The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

W ElThING MACHINES anu scales OF some klOQ
were in use 1900 B. G.. for it is said that
Abraham at that time weighed out" 400
shekels OF silver, current money with the mer-
chant, to Ephron, the Hittiue. as payment for a
piece of land including the cave and all the
standing timber I'm the field and in the fence -
This is said to be the earliest transfer of land
Of which any record survives. and that the pay
ment was made in the presence Of witnesses,
ACCORDING TO the Denver tCol.) Ne,cs, there is
in that city man nearly 100 years old. His
name is said to be Jonas Carpenter, native Of
Virginia. The family Bible gives the date of his
birth as 1852, but at that time he states, he was
driving an OK team in Gen. Braddocks army
during the Indian wars OF that period. He has
an old $40 continental bill which he received
during the war for services as a teamster. and
he has kept it ever since" He is said 20 be in
first rate health.
The San Francisco ArgondNt says that people
on the Pacific coast are not altogether pleased
with the extreme reserve manifested by Mr..
Searles, his attorneys and C. P. Huntington in
regard to their plans for meeting a contest Of
Mrs. Searle's will by Timothy Hopkins. 1t is af-
firmed by that newspaper that the contest will
be stopped, and satisfaction with Massachusetts,
as the battle ground Is evinced IF, y says the
AT0ondut, Mrs. Hopkins was unduly influ-
enced or overreached by fraud in disposing of
her estate or dislnheriting her son. these facts
Will be made to appear and the will be set
aside. In our Judgment there can be no better
place to contest an unfair will, where wrong
has been perpetrated, than IN the state of Mas
sachusetts II this contest comes to an exhi-
bition of bad blood we shall expect
startling disclosures that will not be
creditabe to the measures resorted
to by Mr.. Searles for the acquisition of the
estate"
A QUEER STORY comes from Evanston, III.
Some Methodists. desiring to form a new con-
gregation, purchased an edifice vacated by an
Episcopal congregation. On taking possession
the pastor announced that there would be no
dedication of the building, inasmuch as their
Episcopal brethren had already dedicated it to
sacred purposes. This was entirely satisfactory
60 everybody. But at the end of six months it
was learned in some way that the bishop of the
Episcopal diocese of Chicago unknown to the
Methodist purchasers, had formally deconse-
Grated the building. On hearing this, some of
the MethOdists waxed wroth at what they called
piece of petty Episcopal arrogance, and
others inquired loosely whether the act Of
deconsecratins a church is anything like the
process of demagnetizing a watch while others
still maintained that not even q high church
bishop can extract the sacredness out of
building so long as it continues 20 be used for
sacred purposes.
Ex-SPEAKER GALUsHA A. GROW of PennsyI-
vania, with whom 1 was chatting during the
week, is an old time republican. who is no
longer counted among the active politicians of
the day, but who Keeps his eyes and ears open
to what Is going on and has an intelligent
opinion to express at times as TO the drift of
Mr.. Grow, up to two years ago. was engaged
heavily in mining coal, but he tells me he has
sold all his coal mines, and has settled down as
a plain farmer with a hobby for Jersey cattle
Concerning national politics, he said: 81 pre-
sumo my Judgment is that Of the general
public when / say that | think either
Mr.. Harrison or Mr.. Blaine will be the
republican nominee next year. We will elect
our nominee whoever he may be. Neither
! Cleveland nor Hill, in my estimation, will be
nominated by the democrats. If it is q New
1 Ns~rkv IL fu
ana Of the opinion they will go west for candi-
date. The elections this fall will cut down some
of their mushroom governors and so destroy
| some presidential timber. Gov Pattison would
make them a good candidate, if they only
| knew it. He would stand some show Of carry
| ing nsylvania-small, it is true-but he
would have Just as fair chance to carry New
| York as any of their leaders"
The CossAcKs of the Russian army are d.
vided according to the territories assigned for
their dwelling on the Don in Astrakha, Oren-
| burg, Tersk, Kuban, Siberia and Semiretchinsk
1 In those territories they live peasants on
| government lands and have to send only a Ger
| tain number Of their men annually to do active
militia ry service. Every CoSsack territory (or
| station-stdnitsd) is divided into khootors or
| corropors. Their administrative authorities
| and justices of the peace are elected by pop
ular vote. Their military commanders, called
| atamans. are appointed by the government.
| Unlike the regular military men, they
| do their drilling at home in their
Il d
| military department is superintended by
| the ataman of the district or the Stanitza
When they are called out for active service they
| are perfect soldiers and led no special drilling
| or training. With the beginning of 1892 new
| order of civil government will be introduced in
the Cossack territories. Hitherto they elected
their administrative officers independent Of the
| military authorities. From the new year the
military ataman of the district is to be also the
principal civil officer and the chairman Of the
| district assemblies In the boroughs, too at
1 N1s,.1 rH
administrative officers, preference will be given
| to men according to their military positions or
| according to the honors they have gained in &C
| tive military service.
| Nor LONG SINCE bought a meerschaum pipe,
| says a writer in the Chicago Tribune. When
| l was taking it away the salesman told me not
! to smoke 1t too much or would burn the wax
and ruin the thing smoked it very little for
| the first few weeks and saw no indications that
| the thing was ever going to change l went
into the place where bought it and told the
| fellow who had sold II to me about my progress
| He said, after l had told him how much had
smoked that had not smoked il enough.
smoked it for several weeks after and saw no
| Derceptible change. again went in and made
a mechanical complaint The young man said
he guessed kept it in the case too much and
| that ne had forgotten to warn me
against that. he said it kept
| the case too much. Soon after went into the
| place again. The man looked at it, and then
| said he guessed handled it too much; that
| ought not to take it out Of the case too fire.
| quently, as it made splotches on it TO handle ft
! too often. Then we had a talk all around on
meerschaum pipes. found out that the tneer-
schaum is great pipe, and will give satisfac-
| tion IL you observe the following rules: Don't
| smoke It too much; don't smoke it too little;
| don't take it out OF the case too often; don't
leave it in the case too much; don't lay il down
to cool of after you have smoked il, for in that
case il will crack; don't carry it in your pocket
| for then it will not cool fast enough have re-
turned to the cigar.