skill, all in his favor;
and. although he had for the time retired
from business, it Is evident that he possessed
one OF those temperaments which could not
long be satisfied without action
IN recent Winthrop temperance meeting
at Lewiston, Maine, a gentleman made
the following significant statement; I'm
a neighborinS town p men banded
together to oppose in every possible
way the WashingtOnian movement. OF these
II filed a drunkard's grave; were lost at
sea; 4, while intoxicated. drove into an arm
of one Of the lakes in this vicinity one night
and were drowned; committed suicide; 2
were hanged in the South, and l went to sea
and never was heard FROM"
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER says that at the
Greenbrier Springs he was surprised to find
that 1.-THE most beautiful ladl came not from
the North or South, but from the West" He
said about Washington: They are getting
into very good styles of dwelling houses now
in Washington city. For some time they ran
too much into the Queen Anne style there,
but they are now drifting into the old colonial
Engish. such as exists and has existed in
Massachusetts and Connecticut, and where
the purest and thriftiest English settlers
came. Put into good materials and in the
hands of competent architects, those old colo
NAL forms recur to us agreeably."