Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-31


1854 as the nearest place Of refuge. After g.
" wears they comprised but 100 persons and
for TO Years had but one synagogue 1o-la9
there are thirty-one synagogues 10 tnat clt5s
and the jewish population Is estimated a. oO'-
coo.
ACCORDING to DIR. Sach, of Buenos Ayres,
there is no danger of an exhaustion of the
ouinine supply. The experimental planta-
tons in Java and the Island of Reunion have
been very successful; and, besides tnese n ut
series, the trees have been cultlNa1eu n n, ~
liyia by the million for ten years. ~ thiec
ulaces in the last named country, taken az
they come the number of trees growing +
given, severally, at 10000, 100000 ana SSVo'VV0-
A San correspondent points out in detail the
bad luck of New York candidates for the
Presidency extending through twenty -eight
vears. or from 1852 to 1880. The list embraces
Marcy 1852; Fremont, credited 10 Gal1ofnla.
hut really of New York, IN 1896; seward IN
1850: Mcclellan, nominally OF New Jersey,
but a resident of New York CITY IN I ,Se'
Greeley, 1872; Conklipg. 1876; Iliuen, 1910;
and Grant resident of New York, IN lSSO, ana
Hancock in the same year. IL might naNe
added Daniel :. Dickinson and Few others
to the melancholy list.
THOUGH there has been but one poet en-
nobled in England, there have been numbers
of trades people. John Coventry, from whom
the present Earl of Coventry IS descendeu,
was a mercer of London, and LORD Mayor IN
1925: Stephen Brown, a grocer, gave Nlseohhs
Montague to the peerage; the Capels, E;1rls =,
Essex. are descended from draper; EdWiuu
Osborne, founder of the Dukes OF Leeds, was
n cloth worker: from William Craven,
tailor, sprang the Earl of Craven, just qe-
ceased: and Lord DU dley Ward Is descended
from William Ward, working JeWeler.
TIE vacant Irish ChancellOrship has been
filed by the appointment of Sir Edward sui
livan. Much has been said by the English
press about the enormous salary attached TO
-. : 4 rt-ffh "A
retirement, wholly irrespective OF duration OF
tanure). 1t is $4,000 year more tnan lhde
of the English Chancellor, whose dutles As
Chancellor are twice as arduous, ana ne only
receives $50 GOO as Chancellor, his other $4,000
being for his duties as speaker OF the House OF
Lords Besides. living in Dublin Is at least
20 per cent. cheaper than in London.
THE so-called edition de lure of standard
authors is evidently not paying speculation
The London correspondent of the New 1ork
Tribune recently asked an intelligent book
seller the price of a coveted Fielding. Wei"
said he, Il should be glad to sell you the flelq-
ing at cost price: any of the others at hall
price" What this means may be seen from q
cursory comparison of nominal and real prices.
The Dickens, for instance, was puoIlshed AT
$50. 1t was quoted at $225. 1t cost the book
seller a little over 800. And he is now ready
nav he would be glad-to sell it for u little
over $50.
A FEW DAYS AGO the seaport town of Abe
rayroE, Cardiganshire, in Wales, containing
a population of about 1900 souls, was offered
for sale by auction. The property included
ground rents with reversion in fee of rack
rentals of dwelling houses, shops, buildings,
building sites, gardens, lands and other prem
ises, comprising with the exception OF one
hoteD the whole of the town, together with
dues. tolls and other payments, the lordship OF
Ilyswen, otherwise Aberayron, including the
harbor, with rights to demand and receive eX-
a,,A not fl
thousand pounds was bid, and the sale was
not effected.