The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-24
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+ tains the snow has pilei into the valleys until
II IS estimated 70 b 1876 feet deep.
( FLORENCE and Capua have Just established
electric lights in their streets. AMI the first
f NJ zhts were celebrated with ambulating bands
Of music.
/ KAN ont in Indiana has been sent to tie
/ re itentiary for two years for swearing that he
III not nave any money when su II for an &C
count, and when he actually had mora than
the amount OF the Judgment on his person.
| The LARGEST STREET CAR and omnibus factory
IN the word, located at Parker, Mimi, is nearly
completed. The intentions are to add freight
/ car manufacturing plant, which, taken to-
| getheT viii give employment to 1000 men.
The MONEY received by New York from
! theatrical licenses last year amounted to S25,-
| O00, and from concert licenses, Sl3.694 No DOR
/ tlon OF It went into the treasury of the city,
| being distributed among various charitable and
benevolent organizations
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS has taken posses
sion Of his new house in Berlin and has intro
duced American style of drapery and furnish
Ing This was severe strain Berlin deco
rators, who found, to their horror that the first
! OBJECT of American efoyt was light, air, sun
Jus, the points where their skill iimped.
A DAMAGE SUIT has been brought at Grand
Rapids, Mich, by Mrs. Rhoda B. Woodman
| against the Widdcomb Furniture Company.
| She says that one day last fall she passed in
| 'front.' OF Ile company team, standing near the
sidewalk, and was so frightened because one of
| the horses nipped at her that she Jumped to
| one side and sprained her ankle. She wants
$1,000 damages for the sprain.
In oLDEN TINES when negroes were taking en-
ployment in Maryland they insisted that their
| master should put clause into their contracts
| agreeing that TIE negroes should not be fed
| upon canyasback duck and terrapin. There
was so much of terrapm in those DAYS and
| canvaSoack ducks were so numerous that even
! the colored help turned against them, and tn re
was an everlasting protest when these two
| famous Ingredients of a great dinner appeared
/ on the table.
| IT IS ESTIMATED at the war department that if
| any foreign power should tackle this country
of ours it could be confronted by the enormous
| total of 100000 fighting men. OF course 1t
| would take some little time to put that host
| into the field; but to rush the militia of Uncle
| SANS potential army to any threatened spot
| would be a matter of but few days. OF this
| organized and equipped home guard there are
i 109,469 men-to-day at WORK in the numerous
vacations of peace, tomorrow moving by
| special trains to the defense of sea-coast or
| border.
WHEN l was in Chicago last summer" re-
| marked lady to the Detroit Tribune, l at
tended womans convention. 1t was large
gathering and no men were allowed within.
Before opening the meeting the president looked
around: Are there any men presentY she
! asked. No responded the secretary. Then
| Will call the convention to order. The secretary
will read the minutes Of the last meeting The
secretary arose and had reached the middle of
her report when there was an exclamation f rom
the president: "A man! mani 'WhereY
| cried many voices. The president lifted her
! attenuated finger. 'Therer-pointing to q
solitary figure in the gallery Put him out, put
him out3 was the general cry. The. figure in
| the gallery arose: Mr.. President. it said, in a
| mild. feminine voice, if you please, I'm not
man. Tn a woman dressed in the new re-
form suit J."
Il SEE" says New York lawyer that the
| question of repeal OF capital punishment is
| again being brought up 1t is nov about half
century since the subject was seriously agitated
| IN this state, and then the legislature, after
| thorough examination by a committee, decided
| against repeal imprisonment for life may do
| well enough in settled communities without a
| large transient population, and not as New
YORK IS, resorted to from all parts of the world
1 by all kinds of people, to many of whom stone
| walls do not prison make in very different
| sense from the meaning of the author of those
| words. The expert ence of Rhode Island with
| Imprisonment for life has been satisfactory to
| public opinion in that state. In Maine there is
| 1ar from being unanlmity on the question. and
| IN Michigan there has also been dissatisfaction.
| In view OF the numerous and mixed population
| of New York it can hardly be claimed that the
death penalty has been failure here, for CAPT
| tai crimes are probably no more frequent than
| in any other large CITY," 9
SAYS the Providence OR. ~ Journal: The
1
| Leibering, who was hurled from the foretop.
| mast OF the schooner John B. Manning re-
| Gently, and drowned, while he was in the act of
slowing the sail, are atthe office of the ship
| ping commissioner, on South Main street. The
| goods consist of a sailors canvas bag, wooden
| chest, Shoes clothing, and about everything
else that is used by sailors By an order of the
United States circuit court, Commissioner Free
| man IS authorized to dispose of the stuff for as
much money as it will bring. For two weeks
past he has daily mounted chair and, with a
| crowd OF weather beaten mariners gathered
| round about him, tried to sell the secondhand
| outfit. But sailors are a superstitious lot of
| men, and don't relish wearing dead mems
clothes, so Mr.. Freeman has had hard lob of
| the auctOneering. AS yet, but pair or two
| of old Shoes a blanket, and some tobacco have
been disposed of. The canvas bag full of
Jumpers, overcoats, etc, has been offered at the
low rate price of g. with no takers. When the
sale is closed, the cash will be forwarded to the
dead sailors mother, who lives in Germany.
A COMIC SCENE occurred at Melbourne the
other day when Lord Hopetoun arrived to
assume the governorship of the colony. re-
port had been spread abroad that he was in a
| delicate state of health and that he had only
| accepted the Office for the sake of the climate
Lord Hopetoun, being very short and slight of
stature and decidedly delicate-looking, was
| vastly indignant when he learned of this slur
cast upon his constitution, for he INDUCES in
| the delusion that he is a perfect Hercules
Accordingly he lost no time in sending for the
reporters of the various newspapers and told
| them that he empnatically denied the charge of
| ill-health. Though slight, am wryi' he de-
clared, and have always enjoyed excellent
| health" To prove the truth of his assertion
| he extracted a tape-measure from his pocket
| drew a long breath, expanded his lungs, and
| requested the reporters to take note of his
powers of expansion. Fortunately the re-
| porters at once declared themselves satisfied
| Otherwise there is no knowing what further
| steps the queens representative might have
| considered it necessary to take in order to
| demonstrate to them his Goliath-like strength
if not proportions.
RICHARD GoEBLER, the plucky New York
barber, who, having become tired of waiting for
the police department to arrest the bunco-men
who feeced him out Of $3.50, started out to be
his own Detective and captured one of the
| raScals and, afterwards, the man who went
| straw bail" for the accused, has now landed
| another of the rogues in jail. This last capture
was made in New York and in a way which the
| Brooklyn Times explained as follows: A little
man whose face covered with coal dust
and wore a jumper, followed Charles Nor
gan, notorious confidence man, into
the Creamery" a restaurant on the
Bowery near Houston street, at o O'Clock
this morning. The little man took a seat
opposite Morgan at the same table and looked
him squarely in the face. Then with an ex
clamauon of joy, the little man seized the bun
co man by the collar and shouted ~ arrest
you in the name of the law" Morgan eyed tine
little man in astonishment and refused 10
| bulge. Here is an authorization from Dis
| trict Attorney Fellows appointing me n sneciaI