Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

JOHN ADZEME, miner at Stellarton. y. -,
came TO his death curiously the other day. He
was riding on loaded coal car on the Acadia
railway; tha bottom of the car fell down anG
he fell thrJngh with the coal, and was run
over by many cars.
MRS. SAMUEL WARREN, of Maquoketa, in
prohibition Iowa, stepped into a saloon where
her husband was drinking, grabbed glass of
beer from his hand, and captured enough of
the heveraVe to convict the saloon keeper,
who paid $50 and costs.
THE tanning Of sturgeon skins is carried on
TO considerable extent on the east shore of
Lake WinnebagO, Wis. The skins when
tanned are very soft. and are said by those
having worn boots made of them to be more
durable than ordinary leather.
THE wife of prominent merchant at Red
Heights, Dakota, after a cross examination
by attorneys as witness in a suit, became
hopelessly insane, and has been taken to the
asylum. Her husband thinks of bringing suit
against the lawyers for damages.
EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO two sisters parted.
Four years ago, each a married won an,
moved to San Antonio, neither knowing of the
whereabouts OF the other. A few days ago
they came face to face ON the street, and the
scene is SAID to have been affecting.
AGNES AURORA ENGHALN, a little girl of Z,
was recently sent by her father in Boston to
journey safely all alone, reached San Fran
cisco all right. but could not find her aunt.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 10
Children took the little girl in charge.
AT the Norwalk trOts the other day. while
i've horses were scoring, a rem broke on one
of them. The trotters were we'll punched
and an accident seemed inevitable, but Billy
Brooks, the driver with the broken rein.
jumped from his sulky to his horses back and
stopped him before any damage was done.
TEE Cincinnati Enquirer printed a fac
smile of the new $40 silver certificate and in
so doing made itself liable TO a fine of 500,
under the statute which makes it unlawful to
print in any manner likeness OF any United
was asked to destroy the plate from which the
fac-simile was printed.
A NEWSPAPER MAN IN Minneapolis one day
caught young woman as she was falling in
the street. A few days after he met her at
the house of a friend, and they were intro
duced. A few months after he asked her to
marry him. and she said Yes" Anew hours
after they we're married, and not until then,
he learned that she was worth $4,000.
A BATTER on the Kenduskeag, Me-, base
ball club knocked a ball nearly straight up in
the air. The pitcher and catcher OF The Cor
inth club both ran to catch it. and came to-
gether with such force that one received a
/ bad scalp wound, and the other lost most of
| and did not regain consciousness until the
| next day.
Col. Il. J. DEAL, of Charleston, NO.,
mounted on fine black stallion. was riding
| through high " eeds the other day when the
| horse and rider fell into an old well. The
| Colonel caught as he was going down and
| scrambled out, but the horse went twenty
| five feet to the bottom. A gang of men dug a
| trench down to the bottom of the well, but
the big black was dead when they reached
| him.
DEPUTY SHERIFF JOHN PRINDIviLLE, of
| Detroit took his sweetheart for a sail to Port
| Huron on Sunday. Soon after the boat started
| she hshed pair of handouts ont of his peck et
and before he could stop her had fastened
| them on her own wrists. He had left the key
| at home, and the young woman was forced to
| wear the bracelets all the afternoon and even
| ing. until they landed and founu policeman
| to unlock them.
A REMARKABLE SPRING is reported to have
been discovered near Princeton, KY. which
may prove a boon to victims of Kentucky
| whisky. 1t is claimed that a spinster born
| IN 1875 who has drank OF this water has
| changed to a blooming girl OF ''sweet six
| teen," and that an old man of so who has sew
eral times drank Of the water feels as young
rs he did at 20 years Of age, and is delivering
temperance lectures.
BONANZA MAcKAY hopes to create out of the
Postal Telegraph Company a system as ex-
| tensive as the Western Union, and predicts
that in ooing so he will reduce rates to such
| an extent as to do away with business letter
| writing in less than three year.. His most
| ambitious plan is to build line through to
San Francisco, and he promises New York
business m en- to send twenty words for every
| dollar before Jan. l, next.
IN the Mulberry street bend. New York,
Sunday afternoon, an Italian woman sat on
the curbstone trying to scrub "Warranted 40
lbs'' from the abdomen of a male infant
which she held in her zap. The brand was in
bright red. and had been transferred from a
flour sack that had been used as a swadding
cloth. The woman seemed to suspect that
there might be something unce plimentary
to the child In its meaning.
IN GERMANY, where it was invented, the
Pieler safety lamp for mines is now commonly
used, having displaced the famous Davy in a
| large number OF mines. In Belgium il is
largely used. and the French are also adopt
ing it. This lamp is solely intended for test
| ing purposes in mines. 1t burns alcohol and
reveals the presence OF fire damp when the
| latter represent IN any proportion greater
than Il per cent. In this extreme sensitive
ness lies the value of the lamp for miners.
AT the business session of the Norwegian
Methodist Conference at st. Paul, Saturday,
it was stated that the charges preferred
against Presiding Elder P. f. Jensen of the
| Red River district by A. Peterson had been
| II.
ably in moment of Inconsistencies. removed
a fly from the wine with a piece Of the COM
| munion bread. which was afterwards replaced
on the plate and offered to Mr.. Peterson, who
made a charge Of sacrilege against him.
"RosCoE CONKLING," said a New York
friend of that gentleman the other day,
"comes to see me frequently, and have no
ticed that on each occasion he is differently
attired. He has different outer garments a
different pleat TO his shirt, different over
CATERS. and very often a different style of
watch chain. He tells me he Is not rich and
| am rot at allsurprised at that. However
big q mans income may be he cannot save
money and still live as eXtravagantly as Mr..
ConKling does"
AN acceptable addition to our table sup
plies comes in the shape of q new potato
which has been recently discovered in Bolivia
by Mr.. Sece. The valne to alImeutation
of this new tuber may re judged from the fact
that it is the mOst fartnaceous OF it, species
and yields four crops per annunl. The Ldlans
esteem 1t highly and call It, n0Dd Inrckd.
These potatoes grow numerous bulbs, ten to
fifteen in a bunch from one seedlnS, and the
| manifold stalks are covered from base to top
! with soft beautiful leaves. brilliant with a
| lovely yelowish green. The tubers weigh
from 100 to $50 grammes and contain 20 per
cent. OF fecula anu ~ per cent. OF water. The
| American General section of the TJniyarsltv