Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-14
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| ing there, and tightly encircling one of the
roots was the ring, through which the root
had grown.
THE Times of Selma, Ala, said in an edito-
rial ON Sunday that it then appeared in an
eight-page form, ''the first eight-psge paper
ever published in Selma" But two pages
were OF pure white, bearing but single line
OF printing, explaining that the pressman had
pied two forms too late for resetting.
MONDAY EVENING Mrs. Adelburt Baker at
tended ball at the Congress street rink, Port
| land, Me. She had danced several times and
was just leaving the floor at the end of a set
when she was observed to stagger and in
another moment she dropped dead. She was
| ABOUT SO. was at one time an actress and a
member of the Fanny Marsh Company.
MRS. WOODWORK, a revivalist, is attract
ing large crowds in Muncie, Ind. Her SER
mons are simply exhortations, and she holds
| her hearers quite as much by her manner as
| by her words. She is dramatic in tone and
| action Her speech is of a sing song style,
gesture. At times her eyes are fixed heaven
ward for several minutes, while she stands
| like statue, her hands thrown back oyer her
shoulders, palms upward, in a SOW, weaving
| motion Her audience watch her intently,
and are evidently deeply impressed.
| THE bark Campanero. Capt. Kiehne, of
Bandel's fleet. arrived at Baltimore from Rio
Janeire Sunday. thirty seven and half days
TO the capes. Her cargo is 4,447 bags coffee
| Capt. kiehne reports encountering hurri-
! cane. in which tho vessel was hove to under
the lee clew of lower maintOpsail and mizZen-
staysail; The vessel labored hard, filling
| decks with water. The sea became so violent
| that Capt. Kiehne put bag filed with oil
| overheard from the weather cat head, and the
effect was almost instantaneous in keeping
the sea down, and very little was shipped
| afterwards.
| WHEN LoTTIE PRLLEGRINT, of New York,
asked her father and mother if she might
marry Frank B. Graham they said NO"
The lovers said not a word, but sauntered to
the park. sat down and waited until a friend
\ brought clergyman. Then not rising, for
fear OF attracting the attention of the many
passing pedestrians. they joined hands. the
ceremony was performed, the minister gave
| them some good adv ce and walked away,
| and the bride went to her home and the groom
| 10 his. Three or four DAYS later Lottie's
parents heard of all this, and told her to bring
| her husband home and be just as happy as she
could be.
AS the shooting season begins the list Of
accidents grows, and the number of sports
men who look like game increases. From
| West Virginia comes the news that william
| Wilton and Joseph simmons of Petersburg
went squirrel shooting. They separated, and
| when Wilton saw Simmons again, he thought
| he was deer and shot him dead. Much the
| about the same time. Alfred Sutton and Dan
| iel Mahoney were out after deer, but not to-
! gether. and neither knew that the other was
| out By and by Mahoney thought he saw a
| deer moving in the brushes, and, firing, put 8
| bullet through SuttOn's heart.
THE gulls, and there are millions of them,
about the mouth of the st. Croix river, fur
nish profitable sport for the Indians. They
| take their soft, beautiful breasts to the water
| ing places and sell them at rs cents TO 81 so
| each to the ladies for millinery and decOra-
tive purposes. Cubs are easy game to bag,
1 but tor some unknown reason they stay on
| the Canadian side OF the line the most of the
| time, and the Canadian authorities have for
| hidden Americans to shoot at them in the Pro-
| vincial waters. This is great grievance to the
| gull hunters, who have petitioned the Gov
| ernor of Maine and his Council to take some
action in the matter. The course of the
Canadians is believed TO grow out Of the fish
| cries imbrogho.
THE assistant and travelling companion of
Prof LEM in Africa. Mr.. Oscar Baumanp.
who was seriously ill at the Stanley Falls, has
written to the Vienna Geographical Society
announcing his arrival in tolerable health at
| Leopoldville. This station is to be removed to
| Kinshana. a healthier locality. From Leo
poldville Mr.. Baumann went to BraZZaville.
where he met two Catholic missionaries fit
| ting out some caravans. Mr.. Baumann was
permitted to join one of them, which was to
| go on July p to the Lower Congo. There are
| at present about 80 stations along the Congo
river, including the missionary posts. The
| American missionary Bishop Taylor. with
several companions. is trying TO establish new
stations. The white inhabitants in the Congo
| State are supposed to number some 800 souls.
A SHORT TIME AGO London firm submitted
to Her Majesty Queen Victoria ruby which
is accredited with being one of the finest
specimens in existence and known to be the
| finest in England, not even excepting tn e
Ia oil Ifa haa not
MED IL to Europe. bnt as the experienced are
| well aware that the famous mines of Baroda
never now yield gems of such size and SPLEEN
dor. they conclude that this must have been
! in the possession of one OF the old Indian fam
| lilies. The owners reason for parting with it
| remains mystery, as Indians are usually
very 10th to allow such treasures to go out of
| their possession, and when they do chance to
| let them enter the market, purchasers are
| usually to be met with IN their own country.
| The Queen 10 reported TO have been much I'M
| pressed bv the beauty of this ruby. Its price
of fl0.5O0 is one at which Cresus might be
! supposed to pause. The stone is set as a me-
dalton and encircled by ten large diamonds.
TIE Dominion steamer Albert, which left
| Halifax June 20 on her third and last expe-
| dltion to Hudson's Bay returned Sunday,
| bringing back all the observers who have
| been stationed in the straits ana bay the past
| year. All the men are in good health. Lieut..
! Gordon, K. N, commander of the expedition.
| reports the discovery of an inner channel at
| Diggs. on the north side of the straits The
| channel is apparently clear and safe right
| through to the bav. and its discovery is most
| important, as it gives vessels a new entering
place at times when all the rest of the STRAIT
may be blocked with impenetrable ice. Com
mander Gordon surveyed the estuary of the
Nelson river. and foundi tia 'villalnous hole"
rs he expressed II. The roadsteAd offers no
safe anchorage. and the water for a long dis
tance out ia very shoal A vessel may he so
far from the land that the latter cannot be
seen from her deck, and vet she may be i'm
only FIVE fathoms of water, The observers
who were brought back report game exceed
ingly abundant at almost every point, and
they seldom took meal off the sailed and
preserved meats in their stores.
STREET CARS in Richmond are drawn bv
mules and have no conductors. Steep grades
make it hard for man to get his fare in the
box, and a woman can hardly do it at all. A
pretty Virginia girl last week handed omar
ter to knight of labor who sat near the
fare box and asked him to get 1t changed for
her. The man Grufly told her. "I am not the
conductor" The young lady looked embar-
rassed, and newspaper man rendered his
services. The Knight and two others of the
order loudly told the newspaper man their
opinions of him for acting as a conductor
for a miserable corporation. ~ was
Obliged" says the correspondent, ''to confess
that the act was performed solely to oblige a
lady, and with no intention to aid and abet
lime the three Knights had refused TO put
their own fares into the box, and galIahtIv
invited the unhappy driver, who was strug-
0ltnO with the three TOulaa in