Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-23

GIN EAA6All NOlEO.
Coins with holes in them continue to
find their way into the church Contribution
boxes. a Brooklyn pastor, in mentioning
the matter last Sunday, said we should be
grateful when we consider that the donor
of the punched piece would not otherwise
have given a cent, probably.
A year ago a Laramie plains cattle man
was offered a Utah herd and ranch for
$4,000. which offer was rejected. Since
that the Utah man sold $4,000 worth Of
the herd. then sold the ranch for $4,000,
afterwards put $4,000 more into the herd,
and then sold it for $4,000.
The income tax returns in Ireland have
lust been made up, and the result is to
show the remarkable fact that the arrears
are less than usual. In fact, practically
no arrears exist. Payment to the govern
ment seems to be regarded in Ireland as
more duty than payment to private
persons.
Gen. George Macdonald, the ''father'' of
the British army, has recently entered
his ninety-ninth year, and is still hale and
hearty. He was born only three years
after CORVALLIS surrendered at York
town. and was sent as an ensign i'll the
expedition to Hanover in the year Of
Trafalgar.
Sir Thomas Watson, the famous English
physician, is seriously ill, and not eX-
pected to recover. He is now ninety-one
years old. A stroke of paralysis has pros
trated him, but left him in possession of
his mental faculties. When stricken
down, he calmly remarked to an attendant;
''This is the beginning of the end"
al o1
recently. a little after midnight, by three
men, who seized him, and, in spite of his
cries for assistance. robbed him of his
money, badge and bell punch. There were
passengers in the car, but they made no
move to assist him. They probably sup
posed that if it had been the other way he
would have looked quietly on.
The report of the Second Assistant Post
master General, which has just been for
warded to Postmaster General Howe,
shows that the total mileage Of railway
routes on June 80 last was 1OO,563 miles.
The distance of mail transportation for
the wear was 1895, 31S miles, and the
cost of this service $12, 1853, 1874. The in
crease in mileage over last year was 1894
miles.
American heiresses will be interested
to learn from the st. James Gazette
(LOndon) that, among ''eXpedients to
bring in subscribers" which care resOrted
to in the United States IAN Ohio journal
announced that the administration had
made agreements with a number OF rich
heiresses, single and widows, who had all
engaged not to accept the hand OF any but
subscribers of at least one year of the
journal in question"
Mr.. Henry c. Jewell obtained verdict
in Philadelphia on Thursday against the
Union Passenger Railway Company Of
that city, for So, 900 for the loss of one of his
eyes by pieces of glass from window in
the car i'm which he was riding, which was
broken by the pole of another street car.
The claim was that the accident occurred
through the negligence Of the driver of
the Union line car, who allowed some one
else to drive.
In his proclamation for day of thanks
giving, Governor James, Of North Carroll
ma, says to its people: ''The crops have
been more abundant than ever before
harvested in the State. Peace has every
where prevailed within our borders. The
health of the people has been eXtraordi-
narily good; while their progress in educa-
tiOnal and material interest and in the Gull
walton of a high moral and religious sem
timent, has been equally satisfactory"
If, as reported, George NJ. Robson spent
$4,000 in securing his nomination and in
trying to secure his election, he deserves
no sympathy for the sWindles of the agents
who took his money and rendered no equi-
Valent. He who sups with the devil must
have a long spoon; but OF course this ln-
nocent politician never meant that little
trife like $4,000 should be used to bride
any one, and, therefore, he doubtless be-
lieved the men to whom he gave it were
as moral as Philadelphia Record.
Civilization is progressing in Africa.
Prince Ansah, a member of the royal fam
lily Of Ashantee, has brought an action at
Cape Coast Castle against a negro, whom
he charged with a false and scandalOus
libel upon him, and he recovered before
negro Jury the sum of ESQ. His counsel
was a gentleman of color, who has studied
at Oxford. and learnt law in England.
Quite a change from the method of settle
ment i'm such cases in days gone by, when
the offender would have been summarily
executed without the Intervention of legal
fOrmalities.
When the Queen goes to Balmoral she
goes by special train, commanded by spe-
cial servants. The trip there and back is
said to cost the snug sum of 92,500. Other
members of the royal family, however,
travel in ''saloOn carriages" by an Ordl-
nary train at first class rates. During the
Queens residence a special train, known
as her train. is run from Aberdeen to Bal
later for the use of Queens messengers
and Cabinet Ministers on duty. From
Ballater to Balmoral they travel in car
riages, as the railway track, by special
desire, does not 90 as far as BalmOral it.
self.
Surprising Outrages and scenes of VIC
lence are reported from Armenia. The
Governor of Bitlis caused to be imprisoned,
for making an attack upon his life, a
brother of MANNED Ali, whereupOn Nah
med Ali, with his followers, attacked the
Jail where his brother was confined with
the object of liberating him. n conflict
ensued with the Wardens of the Jail, in
which the imprisoned brother was killed.
MANNED took flight but he afterward
returned and succeeded in carrying off his
brothers body, cutting off the noses of the
Wardens, pillaging three villages i'll the
neighborhOOd, and killing a number of the
inhabitants.
Our neighbors south of the Rio Grande
seem alive to the importance of developing
home industries. The gold and silver
mines of Mexico have had a legendary
fame for centuries, but just now coal is
held to be more desirable than the precious
metals. The State of Pueblo has offered
premium Of seventy-tiye cents per ton on
all coal discovered and mined within her
boundaries. The Mexican National Rail
road has acquired mines near Laredo,
which, it is stated, yield a very good btu
minous coal, and there is a prospect that
the want of fuel, which has so long re-
tarded the introduction Of machinery, will
soon be supplied.
DR.. Leach, who was present at the re-
cent cremations in Dorset, England, has
published detailed report of them in one
of the leading medical journals of Lon
don. He says the cremation of the first
body was completed in a little more than
two hours, and that ''during the whole
time of cremation, although the night was
damp and oppressive, with scarcely
breath of air, and a chimney only about
- feet high, so well did the apparatus
do its work that not the faintest trace
of odOr was perceptible." This latter fact
DR.. Leach thinks was due to ''the free adj
mission of oxygen through the loosely
fitting fire-clay blocks in the side, pro-
ducing the perfect combustion of gases,
which otherwise might have escaped UNI
burned. As to the second cremation, he
saws that, on the following evening, the
whole apparatus being still warm, the
body of Lady Hannah, who had died in
her ninetieth year, was placed in the fur