Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-06
~ GENERAL NOTES.

ss7 GENERAL NOTES.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll has accepted
the invitation of the literary societies of
the Kansas State University to deliver the
annual Grafton before them next June.
They don't seem to be afraid OF his
agnOsticism hurting them.
Rents in Scotland still continue to fall.
A large Farm in Berwickshire was
recently relet at $1,000, after having for
many wears commanded $4,650. This is a
reduction of about 30 per cent. The con-
ditiOns of the new lease are said, in addi-
ton, to be very liberal.
Collector Robertson, of the New York
custom house, has received $46, 421 as head
tax on immigrants collected at the port of
New York during the past three months,
under the provisions of the law passed at
the last session of Congress, which i'm
poses a tax of 80 cents each on every i'm
migrant brought to this country. The
tax is paid BY the steamship companies.
The receipts in August were S14, 13S 30, in
September $l6664 80, and in October $15,-
618
The action the leading New York
banks in refusing to loan money on called
United States bonds is pretty conclusive
evidence that the money market has been
manipulated by stock gamblers, and tic
titiOus scarcity reated by locking up cur
rency. The Obv Gus purpose is to depress
the stock market. This would be of little
consequence to the general public did ut not
affect the industries of the country. AS 1t
is, the locking up of money is a crime
that could not be too severely punished
Chicago Tribune.
A correspondent of the London Daily
Nelcs calls attention to the anomalous
state of the law with regard to marriage
with deceased wife's sister. The Local
Government Board have decided that the
appointment of Mr.. and Mrs. Wild to ill
the office of master and matrOn of the
wOrkhOuse at Melton MOWbray cannot be
confirmed, as Mr.. Wild has married his
deceased wife's sister, who is therefore not
legally his wife. On the other hand, the
commissioners have on appeal enforced
charge of $50 for income tax on person
in Wales in respect of the income OF his
deceased wife's sister, whom the law in
this case declares to be his wife.
Franklin Simmons, the sculptor, has fin
ished at his studio in Rome the clay model
for the statue of Oliver Perry Morton, for
the Morton Monument Association of In
diana. The statue will be cast in bronze
at Munich, and unveiled in Indianapolis
on next Decoration day. Mrs. Morton,
who is spending the winter at Oxford,
! England, where her youngest son, Oliver
is at college, recently visited Rome tC III
spect the model. She writes that "Mr.
Simmons succeeded in getting an excel
lent and satisfactory expression. The po-
SitiOn Is good and striking, and the whole
| figure is full of life. Mr.. Simmons in this
! work has exceeded my expectations and
made the portrayal with genius" Mrs.
Morton is now suffering from malarial
fever, contracted during her stay i'll Rome.
A Boston reporter has been investiga-
ting the practices of the promising young
sters who attend school at the Hub, and
he finds that an average Of forty per cent.
of the boys, big and little, smoke. The
! figures are obtained by consultation with
! teachers, some of whom place the average
! as Ugh as fifty per cent. The urchins, as
al lie, smoke vile tobacco or yiler cigar
! ettcs 1t is stated that a majority of these
| lads use the weed without the knowledge
! of their parents. This must be a mistake,
or else a boy is a great deal smarter than
a man. 1t is all very well for boy to
! think he can fool his mother on smoke,
! but his father can't fool her, after prac
! Using for many years, and neither can the
! voungster. She knows it well enough,
and she knows she can't stop him, so she
| don't try.
! There is evidently n strong pressure
/ brought to bear on the British Govern
ment to insure the extinction of slavery
1 in Egypt. At a recent meeting held in
! London to consider resolutions drafted for
| this purpose. a considerable number of
| members of Parliament were present.
! Cardinal Manning spoke in favor of the
! resolutions, and w. +, Forster declared
| that England was now responsible for
!
| therefore, was the time for her to insist
| on the absolute abolition of slavery. If
! she did not make use of the power she
bad acquired for that end, she would fail
| in her historic policy. Earl Shaftesbury,
who presided, said that England had re-
| stored a constitutional form of govern
ment to Egypt, and had set the Khedive
| again upon his throne. In return they
should require him to suppress the slave
| trade. Unless this is done the English
people are very likely to express cOntin-
| ued dissatisfaction that the Egyptian
middle was stirred up at all.
1t may interest the friends of African
! colonization and African Episcopal Mis-
sions to know that Bishop Penick writes
| from Cape Mount, West Africa, under
| date of August 80, to say that the recent
| gold discoveries on the so-called Gold
| Coast are creating a veritable excitement
! there. To use his own language: "There
| gathers about the whole affair an alarm
! ing earnestness that, strange as it may
| seem. NAV vet leap the Atlantic, and dis
| turb more than one Americans peace of
mind. So long as Africa's wealth con-
sisted of palm oil and nuts principally,
| which Americans had no use for, they
were content to let Europe grease their
! fingers, and rest with the occasional story
of a returned missionary or an African
| colonization man; but, if there is truth in
! this gold story, ere long the Old Rocky
! Mountain prospectOr will be offering his
! toughened frame for the African fever to
| shake, and Wall street will add one more
! octave to its harp of a thousand strings
| | repeat it, things here look like a general
! advance all along the line
! The Rev. Frederick Wines, charged
| with the census of defective, dependent
and delinquent classes Of the population,
! is at Washington preparing summary
| of results for the forthcoming census COM
! pendulum. His returns are not complete as
| to the criminal classes. He would like
| fifty thousand dollars in order to COM
| plete his work to his own satisfaction, as
! it is known he has very accurate returns
| as to the defective and dependent classes.
| One somewhat startling fact brought out
| in his report is, that the number of idiots
| and lunatics reported in 1880 is double the
! number reported in 1870. Mr.. Wines is
disposed 10 attribute this to defects
of the census of 1870 rather than
to any sudden increase of idiots and
lunatics. The results ascertaiDed by Mr..
Wines as to deaf mutes, as we'll as IDIOTS
and Iunatics, are so accurate that they
are in demand by State officials DESTROYS
of improving their own statistics on the
subject. Mr.. Wines seems to think that
the percentage of insane persons in the
population is increasing every year. One
curious result of his work is the ascer-
tainment of the existence of deaf mutes
unknown to local authorities. With the
aid of his returns local authorities in many
cases are hunting up INDECENT deaf mutes
and providing them with means of educa-
tiOn-Or means of support.