Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A TRAIN HAND in the Salem Railroad yard
on a recent hot night heard chickens peep
coming from a freight car. He went in, and
among a lot of eggs found one through which
chick had stuck it's head. The little fellow
was removed and now thrives at the Train
hands home. The weather Ia sometimes
called shot enough to fry eggs ms was
evidently not enough TO hatch chickens.
A TALL STORY from Name relates how
Capt. John Haley, while rowing quietly and
alone the other evening, suddenly received a
blow on the head which knocked him nat IN
the poat, No human being was in sight, and
the blow was mystery to the Captain until
he happened To look in the far end OF mis- craft
and there fifteen pound sturgeon, whlch hau
whisked itself out of the water, lay eyelhg
him, wondering what 1t oughC 10 40 next
Capt. Haley must belong to the marines.
JAMES B. WHITE & Co., of Pittsburg, have
purchased 8, coo acres of manganese ore land
twenty miles from Waynesburg. Va. and
within three miles of the Shenandoah Valley
railroad The product from this land will
supply the home market with sufficient ore TO
shut out the greater part Of the splegel ana
fine manganese ore imported from England.
In a few months there will be new town
built and about 1000 men at work, when
there will be an output of 800 TO 500 tons of ore
per day.
THE lines of one member of the Salvation
Army have at least fallen in pleasant places.
One of the brightest and prettiest, having
gone to Plymouth. M ass, to convert the town,
met with such success as preacher that, al
the suggestion of many prominent citizens,
she has been induced to leave the army ana
to establish hers If as an independent MINIS
ter in a church of her own. gentlemen VINO
offered to escort her home was rather taken
ahack with the response: 81 have come to
Plymouth to catch souls, not beans"
SOLOMON D. VAN GILDEN, a farmer, aged
20 years, from Warren county. Pa. went to
jamestown. n. Y, on Wednesday, and was
married to Miss Hattie MilisOn, of Franklin,
Pa. The bride has Just passed her twentieth
birthday and is decidedly pretty. The old
man remarked as he left Justice Strunk's
office, that he would be hanged if he was
going to get a license just to get married RI he
had to 20 to Canada This was the fourth
time. and he was too old to take the new
tangled papers on the marriage question.
THERE is one unhappy feature about
"braving the whirlpool rapids of Niagara" in
a barrel where the eXpertmenter has no posi-
bic control over his vessel. If he fails he loses
his life and demonstrates his folly; If he sue
ceeds he demonstrates that anybody could do
the same thing. If the operator in the barrel
had had anything whatever to do or had re-
quired to use strength, skill, GOODNESS, or
any other quality to save himself from de-
stfuction, then he would be a man set apart,
worthy perhaps of some degree of admlra-
ton.
THE usual ceremony of taking, on the If
teenth day of the Ramazan. the holy mantle
the Prophet, from the Chamber of Relics at
Stamboul. and exposing 1T to the gaze of the
true believers, was this year attended by the
Sultan Abdul Hamed, who very rarely shows
himself to the public. The mantle ia wrapped
In forty silk cloths, richly embroidered with
verses from the Koran. It's age is said to be
LIZA years, il having been bedueatbed BY the
Prophet to his disciDle, Refs Ell Karin. 1t Is
made of Camefs hair and shows many signs of
age and wear,
A SQUAD of Denitentiary convicts at work
on the roads in Louisa county, Va, had re-
ligious services, and one of their number
preached-a man who has been in the peni-
Tertiary twenty years for killing his wife. In
his sermon he was very severe upon Chris
tians for not living better, and dwelt forcibly
upon the Inconsistencies of professors OF re
Hgion. The sermon closed, and cOlored
man. not a convict, said: at may be all right;
but somehow could not enjoy hearing a man
who had killed his wife and is dressed mp IN
striped clothes talking about the faults Of
other people,"
A CATALOGUE Of an unusually interesting
lot of horses is that of the stock of Mr.. Robert
Bonner at Tarrytown. 1t is not difficult to
show that in some respects the list is peerless.
In the first place, Maud S. is IN it, and she is
the fastest trotter ever known. Then abe,
with Raru5 and Edwin Forrest, make three
animals that have beaten 2:l2, the only other
trotterS that have done that being Jay-EYe-
see and St. Julien. Then there are two horses
that have beaten the best record t2:lGl%) ever
made to wagon, Edwin Forrest having shown
2:l514, and Lucy CuyIer 2:l514. Then there is
Dexter, who first beat Flora TEMPLES record,
and Startle, the fastest entire son of old X am
betonian. Startle and Nutbourne are now
hi il ST hTrly P,111
teresting horses and records than any similar
list in the country.
THE Oneida community, who have much
valuable property in Wallingford, Conn, in
Gliding a fine water privilege, organized
themselves into joint stock company soon
after the hue and cry was so strongly raised
against their mode of living. The company
was organized, With a paid-up capital of
$600.OaO, practically in January. 1881. They
have now total lnventGried property of
$685.. 200, with surplus of und vided profit Of
over 900, and the other current liabilities
are only $4,000. On the capital of 5000 900
during the past five years has been paid %
per cent. IN dividends, and for the past six
months it has paid at the rate Of a Il per cent
dividend. Their business is making steel
traps, sewing silk, and machine twist, can
ming fruits, vegetables, and meats, silver
plating and manufacturing table W are
works.
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other day little girl years of age displayed
no end Of nerve and tenacity OF purpose. A
young lady, the daughter of a west side m an
ufacturer, as she passed out of the car
dropped her purse con aiming quite a sum of
money. The little girl saw the purse fall and
also witnessed a man IN the car as he picked
itup. She stepped no to him and said: THAT
purse belongs to that lady who went ont Of
he car" The man paid no attention to her
Then she reiterated her assertion, and the
man told her to shut mp. Failing TO make the
man acknowledge that he had the Nurse the
child next appealed to several gentlemen in
the car who became interested in the case
They demanded the giving up OF the purse to
the driver, hut the man asserted that he had
no purse. stu the child repeated the stale
ment that she saw him put it in his pocket.
Finally. through threats Of arrest. the man
pulled the purse from his pocket, threw il ON
the seat and hastily left the car.
On a WINDY day in the summer Of 1874 n
small boat was sailing up the Harlem. Sud
denly it upset and spilled its occupants. three
boys, into the river. They struggled against
a strong tide that was setting in between
RandalPs Island and Wards Island lint
were on the point Of drowning, Can't. Thorn
as sampson, the present Chief Detective OF
the United States Sub-Treasurv. at New
York saw the accident and plunged in afler
the drowning boys, Hesaved them all. Four
days after an act was passed by Congress
awarding gold medal TO any person who
should thereafter distinguish himself bv saw
ing American citizens from drowning The
Captfin's heroic act had come a ltt'e too
early for the pedal to be awarded To him.
but his friends IN Cor gress determined that a
special act should be passed awardinr him
Al - a a4r,t,