Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-11

The Mobile (Ala.) Register says that duel
ing is an obsolete custom in most Of the
Southern States and will soon die out in
those localities where it survives, except in
New Orleans, where the French element
may keep 1t alive
The Philadelphia North american thinks
It is somewhat peculiar, and not at all en-
couraging, that the government has received
no responses to its request for proposals for
the building OF the steels team cruising YES
sells authorized by Congress.
The wheat WELD of Kansas for 1882 is
g, zoo, 900, and the corn crop is estimated at
$50, OOO,O 900 to 100000 bushels. The as
tonishing agricultural development and
progress of the State during the past thir-
teen years is shown in the fact that In 1869
Kansas raised but {, 900, 900 bushels Of wheat
and 1000, 900 bushels of corn.
The year 1888 is the periodic cholera
year. The first appearance Of the pesti-
lence in this country was in 1882, and it has
since appeared at intervals of seventeen
Years-1S49 and 1866. 1t is now raging In
the Philippine Islands, and has manifested
itself at other points in the far Orient. VIII
it come to US next year, or will 1t interrupt
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its dread periodicity.
One instance IN which nobility has shown
a capacity to seize the opportunity to render
efficient service to the world is the case of
Princess Louise, who, shortly before the
death of George Eliot, finding herself sit
ting near the famous novelist at a concert.
sketched her features, and by this skillful
and clever larceny furnished the world one
- h. fau M ~
this retiring writer.
A young man employed about the Grand
Opera House, in Cincinnati, climbed up to
fix the electric light, that was temporarily
out of order, Tuesday evening, and in the
dark his face and one hand came in contact
with the wire. He was instantly knocked
! senseless, and fell to the ground. His fall
was broken by the heads and shoulders Of
passers- by. HIS hand and face were some
what burned, but otherwise he was not
much hurt.
Henry Ward Beecher has answered the
question, els it wrong for a Christian to
dancer" in a characteristic way. cit is
wicked,' he says, "when it is wicked; and
it is not wicked when it is not wicked. In
itself it has no more moral character than
walking, wrestling or rowing. Bad COM
Lany, untimely hours, evil dances, may
make the exercises evil; good company.
wholesome hours and home influences may
make 1t very great benefit"
Harrison Booth, for many years In charge
and control of the bodies of paupers dying
in the Philadelphia almshouse, has car
ried on the business Of a resurrectiopist
with great success. He was paid $3.50
year by the Philadelphia colleges 10 see
that the unclaimed bodies were fairly di-
vided among them in proportion TO the
number of their students; but he made
much more by stealing bodies he was paid
by relatives to bury, and by substituting
whole bodies for Others which pOst-mOr-
tenn examinations had made unfit for the
colleges.
At recent revolutionary meeting in Paris
a gloomy and fierce looking old man bound
ed upon the Speakers stand and promptly
secured the attention and sympathy of the
audience by asking, "It after a hundred
years Of revolution we still have to work for
our bread, Of what avail are revolutions?
TCbeers Brethren" cried the old man,
eloquent, ''if you desire reforms you mus
not trust to the aristOcrats bravo nor to
the bourgeoisie [spplause NOR yet to the
Republicans [stupefaction nor yet TO the
Communists" A frightfuI uproar greeted
this radical declaration, and the Old man
vanished without cOndescending to inform
the people on whom they should depend.
The troubles in Corea and the massacre Of
a considerable number Of Japanese sub
iects render it probable that the Japs will
seek a bloody vengeance. The Japanese
army consists of thirty six thousand men of
all arms, and can be increased to fifty thou
sand Immediately. ThtY are equipped with
late pattern breech-lOading rifles, and are
organized on the plan OF the French mill
taTy system. Their navy includes nineteen
steam war ships, manned by five thousand
nine hundred sailors and gunners, said to be
in an effective state OF discipline Several
of the vessels are heavily plated and
equipped with Krupp steel breech-losders
OF the fighting strength Of COrea little is
known. She has no navy, aud but few or
ganized troops.
The records Of the Presbyterian Church
indicate that the ordinance of infant bap-
tism Is observed less and less as the years
go by. In fact, among the wealthy and
fashionable congregations it is rapidly fall
ing into complete dtsuse. There is slight
increase in the number of baptisms in some
quarters, but the great city churches exhibit
an extraordinary scarcity OF infants, and
the total number OF baptisms ia 200 less than
IN 1873. In membership OF 100000 only
1000 infant baptsms are reported. In
Talmage's membership of 2,747, the largest
10 the denomination, only 80 infants were
baptized. The three largest churches of
Buffalo report each one infant baptized.
The figures are official, as reported to the
General Assembly.
Japan is Offering an instructive spectacle
to the advocates of paper and "fiat" cur
reucy. About six years ago that country
decided TO initiate some Western nations in
an irredeemable psper currency; and the re-
suit OF this experiment has been unfortunate.
The latest information from Japan Is that
the paper money is now at a discount Of 20
per cent. 1t has deprecated in value
almost from the start, though subject to the
quick fluctuations which invest the unstable
currency with one OF its charms to q specu-
lative people. For a time the farmers in the
interior preferred the new paper money to
silver, and as q result there has been much
suffering among them. No one knows the
amount In circulation, and the country is
suffering sadly from the worthless substi-
tute for money.
NJ. Desire Cdarnay, In reporting to the
French Geographical Society the results of
his three years. explorations of Central
AuuOIlCou luluDy AHCublOuCu buob OulAH& MS
latest Journey, in Yucatan, he entered the
remains of palace at the town of Kabah,
and found on the walls thereof an Indian
painting OF an armed Spaniard on horseback
This, he maintained, is indisputable proof
that the palace was inhabited at the time OF
the Spanish conquest. Some authorities
hold that these ruins belonged to a people
long sgO extinct, and that they are not less
than 3,000 perhaps 10000, and according to
one traveller, 10000 years old. NJ. Charnsv
will not admit that they are more than $50
years old and holds that they all belonged
TO the race which the Spanish invaders
found in possession of the county.
In Gen. Ducrot, who died recently, France
has lost one of the most sagacious OF the |
Generals OF the Second Empire, though not |
one whom the Republicans would have
been at all likely, or, indeed, well advised, |
to forgive for his very active efforts In favor |
of reactiOnary coup detGt during the |
Government of Combat" and Immediately |
after It's defeat by the constituencies Of |
France He was ore OF the most energetic /
Of the anti-war party in 1870, and did all in |
his power-thrOugh the Emperor's private
secretary, NJ. COnti-to alarm Louis Ma
poleon as to the unprepared state
of France and the active prepara-
tions OF Germany. Unfortunately for
him the Emperor was then too III or
too sluggish to look into the reports sent
him BY Colonel StoffeI SIS to the active
OF Germany, and many OF them
were found unopened though csrefully