The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

An Eastern syndicate has bought the
street railroad system of Pueblo, Colo, for
S250.000.
An exhibition of 1000 different sorts Of
horseshoes, including some made by the
ancient Romans, is now going on in London.
Tradesmen of all sorts at Utica, n. Y,
not only sell their delinquent accounts at
public sale, but advertise them in the pa
perS.
A Kentucky colored jockey in revenge
gave his enemy pipe to smoke loaded
with powder, thus destroying his eye and
possibly his life.
A native paper states that the Japanese
Governments indebtedness to foreign cofin-
tries. which in 1879 amounted to $4,000, 600,
is now only S1,0O000o
The indications are that the South Caro-
lima rice crop will be the largest made in
many years. The winter has been very IA
vorable to the planters.
For almost killing colored man named
Mckinley in Camden, on New Years day.
Alfred Reed was yesterday fine $50 by
Judge Hugg and discharged.
Mrs. Harriet E. Wright of Oneida. N. Y,
Is the proud possessor of butter-ladle be-
longing to her great-grandmother This
old ladle is 140 years old and is rare
curiosity.
Two eagles were seen fighting In a pine
tree on the farm of j. b. Williams, near
Eastville, Va. One of them struck the other
SUCH u DiOW tuHL III cut his neck half in two
and he died Immediately.
Professor Swing insists that Chicago
must secure for the Columbus Expositi0n
the following attractions: Mr.. Gladstone
with $4,000 Grafton; Senior Emilio Cast
clar, as guest of the city, and "the best
orchestral music that money can possibly
secure"
Another historic estate is about to come
into the market, the Duke of Newcastle
having decided to sell Worship Manor, the
old Nottinghamshire seat of the Dukes of
Norfolk, which the Pelhams obtained by
purchase half century ago.-London Edi-
tion Herald.
1t Is announced that 10000 Mussulmans
are about to emmigrate from the Caucasus
into Turkey. having obtained the Sultan's
permission. The Russian Government favors
the exodus, as it intends to populate the
Caucasus with peasants from the northern
provinces of Russia.
Two young farmers of Cornwall have
been bound over to keep the peace upon the
complaint of an old woman whom thew
threatened to kill because thew beIieved
that she had bewitched their cattle. One of
them testified under oath that he really
believed in witchcraft.
The only animals that came over as part
OF Barnum's show which showed any sick-
ness were the monkeys. MANY of them
were so miserable that all felt sorry for
them. Some OF them lay down as if about
TO die. Others groaned and reeled to and
fro like greenhorns on Ship
Lake Chelan, in Eastern Washington,
never freezes, although in latitude 4S6
north. The reason given is that:lt is SO deep
and the warm water always rises from the
bottom to supplant the cold, which goes
down to warm itself The Indians fish In
the lake at all seasons and use salmon eggs
for bait. DO
They are telling in Vienna of a female
member of the family Of diplomat who, at
recent gathering, asked the papal nuncio
to let her look at the diamond cross he wore
on his neck, and then placing it on her own
fore she returned it. The Jewel is regarded
as a sacred emblem by all Catholics, and
they were Mortified.