The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Fury years ago the scriptures we're circu-
lated in 1875 langua ses; now they are circulated
| in 30
| GEORGE MILLER Of Akron, O.. was buried
| Thursday I'm a conn made from the wood OF a
cherry tree he planted for this purpose Sixty
! years ago
Or \. n. JONES, Of Huntsville, Ala has pur'
/ chased the buildings and equipments oil the
Huntsville Female College. This property
! has beon i'm LITIGATION nearly twenty years
| having been taken TO the Supreme Court OF the
! United states
| AwARNrNG against wearing fun boards comes
/ from Burlington, y J. Gen. Abraham POST Oh
! that city was talking with friend near a cigar
! stand when his beard came in contact win tLe
cigar lighter Before the fire could ne eAtIu
/ gu Shei his face was badly burned
| or the tN students Of Michigan University
il ia stated hv President Angel that the parents
! OF 500 were farmers. ~ merchants, 9S lawyers,
/ - PHYSICIANS - manufacturers, 81 mechanlcs
! and 81 clergymcn. He estimates that as many
as 8 per cent. belonged 10 the class VINO galheu
their living by manual toll.
Mis-. EDWARD LIST of Chicago went out 70
mail a letter on Thursday evening last aud was
deNpoed Of her long and abundant hralds OF
hair by a man who stole up behind Just as the
was depostlng the miSSlvc in the letter-bo ana
clipped them off with a sharp pair OF scissors
Mrs. List was SO overcome At her loss that she
on the sidewalk by a policeman.
A QrARREL among the people Of Highland
Park, " j., has compelled the school-children
10 20 about the place with baskets, begging coal
in order to keep the school open. The school
building is also used rs sunday school, ana
the day-school trustees refuse to buy coal be-
cause the Sunday school people use It, and the
Sunday people will not buy coal for all the
week, while using il on only one day.
An expert commercial traveller says that hotel
experience has taught him neat device. He
places a silver quarter under glass goblet;
Il is magniiied TO the proportions of a car-wheei
dollar. The waiter sees the huge coin and
serves food with enthusiastic alacr1ty. Dinner
over, the traveller. being an artist, picks up the
coin and makes study OF the walter lace
when the quarter is pocketed by the owner OF 1t.
CREMATION is becoming general in Europe.
The new cremstory at Stockholm, Sweden,
burned its first body Oct IS. From that day 10
Dec 6, nineteen corpses were incinerated. A
crematory is in course of erection at Zurich,
Switzerland Another is TO be built at Basel
on the same plan At HOmburg. Germany, the
erection of a crematoTy will commence next
spring. The cremation Society at Berlin has
secured the ground for crematory.
a KAFFIR was suspected Of being in posses
sion OF uncut diamonds, aud was pursued by of
fcerS of tbe law. When they came up with him
be had just shot one OF his oxen. Then they
proceeded to search him They ranSacked his
ScanJN 81 Stulilg QoN cOnDtO MS NOOily uCdu
They tried all the usual processes but Tever q
diamond did they find and fin ly they had TO
retire discounted 1lel the kaff1r proceeded
to pick out from the dead oX'S carcass all the
diamonds with which his gun had been loaded,
and which he fred into the unfortunate beast
when he saw the officers approaching.
It IS ASSERTED in political circles, that strong
efforts are being made to discourage Col. Fred
Grant from accepting a nomination for Quaran-
tine Commissioner should Gov. Hill send his
name to the Senate in the place of Thomas c.
Platt. Flatt'S friends are fearful that the Gov
ernor will take the only known process of get
ring nd of the Commissioner by selecting Col
Grant as his successor. It is believed by some
that the Miller members of the Senate, under
the lead of Judge Robertson. would pluck up
sufficient courage to unite with the II Demo
cratic Senators in confirming the Colonel. in the
event of the Platt Senators insisting on hang
ing him up
4 LEARNED Chicago bootblack attracts trade
by the following Boston language displayed on
a card: Pedal tegumeDtS artistically illuniu-
ated and fabricated for the infinitesmal com
peDsation of l0c per operation. Anticipated teg-
umentS (pedal or super pedab expurgated judi
ciOuSly and reSuScitate1 with expedition for
nominal compensation. OF the iunumerable
foretaste5 OF heaven enjoyed by every patron |
would simply state. From the eventIatiou of
the operation. even to its ultimate successful
completion, the patron rccneS superintendent
on cushions which a sybaritA might envy in a
superatively luxurious attitude in which the
horizontal and perpendicular are gracefully
blended"
GEN NATHAN GoFF, Congressman from the
Third West Virginia district. was the youngest
Union general in the late war commanding a
brigade al the age OF 25. Since the war he has
been the l1ckiest of men He bought up min
ing property in West Virginia. which had been
tried and thought worthless, and Immediately
afterward It began to yield handsomely. A
half million dollars was the amount of the
profits. Then an uncle died leaving him another
half million. An aunt soon after went to the
grave, making him heir to 100000. Then he
was nominated for Congress in the Wheeling
district, which had always gone Democratic,
and he was elected. He has been twice re-
elected,
THE story that Gen. William H. Lyte wrote
the celebrated lyric, Il am Dying, Egypt.
Dying" two hours before his death is positively
denied by his nephew and heir, Marion D. Lytle.
a salwart. handsome young TenDeSsean who
has just come back to civilization after two
years of wonderful experience as government
agent among the Sioux Young ytie's family
home is ut Murfrecsboro, the historic town
founded by the ancestors of Charles Egbert
Craddock. He laughs as he tells the story of
subdlllng Sioux outbreak at Rose bud, where
his agency was. by declaimiEg his famous
uncle poem to the reCalcitrant red men, who
agreed Immediately that theiragcnt was an elo-.
quent orator, Young Lyle raises the hair of his
TO the grizzlies he killed and skinned in the
Rockies, and of whose pelts lie has had made a
big fur coat that draws more eyes on Broadway
than the Christmas diamond slow.
TOUCHING the lack of a Southern literature
the Augusta Chronicle says that If the South is
not literary she is the cause Of literature in
others. What would half the Northern maya
zines aud lterateurs do if it were not for South
err themes? The ever wonderful cotton plant
something the Northern eve never seems to tire
in looking at and the Northern reader never
wedries in reading of-the lovely magnolia; our
japonicas and viOletS that bloom ia the Christ
mas frostS; the lag Don, with its long funereal
moss; the sugar and rice fields; the orange
grove; the live oak, the noble Georgia pine; the
whole beautiful fora of this gifted region; the
queer ways and quaint dialect of our colored
brother; our own open easy, careless temper
are constant topics for the Northern pen Over
and above this is is the never tiresome ever
ma jestic story Of the war. The picture of the
poor ragged soldier, rich in nothing but pluck
powder and ball, is imned over and over again.
until, as long as printing lasts, his gaunt Veto.
rious figure will shine on giorys page.
BEGfNNGNG his S3rd year NJ. Ferdinand dc Les
seps can look around, says the London DaHy
Ne,rs, aud see but very few men OF ANYTHING
like equal emlnence who are as old as he. The
German Emperor is 80, DR.. DollinyeT il 81
Mot6e and Bancroft, the historian are each 81
kosSuth is So and Prof. Owen is 3D. but il is not
easy to extend the list Yet it is astonishing To
note The large number of living great men who