Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-31
GENERAL res.

Parents at Fall River have been detected
in issuing forged school cards misrepresent-
ing the ages of their young children, so as
to keep the little ones at work full time in
the mills.
The importation OF eggs into Great Bri-
tain last year was $50, 600, 900, or about two
dozen for each man, woman and child in
the country. Their money value was over
$10,000,OOO
NJ. RouEeaud, the husband OF Madame
Nilsson, died, 1t is said. intestate. That
part Of Madame Wilson's fortune, there
fore, which was deposited in the bank in his
name will, according to law, be divided with
her husbands family.
A recent treatise on plate shows how Gu
riously slow people were to take to forks
Thus the Duehesse of Tourraine possessed
in 1889 nine dozen silver spoons, but only
one fork. Thomas CorVat tried on his re-
turn TO England from Italy In 1908 10 intro
duce general use Of forks, and got the
sobTiquet Of "Furcifer."
The Sheriff of Dallas county. Iowa, wears
shabby clothes, and is insignificant in ap-
pearanee. he had occasion to take yortly,
we'll dressed prisoner to the penitentiary.
The convict, when they came into the war
denis office, coollY remarked, "Here's
man for you" and handed over the Sheriff
to be locked up. The trick was not sue
cessful, vet the Sheriff bad to submit to de-
tention until his identity could be estab-
lisbed.
The Portland (Me.) argus says: "Mr.
Longfellow was born in a wooden house,
now standing, on the corner of Hancock
and Fore streets. It was not here, however,
that Mr.. Longfellow spent his boyhood, for
his father soon after Henry's birth removed
to the brick house on Congress street, next
to the PEBBLE House, built by Gen. PeIig
Wadsworth, maternal grandfather of the
poet This house was the first erected in
Portland Of wholly brick walls "
The Canadian Government has pursued
the Pullman Palace Car Company until it
has decided that the company must pay
duty upon all stationery, car repairs and
other dutiable goods brought into Canada
from the United States. This question was
brought to the attention Of the government
by discharged conductors, who ought now
to feel that they have obtained sufficient re-
yenge. II the company is called upon to
settle for all its arrears OF customs sinee it
has been IN operation In Canada twill have
a large bill to pay.
A Mexican correspondent says that the
skill OF the natives in making little figures
in clay is astonishing. They are by nature
artists. aud sculptors. They will produce
your own portrait for you 10 pottery, cloth
or wax-a bust or bas-relief-with f1del
ity which IS remarkable. To "see yourself
as others zee you," you have but to say to
one of these indians that you desire your
"cnunterfeit presentment," and he will pro-
dues It In . style which, IL not catering,
will at least be faithful. IL cultivated,
what might not this talent. which in fact
amounts to genius, producer
Public spirited and charitable ladies Of
Syracuse kept up "friendly inn" for the
benefit of strangers and the poor fer seven
years, but have been compelled to succumb
at last. One Of them thus explains the
failure: ats competition with other tenn
perance eating houses, where tobacco is
sold, but not liquors, has diminished its re-
ceipts great deal. We have also lost a
revenue by the operations OF the Bureau Of
Labor and Charities, which has stopped
begging. Formerly we sold tickets to fami-
lies to be given to applicants for aims. That
is DOW done away with"
The strike in the great Pacific mills, at
Lawrence, still continues. By the closing
of the worsted mill the number of people
out of employment has been increased SO
that there are now fully five thousand out,
which is one-eighth OF the entire population
of the CITY. The heads of the manufsctur-
ing corporation have treated this strike with
a degree of indifference that excites com
ment. But the reason may be surmised.
They have large sock of manufactured
goods on hand, and there is desire to bring
out some new styles Of woolens, to do which
it will be necessary to put in new machinery.
The strike will afford them an excellent OPP
portunity to do this.
A week sgo the Rev. C. H. spurgeon, of
London, was so Ill with govt as to be unable
to appear in his pulpit. ITO my own
grievous disappointment" he wrote in let
ter read by one OF his assistants, my old
disorder has come upon me like an armed
man and laid me low. / cannot walk, or
even stand, and the pain renders 1t difficult
for me to think consecutively upon any
subject. entreat you to pray that this