Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-14
GENERAL NOTES.

Grand Forks, Dakota, and adjusted rope
round his neck, but he argued convincinglY
that his crime did not merit death penalty,
and suggested that coat Of tar and feathers
would be about the right punishment. The
lynehers took his view OF the matter.
At Yale College the other morning while
Professor Barbour was writing in his room
in North College a pistol ball whizzed
through the window and close to his head,
striking a large Hebrew Bible on the shelves
opposite him. It had been fred bV some
students who were pursuing sn escaped
squirrel across the campus.
Victor Hugo's latest predictions are that
France, Italy and Spain are destined to be
the foremost representatives OF civilization;
that the Turks will be driven out OF Europe,
and that the twentieth century will see all
Africa civilized by means OF the Mediterra-
mean powers, including England, owing to
her possessions at Gibraltar.
Two natives Of Maine have sought for
tune successfully in Europe. One is Lillian
Norton, a granddaughter Of Camp Meeting
John Allen, She is under engagement in
Paris as a singer at $l2 600 a year. The
other is Frederick Cover, who is said to
have made 81, 100000 by forming telephone
companies in London. They are to marry
each other.
On the 22d of November there will be
opened in B srlin grand exhibition of BrS-
lillian produce. The object is to encourage
the growing trade between Germany and
Brazil. The chief articles to be exhibited
will be different kinds of timber, tobacco,
tallow and food products. There will be,
among other things, no fewer than two hun
dred different varieties Of coffee, grown in
the South American empire.
Ex-Gov. Thomas A, Hendricks, Of Indi-
ana, is reported to be much improved in
health. In conversation about the elections
be expressed himself as much grati6ed, and
the fact that Indiana did not give large
msi0rity seemed to please him. cit shows"
he said, with evident State pride, 'that the
people of Indiana are intelligent and dis
posed to think for themselves. 1t is fine
commentary on public Intelligence"
Undismayed by the failure Of another
young lady. Miss Florence Kelley, daughter
OF Congressman William d. Kelley, and
Miss Frances Il. Mitchell, both former
students of Cornell University, have made
application for admission to the University
of Pennsy lvanis, the former as q special
student 10 Greek and the latter in the Junior
Glass. The trustees are to consider their
application at special meeting to-day.
MIR. Glads. ones eldest brother, Sir Thomas,
is one of the very few left who sat in Par
lament prior to the reform bill Of 1881, in
the days when Manchester with a poDuls.
ton of 1873 600, and Leeds with $1,000 and |
Birmingham with 105 900, returned no mem |
bers, while Q scarborough, for which he |
sat, representing 900 people, returned two.
He has been a Conservative, but when M. |
2. for Queenborough he voted for the re- |
form hill.
In answer to an inquiry about titles OF |
persons, the New York Sun says that the |
practice Of distinguishing holders OF certain |
offices with an "Honorable" and the like |
has grown up by custom, and that there is |
no law upon the whole subject" There |
are two exceptions to this, says the Spring |
field Mass Republican, and probably only |
two. The constitution OF Massachusetts, |
provides that the title OF the Governor shall |
be "Hts Excel ency." and tn at Of the Lieu
tenant Governor "His Honor"
Active steps have alreaey been taken in
London for the reservations some time ago |
announced to be In contemplation at the
Tower. The building within the walls Of the /
Tower, known as the Ordnance Office, has |
been sold at auction, and within six weeks |
will have been entirely removed from It's
site The materials comprising 1t were |
divided into 129 lots, and brought little more |
than nominal prices: Originally the struc,
ture cost $500 900. 1t was $50 feet loDg, 80 |
feet wide, and 20 feet high. Upon Its site |
will be restored the lantern tower.
Sir Robert Christison once testified in
case that he knew Of |
substance SO deadly that the minutest qusn-
tity of It would infallibly prove fatal, and |
vet It wss so subtle that the most careful
examination would fail TO detect its presence |
in any of the tissues. He was about TO name
the substance when the presiding Judge |
begged him to keep so important secret TO |
himself, lest it should be successfully used |
for criminal purposes. Sir Robert told 10 |
after years that for a long time following |
the giving OF that testimony he was daily |
I'm receipt OF letters begging that the writers /
might be told the secret.
The project of ship canal across the pc
ninsula of Malacca has been revived, such |
a work being capable of shortening the /
tourney from Calcutta to Hong Kong by |
about one-third. NJ. Leon Dru, the author
OF the present scheme, proposes TO cut his /
canal from the junction OF the Packham
river with the river SaOna to Fasan, from /
whence It. would follow the Htaoung or |
Tavoune he'd to the GULF of Siam. The total /
length of She cutting would be about SIXTY |
six miles, or several miles less than that OF |
the Suez canal, and several more than that /
of Panama The work would cost, accord |
ing to the estimates, 100, 1000 DOOR.
The heirs of Conrad Geyer, most Of whom
live in Philadelphia an Montgomery couu-
ty, Pa, are preparing to collect the immense
estate left by the wealthy Cuban sugar
PLANTER. Geyer was born in Montgomery |
county, of German psrentage, aud lett mis-
home when a young man. he settled In
Cuba, and by industry and economy soon
became the owner OF a plantation. He
afterward engaged in business IS sugar
refiner near Havana, and at the time OF bis
death a few years ago, was worth nearly /
So QUO O00 GeYer died intestate and with
ont issue, he never having been married.
He had five brothers and sisters, three OF
whom Survive him, and the heirs who claim
the estate are the next Of kin OF the deceased
millionaire.
Statistics of the loss of life by fire in four
teen of the principal cities of Europe be-
tween 1869 and 1879 place London at the
head of the list. In every 100000 persons
in that period lives were destroyed, while |
in Munich only 4 out of the same number
persisted. The Pal Mail Gazette can under
stand why fires IN such towns as cologne
and Hanover, with their narrow thorough
fares and old wooden houses, should gen
orally result in serious loss OF life, shut
London" it says, possessing, as 1t does,
an extensive flre brigade and fair supply |
of water, should at the least be as free from
such accidents as the average city OF the
Continent If these figures are corroborated
by independent inquiry, they point TO some
serious defect In the construction Of our
homes or in our system tor preventing fire.
Two former employees of the English
Church Missionary Society in Sierra Leone
have been found guilty, together with their
wives, OF manslaughter, and have been SEN
fenced, one Of them, named Williams, and
his wife, to twenty years. penal servitude,t the
nther To eiphteen wears and 8 hall, and his