The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-24
Tai-pin Gate outside Brass Smith Roa1


Tatpin Gate outside Brass Smith Road
THE struggle between the ancestral wisdom
and the idea of Young India is strong and bitter
n some parts of the peninsula Surat. in the
bombay presidency. was the spot in which the
| BRUSH power first took root 253 years ago Yet
| old and new are warning to the knife in Surat-
[ al any rate among the Nugar- Brahmin of the
| place. the worst offense against the Brahmin
| rules IS for one of the caste TO come to Furona
| 10 study medicine. Even the mere act of crosse
| ing the Kalapani (back water; ocean, is a
HeauIy SIN. 70 De expiated by priesty rites cost
| ing much money Rupees are at the bottom of
| IT, young Brahmin named Vaishnay who
| returned to India with his English NJ b and r
| Sc, has been hauled before the assembly of his
caste fellows. He has been boycotted ar a vel
| ding party, and he has been forcel to mart with
! his children under pain OF seeing them excoa-
| muDicated for life. Toe Irish boycott is Some
times pretty stiff, but it is milk of human kind
| ness itself in compariso with the Hindoo svs
tenn OF letting fellow sinner severely alone ),
A Brahmin OF Baroda Is up" before his caste
because he disgraced it and imperiled his own
! soul by attending the Oriental congress ar
| Stockholm. "'
RECENTLY an item has been going the rounds
In regard to boiling lake near Lassen,s neal,
California. 1t is not generally known. but in
! N evada there is similar boiling lake II ;s
| situated at the eastern base of the first laroa
| mountain range east OF the sink of the Carson
1t lies on the edge of an immense desert a
| SIDar9, a,.
| the indians never attempt to cross it excert a.
| night, and even then they always go nrovi1sJ
| WITH large supply of water. On three Sides
| OF the la!e are rocks two or three hundred feet
| nlgh, winch are perfectly bare, and are burned
| TO a deep brick red. The area of the laka 10
| ABOUT two acres. Though steam is constantIv
rising from the water, the whole surface of thss
"a itae aoes hoI Doll The agitation-boiling-
| Is connned 10 the great springs which burst IN
| al several points. These Springs force col1ynns
OF wafer from loot to two or three feet in
diameter to height of over twenty inches
aooVe the general surface of the lake causi,o.
a loud, ripping sound and considerahle Jocai
commotion. The water OF the VIII lie lake H.
doubtless boiling hot, though not seen to hoii
LOT e a brook nowlng from it down into the sands
OF tne DESERT sends up cloud Of steam FOR
distance OF several hundred yards
B. W. CAMP, one of the postcffice ipsnectors
Of this district has made some curiops diSoo,'
cries while travelling over the country in search
OF those who endeavor to evade Uncle Sans
postal laws. One Of these discoveries bas =
historical interest, in view Of the fact that If ba
references to the first building of steamhoats h1
hooert fulton Away up in Duluth, says thu
1nnaoelphla Times is the hull of the StilIman
VIII, stranded on the mud banks wnila
ner engines have been removed and are
USED 10 run shingie mill. This boat.
aU &C. 10 Mr. camps. information, was
one OF tne three originally constructeI bv
Fulton, ana she ran for a time between Nes,
YORK ana Albany. Shortly after the comma
e,oh OF Ine Erie canal the Witt was towed
through the canal to Buffalo, the Yards and
paddie-boxes having been removed and Tor a
number OF years was engaged in lake traffic he
tween tnat point and Cleveland The bsptismal
name OF the boat is not known, and the presspt
name IS tnat OF an old-time lake captain who
owned her after she left the Hudson r;var
capt Minch of Buffalo is authority for the
ssACement tnat the Witt is one of the original
s s0ree' :. !; the old boat can be put together
and exhibit her at the 1892 exnost,on as N %
co,,Id hi Illustration of progress, by contrast.