Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-05

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will soon cease to be legal cause for d.
yorce in that State, as the bill repeating the
law has passed the Assembly and been or
dered to third reading in the Senate.
Elizabeth, New Jersey, has succeeded In
compromising her debt at fifty per cent. OF
the entire amount. She owes 100000,
which is about half the assessed value OF
her property. Her creditors have agreed to
take bonds bearing five per cent. interest,
running forty years.
The Cabinet Ministers OF France have not
exactly struck for higher wages, but they
have pointed out the necessity for an in
crease in their salaries. They now receive
about $12, 900 each yesr, and IL Is almost
impossible for them to avoid spending more
than their official incomes.
According to the Vienna papers, the
Criminal Court of Lemberg has decided that
NJ. Zola's novel 'Nana," which has been
translated into Polish, violates an article OF
the criminal law. All the copies Of the
translation in Lemberg have accordingly
been seized by the police.
John II. Smith, of North Carolina, nomi-
mated to be Minister Resident and Consul
General st Liberia, was the predecessor .of
Doctor Garnet at the same post, where ne
made an excellent record during a service
of four years. He is young man, q lawyer
by profession, and one OF the blackest men
in the world.
There's nothing like versatility. A manu-
facturer Of chemical manures at Birming-
ham. England, has written a novel which is
the most successful of anv in many years,
while Horatio James Higgins, formerly
Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, more recently
a manufacturer of bottle washing machines
in London, is published as bankrupt.
A farmer was walking around in his yard
on stilts in the inundated district of the
Mississippi valley when he heard splash.
A child had fallen from a second story win
dow. A stranger standing near was alarmed.
"Nevar mind" said the father quietly;
"that's Jim, but he won't get drowned-he's
got four gourds on" Most of the little ones
In the neighborhood have similar rude life
pressa vers tied to their persons.
The champion office-holder OF Vermontis
George W. Grandey, Of Vergennes. He has
been Justice of the Peace, Representative,
Speaker OF the House, Postmaster, May
or, bank examiner, quartermaster-gener
court auditor, school superintendent, and
member of the board of education. He is
sixty-nine years old, and the total of his
terms Of office is 124 years. He was also
member Of the electoral college in 1858.
DIR. Frank Fl. Hamilton, Of New York,
recommends that call plumbing having any
direct or indirect communication with the
sewers shall be excluded from those portions
of our houses which we habituslly occupy; In
other words that 1t shall be placed In sep
arate building or annex Professor Do
remus believes that the best protection from
poisoning by sewer gas is the daily dlstnfec-
ton of water traps by chloride and other
chemicals.
Adamascobite stone is found in only one
place IN the world, and that is the State OF
Missouri. The company which now owns
the whole quarry will transport the stone
uuarried to Winchester, N. H, where 1t is
| to be manufactured into such articles as are
| deemed salable. The stone is very peculiar
in its structure and properties. Its cutting
power is diamond-like, cutting away steel
very rapidly, and still retaining an exceed
ingly fine edge.
A pair of venerable twins held a family
reception in Nashua, N. H, last Monday
week. 1t was their eightieth birthday; they
have both been married twice, both are now
widows, both are in vigorous health, and
| both enter upon another decade in the
| cheerful expectation OF living to the end OF
| It. Among the friends who called TO con-
graduate them was their brother, Samuel
Ritchie, OF Nashua, who is eighty two years
old.
jockey fellows are they of the Ohio Legis-
| lature. A bill was introduced the other day
to give lady authority to change her name.
/ It was moved to strike out the proposed
name and substitute that of the honorable
bachelor who had offered the hil. This
was done amid a great hurrah. Then this
| work had to be uudone through reconsidera-
ton. The matter occupied the attention OF
the legislators for the greater part OF half
day; but they had lots of fun over 1t.
Professor Hutchinson has, in one of his
lectures, mentioned a very interesting fact
ascertained in Berlin. Among Roman Catho-
lies, who prohibit marriages between per-
1 sons who are near blood relatives, the pro-
/ portion of deaf mutes is one in 3,OOOi among
| Protestants, who look on such marriages as
| permissible, the proportion is one In 1000,
| while among Jews, who encourage inter
marriage with blood relations, the deaf
| mutes are as one in 400.
The rarest coin in the United States Is the
double eagle Of 1s49, of which there is only
one in existence, belonging to the cabinet
of the United States mint The next in
rarity is the half eagle of 1915. 1t is said
that the King Of Sweden, to complete his
collection of the United States coins, paid
/ two thousand dollars for q specimen. Only
| five Of these half eagles are in existence.
| The silver dollar of 1904 is rare and valua-
BILE. Oaly ten pieces of this kind are to be
found.
A letter from Prince Louis Napoleon to an
English cavalry officer is shown in London:
"My Dear Blank-Here is bill for 81 200
Old so-and-so "a celebrated money lender
of that day) SAYS he will do it at once II you
| will back it. Please get up behind. Yours,
ever. L. n 1" The officer often "got up
| behind" the Princes notes in the days when
| the future Emperor of the French was gay
London bachelor, and the historian relates
that the Prince was always prompt payer.
A party of Fenians were lately discovered
by constables while drilling and executing
military evolutions in wood within a mile
| of swinford, county Mayo, Ireland. The
constables ran to the barracks, and the en-
/ tire force turned out and attempted to sur
round the drilling party. The Fenians took
alarm and ran, and the police pursued. The
| sub-inspector pursued one man, who ap-
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1 race the fugitive escaped by jumping into
/ a river. Twelve arrests were made, and on
| their way back the police were fired on.
| DR.. David Nathan Lewis, Of Louisville,
who is dreadfully deformed, has been SEN
fenced to pay 5000 damages to Miss Sallie
| johnson, who is noted beauty, for breach
| OF promise of marriage. 4 mutual friend
| induced them to correspond, and Lewis
made such an impression by his letters that
| the lady was ready to overlook his unplea-
| SAINT physique. They became engaged, but
he broke the engagement, and suit ended
| In his defeat, In spite OF the argument of his
| counsel that she ought to be glad Of re-
lease from so unsightly lover.
An Ottoman newspaper has tersely sum
med up the net results Of the French cam
paign in Tunis, finding them to be these:
For Frauce-glorv, typhus, disrrhes. For
| the Arabs-civilizRtion fsmines, m2ssacres.
General total--death and misery. 1t then
protests against a method OF intoxicating 8
| bentficent civilization by ravaging the har-
vests, cutting down the fruit trees, con-
| fscsting the ioeks, burning the homes and
massacreIng the old men, women and
children of a population which was living
| in happy ignorance of the laws of modern
progress. The pestilence it declares to be
the gamer.
Mrs. Ernst Morris, who has Just returned
from Brazil, where she spent the winter in
explorations with her husband, has rather
poor opinion Of the people among whom
she has been eoiourning. She found the
wompn fnana creatures as inefnid "a the