Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-07
GENERAL NOTES.


The sabre which John Brown had upon
his person at the time he was captured al
Harper's Ferry, the 10th of next month q
wears ago, is now in the possession Of Cen
eral T. G. BAYLOR, Of Jefferson county, Va.
American horses are coming to the front
again in England. Mr.. Lorillsrd's unex-
pected victory with Arsnza the other day
has sent his stock and Mr.. Keene's away up
tn the betting on the Cambridgeshire handi-
cap.
The Texas papers tell Of a young man
named Harrison who was attacked by three
cowboys and three Indians In the Nation,
and, after q bloody battle, won the field.
The Indians were killed and ali Of the cow
boys wounded.
Ralph Ryder, aged 80, insisted upon being
allowed to kill bear, which was roaming
around springbrook, Wis. The spectators
hid themselves, and the old hunter, waiting
until the bear was within few yards, fired
with good aim. But the beast lived long
enough to hug and bite its slayer, breaking
both wrists and barring his skull.
Having evidently taken TO heart the
maxim that whatever is worth doing at all
is worth doing well, Mr.. James Humphrey,
OF Cohoes, has sent direct from the Adiron-
dacks to his partner at home the best bear
story of the season. He writes that he
threw a stone at 200 pound bear and hit
and stunned him, and then, taking him by
the ears, held his head under water until he
was drowned.
Writing to friend under date Of Septem'
Der 30, Congressman s. s. Cox said: "This
is my birthday. am So years old. The
Congressional DIRECTORY for the past twenty
five years has furnished the date, so that
I am free to speak of it. l am becoming
rather a memory than hope daily. We dc
as we grow older. For the loss Of the gay,
luminous, all-abunding shrine OF hfe's
morning we have the serene, reminiscent
evening"
The Cleveland Leader presents almost
daily the odd spectacle of antagonism be-
tween its fourth page and its sixth. A
number OF prohibition gentlemen have
taken advertising space on the sixth page,
at its regular rates, in which they advocate
their principles, and the Leader, In Its edtto-
rial columns, vigorously opposes the propo-
sitions which these gentlemen advocate.
But the controversy is conducted in decency
and good spirit.
A new use has been discovered for pota-
toes They can be converted into sub
stance resembling celluloid by peeling them
and, after soaking in water impregnsted
with eight parts OF sulphuric acid, driving
and pressing between sheets OF blotttng
paper. In France pipes are made OF this
substance, scarcely distinguishable from
meerschaum. By subjecting the mass to
great pressure, billiard balls can be made OF
It rivaling ivory in hardness.
The Egyptian troops at Kafr ell Dwar had
an amusing notion of their duties after sur
render. Having promised to render them
selves up in military fashion at given time
and place, having even begun to work at re-
moving the distractions on the railway,
they seem to have thought that their spades
might be turned to better use in filling their
own fields. They piled their arms, some
taking off their uniforms, and dispersed to
their homes, leaving their officers to render
account an to the conquerors.
A new portrait OF Tennyson has been
painted by Millais. The London Times says
of 1t: ''It represents Mr.. Tennyson standing
in his quaintlY-cut cloak against back
ground or shadow, directly facing the
beholder, and with the ample felt hat in his
hand. Slightly ideslized, the portrait may
yet be accepted as strikingly true, particu-
larly in the penetrating and half inqutring
expression of the eve. Generally, perhaps,
the face has a somewhat sad and pensiVe
appearance, as though the spirit In which
10 MemOriam' was written had returned to
him during the sittings."
The London Standard says: "The favora-
BILE anticipations formed from the discovery
some time ago of 200 miles OF oyster beds
thirty to seventy miles wide in the North
Sea, to which public attention was recently
directed at the British Associations SEES
sion, appear unlikely OF realization. 1t Is
difficult to see how the discovery can result
In eheapening prices, because the bed is not
within easy distance Of the British coast. 1t
is found that the oysters can only be brought
home in sailing vessels, which also dredge
them: and to procure cargo and bring It TO
England occupies fully fortnight, so that
the oysters cannot be sold at cheap rates.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes thus writes to
a lady in England: "We are all burned up
with drought in this part of New England,
but we think more of your country and its
troubles than we do of our brown fields and
shrveled harvests. We count every drop
of English blood that sinks into the sands
OF Egypt almost ss If 1t were from the veins
of our own countrymen. The understand
ing between the educated classes OF the two
countries, and their sympathy with each
other, grow with every year. have had
myself so many kindly tokens OF regard
from England that I almost feel as II l had
home there" We fear the doctor does not
thoroughly understand, certainly he does
not represent, American feeling on the
Egyptian question.
The Idaho Statesman says that the activity
of volcanic action in the Snake river lava
beds, near the line of the Oregon Short Line
Railroad, is driving many Of the graders
from the work. In an area Of about twenty
two square miles, at short distances apart,
smoke and flames of peculiar odor, color
and shape issue from the chasms and seams
in the lava. The irritating sulphurous va
pors in themselves cause many to quit work,
while the unusual agitation OF the boiling
springs and the general commotion all over
the fields OF lava, have caused supersti-
tious fear to take hold Of many OF the rail-
road hands, and they are leaving the sec
ton terror stricken. Tho whole area has
the appearance from distance Of being on
fire.
The imports Of foreign dry goods at New
York during September amounted to $11,-
SOC, 2S6; being 1881 1861 more than for the
same month last year, $1,7S7, $50 more than
for the corresponding month in 1880, and
$2,018 447 more than for September, 1879.
The goods marketed during the month
amounted to 2,O49, 1858, or tride In ex
cess Of the imports. For the nine months
Il -
tions were $105, 2IS, 401, or II ,378, 116 more
than for the same period last year, S4,4l7,-
632 more than for the corresponding period
in 1880, and $39, OIL $3.50 in excess Of the nine
months of 1879. For the nine months end
ing with September the goods thrown on
the market amounted to $103, 974, 843, against
$50, 967 1859 for the same time last year, and
sos, 426, 062 in 1880.
The granite pyramid erected by the Union
Pacific Company to the memory OF Oliver
and Cakes Ames is nearly completed, the
Salt Lake Herald reports. 1t is sixty feet
square at the base and sixty feet high, laid
up in undressed red granite, in style cal
culated to last for centuries. On the west
side is a medallion bust Of Cakes Ames,
nine feet high, with the date OF his birth
and death. On the north side is the inscrip-
llOn, II ueHnOIy VI OaAoe AHaO9 an Ot.'OA
Ames." On the east side the bust of Oliver
Ames has yet to be placed. The top is
rounded off, and does not make an acute
angle. The cost Is said to be nearly 500, 600.
1t is placed on the highest point near the
track, and will last as long as granite will
hold together. "No citizen Of the United
States ever had a more enduring monument
erected to his memory than che one nearly
completed" the Herald says.
Ellwood Cooper. OF Santa Barbara, the
leading olive grower Of California, says that
he has treas eiOht wears old that have nro-