Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-30
GENERAL NOTES.

In the Swiss army are 116,O6S regulars
and 92 17S Landwehr soldiers.
DR.. Loring, Commissioner Of Agriculture,
is a candidate for Governor of Massschu-
sets.
Secretary Folger recently received a con-
science contribution of S2.7S7 20 In an en-
velope postmarked st. Joseph, Mo.
There is a movement on foot to replace
the Chinese hands in California shoe manu-
factories with white boys and girls.
The Mexican Central Road has been built
223 miles northward from the capital, and
1914 miles southwark from Paso del Norte.
Mr.. Edwin Booth has hired the Adelphi
Theatre for his four weeks season In Lon
don, which will open June 265h. he pays
for the house what is equivalent to rental
Of 1878 a week.
Little Denmark, which has population
of about 1,SOOO 900, aud national debt of
SOS, 5000, 900, is going to spend SIS, $780,
000-a good deal more than her yearly In
come--iu forts and new ships OF war.
Mr.. Richard Smith, OF the Cincinnati
Gazette, says that If the Pond liquor law is
declared constitutional It will yield reve-
h0C III SlbCiAndbA " RANStS~N1 WV S@~~- 49, -
which will 90 to the city.
Gen. w, s. Hancock has written letter
declining with regret pressing invitation
to be present 10 Louisville, KY, at the
st. Johns day celebration. The General
says he is tied down with prior engage
ments.
Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hamp-
shire are the only States which retain the
Executive Council. The proposition to
abolish it In Massachusetts was defeated in
the Legislature last week by large ma
joritY.
The Philadelphia Times shows, by mass
of dates, that the elder Cameron has
bolted against his party nominations ten
times, and the Younger Cameron has per-
formed the operation four times. They are
boss boilers.
1t is said that Roscoe Conkling has no
desire to be Secretary of State, for it re-
ouires man with a large fortune to meet
the social requirements Of the position, and
Mr.. Conkling has no accumulated earnings
to draw upon.
The New York papers have just discovered
that the musical festival in that city was
not financial success, and are very reluc-
tant to say anything about it. The deficit
is said to be $40 900, which was made up by
the subscribers to the guarantee fund.
Esthetic ideas prevail to marked extent
IN the decorations Of places Of business in
New York. On Broadway and other prin-
cipal thoroughfares there are many beauti-
full store fronts, the artistic features OF
which will bear some study, and are very
interesting to the casual observer.
Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris was the first to
wear red gloves in Washington, appearing
in them at a party early In the winter, and
people talked about them as much as II she
had tattooed her hands instead. Now the
whole town has gone raving mad over the
red gloves, yclept terra Gotta kids.
The aurora Australis was visible at Sgd
ney, lately, in the southern horizon. 1t pre-
sented the appearance Of brilliant crimson
sheet forming background to the southern
clouds, on the summit Of which shot out
streamers of a color somewhat akin to vel
low, but which lasted only few minutes.
The Pacific States are putting in a claim
for representation upon the Tariff Commits
sion. But whether represented on the Com
mission or not, they will make a demand
that the products peculiar to that neighbOr-
hood be given protection. These are raw
silk, champagne, lemons, figs, oranges and
prunes.
Mr.. Mackay, the American millionaire,
has arranged to build an hotel In London
somewhat on the scale Of the Palace Hotel
in San Francisco, which is equal in size to
about FIVE ordinary London hotels. There
will be in the new hotel 1000 suites Of
rooms, and the entire establishment will
cost $40, 900 900.
The population returns of France for 1880
are but just published. The births in 1880
were 92O, III, of which IS, 227 were illegit-
mate. The deaths were S57, 1897, and the
marriages 279, OBS. Compared with 1879 this
shows a decrease OF 100, 1852 in births and
3,471 in marriages, with an increase of 49,
455 in deaths. 1t may be noted that the IL
Legitimate births increased by 269.
The statistics reported By the bureau of
lalor In Massachusetts show that out Of one
hundred and fifty-nine strikes, only eighteen
were entirely successful. One hundred and
nine were unsuccessful. Sixteen were COM
promised. Six were declared to be partly
successful. The settlement in ten cases was
unknown. This percentage OF victories Is
not large enough to encourage much eX-
perimenting.
Mrs. Mollie Carson is the plaintiff in an
Indiana law suit, and her mother-in-iaw is
the defendant. Mrs. Carson says In her
complaint that her husband never would
have won her IL his mother had not prom
ised her 5000, payable as soon as the we'd
ding was over. Two years have elapsed,
and the pair have lived happily together,
but the money has not been paid. Hence
the litigation.
A sad story Of canniballsm comes from
New Britain. A Fijian teachers wife and
two children set out for the house OF
friend, about three miles distant from their
residence, and the natives killed and roasted
the children preparatory to eating them at
one of their "feasts." The woman escaped
into the bush, aud was found, after roaming
about forl eighteen days, living skeleton.
The use of electricity as a railway motor
is still in the experimental stage. The
Berlin electric railway, it appears, is not an
entire success. There is some danger at
tending the transmission of the electric cur
rent through the rails. a horse, while
crossing the line, striking it with his shoe,
is liable to give the dead animal man some
business right away. Time will doubtless
bring such improvements as will make the
system practicable.
John G. Jackson, an astronomer Of forty
years. experience, states that on the evening
of the 18th instant while observing the
moon through a six inch rejecting tele-
scope, he saw just over the westerly edge
of the mare cusium peculiar cloud, not
less than one hundred miles In length and
forty or fifty miles wide, presenting misty,
feathery appearance, Enthusiastically different
from the other portions Of the lunar surface.
He advises astronomers to examine the same
spot about two days after the next new
moon.
Cincinnati Times Star; "The Gazette shows
an entire Misrepresentation of Southern SEN
timent and the Southern people when it
says: Not very long ago a band Of vocal
lists, formerly slaves, would have met with
ANYTHING but a welcome from those who
now enjoy their performances and wish
them success This is in regard to the In
terest with which the jubilee singers were
heard by the Southern Methodist Confer
ence. There never was time before or
since the war when band of colOred sing
ers, either slaves or former slaves, would
not be heard with interest and pleasure in
any respectable Southern community, pro-
vided they could sing we'll, The Southern
people long nursed an antipathy to the sol
ored man as a politician, but never wavered
In their belief in him as vocalist"
Wide and deep is the regret expressed in
England and Scotland at the death of DIR.
John Brown, the author of "Rab aud His
Eriends.p He is recognized by the Spectator
as zone OF the greatest humorists Scotland