Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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L. W. PITCHER, an expelled member of the
Chicago Board of Trade, has brought suit
| against that organization for fraudulent de-
privatlOn of rights and injury to his business.
he lays his damages at 100000.
AN unborn colt by Alcyone, dam Silverlock,
the sire and dam of silverone, has been pur-
chased bv c. II. Lenney, of New York, for
| $2,0OO. Sllverone, 1t will be RENE inferred,
old.
SOME Of the iron manufacturers OF the Lee
high Valley have begun to make street paving
blocks from blast furnace Stag. Some pleasing
| little ornaments of delicate tint are already
made from Stag, and If 1t can be put in dur
able block shape there seems to be no reason
why II should not become favOrite building
material.
THE three-year old daughter of Mrs. Kr-
ley, of Frankford, No., fell into a we'll con-
tanning nine feet of water, which was about
| 40 feet from the surface. Mrs. Kirley jumped
| into the well, seized the child. fixed the little
! ones feet firmly in the walls, and then waited
for assistance. 1t came after long waiting,
and mother and child were both saved.
A GENTLEMAN has just given 100000 TO the
medical department of the University of New
| YORK. A new hall VIII be built and named
after the senior professor of the medical
! school, DR., Alfred l.. LOOMS, this being the
! only condition attached to the gift by the
friend, whose name is withheld. The offer
was made and accepted through an lnterme-
diary.
AMID all the wild talk about civil war in
Great Britain over the home rule question, it
Is OF practical interest to notice that the pro-
portion of Irish in the Queens army is small
and growing smaller. There are now in every
| 1000 soldiers, $50 Englishmen. l7S Irishmen,
| Is Scotchmen and II Of other nationality.
| Eighteen years ago the number of freshmen
was 3Oo per 1000. and with the exception of
single year, 1880, the proportion has since
then steadily decreased.
THE University of pennsylvania has recent
ly established a limited number Of unendowed
post graduate felowships i'll political science
and history. Graduates of any American
| college in either arts or science are eligible.
An opportunity for the advanced study
| OF political economy, civil government
! political and constitutional history,
constitutional and mercantile law, and polit-
zeal science, will be open free OF charge to the
holders of these fellOwshlps.
GEORGE K. sHEARMAN, of Harrison county,
Ind, had a claim against the United States
for 1858 O5. This claim being allowed, Con
gress last month passed a private bill, ap-
proved May II, for "three hundred ana fifty
| three and five cents" Third Auditor Will
| liams, of the Treasury Department, wrote
that while the probability is very great that
| the word dollars was omitted in the act by
! some clerical error, still the fact Is that the
appropriation actually amounts to only S5S
cents,
| 1T HAS always been the plan of those in au-
| thority in Southern Europe to hide from the
outside world, as far as possible, all informa-
| tion in regard to the existence of an epidemic
and they appear to be pursuing those tactics
| now with reference to cholera. But the facts
that the disease has spread from Venice to
! Florence, and that in the former CITY there
| were on Friday last thirty-two new cases
and thirty-One deaths. indicate that the cpl
demic must have assumed a very alarming
| character.
HEART, in its former sense, was Spirit"
courage" The Spanish phrase for a brave
man is, sun 1sOm5re de cOrdson"-"a man Of
heart" So the brave Richard of England
was called by the French "CeuF de Lion"
| This use of the word Is retained in the old
Scots prOverb-a favorite of Carlyle's-"Tine
! [lOsel heart, tine a." We still hear persons
| sometimes speak of not having 1.-THE heart''
to engage in some enterprise, and we retain
the derivatives, faint-hearted, dishearten,
and others.
''THERE has been much holding up of hands
and shaking of heads" writes James Pawn
from London, 'over love affair in the Black
Country. where two young men fought with
fisticuffs for three-quarters of an hour by a
| Wednesday, clock for the possession OF fair
damsel who had promised to take as her BRIDE
! groom the one vino proved himself the better
man; yet in the good old times nothing was
| more common. and such an incident was held
10 be full of romance. The whole difference
lies in the fact that, in the one case the COM
batants were knights in Milan Steel and. in
the Other, worklngmen IN their shirt sleeves;
and am inclined TO think that good deal of
the chivalry of the Middle Ages would disap-
! pear if the Milan steel were scraped or"
THE danger OF throwing rice at weddings
has just been exempli6ed. The vicar of St.
James the Less, Bethnal Green, England. has
| for many years solemnized the ceremony of
marriage free to any who choose to avail
! themselves of his kindness 1t is usual for the
! friends TO wait outside and give the couples
| reception with a shower of rice, and to such
an extent has the practice grown that the
neighboring grocers keep parcels ready
| packed for the occasion. The brides are gen
| orally protected by the wells, the bridegrooms
are less fortunate, and the other day one OF
| them receiver several grains in his eyes
| After vain attempt to clear his ewes he was
| led to surgery adjacent, and he will now
| have to pass in the ward of hospital hat
would have been his honeymoon. 1t appears
that this is not by any means the first serious
accident caused in this way.
CONSUL BEE, of san Francisco, thus dis
poses OF the report that he intended to send
10000 Chinese laundrymen to Troy, N. Y:
Il am tired of answering such foolish state
ments. l will agree to give $500 to the boycott
| fund il any such postal card sent by me can
| be found. It's a lie from beginning to end
| The man who thought of 1t is a liar the man
| who wrote IL is a liar, the man VINO sent n ia
| liar, and it's a wonder the telegraph wires
! didn't break when 1t came over them. This
Office Is no intelligence Office. Why, what
! would we want to send any Chinese AWAY forS
! Outside of the vicious and criminal classes
| there are no Chinese out OF employment |
| have letters come every day from this coast
asking for Chinese help. To day 700 were
wanted, 800 of whom are to work on a rail
road contract. We didn't have them. An
| are employed now. That boycott hasn't burt
us bit, and we don't intend to send any away
| at all"
On May IA small Italian coastng vessel
! put into the harbor of Porto Vecchio, ON the
southeast coast OF Corsica. After the anchor
! had been cast two sailors went ashore for
wood. IL was then about O'Clock in the morn.
| ing. scarcely had the men landed and mooied
/ their boat when they were accosted bv two
Corsicans armed with muskets. who had is
| sued from neiehboring thicket, and who
! turned out to be two brIgands. These ruff
! fans ordered one Of the sal ors to return Ia
| his vessel and ask the skipper for a sum OF fl9
| rs ransom for his companion. Unless the
| money were forthcoming to the last farthiDg
| the hostage was TO be shot. The sailor went
| on board and recOunted his perilous adyen-
| ture and It's threatened consequences unless
| the money were forthcoming. There was not
however, a sufficient sum on board the vessel
! 60 pay the ransom, and as last resource the
alarm signal was hOisted TO al tract the alien.
ton OF the military guarding the entrances to
the harbOr and town. Al his juncture the
brigands. who watched every movement ON
board the coaster, brought down their hOs-
tage where he could be seen hy his con1nan