The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| The couple met on the wedding day for the
| first time.
The MAINE LEGISLATURE will be asked to
modify the present law relating to the taxation
or property owned by religious aud educational
| institutions, so as to exempt from taxes only
that portion which is directly used for those
| purposes
| SEVERAL valuable horses, owned in Narragan-
sett R. l., having died under suspicious circum-
stances, post norton examination was made
which revealed that all the animals had been
| poisoned. In the stomach of one horse over 600
| grains of arsenic were found.
A JUMBO jawbone has been exhumed near
| Waverly, o. 1t was found about thirty-two feet
from the surface, in gravel pit and, as de-
| scrloed, SO feet long and feet wide. The
Grlnders are Iz2 inches above the other teeth.
| The hinge OF the jaw is 90 inches high
THERE is little town in France in which
there are forty three young women who want
to get married, and only two manageable
| young men, of whom one is engaged to a non
| resident girl. There is no doubt that marriage
Is failure in the case of these maidens, any
| how.
| The Saginaw river sawmills will be kept run
ming until Dec. 1, if possible The cut this year
will exceed 100000. 600 feet of lumber of which
over 300, 600 900 will be carried over this winter
| barring 100000 which will go out by rail
About IOoOo,0OO feet of logs have been RATED
| out of the Saginaw.
| "A GENUINE GHOST is SAID TO nave been seen
| Sc oral times recently near the German church
on First street, in Pittsfield, Mass His ghost
snip is said to come from the rear of the church
and glide out upon the street. The young men
| Oh the town are preparing to give the apparition
| a warm reception when it next appears,
The total imports of iron and steel in the first
nine months of 1883 amount to 7O6, S14 gross
tons, against 427 997 gross tons in the first nine
months Of 1887. The total imports of iron ore
were AL 340 gross tons, against ,010 1852 tons in
| the first nine months last year. The decrease is
attributed to the high price Of ocean freights.
IT IS SAID that the Union Pacific contemplates
building short line to Leadville. Several
| routes have been discussed and SURVEYED one
of the favorites being the extension of the Colo
| RADIO Central from Graymont to Aspen and
| Leadville. Another one proposes the shorten
| ing of the present South Park route to Lead
| vile.
BARNUM's elephant Juno" caught cold at the
winter quarters in Bridgeport. and was given
two gallons of whisky and wrapped up in
blankets soaked in brandy in the hope of
curing her. The dose made the animal Jolly
and she tore away her blankets, staggered
about among the herd of animals and conducted
herself generally IN an undignit1ed manner
LADY visiting Nyack, N. Y, from the City
of Churches took hot brick to bed with her on
Sunday night. About midnight she was
awakened by smoke, and she found the lower
part oil her bed on fire and her toes Just touched
| the household The impending confagration
was extinguished, and the lady's toes were
anolnted with sweet oil
The next time Mrs. Shaw the so-called Amer
lean whistler, goes abroad she will do we'll to
| avoid Arabian communities. The Arabs hate
| whistler. Burton, in his First Footsteps in
East Africa" says: Some say that the
| whistler's mouth is not to be purified for forty
days; others, that Satan, touching a mans
| talso presumably a woman's, person, causes
! Offensive
JUST before Edwin Dudley died in a shanty.
near Mt. Vernon, Me-, the other day. he called
one of the sons to his bedside and told him that
| many years ago he had placed 81. 100 in gold
which his father had made selling rum, in q
| box, and buried it in the earth beneath the tia
| up of the barn. Subsequently the barn was
| torn down and the ground plowed The sons
| have been digging to find the buried treasure
The ADMIRERS of Jake Kilrain have presented
him with cane that makes him a still more
dangerous person to encounter than one might
imagine. The cane is q very light malacca sticl
with a small elk-horn handle gold band
| bears an inscription telling of its presentation
| When one touches spring, out comes handle
| from the stick, containing a combination six
| inch dagger and six-chambered % caliber re-
| volver.
The Bethlehem Steel Company of Bethlehem.
Pa, is about ready to start up its works. This
company has the contract for supplying the
| forgings for the eight, ten and tweve-inch guns
| y. Z erected q
plant costing over ST 200, 000 and now that its
| mandatory is in running order, it is expected
that the forgings will be sent at once to the
| Washington Gun Foundry, where the guns will
| be constructed.
A GRAND entertainment comprising beer.
| bread and cheese. and dancing, was lately given
at FREDERICKSBURG by Prince Bismarck to all his
| Workmen and the administration for cutting
down trees on the estate. upon which there is a
vast amount OF timber cutting. The occasion
| Ia oft he
| over $50 feet in height, and will be erected in
front of the princes house as a memento. The
wood is mostly turned into paper pulp.
THE STEAMER ORCA and several other whaling
vessels, the past season, pushed their way north
to point but fifty miles from Hersche island,
| near the mouth of the Mackenzie river Ac-
cording to the San Francisco Chronicle this
Is the first time since 1858 that any vessels have
been able to go so far through the ice. In the
year mentioned the British exploring ship En-
| terprise. Capt. Collinson, wintered In Camden
| bay, latitude 70o s. north and 4j0 49, west ougi-
tude.
A WRITER who has been in Japan for five
years says: THE first month was in Yokohama
| was invited to state ball. There were about
1000 ladies present and of that number only
| three were in foreign dress. / was at another
| of those balls this year. and there were about
| the same number of ladies present. and there
were only three ladies' in Japanese costume.
The japanese women look great deal prettier
in their native dress. They are too small to
| look well in American costume"
CHARLES MCDONALD" says a Charlotte On
c. paper, Twas the democratic candidate for
the House of Representatives from Cabarru,
| county. His brother, Robert E. Mcdonald was
the republican candidate for the Senate from
| Mecklenburg county. Charles Mcdonald was
elected, Robert Mcdonald was defeated Moth
ing very odd in this to be sure, but then the
| funny part is to come. One was elected by
| 1853 majority, and the other was defeated by
| exactly the same number Of votes"
JOHN HARRIS Of Grassy Greek, Ky, died of
| JOY OH hearing the news Of Harrisons election.
| He was 20 years Of age and had always been a
republican. Last Saturday drum corps and
fifty mounted men went to Harris secluded
home and Informed him that there was no
| doubt that Harrison and Morton had been
| elected The band played my Country It's of
| Thee" and Harris, carried away by excitement
| gave one cheer and fell down dead. His sudden
| taking Off is ascribed to heart disease, though
| there those who claim that a Kentucky
drum corps is apt TO kill anybody within range
| of its noise.
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT happened last Tuesday
night at one OF the draws in the Lowell railroad
yard. Boston. The schooner Helen NJ. Golden
reached the draw when the tide was ebbing.
and being obliged therefore to stop for several
hours, a line was attached to pier. The line.
it seems, was improperly fastened and the bow.
spirit swung around, as TO project over the