Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-22


prodigfous length on the memory OF one.
Mrs. Jesse James declined an engagement
TO travel with a Western circus, put TWO OF
the James horses are out for the tentlhg
season. and Missouri is piling up Iunu LOT
J the bandits widow.
Rear Admiral John Rogers, Superintend-
ent of the Naval Observatory, has been
confined to his room at the observatory with
what his physicians pronounce Brignts as
ease He Is now In his seventeen year, and
has enioved good health through long anu
active service in the navy.
Oh CITY Derrick: ut was seventeen years
ago last Friday, April IA, that Lincoln was
assassinated, and yet Corbett, who shot
Booth, the assassin, has not vet been I'M
-rteoned for eighs wears. Neither has his
family received a Betty and the Baoy Iunu'
This IS indeed a peculiar world"
Meptoue. bought from the Prince of Mo-
naco for $500 900 by the French in 1860, has,
ike Nice, acquired in the same year from
Italy, advanced with giant strides under It's
D-eseut owners. n 1856 the population was
8 800: in 1877. ) Geo. SO, again. Nice has
grown from 10 500 in 1856 TO 40 80 In 1871.
A gas well 10 Clarendon, Pa, dug in 1881
to a depth OF little more than 1000 feet,
now supplies fuel to % drilling wells,
pumping wells, 125 stoves, machine SHOPS
and > Plumbing stations. Recently, on a
rather cold dav. the gauge in The compsny's
cfica showed a pressure OF % pounds to
The square inch.
The Princess Of Wales once won the heart
OF a county by asking for some more OF q
certain local dish of which the natives are
very proud. The hostess was charmed. the
cook delighted. and everybody struck by
the quiet. unaffected manner otthe Princess.
As Labouchere says: "The next best thing
10 having genius is 10 be natural"
In Reading, Pa, the other day two young
girls qusrrele1 in the street and fought, one
Of them being so badly injured that 1t Is
feared she will lose her sight. A disgusting
feature Of the affair was that two yourg
men who were with them permitted them To
eight It out" alleging afterwsrd that they
couldn't separate the combatants.
A wagon load of misery excited pity at
Ottawa. Kansas. II was q hsndcuffsd thief
on his way to prison; his insane wife, who
was being taken 10 an asylum; the children
going to the poor house, and dead osey
bound for the graveyard. The object IN
taking them all In one vehicle was TO mar
age the woman easily, as she refused to be
parted from the rest.
Among the Diceties OF Presidential eti-
quette, inaugurated by that stiff social mar
tlnet the first Adams, which Gen. Arthur
has revived. IS the precedence of the Presi-
tIept even before the ladies. At White
House parties they all rise when he enters the
room. and ne is himself served at table be-
fore the fairest OF his guests.
The temperance constitutional amend
ment has been defeated in the Connecticut
House OF representatives,. A two-thirds
vote was needed to pass it. One hundred
ard fifteen votes were cast In its favor
ten short of the number required. Only
fifteen votes were cast against It, but one
hundred and nineteen members did not vote
at all.
The peculiar electrical condition Of the
atmos phers at Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday
evening last, resulted in the prostTation OF
navy weak-nervad people IN that city One
minister was SEIZED in his pnlpit with a
stroke which was th ught for the time to
be PARALYSIS, aud many ladies IN the cOngre
cation tainted. The effect was IS II an
esr hquake had taken place.
Everything requires time; don't hurry
to speak," said the italian Count Buondela
mente, as he stood weeping and sobbing by
the bedside OF bis dying wife, who had been
fading away for more than yeer. but l
must hasten to tell my SIM" gaspad the
wife 81 cannot die without confessing that
have been unfaithful to nv marriage VOW
and that have loved Count Malv8zzi" 81
know II well enough. % returned the Coun'
bland;y, 'Eand thst is why 1 began TO poison
you from the moment he first entered the
house."
The Chinese have a strong King for all
countries where gold mining ] earried on.
Il was the gold mines that irs' took them
to California, and they have hocked to the
Australian gold regions in great numbers.
10 The province Of Victoria they have been
very prosperous, many Of their merchants
| having emassed pTiucely fortunes. Inc
| same prejudice exists against them there,
| however. as in America, and they are &C
cused Of every crime. Not only petty thefts,
but big frauds Of quite civilized character
are laid to their account. Smuggling, also
has been most successfully carried on by
them. snd not long ago the customs officers
| seized $50 600 worth of Struggled goods IN
| he hands of one Chinese merchant.
Princess Victoria, the sixteen-year-old
daughter of the Crown Princess of Germany,
was confirmed fortnight ago, with her
cousin Leopold, the son of Prince Frederick
| Charles. The service was celebrated
mappifcent state apartment arranged as
chanel, and the Crown Princess herself
| brought in her v0ung daughter, dressed in
nIain GOWN Of white silk, with her fair hair
/ drawn hack from her round babyiSa face.
One curious part OF the ceremony was the
| reading aloud OF the Prince and Princess OF
| their confession of faith, document Enicn,
/ according to an old tradition o. the house
| R0henzoilerD, had been drawn up by the
candidates for confirmation themselves.
A French newspaper gives the particulars
| of the sale Of the wine crop OF 1881 by the
Rotbsehilds from their celebrated vineyard,
Chateau Laffte. There were sold ITO casks,
NJ ga gsllons each, at 81, $50 per cask.
| These vineyards aFe among the very Few IN
France not touched by the phylloXera, This
| sale shows the immense pront OF grape
| cnlture The wine sold was pressed In DC
! fober snd will not be marketable for two or
three wears. when it will readily sell for
| double tue price paid fOI 1t now. With care
and natIent cultivation OF the finer varieties
| of grapes, such as are grown in france, there
| Is no reason why lust as good wine should
not be produced in this country as anywhere
Already G great deal of our native wine is
suDeri0r 70 thab produced in foreign lands,
but as It becomes known what handsome
profs erSpe culture pays, finer grapes and
better wine will be produced.
Ploughing by electricity is promised, but
a furrow made by the help Of the locomO-
tive Is not 20 be despised. The laying Of
underground telephone wires is most desi-
rable. aud the experiment made By the Bell
C,ornnany recently between Attlehoro and
West Mansfield, Mass, shows that the pro-
cess can be very rapid A furrow five miles
long was turned up In an almost incredibly
short time. A beam dashed 10 Tue ear,
nlow attached TO the beam, q man at the
5Iow handles, the starting CT the engine,
and the work is dOne-a trench one foot
deem between the railroad tracks Perfect
insulation is secured, and rerils OF all sorts
are avoided BIZ The simple eXpedlent OF
utilizing the ground. As'onishment will
/ cease soon to be possible, and get ne would
have been called moonstruck who had
prophesied FIVE gears ago that mile fur
rows for telephone apparatus would be
fashionable in Massachusetts, at this date.
The question speedily will be; Who is not
my neighbor?
How the Gold particles Of certain gases
floating in the sir produce fogs has been
illustrated lately by Mr.. Eewtb, with lecture
room experiments. A dubious flask of glass,
connected with an air pump and containing
a little water, was placed on a table so
that a beam from an electric lamp could
ilumiuGts the interior. Some OF the mote
filed air of the room was let into the flask,
which was partially exhausted OF air. Soon,
the flask appeared 10 be filed with fog, but
= - l.. Z, ~ tho rnOtpG nv aVifatinQ the