The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-31
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and covering her with paraffine applied
torch. The woman was burned 70 death
in the presence Of her relatives
The japanese are much poorer patrons
OF the theater than their American cOus-
ms. In that country a man careful Of his
Irsputation seldom goes; a lady never.
formances by hiring a travelling troupe.
"A correspondent sends the New York
Tribune a clipping from an English
church paper, giving a list OF vacant bene-
nces. In the diocese Of Bangor the follow
ing 1aw-breakers are mentioned: 'Dwy-
gyfylchi-Cum-P eT,maenmawT, V. Gross
value tSls net value f2I6 and house; popu-
lation 2,74I PaTOn--A- Evil. I-ianfair-
pwllgwyngyllgOgery chwrndrobwlltysi
ogogOch-cum-Lllandis r. Gross
value $50 and glebe, net value f54 and
Bishop. Llechcynfarwy, V. Gross value
1850. net value f171 and house; population,
eum-LlanbedrgOch, P. c. Gross value f2s6.
net value f2l2 and house; population,
7,D6. Patron-The Bishop.
During the year 1884,, the Church of
England received voluntary contributions
to the amount of e. $50, $780, in addition TO
which fl, iS2, S9S was spent on building,
restoring and otherwise improving the fab
ric OF the church. In speaking of this, the
London Daily News says; This enormous
income from voluntary sources, with its
almost infinite possibilities of expansion,
throws a curious light upon the lamenta-
tons of those clergy who see in endow-
ments the only divinely appointed source
of their maintenance 1t is startling as
well as gratifying to note that the vOlun-
tsry contributions even in Wales exceed
the net clerical income by f54, 597, being a
much larger percentage than obtains in
england. London, by the way, sets the
best example Of generosity, the three do
ceses of London, Rochester and St AL
bans contributing the handsome total Of
Fl, 1893"
"A computation from Aveyron,
France, to La Nature, says: THE village
of Cransac is surrounded by burning
mountains. The Montet, which, according
TO local chrOniclers, has been on fire for
more than century, has now the aspect
OF veritable volcano. From its crater
like summit an intense volume of smoke
rises during the day, while at night a
multitude of vari-colored flames furnish
the glorious spectacle of a mountain on
fire. Actuated doubtless by the strong
winds OF the last few weeks, the fiery
element which had been consuming The
entire Montet mountain proper, mas
spread to the range. and has assumed
proportions which are very grave. Dur
ing very dark nights the blaze illuminates
the horizon as that of a great confiagra-
ton AT times blue white flames shoot up
TO considerable hight, giving the effect
about the burning Montet is that, when
ever a period of very cold temperature
ensGes, the mountain fire seems to grow
in intensity. All efforts to extinguish the
blaze, or even to retard its progress, have
been in vain. All that has been done 10
smother or quench the fire appeared 70
Dul increase the Jury OF the QeNOurlnB Gle~
ment. Its progress is increasing, and the
blaze never was as fierce as it is now"
We add that this fire is the sequel to q
conflagration that broke out in the coal
mines of Fontaines and Montet many
decades ago. jeanne mentions the burning
mountain in his Geographical Diction-
airy of France, 1884," as having been on
fire for a long time.
Nothing more ridiculous than some of
the Chinese military performances has
occurred even in opera bouffe, says the
New York Post: Here is.part of a procla-
nation issued by Gen. WI Ia Cheng TO
the Japanese forces advancing upon Shan
hai-kuan: Having perfected over fifty
battalions of Human troops at Shan-hai-
kuan for the last three months and given
my men thorough drills and armed them
with magazipe rifles. l am now ready to
proceed forth on my way to meet the
enemy and 1t is certain that within two
months decisive battles will be fought. BUT
now can you Japanese, exhausted by dis
ease and cold stand up against my fresh
| troops? You Japanese have young wives
and children at home who are weeping and
| longing for your safe return; you are but
! the tools of Ottori; you have been forced
! by CONSUMPTION to make your bodies re-
/ ceptacles for our bullets. When Won are
| victorious, your generals get all the praise
and honor; ii you get defeated, they es-
| am, however, of charitable state of
mind, and / cannot bear TO see you going
/ TO destruction before my fresh battalions
in this severe cold, through no fault of
/ =
! anese soldiers notice, If you should be de-
| feated and have no place to run away to.
wherever you should see my signal boards
| bearing the words Surrender and avoid
| DEATH, you may at once present your
selves to the Officers in charge, who are
also delegated to- the duty on account
| of their reputatioFfor charity and justice.
You must then THROW down your arms
! and PROSTATE yourselves before the signal
| You will then be received into our en-
! campments and given two meals a day
and exactly the same treatment as our
! own people. You will not be put to hard
labor ana when peace is restored, you
/ viii be. sent back in steamers to your
! homes to inert your wives and sons once
! more" 1t Nma4ns only to add that the
! japanese nevertheless advanced, and that
| Gen WI and hts braves bottled without
| firing a shot.
Pictures of southern bayous always
| show objects from ten to fifteen feet In
| length IN the act of swallowing negro
| babies, but few such animals are ever
seen in the northern geological gardens
! But when Superintendent Stephan was al
| New Orleans recently he saw one twelve
| feet IN length and priced it. He was not
| authorized to buy one, says the Cincin-
| natl Tribune, for the zoo already has sew
! eral small ones, yet when President Burk-
| hardt heards that such fine specimen
! was to be had. It was decided at once 10
! have 1t. The creature will be shipped "a
| Cincinnati within a few weeks. 1t will
| eat nothing but live dogs, and these will
! be furnished from gthe dog pound When
| it is thought the monster is hungry a home
! less cur will be put into the pen with it,
1 hoard VIII be extended over the water
/ and, following its natural instincts, the
/ dog will run out on the board and bark at
| THE alligator. Then there VIII be a sud.
! den snap and silence, and there will be one
! less dor on earth. The last meal this
! alligator had was a costly one. Its keeper
/ had prepared the board as usual and was
! going for a cur dog when his ret Eng
| lish pug suddenly became saucy and rar
out and barked from the board Tyhe
| keeper rushed back, but was only soon
enough to see the terrible jaws close on the
! beautiful pug, for which he had paid sos
ofDheh DeWJH DENCEt FRA FRAC
"A large number of persons have be-
| come converts to cremation on sanitary
! grounds. In Europe there are cremato-
| ries in Dresden, Breslau, Milan, Lodi,
| Brescia, Padua, Rome, Gotha, Denmark
| Belgium, Switzerland, Holland. Sweden
| Norway, Paris and England. The first ere
nation in the United States was on Dec
| 6, 1876, the body being that of Joseph
| Henry Louis Charles, Baron de Palm. The
cremation took place at Washington, Pa,
At this time there are crematories al
Washington, Lancaster, Pittsburg and
! Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania: BROOKLYN
| and Buffalo, in New York; Detroit Mich.
| st. Louis, Mo-; and in San Mateo County
and Los Angeles, Cal.
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