The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

C. P. BAILEY Of San Jose. the leading i'm
porter, breeder and dealer of Angora goats in
the United States, and who has for years kept
herd of Angoras at soledad. estimates that
bis clip OF mohair this year will reach IS 900
pounds, of a value of $1,000. The total num-
Der of goats and kids in Mr.. Balley's different
herds is said to amount to $4,000.
VEaETATIoN in the Alps recedes downward
from year TO year. Formerly Alpine roses
grew at an altitude of 600 feet. Now they are
seldom found higher than 800 feet and are at
that hight stunted. Beeches have gone down
70 goo feet. Various berries which once flour
ished 2, 800 feet above sea level, do not grow in
higher attitudes now than $500 feet.
ITALY. country which furnishes England
with so large supply of organ-grinders. has a
national law by which the whole iiinerant class,
whether peddler. rag merchant, shoeblack or
musician, together with list of others, are re-
CURED to enter their names on register, and
TO obtain certificate from the police. Regis
tration may be refused to young persons and to
suspected characters.
THE quickest bridge building on record was
done by an engineer named Dredge who, IN
eight days, put an iron span across the Black
water in Tyrone county, Ireland. 1t was eev-
entY-four feet in length. Dredge died before
the popular agitation was begun in Philadel-
phia for a modern bridge across the Schuylkill
at Walnut street. That project was discussed
for quarter OF a century. The Sohuylkill at
Ills pOiub ID uCcp9f LDaQ In6 bTOnX ana nearly
as deep as the Harlem river.
RECENTLY as Desk Sergeant Lawler Of the
Twenty-second street Chicago police station
was going home to supper he was told that two
young boys had stolen lot Of harness and q
horse and were hiding IN o barn in the rear Of
1897 Wentworth avenue Breaking into the barn
he found Fred Cusing, aged ~ years. who REL
sides at 2,70S Wentworth avenue and Joseph
Keller, aged Is, living at the corser OF Twenty
fourth street and Stewart avenue buried In the
straw fest asleep. quantity of harness. the
property OF Adolph Silver, was recovered. This
morning Justice Gleunon held both boys to the
criminal court In $500 bonds. The boys say
that they intended going west to kill Indians
and free captive maidens
LovG before the advent Of the white man In
California forest fires ragged, and from recent
discoveries it is probable that giant trees were
thus destroyed. in comparison to which our
much-lauded sequolas and redwoods Of the
present are but saplings. In 1879 Commodore
Apetsby Catesby Jones, United States navy,
established small saw-Tnlll in the Mill valley
for the purpose Of getting out lumber, there
being n % saw mills In operation on the coast a
the time fcw remnants Of this old mill still
remain, the locality being about six miles from
Sausalita, on the North Pacific Coast railway.
Close by this mill there can to-day be plainly
traced the outline Of tree destroyed by fire.
perhaps ages ego. The stump still meas
ures fifty two feet In diameter, and from
appearance perhaps once measured
fully 60 feet. Around this mammoth stump
had grown immense trees, which were cut and
used in the saw-mill IN 1s49. Since then third
growth has been made, the sight of which would
make glad the heart of any lumberpan. The
stump was measured last week by Edward A
7. Gallagher the pioneer. who lost his reputn.
ton for veracity in lS49. when his description
of the sequo!as OF California was published In
| the eastern papers, in which the statement was
made that his employees had driven wagon and
! yoke of oxen through a PROSTATE tree that was
| buTued hollow, and they would drive for 100 feet
| and gee off, and out through knot hols. At
the same time the statement was made that he
| had felled tree Il feet in diameter and had
used the hollow of one that was standing In
| which to stable thirteen head Of horses.
"AT THIS WRITING Memphis contains one of
| the most distinguished visitors whom she has
ever had occasion to entertain" says the
| Appeal AUaldnche Of that city. "This Is a gen
tleman named Tarlton Hall, who is at present
sejourning in the county Jail. Mr., Hall was
| born in Kentucky about twenty-four years ago
| on the hcadH ateFs of Bent creek, according to
| his own statement Nothing happened TO bin
| untti he was II years old, when he inaugurated
| the infant industry OF homicide. Since then 10
| must be Acknowledged by the most captions
that no has improved his opportunities we'll
| aud to-day he stands without a peer in his
chosen profession AT first he was presumably
| little awkward in appropriattpg human life
| but ne has become more deft and graceful
| every year, and now he can Justly lay claim
! to being an artist. Mr.. Hall informe cd
. gAu Appcut-d Top0CkSE J0Ab ne h60
ksiled ninety.nine men in the coures
IOf his life. He has done much to diversity the
monotinoHs existence OF the people Of . canes
| see. Kentucky aud Virginia. and he has lent his
powerful aid to the establishment of chaste but
popular cemeteries in TIRES states. Some peo-
pie have concentrated all their mind and ener-
| gy upon the making Of money; some have
| originated railway systems, and carved ther
way to fame and fortune thereby; some have
won wealth from the earth, and others have
| achieved greatness in the learned professions
| But Mr.. Hall is a self-made homicidRl artist,
| who has won a name for himself by n close at
| tenton to detail and an ambition to excel all
| the other people of his time. The best test OF
| the sincerity of his devotion to his profession is
| found in the fact that he is to-day a Door
man. Mr. Hall is now wanted in Viz.
| Rinia for the killing Of a policeman, and he
| will probably 20 back thore to answer the
| Charge. We notice in some quarters a disposi-
| ton to impugn the veracty Of the distinguished
visitor when he admits that he has killed ninety
| nine men. We want it distinctly understood
| that we are not among those who question the
| truth of his statement We have commented
| upon Mr Halls advent in our midst with ali
possible delicacy, for we do not desire to saw
l anything TO hurt the feelings Of man who has
| scattered tombsGones hither and yon and can
| point with pride to ninety nine epitsphs as a
l collective monument to his industry. Nobody
knows when Mr.. Hall may take IL into his head
to round out q clean 100, and we rather tn at
ninety nine innocent persons should perish than
that we should be chosen for the hundredt h
place. We wish our distinguished guest a sue
| cessful journey out Of the state and a safe
y ~ till