Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-04
GENERAL NOTE.

IS to meet in Paris this month. The Cham
bers have appropriated go, 600 francs toward
the expense that will be incurred BY the
French participants.
A San Francisco correspondent says
perhaps the most faVorite vine in the Cali
fornia wine belt is the Niagara, q white
grape said to be seedless. Somebody hst
patented this grapevine as an invention
The company that owns the patent makes
100000 year selling cuttings.
NJ. Krupp, the celebrated gun manufactu-
rer, is in Paris. His presence there recalls
the fact that at the exposition Of 1867 he
exhibited his great cannon. Marshal Nell
who was then Minister Of War in France
rejected it; but Won Moltke. with a trueI
insight, adopted It, and the result at Sedan
demonstrated his wisdom.
a sixteen-yesr- old girl sought singular
and painful death 10 Naples In consequence
of disappointed love. While her parents
were out she went into the cellar, built q
circular pyre Of straw and wood, hollow in
the centre, and then, stepping into the mid
die, set Il on fire. When the old people re-
turned they found the charred remains OF
her half consumed corpse.
Victor Hugo's latest predictions are that
France, Italy and Spain are destined 10 be
the foremost representatives Of civilization
that the Turks will be driven out of Europe
aud that the twentieth century Will see all
Africa civilized by means of the Mediterra-
mean powers, including England, owing to
to her possessions at Gibraltar.
The descendants of Alexander Hamilton
are reported to be entering upon litigation
over the distribution Of the estate of the
late Mrs. j. G. A Hamilton, which
is estimated at 81, 500 900 Mr.. John
G. Hamilton, the son of Alexander Hamil-
ton, died in July, and the lawsuit which was
threatened while be lived has been insti-
tuted. There will be general regret that the
domestic troubles Of historic family are to
be brought into court.
the Hon. Grover Cleveland, whom the
New York, is described as a portly but well
proportional man, with square shoulders
and erect carriage. His dark hair is grow
ing thin, and is stresked with gray. His
eyes are dark and brilliant. His face iE
smoothly shaven, save heavy, dark nous
tache, which droops over his mouth and
shadows his firm, rather prominent chin.
The LeavenwOrth Tunes reports that about
mile west of Mound City, on the Blue
Mound road, last week, man rode under 8
large oak tree to shelter from the shower
As he sat on his horse, with the animals
head near the tree, a stroke OF lightning
shivered the top and passed down the
trunk on the side toward the horse and
rider, tearing out wide belt to the ground.
The horse was instantly killed, while the
man escaped with very slight shock.
A new movement has been started in Ger
many to help Wagner carry out his plan OF
establishing a national dramatic school and
having an annual stage festival at BaYreuth.
The managers of German theatres, who,
without exception, derive their largest In
come from the performance Of Wagner's
operas, are 10 be invited to give an annual
performance of one of his works for the
benefit of Bayreuth. Director Stagemann,
Of Leipzig, has taken the initiative by de-
voting the proceeds of 'LOhengrin" night
to this OBJECT.
Mrs. Burnaby, wife of the hero of 'The
Ride of Khiva," is personally very unlike
her husband: being a trife over five feet
tall, while be stands SIX feet in his stock
termination. Lately she has been astonish-
ing Alpine climbers by her achievements in
that direction, having scaled Mont Blanc
twice in the course OF a week, first by the
Col de Geant and then by Les Aiguilles
Crises. The latter route is an especially
difficult one, involving the spending of a
night in the snow, but she safely accom-
plished it, and has now gone to the Italian
side of the Alps to attempt other and more
dangerous accents.
A Vienna journal mentions death that
has occurred in Warsaw In consequence of
wearing cinnamon-colored underclothing.
The dye faded under respiration and was
partially absorbed by the skin, and poison
Gus matter in It caused death. The first
symptoms were vertigo, bleeding from the
mouth, an loss Of sight. Physicians were
unable to give relief, and the victim died in
agony. He gave the name of the trader from
whom he bought the undertaking 10 Vienna
and the Warsaw and Viennese police have
been in communication about the occur
renee. A solution of the dye given inter
nally to dog produced death in an hour.
The shocking destruction of a school
house, together with its inmates, including
both grown persons aud children, is report
ed from the town of Grodno, the capital Of
one OF the governmental departments Of
Russia. A hardware dealer used the cellar
of his house for storing powder, in which
he secretly conducted cOntraband traffic.
While he was moving about incsutiously in
this place with light, the powder was ig-
nited, and the whole building was blown
into the air. The number of persons killed
was not, a. latest accounts, accurately
known, but many disfgured corpses and
msngled limbs and fragments Of bodies
have been taken from the ruins.
Thomas Fortune, an engineer on the
Kansas Central Railroad, performed a
heroic deed near CIrclevllle, Kan, on Sun
day evening last. His train rounded sharp
curve at the rate Of fifteen miles an hour
and saw, two hundred feet ahead of him, a
little child tOddling on the track. He re-
versed the engine, opened the sand-box,
and called for brakes. He then ran out
along the running board and jumped down
upon the pilot. The little child did not see
the engine until it was almost upon him.
He then faced it, threw up his hands and
sat down on the track. The engineer leaned
far over, and an instant before the pilot
reached the child Fortune seized him by his
dress and pulled him up in his arms.
Among the convicts in the Texas peniten-
tiary is John Wesley Hardin, who was for
merlY the most dreaded desperate in De
Witt county. He is said to have killed
twenty-one men. The whole community
trembled before him. Nobody attempted to
interfere with him. The officers of the law
looked the other way when he passed. This
was largely owing to the fact that two fami-
lies, the Suttons and Taylors, carried on
forrfb1n ruorforo IN vUh{nh 1arnn ro RI n
the population took part on one side or the
other. L. was a vendetta that cost many
lives. But the law got Wesley Hardin into
its clutches at last. most of the TaYlors and
Suttons were killed off, and De Witt county
is to-day one Of the most orderly in the
State.
England has no conception Of really good
coffee. That is the conclusion Of the Lon
don 1imss. Authorizations by dealers and
the unskillfulness of cooks combine to pro-
duce q beverage that is not what it ought to
be. Englshmen can order the best Mocha
coffee; they can be served with something
which bears the name; they can pay highly
for it; they can do anything but get 1t, and
this, we are assured, they never do. All the
best coffee which the Yemen district pro-
duces is kept for use in the East. Before It
moves westward 1t has been carefully picked
over, and the choicest berries have been
subtracted from It. 1t is only what re-
mains after this process has been again and
again gone through that ever reaches Eng
land.
Although the Rev. - Eddy, colored
preacher, who was buried on Friday in Phil
adelphia, had been known as such notori-
GUS miser, a hard listed and ungenerous
man, and voluntary dweller in filth ard
soualor, two of the brethren who exhorted
OF his f,naral smoke of him in q manner not