Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-26
GENERAL NOTES.

Out in Ohio they are congratulating one
another that there will be one army worm
less, now that Mr.. Arthur has signed the
order for the dismissal of Lieut.. Fipper.
Missouri is the State where party lines are
drawn. The papers are now disputing
whether the Brookfeld bank robbers were
county.
The Chicago Inter-Oc printed an edi-
ton of ~ pages last Friday, all but IL of
them being taken up with the delinquent
tax list This is an unpleasant kind Of
enterprise"
Ex-Msyor Isaac s. Kalloch, OF San Fran
cisco, sent word to Denver, COL, recently,
that he wanted to come there and lecture,
but the Denver Tribune replied that mas
much as he is hypocrite as a preacher and
fraud as q man it would advise him to
keep away from thatrespectable community.
John Birdsell, a well-to-do farmer, owning
his own land, of streetsboro, Ohio, took an
insane freak several months ago, and, absn-
doning everything, took to the roads as
tramp A few days since he returned home
in a sorry plight, and will probably speedily
die. He said he had tramped as far east as
Boston, Mass.
A zebra colt, claimed to have been the
only one ever born in America, came to an
untimely death In the st. Louis Geological
Garden on Thursday night last. Some OF
the other wild animals managed to get into
the zebra quarters, and In the contest Which
followed the young zebra got worsted, and
was found dead in the morning.
Pasquale Maiore, the Italian murderer OF
New YORK, is not at all obliged to the Cover
nor for giving him respite. He recently
remarked to a reporter, In broken English:
81 am sorry they have given me stay; ex-
pecled to be hanged on Friday, and was per-
fectly satisfied TO go then. l have got to
hang, anyhow, and the stay is only prolong-
Ing the agony"
A barber in Lawrence, Mass, thought it
funny to cut the hair of simple-minded
customer In an eccentric and ludicrous
manner, but the Police Justice. on the mat
ter being brought before him, looked at 1t
from different point of view, and telling
the barber that he had been guilty OF Sc
rlous assault, fined him $50 and costs, with
the alternative OF going to jail Tor SIX
months.
The Selectmen OF Norwich, Conn, at the
request Of relatives and friends Of drunk
ards, send out every year over a thousand
postal cards notifying liquor dealers not to
sell to these persons, bat as the cards give
names without descriptions they sorely try
the sellers, who are unable oftentimes to
identify the persons, although made liable
IL they sell to them.
Peter Welnkauf, of Pittsturg, on Mon
day knocked his wife down with base ball
bat and then cut her thIoat with a butcher
knife. He then cut his own throat with
the same knife, nearly severing his head
from his body. The couple were found
dead by fifteen-year- old son. Domestic
troubles, 10 which was added threat by
the wife that she would apply for divorce,
brought on the tragedy.
Sir w. Vernon Harcourt is one OF the few
instances In England Of a man making
fortune at the bar wherewith to take up
politics. His law practice was very ucra-
tive, but not in the line which leads to the
bonors of the profession. He made great
deal OF money, and bis second wife, Mrs.
Ives (nee Motley, has large life income.
Sir Williams patrimony was under 500 600.
His only brother is Tory NJ. Z. for OXFORD
shire, and his one son (by his first Wife) is
unmarried.
Charles Atwood, OF East Bridgewater,
Mass, who is under arrest for larceny at
somervllle, is strongly suspected OF being
the murderer of Mrs. Bell, who was killed
in March last. He answers the description
perfectly, and he disappeared from the city
the day after the murder and the officers
have been searching for him for some time.
He has lately been connected with Bar
NUNS circus, and was arrested on his
secretly returning to his home at East
Bridgewater to Zee his wife, who refused 10
have anything to do with him.
The DssMoines (IowA) Journal OF the
18th instant says: 'The only son of an aged
couple who were killed in Grinnell by the
cyclone left that place for DesMoines to
get liquor before the storm came. When
the relief train started from DesMoines he
wss lying on the platform, too drunk to
know what he was doing. Going afterwards
| bv another train he carried his liquor along,
aud after weeping bitterly over the remains
| of his parents, he drank again until he was
drunk. Why not prohibit" This is very
| pathetic story, but the young mans pursuit
of liquor seems to have saved his lie.
Near Hampstead, England, in a heap of
dust and refuse, have been discovered
human remains that appear to be Egyptian.
They consist of foot, hand, and part
| of a forearm, sill carefully bandaged.
Minutely examined by several medical men,
the bandsges are declared to be such as
were employed In Egyptian embalmiug.
| Some resinous material had also been used
on the remains. One OF the theories started
| to account for the discovery is that the re-
mains were taken to Eoglaud by some trav-
eler who carelessly permitted them TO hnd
| their way into dust bin, whence they were
| carried to the brick field near hampstead IN
| the ordinary course of dustman's business
Among the surviving members of the
Twenty ninth Massachusetts Regiment,
which had its reunion last Saturday, Is
| Charles G.. Bosworth, Of East Freetown,
Mass, who was shot through the body at
| the Burnside mine explosion. He was re-
moved to the field hospital, examined by
| the surgeons and labeled 'mortsly
wounded" He tore the label off and re-
peatedly demanded that his wound be
| dressed. The surgeon would only reply,
"It's no use; you can't live" Bosworth
declared that he would not die; that they
should dress his wound; and finally gave
| them such TRADE of abuse that they, in
| order TO stop it, put him on the table and
| operated upon him. He still lives.
Recent discoveries of amber in and near
Berlin have been so promisinglY large that
predictions are made that the region will vet
become competitor of the amber fishing
stations along the shores of the Baltic. Near
what is called the port, large deposit has
| been found, and In the Genthiner-strAsse
| during a single week more than hundred
| we'll sized pieces were dug up. In the
Landgrafer-stras Sc, in ancient alluyial soil,
| about twelve feet down, a systematic bed of
amber was found. Not far from the city
| another discovery has also been made Ber
| lin is known to be built on sand, and con-
| siderable surprise is expressed that amber
should turn up in it, and especially that its
presence should have remained unknown
until this late day.
A curious incident is related in connec-
ton with the finding, a few weeks ago, near
the Porta Pla, in Rome, of fine reclining
statue of Endymion. A Mr.. Spithover had
sold the land on which 1t was found to a
certain master builder on condition that all
arch a illogical objects found there should
be reserved to him. When the statue came
to light the builder, however, made no men
ton OF 1t to Mr.. Spithover, who, acclden-
tally, some days afterward, heard of It from
workman employed on the grounds
Going to the proper official, Mr.. Sp!thoyer
had the statue speedily restored to him
Nothing in the statue when found was in
iured except the nose, but the builder in
order to get it out of its place quickly had
broken of the legs. Fortunately the re-
storation of these legs will not be Diff
cult.