Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-12
GENERAL NOTES.

The manufacture Of oleomargarine in 81.
Louis has been investigated by The Board Of
Health. sud proof was obtained Of the use
OF lat from horses and dogs.
Mr.. James r. Partridge, the newly ap-
pointed Minister to Peru, is Baltimorean,
a lawyer by profession and diplomat by
choice. He was once q member Of the
Maryland Legislature and Secretary OF
State: afterwards Minister to Honduras and
san Salvador, and later Minister toVenezuela
and BAIL. Mr.. Partridge is vouched for
by General Grant 6nd Mr.. CresWeH.
Captain John Graham, who died on Long
Island on Thursday, was Captain and owner
of mere ant vessel lying near the United
States frlgate Missouri when she caught fire
10 the Bay Of Gibraltar, in lS43 After it
had been declared impossible to drown out
the magazine before the fire reached it, he
accomplished the task, and prevented the
explosion. He retired 10 private life with
fortune OF 100000. He leaves a widow,
but no children.
The late Lord Beacousfeld's residence at
Hughenden is now occupied by n Austria
lisn millionaire named Wilson, w7ose eldest
son Is st Eton school. Il so hsp1ened that
who interfered with the man Maclean when
he attempted q few weeks ago to shoot the
Queen at Windsor Station, and the further
Interesting fact Is made public that ne
punched the miscresnt with his umbrella.
Somebody tells Gath that on a recent oc-
caslon ex Senator Gwyn, of California, met
President Arthur, who wanted him to come
to tie White House and make a social call,
and Arthur showing him around, he came TO
q certain room and said: yes, this mus De
the rOom-this IS the room, am sure
where l slept when l was one Of the clerks
or s. cretsries OF President Jackson, forty
five years ago" "Well. " said the President,
f'vou are in the room where President Gar
field lay"
4 Kansas paper believes IN the Indians
capacity for civilization more than ever,
since receiving a call from White Eagle,
Chief of the Poncas. The visit was for the
purpose OF inserting an advertisement, an
act Of discretion which the editor ccmmends
70 the white men of that vicinity. The
Chief had lost horses and he must be i'm
pressed with the efficacy OF newspaper
notice for before the issue of his advertise
ment the animals were recovered aud re-
turned to him.
new pump for the compression Of gases
has been invented by NJ. Cailletet. a guam
tity of mercury placed above the plunger
moves up and down with it. An hours
work will give 400 or 500 or. Of liquid
csrbouic acid or protoxide of nitrogen. The
compressed gases are stored in bundles of
metallic tubes communicating with each
other, and each holding about four liters.
Pressures of several hundred atmospheres
are attained. The movement OF the mercu-
r. in the pump counteracts heating.
The emigration from all the Irish ports
in the year 1881 was less than in 1880 by
Il, 13S, the total for 1881 having been rs, 719.
All except 302 Of these 1878 were natives
Of Ireland Leinster furnished 16 232 of
them, Muster 21,752, Ulster "a, 10l, and
C0nDaught 1882. Since 1851 the total
emigration has been 2.715604, the yearly
number having huctuated from 100, 1922, In
1852, to 81 5S7 in 1876. OF those who went
sway last year, as 4 per cent. went to the
United States, and 1888 TO Great Britain.
About O. per cent Of the total were classed
as laborers, and only per cent. as farm
ers.
Mr.. TennYson, through his son Hallam,
has replied to the temperance society which
recently forwarded him resolution express
ing regret at the "drink" passages in his
new song. "My father begs to thank the
committee" the sou writes, "for their reso-
luton. No one honors more highly the
good work done by them than my father
l must, however, ask you to remember that
the common cup has in all ages been en-
ployed as 3 sacred symbol of unity, and
that my father has only used the word
drink in reference to this symbol. / much
regret that it should have been otherwise
understood
The journal L'Electricite Of Paris an
nounces that premature burial can be rem
1ered absolutely impossible by applying, in
cases where the certain signs Of death are
wanting, an electric current TO the body.
Such a test being applied five or six hours
after presumed death, non contraction Of
the muscles will prove beyond doubt that
life is extinct. This discovery is received
with much satisfaction In France and Ger
many, where the laws requiring prompt
burial admit the possibility Of horrible mis-
takes, which, in the belief OF many persons
competent to form an opinion, are of not
very infrequent occurrence.
Peru is now to go through period Of ere !
construction" much in the same order as the |
Southern States experienced after the war.
PieEols, the ex dictator, has left the coun- !
try, which Is now, so the news runs, firmly |
united under the constitutional government |
Of CaldeTOn represented by the Vice Presf- |
dent The States of the South we're recon |
structed under the dictation of the patriots"
who had been developed by the war, while |
Peru is to 90 through the same process
under the dictation of Chill without any
brake or protest from any other country. Ii
is far from a pleasing prospect which the
conquered country has before her.
Some time ago two servants Of the Queen,
named Warne, husband and wife, died at
Osborne, and were buried in Wippingham
churcbyard Shortly before the Queen left
England for MentoDe, she had placed at
their graves a Maidstone bearing the follow
ing inscription, which she herself had writ
ten: ITO the respected memory of Thomas
Warne; died December q, 1881, aged 90;
and of Louisa Warne, his wife, died Sep
TENDER 10, 1881, aged IS, who during %
wears had charge Of the Swiss Cottage, Os-
borne. where thew died. This stone was
erected by Queen Victoria and her children,
January, 1882 He that is faithful in that
which Is least is faithful also In much"
Canon Fleming preached the evening SER
mon in Westminster Abbey on the Sunday
following the death of Mr.. Longfellow. He
declared, near the end of his discourse, that
the poet would be as sincerely mourned In
England as in America. ave are sitting |
near to monumental stones" he said, that
remind us no nation owes so much to her
good and great men as ourselves. And In
fha death of I,onOfellOW. inst recorded |