Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-09
GENERAL NOTES.

VI IuC WCCu-a FASLhAo PAJSASAoA ooyS AO
has never known an habitual consumer of
tobacco to have the typhoid fever.
The colored pastors Of Maryland are TO
meet in Baltimore on the 18th instant to
consider the present condition of their race
in the State religiously, educationally, NOR
ally and financially.
The oursng-Outang which escaped from
the Cincinnati Geological Garden has been
recaptured. This effectually disposes of
the rumor that bogus Oscar Wilde has
been roaming around the West.
The Cape Ann Advertiser says that the
idea of teaching every girl to thump piano
and every boy to be a bookkeeper will make
potatoes five dollars a bushel in twenty
years. There is good deal Of truth hidden
in the jest.
A brother of President Garfield has lived
for many years iE Northern Michigan on a
small and sterile farm. The Grand Haven
papers say that he is now building a fine
house and barn with money given him by
Mrs. Garfield.
AT the Saviour's Home, fsnatical insti
tuition at Little Rock, Arkansas, no medi-
cine is given to the sick, no matter what the
disease with which they are suffering. One
of the inmates, child, died recently for
want of medical treatment, and the managers
of the institution made no effort to save its
life.
"Here again, Annie?" eyes, your Hon
or" said Annie Glockner. Chow is It you
can't keep away from heref" go, don't
see how any young lady can keep away from
vou." This is what Annie Glockner, aged
go, said TO Judge Higley, who returned the
compliment with twenty days. Cincinnati
Commercial.
A Kansas paper gravely accuses a mail
route agent, recently discharged for incom-
potency, of making sacks Of mail proper
Tomato to the size Of the town, and throw
ing them eff, regardless of the destination
OF the matter, so that by the time he
reached the Colorado line he had no mail
left with which to serve Colorado.
There is a present falling of in immigra-
ton, as shown by the records Of Castle Gar
den. In August 2S,1SO immigrants were
landed, against 80, $40 for August, 1881.
but altogether this year runs ahead Of
last. During the eight months passed 343,-
641 immigrants were landed, against BIO,
Az for the same time last year. At any
rate the u6CTedho lEOu now Ou CAL udTuly
run below the immigration OF last year.
A daughter of Senator Window, who re-
Gently made visit to Mrs. Garfield at Men
tor, writes: ''We are home again at Winona,
and if you knew how pretty 1t is here, you
would know how glad we are to be back.
We stopped at Mentor on the way out, and
stayed at Mrs. Garfeld's. She and Mollie
look lots better than when we saw them last
i. l. fo1l oI,.rr kIo
General all the time, Just as II he were alive
and had gone somewhere on visit"
If one thief can be meaner than all other
thieves probably he is the one in Wheat
land, Cal, who, having gone to camp
meeting, requested the Rev. Mr.. Stroball to
come and pray for him and his family, and
upon the clergyman accompanying him a
short distance from the camp for the pur-
pose, compelled him. at the muzzle of pis-
toll, to deliver over his watch and chain and
the little money he had about him. Unfor-
tunately the fellow escaped with his plum
der.
Ex-senator David r. Atchison, who, as
President of the U. s. Senate, was, under a
trict construction of the Constitution, acting
President of the United States for thirty-six
hours between the close of President Polk's
administration and the Inauguration of
General Taylor, recently completed his 18th
year at his home in Clinton county, Mis-
souri,. He is SIX feet two inches tall, straight
as an arrow despite his age, and weighs go
pounds. He declares his eyesight, appetite
and general health to be excellent, but Is
gradually losing his memory.
A Russian Prince died at st. Petersburg
who contradicted all the popular notions of
Russian Princes. This was Orloff Davidoff,
the son and nephew OF the five famous
brothers Orloff of the days of Catherine.
This DavidoH was the friend Of Sir Walter
Scott and Goethe, pamphleteer and essay
list himself OF no mean pretension, but above
all humanitarian. Being one OF the largest
land owners IN Russia, he devoted himself
to the elevation of his former serfs, founded
industrial and other schools for them, with
system and appliances far in advance OF
those ia England. Many persons may re-
member the exhibits made by these serfs, at
the Exposition in Philadelphia, of designs,
mathematical, and other work.
A few miles above the city of Winnipeg,
on the Red river, is the site Of the Selkirk
settlement. A recent visitor describes the
ruins of the fort which belonged to the
COLONY founded by Lord Selkirk, a Scotch
were brought over, and the colony did well
for few years when, the grasshoppers
destroyed the wheat crop. During the win
ter of 1890 Lord Selkirk journeyed over
land to Prairie du CHEN and bought grain,
which was transported with difficulty to
Selkirk, reaching there in season for the
sowing the LIST Of June. AT this time there
were from 1000 to l 800 people In the colo
ny. Then came conflicts about territory be.
tween the Hudson Bay Company and Lord
Selkirk. In 1925, financially ruined and dis
coursged, the philanthropist returned to
England, some Of the colonists going home
with him, while others went into the Sas-
katchewan country. A dismantled stone
fort and a few log houses remain to mark
the scene Of the catastrophe.
A letter from London to the New York
Sun says: "At the garden party at Marlbor-
ough House, which closed the Prince of
Wales share in the hospitalities of the Lon
don season, his Royal Highness did not care
to hide his growing Partially for the He
braic race, as represented by lovely Bel
gian, Nine. Lambert. The tribute of sdmi-
ration he so lavishly poured at her feet was,
perhaps, not unmixed with gra itude, the
favorite of the day being Rothschild; and 1t
is well known that the Prince is Indebted to
that house for the loan Of not inconsidera
bic sums. AT the same garden party short
Costumes were universally adopted; and the
Ambassadress of Austria scored a triumph
by the exquisite smallness and delicacy of
herfee AS she was seen ascending the
steps leading to the terrace, those fairy
shoes twinkled In seeming derision of the
very different ones belonging to the two
Royal Processes of England. between
whom the noble foreigner was walking.
Their skirts might sdvantageously and be-
comingly have been heightened"
The Rev. Moses Broyles, probably the
best known colored man in Indiana, died
last Thursday. He was born a slave near
Centreville, Md, about 1926. In 1851 he
purchased his freedom, living then near
Paducah, KY. In 1854 he left Paducah, and |
for the next three years attended school at |
College Hill, in Jefferson county, Indiana,
taking the Latin and Greek course, paying |
his way by chopping cordwood In the even |
ing and on Saturdays. In 1857 he went to |
Indianapolis, taking charge of the Second |
Baptist Church and teaching school. He |
had remained In charge Of that church con
tinuously since 1857, and under his ministry |
the church has grown from a small number
to a membership of over 700. and occupies
a house of worship that cost $25, 900. Dur
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