Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-01
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! plant is not large, but the hr stalk rises 10
| feet in the air and bears roklsters OF yell
| low blossoms. Nv
UNDER the postal telegraystem in Eng
land-that is to say, manasnt by the gov
eminent of all telegraph 1.-THE number OF
messages sent annually Increased from
| 100000 in 1870 TO 81, 200, 000356.
THE Audubon Society is wing, and new
branches are rapidly beingaed. The mem
! beers pledge themselves noSill or capture
any wild bird not used for nor to disturb
or destroy the nest or eggany wild bro,
ana not 10 make use of thathers OF any
| wild bird as ornaments of or furniture
| THE system of storing gran country ele-
vators which is now preva in the North
| west has supplied a new cIating medium
TO that section. 1t is estiml that OF about
| 10000, 900 bushels OF wheat which North
western farmers hold elev receipts fully
three-tourths were ship out several
| months ago.
| LAST WEEK, on Wednesd as a "buck-
board" was coming out fronlue Mountain
in the Adirondacks, q bear iher two cubs
were run upon. They wereding upon the
| wild berries growing along roadside, and
| by loud yelling and the thing of stones,
| were driven into the woods, EN- the horses
attached to the wagon consed TO pass by.
COLLECTOR SALToSsTALDf Boston, re-
Gently refused to admit a tribe free of duty,
| although the Boston nan Wrought it from
| England claimed tha it was his personal
! use, and that he had ridden once in Eng
land. The TreasurYDepartmt has just re-
versed the decision the coEtor, and sus
tanned the claim of De imp0r. that the ma
chine had been in atual use road.
COL. KNAPP, of Crson, Neygoing sudden
" int IN oh iplya 4 ard fnx
| lying on the grouD. 1t was sll warm. He
| took it into the hose, and hisyife held the
| body III her lap fhile the chdren played
| with it, Some oe opened a widow. and the
fox jumped fro1the sGartedwoman's lap
ana made LED for the winow. He fell
snort ana was cPtured. 1t wa a remarka'
Die exhibition o''playlng 'possm."
Tits euggesteiby a -knWn sculptor,
who has the aunt mindednessto be always
losing his umbala, that this Beful article
should be pro ded by the city, ust as pave
| ments and seYS are; in which case, he OBJ
| serves to his iends, the PEDESTRIAN on a
| rainy day WOO be able to seiz, an umbrella
| from publ4rack in whate,er street he
might be, an 70 get rid of it by returning it
TO another RAG as soon as the Clouds rolled by,
CITIZEN SAuEL n. EWING, o. Minnesota,
has sent final proclamation to Congress
announcing nself as the Christ and calling
| In all other violations. Citizen Ewing"
he says, "reqets the United States govern
! ment to req u6the governments OF the world
| anu ne dlgnnles of the various churches
! religious socldes, or ecclesiastical bodies, in
| ciudlng his Illness the Pope Of Rome. and
! the dlgnltarien the Jewish church, to meet
In W ashingtoclty on Oct. l, 1885, to con-
| slider the PROBABILITY of returning TO the
worship of one bd, the ruler of the Universe
at the earliest 'acticabIe moment"
the fup Iida ,raa
harbor on Tueay she took sailboat, which
hailed her, IN ". few moments later the
! Captain, on lodng astern, vas horrified e
zee instead OF aoat man on the end OF The
| line surglng urer and out of the water like
| porpolse. Ihelg was stopped, and the un.
| fortunate toWHas rescued more dead thar
allve IL appeS that the blight of the linz
| was maze last " cleat on the sailboat anC
theG leo ait Wlttn anchor attached TO the
END. Inc cleat pled out and one of the
men was caugnIY the anchor and pulled
| overheard ana 20 vi some distance before hi
was discovered inie darkness.
FRANK BUNToN ad Jim Adams, of Music
carter county, NY we're enemies. This wa
why ADAMS gave trs. BuntOn a thrashin,
when her husoandtas away, and that wa
why Bunton loadeAis gun with bucksho
| and went cunning r Adams The latter
| VINO WAS paying cav saw his enemy com
ing lie nelu gOOd md, and, laying 1t fac
doWn' ASKED MS Iriels to wait until he ha,
settleu buntOn. hebrew his pistol ant
CraWltu unuer u Irel1 car, and when Bun
| ton, who had not seen i'm, came along. fire,
anu missed MIN. Buntds saw Adams peerin
| from under the car andred a load OF buck
| shot into his upturned rehead. Killing hin
instantly.
AND now comes a tale woe from Burden
| Cowley county, Kas., wich. if true. take
| the premium over all cnpetitors. ma.
who got mad at the coutry. and longed I
sell his farm, received al offer from a Mis-
| souri, man and accepted | The Nissouria
| offered him seventeen nhes for his farm
| agreeing to ship the eds soon as the de-
to the farm was deposit with the mul
| mans banker. Accordinlv the deed W.
forwarded, and the purchaser looked any
iously for the mules. He II not think of tn
animals coming by express until he receive
notice to call al the officeI Upon calling h
| found seventeen chira m aks-the price Of hi
| farm. He lost no time b going 10 SEQ n
man, but the latter had sd out and skipped
ONE of the first things that attracts the Al
tention of visitors t. Mr.. Fosters crane. nes
Fairchild, Wis, is he famous 'steam skid
der"-the only one n the State. 1t is gref
sight to witness wv or three huge logs bein
dragged, from dtance Of thTrty-fve rod
| over brush, fallentrees, stumns etc as
| they were mere silks, and dumped on ton {
huge pile alongsid Of the track. And ta Il
all this requires onl.one man to manipuIat
the levers on the stem engine and one wa
| off where the logs Ii to nut the chain aroun
| them. 1t makes indifference If the logs
| he drawn are beneath a pile of other logs r
fallen trees. The mment the chain is M
around them off the go, the forward en-
somewhat elevated All the rear end draggin
| over any obstruction n the way. Sometim,
| tho whole load make leap OF several ror
| without touching theground.
THE new German steamship Gluckau
which arrived II New York Thur
day from New Castle, was bui
expressly for the oil traffic, an
will be the first STAN vessel to carry n
in bulk across the atlantic. The oil whic
| she VIII land IN Eurpe will be convened
! tank cars To the leaong markets This WI
/ enable American oil 0 compete with Rnssia
| oil, which is sent to tie markets in a simiia
manner. The Gluckaf measures >. POI To,
gross aud l,5oS tons ne. She is 2g9 feet Ian
and 36 feet beam: Thee are sixteen tanI
| for oil IN the hold. Thse tanks have a p,
| pacity for $500 tons petroleum. The vessel
| barkentlne rugged. Thu only opening into n
| hold are manholes in tie deck. The engin,
/ and boilers are in the ater part Of the yesse
and are cut of from theoil tanks. In ord,
TO insure further safetythe vessel is lighte
throughout by electricity.
AT the Edison Machine Shops. No. E,
Goerck street, New York, the third OF Il
electrical torpedoes in process of manufactui
for the government was finished Thursda,
The torpedo is 10 feet ling and 80 inches
diameter, and is made of polished conner 7
motive power is small dynamo, which is in
closed IN an iron case in thu centre of the to
pedo, and which operates n propeller. ri
torpedo Will run ten minutes at the rate
ten miles and half an hour. and is controllf