Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-20
GENERAL NOTES.

mates that the food Of 1882 cost the South
west over SIG, OOO, 600, Of W bich Louisiana's
share was SIS 100000 To replace this los {
will require 800, 900 baleF of cotton.
Governor Hawkins, of Tennessee, has said
that the prospects Of the South as a manu-
featuring section aye very flatteriIg, and is
especially enthusiastic about his own State.
About S2,OOO,GO0 are now invested in Ten
nessee in cotton factories, and they are pay
ing large profits.
Near South Brooklyn man who went to
sleep in an orchard on Saturday with roll
Of bills amounting 10 S175 protrudiDg from
his pocket, found, when he awoke, that q
goat had eaten them. This is a new way to
lose money. The tiger has heretofore been
regarded as the only animal able to get away
with roll of bills.
The old time-honored phrase was, ODE
liver or die!" 1t was phrase good enough
for such accomplished chairmen as Dick
Turpin and Jesse James. Now we have
such wretched rlgamarole as this: 1--WE
believe you will esteem it both privilege
and a pleasure to-please make a prompt
and favorable response by bank check,
money ORDER" etc. How we degenerate!
The Irishman who desired to send letter
by telegraph has been outdone by young
man, the son of a baronet, who called the
other day at telegraph Office in London,
and asked that he might see the original of
a telegram which had arrived from Egypt,
in order that he might satisfy himself as to
whether it had been dispatched by his
father. The Young man is in the service Of
the Foreign Office.
Pennsylvania conventions are leisurely in
their movements. An adjourned convsn-
ton, which is to meet again next week,
after voting for a Congressional candidate
several times, took a recess to see an agri-
culturist OF the neighborhood blow up
stumps with giant powder. The ballotiDg
was calmly resumed after the explosions,
though without result, and then the tired
politicians sought their homes.
Mrs. Stowe, of San Francisco, appeared
in trousers before the Social Science Sister
hood the other day. The Cal says: "Her
hair was cut short and bound up with q
narrow blue ribbon. She wore a black vel
vet coat-talled basque and a short black silk
plated skirt. The line Of beauty was con-
cealed by black cashmere trousers covering
the instep. Her CATERS were of cloth, and
on her breast was red silk badge stamped
IS. s. s. and fastened with diamond pin
aud two artificial roses. She carried fan.
4 have double flannel on under my dress
and no corsets,' she explained. Il never
wore corseis in my life.
A railway carriage painted inside with
the Balmain phosphorescent paint is in
Guided in one of the trains between London
and Rotherhithe, via the Thames tunnel.
Although only one-half of the available
space Of the carriage Is painted, the phos-
phOrescent light Is quite sufficient to enable
the passengers to distinguish small objects
when passing through the tunnel; and,
moreover, the light Is powerful enough to
enable person to read the indications of
an ordinary watch. 1t is probable that the
railway companies will be enabled to fleet a
considerable saving In gas and oil by using
the phosphorescent paint.
Under monument in Westminster Abbey
is inscribed: "This marble perpetuates the
memory of Lieutenant General John Guest,
who closed a service of sixty years by faith
fully defending Edinburgh Castle against
the rebels in 1745." General Guest began
life as hostler to the Postmaster of Borough
Bridge, Yorkshire, but so far from being
ashamed Of his antecedents, or being anX
ious to conceal them, it was his kindly Gus
tom to send the first slice OF meat from his
table to the sentinels at his gate, because
he remembered the day when he was him.
self a sentinel, and how his mouth watered
at the savory odors which reached him
when on guard.
The London correspondent OF the Liver
pool Mercury writes: "Mr. Edwin Booth
returns to America, it is to be feared, slight
ly disappointed. A really fine actor-take
one name from the stage and we have no
one his equal In London-he has not been
greatly appreciated, and his recent season at
the Adelphi was something OF a failure from
the monetary point OF view. Mr.. Booth,
however, is better than fine actor. He Is
a man. When he was made to play with
sticks at the Princess lastl year, he did not
murmur, and now he blRmes nobody Tor the
failure. He only announces as his irrevOca-
BILE resolve never to play in England again."
A new amusement has been discovered
by the roughs of London. 1t is that Of an
noyiDg the sentries on guard at the public
Offices and buildings, who, being unable to
quit their posts, are admirably adapted for
purposes OF persecution. A youth was lately
arrested for assaultiDg a sentry, calling him
names, and otherwise sneering at him. The
sentry pushed him out of the way, when the
fellow struck him with bag. The position
of the sentries is helpless one. They are,
indeed, armed; but they must not use the
weapons they carry, and are not allowed
even a cudgel to defend themselves in case
OF attack. German sentries, on the other
hand, when annoyed and disobeyed by
boys, have been known to shoot them on
the spot.
A singular development Of electricity is
reported in q Berlin brewery. A malt clean.
ing machine is in the upper part Of the
building, from which the malt was taken
through an iron shoot to wagons below, to
be distributed throughout the works. After
the machine was in operation for a long
time, electricity was developed by the fric-
ton OF the malt with the shoot, there being
a continuous stream of sparks. The malt
cracked, and the wOrkmen thought demo-
niacal agencies were busy. The matter was
brought before the Electric Technical
Union. The explanation agreed upon was
this: The building is of stone and iron,
and the tioor laid in asphalt. This floor Of
asphalt insulated the malt room from other
parts of the building, so that the room be-
came large LeYden jar.
The Texas Rangers are said to have done
more to suppress lawlessness, capture Grim
inals, and prevent Mexican and Indian
raids on the frontier than any other agency.
They are employed and paid by the State
Government. Nearly all are young men.
They are enlisted for year, and are required
to provide themselves with a horse, saddle
and bride, a repeating Winchester rife and
a navy revolver The State furnishes rations
and pays thirty dollars a month to each pri-
vate. They wear no uniform. Each man
dresses as his taste or the condition Of his
finances may dictate; but they all wear
broad-brimmed sombreros. Considering
their small number, less than two hundred,
thew have rendered remaIk able service.
They are brave, reckless, hardy fellows,
swear with great proficiency, and shoot IN
erringly.
Dhuleep Singh, who seeks an election to
the British House Of Commons, has had
romantic and tragic life. He began his
career as the Maharajah Of the Punjab, pos
SCISSOR of the KOhinOor and other almost
boundless wealth. After ruinous wars, and
equally ruinous treaties, he now bids fair to
close his career In the position OF Squire or
Elyeden, a quiet English country gentle
man, without the KOhinoor, or any of his
former vast possessions, save an annuity
from the government of $125, 900, which, by
his luxurious habits, he has already reduced
to $65, coo per annum. True, he has pur~
chased estates and built magnificent palaces
in England, Elveden Hall having cost $780,
600, but by act Of Parliament all these must
be sold at his death, leaving his heir only
the name and the memory OF the son OF
'the Lion of the Punjab."
Strikes for higher wages are by no means
common among the clergy, although, con-