Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-20

Alexander r. Bierregard, who was arrest
ed in New York recently. charged with be-
ing a boarding house thief, speaks Danish,
French, German and English fuently, and
claims to belong to an aristocratic Danish
family.
At an auction sale in Baltimore on Thurs
day half dollar of 1897, well preserved,
brought $50; silver dollar of 1894 $55; a
three-cent silver piece of 1873, brilliant proof,
81 so: a half-dime of 1894, So so, and cop
per cent Of 1898, IS 20.
The authorities of Toronto, Canada, re-
port that there was a gratifying falling of
In the number of tramps last winter as
soon as the city adopted the system Of COM
pelling all such persons to break stone TO
pay for food and lodging.
Governor Gerome, Of Michigan, has is
sued proclamation, in compliance with the
request OF the State Legislature, appointing
Thursday the 9th instant, to be observed
as Arbor Day, and recommending its general
observance by setting out trees for ornament,
protection and shade.
DIR. Vinnedge has been expelled from the
Indiana Medical Society. He has for many
years been the foremost physician in Tippe-
canoe county, and still remains so but be
committed the crime against. professional
ethics of advertising prescription, and re-
fused TO say he was sorry.
An Omaha girl, intent on suicide, tied one
end of long rope to her waist and the other
to the bridge, from which she dropped into
the river. Her idea was to prevent her body
f ON being lost, but the rope served the
more valuable purpose of saving her life, as
a man hauled her up by it.
There is a Western story to the effect that
a wealthy farmer living near La Sale, H.,
has prepared for his death by purchasing all
the paraphernalia REQUISITE for his inter
ment. The coffin In which he is to be buried
lies under his bed, and the shroud is care
fully slowed away.
The Princess Louise, Marehioness Of
Lorne, has Just sent Els to the nurses
training school connected with the General
and Marine Hospital at st. GATHERINGS,
Canada, of which she is Lady Patroness,
and letter expressing her sorrow at the Ia
mented death Of DR.. Mack, its founder.
Speaker Keifer seems determined to pre-
vent an authentic record of the Shipherd in
vestigation now in progress, and of any
other Investigation that may be ordered, by
Diminishing all the efficient stenographers.
ed in various forms during the Grant re-
| gime.
Miss Rice, of Weston, Wis, a society
young lady, the daughter Of DR.. Rice, well
known physician and biologist, eloped
q few days since with man named Convey,
of Chicago, the affair creating a profound
sensation throughout the State, where the
young lady was widely known and ad-
mired.
The new die for the next issue Of golden
change from the British mint is now COM
pleted and in the possession Of the suthori-
ties a. the mint. This is only the second
die taken during the reign Of Queen Victoria,
who is represented with an imperial crown,
and the likeness is that of the Queen of the
| present year.
the Life, Times and Treacherous Death
of Jesse James, is the title Of a volume
shortly to be issued by St. Louis publish
ing firm. The facts for the compilation are
to be furnished by the mother and widow
Of the dead outlaw, from their own knowl-
edge Of the occurrences and from Jesse's
| private memoranda.
The crown jewels Of France, concerning
the disposition of which there has been
great hesitation, comprise a famous dia-
mond called the Regent, and the jewels
called the Mazarine, all of which will be
| preserved. The whole value of the crown
| diamonds is q, 000,C COO francs ia. 100000.
Those which will be sold are worth about
| $1,70OOO0.
Jumbo appears to have been chief topic
In other European countries besides Great
Britain. He has been heard much of by the
| French, but It is in Germany that he has
| do of Enpr
| land. One person alone-one who gave his
whole mind TO it-has collected upward Of
400 different papers in the German language
which contain either articles or other notices
of the famous elephant.
Mutual relief societies prosper well in
France, and are large in number. Their
present number is no fewer than 6,525, Of
which /, 9l6 are authorized by the govern
ment, and 1853 have been otherwise ap
proved. The membership is more than
! million, and the women members alone num-
| Der upward OF 100000. The total capital
exceeds G1,0C0,0C1f. A congress of all the
societies is proposed.
A Rochester man has invented an electri-
cal balloe-box for use in societies. The ma
chine contains three knobs. The member
who wishes to vote ia favor of a Gel lain
| candidate touches a white knob; If opposed
he touches a black knob; IL Indifferent a
| knob between the two. At each touch
bell rings, thus making more than one vote
! impossible without detection. The machine
registers the result of the balloting In plain
figures.
The Toronto Globe is worried by the stats
tics OF crime In Canada, the records show
II that in 1850 4O,874 persons, or one out of
every 106 in the Dominion, were charged
with some offense against the laws. OF
course, In a sense, the figures are deceptive,
as some habitual criminals appear before
| the court several times. But the most IN
comfortable fact to the Globe is that Ontario
shows up badly in comparison with her
sister provinces.
Garibaldi's visit to Palermo, and espe-
cially the journey hence from Messina, was
triumphal. In the darkest hour OF the
morning on which he was to arrive people
began to gather in the streets awaiting him,
and when he reached the villa he was to
occupy fully 2),C-0 persons had gathered
in the street before 1t or on the neighbor-
| ing sea shore. Professions with flags and
bands paraded the streets and bonfres
cleaned on:the surrounding heights.
Some OF the walls which remain of the
ancient fortress of szegedin, in Hungary
the town which two years ago was visited
by a terrible flood-were recently demol-
| ished, and in one of them the workmen
| found concealed two bundles Of tobacco.
From the position occupied by these bundles
It is inferred that they were there when the
| fortress ives built-at a remote historical
| period-and that tobacco was, therefore, in
use in the East long before the Indian was
discovered using it in the West.
= number Of important Improvements are
going forward at Cape May. Many hand
some cottages are being erected, and al the
hotels are being repainsed and many Of
| them refurnished. The Cape May and Sew
| ell's Point ilroad Company hsVe bought
the beach front from Mineral Spring Hotel
| to the point for $75 coo, and are going to
continue the beach drive sll the way down
| to SeWell's Point, distance of two and a
| helt miles. Charles NJ. Hugert has pur-
| chased a,C1 acres Of land near the city,
upon which be intends raising sugar cane.
A Maine Republican having suggested the
names of James G. Blaine and John B.
| Gordon as candidates for the Presidency and
| Vice Presidency on abroad national plat
| FORM" the New York Sun retOrts: 'If does
not seem to occur to those friends of Mr.
Blaine who want to go in for broad ma
| tional movement that Connecticut and
| Texls, or Vermont and Mississippi, or 0alo
| and South Carolina, would answer the pur-
pose quite as we'll as Maine and Georgia.
| Ohio and South Carolina, for example.
| What A sentiment there would be 10 a ticket