Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-04
GENERAL NOTES.


for anything but whispering. On the occa-
sion Of her last public appearance in her
home city of Portland, Me-, prior to her
marriage, she could not sing a note. Physi-
clans tell her that she is done with vocalism
for year, if not forever.
Mary Anderson lives very secluded life
at Long Branch. Most Of her time is passed
in playing with her little step-sister and
brothers on the lawn of her pretty place;
She rides on horseback great deal, anu
sails considerably on the Shrewsbury rlVer:
She is never seen at any OF the hoVeIs' ana
goes very little into society
Pittsburr produces one'twentT-ffth OF
tho coal Of the United States, and uses
- 600 men andGs16, COX, 900 IN capital, and 10
The coke industry has 200 men and Sl1,-
OOO, 900 capital. To blast furnaces she has
IS 600 ,000; IN rolling mills, SIS, 600, 600: in
steel works, $4,000, 600 The total in manu-
features and mining is SIG 000,0 900 capital,
81 ono laborers and $S4 ,000,0 600 annual pro-
Duct
The annual report of railway accidents IN
the United Kingdom shows that BRUSH
companies have no such immunity from dis
ssters as Is claimed for them frequently. In
1881 l. O96 persons were killed and 4,51l
were Injured. OF the killed only los were
messengers. EMPLOYEES of the roads lost their
ives 70 the number of SOL, and 467 of the
killed were trespassers or persons commit
fling suicide A little more than one-third
of the injured were passengers.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, who is depending
a portion of the summer at her old home
Edgewood, with her daughters, counts
among her treasures her fathers family b.
bic. 1t contains the entry OF her birth Aus :
ust 16 1910, with the rem ks, In Mr. Chase's
handwriting "The taoe is pronounced
pretty. think 1t quite otherwise. 1t is,
however, we'll formed, and / am thankful.
May God give the child good understand
ing, that she may keep His command
ments
Connecticut farmers haven't forgotten
''the agricultural implement swindle."
Now, bad man is victfmizIng the simple
farmers of Northern Maryland by giving
them humbug orders for walnut logs, and
then getting them to sign what purports to
be a contract to sell and deliver said logs,
but which is in reality not contract but a
DromissorY note. One man is stuck for
So, 900; half dozen others.for 81, 900 each
The victims are trying to resist pay ment, to
bill broker who discounted $l0,0 900 worth
Of the notes.
1t is not very generally known that the
late General Garibaldi was a member OF the
Masonic fraternity, but such is the fact. He
was made Mason at Tompkinsville, on
Staten Island, New York, while engaged In
his business as a candle maker. He was a
member of Tompkins Lodge, No. 46l.
Notice of this fact was given by Grand Mas
ter Elwood r. Thorne at the dedication of
the great Masonic TEMPLE in New York in
1875 In his address, Grand Master Thorne
alluded to the fact OF the dedication of the
first Masonic Temple In Italy. at which
Menotti Garibaldi (the Generals son, and
also Mason) was present.
The youngest pensioner Of the govern
ment is James w. Crandell, aged fifteen,
who lives with his widowed mother at No.
1901 Christian street, Philadelphia. A
year ago last March he enlisted in the navy,
and soon afterwsrd came South on the
Constitution. A fortnight later he was
stricken with typhoid fever, which left him
stone deaf. The surgeon thought he was
shamming to secure discharge, and to test
his hearing placed him between two of the
largest guns, W h1ch were then simultaneously
discharged. He stood like a statue, whereas
the officers expected to see him Jump like
roebuck He felt the deck tremble, but be
heard nothing. He draws $l3 q month.
His brother John, aged seventeen, who fell
from one of the yards of the Constitution
and broke his arm, has just applied for a
pension.
According to German publication there
were two hundred and forty-four earth
quakes during the year 1881, some of them
being vibrations of the great shock at
Agram. The year will be remarkable for
one of the greatest earthquakes on record
that which defaced the most beautiful
island of the Greek Archipelago, Chios
The earthquake lasted six days in full
strength, there being thirty or forty very
violent shocks. The first shock laid most OF
the town of Castro in ruins. During the
continuance of the shocks 4,1Sl persons
were killed and about 1000 injured. The
only other earthquake during the year
which caused any serious loss of life hap
pened In Ischta, where $50 persons were
killed. At 0sogua, In Abruzza, about 900
houses were laid in IuIns, but no loss OF
life occurred.
According to reliable estimates there are
still some 5000 wolves in France, which
destroy several hundred thousand francs
worth OF property every year. Before the
Franco Prussian war the number had greatly
diminished; subsequently it increased, and
some romantic journalists declared that the
wolves had followed the German armies over
as they had followed their ancestral hordes
in the time Of the Roman empire. Large
compensation is paid By the present French
Minister of Agriculture for every wolf
slaughtered. Ia the eighteenth century the
wolves really constituted a terrible plague
In France. According to the Seaadiaae Agri-
cole not less than 1854 lives were spent in
the attempt to kill one legendary wolf-the
Beast of Gevaudan, which was nearly six
feet long, and had devoured eighty-three
human beings, besides seriously malgling
thirty othere. The ar4uebusier who killed
it received a recompense Of q 100 liVres. 1t
weighed $50 pounds when killed.
The Cape of Good Hope diamond mines
Welded diamonds to the value of two mil
lion csrats last year Interesting expert
ments have proved the Cape diamond to be
inferior to t4ose OF the far hast. Newton
was the first TO suspect from the enormous
refracting power of the diamond that it was
combustible; and his supposition was con
iirmed as early as 1894 by the Academia del
Cimente of Florence, who burned diamond
completely in the focus of a burning glass.
Another was subsequently consumed In
but the perfect identity of the diamond with
carbon was only demonstrated after the dis
coverY of Garbonic acid by the English
chemists. it was then found that iia-
mond, If perfect, could be converted by
combustion into pure carbonic acto. Mr..
Roscoe, of Manchester, has shown-proba-
bly, with the aid Of the spectroscope-tha
the carbon of which the Cape diamonds are
formed is inferior to the composition Of In
dian, Brazilian and Borneo diamonds.
Garibaldi In the course of his adventurous
life received ten wounds. Two wounds in
the neck and throat, at first believed to be
mortal, were received In 1885 in Uruguay,
In a sea fight against the Dictator; two
wounds In the right arm at the sea fight of
RIO Plata, in 1s36-everY officer and man
near GsribaldI being killed or wounded; one
wound In the abdomen, on Aplil 90,h, lS49,
while lighting against the French on the
Janiculum. The wound was not dangerous,
but was excessively painful, and Garibaldi
concealed his sufferings until the battle
was over. On May S,h, 1919, at Velletri, he
was knocked off his horse by the Neapoli
tans, and trampled on. He received one
bayonet and one sword Would, and was
rescued by band OF mere boys who were
engaged In the fight. On August 29th, 1862,
he wac wounded IN the thigh by one Of the
Royal bersaglieri. A second bullet, re-
bounding, broke the aDkle-bone and re-
NAMED in the wound. When extracted 1t
exactly resembled In shape a cap Of liberty.
On July Alb, 1866 on his birthday, Garibaldi
was hit in the Tyrol by an Austrian bullet.
1t ira cted f sh wound in the thigh.
The two hundred young Cinnamon lately
called home peremptorilV from American