Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-12

across the Atlantic, we feel touch OF sor-
row that bids us claim him, II not as one OF
our own to lie in our Abbey, yet as one OF
tie men Of this century who lived and
talked and labored and wrote for US all"
Great Paul, the new monster bell for St.
Pauls Cathedral In London. was SUCCESS
fully Tung two weeks ago at the foundry in
Loughborough. TWAS swung at the time
on its own head stock, being supported two
feet from the ground on temporary timbe
ing. 1t was lifted by fttY-ton iron crane,
and nineteen men were required to ring 1t
properly, though four could make 1t speak.
While shut In by walls and houses, the bell
was heard seven miles away. 1t is said that
this is the first case OF q bell OF anything
like the weight of Great Paul being swung.
All the large bells OF Russia are struck
they are never swung-while the great bell
in Notre Dame at Paris is worked by
treadle or some other mechanical arrange
ment.
The career of a great criminal genius may
be as romantic and interesting in its way as
that of great poet or commander. Per-
haps the most remarkable example of inge-
NOUS dishonesty which the present age has
produced is Vanderstein, the head OF gang
of thieves known to have committed the
Hatton Garden aud other great Jewel rob
ber'es'in all the capitals Of Europe, who has
kept the entire machinery Of crime in such
working order as to avoid detection fer
many years. He has been for some time
known to the police by the homely name Of
Billy Norris, and among his other aliases
are Hamilton, Gordon, Henries, Ricardo,
etc. He was convicted of forgery in Dublin
in 1865 and sentenced to twenty years penal
servitude. Previous to that he received ten
years for stealing mail bags, and is now out
on ticket of leave. 1t is said that at one
period of his career Vanderstein lived IN
splendid house with luxurious apartments,
and at another was hunted from place to
place in the most abject misery.
The other night lady Of Stapleton, Staten
Island, dreamed that her husband, John
Bale, postmaster, was in danger, and then
that he was dead. The dream was so vivid,
real-like, that she got upand tearfully wait
ed for his corpse to be brought to the house.
When some men came with the body of Mr.
Bale at five O'Clock in the morning it was
no surprise to her. The body was found
near his own door, lying face downwards on
the pavement. There was q bleeding cash
on the forehead where il had struck the
stones. He had been balancing accounts at
the post Office until twelve O'Clock, when he
left the Office with government money and
other vsiuables, and started home. Several
people passed the PROSTATE body but sup
posed the man vas drunk. At length the
corpse wss recognized by a reighbor. The
pockets of the deceased had not been dis
turbed, and the solution Of his death in
the street Is a fit o. sp0plexy. Mr.. Bale
was a man OF steady habits and apparent
robust health, and Mrs. Bale believes in
dreams.
President Grevy, OF France, lately mar
rowly escaped an assassination, so similar
to that which visited Garfield as to make
the story interesting. Emile Florion is the
name of the French Guiteau, a man whose
similarity to his American prototype in his
tory, character and disposition Is really re-
markable. Florion was an earnest office
seeker, but failing TO get a position, con-
ceived violent hatred towards the heads of
the French Government, whom he held re-
sponsible for his failure. Leaving his home,
Rheims, he walked afoot to Paris to have
his revenge on his enemies. Purchasing a
pistol with small amount of money that a
friend lent him, he lay In wait for President
Grevy, whom he intended to assassinate
Here the similarity of this story to Guiteau's
ends. The French President does not travel
around alone and unaccompanied as Garfield
did, and Florion, after waiting hours for an
opportunity, gave 1t up and started after
determined on blood, he walked up to the
first official he met, drew his revolver and
shot him.
The steamer City of Montreal lately
brought q delectable cargo over from
Europe and landed the goods safely in New
York-six hundred young women, all in the
Storage, and not male passenger allowed
in that portion of the vessel. This was the
biggest batch of girls that ever came or
went anywhere in one ship. There were
handsome and homely girls, modest and
somelY girls, short and tall girls, plumpy
and small girls, and all were young aud
wanted to work, all the six hundred. Their
landing ought to have made a harvest for
hCusekeepors, who are pestered with the
crankiaess of servsnt-galism. They were
! all candidates for service OF one kind and
another, and just think of what such a raft
Of thsm are qualified to do in various wsys
for young country. Most of them will
marry In the course Of time, and many a
young man could find a better fortune In
that wilderness of womanhood than he will
or can In the most luxurious parlor or con-
servatory OF beauty, where the daughters
Of wealth are pampered and trained to sell.
A girl who has the courage to cross the seas
to find honest work is worth any mans
looking after and all mems respect.