Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-06
cENERAL NOTES.

The Citizens Committee who we're
charged with the entertainment Of the
Grand Army of the Republic in Baltimore
find they have an unexpended balance OF
s., 600, q somewhat unusual experience.
What they snail 60 with 1t is now agitating
them.
A Colorado constable had warrant for
the arrest of q circus man for an alleged as
sault, but the circus man betook himself to
the lions cage, and safely ensconced therein
tainted that constable and invited him in.
The constable withdrew with his warrant
Unserved.
A writer In the Cambridge (Mass.) Tribune
says that Mr.. Henry W. Longfellow headed
with $50 the subscription for the first
c aariIy kindergarten that was gathered in
America, and tc st 1t was much to bis regret
that he was unable tnrouFh previous lease
to permit a youths garden TO be made ID
the field opposite his house, under the
superintendence of q competent bttanist,
who wished to make 1t scientifically useful
TO the boys Of Cambridge.
According to the Mobile Register, on last
Monday week large and most interesting !.
water spout appeared in Mobile Bay on
Point Clear. 1t lasted some iteeh minutes,
.Ne,,r,tnc, many fantastic shapes IN that
60 Tvsen If aDpeared to break loose from
~ clonds above and fall gradually over into
,be nav Il occupied position on the out
sEirts of small ami light shower Of ran
t5at was falling, the sky being clear in ali
other directions.
Justice William Ramsey, Of the Supreme
Court of New York State, who lately
sentenced man to be hanged on Thursday,
said to an tuquiring reporter of the Roches-
ter Post Express that he had never been able
to ascertain the particular time when Judges
commenced to order the execution Of capt
tai sentences on Friday that for many years
hangirgs were fixed upon any day OF the
week except Sunday, and that ne was CON
WINGED that the Gus ON Of selecting Friday
is Of comparatively recent origin.
A letter from Des Moines, Iowa, to the
Chicago Journal, dated June 26, says: Last
Monday week s. NJ. Danlsup, of this city,
went to GrinneU to view the scene of the
cyclone, and took his little son Willie, Aen
wears old, with him Among those killed
tv the storm was a little cousin of Willie's.
Willie was shown the MANNED and disig-
ured remains of the boy. Beyond marked
taciiurnity he gave no evidence of having
been much affected by what he saw, but
arriving at home gradually became uncon-
scious, and died the ut XII morning"
The recent anniversary Of Waterloo
June 1S-was duly celebrated in England
and elsewhere throughout the Queens
domlnions by every regiment that had a
part in the memorable fight. A feature of
the observance was the decoration of the
colors with laurel. In Chelsea College as an
In -ea-acf hF1f ,F
now remains. His name is John Mackie,
and he vas present at q Marlborough House
parade on June Is b, receiving great atten-
ton. His age is 81, and he is said s.ill 10
retain all his faculties. In various other
pIrts of England there are living several
other survivors Of the battle.
The New Orleans (La) Times Democrat
announces that Msior Burke, its editor and
the State Treasurer, who vas wounded in
the rec mt duel, has recovered sufficiently
to resume the duties of the latter Office.
the same D. per says, in the same coDnec-
ton, that Q bill has been reported In the
Legislature of the State, and passed In the
House to third reading, which prohibits
ca lenges and duels, under penalty of from
$500 to 81 090 fine and Imprisonment for six
m )nths 10 one year. The bill makes It the
duty of Judges OF the Criminal District
Courts throughout the State to charge grand
juries specia ly as to this acs.
The excavations In the Roman Forum,
yhich we're begun in February last, have
been brought to a olose-the precise worl X
then had in view having been accomplished
in ifty~eight days. Altogether, some
2S4 600 cubic feet of rubbish have been
carted away, and II 600 square feet Of an
rFa IafI bo 20. ~.
the completion Of this work that was cele-
brated on the recent anniversary OF the
foundation OF the city when the population
for the first time since the fall Of the empire
of the =, iars were permitted TO walk over
the entire length OF the gscra VIA from its
bsginbing at the colosseum to its end nj the
capitol.
An Rsglish curate has been found guilty
OF polching and fined ten 0olls.s and costs,
in default Of paying which he must go to
jail for a month. His name is William E.
Remfrey. Mr. Remfrey and g med cal
assistant named Wallace were out dining
one day near an estate belonging TO Lord
Halifax. Mr.. Remfrey, seeing hare, fred
at and captured it, taking it away. Lord
Halifax's gamekeeper, who happened to st e
the deed committed, followed the men, and
Remfrey, he says, offered him money II he
would say nothing about it. This the game
keeper declined, aud the young men accord
ingly found themselves in court. The fne
of ten dollars vas iWpoFed upon each OF
them.
English Ideas OF enjoyment on holiday
are somewhat peculiar. 1t appears, from
evidence given at the Inquest of drowned
girl, that on Whit Monday some roughs
who as5 hired a boat on the river Lea
amused themselves 10y endeSvOfi1g to upset.
the other boats. They at last succeeded In
cspsizing one, in which were three young
men and three girls. Two of the latter
we're d-oWned-their male companions
thinking only OF their own safety, and not
making the slightest effort to save the girls.
The numerous boats around the SPOT where
the accident occErred we're all pulled off by
their occupants, the WON 10 them Shrek
ing to the men to row away, lest the drown =
ing girls should clutch at them.
Shortly after the queens recent depart
ure for Balmoral, an inquisitive American
newspaper correspondent in London asked
Mr.. Lowell, the American Minister. to get
her ticket to Her Msiesty's private apart
ments at Windsor. "Waat fol 2" demanded
he; "you don't mean to say you would
write a description OF her upholstery ?" The
correspondent admitted that such was her
Intentions "because people are always in
terested In s1oa things" "Well, +" sa d Mr..
Lowell, with flashing eyes, 81 would not
write such things to please people. would
starve first. No, will not get you tick It
to the Queens private apartments. | do
not believe in such things. Write about the
things you see In the streets, write cbout
anything or everything, but leave upholstery
and furaitgre alone"
There lives at Tangiegs, IL Morocco, a
French photographer who bias Just received
froIR tae Sultan an extremely interesting
commission. 1t is nothing less than 10
photograph the wives of His Highness, and
as there are 1854 of them-only a single wife
short of one for every day in the year-the
lucky photographer has task before him
that may justly be set Gown as uni4u ne. The
Sultan also directs that the portraits be in
closed in an album having lock and key,
and that the key be kept by himself alone.
Possibly this photographer will be shrewd
enough to keep his negatives; surely no
great tag woHld be required to do this, for
what does the Sultan Of Morocco know
about negatives And ALMOST aay photo
grapher possessing such negatives might
make his small fortune with them 10 Eu-
rope.
The memory Of old time politics will be
revived shortly In western New York by the
erection at Batavia OF statue OF William
Morgan, the assailant of Freemssonry. A..
&. Hredenburg, sculptor of Kingston, has