The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| Mr.. oIANLEh ototner-tn law has sailed f.
America as the great explorers advance agen
REV. JOSIAH T. HowEs. a Congregation;
clergyman for over O. years. is still preachin
at Litchfeld, Ne, although in his a2d year.
TEE American firm of Russell & Co. will tax
part in the foundation of Chinese bank
Shanghai, which is TO have a capital OF $4,000
900.
By HER WILL Mrs Emily Pfeiffer. the Eaglis
poetess, who died recently. leaves S3i5,OOo t
charitable ana educational establishments fc
| women.
PRETTY Mss DORA LABoUcHERE has inherte
marked histrionic powers from her talente,
mother, who is better known 70 the public a
Miss Henrietta Hodgscn.
! TIE assessment roll of Los Angeles county
California, will foot up about So OO0. 900 thi
year. which is S170OOoOO less than the roll q
two years ago when the boom was on.
The gross receipts of the Transcaucasial
railroad this year, up to the month of June
amounted to 1,461,949 rubles. over halt
million more than the entire receipts of the las
| year.
MISS HELEN LEAH REED, a Harvard Anne,
girl, who captured the Sargent prize of $40
| for the best metrical translation of an cd,
| from Horace, spent the money for a Frencj
| dress.
| IRE latest census is said to have determined
The TACT that there are about 5000 people il
| Nevada, including her two United States seua.
! Iors, Hons John z. Jones and William Morris
| Stewart.
| ARCHITECTURE, it is said, is the chosen profes
sion of John Howells, the son of the novelist
He is now a student at Harvard His father
ahu motner have gone to Lake Champlain fol-
| the summer.
| THEODORE TILroN emerges from his Partisan
l SpNIFCinD lNF,e, -, -,
never go back to America. Society there has
| committed a crime against me- l defended
myself and was beaten
The formal announcement has Just been made
| Of the engagement OF Miss Louisa Shepard.
daughter of Col. Elliot F. Shepard to William
! j. Schlefeln, son of William H. Schieffelin of
New York, and grandson of John Jay.
REAL Lord Bishop is to come over from
| London in October, it is announced, to per.
form wedding ceremony in Boston. This is
not q new klnk in bridal fashions. The Young
man IN the case is nephew of the Lord Bishop
Mas CATHARINE SHARP of Philadelphia says
that when she was - years old she sold milk to
| Gen. Washington and his staff from her fathers
| Tar =. She is now 115 years old and her mental
faculties are unclouded, though her veracity is
| trihe palsied.
Mr.. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, the eminent
| lawyer now S6 years of age, is about to don his
black silk stocking and small clothes, and be
presented at the levee of the Prince of Wales
after having sturdily declined that honor for
| many London seasons.
THOMAS HART of Australia is probably the
nearest living relative of William Shakespeare.
lie is eighth in descent from Shakespeares sis
ter. Joan 1t is curious fact that there are no
direct descendants of Napoleon, wellington
Washington or Walter Scott.
PAsTEUR who devised broth that is thought
mr. 10 in, -
bia IS to come to this country about the close of
thIs year or the beginning of next. He could
not be spared from home during the dog DAYS
or ne would perhaps come earlier
Miss CARMELLo MUAcHr of Mott street New
York, had a head of black hair that suddenly
turned tiaring red a few days ago, when a
ar upper window. The painter felt little blue
When Justice White assessed him $40.
CHIEF JUSTICE Doe of the New Hampshire
bench, has decided that sex is no disqualifition
Tor membership of the bar, and this lets in Mrs
marina Kicker as an attorney in that state
Mnsn man goes to court woman-but the
chief justice has already decided the point
MRS. SAMUEL MUMFoRD, whose departure
from Hartford, Coun.. recently, in a caravan
destined for Florida, attracted wide notice bas
sold her horses and abandoned the scheme She
mas reasonably concluded that railway cars will
De SAFER and more comfortable for the tour.
WooDFoRD SANDERS, a Virginia artist. has
heen creating stir in Natchez, Miss, by paint
ing portraits Of deceased persons when he
never saw. All that he needs is q verbal dis
crlptlon from somebody. This must the Same
man who gets out some of the newspaper nor
traits. pm
The PEOPLE of Pittsburg have been clamorir.,
for some time for the destruction of worthless
dogs The stress of public sentiment became so
strong that for some days the police have been
killing the dogs and now wild claTnor Co.'s ,1i
That their carcasses be removed from the
streets. ANN O1o
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEFoTEs warlike letters are
written from the quiet country home of Ernest
Longfellow at Magnolia Mass where Sir .TuIiar
anu lazy Pauncetote are guests: Magnolia is
small village without facilities for entertainino
r yalty, and the distinguished foreigners lead
very quiet life while there. '01u
AT THE HEAD of Onion valley, in Invo county |
California, are two abrupt mountains. one IA o0o |
and the other II, 900 feet high Tunbling.do,vn
ne ie sac g, OF b. one is cataract 500 feet high
vi&wo other waterfalls of equal hight arc
e from the head of the valley
e,enerpoN CAMrLo PALAvIEJA the new cantaip
sunero2f Cuba, is of the best known
| acquaint6cers of the regular army and well
| liantly dlKlIh CUBAN affairs. He served bril-
| governor OK the latest war in the island was
Santiago, ana districts of Puerto Principe and
general. Nso acted as assistant cantain
/
| CARDINAL NAN
Gently that the i1S. upon being apprised re-
pie had called upes of home for aged peo-
| downstairs to meetNim, arose and hurried
! must be spared then. remarking that thew
stairs to meet hin, as Nble of climbing M
| much. The cardinal cenuld fatigue them too
| day several days ago. Ned his SD birth |
| DINNER that Gen. Horak
| have arranged for in Paris wSrter is said to
| of meeting of American rag IN the nature
and ex-presidents. The partysd presidents |
| comprise Samuel Sloan, Chauhintended to |
| Austin Corbin, Henry Willard, FIM Depew |
| yard of the Michigan Central. Geihent Led |
| low and President Clark of the NevF Wins
Haven and Hartford road. TX, New
RETIRED PLUMBER thus gives poA I
| gratuitous relief of householders: "JuT the {
retiring at night pour into the cloggetpre
| enough liquid soda lye to fill the trap orpe !
| part of the pipe. Be sure that no water run !
! it until the next morning. During the uAI :
| the lye will convert all the offal into soft son
| and the first current of water in the morniA-
will wash it away and clear the pipe clean al
| new"
A THING of great beauty is the home of Mrs.
Charles Faulkner at Magnolia, Mass The
house is a reproduction of the best Colonial
| type of architecture, and the landscape garden
| ing has been made to harmonic with it. One
of the most charming features is the PROPULSION
of the old-fashioned flowers which were SC
dear to the hearts of the generation -before-last