Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

/ instead OF dying ueVelOpcu H9urOphouIa' 1hN-
bit fourteen head of cattle, all OF which died.
THREsHING WHEAT with a streak of light
ming is something new. Yet on the Hatfield
farm of the Marquis OF Salisbury the thresh-
ing machine was run with electricity this
autumn.
BOsToN's yachting mania had such hold
on one suburban congregation that on re-
cent Sunday floral yacht adorned the pull
pit, to the scandal of the conservative element
among the wOrshipers.
1T is like carrying Goals to Newcastle" for
man to go from America to Switzerland to
set up as Matchmaker. Yet that is just
what young MIR. Ward. son of the Mtchiga n
lumber millionaire, has done-eetaDlisheu a
big watch factory at Geneva,
THE Greek bandits who recently captured
the Archbishop of Elassona. in Macedonia.
and demanded ransom OF 500 600 francs for
his release. were attacked by a force of Six
huudred Turkish troops seut against them
from Salonica, and forced 20 surrender their
captive.
wHITEsMITH named Sixt, who had usually
borne a good character, was found drunk in
the street at Dole and taken to the lookup.
Almost Immediately afterwards a fire broke
out on the premises, and Just as the warders
were about to deliver the unfortunate prls-
oner the key broke in the lock. Sixt was
burned to death.
IN the rotunda of the Richmond capitol
there is an OLD stove made of iron which is
said to be one of the oldest stoves in ex-
lstence. 1t was made q present TO the colony
OF Virginia in l770, and was spoken of at that
Time as warming machine. IL 10 seven Feet
nigh. and has as much ornamehtaLion as a
queen Anne house.
THE newspaper business in Washington
county. N. Y, has its perils. Two women,
dNan I'D ,N,,h1 IL had
about them in newspaper, assaulted Daniel
Brown at the county fair. Daniel il a news
paper man. but he doesn't work on the paper
that published the article in question. and he
dlun't write it, and he had not even read 1t.
ONE OF the most interesting and valuable of
the many private art collections in Par is
that of M. Gavet. 1t consists of pictures, re-
llefs, bronzes, furniture, tapestry and glass of
the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries. Nj. Gavet, believing that the taste
OF the modern Frenchm ian has been corrupted
by he art of the last century, rarely exhibits
MS treasures except TO foreigners.
REV. GEORGE H. REID, of Baltimore. and
Rev. George b. Gayle, of Jamaica, both col
ored. sail ed from Baltimore Tuesday on the
Dix Wilkins schooner Jessie T. Matheson,
capt. W alter Gray, for Hoca del Toro. Costa
Rica. Both are regularly ordained Baptist
clergymen, but go to their missionary field in
an independent capacity. The Rev. Mr..
Gayle came from Boca del Toro with Capt.
cray on the schooner Thos. J. Taylor last
June. and was ordained at Baltimore. Both
are young men.
NEW time System has been proposed by
Prof. Lindon. The new system is on the
decima plan, and provides that the present
day of TWEEN y-four hours be divided into ten
divisions, 81 thar each hour would correspond
to two hours ana twenty-four minutes; this
hour would be again divideiinto 100 divisions,
called minutes II necessary, each hour in the
new system, thus corresponding 10 IA min
ntes; again. this new minute division to be
subdlvided for accurate measurements into
100 divisions. called seconds.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR have to pay pretty well
for their membership. Seventy-nve dollars
is about the aV erage fee for joining the Ma
sonic fraternity itself, then the chapter fee is
about $50 more, and the commandery 500
The outfit costs A. least $3.50, and the yearly
dues amount altogether to about $l2. That
makes total of ABOUT 1887 for the first year,
with 500 added if a msn wants to be mem
Der OF the consisiory. There is saId To he q
lodge in New York that it costs $500 to Join at
all and in which the dues are large in pro-
portion.
NJ. DE LEssEPs still finds time to prosecute
the scheme for the fertilization OF the Tunis
Shotts. He explained to the Academy OF
Sciences the other day that, in lieu of the in =
land sea contempla ted by the late Can't Rou-
dare. the present idea is to sink artesian
wells in this region. and a decree of the Tunis
government has just authorized M. de Les cps
TO make the experiment Ii the expected sup
ply Of water Is found, 100 hectares of state
land for every cubic metre OF water raised per
minute are To lie sold TO him, The total not 10
exceed 10000 hectares.
THE Philadelphians who went into gas ope-
rations at St. Louis come time ago have al
ready, according to the st. Louis papers.
made nice thing of it. They bought 4O0I
shares OF St. Louis gaslight stock for s 100 O0O
which are now worth 81 900, 900, and $4,000
IN other properties, which have since appre-
ciated to $750.0o0. This improvement In
values was brought about by consolidating
the purchases of the syndicate into the 81
Louis Gas Trust, which Row includes the St.
Louis Gaslight Company, the Carondeet Gas
Company AMI the st. Louis Gas, Fuel aud
Power Company. The syndicate now has
over 81, o00 00e of the $4,000 600 capital of the
Trust, and the frst election under it will tax
place next Tuesday.
WHILE Superintendent Wheeler, of st. Ag
nes' Cemetery, Cohoes N. Y, was asleep in
bed on Tuesday night four men called at his
house, and when Mrs. Wheeler answered the
knock at the door they seized her and
carried her across the cemetery. They then
tied her to the fence and demand that she
tell them where thsy'cOuld fluid the 500 that
her husband had received from the pastor OF
| st. Agnes church the day before. THIS she
| refused to do. and shrieS ed for Assistance.
me farmers living the ineighbOrhoou re-
| piled to her appeals. and the men fed. The
| farmers found her tied to the tence insensi =
| Die. They cut her bonds and carried her
| home. Mr.. Wheeler. who mad not been dis
turbed, was found fast asleep in bed. He had
not heard of the trouble.
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE at williams
burg, Va, still retains its privileges. Every
mo ming the aged President rings the college
hall nh ne fnda
college is open ami the charter is not forfeited
In 1885 the institution was the hotbed OF seces-
sion. The first demonstration WAS there
made to amIllariZe the public IN nd with the
idea of dissolution of the National Union,
The first issue of this was printed and pub
| iished in the form of quite an attractive and
entertaining political novel, entitled "Parti-
sun Leader" which was issued in the u, pul ar
form of that day. and was intended to be-. the
precursor OF other similar pro auctions. This
effort to stir up secess onal ST e. eXcept
among some politicians of the South. proved
futile. The effort was made 10 prejud dice the
Old Jackson party, with Gen. Jackson at ITS
head, for their domination OF Mr.. Van Buren,
for the Presidency, TO which Office he was,
nevertheless, elected in 1886.
remarkable series of incendisry fires is
alarming the citizens of Harmony, Me. A
meeting was called on Saturday to devise
means for sef-protection, but the alarm of
FIRE sent the people hurTyipg to burning
barn. aud while they were woIk king there two
other barns in other directions were burned
On sunday another barn was Tired. These
fires were al started In broad daylight. The