Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-24

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The atmosphere Of theNew York Stock
Exchange appears to be affected by a sort of
malarial fever-probably due to the mlasma
which arises from stagnant pools"
Elmira Free Press. ''In some parts OF the
country the women brighten their children
by remsrking, Now IL you're not good III
take you to see Anna Dickinson's Hamlet
General Grants son-in- law, Algernon Sar-
toris, is to swim a friendly race on the
Thames in June with another man-stskes,
one thousand dollars. He is now in practice
st New York swimming school.
An Austrian physician who has visited
the Jews Hospital at Odessa, states that
there are one hundred and twenty-five hor-
ribly mutilated persons there, the Russians
having poured petroleum into their wounds.
Canon Farrar preached sermon on OAR
win from this text: Sand he spake OF
trees. from the cedar that is in Lebanon
even unto the hyssop that sphngeth out OF
the wall; he spake also Of beasts, and OF
fowl, and Of creeping things and OF fishes. "
People who use filters of animal charcoal
are informed by an exchange that unless the
filters are renovated at frequent intervals by
ignition In close vessel they are OF little
value. Millions Of minute worms are de-
yeloped in the charcoal. and some Of them
always find their way into the water passed
through.
Minneapolis is to be lighted by electricity
generated by water power at the falls Of st.
Anthony, in the very heart of the city. A
company has been organized with capital
of $500, 900. The great economy in the
- mill bla fha
pany to give the city all the light needed ct
q very low rate.
A New Haven man, IN the very act Of
swallowing a glass Of milk paused, with
the glass at his lip, to see Whist it was that
seemed to be moving In the gray blue huid.
1t proved to be lively lizard, who had
very narrow escape, and now the man means
to lecture his milkmsn on the folly of water
ing at the brook, when pumps are every
where so accessible.
Gilbert Burns, an old British war sailor
and nephew Of Robert Burns, the poet,
is now an inmate Of the Glasgow poor
house, and eighty years of age. Oae Of the
local newspapers is organizing g move
mentn to "wipe off q national reproach,"
but is said not yet to have met with much
success, although 9200 would enable the
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During last year the number Of persons
killed by being run over or knocked down
by vehicles In the streets OF Paris was 103,
besides whom there were /, 0S4 who IN their
injuries required the aid OF the police. 1t is
said that the number Of cabs aud omnihuses
that run for hire every day in Paris is % :
600, and, considering the Jehu-like ferocity
with which they are driven, wonder Is ex
pressed that the the list Of killed and In
jured is so small.
During the prostration from which Mr..
and Mrs. Gladstone both suffered immedi
stely after hearing the news Of the Irish
assassinations, they received word from
Hawarden OF the serious Illness OF their
son, the Rev. Stephen E. Gladstone, the
rector of the Hawarden parish church. On
Easter Tuesday he burst blood vessel, and
not only has not recovered from its effects,
but was then in worse state Of health than
at any former time.
Senator Fair, OF Nevada, says the Chinese
In California send home from SAC, 900, 900 to
$45, 600 600 annually. As there are less than
100, 900 OF them in the State, this makes an
average of $500 or $3.50 year for each one.
AS they are charged with degrading labor
by working in some cases for fifty or sixty
cents day, 1t is difficult to sse how they
can live and lay up so much on such small
wages Cincinnati Gazette.
A balance sheet for the past year has just
been published by the administration of
Monte Carlo, from which it appears that the
tables wen In that time the sum Of IL, 000,-
OOOf. The expenses for the same period
were S,S00,0 00f., thus leaving sum Of
1900, 0C0f, 500, 900, to be divided among
the shareholders. Large as this sum is, it
IS declared by the London World to be mere
child's plsy compared with the money trans
actions of some OF the clubs in Nice and
Paris.
The revenue Of Great Britain from ardent
spirits has fallen from e31 200, 600 In 1874 to
CPS, SOC, 900 last year, and this, although the
population has increased by 100000.
Among the causes of the decrease in the use
of intoxicants are reckoned by Mr.. Glad
stone the prolonged depression In trade, the
spread of the coffee palace movement, the
enforcement of the Irish Sunday closing act,
and the crusade against intemperauce which
has been conducted by Cardinal Manning
and the Catholic clergy.
It is thus related how the eccentric paint
er, Turner, obtained the name under which
he lived and died at the historic house in
Chevne walk, Chelsea. Observing one day
by chance a riverside house that suited his
fancy, he applied at once for apartments.
"What references" demanded the land
lady. ga years rent in ADVANCE" he re-
piled. "Whst name, sir ~ "Pray, what is
your name ?" "Mrs. Booth, SIR" "Then,"
said Turner, 81 am MIR. Booth"-and by
that name he was known ever afterward.
His name is not the only singular thing
about the English murderer Fury. During
the earlier period of his prison life he de-
voted much time to the study of chemistry,
and he felt keenly recent refusal to grant
him access to books Of a scientific kind. He
has conceived a plan by which he believes
he could furnish the navy fuel at half the
present cost, and he has scheme for les
sening the cost Of railway transit. Since
his youth he has not read novels, and before
his appearance in court he had spoken
strongly upon the demorslizlng effects of
the publication of records OF criminals. He
has great taste for poetry, and can recite
long passages from popular poets, Byron's
denuncistion Of the pleasures Of the world
having for him special attraction, as
description Of his own experiences. Words
worth is his favorite poet. He confesses
himself villain, but says that when he got
drunk he could not resist crime, and strong
ly denounces the liquor traffic.
For the month Of April the agrarlan out
RACES in ireland numbered in all 462, of
which a classification had been made as fol-
lows: Murder, 2; firing at the person, 4; sg-
gravated assault, 9; assault endangeriDg
life, /; assaults on bailiffs and process
servers, l; incendiary fire, 80; burglary aud
robbery, 2; taking and holding forcible
possession, Is; killing, cutting, or manning
cattle, 10: demand or robbery of arms, s;
administering unlawful oaths, 8; intimids-
ton by threatening letters and notices, 2S7;
otherwise, sc: attacking houses, 2; resistance
to legal process, l; injury to properly. %;
firing into dwellings, II; injury to or at
tempt to iniure or obstruc5 railway trains or
highways, l. or the total 462 outrages, 1876
were committed in Minister, 122 in Con
Daught, 116 In Leinster,. and 80 in Ulster
There were no outrages at all in Monaghan
and Down, and only one each in Armagh,
Fermanagh, Londonderry and Dublin. The
largest number reported from any one
county was As, which were from Kerry.
There is so much going on in the way OF
electrical experiment all over the world that
the people Of one city or country do no
know what has been been achieved in an
other. It will surprise persons in st. Louis
to learn that the whole levee at New Orleans
for a distance of five miles is now illu-
minated with double rows of electric lamps,
which almost turn darkness into day. But
the greatest progress with electricity, both
as a motor and illumination, seems to have
been made at Newark, New Jersey. A large
stock company in that city is bringing Edi-
sons improvements and inventions into use
ae % ct O q ha maIac them and ~ fs said hos