Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-01
GENERAL NOTES.

Colonel Chambers, an .Euglish othcer, 10
whom Garibaldi gave, in 1866. the sword he
bad carried in the Tyrolese war and the flag
ne had fought under In South America, in
tends now to present those relics to the mu-
nieipality OF Rome.
Hon. w. Porcher Miles. president OF
South Carolina College, has written
strong appeal for funds to restore the Con-
federate monument at Columbia, badly
damaged by lightning. Mr.. Miles heads
the list with a handsome contribution.
A wise Canadian Judge has decided that
farmer who ''as an amateur" goes out
into the woods on a Sunday and taps trees,
and gathers and boils sap, and makes sugar.
cannot be eopyieted efis not Ia this pursu
ing his ordinary vocation.
Grim repartee: A pickering pair of Quak-
ers were lately heard in high controversy,
the husband exclaiming: al am determined
to have one quiet week with thee" 'But
how wilt thou be able to get ily" said the
haunting spouse, in that sort of reiteration
which married ladies so provOkingly indulge
It. 81 will keep theeIa week after thou art
dead, J" was the Quaker's rejoinder.
Two hundred and fifty tons Of white
granite are being put into monument TO
the late Seth Adams, in Rochester, n H.,
hts native town. Mr.. Adams went to Bos-
ton in 1928. with five dollars in his pocket
and mechanical capacity 10 his brain, which
enabled him to work at fifteen different
trades. but the foundation OF the fortune he
acquired he found in q previously unsuc-
cessfuI sugar Re fhaery which he Was com
PEELED TO take in payment OF debt.
Mrs. Grant, the wife OF General Grant, and
Mrs. Logan, the wife Of Senator Logan,
entered a railway car recently to fad all the
seats on the shady side occupied. The
former, 10th to sit upon the sunny side,
remarked, 81 wish soma one would offer me
a sea. on this side." "Oh, they would, Mrs.
Grant, If they knew who you were,' re-
marked the amiable Mrs. Logan. These
remarks caused no little merriment among
the few within ear shot, but nobody seemed
to know Mrs. Grant.
Last year It was said that all the cattle In
Grant county, Oregon, had been sold and
driven out, but more cattle are passing east
ward through the John Day valley this wear
than ever before, Recently, at Mount YER
non, the public schools had to be dismissed,
the roads being so blockaded by cattle that
The children could not reach the school
house. A band of about one thousand
horses also passed up the valley last week
on its way to Montana.
The Paris Figaro gives the following
original recipe for making a free tour Of
the world: "Adopt the jewish religion and
go to Russia. Thence you will be elected,
and forwarded by way of LembeTg to
America by the emigration agent. Ia
America assume the garb and appearance
of CninamaD, and you will be dispatched
to China. There give yourself out as a
Russian, and you will be returned to that
country, from which you may again be eK-
PEELED SIS Jew and returned to Austria.
A Maine paper relates that maiden lady
now residing in the town of Lyman, that
State, at the age OF ninety-eight years. was
in her youth engaged to be married to
respectable Young mao, and was making
her wedding dress. Her father, entering
the room, forbade the marriage. She an
swered 4" Well, father, then You
must maintain me as long as
live" She stuck her needle into the
unfinished dress, arose and put 1t In the
drawer, and there It mas remained until the
present. tiune-seventy-fiv years dow long
the father survived such treatment is not
told.
Mrs. Parramore, nee Hs sltine, and her
mother had a social audience with President
Arthur recently in Washington. The Presi-
dent, says correspondent, was observed to
gaze at ner attenJively, though with the
utmost politeness, as IL mentally trying to
decide upon the especial charm that las
made her famous. Mrs. PArramore's at
Effectiveness, it is said, lies chiefly in the
most charming manners imaginable, q
genius for putting the most awkward PEG.
pie at ease, and rare tact in always seyIug
exactly the right thing at the proper
moment. She has bright brown eyes and a
graceful Ggnse.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis and wife, with party
of siends, visited their old home, the Brier-
'eld psntation, near Vicksburg, Miss, last
week. Trey were honored in every possible
way K the ealored people of Davis Bend.
I 5Ie gaSs Benz Cornet Band, known as the
Dr Is Band, composed entirely OF col
Brierfield resioauce Mr. Davis responded
In little speech, IN wseh he highly com.
plimented the musicians- He dweIt on the
hearty reception he had 'sceIved and the
kindly relations existing beween the races.
Oo the return OF the party to \ w Orleans,
Mr.. Davis purchased splendid informs for
all the members of the BrIerflIS s ~
Band.
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gersoll, the welI-known Washington Aw-
sea, she We -e"antly taken to an asylum
90 5e tlea5.d u insanity
sor wsnta alteration to lhe le Ns
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uusi'c9s. Mrs. I gsrsoll ays. ''IDiaksag Ii
safe Thing to do. nay san has been ID the
aabit Tor months u carrying quinine 10 lis
pueiet, anG z.siag It in small ous frequott
s'1ses, and the rT't Is an slated, sanHulGl
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