The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-11
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SENATORS HAwLEY of Connecticut and Glib
son Of Louisiana very much resemble each
other.
ONE Of Hon James G.. Blaine's recreatlons a.
Bar Harbor is hunting mushrooms in the early
morning.
WARD MoALLIsrzR has moved from Rich
field Springs with his family and taken up his
residence at Newport, where ne will remain
until October.
JOSEPH CoLwELL of Birmingham, Conn. wants
a wife, and offers to marry any good looking
girl who will make balloon ascension with
hun on Aug. 10.
NJ. PAULE, who recently died in Paris, was the
inventor of the peg top trousers which were
so much worn by American volunteer fire.
men ana village sports quarter or century
ago.
HORACE TRAuBEL Of Camden, N. j., will soon
make an appeal to the friends of the late Walt
Whitman all over the world for a fund where
with Go preserve his cottage as a memorial to
the dead poet.
THE HEIRS of Samuel j. Tilden have paid into
the state treasury OF New York the sum Of
Sl47, e33, the total amount OF taxes under the
collateral Inheritance tax law which was i'm
posed on the Tilden estate.
MISS Zoe GAYToN who has already made a
pedestrian record Of 1895 miles in 1877 days be
tween San Francisco and New York, now pro
poses to walk on wager of $50, 900 from New
YORK, via New Orleans, to San Francisco.
Mrs. Dora A, MILLER, well-known school
teacher in New Orleans has patented a black
board eraser. 1t is a small contrivance worn on
tue hand, and is considered so practical and
useful That the inventor has been offered S. 900
for the patent right.
EX-SENAToR VAN WICK, whom the Peoples
party of Nebraska has nominated for governor,
IS one of the pioneer settlers OF the state.
Before the outbreak Of the war he led
caravan of colonists from New FORK and pre-
empted a large tract of land near where the
thriving town of Nebraska City now stands,
Gen. Van Wyck himself owns fine farm of
800 acres.
PALMER OF Illinois, Carlisle OF Kentucky,
Sherman Of Ohio, Allison OF Iowa, Hunton of
Virginia, Higgins of Delaware and FELTON, of
California appeared in the Senate the other day
dressed in gray. Their clothes we're cut from
the same piece of cloth. Perkins of Kansas
wears a rather conspicuous light blue, Vest of
Missouri a cream coloTed costume and Black
burn OF Kentucky and Quay OF Pennsylvania
pure white.
COUNT ARTHUR DILLON, proprietor of the
Commercial cable, who has just begun suit
against John w. Mackay and James Gordon
Bennett for S20OO,OO0, is an Iishman with
French title, who lives in the duchy OF Luxem-
burg. Count Dillon belongs to a cadet'branch
OF the noble Irish family OF that name and his
rorbears sought refuge from the penal laws In
France. The count like Henri Rochfort, was
an ardent Boulangst, and is exiled from France
for that reason.
A NEIGHBoR and contemporary OF Sir Walter
Scott and James Hogg was John Douglas of
Selkirk, who died recently at the age Of d. He
was engaged for several years at the building
OF Abbotsford, aud often oOnveTsed With Sir
Walter, who, he said, had nae pride about
ham" Douglas was well acquainted with the
Ettrlck shepherd, and well RENE N beFed the
election riot at Sekirk, when the sheriff was
mobbed, He was Jealous radical in the old
days, and TOOK an active part in the oharttss
movement.