The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-23
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robbed of sum of Tuoney thirty-four years
ago The other day he received an anonymous
letter containing the stolen cash and the fuli
interest.
A CITIZEN of Lynchburg, Va, has New
foundland dog which is noted for his intelli-
gence He saw youth gathering apples in his
masters orchard, and thinking he was an in
truder took him gently by the coat sleeve and
led him TO his mistress, who told him that she
had hired the boy TO gather the apples, where
upon the dog Immediately released his captive.
AN ALBANY PHYSICIAN says that the most
curious prescription he ever gave to a patient
was one he prepared for lady. 1t was stop
walking up and down stairs" The only way
this prescription could be taken was by changing
her house. as she lived in one of the three-story
and basement houses SO peculiar to Albany
architecture. Her husband secured roomy
cottage OF two stories, and within a year the
invalid s health was almost completely restored
THERE is quite unimpeachable Fifth avenue
(New York; girl. who stops horse cars and stages
by whistling at them. If she wishes to board
one of these vehicles she stops careleSsly at the
curb lifts one hand in a gracefully lazy signal
to the driver, and then prettily Fuckers her red
lips, from which she emits shrill, musical
whistle. This is all done SO demurely, and with
such an air of complacency, that the astonished
witnesses are not apt TO regard it as in the least
vulgar.
THE meanest man has again been discovered.
He belongs in Clanwilliam, Man, and because
his wife contributed $40 to a church building
fund he attempted to hang himself, but was dis
covered and cut down. He was determined to
put an end to the misery he experienced over
the loss of his money, however, and later in the
day he attempted to commit suicide by drown
ing, but was again rescued. Finally, tie church
authorities deci led to return the man the money,
and he is happy.
THE unexpected prevalence Of typhoid fever
in some quarters of New York, relates the
Tribune, has been curiously illustrated in the
cases of Drs. w. J. Martin and Frank B. Car
penter, both of whom are lying i'll with this
mslady at the New York hospital. DR.. Martin
has been employed at the hospital for year,
and assumed charge of the institution on Dec.
1, the day he was taken i'll. Dr. Carpenter was
brought there last Thursday from his Office
near by, at No. 1856 East Eighteenth street.
ITO our already formidable list of poisons,"
says an English journal, may be added, as a
source of occasional danger the fragant nut
meg 1t is not likely that adults will ever die of
eating nutmegs; but the inquisitive fingers of
children find their way 10 the spice box, and
thence convey many things to their curious
palates. At least one fatal case has occurred,
where a boy of 8, having eaten two nutmegs,
fell into comatose condition and died within
twelve hours. The symptoms were similar to
those Of opium-poisoning."
CASES OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY are extremely
common in New York. Some are ludicrous,
some pathetic. Men apparently composed in
mind as well as non c0nlDos mentis have been
known to forget who they were and where they
came from. Suicides occur from time TO time,
and bodies of self-murderers are put away
without positive Identification. Men are found
dead in the streets. and go to their graves or
the dissecting tables unknown. Victims of &C.
cidents are buried without names. Bodies
picked up in the harbor sleep in the morgue I'M
recognized.
Two YEARS AGO party OF Calais (BIe.l sports
men killed five foxes in a single day, and with
pride all the facts we're detailed, but that great
local record is at last broken. George W. Lea
witt, Esq, of Boston, started from the st. Croix
exchange, in Calais on Tuesday morning last
in company with two friends and before dark
on the same day returned with seven foxes.
bringing not the brushes alone, but the entire
carcasses of the animals slain. Five of the
seven foxes were shot by MIR. Leavitt himself
but those who were left say he was favored by
the wonderful hound which he brought with
him to the St. Croix. Anyway, the record is
Knocked out.
CLAIRvoyAETs' STOCK is just at present con-
siderably below par in New Haven on account
Of the return to that city of a demented ex-
Harvard student who suddenly disappeared six
months ago He was extensively searched for,
but couldn't be found, and friends visited
clairvoyant. She declared the missing man
nad drowned himself Three other clairvoyants
were consulted. and they came TO the same con.
clusion. His friends generally, in view of this,
felt certain that he had done away with him
self. The poor fellow says that he spent con-
siderable of the time he was missing between
New Haven. Cape May and New York
ANOTHER curious resurrection CASE has en-
livened the inhabitants of Valse, near Lyons
France. well-to-do inhabitant of the town
fell into a trance and was officially certified to
be dead. Preparations were made for the
funeral when, on the night before thar mourn
. full event was to take place, the supposed dead
mar Gat n mr. lad fOr drfpL
The person who was Watching by the reputed
corpse was alarmed and ran away, so the rather
substantial ghost got out Of his coffin, imobed
the contents of bottle of wine which was on a
table, Invested himself of his grave clothes
donned his owD. and then awakened the mem
bers of his family. Next day, amid great rev
elry and rejoicing. he went tothe mayors Office
and reported himself alive and Kicking"
ON GLADE MOUNTAINS, W. Va, resides perhaps
the most peculiar family in the country. 1t is
family of coinc idences. The fsther and
mother were married on the 18th day OF Octo-
Der; they have had nine children, ali OF whom
were born on the 14th of October; five of the
children are dead, and oil five of them ceased
TO breathe on the 14th day of october. The
name of the head of the family is j Joshua
Franklin. He says he was a moderate sol
der; that he was captured twice by the Yam
KEGS and that he lost two brothers IN the war
and that all four of the mishaps or inisfortunes of
war occurred on the memorable 4th of October
In the neighborhood the Franklin family is re-
garded with superstition, and not a human be-
ing can be prevailed on to stay either in the
house or on the premises on either day or night
on the 18th of October.
A PROFESSIONAL TRAPEzIsr or tght-rope
walker Don Juan Caicedo native of Colombia
in South America, who has for several weeks
been performing at Vienna and who was to
have appeared next week in London, made an
extraordinary attempt at suicide in public the
other night, owing, it is said, TO violent quar-
rel he had in the cour e OF the day with his
wife. At the performance he assembled, as usual,
the tight rope, and then, to the CONSERVATION of
the vast audience, he suddenly threw away his
balancing rod, and second afterward fell head
foremost, a distance of twenty to thirty feet
onto the planks of the stage He was picked
no in perfectly unconscious state and at once
taken to the General hospital, leaving the audi
ence naturally in a state of the greatest excite
ment. The examination showed that the I'M
fortunate acrobat was suffering from conclusion
of the brain and other serious internal injuries
from which 1t is doubtful whether he will re-
cover.
THE OCCUPANTS Of building on Third avenue,
New York, have been much exercised in mind
for the past few days Somewhere in the base
ment of the house there has been roaming
about, but seldom seen, a curious animal,
variously described as a monkey or a squirrel
according Us the head or tail OF the creature
was seen. An organized search for the mysteri-
Gus creature was unsuccessful, and 1t was
thought that the visitor had departed. Sunday
forenoon "a Italian bootblack went into the eel
lar and saw the animal in barrel He hesitated
about attacking 10 single handed, and called his
assistant. and after half hours lively running
and lodging their efforts were rewarded with
CAPTURE, but not before one Of the Italians had
received an ugly bite on the right hand This
is how they describe the ''curio:" II Is about 2
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