Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-24
GENERAL NO TIES.

A wit being asked, on the failure of a
bank, "Were you not upset?" replied: mo;
l only lost my balance"
The members of the New York iron and
metal trade propose applying for a charter
and establishing an exchange.
Mrs. Sergeant Mason has declined clerk
ship in a Chicago store at 1925 a month.
The same firm wants her husband at 81 800
year.
Colonel Henry D. Pierce, brother of the
late President Pierce, died suddenly at his
late residence in Hillsboro, n. H, aged &c.
He leaves two sons.
The recent creation OF seven Cardinals by
Pope Lso XIII. leaves only four places va
cant in the Sacred College. The income OF
a Cardinal is 1000 scudi, or nearly "a, 600.
Mr.. Benjamin Lqvlne. retired merchant
of Philadelphia, bequeathed all his estate,
valued at between $4,000 and S25 900, to
the Jewish Hospital Association Of that city.
A curious "reunion," as it was called, was
held in Boston hotel Tuesday evening, 1t
being of gentlemen whose only bond Of fra
ternity seems to have been that they were
born in the year 1904.
President Garfield's grave on every pleas
ant Sunday is visited by thousands of quiet
people. The sentinels still pace about the
vault, the bronze doors Of which are thrown
back, revealing the coffin.
NJ. Damala, the husband of Sarah Bern
hsrit, is tall and handsome man of middle
age, who looks the thorough Greek he is.
His father was a merchant at SYRIA and his
mother was daughter of Nj. Rail-, Mayor
of the PiTeus.
Madame De Struve, the wife Of the new
Russian Minister at Washington, is slender
and refined-looking woman with the fair
complexion of the North and blonde hair
just lighted with gray.
President Arthur's little daughter is a
pretty child, chubby as a cherub in an altar
piece, and owning a pair of large brown
ewes that look brightly out from under a
fringe of short brown hair.
A State Convention of miners met at
Columbus, Ohio, and adopted q reso-
luton that miners whose wages have
been reduced since February shall be paid
eighty cents; otherwise mining to be sus-
pended April 80.
The Hon. o. j. Rathbun, of Woonsocket,
R. 1 recently received an anonymous let
Il Ter, QdbeO DtackbJOues Is 1907 anu
| inclosing SO, (which" the letter says, 81
was directed to send you. It was due to
| your fathers estate" Mr.. Rathbunts faith
er has been dead twenty eight years.
At the Hot Springs, Arkansas, recently
Michael R. Furlong, a young lawyer Of
| Springfield, H., met Ida B. Penaydo, of
Louisville. He is handsome aud she ex-
| trsmely pretty. They became interested in
/ orh nd altar q ~ Ir
one week were married at the Southern
Hotel, st. Louis.
An inquiry into the nature of the coffee
sold in and about London has produced sig
nifcant results. OF thirty-seven samples of
| ground coffee only two were found to be
| pure. Some of the rest ere described on
the label as mixtures of one kind and an
other, but the great majority were more or
less fragrant frauds.
An invalid in Cincinnati recently sent two
wreathes OF nowers-one to be placed on his
brothers. grave, the other to be deposited at
the feet of Mile. BaZzano, a dancer In 1.-THE
| Black Crook.n The servant blundered, and
to the actress establishment and dismay a
wreath of violet and black, inscribed with
crest in Peace from Thy Troubles" was
flung upon the stage.
The English General Douglass predicts
that II the Channel Tunnel is ever made
England will live in a perpetual state Of
scare, as bad as II she was actually at war.
Providence" he says, "has given us the
sea as cur safeguard. Why should we fly
| in the face of Providence and throw our
safety away for what, after all, is q mercan-
tile speculation, and certainly cannot be
called q necessityW
To the enormous mass of artillery already
in her possession Germany is constantly adj
ding more. Since 1871 Prussia alone has
added two thousand guns to her stock.
Many Of them are of the heaviest calibre.
The destination of a large portion Of the
new guns is the fortress on the Russian
frontier. In each Of these strongholds