Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
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AUSTRALIA lost $t4,oOO,OOO from pleuro-
I pneumonia, introduced by a single COW that
was supposed to have recovered.
THERE have been received at Linlithgow
Loeb. in Scotland, 10000 lake salmon eggs
from the United States, for stock purposes.
THE committee which has just given out the
revision of the Old I testament held So Sessions
of about 10 days each, comprising, in all, 1872
! days of six hours at a sitting.
1T is stated that the Chinese Government,
casting aside national prejudice, has called IN
the aid OF European miners to work its coal
mines. There are immense deposits of coal
IN emma, and with the aid now called in they
are expected to be very quickly developed.
KENwARD PHILIP has been completely vim
dictated from the charges made against him
| by the Irt6URe IN relation to the Morey letter.
/ Ihe New York Tribune Association has set
| tied the suit Mr. Philip brought against it by
paying him $4,000 and admitting that the
scandalOus statements made were false.
HORSE raising is rapidly growing industry
in Montana The pasturage is excellent and
the thin air increases the animals lung ca
( pacity. Breeders are using finely bred stall
lions and they confidently expect that IN a few
years the Blue Grass region will have q
formidable rival IN the Bunch Grass plains.
COL. MATTHEW S. QUAY, of Pennsylvania,
is the owner of the site of old Fort Mcintosh
the farthest American outpost among the In
| dams during the revolutionary war, situated
| in a commanding position. on the bank of the
| ONO river, at Beaver. The old picket beat,
I Whereon the sentry made his rounds, is yet
well defined, and along this Mr.. Quay has
| planted forty shade trees.
FRANCIS MURPHY IS very successful tenn
perance advocate, but he does some queer
things. AT meeting in Pittsburg recently
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| willing to swear OFF, but he wanted to take
| one more drink first. The lecturer not onlv
| let nm go, but gave him money to buy the
| drink. The topper came back and signed the
pledge according to promise.
A CREAMERY has been started at the Misss-
sippi State Agricultural College, and farmers
in the neighborhood are invited to send in
their milk, which will be creamed by a centri-
fuge, churned, sold to the best advantage and
| the income divided according to the cream
| furnished The work at FIRST is to be done
without cost to patrons, the object being to
| build up new industry in that region and
TO make the enterprise part of the edu-
| cational work at the institution.
THE contract for the great bridge across
Lake Champlain, from North Hero to Al
burgh, VT, has been awarded to the r. F.
Hawkins Iron Works, Springfield, Mass. for
little less than $50 600. This is to be the first
| iron bridge across Lake Champlain, and will
De Tie uDc6t DTluR6 IN LHe SLdJe or vermont.
and one Of the finest in New England. For
more than 200 years the people of Grand Isle
| county have been obliged to cross the lake by
| boats in summer and on the ice in winter, A
! bridge has been talked of for 20 years.
SECRETARY CREW, of the Philadelphia So
ciety to Protect Children from Cruelty, re-
ceived complaint several days ago that Mrs.
R. W. Miller, Of that city. cruelty treated her
baby. Mrs. Miller was taken before Magis-
| trate Clements, who fined her $40 and placed
the child in the care Of the society. 1t was
| developed at the hearing that the child was
Of Mrs. DR.. Brandt, of No. SAT North Fifth
| street, and had paid $40 for it. Her motive,
| she stated, was to win back her husband, who
! had deserted her and was living with another
| woman.
In accordance with the recommendation of
the executive committee. the trustees of the
College of the City of New York voted to
abolish the Professorship of Spanish in the
college, and no successor VIII therefore be APP
! pointed to Prof. Morales, who ed last week
! This action was not allowed to be taken with
out protest. Commissioner Hosea Is. Per-
! kins especially denouncing it as mistake,
the effects Of which would soon be apparent
in the weakening of the position of the coll
! lege in the estimation of the community; but
despite his arguments the position was de-
clared vacant.
ABOUT $50 tenants of the London Fish
mongers Company in county Derry, Ireland
have entered into arrangements to become
the owners of their farms. Four of the ten
ants purchased under mode A, by which they
are bound to pay within three months the full
| money tahOut 49, years purchase); two
bought under mode c, by which they agree to
pay q fifth part of the purchase money imme-
diately and the remainder in fifteen annual
| payments. The great majority adopted mode
+, under which they will continue to pay for
30 years in6tallments, which are a substantial
reduction on their present rent.
A FEW DAYS AGO the nobility of Russia
celebrated the centenary of their rights and
priv eyes as granted by Catherine II. The
Emperor addressed them in long imperial
rescript, highly prasing their past services to
the throne and country, and expressing full
confidence in their continued fidelity aud de-
v0tiOn. In all the principal towns Of the en-
pire the fete was kept with general accord,
while at St. Petersburg and Moscow various
ceremonies. professions and balls were ar
ranged One well known member of the no.
bility signallzed the event by entirely remit
ting all arrears of land redemption taxes owed
nv MS former peasants, amounting to 2S1,00
rOubles.
1T is interesting news to students of modern
history that the correspondence of Peter the
Great is being prepared for publication. A
commission of Russian literary men was ap-
pointed to bring together the materials for
such work, and so thoroughly have they ac-
cOnpllshed their task that they have col
leeted more than 5000 letters and documents
OF the highest interest relating to the great
Car. Among these documents are some of
the exercise books in which the Young Peter
wrote his writing lessons. There Is al4o a
letter dated 1888, n which Peter. then only 6
Years old, describes to his mother the works
he had se"u in progress in tie shipbuilding
yards at Pereislawi.
GEORGE WEEKS of Comac, n. Y, is the
owner Of q vicious stallion, which he keeps In
a small stable some distance from his barn.
On Friday evening Weeks went into the ami
mails stall to bed and water him for the night.
The moment the horse saw Weeks he made
for him, and before he could resch the door
/ kicked ana seriou.ly. If not fatally, injured
him. The horse kicked him segcral times
| after he was do Vn about the head and bod
| Mr.. Weeks long absence from the house
| alarmed his family. and some Of the members
went TO the stable, where they found him
. lying insen ible. HIS head ana body were
brused all over. and If he should recover he
will lose the sight OF one OF his eyes.
DAN VOORHEES, saws that he appeared once
in lawsuit in which one of the chief wit
nesses on the other side was the mother of
Senator Booth, of California. In his free and
easy way the Tall Sycamore asked hsrrassing
/ questions but not the slightest sign Of atten-
. tion came from the woman. He became I'M
I iticnt and snappy. Finally he demanded,
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