Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-10

oil from pine wood. Tho material Is subjected
20 intense heat in sealed retorts, and one coru
OF it is said TO Weld fifteen gallons OF turpen-
tine, eighty gallons Of pine-wood oil, ntty
bushels OF charcoal. $50 gallons OF wood vine
gar. and quantity of inlammable gas ana
vegetable asphaltum. The oil alone Is worth
about % cents gallon, and is used by paint
ers and shipbuilders. Apart from It's COM
mercial value, the process is interesting as
showing how modern chemistry is able TO
supplant those old destructive chemical pro,
cesses by which n single article was proouceu
froma given material and all the rest wasted
or ruined,
FRANCIS E. WARREN. the new Governor OF
Wyoming, is good example OF the Yankee
who goes West and grows up with the coun-
try. He was born in Peru. Berkshire county,
Mass. the son OF Joseph Warren, who was at
one time a brakeman on the Boston and Al
hany Railroad. He was n student Ia Inns
dale Academy in 1861, and lived in that place
about three years after as tenant farmer
He went with the Forty-ninth regiment 10
the war, and afterward was Captain OF mill
tia. Ten or eleven years ago he went TO WyO-
ming, where he began keeping misce lane
GUS store IN Cheyenne; his business now IN
cludes three or four separate departments,
together constituting one of the largest mer-
camille establishments west OF Chicago; While
he is also n large owner Of cattle, his nerds
numbering $50 head. Mr.. Warren Is little
more than 40 years old.
"WRLL. down on our Springfield division,
between Gilman and Clinton" said con-
ductor on the Illinois Central Railroad, tive
had that experience a few days ago. The fail
of soft, sticky snow stuck right on top Of the
rails, warmed a little in the noon sun, and IN
the afternoon hardened in the cold. We
didn't get train through till near night that
/ day. The rails were two stTeaks OF gllsten-
ingice. Up at Pulaski we struck big grade
right at a station where we were trying to
stop. The engineer put on the brakes, and
finally reversed the lever and pulled the throt-
tie wide open. But it was no go. We went
down the grade faster than ever Travelled
before, with the driving wheels Of our loco
I motive going backward. 1t was thTce-mhe
slide Those who saw us go down say 1t was
the oldest sight they ev: saw. l don't want
/ any more railroad tobogg IN NINE"
| THE death of Gen. Earle calls to miod how
few instances there are Of British Generals
being killed on the field OF battle. Since Pic
/ ton fell in the hour Of victory at Waterloo,
! the cases have been very few and far be-
! tween, no instance occurring until SoDrdon,
when that fine soldier, MAJ. Gen. SIR Robert
! Diek, was slain at the head of his dlvl-lon.
! Some Of the old school of officers Will no doubt
| recall Gen. Dick, hero OF countless escapes
! in his day, who had been wounded at Mazda,
! severely before Rosetta in the Egyptian cam
/ paign Of 1901, again in the Peninsula, and a
! fourth time at Quatre- Bras. when he had
! command of the Black Watch. The only
\ remaining instances are those OF Lieut..
Gen. Sir George Cathcart,. "hleSt' TO
| quote kinglake, with soldler's d9ath IN ac-
! ton" at the head Of the fourth division on
! the field of Inkerman; Maj. Gen. Sir George
! Coney, shot through the head on that awful
| day at Majuba Hill-as yet unavenged; and
Mai Gen. William Earle. killed in action at
Duika. That line old Horse Artilieryman,
Fox-Strangways, also killed at InAerman,
! held only Brigadier- Generals rank. The
1 three general officers killed in the Indian mu-
! tiny campaign-viz Sir Henry Lawrence,
! Nein and Penny-belOnged TO the Indian
army. as did Sir Hugh Wheeler, slain In his
old age in the massacre of Cawnpore. Have
! lock, Arson and Barnard-all three lamented
| vietims To the dark DAYS of IS57-were not
killed in action, bat died of Illness contracted
/ during the campaign.