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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19

Havana, Oct l5-InspectOr Solano Of
the police force here to-day arrested an
American named Hodges. who is wanted
by the American authorities for crime
committed la Jacksonville, Fla Hodges
camo t0 Havana on thostcamer Mascottc
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
blew out the Gas ana DIED.

Chicago. oct. ls-A w. steinbloch.
his daughter Ida, aud his son William
were sunOcated Dy gas last night 40 the
Kaiser hotel. The dead bodies were dis
~ the worlds fair from Hampton, Ia 10
10 supposed they blew 0ut the gas
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
Disabled OF Charleston.

Washington, Oct 1S.-A dispatch from
Charleston, S. c., to the life-saving ser
vice here, reports the Spanish steamship
G. Golden, from Barcelona, TO New York,
living partly disabled off Charleston bar.
Part of her propeller is gone. All are re-
ported well on board.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
UNCLE SAINTS NEW eUNBoArs.
A Petition Asking That They be Built
at Newport News.

Norfolk, Va, Oct. 1S-The business or
ganizations of this city, the chamber of
commerce, Merchants and Manufacturers
association and Business Mems associa-
tion to-day passed resolutions asking the
Secretary of the Navy 10 award to the
Newport News shipyard the contract for
building the three new gunboats, for
which the Newport News Company was
the lowest bidder.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19

Baltimore, oct ls.-The directors Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany to-day declared "a semi-annuai diyi-
dend Of - per cent
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
A RACE WAR SCARE.
Negroes Threaten to Lynch a White
Murderer in Arkansas.

Little Rock, Ark, Oct. 1s.-Negroes
and whites in Perry county are arming
and a race war is imminent. On Monday,
J. B. Scalion was convicted of making
away with a negro, John Oliver, who was
suspected Of robbing a store on Scalion's
place about the middle Of September. A
courier reached this city late yesterday,
brinpinp information that the negroes OF
Perry county had armed themselves and
,vero conQregating around Perryville, and
serious trouble was feared Whites we're
making for the scene
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19

Memphis. Tenn, Oct. ls.--Mrs. G.: w
Co0por. wife Of respected farmer living
ben miles south VI jackson, Tenn was
beaten aud outraged by Jim Davis, o me-
pro brute. while alone at her home Mon
dag. A posse is securing The country
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
Cholera at Antwerp.

Washington, Oct. 1S.-A cablegram was
received at the marine hospital bureau
today from Surgeon Roseman at Ant
werp stating that cholera had again ap-
peared, there having been five cases and
three deaths in the past three days.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
YELLOW FEVER OFF BOSTON.
An Infected British Steamer Arrives
From Mexico.

Boston, Oct 18.-Thirteen of the crew
of a British steamer which arrived here
yesterday from Progreso, Mex, are sick
with what is supposed to be yellow fever.
The vessel is held at quarantine and will
not be allowed TO come to the city until
the nature of the disease has been de
termined. Two Of the crew died at sea.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
GoUNoD DEAD.
He fingered in a Comatose Condition
Until Yesterday Morning.

Paris, Oct. 1s.-It was announced in
Paris yesterday evening that M. Gounod
had died from stroke Of apoplexy which
he suffered Monday, at his resi-
dence at, St Cloud. The report
was generally credited, as his physicians
had stated that his death was only q
question of few hours. Later it proved
that the report was premature. M.
Gounod fingered through in a comatose
condition un9il this morning, when he
died.
PARALYSIS OF THE BRAIN THE CAUSE.
The doctors in attendance upon M.
GounOd previous to his death say chat the
end was due TO paralysis of the brain,
largely caused by the great composers
obstinancy in adhering to work. The ex-
act hour of his death was 9 o'clock a. m.
M. Gounod became unconscious on Sun
day and remained in state of coma,
which increased in intensity each hour
until his death.
kilograms of sympathy have been pour
ing in upon the Gounod family for the
past two days, including among them a
message Of coincidence from the Queen of
Belgium, the Queen Regent of Spain and
the Countess of Paris.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
A CASHIER GOES WRONG.
He Used SIC, 900 of the Banks Funds,
but Made the Amount Good When
Caught.


but Made the Amount Good When
Caught.
Charlotte, N c., Oct 1S.-A special
from Salisbury to the Charlotte Observer
tells of the defalcation of Cashier l. H.
Faust, of the First National bank of
Salisbury, to the amount Of $4,000. The
shortage was first discovered by two
young men, the teller and bookkeeper,
respectively, of the bank, and reported to
the directors, who detained Mr.. Faust as
he was hastily leaving the bank Tuesday
afternoon. He acknowledged his short
age and made it good by turn
ing over to the bank all his property
real and personal, which will cover the
amount of the defalcation. His private
residence went with his other property,
and he is now penniless. w. G. Blackmer
was appointed cashier in his place.
Cashier Faust had covered his shortage
for several years by entering up foreign
banks as owing more to his bank than
was actually the case, or by entering his
banks account as owing less foreign
banks than it did owe.
FLIGHT HIS FIRST IMPULSE.
fight, but he is glad now he did not alb
for the Observer, frankly stating that he
wrongfully used the banks money, some
of it having been invested in Virginia
boom towns, Shendun and Glasgow,
which was a total loss to him. He says
he had badly managed his other invest
ments and had gotten deeply
into debt. He intended replac-
ing the banks funds this year
and believed he could have done so but
for the panic. No man stood higher in
the confidence of the community and much
sympathy is expressed for him. He says
he will remain in Salisbury, where he
married and has friends He is deeply
penitent and wept while talking with the
Observer reporter Cashier Faust was
never under arrest and win not be prose-
cuted, as he has made good his over
drafts.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
Lucy A. Stone Dead.

Boston, oct ls-Lucy A. Stone. the
woman's rights advocate died 10 1913
O'Clock tonight
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
FATALLY HURT AT THE FAIR
A Visitor Falls to the Ground From
an lntramural Railroad Station.

an lntramural Railroad Station.
Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. is.--A probably fatal
accident occurred on the intramural road
at the worlds fair to-day Duncan
Campbell, a wealthy citizen Of Rodney,
tramural train while the gates were
closed at the Mt. Vernon station. He
slipped and fell 10 the ground, suffering
conclusion OF the brain
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
Antwern,a Endemic.

Washington, Oct 1S.-Dr NJ J. Rose
nan cables Surgeon General Wyman that
there are five cases Of cholera az Ant
werp. This Is a new outbreak
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-19
InAEE NEW cAsEs AT LEsup.

~, up Ca, Oct is,-Three new cases
~ ,gg.er developed to-day, all white -R.
lliiA.aallt Wilberta Williams and Leah
lsgel patient was discharged j. H. Will
s.54. l'n!dall is the postmaster, and hls
sr-''1 development of the disease has
l5e... Rfelt sorrow aud sympathy iu
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
American Tramps.

Until the year 1873 the tramp was little known in America. Tn that year there was an entire collapse in our in- dustrial fabric. Banks toppled like a row of bricks; great commercial houses fell; manufacturing establishments employing thousands were closed for ever and the United States entered on the longest and direst period of dis tress ever experienced in the history of the country. About this time ap- peared the tramp or travelling beggar, a native American beggar; and began his strange career of independence, in- science and entire indifference as to the future. New recruits, principally young men without family ties, joined the army of stragglers. The tramps became most numerous in 1880, remain ing stationary for several years, and then began to decrease. The old army is still marching on, but is not ge tting so many recruits now among the young; and if the present state of things continues the ragged, dirty beggar who has for years been the terror of rural communities will in another dec- ade have passed away.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
THE NEW OPERATOR
He Thought the Moon Was Headlight .s-- and So Reported.

He Thought the Moon Was a Headlight and So Reported.
 It was a sleepy little Massachusetts town, but there was railroad running through it, and for the accommodation of few summer patrons of the line a station had been built, says the Boston Herald. The pooh bah of the place officiated as telegraph operator, station agent and yardmaster. Through some misunderstanding with the company one pooh bah had been discharged and sent upon his way with troubled conscience, and new operator had been engaged to fill his place. The new man, while he was a good operator and understood railroad matters well enough to take the position, was total ly unacquainted with the locality in which he now found himself. The tracks from the station stretched away through lot of farmland for about a quarter of a mile, then disappeared in the center of a dense forest of fir and spruce The first night that the new pooh bah was in charge he had just finished taking orders for a train that would pass the station about II o'clock, and he stepped to the station door to glance down the tracks. Far down at the edge of the woods that loomed up black against the lighter gray sky of the summer night he saw bright light, and, thinking it must be some special train that he did not know about, he turned the lever of the sem aphore and again stepped inside the of flee. Just as he did so the superin- tendent of the next station, who had been out driving with his wife, en- tered the main office door to inquire if all was well and how the new man was getting along. The operator spoke of the special train that was coming up the tracks, and the ''super" looked puzzled and went to the door. .
 "What special train do you mean?" he asked. ''I see none." -ei7tszsssssz i7ttzszssssse5.z
 ''Why, there it is, down by the black woods; don't you see the headlight?" replied the operator. .s=s-g-
 Headlight be hanged!'' growled the official. That's the moon rising through the woods at the end of the tracks --ss
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
 IngeRiously Lawless.

On property where the rabbit shooting was strictly preserved upon the southern coast of England, says a London correspondent, a boy wa once caught with two dead rabbits in his possession and nothing that would ac- count for their decease. A search of his pockets revealed nothing but two large crabs of small dimensions, the end of candle and box of matches. Under promise of release, the urchin was persuaded to disclose his method of procedure.
 First he selected a likely burrow, and then he stripped off his clothes, put ting his coat over one hole, his trousers over mother and his shirt over third He lit the candle end, dropped a little of the grease upon a crabs back, and stuck the lighted candle thereon, and then put the crab at an unoccupied opening. Straightway the frightened torchbearer fled sideways into the darkness. and explored the innermost depths, while the boy, eXpectant as a terrier. awaited events outside. Pres ently rabbit bolted into the coat, and boy, rabbit and coat rolled over togeth- CT, the boy rising from the fray with the rabbit in his clutches. What hap pencd to the crab, the history did not relate
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
A HOLIDAY-LovING PEOPLE.
The Colonists of New Zealand Prefer to
 Take Life Rather Easily.

The Colonists of New Zealand Prefer to
 Take Life Rather Easily.
 The colonists of New Zealand are a holiday-making people, says Pearson's Weekly. There is almost an average of one recognized holiday to month, and it is common practice for all working people to take two or more days at Christmas, the New Year and Easter, so as to make an unbrolzen playtime of three or four days, includ- ing Sunday. Then the great mass of the people give themselves up to amusement Horse races, athletic sports, boat races and excursions are carried on in every available spot, and are attended by large and well-behaved crowds. The commonest of all holiday amuscments, however, is the picnic. The several trades, sects and societies have picnics of their own, to which the public are cordially welcome on the payment of a small sum toward the expense of the entertainment. It is amusing to the railway traveller to note, as he passes through some pleas ant countryside, not one or two, but perhaps fifty different picnics in full swing, each numbering scores or hun dreds of guests It has been said with much more truth than is usually to be found in epigrams of this kind that ''in New Zealand people are like cattle. You need only to turn a number of them into a pasture and leave them alone and they will be perfectly hap py." On a warm and tempting New Years day an enterprising burglar might walk through New Zealand city and help himself, undisturbed, to the contents of most of the houses. Dwellings and streets are alike de- serted, and the casual sojourner who does not understand the ways of the place seeks in vain for some one to speak to. By six or seven o'clock in the evening the streets are lively with returning crowds. >s
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
HE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
The Cost Of CoIumbus' Eia5t Voyage Esti-
 mated to Have Been About S..5Oa.

The Cost Of CoIumtus' Fhst Voyage Esti-
 mated to Have Been About S..503. A German geographer, Prof. Ruge, has busied himself in attempting to an swer the interesting question what it cost to discover America. The records of the cost of the caravels themselves do not seem to be eXtant, but the arch ives of Palos show what was the amount paid for the actual expenses of the voyage. It footS up 1,140,000 mar avedis, but what was the purchasing power of the maravedi at the end of the fifteenth century, or how it can be translated into modern terms, seems much more difficult than in respect to the medieval coinage of some other countries than Spain.
 The researches of the German pro- lessor lead him to the conclusion, how ever, that the first voyage cost, as nearly as possible, S7, 800. The items of this expenditure are not less curious than the extreme modesty of the ag- gregate. The yearly pay of the ''ad- miral'' was S32O; of the captains, $192 each; of the pilots, from S132.50 to S153.50, and of surgeon, but S3S.35. The ships surgeon was then, apparent ly. as he sometimes is now, medical student who was more eager for ad- venture than for profit. As for the sail ors, their monthly allowance was some thing less than S2.50.
 Considering the revenue to Spain itself within the two centuries that followed the discovery in gold and sil- yer alone, the return from the outlay upon Columbus expedition makes that outlay perhaps the most profitable commercial operation in the history of the world, says the New York Times. The voyage itself will be admitted to have been astonshingly cheap. It is to be hoped that an accurate account has been kept and will be published of the expenses of the voyage which has just been made by the reproduced caravels, so that a parallel may be drawn in this respect also. Even from the fifteenth century point of view it is evident that the voyage of Columbus was too small an affair to attract the attention of the politicians. There was nothing in it for them. In fact, the outftting of tho expedition that discovered America was an undertal- ing so petty that it would not now att tract the cupidity of district leader. :"
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
LACE MAKING.
A School Near Venice Where the Art Is
 Taught.

A School Near Venice Where the Art Is
 Taught.
 A school of about three hundred and fifty Italian girls, wearing thenational costume and all industriously at work on exquisite lace, is pleasant and in teresting place to visit So writes Mime. de Boret, who visited a lace making school at Burano, an island in the Adriatic sea few miles from Venice. The girls, who are from ten to eighteen years of age, sit in great, barely furnished, well-lighted rooms, on low chairs, holding their lace frames on their knees.
 They wear a short, bright-colored petticoat, a green, red or orange fichu crossed on the chest, silver rings in their ears, and around the neck bead or coral necklaces. They have dark eyes, teeth like pearls, smiling red lips, oval faces, fine profles.sand black hair worn knotted in the back of the neck with a silver pin by the older girls, or in long ringlets by the younger ones.
 They draw their needles slowly and gracefully back and forth, and grave ly except when some girlish joke raises a storm of smothered laughter.
 The teachers superintend the work carefully, and the pupils make fine Venetian, Brussels, Alencon and Ar gentan point and guipure laces. They sometimes fill orders for veils worth five thousand francs. 4 lace drapery which was shown Mime. de Boret repre- sented a vast amount of work. Seven months had been spent in making the foundation for it.
 The price of the laces is fixed ac- cording to the time spent in making them, the rate being a franc day. The more skillful pupils add to their income by doing lace work at home also.
 They all like the school, and though the pay seems small for such fine work, it secures them a comfortable living, for little money goes a long way in the island of Burano. Queen Mar gherita of Italy has been a generous patron of the school
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
RAILROAD GROWTH.
Wonderful Progress Manifested During
 the Decade Just Closed.

the Decade Just Closed.
 In review of the progress of the dec- ade just ended as shown in the last census R. H. Edmonds says in the En- gineering Magazine:
 Railroad construction progressed rapidly during the decade. It is diff cult to realize that whereas we now have 17O,60O miles in operation we had only 9S,200 miles in 1880. At the end of 1890 we had 166,000 miles-a gain of 73,500 during the decade, or about So per cent. Thirty leading roads, which operated 31 300 miles of track in 1880 and hauled 96,OOO,OOO tons of freight, in 1890 operated 76, 400 miles and hauled 262, 900, 600 tons
 The number ot passengers carried by these roads increased from 5S. 400, 900 to 1S3, ,000 GOO. The number of locomo- tives on all the roads in the United States increased from F, 900 in 1880 to 32, 200 in 1890, and the number of pas senger, freight and baggage cars from 556,O0 to 1,O92, 000 The capital in- vested in railroads as represented by bonds and capital stock was a little less than S5,OOO, 100000 in 1880 and little less than 10000, ,O00, GOO in 1890.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
Men and Women in the United States.

Tn the United States there are thir- ty-two million men and thirty-one million women. Men are in the majority in all the states and terri tories except in the District of Colum- bia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, North Carolina, Maryland, Connec- ticut, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina, Virginia and New Jer- sey, in which there are more women than men. The District of Columbia has the largest proportionate excess of female population and Montana con- tains the largest percentage of men. In New Jersey the two sexes are most nearly equally represented.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
MILK CARTS IN .NCE.
They Are Always Drawn hy Dogs and
 Women.

They Arc Always Drawn by Dogs and
 Women.
 No matter now much an American has heard of foreign milk carts drawn by dogs, and often by dogs and women, it always seems odd to see such a strange team, says Harper's Young People. The dogs have pretty harness es, and draw bright green carts. but they look really unhappy. as if they had no pleasure in their work. They trot along with their tongues out of their mouths, and when they meet an- other dog they cannot even stop to bow to him. An American child would say: Poor doggie!' 1t is said that some countries have made laws prohib- iting dogs from working as mill1-car- riers, and in few years dog milkmen may be sight of the past. It is queer that there are so many kinds of milk cans in the world. In America milk is carried in glass bottles and in small round tin cans. In England a pretty tin mill-pau is used, furnished with a brass handle and a wide brass hinge to the cover. The handsomest mill1-cans in the world arc the great brass cans which are seen in the little European milk carts. They glitter like gold. and the froth of the white milk makes pearl rims upon the well-filled cans. It is no wonder that American artists take these cans home to shine in dark cor ners of their studios.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
Treasures from the Deep.

The sea cast up a unique bit of treas ure-trove before an alderman of Leeds, England, who was walking on the shore at Bridlington. He saw neat package coming towards him on the crest of wave, and on securing and opening it discovered that it contained a promissory note for fifteen thousand dollars and bank checks for twice that amount, all drawn in the year 1915. The papers are valueless, but are inter eSting as souvenirs.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
THE coLoRs oF euoYs.
Each One Bears Message to the Passin
 CafIa-

Each One Bears a Message to the Passing
 Sailor.
 When you enter any harbor in the world where the channel is marked by buoys you will find that those on your right, as you pass in, are painted red, and those on your left black. If you should see one painted in red and black horizontal bands the ship should run as close to it as possible, because that indicates the center Of a narrow channel.
 Buoys with red and black vertical stripes always mark the end of spits and the outer and inner ends of ex- tensive reefs where there is Q channel on each side. When red and black checkers are painted on a buoy it marks either rock in the open sea or an obstruction in the harbor of small extent, with channel all around.
 If there are two such Instructions and channel between them the buoy on the right of you will have red and white checkers and the one on your left will have black and white checkers.
 When a wreck abstracts the channel a green buoy will be placed on the sea side of the wreck, with the word wreck" plainly painted on it in white letters, provided there is a clear chan mel all around it; otherwise, an even number will be painted in white above the word wreck when the buoy is on the right side of the channel and an odd number if the buoy is on the left.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-09-07
Shots on Tnhnccn.

The pale round spots, about as large in circumference as a tack head, that one sees on cigars. now and then, are said to be caused by dew drops and rain drops, that act as burning glasses when the sun shines through them on the green tobacco leaf. Be that as it may, the florists declare that palms are often burned by knobs and corru- gations in the glass roofs of their greenhouses, as those irregularities tend to focus the suns rays. The eff feet of this strong heat on the palm leaf-which is as sensitive to heat as it is to cold-is to cause a rusty brown spot to appear on the green. Some times the apparent motion of the sun. in passing westward, will trace a line of scorch across the leaf. Other plants are less susceptible to sun rays.