The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ioSelitS VI corn at the interior receiving points
during the past two months the visible supply
IS now more than 2,OOOOO1 bushels less than last
wear and more than 5000. 100 bushels less than
al TINS time in 1857
A LETTER has been sent by Gov. Thaver of
Nebraska to the managers of all lines Of Ne
nraska railways, urging temporary reduction
| OF the freight rates on grain, so that the i'm
Inense crops of that state might be moved to
the markets with some profit TO the producers.
HERR Haas Won WoLzOGES has just published
/ small volume, entitled Richard Wagner uad
die Thierwelt," which treats of the great co ~
poser In relation to the animal world, and tells
| many anecdotes of the dogs parrots and other
| pets which he kept about him, and on which he
| layshed SO much fondness.
| The BUDGET of the German imperial printing
Office at Berlin shows the following figures for
1890: Income, 460S 900 marks; expenditure
| 5,f5@, 10 marks; earnings. LIS, S01 marks The
imperial establishment is to be greatly enlarged
and 41s, $50 marks has been set down as the first
| lnstallment in that direction
| The Philadelphia Press says: 'Of the fifty
nine colieries operated by the Reading Coal
and Iron Company in the Schuylkill anthracite
| region, eighteen are absolutely closed, and the
| T5maind.r are running on nalf time or less
! The shutdown is caused BIZ tn small demand
| Tor coal due to the mild weather"
| MAINE PAPERS are in a state of mind over the
1
Portland has sent large sums of money west
for investment. By January, 1891, it is esti-
| mated that Portland will nave put $4,000. 900
| INTO Dakota alone. Auburn Lewiston, Bath
| Augusta and Bangor are also financially in
| terested in developing the west. Maine farmers
| say that the Maine savings banks have 50 much
money in the west and in manufactures that
| there Is none on hand to loan them.
THE DEATH of Count Karolyi, former Aus
TRAN ambassador to London, has added another
| to the list of those who belonged to the famous
Berlin congress, and who since have departed
thls HE. The names of tn ese included Hay
merle and Iescbeuberg in Austria, Gortschakof,
ScnouwaIoH and Oubrl in Russia. Corti in
Italy, Mehemet Ali in Turkey, Beaconsfleld and
russell IN England Buow in Germany. Bis
narck, Salisbury, Washington, Szaadullah
Pacha, Andrassy and De Launay are the pres.
ent survivors.
zen. STEWART L. WooDFoRD, the famous re-
publican stump orator of New York. makes
this somewhat radical declaration: Il believe
That no uneducated man should be allowed the
privilege of the franchise | will go further: |
sincerely believe that the Republican party
should put at the top of its platform plank
denying the right of fran chsement to all unei-
ucated persons. | believe that when slavery
was taken out of the constitution education
should have been put in. The republicans
might lose an election two on this ISSUE it is
true, but political parties should not be created
10 WIN elections but to secure ideas"
The FISH LIAR has come to the front again
His story is that two weeks ago pike was
speared in the Iowa river, at Harden City On
opening it there was found a pocket-book con
tanning 500 in gold, SIS so in silver S75 green
backs, and a certificate of deposit upon the
Bank or Johnstown, Pa, for SIS. A paper in
the pocket book stated that it was the property
OF john j. Jones of Johnstown, Pa. II the fish
swallowed Che pocket-book at Johnstown, it
must have Journeyed through the Conemaugh
river TO the Allegheny, thence through the lat
ter into the Ohio, then into the Mississippi, and
up the mississippi into the Iowa river.
F. H. MCGEE, veteran guide in the Dead
river region in Maine, has trained four dogs to
pull in harness, and lately they made the run
| from Augusta to Togus, pulling sleigh, hold
ing McGee and frie ID in thirty minutes On
the way McGee dropped his glove, and having
gone ahead about a quarter of mile, stopped
ms canine speeders, and. embarrassing one,
simply remarked, Eve dropped my glove 90
back and fetch 1t" and the dog did so. Leaving
Iogus for Gardiner a race was started with a
morse attached to sleigh, and the horse was
guiding simply with the words gee" ''haw."
stop" go" Three of the dogs are of the
| mastlH breed, and weigh about sixty pounds
each; the other is bird dog, weighing some
| forty pounds
In 1865 the Prussian postal authorities an
| nounced their intention of issuing correspond
ence card, on which brief communications. not
|
/ through the mails at greatly reduced rates
For some reasons never explained, says the
Inland Printer the scheme hung fire, and was
apparently abandoned. In 1869 Austria took
up the idea and commenced the manufacture
| and sale OF correspondence cards, as they are
still called on the European continent. Prussia
| Immediately followed suit, and during the war
/ with France distributed the carcs free to sol
| dlers, and at purely nominal price to SOL
dlers relatives, American postal cards made
thelr appearance in May, 1873 since which time
n midi y hat 1 m
| 100000 have now to be manufactured every
| year.
REPORTER witnessed an extraordinary scene
| in the vicinity of Fiddeville, N. c. In front of
a small cabin pulpit had been erected. In this
| stood negro preaching" at the top of his
voice. There was no one except the reporter
| and the preacher near and the former stood
and listened, but was not noticed by the speaker
| On inquiry it was found that the preacher was
/ Robert Bell. Two years ago he was fired from
| the passionate of the Presbyterian church at
1 Biddleville because he would go into his church
barefooted. He was warned against this offense
| and, needing it not one Sunday, as he ATTEMPTED
| to ascend his pulpit shoeless, half dozen good
| pious deaconS seized him and fired him from the
| church. On that day Bell declared that he
| would preach three times every day in his own
| yard. and he does it, although no one goes to
hear him.
| BILLIE MUSTARD is an eccentric old man, we'll
| known among the farming community of Han
over anu OC. CialF townships, In Butler county.
| Ohio. During the summer and fall months be
worked as day laborer among the farmers
| being good man wherever he was put He
was saving. and when winter approached he re-
sorted TO Four Mile creek where he dug a hole
III the bank and there constructed a cot of straw
and Such other materials as he could gather
and spent his nights there. During the con
tlnued rainy spell his domicile caved in bury
| ing the old man to the waist, and in this posi-
| ton he was compelled to dig himself out which
| occupied two days. Billie mas led queer life
| but has, through all his vicssitudes borne n
name for honesty and sobrety. A few DAYS ago
some of the neighbors had him removed TO tn,
county inttrmary. where he will probably end
his days, as he is far advanced in years.
| WoRKMANs DWELLINGS on the Peabody prin
| ciple have now been opened in Paris under the
| auspices of the Prince d'Arenoerg, and the
| members of the Philanthropic society. a CORE
| spondent reports The funds for the purpose
| come from legacy bequeathed to the ''poor of
| Paris" by the banker, NJ. Armand heine who
| ciety has already built house with
dare, andthe dwellings opened re-.
Gently are on the BJule ard de GreneIle. the
apartments, or rooms, being rented at from
| $50 TO $40 year, whereas some in the other
tenementS may be had at a rental of little over
| $50. The sanitary arrangements in these cites
| OlturiereS are much better than in other narts
| of Paris, where the working classes and the
utterly INDECENT live almost side bv side and in
this imp yr1ant matter many hints have been
borrowed from the London dwellings erected
under the terms of the Peabody trust