The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-19
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navy for the year will be, from all sources,
&19, 263, 633, while that of the army will be
&I9,047, 800.
Mrs AMBROSE HALEY of Houlton, Me-, has in
her possession a treasured heirloom, a slipper
that was worn by her fathers grandmother on
the occasion of her marriage in England. which
must have occurred fully 175 years ago. 1t is
made of brocaded satin.
A NEW stumbling block for bigamists has
been found by determined young Miss Day,
who was married by a Mr.. Roberts, he having
another wife at the time. When she had to
leave him she sued him for breach OF promise
of marriage, and has t a verdict of e2,5O0
A DOCK HAND at Fall River. Mass, has just
met with a singular mshap. He laid down on
the wharf and fell asleep The hot sun beat
into his face totally destroying the sight of
both eyes. In cropping about the place when he
awoke he fell into a ship and was badly cut and
bruised.
SOME of the cattle out on the farms on the
Scottville pike in Tennessee are going blind
from some unknown cause. Many believe it is
the intense heat Henry Dunn has had several
head to GO totally blind, and nearly all are
young feeding cattle. The eyes first turn pale
and IN The course of day or so lose their sight
completely.
THE state Of West Virginia boasts the biggest
gas well ever struck in the Burning Springs oil
region. which had its greatest days in 1860 and
pipes are on hand to conduct the gas to ParkerS-
burg, and initiate that proud place still more.
The well is said to have stronger pressure than
| any ever struck in Pennsylvania or Ohio. but
| figures on it are withheld.
A INDUSTRIOUS CHUNK of ore was tax m from
the Mountain Consolidated mine at Butte City
! Mont few days ago. 1t was too large to put
| On two-horse W gon, and four-horse team
| was used. The ore is estimated to weigh nearly
four tons, and is nearly solid copper and silver.
| 1t has been bound with hoops of iron and boxed
up, preparatory to shlpment-probably to Lon
| don
| A BRUTAL German sub-lleutenant stood swo I'd
| in hand over private soldier and compelled
| him to keep his hand in boiling water over
| fire, under the pretense that it the doctors
| order to remove a confusion. The hand was
| ruined and the man crippled for life. He has
| been invaded and given pension of SO 25
| month. The lnhuman officer was sent to prison
| for two months.
| FEW WEEKS before the census takers began
| the regular census the citizens of Elm Grove,
| w. Va, thought to enumerate their population
| preparatory to Incorporating the town. The
| following is the remarkable result Number of
| males over 81 years of age, 49, number of males
| under q years of age 14S; number of females
| over IS years of age. AS; number of females I'M
der 16 years of age, tiS; grand total, 592.
| The STORY goes that when Crowfoot the
Blackfoot chief, received perpetual pass over
the Canadian Pacific railroad he wrote the fol
| lowing picturesque letter of thanks: Great
| Chief of the Railway salute you, o chief. o
| great, am pleased with the railroad key, open
| ing road free to me. The chains and rich COW
| ering of your name writing, its wonderful power
| to open the road, show the greatness of you
| chleftnesS. have done. CRowFooT.
| c. A. CHENEY, a Detroit travelling salesman, is
equal to any hotel guide ever published. He
can tell any one the names of all the best hotels
| in almost every city on earth He has Travelled
| a & ia rqRallE hot al
| after another, not only can he call the names of
I the proprietors, but those of the clerks. He
tells you the size of the fferent hotels and re-
| members the number of every room he has
| stopped i'll during the past ten years, and the
| hotel the room was situated in. He is a verita-
| BILE reference book on hotels
| Up to the present day Vanderbilt's check for
| So, 500, 900 was enormously supposed to be the
| largest ever drawn. This has been eclipsed as
one drawn by the Indian and Peninsula Rail
| road Company for $3.50, 600, on tue London and
| County Bank of London has Just passed
| through the clearing house. In 1853 the Penn
sylvania railroad drew a checi in favor of
| MeSSrS. Kidder, Peabody & Co for over S14. OOO-
| 900, in payment of the PHILADELPHIA Wilmington
and Baltimo e stock. This check was framed
and hung up in the Office of the Pennsylvania
! Railroad Company.
| HYDRATE OF cHLoRAL is a very tricky medi-
cine. The first time you take it for insomnia
| the modest little dose gives you sleep as soft
| and sweet and natural as that of a healthy
| child; an6 you wake clear-minded, vigorous
| and without any latter effects" So with
gradually diminishing efficiency the drug works
| through succeeding experiments; but by and by
you fad that to produce sleep you must steadily
| increase the dose. And then, of a sudden and
| without warning, the mysterious fluid seems to
reaSsert over the constitution its pristine power
and the greatly increased dose puts you so
| SCUM lily to sleep that you never awaken in this
| world.
A GREENBoRo IN. c. CORRESPONDENT of the
| Richmond Dispatch states that northern syn-
! dictate is negotiating with the Battle Ground
| Company for sites for a large hotel cafe and
| pavilion at the Guiliford Battle Ground. This
| beautiful park, six miles from Greensboro is
| being extremely improved. Already a number
| of cottages, pavilions and monuments have
| been erected and it is destined to become one
of the greatest pleasure resorts of that section
| There are several mineral springs on the prop
erty: A bill providing for an appropriation Of
$4,000 for the erection on the grounds of a
monument to Gen. Nathaniel Greene has been
! favorably reported in the national House of
Repr sentatives and will be passed.
! The New York Press has the following com
municaton Il hear much about the New
| York sports winning prizes at eating contests
now, am poor man. sir, but
very proud, aye, very proud, but I am
not TOO stuck up sir, to go to anybody
| mo!asSes in five minutes than my challenger
can, | come from New Orleans where the
| toothsome syrup is frequently on everybodys
lips. offer no objections to spoons in eating
but warn the person VINO has nerve enough to
bet that he can eat more than can that / use
a kettle with spout Man. money and molasses
can be found any day this week at No. 8l6 West
Forty eighth street. N O. M"
LOOK through powerful 1eld-gass from
one of the narrow windows in the top of the
Washington monument this hot weather shows
a new side of domestic life in the capital saws
the Washington Post. Washington is a city IF
boarding houses. AS you look from the TOP of
the monument with your field glass you can see
bedrooms on the house tops-that is, light.
portable cots have been taken up on the fIat
roofs OF houses, rugs spread over the sheets of
tin that have become hOors and sometimes
folding screens have been placed between the
beds. Ihe houses off