Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-10


ing March the excess Of imports was over
so, 900, 600
General skobeleff, the famous European
aOItstor who has been suffering at st.
Petersburg with Inflammation Of the lungs,
Is reported as better.
The hotel business is said to be booming
all over the country. The Fost says the
Boston hotels have not experienced sucn
rush for many months.
f. Nine. Christine Nilsson has stated that
she will resume her professional life for
three years only. She will then finally re-
tire Paris viii be her future home.
Playing football by electric light in Eng
land is all the rage. II they could manage
to kick the ball by electricity they would
have the whole business about right.
And now the heirs Of one Colonel Jacob
Baker, Who fiourished during the Revolu--
ton. are laying claim to fifteen acres OF
land in the heart of Philadelphia, valued at
the neat sum Of S3l5, 100000.
A triehinosis scare in Philadelphia has
had the effect to demorslize the pork trade.
A paper Of that city thinks that scare IN
the beef trade Is what is needed next, or
prices will never stop going up.
Judge Barker, Of Winchester, Va, who
sentenced John Brown to be hanged, was at
the capitol in Washington the other day
and attracted much attention. he Is q
rather small, thick-set man, with dark gray
hair.
Senator Window stated on the floor OF the
Senate recently he had information which
led him to believe that whisky ring had
been organized, (Which was 10 the old ring
as a cyclone to a zephyr" Still the old ring
kicked up considerable OF breeze.
Paterson, n. j., is supposed to possess
more one-eyed men than any city in the
United States, except perhaps, Pittsburg.
Nine-tentbs of those thus afflicted are
workers in iron and steel, aud have been
struck in the eye with metal clippings.
There is a rose craze In New York, and
The mania has gone so far that perfumed
artificial roses are sold in large quantities
There IS so great demand for these flowers
that Il Is stated millionaires are investing In
their culture, as there is large profit in 1t at
present prices.
Charles Bradlaugh, in a recent address,
said the threat to mske him bankrupt had
resulted 10 an invitation from Philadelphia
TO visit America in the autumn and deliver
a course Of lectures, for which $1,000 was
offered in advance. He has declined the
offer. Many thanks.
In a large Cincinnati billiard hall two men
had a fight with pool balls. The missiles
were thrown with reckless force, not only
iniuring the combatants but smashing about
all the glass in the place, denting the fine
woodwork and bTuisiug several spectators.
The repairs will cost 81 200.
At Chico, California, an American mer-
chant who sold goods very cheap and en-
joyed big trade with the Chinese, IN some
way offended them, and they held an indig-
nation meeting and resolved not to trade
with him any more. The heather learn the
ways of the Mclean man very quick.
1t Is said that the outlook for Western
cattle growers is exceedingly hattering. The
general condition OF the cattle on the
ranches is 20 per cent. better than in average
years in the southwest. This will be good
news for poor people who are not able to
pay the prevailing high prices for beef.
A female child, twenty-five months old,
was before the Recorder Of Montreal, Cana
da, Tuesday, charged with ysgrsncy. The
Gazette saws that the Recorder, going on the
principle that "silence gives consent, when
the charge was repeated to the 4nfsnt, sent
the child for five years to the Bon Pasteur.
Mr.. Emerson is said to have left an estate
valued at about 500, OOO Much of this was
| accumulated and preserved through the
thrift Of his admirable wife. More than
one visitor to Concord remembers a vision
IF the gentle lady busy among the clothes
lines Of the philosophers back yard on a
| Monday morning.
The French aptness at epigrsm is well
shown in the monosyllabic comments of an
old wit. "My husband is dead" said lady
TO him, on one occasion. "OA, MsdameH
was the sympathetic respons- 81 am en-
gagged TO NJ" said the a yesr later.
'Ab, Madsme!" mUrmured The wit, with q
merry twinkle OF the eye.
A Quaker missionary baptized a convert
IN Mexico, contrary to the law Of his church,
and on returning to his home in Indiana was
reprimanded by the Quaker quarterly con-
| ference. His defense was that the man in-
| sisted on baptism, and would have gone
over to the Bsptists II he had not consented
/ = perform the rite. This was not accepted
/ as a good excuse.
The Captain Of q vessel bound from the
| Mauritius to Tasmania last November attIib
| utes her riding cut a terrific storm entirely
/ 70 oil. Saturated swabs, with weights at
| tsched TO keep them IN position, were cast
| over every two hours, and mountainous
waves meeting the oil glided off, leaving
merely heavy swell. The calming effect
of oil is thoroughly established.
The extent of the forests of Russia in Eu-
rope is about AZ, S97, 500 acres, or 40 per
cent. OF the whole area. The principal trees
| are the Scotch pine, spruce, fir, lareh, birch,
lime. aspen aud oak. lockwood, used for
| the best kinds of wood engraving, has been
| for some wears becoming more and more
scarce. Wood of the largest diameter comes
| from the forests Of the countries bordering
on the Black Sea.
A customer of the Bank of France was re-
Gently going down the steps with 5000
francs Of gold in a handkerchief, when the
handkerchief broke and the money went
rolling over the sidewalk among the crowd
| The bystanders helped him pick the money
| up, aud every coin was returned to Its
owner. A similar occurrence happened q
few months ago In Hartford, where roll OF
| bills was dropped and blown about aud the
loser got back every dollar.
Hon. John a. MINIS, a prominent Ala.
bama Republican, has abandoned his party
and gives his adhesion TO the Democrats,
because he learns that official patronage is
to be one Of the chief factors in building
up party In opposition 20 the Democratic
party in Alabama, and to this he is utterly
| opposed, for two reasons: First, the man
who is the mouthpiece In Alabama is the
worst man in Alabama, politically, of anv
party; secondly, it is wrong in principle u
A Jersey mother was much distressed one
afternoon last week by the mysterious dis
appearance OF her two youngest sons.
When the fstker returned in the evening q
careful search was instituted, and the sb-
/ santees were discovered living concealed be-