Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-19
tIlIed. imported and consumed in the

titled, imported and consumed In the
United Kingdom during the year 1881.
They give total dlstiilation Of 39,264,S 81
gallons, Of which 1O,623, SOB were distilled
in England, 1s,99S, 4S7 in Scotland, and
9 642. SIG in Ireland. Duty was paid on
%. n, 1926 gallons, and 8,730,7l9 gallons
were nsumed-l7. GA 1857 gallons In Eng
land, 6, 562, 259 in Scotland, and ), l23, 493 in
Ireland. The amount in bonded stores at
the end Of the year was 40, 354,5l0 gallons,
of which 1853, 1873 were IN England, ~, 10, .
464 In Scotland, and 20, S77 ,9l3 in Ireland.
George William Curtis, in 1855, became a
silent partner in the business firm OF DIX,
Edwards q Co., the publishers OF Fts'''0''' 5
Noathla. He invested $4,000 in the con
Germ, but had no part In its ~. CIR
Sr,o' Yea rs later the firm failed, ana M. y -.
80 t5rough some informality in drawing ~ -
~ articIes of partnership, was ueciAls" ~ "
~. 1e -, resnousible for poFtion VI Hs
100 uanv of his friends nelo tnat ne was
~ bound beyond the SlO,VVO' ana urgeo
Rim TO test the question ID ihe courts M
I IIur refused, although his decision in
OC+,ad the assumption by him Of debt Of
sI00 600. He surrendered all his property.
Ia sixteen years, by most aTduous labor,
writing and lecturing, he paid the last dol
lar of the debt.
Candidates for baptism are not generally
escorted to the water by an armed guard in
order to keep them from running away.
An exception to the usual custom was re-
Gently made at Frankfort, KY, Ia the case
OF about thirty inmates Of the penitentiary,
who had been led by the eXhOrtatiOns OF
Evangelist Barnes to see the error OF their
Wav and to repent. These converts rode in
wagons to the river, the guards accompany
ing them with loaded rifles, and ready to
rour voliey of cold lead into any believer
who should take 8 notion either TO swim
away or to run. The immersion was per
formed IN safety, and in as decorous man
ner as was consistent with the extraordinary
circumstances. The baptized brethren were
duly returned to their places within the
prison walls, and the penitentlary ecnoed
with the sounds of praise, as did the Jail at
Philippi, where Paul and Silas sang hymns
at night eighteen centuries ago.
A remarkable bicycle ride has recently
been accomplished by the Hon. l. Keith
Falconer, the distance travelled being from
Lands. End to John o. Groat's House, in Great
Britain. He left the Lands End Hotel
early on the morning Of Monday, June .,
and traversed Cornwall rapidly. The De-
vonshire roads were difficult; but those In
Somersetshire gradually improved, and the
Journey through the centre of England was
rapid. With the Yorkshire journey began
q continuous series of northwest winds, In
creasing as he drew near the border, ana
when he entered Scotland attaining the VIC
lence of a positive gale. GA Saturday, une
II, he started for the last time, rode along
the coast of Sutherland, mounted the ora OF
CaiUhness before the sun had set, reached
Wick few minutes after midnight, anu oY
twenty minutes after three on the
morning OF Sunday, June Is, he
was knocking at the door OF John
o. Groat's Hotel. The distance was
exactly 1894 miles, and the time occu-
pied twelve days twenty-three hours and q
quarter or. speaking roughly, thirteen days.
The last 3l5 miles were ridden In forty-tWo
hours.
1t was understood some weeks ago that
the Derbyshire memorial to Lord Frederick
Cavendish would be a chapel for the Derby
County School, but it has since become
doubtful If the memorial will take this
form. In this school the family already has
shown a warm interest. The Duke, from
the time it was started, has taken special
note Of its progress; Lore Harrington not
long ago formally opened it's new class
rooms, and Lord Edward CaVendish is one
of its Presidents. With the town of Derby,
the family lave long been closely allied. In
its chief church is their vault beneath the
chancel, the coffin OF Georgina, Duchess of
Devonshire, being enc of the coflins that its
walls contain. Since the last Duke was
buried, however, bY his own request, 10 the
chuIchysrd Of Edensor, adjoining Chats
worth Park, no member Of the family has
been laid to rest in the Derby vault 1t has
been proposed that a monument to Lord
Frederick be erected ia ct. Margaret's
Church, Westminster, by subscriptions from
members of the House OF Commons, but
the responses to the proposal are not hume
rous. Among many there is a rooted dis
like to st. Margaret's, as an obstruction 10
the beauty and convenience OF the neigh
borhoOd. Possibly a memorial tablet will
be set up IN the abbey instead.
While the Sunday schools, apparently,
are growing in strength and usefulness every
year, they seem to be making no very great
progress in the quality Of the songs which
are taught to their scholars. Each year
vast crop Of new tunes and verses is brought
forth, and each year the melodies seem to
grow fimsier and the poet more trashy.
The Sunday School Times, Of Philadelphia, in
its last issue, reviews no less than fifteen
collections of songs for the schools,
and gives some idea OF their con-
tents. 1t complains of the tunes in
nearly all of these books, either
that they are reminiscent OF operate airs
and popular songs designed for anything but
religious praise, or that they are mere
jIngles. written by persons ignorant of the
principles of musical composition. Much
fault is also found with the verses, and the
writer of the article takes particular excep-
ton to the rhyming of white and life,
which recalls the Western Journalists com
plant that Walt Whitman rhymed purple
with smoke-stack. But the worst of all the
songs appear to be those inspired by the
cause of total abstinence from rum. For
instance, the following is given as a speci-
men verse Of temperance hymn;
Little drops OF claret,
Now and then at first,
Forms an awful habit,
And dreadful thirst"
II this is fair sample of the songs fur
nished for Sunday school work nowadays, It