Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-06
GENERAL NOrEs.
The total cost of the Afghan war is set
down at Sos, Ole. 600.

The army Of tbs United States is not
attractive for enlisted men. About IL per
cent. out of the whole army desert every
year.
DR.. Fink, the Roman Catholic Bishop of
Leavenworth, has written letter recon-
mending Kansas as q desirable Stale for
Irish emigrants.
There is a whisper comes from the West
that Schuyler Colfax is willing to be sent to
Congress again from Indiana. There is
some doubt still about the disposition of
Indiana.
Donizetti's posthumous opera, the "Duea
d'Albs," which was discovered year ago
among his papers, was produced at the
Theatre Apollo, at Rome, on Wednesday,
and vociferously applauded.
The State Of Dakota would consist chiefly
of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
and it would drift aud change with the cur
rent. besides having natural proclivity for
the Democratic party.-Cincinndti GGzstte.
The Emperor William shed many tears at
the funeral mass held IN Berlin the other
day on the anniversary of the Cars assas-
sina ion. He sat throughout with bowed
head, and when all were gone fingered to
pray alone in the chapel.
The fourth wife OF a Mormon elder re-
Gently eloped from Salt Lake with a hand
some looking discharged United States sol
der. The Salt Lake Tribune says; 1.-THE
sympathies OF the community are rendered
the elder in his partial bereavement.
Henry B. Myer, who invented sleeping
cars In 1854, and has been engaged in the
building of a safety car, died in Chicago on
the 29:h ult. He was the father Of the late
General Myer, Chief the United States
Signal Service. and was born in Red Hook,
New York, in 1875.
A newspaper carrier In Portland, Me-, has
the most useful of dogs. The carriers route
contains many residences with high flights
Of steps, and the dog takes the papers from
his master, carries them up the steps, pushes
open the storm doors with his nose, de-
posts the papers and comes bounding down,
wagging his tail and barking for more.
Joseph Pulitzer, Of the st. Louis Post Dis
patch, has a hard fist for the bruiser as we'll
as good right hand for the quill. A man
with q cowhide in his grip attacked Mr.. Pu-
liter on the street in st. Louis the other
day. When The assailant picked himself up
and escaped through saloon he left trail
| Of red drops and the eowhide behind him.
A German-American citizen entered drug
store in Germantown, Penn, the other day,
and asked for ''sometig fur mine teeth, dey's
much bad" The young man in attendance
| sold him box of tooth powder The next
day he excitedly told the druggist that
| though he had swallowed the whole OF It at
| one dose, it hadn't done his too.hache bit
of good.
Major Waller, Treasurer OF the American
Committee for arranging an international
rife match, appeals for subscriptions from
volunteers SO that expenses will be no OBJ
stacle to forming the best team the country
can produce. He invites qualified volun-
| teers desiring to enter the team to apply
early, as the committe intend to impose q
| thoroughly exhaustive test.
a train was pulled over the Long Island
Railroad on Wednesday last distance Of
thirtY-three miles by locomotive furnished
with simple apparatus for burning crude
| petroleum attached to the ordinary fire box.
| The train was run on schedule time, con-
sumiug seventy gallons OF oil on the trip,
costing 81 20, a saving Of so cents as com
| pared with the cost Of coal.
| Worldly mutation never had a more pow
| erful illustration than in the death IN Lon
don, the other night, Of Lady Agnes Mac
| Lean. She was the daughter of en- English
Marquis, the widow first of the Comte de
| Montmorency, and afterRard Of a clergy
| man named Mac Lean; aud she was elected
! from her poor tenement In London, and
died in the waiting room Of st. Pancras
| Workhouse.
Captain Bogardus, the celebrated pigeon
shooter, viii on april 9TH, in Detroit, at
tempt to break five hundred clay pigeons in
thirty minutes (about sixteen per minute)
| the birds to be thrown from three to ten
| feet above the ground and at least ten yards
| distant from the trap as fast as he can load
| and fire. The Captain has wsgered two
hundred and fifty dollars that he can accom-
| plish the feat.
A society has been formed in London to
provide cemetery Tor pet animals, dogs,
cats and birds. The burial ground is to be
/ established within a few miles Of London,
where these pet creatures after death can
| be buried and tributes TO their memory
erected, IL desired, by those who love them.
! It is also proposed to establish home for
| aged and innrm animals, to be used also as
a depository for pets when their owners are
out OF the country.
VIM. Il. Deibert, of Lesdingyille, Pa, Is
wonderfully deliberate and imperturbable.
| After eating dinner In his usual slow man
| ner, he pushed his chair back from the
| table and remarked; "Uncle Abe is hang
| ing in the barn" The family rushed out
/ and found that Abraham Deibert had indeed
| committed suicide. William said that he
| had not thought it best to spoil the meal
| for them, considering that the man was 81
ready past help when discovered.
The greatest activity prevails throughout
the northern part of spain ana at Madrid in
connection with the projected tunnel
| through the PSrenees to unite the French
and Spanish railway systems. The bill
! passed by the Cortes, and sanctioned by the
| King last December, is cordially approved
| OF by the inhabitants of AragOn and Cats-
| louis, who will be the chief gamers by the
| improved communication with their French
neighbors iu the southern provinces.
The contract for the municipal loan ard
for building water works in Havana, Cuba,
has been awarded to Messrs. Lyles and Gill
son of New York, and Daniel Runkle Of
! New Jersey. The contract involves S, 2C0,-
| 000 The water works viii be built on the
aaueduct system, and the water will be
! brought from mountain springs SIX miles
/ Distant from Havana to central reservoir.
! The water supply at this point is as fac es
/ LUETb Is III EUt HOKlQ. Inc COutlaG OTIS VIII
| import their pipes and tubing from England,
as they can do so more chesply than by send
| ing to the Uoited States.
The New FORK correspondent o. the Phils-
delphia Ledgsr writes that paper as follows:
Business men would do well to keep an eye
on the foreign trade figures OF the port, If
they would forecast the fun re. Just now
the balance against US is running up with
uncomfortable rapidly and IL the speeull-
tors persist in holding grain and other ex-
portable commodities which block ship
ments, it will be fortunate II we Do rot have
to return o port with good deal IF coin and
bullion, between now and next autumn.
Poor harVests in Europe aud full G. ops hsre
may avert that, but who sh AL venture, thus
early, to make any predictions on thai basis.
Samuel s. Clark. aged abuuI twenty -four
years, son OF very wealthy coal merchant
o. Pistsburg, Pa, attempted suicide at the
Gibson House, Cincinnati, the other night
bY shooting himself in the head with a
revolver The bullet entered on the right
side, penetrating the bones of be eve and
passing back of the socket through the wall
of the nose, and In all probability lodging in
the vicinity OF the left orbit. Although the
brain Is rot ipi1red bv tho hon tbara &c