Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-22

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Commissioner OF Indian Affairs Price will
recommend the removal of several tribes Of
Iudians, now located in New Mexico, to
suitable reservation in the Indian Territory.
The commissioner IS Influenced by the
urgent representations Of various Indian
agents.
The Legislature of Michigan Ia winning
some praise from the promptness with
which it has dispatched the business before
It and made ready to adjourn. Among
other things II has rearranged the Congress
sional districts and voted $3.50 900 to the
sufferers by the recent forest fires.
The International and Great Northern
Railroad, of Texas, in retrenchiug has re-
duced the laborers' wages on the road to
81 Is per day. They anticipated securing
the services Of Mexicans for this work, but
they have not succeeded as well as they
wished to, as the Mexican wants his Sun
peso" per day and board, and the general
railroad laborer land the best known all
over the United States, the Irish, refuse to
work at such starvation wages.
The International and Great Northern
Railroad Company and other parties, at
Palestine, Texas, are boring an artesian
we'll near the line Of the track. Tley have
already gone down nearly 1,SOO feet, the
deepest artesian bore in the SOnth bern States.
They have not yet found a sufficient supply
Of " ter, but propose continuing the work
until they strike water or China. Strange
that smid the disastrous foods on the sur
face they have to hunt so far for water in
the eartn's interior.
The Washington annual meeting Of the
American Tract Society was held in the
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, IN that
city, the other evening. Ex-Justice Strong
presided. Secretary Shearer presented an
abstract of the work of the year. The re
receips were $376. $50 81, and the exRendi-
lures 1915, 135 So OF the receipts $lO4, 939 "a
we're from donations and legacies. Much
interest was shown in the report Of colpOrt-
sge among the immigrants. The Hon. j.
w. Foster. late Minister to Russia, and ex
Governor Dingley, OF Maine, made ad-
dresses.
"Upon the question of suppressing polyg-
amy in Utah." says Our Continent, "there
seems to be q substantial unity among the
churches. Almost every pulpit sounds the
trumpet of alarm to a congregation in
thorough sympathy with the sentiment ex
pressed. Hardly a town or village OF the
Northern States, having in it a single
Heavenward- pointing spire, has failed TO
make its voice heard in denunciation of this
far away evil of the Western plains. Per
haps the fact that they were firing at long
range has not tended to make the lombard
ment of the Prophets stronghold any less
furious"
The education of women in England has
reached a high point. Here is question
A. g.,
which, - the Saturday Rs'ie0 says, 1--WE sin
cerely believe would puzzle the wisest of
mortals, aud yet 1t is addressed to junior
Students" "What was the French Direc-
tory? When did 1t come into power? Give
a short account of Nine. de Stsel, and men,
ton any Other of her writings" Apparent
ly the author of the question supposed that
Nine de Stael compiled "tbe French pirec-
tory" but, as the Saturday Re0ies0 observes,
even this this theory is hopelessly perplexed
by the question, "When did it come into
powerf"
Much dissatisfaction is expressed regard
ing the quality of women's work in the pub
lie offices of England. In answer to a re-
cent inquiry in Parliament, the Postmaster
General replied rather vaguely that the fe-
male clerks and telegraphers had given
''general satisfaction" that "any claims
that they have to promotion will be careful
ly considered" and that their employment
will be extended "whenever It can be done
with advs rfage to the public service" Upon
this the Pail Mall Gazette observes that "it
is to be hoped that the ladies whose levity
and lack of courtesy originated the discus
sion will not regard Mr.. Fawcett's state
ment as justification for the gigeling pro-
peneities which, together with a somewhat
supercilious indifference to the impatient
public, gave rise to the original contro-
versy."
An estimate for lighting Boston with in
candescent electric lights, submitted by the
New England "Western" Electric Light
Company, fixed the cost to the city &C thir-
teen cents per lamp The lights were to be
Of twenty four candle power, and would,
presumably, replace the gas lights lamp for
lamp. The cost Of the 10, 296 public lamps
in boston now using gas is 1851, 94 per an
mum; the cost Of the same number incandes-
cent electric lamps, according to the esti-
mate, would be $4S8. $40 per annum, an In
crease of more than 30 per cent. The gas
companies of Boston do not oppose the in
production Of electric lights, but announce
that II more money is to be spent for cleo
trio than for gas lighting, for the sake of
better illumination, they will enter as COM
petitors and put up more and better street
lamps.
The following letter was recently placed
in the hands of Governor Hoyt from Frank
Rumberger, one Of the condemned muir
derers Of Daniel Troutman, sentenced to be
hanged Friday next:
"HARRIsoNBURG. PENN, March 16.-
Co.,..,or Eos,Ssg n Ho1r. Epouy 7
have forfeited all my rights as a citizen of
Pennsylvania, bat | have not lost all my
feelings as a man, and now l write you In
behalf Of man condemned to die for the
crime of bloodshed, of which believe he is
innocent. My conscience holds me guilty
of the death of Daniel Troutman.
at is nowhere said In my Bible that two
lives should be sacrificed for one. there
fore ask you to commute Henry Rumber-
GERS sentence of death to imprisonment for
life. ask this in the name Of justice, I'M
prompted by any man, and appeal to you
as the Governor of this State to do this act,
that mercy may honor justice.
FRANK RUMBERGER."
The two condemned men are brothers.
The mysteries of great cities, which form
the fayorite theme for plots with many
novelists, are Of much more common occur
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great numbers Of persons disappear annu-
ally and are never heard Of more. What
becomes Of them nobody ever knows. A
stu more startling fact is the large number
of dead bodies that are annually found In
the Thames and never identified. Nobody
ever discovers whence they came. There Is
a stretch of the river between Vauxhall and
Blackfriars' bridge, distance OF about two
miles, very prolific in mysteries OF this sort.
One week last month eight bodies, all OF
men well dressed and seemingly well-todo
in the world, were found floating there.
The circumstances rendered 1t extremely
improbable that they had committed sui
eide and It is more than suspected that they
had met with foul play. The impression
that there was some criminal gang and pro-
cess of wholesale robbery and murder I'M
known to the police gained such strong be-
lief recently that the matter was brought up
IN the House of Commons and called to the
notice Of the Home Secretary. The mystic
ries reported by the police and discussed in
the newspapers form but small percentage
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