The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-04
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IN the little town of Arvesnes, IN france IL
has been discovered that there are forty-two
young manageable cir and only three young
men who are candidates for natrimony. and
one of these has proved SO recreant to home in
fiuence that he is about to marry girl belong
ing TO neighboring village. The anxious and
aimless' are not confined TO Massachusetts.
THE tongue of London gossip is wagging no
little over the bequest of the late Duke of Rut-
land of his steam yacht Lusfra. and much mag
nifcent gold and silver plate marked fully with
the ducal crest to one Lady Miles, of whom 1t
is related that for years she has had and held
very many Rutland family Jewels her grace
the Duchess and Sir Philip Miles to the contrary
Notwithstanding
Col. NICHOLAS. a well known citizen of Read
ing during the revolutionary era, operated sew
eral fiourishing Touring mills and furnished the
government with flour. About 80 of his heirs,
who live in Reading and in Philadelphia claim
that records in Washington and Harrisburg
show that the government still owes him
$40 900 for flour. The heirs held meeting in
Reading on Thursday and decided to prosecute
the claim for the original amount with accrued
interest.
Is THERE happily married woman in the
land who does not think back with cold chill
upon the time when she weighed the propose
tacit or spoken, of some signing sutton, whose
life since that time has skirted so near to the
edge of the pit that his hapless family has
COiile intO lCS very Atmosphere! Niue tliuOS Out
of ten the counsel or the opposition of parents
turned the scale. and daughters live to thank
them in heart, though if New England born
they probably never voice the emotion.
APRoPos of the story that certain country
clergyman finds his present usefulness gone, be-
cause there is one left in his parish to be con
verified, religious journal remarks: IF the
dear brother, having so lovely an ecclesiastical
patch is DESTROYS to do some good. it is evident
it might be safely left while he labored else
where. If. from his surroundings, he dreams
that the millennium is close at hand. he might
get a thorough awakening by working as an
evangelist ID the lower wards of New York. -"
THERE was fun in Philadelphia the other day.
broken culvert blocked the cars of the trac
ton company but the conductors went on
taking passengers and collecting fares Just as
usual, until Mr. Kirkpatrick one of the solid
citizens, got mad at the palpable swindle and
made 1t his business to gather in policeman
and warn off intending pasSengerS-by which, it
is said, he saved some 800 people from spending
a nickel for notbing--and felt that he got salts
faction, if nothing else, for his own outlay of
coin.
BRETHREN" said a Tennessee preacher.
don't put Pontius Plate down as a bad man.
He wasn't bad man: he was only a weak one.
He himself would much rather have released
our Saviour. but he couldn't resist the pressure
of the ScribeS and Pharisees and the howlings
of the rabble. He didn't have any back bone.
He wasn't bad, but he was a poor creature--in
fact, there was nothing to him. Brethren, if
Gen. Andrew Jackson had been in PontiuS
Pilates place that trial would have had differ
ent ending"
A FIRST CLASS AMERICAN WATCH, well kept,
will last thirty or forty years, or sometimes
even longer, before the works wear out. but the
average life OF an ordinary low-priced American
watch is ten years, and that of a Swiss watch of
the same grade seven years The length Of
life for watch depends largely on the number
Of its jewels. The range of prices for Ameri-
can watches runs from S. to $500. the costliest
being spit second minute register timin Z
watch. In the United States about 8 500 watches
are manufactured every day. The Waltham
factory turns out 500 per day, and the Elgin
factory between 1900 and 1890.
A PITGFUL SCENE occurred in a New York
court before Judge Alfred Steckler, when poor
woman offered to sell her child to pay a debt in
CURED by her husband, which he was unable to
pay. Isaac Barnett is the man referred to. He
was sued by one of his workmen for wages, and
a Judgment of 81 80 Was given against him Mr..
Barnett was too i'll to appear in court. but his
wife was there as his representative. She car
ried q babe i'll her arms and two little boys
chung to her skirts. She looked the picture of
misery herself. With tears IN her eyes she told
the judge that her husband was sick and could
not pay the money, because they did not have a
cent in the world. She declared that her chill
dren were starving and without proper clothing
and that all the wearing apparel she owned was
the old dress she wore. She cried out that she
could not pay the money. and if it came to the
worst. all she could do was to sell her babe to
satisfy the claim against her husband. The
sympathies of the Judge and spectators were
aroused and n subscription was started for the
unfortunate family, headed by the judge. In a
few minutes a nice little sum Of money was col
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