Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-12
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THERE has just appeared in Vienna the first
number of new English weekly newspaper,
| the Vienna Weekly News, the first journal
ever printed there In English.
SUCCESSFUL LAWYER was asked to run
Tor Congress- but declined, on The ground that
if elected he would henceforth feel superior
to trying case of horse stealing. and that he
wanted to do nothing that would make him
feel TOO big for his profession.
| THE wild man is coming to the front this
fall. A Maine newspaper of repute says that
one ten feet high was recently killed 100
miles north of Moosehead lake. He had pre-
| Vlously killed one OF three hunters, ana the
| other two got re-enforcements and slew the
| giant, who was covered with long brown hair.
WILLIAM SHORT, an Indiana burglar. was
recently sent to the penltentjary, and few
days after his one-legged brother John was
| arrested IN LAFAYETTE, and in his wooden leg
were found a gold watch a valuable neck
| lace, three bracelets, five diamond rings ana
| other Jewelry, in all worth $780, part OF the
| proceeds of Williams skill in his profession.
IN parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. ac-
cording to teacher. sit is simply impossible
for a man to hold position of superintendent
of schools without being owned by somebody.
Inc school book houses and the local poliu-
| clans run the boards of education, and unless
man is willing to become the subserviant
| suOl VI 5OIlI6 HOutb OF d Ni6T6 CfcdluT6 VI
the politicians, he cannot secure an.election
as superintendent or cannot remain long in
such position"
| "PRIsoNER's SUNDAY" originated with the
Prison Association of New York three years
| ago. and Is generally observed in New York
! State. The idea has been taken up in other
states, ana this year Oct: q will be observed
In Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan,
| ONO, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey
and Connecticut. In nearly all these States
| ltsooservance to auxiliary associations formed
| under the fostering care of the National
Prison Association of the United States.
THE fact that son of a wealthy and we'll
known citizen of Boston has decided to be-
come horse doctor, to the horror of some OF
| his friends, reminds a writer in the Boston
| Post that one of the sons of that most fastidi
GUS gentleman. Edward Everett, became a
veterinary surgeon with his lather's appro-
val, ana had his sign on his fathers house in
| Sumner street, and that one of the Oldest and
best horse doctors in Boston to-day is an hon
| ored member Of one OF the best families of the
/ Hub.
MRS. LYDIA CALDWELL, of Chicago. has in
vented dryer for the treatment of damp
grain, sugar, salt and other substances re-
| curing evaporation, and also for rendering
the blood and refuse of packing and slaughter
houses m arketable In the form of fertilizers or
other commo Titles. The dryer is particularly
valuable to brewers in drying the grain after
| beer and in removing moisture from wet
grain in elevators, etc. This gifted and ener-
getic woman is now at work on a smoke-con-
Stunning apparatus and a device for purifying
an infected water supply.
THE ringing of the door bell, which is an
electric annunciatOr, reused Capt. C. G. Lyon
from his slumbers at the family residence on
Golden Hill, Bridgeport. Conn.,, about s
O'Clock Wednesday morning. He found the
hall tull or smoke, and discovered that box
OF ashes in the cellar had ignited and the
| blaze had communicated to surrounding wood
| work. hand extingulsher quickly quenched
the fire, and but little damage was done. The
| wire of the annunciator passed over the spot
where the blaze started, and the heat had
| heightened a spring and permitted the clos
ing OF the circuit, which caused the bell to
| ring.
A NEW YORK PAPER says early one morn
ing last week, poor Italian woman on Cham
bers street, near Broadway, was making an
Intellectual effort to place upon her head a
tremendous bundle of rags and paper which
she had diligently collected. A stout gentle
man with white hair, and eyes almost as
peculiar as Ben Rutler's, approached on his
way to early duties in the big white marble
pile across the street. Seeing the woman's
predicament he eXerted his biceps and sue
oeeded In raising the bundle. She went on
her way rejoicing. Her friend was Justice
Donohue of the Supreme Court. Thus did
Irish america assist Italy in the hour of her
extremity.
SOME extraordinary stories are told about
the losses of English fruit growers, owing to
the lowness of prices. According to Kentish
paper, a farmer near Sandwich sold twenty
tons of curraDts through factor in London
and at the close of the transaction received an
account showing balance of FL against him
| self. Another grower in the same district
sent forty eight sleeves of plums to London
| His agent advised that there was no mark ct
for them in London, and recommended that
they should be sent to Manchester, which was
done, and balance of 4d. was ultimately re-
mitted to the grower. This is quite credible
as see from another source that in the Man
chester market the best plums are fetching
| only Sd. per two pounds.
LITTLE JOE WHEELER, says a New York ma
per, has been trying to interest New York
capitalists in the development of the rich Ala
bama lumber districts. Though little Joe is
scarcely 8 feet in height, and walks with
| stopped shoulders, as though his body were
not strong enough for his large head. vet he
was ranh ed with Wade Hampton as one of the
most dashlng cavalry Generals in the Cenfed-
| crate service. Sherman was ALWAYS anxious
when Wheeler's cavalry was near For a
noted cavalry leader he is the most lnoffeneiye
and inconspcuous appearing of men. He la
now a member of Congress and is so short
| that he Is oblged when speaking to mount one
| of the chairs, or else to speak from the clerk A
desk. Once while speaking from a revolving
| chair he gesticulated so violently that he
| wrested the chair from under him and landed
on the floor. He W as not at all dieconcerted
though his fellow Congressman could not helm
laughing.
Just mark that d. H." said General
Manager j. w. Schrange, of the Erie Express.
the other day. as brought in package to be
sent to New York. ''That doesn't approx
mate to dead beat I hope" ''No, not at all !:
a deadhead is another kind Of an individual.
you know how the term originated: NOS
You've heard Of Mr.. ID. II. Coville of Chi
cagoP' Eyes; ne was Mayor of the town
once" "That ia the man; he was at one time
agent for the United States Express Comnanv
and he used t. receive great number OF per-
sonal packages, which were, OF course free
well, he got 30 manv that the clerks Rot tired
OF writing on them ID. II. Coville free and
they would just chalk down ID. H. every
body around the office knew that tn at meant
it was for Mr.. d. II Coville, and that nothing
was to be charged; finally all free packages
came to be marked ID. H. and at last some
smart chap translated the letters as standing
for 'deadhead.'"
TIE meaning of the phrase ''beneflt of
clergy" is not, perhaps, very generally under
stood. The custom had its origin in those
days of intellectual darkness when the state
of letters was 80 low that any one found
guilty in a court of justice OF crime which
WAS punishable with death, If he could prove
himself able TO read a verse in Latin Bible
he was pardoned, as being a man Of learning
and therefore likely 90 be useful to the state :
| but u he could not read he was sure to lie