Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-26
GENERAL NOEES.

by the Bank of England in distributing the
dividends on the national debt, and the &C :
cumulations OF the unpaid fractions amount
to el43. 0U0.
It is proposed to erect monument IN
Montreal to the memory Of the late Hon.
Thomas Darcy MCGEE. The project meets
with great favor with all classes and both
nationalities.
Pastor Love, of the United Presbyterian
Church at Huntsville, Ohio, was chloro-
formed and robbed of 5000 by his two
sons, whom he had reared to the ages OF
twelve and fourteen with exceeding relig-
ious rigor.
Leadville will produce 1900 tons OF
lead this year. Her output was $4,000 tons
for the first six months. Utah's output will
be 5000 tons in advance of last year, or
28. 900 tons. Nevada will show falling off,
while Missouri is on the increase. Arizona
will also be a large producer for the last
half Of this year. The outlook for an adj
vance in price Is not brilliant at this time.
The San Francisco Bulletin says: cit is
singular circumstance that people from the
Pacific coast, who live in sight of the water
and within hearing OF the surf, go to the
Atlantic States for a summer climate, and
are forced to find quarters at the seashore,
which are less comfortable, and less enjoya-
BILE In the matter Of climate, than hundreds
of places which might be found along the
Pacific coast"
Excavations in the Roman Forum, which
are still going forward, are expected ere
long to bring to light the ancient tribune
from which the orators addressed the peo-
pie. Remnants of friezes and columns
that have recently been found in the Forum
have been set up on brick pedestsls as fast
IS thew came to light. Pieces of the old
pavement have been fastened together by
means Of Venetian mosaic cement.
An extraordinary variety of fruits is for
sale in the markets Of San Francisco. The
Bulletin enumerates the following as to be
seen in the fruit stores: Apples, peaches,
apricots, pears, plums, prunes, pomegrsn-
ates, crab apples, lemons, fresh aud dried
figs, lines, oranges, plneapples, nectarines,
bananas, cantaloups, tamarinds, currants,
raspberries, grapes, strawberries, Watermel-
Ons, blackberries, and nutmeg and musk
melons.
Alarming accounts regarding the crops
come from every part Of the north Of Ire
land. In Tyrone particularly sad havoc has
DG60 DlhYbu Will dlulOcb oil CldSoCo VI PlO-
duce, but particularly with the fax and po-
tatoes, which will scarcely be worth the
trouble expended in their in-gathering. The
farmers say that the harvest will be one OF
the worst and most ruinous for them since
the famine period Of 1S47. Small as it will
be, will they hold it?
The Mexican authorities are coming to
the stern conclusion that nothing but ex-
termination will settle the Indian question
in that country. Retaliation in its most
dreadful form is likely to follow the recent
blood curdliDg atrocities committed in the
Sonora district by band Of two hundred
Apaches led by Chief Juh. General Regs,
commander OF force of Mexican troops
who are IN pursuit of the fends, declares
that when he again encounters them not
buck, squaw or pappoose will be spared.
The Fermanagh (Lreland) Nail says of the
Egyptian war: "The destruction OF Alex
andria will long shed the lurid glare OF
nefarioas and cOwardly policy on the page
of history. Without any declaration OF war
England VIII be held responsible by the
world for the calamity which her fleet has
inflicted on the land of the Pharaohs. 1t
brands with disgrace the regime of the
Gladstone administration, and will assuredly
have a humiliating effect when read by
posterity as one OF the exploits Oh nine
teenth century civilization"
Mr.. G. w. Childs, It is said, is very anxl-
GUS to get his particular friend, Gen. Grant,
in the Episcopal church. But he does not
seem to be progressing much, for the
General says that while the Methodist
church service is short and the sermon long,
the Episcopal church service Is long and the
sermon short, which, as he expresses 1t,
makes six Of one and half a dozen OF the
other. So he cannot see what he is to gain
by change. But the General does not 60
to church now as much as he did when he
was in Washington.
Venezuela celebrates her centenary July
"a, 1888, and the arrangements have been
made for an international festival beginning
on that day, which is the 100th anniversary
of the birth of Bolivar, the Liberator, and
ending August %. The proclamation OF the
national holiday in honor Of Bolivar and the
ensuing festival invites the United States
to ioin with Venezuela In the celebration,
and sets apart the 3lst day of July TO the
exclusive purpose of Offering admiration
and homage to the great North American
Republic" by unvetling a colossal statue
of Washington, ''the father OF the great
people who founded republican institutions
in the New World as model to the Spanish
American nations"
The official report of the census recently
taken throughout France does not exactly
agree with the statements made last winter
soon after the work was completed. The
changes however, are not great. Accord
ing to this report the total population is
| 30. 672, Gao, being an increase over 1876 OF
766, 260 OF this increase over 50O,OOO was
contributed by the largest Az towns In
| France, only 8 Of the AZ showing any de-
crease. Paris increased about IA per cent,
and now has population of 2, 269, O23. Ly-
| ons, the second city in the country, has $780,
| 600 inhabitants; Marseiles 800, 900, and Bor-
deaux 22l 900. For the territory outside
| the AZ towns the increase of population was
small-onlY 2O4,39l for nearly 32,OOO,OOO in
| habitants.
The tithing-house is still in active use in
Salt Lake City, and through it 100000
year is collected by the Mormon officials.
This comes mostly from the poor, according
70 a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe
| Democrat, and nobody knows to what use 1t
| is put, although many had their surmises
when they found that Brigham Young,
although not entitled to any salary, died
worth several millions. The rich eVade
| their tithes In a variety of Ways; the poor
must paw them, or they are subjected to
trouble and annoyance. When they have
Maid their tithes they are not out OF debt to
| the church. They must contribute when
called upon to the erection OF new build
ings or do anything else which the priest
hood NAV demand. "Better starve your
body than your SOUL" and away goes the
last bushel of corn, or the last sheep, or the
| last steer.
An account is given in English journals OF
| the performance of locomotive engine on
the Great Northern Railroad, which recently
carried the Duke OF Edinburgh from Leeds
| m London, 1861 miles, In three hours, or at
the rate of over 62 miles per hour, without
| allowing for one stop that was made at
| Granthsm. This speed has frequently been
e0ualed, and sometimes passed for short
| distances, but is remarkable as the average
rate for such a long journey. The engine
had driving wheels eight feet in
| diameter, or two feet larger than the driving
uhaeIs of American engines, which have
bean dubbed "Jumbo' on account of their
great size. To accomplish the trip In the
| time given, the driving wheel must have
made 2l9 revolutions per minute, or more
| tban 40 600 in three hours. A six-foot driver
| r7alxing the same number OF revolutions per
| minute would travel only AL miles in the
| same time, or, to put it the other way, six
| foot driver, to accomplish the same distance
IN tbe same time, would have to revolve 2S8
/ tines instead of 219 times per minute. Cen
trifn0aI force will come in after awhile to
| u-tt +ho eneed of the biggest and most