Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-16
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VERA CRUZ MEX., ls vailed by nearly
5000 metres of madra,orI rock. taken from
the bottom of the sea, N, the ramparrs are
studded with fertilization The populati0n |
is a lutte less than u COO ad il is one of the
cleanest cities in the world
JOHN BoRGsTRoM, a swee residing about
two miles east of Monticeo. Nd. shows a |
novelty in the way of breahg and driving
oxen. He drives pair of lid steers with 1
lines which are tied to the hons of the ami
mails and then are fastened round the ears
with a half hitch or slip kpt. He never
leaves the wagon to guidehis team but /
drives around with a composite that shows /
that ne is master of the station II his /
steers are scared and try TO ruthey soon find /
it IS Of LITTLE use and quickly yid 10 the in
eYitable.
II many towns in Scotland where street |
railroads are in operation, insteq of charg-
ing a stated fare from which theG is no devi-
alton on account of the dlstaucehe passen-
ger travels, the car routes are Id OF into
districts. When man gets on a ar he paws |
it,, which takes him to the end othat dis
trlct. Then the conductor coleo, another
penny. and continues at each ne, district
until the terminus of the line is reabed. By
TINS means passenger only pays 70 the dis
lance he rides, and is thus encoulged to
enter the cars when he has but SORT dis
lance TO 90.
a WATCH AND CHAIN, during the 'ervor
excited in the recent Saratoga mssinary
convention, were impulslvely taken BY a
woman from her belt and given to the Sore
tary. NThey had cost 500 originally, sheaid,
and she hoped that SIS might be realized rom
them for the cause OF missions. Il adysed
her to be slower" says the Secretary ''au to
take day to think It over before parpg
with her property She wouldn't bear @ a
denial, however, and so I took the watch ad
chain, telling her that she could get them bak
at any time within three months. At the ed
of that period | shall sell them, and deyoe
the proceeds to the cause
The picture of Washington crossing til
Delaware has pOpularized a scene that recu1
every spring. Except for the absence of tn
figures of the commander and his compatriot
it has lost none of its picturesque features
When the winter SHOWS are melting and the
spring rains fall, the swollen current of the
river sweeps along with its burden of Jagged
ice cakes as resistlessly as when il imperiled
the lives of the rugged little army who dared
the passage that Christmas night 100 years
ago. At the point where Washington crossed
the Delaware it is comparatively tame to
what 1t Is along on the upper courses of the
river.
LAST Saturday afternoon about o'clock
the west end Of West Brighton beach. Coney
island, was visited by flock of insects COM
monty called ''darning needless" and for fully
three-quarters OF an hour they continued to
liy past towards the south and against a
/ them
seemed 10 be about 81 feet wide, and just high
enough to escape the sheds that line the shore.
There must have been millions of these in
sects, and the sight so unusual as to rivet
the attention OF a number of guests assembled
on the front Of the hotel. 1t was suggested
by an old gentleman present that it was the
forerunner Of some serious epidemic.
The British Board of Trade has issued a
report from which it appears that the i'm
ports of merchandise into the United King
dom since 1879 have been, in round numbers,
as follows; 1879, S1.sl5, OOO, 600; 1880, $685.
100000; 1881 9S5, 00O. 900; 1882 Sg065 600 OOO
and 1888, which is as late as the report has
I been completed, S2,l35, 100000. During the
same years the exports were: 1879. S9j7. 500, r.
coo; 1850, $l,ll5,0O0. 600; 1881. SlJ70 600 900 /;
1882, $l,2O1 300 600, and 1888. 1920 900 600 The
report gives comparative figures since 1910 in
which year the imports were $685., 0O0. 600 and
the exports S205 600 900. both of which steadily
increased until 1883, when they were at the
figures given above, the highest ever realized,
with the exception Of the year 1873. which
showed combined import and export value
Of So, 100, 900.
THE Apaches have smoke signals by day
and fire 5eacons at night, and systems of
teegraphy understood only by themselves.
The displacement and Overturning of few
stones on a trail, or bent or broken twig, is
a note Of warning like the bugle call to disci-
plned troops. The many crosses dOtting the
] A MEXICO
the graves OF murdered men. THE country
seems one vast graveyard" writes Susan r.
Wallace, IF we may judge by the frequency
of these rude memorials " Trained hy their
mothers TO theft and murder from childhood,
they are Injured to all extremes Of heat and
cold. hunger and thirst They are cunning
as the red fox, lnsatlate as tigers, and so In
genious in preparing for surprises that they
will envelOp themselves in gray blanket
and sprinkle ii carefully with earth so as To
| resemble granite boulder, to be passed
within a few feet without suspicion. Aain,
they will cover themselves with fresh grass
and. lying mOtiOnless, appear as a natural
portion Of the field.
ALBERT HUNT, a young man residing a
short distance southeast of Dayton, o.. has
been seized with peculiar mania, prompted
I by feeling Of dependency and remorse. to
seek burial place in a remote and I'M
frequented place. Obtaining a pick and
shovel he went to SPOT near what is known
a. Seeley's Ditch and began to dig a grave A
! hole feet long, feet wide and feet deep
now remains MS a monument to his intentions.
While digging the grave " Iliam Nurreu-
brock inquired as TO his purpose. Hunt
answered that he was tired of life; that he
was dlsheartened, and determined to die and
be buried Immediately. Thercupon he handed
lantern TO NurrCnbrOck and told him that
he would give him his watch and $50 If he
would hold the light until he (Hunt) shot him
self and then would fiji in his grave and place
a board at the head inscribed: Here lies
Ahtfl l1uNl, VINO QleQ OF deapOnQeucV,N
Nurrcnbrock refused, and took Immediate
charge OF the uninjured body and returned it
TO the parents, who lived on a farm near by.
THE young astronomer of Vanderbilt
University, Tennessee, spent the fore
part of Monday night in observation
Of his newly discovered comet, and
sweeping the heavens at other points
uotil near dawn. The position has undergone
no material change and the motion is not yet
definitely determined in point of direction
and rapiilty of movement. Last year. on
July g, Mr.. Barnard discovered a periodic
comet He had just got to the observatory at
night, and turned the telescope into the field
when he heard knock at the door several
ladies and gentlemen had come 10 see the
stars. He could not see them, for he hed
"just found IA comet" ana unless he worked
with 10 at once II would set in the southwest
ern horizon before he coula gets its position
They would come again, they said. Monday
night he had just got the telescope on the new
comet, saw there was motion, when a knock
at the door was heard. he same party stood
without. They had never boon back in the
interim, and The astronomer had discovered
no comet since July of last yoar The cir
cametancef- regarded with superstitious awe
hy the young scientist.
sPWrruALIsN has a new hobby. That IA
nous Methodist, the Rev. Dr. y. -. Whedeu,
had, shortly before his death, evolved "a curl
Gus theory ae Go disombodied spirits. Hisidca
was that the ontire nervous system in hui
man being, not the contents OF the Uranium
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