Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-06
GENERAL NOTES.

4 man who buys glass Of beer in Iowa
on Sunday renders himself liable to fine Of
from 81 to So
Suicides in London averaged last year one
per diem. The bodies reclaimed from the
Thames were two per week.
Livery men in New England towns say
that the extending use Of the telephone is
doing much harm to their business. as many
persons who were accustomed to hire teams
to transact business in adjoining places now
stay at home and talk through the wire.
In Switzerland has been found large La
custrine canoe at point much higher than
a Lacustrine relic was ever found before. L.
turned up at Bex, which is 600 feet above
the sea level, and nearly 5000 feet above
the Valley Of the Rhone. Its condition is
one of fine preservation.
Major George w. Merrick, the Independ-
eut Republican candidate for Secretary Of
Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania, has re-
signed the Postmastership OF Wellsboro,
Tioga county, that he may take the stump
during the coming campaign.
Amorg tie immigrants that reached New
York Monday of last week were twenty
comely Swedish servant girls. They were
neatly dressed, intelligent, and had some
knowledge of English. IN Sweden they
had been receiving $40 year. Their terms
for America were SIC a month.
a drunken man threw John Carr, lad of
fourteen years, from the railroad bridge at
LaSalle, ILL.,, into the river on Tuesday,
where the water was swiftest and deepest,
aud, although the boy fell sixty five feet,
and turned over several times In the descent,
be struck the water feet foremost, and was
saved by two fishermen, not much injured.
A fable: See the Boots. There are Ten
Pairs Of Them. They are the Boots Jesse
James wore when a Bad Man Killed Him.
See the Clothes. There are Forty-six Suits
of Them. They are the Clothes Guitesu
wore when he Shot President Garfield. Why
are there Forty-six Suits of Them? So that
each Circus IN the Country can have one
Suit.-ChicGgo Herald.
The Boston Journal relates the following;
"a gentleman in one Of our suburban cities
recently called upon one of the local Asses
sors with q schedule of his taxable property.
1t consisted of a mortgage for 50 500 upon
real estate in neighboriDg city. That Is
not taxable said the Assessor, and ex-
planned the law, whereupon the surprised
mortgage remarked: well, the property is
held BY poor widow. I'll reduce her in
terest and fix up her house,"
Engineers are said to believe the proposed
Mont Blanc tunnel to be impracticable. DR..
stapf, Of the St. Gothard work, is one Of
them. He has recently announced himself
in accord with Herr Helms, Swiss engineer,
in pronouncing the. work one Of immense
difficulty, since 10 one part It would need to
be carried through Attenuation of anhydrous
gypsum, which, on exposure TO the air, eX-
pands beyond control. Herr Helms says, In
addition, the minimum temperature of the
galleries would be see Fahrenheit.
Lieutenant Commander Gorringe says
there Is no truth whatever in the report in
relation to the alleged disIntegration of the
Egyptian obelisk, erected about year ago
In Central Park, New York. He saws two
motives account for the reports: lone is
the de.ire of patent-silicate-psin'- fiend to
advertise his more or less internal compound
by having it applied to the nbelisk. The
other IS the earnest desire of NJ di CesnOia
to get the obelisk set up within the museum
and thereby add to its attractions"
The late Rev. D. Ellington Barr, Of st.
Louis. bequeathed IS to his daughter and
the rest of his property to public charities,
saving that she had been separated from
Rim from her childhood, and adding: "Her
mother, from whom | obtained divorce
July &c, 1865, having determined on the
perfect alienation from me OF said daughter,
She has thus been nurtured among my per-
sonal enemies, has never lived with me,
and have failed TO induce her to live
among my friends, or to manifest even by
correspondence the natural sympathy and
affection Of g daughter"
The carriages of the late Emperor of the
French have all been sold save two. One Of
these was the coronation coach, which has
been sent to England as a present from
Eugene to Victoria. The other was the car
riage, all shattered and riddled with balls,
which conveyed their Imperial Msjesties to
the opera when Ofsini's shell exploded. The
Emperor would not allow this carriage to be
either restored or destroyed, but loved to
gaze upon 1t as proof Of the good luck
which he declared would never desert him.
The grave OF President Zachary Taylor,
upon his fathers land and in his own child
home, near Louisville, KY, was decorated
by his family and old comrades on Tues
day. A eulogy was delivered by General