Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-30
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across several farms, under wire and through
rail fences. for four miles. and was found I'M
harmed In the brakes OF the North Bosque.
ACCORDING to a contemporary, The latest in
genious Persian method of squeezing" an
obstinate rich man is to shave the victims
heal bare, and cover it with a cap filed with
tiny crabs and spiders. Half an hours tor
ture Invariably brings the most obstinate to
reason.
On the four sides of handsome tombstone,
erected by man in Niles, Mich, over the
grave of his wife, are these inscriptions: 1.-The
more Saints the more hypocrites," "The
more Peace the more Pleanty,n The more
Priests the more Poverty" ''The more Re-
llglon the more Lying"
LARGE GRAY WOLF was killed in Herki-
mer county, N. Y, the other day. c. B.
Campbell shot deer near Little Independ-
ence Lake, and hung 1t up in a tree. When
ne returned for the venison he found the wolf
approEriaing some of 1t. He shot him, and
Will get $50, the State bounty, for his scalp.
A PITTsBURG REAL ESTATE AGENT infers
from the volume of business in his line tn vt
that city is growing in population very rapid
ly. He expects the next census 10 give Pitts
burg 100000 ,pulatIon. and Allegheny and
other cities and Towns that virtually form
part of the same community will bring ii up
to 100000
THE Chief of Police OF BYeslau has issued
an order forbidding the sale Of butter con-
tanning more than per cent. of salt and Is
per cent. of water. The Landwirthschaft-
llche Zeitung fur Westphalen not long ago
stated that The butter sold In the market of
Munster contained on an average - and Sc
per cent. of water.
MARSHES in northern Indiana usually COW
cred with from one to four feet of water have
become dry owing to the continued drought,
AMI sportsmen complain that hundreds OF
poisonous snakes have taken possession, which
not only have eaicn nearly all the voung
water fowl as fast as Matched. but make it
absolutely unsafe for any one to walk over
the marshes.
AN old Waterylle citizen remembers that In
1925. the church -goers of that town, both male
and female, used to walk barefoot to church
! on Sunday, carrying their shoes and stock
ings in their hands, and sit down in some
convenient spot and pat them on just before
gong INTO the meeting house. The same Gus
! tom was practiced in many Maine towns in
those od days. stern economy was OBJ
| served by men and women who laid the foun-
| dalton of Names prosperity.
HENRY FUTILE, of New Haven, Conn. II,
while running m wing m achlne during the
harvest season, drove over the nest Of a quail.
| The mother Quail's head was chopped short
| of by the machine. but her twelve eggs were
| not broken. futile took them home, put
| them under a setting hen. who hasched out
eight of the young quail. They are now well
! grown and in full feather, but they follow
! their foster m other about and behave like
| chickens. The hen seems to be well satisfied
| with her brood.
CHARLES OHMAN, a Chicago contractor
who built house for Andrew Anderson, in
which the latter was married. took occasion
just as the wedding was well under way 10
| take possession and endeavor to nail up the
| doors and windows because he held lien on
| the building for an unsettled balance. All
| hands turned on the intruder and put him
| out and there was such 8 rot that the police
| wagon was called, and the entire party ar
rested, except the minister, who e'raped. Az
| ter explanations all were ree sed but Gilman,
| who was held and fined. The others went
| back. found the minister, and Anderson was
married.
WHEN Admiral Shestakod, the Russian
| Minis err of Marine, arrived at San Francisco
| Lieut.. Qualtrough was detailed by the Navy
| Department as his aide, to show him all the
| courtesies aud attention POSSIBLE while on the
Pacific coast. Admiral Shestakoff was too III
to avail himself of the services of Lieut.
| QualtrOugb. lie, however. wrote a letter to
| Commodore Belknap expressing his gFatifica-
| tiyn and thanks ut the attention offered him,
and the letter has been referred to the Navy
| Department. Lieut.. Ccwles, as has been
stated. has been detailed to extend to Adj
| miral Shestakoff his personal services on be-
! half of the navy while he is on the Atlantic
coat.
AT performance of Lester & Aliens min
strels in Wiliamsport. Pa. on Wednesday
evening, during the frat part the cornet
player, Fred G Bryant, suddenly stopped
plaviDg. walked to the front of the stage, and
! b9gaD a wild speech. which scared the min
| strels and the audience. The curtain was
| lowered and Bryant Gained down at length
so that he went on with his work and PLAYED
| finely. He explained to the audience that
! his head felt strange and that he ddn't re-
member what he I'd said. He apoogzed
aud said that he would try and 20 on with is
| part The affair completely demoralized the
troupe, and the performance was cut and
| hurried through.
ONE more earthquake fiction is DESTROYED by
the following testimony fiom a competent
! authority, who writes from the Yellow
| stone Park: II have been away in the noun
! taIns for the past fortn ghG and have Just re-
turned to learn OF the gre It earthquake at
! Charleston. Among other things. | see in the
! Eastern papers comments upon the fact that
| the great gevser Excelsior, which has not
| played for very long time, was active upon
Aug. 81. Newspapers have commented upon
| this coincidence. It may interest you to
know that his IL all a hoax; the geyser did
! not play. and has not played for four years.
| Many Inquiries have been addressed to me as
| to the cause of the eruption"
THE scheme of esta bishng a direct line O Z
! passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pa
! cinc acr0's country from the mouth OF the
AWdL1n 10 LINN, III feru, IS again under
! consideration. The war between Chill and
! Peru interrupted the work, which was in
| progress from 1877 to 1879, but the projectors
| seem confident that they will not again meet
with n similar orstruct on. South America
! has never seemed 10 lie a favorable field for
! enterprises the -ucCess Of which deuen dad
/ upon their permanency, but there are indica-
! lions that more pr gressive spirit now ami
mates the people, md The poss bill J., es of their
| cultivating the arts of peace and Industry
may, after a !. not be so very problematicai.
A PLAN is on foot to unite all the truckage
| business of New FORK city under one and the
! same organization. in order to simplify and
cheaper the service to the commercial com
munity. The company is reported to have a
capital of SO, 600, 900. This is a serious matter
! for the cartmen. but the merchants are dis
posed to encourage it. Excessive charges for
Transferring merchandise from the wharf 10
the warehouse and from warehouse to rail-
road depOts have long been complained OF.
and not without reason, seeing that, for in
stFnSe. it cost more 10 cart a hogshead Of su-
gar from the pier. foot Of Rector street. to the
New York tentrel railroad depot, at 81.
Johns Park. a distance OF about miie, than
it does TO bring ii from Havana, 800 miles
away.
THE Jews lIvlpg at BaKu on the Caspian
Sea have hitherto lived there in tranquility.
Everything has, however, been changed by
an order for the expulsion OF all Jews who do
not possess the right Of residing outside the