Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-17
GENERAL NOTES.


ciied to issue a new five dollar national
hank note with portrait Of President Gar
field.
There is now theory that diphtheria may
be prevented by artificial vaccination. The
diphtheretic plant, which appears on the
N IN braues, may in time be cultivated and
used for incubation.
It is shown that In India the number Of
persons killed by wild beasts and snakes has
ir creased from 10 ,273 in 1876 to 81 800 in
1880 In Bengal alone, during the latter
year, 359 persons were killed by tigers.
The museum of the Polytechnic Society
Louisville, KY, has been enriched by the
addition of the first gun Dar' Boone
brought into the State, with his OF pouch
and horn and other relics priz by Ken
tuckians.
The Few York papers announce the arri
val from England of GA. sartoris, uncle to
Nellie Grants husband" The bows were
bound to identify Mr.. Ssrtoris, II they had
to extend the pedigree back several genera
lions to do 1t.
1t costs something to enter the British
House of Commons when the candidate is
uuopposed, as It Is shown by the fact that
the cost of Lord Algernon Percy's unop-
posed return for Westminster in the first
week of the present session was So, $50.
The fund for the family of Ko Kun Hua,
late Instructor in Chinese at Harvard Col
Iege. now somewhat exceeds S., 900, and
this is believed to be sufficient to support
them IN China until the sons are able to
maintain themselves and their mother and
sisters.
An Iowa farmer who has both coal and
wood on bis farm warns his house With
cornstaIks. and claims that they make the
best and cheapest fuel be can get. He thus
gets rid of the worst Of sll the chores shout
fsrm-the chopping Of wood and providing
kindliDgs.
OF the $4,000 persons employed in the
work of mining and preparing anthracite
coal for market in Pennsylvania, at least
90 600 are boys, whose ages range Dstween
nine and eighteen years. Some enter the
breaker to pick slate at the tender age of
SIX or seven.
The negroes OF Petersburg, Va, have re
belled against Malone and propose to nomi-
nate a full negro ticket and get control of
the city and parcel out the offices among
themselves. They claim that Malone has
plying them all with offices.
Recent reports from Alaska OF the DIS
covery OF very extensive and rich silver de-
posits have drawn thither large numbers OF
nersops, but thus far only TO be disappointed
The cole returns from the Territory un to
the close of the census year consisted of a
small amount Of placer gold.
Emigration from Great Britain to Canada
promises this season to be very large. Two
weeks ago three hundred and fifty heads of
families, representing capital OF over $780,,
900, were about TO sail from Liverpool bound
fo- Manitoba, and five hundred more are ex
pacted to depart within fortnight.
Frank Hall, young man residing near
HUI chins, Texas. was bitten by skunk ten
days ago. On Saturday he began to act in
a strange manner and became unmansge-
able. A messenger was dispatched to Dallas
for physician, who pronounced the young
mans malady hydrophobis, which he says
is an invariable result of q skunk bite.
The working classes OF Berlin celebrated
a few weeks ago the anniversary of the chief
street fighting there during the revolution Of
Is4s. The graves of the numerous civilian
victims were visited and wreaths were de-
posted upon them. No color except white
was permitted to be displayed. Each wreath
was carefully examined by the police, who
removed one or two that were deemed OBJ
iectionable.
Merchants who trade with Mexico will be
glad to hear that Mr.. Warner P. Sutton,
United States Consul at Matamoras, has
prepared and forwarded to the State De-
partment an accurate and conveniently ar
ranged translation of the Mexican tariff
laws and rates Of duty, with the forms in
which all Mexican custom house papers
must be made cut. This is likely to be one
of the most useful OF the series of Consular
reports projected by Secretary Evarts.
The Partisan Deputy, NJ. Talandier, has
proposed a novel scheme for compulsory
life insurance. His plan provides that every
Commune shall insure the life of every new
bora child within fits jurisdiction for 800
francs. OF this sum 900 francs are to be
paid to the insured woman at the age of
twenty-one, and to the insured men at the
age OF twenty-three, the remaining 500
francs to be expended partly for the benefit
OF the Commune and partly in premiums.
A estate banquet" is to be rendered Gov
ernor Hamilton, of Maryland, in Baltimore,
by Democrats from the State at large, sin
testimony of their appreciation of his efforts
for reform within the Democratic party.n
Ex-Governor Tilden, of New York, and
Mayor King, of Philadelphia, who are
classed as "Reform Democrats" Senators
Bayard, Voorhees,, Hampton, Vance and
Ransom, and Representatives Blackburn and
Tucker are to be invited to attend the ban
quet.
Speaking of the Colorado Scholarships,
the Denver Inter Ocean Of the sth inst. says:
at is clear that for the long term, which
will be filed by the Legislature next winter,
Governor Pitkin is himself the favorite. The |
south is unit for him, and he has strong |
following In the north. But he will, unfor- |
tunately, be compelled to oppose the DO |
nanza kings The contest Of Colorado's |
wealthy men may prove an interesting bat |
tie OF giants, but 1t will be unfortunate for |
the State IL money alone be taken as the |
standard OF merit.n
The inhabitants of the Solomon Islands |
have curious system of decimal currency. |
A cocoanut seems to be the unit. But the |
circulating medium consists of strings OF |
white and red shell beads, dogs teeth !