Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-14


A movement is on foot in Cleveland,
Ohio, especially among the Freemasons, to
raise fund for the care of the graves OF the
three hundred Confederate soldiers buried
on Johnson's Island, and to erect monu-
ment to their memory.
The surviving members Of the family OF
Daniel Webster have informed the Webster
Historical Society of Massachusetts,, through
Caroline s. Webster, that they Will De
heartily welcomed at Marshfeld whenever
they shall choose to make public demon
stration at the home Of the statesman IN MS
honor.
The registration Of medical practitioners
in Pennsylvania shows that in round num-
bers there are $500 registered physicians
and 500 who have not registered. OF those
registered 500 are graduates OF colleges OF
the bogus kind, and 82S are not graduates
of any institution, but are permitted to reg
lister because they have been in practice
since 1871.
The Chinese laundrymeu Of Philadelphia
have combined to resist persecution, and
have created fund for expenses. as in
dicated by the following notice posted on
the front of each shop: "Ten dollars Will
be paid for the arrest of any fellow that
throws dead cats or dogs or bricks into THIS
laundry"
1t is said that formerly in one of the re-
mote mining settlements Of Wyoming sin .
gle copy of religious paper containing
a sermon by the Rev. Mr.. Tslmage made
It's appearance weekly, and that every sat
urday evening the men OF the community
met to determine by game OF seven up"
Aho N nUnltn
the following day.
A young man was killed by lightning
while sitting alone under tree in New Or
leans, La, three or four days ago, and 1t wac
some time before any mark could be found
on his body to establish the cause OF death
Finally, after close scrutiny, the hair on the
left side of his head was found to be singed,
and Just below the hair were two black dots
like powder burns.
The Litchfeld Conn., Enquirer says that
five workmen at quarry near that town
ran into the tool house on the approach OF
a thunder storm a few days ago, and sat On
an iron bar. The lightning struck derrick
lust outside and, entering the shop, follow
ed the iron bar. The first and last or the
five men were severely shocked and burned;
the middle man was killed; the other two
escaped uninjured.
Some months ago public attention was
called in England to the surprising fact that
nephew of Robert Burns, the poet, lone GIL
bert Burns Begg, was ending his last days in
the poor house of Glasgow. Good has come
of this, though its coming has been slow. Mr..
Begg was fortnight ago taken out OF this
poor house and placed In very comfortable
quarters at Pollochshaws,a town about three
miles south Of Glasgow.
1t is now declared that Strawberry Hill,
the famed residence of Horace Walpole, has
positively been sold to company Of Ameri-
cans, who will convert it into hotel, Cos
SIP to this effect having for some time been
going about. These Americans will follow
the American hotel plan in their manage
ment, charging by the day, instead of by
the things ordered. Englishmep express
doubt II the scheme will succeed, since the
season must be short. Strawberry Hill IN
winter, they say, sounds rheumatic.
The engagement of Senator Jones, OF
Florida, to Miss Moseley, of Newburyport,
Massachusetts,, a very lovely young lady of
twenty summers, is announced. Miss Grun-
dy, writing In the Philadelphia Times, says:
1.-THE romance.b etween!Senat Jones and
time of Gen. Gsrfield's Inauguration, when
She came to the city with her brother and
his wife, the daughter OF Major Ben T.
Poore. Senator Jones promptly fell as
deeply and freshly In love with her as a
schoolboy could with his first ideal. and has
never been bashful about letting his devo-
ton be known.
A company has purchased some $4,000
acres of wild lands in Franklin county, N. T.,
at an expense of sos, 900, and will add some
1000 acres to it, intending to go largely
into the manufacture of lumber. They had
previously bought $4,000 acres near by.
Concerning the purchase, the Malone EGstG
dunn reffectively says: "Every lover OF the
woods-every thinking man who reflects
that destruction Of forest lessons rain fall
and uncovers to the sun those natural reser-
voirs, the swamps-will read this informa-
lion with an indefnable dread; but we live
In practical age and are practical people,
more intent on material and immediate
| future necessities"
At a recent London meeting to raise
money to complete the excavations at Ephe-
su7, Mr.. Wood, the explorer, told how he
| discovered the famous temple. No writings
! existed to afford him the slightest cleW to
its whereabouts But he hit upon an in
| scription from the wall of that theatre to
which st. Paul would have entered, but
"the disciples suffered him not" This de-
| scrlbed procession In which certain images
were carried from the temple through the
| CITY gates. After much search he found the
| gates, and then at length hit upon the paved
Wav. worn into grooves by the wheels OF
| cbariots. Little by little he made progress
| to the city of Ephesus, until he reached the
temple Of the great goddess Diana. The
| fragments Of frieZes and column drums
| gave glimmeIing idea OF what the whole
must have been. They are now in tae Brit
ish Museum.
A Free Thinkers Convention is soon to
be held at Watkins, New York, aud # was
announced that President White and other
members of the Faculty at Cornell would
be present. The Ithaca Journal says: "Iu
the absence of President White, we are in.
formed by one who has exact and thorough
knowledge In the premises that President
White has had no correspondence or com
municstion with any person regarding the
convention; that he has never received or
accepted any invitation to it; and that he is
engaged in another part of the State at the
time when 1t is to be held. Nor Is he a
member of the Liberal League nor a
supporter of or subscriber to the Eader We
may add-what everybody in Ithaca Knows
that there has been no branch of the 'Libe-
raj League In Ithaca for years; and that,
when one did exist, neither President White
nor Vice President Russell was ever mem
Der of It,"
A letter written by Prof. Morse to his
cousin, Mrs Thomas r. Walker, In 1874, a
dozen years after. the event alluded to, thus
explained the selection of the Scriptural
text, "What hath God wrought" which
was the first telegraphic message sent from
Washington to Baltimore: "You are not
aware, perhaps, that this sentence was the
first sentence transmitted by telegraph from
Washington to Baltimore, and indited by
my young friend, Miss Annie Ellsworth, the
daughter of the Commissioner of Patents
She took the pains to come to me early on
the morning after nv appropriation had
passed both houses to be the first to inform
me of the good news. then promised her
she should indite the first sentence trans
mitted by telegraph from Washington to
Baltimore. This was the first sentence
transmitted, and she indited It, aud let me
assure you, my dear cousin, it has a mean
ing which few can understand In its whole
extept.o
Pail Mall Gazette: SIT is worth remark that
the shore guns. Cat Alexandris) which were
mounted Moncrieff fashion-that is, on the
disappearing principle-did exactly what
was expected of shem. They were much
more difficult to silence, because they were
snnk below the level of the works except at
the moment of firing. There are now 10
existence other systems OF making guns
disappear after firing beside that of Major
Moncrief, and we are not sure that the
guns In question were actually mounted on
his carriages, Whether they were or not,
the credit of having worked the principle In