Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-13
GENERAL NOTES.


pressed.
The city Of Davenport, Iowa, is sued for
damages by a man whose daughter was
taken to pest house under the mistaken
belief that she had smallpox. She died of
the rough treatment.
The Texas and Pacific Railroad viii estab-
lish experimental farms along Its line next
season. The purpose of these farms will be
to test the availability Of lands for different
farming purposes.
The Russian author Turguenisff is said to
be suffering from heart disease. He feels
underwriting pains in the breast, and can
not sleep. His appetite is excellent, but he
can neither stand, walk, nor ride.
Young ladies having shown desire to
make palmistry the next sensational tollY,
London Truth calls attention to an unrepeal-
ed act of Pertinent which imposes on all
who go about prscticing the art the penalty
of being scourged, having the ears cropped
and being placed in the pillory.
Governor Cameron, of Virginia, has re-
fused to commute the sentence of death
passed upon a colored girl of fourteen. who
poisoned two persons by putting arsenic
Louis county, Missouri, who killed his faith
er, has been found guilty OF murder In the
first degree, and nothing but the GoVernor's
interference can save him.
In accordance with ancient custom the
Lord Mayor Of London has received from
the Crown present of four bucks from
Windsor Park, and other city officials have
been remembered. The venison warrants
had their origin in the guarantee to London
citizens that their hunting in the royal parks
and forests should be secured to them.
This is one OF the ancient fOrAallties which
seem trivial, but in an Englishman's eyes
stand for the integrity OF chartered rights.
A new gas lamp with two pipes has been
successfully treated in England. One pipe
supplies gas in the usual way, and the other
furnishes air slightly compressed by the
weight OF a column of water. Upon the
burner is cap of fine platinum wire gsuZe,
which, a few seconds after the current OF
mingled gas and air has been ignited, gives
a brilliant incandescent glow like that Of the
electric lamp. Arrangements have been
made for lighting several London thorough
fares with this light, which, 1t is asserted, is
cheaper than the ordinary gaslight.
Rome is about to add to her long list of
houses bearing tablets that commemorate
the residence within their walls of distin-
guished foreigners, the house at No. IL Via
del Prefetti, IN which lived during his stay
at Rome Prof. s. F. B. Morse. Upon the
tablet will be placed the following inscrip.
ton "S. P. O. r. In this house lived
Samuel Finley Breese Morse from the 2Oth
of February, 1880, to 9TH January, 1881.
He was the inventor Of the electric magnetic
telegraph. Born In Charlestown On the 22d
of April, 1871. Died in New York on the
| I'd of April, 1872"
A curious effect of the Lizzie Selden kid
mapping case, as noted by the correspondent
of the Boston Herald, is to make every
mother and nursemaid suspicious of who
ever speaks to her Youngster. "The old
man who pets strange children on the street,
and was the personifcation of faJherly
goodness, has become clutching demon.
The old Woman'5 casual praise OF a little
one In the park, formerly heard by the fond
parent or guardian with grateful ears, is
now received with open suspicion. Any
thing that flies, no matter how unlike a
hawk, makes all the hens spread their wings
and cluck for their chickens"
The reports of wonderful manifestations
in the Franciscan Church at Athlone, Ire.
land, have been repeated. The ediice is
crowded day and night, and hundreds OF
deaf and dumb, blind and lame persons
have visited the church. 1t is said that a
| respectable woman, who has been lame for
years, and who entered the church by the
aid OF walking chair, was able to walk
away without chair or assistance. The
| clergy in charge keep the statue of the Vir-
gin yelled during the day: The veil is re-
moved in the evening, at which time the
eyes, lips and arms have, It is said, been
seen by different individuals to move.
At Pope's villa, now Henry Labouchere's
residence on the Thames, where the grotto
devoted by the poet to the essay on Man"
| looks out upon the velvet turf, might have
been seen through all the past summer eve
Innings the beautiful Mrs. Langtry pacing to
Il and fro upon the grass studying Shake
kspeare. She surprised the boatmen, who,
Il in passing by, paused on their oars to
Il gsze at the odd sight, for there was the flu
1 ture Rosalind, with a common garden rake
over her shoulder to simulate the shep
herds crook, adorned with ribbons, con-
sidered indispensable for the rambling
through Ardennes. Mrs. LabOuchere has
spared no pains to drill Mrs. Langtry, who
is said to have acquired only by hard work
he small ability which she possesses as an
actress.
Statements and counter statements Of q
most confusing kind have been put forth
within the past two or three years concern
ing the biography Of Mr.. John T. Delane,
which Sir George Dasent has had in hand.
Very recently it was declared that the book
would never be published at all; then that 1t
was about half finished, but that Sir George
Dasent, being in Ill health, had been obliged
to postpone the completion OF 1t. This lat
ter statement has called out a short note
from the author to Mr.. Labouchere's news
paper. "The delay" he says, (Which has
occurred In the publication OF Mr.. Delane's
biography is not caused by Sir George Da-
sent's Ill health, but by the difficulty OF
dealing with the mass Of material in his
hands. The biography Of such a man can
not be completed in hurry"
During his visit to England Cardinal
Howard has been guest OF the Duke aud
Duchess Of Norfolk at Arundel Castle. On
his arrival he was received at the station by
the Duke with great ceremony. carriage
and four, with positions and outriders,
conveyed him 10 the castle, where the
| Duchess and her guests awaited his arrival
| in the great hall. Another recent guest at
Arundel Castle was the Archduke
| Rudolph, of Austria, for whom
a special saloon car had been put
on the train. BY some error, however, this
car fell into the hands of party of tourists,
and the Archduke aighted from an ordi
nary compartment. As he was travelling in
cognito, it is inferred that the officials RI -
spected that condition too much; in other
words, that they failed to identify him,
while he did not understand that special
car had been engaged for his use.
A sad picture of life in Ireland is drawn
by correspondent of the Springfield, Mas
sachusetts, Republican. He declares that no
one can conceive how wretchedly poor and
destitute human beings can be and live until
he has ridden by cabin and crib and all the
nameless shifts for shelter that offend the
eve between Glengarif and Killarney. Not
one decent home, not one comfortable, tidy
dwelling, not one clearly, well fed, neat
human being did he see. Troops OF sad,
wan, starved children, nearly naked,
smeared with dirt and ashes, fol-
lowed him mile after mile, plaintively
wailing, "a penny II Ye. plsz sur"
Men and women with the dull, dead expires
sion of despair in their eyes waded out TO
gaze upon him from their cabins and holes
in the ground or between the rocks, literally
ankle deep in mud, and clad in such battered
tatters that Lazarus was attired In princely
robes in comparison. Deer stood In the
fields, and birds sat upon the trees, fearless
of man, for no Irishman Is permitted to
have a gun, or to touch bird or beast, even
though his family starve before his eyes.
In the whole long ride OF fifty-fOur miles he
never saw dog; and he exclaims; E'Think
of people too poor to keep dog"
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