Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-12
GENERAL NOTES.

Adelina Patti Is reported TO nave accepteu
an engagement for South America during
the season Of 1884 at an enormous salary.
Upon a modest gravestone in the Vincen-
mes Qnd.) cemetery appears this plaintive
legend: "His neighbor played the cornet."
A gentleman who recently came up the
Yellowstone, estimates that one hundred
men have been drowned in that river this
summer.
The National Dress Society of Great Brit
ain offers prize of $50 for ''the design OF
female garment combining ease, elegance,
comfort and health"
The widest plate glass that was ever put
up in America is claimed to have been placed
in position at indianapolis the other day.
1t was 113 inches by 13S inches.
A New Mexico paper reports that recently
a large aerolite fell near Pinos Altos, crush
ing several trees, and that a Mexican who
saw 1t reported that piece OF the moon had
fallen.
There is still standing over the spring at
Soldiers Rest, Clarke county, Va, the log
cabin built by General Morgan and occupied
by Washington as his headquarters when
he was a surveyor in the Valley OF Virginia.
Willie Sprague, the son OF Mrs. Kate
Chase sprague, is a slender boy, II years OF
age, with an olive complexion, black eyes
and hair, and face thin and careWorn.
Early every morning last summer he could
have been seen roughly dressed driving
from Canonchet in an old farm wagon filled
with milk cans, the contents OF which ne
sold at the hotels.
In settling the estate of james Reddock,
a somewhat eccentric bachelor farmer at
Gray River, N. s., a couple Of barrels OF
buckwheat were sold. The purchaser OF
one barrel disputed the measurement, and
the grain was measured. In the middle OF
the barrel was found q small tin kettle con-
tanning $1S4 The dissatisfied buyer then
wished he had held his tongue. This dis
covery led to a search OF the premises, when
over 800 more was found hidden away In
similar manner.
The French Legitimists have recently
dined with Chambord at Frohsdorf and
prayed among the tombs of Bourbon Kings
at st. Denis. Women in old Vendesn peas
ant costume were among others who went
to invoke the protection of the Sacred Heart
at Montmartre. They were afterWard taken
to see the four royal carriages which were
ordered in 1873 by the Legitimists for the
French capital as Henry V.
Late reports from England still agree that
the hop crop in that country is one Of the
worst that has been known in many years,
and that the supply Of old stock on hand is
short. Leading merchants place the yield
at from 970, 0C0 to 100000, old duty, while
one of them goes so low as geo, 900. Cont
mental plantations, except those OF Alost,
in Belgium, promised more abundant re-
| turns. To make good the deficiency deal
ers look to "America and California" as
the London correspondent OF Manchester
paper says.
The new census Of London, showing the
population to be 4,764,312 souls, has drawn
out from Land, the English journal, some
striking contrasts. There are" it says,
| ''in London more than double the number
/ Of people IN Denmark, including Greenland;
nearly three times as many as In Greece;
more than eighteen times the population OF
| Montenegro; some thousands more than
Portugal, including the Azores and Madeira;
nearly treble the population OF Seryis; more
/ than double that of Bulgaria; three quarters
| of a million more than in Holland; more
| than Sweden, or Norway, or Switzerland.
| And YET" adds the same paper, 'this SPLEEN
did capital, the most populOus and wealthy
Il CITY the WOfIQ mas ever seen, Is pIdCGlChlIf
without government"
A woman named Adele Matthew has been
sentenced to six months imprisonment by
the tribunal at Lisieux for obtaining money
from the peasants in that part Of Normandy
under the false pretense of being able to
cure them and their animals OF every kind
| of disease. Adele Matthew urged in her
! defense that she had the power Of eXorcis-
| ing evil spirits, of which there were three
| kinds, one Of which could only be got rid OF
| by burning toads in q caldron. Upon one
| occasion she was sent for by farmer who
had seventeen of his cattle ILL.,, and she
| burned $40 toads In the presence of the VIII
| layers, several of whom declared that they
saw dog Jump out from the mouth of one
| Of the beasts and run away. Adele Matthew
| also resorted to the well known device of
larding sleeps or bullock's heart with
pins and needles and burning 1t in a wood
fire; and some of the witnesses who were
called to prove the case against her aGiVely
declared that, though she charged more
than the doctor, she had done them more
good. But, in spite of this, and of her en-
ergetic assertion that she was gifted with
supernatural power, the tribunal sent her to
prison.
Dublin Nation, September %: "The gov
eminent have at length recognized the fact,
which has been apparent to most minds for
very long time, that If the land act is to
be made a measure of any use to the Irish
tenantry some change will have to be made
in the manner in which it is being admins
tered. The block,n the land courts, it was
seen, was becoming greater every week, and
the commissioners found themselves unable
to prevent the heightened delays which took
place before fair rents were fixed. In conse-
quence Of this the government have made
an alteration in the method Of procedure in
the sub commissioners courts, and they
now hope that the decisions will be has
tened in the large number of cases which
have been entered for hearing. The sub
commissions will continue to consist Of
three members, but each Of the seventeen
which are now in existence will in future
have an official value attached to it. The
duty Of these new officials will be to assist
the sub-commissioners in forming correct
estimate of the value of a holding. They
will not appear in court, nor will they take
any part In the judgments given"