Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-17

been ordained and installed pastor Of the
Saco (Me.) Congregational Church. though
four of the five deacons and thirty-three
members protested that he lacked piety and
was theologically loose. Perhaps they
thought he was chip Of the old block, and
took too much after his notorious uncle.
A late examination of the physical causes
which produce the short-slghtedness so
common among students and others who
work by artificial light, tends to show that
it is not the light so much as the heat
which produces that abnormal condition OF
the eye. This fact. If It be fact, furnishes
another argument for the electric light.
A man in a Wisconsin barroom remarked
that he was glad that Guiteau mur-
dered Garfield. The biggest of the listen
ers undertook to knock him down, but got
most thoroughly whipped instead. II
turned out that the utterer OF the urpopu-
lar sentiment was a bruiser spelling for
fight, and took that way Of bringing one on.
A bill before the Virginia Legislature pro-
vides for prohibiting oyster dredging after
April of each year, and is to take effect
Immediately on its passage. Should this
bill become a law before the usual number
ven, the Palladium predicts that less plant
ing than usual in that vicinity would be the
result.
prominent lady In London society has
put her foot down and determined that, at
all events IN her house, poker shall no longer
he played for high stakes. The evil has
lately become so serious that, at recent
poker party given in Berkeley square, each
Ia hNrT, \
to put fifty pounds in the pool before the
play commenced.
Professor W. G. sum1er, OF Yale College:
"The tariff was imposed in the excitement
Of the civil war, and we were told that 1t was
only temporary, that 1t was just to foster
our infant industries. Twenty years have
passed and those infants haven't grown yet,
and never will under protection. Remem
Der, this tariff was laid on us when we were
already bUrdened enough. All possible ex-
cuse for protection has passed"
An exchange remarks that "the fact Of
negro messenger boy dropping $1,000 In
gold on Wall street the other day and hav-
ing a sympathetic crowd pick up every coin
and give them to him has attracted wide
spread interest everywhere and promises to
be something more than nine-days' won
der. Had the New Workers poCketed all
they could grab and started on a run the
affair would have excited no attention, be-
ing in New York."
howl against the carpetbagger has
come up from Tennessee, and 1t is earnestly
hoped by the faithful there that 1t will not
only be heard, but needed, by the admins
tration. The object of the indignation is
Colonel James H. Cochrane, SuperiDtend-
ing Architect of the Nashville custom house
It appears that he halls from Northern
State, and the stalwsrt Republicans who
seek control of the Federal patronage OF
Tennessee want him removed in order that
''their man" may have place.
The renowned title OF Richelieu is borne
to-day by a widow of % and her infant son,
aged z. The late Duke died at 80. He had
quiet tastes, and was very much respected.
The dukedom is one of those Unbeatable by
female lin default of male) heirs or 1t would
long since have been extinct. The late
Duka thus inherited it. He found himself
with means quite inadequate to support his
position, and made marriage, which seems
to have been quite as much for love as for
money, with Mile. Heine, an attractive
young lady of Jewish origin.
Sarah Bernhard had serious attack in
Genoa recently while playing Camille"
A correspondent writes that she fell back
on the stage vomiting streams Of blood, and
had to be removed Immediately to her
hotel. This is not the first time that similar
accidents have happened to Bernhardt. but
It appears that the attack on this particular
occasion was more serious than ever before,
and the many admirers OF the great actress
genius are very anxious about her. She was
- "a rv{f dalfr,bf vban kolx
i'll. to returning to her pretty villa on the
cliffs of st. Adresse.
The pessimistic author of 'The Battle of
Dorking" has an imitator in the writer of
pamphlet entitled elbow John Bull Lost
London; or, The Capture of the Channel
Tunnel" The work is designed to inhame
the minds Of the British public against the
proposed underwater connection between
Dover and Calais. The writer is probably
in the employ of the steamers that ply be-
tween the points named, and that would be
forced out of business were the railroad to
pass under dry shod. His efforts are ''too
thin" however. II the French army ever
got shut up in the tunnel all the British
would have to do would be to food it., and
drown them all out.
There is a bill now before the Ontario
Legislature to authorize the formation of
syndicate to build park and so protect the
beauties of Niagara Falls that the travelling
public and pleasure seekers would make
them more of pleasure resort than they
have been for years past. But the Town
Council of Niagara Falls is quite content to
have the full possession and control of so
much of the land on the Canadian side as
has heretofore been under their Jurisdiction,
and without means of cheap and easy access
to the principal points Of interest around
the cataract, preferring to hold on to all
their present means of gain during the tray
cling season.
According to the dispatches the great
strikes in Reading, Pennsylvania, at the Pho
nix Iron CompsnY'e seven large mills, ended
the other day in a complete victory for the
company. The mills are all now running at
full capacity. A large number of newly ar
rived foreigners have taken the places Of the
strikers. number of the leading officers
of the Ironworkers' Union have been dis
charged not only by the iron company, but
by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company, IN order to break uD the union.
The strikers are being refused work at vari-
GUS other mills in the Schuylkill valley.
Whereupon the Detroit Free Press expresses
the opinion that the American laborer does
after all want protection against "the pauper
labor" etc.
The California Silk Culture Association
seems to be going about It's work systemati-
cally. 1t proposes to promote silk culture
In the State by collection of information In
reference to all branches of the business;
by the distribution of such information by
lectures, circulars, pamphlets and schools,
and by the encouragement of planting null
berry trees suitable for raising silk worms,
cocOons, and the preparation of silk for
manufacturing purposes. 1t hopes to induce
every farmer who has land suitable for the
purpose to plant a few trees and raise
worms, SO that the capability Of all sections
of the State may be ascertained. The asso-
citation recognizes the fact that there are
many difficulties in the way, but is con-
WINGED that silk culture in California can be
made successful.
A theatrical company was performing
"Othello" in the Connecticut provinces.
Owing to the illness of the lady who played
the role of Desdemona local tragedienne
was assigned that part When she saw the
nragsd and foaming Moor advancing to
smother her, her courage gave out, and,
hastily crawling under the bed, she began
to yell for the police. The chivalry Of the
pit was aroused. A sturdy young country
man mounted the stage, and graphing
Othello, mopped him around vigorously,
amid the applause OF the boys. When he