The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-22
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A MAN went into grocery at Belfast, Ne,
the other day, ordered $40 worth OF goods and
laid down a cart-wheel dollar in payment
therefor, says the New York sun. Hold on,
this isn't right" yelled the shopkeeper as the
customer started off 20, yes. that's all
right" responded the man. i've got permits
sion from the judge to pay 10 cents on the dol
lar" He had recently settled in insolvency
upon the 10 per cent basis, and expected to
continue the method indefinitely.
CAPE COLONY, SOUTH AFRICA. has been very
seriously bothered for some considerable time
over the threatened danger OF negro domination
in that state, and the colonial parliament has
just resorted to very radical measures in its
efforts to cope with the question and oovtate
the danger. II is going to abolish the "illiterate
voter" altogether, and will also raise the cleo
toral qualification from e25 to Els. The
second time in the Cape parliament. 1t is the
work OF the premier, Cecil Rhodes, who is
known as an advanced liberal in all his views
The English papers. including London Truth,
call this setting a good example to some other
countries" Truth further comments that
although Mr.. Rhodes is such q liberal man he
is too sensible man to allow the votes of Cape
nlRgers to swamp those or the white men. y"
Mr.. Labouchere's radical paper also thinks
that there are people who think It equally OBJ
jectionable to permit the votes OF densely
ignorant yokels to swamp those Of educated
electors"
tude is said TO be the hunger which assails q
man with healthy appetite during the first few
months or years of his Imprisonment, says the
Boston Globe. A man who has just done a long
term for forgery says: Il used 10 go 10 bed
every night p Dched by hunger. began dream
ing OF bauquets and would have thought moth
ing strange about it had not the
same dream came to me every
same, in the same place and always had the
same place at the table. T q eSasperating
thing about IL was just as the first course
offered always awoke, that even in my
dreams l was not permitted to taste Of the
munilcent spread which was nightly presented
to me In my sleep. l dreaded to 40 to bed be-
causa the dream tortured me. 1t only made
me the hunsTier, and l then understood the
agony ofOTantalus, The sabled hero who was
tortured with thirst and 70 whose hips Cd e
waters were ever coming and receding Just as
he was in the act of taking drink"
AMONG the relics appertaining TO the dscov
cry of America brought out in connection with
the Columbian celebration" said the Spanish
consul a. Baltimore rec ntly 60 an 3pieriodl
writer, is the first geographical chart Of Amer
lea, W icl is preserved in Spain. Fhe chart is
in the posse sion of the Naval museum Of Ma
drl aud ) said TO De the original autocraph OF
tn, navigator Juan de la Cosa, plot OF re
uo@ned reputation In his time, and OF
waom Columbus had very high opinion.
Puerto de Santa Maria IN the year 1900
but Juan de la Cosa, who accompanied CO.
lumbus as pilot or sailing master on his first
and second voyages, was at work on 1t durin Z
the voyage with Alfonso de Ojeia in I499. Il is
said to be the best Of all ancient universe maps
in its correctness and extent of its newly dis
covered territories and has the reputation Of
being the first mara nlundi eCtant, showing, 90
known in 300, the whole Of Europe and Africa
q great portion Of Asia and the America 1ust
then discovered. 1t was executed with great
precision, and is luxuriant in gold and color
Ing"
THE star showers of 1888 were very alarming
to all classes of people, for st that time the
causes of the phenomenon we're little, II at all,
understood, and most persons who witnessed
the display felt sure the world was coming to
an end, says writer in the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. One old man in Georgia. not far
from the present city of Atlanta, owned a
large number OF slaves, and the night Of the
most gorgeous display was awakened by their
screams and prayers On looking out, he was
almost as greatly frightened as they were, for
he thought the stars were really falling. De-
termined, however, to get at the truth
he fixed his eyes on the North star
and through the showers of meteors
watched It intently. LAS long as 1t remained in
its place, he said II was hopeful, but if It had
gone l would have believed that the end had
come" A great many devoutly believed that
the day of judgment had arrived, and the
praying done that night by both white and
blacks in the south was unprecedented. The
scare las ed for some time and took peculiar
phases. In one town in Virginia the stock OF
Bibles held by local bookseller was all sold ont
before O'Clock the next day, while revival
services began in hundreds of towns and were
kept up for weeks. Men who had not for years
paid the preachers a cent came up and sub
scribed literally to the parsons salary, and all
the churches had a large increase in member
ship.
MEDIEVAL SONGS and legends, which are rich
in all sorts of mythical aud fantastical lore
locates the entrance to St. Patrick's famous
''Purgatory' on the island Of Tough Derg Ire
land. The opening itself was through cave
the existence of which was revealed to the saint
by Christ, who informed the good Patrick that
any one with the moral courage to go down
into the cavern would be saved the pangs of the
real "Purgatory'' after death Patrick built
| monastry at the entrance OF the earthly 'Pur-
gatory" and secured the way to the pit by an
iron gate provided with strong chains and locks
Tough Derg, next TO Jerusalem, was the
most celebrated spot on earth during the
middle ages, when superstition ranked
in the minds OF saint and sinner
and pauper and Rrandee alike.
| Thousands visited 'Purgatory" every year and
| the whole island had the appearance of popu-
| lous city. In the year 1853 Henry of sSltery
| wrote the celebrated poem TO which large
share Of the fame Of Tough Derg and "Purga-
tory is due 1t described the adventures OF
one Sir Oywayne Miles and the wonderful
| sights he saw while expiating his many crimes
| at the Tough Derg cavern. This poem was
translated into all European Languages and is
| believed to have given Dante the cue for his SIN
ferno" After 1910 reported visits to this island
purgatory are rare. A few pilgrims Of course
| continued TO make annual trips TO the cavern
and publish reports Of what they had seen
and heard during visits to tie neither world
Liberal minded individuals with nerve enough
TO make the trip returned without having seen
or heard anything savoring OF the eKtraordi-
| nary. Others reported that they saw and heard
nothing during their waking hours, but they
were haunted with wonderful dreams when
they fell asleep, different In many respects"
they said, from those We we're accustomed 70
when at home At last. in 1916 a monk from
Holland visited the shrine and reported that
the place differed 10 no particular from an or
binary cavern. This was the last straw. The
pope ordered the monastery destroyed and the
mouth Of the cavern closed This was done on
81. PatricE's day, 1877 So en- cd 81. Patriek's
"PurRatOry. one Of the grandest sami Christian
hoaxes known " history,