Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-23
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soldiers are arrested evertlme that they try
to parade.
THE Tuxedo Park Association offers a
bounty on snakes-$l fora poisonous snake
and SOC. for less dangerot ones. One of the
men employed there kilta $40 worth in one
day.
REPORTS from Cuba site that the sugar
crop now about to be gathted, and which has
been mostly cultivated WITH free labor, will
probably equal that of 1873 The crop of 1878
| was the largest ever m adepn the island with
slave labor and just before he law abOlishing
slavery went into effect. he crop then was
about 75,OO0 tons.
THOMAS II. MILBURN, says a Memphis
special, has sold to Broob, Nicely & Co., his
Interest in the Pratt Mining Company at the
rate of seventy cents on tie dollar. The full
value was $SOS,OOO, and h realized in cash
VIZ, 100 for an investment which a few years
ago cost HIM just $4,000, tins clearing profit
OF over $2OO,O on that transaction.
THREE YEARS AGO woo6hucks became so
abundant and SO destrutiYe in La Porte
county, Ind, that the Authorities offered a
bounty of zoe. for each wodchuck scalp. The
nrst year 2.S75 scalps were represented; the sec
ond, 56iO: the third, 7,Tl-a total of 1885
scalps, on which was pad $3l77 20. Some
men make a regular business OF hunting
wo dchucks.
JOHN p. ST. JOHN, John L. Sullivan and
otherfamous Johns have been invited to the
John picnic to be held at Ross Grove, Allie
gheny county, Pa, to- daE. Every town rep
resented has been invited to send its largest
and Its smallest John. John Lawrence. of
Canada, weighing $50 pounds, will be the big
gesC man there. Hundreds Of men named
John will attend.
THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, an Englishman,
while swimming at Fortress Monroe, was in
DANGER n at,o rio Of 10 from
shore. DR.. Irving C. Rose. formerly surgeon
of the Arctic exploring steamer Corwln, was
near him. and went to his rescue. IF you
obey my orders" he shouted. ''I'll save you.
If you don't. I'll let you drownn' The Eng
lishman obeyed orders, and the doctor towed
him to the shore.
FoRTY-FIvE YEARS AGO the engagement of
p. j. Jones and his sweetheart was broken,
and each married. She became Mrs. n. Clark
Of Mclean, H., and he settled in Hancock,
Mass Mrs. Jones died, and so did Mr.. Clark,
and few days ago Mr.. Jones went to Rod
man, N. L., ana was there joined by Mrs.
CLARK; and the tive. who had not met for forty
hve years, were made man and wife. Each
is over 20 years old.
BEFORE recent church entertainment in
Kingston ice cream tickets had been freely
sold. The night of the festival the young
woman who took the tickets laid them as they
accumulated on a window sill behind her,
where some small boys sd " them. Just how
much ice cream the young rascals devoured
on the tickets they stole will never be known,
but it was no trifiing amount, for they ate all
they possibly could.
CAPT. GODFREY, Lieut.. Slocum, Surgeon
Porter and other survivors of the Inflated
Custer expedition will go to the battlefield
next week to properly observe the tenth an
nlversary Of the massacre. Chief Gaul. now
at the Standing Rock Agency. who was in
command of the Indians of the fight, and who
has hitherto refused to talk on the details OF
and show where the massacre occurred.
IN some of the more primitive settlements OF
! Canada they are ready to laugh at any Joke,
however old. A humorous lecturer recently
appeared in a small back town in Ontario,
and in the course of his remarks, said that no
piano is needed in a house where there is a
male infant, because there is always music
| IN the herr The laughter that followed
| lasted ten minutes by a stop-watch. and one
! young man was taken out Ia commissions.
/ SIDNEY LANIER's admirers will find pleas
ure in this paragraph from one Of Randall't
letters: "Last year son of the gifted and
lamented Sidney Lanier bore of the prize tat
a Baltimore SCHOOL,. He took it to his de-
| voted and delighted mother. who sat in tn
| audience, and there he remained. mother and
child, hand in hand. looking lovingly at one
around Them There were other mothers in
that hall whose eyes were moist with proud
| affection. but am sure they did not feel quite
| so deeply as that Georgia widow and her
! splendid boy"
THIS years convention of the American
Bankers Association is to be held at Horti-
cultural Hall, Boston. on August IL and r.
Each bank. banking firm and trust company
in the country is entitled to send one delegate
rn ha To bov
| questions that may be discussed. The asso-
! citation has on previous occasions done good
service in bringing TO public notice matters OF
| interest. and has shown a Feen appreciation
! Interchange of views which the annual con-
ventiOns permit is also OF great service to the
members in their business.
SOME very attractive specimens of paper
slippers, sandals, and other coverings for the
feet-a substitute for leather, etc.--have been
brought to notice in London, where their
manufacture has been recently undertaken.
For this purpose paper. paper pulp. or papier
mache IS employed In making the upper,
which is moulded to the desired form and size
| the sole is made OF paper or pasteboard,
leather GARD, or other adapted paper ma
terial. union OF this sole to the upper being
| effected by means OF cement, glue, or other
adhesive material; the plan is to have the
upper creased. embossed. or perforated at the
lpstep and sides, so as I. event any break
| ing or tearing Wnile IN use. The sole may be
made with or without heel.
A FORTRESS MONROE letter saws: "The
Southern bellies who throng to the Hygeia
during the summer season by no means emu
late the extravaganza and fashion of their
Northern sisters. They cannot afford it for
one thing. and it would be labor as well as
money thrown away If they could. Yet they
are none the less happy and none the
less charming for all that Bright
eyes have their charms as well as dia-
! monds. and they flash far more dangerously
than the most precious of gems. Two or
three simple dresses for morning, bathing cos
tune, and three or four tasteful but inexpen-
siye costumes for evening will do very well for
almost any seaside resort, and especially for
Old Point Comfort, where solid comfort and
endowment is not intended TO be mere name.
but the most delightful of realities"
JOHN RUsKIN, being asked the other dav for
aid in paying of a church debt, replied BY let
ter thus: 81 am sorrowfully amused at your
appeal TO me, of all people in the world, the
precisely least likely TO give you a farthinR.
NJ FIRST word to all men and boys who care 10
hear me is Don't get into debt. Starve. and
go to heaven; but don't borrow. Try frat
begging. ! don't mind, II it's really needful.
stealing. But don't buy things you can't nav
for And. OF all manner OF doctors, pious
people building churches they can't nav for
are the most detestabe nonsense to me. Can't
you preach and pray behind the hedges r in a
sandnit, or in coal hole frat? And OF Ali
manner Of churches thus idloticallv built
iron churches are the damnablest TO me, And
II all ka - Al hall.