Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TICoNDERoGA battle field is to echo with
camp meeting of temperance people will be
held there.
CHICAGO firm recently had an order for
an ornamental iron fence large enough to
lnclose the grave Of young man about TWEEN
ty-fivc years old"
THE longest clock pendulum in the world is
at Avianon, Franco. 1t is 81 xty seven feet
long, and requires four and half seconds to
swing through an arc OF nine and half feet.
WHEN the Texas people get ready to build
town they do it in hurry. Ballinger. a
new town in Runnels county. is less than one
month ola, but it has 1000 inhabitants and is
still growing.
DEATH from bee stings is an unusual incl
dent, At Ludlow, England, however, John
Adney, formerly Mayor of that place, was
stung so severely by swarm of bees in his
garden that he died almost Immediately.
IT occurred in New Hampshire: Two men
began to dig well in a town in the Granite
State recently, and after they had excavated
about ten feet of earth and stones, consuming
two days In the operation, discovered that
the well was just one foot over the line in
another mans lot.
The great glacier of Alaska is SAID to be
moving at the rate Of a quarter of mile per
annum toward the sea. The front presents a
wall of ice some 500 feet in thickness, It's
breadth varies from three to ten miles, and it
IS about $50 miles long. Almost every quar-
ter OF an hour hundreds of tons of ice, in large
blocks, fall into the sea, which .Aey agitaCe IN
the most violent manner, the waves being
such as TO toss about the largest vessels that
approach the glacier as if they were small
boats.
SPANISH archaeological society recently
held its annual meeting at Asambla during
the period of the far. On this occasion a
prize was to be awarded to the member who
had made the most rare and valuable discov-
cry In the year. One of the company rose to
his feet and said "Gentlemen, this iron
blade which have the honor OF presenting to
you is part of the sword of Damocles." Gone
raj amazement. Presently another voice was
hearI To say: but l, gentlemen, have found
the horsehair by which it was uspended."
AN old lady, 20 years of age, has been &C
ceptiug charity from the Pittsburg Society
for the Improvement of the Poor for a num-
Der of years past. She has son who is
Michigan farmer, and recently ne notified the
secre arY of that institution by letter that he
would Ike to mako some return for the ia
vors thus given, and if the society would take
them he would send a carload of potatoes
beaus, onions, squash, and general garden
truck. In answer to his letter he was told
that the society would take care of his mother
without anv Interchange Of goods or any COM
pensatlon whatever.
THE Watervlle Me- Light Infantry, TWEEN
ty-four strong, were going through their
regular drill on Silver street while two teams
from Fairfield were racing down
below, one containing two young
men and the other carrying a
couple of girls. In their wild course they
charged right upon the ranks and burst
through, stretching nineteen out of the
twenty four fat on the earth. Seven or eight
received miscellaneous injuries, not serious
and one Char les Cavenaugh, was dangerously
h"rt. Loud cen3ure is freely visited on the
raiders for the cowardly manner of their as
sauit. Had they come up in front of their
victims, instead of their rear, and given them
chance to run, there would have been diff
feTent result.
A PARTY of land prospectors recently came
upon some ancient works near Shawano, Wis
They first found what appeared to be the
ruins of an old WELL walled up with stones, in
which moderate supply OF cold water was
found. They removed the stones, which had
caved In, to depth of about three feet. Fur
Their examination revealed the fact that the
ground around was regularly paved with
stones for at least an acre. varying from three
feet deep in the centre to foot at the outer
edges. The stones are covered with moss,
which may be rolled up like blanket dis
closing the stone as clean as if water washed.
me Iuntry about Ia timbered and trees two
feet IN diameter are growing above the ruins,
Whlle the forms OF prior generation of trees
even larger lie in moss and decay at their
feet and above the ruins also.
THEY are talking now of a tunnel between
Scotland and Ireland, to connect Donaghadee
with PortDatrick, and the talk it would an
pear, has already been followed by certain
engineering prellmlnaries which mean bust
ness, including series of coast soundlnps
under the authority of the Board of Irish
Lights, and the sinking of shaft near Dom
aghadee TO The denth Of COO feet, in order TO
ascertain the nature OF the strata Parlio-
ment has not up to the present vote anv
sums for the conduct of these operations. but
the Impression prevails that the authorities
regard the work as OF 20 great Importance
that grant will shortly be applied for. The
London and Northwestern Railway manage
ment, rs well as some Of the steamship com
panies. Is believed also to be strongly in favor
OF the project. OF its entire feas Dilitv as an
engineering undertaking there would seem
to be no question.
CHANG, the Chinese giant, got off train in
New York Sunday. He wore a frock coat
with tail four feet long. and a tall black hat
added to his immense height. A solitaire dia-
mona, of size proportioned to his own, shone
in his yard wide shirt bosom. and another dia
mond presented TO him by Emperor William.
and set IN what might serve for napkin ring
glistened on the asst large of his fingers a
crowd OF men and boys gathered at his heels
ana strained their neCks looking nm at him
The modest Chang, who Travelled with Bar
mum, sought TO cS ape their gaze and boarded
a downtown Fourth avenue car He
alighted at the Ashland House and engaged n
room there with an extra size douhl bed in H.
Chang says he is going to he married soon 40
dear little woman" aud he wants to leave
the snow business. He is IN search of a store
in New York in which he will set nm as n
dealer IN Chinese goods and curios He will
probably rent vacant store on Broad wav he
tween Thirty-sixth and Thirty seventh
streets.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDFRLy,s
threatened suit against the Daily Gazette ~
Atlantic City. has induced that paper to make
public the manner in which it obtained the
report of Powderly's speech, printed at the
time OF the Gassbo wers' convention in Rart-
let's HAL IL SAYS: "On the day in ouestion
bright young reporter, with a half-inch
augur, ascending to the gallery Of the hall.
bored hole in the partition. just before Ibe
convention assembled he smuQQled himseU
into the gallery, and being n stenoRranher
the whole OF Denny's and P0wder,y's speeches
were taken, save such portions as the noise Of
the convention or the street rendered min
teniglbe. Their lengthy replies TO certain
questions were all taken. From these @ \ tracts
were cent TO the leading papers in the conn
Try. The stenograDhic report of these speeches
mas been preserved. and is in course OF n fulI
translation. When this Is effected we will ao
before magistrate and make affidavit to the
same. we do not know whether it IL Mr.
Powderlys custom to assert in prlyate md
deny IN public or not, but that he made such
statements as we sent to the newspapers we
aihrm' ana are prepared TO stand b. Il"