Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-07
GENERAL NOTES.


| Canada, has, according 10 the correspond
emit of the Montreal Witness, been sad
failure, after costing the city $1,000.
A San Francisco paper says that a private
exhibition of the Edison incandescent lamp
recently given at an establishment Ia that
CITY was g complete success, the simplicity
Of the invention and the soft and brilliant
| light astonishing those present. The store
was illuminated by sixty-four OF the lamps
Misses Hattie s. and Lille H. Rice, young
daughters OF Mr.. George Rice, of Brown
Vile, Jefferson county, in January last, by
prompt action, extlnguished a FIRE which
| threatened to destroy the Empire Mills IN
that village, and have each been presented
with gold watch by insurance companies
which had large risks upon the building.
/ The owner Of the mill made them substan-
tlal gifts just after the occurrence.
Mr.. Tom Hughes has been appointed to
an English County Court Judgeship, and
general satisfaction is expressed a. the sisu
alton. The functions Of this Office are daily
! growing IN importance, and the appoint
| ment OF Nr. Hughes is regarded as some
| thing which Will add 10 its moral and intel
lectual purity Il is m office into which
| Lawyers not especially rompeteut have here
| tofore too frequently been installed
A gentleman who fl quired for the letters
Of a lady at the post Office in Montreal,
| Canada, during her absence from she city
on a vlsi was astonished at being refused,
/ and being further told that she must call
/ for them IA person, that the Office was not
| allowed to deliver laay's letters to her
own husband, and, more than that, every
| child over nine years OF age had a right to
| claim bis own letters, ald even his father
| could not demand them.
Two hundred and TWEEN more Hebrew
| exiles arrived at Castle G arden in one ship
on Saturday. They came off the vessel
waving flags Of red, white aud blue before
| they set foot on the land OF the free. This
| evidence OF precOncerted patriotism ought
| to recommend them as good material for
| future citizens. They frs made q rush for
| the apple stands, and many OF them were
soon wrthing with cramps. This was an
| early intimation that the country did not
agree with them.
An Englishman living in San Francisco
possesses a curious autograph letter OF the
Duke of Wellington. A tradesmsn named
Smith had asked the Duke to urge his son,
the dissolute Marquis OF Douro, to pay a
c. rain bill which Smith had In vain en-
| deavored to collect. His Grace replied in
| of Wellington, is not the Marquis of Douro,
neither is he Mr. Smiths collector" which
have the merit Of correctness, If not that of
common civility.
Prof. H B. Richardson, Of Amherst Col
lege, has invented water motor for run
ming light machinery. It consists OF eight
cylinders fitted with p'ungers radiating
| from a hollow 81 aft. A valve Is arranged
| to aIlOyy fo1r of44hf TlluuC4rz n hn thrown
| ont from the centre as far as a gauge ring
| hung on another centre permits, while the
other four are closed, giving rotary mo-
| ton at high speed. a motor five inches In
diameter will run an ordinary sewing ma
| chine. Arrangements are being made for
manufacturing these motors.
Bishop Jesse T. Peck, of Syracuse, has
written two or three letters conradicting a
cruel SANDER prin ed in Ohio 10 the effect
that he had shamefuly neglected his sister,
| who is i'll and poor. In one OF them he
says: my sister is with her only daughter,
| where che has had a home for several wears,
| and is tenderly cared for. am too feeble
| to go to her, but every want is met by her
| daughter and sOnin-law and by faithful
| friends. | know the importance of these
vile ISLANDERS, but If fifty years OF life will
not protect my reputation words cannot"
There is dead IN England, in his eighty
third year, George Washington Anstie-
whose name was given him, 1t will be seen,
when to name child after the leader of the
colonial rebellion could not have been popu
lar in Eugland-and special fact Of interest
10 his life is clerkship he held In the same
office with Benjamin DisraeIi sixty years
ago. Mr.. Anstie was a warm adherent Of
Mr. Gladstone, however. He practiced law
with pronounced success and took a pr0mi-
Dent part in the Anti Corn Law Leagues
agitation, and in various temperance reform
movements.
Ex-senator Eugene Casserly, Of Califor
MIA, although still vigorous in body, has
completely lost his memory. He was re-
Gently Summoned in San Francisco as wit.
ness to prove the forgery Of a certificate of
stock OF a company OF which he was once
President, and testified that he did not rec
ollecsthat there was ever In existence any
| such corporation SIS the Safe Deposit Com
pany: that he could not tell whether the sig
nature purporting TO be his as President was
| bis own or not, and that he could not rec
| ollect that he had ever been the President
| Of such company.
The statistics of longevity in Prussia are
striking. In December, 1880, there were
living 359 persons who were at leas; lC0
years old, 1913 Of them being men and 231
| women. OF the men 80 were still married.
| OF the women were. Twelve of the men
had never married and of the women never
| had. OF persons horn between 1881 and
| 1879, 5 355 were still living, the men being
| 2,025 in number and the women 1880. The
| records further show that the number Of
| persons born in the last century and still
| living, those, therefore, VINO we're at least
so years of age, reached a total of n, Cos.
The HE of Lord Spencer at the Viceregal
Lodge, Dublin, forms almost parallel to
that OF the Emperor OF Russia. All visitors
are closely watched by armed constables
from the moment they enter the gates of
the park. Mounted policemen patrol the
roads of the park detectives Turk in the
bushes, and British soldiers guard the ap-
proaches. When Lord Spencer goes to Dub.
lin Castle he always chooses a different path
from that followed on the previous visit.
When he goes out for drive he is accom-
panied by dragons, and the friends who
may ride with him are warned not to start
without their revolvers.
One of the letters from Emerson to Car
lyle which have recently been brought to
light in London is dated from New York, In
the year 1S40, and contains the following
paragraph: 81 am here on q visit to my
brother, who is a lawyer In this city, and
lives at Staten Island, at distance OF half
an hours sail. The city has such immense
natural advantages and such capabilities Of
boundleSs growth, aud such varied and
ever-increRsing accommodations and ap
planes for eye and ear, for memory and
wit, for l0comotion and lavation, and all
manner of delectstion, that | see that the
DC Or fellows that live here do get some COM
pensation for the sale of their souls"
Boston Journal ''There are fewer per-
sons out Of employment now than has been
known for several years. which is a clear
indication OF the general prosperity of the
country An advertisement recently ap-
peared in this paper, 'Bookkeeper wanted;
apply to box 2,903' In answer to this APP
peal hut thirty-three replies were received.
In 1878 the same advertisement elected over
one hundred replies. A singular circum.
stance in regard to the demand now as com
pared with four years ago was brought out
yesterday when one OF the parties stated TO
the firm that Monday Of this week he an
swered five advertisements, and one mail
brought him four replies asking him TO call"
M. Gambetta's mother was buried at
Nice, to which lace the remains were con-
veyed at night from Paris, followed by M.
Gambetta and his sister, Nine. Leris Nine.
Gambetta Is declared to have been q woman
of striking presence, natural distinction,
large heart, and strong and just intellect,
while her warm, Southern disposition was
tempered by good sense and lsborious hab-
it's. In certain points she reminded peo-
Madame RNlouHs fhnir lnfa1Ia0te