Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-13


asked the congregation to contribute the
four dollars for bis fine, and they did 1t,
though the plates had to be passed six times
before the amount was realized.
Herr Krupp's possessions at Essen are
enormous enough, as some fresh statistics
of them will show. He has OF steam boilers
no fewer than 439; of steam engines, 456,
their aggregate horsepower being Is, 500;
OF steam hammers, 81. varying In weight
from 200 pounds to so tons; of rolling mills,
q; OF machines for making tools, ,622; of
furnaces, 1856, of which IA are high fur
naces; Of locomotives, 25, and OF steam
propellers 5, their total tonnage being z 800
tons. Krupp's annual produc ion Is BOO, 900
tons Of steel and $4,000 tons Of iron. At
present the population of his workingmen's
city is Is, 700.
granite sarcophsgus has been placed
upon the grave OF the late Representative
O'Connor in st. Lawrence Cemetery,
Charleston, 8. 9. The inscription reads;
"Michael 2. O'Connor, orator and advocate.
In the Legislature of the State he served for
eight consecutive years, was sent as dele
gate to the National Democratic Conven-
lions at Baltimore aud st. Louis, and as a
member OF the ALVI. and XLVIL. Congress
Of the United States Of America, and died
in office. Born Beaufort, g. c., September
20. 1881. Died Charleston, s. G April 20,
1881. RsQuieseat ia pace"
Frau Materna, the famous singer, is of a
large physique. One night, during the Bay
reuth festival, reception was held at Wag-
ner's house. When Materna arrived she
sought the host, who is a small, fragile sort
OF man, and finding him gave him hearty
embrace. Wagner stood It like man; but,
toward the close of the evening, he beheId
Msterna bearing down upon him again, and
as she neared him he held up both his hands,
energeticsllY repelling a second attack with
''NeiDl nein Frau Materna, das will ich gar
nichtW and poor Brunhilde had to put up
with a hand-shake instead.
In a recent letter to some friends in
Charleston, s. c., General Fitz Lee anus
inglY writes: 'South Carolina has for 10
these many years been camped in my affee
ton. When cadet at the United States
Military Academy my roommate was a
South Carolinian. During the war two gal
liant fellows, the one a native the other an
adopted son OF South Carolina, served on
my staff, while being cavalryman made It
my duty to run In the same direction for
four years with your HsEpt0n ana your
Butler, whether .hey were marching after
the enemY or the enemy marching after
them. Oh, yes, some day I am coming to
South Carolina. l have never had the honog
to cross the boundaries of your gtste.g
1t is understood W leading Liberal Jour
nal Of England that 'lnformation OF a most
serious character, Affecting the lives OF
more than one well-known politician at
present in London, is in the hands of the
authorities, and that renewed vigilance on
the part Of the police has O1en demanded"
The same pa ger adds that It. refrains, for
obVioGs reasons, from publishing the names
OF the persons mensced, but It adds that
meanwhile the residence OF every Minister
OF the crown IN the city is carefully guarded
By the police, while the Ministers themselves
are escorted to and from the houses of Par
lament by constsbles ia plain clothes.
Persistent criminahtY was Illustrated in
the career OF noted piekpoeket who has
Just died in Sing Sing prison. He was but
forty-two years Of age, and vet his Imports
onments had aggregated period OF startling
length. several terms for larceny, two OF
them In New York, were the prelude to a
State prison sentence. During the Paris
Exhibition this man was defeated IN the act
OF picking pockSts. lie wore green glasses,
and protested that he was an American pro-
AOGbOl "a 4ahHAaSCoA oAu IL AaIi5 " CO0t ulb
an oculisti but three years and half in
the galleys at Brest was melted out to him.
When he returned to this country he was
arrested several times, but was discharged
for lack OF evidence, until analIy his con-
vction vas secured, ald long sentence
was Imposed. When he died, n0t penny
OF all his stealings was loft. His profession
had not paid.
"Whila the dinner was at its height"
writes visitor at the Carlisle Indian school
"a tall, finely formed man stalked into the
room with great dignity and reserve. He
wore light gray trousers, black coat and
vest, white shirt and collar, a black neck
tie, and boots that would have done credit
to first class shoemaker. His raven hair
was parted carefully In the centre aud hung
down the sides of his face-an almost exact
counterpart of the style affected by Oscar
Wilde, except In that where It touched his
shoulders it was tied on each side with
pieces of red tape, and the remaining part,
about foot in length, braided and tied in
little knot at the end. The face was strong.
almost noble in its reserve, and the eyes,
nalf hidden by wrinkled lids, were brilliant
" black and showing more than usual in
telligence." 1t was Standing Bear, the ia
nous Sioux chief, who had come from DA-
kota to ascertain what educational progress
his son was making in the school.
Speaking of the remarkable memory pos
sessed by the late A. T. Stewart, cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Press tells
this story Stewart belonged to the Century
Club, although he rarely visited its rooms.
The club once bought a carpet of his PEG
pie, and when it had been down for several
months Stewart happened to come In. He
seemed to be greatly interested in the car
pet, studying 1t attentively. "Where did
you buy that ~ he demanded at last of one
Of the house committee. SAT your place, l
believe" Tmpossiblep' reioined the mil
lionaire. ''We never had chat pattern in
stock. We have had pattern exactly SINH
lar, except that those little violet flowers
were white" The committeeman took the
trouble to hunt through his vouchers, and
produced a receipted i,ill OF A. T. Stewart &
Co. Mr.. Stewart shook his head. "There
is some mistake" he said, ''the little flow
ers on our carpeting were white" 1t was
found on investigation that the little white
flowers had been white - 80 Extensively
white and spottY to the eyes of some of the
aesthetic members Of the club that Louis
Laing had carefully gone over them all with