Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-08
GENERAL NOTES.

More tnan nalI inc newspapers OF inc
world sre printed In the English language.
General j. B. Weaver will arrive in Dallae,
Texas, about June Is, and assist in open
ing the Greenback campaign. He will make
fifteen speeches in the State.
Pere Hyacinthe's recent visit to Paris de-
monstrated the steady increase of his popu-
lsrity in France. He received more atteE-
ton than upon any former visit.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says: THE
Texas wheat crop now being harvested is
the finest ever grown. Many fields yield
thirty bushels per acre. Such announce
ments are full of comfort.
1t is stated that Nllsson's determination
to resume her maiden name arises from in
dignation that the French law should give
the property which she had accumulated to
her husbands relatives after his death.
Ulysses s. Grant, the junior owner of the
name, patterns after his father in the pas
sion for good horses, and intends to main
tain a stock farm at Deer Park, Long Island.
He expects to live on the farm, which be
bought of his uncle, Colonel Casey.
More beautiful specimens of the bronze
Ibis, the sacred bird of the Egyptians, are
being found In the vicinity of Santa Bar
bara, CAL The bird inhabits the delta OF
the Nile, and is found IN South America and
Mexico, and very rarely as far north as Santa
Barbara.
A shipment of lumber from Shreveport
was made by John r. Jones' saw mill on the
30th ultimo, for the State of Chihuahua,
Mexico, l70 miles south of FL Psso. The
cars were loaded In the saw mill grounds on
a track laid last Sunday, and will not be I'M
loaded till their destination is reached.
Nova Scotia is suffering the pangs Of a
labor panic. Low wages and high taxation
are at the bottom of 1t. In some parts Of
the country farms are deserted, fisheries
abandoned, and towns almost depopusted.
People Of all classas, It is said, are Obliged
TO leave their. places to earn a living. The
stampede is unprecedented.
The vital statistics of New York city for
the past year show that there were 1O6
deaths, y births and 90 persons married
every day. Infantile mortality waa enor-
mous-lfty under i've years of age per day
There was a death of consumption every
one-and-a-half hours, and a.death of pneu-
monia every two hours. The number Of
deaths during the last twelve months nearly
equals the combined population OF Coyipg-
ton and Newport.
A British Judge has come down heavily
on ladies' high-heeled boots. A lady
tripped and fell and hurt herself on gang
way at Brighton. She brought suit for
damages against the company who left the
tarpaulins lying around loose to trip people
up. The lady acknowledged to wearing
high-heeled boots, and to the catching OF
her hee! in the tarpaulin. That settled the
question Of damages In the Judges mind.
He charged the jury against finding dam
ages, stating that ladies who wore high
heels did so ct their peril, personally and
legally. The lady's fall was her own fault,
and the jury so found, and did not give her
penny.
The steam railroads Of Pennsylvania
killed 66l persons and injured 1,649 last
year, including employees, passengers and
others who got in the way. This is an in
crease as compared with 1880 of 1913 killed
and 224 injured. There was no accident
during the year involving an unusual mum
Der of deaths and injuries, and the bad
record therefore seems to be due to a gen
eral increase of carelessness on the part Of
the company's servants and the public. or
course, it is impossible to say In just what
buted, but the official statistics just sent to
the Secretary OF Internal Affairs are, to say
the least, discouraging,
General b. Stewart Elliott, of Everett
Penn, one of the delegates from Bedford
county to the Republican ate Convention,
refuses in a long letter to meet with It when
1t reconyenes on the Slst inst. ct the call of
the Chairman of the State Committee, and
expresses the opinion that the latter's action
IN undertaking to call together a body with
which he did not have any official cOnnec-
ton is without precedent and highly revolu-
tionarY. He says that he has ''no sympathy
with the faction Of indictments who are
seeking by means Of strife within the party
to destroy the organization" but believes
that the State Convention, when + ad-
journed, had finished the work 1t was
elected to do, and that If the people were
now given an opportunity to select man to
fill the vacancy through new convention it
would go q great way ia the direction of
saving the party from defeat and possible
dissolution.
1t is not generally known that nearly all
the male members Of the imperial German
house are well trained and pre- ficieut arti-
sans, and that the members of both SEXES
are accomplished in the hne arts. Both the
Grown Princess and the Princess Frederick
Charles might succeed as painters, and the
former is skillful as sculptures. Frederick
William himself has been a designer OF
many a church and public building. Prince
George, under the name OF "Conrad," is a
dramatist OF considerable reputation. But
1t is music that has most occupied this royal
house. Frederick the Great, In the darkest
period that he experienced, played the Nute,
while bis sister, the Princess Amalia, and
the Prince Louis Ferdinand were good com
posers. The present Prince Albrecht is well
known and admired for his compositions,
and growing formidable rival OF &c 10 the
hereditary PRINCE OF Meiningen. Four Of
the faVorite military marches of the present
day are said to be Of royal origin,
A new submarine torpedo coat has been
in Russia which is considered so
successful that the government has ordered
fifty Of them. They are about fifteen feet
In length and only weigh $50 pounds, SO
that several Of them can be taken upon