The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-17
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COLLECTION of 1872 letters of Richelieu was
withdrawn at the Hotel Drouot because the re-
served price of 20, 000f was not reached.
ELEVEN THOUSAND nine hundred and forty
seven British soldiers in India are members of
the Soldiers Total Abstinence Association.
The old British warship in which Mr.. Darwin
circumnavigated the world, and began those
speculations which have revolutionized science
| is now japanese training ship.
A CHECK for $2OOO,OOO, drawn on a national
bank in Sheffield, Ala, recently passed between
two merchants of that place 1t was one Of the
largest, if not the largest, check ever drawn in
| the state.
THERE is a well-patronized slave market in
Cabul for the sale Of slaves brought from KAT
ristan. Girls bring higher prices than women,
and are sold according to height. Only Moham-
medans are allowed to buy.
A MAN who gave his name as Abe Lincoln, and
who looked enough like the late President to
have been his twin brother, was locked up in a
| cell in the Tombs in New York, the other day.
He was charged with drunkenness.
FUNERAL without a corpse is being arranged
for by the relatives of David Hamilton, who was
blown to atoms by Dynamite near Richmond
| Ind, last week Not fragment of the unfortu-
nate mans body could be found.
| REV. Mr.. CHENowETH, of Montpelier, Ind,
who has been suffering from serious gastric
affection attributes his illness to a silver quar-
| Ter which he swallowed six years ago and
Whlch ne believes is still lodged in his stomach
Two Springfield (O) schoolboys who put
| quantity of ssafuetida in the school-house fur
| mace were compelled by the teacher to remain
in the stench-filled room until the contents of
their stomachs broke loose from their moor
ings."
NEW MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, the Claw harp,
the invention of NJ Dietz, of Brussels, has
| passed successful private trial. 1t has key
board like piano, but the mechanism plucks
the strings like harp instead of striking them.
ANY pianist can play it.
JOHN L. P. McCUNE supposed to be the oldest
| living Hoosier, celebrated his 95th birthday at
Charlestown, Ind, the other day. He is still
hale and hearty. He opened a shoe shop at
Charlestown in 1916, and fitted boots for thefeet
of many early Indiana celebrities.
JOHN FARRELL had courted an Illinois woman
eighteen years When he finally decided that
the time had come for them to part she flung
me swirl pail after him and broke his hip. and
the jury who tried the case returned verdict
OF mot guilty" without leaving their seats.
ST. PETERSBURG is a paradise for theatrical
managers. 1t is said that in one month a. go
persons visited the Russian opera, 5000 the
Alexandrovna Theater % 972 the circus and
II, 500 the Michael Theater The average at
tendance is about 1900 per night all the year
round.
DETAILS regarding the life of John Harvard,
founder of Harvard College, Cambridge Mass,
are very meagre Within few weeks past
however, there has been found at Blackheath
England, the record of the marriage between
John Harvard and Anne Sadler which was sol
emnlzed April 10, 1896.
THE MONEY in the New York sub-Treasllry of
the United States is being counted 1t is esti-
mated that it will take sixteen men three weeks
al ic Il 81,
vaults, including S9O,0OO000 in gold coin
S4Q0O,OOO in liver coir, and the remainder in
gold and sil"cr certificates and greenbacks.
The sole tenant of lonely miners cabin that
stands on the summit of Gold HILL opposite
Buena Vista. Col, is Mrs Mary Mallen, noted
throughout the West as the only woman miner
in the State. She has lived alone on the noun
tain for several years, spending her time in
prospecting for gold, but thus far without ap-
parent success.
On Feb. 2S, it being the anniversary of Mrs
Druse's execution, her daughter Mary, confined
at Onondaga penitentiay y. Syracuse was pre-
scented with a magnificent bouquet of natural
flowers with white satin strearuers, expressed
from New York, with poem written for the oc-
casion by her friend, Mrs. A. Shuman, of New
York city.
DURING will contest in Baltimore county.
Maryland, one of the witnesses testified that
the deceased had, on one occasion, written
ing them from the premises. He further as
serted that the deceased had told him that he
believed a great many of the rats had needed
the warning and left.
THERE lives in Reed City, Mich, !. the person
of Mr.. Yates, one of the "immortal Geo." who
by misunderstanding an order given them by
their commander, made the Charge of the
Light Brigade" against such fearful OddS-the
charge rendered famous by Tennyson Mr.
Yates feels very proud of the service rendered
his country at that time. .-N
AT Birmingham. Ala, DIR. Jones discovered a
raccoon in a yard back of a drug store, and
took novel method of capturing it, He pro-
cured a fishpole, a sponge and chloroform
Standing at distance he lowered the sponge to
the nose of the sleeping animal and held 1t there
until the coon was stupefed. Then, fearinr
that he might be bitten he arranged lasso and
caught the coon without difficulty.
A CURIOUS RELIC was found alongside a bar
dened copper knife, in a mound at Paris. Mich
1t is a black stone three inches long by two wide
rounded up accurately on both sides. Placed
upon either side and spun in one direction il
runs as nicely and smoothly as an oiled top but
turned the other way, it shutters" an runs
but short time 1t acts the same whichever
side is down, and is something of mystery.
THE American Opera is to be continued. de-
spite Manager Locke's recent melancholy col.
lapse. The artists and chorus have unanimous
ly decided to continue the organization Mrs
Jeanette NJ lhurDer told New York Sun re.
porter on Wednesday that praise is due to Mr.
Ludwig, the chief barytone, and Mr.. McGuckiu
the tenor, for their efforts in preventing the dis
banding of tho opera company. The new com.
hination will probably start from New YORK
for tour through the principal cities in the in
terror.
THE Crowley brothers, of Portage are in
hard luck A Wisconsin paper says: Last
fan Dan Crowley was killed in Milwaukee by
the cars Some time previous to this brother,
of his James, died from injuries received while
at work in the st. Paul yard in Portage where.
by he lost leg. John. another brother con
ductor on the old line, has lost several fingers.
a year ago or more Jerry Crowley received in.
jures on his foot which laid him I'D for some
time. and Tuesday. to cap the climax Jerry
who has lately been brak & for John, on the
old lAe, got his left hand smashed while AT
Pardeevile."
PAssART, the famed German actor, who bas
been playing for sixty nights past at the ITALIA
Theatre, in New York, is thus described Ay the
sun, of that city: He is a man of Is. perhaps
three inches under six feet in height with sturdy
frame. strong face and intellectual head He
has dark, curly hair, and goes smooth shaven
lie is careful and fashionable in his dress and
courtly in his ways 1t can be said of him that
he is a player of many parts. He PLAYED i'm
Munch for twenty years. He went To Berlin
when the mad King Ludwig committed suicide
He makes more money in lerlin in week he
says, than he made in Munich in a twelve
month