The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

APESsEss Young GREER, Aieide valandora,
who spes English, French German, Italian
and Arat fueutly, has just arrived in New
York. anetates his wish to work at anything. |
He claimhat four years ago he inherited |
fortune nearly s2,000.0o0 and has since |
wasted t entire sum in dissipation. His /
father ma the fortune in Suez canal securi- |
ties, and u youth went through with it faster |
than the wer through the canal In London |
he claim Sc was fl coed by the srlstocratic |
members the swell clubs. Cotton futures |
was bis ne1venture, and with them he went to |
the wall. might get employment In some
club house a terrible example.
FRANK CONS, a resident OF Island No. 30. in
the Mississpi river. eighteen miles above Mem
phis, was quilted in the Memphis criminal
court Satuny last of a charge which threat
ened to senhim TO the penitentiary wrong
fully He IS accused of shooting an arm of
OF Christi1 Egbert, the pretty l3-year-old
daughter oflrs. E2Oert who also lives on the
island. Thmother and daughter both sWore
that CousiIwanted TO marry the girl, and, be-
ing efusedy her. waylaid her. shot her with
Winchesterfe as she was passing through a
skirt OF wo6 with her mother. Cousins intro
duced prooIo show that Mrs. Egbert was out
cunning tonim with double. barreled gun,
and In Dassg through the woods the weapon
was accidelRlly discharged. the load tearing
on the girl arm. 1t appeared that Cousins
had formeG paid attentions to the widow,
but had goared and quit, and hence her en-
nifty.
ONE Of thcommonest tricks by which shrewd
rascals get soney is by the cashing of checks,
says written the New York Press. l was
talking withhe cashier of leading hotel the
other day WIN he said: 1T sometimes rather
hard to refus TO cash a check for gentleman
whom you hae known casually, but it must be
done IN my bSness or l would soon owe the
MOTEL more macy than l could pay in life
time You Sc if a man asks you to cash his
check and youhink you know him well enough
TO do 1t and taA the risk, you cannot very well
ask him the qustion if the check is good and
VIII DC paid ", if you fail to ask him that
question, the lavholds that you cannot prose
cute MIN crlmlnay in case the cheek is rejected
by the bank Oh wich il is drawn. If you can
not prosecute hincriminaly, the rascal cares
nothing for your cntempt or for any civil suit
you may bring aganst him 1t is common
thing Tor men to strt au account in a bank, let
1t run down TO 81 oS3 and then draw checks
against this amoun9or sums of $25 to $50. OF
course, the bank wilnot honor the check, and
yet as lonx as there a slight balance to the
man credit ne can1t be arrested for fraud
A GERMAN PRIYCEL MARRIAGE is now mooted
for the second daugher of the Princes of Wales,
Princess Victoria, fo whom it was last year
understood marriage about to be arranged
with the Hon. John Barring the clever and
popular eldest son of Lori Revelstoke. The
plan then contemplatedwas that a dukedom
should be conferred upon tln head of the house
OF Barring, and that this her. being marquis,
should become the brother. h-law of the Duke
OF Fire. Circumstances HAVING made an end of
this arrangement, the handof the young prin-
cess has been Sught by one If her cousins. der
sister, Princess Maud, who S now in her 22d
year, the youngest daughter of the Prince of
Wales, has been asked in marriage by Prince
William OF Nassau, the elde.t son and heir of
his royal highness the grand duke of Luxem
oourg. Prince Will lam is nov in his doth year,
and arrangements are making, it is said to re-
store to his father, and eventually to himself, a
great part OF the enormous fortune of the Duke
OF Nassau, which was confscated by Prussia
after the event of 1885, In the event of the
death without children of the young queen of
Holland, now the richest heiresS in Europe, the
crown OF the Netherlands would pass to the
grand duke Of Luxembourg, and Princess Maud
of England might thus come to fill the throne
once occupied by the daughter OF James Ii.
THE war department will pey $25, 900 this
year says Washington special, to pensioners
who are entitled to Communication for the loss of
limb Officers and men vino lost limb or its
use in service are entitled to receive, once every
five years, an artificial limb or Communication
| therefor The law was passed ia 1870. and the
year following large number of pensioners
were recorded as entitled to this privilege.
Every five years since 1871, therefore, the COM
mutation greatly exceeds the usual appropria-
ton, which last year, for instance, amounted to
only 100000. TIE surgeon genera, before this
years appropriation became available, de-
mohshed the attorney system after a hard fight.
| IL meant over NOJ,UVJ In ices 10 Jl0 claim
agents this year and it was determined
| that this should be saved to the pen
siOners. The pensioner has now only to send
| his name and postoiice ADDRESS TO the depart
ment and his claim is ATTENDED to without the
! expense Of attorneys fees or affidavits The
| surgeon general has prepaled a list of these
| pensioners, from which lis it appears that
| there are $4,000 entitled to Communication. OF
| this number over 5000 have actually lost limbs
| as follows: 1860 have lost cue arm; 4O09 one
| leg; 139 one hand; 76 one foot; % two arms; 81
! two legs; two hands; 16 two feet. 10 one arm
and one leg; one leg and one foot; both
| legs and both hands The latter pensioner is
! Benjamin Franklin, at one time in the Second
| Minnesota Cavalry. The Communication allowed
for the loss of leg is S75; in all other cases S.
| THREATENED DUEL which. however, wa:
happily averted, has been the cause of muct
excitement in Raleigh, N. c., the last week
| The parties to the proposed combat, which was
| to have been Ito the death, - or until either was
wounded SO that he could fight no longer, were
| Charles G. Holden, son of ex-Gov. William w
| Holden, and Alexander McPheeters, Jr eldest
| son of an old and prominent citizen of Raleigh
| and director OF the Raleigh and CASTOR rail
road. Holden IS the principal of h-grade
| private school, which counts among its pupils
| the sons of prominent families. A few morn
| ings ago the pupils found the door of the schoo
| room locked, and, their teacher not putting in
an appearance by O'Clock, went home The
next day, according to their account
| Holden vented his rage upon them by
| thrashing them with a coWhide Great indigna
| ton was created by this action, chiefly on &C
count of the disgrace attached to the use of the
| cOwhide. an instrument formerly EMPLOYED K
whip negroes Among the boys whipped wa,
| the brother of McPheeterS, Jr,. who took III
the quarrel, and, arming himself with a cow
| hide, went to the school and endeavored t.
| chastise Holden. Holden showed fight, and fol
| the insult put upon him by McPheeter in as
| saulting him with cowhde, demanded tn,
| satisfaction of a gentleman. Arrangement
were made for a meeting on the Virginia line
| lust beyond Garysburg, N. c., on the Peters
burg and Weldon railroad, but before it coulC
| be brought about wiser counSels were needed
| Holden explained that the use of the cowhjd,
| was unintentional, and that he deeply regretted
| he had thrashed the boys with it, and Nc
| Pheeters apologized for his assault on Holden
| whereupon both principals and seconds de
clared themselves ana their honor satisfied.
ACCOUNTS of the first London drawing-roon
are beginning to come oyer by private letter,
says the New York Times tt was ,
desperately dull day. not CLEAN O
sunshine showing, but the scene was full O.
| brill aucy and excitement Just the same On,
| vIvaciouS young woman, who first entered tn,
royal palace on that occasion. tells how, ''be
ginning to dress at 9 O'Clock, waiting hours il
the carriage an ante-rooms, going and coming
the entire day was passed in leading I'D to anC
receding from the crisis of exactly forty-fiv,
seconds in the royal presence" Another cor
respondent tells of the appalling silence at tn,
| moment when the throne room is entered
The tremendous length of the trains is ''almos
equally appalling" the same gossiper chroni
cleS flu. Their little point interesting to tn,
unintiated and cis-Atlantic woman is the fac
that the mistress of the robes and all the ladie
in waiting wore black, as they always do, tn,
| queen s dress being a train and hodice of hlacl