Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-28
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fered the Savigny prize of 1920 marks $1,000
for a work showing the share OF the le0ss,
pLebiscitn, and Sendt9gs cOnsuLtG In the lorna
tion of the Roman civil law.
SMALL BOY in Bangor, Me-, thought it
would be fun to tie paper and straw to his
dogs tail and set them afire. The dog ran
into the boys fathers barn, which, with an
adjoining house, was burned to the ground.
Loss $4,000
JAMES ARMSTRONG. of Loure, Canada, a
we'll do farmer, aged SO years, fell in love
with a maiden of 70 summers. who rejected
his suit. Thereupon he made his will. be-
qqeathing her all his property, and then hang-
ed himself.
WISCONSIN FARMER, going down hill
with load Of hay, locked one of the wheels
OF the wagon. The friction Of the wheel upon
the ground struck spark which ignited the
nay and started a fire that required eleven
men to extinguish.
LITTLE TORNADO whlrled through Colds
boro, N. c., the other day, and finding the
'front.' door of fine residence open, dashed
into the house, gathered up o lot Of furniture,
Durst open rear door, and flung the whole
lot In heap in the back yard.
IN an Indian mound near Oakland, Ind,
was unearthed recently q stone wall ten feet
square Within were five or six skeletons,
three copper vessels filed with fifty pounds OF
rlch silver ore, copper ak, weighing elgh-
teen pounds, attached to a stone handle, and
NUMBER of stone hatchets.
MARY s. MARTIN, OF Philadelphia, a mem
Der of the Society of Friends, saw william c.
Eisenhour beating his horse. She remon
strated, and he swore at her. She had him
arrested and the Justice looked over the stSt-
utes until he found an old law against swear
ing and then imposed the fne provided there
Tor. The hne was 67H cents.
AN Inhibition Of ecclesiastical art objects
Will be held In Vienna next year. The Min
lister of Worship has taken this opportunity
for sending out circular to exhort the higher
clergy and the heads Of conrentu8, houses to
patronize native Industry as much as possible
IN their purchase of ornam ents for their
churches and caapeis. He nlaiatains that the
productions OF ecclesiastical art in Austria
are equal to tho Sc Of any other country.
A REMARKABLE Pereian manuscript has
just been sold IN London. It bears the title
"rashrih III Akwam," and consists of 6ss folio
pages within borders OF gold and colors. 1t
commences with finely executed anwan,
and ls illustrated throughout with 12s exquis-
tie miniatures of the nost elaborate order,
deplctng the various castles Of Hind0staD,
their trades and callings. A full explanation
in English Of the manuscript accompanies it.
THEFTs of money from garments hanging
the electrician of the establishment to try to
catch the hitherto undecided thief. He con-
nected pocketbook In the pocket of pair
of trousers with wires that Terminated at
gong in q distant room, and so arranged the
wires that the gong would ring when the
pocketbook was moved. The pocketbook was
moved. the gong sounded, and the thief was
caught.
JOSEPH SHARBEL, q Turk, was convicte d Of
peddling without q license In Brooklyn on
Monday and sentenced to pay fine Of 500 or
go TO the penitentiary for 100 days. He went
to the penitentiary. A delegation of his
countrymeu waited on Warden Green and
tearfully begged him MOTTO cut or the nous
tache Of the Turkish convict, the removal OF
the moustache in Arabia being mark of deg
radiation The Warden promised to comply
with the request mir.
JANIS Lyon, Of EInira, desired photo
graph of his fine st. Bernard dog. When the
dog saw the camera pointed at him he sus-
pected that something was wrong and bolted
out of the door. He was ooaxed back and
posed again, Again he took alarm, and, the
door being shut, jumped cut of q window, fell
on an awning, broke through, fell ON two
young men. smashed hat flat, and terribly
scared small colored bootblack. The dog
weighs $50 pounds.
A CURIOUS HOAX was played on the Vienna
papers the other day. They received on the
official paper of the Ministry of Commerce the
copy Of a decree signed by the Minister the
Marquis de BacqueheM, arbitrarily cancel
ling the CONCESSIONS for great many road
contracts. TheidoGnment was published, and
several papers 81 aYelyg discussed it In their
que announced thas5rhe alleged decree was
an impudent forgery. 49,
THE International photographed Society
will shortly issue the 6Tst series Of reproduc-
tions Of early italian and German prints.
Among the rarest worksthere will be faith
full photo-engravlng of an unknown Floren-
tine masters work, executed between l450-
1850. The subject represented is "The Battle
Of the Hose" described BY DIR. Lippmann of
Berlin. The print, which bears the arms of
the Rucellai family, is preserved at Munich,
and It was found pasted on the back cover OF
MS, written by Hartmann Schedel, the Nu-
remberg physician and humanist.
THE Norwegian Meteorological Institute of
Christiana has adopted an ingenious plan for
disseminating Its weather reports among the
farmers, fishermen. etc. Thus on the brake
of every train departing from the CAPT
B p. m signal is exhibited indicating the
weather 10 be expected for the ensuing twen-
ty-four hours. These signals are very sim
pie consi sting OF red and white triangles,
squares, ana balls, each or which, or several
combined, have their meaning: a white ball.
for instance, "fine weather." etc These sig
nais will also be displayet from the masts of
several coastiDg steamers.
ABOUT 100 persons Wednesday attended the
sale of the third installment Of the cargo re-
covered from the Oregon. The sale took place
at the foot of Sedgwick street, Brooklyn. The
goods sold were those which the consianees
failed to secure from the wreckIne comnapv
and upon which duty had not been paid Tho
government conducted the sale through
United States Marshal Tate OF the whole
amount received the government gets rs per
cent, out of which the Marshal is paid Ok Der
cent and the wrecking company gets the bal
ance. About Sl,4OO was received, the highest
amount for any single article being $40 for a
case of laces.
CABIN JOHN BRIDGE. near Washington. waA
built while Jefferson Davis was secretary OF
war. 1t is said to be the largest single span
Of masonry In the world 1t is 125 feet high
and 200 feet long, spanning deep gorge.
There Is brownstone coping on the three
foot wall on either side of the roadway. about
= foot broad. and beyeled on the two upper
edges for an inch or two. On SUNDAY last a
bicycle rider put his machine on the coping.
mounted 1t, and in thi. way deliberately
crossed the bridge. In two places the coping
makes zigzag by the widening Il the road.
way, and at these places the rider had to steer
ms wheel through very narrow space at
nearly right angles with his course
A MIRAGE, lasting about MALI an hour. was
witnessed by tle residents OF Ocean Spray.
Cottage Hill and Winthrop Highlands We'd
nesday afternoon. When first seen it ap-
peared to be in line running from outside
. Ia.