The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


CARELESS female resorter, who was aroused
In her room at the Arlington hotel in Petoskey
Mich the other night by an ala IN of fire. tool
/ time TO dress and pack her trunk before she
band
| REMARKABLE wedding took place at Goshen
Ind recently. MeSsick Carpenter, aged SO, wa:
welded TO Mrs. Phene Clandaniel, who has seer
| 09 sum ners- B 9TH of the contracting parties
mad been welded three times before, and they
We're accompanied at tie ceremony by their
| grandchildren
The ELM TREE that shelters the Sheldon home
stead at Desrfeld, ass, is one of the Oldest il
| the state, and its history can be traced back
| aM ientlcaliy for 200 years. Mr. George Sael
| den, whose family have coupled the old house
| IoI me same len tn Of ii ne. says that when he
was ooy, % years o. the tree was apparently
| as IlFSe as It is now. II is tive ty-one feet j.
! circumference at the base and nearly Oue
| hundred feet high.
A LIVE STOCK TRAIN on the Pennsylvania rail
| road was wrecked on Tuesday night at Porae-
roy, Pa, and a car Containing 80 pigs was torn
| open ana the lsS allowed 10 escape. Tie
| porkers ga lODed through fields ami meadows
| Tor miles. and the mystified residents con.
GUIDED that there had been shower of pigs
Ihe next morning the railroad hands wers set
| " ToIA' and after securing the country sue
| oedeu IN recovering every one OF the truaut
| PEOPLE on the continent are not so slow as
we might think in adapting American inven-
| ions to European usss," said weItkn,wn
PdteHt aWyer. Austria has fully ADAPTED the
| electrlc Hgnt both on land and sea / visited
| fI5 austrian man-ofwar Saida when see was
| = M on Liberty Island a few weeks ago and
una mat she was spleudidly equipped with
electrical appliances, including two powerful
electric search lights. The officers told our
| party that Emperor Franz josef is a rraat adj
ba mir
country should not be surprised il he too deco.
rates Edison with honors
A CORRESPONDENT of Notes and Queries throws
uouot ON Dickens attainments as Biblical
| schoiar' as exhibited in "Dombey and Son. -
ne EDITION known to me- - he SAYS, lis the
VI lStndi one, as 1t CANE out in parts and am
Sd 70 say whether the mi take, wnch is as
IoIo"S, has been corrected siucs DR. RIi,nher
VINO, hotW.thsl andiny his pomposity etc is |
presume, intended to be a scholar not an TO-
ioraLnus IKE Squeers imposes it as a penalty on
the boy johnson to reIeat nv hpart fr0,1 tho
Greek Testament s.. Paul's first eniStle 10 rho
hoheslanS Could Dickens have bese.n i moran
.-aI tusre Is only one epiStle to the Ephesians
Ia Che New TeStament:''
The Avery oak is an anc emit tree which
stands on land now owned by J. w. Clark bed.
man, Mass and where once stood the house Of
beacon Avery, after whose name the tree wac
- 10 IL Is ,suca older than the town. which
| r
cum erence ne n the bottom of the trunL Ire
I0p mas been much twisted and torn by storms
VI ce4UuIles but tie tree is still chers ed az a
PROUD specimen of the stately ,ro,vtb Of ;te III
companions of the forest Seventy doIo 49, u Ua,.
oHeIeu Tor IL . b. used for timber in bItiLding
T. . IrlSate Constitution, but refused NV thss
wi ~" I3l. me Tree Is imprinted upon the town
sea-. 1t mas been presented to the De1bam
| historical Society by Dir. CLARK.
SHAKY HILL, two and half miles from Gam.
is fNa nf f,,,
Ties OF that region 1t received its mama ovar
eeS emu Years ago when q pioneer erected his
caoih on the bill and began a cleaning r .
seItlT was so disturbed by the fre0uent ana
clued IL was unsafe to live there and ren10vhd
70 another spot He often stated thar tbe
SioIAo we're SO strong that the dishes in tn
CuPpoaIG ratified The rocking jar or shakine,
" oue Lnii would only occur al intervaIS-some.
times several m nths between smells and nj
ways the worst and most violent in damn
hc4Vy, wet weather. The hill is still min
nave failed ~ iiSS'eIS
EDISON VISIT to Essen, where the works of
iupP, Vne great German cannon maker, are
located, mas suggested that the Conference of
these Two men, each so distinguished in his own
hue OF investigation and achieve ment NAV -.
sui In hrupp- Edison cannon in yni,.h stor a
eiectrlclty VIII be the proiectile force m
-lenl2 farK magician mas done so much TO re-
90 ono Andustles' capacity of electricity for
!ile service OF man that no new application Of
Us my SERIOUS energy will be very snrnrisipy
should such gun oeinvented and successfuIfv
rucIea, IL is conceivable that its use wouli
TeNolutlonlze tie whole art Of war Kidding ~
would every battl field and naval anSaoA-
iilel' Vi SMOKE and consequent confusion.
WHEN jefferson Davis was captured in caor-
gla at the close of the war. says the New YorL
Star, fine English-made rifle was fonpd in hia
possession. 1t was presented to him nv n p;t
ish D ockade runner for his personal n,otaction
WINE ne was IYlng In the ex cutive niansiun at
anu IL Is SAN that he used to prac
t4ce WIN IL al odd times until he became nIita
an expert shot After the cap ure the riaet ~
SEM 70 Washington and finally found its Iyav
NJ Iite 1ofuInanc5 museum, where it was In
ed Jelt Davis rifle and exhibitat ~
many other relics of the late war. Wan ~
ordinance museum was broken up some v,anLs
sihc : thiS historical gun was sent to the
mnvnSinnt apS f IL is understood there is
movement on loot TO have it returned To This
Guy and placed in the national museum. WHO
INFORMATION regarding the prospects of the
V-h age IN + rance is not altogether encouraging
| III inc champagne the Wine is expected 10 be
| exceptionally kre; but at Ay end Avizn and ~
tne slopes OF the mountain of Rheims the ,,isIa
VIII be below the average quantity In tha d. eiu
delaIs the grapes are rilt ming but slowly ond
| IN vine hotaoiy those of the Medoc have
| SUFFERED sun 1 severely from mildew and oidiun. In
Ct,nl
VIII be vlntaged, but the quality of the most =;
expected to be good In Bergundy fari,- ,o ~
| average vintage is relied upon, AT PHI nv
ChaSSalgne and Sanenay the vines arc ~ ~,
extremely fine condition, and are heavily In a.
WIN irult LIZ ters from Spain point to n U .rv
ialr vintage throug lout the peninsula Milda21
mas caused less damage than was anticinatsJ
In Italy unfortunately, the vines are, a nrev ~
various forms of cryptogamical disease. and n
poo" vintage - expected. both as resyarls oman
tity and quality. U' quail
NINLAN W. EDWARDS, brother-in-law Of Ahra.
ham Lincoln, is dying in Springfield III. He is
% years old Mr.. Edwards is the son of Ninian
Edwards. the first and only territorial povernor
OF limos, ana was born April Is, 1909. near
FRANKFORT. Ky. He graduated from the law
department or lransylvanla university i'm 1932
In lS32 he was married to Miss Elijah til p
Todd, sister OF Mrs. Abaham Lincoln in -
ingto Ky. b. 1854 he was appointed bv Gon
Reynolds attorney general Of the state and 80
sho tly afterward elected to the leeislatnro he
re signe the Office in 1885, not des ring ~ firo ~
Nandala the capital and removed 70 Snrin@
field. In 1886 Mr.. Edwards was elected - tsSo
legislature, being. with Lincoln a rnepher ns
the Long Nine" and is now the only Iivin
representative of that body He was a r,aroh,S
of the constitutional convention which formal
the constitution of 1SiS In 1852 he va 'a n
pointed United States commissary by Pres;dapt
Lincoln. Aside from his official drtiaS MI
hdWarus found considerable time to devote To
lt'"ary pursuits, and is the author of severei
books. 90'o'ai
In ENGLAND we do not dote quite so rnucb
upon uniforms as they do in France. saws he
st. James Gazette, and little Incidents 80 EFT