Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-01
GENERAL NOTES.

Judge Blatchford will take his seat on 'ne
Supreme Bench of the United States next
Monday.
Oliver Ames has furnished money to a
party of journalists to purchase control
ing interest in the Boston Advertiser, but he
will take part In the management OF the
paper.
Russia has 24,746 mobiles with an average
of $4,000 per annum; $4,000 merchants
with yearly income of 81, 800 each; and TO-.
254 600 peasants with an annual average OF
$50. Would rather be a noble, and with a
noble stand.
In recent letter Mrs. Garfield complains
of the unauthorized publication Of biogra-
Bhies and portraits OF the late President,
with unfounded claims that they have her
special approval.
On the morning of his birthday the Ger
man Emperor breakfasted five hundred per-
sons at the Gatschins palace, and In the
evening the imperial family were reunited.
The capital was gaily decorated IN honor
of the occasion.
There are five commissioners Of Utah to
be appointed. The Boston Herald is In
formed that the President will nominate
only lawyers, and that he will not appoint
any one who applies either directly or mol
rectlY, for the position.
Judge Jeremiah Blsck Is reported to have
said, when asked why ConkliDg declined
Grants nomination of him as Chief Justice:
"For the same reason ] should have for d.
clipipg to be Emperor Of China; he doesn't
understand the language"
It is questionable whether Betty and the
Baby would not fare better with Sergeant
Mason in Albany prison than with Sergeant
Mason out of #. In the prison description
of the Sergeant he is set down as of intem-
perate habits and of no religion.
That the President gives very good din
ners there need no longer be any doubt. a
Republican Senator who has dined with
everv President from Buchanan to Arthur
saws that the latter has given the best din
ner he ever saw at the Executive Mansion.
Lieutenant Todd writes that there are
three times as many officers in the navy as
It needs, and altogether too many seamen
for the number of ships. He thinks that
81, 000, 600 year might be saved by dis
charging men who are not of the slightest
use.
It will astonish some people to learn that
since 1877 there has been an increase in the
consumption of tea grown in India amount
ing to 90, 500 0G0 pounds, while at the same
time there has been decrease In the con-
sumption of the tea grown In China OF about
1000, 900 pounds.
An Atchison, Kansas, dispatch says: "a
curious phenomenon was observed the other
afternoon during thunder shower in this
city. While the rain battered steadily
shower OF pebbles, ranging In size from
pea to hickory nut, fell almost over the
entire city. They were round, as II having
been worn by water"
There have been introduced in the New
York Legislature this session 1883 bills,
against 1,2SS up to the corresponding time
of the last session. The only hope for the
State Is that many Of these measures were
never intended to pass, and more OF them
can't. Il is thought that the session VIII
wind up about the middle of May.
Mr.. Perry Belmont, the son OF Angus
Belmont, represents Long Island distric'
In Congress. His traits Of character are
mentioned as contrary to those ususlly
looked for in a rich mans son. He is ex-
tremely modest and as studious as book
worm. He has no liking for society, but lie
good lawyer and hard literary worker.
PATHS latest musical protege is village
shoemaker, whom she found singing melo-
dies among the mountains Of Italy. She
has enabled him to remove with his family
to London, and to pursue his studies. The
great prima donna declares that his voice is
80 extraordinary that "even that OF Mario
would have seemed of small account by
comparison"
Mr.. Tilden has never been in such health
as now. He has felt well, been able to take
his teu-mile constitutional and split his cord
of wood before lunch time; but he never
was so robustly robust as in this year 1882,
aud a-PresIdential campaign only two years
off By the year 1850 Mr.. It'd" will be so
stalwart in health that he wo' be able to
sicken and pass away II he want. 10.
AS a consequence of the strike in the
Cumberland coal mines many Of the Balti-
more dealers are reduced to short supplies,
aud trade is very much depressed. There
were shipped from the Gu nberlaud region
for the week ending March II, 50,52l tons
The strike ensued. The shipments for the
week ending March 19 were only Is, 542
tons. This will give an idea OF its msgni-
tude, and the trouble has only begun.
A telegram from Little Rock, Ark, to the
Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal says that 1t is be-
lieved the Arkansas Senate Investigating
Committee, which has been in session up
ward Of a year, will file report with the
Secretary of State this week, and that 8
member of the committee says that Church
III, the present Governor, will be reported
a defaulter 70 the amount of over 100000
when State Treasurer.
The poet Longfellow had printing office
OF his own from which he sent his effusiOns
forth in correct and proper form. This is
precisely our own case, and yet there are
bundeTs and bjunders. For instance, the
Record recently inadvertently stated that
Mr. Buchanan was President Jackson's
Secretary of State. Buchanan was only 2
member of Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet; but
he was a profound admirer of the great
qualities of the soldier statesmsn.-Phll
delplIG Record.
L. is surprising that people should have
gone crazy over such a hOmely, horrible
thing as a suLfower. There is nothing at
all beautiful about 1t There is nothing
which appeals to aesthetic sense, and f1e
can scarcely realize that it. is not g traEstY
upon true astheticism. But It is not joke,
aud the fashionable world rave about sun
flowers as IL thev were beautiful creations
like the lily and the violet. Aestheticism Is
crack-brained in this regard at least.
The death is announced OF Miss Elizabeth
Hamilton, the daughter Of the Scottish
metaphysieian, Sir William Hamilton, Of
whose life and philosophy she furnished an
account I'm the new edition of the "Ency-
clopedIa Britannica" Miss Hamilton was
one OF the foremost promoters OF the move
ment in Scotland for the university educa-
ton of women. She went to Germany
about year ago with view to preparing 8
work On the philosophy OF Herman Lotze.
A proposition is under consideration to
bring the water of Lake George and the
tributaries of the upper Hudson to New
York through a canal and conduit two hun
bred and twenty-five miles long, at a cost
of $50, O00, 600, introducing the water into
the city with q head of two hundred feet
It is intimated that daily supply Of
500, 0OO, 600 gallons of remarkably pure
water could be obtained in this manner,
sufficient not only for the purposes of the
metropolis but of neighboring towns and
cities.
Rossi was the hero of an act the other
night in Philadelphia, which was not only
not down in the bills, but not included in
the play itself. While acting Edmund
Kesn' he hurled a cloth on his shoulders
across the room. 1t upset a candle on a
bureau, and set on fire the lace with which
the glass was draDed The SPECTATORS were