The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-07
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WHEN the grave of Miss Alice Woodward at
Douds Ia, was opened, for the purpose of re-
moving the body to another cemetery, friends
of the dead girl had the coffin opened, and to
| their horror it was discovered that the poor
| girl had been buried alive The body was found
| lying face down. and 1t was evident there had
| been terrible struggle with death. IL is be-
lleved she was In trance when she was buried.
TIE WIDOW of church beadle died in a
village in the government of Penze, Russia,
having expressed the desire that her remains
| be put by those of her husband. When the
| grave of the latter was opened the coffin was
not found. On Investigation it was discovered
that the peasants of the village had stolen the
| body of the dead beadle and sunk it in
swamp. There had been drought in that dis
trict last year, and the peasants believed that il
| they sunk the body of righteous man in water
rain would come. The superstition is prevalent
among the common people in that region.
For MONTHS past Julia Strowsld, a good-look-
ing Slav girl of LOFTY, Pa, has been courted
by John Paul and Mike Drusko. Bad blood be-
tween The men has grown out of their rivalry,
and Drusko, who is much larger and heavier
than Paul, threatened to kill him if he ever
caught him with Julia. Last night both acct
IDENTIFY met at the girls home and Drllsko made
an attack upon Paul. TIE girls father sepa-
rated them and said that if Paul loved his
daughter he should fight for her in the ring, the
adjourned 10 small plat of green near the
| dwelling. dispute arose as to who should be
the referee. Paul wanted the girl to act in that
capacity, but she objected. Her father
was finally chosen. No rules of any kind
were observed and in a short time DruskO,
cheered on by the girl, had his little
but pucky antagonist almost knocked
out. The mother of the girl strongly favored
Paul, and each time that he was knocked down
fastened to aid him to regain his feet. The
referee begged him to throw up the sponge, say
DrtISrn lint hn
ing he would rather die than live without Julla
Drusko determined TO knock him out and went
at him savagely, knocking him down and be-
gan kicking him viciouSly in the face. This
brutal act seemed to disgust the fair prize and
she threw herself across the fallen mans body
crying ont that Drusko was a brute aad
that she would never wed him. This enraged
Drusko and he swore that he would kill both
but her father and mother set upon him with
stones and chased him for his life. Just as soon
as Paul is presentable ne will marry the woman
for whom he fought.
The HISTORY of the modern literary use of
the word "mugwump" is enlarged by recent
contribution to the Vermont Stand ard from
Henry S. Dana of Woodstock, Vt Mr.. Dana
! is deeply versed in neighborhood matters, and
has written an elaborate history'of Woodstock.
| He says that the American Wing newspaper
| published for several years in that town, con-
tanned the following, under date of Aug. "A,
| 1852:
DYING CALL, OR THE CAT LET OUT OF THE BAG
/
| Masonic friend in a distant town we have been
| furnished with copy of the secret bulletin of
the Clay Masonic party. 1t has extensively
! circulated among the knights of Kadosh and
! the Most Worshipful Mugwumps of the Cable
| tow nearly a month ago, aud with so much
secrecy and caution" that we have been I'M
able to get sight of a copy until the present
| moment.
Mr.. Dana says 1.-THE credit of starting the
| word 'mugwump' in the public print must be
| given to our fellow townsInan, Henry S. Hutch
nRFgOn vy h
| liSh prior C aim. y It may be doubted whether,
| at this distance of time, q claim prior to 1892
can well be established by production of a
| printed record; but ever since the days of the
| pilgrim fathers the word has been familiar in
New England communities. Because it was
thus familiar, the Vermont editor sixty years
ago used it in addressing the plain people of
his constituency. He knew that they would
understand it. 1t is to be noticed that the term
invariably denotes some excelency or superb
ority in the persons to whom it is applied.
In LATER YEARS Nine de Stael confessed that
the three men she had most loved were Mar
bonnie, Talleyrand and Matthew de Montrno-
rency. Her friendship for the first Of these
reached a passionate exatation which had a
profound and not altogether wholesome infiu-
ence upon her life. How completely she was
dlsencnanted is shown in a remark she made
long al. erward of a loyal and distinguished
man: He has the manners Of Narbonne and a
heart" 1t is a character in q sentence, Matthew
de Montmorency was man of pure motives
who proved refuge of consolation in many
storms, but her regard for him was evidently
| gentler flame that never burned TO extinction
| Whatever Illusions she may have had as to Tai
| eyrand-and they seem to have been little more
than an enthusiastic appreciation of his talent
were certainly broken by his treacherous deser-
ton in her hour of need. Not the least among her
many sorrows was the bitter taste of ingrati-
| tude. But Napoleon, who, like Louis XIV,
! sought to draw all influences and mere all
| power in himself, could not tolerate a woman
whom he felt to be in some sense a rival. He
! thought he detected her hand in the address
| which lost her so many friends He feared the
wit that flashed, the satire that wounded, the
| criticism that measured his motives and his
actions IN her salon. He recognized the power
| of coterie of brilliant intellects led by a
| genius so inspiring. His brothers. knowing her
vulnerable point and the will with which she
| had to DEAL gave her a word of caution. But
| the advice and inJercession of her friends were
alike without avail. The blow which she so
much feared fell at last, and she found herself
an exile and a wanderer from the scenes she
| most loved.
You who send out men to Africa, and you
who are DESTROYS of succeeding there when
sent, should remember that Europeans ought
not to be younger than 81 nor older than 80
| when commencing their first term of service in
the DARK Continent, says HI. H. tombstone in
! the Fortnightly Reytelo AS a rule, middle
sized thin men succeed best in maintain2 their
health and vigor, but hard and fast rule as TO
| physique cannot be laid down. l hold it as a
! general principle that short spare men succeed
best, but have known tall men and fat men
who rave occasionally done remarkably well.
! SoorfeJy of life is absolute necessity. In
| fact, the safest general rule would be TO aban-
| don the consumption of all forms of alcohol
| If you are really i'll. and are positively ordered
| to drink some form of alcohol it should not be
| drunk until after shutdown. Alcohol taken
during the daytime in Africa is simply
poison to a white man-an insidious
| poison, il you like, and one that often
| dlguises its effects so that careless observer
| might attribute them to other causes-but a
| deadly poison all the same, and perhaps the
| more deadly because the punishment it inficts
| is not readily recognizable. Unfortunately, es-
| pecially among the British alcoholic excess is
| terribly prevalent; mean what may be called
excess in Africa. but what in England would be
looked upon as the allowance of a temperate
sober man. And that is where SO many good
| men go wrong. They cannot be brought to un-
derstand that because they do not drink till they
get drunk, and because what they are taking
for their daily consumption in Africa is not a
| drop more than thew consumed in England
they were nevertheless exceeding and piing up
In their systems store Of poison which will
either result in terribly sudden death or the
SCATTERING of their health. Next to alcoholic
excess in danger comes gluttony in feeding
This, especially among teetotalers, is constant
source of malady.