The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DEAF MUTE named Riger, according to a
| dispatch from New Haven, slipped while walk
ing along the edge Of rock, 400 feet high, and
| verify injuring himself. Six companions wit
messed his fall and vouch for the truth of the
story.
AT RoNDoUT- oN-THE- HUDSON man died Ieav
ing property valued at So co., This was partly
| mortgaged. The mortgage and costs evolved
amounted to 81 $3.50, thus leaving 81 to be di.
vded among the widow and fourteen heirs. The
widow Will, however have only the use of this
dollar during her lifetime, and must leave it to
| the heirs at her death.
MRS. WILLIAM Cross of Seymour, Ind, was
bitten on the foot by a copperhead snake over
thirty years ago, but she partially recovered
after months of intense suffering. Every year
her foot has swollen to enor NOUS size and sew
eral times it was thought she would die. For
more tran year she has been unable to walk
and her body is now so badly swollen that it is
believed she cannot live many days
AN AKRON PAINTER was at work on a business
block when he discovered last years bird nest
In niche in the ornamental woodwork There
was nothing attractive or particularly interest
ing in the makeup of this nest as the painter
glanced at it, but he thOughtlessly picked it up
and began to tear it apart. His eyes nearly
bulged from their sockets in his surprise as,
among The bits Of hay and odds and ends, he
beheld a $40 bill.
W. H. KENT, a farmer living near Winterset,
Ia, has been arrested for using the mails for
lottery purposes. He was taken to Des Moines
and arraigned before United States commits
sioner. and held under $500 bonds to appear be-
fore the grand jury. Kent had a big scheme
under way. His plan was to sell a bushel of
corn for 81, and throw in one ticket in his gift
enterprise, the prize Of which aggregated, &C.
cording to his circulars, 100000. 1t was for
sending these circulars through the mails that
he was arrested.
THE LADIES Of Oakland, village near Indian
apolis inaugurated a crusade against liquor
selling, and established surveillance over an
establishment run by Ammon and Alexander
hepher, regular committees being appointed
ana Inc ladies, in squads of four and five, spend
ing the entire time in the saloon making notes
OF sales and keeping tab on every man pur-
CHASING drinks. Every effort was made to force
them away, save actual violence, loafers even
bringing In polecats and putting the animals
under the stove, hoping the scent would drive
out the women. One lady tainted, but re-
NAMED at her post. Indictments against the
Kephers were secured.
HERE is an item that will interest Pennsylvania
sportsmen: In 1885 there were thousands of
young trout deposited in the streams of this
part of the state. According to the laws of
That state, no fishing for this particular fish was
allowed for three years. The prescribed time
Is now up. and having had three years rest the
streams are supposed to be Astounding with the
beauties. There were $1,000 distributed in
were 9O'0O0put in Westmoreland county streams
at ligOnier and New Florence At Brady
Indiana county, 1900 were distributed. In
Cambria county 49, 900 were distributed at
Eoensburg Gallitzin and South Fork.
AT meeting OF the Numismatic and Anti
quarian Society in Philadelphia Henry Phillips
Jr, exhibited a photograph # a Roman coin
with flint arrow head, which was found at
Toledo, o., at depth of six feet below the sur
lace. Inc coin was pronounced by him to be of
Ghe tlne OF Antonlnus Plus, struck at Alexan-
9rla, and appeared from the photograph to be
In me condition. No human Te mains or traces
OF burial were discovered with it. As bearing
on TINS subject it is interesting to note that
similar numis matte finds have been reporte1 in
what was once the Northwest territory Medals
and coins of remote countries and times are
SAID TO have b discovered there frequently
sometimes in The vicinity of Indian remains
and unlikely to have been the property of re-
cent settlers
The Hoffman house chef and the chief stew
ard OF the same hostelry have been selected to
superintend the centennial banquet in New
York city on April 20 and the grand presidential
dinner of the following day For the banquet
there will be buffet 550feet long. also private
table of twelve covers at which the President
and his party and Mayor Grant will be seated
-Four brands of champagne have been selected
anC it is expected that between g. 500 and 5000
corEs will be exploded on that night The dinner
eacl day will be on an immense scale with
seats provided for 800 guests. To accommodate
this number there will be twenty-six tables,
slmliatlng six immense horseshoes. Each
tabe will be dressed with the utmost care The
banquet and dinner will take place in the Metro
polIan opera house.
TIE queen of England dimes at o'clock and
the eading nobility follow suit as nearly as
possible and dine at $780, although a few dine
at the comparatively early hour of O'Clock
1t VIII be readily seen that the much talked of
and Variouslv followed fashion of O'Clock teas
IS q necessity in England where it originated
but in this country, where people seldom dine
later than O'Clock, says some one in New
York newspaper, it is a useless affectation
whose influence is felt in all society. Who of
the male sex especially, does not abominate the
cloWded rooms where there is nothing to see
and little to eat that hostesses b ave lately
made do duty for more expensive entertain
ments? Indeed. / think the leader of fashion
wlo inaugurated O'Clock teas in New York
has much to answer for.
VERY interesting list is that of the countries
tt which English beer is sent While Roumania
slowed its bad taste by only taking three bar
rls all told, China imported SPY barrels dur
llg 1855, and even France 9,631 The fact that
tle small community at Alden drank ARA bar
rels of British beer during 1883 only confirms
the popular notion as to the very arid and
thirsty nature of that Sunburned rock. In
Egypt the consumption in 1888 of so large a
quantity as 92l7 barrels was doubtless due in
great measure to the British occupation, while
the 81 barrels sent TO Persia during the past
year were doubtless intended either for the
shah's palace or the British embassy. Who
shall say, though where British beer will not
penetrate next, when five barrels were sent all
the way to Muscat and no less than 81 lin spite
or the French presidents partiality for the
wines of his country to Madagascar?
GEORGE WAsHINGToNs hair trunk has been
fshed up-the very one he used just 100 years
ago-and is now on exhibition in the show win
dow of an enterprisng dealer in leather goods
on the upper Rialto, New York. Georges spurs
boots, swords, brooches, eDaulets gauntlets
body servants, farewell addresses, hatchets
racing accounts and betting books have from
time TO time been exhibited under due authenti-
cation TO his grateful postercountrymen. 1t
is evident, now that his trunk has been found
that there will be more to follow" IL is
small hair trunk, apparently in excellent preser-
Walton, about 81 inches long by IA high, adorned
and secured as well, by red leather strips
nailed on with brass headed tacks, and fitted
out with black olid-looking iron handles of
much the same outward semblance, on a
smaller scale, as the old-fashioned iron door
knocker. This trunk was the nearest approach
George had to a dress-sut case. A change of
rutfies and stockings and an extra suit. with his
silver dressing .case-for George was very neat
and particular about his personal habitsEgould |
just about have filled this trunk up. It could |
not possibly have held more than an extra pair |
Of shoes in addition, for George wore No lbs |
aud never found them unlucky. This size Of |
his boot is historic. Somebody ought to find a |
boot-laCk Of the Father of Our Country now |
and exhibit II; likewise corkscrew, q pack of |
cards, pocket pistol and ready letter-writer |
This Is George's year
THE means by which the vestern nrairia sraa