Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-25
GENERAL NOTES.


in crossing the ocean man is about hun
dred times more likely to lose his life by
disease than by shipwreck.
A resident of Biddeford, Maine, is report
ed to have made the trip from that place to
Boston, something over ninety miles, on his
bicycle seventy-four times.
Miss Fanny Everett, who has been post
master of West Foxboro, Massachusetts,, for
fifty years, and is eighty four years of age,
has been stricken with paralysis, and is not
| likely to recover.
The Trustees of the Washington and Lee
University, Lexington, Virginia, have de-
termined to postpone for the present the
centennial celebration which had been ap-
pointed for next June.
Senator Thomas F. BsYard, OF Delaware
has accepted an invitation to deliver the
Grafton at the celebration of the Mecken-
burg declaration of independence at Char
lotte, North Carolina, May 20.
Prof. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, says that
the new Wells comet will continue for
several weeks gradually, and then very rap
idly, to increase in brightness until, at its
perihelion, 1t will be visible in full sunshine.
During a speech in the House of Repre-
seutatives on Thursday Mr.. Mckenzie, OF
Kentucky, said that Mr.. Hayes administra-
ton would go down in history remarkable
for two things-weak Vetoes and cold water
at state dinners.
A Michigan revivalist goes out this season
with what he advertises as "the most COM
plete campmeeting outfit invented, consist
ing of handsome pavilion splendidly paint
ed, and portablest and, reed organ and gilded
cross in the pulpit"
The city officials of Kingston, Canada,
seven in number, have asked for an in
crease of salary. They say that II the
"other trades" get advances on the ground
that living is becoming more costly, they
think they can rest their case on the same
basis.
New York Herald "The subscription for
the benefit of Mrs. Jesse James will proba-
bly, be a pleasant thing. The people of
Missouri will carry this affair through uD-
aided, strangers who formerly passed
through the State having subscribed long
| enough for the support Of the family"
While man was sitting in the crotch OF
a tree to saw of limb, at Saginaw, Mich,
the crotch split as the limb fell, letting him
| down into the opening and then closing on
him. It took an hour of chopping and prV-
| ing to get him out of the trap, and several
Of his ribs we're broken by the squeezing.
A married couple of Leavenworth, after
living together thirteen years, are asking
for divorce on the ground that they are
uncle and niece, relationship which they
| have only just discovered. There is no Kan
| sas law against such a marriage, however,
| and they are not likely to get legal seps-
ration, though they have already parted.
Bob jackson was missed from Winnepeg,
having been last seen going away from
barroom drunk. After a week he was found
dead with his feet and ankles imbedded In
frozen earth and his body leaning against
fence. He had stepped into deep mud, and
too incapacitated by rum to extricate him
self, bad stood there until cold snap fas-
tened him.
The amount of taxes paid by railroad
companies in Kansas is $40, 7S6. OF this
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe pays
&l45, 1886 66; the Central Branch, including
all its branches, 81, 727 IA; the Kansas divi-
sion of the Union Pacific, $120,649 81; the
Missouri Pacific, $26, 124 IL; st. Joseph and
Western, 1921 $50 IL; Atchison and Nebraska,
81, 1858 70-a total of $780,, 955 81.
The Governor of Maryland is required to
sign bills in the presence of the President OF
the Senate and Speaker of the House, and
Speaker Keilholtz is now Ill, while there are
two hundred and seventy bills to be signed
or rejected. The Governor, however. says
that there are only eight or ten in which he
takes any interest, and he hopes that Mr..
Keilholtz will recover in time to witness the
signing of these.
Philadelphia Ledger "Howgate having
been considerably given a weeks start, a
reward has now been offered for his arrest.
In a weeks time he could easily have
reached safe quarters outside of the United
States; hence he can hardly complain Of un-
kind treatment by the authorities at Wash
ington. II, in spite of this delay, he should
be caught he must blame himself, not the
officers Of justice"
A little English girl one year and nine
months old was found lying on the ground
not long ago with a game cock "pecking
and spurring" at her head, and soon after
ward she died from the wounds thus in
aicted. A doctor who attended her stated
at the inquest that similar case had oc-
CURED In the same street not long before, q
child having died from lockjaW caused by
the attack of game cock.
Mutual relief societies prosper well in
France and are large in number. Their
present number is no fewer than G, 525, OF
which 1916 are authorized by the govern
ment and 4,162 have been otherwise ap-
proved. The membership is more than
million, and the women members alone
number upward Of 100, 1000. The total capt.
tai exceeds 100000 francs. A congress
OF all the societies is proposed.
The Toronto Globe is worried by the sta
tistics of crime in Canada, the records show
ing that in 1880 1854 persons, or one out
of every LOG in the Dominion, were charged
with some offense against the laws. OF
course, in a sense, the figures are deceptive,
as some habitual criminals appear before the
courts several times. But the most uncom-
Portable fact to the GLOBE is that Ontario
shows up badly In comparison with her sis
ter provinces.
The Bible belonging to the United States
Senate, and upon which for forty-three
wears Senators have been sworn In, was
stolen recently. 1t had been intrusted to
the care of the veteran doorkeeper, Capt.
Bassett, under whose lock and seal 1t had
been kept from the time that it became the
SenAte's property. 1t was one OF the relics
of the Capitol and was chiefly attractive to
the pilferer on that account.
Gigantic, not to say wild, railway pro-
jects are not confined to the United States.
A Montreal clergyman, Father LABEL, pro-
poses a line from that city northwesterly to
Hudson's Bay-a matter Of perhaps one
thousand miles or so, with branch from
that, indefinitely westward and another
eastward to SaguenaY river and along that
stream to the Lower st. Lawrence, with
spurs to the Three Rivers and Quebec. Con-
struction has not yet commenced except
upon paper.
The large bonded warehouse at the Broad
ford distillerY, in Fayette county, Pa, gave