Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-26
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CHICAGO JEwELER has invented a self
winding watch. BY an arrangement some
thing like the carefully balanced lever of a
pedometor, the watch is wound by the motion
OF the wearer when walking A walk of seven
minutes will wind the watch TO go for forty
two hours.
THE Yosemite Valley Commissioners have
selected as the site for the new hotel the am
phltheatre in the upper part of the valley, OPP
poslte Glacier Wall, and within easy walking
distance OF Mirror Lake and the cascades of
the MERGED river. Work upon the hotel will
De begun as soon as possible.
THE Congo State officials have learned that
one of their agents has in the centre of Africa
made the grand discovery that the rivers of
Sankauron and Kassai are fully navig able, by
which also the eastern region Of tine Congo
State can be reached without a long detouT to
the north. These rivers have valuable re
sources on their banks.
Down on our Arizona border a Hualapai
pronounced "Walloper'') Indian named Pisa
OF drunk and went on a leaning tour, during
which he killed his squaw, six bucks, and
threatened to hualap the whole tribe. Obiec-
tons were filed and his people we're about to
pulveriZe Pisa, when the whites foolishly in
terfered to prevent so desirable an eXtermi-
ton, and now there are fears of an outbreak
against the settlers.
A WOMAN belonging to one of the oldest
families of Derby, Conn, promised her hus-
band before his death that she would wear
his ring as long as she lived. In the grief that
followed his death she forgot
about the ring, and it was his finger
when he was buried. few nights
ago at midnight the sexton opened the
grave and took OF the lid of the coffin, and
the widow went down into the grave ana re-
moved the ring from the dead hand. She
pail the sexton S25 for his work,
IT was announced that the Thomas Paine
Society OF Frederick county, Md. would cele-
brate the ENCOURAGEMENT anniversary of Tom
Paine's death at the house of Aaron DAVIS
near Frederick; but not celebrator appeared.
Mr.. Davis himself observed the daV by not
working. He said that, while there were only
about dozen members of the society, there
were three or four hundred believers of the
Paine doctrines IN tine county,. hut fear of
social ostracsm or injury to their business
caused them to make secret OF their views,
DANIEL r. ARNOLD Is the station agent at
Pawtucket. Recently the clerks and freight
hands went to his Office in a body, and the
spokesman began a speech about the strikes
out West and the relations of employers and
employed. and was going on when Mr.. Arnold
very sternly and impatiently said: Estate
your grievance" The next moment he felt
the cheapest of any man in New England, for
the spokesman said the boys had come to m ak e
him present on his 57th birthday. 1t was
nice present. but Mr.. Arnold could hardly say
THE health inspectors were summoned to a
crowded tenement in Pitt street, New York,
Wednesday afternoon to investigate a mystic
rIous skin disease that had attacked the chill
dren. Several of them were found to be COW
cred with fostering sores. 1t was learned that
the children were accustomed to romp and
play with Spltz dog belonging to a family
10 the house, and also that the dog was af-
fiicted with mango 1t was concl lded that
the chidren's disease was of the same nature
as that OF the dog, and had been communi-
Gated to them by it. The animal was killed,
and the children put into the hands of doctors.
PIERRE, DAK.. was thrown into a wild
state of excitement Tuesday by the announce
ment that Fred w. Stone, the celebrated foot. .
racer, had eloped with Miss Carrie McGib-
bons beautiful young lady whose parents
are wealthy and respected. The girls father
was greatly distressed at the news and at
once put officers on the track of the runaway
couple. Stones parents reside in New York
and are said to be very wealthy. Stone went
| to Pierre some weeks ago and Joined the cele-
! brated George W. Harris hose team, which is
composed Of fast runners, and which. it is ex-
pected, will win the State tourney for hose
teams
THIRTY-FIvE YEARS AGO Dick, a young
and frisky mule, swan across the East river
from New York to BlackwelPs Island in the
wake of the boat that was taking its master
| to incarceration in the lunatlc asylum there
| The faithful beasts devotion was rewarded
| with home near its masSer on the island
and it has never since touched the main and
| OF late he has been so weak that a violent
| death was suggested as the most charitable
| that uld be done in Its behalf but the COM
missioners refused to allow 1t to be killed. 1t
| has just died peaceable and natural death
| at the age Of As years. and will be decenty in
| TERED In the island graveyard.
MARIE HEBRON, II years old, and black, was
committed TO the industrial scnool in Balt1-
more by her mother, who said she couldn't do
anything with Marie. She had a room on the
| fifth floor. One dark night she got out on the
roof hung from the caves bv her hands, and
| dropped to a building beneath, thence Jumped
| TO the roof of house adjoining, got on the
| veranda, Slid down post to the ground
| scaled the fence, and went home. Her mother
| at once notified the police. and one of the
force went to re-arrest Marie. He couldn't
| mad her until he happened to stick his hand
| up chimney. He felt something, and grabbed
1 and pulled, and down came Marie, blacker
than ever, and angry.
HENRY RALPH and his wife OF Berville.
Mich. quarreled and separated. the mother
taking a three-year-old child with her She
tired of the boy, and a few days ago, in COM
pany with an admirer, started in a buggy to
| take the child to its father. She met him on
| wagon load Of gravel and offered the child
| 10 him. He wouldn't take it. The mother
| tossed the boy up on the load of gravel. The
! fAJOer Threw MIN Ddck INTO the buggy. The
mother grabbed the whip and began beating
her husband, and in the confusion the little
boy fell out Of the buggy between the wheels
Of the loaded wagon. The horses started, the
wheel went over the little h. adj. and the cues
ton OF dispute was settled forever. The
woman has been arrested.
The Department of State is in receipt of the
| following information through the United
| States Minister at Guatemala concerning the
mining Industry OF Honduras: The gold and
silver mines of Honduras consist of nearly
! 1900 known veins besides the placer gold
| washings north Of the COrdilleras. The alu-
vial deposits forming the latter average thirty
feet in depth and cover hundreds OF square
miles, and are all well watered and heavily
| timbered. Experts pronounce the placer
country, particularly in the Department of
| Alancho, equal TO the best California hy-
draulic washings, and il win pay handsome
profits on large investments, hut 10 Is too Door
TO pay The pan miners. The gold quartz mines
are on the north and south coasts, while be-
/ tween these lies the great silver belt which ia
! 500 miles wide. and extends across the coun-
! try.
MORE realistic snow storm was never pro-
duced on any stage than was seen Tuesday
night on the upper part OF the beach at At
lantc City, N. j. A showing and pushing
wind was blowing, cutting loose the sand and
4 hinging 10 in all directions. The sand WAS
/ blown hitler and thither until 10 was white
/ and dry, and fell into the riffs OF the beach
/ and footprints made during the day, its snowy
whiteness strongly confirms ing with the dark
gray and mostened sand on which IL was