The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-31

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The clergyman who is to undertake
to conduct Western newspaper on Chris
tian principles for week in March next,
says that during his occupancy of the
Sanctum no sporting news will be printed,
nor will any police reports get into type.
Every news item and advertisement will
pass under his personal supervision, so
that he can make sure that nothing in
furious shall be published. Every one of
the papers employees will have to attend
prayers at the beginning of each days
work.
An electric balloon for night signalling
is among the latest ideas, especially for
use in the Boer war. According to the
plan, the balloon, made of gold-beaters'
skins, carries d number of electric lamps,
which are connected by wire with an APP
paratus below. These lamps are flashed
at intervals cOrresp onding to the dots and
dashes of the Morse code, and on a clear
night can be seen 100 miles away. The
balloon may be sent up some distance from
an army, connection with the ground ap-
paratus being made by wire. The chance
of the balloon being hit by sharpshooters
is small, as 1t is sent up at night, and
unlighted so that when the signals are
begun it is out of range. A number will
be sent out to South Africa to be tested.
There is a possibility that the illness
of one of the jurors in the Molineux case
may lead to an important change in the
law affecting juries in this state, says a
New York letter. The sick juror is pro
crossing favorably, and will most likely be
in his place in court when the trial is re-
sumed on Monday. But the possibility of
his being unable to attend and of there
being a mistrial in consequence, has caus-
ed grave apprehension. 1t is suggested
that it would be well to have thirteen jul
rors for every important case. The thir
teenth man would sit and listen to the
! testimony but he would not be included
in the jury to render a verdict unless
one of the twelve should happen to be dis
abled. The recorder remarked yesterday
| that 1t would not be fair to impanel an
| other juror at this stage of the trial in
| the event of the sick juror not being able
| to go on, because the manner and per-
sonality of a witness had so much to do
| with influencing jury in making up its
verdict and all the jurors should be pres
ent throughout the trial. 1t is said that
a bill providing for thirteen jurors will
be introduced in the Legislature this ses-
sion Such a bill was introduced in the
| last Legislature, but was not passed.
professional as well as medical read
ers have been much interested in the re-
port made by Prof. Koch and his asso-
ciates concerning the virulent malaria "a
Grosetto, Italy, in July August and Sep
TENDER last says the New York Tribune.
The experience gained thus far shows
that the time of infection. which is the
really dangerous time, is the above nam
ed, showing that the malaria parasites
can live in only a certain kind of gnats,
as well as in man. The chief kinds found
in the neighOorhood of Grosetto, which,
according TO Prof. Koch, came under this
category, are the CuleX pipiens and Ano-
phees acknowledgements which only
attain full development during the hot
summer months, and consequently there
remain some eight to nine months during
which they must subsist on man alone.
Search was made in vain for malarial
parasites in other creatures. and it is man,
therefore. who remains the sole harborer
of this specific parasite, the Introduction
Of which takes place only during the short
summer, through The agency of grats
When the hot season comes there are so
many cases of malaria relapses that the
infection is easily thus spread forming
i'm fact, the binding link or bridge from
the fever season of one year TO that of
the next.
There is a man in indianapolis of the
name of Sampson Goliah. who. according
to Henry Holt, his attorney partakes to a !
considerable degree of the characteristics
of both his biblical namesakes, being of
large stature, strong as an OK with a
voice like the sound of many waters"
says the Chicago Record. According to
the records Sampson Goliah is a bad man,
but he demurs to that proposition and has
asked Representative Overstreet to intro
duce a bill to amend his reputation. He
was raised a slave in Kentucky and in 1863
betook himself to Massachusetts, where
he enlisted in Company A, Fifty-ffth
Massachusetts Infantry. During the fol-
lowin year while his regiment was en-
route for Hilton Head a lmutiny broke
out In the ship, and Sampson Goliah was
accused of participation in il. court
martial found him guilty and sentenced
him to confinement at Fort Finch, where
he remained until the expirati ton of his
term of enlistment. He was then dlshon-
orably discharged without pay. Sampson
Goliah says that all these years he has
been the victim of injustice, and that he
was punished for the offense of a man
named John Sylvester In 1881 Congress
man Peele got the House OF Representa-
tives to pass bill relieving Sampson from
the odium of the courtmartlal. but Gen
Logan defeated il In the Senate, and now
Goliah has attempted without success, to
interest Representative Overstreet, who
does not consider the claim a good one
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