Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TIE famous old steamer Plymouth Rock
was burned off Apple Island the oLner morn
ing, for the iron, brass and copper IN her null
A WALL Of brown stone, topped with
bronze renee, keeps stray kline OF the 81. 500
900 premises Of James Z. Flood, Mob Hill,
| Frisco.
A DISTINGUISHED New York clergyman,
who was gong abroad. was offered $500 II ne
would tarry and marry an ambitious pair, but
he refused.
METHUsELAH could not have been prouder
Of his last child than are pair at st. Joseph,
Mo. The mother is 65 years old, the father
II. the boy week.
IT is claimed that Joana Mosquito Deflles,
who died recently in Livermore. Cal, was 10
years old. At all events she was the mother
Of twelve children. and her grandchildren
and great grandchildren numbered l64.
JOHN HUGHES. farmer near Chebause,
Ill.,, has been boring for water on his farm for
over twelve month";. The drill is now down
400 feet, and the earth is SAID to be 80 dry that
they pour water in the hole to make the drill
work
The Emperor of China's new throne at
Shanghai is to have its foundation and pedes-
tai made of gold brick, and the sub project
of Soochow has sent to PekIn 5000 pieces Of
solid gold brick, of the ordinary shape of clay
brick, for this purpose.
IT Is said that the paper furnished under
the new contracts. on which the silver certif-
Gates are beng printed. is of inferior quality.
Instead oftwO. there is but one silk thread
running the length OF the bill, and there are
no scattered silk threads TO be seen. An eX-
pert says that it will not wear well.
MISS KATE Shelly, of West Point. Ind,
set the town talking the other day by publicly
thrashiug Postmaster Kiser. This done, she
went before a Justice, pleaded guilty to an
assault, was dned S5 and costs, and paid 1t
like man" The trouble grew out of a case
IL which she was witness 5ainst hi5er.
A BELL in a Roman Catholic Church in
Biddeford, Me-, has been silent for over
twenty years. Suddenly its ringing has be-
gun again. Its notes are discordant. and the
town is not happy. The new pastor ordered
the bell to be rung. believing that his people
would be shamed into getting new bell. The
result already bears out his theory.
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY has so advanced
in India that a fourishlng Photographic So
ciety has been formed in Calcutta, and has
just held its first meetings. The members
will AXE excursions to collect material for
an album to be published by the society, and
IT is further proposed to organize an exhibit
tlon OF their work in the cold season. Lady
Dulern is patron of the society, being her
self very successful amateur Lady Of the
Sun"
PECULIAR and painful incident happened
in the history of a SearspOrt, Me-, mariner.
His wife and family accompanied him on a
voyage, and on the passage from San Fran
| cisco to Liverpool, hen in latitude 30, iongi-
| tude %, a child was born 10 them. which con-
| tinued to thrive and grow remarkably during
| the rest OF the passage ana all the time the
| ship lay at Liverpool, where she loaded to
! \ Yokohama. After being out few DAYS on
| the passage thence il was discovered that the
| infant was sick, and 1t rapidly grew worse
until the ship reached the exact latitude and
| longitude where the child was born seven
months before, when it died. The strange
| circumstances so affected the wife that the
| the body was Theoretically sealed in a little
| TIN box made for the purpose, and after reach
| ing Yokohama was sent to San Francisco by
| steamer. thence Co New York around the
| Horn, and after having been nearly twice
| around the world the little stranger reached
resting place in the quiet churchyard at
/ Searsport.