Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
BALTIMORE JUDGE has decided that
the Maryland law cannot restrain wo-
mans use Of her favOrite weapon-her
tongue.
\ Miss HENDERSON, Of Pierre, Dako-
ia. is called the"man killer The fourth
man to whom she was engaged has died
before the wedding.
THE window which President Arthur
Is TO put in =. Johns Church, Washing
ton. Is memorial to his wife and her
father both VI whom attended the church.
THE average New Yorker seems to have
esteemed the late Peter Cooper about one
or two cents worth. judging from the not
over large collection OF one and two cent
pieces thus far dropped into the boxes put
up for the purpose Of receiving popular
subscriptions for a monument to his
memory.
AN English syndicate, worth 10000
90, has bought 1900 acres north of
Omaha. which they propose to lay out as
a suburban city, much like Pullman, near
Chicago. The new city will be called
New Edinburgh, and immense stock-yards
and canning establishments are to be its
chief industry.
WITHIN the last year the women of the
United States have given the sum of $780,
600 for the spread Of the gospel to heather
lands. OF this amount the Presbyterians
gave nearly 100000, the Baptists $780,
go, the COugregatiOnalists $4,000, the
Northern MethOdists Sl0S,OOO, and the wo-
men Of the Methodist Church South
S25.l10.
ELIJAH DAMON, Of Hanson, who is eX-
tensively engaged in the poultry business,
has a fiock Of 1000 fowl. The yard en-
closes eight acres, and il furnished with
everything for the best care and provision
Of its tenants. Mr.. Damon says there is
profit i'm the business when rightly con-
Quoted. and considers Plymouth Rock
fowl the best to raise for all purposes.
The French MarwOOd. who executes
with the guilIOtine, is named Dibler, who
succeeded the better known ROch. He has
little to do, owing 10 President Grevy's
pardOnng heart, and, as that fact has led
to reduction Of his salary from Sl,50O to
81 200 a year. he longs for more heads to
operate upon. For each head he cuts of
be gets an extra fee Of $40 and travelling
expenses.
A NEW YORK theatrical manager tells
Of producing a farce in which one
character was a bald woman. 1t hap
pened that the actress who was cast for
the part had no hair on the top Of the head.
But did she avail herself OF that natural
advantage: No. indeed, she wore wig
over the bare spot, as usual, and thereon
laid some palpably false badness. This
actress, understand, was woman.
\ BRAHMA missionary 20 England gives
this description Of John Bright ''JOhn
Bright eats his breakfast like lion, and
digests it too; but he doesn't drink. He
is a broad middle-sized man with great
soft hands and an enormous appetite. /
have seen him finish off the plentiful
morning meal with half jug Of
milk and a good lump OF sugar. which he
puts into his mouth somewhat surrepti-
tiOusly."
4 YOUNG LADY Of l. fell in love with
concert-hall singer whom she met at
Ramsgate. This young lady had very
cOnfiding nature, and her lover was sin
gularly unrOmantic person. He asked
her, in the first place, for the loan Of any
money she might happen to have about
her He also persisted in asking her to
tell him the time Of day, This Hamsgate
hero was finally arrested for stealing his
sweetheart's gold watch.
OF seventy-six North Carolina papers
published in 1873, forty-four have ceased
TO exist. The lesson to be learned from
this is. that while there is a demand for
newspapers, the only business-iike way to
satisfy it is to consolidate local sheets and
produce few really good journals. One
energetic newspaper can cover state
! more effectIally than forty local apologies
/ for papers, which, like cheap drug.stores,
! are kept alive only by the aid OF patent
medicine humbugs.
THE story is told that Little Rock,
Ark, negro was employed by acOntractOr
TO get out several carloads Of stone Of a
specified weight. When the car was I'M
loaded complaint was made that some
were too large and others too small, but,
/ to the surprise of the contractor, the
negro gave the exact weight Of each to
/ the fraction of pound, although there
/ were no marks to distinguish one stone
/ from another. When asked the weight of
a stone he had not handled, IL was found
/ he could give no idea of it.
THE Mexican Government has made
contract with a firm at LeghOrn, Italy,
whereby 1000 agricnlturigts and skilled
wOrkmen from that country will be
4 brought on every trip OF the steamers OF
! the Mexican Transatlantic Company, run
ming between Vera Cruz and the Mediter-
ranean ports, the government agreeing to
/ nav for each person. As the ships stipu-
/ lated to make sixteen round trips annual
! Iv. this is expected to assure yearly adj
! dItion to the resident population OF at
! least 5000 industrial people, who will
/ contribute materially TO the resources and
DroductiVeness of the country. 1t Will
/ not be an exclusively Italian immigration,
| More or less French will be taken on at
Narseilles. and about 300 will be brought
| from the Canary Islands every trip,
ONE of SERGEANT Ballantine's stories is
recalled by an incident which happened
only the other day at the Old Bailey, The
Serieant says that on a certain occasion
Judge interrupted long-winded
counsel with the remark: You have
stated that point before, Mr.: --, put you
/ NAV have forgotten it, as it was very
| long time ago. Commissioner Kerr said
| at the Old Bailey: ''The talking in this
/ court is becoming intQlerable and inter
| minable" Counsel replied that all the
| talk did not come from the bar. The
I commissioner had his revenge when, in
| sentencing the prisoner to a lighter term
of Imprisonment than had been expected,
he added that the court had been almost
talked out Of leniency by the defending
counsel.
contract with Clyde firm for the con-
structiOn Of another large steamship. She
is to be named the Siberian, and will be
freight ship after the model of the vessels
Hanoverian, Corean and Grecian. Like
them, she is TO be OF steel. put she VIII DE
much longer being Of 1900 tons register,
This is only GOO tons less displacement
than the Partisan, and 80 tons less than
the Sandman. but her carrying capacity
will be larger than either of these, owing
to her being built especially for freight.
BY the terms of the contract the new YES
sci is to be pushed forward with all DIS
patch.nIn the meantime, preliminaries III
connection with the construction OF the
0,1O0 ton Numidian are about complete,
her lines being now laid.
THE Primitive Baptist camp meeting at
Silver Greek, Georgia, had strange in=
terruption. matronly woman began to
scream and cry in violent manner