Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-09

The heirs Of the Jumel estate in New
York are obliged to pay about 500, 900 in
Iawyers' fees. OF that amount Charles
O'Conor gets $l00,000 The estate wss in
litigation fifteen years, and about s., 600, 900
were involved.
Oscar Wilde is on his way to Japan, where
even the simplest utensil Of the household
is made beautiful. He says he will return
to America. He Is going 10 lecture upon
Japanese Art, and the Artistic Side OF
Japanese Life"
The contract for the casting Of the bronze
statue of General Robert E. Lee for the city
of New Orleans has been closed, and the
work will be completed ia about six months.
The monument will be dedicated on next
New Years day.
The grave Of President Arthur's deceased
wife Is in the "Arthur lot in rural ceme-
terry at Albany, \. Y. Its not marked by a
stone, but is embowered with roses, myrtle,
hydrsndea and day lilies, and Is rich with
evidences of tender care.
According to statistics Just issued by the
Ministry Of the Interior, it appears thai
since 1871 crimes and mis1emeanors in
Prussia have increased at the enormous rate
of about Ill per cent. In 1880 alone the
number OF prisoners rose by nearly l5OOO.
Michael Davitt has published letter in
reply to a pamphlet circulated by Arnold
Forster attacking the Land League, in which
he denies emphsticallY that it had any hand
in the Clerkenwell explosion, or that the
Fenians as a body knew anything OF or
planned the outrage.
The West Point Cadets are again dis
turbed over rumor that a young colored
man from Brooklyn, n. Y, will make his
-unwelcome appearance there this year as
candidate for the honors Of cadetship. What
is strange about it is that the opposition is
most marked among the \ 1rthern cadets.
Next year occurs the one hundred ami
versary of the first Paris Salon, and it is in
tended that the event shall be duly cele-
| brsted. 1t has already Teen agreed that
| there shall be opened q retrospective eXhi-
bition Of the best works of the French
| painters and sculptors who have died during
the hundred years.
| One Of the items in the programme OF
recent Court concert in London was Schu-
bert's .fStaudchen," sung by Nine Nilsson,
/ who had obtained from Queen Victoria a
! special permission to wear, instead Of eve
ming dress, deep mourning garments, such
as she has usually appeared In elsewhere
since the death of her husband.
The Indiana State Bar Association has ad-
vised the adoption of Senator Davis plan to
relieve the Supreme Court, and the Indi-
| annapolis Journal Gays that among those who
are acquainted with the character, Standing,
and learning Of the gentlemen who com
pose that association no additional recon-
mendation of the measure is necessary.
The Illinois Board of Health has decided
that the diploma Of a medical college will
not entitle the bearer to practice in that
| State unless the college has a three years
course, requires dissection through two
years, has clinics for two terms in each year,
enforces attendance on eight tenths OF its
lectures, and confers degrees only after
examination.
Dickens fat boy. though somewhat
younger, in the shape of a three-foot Ken
tuckian, from Casey county, three years and
nine months old and one hundred aud forty
! pounds 10 weight, put Ia an appearance at
the capitol in Washington Friday morning
1t is supposed that he is lobbyist for the
whisky tax extension bill, furnishing in his
own person the requisite evidence of the
strength and excellence Of the Kentucky
beverage.
Returns just published in London give for
Great Britain and Ireland a total Of only
3,134, I'll electors. OF these, 1872 995 live
| in counties, J, 1871, 7l9 live in boroughs, and
30 OS6 are on the university lists. R!rming-
ham is the largest constituency, having
Ga 051 electors; Liverpool is next, wit
| 62O39, and Manchester next, with 80, 042
OF the 3, 1874 III, there are 2,59l .4O2 credited
to England, 22S,2 to Ireland and 3l5,l2l
to Scotland.
A Young man seated beside an elderly
passenger on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton train several days ago made consid-
cradle sport In quiet way Of the hat Of a
lady near them; AT last MS eIderjy com
panion replied "That lady is my wife, sir,
and | told her that every fool who saw the
hat would make sport OF it, but she wouldn't
believe me and insisted on wearing It," The
Young man stammered an apology and re-
treated to the smoking car.
Pope Leo has ordered that the secret
archives of the Vatican be arranged in bet
ter order, Pontifcste by Pontiacate, and
that complete Inventory Of the whole be
| made. Among the papers are said to have
been found large number Of letters that
passed between Plus TX and the various
sovereigns OF Europe between the years
| 1916 and 1865, some OF which are Of histOri
| cal importance. They turned up among
some papers of a much earlier date, and are
believed to have been put away after the
death OF Antonell.
Col. George Washington Jones, Green
back member of Congress from Texas, is
the tallest man in the House OF Representa-
tiyes. He wears blue flannel or checked
| bingham shirts, without collar or cuffs,
coarse boots and hOmespun clothes de
lives, In Washington, In half-furnished,
implanted, uncarpeted and unsweDt back
attic room, lighted only by gas jet In the
ball. While his colleagues feast daintilY in
the capitol cafe, he takes bis lunch of apples
and gingerbread at his desk. But this crude,
harsh life is invested with pathOs and no
| billtv by the fact that it's sacrifices are made
for the sake of needy and suffering relatives
at home.
All fashionable and financial Paris was a.
the wedding of Mile. Lucie de Rothschild
and NJ. Lambert. Mile. Lucie is an amiable
Young lady of eighteen. The husband is
barely twentY-seven. Over three thousand
invitations were issued for the ceremony,
but good half of the guests were left out
side Of the tabernacle for want Of room.
Among those more fortunate who were able
to get ia might have been noticed the Due
| d'Aumale, the Due de Nemours and host
of literary and artistic lions. The bride
brings her husband snug little dowry Of
one million dollars, but It must not be
imagined that he will be allowed to make
ducks and brakes Of it. The whole sum is
to be invested IN the Rothschilds' bank, and
NJ. Lambert will only get the usufruct OF it.
Much interest is felt in London social cir
Giles at the return OF the Duke ami Duchess
of Norfolk from the miraple-Working spring
of Lourdes in France. Their journey has
been made in the faith, worthy of times long
past, that pilgrimage to the shrine OF Our
| Lady OF Lcurdes would remove the dreadful
sffilction OF blindnesE from their infant son
| and heir, the little 4 4rl Of Arundel and Sur
rey. They have not given up hope, though
at present there is no sign OF Improvement
in the chid's condition. This modern pill
| grimage excites derision IN some quarters,
but the feeling generally is only one Of great
sympathy for the sorroWlng parents. Il is
said that Cardinal Manning rather discour-
aged the journey, but the family priests
urged it, and their advice prevailed finally.
The child and his parents arg now in Lon
| don In the strictest secluslon.
One of the Nevada fish stories is thus told
by the Virginia Enterprise: "Among the
most peculiar and least known fish OF Ne
yads is the couewee, found only in Pyramid
and Winnemucca lakes. Qne Of the most
! striking peculiarities is name extending
| along the back from head to tail, which
renders the creature so unsightly that 1t is
always sheared by the fishermen Gefore be-
ing sent to msfket. They swim at the sur
face of the water, and in the early days as
cended the river in immense schools that
filed the river from bank to bank. They