Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-11
GENERAL NOTES.

The Virginia peanut crop has rotted on
the vines.
Haverhi1. Mass, ships about 1900 cases
Of shoes 4 week.
CHATTANOOGA uses 15S telephones and Is
putting up more.
The Foraker circus in Ohio viii cover
At least go square rods.
The Athletic Base Ball Club has already
cleared $4,000 this year.
The Nuevo Leon. Mexico, telegraph
operators ara all ladies.
The oldest alumnuS Of West Point Is
Major Mordecai. Of the class of 1913.
Charles Gounod. the composer, is sixty
I'VE years old and resides in Paris.
Ninety-three thousand acres of land
were planted with timber in Kansas last
year.
Cardinal McClOskey's right hand Is
palsied. but otherwise his health Is not
seriously impaired.
Hon John Z. Massey and a NUMBER Of
others. who We're original Rea busters,
will attend the Democratic State COnyen-
ton Of Virginia a delegates.
Father MahOney. Of Milwaukee. re-
fuses 10 administer the sacraments of the
church 10 any saloon-keeper who refuses
10 obey the law regulating his traffic.
There Is a beautiful practice common
throughout a portion Of Mexico for little
children TO kneel before stranger and
pray that he may have safe journey.
Ex-Congressman Ashley, of Ohio, is as
much out of politics a Coltax. and vari-
Gus other retired statesmen. but is fire.
quenuy seen al the Aston House. New
York.
\ Mr.. Richie. Of Frederick. Md, has
fourteen daughters. and bright young
woman suggests that he has what the
French would call an embarrassment of
riches.
There Is no danger Of a panic on the
Brooklyn bridge 50 long as the present
hot weather lasts. People prefer TO crowd
the ferry-bOats, where they are sheltered
from the sun.
The British ship Pinmore recently left
Astoria, Oregon. with 1000 cases Of sal
mon for a foreign market She is the
largest sailing vessel afiOat. being a four
masted steel ship, 80 feet in length.
Charles French. of Indiana, wished that
he might be struck dead if he was lying.
and he suddenly keeled over. He was
was getting gold piece stuck fast IN his
throat.
During the two years beginning May -.
ISL. and ending May y, 1888, there were
1.60I building permits issued in san An
tonic, Texas. Nearly S2,000,000 has been
expended on buildings in the last nine
months.
The new steamship Navarro is the
1apfr.aT oh
the port Of New Orleans. She measures
3,1110 tons and has carrying capacity of
1880 bales Of cotton.
Rev. DR.. knickerbocker. the Bishop
elect of the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana.
is native of New York. a graduate of
. Trinity College. and was ordained 10 the
ministry in 1876. He has resided in
Minneapolis since 1853.
Stewart McDoane. of Baraboo. Wis.
has built boat in which he proposes a
voyage to Cedar Keys. Fla. His canoe is
fourteen feet in length and twenty-eight
| inches broad, decked over and supplied
with two bamboo masts.
\ handsome maple planted by the Prince
of Wales in 1850, a Canadian oak planted
by Prince Arthur in 1863. and a scotch
tir planted by Princess Louise IN ISL. are
among the attractions Of the HOrticul-
tural Gardens at Toronto.
Bishop Elder. Of Cincinnati, has ad
dressed a circular to the clergy Of his
archdiocese. in which he positively pro-
hibits round dancing al any time and no
dancing Of any kind after dark, at picnics
or other entertainments given by Catholic
congregations or societies.
1t j. fact not generally known that
most Of the tobacco stems from North
Carolina tobacco factories are shipped 10
Germany to be manufactured into snuff
for the German peasants. They are col
lected by a Winston firm and shipped
thence in immense quantities.
4 restless Chicago mathematician
shows that the 3. 30 saloons there sell
So. 000, 900 worth of liquor in a year; $50
| for every man. woman and child in the
city. The consumption in Illinois out
side Of Chicago Is put at $3S.00O. 900. so
that the average per capita for the whole
state i about so: not much over the
probable figures for the whole country as
| indicated by the amount of spirits and
| beer produced.
\ correspondent of the Rugby Plateau
Gazette. writing from a point seven miles
distant, says he owns 200 acres of land
and pays only s. taxes. One hundred
acres are enough. he saws. for one man 10
farm. As farmers in that section depend
upon the magnificent pasture in the woods
for their cattle and sheep. Sheep are s.
head. cows $50. and horses 500 to $50. sew
en- other English families are settled in
that nei ghborhOod.
That New York is fast becoming the
centre of the book trade of the country. is
shown by the way the Boston publishers
are getting footholds there. J. r. Osgood
Il Co. are the latest arrival. Hought0n.
I Mitfiin Il Co. have an attractive store on
| East Seventeenth street. Lee Il SHEPARD
| are represented by Charles T. Dillingham;.
/ opposite the Grand Central Hotel. Porter
X Coates, Of Philadelphia, have a store on
Bond street. and the Lippincotts have an
agency AT PeltOn's, on Bond street.
Few of the merchant kings Of New York
are native Americans. The O'Neills and
McCreerys are Irish. the Johnstons are
scotch, and the Sterns are Hebrews of
German birth. Looking back on former
names, Stewart was Irish and Aaron Ar
mold was a native of the Isle Of Wight
While the founders Of the Lord Il TAYLOR
concern were from London. The only dis
tinguished retailer of American birth was
X. Ii. Macy, whose success rendered him
remarkable exception to the general
rule.
The Jewish nose, so called because so
common among Israelites, is by no means
peculiar 10 that nation alone. 1t is found
among the Syrian races everywhere. Sir
&. Wilkinson proves that the natives rep
resented in Egyptian sculpture with hawk
noses are not always Jews. but Syrians
The ancient Phgnicians were Syrians.
and they were the greatest merchants of
antiquity. Ii indicates worldly shrewd-
ness. insight into character. and ability
10 turn that insight to profitable account
Nespasian. Titus, CheodOsius the Great.
Adam smith and Albert Gallatin had this
nose.
The fashionable New York stores en-
ploy from 100 to 800 clerks. to whom are
added dressmakers and other attaches.
which add three-fOld to the number. Such
employment cannot be considered healthy
since the air Is often close ana unWhole-
some. but there Is always a pressure to
obtain it, and at present there are a hun
dred applicants for each vacancy.
Statesmen receive from S. to So a week.