The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The Church Progress, Catholic weekly pub
lished in st. Louis. intimates that petition
will short V be forwarded to the pope. praying
that the red hst OF cardinal be slowed upon
the venerable Archbishop Kenrick. whose golden
jubilee VIII occur Nov. 30, 1881.
JUDGE JEREMIAH SMITH Of Dover, Y. H. who
has recently been appointed TO professors nip
in Hsrvard, is said TO be the youngest Of the few
sons of revolutionary soldiers now living, having
/ been born 10 ls37. His father Jeremiah Smith.
fought in the battle OF Bennington
! ToSG SING Kow and Tong Ping Chew have
I been given permit by the Chiness Emperor. IL
/ is stated. to put up a stamp and quartz mill in
Sang Tong, China, where VALUABLE gold quar- z
\ deposits reported to exist. The work VIII
/ now proceed with hammer and longs.
A YoUxssrER fell from the Michigan Central
train. making forty miles an hour. near Albion
| Mich. and when the train LOAF OF horrified
| passengers was back to wher9 il was expected
/ TO hnd the mangled remains the baoy sat
| laughing and playing in the sand OF the en-
/ bankment.
! A YOUNG MAN who represented himself as a
son of Sir John Lubbock. the naturalist, regis
tered at a White Mountain hotel recently and
/ AWAITED mis- valet aad luggage while he lived IN
| clover for several days. He then went fishing,
| AID the White Mountain folks have caught no
! glimpse of MIN since.
! SEVERAL LADIES prominent in London society
have started a consumers league, the object of
which is to deal only with those stores the pro-
| prietors of which treat their employees with
| lberality and consideration in the matter of
| hours of work, wages, etc. The wonder is how
| they are going TO find all this OUT.
FOUNDERS replenish the ocean at a very
! rapid rate. In season one founder produces
many millions of eggs, scattering them broad
| cast through the water. The sole produces
1.00U0O0 eggs, plaice not less than 2 200, 900,
while large turbot has been credited with the
deposition of 100000 or 100000 eggs.
| ONE of the principal causes of the absentee
| ism thai has been 50 extensively lracticed by
| congressman for several weeks past, it has
been discovered, is the organization of poker
| parties in the committee rooms and where the
participants, without regard u party affilia-
tlons, lay aside Reeds rules for those of Hoyle.
FROM SAMos the discovery of the statue of
Apollo is announced. 1t is OF archaic style, the
arms hanging down close to the body, the hands
closed, and the feet, as it were, in motion the
left foot being little in advance of the right
On one of the thighs is dcatory inscription
OF two lines. Unfortunately the head is want
ing.
The Heligolander's Sunday begins at o'clock
p. m. on Saturday, when the church bell is
tolled, and ends on Sunday at the same hour.
Formerly no vessel could leave port between
these hours. Marriage cancels every other
| engagement, so that there can be no breach Of
piOuliSc DlOuSuI dbdluSI d uluu Nucu once Ne
is married.
THIS is an elopement extraordinary that is re.
ported from Scranton, Pa. Mrs. Benjamin
Halstead, her daughter, Mary Ha'stead and her
sister, Mrs. Peter Lovan, and another member of
the family, representing three generations,
eloped Friday night at ~ O'Clock with four
Italian laborers. An interesting feature of the
case, too, is that one of the -four Italian
laborers' bore the fine old Roman name of Pat
Murray.
A wELL-KNowN travelling agent for a Philadel-
phia carriage paper has carried off the honors
for eating, in this city, says the Cincinnati En-
Qutfer. At a recent meal for himself he con-
sumed two whole chickens, fried Maryland style,
lve pounds one extra porterhouSe steak. ten
ears of corn, one dozen tomatoes sliced with
onions, one quart stewed potatoes. one dozen
corn cakes and three quarts of beer. He was the
only man who partoo6 of the meal, and he did
not fall into ashes when he finished
THE REPORTERS and correspondents who wrote
the accounts of the Johnstown disaster have
organized a club in New York, and have held
their first business meeting. The majority of
the members are writer's for the newspapers,
although newspaper men from other cities are
eligible, II they were among the special cor
respondents sent to JohnStown. Monthly meet
ings of the club will be held and the experiences
of the memorable days spent among the dead
and dying at JohnstoWn will be told over and
over again.
IN his NEW BOOK on African subjects, Thomas
st vens quotes one of Stanleys officers in way
that at once admits and satisfactorily disposes
of the charges that used to be made as to Stan
ley'S harshnesS to his men. Says the officer
Il have seen days when, if could have had the
ear of the public at home, should have felt in.
clined to vent, in the columns of the paper
some grievances that seemed very real, can
assure you. at the moment. But now it is all
over, can look back and see that Stanley was
right. Without The hard, exacting work we
should never have pulled through, and Stanley's
seeming harshnesS never goes beyond the point
necessary for the success of the undertaking
he is engaged in"
DR.. CHARLES 1. HOWARD of Rutherford, n j.
was supposed to have died from an overdose of
choral on July 81. 1t is now said by some of
his friends that the doctor was not dead when
an undertaken named Collins prepared the body
for burial, and that he was in a comatose state
1t is known that DR.. Howard often had fits and
while in this condition seemed like dead It is
now thought by many that the doctor was in
one of these frances when the undertaken en-
balmed the body with a powerful embalming
fluid which was poisonous. Mrs. Kelley, with
whom Dr. Howard boarded, declared that the
doctor had often fallen in fits and seemed like
dead for hours, afterward recovering The
body of DR.. Howard has been buried at York
Pa, and friends of his have gone there to take
it up.
DISPATCH from Newport, R, L., shows the
Newporters have a dainty morsel of scandal to
roll at resent under their tongues: Mrs. Min
ME Mckay, nee Treat, has begun suit for
divorce from her husband, Gordon Mckay
alleging inidelity. Mckay is Boston million.
aire. who made fortune out of a patent for
sewing shoe soles with brass wire. He is seventy
years old and his beautiful wife but thirty-three
They have two children. Mrs. Mckay has for
several seasons been a ociety favorte here She
dresses gorgeously, enjoys a fire road turnout.
aud is surrounded by young men admirers. Nc
Kay is apparently devoted to business He
frequently goes to Boston, but spends bis nights
at Newport. The young wifes attorneys are
Francis B. Peckbam and Frank in Blair of
Washington. Mckay is said to have engaged
the best lawyers in Boston to defend the suit.
MAJ. J. B. PoND the manager of distinguished
lecturers, is arranging for the American tour of
Henry NJ. Stanley, who will be accompanied by
his bride on all of his lecturing trips here The
present contract with Stanley calls for ffty
lectures in the cities which Mai. Pond has
selected but so many offers have been received
lately by the American manager for the ex-
plorer'S appearance that effort is being
made to induce Mr.. Stanley to change the con
tract to 100 lectures. Mr. Stanley has written
recently that he would be glad to extend
the tour, but that he afraid Mrs Stanley
would not be able to stand so much travel
He would, therefore, have to wait and see
first how the American climate agrees with
Mrs. Stanley. Mai. Pond has also been irving
to engage Bill Nye for the coming season. The
humorist is a popular lecturer, but he is not
fond of travelling. To Maj. Ponds letter Nye
wrote characteristic reply. He said his OBJ
iections to another lecturing tour were ike