The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Armenian frontier OWING to the fate OF an
Armenian girl named Mikirtitca, who
and got far as the Russian frontier,
/ where sne was captured. and il is said. carried
/ The girl had been kidnapped two years before
from her house in Russ an Armenia and sold to
/ wealthy Moslem at Ria. When the story be-
came known the refugee Armeniaus on the Rus
| sian side of the border were WITH difficulty re-
! strained from crossing the frontier to invade
Turkish Armenia. 1t is said that the traffic in fe
males kidnapped Tor Turkish harems still flour
lshes in the Russian provinces adjoining Asiatic
! Turkey and that Russian officials not guilt
less IN connection withit.
AN AMUSING STORY is told of a we'll known
Russian woman who went recently to enjoy the
/ sulphur baths at Tiflis. On particular morn
I ing TIE countess entered, as usual, one of the
/ bathrooms. The water had hardly touched
( her body, however, when, to her horror, she be-
| gan to turn black. She was so frightened at
the transformation that, upon seeing her re-
| Election in the mirror, she tainted. The at
tendant, who was as greatly startled as her
mistress, cried for help The explanation was
| simple enough 1t was discovered that the
| countess was accustomed TO paint her face,
| hands. arms and neck daily with a substance
| containing zinc. On the fatal day the poor
woman had neglected to remove the 'beautify-
| ing coat. The zinc combined with the sulphur
| and natrium of the water and quickly made an
! African belle out of the white-sginned bather.
A considerable tine passed ere the unfortunate
woman resumed her natural appearance.
JAMES CUMMINGS and Miss Sue Howard
| adopted a novel way of getting married at In
dependence. No. recently. After procuring a
| license from Deputy Recorder Packard the
| young people drove in buggy to the First Bap-
| fist church on North Pleasant street. Here the
young man got out of the buggy and, entering
| the study room of the church and showing the
| license, told the pastor, the Rev. Mr.. Maiden, to
! follow him. The minister did SO and was some
| what astonished when the young man got up in
his buggy and told the vere-d gentleman to
/ proceed with the ceremony. Mr. Maiden asked
| the young lady il she understood what she was
| dong and on her replying that she did, pro-
| nounced them man and wife. At the conclu-
| sion of these unusual proceedings the minister
i was handed a fee and the newly married couple
| drove rapidly away. The young people gave
| their residence as Jackson county, but no one
! in Independence had seen them before or knew
| anything of them. They offered no explana-
| ton to Mr.. Maiden, and he asked few questions.
EVERYBODY has heard about the dogs aud
donkeys of Oriental cities. says a writer in ST.
NicholGs-how the dogs roam about without
| owners, and how the donkeys bear patiently
their many burdens and get only scanty thanks
| in return. But all eastern streets abound in
novel and fascinating sights-bright gowns, tiny
shops, yelled women wearing wooden sandals
Raunt camels swaying along with rude bells
tnklng From the first, energetic peddlers are
conspicuous. If the traveller approaches the
| Levant by way of Constantinope he
plungsS at once into their favorite haunts
| The first night in this great, historic city
wi not be forgotten, for the bowling of the
| SLT6eI-OORs is narQly SllS1C6U before the
coming of daylight brings out a multitude of
these noisy vendors, and then sleep is out of the
question. One would think they were trying TO
| arouse the people in the next street, to have
them all ready for making purchases Some
are shouting in Turkish and some in Greek, ad-
vertising the excellence of the good
things that they have in the high
baskets on tneir backs or on diminu.
tive mouse-colored donkeys. We look
down from the hotel window and watch them
pass along or stop for bargaining. There are
rOe has
and a profusion of fresh vegetables evidently
Just in from the gardens along the Bosphorus,
or those bordering the Sweet Waters beyond the
| Golden Horn. In all the towns along the Asia
| Minor coast these scenes are repeated. with
perhaps tritie less noise. At Smyrna, in early
autumn, the NINA swarms with sellers Of the
luscious sugar melons, and lit lie earlier all the
ports of the Greek Archipelago echo with
Sweet fresh figs"
Speaking of the New Orleans lynching the
New Orleans correspondent of the New York
Tribune says: l am told by gentlemen here
who are in a position to know and who cannot
be suspected of falsehood, that no less person
than Thomas j. Semmes, the acknowledged
leader of the New Orleans bar, made narrow
escape of having public and disgIaceful afr )nt
put upon him. Mr.. Semmes is distinguished
lawyer occupying as high station socially as
he does professionally. He enjoys large and
lucrative practice, Is president of the Boston
Club, the arstocratic club of the city; has twice
| been president OF the American Bar AssociR-
ton, and is known far and wide as a gentleman
of most conspicuous legal and personal at
tainments. When he accepted the place of
leading cOul e. for the deer s. in the Hen
messy murder case his friends Q astonished.
He is not a criminal LAWYER, has not for years
figured as SUI -, an, being advanced in age and
rich III professional honOrs, had come to be
known as one who accepted only the most i'm
portant and complicated cases. Involving large
property interests That he should have de
parted from long established rule and gone
out from his chosen province before the bar in
such case seemed unaccountable. But when
it became known that he had charged large
fee and had insisted upon payment in advance
it was no longer possible TO suppose that he had
been animated by pity or Christian charity and
then the indignation of the better people
pecav h Mns kf tbs f feeD bounds ,n, E
| in the club over which he had presided f)r
so many years Even those who had liked and
admired him most were turned against him 7
have it on the best authority that an informal
meeting of the members was held, and after a
thorough discussion it was agreed to call a reg
uiar meeting and appoint committee to wait
upon him and ask him to resign not only his
presidency, but his membership as well. This
Wonld have been done but for the fact that
about the same time it became known that Mr.
Semmes was lying dangerously LII at his home
The project was then abandoned out Of sym
pathy for his family, VINO are greatly esteemed
but it may safely be said that Mr. Semmes will
never again recover his place in public estima-
ton. The community forgives, but 1t does not
and will not forget.
No MAN was was so well known in the Tenth
ward of Brooklyn, n. Y, as old Bryan Foley,
who lived with his daughter. Mrs. Mary NC
Keever, at SO Douglass street. He was born
way back in 1855 when Napoleon was stu a
young officer. When Waterloo was fought he
TILED IN his Irish home farm which his father
and his ancestors for generations had titled be-
fore him. He was q slender, strongly built
man of medium hight and until he had long
passed the time when other men grow bald
or white of hair his hair was dark and his com
pexion was clear and rosy and fresh. He mar.
rled when he was 35. He made preliminary
voyage to America in 1886. and two years later
he brought over his wife and family. The shin
burned on the way over, and he was
separated from his family to meet them
again few months later in New York This
was the single adventure of his long life. In
: this country he followed farming, and formepy
years he knew no life but that of the country
! His habits were very simple He did not drink
he old not smoke. He rose at the same early
l hour every morning and went to bed early at
night. He walked great deal and worked as
long as he was able. His form remained per
tectly erect. About ten years ago mis- wife died
at the age Of So. His daughter Mrs McKeever
5 had lost her husband and only child and so the
two lived together. The old man spent his
time wandering about the streets, noting the
d, progress of buildings and comparing the
Brooklyn of this time with the Brooklyn
. or half a century before Until a
j month ago he was in perfectly good health, eat
ing and sleeping like a young man. His eve
sght was 50 good that he had no use for