Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
| A CITIZEN Of Rockland, Me has brier-
wood pipe which he tound Embedded in a
! large mass of salt at the bottom OF one OF the
water tanks OF the old frigate sabine.
LAST YEAR the owner OF a refrige ating es-
! Punishment at Sturgeon Bay, Wis, fToze
| fifty tons Of fish for winter storage. This
! year ne eXpe Is to freeze twice as many.
| EIGHTEEN THOUSAND SALMON are said to
have been recently caught in Puget Sound at
| one maui of two seines and lot OF FISH got
away, too, by the bursting of one OF the seines.
THOMAS TAYLOR died in Baltimore on Fri
day, aged 10 years. He was for years slave
In Anne Arundel county Maryland, and al
| WAYS insisted that he had seen George Wash
ingIon during the war of the revolution.
Mrs. FLEMING, of Wood county. Ohio,
lighted an extra candle the other night When
the preacher and his wife called. and af err
they had gone away her husband. Josiah,
! boxed her ears for The display of eXtravH-
vance. Although they have been married
forty-two year., she has sued for divorce.
NEWCASTLE, Can, constable, who re-
| Gently set out to find a man charged with
| having molested a fagman OF the Grand
| Trunk railway, carried with him PAIR of
| handouts. pair of old fashioned brass
| come a-iongs,' a Ions piece OF stra ~. several
yards OF rope, bayon, two revolvers, and a
gun.
TEE Brooklyn sanitary authorities are out
in card DENYING that the smallpox prevails
there in epidemic form. But Iwentg-one
cases have been reported this an umn, and at
present tn disease is under control and con-
! fined to no particular part OF the city. Free
| vaccination has been established at three Of
| the hos pitals.
TWO Denver citizens, buffalo hunting in
! Park county, Colorado walked twenty-five
miles, and thought that they were amp re.
paid when they discovered big bull bison
mOuntain fas Iness." or course they ioyfully
Killed this lonely representative of a once
mighty herd.
BURGLAR brokeiuto a store in Spring ield,
Mass, the other nigh. and left piece of one
OF his sho' strings on the window where be
| enter W. E. Smith was arrested. part
of one of his shnestrnys was gone, the re-
! naming part cOrrcspondet with the piece
| FOUND IN the wind W, and 80 Smith is to be
| tried for the burglary
OsCA Galley and Will Jones, of Stautons-
burg, \. C., were out shooting and saw a
squirrel run into no in d tree. viii
| climbed the tree to scare him out. and Oscar
| waited tor a chance to shoot. The chance
came, for the squirrel popped out. but instead
| OF hitting The game the b " hit his cnmrade,
who plunged heAdloug to the groun d dead.
A WOMAN in Camden, N. j., who had been
il! long. aud VIII m the physicians were nm
able to cure, sent for a man who was an earn
es, believer in the faith cure. He found her
lying on her bed amt apparently very near
DEAD. Alter asking her in regard 10 her
| faith. and having received sat efac DRY an
swers, he prayed with her and then left as-
surlne her That she would recover. THIS WAS
| early in the day. and by night it is said that
| she " as waking around in as good health as
need be, and she has not suffered since.
THE Montreal hackmen's union have issued
the following circular: 1T having been rep
resented TO us that it W wrong to work on
Sunday for good and su Efficient reasons-frst,
because God commanded man to keep the
Sabbath dav holy, and second. because our
horses require rest from labor on tue seventh
day as much as we do ourselves-th-Ie ore,
we, the hackmen of Montreal, believing that
We hOud act in accoru ance with Gods laN ,
do hereby agree to abstain from labor M sun
days In future, and request a. hackmen not
t. bring out their carriages for hire CD sun
day, and God help us TO keep steadfast in this
resolu ion"
AMONG the members of the next Congress
will be two clergymen, Rev. l.. F. Mckinney,
pastor Of L University church in Manchester,
N. H., and Rev. Myron W. Reed, pastor of a
Presbyterian church in Denver. COL Mr.,
Mckinney servrd as soldier IN the war, is Il
man of ain, blunt manners wears slOuch
hat and understandable attire. He is a clear
and fore bic speaker, and his many charities
h We endeared him tn all ihe mill operatives
| OF Nj anchest"r. Rev, AR. Reed " a. for MANY
| years one of the leading Pge-bvterian Clergy
men OF Indianapolis .nd Indiana. When he
| removed to Denver he a ones attained wide
popularity, and haYing changed his poiiiica
faith, viii now 20 TO Congress as Democr T..
| succeeding Jim" Bedford, the Red Headed
Rooster OF the Rockies"
THERE lives man within ten miles of Bos-
ton whose love for the old takes a more prac-
Teal form tn IN is commonly supposed to ex-
lst IN the present day. lie has comfortable
home IN the suburbs. but in it no stove has
ever been placed. The house is heated en-
| urely by Old-fashIO Ell tireplaces in each
| room and the gentleman ella ms that in the
coolest days in winter his home is warmer
ami more com Portable than any of the homes
| OF his nelghbors, heated as thew are by steam
| or hot air furnaces. And further, all the
! cooking for the family is done at one of
| these same opon hreplaCes, presumably in
the same manner as IL was done ut the heaI.ibs
| of our fathers Of the last century And tae
| gentleman shifts mis- nose at food cooked by a
| stove, aud maintains that the Old areplact. il
lar superior, both FIR cooking and heating, to
ANY Of your new FAM led bUions."
IN Catholic institution In the quiet village
Of Temiecs mingue, Ont, reside four nuns.
| The personal charms of one OF them. Sister
Colombo, attracted the admiration o! a Young
man named Laferriere. This was only know'
| TO themselves. Until recent his visits To he
| instltu Ion were suppo,ed to be for the pur-
| pose of seeing young girl who also resided
| There, to whom he as believed to be engaged
| It was through the hep of the young girl that
| the cOurtshlp was carried on. but no one a "a
suspected il. Matters were finally ARRANGED
| for Sister Co ON pe's flight. One night re-
Gently she arrived at Ottawa, and at once
wen to the house of fri"nds residing there
where she W . s short joined by LATER ere
and the two were m abe one. Sister Colombe
| had also two sis ers who had taken the veil
bat Influenced by the example set them they
| have both renounced their veil and are now
| living with their parents.
| a COMPANY OF INN igrants had canned in
| New Mexico. and one night one OF the party.
who was sleeping on the ground, was
! awakened by peculiar sensation on his toes.
! lie looked and saw an enormous centlneue
| crawling across his foot Onlv q few ieet
| fl ON him wa tine camp fire. and he could see
| every fibre of the reptile. knowing lis neon
| liHrtIes and the effect OF its sting, he MAS in
| a fever OF excitement. Afraid to move a mus
| Gle, he dared not attempt TO shake it on,
| After second's pause he reached under his
head. got his pistol. and taking deliberate aim.
! nred. IL was a lite-savng shot for the q an
! } he centipede divided aud dropped on each
| side OF his foot. But here comes the most re-
! mArkable part of the story. Within an hour
| after the shot was fred the men heard a ter
! riDle groaning from one of their mules tied
| only a lew yards away. They went TO them
| and found one of them with his left foreleg
/ swollen to an immense size. The swelling in
! creased, "a dd the agony and groans OF the