Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-11
GENERAL NOTES.

western portion of Arkansas at a greater
rate than ever known before.
Paul Boyton says he has saved seventy
two perso rs from droW ning, and the largest
reward ever offered him was So watch.
Senator Pendleton's new house on Six
teenth street, Washington, has massive gilded
suphowers at the top Of the lightning rods
A fruit tree IN Holmes county, Miss, last
Yesr bore peaches and this year bore plums
The peaches Tipened last October aud the
plums last August.
The successor to the Egyptian throne
always rewards the person informing him oil
the death of his predecessor by promoting
him to the rank OF Bey and paying him lOO,-
o. piastres ESQ y.
All but four of the '39 - medals have
been claimed and taken by members Of the
cold Guardn Among those who do not
care for these emblems Is Charles E. Cor
nell, son OF the Governor. The reason is
not difficult to surmise.
General Alexander Mouton, an old-time
Governor OF Louisiana, predicts that New
Orleans will gain the whole trade of the
Gulf OF Mexico. Said he, with poetic fer
Yor, Cut down tree on the Amazon river
and one at st. Paul, and they will meet
somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico"
E. Stone Virgins, Ii. D., the Ottawa
ASTRONOMER, predicts a great storm on
March 9, 1879. He says that India, the
south OF Europe, England, and especially
the North American continent, will be the
theatre Of its ravages, and that unless great
precautiOn is taken hundreds OF lives will
be lost and millions worth OF property de-
stroyed.
For two or three evenings past the Chi
nese OF this place have been paying their
respects to the moon-the 'harvest moon"
They light joss sticks, hold them up to-
ward the moon, bow toward the four quar-
tiers OF the earth, and then plant the sticks
to the north, south, east and west. After
wards there are fire crackers and tom-tom
demonstrations YginfG ERfs. ise.
By recent order Of the WardP" convicts
in the Massachusetts, State prison are allow
ed to wear boards It they choose so to do,
and about sixty per cent. are awaiting them
selves of the privilege. OF course, it greatly
changes their appearance, and 1t is said that
the wife and mother OF one OF the prisoners
called to see him recently, and, for quite a
time, neither could recognize him.
The Empress OF Austria has recently been
through a more than usually severe course
of training for the hunting season, which
she will probably spend in Hungary. Dur
ing the time that she was at her summer
residence at lschl, In upper Austria, she
generally rose at six o'clock in the morning
and devoted two hours to gymnastics and
fencing, after which the morning tub and a
plain bat hearty breakfast were supple
mented by walk or ride, which lasted some
hours. Lately the Empress has actually
been running for two hours a day; and, to
encourage her IN the eXertion, a pack OF
beautiful beagles have recently been sent to
her.
Royal Woodward, a pedoIer Of sewing
silk, who died recently in Albany, was the
owner of one of the largest private libraries
in the country. For many years he had in
vested the greater part Of his earnings,
which were considerable, in books, and is
supposed to have left more than thirty
thousand volumes. His tastes ran in the
direction Of theology, geneaIogies, and town
histories. His library was slowed from
cellar to garrett par-or and woodshed. He
also owned large collections of engravings
and autographs. Mr.. Woodward was an
honorary member of a number OF anti
qusrian and literary societies in this country
and Europe.
Judge Layton, the oldest practitioner Of
the Delaware bar, who recently died in
Dover, at the age Of eighty-fve, may be call
ed the father of the Peninsular ship canal.
He drafted the bill thirty years ago, by
which charter was granted for cutting a
canal through Sussex county, he and others
4fc fall
CO poratOrs having all died, he had the char
t|r extended and amplifed at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature. His death probably
leaves no one with any special interest in
the construction OF this canal, and If It is
now constructed 1t will be done at the in
stance Of Baltimore shippers and merchants
and THEN colleagues in Delaware.
General Sir Garnet Wellesley, though he
would be old for one Of Napoleon's mar
shc's, is unprecedentedly young for an
English Commander in-chief. HIS youth,
indeed, is visible in his face, his voice and
in every movement Of his spare, active
frame. His clear, blue eyes and healthy,
gray hair, which he wears closely cropped,
Ia military fashion. The General is, and al
ways has been, 3 great smoker, chiefly Of
cigarettes. He considers tobacco the best
possible restorative after prolonged mental
or physical exertions. On occasions when
he has had to keep awake and alert for hours
he has found tobacco more etfectual than
coffee, and he has smoked all night long.
The jury in the sensational Wackerle in-
surance case in St. Louis have brought in a
verdict in favor of Mrs. Wackerle and
against the Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York for $6,t'3. Wackerle was
killed on railroad near Shreveport in 1872
his remains eXhumed and identified by his
wife, and suit was brought In the Louisisns
courts, but a verdict given in favor of the
widow was reversed by the Supreme Court
of the State. This suit was against the Ht-
ma Life Insurance Company. Pending that
appeal a man representing himself to be
William Wackerle turned up on the
Pacific coast and claimed William
Wackerle's pension. The widow repu-
dated him, and her suit against the
Mutual Insurance Company was com
menced in the st. L Juts district. A Mime
sofa attorney went to California and offered
to produce Wackerle olive in court. This
was done, and was the defense Of the COM
panV, and the evidence to determine the
question of identity has consumed several
DAYS trial In the United States Court In st.
Louis. The California man declared he was
the husband OF the plalntlU, OUT sne dis
owned him, and the jury gave the verdict in
her favor. The case will go to the United
States Supreme Court. The theory is that
the California man is a younger brother Of
the deceased. He will doubtless be arrested
for drawing pension Illegally.
Congressman John G.. Carlisle, of Ken
lucky, who, it is thought, will be the next
Democratic candidate for Speaker of the
House of Representatives, is described as
follows by Washington correspondent of
the Boston Post: ''Mr. Carlisle is very pale
man, with brown hair, no whiskers or nous.
tache, and with clean-cut features, indicat-
ing a very nervous organization. He is of
the Greek type, having long straight nose,
a handsome chin, prominent enough to in
dictate frmness without obstinacy, and large,
clear blue eyes. He parts his hair on one
side, and brushes it in such a way as to give
his head rather a square appearance.
He does not dress badly, but neither
does he dress well. My impression is
that he wears black clothes the year
round-those good, respectable black
clothes which one is accustomed to ssso-
ciate with an international Sunday school