Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-18
GENERAL NOTES.

| The present VAlue OF Tue properly u '1S
Trinity Church corporation in New York is
estimated at 100000.
Ohio, with over 100000 of people, hss
only $4,000 paupers, who cost the State
something over 100000 yearly.
A convicted horse thief gave New Haven
LAWYER a sail boat for defending him, and it
now proves that the boat was stolen.
The Canadians have nsturalized "bull-
dozen and fgerrymander," and are using
them as freely and as Indignantly as any
political paper on this side of the line.
At the gate of the cemetery at Avignon,
in France, the parents OF a child certified to
have died of Group insisted on having the
coffin opened to take last look. The child
was found breathing, and was expected TO
be saved.
A woman in Berks county, Pa, has been
found guilty of being ga common scold."
The court sentenced her to twenty-four
hours imprisonment and a fine Of 81, 10
which was added further sentence of ten
DAYS In Jail for being "a common mischief
maker"
Jumbo had a distinguished success in
Washington. At the Presidents reception
the other evening, Mr.. George Bancroft was
heard to earnestly congratulate Mr.. Arthur
| on having seen the great elephant; and the
President responded with animation, And
did you see him, toog"
The first cherries Of the season appeared
In the San Francisco market May l, and
were sold at 81 per pound. They were of
the variety known as the purple GuigDor-
a very early cherry-and came from Vaca
valley. Last year the first cherries appeart
on April Is, and sold for 81 % per pound.
The Gear never receives anybody after l
O'Clock. The remainder Of the day he
spends in the palace sub-celler. locked in
Marvingovski ire-proof safe, clad in his
cast-iron ulster. He received Lieutenent
DanenhoWer at 2, however, on that gentle
man making an affidavit that he wasn't
| Nihilist.
Mrs. Scoville, in an interview with re-
porter, announces her intention Of lecturing
| till she secured 100, 900 signatures to petit
| ton for the Communication Of Guiteau's SEN
tence from hanging to imprisonment. She
| threatens to apply for q divorce from her
husband, and alleges that Moody and San
KEYS revival made her brother insane.
An advertised feature Of a st. Louis
charity fair will be the beauty of the women
present. Complimentary tickets have been
sent to some official in every town within
| five hundred miles, with the request that
they be given to the prettiest girls he
| knows. II is supposed that this will insure
an unexampled exhibition of city and rural
| bellies.
OF the new steward at the White House
| the Cincinnati Enquirer remarks: "Crump
has had to go, and Hon. Howard VIII
liams takes his place at the White
House range. 1t is said that Mr.. Williams
can boil an egg to the Queens taste" The
| Chicago Times wickedlY adds: sit is more
| to the point that he shall brew punch TO
| the Presidents liking"
The Yale Association of Colorado have
raised considerable fund to aid studious
| youths from that State in acquiring an edu-
cation at Yale College. The boys in the
| Denver High School have been told that
the association will gladly pay the tuition Of
any of them who may 60 to Yale, aud that
to those deserving and needing 1t some
| other assistance may be given.
One of the prominent uses OF trees lately
developing very rapidly appears to have
been overlooked by the Forestry Conventions
we refer to the use made Of them by lynch
ing parties. The Forestry Convention should
| adopt q resolution on this point applying to
/
nous % the soil. American traditions must
be preserved.-LO1GtSOAe Courier Journal.
A wealthy New Yorker has had a remark
able experience with an agent to whom he
gave charge OF q dozen cottages in New
| Jersey. While his employer was In Europe,
the agent repaired the cottages several
| times pulled them down and rebuilt them
| of stone, then altered them to brick build
| do oll,r 81 fba
The result is bill of $500, 900 for ''Iepairs."
Stealing gas is rather novel crime.
Robert w. strachan was charged in Jefer-
son Market Police Court, New York,
on Saturday morning last, with
larceny of Illuminating gas. Charles F.
| Marsh, agent of the Manhattan Gas Com
pany, said that Strachan had tapped the
| company main in Twenty-eighth street,
opposite his stove store, and used the gas
for several months without detection.
Strachan was held for trial.
Arrangements had all been made ready
two weeks ago for turning the first sod Of
the Corinth ship canal. King George and
the royal family, NJ. Tricoupis and his Minis
| terial colleagues, and the Greek Metropoli-
tan, with other Bishops, were announced to
be present. Three steamers had been char
to the Gulf. King George was to use sill
yer spade to cut the sod, and the Queen WAS
| to fire train of forty seven dynamite mines
| in the rocks on the line. To commemorate
these ceremonies marble column Is TO be
set up.
The appurtenances OF the old imperial
stables in Paris were announced fortnight
ago for sale at auction. Among them are
troughs Of marble and stalls of carved oak.
An embargo was laid upon these articles
after the fall of the empire, and It is only
| recently that the ex-Empress was given
possession Of them after an inquiry by the
government. Among the carriages is one
that was damaged by bombshell In the
Ocsini attempt at assassination, the EN-
peror and Empress having ridden In 1t to
the opera house on that occasion.
The crown jewels Of France, which are to
be sold at auction, with certain exceptions,
have been in the courts for some months,
and a decision is now rendered concerning
the disputed points. Among the condemned
objects are the crown of Napoleon III. and
the swords of Louis XVIII. and the Due de
Berri, all Of which will be melted down.
Jewels which have scientific value will be
preserved ia the Museum Of Natural History
! or in the School of Mines. 1t is estimated
derived from the sale. The sum will be de-
voted to works of public utility and to the
relief OF sick and disabled workmen.
A description of the method of observing
meteors at the summit of the PIy de Dome
has been read by NJ. Alluard before the
Academy of Sciences, Paris. A circular
terrace with baiustrade has been formed
around the tower. The balustfade ia di-
vided into 800 degrees, the north being
marked 0, and the localities all around are
referred to this a-sdstion. Two ,rrestrisl
telescopes are supp }rt, on Shsrlots run
ming Cd rails round the terrace. Geographi-
/ cal maps are constructed having conceniric
circumferences round the Puy de Done.
The origin and course of any meteor, thun-
der storm, mist, ETC., are easily aud accu-
rately observed.
| Christian 7. schaefer, Hessian traveller
of wide and strange experience, has recently
died in a lunatic asylum near Sydney, Aus
/ traIia or delicate frame and long aft cted