Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-29
GENERAL NOTES.

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Pompeii containing six bronze statuettes,
representing Apollo with Tyre, Mercury,
! Hercules, 4Esculapius and two Lares. The
bronze lamp which burned before the
/ shrine was found hanging in its place.
A New York paper is responsible for the
statement that the patent medicine bust
ness was never liveIier than now; that the
| Americans use more patent medicines
/ than any other people in the world; that
/ every cold snap gives the trade stimu-
! lus, primarily because go per cent. of all
/ patent medicines are for the relief OF
/ coughs, colds or some form Of pulmonary
! complaint.
Editor Logan, of the Montreal Star, was
| dying of typhoid fever. Speaking at in
! tervals i'll his deirium, he said: 81 have a
| brother" "a storm is coming on" ''Will
! the vessel be able TO weather the storm? p
''The waves are dashing over the Ship
| 'Oh, that he were safe on land" His
mind wandered TO other matters, but al
! ways returned to his brother, who, as it
was afterwards learned, was at that very
| moment drowning in a storm. Those who
| believe in second sight will not accept the
theory of chance in this strange and well
authenticated case.
Mr.. f. Lupton, Governor of the Egyp-
tian province of Bahr ell Ghazel, reports
on what he believes to be credible author
ity, the discovery of an equatorial lake in
Central Africa, The lake is described as
being as large as the Victoria Nyanza,
and lies to the west of the Albert Nyanza.
The natives of the region are copper col
Ored. 1t takes them three days to cross
the lake in boats. The Governor thinks
the outlet of the lake runs into the Congo,
The tribe goes by the name Of Barboas,
and shows some skill in manufacturing
cloth from grasses, of which clothing is
made.
4 Charlottesville (Va.) dispatch states
that novel duel took place there Friday
between Peter Dick and Charles Roads,
two young men, clerks in a store. Dick
in sport threw some cayenne pepper in the
face of Roads, and some of it getting in
the latter's eyes, he was incensed. From
this harsh words were used, and Roads
started to look for revolver with the in
tention of shooting Dick. He abandoned
this, and the two agreed, after the Gus
t0mary amount Of parleying provided in
the code, TO fight duel with knives. The
two men met Friday, and after short but
desperate engagement Roads received an
ugly cash from the navel diag0nally up
wards across the left breast. 1t is be-
lieved that he will recover.
Although as regards the interior life of
the Spanish Court King AlphOnso has
made, in accordance with the spirit Of the
times, very liberal notifications of the
extremely rigid etiquette observed in past
years, the pOmp which has always been
characteristic OF Spain with regard TO the
public ceremonies in which the King
takes part continues to be exercised on
the reception of the TAWly-accredited rep
resentatiyes of foreign countries. The
etiquette Of the ceremony is precisely the
same now as was observed in Spain's
palmiest days. when nothing that wealth
ana the love of ostentatiOn could do to en-
nance the soiemnity of such occasions
and give the new conner an imposing idea
of the power of the Spanish monarchs was
neglected.
William F. Cody, better known as
Buffalo Bill" believes that Gen. Custer
killed himself when he saw that death was
inevitable, in preference to being killed by
the Indians. He gives the following rea-
son for this belief: ''The Indians will not
mutilate body which they find dead,
and Gen, Clusters was the only one
that was not sealped and otherwise cut to
pieces or burned. My impression Is that
he, after seeing all his comrades shot
down. and that he himself must also go,
turned and took his own life rather than
be killed by the savages. i was In Gen.
Crooks command that soon after arrived
upon the scene, and although Custer went
into the fight with seven companies and
had 800 men killed, | am satisfied he
never would have given the Indians bat
tie had he not thought achievements
were near at hand, Some time after the