Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-07
GENERAL NOTES..


circulation, brought $42 80 at auction in
Philadelphia on Wednesday. An uncir-
culated chain cent of 1898 was bought for
the Mint at $S4.
4 colored woman has been sentenced to
siXty-six and twO-thirds days in the work
house of Nashville, Tenn, for stealing a
brick pavement. She used the material
to build a chimney in her house.
One of the new Judges in Wisconsin
found on opening court that he had been
attorney upon one side or the other in
thirty-five of the cases on the calendar
before him. He will find it necessary to
exchange" in the ministerial sense, with
some of his brother Judges for some time
to come.
The san Francisco Alta says that turf
sports are in such a state Of decadence in
California that unless something is done
to lift them up and give them respecta-
bilitv the tracks may as well be plOwed up
and sOwn to wheat, while the breeders of
fine stock ship their horses East and 90
out of the business.
\ company is being organized in To-
rOntO, Canada, to build a railway along
the edge of the Niagara river from Horse
shoe Falls to QueenstOn, and also rail-
way from the edge of the river through a
tunnel to the top of a high bluff in the rear
of the museum, and to own park at
Niagara Falls and QueenstOn,
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says
that the Eastward movement Of flour and
grain from the West through that city for
the month of November, 1882, shows an
increase of 101, $50 barrels in the receipts
of flour, and an increase of /, ABS, 211 BUSH
els in the receipts of grain, estimating
flour as wheat, as compared with the same
month last year.
According to the Norwich Conn. Bull
IetiR. a Norwich authority upon meteorO-
logical phenomena is not at all surprised
that a storm did not follow the last great
circle about the moon. He alleges that
the moon is subject to two rings, the one
occasiOned by the congregation of vapOr
in the atmosphere and the other purely
electrical. The last circle he prOnOQnces
to have been electrical and in no sense
stormy.
The prompt condemnation of Mr.. Tenny-
sons new play by a London audience
leads an English newspaper to remark
that English audiences are gradually las
Stunning something of the ferOcity of a
French first-night public" A man who
has written bad play is treated, it says,
with more Vindictiyeness than pick
pocket or a burglar" Previous good
character as a dramatist is not allowed to
tell in his favor.
1t is reported in Bombay that the coffee
plant grown in the South Pacific and In
dian Ocean regions is threatened with a
fate like that which menaces the grape
and potato elsewhere in the world. A
peculiar fungus has attacked ii. On get
ting upon one leaf the fungus spreads rap
idlv over the whole plant, causing it at
last to die. In this way, says a local
newspaper. lit has spread ruin and dis
NAV throughout most districts of the hill
country of CeylOn, extending thence to the
Fiji Islands and Java, where it is report
ed to be doing great mischief. In the FIJI
Islands the local government took the
matter firmly and etfectually in hand. 1t
bought up the affected plantations and
destroyed all the plants by fire. BY this
means the pest was put down.
In France has just been made known
the substance of a report on the pledges
concerning State questions which were
made at the last general elections by the
successful candidates for Parliament.
The report throws interesting light on the
strength that these questions possess.
Thus, out of 557 Deputies, $50 have de-
clared themselves in favor of a revision of
the constitution. ~ IN IdNOT OF InT6e
years military service, $50 for secular
education, 1913 for peace policy, 159 for
for disestablishment, 14S for repeal Of
judicial irremovability, 145 for reform of
Senatorial elections, 125 for extension of
local self-gOvernment, 123 for liberty of
the press and of public meetings, ia for
making secondary schools accessible to
the masses and 100 for the superannua-
ton fund for disabled artisans.
1t behoOves a man who expects to enter
the competitive examinations in China to
be sure of his physical condition as well
as of his intellectual attachments. The
annual provincial examinations We're held
this fall i'm Hangchow, whose streets are
described as having literally sWarmed
with students of every age from hfteen to
eighty. and of all conditions, The eXaml-
nation shalr' was an inclosure OF about
eight acres, containing ten thousand cells
for the competitors, each cell being three
feet wide, five feet long and seven feet
high. The candidates went in on the
eighth day of the eighth moon, and re-
manned in two nights and one day. Ihey
returned on the eleventh and went through
the same ordeal, which was repeated
again from the fourteenth to the sixteeth.
A candidate is occasionally found dead In
his cell.