Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-04
GENERAL NOTES.


treatment of diphtheria has been found
highly efficacious during the late epidem-
ic in Philadelphia.
The recumbent statue of General R. E.
Lee. at Lexington, Va, is to be unveiled
in June next, and Dir. Jefferson Dayishas
been invited to deliver the address.
The euphonium player at a recent prom
enade concert suddenly ceased playing at
a critical moment. He explained to the
indignant conductor that he had blown
two front teeth into his instrument.
There has been an immense crop of
apples in Arkansas, the yield Of one coun-
tv alone being over 100000 bushels. A
local paper claims that Arkansas is
already the great fruit growing State ofthe
South.
The entries into hospitals from the time
of the landing of the British troops at IS
MALTA to October % We're 462 wounded
and 1893 sick, out of a total of 1902 Of
ficers and men. On November there
were S32 patients in the Cairo hospitals,
most of them with enteric fever.
A corporation has been formed in st.
Paul, Mimi, with capital of $10,000,0O0,
for the development of the vermilion ore
lead on the northwest shore of Lake Supe-
riOr. A railroad will be built from the
mines to Duluth or some other point on
the lake where good port may be found.
John Most, the socialistic agitatOr and
late editor of the London Freiheit, for in
cendiary articles in which he has just fin
ished a term of sixteen months imprisOn-
ment, is expected in New York soon, and
Justus Schwab is getting his saloon in
order for the reception of the distinguished
visitor.
Queen Victoria has conferred a baron
etcy on Mr.. William John Clarke of the
colony of Victoria. This gentleman is
probably a son of the man known as Big
Clarke, who made the greatest fortune on
record in Australia. This is probably the
first hereditary honor conferred on an
Australian.
Albert Morse migrated with his family
from Virginia to Indiana, and had not
been there week before his wife evinced
a desire to elope with Mr.. Tully, a neigh
Dor. Morse proposed that Tully should
take her in consideration of transporting
the remainder of the family back to their
old home. This was done.
Mr.. Anthony Biddulph visited the Itch
borne claimant few days ago at Portsea
convict prison for the first time since the
cOnvicts removal from DartmOor. The
claimant has lost considerably in weight,
and has aged very much. He appeared to
be perfectly resigned to his position, but
is looking forward with hope to the
Christmas of 1884, when he expects to be
liberated on ticket of leave.
The Empress Eugene is said to be very
wealthy, but the three principal proper
ties which she pOssesses-valued in the
aggregate at 00,O00-are encountered
with mortgages to the amount of $780, 200.
The palace at Versailles, however, of
which the valuation is S315, 900, is free of
incumbrance, and so is the fine palace at
Biarritz. Altogether her assets are con-
siderably in excess of her liabilities.
The new ship canal which is to connect
the Baltic and the North Seas, will save
nearly six hundred miles of the water
journey now made around the Danish
peninsula. The cut, as proposed, will be
from Gluckstadt to Kiel, and the length
will be about half that of the SueZ canal,
or some fifty miles. AS in the Suez canal,
there are several small lakes lying in the
way, which will be utilized by the engi-
neers.
The MormOns have been thirty years
building a granite temple in Salt Lake
City, and it will take at least ten more to
finish the work, in case it is ever carried
to completion, which is now considered
doubtful. There is difficulty in gathering
the taxes levied upon the believers for
this purpose, and the Gentiles already
count on turning the structure into a
State House when Utah is admitted to
the Union.
The celebrated dog Mylord, well known
in Russia, and who had accompanied the
unfortunate Emperor Alexander II. in his
various campaigns, has just died at Pau
at the Hotel Beau SejOur, in the Princess
DolgorOuky's apartment. The Emperor
was much attached to Mylord, and the
animal was the object of assiduOus care.
He was inferred in the garden of the villa
belonging to Gen. Gaillard. A tablet in
white marble will indicate the grave.
Hon. Robert W. Barnwell, who died re-
Gently at Columbia, S. c., at the advanced
age of eighty-one years, was classmate
of Ralph Waldo Emerson at Harvard, and
ever maintained with him the intimate
friendship formed during their college
DAYS. While he was in charge of the
South Carolina College he had under his
charge many students of note. Among
them were Governor Hampton, Gen. VIII
mot G.. De Saussure, Mr.. L. NJ. Hanckel
anu the hon. w ABDUL llhSAC1 VI
Charleston, and Senator Wigfall, of Texas.
Though the Marquis of Harrington dur
ing the last two or three years has attend
ed rather to politics than to horse racing,
still he rarely misses arace, and is always
to be seen at Ascot, EPSON and GOOdwoOd
when any exciting race is to be run.
During the season of 1880 he won thirteen
races of the value of 2,495 sovereigns, but
last year he sank much lower in the scale,
his four winning races only realizing 700
sovereigns. In addition to his love for
racing, the Marquis has fondness for ag-
ricultural pursuits,
The law in Massachusetts makes pro-
fessional gambling hazardous business,
and its provisions are such that police
officials cannot protect the gamblers. If
a loser of money does not sue for its re-
covery within three months any other
person may do so, bringing the suit against
the gambler or the owner of the premises,
either of whom is liable in an amount
three times the money lost. In the case
of Henry g. Cole, who lost $4,000 in
gaming, his brother has begun litigation,
and the only verdict thus far reached is
for 81, 500 on account of 81, 800 lost in faro
bank.
A history has been published lately of
the Roman Catholic ArchbishOps of Tuam,
from which it would seem that the pre-
lates of the diocese long had a hard time
of it. Here is a description of the eelebra-
ton of mass there in CromwelPs day:
''On a Sunday morning a portable altar
and a vestment box, generally painted
red, were brought into some convenient
sand pit, round which multitudes gath
cred. The priest, without cap or sOutane,
hurried on his vestments. The lights on
the improvised altar were rushes dipped
in grease, stuck in raw potatoes, and
placed in lanterns, which served as can
dlesticks. Scouts were stationed around,
and mass was hurried through as quickly
as possible. One of these mass sand pits
still exists near Tuam,"
A strange and remarkable accident took
place in the foundry of the Reading Hard
ware Company, at Reading, Pa, recently,
by which twelve men were overcome with
sulphur and rendered deathly sick. The
men were engaged in various parts of the
works when suddenly dense volume Of
sulphur was forced from the cupOla and
driven in all directions among them. A
dozen of the number were overcome at
once and they dropped to the floor and
commenced vomiting violently. Other
employees from the mill were quickly sum-
mOned and the sufferers were carried out
and medical aid promptly summoned.
Two of the afflicted parties were taken
home. suffering severely, while the re-
mainder recovered in few hours and
were allowed to leave unassisted. The
density of the upper air seems to have pre-
vented the sulphur from escaping in the
regular way and the accumulation was
forced unnaturally into the foundry.