Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-29
GENERAL NOTES.

| contract Of 1850, $ld so 70 70 uhl1OIm Tic
/ National Guard.
The little son OF the King Of Greece has
been christened ANDREW" He is the only
| Prince in Europe who bears that name.
The vote for maintaining royal palaces in
England this year is over 100000. This is
quite independent Of the Queens revenue.
That incorrigible Tszas Siftiags man says
| that a pine tree, that was cut down in Ore
/ gou not long since, reminds one Of Wash
/ ington City. 1t has more than q thousand
rings.
The salary of President Grew, Of the
French Republic, is 100000 year. He
lives within It, but Marshal Mcmahon when
President spent about 100000 year.
A Salem On. j. boy has living two grand
mothers, three -grandmothers, one
great great grandmother, one grandfather,
one grest-grandfather, and one great-great-
grandfather.
Lake county, in Oregon, was organized
ten wears ago, and it is asserted that thir-
teen murders have been committed within
its boundaries since that time, without any
convictions.
A game dealer in Berlin has engaged to
deliver to a Paris milliner 10000 pigeons
skins during the season. The bodies Of the
birds will be sold in Germany at small prices
70 those who will seek them at the railway
stations.
A Mormon church has been established
in Sewer county, Arkansas, with several
members, among the most ignorant class
OF people. One preacher was run out Of
the country, but two Others have appeared.
They profess to be opposed to polYgsmy.
Washington lost: "The President, in hts
official signature, has not yet adopted the
Frelinghuysterian style, but were he to con-
suit his own taste he might surprise these
high standards of diplomatic etiquette some
fine morning by signing himself plain
'Chet.'"
The design for national monument to
the late King Of Italy, which took the first
prize and brought the young French sculD-
tor NerrOt the handsome sum of $4,000,
presents an arch Of triumph: after the old
Roman model crowned with a statue OF
Victor Emanuel.
Firing the canes is a revenge adopted by
vindlctive negroes in the Antilles, and It is
very difficult to detect the guilty. This
| happened in Santa Cruz in 1873. map
marked with red spots showed the destroyed
estates. Scarce one escaped, and the island
has not vet recovered from the calamity.
A well dressed and good-looking young
woman entered grocery store in Quincy,
Illinois. the ether day. and called for
nickel's worth Of eggs. The Clerk gave her
| four eggs, and they were devoured on the
| spot by the suction process. The young
woman then wiped her mouth and walked
out.
In its natural chronological order Queen
Yictoria's birthday comes on the oath Of
MAY. but as that happens to be Derby day
| the authorities have Loyalty turned back the
| hands of time and postponed the natal cele
bration until June 3, so that Her Majesty Is
really not so old by ten days as she thought
she was.
When Little Rock was captured in 1868, a
Missouri guerrilla named Robert B. Crowley,
was captured and imprisoned in the State
House. While a captive he managed to
| secrete a one hundred dollar greenback IN
| the chink of one of the walls. He arrived
in that city the other day, and, after a short
| search, found the bill.
The Rhode Island Legislature has passed
a bill regulating the sale Of goods on the
installment plan, and the signature Of the
| Governor is regarded as certain. The bust
/ ness has been conducted in that State, as
| elsewhere, on the basis of the ownership re
naming with the seller until the buyer has
| completed the payments. Hereafter the
purchase will be legally consummated when
a third of the price has been paid, and
| thereafter the merchant, II he seizes the
| goods, must pay back all that he has re-
| ceived, less interest and damages.
new town is gradually rising from the
ruins of Scio. About a thousand houses
have already been built IN the vacant spots
in the gardens and fields, refue' are return
| ing to the island, and the build g go on in
spite of the underground rum .ngs; being
/ interrupted only by occasional panics, as
| when three vertical shocks of the 21st Of
/ March occurred and the people ned in dis
may at O'Clock in the morning to tents and
| buts in the open country. They are even
| repairing their three mile squeduct, which
/ was the work Of the Genoese, and which
from decay and earthquakes has become
sadly in want of renewal.
The Panama people are still worrying over
the alleged dreadful mortality among the
employees of the canal company. The latest
newspapers from that region contain cor
rections of the already corrected reports, and
| it seems at last established that the number
| of deaths has not really been excessive, es-
| pecisllv when the woful imperfection OF the
/ medical and sanitary arrangements Is con-
| sidered. As a result Of the discussion, how
ever, a great improvement In the hospital
| service will be made, and facilities are prom
ised for the effective care and treatment of
fever stricken laborers without long trans
portation to distant hospitals.
There is a story told In Dublin that the
late Lady c. (who when Lady Mayoress
declared herself to be the "rankest" woman
in the city, was requested by her friends
upon the occasion Of her husband being
knighted to get up an orchestral concert In
| honor OF the event. She acceded, and sent
| Immediately for Mr.. L-y, with whom she
consulted upon the matter. Chow will YOU
manage it?" she asked, eagerly. chow
| many fddles shall we have?" "Wel," said
I-y, 81 shall engage eight firsts and six
| seconds" "Stop!" said Lady c.; "nOne Of
your second iddles for me. l have money
enough to do 1t well. Let them an be firsts"
A person who took an important part in
the defense of Paris during the late war
with Germany is dead in the Count d'Ar-
maille. At the redoubt on the Plateau
| d'Avron he with his men held the enemy in
| check until the French gurs could be dis
mounted and taken off, During the inter
views between Theirs and Bismarck relative
to the terms Of peace, be acted as assistant
commissioner Huu LIS huOHl-
edge of German being great. Each day
when the Chancellor was visited he accom-.
panied either Theirs or FaVre. Had he de-
sired It, the Count might have had an excel
lent diplomatic appointment after the peace
was concluded, but he preferred to remain
master Of his own time. Hts ruling passion
was the collecting Of bric-s-brac, and to
this he devoted his remaining years.
An English Baronet has just died 10 a
luustic asylum, to which, short time before,
he had been removed from york houses
Horatio Henry Wrsxall is his name, his
grandfather having been the well-known Sir
Nathaniel W. Wraxall, the gOssiping author
of the "Memoirs of My 0sn Time" His
immediate predecessor In the title was Sir
Frederick his brother, who died in 1865,
having made some reputation in literature.
On taking the title Sir Horatio HenTy's
prospects soon became clouded. At last he
was wholly destitute, and saw himself forced
to accept parish relief at the hands of the
guardians of st. Savior's, Southwark, by
whom he was given a place in the work
house. The immediate cause Of his death
was paralysis. He has left no issue, and the
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