Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-14


demanded was q man, woman, two
boards, and q passion.
There has been great agricultural distress
in Bavaria, and the government has been
investigating its causes. 1t fiuds that only
ID per cent. Of the compulsory sales of farms
are connected with purely agricultural
causes. More than 40 per cent. are due to
IL 1dieious purchase or reckless mort
gazing, and 81 per cent. are accounted for
By dizziness, drunkenness and other faults
A thunderstorm having greatly improved
a cask of bad wine in wine cellar at Canss-
some, some experiments have been made
with electricity in France. A current OF
electricity was passed through a small cssk
of sour wine, and at the end of few days
the wine was found to be greatly improved
IN quality, aud to have acquired that fl 3vOr
which has hitherto been supposed to come
only with age.
Now that the debt split among Tennessee
Democrats is disappearing and the party
likely to carry the election, some Of the
faithful are just boiling over with Joy. SAYS
Gen. Frank Chestham: Tennessee will be
all right. God Almighty is blessing her with
the best crops, the finest stock, the prettiest
women and the latest babies in the world,
nor disgrace her."
Thomas A. Armstrong has written short
letter accepting the Greenbsck Labor
nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania.
He writes: Gin accepting the honor thus
conferred desire to say, as on the occasion
of the convention, that my fl az is up TO-DAY.
1t will be carried through the campaign. l.
will be up at the close of the polls, ard il
I'D 70 vii ha har
ing after the election"
While DR.. Glenn, the great California
farmer, will not clear any money in his
farming operations, still he will realize
enough to pay all his expenses for the cur
rent year. He expects TO realize at least
500 coo bushels OF wheat from this- YEARS.
crop. This will give him 30 900. 600 pounds,
which, II sold at ~ cents per pound, will
amount to $3.50, 900 for the en- ire crop. He
estimates his expenses for the crop year at
something near $SS0,0OO.
The new building for the use of the New
York Produce Exchange is to cost about
50 coo 600. Il will be the finest structure in
the world devoted to the use OF single
business body, as well as the most costly.
The structure will cover the piece Of ground
at the corner OF Broadway and Beaver
streets, $50 feet on Beaver street, 306 feet on
Broadway and Whitehall street to Stone
street. along which it will run for a distance
Of 200 feet The walls are now up to q
level with the street.
NJ. Gitfard, well known French aeronaut,
who killed himself by inhsling chloroform,
has bequeathed to the government a sum to
be devoted to the institutions in which per-
sons suffering from painful and incurable
msladies may be allowed. with the consent
Of their friends, to shorten life by pain
killers, under the rection Of medical ex-
perts. AS suicide, however, is still regarded
as q crime In France, the government cannot
use the money for the purpose indicated.
There is no nonsense about the Chicago
Tanes, and it does not see why there should
be any about the Prince of Wales. Speak
ing OF the imprisonment of drunken man
who recently tried to shake hands In a
friendly way with the Princess OF Wales,
the Times asks right out In a republican
spirit, "Why didn't His Royal Highness,
the Prince, who was present, make the
fellow acquainted with the royal boot, If his
conduct was offenslVes" Would lot the true
Western way for the Prince have been either
10 "slug the chump" or draw a revolver on
him?
An anecdote Of Bismarck that is thirty
years old has come to light in Germany in
new book on "Prussia at the Diet" Bis
marck, in 1858, was sent to Darmstadt to
smooth over certain differences that had
arisen in the Diet between Prussia and that
State. The Grand Duke, on his arrival, re-
marked that he preferred to receive only
such diplomatists as would abstain from
asking questions which it would not be
polite to answer. Bismarck's prompt reply
was that, "as q rule, diplomatists were paid
for carrying their questions far enough to
dispense with replies"
Thomas A. Smythe, whose age is thirty
six, and who passed in certain quarter Of
London for surgeon, has been tried for
manslaughter and found guilty. He had no
right to call himself a regular medical man,
but on the door of his house he had plate
bearing his name and the word surgeon"
II appears that an old gentleman named
Campbell, a clergyman of the Church Of
England, suffered from a cancer Of the
tongue and consulted SmYthe under the be-
lief that he was an authorized practitioner.
Smythe operated upon the cancer, the pa
tien. died, and surviving friends brought
the suit on the grounds Of ''gross negligence
and inattention to dangerous symptoms"
The Hindus and Mohammedans of India,
as is well known, hate each other with such
hatred as only religion can inspire. In this
fact lies one Of the greatest sources Of
power in the English rule and assurances
for its perpetuity. A recent riot at CORA
tum, near Vellore, gives an excellent eX-
ample of this hatred. Some of the Hindus
there were about to celebrate certain feast,
and saw fit to adopt the DISCUSSES that are
used by the followers of the Prophet at the
Moharram. By this simple trespass they in
famed the Mohammedsns with righteous
I -. \ q
buildings and attacking the persons of the
Htndus. Before the riot ended, several
lives were lost and many arrests had been
made by he troops called out to quell the
disturbance.
From Bombay comes story Of disgrace
fui doings by soldiers in Her Majesty's army.
By a guard selected from his own corps a
prisoner was being escorted to a certain
town. When they arrived at an inn where
good whisky abounded, the entire party, in
GLIDING the prisoner, became thoroughly
and lamentably drunk, 4 free fight ensued
in the open country, in which the prisoner
was run through with bayonet, so that his
subsequent death is reported. Proceeding
on toward Peshawur, the soldiers then es-
pied a staton-msstsr carrying the malls
They called upon him to halt IN the Queens
NAME" which he promptly declined to do.
Loading their guns with oalls, the men
thereupon fred at the ststion-ms ster, but
fortunately they we're too drunk to take
good aim, and he escaped unin1ured. All
the men have been commi ted for trial in
the chief court.
Annie Sanderson, who lives near White
haven, in England, and is nine years old,
has been suffering from a queer hallucina-
ton. She told the neighbors that she had
found in an out of the way place the body
Of child having large hole Ia the side Of
the neck and nail driven into the hand.
She added that she had taken off her pima
fore, wrapped the body In it, and taken 1t
to Mrs. CurleY, with whom she had been
living. Mrs. Curley, she said, took the re-
mains to two houses near by, and finally left
it with a man named Scoarn, returning the
pinafore to its owner. Police officers were
called upon to investigate the child's
tale. Mrs. Curley denied that she knew
anything about the circumstances. Seoarn
also denied knowing anything OF them, and
Others did the same. Annie's pinsfore was
examined and no marks or stains were
found upon 1t. Hence the conclusion is
that the girl suffered unmis akablT from a
hallucinatiOn