Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-04
GENERAL NOTEs.


s'seems to have made an alliance with ia!
Gould to defeat the denomination Of Cover
nor Cornell, Gould furnishing the monel
and Conkling the machine"
A carriage painter in Charlestown, Mass.
has attached a dozen United States mai
wagons whose georgeousness he has renew
ed by the application of his brilliant red ant
blue paints and had then been unable t
collect his bills.
A righteous Judge in Cincinnati, Higlel
by name, has just fined an expressman who
swindled stranger $50 and costs, remark
ing that he took the fact that the culpri
had not been before the court previously
into consideration, and that had 1t beer
otherwise he would have added work house
sentence.
Mr.. Samuel McChesney, Of Ballston, died
suddenly on Sunday evening last. He had
been riding with his wife to Saratoga, and
had drank quite freely at one OF its mineral
springs. Soon after returning home Mrs
McChesney noticed that her husband was
sitting as If in pain, and heard him gasp,
sob, that mineral water" and he almost
instantly expired. His death is attributed
10 learb Ol66ab6.
From New Zealand has been shipped to
England quantity OF preserved rabbits,
estimated to weigh some fifty tons. The
rabbits are packed in tins holding two
pounds each, and thirty-six tins make q
case-that is, seventy-two pounds. The
supply Of rabbits appears to be almost mex
hsustible. The average quantity delivered
per day is 5000. On one occasion recently
1900 were delivered In day.
About three weeks ego a Glasgow artist,
named Robert McEwan, was drowned at
Kirkwall on Sunday, when alone. The
finding of his body some time after the oc-
currence was the first intimation any one
had of the sad event. The theory that &C.
counts for the drowning is a strange one.
McEWan was fond of walking on a neigh
boring cliff, and it is supposed that in one
of his walks he missed his footing and fell
into the sea. The distance he must have
fallen in that case is about 200 feet.
For the fast passenger service between
London and Liverpool the London and
Northwestern Railway Company has just
placed upon its line some drawing room
cars of q new and elegant pattern. They
contain separate apartments for family par
ties, with boudoir for ladies, having toilet
accommodations and heaters, besides COM
partments for smokers and for baggage.
Electric communication exists with an at
tendant, who is able TO prepare tea, coffee,
and other light refreshments on board.
Seats can be secured in advance, and
there is no charge beyond the ordinary first
class fares.
In the New York Times a correspondent
says that comparatively few rich men are
large holders of bank stock, and the great
majority of them do not hold any at ALL For
Instance, the New York Bank of Commerce
has l 1929 shareholders. The capital is ST.
900, 600, and the average to each shareholder
is So, 733. No fewer than 53l hold ten shares
or under. More than one quarter OF the
stock is held by us women, and estates"
hold 154 shares. The bank Of the New York
National Banking Association has capital
Of s., 000, 900. OF this SOL, 800 is owned by
247 women. and women trustees" and
charitable associations own majority OF
the stock.
Contributions for the English Royal Col
lege Of Music are being made with rapidity
and generosity. Among them are these that
follow by well known persons: Princess
Beatrice, EOS; anonymous, per the Prince Of
Wales, X. g., 1000; Bradford, per the
Mayor, Mr.. John Hill FIRST contribution),
81 200; Lloyd's, per MIR. Isaac Seligman,
9l05; Earl of Ashburnham, 9lOO; Earl Of
Aberdeen, esq los; Lord Ormathwaite (in
two years), ESQ; Miss Alice de R0thschild,
ESQ, and tbe Duke of Cleveland, ESQ Con
tributions are acknowledged from large
number of other persons, but the amounts
are not made public.
TalIe oorrocnnu6ouf ~ bo
New York EVenfnq Post talks thus of the
vandalism there CAT many points on Goat
Island from which good views can be OBJ
tanned comfortable seats furnish opportu-
nitv for rest. Each one must be construct
ed of heavy timber snd have an iron rod
attached which holds it to a broad foot, or
anchor, many feet underground, or 1t would
be torn I'D and thrown into the river. Well
dressed ladies stand by and applaud while
the gentlemen of their party do these
things. In what schools, Sunday schools
and churches are these people educated,
and what is the nature OF the instruction By
which their character is formed ?"
Count Beust, Charge d'affaires for Ger
many at Washington, has sent to Collector
Robertson, of New York, finely mounted
spyglass, a gold pocket cbronometer and
S3s in money. The articles were intended
sfor the officers and crew OF the American
ship Caravan, for great service rendered in
mid ocean to the crew of the German bark
Lohengrin, as a tribute of appreciation
from the Imperial German Government.
The spyglass was for Capt Josiah Daggett,
OF New York, Master Of the Caravan; the
chronometer was for James Dovan, mate of
the Caravan, and the money was for distri-
button among seamen John Fitzgerald, Ed
ward Williams, j. j. Rlmsley and Edward
Watson.
The great Harmony Mills at Cohoes, N.
Y, which have just reopened after an en-
forced idleness OF nearly four months, are
six in number, and of the following dimen-
sions: No. l, four stories, $50 feet long, 40
feet wide; No. 2, three stories, 600 feet
long, IS feet wide; No. 3, five stories, and
including the extension, /, 1856 feet long, 20
feet wide, with a wing 125x56 feet and five
stories high; No. 4. five stories, 200 feet
long, SO wide; No. 5, five stories, 500 feet
long, so feet wide; No. 8, known as the
"Ogden Mills" four stories, 500 feet long,
so feet wide. The Troy Times estimates the
loss to the employees at about $40, 900, but
thinks that the company has probably made
a very small net gain by the stoppage.
The truth is that CalvLnism has intro
duced into the Christian religion more new
sbsurdities than its leader had purged 1t Of
old ones. Our Saviour did not come into the
world to save metaphYsiclans only. His
doctrines are leveled to the simplest under
standing: and 1t is only by banishiDg HERO
phantic mysteries and scholastic subtleties,
which Ghey have nicknamed Christianity,
and getting back to the plain and unsophis-
ticated precepts of Christ, that we become
real Christians. The half information of
Luther and Calvin did something toward
restoration of his genuine doctrines; the
present contest will, hope, complete what
they began, and place us where the evan
geliets left us.-LetteT Of Thomas Jefferson,
. gently brought to light.
Last April, in the wall Of house at Dion,
in France, carpenter found a quantity of
gold coin, representing 3O7,00Ot., wrapped
up in copies of the Moafteatr. a newspaper OF
the time of the first revolution. One DR..
Chanut, who owns the house, made claim
to the money, but the descendants OF the
Vicomte de Moussier, who owned the house
at the time Of the revolution, set up coun-
ter claim. Besides this contemporary
ownership of the house they proved that
the memoranda on the wrappers were in the
Vicomte's own handwriting. The case
went. at the time, before the Dion Tribu-
nal. and has just been decided In favor of
the descendants, on the ground that the
Vieomte must have hidden the money be-
tween the years 1894 and 1916, for reasons
unknown.
A pungent and suggestive little letter,
written by Postmaster General Howe to