Savannah morning news., 1886-06-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

which it has given $4,000 crowns. Prof. Dahl
erup has drawn the plan of the building, and
| the erection will be fastened SO as to be used
| this year,
The death is announced of Frederick George
| Masten. aged so years, at Long Sutton, Lin
colnshirc. He was the plaintiff in the famous
! lawsuit which ELECTED the first authoritative
declaration of the validity oil Nonconformist
| baptism as qualification for Christian burial
| IN consecrated ground under the rites of the
Church of England.
A PECULIAR FREAK of nature is presented
in the result that attended the experiment of
stocking Lake Ontario with shad seven years
ago Millions of them were hatched, but they
| we're dwarls. None OF them grow to over 7
inches long, and they are not fit to eat. They
| increase rapidly and have become a choice
morsel of food for the pickerel and bass.
THIRTY-FIvE business men who daily travel
between Boston and Falmouth, on the Old
Colony road, by paying 500 each in addition
to the regular fare, havesecured the exclusive
services OF tram thatis saidto make the fast
est time in America. The journey usually re-
quires three hours, but ''The Flying DIde,"
as the boys call it, can do 1t in one hour and
ten minutes.
JOHN MURRAY, of Danbury, Conn :, while
In pasture lot came across big snake, COM
monty known as a blue racer. Murray had a
short stick, and with this he struck at the
snake, which sprung ana stung him on the
back Of his hand. He Immediately hurried
home and his friends filed him with whisky.
The wound began to be very painful, and
Murray was carried to DIR. Lynch, who eau
terized 1t. Murray's hand is much swollen,
and on the wrist are black rings which look
like the marking of the snake. He suffers in
tense pain, and at lines makes a motion
IKE a snake crawling. His recovery is
doubtful.
+. WYNEKEN. the editor of the International
Nautical Magazine, OF New York, has ar
ranged universal code of ice signals for the
Newfoundland banks and other northern lati-
tudes, which will probably be generally
adopted. Commander Bartlett, Photographic
of the United States Navy Department, wat
recommend It In the next issue of the pilot
chart of the North, ana the British Consul
General at New ork has sent copies home to
the admiralty and other boards. There are
| systems of signals by which passing vessels
can tell each other all about the icebergs and
! Ice fields that either may have encountered in
the Atlantic.
THERE is woman" SAID an old resident
of Chicago on Friday, ''who had the small
pox and the cholera and was never sick day
IN her life. That sounds q little queer,
know, but it is the truth. She had hard
time with the small pox, but she insisted that
she was not sick. and really believe she was
not IN the ordinary meaning of the word,
Cholera troubled her for about a half day,
but strong Slll, a serene temper and ,od
mental discipline brought her out of that; so
she didn't lose full day in her record as a
healthy, cheerful woman. Her experience
led me to believe that the mind has a good
deal TO do with bodily suffering"
THE Justices of the Peace OF the rural dis
tricts of Georgia, IN the absence of regular
lawyers, transact a good deal of professional
business for their neighbors. On one occasion
one of these gentry was employed to draw a
deed of marriage settlement. The estate was
limited to the use of the bride during her
life land at and after her death, to the child
or children of the said Susan Jones, she may
have by the said Thomas Smith, his heirs. eX-
ecutOrs. administrators, or assigns" "What
do you think of it?' asked Smith of a lawyer
to whom he showed the document. 81 think"
answered the lawyer. THAT whoever drew
this deed was determined there should be no
trouble by reason of failure of ISSUE"
REV. S. w. BIoKNELL, minister of the Bap-
tist Church located at Hampton, W. Va, was
before the grand jury and preferred charges
against Miss Emma Clark and her brother for
assault. Rev. Bicknell had been told that
MISS Clark had while visiting at Milton. W.
Va, not long since, circulated stories about
him that reflected on his standing as a minis
ter. This excited his indignation, and Sun
day last, while in the pulpit. he denounced
the young lady in severe terms. Monday
Rev. Bicknell was called from the house &C
which he was stopping by Miss Clark and her
brother, and the former struck him several
times on the head and shoulders wifi a cane.
REFERRING to the pamphlet recently pub
lished opposing the confirmation of j. c. Mat
thews as Recorder of Deeds at Washington, to
succeed Frederick Douglass, the Rev W. Z.
Derrick, of New Y ork, SAID to a reporter that
the pamphlet was not published by branch
OF the Colored Republican League, as there
was no such organization in that State.
There had been no such organization in the
past What W. II. johnston referred to was
really a COlOred BARRIERS Association. DIR,
| q faf hat
made in the pamphlet are false and simply a
rehash OF different communications sent to
the Albany Evening journal by Johnson, who
is a colOred barber IN that city, and out of the
$50 voters whose names appeared on the arti-
Gle only II lndorsed the pamphlet.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has ordered the
United States flagship Tennessee, Capt. Rob-
ert Boyd; United States steamer Galena.
Commander Colby NJ. Chester; United States
steamer SwataTa, Commander K. T. Wood
ward; and United States steamer Yantie.
Commander Francis M. Green, to proceed to
sea and make the best of their way to Port
land Me. The vessels Of the North Atlantic
Squadron. under the command of Capt. Rob
ert Boyd, the senior officer present, will sail
from New fork and make the cruise in squad
roni The Galeua cannot ACCOMPANY the feet
as she Is undergoing repairs. Her command
ing officer has been directed to proceed 10
Portland as soon as his ship is in readiness for
sea. The vessels Of the fleet will participate
in the ceremonies of the centennial celebra-
tien Of Portland on july 4, 5 and next.
SUIT for $4,000 damages has been begun at
Chicago by George A. and Frederick w. Bow
man, beer sellers of Marshalltown, Iowa.
against the Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road for its refusal to transport 5000 barrels
OF beer for the plaintiffs from Chicaeo to
1larshalltoWn. fhe railroad declines to carry
the beverage for fear of the Iowa statute
making II "a penal ofense to take LIQUOR in TO
the State. Bowman Bros. bought 5000 barrels
at S6 So per barrel, the payment being copdl-
tlonal on their getting IL into Iowa, The
Northwestern road refused to take It. Bow
man Bros. assert that beer is sold all over
Iowa, and If once they succeeded in getting
into the state they could sell II for IS per bar
rel and not be mOlestcd. The refusal of the
company 10 transport it 10 to be made the oc-
ca-ion of the test Of the validity of the Iowa
law.
KING OTTO hasenJoyed the honors generally
conceded to Prince, but for years past has
been hopelessly insane, being much worse
than Ludwig ever was, although his true con-
dition was not generally known to the masses
OF Bavarlans. The excessive care with which
the unhappy Prince has been guarded was
rendered necessary by an unfortunate occa-
sion on Corpus Christi day in 1873. The Arch
bishop was officiating in the Cathedral al
Munich, when the Prince, who haI eluded the
vigilance OF his keepers, rushed through the
crowd. and placing himself in the choir began
to address the assembly IN a loud voice. Bv
his garbled speech aud incohersnt mutterlnR
his true mental condition at once became an
parent. since then he has been carefully