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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-07
WEEDS Mother Instead OF Daughter.
Fran The Reids5itle t6d.l EnfeTDr'sr.

Fr0fl TIC NeidSpttte i0hsl EHtefDF'tfs
A correspondent az Melton reports a
unique wedding on March IA. He saws
that MIR. }. J.. Johns. the happy groom,
had been paying consid erable attention
10 the daughter OF widow OF some As or
30 summers. The course OF true love do
not run smooth with the young people,
and after some trivial sights from the
Young lady, Mr.. Johns took ohense
i"bis love changed and his mind
turned" Sic), and commenced a.
once 70 direct bis ardent
love TO the widow. She had been married
twice before. and being well Off In this
worlds gods, deoideu that she was Young
on ugh to risk IL third tim Mr. Johns
being only about %, had all the impa-
thence Of All ardent young lover OF modern
times, and proposed that they be married
at once; whereupon the Justice was noti-
fed 90 meet them on the road as they
we're going home from church. and be
tied them fsst in the matrimonial moose"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-07
The skeleton IEnnnd.

From he Athens tGa.l BaRHer- WatcAnaH.
Il VIII be rendered that some weeks
since the skeleton OF human being was
dug up by The road workers near the
paper mill, In Clarke county. Yesterday
we we're shown piece OF the skull,
which IL we'll preserved and quite thick.
A physician who examined the same pro-
nouuced IL the skull OF a negro. AS no
burial ground was near the place, the
skeleton must have belonged to a MUIR
dered man.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-07

at the church, at which all the candidates
We're present with front seats. These GER
emonles are often watched with rare in
terest by visitors and strangers, and the
singing and shouting multltuGes present
strange, wierd spectacle. The crowd
was so great yesterday that late rivals
saw little or nothing of this peculiar cere-
mOuy
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-07
Atlanta and Prohibition.

From tho Athens GA BQaHsr- WdtcAWdR.
We learn from a reliable source that the
PrOhibitionists and liquor men in Atlanta
are about makinga compromise, by which
high license will be adopted instead Of
prohibition. The Legislature will be pc
titioned by both sides TO amend the act 80
as to nave a new election, when the city
will vote "FOr the sale"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-07

Rupture, pile tumors, tistu-
l9 and all diseases of the lower bowel
Except cancer) radically cured. Send
10 cents in stamps for book. Address,
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
663 Main street. Buffalo. n. y.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-07
Postal Changes.

Post Offices established-Flo Florida; Tho
notOsassa, HillsbOro county; special
from SefneT, 6 ms. n. Georgia: Belt
wood, Burke county; special from Hern-
don, Wayneshoro, II ms. n. f., Mid
vile, 8 ms. $. w.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-07
MlrntrtmaL.
WONDERFUL TO Relate.

For forty years / have been a victim TO Ca
tarrh-three- fourths Of the time sufferer
from eXcruciating pains across my forehead
aud my nO-trils. The discharges were 80
offensive that hesitate to mention It, except
for the good lt may do some other sufferer. !
have spent 3 Young fortune from my earnings
during my forty years Of suffering 10 obtain
relief from the doctors. ! have tried patent
the four corners OF the earth, with no relief.
And at last l51 years of age have met with q
remedy that has cured me entirely-made me
new man. / weighed l2S pounds and now
weigh l45. ] used thirteen bottles OF the
medicine. and the only regret / have is that
being in the humble walks II life ! may not
have Influence to prevail on all catarrh suffer-
eTs to use what has cured me.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-07

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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-05
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
ALBERT's AUTOGRAPH ALBUM.

Young Archibald Albert, an orderly boy,
Once had, to his very great pleasure and JOY
An autograph album presented to him.
Its pages were neat and its covers were trim.
Within its gay bindings of superhne leather
He promptly .endeavored to gather together
The names of his every relation and friend,
Till the book should be filled from beginning
to end.
But soon he perceived, with surprise and dis
may
And disapprobation, the very strange way
In which people wrote in his elegant book
He found it distressing to give 1t look.
Some autographs proved such tangle and
You scarce could determine their letters at
all;
While others were crooked, and some seemed
to stray = 4H s
To the edge of the page, as if running away.
Some looked as il caught in a terrible gale;
His grandfather's trembed; grandmothers
was pale;
His mother wrote nicely-he begged her to
try.
He pondered the matter, then purchased
another
Fine album, as bright and complete as the
other,
And carefully copied the names every one.
AS neatly and fairly as it could be done.
With every angle and every line
Drawn out like copy correctly and fine.
With every and with every
Neatly dotted and crossed as they needed to
His letters were regular, even and nice.
His capitals stately exact and precise.
Then Archibald Albert, in viewing the whole,
Breathed a sigh of relief from his orderly
soul,
And exclaimed to himself: :" 1t is better by
Than letting each one write his own auto
graph"
Sydney Dare, in st. Nicholas.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-05
NO. 10.

you think such labor to such life was
No, indeed. There was
not hand on those docks that worked
more zealously or with so willing a
hand and so light heart or so little
idea of fatigue as he who welded the
hammer instead of the scepter. And
all this was because he was working
with his whole heart, and soul, too.
He was not mere animal in quest of
food, but he had pure and noble pur-
pose in his mind, a strong will, giving
courage and vigor to his heart.
sit was the will within him, lad',
said Uncle Benjamin, as he concluded
the story, ''that made that laborer
King do his work with so little effort.
That kept him day by day, and month
by month, without any rest, though he
could have had it any day, making his
humble mechanics home happier than
palace, and his simple mechanics fare
daintier than royal banquet So re-
member, my boy, that of all ways to
make labor pleasant and valuable there
is nothing like noble purpose backed
by strong, noble will. History will
record to you what Peter of Russia
accomplished by this immense sacri-
fice."
Young Ben was SO impressed with
this lesson, that after the evening hymn
was chanted in his uncle's family he
was found in his little room upon his
knees asking of God strength to use his
will in the right direction, and it is
said that this one lesson, though he was
taught many another, went far towards
forming the character of the great and
good Benjamin Franklin.
Would that every boy who reads the
teaching may profit by it, as he did, and
determine to use his God-given. will fol
the right in every event of his life, and
His blessing will as surely rest upon it
N. Y. Observer.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-05
JAMES B. EADS.
The Early Experiments of tho Famous
American Engineer.

Tho Early Experiments of tho Famous
American Engineer.
When about ten years old, his father
fitted for him small workshop, and
there he constructed models of saw
mills, fire-engines, steamboats,, steam
engines, electrical and other machines.
One of the pastimes of his childhood was
to take in pieces and put together again
the family clock, and at twelve years he
was able to do the same with a patent
lever watch, with no tools but his
pocket-knife. When thirteen, misfor-
tune overlook his father, and he had to
withdraw from school and work his
own way. His parents went to st,
Louis in 1888, and he went with them.
The steamer was burned in the night on
the way there, and he landed barefooted
and coatless, on the very spot now COW
cred by the abutment of the
great steel bridge which he de-
signed and built. The only open
ing in the way of business that offered
was to sell apples on the street, and by
this means, for few months, he sus-
tanned himself and assisted in support
ing his mother and sisters. In time he
obtained situation with q mercantile
firm, where he remained for five years.
One of the heads of the house having an
excellent library, gave him access to it,
and he used his opportunity well to
study subjects bearing upon mechanics,
machinery, civil engineering and physi-
cal science. In 1859 he obtained en-
ployment as a clerk or purser on a Mis-
IIA ln
the best use of his opportunity to ac-
quire that complete knowledge of the
great river which he was afterward able
to turn to such good account in the
noble enterprises he so fortunately car
ried into effect. In 1912 he constructed
diving-bell boat to recover the cargoes
of sunken steamers. This was followed
with boat of larger tonnage, pro-
vided with machinery for pumping out
the sand and water and lifting the
entire hull and cargo of the vessel.
A company was formed to operate
this device, and il soon had a busi-
ness that covered the entire Missis-
sippi river, from Balize to Galena,
and even branched into some of its
tributaries. BY his methods, great
many valuable steamers were set
atloat and restored to usefulness which
it would not previously havebeen posi-
BILE to save, as they would have been
buried very soon beneath the river
sands. 1t was while engaged in this
business that he gained thorough
knowledge of the laws which control
the flow of silt-bearing rivers, and Of
the Mississippi he was able to say years
afterward that there was not stretch
in its bed fifty miles long, between st.
Louis and New Orleans, in which he
had not stood upon the bottom of the
stream beneath the shelter of the div.
ing-bel.-Popular Science Monthly.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-05
A WONDERFUL CAT.
The Service 1t Rendered Birdie, an
Which She Will Never Forget.

The Service 1t Rendered Birdie, and
Which She Will Never Forget.
One day poor, half-frozen kitten
came to Birdie Granger's house.
Birdie had no brothers or sisters to play
with, so she took the starved little gray
cat in and made it welcome. She
warmed 1T, and fed and gave it q good
bed to sleep in. Under such kind care,
the stranger grew fat and sleek. By
the time it was~ grown, it became a
most wonderful cat. Birdie named her
pet MARBLE, because it purred so loud.
Marble and Birdie became insep-
arabic friends.
The cat followed Birdie everywhere.
1t was very large and strong-as big
as small dog. For a cat, it was as
tonishing how intelligent Marble was.
1t had many cunning ways, and
BRIDES papa taught it to perform
tricks like a dog. Papa would clasp
his hands and put his arms out in front
of the cat as it stood upon the rug.
Then he would say: "Jump, Warble!"
And MARBLE would jump through his
arms and out over his hands as if it
understood just what was meant,
which, to be'sure, it did. If Marble
was watching for mouse at a hole
and any body came near, it was accus-
toned to raise its paw as sign to the
person to keep back and not make 8
noise.
One day Marble did Birdie service
which she will never forget as long as
she lives.
1t was a summermorning, and Birdie
took puss's dish of milk out beside the
garden wall, as usual. She called War
Bile, and heard a low NEW just beside a
crevice in the stones. Marble was
watching for something's mouse,
Birdie thought He lifted his paw to
warn his little mistress to keep back,
but she went ON and SAID:
"Come, Marble, this rich new milk
is better than a mouse. Come and lap
it,"
Suddenly Marbles eyes cleaned like
two balls of fire. He waved his tail
back and forth in fury. He looked
like tiger about to spring. He raised
his paw again to warn Birdie off. But
she was determined to see what was
disturbing her cat so, and took several
steps forward. She heard rafting in
the grass. Marble leaped into the air
at the same moment, and came down
upon the spot where she heard the rat
tling. There was more rafting, and a
tremendous kissing and lashing and
noise. The girl was frightened, and
screamed aloud.
Her mother and grandmother ran to
her in an instant. They saw, with hor-
ror, the cat dragging rattlesnake
out of the grass. The child had been
almost upon it. Marble had set his
strong, sharp teeth into the back of the
reptiles neck and broken its spine. :
N. Y. Examiner.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-05
A FLYING TELEGRAPH.
Details of Plan Which, at First Thought,
Seems Visionary.

Details of Plan Which, at First Thought,
Seems Visionary.
You have probably seen in the news
papers from time to time some rather
vague illusions to new telegraphing
scheme which is to enable people who
are stationary to communicate with
friends who .are travelling on railway
trains while they are in motion. / had
been regarding this scheme as rather
ephemeral, and even visionary, until
recently, when a friend of mine, to
whom it was mentioned, broke out most
enthusiastically concerning it, and he
finally induced me to go up town to
where the concern is in active opera
ton.
The company which is undertaking
to introduce this flying telegraph has a
number of lines laid down to illustrate
the working of the machine, and nearly
every day some railway magnate or
other parsonage of influence in the COM
munity is shown the results of these ex-
periments. The scheme is worked simply
enough. A wire is laid down along the
ground between the tracks on which
the cars run, and underneath tho
floor of each vehicle is coil of wire
which takes up the sound as it is sent
along the ground. The coil does not
touch the other wire at all, but picks up
the sound through the air, no matter at
what speed the train may be going. The
value of the scheme, according to the
promoters, lies partly in the great ac-
commodation which it would be to rail-
way passengers, and partly in the chance
it would give the people in control of
railroads to avoid accidents. For in
stance, let us say railway train runs
off the track. In an instant message
can be sent in each direction the full
length of the road conveying the in-
formation and preventing other trains
from following on. Beyond this, it is
claimed that cables may be laid as far as
four hundred miles out to sea, and that
any vessel sailing over them and sup
piled with this machinery can COM
municate with the shore. To success
fully accomplish this four or five cables
would be laid, separated from each other
at a considerable distance and duly To-
Gated in this chart. This would not
only give an opportunity to accurately
foretell the arrivals of steamers, but
would enable passengers to commune
cate with friends on shore on any inn
portant matter. The scheme is in the
hands of some heavy capitalists, and
will undoubtedly be in operation before
long on each one of the big railways
running out of New York.
The same people have struck another
novel idea in electricity, though whether
it will ever be of great material value is
still an unanswered question. BY its
! use, if you sit in Boston and write youI
name with a pen attached to one end OF
the wire, the other end of which is in
Worcester or Springfield, your sigma.
ture will be exactly reproduced at which.
ever one of these points may be deter
mined. There is no immediate means
of determining the utility of this inven
ton, which is as yet entirely crude, but
it is proposed to give the use of it, fol
the time being, to some magician. who
may mystify his auditors by the device
N Y. Cor. Boston Herald.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-05
THE ISLE OF CAPRI.
An Autograph Collecting Hermit in the
villa of Roman Emperor.


villa of a Roman Emperor.
One of our walks in the Island of
Capri will take us to very high point,
on which are some ruins of the Villa of
Tiberius, the Roman Emperor. This
gentleman, having involved himself in
a great deal of trouble at home, con
cluded to retire to this rocky island,
where he would be safe from his
enemies, and here he lived until his
death, in the year 81 A. d. Capri must
have been very different place then as
far as the manners and customs of its
inhabitants are concerned. The EN-
peror built no less than twelve hand
some villas in various parts of the
island, and made all necessary arrange
ments to enjoy himself as much as pos
sible. The villa which we are visiting
was one of the largest, and the remains
of vaulted chambers and corridors
show that it must have been a
very fine building. A short distance
below it is the top of precipice,
from which, tradition says, Tiberius
used to have those persons whom he
had condemned to death thrown down
into the sea. This was not an unusual
method of execution with the Romans,
and his victims must have met with a
certain death.
If any of us really desire to see her.
NIT, we can now be gratified, for one of
that profession has his dwelling here.
He probably does live here all alone, but
he does not look like our ordinary ideal
of a hermit He will be glad to receive
some coppers, and also to have us write
our autographs in book which he keeps
for the purpose. A hermit autograph
collector in the ruined villa of Roman
Emperor, on the top of a mountainous
island in the Mediterranean, is some,
thing we did not expect to meet with on
nllr.t aunlc = Elca,aE z SinaLfa,.- O.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-05
ITALIAN PAPERS,
The Undeveloped State of the Daily Press
of Italy.

There are about two hundred daily
papers in Italy. Nothing analogous to
the county or village newspaper in
America exists in the Italian peninsula.
As for the large cities and those of the
second and third class, they are amply
supplied, as will appear from the fol-
lowing statement: There are in Milan
eight, in Rome twenty-three, in Venice
six, in Genoa six, in Naples seven, in
Turin five, in Florence five and in
Palermo three. Those in Milan are in
the most reasonable proportion, for
there are only eight, and the population
is not far from 100000, while
the people of Lombardy are the most
energetic and intelligent in Italy.
The twenty-three at Rome
are the anomaly. Rome has popula-
ton of 100000, or little more than
half that of San Francisco, yet it has
three or four times the number of daily
newspapers. OF these the Romano
Popolo, q sort of Government organ,
has circulation of $4,000. 1t is in
telligently edited and influential and
reasonable, like most of the journals of
the country, which, when they entertain
ultra-republican views like the Secolo, at
Milan, content themselves with mild ex-
pressions of opinion, that the public
harmony may not be disturbed. The
Secolo, which is said to have circula-
ton of 100000, is seen everywhere in
Italy and occasionally is sold at news
stands in France and Spain. 1t has a
reputation for ability and enterprise not
only among its partisans but its enemies,
and the manner in which it is con-
Quoted is more like that of first-class
American than any other journal in
Italy. The general distribution of news
papers indicates the prevailing degree
of intelligence in the localities where
they are published Rome being nota,
BILE exception. Naples, though having
100000 more inhabitants than Milan
has less daily newspapers, while Paler,
mo, great and important city, has
only three. Genoa is about the size O.
Rome, yet has but six dailies and an ig
norant reading constituency. Tht
greatest proportion of illiteracy is, O
course, found at Naples and dowr
through Calabria into Sicily, and her,
there is not only greatly diminished cir
culation of newspapers, but of all kind
of literature. (Ltaly) Cor. Sa,
| Francisco Chronicle.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-05
POWER OF COAL.
The Enormous Results Accomplished by
Trifling Bit of Coal.


ihe Ghormo1s ,o; hes"a.s n.s Accompi'shea s conn ny
-, DIV oo"
Some idea OF the latent power IN a
single pound, or ounce of hard coal can
be gathered from the following simple
illustration: In the VILLAGE of Evanston.
twelve miles north of Chicaoo tbo wator
-, - -. Nv =: " =, e - - sne "''oi
supply ls ulaWn IN t1,Tougn pipes run
ning OUT mo ihto lake lake Michlgan, py seeam @
punipsi mnion u!lso ~ VIII sloaO ioice i,o
tnrosh E Sanel M P,pes tA'enu y ane. oyet ;s .le
.own. FROM lllese IL escaPes Wltn Ve-
,oclty enough 10 pe tnroWh IhrouSh
nose pipes over tne tops OF tall pullu-
ilgs, anu ulius ooes away WIN any ne
ceSsiIy ior iiLe engines hiany otner
vliiaSes anu Gr,ies I iiase !lle same ar
Iahgeiuelt. me polnV oi ih.eresI y ~
sne repGio Vi Ihe ensilieef, ,o staIing thaO
l,S ,ei aaS DeCeirpei ooo m ,fiz'4oo sailohs or
dod, zso,Ao1 us, Vi Ma.el Mere mus
uIawii anu ioiIeu tn!ouSn lto Pipes'
anu "a ,i5,.s aos ~ G ao .nSs .rine 4yer @3 t1:,
es ol 1o4 ,os'' ol coa' were 9urhea as dns
SHOWS ~ ,,rn Una. every pouhu ,.or oi coal ;ta
~ ~, l;4IS nS oApa,;etou "a.ei nn.o
ooOtthi Wiui SullcicnCy VI poWeE
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-03-05
PlTH AND POINT.

.-"Eggs are eggs now," says the
grocer-as if at some other time they
had been turnips, squashes or slices of
boiled Chicago Journal.
Use sorry fur de 'speptic person. /
wouf rather hab er good stomach an
halter go hungry all my life den to hab
er bad stomach wild er full smokehouse.
-ArbansaW Traveller.
In these days of hydrophobia it
may be well to remark that no person
who has paid for his newspapers in
advance was ever known to be bitten
by a mad dog.-Lynn Item.
There is a town in Australia called
Random. A resident. of the place, be-
ing absent from it, and being asked
where he lived, said he ."lived at Ran
DOM" He was taken up as vagrant.
IN Y. Telegram.
DIR. Schliemann believes, from the
figures of women on certain vases, that
corsets were in use in prehistoric Greece.
This should teach our fashionable and
wasp-waisted women lesson. All the
women of prehistoric Greece who wore
corsets are now very dead.--NorTtstoa's
Herald.
-Sophronia asks. Where and when
did the phrases. "Ah therer' and "Stay
therer' have their origin. At Fort Nc
Henry, dear, during the war Of 1872.
When the Stars and Stripes were run
up the enemy said: "Ah there!'' and
the Americans said: "Stay therer' and
they did. ''And thus be it ever," etc.
Boston Courier.
-''You enjoyed the opera, Mrs.
Quickrichp" mo; / was greatly disap.
pointed. 1t was perfect fraud. The
newspapers all said the tout ensemble
was superb, and went specially to see
it, but there wasn't single tout ensem.
BILE in the whole show. l don't believe
they've got one in the company
Chicago Tribune.
-'.Well, / never knew that BEFORE ,
said Mrs. Gummidge, looking over the
edge of her newspaper. "What's that
my dearp' asked MIR. G. "Why, thai
Mr.. Parnell is bachelor" ''Well, yor
might have guessed it. He's in favor o
home rule" Mrs. Gummidge was silen
a long, long time, wondering just wha
her husband meant. Meantime Mr.
Gummidge went out and sat on the door
step Ikea prudent man. Chicago Neacs