Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-27
GENERAL NOTES.

The Court of Claims decides that naval
officers travelling in a foreign country I'M
der orders are entitled to mileage the same
as at home.
About 31,500 citizens of Indiana have
petitioned the Legislature to submit the
proposed prOhibitOry amendment to the
popular vote.
The StOnewall Jackson Association of
New England has voted to send eleven
delegates to the unwilling of the statue of
Gen. Robert E. Lee at Lynchburg, Va, in
June.
Lieut.-Gov. John Marshall Hs milton,
who becomes Governor of Illinois upon
the election of Governor CullOm to the
Senate, is but SO years of age, and is ma
tive of Ohio.
\ box which had lain in the Buffalo n.
Y. } depot for over two months, addressed
to Adrian, Mich, was opened a few days
ago and found to contain human skele-
ton, to which the dried flesh still adhered.
The title of getty of Churches" has now
passed from Brooklyn to Philadelphia, the
latter city leading the list with 500
churches. New York comes next with
4S9 and Brooklyn is now third in the list
with 80 churches.
There is only one native ArkanSian in the
Senate of that State, Hon. J. r. Thornton,
of Calhoun county. Ten are from Ten
nessee, four from Alabama, three each
from Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky and
North Carolina, and one each from Mis-
souri, and Ohio.
The London Gaiety has taken in 81, 720,-
600 in fourteen years past. Dramatic
authors got $150,OOO, the newspapers $780,
900, the dramatic profession $1,500,000, and
the State, in taxes, ETC., $4,000. This ac-
counts for all but the tTitle of $4,000, the
managers share.
1t is said to be the law now that when
telegraph company has once attached its
wires to private building the right to
keep them there is a perpetual one. If
this be true the bill limiting the duration
of that right to twenty years is a very
proper and necessary one.
1t seems too bad to spoil such harrow
ing story as that told by the dying Mrs.
Stillwell, of Ohio, that she had murdered
six of her family, but Father Conrad of the
cathedral at st. Joseph, Mo-, declares that
to his own knowledge two of the wOman's
alleged victims died naturally.
The continued increase of mortality in
st. Petersburg, arising from zymOtic dis
eases, is creating considerable alarm.
The municipality has expended 10000
rOubles in sanitary measures, but nothing
practically effective against the ever
growing death rate has yet been devised.
One of the lady readers of the Greenfield
Mass Gazette sends to it this 'sad
TRUTH" as she calls it: ''In tkS little viii
lage of Montague Mass.), within the
limits of half mile, there are living at the
NHriAn oil nm
Is younger misses of manageable age,
while there are only 10 single gentlemen"
A heavy fall of snow occurred in San
Francisco a few days ago, the first for
over thirty years, and thousands of young
people saw snow for the first time in their
lives. Sleighs were hastily constructed
from anything at hand, and one of the
city's milliOnaires was seen in piano
box. with runners of rough plank, with
the ends rounded of.
During the epidemic of typhoid fever in
Paris much was said of the valuable re-
suits gained i'm the hospitals by the use of
heavy doses of quinine. But the PrOgreS
Medical discovers that the quinine used
was adulterated with 66 per cent. of other
matter, and now the questions arise, were
the good results really obtained, and, if so,
what is the true value of quinine?
Miss Rannaball, an East Indian girl of
20, is said to be the most learned woman
in the world. She can read and write and
talk in twelve languages, having a Won
derful gift in that way, besides being up
in mathematics, astronomy and history.
She is studying medicine, and will go TO
India to practice, where she says thOus-
ands of her cOuntrywOmen die every year
because they will not consult male physi-
clans.
John E. Kenna, Of West Virginia, who
will succeed Senator Davis after March 4,
is only 50 years of age. He served in the
Confederate army as private, and left it,
Is years of age. poor, obscure and unedu-
Gated. He settled in Wheeling, and by
great and self-denying efforts acquired an
education and became a lawyer: When %
wears of age he was elected to Congress,
where his career has been one of useful
ness and credit.
Prof. Virgins warning to the Marquis
of Lorne that it will not be safe for the
Princess Louise to sail for the Bermudas
before April does not seem TO have had
much effect. Neither the Marquis nor
the Princess, apparently, has any fear
of the professors great storms Upon the
whole, more attention seems TO have been
given to Virgins on this side of the st.
Lawrence than in Canada. Is this another
proof that prophet is not without honor
except in his own country!