Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-17
EN ERAL Ma re .

The official reports of the proceedings Of
the recent session OF Congress will make
over seven thousand q1arto pages of the
| Congressional Record, viii b W il be bound In
; ven volumes. The index will be bound
| 10 q separate volume, and will De ready for
delivery early in September
A story comes from Montreal, Canada,
| that the late Assistant General Manager of q
bank persuaded the chief teller to pay him
| $4, 700 on his own check the day before his
| retirement from service, on d false plea that
| the directors were about 10 make al apprO-
! pration in his favor of that amount.
Mr.. Benn Pittman, of Cincinnati, whose
wife died three or four years ago and was
cremated at Washington, Penn, and who is
nearly 20 years OF age,ts reported 10 be about
to marry one Of his pupils, young lady OF
20 years. The young lady is said to be
possessed Of considerable properly inherited
| from her father.
Since the Phoenix Park tragedy, Miss
Burke, sister of the murdered Secretary has
suffered from an almost overthrow mind
Her thoughts are constantly fixed upon her
brother, whom she will not believe to be
| dead, and for whose return she is ever
watching and waiting. Ia the sound of every
carriage and of every foOtstep she imagines
she hears him coming. During all the long
agony she has never shed a tear, and the
| fierce and frequent paroxYems Of her grief
have at last threatened her life.
Out In Humboldt county, Nevada, recent
ly, there was heavy cloud burst on she
headwaters of Alder creek. Both the creek
and the valley through which 1t rut g were
| flooded. In rushing down the valley the
Ixyofn
| hay and every other loose thing. The curl
| GUS part of the business Is that when the
rush of water had passed not half the usual
volume of water was left in the creek, and
| 1t did not get back to its usual mark for
some ten hours. This would seem to be an
instance of water sweeping away wa'er.
A correspondent who has studied the va
rious TYPES" OF Old Point Comfort, Gays
that the New England girl wears blue
flannel suit, a broad brimmed hat, scarlet
stockings and yellow sandals, lives in a boat
| and Is as brown as berry The Philadel-
| phia girl likes tennis and languages, is
chsrg OF too wide a circle OF acquaintance
| ship, and makes her grandfathe!s a topic OF
| conversation. Baltimore girls are pretty
and bri ht, and wear lovely clothes. Lou .
| isville girls are light and airy, and when
married are the handsomest women ia the
| United States.
The National Bar Association wants Con-
gress to take cognizsnee OF crime as an &C
cupation. The man who becomes thief or
a murderer stimulated by dire need or VIC
| lent passion should not be classed IN the
| same category with the outlaw who deliber-
atelv and Systematically pursues theft and
| murder as a vocation. OF course there can
be no gradation in the phnishment OF muir
| derers, bat there can be In the punishment
| OF those who harbor and conceal them. 10
many ways the law can be strengthened by
a clear distinction as to the varying gravity
| of the same crime.
Cremation societies are to be found in Co
penhagan, In Paris, 10 Holland, Milan, Flor
enee, B ,rlin, Dresden, London, Rome, Rio
Janeiro, New York, and St. Louis. The
one in Copenhagen had for time the Brine
Minister as its Presi lent, and it included
among its 1900 members many Danish aris-
tocrats Never iheless, there have been but
few instaT ces of cremation. The greatest
number, $50, has occurred at Milan, while
at Padua and Lodi there have been twelve,
and at Gotha twenty-five. In this country
there have been only fourteen cases. More
professed cremationists have died than the
whole number OF bodies cremated.
The whole capital has been subscribed
for the new subsidized steamship lines from
Mexico to the United States and Europ :,
aud agents have already been dispatched to
look at ey the building of the steamers.
The subsidy granted BY the Mexican Coy
eminent is a Valuable one, and as some Of
the wealthiest Mexican capitalists are
among the heavy subscribers the enterprise
win probably be successful The work of
laying gable down the west coast to com
meet with Central and South America is
progre ssing satisfactorily. Railroad build
ing in the interior OF Mexico is being rapidly
pushed, and the most encouraging rencris
are received from the colonies immi-
grants lately forme
The largest cargo that ev' nix
on q coastwise steame. A IN
arrived at New