The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I ASS AOAONcu suit.
CHATTANOOGA man stole a steamboat and
took an excursion up the river. Not being al
expe naviSat n he ran into snag, sank the
Craft and narrowly escaped drowning.
House boats are becoming SO common in
England that there is talk about taxing them.
There are nearly 1900 pleasure boats. includ-
| lnS mouse boats, used on the upper reaches of
the Thames.
HENRY BACH. a hunter, recently made re-
markable shot on Beaver rivLr, in the Adiron-
| dacks lie sa = two deer stan ling in the water
| 20 more tnal ten yarls apa l. he freL and
| the bullet passed trough the first or and in
| nlcI ed mortal wound on tie second.
| TaE 'cold fresh air cure is new cure for
consumption. Slowly being accustom. ID TO tn ,
action of the air, t e patient is moved a lttl,
nearer each day towar an Up3i window. 7 e
last stage of the consists 10 sleeping in the
| ope ar, regardless of wind, rain, or snow. Toe
| burial comes lat r.
| SAN FRANCISCO has been invaded by an army
OF winged lack crickets. Many thousands o.
| the Insects are klled at nj <ht by contact With
| electrc Ugh S. In some parts of California
| o-IS1eeS are now as numerous as grasSnopperS
were some years ago in Kansas, but they have
not yet assItlled the crop.
ONE of the picturesque features of the Hudson
oetWeen Upper New York and Yonkers is the
glrl with a canoe. She has scarlet ri bons on
ner sailor hat, and scarlet sash fastened about
Ihe waist of her DARK blue .erge b batting gown
A heaVy silk skirt of dark blue an white stripe.
tops lis, and as sne Yields t 9 long douul
paddle she skins the surfac, of the dimpns
river with the Ii shtneSs and brdlike motiout that
only the canoeist knows.
GEORGE W. VANDERBILT's recent purchase
" at rs.neet villa, near Bar Harbnr Me-, for
S@0O,OJO, has ST tbe hotel proprietorS OF that
summer ie ort by the ears According to their
view OF the matter, the purchase MEAS ruin TO
le hoCel ow ers and wealth to the real e,tate
owners as the tr FASH nables< and all thos
would-Oe fashionables VIII can raj e money
enough 10 er ct cottag IS may be coLn ed upon
TO follow Mr.. NanderoilJ'S example. This
"ouiu' OF course, mean serious loss of PATRON
| age TO the hote S.
The value to Scotland of the opportunitie
Tor sports is very large The deer forests, of
which there are 109 covering 5000 square miles
| OF Ilnd. useless for agriculture REM for G1OO-
100 annu ally; f12,500 of this goes 10 the local
taxes. II any for, st fails to be rented, th
wlole neighborhooi feels it greatly in the di-
l MINI amount of money eXpen led there
Inc grouse moors rent for 944J,0J0 and pay
doo,OOJ Ia taxes. Most salmon rivers are LEI
with tue moors, but some are rented alone ard
add a considerable sun to the total already
gwen.
IN DENSE WILDERNESS near Diamond AXE
| nfty miles nortl of Fort Klamath Ore John
| Irvi le a couple of months ago found the skele
Il
camp. diary the clothing OF one of the II
| , owed tne men to nave been Charles Eugene
| bnrnes and Nathan Hubbard, VINO lie t Link
VHe, Ore, Aug. 4, 1885, on a prospecting tour
| ma the amOuS IL st Cabin" in TIE noun
| Jams. which is reputed to cont in large
treasure Il is surmsed that tie prospectOr
e!th dled from eating poisonous berries or
were murdered.
| CONGRESSMAN RANDALL has been confined to
his DOM most of the time for several weeks by
| nf 10
| ana shoulder, but his gener | hea tn has stead
| ny Improved. He is now able to be up and about
| J'e no Use, and as he can r st quietly at his
| country home until well on in November be
| cause of tne decision against a called meeting
| OF congress in Oct Der, he gives every promise
OF return ng to Washington for the regular ses-
sion SO much improved in health and vigor a,
| TO enable MIN to attend to his public d Itias
| "lthout discomfort or peril.
| AN INvETERATE gambler lived in Picking who
spent his days and nights 0 er the dice box and
cards. The other day, in a fit of desperate
gambling in temple, he concocted plan that
| SHOULD luck 20 a raj st min he would cover up
ns losses by deciding away his bette hsIf
| hno Wedge of the wicNed arrange uent comiag
| TO the latte s ears, re determined to foresIa
| the brutal design of her husband by ia in
| away her life. According she swallowed
opium. When the gambl rreturne1 rome and
| discovered the condition Of his spouse he at
| tempted TO rescue her, with Doctors assist
ance, but in vain.
| Rev JUSTIN D. FULTON. formerly of Brook
lyn seems fated to keep himself and others in
hot water This mschievous and Ishmaelitish
| agitator Is now lecturing in England and doing
| has utmost, as usual, to fire the extreme Pr T.
| eS ant heart A cer lyman of the EPISCOPAL
| church prrsid at one Of MS lectures in which
| according to the published reports the lee urer
| reflect ii upon the perS nal C aracter of Mary
tie mother Of Carst. I Q bishop Of the do
case reouEed the cler zyman for letting such
| Language pass without protest and requested
him to pnblicly repuiiate Fulton and his ST ate.
ments. There IS muc in FuitOn's career and
| especial v in his u,terances. calculated to create
| grave doubts as TO his sanity.
PROGRESSIVE ANGLING is the latest fad de-
veloped at mountain resorts. 1t is mild and
innocent pastime and furnishes unlimited
opportunite' r fl rtatons A mar letiz ID
| ste-i h OK is fast ned to chain of the same
me al and cast INTO pond Where three kinds
| of hollow steel fish gold. silver and red-have
| been placed. L anglers form at the pond
| fish two against two AMI, of course hooks
| are all dlrec ed toward e golden fish. The
r'ward of the largest number of gold fish
| caught, when the angling is finished will b. the
| first prize, and those who are unlucky enough
| to catch the most red fish are doomed to the
oooby.prlze 1t isb Ing whisp red arc md that
| SOME young Ia lies who angled for the gold fish
eau hit the hearts of their partners.
| THE FACT has been overlooked that a statue
| to Columbus, whose memory is now under
|
| more an cent ~ ago, and is still there
| being said o be the Oldest monument exist
| ence in the United States 1t stands in the
| grounds of Samuel Ready asylu n, upol
| property which as c anged owners tour times
| since the sta ne was erected. 1t was dedicated
| oct. II, 1854 by the trencl consul Gen de
| A ma or, who had re aimed in B altimora with
| perh Fps 100 Ere Oh officers and soldi rs after
| ne cl 1se of the revolutionary war. De ANA
NOR was under Cbu t de GrAsse and wit messed
| the lrren Ter at Y rktown. The monum mt is
a lain shaft, W tic has suffered somewhat
| FRO u lrreverent hands, but is still intact.
| Mr.. BALFoUR's PROPOSED BRIDE to the Irish
home rulers in the shapeof an endowment from
the imperial treasury, for Catholic university
| in Ireland by means of which that English
statesman and Iri b benefactor homes to win
| the lri n partT in the House of G. mlno IS from
their alliance with the liberals does not seem to
have disturbed Mr. Gladstone in the least He
has himself mad an exp :rience connect d with
a ST nilar scheme whcI eats him to regard the
| proposition now made as being in the nature of
a boomerang which l. liable to return to ini,lre
| its protector. Already it is noteworthy that
| Mr.. Chamberlain has withdrawn his unqualified
approval of the government offer; Will IL IL
| suggested that Parbel'S apparent acuuiesc nee
| i io-endet - ure the ministry further into a
difficult position.
THE WAY in which extremes sonetim as meet
| is shown in the recent ssociation Of Cardinal
Manning and Gen. Both. of the Salvation
\rmv, in their efforts to m sdate between the