The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

tors, has been sent to the penitentiary for the
theft of a suit of clothes.
SPIRIrUAIIsT1C sEANCEs seem to have become
quite the rage in Boston. In Boston paper re-
Gently there appeared no less than dozen ad-
vertlsements OF such seances.
W. W. Brown, of Wayne county, Ohio, is the
oldest offlceholder in that section. He has
served fifty years as School Director in Clinton
township and has just been reelected.
A SAN Francisco GENTLEMAN says that it has
been demonstrated by English scientists that
an excellent quality OF sugar can be made from
coal tar and the refuse matter of gas works.
WHEN the blizzard struck Ludlow, Mass, it
buried under the snow four turkeys belonging to
John Ray. They were dug out after being with
out food for eighteen days, and were not only
alive, but apparently uuinjured.
AS an evidence of the progress that modern
ideas are making in Japan, it is stated that that
| country is now building thirty-four new rail
roads, at a cost of over $50 900, and it has
hundreds of miles of railroads already built.
AN AGED MAIDEN of Caro-, Mich, undertook
to change the color of her hair from grey to
black. Her eyesight being poor, she mistook
the color Of the dye, used blue cOloring stuff
and her locks are now of that patriotic shade.
FREDERICK ST. GEORGE DE LAToUR TUCKER, of
London, was and is an officer of the Salvation
Army. He decided that his name as given
above was not long enough for him, and now he
signs it Frederick ST. George de Latour Booth
Tucker.
KENTUCKY NEWSPAPER claims the invention
of the drink known as q Tom and Jerry for
Jack Shingler, an eccentric old shoemaker, who
originated 1t q third of century ago and named
it after Thomas Jefferson and the Biblical
| prophet jeremiah.
PHILIP WINTER, of New Haven, Smeed some
thing burning in his cellar, and investigated
He found nice little confiagration in progress.
and, not having water handy, he smashed
| bottles of beer the fire until his wife came
with couple of pals of water, and the flames
| yielded to this new half-and-halt.
THE HOMESTEAD ESTATE of the late Grin Put
nam, of Danvers, Mass, is to be sold at public
auction. The estate is of much historical inter
est, and upon it is the Rebecca Nourse house.
famous in the annals of witchcraft, and whence
| Rebecca Nourse was taken to the gallows hill
in Salem, and hanged July 10, 1862.
LEWIS MmLsPAUGH succeeded in killing an
otter recently near Pleasant Lake, n Y The
otter attacked Mr. Mllspaugh's dog and
| whipped it in short order, and then turned on
| Mr.. Millspaugh. who fortunately had an axe,
| and soon succeeded in killing it. The otter
measured Ala feet in length, and had beautiful
| skin
| CHICAGO EDITOR received a typewriter
poem which pleased him greatly. The poem
was accepted and letter and check sent to its
author, lady, whom the editor complimented
very nlSnly upon the excellence OF her work,
The next day the EDITORS wife presented the
check and drew the money for it. She had used
| fictitious name.
A NOTED GRETNA GREEN, of the Northern
Mississippi Valley, is Fairplay, a quaint old
| settlement in the Southwestern part of Wis
| consin. near the State line. Here hundreds of
| runaway lovers from Iowa and Illinois have
been united in the bonds of matrimony after es-
Gaping the vigilance of parental opposition
AT the Easter concert in Trinity church.
Springfield, Mass, the children were out in
| great force and the rector prepared to talk to
them. He began: We'll, children I SUPPOSE
| that you have dreamed sometimes y but got no
further in that direction, for a shrl little voice
| interrupted: when l dream l dream of
| snakes" The rector thinks children are not
| always TO be depended on.
A STRANGE ANIMAL. described as being too
| large for a catamount and too small for a
panther, which has been preying upon the cats
| in SciotO county, Ohio, has now made its ap-
| pearance in the county seat. DR.. Bine of Ports
| mouth. awakened the other night by the
barking Of a dog, and looking out of the window,
| saw the strange creature sitting on the porch
| not four feet away. The doctor turned on the
| light and the animal hastily departed.
JOHN CHAMBERS, Of st. Paul, a weIl-known
| man about town, visited public ball late on
| the night of April 10 with very pretty
woman and admittance was refused to them
| The ticket takers would listen to no explana-
| ton, ana r row began, IN which the woman
| ceeded In knocking down four men. She met
| each one with blow straight from the shout
| der on the jugular. In the mean time Cham
bers had all he could do to take care of himself.
| A policeman Quelled the riot, and the woman
| and man departed.
PERE HYACINTHE is the latest outspoken adj
herent of Gen. Boulanger. In his sermon Sun
| day morning the famous preacher referred to
the political crisis in France. and asserted that
| strong man was needed at the head of the
| government. As he continued to develop his
| views in favor of CeSarism certain anti Ron
| LANCER students of the Latin Quarter who vera
| present arose and protested against his words
They then left the church in body. Pere
| Hyacnthe continued his remarks and declared
that he would be glad to see France return to a
monarchy or an empire.
| THAT Carter H. Harrison contemplates another
term as Mayor of Chicago is indicated by the
following sentences with which he closes a re-
cent letter fromtthe Deccan to a newspaper of
| the Western Venice: ''Oh, dear friends Won
are so many One and all, grapple you to my
| heart with hooks of steel. Teuton and Hiber-
man. American, Pole Frenchman NorsemaD
| Bohemian, Christian and Jew. oh, how | wish
| could bid yon pale moon bear you my own pic
| ture beaming with the love of my heart :" This
| ought to be worth thousands of votes to Harri-
son when he returns from the sunny East.
| A. c. ARNOLD, of Battle Greek, is a we'll
known and wealthy hotel keeper He and Mrs.
| Arnold had little disagreement regarding bus
mess matters, and the result was the following
card which was printed in a daily paper TINS.
| Whereas my husband, A. c. Arnold is trou-
| bled with fatty degeneration Of the brain and
| his mania for buying old junk, ETC. threatens
| to become chronic, hereby forbid all persons
| from selling giving him any old wagons.
| secondhand saloon outfits old stoves. funk
| garbage. etc, or inducing him to sign bail bonds
| for dissolute characters. Maria A. Arnold"
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE is one Of the best
hated doctors in his profession. His success
has not made him friends everywhere He is
not on speaking terms with the set comprising
Sir Andrew Clarke, Sir William Gull and Spencer
Wells, Of all of whom he has often spoken with
| undsguised contempt. Sir More is tall lean
| vigorous, mutton-chop whiSkered Scotch
| man. with dgnifed and decided manners Az
an operator he is unequaed, and his is the only
| English name recognized by the throat special
| lists of Paris, Berlin, and above all, Vienna the
first school In the world for this specially His
charges are high, three g1iineas for first con
sultaton and two for every subsequent visit.
yet his practice is u large one From sixty to
eighty patients gather in his consulting rooms
every morning.
Few MEN In New York read more newspapers
than does Charles Il. Coon, formerly Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury. He lives at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, and is n member of the
Union League Club, where he sees the papers
| all M.W So