Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-10
GENERAL NOTES.

ton OF Jumbo and ride In the street process
sIons. II, instead Of Wilde sitting on the
elephant, Jumbo were to sit on Wilde, the
result would be more satisfactory to the peo-
ple. and It wouldn't hurt Jumbo much
TEXAS Sylings.
Two dressy widows past middle age
CHANGED to confront weeds in the aisle OF
Washington street car recently, both being
in waiting for vacant seat. One at length
being vacated, the forward dame YatronZ-
iugly pointed the other to 1t. The latter,
flushing angrily. responded Indignantly,
take f. yourself Pm as young as you are,
madam"
Rumors Of coming changes in the admin
istration thicken. Among them is the one
that Mr.. Frelinghuysen will go to England
to take Minister Lowell's place. and Mr..
Conkling will succeed Mr.. Frelinghuysen
also that Mr.. Folger will retire from the
Treasury to run for Governor, his place to
be filed by Don Cameron to make all things
safe and sound in Pennsylvania.
The Bishop OF Limerick being in falling
health his physician recently told him It
would be necessary for him to seek rest and
change Of air at Nice. The Bishop positive
lv declined 70 do so. Then said the doctor,
plainly "MY Lord, tell you caudidly your
case Is most serious one, and IL you do not
go to Nice you must very soon 90 to heav-
en-" "Oh, well, in that case" replied the
Bishop, dismally, 81 will go to Nice"
An ingenious swindle has lately been ex-
posed in London. 1t consists in srtifcially
coloring fish, meat and game so that they
appear to be of the finest quality snd hawk
ing them about the streets at tempting
prices A fish thus prepared. which had
passed the inspection Of wary housekeeDer
and an expert cook, was dropped into the
pot as a salmon OF particularly aristocratic
hue, and came out a Goldfish Of the most
plebeian type.
After Illinois was redistricted Congress
men Sparks and Townshend found them
selves placed in the same district, and the
question was which of them would have to
retire to private life. Sparks, who has been
elected four times, has generously con-
cluded to step aside and permit Mr.. Towns
bend, who has been elected three times, to
prolong bis Congressional career. The dis.
trict is the Fourteenth, and it Is Democratic
by about 4 800 plurality.
Henry johnson, who kept Gen. Andrew
Jackson supplied with water during the
battle of New Orleans, and who cleaned the
warriors sword the next day, is living az
Ooerlln, o at the age Of 109 years. Johu-
son was sold on the auction block In King
and Q1een county. Virginia, when eighteen,
and served Col. Dick Taylor until trans
ferred to Gen. Jsckson's household. He
did not have the honor of acting as General
WashiugtOn's body-guard.
The funeral of Joel Barry, the champion
fat man, occurred at Machiss, Me-, Sunday.
He was for many years resident of Machias,
and is said to have been the heaviest man in
the State. His weight in health, which
fluctuated between $50 aud 400 pounds, is
thought to have been materially increased
during his peculiar sickness. The body
was OF such large dimensions that It was
necessary to take it out of the house through
8 window before inclosing it in the casket
There were ten pall.bearers. Barry was 60
years old.
An Acadian convention is to be held in
Lewiston, Name, on the 19.h instant. The
original Acadia included part of the pres
ent State Of Maine. 1t is supposed that
there are now ], 300 Acadians living In Maize,
who are descendants of French Canadians
who are settled in that part OF the State
which bordered on the territory ceded to
Great Britain by the Ashburton treaty.
Within ten years $1,000 Canadians have
come into Maine, 900 of them being in
Lewiston. The Canadian poet. NJ. Ere
Ghetto, will be present at the meeting.
"The awfully Jolly girl" has been men
toned as the latest and perhaps most ap-
palliDg English type of her sex. "The other
day in Richmond Park" writes a CORE
spondent of the Pail Mall Gazette. tI came
upon three or four of these epicene crea
lures who were perhaps awful enough, but
were by no means jolly. Orc wore a mans
scarlet cricket cap. All fad their hair
cropped close, and all fOu- carried heavy
walking sticks. On inquiry, | was told that
at Brighton and elsewhere 1t is quite COM
mon for young ladies to go about with
walking sticks and cOnvict's crop. Who
are the men that these poor girls imagine
they can attract by this ugly masquerade"
Strange as it may seem, Notwithstanding
the immense influx of immigrants, the
Labor Bureau Of Castle Garden is continu-
ously besieged by a rush OF people seeking
laborers and servants of every description.
There are applications TO hire tailors, wool
workers, shoemskers, weavers, mill hands,
farmers and dOmestics. Viewers and wood
workers are especially in demand, perh APPS
for the reason that the foreign artisans in
these trades have peculiar skill. Every
imaginable kind of labor is in stronger de-
mand than the supply, and never since the
Garden was opened has the bureau done
such business.
The Baltimore Journal Of Commerce con-
tinues to call attention to the large profits OF
Southern msnufacu rers. The Augusta
(Georgia) cotton factory has paid an aver
age of Az per cent dividends for seventeen
years, and several mills have recently paid
profits of 20 to so per cent. The Southern
mills save from two 20 three dollars per bale
In freight, and have lighter expenses for
heating, cheaper raw material, abundance
OF water power, cheap labor, cheap living
aud some other advantages over the New
England manufacturers. 1t really looks as
though, With their facilities for combining
agriculture and manufactures, the Southern
States ought to grow rich more rapidly than
any other section Of the globe.
1t is not probable that Prince Henry, the
son of the Prussian Crown Prince, will be
allowed to visit this country, although a
stetement in the London Standard may seem
to Justify another conclusion. The Berlin
court does not admire this republic, and still
less its citizens. There are too many Ger
m6B emigTants here who would speak OF
Prince Henry In faIdiiaI terms, and Frus-
sian royalty breads these revolutionary IA
mllAflblee. DuJ Tue lTOu ITluC6 WIN uldH-
ages the foreign office of the German capital
likes to send promising consuls and diplo-
mats here to sharpen their wits and to
teach them the ways of the world, the
motiYe bein,., perhaps, that an i.aperial
German subject capable OF holding his own
among Americans, native or naturalized,
Will be of double value when employed
10 serving the Emperor King at home or
among more reverential people and nations.
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the United States? No,