Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-10
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
The Girard estate in Philadelphia is now
valued at 80, $50, 900, and the financial re-
port of the receipts shows they amounted
last year to s.. 022, SO7, including balance
from 1881 of $91, 900, and the expenditures
of the year were $994,000. OF the eXpend-
itures $467. 900 go TO the college and $685.
900 to the care of the estate and taxes
The total deaths in the city of Chicago
during 1882 were 1913, against IA, l25 in
1881. Zymotic diseases killed Ash, de-
crease of 1,153 from the preceding year,
the percentage of deaths being 1926 IN
1882. and A.. % in 1881. The death rate per
LOCO of population last year was 2o.V5,
against 26.l6 the preceding year.
By mutual agreement the wife of Lieu
tenant Governor Tabor, of Colorado, was
divorced from her husband at Denver ON
Wednesday last, the alimOny being $780,
600. She demanded 81 10000 from her
husband. who is a very wealthy man, but
finally compromised in the above named
sum. All offensive charges ana previous
suits have been withdrawn.
1t appears in round numbers that II 900
miles of new main railway track have
been added during the year on 800 differ
ent lines in A of the States and Terrific
ries. While this gives an average OF less
than 35 miles for each line, it includes a
number of very important and pro-
gressive lines, on which the extensions
reach several hundred miles each, while
many others which have not yet made
much show of track are destined to ultl-
mate Importance.
The London fOgs are no joke, although
it is the habit of the LondOners to make
light of them. The fogs of December APP
pear to have been particularly poisonous,
and probably cost the Queen more sub
jects than the late Egyptian war. During
one week 637 persons died in London from
diseases of the respiratory organs, as the
record states. s'under the influence of the
almost continuous fog" But that was an
exceptionally fatal foggy week.
A good story is told of NJ. Greyy, who
is an epicure in coffee. One day, out
hunting, he entered roadside wine
house. ''Have you any chiccOry" he
asked. ssYes. sir" bring me sOme.N
The man of the house returned with a
small can of chiccOry. lis that all you
have?' "We have littlemore." Bring
me the rest" When he came with an
other can of chiccOry, NJ. GreYy SAID;
''YOu have no mOreY' mo, SIR very
coffee. London Globe.
The burning of OvingtOn's big china
store in Brooklyn, few days ago, strik-
ingly illustrates the powerlessness OF
fire department when a confagration is
once started amid surroundings favorable
to its progress. The burned store was
encircled BY fire engines, there being no
less than three engine houses within two
or three blocks of it. An alarm was given
almost as soon as the fire broke out, the
firemen were alert and active, and no
time appears to have been lost, yet the
flames could not be eXtinguished until the
large building had been destroyed and
several adjoining buildings had been more
or less injured.
There are in the world siXty-fiye valu-
able breeds of cattle, of which, says DR.. A.
5. Heath. in his forthcoming book on the
Breeds of Cattle: Their Diseases and
Treatment" 1--WE have as yet apprOpria-
! ted only eleven, and, even of this sixth we
| have, most of them we possess so spar
ingly that we cannot supply One-teHth of
the males needed to breed grades FROM"
| With the exception of shOrt-hOrns and
| JERSEYS we have no considerable herds,
and of these two breeds we have not one
! each where we should have hundreds. If
! the general farmer and the dairyman were
/ fully awakened to the needs of their case,
/ there would indeed be ''bOom" in pure
1 bred cattle.
Thus far there have been but very few
/ subscribers to the fund for the payment OF
| the debt of Archbishop Purcell, the aggre-
| gate of their subscriptions being but few
\ hundred dollars. The addition of the
/ ArchbishOp'S own subscription of $50
/ shows how important he considers it that
] 80 t,~sr, nod - oil
/ he had and reduced to the most barren
condition of poverty, the feeble old man
! finds it more difficult now TO raise sixty
/ dollars than it was in former days to COM
mand sixty thousand. The prospect for
/ the payment of the debt seems so far from
encouraging that most Of the creditors
/ have given up all hope Of ever seeing a
/ dollar of their money.
In this Christian land ancestors are laid
I to rest in graveyards, and their spirits are
supposed to keep quiet, even when the
! graveyards are torn up to make room for
/ stores or railroads. In China it is differ
ent. The spirits Of ancestors are supposed
/ to be in continued state of worry and
disturbance. In order to quiet them sac
I rifces must be offered and religious SER
vices kept up with great diligence and at
vast expense. The Rev. DR.. Yates, an
eminent missionary and Oriental scholar,
says that for these purposes the Chinese
spend $l54, 152, 600 year. Nearly all OF
this goes into the hands of their ecclesi-
astics. who thus have a heavy interest in
keeping alive the traditions of the fathers.
The liabilities of the Bank of SapOjok,
in Russia, which has just failed, are put
by the telegraph at ''some millions of
roubles," and its assets at twenty-nine
roubles. There have recently been other
bank failures in Russia almost as COM
plete as this. The st. Petersburg
letter in the Sun referred to the
financial distress in the banking system
of the empire in these words: MANY
/ Russian merchants have withdrawn their
capital from the banks in order to meet
their foreign bills, and the result is that
/ the banks are failing one after another.
| The Minister of Finance during the last
two weeks has sent over 100000 rOubles
/ to various provincial banks in order to
save them from failure, and there are now
in this city about score of populations
/ from different provincial banks lmplOrlng
! the Minister for a loan. The financial
/ panic is spreading all over Russia"
/ A letter has been received in Boston
I from an officer of the United States steam
er Alaska, giving an account of meteor
/ which was seen from the ship on the even
! ing OF December Il. 1857, rev minutes
after sunset, in latitude 81 deg. p min.,
longitude 1874 deg.7 min. All at once
loud rushing noise was heard like that of
a large rocket descending from the heav-
ems with immense force and velocity. Ii
proved to be a meteor. and when within
ten degrees of the horizon it exploded
with much noise and flame, the frag-
ments streaming down into the ocean
like great sparks and sprays of
fire. The most wonderful part Of the
phenomenon then followed, for at the
point in the heavens where the meteor
burst there appeared figure shaped like
an immense distaff. all aglOw with blush
light of intense brilliancy. 1t kept that
form for perhaps two minutes, when it be-
gan TO lengthen upward, and, growing
wavy and zigzag in outline, diminishedin
breadth until it became fine, faint spiral
line at its upper end, dissolving into gath
ering clouds. 1t remained for about ten
minutes, when it began to fade, and finally
disappeared at OIL O'Clock.
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