Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A NATIVE OF Norristown, Pa, may become
Governor of Illinois asa result of Gen. EpgRn's
| death. Gov. oglesby VIII probably sncceett
the dead Senator. and Gen. John @ Sribyl,
now Lieutenant Governor, would oficearse
become Governor. Gen. Smith has relatives
| in Norristown, his old home. and frequently
visits them. uau~0
Two MONTHS AGO Young Tatro, a mere hoy,
was caught by a shaft IN mill in GrosyenaT-,
dale, Conn. He was whirled around, his right
arm was torn from the socket with such force
as 70 send it distance of Is feet. hIs left leg
suffered COM pound fracture, his right knee
was dlslOcated and fractured, and he was
otherwise fearfully bruised, and yet to-day
nc Is alive and we'll 4gTlih
CHAUECEy NJ. DEPEw. President OF the
New York Central road, recently issued an
order to passenger brakemen directing them
10 "step inside the car door and call out the
name of the station In a clear. distinct. tenor
voice" few days later he received the fol-
loving note: Dear Sir: Wot kind of a tenor
voice do you eckspect to hire for $40 month?
Yours truly, JIM"
EDWARD MURPHY, Francis Murphy's son
and assistant temperance apostle, is catching
1t from the Prohibtlonists for attending the
grand opening of fancy saloon at Franklin,
Ind. and Francis Murphy himself is much
olameo Tor commenting upon il by telegraph
as follows: 81 am glad to hear that my son is
following the footsteps OF the great Master
and dining with publicans and sinners."
DANIEL KELLEY, of Port Clinton, has been
presented with gold watch and chain worth
500 By the Pennsylvania Schuylkin Valley
Railroad Company for saving a train load of
passengers. A heavy rock slipped down on
the track at the Port Clinton curve, and
would have caused fearful wreck and loss
of life had it not been for Kelley, who knew
that the train was nearly due He went
ahead and gave the signal to stop.
MRS. JOSEPH PAXTON, of Rupert. Pa, cele-
brated her Tooth birthday on Christmas day.
She was born in the came house in which she
now lives. and until ten years ago was active
in household duties. Now her mind is active,
her appetite good. sne reads much. and keeps
well informed on the news of the dav. Her
descendants are nine children, twenty mine
grandchildren, three great-grandchildren
and two great great grandchildren.
CITIZEN of Pocahontas, Ia, has invented
a new fuel which bids fair to take the place
of coal in the prairie countries. He grinds
cornstalks and coarse prairie grass together
aud molstens them. This pulp is pressed into
blocks about u Inches long and inches thick
and dried. One block will give an hours
steady heat. This fuel can be produced for
81 ton, and the inventor claims that it Will
last twice as long as the best soft coal.
WHEN the Presiding Elder preached re-
Gently at Hermitage. Mo-, he was much an
noyed at the sound of small bell which ran
whenever he was passicularly emphatic. AT
last he stopped in the sermon and said: ~
once knew a man to ring a chestnut bell in
church aud go to the penitentiary for it,
Ihereupon one of his hearers stepped to the
pulpit and moved a small call bell that had
stood lust under the edge of the big Bible in
such position that when the Elder banged
the book the bell rang.
81 CAN'T vote for you," SAID a citizen to an
acquaintance who was a candidate for Mayor
IN large city. ''WhyY Because you talk
too much, Ben. You blow your own horn
100 much.'' The little group composed of
merchants and clerks, who were grabbing
mail out OF their boxes. cooked their ears to
catch the reply to this plain statement. us
that YOUR reason? Haven't you lived long
enough to know that when everybody else is
footing as loud as they can I'd be fool IL 1
didn't blow miner" The candidates rejonder
hOored the honest voter.
MRS. JOSEPH FARRELL, of Winnipeg, who
owns the Sharon coal mine. and has q rich
husband. has just gone home from New York
city which she reached about month ago,
expecting to spend the winter. But she was
lonesome in that big town, AMI hurried back
| to the Northwest. She is famed as the first
white woman married in the far West, the
| ceremony having taken place at Fort Whoop-
up in 1877. 1t was the occasion of big blow
out on the part of the Blood and Blackfeet
Indians, who turned out in great numbers in
holiday garb. firing guns. yelling, eating.
genuine Indian fashion.
HALF the letters of the first lady of the
land are from wives who tell her how to man
age the White House affairs. These letters
may be tiresome, but they must be intensely
amusing. think she might retaliate on those
who publish her letters by giving theirs out
No doubt many of them inform her about the
best ways OF cooking, washing. ironing, max
ing beds, sweeping, etc. / have heard of one
good old lazy living in the country who, on
being informed that the w bite House had ten
times as many rooms as her house. thought it
was mo wonder. that the poor thing mrs.
Cleyeland) wanted her mother TO settle down
there to help her with the housekeepin' -
Many correspondents write from such stand
points as this.
Mr.. MooDY'S recent meetings in Auburn.
n. Y, have been largely attended, and have
been of great profit to many citizens of that
town. One OF them is reported as saying: al
will give $40, and my partner will do the
same | know, TO keep these meetings up a
week longer. Mr.. Moody draws to the town
people no have money TO spend. They como
| into our store with their Auburn friends, SC q
some OF our fine goods. and perhaps goods
they have not seen at home, and we catch
| them for anywhere from So TO $l0a. II thew
did not come with the intention of buying and
have not funds, we ship the goods. The sale
| is sure, for in every instance we have received
a draft Two or three days afterward. The
| trade brought by circus doesn't compare
with what we are having now"
DONKEY PARTIES are the latest thing in the
way of a social gathering in Milwaukee.
large silhoutte representing tailless donkey
IS cut out of paper or clcth and fastened upon
the wall. To each OF the guests are given a
cambria tail and pin. Then they are blind
folded, one by one, placed in u corner opposite
the donkey, are whlrled three times around
and then started IN blind search for the
donkey, upon which, if they reach it, the tail
is TO be pinned. IL The guest goes in another
direction and stumbies against wall, door
chair. or anything else, there he must leave
the tail. The movements OF the blindfolded
are ant TO be ludcrous. The person who
makes the beat effort to place the tail upon
the donkey where t DO ongs receives pres
ent of some kind, while the guest who makes
the most unsuccessful effort gets the BOBBY
prize.
AN interesting account is given by Mr..
Richards, superintendent of the motive power
OF the Boston and Providence railroad, OF a
visit made by him to the famous Krupp steel
works at Essen. He saw d ten-ton cruclble
steel casting being poured, and an cnorm Gus
seventy ton steel casting being very gradual
~ cooled, the outside being warn, ed with c ne
fires until the inside has par L. soidiIied.
when the block is hammered into shane 10
form the main piece OF an immense gun. The
enormous array OF furnaces in which the
crucl bles are heated, and the perfect manner
in which such large number OF men-ln
some cases rs many as SOCIAL lift their
eighty pound crucibes out Of the furnaces
aud pour them INTO the mould in rapid sue
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