Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-14
GENERAL NOTES.

wife of Prof. Henry B. Blackwell, of Boston.
She does not believe in wife taking her
husbands name.
The Tecumseh (Ala.) iron furnace lately
blew out, after continuing In blast over
seven years. This is said to be the longest
continuous blast ever made by any furnace
in the United States.
The "bogus-dispatch" swindle has been
worked successfully in Philadelphia for q
day or two past, the offender writing dis
patches and charging forty cents each on
delivery. 1t is almost as mean a system OF
thieving as that Of robbing paupers.
Colonel Leonidas C. Campbell, one of the
first citizens of Vicksburg, Miss, and one
OF the most successful planters in the Mis-
sissippi valley, is dead. He was a Missou-
rian by birth, and served under General
Price In the Confederate army, where he rose
to the rank Of Lieutenant Colonel.
An iron-worker at Pittsburg, who was
arrested for stealing potatoes, or cabbage
pleaded that he was driven to 1t because his
large family were starving. and the strikers
would not let him work. The charge was
withdrawn and purse was made up for the
poor man, whose story proved to be strictly
true.
Everybody will be interested In recent
decision by the Post Once Department. A
stamp cut in quarters was affixed to letter
which the Postmaster OF the Office where 1t
was mailed refused to send. An appeal to
Washington resulted in the approval Of the
Postmaster's action, and the epistle went to
| the Dead Letter Office.
The manufacturers Of steel rails In Eng
| land met on Saturday to form an associa-
ton to keep up the prices Of their rails.
America is about the best customer, and
| this action may have tendency to diecour-
| age the use of steel rails In this country.
/ Between the foreign combination and the
| domestic duty steel rails In America bid
! fair to be ranked among the luxuries.-
| Philadelphia Record.
The ice dealers in some sections have held
| back their stock in order to keep up the
price. Now that cool weather is coming
| they are afraid they cannot work off the
surplus. Philadelphia has glut of ice, and
| on Saturday twenty-one vessels loaded with
| ice lay at the Wharv6s, unable to find stor-
| age. One Captain pitched his cargo Of ZOO
| tons overheard, rather than wait to get rid
of it otherwise.
the grave, but his gang goes robbing on.
Another stage coach robbery is reported
| from Arkansas, and, as the passengers
| turned their pockets inside out at the re-
quest of two highwaymen, 1t is probable
that the appearance Of the latter was just
| as effectual in suppressing any desire the
| passengers may have had to resist as il
Jesse James ghost had superintendent the
job.
Mr.. Charles Stewart Parnell, NJ. P, writes
to Mr.. John j. Nolan, of Philadelphia, his
reasons for declining the proposition to re-
move the remains Of Miss Fannie Parnell to
Ireland, He states that public funeral in
Ireland, at this time, would be most painful
to the feelings Of her sisters, and would
open wide a wound that has not vet COM
menced to close. The Irish leader returns
his thanks to the Central Union Land
League, of Philadelphia,
Evidence about the working Of prohibit
ton In Maine is confcting. For example,
gentleman who was in Portland last week
between trains saw within half an hours
time and the area of city block these &C.
currences: A barrel of ale, the sale of
which is illegal, rolled into saloon, an Off
Ger being around the corner at the time; a
well dressed man crazy drunk fighting with
a hackman, In the presence Of crowd; two
men behind q door in the railroad station
drinking from bottle. All this happened
in Mr. Neal Dow's city In the afternoon, and
none of the byssanders seemed to regard
the affair as q novelty.
College expenses, subject Of some In
terest now that colleges are opening, are
summed up by the statistics of the class
which graduated at Yale last June as aver
aging So, 901, distributed between Freshman
year, 1857; sophomore, 1923; junior, 81 ,048,
and senior, 81 ,O63. The class in which this
high average was reached, not high for
Yale, however, contributed $40 600 to the
athletic interests of the college. At Brown,
the average annual expenses were only
$3.50, which is more reasonable, and, out
side of Yale and Harvard, two of the most
expensive colleges in the country, from $500
to 5000 a year, or $4,000 to 50 500 Tor the
course, is probably fair average.
In Manitoba the farmers grow twenty
bushels of wheat to the acre, and bushel
of it " sighs sixtY-three to sixty.six pounds.
This is better than the Minnesota Yield,
both In quantity and quality. The average
in Minnesota is seventeen bushels to the
acre and the weight sixty to sixty-five
pounds per bushel. The superior quality
Of the Manitoba wheat Is partly ascribed
to the soil, but chiefly to the amount OF so
lar light enjoyed in country where the day
is two hours longer in the height OF sum-
mer than it is in Pennsylvania. The summer
does not last very long in Manitoba, but
while 1t stays the fruitful earth does its
Drettiest. Wheat and barley aud the grass
crops fairly leap from the sod as the ground
gets warm.
Quite sensation was created at circus
at Marquette, Mich, last week. In the act
where a circus rider, disguised as a drunken
tramp, falls into the ring and wants to ride
horse, the ringmaster threw the drunkard
out. and with much seeming Indignation
asked why there were no policemen around
to keep order. A policeman who was stand
ing by, and who knew the man belonged to
the circus, felt indignant at having the police
abused, so he took the alleged drunken
man, and, Notwithstanding the circus peo-
pie tried to explain the circumstances, he
was hurried to the lookup and the act was
left out. After the show the proprietor got
the performer out and abused the policeman
for being SO officious.
The English anti-slavery men are not
satisfied with the convention concluded be-
tween Great Britain and the Shah of Persia
with reference to the slave trade. 1t is
found that by this agreement It will be pos
sible for the owners of slaves to obtain a
certificate from a British Consul and take
his slaves to the mart IN Mecca, on pretence
of pilgrimage. Then he may return with
an equal number from the market, and he
will not be required to prove their identity.
Thus, at profit, the owner may exchange
the naturalIzed slaves for blacks brought
there through the slave hunts Of the Soudan,
thousands coming to Mecca through Judds
and other Red Sea ports. This matter will
be called up in Parliament, and also the ex-
istence Of slavery in Hong Kong.
Louis, the handsome but eccentric young
King of Bavaria, cannot, as is well known,
endure to attend play or opera unless he
alone constitutes the entire audience. A
short time ago he was indulging this strange
taste at the Court Theatre, Munich, when
he feel asleep in the midst of the play. Here
was dilemma. The play could not go on
with the audience asleep, and nobody dared
rouse him, nor dared the actors for a mo-
ment leave their places, for fear of his dis
pleasure, should he chance to awake sud
denly. One impatient actress threw chair
across the stage with crash, and an actor
repeated several lines in his part in stem
torian tones but still the King slept or.
Thus everything was at standstill for sew
eral hours, until, next morn Q, he King
awoke, and the wesried f. ora flushed the
play Just in time for breakfast.
The colors that are new this season show
the faded shades that are supposed to be
peculiar to tapestry, and 1t is the within to
ali 4boso Doxv ooIOrs old. there fs old rose