Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-30
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awakened by some one walking in his room.
Without investigating further, he seized his
pistol, blazed away, and shot his aged grand
mother.
ALARGE CAVE has recently been discovered
in the Oregon range, forty miles north of Ell
Paso, which in size, and IN the beauty of its
stalacties and stalagmites bids fair to rival
the Mammoth Cave.
THERE is a band of Free Methodist revival
lists stirring up Pekin, Ill. One young con-
vert gave up good position to JOIN the band
and most of the women converts are discard
ing JeWeiry, laccs and embroidery.
SOME vandal has stolen tho ivy planted by
the Yale class Of 49, 1t was the gift of Mrs.
Cushing, who got it herself from Mt. Heicon
in Greece, from the face of a cliff where the
marble was quarried for the buildings on the
Acropolls of ancient Athens.
THE remainder Of this week will be given
Ep at Genoa to public festivItiesin connection
with the unvelling of the monument to VIC
tor Emanuel. and among the prominent
participants viii be the Archbishop who, in
1873, left the city to avoid meeting the royal
family.
A CITIZEN Of Albany, Me-, who had hun
dred gallons of hard cider in his cellar, was
rather surprised when he returned home and
found his wife had turned the spigot to every
cask and lett all run out in the cell lar drain.
glad Of it.
A LIyELYT TIME was experienced by an apia-
rist, one day recently at Bruce Township, On
tario, when sixteen swarms of his bees came
off at the same time and besieged q branch Of
a tree, where they formed huge roll several
feet in circumference and about Ave feet
long. He separated them, finding out each Of
the sixteen queen bees, which he put into
hive, and gathered enough bees 10 make
swarm, until he had the whole sixteen quiet
Iy settled in new hives.
FRANK KAGT. Jr, of bingham, ILL.,, sur
prised his friends on Sunday by returning
from q business trip to Washington accom-
panied by newly welded wife. Their we'd
ding was of romantic turn. The couple had
not met face to face until they stood up before
the minister who married them, at the brides
home, near Alexandria, Va, one day last
week. They made one another's acquain-
lance through the mails, Dir. kagy's Vir-
ginia BRIDE was a Miss Harrison, great
granddaughter OF President Harrison,
INSTANCES have of late years been frequent
where the work of an entire spring, and con-
.sequently the fruits OF years toll and care,
out In Wyoming, have been rendered nuga-
tory and destroyed by one weeks work of the
prairie dogs. On the cattle ranges, too, they
are dreaded. Many cowboy riding swiftly
and fearlessly to his duty has been violently
hurled to the ground and seriously, if not
fatally, Injured by his horse stepping into a
prairie dog hole. Romance and sentiment
hnu small sympathy when opposed TO utility
and progress, and Washington Irying's prairie
dogs must follow Cooper's Indians.
TWO Philadelphia bellies went down to the
beach at Long Branch in the gray of the
morning and took to the surf without the for
mality of bathing suits, leaving their garments
on the sands. Two Princeton students re-
turning from an all night frolic stole the buds.
An honest vlllager, who was up early with
both eyes oven. took stick to the youngsters,
captured the dry goods and dumped them
back on the beach. He then gracefully retired
and allowed the frightened damsels to ESCAPE
from their predlcament just as the sun was
rousing the waterside jewellers from their
slumbers. 1t was a very close call for the pair
of Quakcresses.
ONE of the prettest sights imaginable is to
be enjoyed in driving from Sacramento to
Walnut Grove, upon the river The road for
miles is on top of the levee, broad and smooth
On your right is the Sacramento. on your left
one continuous orchard for a distance of over
twenty five miles. The trees are all in full
bloom. delight the eye with their beauty
and the sense of smell with their fragrance.
The cherry orchards, at a distance. with their
pure white blossoms, resemble an immense
snOwbank, with here and there field of pink,
where the peach orchards intervene. Pear
orchards of immense size, also in full bloom
are Intermlngled with those of apricot and
plum,
Mrs. RATE NJ. PINCIN, of East Monmouth.
Me-, widow of a soldier, draws her pension at
Augusta. On herlast trip she saw strange
man watching her while she was counting
her money in the pension Office. At Gardiner
she left tue TRAIN, took her team from stable
and started for home On the waV she heard
a buggy coming behind, and, looking round
recognized IN II the man she had teen in Au-
gusta. lie drove past her, then STONED
jumped out, and, Selling her horse by the
bride. demanded her money. As he turned
n hnrgp ho,. n,
startled TO find that he was looking into the
muzzle Of a revolver, He dropped the bride.
scrambled into his own buggy and drove away
in fright.
"THE following facts" says Nature. "ex-
emplify the strong migratory instincts of
trout: At the fish culture establishment at
Delaford. where the utmost care is taken to
isolate the various species of salmonida. a
rev OF the nsh occasionally are found in ponds
long distances from those in which thew were
originally located. Considering that each
pond is 80 constructed as to prevent such a
contingency, the occurrence is very remarka-
bic, and can only be accounted for in two
ways, viz that the fish either burrOw through
holes that probably are made by rats and
moles, or they jump out of the water and so
proceed to the next pond. 1t is not likely
that they are borne thence by BIRDS as the
appearance OF the fish on the occasion refer
red 70 does not Justify such an assumption.
THE case Of the Cincinnati woman who ere
ated sensation by proclaiming herself the
Dlety Ia duplicated at Wheatland, a village
two miles south Of Sharon, Pa. A young wo
man who, apart from her present delusion.
appears intellectually brilliant, armed her,
self with club and. proceeding TO the homes
OF the residents, by threats and exhortations
compelled them to temporarily abandon their
premises. She gave as reason the statement
thai the place was Gods ground and thar
their presence WAS Dissertation. She saws
the village is under curse and she finds
many believers, as from a prosperous mann
featuring town it has retroRraded INTO an al
most w holly deserted village. She is now
holding religious services in the streets and
people are coming from surrounding towns 10
see her.
If there is more savage and desoate re-
gion in New England than that section of
Maine between Bangor and MOosehead lake.
one would prefer never to visit it. The rail-
way runs for miles along the banks Of the
Pscataquis, its brown waters choked with
sawdust and water soaked logs, the scatter
ing Villages eehoing with the scream of the
saw mills, while everything smells OF rank
new timber, decaying wood and smoke from
the fires lighted to consume the piles of inn
used chips and sidings. FlOurishing fields of
potatoes and oats are about the only indica-
lions of any attempts at agriculture, and a
few cows and sheep wander over the meadoys
divided of by fences OF upturned stumps, NOT
as in Vermont, draped with vines and 1ow-
ers but stark and white, like great twisted
skeletons.