Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-05
GENERAL NOTES.

The Toronto Globe says: "There is no
emigration agent half so effective as the
satisfied settler"
The first capital trial in Maine was in
1914, being the trial of a woman for the
murder of her husband.
Sir Theodore Martin is reported to have
been asked to write notice of John
Brown, but he demurred, and there the
matter ended.
The faithful of Cologne met on April %
to celebrate the twenty-tifth anniversary
of Archbishop Melcher's episcopate.
Bismarck still keeps him in exile.
An exchange says, with emotion: "If
Science wants to have costly monument
erected in her honor by a grateful peO-
pie she will tell us how to harness cy-
Clone"
NJ. POmpieu, in France, has made two
ascents with his elongated balloon, car
rying four people. Both were successful.
In his second he obtained a movement OF
the balloon in the required direction by
the action of his rudder independent OF
the wind, which appears to be the first
time any erOnaut has done so.
Frederick NJ. Shaw, relative of Chief
lunatic living in the mountains near Los
Angeles, Cal. AbOnt ten years since he
established a hygienic colony on the coast
in which animal food was not permitted
to enter. 1t proved such a complete fail
ure it turned his head. He made himself
a house in tfee-top, dressed in peculiar
style and lived upon fruits and nuts.
On the site of what is now the Red Lion
Inn, at Putney, on the Thames, Morgan
Williams, a Welshman. and Catherine,
nee Cromwell, his wife, carried on bust
ness from 1890 to 1511 as ale brewers and
innkeepers. They were the great great
grandfather and grandmother of Oliver
Cromwell and John Hampden, and Cathe-
rne's brother Thomas was the famous
Minister of Henry WILL, created by him
Earl of Ems, and duly beheaded in course
of time.
Another piece of the true cross has
come to light, this time ill Poitiers, France.
1t was sent to a noted saint some time in
the sixth century by the Emperor Justin
from ConstantinOple. 1t is known to be
genuine, because copy of the Emper0r's
letter to the saint is said to be somewhere
in existence, besides which it is said to
have been the means of miraculous cures
at various times. 1t is. however, a totally
different variety of wood from any of the
other pieces of the true cross, which is
in itself mysterious circumstance.
The Deputy Master of the mint notes the
remarkable fact that with the exception of
a small number OF 100 franc pieces, no
gold whatever was coined at the Paris
mint during the whole of last year, and
that there has been no coinage Of French
. f,,. rn1 oiFC Lot oil
1879. The coinage of French silver has.
moreover, been limited to the issue of half
franc pieces, forming part of the subsidi-
airy coinage authorized by the Monetary
Convention and commenced in 1881.
Victor Hugo, though a Republican of
the most incorporating type, claims to
be a Iineal representative of a certain
Georges Hugo who, as Captain of the
Guard Of the Duke of Lorraine, was en-
nObled in 1875. NJ. Bire, well known
French writer of biography, has recently
taken the trouble to look up number of
old records, and in a volume which he de-
votes to the matter he establishes beyond
doubt not only that Victor Hugo Is not
related to the hero of the sixteenth CEN
fury, but also that his origin is very hum
BILE.
The centenary anniversary of the Dan
ish naval hero Peter WillemOes has been
celebrated everywhere in Denmark. 1t
was WillemOes who, at the battle of
Copenhagen on April 2, 1901, placed his
small gunbOat so close under Nelson's
flagship that he nearly destroyed it; and
when Nelson, a few days later, had an
audience with the Crown Prince regenthe
asked that WillemOes should be presented
to him, when he offered him the post of
his Flag Captain if he would enter the
English service. A few years afterward
Willemoes was killed in the gallant fight
between the Danish man-of-war Prince
Christian and three English trigates.
The sleeping car companies make their
porters lower each upper berth at night,
whether occupied or not, so that the per-
son having the lower berth shall not en-
JOY more comfort than is bought. The
object is to make it necessary for any one
who requires a whole section to pay ac-
cordingly. The Illinois Legislature has
now made a law providing that any per-
son paving for a double lower berth in a
sleeping car "shall have the right to say
whether the upper double berth shall be
opened or closed until such upper berth
is actually sold and occupied and that
thereupon it shall be the duty of the con-
ductOr or porter ''tO comply with the re-
quest of such person or persons"
The death of Sir John O'Shanassy, of
Victoria, is just announced. No more
remarkable colonial politician has ever
lived. He was several times Prime Min
lister, and really was the founder of the
Home Rule constitution of the colony, for
which service he was knighted, though
for a time he was regarded as rebel. He
sprang from the Irish peasant class, and
always identified himself with his Irish
fellow colonists, having been for years the
leader of the Catholic party, as it is called
in Victoria. He was the promoter of the
splendid contribution from Australia for
the relief of the Irish famine. Though
keen lover Of his native land, he was, after
the O'ConnelI type, ever loyal to Queen
Victoria and the Imperial Government.