Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-27
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The Baltimore Day says judge Bonds II e
complete Jury ixer.
Guiteau has but little over two months
left in which to sell his autographs, etc.
Ex-Confederate General D. h. Hill has
resigned the Presidency Of the Arkansas II
dustrial University.
The London TINS points out that exactly
a year has separated the deaths Of the two
most powerful men OF this century-Bea-
consield and Darwin.
Charles Francis Adams, since his sdven
ture with the bunko men. has given entire
control Of his business affairs to his SOC,
John Quincy Adams.
Stewards former store at Tenth and
Broadway, New York, will probably be
converted into a big Museum. Adam Fore
paugh is interested in the scheme.
A society has been founded for the publ
cation Of the more important works of John
Wycliffe. The society proposes to print all
his genuine writings by the year 1884, the
five hundredth anniversary of MS death.
The people of Frankfort, Kentucky, were
so delighted by the failure Of the Legisla-
ture to remove the State c1pital that they
gave ga champagne blowout" at the Capt.
tai Hotel in that city on Thursday night
last.
Courier urnal: "When Horace Greeley
was in st. Louis somebody stole his old
shoes for relics and left a new pair in their
place. Horace got into the new pair, but
was discovered and taken out in time for
breakfast"
The annual meeting of the United States
National Lawn Tennis Association will be
held in New York on the sixth of next
month. The clubs belonging to the associa
ton number thirty-ive In all, lone Of which
are from the South or West.
At the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers Of the Graniteville Is. c. Manufacturing
Company, on Thursday last, it was stated
that the net profits Of the company, which
owns two cotton mills, were $l79,339 last
year, this being nearly thirty per cent. Of its
capital.
A Missouri farmer, living near Center
vile, in that State, objected to being called
a sausage thief" In a fit Of detection
over the accusation he placed the muzzle of
a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trig-
ger with his toes. The top OF his head was
blown off.
The Rutland (Vt.) HcraLd asserts that a
man in that State recently obtained a pen
sion, amounting to some $1,SC0, under the
arrears OF pensions act, for injuries received
by falling of an army wagon when he was
so grossly intoxicated as to be unable to
keep his seat.
The marvellous increase in the growth of
New York may be guessed at from the
statement that since the first Of January 900
houses valued at $~10,C30,0C0 have been
erected within fits municipal limits-enough
to make a &C )d-sized town, as the New
York Herald aptly remarks.
Each compartment of the trains now run
ming on the Eastern Railroad, between
Paris and Gretz, France, is lighted by an
electric light, and the whole train Is pro-
vided with electric brakes, so constructed
that the engineer can stop the train in
stantly by simply touching a button.
Speaking Of Mr.. John F. slater's magnif-
cent gift to the colored people, the New Or
leans ReayNne says; "His gift is bestowed
with a go1d heart and for a good purpose.
II such benefactions could come In sums
prOporiionste to their ability from other
American milltOnaires the cause Of educa-
ton would not continue to lsnguish. Pub
lie gifts are not so badly needed at present
In any other field Of beneVolence as In that
Of e~ducation.n
Long discussion Of the Sir Francis Drake
statue project at Plymouth has ended in a
final decision to erect the memorial and to
make It Of bronze. Already a committee
has been appointed to raise the required
funds, but the Duke of Bedford has written
that he should feel il an honor TO be per-
urffHad m uraeouf the GfQtue hfmea1f II q
not vet learned whether the town has de-
clded to accept his gift, but 1t is confidently
believed that It will accept II.
Mrs. scovlle, Gulteau's sister, says: "1
propose to lecture and circulate the petition
for the pardon Of my brother. 1 think the
President would be willing to commute the
sentence IL public pressure wa brought TO
bear on him. II there IS any pressure l will
have to bring it. People may come to hear
me out of curiosity, but l think they will
become convinced and will be willing TO
sign the petition. have a manager already
selected, and think l will begin out West.
/ think it is the only hope"
While John O'Brien's "Grand Circus Roy
al" was being conveyed from Camden to
Mount Holly, n. j., by train Saturday
morning two leopards escaped from a broken
cage, and for a time created CONSERVATION
among train men and circus employees. One
of them, with savage growls, mounted TO
the top Of the train and ran toward the en-
CINE. He was seen by the engineer and W.
j. Maxwell, who Is connected with the show
in the dual capacity Of business manager
and clown. Selling a poker Maxwel ad-
vanced on the animal q laid 1t low, just