The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
A vELvET-PnIE Persian carpet was recent
sold at auction in Paris for s., 600

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sold at auction in Paris for $1,000
RIAz PAsHA, the new prime minister of Egypt
is Mohammedan. His predecessor, Nuba
| Pasha, was an Armenian Christian.
AN Indianapolis woman has become insane
through fear that her husband, who had beer
bitten by dog, would be attacked with hydro
| phobia,
Il never in my life saw 80 tepid, so perfume
! tory a national convention" said Chauncey NJ
| Depew to an interviewer. Mr.. Depew apparent
| ly needs muzzle more than ever.
THE inhabitants of the Congo district believe
that sheol is a place capable of containing
10, coo 900 people, and that it has been filled up
with white people, and the negro need have nc
| fears
| In THE great storm that devastated Staten
| Island Friday night, Buffalo Bills Indians
| almost to a man, disrobed and enjoyed the
shower bath the elements gave them in awful
| profusion.
A GENTLEMAN residing in Bath, Me-, recently
gave an account of trip he took thirty five
| years ago, from Bath, Me- to Peoria ILL.,, which
| cost him $14l 80. The same trip can be taken
| now for S35.
NJ DETAILLE, the painter of military pieces,
has won the chief prize Of the Paris salon, the
medal of honor, for his picture entitled lie
| Reve," which represents a detachment lying
down IN q COrn0elu.
THE Holmden farm, near Pithole, Pa, for
which, in the days of the oil craze, the Garden
City petroleum company, of Chicago. paid
| 81, 800 900, was sold few days ago for taxes
amounting to less than $780,
SPAIN, which is holding its exhibition
at Barcelona its most American like town
this year, has decided by its cabinet to
hold off and make no sign of sympathy with the
Preach centennial exposition next year.
POOR Pttsburg mechanic has invented a
safety coupler for freight cars that gives
promise of making his fortune Capitalists
have taken hold Of the invention and are get
ting ready to erect foundries and shops for
manufacturing 1t.
Mrs MARSHALL S. ROBERTS, of New York Is
understood to have completed her matrimonial
negotiations with the Earl of Arran and the
rich American widow and the Irish nobleman
will be mated in the fall. Mrs. Roberts income
is about $4,000 year.
THERE are only $50 Indians left at Saganng
Arenac, Mich, out OF over 500 four years ago,
disease having removed large number This
remnant belongs to the once famous Chippewa
tribe, which came from Canada some forty
years ago, crossing Lake Huron.
In bonanza times John E. Shawhan, of Oak
land, Cal, was reported to be worth 81, 000, 600
He was stock broker His stables were among
UnG IlDeSb eXIdnU. F1OOrS were araDeSQue, oil
marble and stone and in each stall there was
French plate mirror for the use of the proud
equine.
UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSIONER MCDONALD
intends that the citizens of California and of
the North Pacific coast generally shall know
what fresh lobster salad" is, for to that end it
is that he has shipped 900 live Holsters and 200
900 lobster eggs from Woods Holl, Mass, to
San Francisco.
fhao agA- 81 l., l..
n. Camden, one of the Standard oil coterie He
was once senator from West Virginia He is
stout good-natured man, with gray hair and
moustache, and he looks as if he might be CO.
He has plenty of money, and made the bulk of
it in the oil business.
A TRAVELLER in Lonoke county, Arkansas was
recently shown the neglected grave of Gov
Pettus, once widely known as the chief execu-
tive of Mississippi. 1t lies in a cornfield near
Toltec with only rude post to mark the spot,
In his day Gov. Pettus of the most
prominent men in the south.
ONE of the brightest and most earnest of the
students at the Baptist theological seminary in
Louisville was formerly what is known as a
street fakir." He finds that his experience in
lauding the virtues of patent medicines before
Street-crowds has been of great help in develop
ing his oratorical powers for the pulpit.
AN OLD MAN died in the autumn, aged more
rye, embematic of maturity to place on his
coffin. female neighbor, who had known
the deceased all his life, attended his funeral
and seeing the sheaf of rye, exclaimed How
appropriate He always did like liquor
The sparrow is becoming a prime favorite
with farmers in Ogdensburg, n. Y There this
season the army worm ravaged crops to an
alarming extent, until the sparrow set itself
up as the worms enemy. At last accounts the
battle ragged in way that promises the exter-
mination of the worm at no distant date
AT the Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania
railroad locomotive was begun on Monday
morning and finished in sixteen hours and flftv
five minutes. This breaks the Baldwin record
OF twenty-four hours The locomotive made
weighed 10000 pounds and will be used on the
New York division of the Pennsylvania road.
CHARLEY LEE, better known as "Whistling
Charley" who died in Cincinnati the other day
was one of the odd characters of that citv
Although So years old, he pushed his handcart
around almost to the day of his death and his
shrill whistle could be heard for block He
had mania for rings and his fingers were
covered with them.
GEN. NATHAN GoFF the West Virginia con.
gresham and politician, is a boyish- BLOCKING
man of medium hight who weighs barely 195
pounds, but makes upin dignity for his lack of
avoirdupois. His military life has given him an
erect form and his features are clean cut He
Is very wei 10 90 financially, part of his
money having come by inheritance =
EXTRACT from private letter from Raveuo
on the Bay of Salerno, Italy, dated st. Johns
day, June "a, 1897: ''St. Johns day is a ereat
holiday here; the old fires of Baal ara stiu
lighted on the hill tops on the eve The peonIe
here have a curious superstition connected with
this eve of St Johns day, which is observed bv
many; they repeat their rosaries until midniybt
and then look out, firmly believing TINT thew
will see Herodias and her daughter pass. ridjnS
on fiery plank, the daughter saying: 'Mother
why did you say it?' and the mother 'Dauphfer
why did you do it3 and then plunge into the
sea; the reason why, after st. Johns day. the
temperature Of the sea rises, and bathing
begins"
AT A SALE in London Of a collection of nor.
traits, autographs, letters etc. at one time the
property of DR.. Samuel johnson, epistles of
James Boswell fetched on an average e5.
apiece. and those Of Mrs. Siddons still higher
prices; one of her letters to Sir Joshua REYNOLDS
was knocked down for II guineas, and another
at nearly IA Ruineas. Letters of Mrs Hester
Thrale Piozzi fetched from 81 to G2 aniece.
and those of David Garrick mostly from lgS ~
Els. A large lot of ''Garrickians" Including
several letter. Of Garrick, realized R36 One ~
his letters, in which he says that he has been
near becoming manager of Drury Lane thea
ter, fetched 10 guineas, and another. written
in the third person, and mentioning the present
OF a specimen of the handwriting of Shakes
peare, fell under the hammer at f4l A letter
OF DIR. johnson to Edmund Cave signed .vonrs
tmDrdnSIts, Sam Johnson" realized no lass
than E46; and another to Goldsmith. aDologiz.
ing Tor bis absence from the club and nronos-