Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


MRS. LovEJoY. wife Of Major Lovejoy, of
Bethel, Maine, while fishing recently in the
Rangeley Lakes, caught the largest trout ever
hooked by woman in those waters. 1t
| weighed pounds ounces.
AT circus at Santa Cruz there was f ght
between bull and bear. The latter at first
| declined to fight, but soon made lunge atthe
| pull, got him by the muzzle and would have
killed him If he had not been taken Off
! IN Union township, Ohio, is a mound s
feet high and 6S feet in circumference, and a
party of explorers, under the auspices of the
peabody Museum, are digging In it. They
| have already found flint knives and arrow
heads and many skeletons.
MEXICAN confined in the jail at San An
tonic, Texas, climbed to the highest grating,
stuck his toes in the iron work, hung head
downward. folded his arms, cried "Adios,"
| and dropped to the basement. He struck on
his head, but failed to kill himself.
RECENTLY Fred P. Paulson, a white farmer
near Dallas, Texas, was married to Catherine
Robinson, colored woman. Miscegen alton
is a penitentiary offense in Texas, and the
happy couple will be called to account. But
to make sure that Justice was done, their
nelghbors tarred ana feathered them the we'd
ding night.
In one of the most frequented thorough
fares Of Vienna, the Maria Hilfer Strasse,
young tailor went to a physician for con-
sultation. On being told that he was incur
able he fired two shots at the medical man
one striking the ear and the other the arm.
The tailor then killed himself firing seven
sho from a small revolver. The wounds of
the physician do not appear to be dangerous.
ATTORNEY GENERAL RICE, of Dakota, and
Fred Pettgrew are, and long have been, per-
sonal and political enemies. This is probably
why Pettigrew, in his capacity as a census
taker. listed the Attorney General as "bas-
taTd." A suit for libel resulted, which has
just been completed at Flandreau, and which
resulted in verdict against Pettigrew for
$l3,l34 16. The census taker will try to have
new trial and a reduction of damages for his
false and spiteful sur.
ONE of the strong points of the Knights of
Labor organization is that which meets with
liveliest opposition from regular trades union
combinations--th eatholicity of its member
snip. The helper is taken III as well as the
skilled workman. This feature accounts for
the evident favor with which the Pittsburg
uuddlers regard the proposition to leave the
malgamated Association and affiliate with
the knights. In the iron trade unskiled
workmen are powerful factors in determining
the success or failure of a strike
THE cows down at Empire, on the Carson
river, New, feed on the numerous small, low,
nat islands at that point, which divide the
river up into many meandering sloughs and
was high, these islands were completely sub
merged. but now they are above water again
and covered with short, sweet grass, which
the cows eagerly seek. They are so used to
wading and swimming from one island to an
other that their feet have become broad, with
a strong, thick web like sole leather formed
between the toes. Any one of those COWS can
outswlm rowboat or an alligator.
AN ANN Harbor CMich,) young ian resolved
that every $40 bill coming into his possession
ho srT1d f.,Nz l. 4
would go toward a fund for buying clothes.
ETC.; every 81 bill or coin should go for board
washing, etc. !; every Csc. and loo. piece to an
ice cream, soda water. and so forth fund for
his girl, and The pennies for church collection.
At the end Of six months he balanced up and
found Sc y for the church collection fund;
S65 IS expended in the ice cream girl fund: he
was three Neeks behind with his board on the
81 fund he had accumulated just $40 for the
new clot hes fund, and hadn't red cent in the
$40 fund.
S. W. WESLEY, the "Cowboy Evangelist"
has reached Kansas City. he is 25 years old,
and claims to be des cendant of John Wesley
and regularly ordained Baptist minister
He now sports silk hat, having discarded the
cowboy sOmbrero, and uses a rubber stamp to
imprint his name upon hotel registers. He is
unassumlng ana gentlemanfy n his manners
and does not use slang in his sermons. -Four
or FIVE years ago" said Mr. Wesley. referring
10 his past life. 81 was about the toughest case
IN iChdS duU bu6 luuldu l6TfIJOrY. L RnoG6.
There were few that could get the upper hand
of me in a fight. and | never could bear 10
miss free for-all fracas." Five bullet
wounds and an arrow m ark upon his body at
test the truth of his assertions.
FIVE Senator's can never become Presidents.
as they are foreign born. Beck having been
born in Scotland; Jones, of Nevada. IN Eng
land; Fair. sewell and Jones. of Florida, in
Ireland. New York has given birth to more
of the present Senators than any other State
the number being eight; Kentuct v, Ohio and
Virginia can boast of six each. Virginia ami
West Virginia being considered in this es-
innate as one; Massachusetts and PenpsvI-
vania. five each. with the remainder scatter
ing. Fourteen have been born in New Eng
land. Only four States west of the Miss1ssinni
Indiana, Missouri. Iowa and Minnesota
have given birth TO Senators. Not a Senator
has been born in the western half of the
United States.
SINGULAR as it may appear, the common
herring is fish which 1t is most difficult to
procure and preserve alive in inland aqua
RUINS. it being so delicate that the loss of
even few scales during transportation is
sure to cause its death. For several years DR.
Hermes. of the Berlin Aquarium has vainlv
tried to OBJ ain some specimens for his estah-
lishment; they had either been rubbed in the
net or been touched with the hand, and died
before reaching Berlin. He has at last enc
ceeded IN obtaining live one. one OF his men
having by this time grown sufficiently expert
10 eaten u IN a sort OF glass balloon lowered
with he net. For other specimens of fish I'm
the seawater basin OF the aquarium, Trieste
Is the principal puryeyor.
AN old stager, who has shaken hands with
many lady of the White House, tells me
he likes the way Mrs. Cleveland shakes hands
better than any Presidents lady OF the past.
Said he: MRS. Cleveland shakes hands as
though she meant it. She looks YOU in the
eye and tries to catch your good will
before she puts out her hand
She grasps your hand firmly and
gives it perceptible shake. She uses
the whole arm, and d)es not shake only from
the wrist or elbow. Mrs. McElroy was too
stiff and stick-like. Miss Cleveland turned
her face away from you when she shook
hands with Won. and did she not appear to be
at home. Mrs. Cleveland feels that she ia do
ing the honors Of the White House, and thar
she has right TO. he acts as a lady would
act who was presiding over her own home.
and she is apparently as cordial in her ges-
lures"
THE history OF John Lannon. OF Alexandria
Va, who recently died, is worth repeating.
He came from Ireland with his mother when
child, and early had to work for a living.
He got place in the store OF Joseph Broders
who, when the Federal troops occupied Alex
andria in 1861, ran away, leaving Young Lam
non. then rs years old. in charge. Broders
hoped that he boy would sell the goods in
stock aud lake an honest return of the pro-
Deeds; he was therefore much surprised when
he returned at the end Of three wears 10 find
that John had increased the business, had ON