The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-07
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wants pay at regular retail rates. A man of
such solid standing might have been ex-
pected to have kept his business on better
footing
In WASHINGTON TERRITORY, lately, a hunter
jumped fox and started in chase with his dog.
During the chase wild cat started up and
! headed the procession. The race came to a
sudden termination. for, as the story goes, dog,
cat and fox were all killed by train as they
| were crossing railroad track
A PETALUMA, CAL, WOMAN missed her news
paper for several days in succession, and as the
carrier declared he had served it, she decided
| to watch for the thief The latter turned out
| 10 ne dog. The moment the carrier disap-
peared from sight the canine would seize the
| paper in his mouth and dart of
COLORADO bids fair to rival Pennsylvania as
an oil state. In the valley of the Arkansas,
near Pueblo. about twenty wells have been
| bored, and the yield is 1000 barrels a day The
| oil is green, excellent in quality, and, what is
better, has an agreeable smell. There are no
| gushing wells as yet. but the average flow sur
| passes what other states have afforded.
THE agitation for change in Inauguration day
to April 30 prompted the Star of Washington
to study up the advantages in the way of
weather which that day would likely offer 1t
found, after carfully going over the signal serv-
ice records, that the probability of rain is just
| 80 per cent. less on the last day of April than
| on March 4. From 1872 to 1885, inclusive the
! Star reports, March in Washington has been
a clear day three times fair day ten times.
| and cloudy day six times Rain or snow has
| fallen on six days"
| IN 1890 will end the term of 100 years during
which the cities of Boston and Philadelphia
| have each enjoyed the revenue from bequest
| OF 5000 made by Benjlmin Franklin The
| money was to be loaned to young married
artlhcers and the trust has been executed, al
tnougn the lapse of the century requires new
disposition of the fund. 1t is significant that
while in Boston the $1,000 has grown to nearly
S3?0, 600, in Philadelphia the $1,000 has become
only $40, 600 and that in both cases the amount
| Is less than Franklin estimated it would be.
| Miss MARY MACcRIBB1N, who died recently in
Washington, claimed to have seen every Presi-
dent from Washington down to Cleveland She
was born in Annapolis, Nd and lacked but a
| few years of being century old During the
war OF 1872 she was living in Baltimore city and
witnessed the memorable bombardment of Fort
McHenry. She was well acquainted with John
Howard Payne, and witnessed his first appear
ance on the stage in Baltimore. She first went
| to Washington by stage in 1921 the Journey
from the Monumental City occupying twelve
hours.
JAMES Mcneil of Cambridge Mass carries
in his leg piece of money which has strange
history. When an S-year-old boy in Prince Ed
wards Island, Mcneil swallowed the coin while
running. Seven years ago he noticed what
seemed to be ruptured vein in his leg in about
| the spot where the coin now rests. and in
year or two was able to feel little hard, round
| bunch. 1t now lies under not more than
| quarter of an inch Of flesh and SKIN, do IS not
trouble its owner in the least, and can only be
| found by pulling up the flesh. Four or five
| physicians have examined the projection and
| declare that it is silver coin beyond all doubt
Mcneil has been offered 500 by physician to
allow him to cut the coin out.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the famous author
of DIR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" came to America
| from Scotland a year ago poor in pocket and
N Ha GT1nn Iucf a.
| AdirondackS and recovered his health. Or
| Jekyl and Mr. HYDE" had an enormouse sale in
America. the income from that source alone
| being sufficient to maintain him in good style
| He also gets good royalty from its American
| dramatzation. He received $500 for his Out
| laws of Tunstall Forest, published in the news
papers as serial is to get $4,000 for writing
| an account of the voyage he is now making in
| the South Seas, and $4,000 more for a story to
| be published in the New York Ledger Health
/ and comfort have thus come in a single wear
| and all, perhaps, from crossing the ocean to
\ America.
| EXPERIMENTS have recently been made at
| Chalons, France, with the new melinite shell
| which proves it to be the most terrific instru-
ment of modern warfare. The guns are built
on the Bange system of breech leaders, and
| have range of about 500 yards. They are
mounted so as to be fired from any angle from
| 500 below to so above the horison. The pro-
| jectiles are of two kinds: An ordinary shell,
| weighing about 22O pounds and carrying a per-
cusson fuse, and the melinite she'll The latter
| is about three feet in height, is steel plated
| contains 60 pounds of melinite and when loaded
weighs about 230 pounds. The charge is about
| IS pounds of powder. The effects produced by
/ this uleinite she'll are wonderful In an escape
ment wall single shell opened a breach by
i Is feet. shell exploding upon a easement left
| a hole feet deep and is feet in diameter, and
| stone vaults were crushed completely.
IT is now likely that the Aunt Polly SUIT
| cliffe cave in Connecticut will be thoroughly ex
plored Dit couldn't well be done heretofore
owing to lack of ventilation), the main entrance
having been discovered. The cavern, which is
in Midtown, is of enormous SIZE and was found
| four years ago while digging the cellar of the
| house of Aunt Polly Sutcliffe. The main en-
| trance was discovered accidentally by hunter.
| He tracked mink to a crevice at the foot OF a
steep bluff two miles from the Sutcliffe farm
and, pulling away some stones, was astonished
! relates dispatch, to find himself at the open
ing of passage which led directly into the
! side of the hill. AS he stared, a landslide ac-
celebrated by his movements, occurred and he
was knocked down and narrowly escaped burial
| by an avalanche of debris. An entrance to the
| cave, as large as the side of an ordinary Two
story house, was thus revealed. Since then this
entrance has been explored in various dlrec-
tiOns for a mile or more"
A New YORK JEwELLER, who has been suffer
| ing at the hands of thieves, writes to the Post
Of that city: II identified the goods without
| the least trouble, but the courts held that I'M
| less the thleVCS were arrested and convicted.
| | could not recover my property without pay
ing for 1t. IL Is needless to say that the thieves
| made good their escape, aud that my goods are
| out of my reach. In view of this Injustice
| under which no doubt hundreds of other Jewel.
| ers as well as myself, have suffered, would
| suggest that steps be taken to have the legsla-
ture enact law requiring pawnbrokers to insist
| upon the proper identification of persons wish
| ing to pledge Watches diamonds jewelry. or
any valuable goods. II would not be an insult
| to any honest person to ask him to produce
some one to vouch for him in q pawnshop any
more than 1t is in any national bank in the
United States, where the paying teller requires
the person presenting check to be identified
before he will pay the money"
REPORTS from all the important cranberry
raising districts indicate short crop. SAYS
Brddstreet's. Prices are accordingly high. so
that the growers are likely to realize as much
as last year when they put more fruit on the
market. The Boston Globe reports for South
eastern Massachusetts, that the Carver Marion
Rochester, Middleboro and Mattapoisett crops
on the whole will about equal their total pro.
ducts OF one year ago. On Cape Cod the crop
is considerably below that of last year West
Barnstable usually ranks next to Wareham in
the number of shipments, and there they have
shipped several thousand less than one year ago
Harwich is another large cranberry growing
town, and it is there where the vine and fire
worms did much damage early in the season
The total southern Plymouth county and Cane
Cod crop last year was SO 500 barrels. This year
from the best estimates made the total crop
will fall short 10000 TO 1900 barrels. The New
Jersey crop is only an average one. and the