Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-28


liams College Williams College was Gar
fields alma mater.
The French Government has purchased
Muucacey's picture of "Christ before Pr
late, ;" which viii probably be placed in the
Luxembourg.
A verdict OF $500 has been found by
Jury against Edmund Yates, OF the London
World, for q libel on Mr.. Phtehard, vete-
rinary surgeon.
The total cost OF the Afghan war is now
estimated at e2l GIL 900, namely. eli, 55l,
900 for military operations, and "a 900, 600
for frontier railways.
NJ. de Lesseps is at present in Egypt. Hi:
opinion is wanted on the widening Of the
Suez Canal aud on the supplying Of the
town of Port Said with fresh water.
In Paris a new paper is to be founded in
the interests of the expelled religious orders,
called the Anli de Ia Religion It will be con.
Quoted by the Dominican Father Didoz.
The Alabama Democratic State Commit
tee is to meet in Montgomery on Thursday
March 30, to arrange the call for the State
Nominating Convention.
Bonanza Msckey wants to buy St. Luke;
Hospital on Fifth avenue, on the site Of
which to erect a mansion that will outshine
the glory of Vanderbilt, but the trustee:
will not sell.
Mr.. John Russell Young, the new Minis
ter to China, has expressed desire to take
with him on his embassy, Colonel Jane:
Forney, Of the United States Marine Corps
as a military attache.
Oscar Wilde has closed a contract with
Californians for series Of twenty lectures
to be given on the Pacific coast. The Cali
forniaBs want to learn the proper aesthetic
pose to assume when shooting a man.
An Eastern actor claims that, while per
forming as Julius Caesar, he is under the
spirit control of the dead Emperor. II
Julius will put up man to that sort o.
thing, Brutus was right In assassinating him
The Right Rev. DIR. French, Bishop OF
Lahore, has been awarded the war medal fol
Afghanistan, having ministered under fire
to dying soldiers in the campaign Of 1879 81
The Rev. Allen, of Bombay, received a wal
medal for similar services in 1904.
The opening of a new square in front Of
the Church Of st. German des Pres raises
the number Of Partisan squares or gardens
to ,hirty-six. The aggregate area is 1,O48,
240 square metres, and the annual cost OF
maintenance and super vision 7,OOOi.
The Lutheran Church, to which Princes;
Helen, Of Waldeek, belongs, does not sane
ton the celebration of marriages between
Ash Wednesday and Esster Monday. Hence
the Duke of Albany's marriage will not
take place until the last week in April.
In commemoration Of the 500th anniver-
sary of Wyckliffe's death, which will be in
the year 1884, q Wyckliffe Society is in
course of formation, to secure the puolica-
ton of the great Reformer's Latin works,
with English translalions.
OF the one hundred and eight dead bodies
picked up in the river Thames last year
ninety-four were males and fourteen were
females. and in most cases they were moi
recovered until so long after death that their
Identification was difficult, II not impossi-
BILE.
They Lave queer ideas Of justice on Long
sland. One Thompson recently attempted
to kiss lady, who slapped his face aud cu'
him under the eye with ring. This would
seem to be sufficient punishment for nil
q
creed that he mus. pay the lady the sum o.
$25.
"Archdeaconn Dunbar, Of London, con
siders the harp the instrument Of religious
worship, as exemplified in Jewish worship
and in representation of heavenly worship
and so thinks the instrument has been very
much overlooked, and ought to be generally
used. Accordingly he has secured a pro
fessional performer to play at all his ser
vices.
The Atleneum states that Mr.. Herbert
Spencer intends to pay visit to the United
States in the beginning Of the autumn. Mr.
Austin Dobson has undertaken to write the
life Of Fielding for the English Men OF
Letters" series. Prof. Colvin will write on
Keats, and Prof. Jewett on Jeremy Taylor
for the same series.
The fftieth anniversary of the death Of
the poet Goethe was commemorated by the
Frohsinn and LesevereIn societies, Of Pitts
burg, Penn, on Wednesday evening last by
musical and literary exercises and the IN
yelling of bust of the poet, who, one Of
the speakers claimed, was superior to Vol
taire, and In some ways excelled Shakes
peare.
Pacific coast papers represent that there
Is this season an extraordinary scarcity OF
salmon in the Sacramento river, and that in
consequence the several canneries have as
yet been unable to start up. It is attributed
to the low state of the water during the
winter. Last year the water reached the
highest point ever known, and extraordinary
quantities Of salmon were taken in the river
The graduates of Princeton College resid.
ing on the Pacific coast had their annual re-
union and dinner In San Francisco on the
evening Of the 10Th inst. A letter from
President McCosh was read. There are
about sixty of the graduates scattered over
the Pacific slope, and there were present
the President of the association, Albert
Williams, of the Glass Of '29, and a dozen
others.
The proceedings of the Virginia House Of
Representatives were interrupted Wednes-
day by a personal difficulty between two
Readiuster members, one in private CONVEX
sation having called the other liar and be-
ing answered with a blow. The offenders
were, upon order, taken into custody by the
Sergeant-st-arms. Then they apologized to
the House and to each other, shook hands,
and were forgiven and discharged from Gus
tody.
The library of the late George Barrow,
who was once described by reviewer as
the most polyglot traveller that ever left the
shores of England, is about to be offered
for public sale. The lexicons alone amount
to over a hundred, and the library repre-
sents nearly every language in the Old
World, from Mantscku and Sanskrit to
Spanish and Portuguese. One Of the works
has the rare DISTINCTION Of having been taken
out of the Inquisition at Seville.
Vanity Fair, of London, makes General
Schenck the author of the present English
mania for poker-playing in private life. But
General Schenck, in amiably writing out the
rules of the game at the request of Lady
Waldegrave, had no idea, nor did the lady
have any, that pcker-playing would become
the after-dinner rage Of English society,
that a youth just Of age would lose five
times more than his yearly income, or that
one diner-out could make 10000 last year.
The scarcity Of farm labor is seriously felt
in Chester county, Pa, and some Of the
farmers in that section, it is said, fear they
will have much difficulty In procuring suit
able help for the spring and summer sea-
sons A number of farmers IN New London
township have sought to overcome the diff
Guilty By importing colored labor from Vir.
gipia. A squad of eight or ten colored
iaborers were brought from Spottsylvania
county a week or two ago, and others, 1t Is
said, will be engaged. Some Of them were
employed in Chester county last year, and
gave very general satisfaction.
Samuel Cootes, Of Rockingham county,
Va, died at Cootes' store, in that county,
on the 18th inst, in MS ninetieth year. He