Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-28
GENERAL NOTES.

The whole river IrOnJ at new OTleabs IS
now lighted " electricity, and the specta-
Gle at night is described as picturesque and
brilliant.
Ex-senator Butler B. strang, Of Pennsyl-
vapia, has found Dakota on personal inspec-
tfon so unattractive to him that he has de-
cided to decline the United States Marshall
ship Of the Territory and return home.
King Theebsw, of Burmah, has put to
death and inferior wife, two half sisters Of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and fifty
of their relatives. Whereupon the Courier
Journal announces that several Ohio men
will leave for Burmah this week to run for
Coroner.
An Iowa farmer, who has both coal and
wood on mis- farm, warns his house with
cornstalks, and claims that they make the
best and cheapest fuel he can get. He thus
gets rid of the worst of all the chores about
the farm-the chopping Of wood and pro-
viding kindlings.
Let the boys who are collecting postage
stamps read this and preserve: An eminent
Queens Counsel, who has found time in
the midst of his legal work to amass one of
the finest collections Of postage stamps in
England, has Just decided to sell 1t to
French collector for FAC, 1000.
A call has been issued In New Hampshire
for peoples" convention, to meet at
Concord on the ID OF May, "to take such
action as may be wise to secure the enforce
ment of the prohibitory and all other laws
of the State" All temperance organiza-
lions are invited to send delegates.
Representative Henry II. Bingham, of the
Post Office Committee, says that the several
bills covering a reduction of postage on let
ter matter are being considered by the com
mttee at this time, and that he has no
doubt some measure looking to reduction
will be favorsbly reported to the House.
Governor jackson, of West Virginia, has
appointed Adam c. Snyder Judge Of the
Supreme Court Of Appeals Of that State, to
succeed Judge James F. Patton, deceased.
The new Judge is favorably spoken of by the
papers Of the State. He is about so years OF
age and has been the acknowledged leader
of the Greenbrier county bar.
An advertisement in Virginia, Nevada,
paper reads: 1.-TWO dwelling houses-one OF
ten rooms, rustic finish, with fine verandab.
Both houses built since the big fire, of good
new lumber. Also two cooking stoves,
some bedsteads, spring mattresses, chairs,
crockerv ware and other things. Price for
whole, $5Us 1dAcb III 1OO~ aAACoAJ paul
The tramp has begun his seasons journey
in the highways around New York. When
ever YOU see. funny chalk marks on trees
and stone fences know that the tramp who
stopped at your house just before he went
up the road has left sign for the next
conner. II you gave himbe eff and coffee, the
next tramp will certainly know that your
soft heart prescribes beef an coffee.
1t may surprise some persons to be told
that the seat Of learning in the United States
having the largest income is the University
NJ Michigan, which has $500 600 year At
its disposal, Harvard comes next, while
Yale and Columbia are close together In
property bequesthed by private individuals
Harvard leads all the rest, of course, its
entire endowment practically coming from
that source.
The Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Re
porter SAYS: "The records Of the Police De
partment disclose 1876 cases reported as miss
ing or having run away, 45 of whom were
afterward found. Fully one-half of this
number were boys and girls who, having
drunk in the inspiration derived from dime
novels and other productions OF that char
acter, ran away from home to seek fame
and fortune"
The spring clip of California wool is0ow
coming forward quite freely, and large
business is anticipated. The product of the
past twelve years is given at 466 9O3, 200
bounds, showing a value of $50 S61 200. The
largest product was in 1876, aggregating
Sc $50, 600 pounds. Two years later IT was
only Al ,402, 900. 1t was then 46,OOO,OOO
pounds for two years, and last year 1t was
100000 pounds.
Charles E. Watkins, the independent
underwriting medium, who gave seances at
Erie, Pennsylvania, last week, and who
came out triumphant at an investigation by
CITY reporters, was successfully exposed at a
private seance last Friday. Watkins con-
fessed his crookedness, but said he only re-
sorted to fraud when the conditions were
such that he could not get phenomena by
regular supernatural methods. He left the
city on the next train.
G. w. Stevenson, civil engineer, OF Lon
don, does not believe in the practicability OF
electric light. he said recently: "All that
has yet been done in developing the electric
light, has been done In the way OF advertise
ment and experiment, and nothing has yet
been accomplished to demonstrate the fea-
sibility of lighting district or community
from one central source, and until that is
done nothing can be known of the cost" 1t
looks as IL Civil Engineer Stevenson had
been subsidized by the gas men.
Nine cases of tablets, some Of them
whole, but many of them in fragments,
have reached London from the site Of Mr..
Rassam's Oriental explorations. So far as
they have been investigated, they consist
mainly of trade documents, such as con-
tracts for the supply of corn and other
agricultural products. The dates are about