Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-01
e. ZEN ERAL NOTE .

A Chicago paper says of one OF the
pioneer settlers that he first came to the city
in two canoes.
The fact is recalled that the tragedian
Lawrence Barrett was a Captain in the
Tweuty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteers.
Some one has proposed putting an electric
light of sc, 900 candle power on the observa-
tory at the summit of Mount Washington,
the idea being thus to provide an artificial
attraction. for which the hotel proprietors
of the region would gladly pay.
A North Carolina physician having re-
peatedly used the term "scalawag" on the
witness stand the other day, was asked by
the Judge what he meant by 1t, and replied:
81 mean a man who says that he is no bet
ter than a negro, and when he says so tells
the truth"
Two of the members of the suite of Presi-
dent Barrios, of Guatemala, while walking
in Central Park, New York, a few days ago,
were assaulted, and one of them, Pedro
Trinidad, had his watch snatched away from
him. The thief, sixteen years old only, was
arrested and held for trial.
Montana is among the localities that are
enjoying an exceptional prosperity at this
in real estate speculation. Land that could
have been bought in that vicinity few
weeks ago for ten dollars an acre cannot be
obtained now for hundred.
When Arab Pasha DER Alexandria lost his
power,
He was so chagrined and mad he went out to
Damanhouf;
But when the hour was up he Immediately
Moved down to the canal and went to dam
mingi it. -,
A correspondent of the Springfield Round
Table relates that, years ago, Long John
Wentworth, then in Congress, once told a
Methodist Chaplain Of the House: "l'm
not going to vote for you again. You give
us too much hellfire in your sermons. Now,
there's a man at Cincinnati who promises
to save the whole of US. He's the man for
me.n "Ah, Mr.. Wentworth, but he doesn ~
know YOU all as well as | do, or he wouldn't
undertake to save the half OF you"
The Portland Oregonidn expresses the
opinion that the re election of Senator John
H. Mitchell by the Republican Legislature
of Oregon would make an Independent
usrtv and keep up a continual broil In the
nolitics of the State. 1t says also that the
Legislature is Republican this time only be-
cause the character of the nominations In
many places was taken as an assurance that
Mr.. Mitchell would not be reelected.
The largest sailing vessel afloat was
launched recently from the shipbuilding
yard of Messrs. Halland, Wolff d Co., OF
Belfast. Maine. She is named the Waller
Fl, Wilson, after one of the parties OF the
firm of builders, and is for Mr.. Samuel Law
ther. ]. P, Belfast. Her measurement Is
300 feet by 49, feet by 25 feet. She will
be classed 100 Al at Lloyd's. She is built
of iron, has four masts, three OF which are
square-rigged, and is capable OF carrying
4 200 tons dead weight.
Messengers from Dabulsmsnzi arrived at
Maritzburg on May 30 to report the present
state of things in Zululand. They COM
plain that John Dunn was menacing all the
people in his district who had joined the
great Zulu deputation. Dabulsmanzi wished
the Governor of Natal-when the messenger
arrived-to know this fact, so that he could
iutelligently lay the blame at the right door
in case disagreeable events should happen.
All the people In southern Zululand were
nreuaring. said the messengers, to make
demonstration In favor of CeteWayo.
Buckingham county, Virginia, has some
what curious industry. Within an area Of
ten or fifteen miles there are about forty
distilleries engaged in manufacturing oil
from sassafras root. Each mill gives en-
plovment to three hands. They use on an
average 1900 pounds of root per day for
each mill, and turn out one to one and
half gallons Of oil, weighing ten pounds to
the gallon. So that forty distilleries con.
sumo daily $4,000 pounds of sassafras root,
make about fifty gallons of oil, worth about
S4 so a gallon, and thus earn 1926 per day.
The late Thomas Guardia, who was at the
head of the Costa Rican government for
twelve years, was remarkable man in many
resnects From the first it is said he ruled
the country with rod Of iron: During the
revolution of 1870, when, with band OF
choice spIrits he entered the Quartet OF San
Jose in cart covered with hay, with the
loss of but one man, he proceeded to secure
the goal OF his ambition, the Presidency OF
the republic, and retained his sway over the
republic In a most remarkable manner;
Personally he was an ignorant, unlettered
man, whose idea, so far as society was con-
cerned, was to present the greatest display
and show possible. He was no politician,
and had the crudest ideas Of finance.
The latest case of mistaken identity has
come To light in Paris. A certainM. Bigeon