Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-21
aENgRAL torEs.

The gentleman whose name will 60 "thun-
dering down the centuries" has just eigh-
teen DAYS more In which to contemplate the
grandeur of the present administration
Den,eT Tribune.
Oscar Wilde is changing his costume fire.
quently during his second Western tour. In
Cincinnati he wore swallow-tsiled coat Of
black velvet, lined with red silk, knee
breaches and waistcoat Of black satin, black
silk stockings, and masses of lace In place
OF shirt bosom and cuffs.
The Princess Louise has had bad luck in
Canads On her first visit sleiRhride acct
dent gave her not only immediate pain, but
a lasting trouble that caused her absence
| from the Dominion, as her husband pub
/ licly explained, during the greater part Of
! last year. Now she has ventured bLck, and
| on Thursday Lord Lorne's Yacht met with
an accident at Quebec, the Princess Louise,
who was aboard, barely escaping knock
on the head with flagstaff.
A veteran officer at the review Of the West
Point Cadets the other day remarked that
neither General Sherman nor General How
ard was sttired 10 The regula ion garb. To
the eye Of the lsyman their cooked bats,
\ ostrich plumes, gold cords, epsulettes and
i cSentc AeAt uOiulu6 W Dc uceIeu. oNb bue
/ veteran, more In sorrow than in anger,
| pointed out that neither wore spurs, that
| General Sherman was without q sword, and
| General Howard's hat was rear side before.
| Nevertheless the review passed of success
| fully and the heavens did not fall.
On recent Sunday the Bishop of Liver
pool went to preach at the evening service
| in a large church in his diocese. The second
! lesson appointed for the day happered to
| be the chapter in Timothy in which the
| duties OF the Bishop are d. fined, and In
which he Is directed to be the husband of
one wife" AS the Bishop happens to
| be the husband Of third wife the obsequi-
Gus incumbent thought he might feel dis
concerted, so, in the plentitude OF his ser
Witty, he ordered the curste not to read the
proper lesson, but to choose another.
A new explosive has been invented by NJ.
| Petri, Viennese engineer. The name given
to It is dynamogeD, and it is likely TO com
pete seriously with gunpowder. The iuven-
| tor states that 1t CONTAINS neither sulphuric
acid, nitric acid, nor nitro glycerine, and
! that it cannot injure In any way either gun
or cartridge The charge of dynsmogen is
in the form OF solid cylinder, which can
| be increased in quantity without being in
| creased In size by compression. The manu-
facture of dynamogen is simple and without
danger. 1t preserves it's qualities In the
| coolest or hottest weather, and can be made
at forty per cent. less cost than gunpowder.
Il is said that in certain parts of France
important steps are to be taken to renew,
through systematic athletic exercise, the
ancient vigor of the present race. At Reims
has Just been held fete with two thousand
young men from all sections of France TAX
1 IA i l. \ l. \.
| part of the general scheme. The French
Minister OF Public instruction was present
at a banquet given subsequently,, and said
| that II his hopes and plans were only carried
out, France would, in few years time, "be
! able to point with pride to a race Of active
and manly youths somewhat different in
! physique and appearance from the pAllid
boys who loiter about small courtyard or
walk In procession through the streets on
half-holidays."
John F. Collins, an Emerald Islander,
who recently died in New York, wanted to
have first class funeral; and so before he
left he bargained with an undertaken to give
him 5000 worth OF coffin and trimmings. A
funeral bill of $500 65 was accordingly sent
In, with q petition to the Surrogate for
leave to sell lot worth 81 600, the sole Col
Inns property, TO pay the claim. The un-
dertaker said he had done his best to fill the
order, the coffin alone costing $500. He had
also furnished the funeral outfit cheaper
than he would have done it for a rich man,
and experts in grave-trappings testified that
| the charges were reasonable. But the New
York law governing cases like this permits
only payment for such funeral expenses as
would be reasonable and proper under the
! circumstances; and the referee cut the bill
down to $75
Speaking of the appointment of ex-V &C
PRECEDENT VIM. A. Wheeler on the Tariff
Commission, the Malone Palladium Of the
Is h instant says: "This selection was with
out Mr. Vheeler's knowledge. He there
fore telegraphed to the President at opee on
receipt OF the news of his nomination de-
clinipg to serve, and the same day forward
ed letter giving reasons for his declina-
ton. The reasons were, briefly, that mas
much as the work must be difficult and
laborious and the time for 1t comparatively
short, he was averse, in his not robust
health to undertake to do 1t. While it was
unnecessary for Mr.. Wheeler, to add other
grounds for his refusal to serve, those
friends who know his interest in the public
welfare and In the principle of protection
cannot doubt that he would have waived
the objections stated II only there had been
reason to believe that the work of the
commission, however admirable, could bear
fruit"
Mexico is just now torn up 10 every direc-
ton with construction companies working
on numerous telegraph and railroad lines,
canals and all manner Of transportation
facilities, which the government IL subsidiz
ing and encouraging literally. The DiGrtO
| Official publishes the details of the con-
tracts vii h the four new ocean steamship
| companies. The government is to pay q
mail subsidy of $4,000 for each round trip
between Vera Cruz and New York, 81, 800
for esch round trip between Vera Cruz and
| New O.laans, $40 600 for each round trip
between Vera Cruz and Liverpool or Italy
contract has also been made for a canal
from TIE port Of Mszatlan to Santiago
Ixcuintla and for three railroad lines in con-
| nectlon with the canal. For each kilometre
of completed canal the government pays
S. 500 and for each kilometre of railroad
| So 600. But the government pays no sub
sidy where road runs parallel to an exist
ing road. Competing lines must pay their
own way The government only assis
railroads intended to open up new country
and new fields Of trade.
One OF the curious features of the late
Burke-Parker duel in Louisiana, says the
New York San, was the indiff -rent marks
manship of the combatants. Both were
cool and courageous, and they were twenty
| PAGES apart, armed with dueling pistols
| Nevertheless they had no fewer than five
! exchanges of shots before either hit the
| other. One fired five shots and scored a
| ducks egg every time, while the other only
made hit In his fifth shot, the aggregate
score for both being one in possible ten.
As shooting, this does not equal even the
recent exploit OF Mrs. Hennings, of Brook
| Ign, who fired at cat with pistol the other
| day, from Carroll street, and missed him,
but vet hit lady over In President street In
the corset, besides grazing the son of a po-
! liceman. Nor will it compare for a moment
with the late Leadville exploit, in which D.
| W. Fresher shot Robert Bartamoss entirely
| through the body with a revolver, in q
| crowded street, at the first fire, and instant
| lY thereafter Bartamoss raised his rihe and
shot Fresher through the heart, so that both
| fell dead exactly at the same moment.
A special Washington telegram to the
New York Tribune reports lively and in
terestiug scene in the office of Postmaster
General Howe. S.nator Van WYck, of Ne
braska, had found but little attention paid
| to some suggestions he had made concern
! ing the retention of the Postmaster In his
| State, and he went up to the Office of
! the Postmaster General to see abou. it. Mr..
| Howe, after hearing him, gave him TO I'M
| derstand that he was not In favor because
! he did not vote for the confirmation OF all
! the Presidents appointments. After little
talk Senator Van Wyck got mad, aud event
for' the Postmaster General in refreshing