Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-03
GENERAL NOTES.


The palace Of the Ptoleries he robbed;
But since the British have begun a-shooting,
Gun a-shooting,
Out of sight the Arab thief has quickly bobbed.
Exchange.
Somebody with vivid imagination has
written to a Baltimore paper that exactly
at nine o'clock on the morning Of October
z the comet will run into the sun, and dark
ness will invade the earth for seventy-tWo
hours, and the West be engulfed by an
earthquake.
Children-and very little ones-in Ireland
play at eviction. Babies march up and order
other babies to quit the corner OF the yard
which they have made the house; and these
In turn resist and hght-good humOredly. 1t
is pitiful, says the correspondent who de-
scribes the scene.
Mrs. Ann Talley, of spottsylvania coun-
ty, Va, who, although 20 years of age, was
seemingly in good health, told her friends
last Friday evening that she feared her time
had come. Saturday morning she arose and
proceeded to prepare the breakfast, and
while thus occupied fell dead.
. The most impudent beggar of the period
has been found in Egypt. While General
Wolseley, surrounded by his soldiers and
crowds of natives, was examining the cap
tured earthworks Of Tel ell Kebir, a wretched
little beggar could not avoid gently scratch
ing the Generals knee and asking for back
sheesh.
A New Orleans man has invented a device
for opening iron shutters from the outside
IN case OF fire. Briefly, it is an iron handle
which, being pulled, explodes a cartridge
on the inside OF The shutter and at the same
time draws the bolt. The cartridge is de-
signed to prevent It's being availed OF By
burglars.
A man was put upon trial recently at Ber-
lin on charge of counterfeiting, and,
being convicted, appealed to the court for a
lenient sentence on the ground that he had
only been in the business for three months,
and that, owing to his inexpertness. every
bogus thaler he had made had cost him at
least two thalers' worth Of labor and ma
terial.
The nomination of Cleveland In New York
has revived the following story: "'Who's
nominated, ledger said the old Democrat as
he saw his delegate returning from the Bal
timore convention in 1874. Polk and Dali
las why, it'll sweep the country ex-
claimed the old Democrat. 'HUrrahl hur-
rahl ledge, what did you say the name Of
that first Teller wasp"
A woman was lately indicted in England
for causing the death of her child by deny
ing it adequate nourishment. Investigation
showed, however, that the mother had fed
the child regularly on corn starch mixed
with little milk, ignSfant Of the fact that
starch is unable to supply the necessary nu-
triment to young children. Under these
circumstances the woman was acquitted.
An appeal to ChristendOm has been pub
lished to subscribe for the complete restora-
ton Of Castle Church, Wittenberg. This is
the most celebrated church in evangelical
Christendom, because Martin Luther
placarded his ninety-fiVe theses on its door.
The Prussian Parliament would not even
vote few pounds to this object, and there
fore the EDO, 900 required is to be raised by
public subscription.
An official report recently made to the
English Government shows that steady pro-
gress has been made upon railways in India
during the past year, 726 miles having been
completed, which makes a total of 9,S75
miles in the whole empire. The most
companies are coming forward with railway
projects IN India for which they seek no
pecuniary aid from the government.
A Republican orator cast gloom over a
Republican club in this city simply by re-
peating in his peroration the conclusion of
Longfellow's Building of the Ship"
We know what master laid thy keel,
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Whist anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what forge
misses and confusion, in which the remain
der OF the quotation was lost.-NeaO York
World.
The great Bernays murder case is soon TO
be tried at Brabant. Twenty writers are
occupied day aud night copying the docu-
ments. Two hundred and fifty witnesses
are to be examined, and the indictment
fills a large volume, and will take several
days to read. Bernsys was a lawyer OF
Antwerp who mysteriouslY disappeared and
was afterwards found dead in a furnished
room OF an empty house in Brussels, sitting
in an arm chair, with bullet hole through
his heart. The details of the trial, 1t is said,
will rival anything related by Edgar Poe.
The report that a picture of the "Judg-
ment Of Solomon" had been discovered in
PompeH proves a mistake. The painting In
question exhibited three men seated on
platform as Judges, child held by two
soldiers upon tripod before them, kneel-
ing man evidently imploring the Judges,
soldiers in the rear, and vast multitude Of
people at the left. There are no woman
figures. The painting is, according to the
authority of some scholars, a satiric cartoon
on human sacrifices; and, as usual with the
caricaturists of that day land OF some OF this
day., the personages are all pigmies little In
body and enormous in head.
The famous Ohio farmer, John Elchlotz,
whose dwelling house was also a warehouse
and granary, in which his wheat has been
stored for twenty years, has just died. Dur
ing that period he has sold scarcely bush
ell, holding every years crop 'fOr a rise"
which never came. Much of it is perfectly
useless, and the sacks are decsyed. He has
kept his family in privation. This season
he predicted general failure of the wheat
crop and big prices. He refused to have
any grain planted on his farm, because he
would haul his stock Of grain to the mar
ket, and did not want to be bothered with
his crops IN the field. His family is not very
sad over his death, and now will live as
other people do.
The death of Sir George Grey has brought
very near the extinction of a notable party
Of English statesmen. He was one of the
group that carried the reform bill, although
he himself did not take office until after its
passage, and was almost the last survivor.
10 1889 he became Judge Advocate, and in
lS4l Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
under Lord Melbourne's administration. In
1S46 be became Home Secretary, and will be
a marked man in history on account of the
GOODNESS and discretion with which he dealt
with the formidable Chartist agitation In
1S4S His official career extended over
period OF forty-two years, beginning with
his election for Davenport in 1882 and ending
with the general election Of 1874.
In printing a report Of the serious illness
of Winnemucca, Chief OF the Piutes, Ne
vada paper says: "It is quite probable that
If his sickness ends in death his wife and
doctor will be made to atone for It with
their lives. It is customary for the FLUTES,
as well as mar other tribes, to XIII the
medicine man who attends q chief during
an illness which ends in death, and they
sometimes sacrifice the unfortunate wife Of
a dead chief on his grave. An instance Of
the latter kind took place here two years
since, when an innocent squaw was taken
with the corpse of her husband to the Hsr-
monY Mountains, some eight or ten miles
above town, and sacrificed on his grave, the
charge against her being witchcraft."
An interesting incident, says the New
York Commercial AdueTtiSer, occurred the
other day in the Western Union Telegraph
office. A number of gentlemen interested
in stock operations were clustered around
the tape, elbowing each other snxiously to
read the quotations. A little man with