Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-28
GENERAL NOTES.


| When the public works contemplated
! by Minister Freycinet are completed, the
! taxes in France will be just about double
/ what they were in 1869.
A minister and a physician are having
a fight in the courts of Lynn, Mass, be
cause the man of religion habitually de
clares that the man of medicine was unti
| for professional work.
They tell in San Francisco of a very
wealthy woman who is remarkably stric
in the discipline of her servants. She de
| tends herself by saying that she was a ser
want until five years ago, and therefore
! knows all about both sides of the subject
1t is pointed out in Chicago to hare
drinkers that they are in danger o.
| cirrhOsis of the liver, ''when fattiness
becomes visible in the region of the nose
with a tinge of mauYe or brown sienna
upon the surface of that organ, increasing
upon pressure, and deepening towards the
point"
The new Roman Catholic Cathedral in
Hartford, the largest church edifice in
Connecticut, and not yet completed
threatens to tumble down. The massive
walls have settled so that large cracks
dDIbdIs
will have to be rebuilt. Over two hundred
thousand dollars have been spent in the
construction.
The ladies have distinguished them
selves once more in the London Univer'
sitv class lists. The scholarship and
gold medal for obstetrics are taken by a
lady; two ladies are placed in the first
class, one a student from GirtOn College;
five more have gained second classes, and
several others are in the third class,
Girton College, the girls college at
Cambridge University in England, is
about to be enlarged, and the plans for
the new buildings have been already
drafted and submitted to the proper au-
thorities. The applications for admission
have recently been very much in excess
OF the accommodation at present offered.
The Earl of Dudley, who derives more
from minerals than any man in England,
and whose income has oftentimes in good
wears approached $1,000, 900, has for some
time been in mental condition bordering
ON imbecility. Consequently his wife and
children live very quietly, and as he may
last for years the accumulation of money
threatens to become enormous.
A lawsuit between two express compa-
MES will test, in Boston, the constitution
ality of the Massachusetts statute pro-
hibiting freight discrimination among
common carriers. The American Compa-
nv refused to deliver for the Erie and New
England parcel addressed to man In
Vermont. The question to be decided IS
whether the former is liable to fine Of
$500. The defense will be that the State
has no right to dictate the terms or which
EXPRESS parcels shall be delivered in other
territory than its own:
Widely separate religions have touched
each other in Philadelphia. A Baptist
clergyman preached in a synagogue, The
rabhi. in introducing him to the congrega-
tion. said that by the Christians accept
snce of the invitation to address Jews
there was no surrendering of opinion and
NO comDromise of belief on either side.
I'VE agree to disagree on certain points,"
he said. s'but there are many more on
which we agree to agree for all time 10
come. and chief among these is our love
of country and humanity"
II believed that the enormous sale oil
lager has considerably crippled the sale OF
Bass, ale in this country, while the latter
has most potent antagOnisln in what mas
benn one of its prime places OF demand
Rritish India-not merely because light
wines have come so much into vogue there;
but from the rise of native breYerles ana
the eroging taste for German lager. Inc
CaIcutta Collector Of Customs says that
the importation of Pilsner, which 10 the
most popular, has grown from ''4oV gar
Ions in fS79-S0 to 81, T95 last year.
The Australasian public debt is Sl,0Oo,-
coo 900. the whiis population about 2,oOO'-
600. and these colonies are continuing 70
borrow ON the score of making reproduc-
tive works and developing the country.
The London Economist believes that these
colonies are, ''taken as a whole, moi only
solvent, but increasingly prosperous;
Inf assuming a succession OF bad sea-
sons. such as England mas had OF late
vears this enormous debt must surely De
feIt as a frightful burden, even if the IN
terest could be paid, which many doubt
Mr. Holm IL, InmaR, a Tennesseean,
Who has amassed fortune estimated al
Ave million dollars since the war by cot
TON speculation in New York, is now
making n tour of the South, with a view
Of making heavy investments DeIng
sougherner. Mr., Inman says ne OF couIse
loves the South, but that ngtslQe y STU
ment. he believes it offers the best opPois
tunity for making money, Mr.. lnmah -
Young. active and clear-headeo' ne
Cleared three-duarters of a million Ior
himself and friends in the purchase anu
development Of the SeWanee coal and iron