Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-23
GENERAL NOTES.


tors who bolted the caucus during the ses-
sion Of the Legislature last winter. Should
| he die and q Readjuster be chosen in his
place, the Readjusters would have control
of the Legislature, in which event an extra
| session would doubtless be called and a
Congressional respportionment bill passed.
An English company proposes to buy
Il, 200, 900 acres in the Saskatchewan eoun-
try and open It for colonization. The plan
is to assist the Canadian Pacific Railroad
to completion, to aid poor immigrants to
| become owners of farms, and to make the
whole undertaking very profitable to those
| who advance the fifteen million dollars
needed to csrTy out the scheme. The San
| Francisco Chronicle comments that "a COM
pany that endeavors to unite profit and phi
lantnropy usually gets the two mixed"
Il IS curious Low 70 read IN the Irish
records OF March, 17S3, 1.-TWO hundred
families from the county Meath, weary Of
dragging on an existence in cold, hunger
and wretchedness, are determined to emf
CRATE, fully convinced that II they do not
better themselves they cannot be worse.
| The Lord Lieutenant, Justly sensible of this
alarming event, has, We hear, represented
this matter to His MsjestY's Minister and
recommended an immediate session Of the
Irish Parliament, that something may be
devised to check In its infancy this impend-
| ing calamity"
The Duke of Richmond, who, few years
since, to the disgust Of Lord HuntlY, repre-
sentative Of the direct male line Of the Cor
dons, tackled the title of Gordon to that of
| Richmond, is also Duke Of Aubigny, title
| conferred with an estate OF that name by
Lewis XIV. upon a notorious woman whom
| Charles H. created Duchess Of Portsmouth.
| This title made the Dukes OF Richmond
| peers of France, and they continued long
after to hold seats in the French Parliament
as such. The number Of such. peers was
very limited, although the number OF mobiles
was very large.
When Oadinot, the French General, at
tackled Garibaldi q! Rome, he was warned
by his fellow-ofieers that the city would be
stubbornly defended. s'Bab" he exclaimed,
| coatemptuously, "Italians never figbt."
Soon after he was foremost in retreating
from GaribsldPs forces, leaving behind $50
dead, 500 wounded and go prisoners. At
the end of the days conflict Garibaldi went
over the field ia person, lantern in hand, to
make sure that all the dead were carried off
aud the wounded cared for This humane
| conduct endeared him TO the soldiers, al
ready full of admiration at his bravery.
Since the advent Of the Chinese into San
Francisco, the habit of opium smoking has
spread amongst white people, and the press
Of that city has occasionally given accounts
Of the scenes to be witnessed Ia dens kept
BY some almond-eyed Mongolian, and the
presence there OF even women OF good So
| cial position, who haze fallen under the
| Influence of this pernicious habit. Chinese
are rapidly settling down in Chicago, and
the newspapers there state that there is
hardly laundry kept by them that does not
have its back room where, on a dirty bunk,
the opium smoker can find his little lamp,
wire, pipe and ball of opium.
Bhddstreet's records that export operations
diminished perceptIbly in volume during
the past week, the clearances from the port
of New York having been reduced to a
valuation Of S, 302 476, against Sc, 504, $50
| the preceding week, and comparing with q
total Of IS, 04S 5S1 same week last year, and
| Sl0,S02, so same week in 1880. making the
| grsnd total since January l, 1882, $40, 367, =
Isl, against $40 300 $40 same period in
1881, and $l70, Us 45o in the cores ponding
portion OF 1889. These figures show a loss
on the Outward movement thus far in 1882
of S29, 942, 39l, as compared with the sggre-
gate OF last year to date.
This great, grand and glorious pension
boom at the rate OF a hundred millions q
year ought TO make every patriotic heart
swell with pride over the stupendous gener-
osiiy OF the American people. Now let US
turn in and do our whole duty by the col
ored brother. There ought to be some
| spread eagle statesman In Congress to move
the appropriation of another hundred mil
llont year to pay for brick house, forty
acre tract of land, patent thresher and
| half dozen teams of mules for every negro
in the land. There isn't doubt about it.,
we are the greatest people on the face Of
| the globe.-N Louis Republican.
The London Lancet records the curious
fact that while in 1s4s duty was paid on
$1,000, 900 pounds OF coffee imported into
| Great Britain for home consumption, the
figures for the past year show an importation
Of less than 81, 100000 pounds. although the
| population hes increased by 10000 600 and
the quantity sold per capita is much larger
| The figures suggest the hand Of the aduiter-
ator, and remarkably large hand it is. The
| government is said 10 encourage the bust
ness BY permitting the importation under a
duty OF "a. OF "cotfee, chiccory or any other
vegetable matter applicable to the uses of
| coffee or cbic00Ty, roasted, ground CT mixed,
without reference to the proportions Of the
mixture" Turnips, carrots aud cabbage
stalks are mentioned as adulterants com
monty used.
A terrible scene occurred during bull
fight on arecent Sunday at Aries, in France
s man sixty years of age accidentally fell
over the barricsde into the arena, and was
at once pursued by one of the bulls. The
old man could not run very fast, and in 8
few seconds the bull had tossed him high
into the air, and on his falling to the grouad
| the furious animal gored him with his horns
| An indescribable scene Of egeitem Mt en-
| sued. The bull was secured, and the man
carried in a shocking state to the hospital
| The Comm sssIY and the Sub Project or
dered the spectacle to be stopped; but this
measure provoked such an outburst Of pro-
testation from the spectators that, after an
hour Of free fighting and tumult, the Off
cials were actually compelled to order a re-
sumption OF the performance.
The results Of observations OF the late
total eclipse Of the sun made at Sohag, on
the banks Of the Nile, appear to be satisfac-
tory, although just what the results are the
astronomers are not yet ready 20 report.
| During the seventy seconds totality each
| took section or department and worked in
| silence. No word was spoken except some
ordinations Of surprise at finding a new
COmcb very near Tue sun. 1QeY named the
comet after the present khediYe, in recog-
milton Of his kindness In assisting them In
the preparations for observing the eclipse.
The old suspicion Of an atmosphere in the
moon arose again, but the question eVades
solution. The photographs taken during
the eclipse were iue OF the sun, moon and
| comet. The speotroseope observations and
results were also satisfactory.
Mr.. Parnell is financially embarrassed,
according to a London letter in the Liver
pool Asre1rs, which says: "MrS Parnelrs
estate OF Avondale is at this moment the
subject Of an action for $50, interest on a
mortgage for 100000. AVondale House is
an old and old fashioned mansion in county
Wicklow, where nothing new seems to
come, where the books are all OF the last
century, and where Mr.. Parnell never STAYS
II he can avoid Is. When he took to poll
tics he deserted his family seat. The estate
is not very extensive, but it has lovely
views, for IL is right AMID the Wicklow
mountains, and looks over forest, river and
dale. 1t is this estate which Is ieopardizAd
by the order Of the Irish Exchequer Court:
but the only interesting revelation made Is,
that Mr.. Parnell IS himself what is called a
heavily burdened landlord"
A prosecution for bigamy that has attract
ed much attention in Germany goes back
for It's basis TO the Gapoleonic invasion of
Mexico. One Of Msximilian's retinae,
Alfred Menninger Won Lsrchinthal, a noble
man of knghtly degree, fell in love with a
charming Mexican lady, Senorita Rosario
Perez, and was married to her 10 the court
chapel. He remained in Mexico until
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