Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-03
GENERAL NOTES.

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Veterans of the war between the Repub-
lie of Texas and Mexico have been granted
! 1880 acres of land by the Texas Legisla-
| ture.
A Georgetown, Del, berry-basket
maker turned out l, O25 in a day. Another
made 800 day for two weeks. They are
/ all made by hand.
The Prince of Wales recently gave
fish dinner of soles, mullets, salmon,
perch, crabs and white bait. An aspira-
/ ton of the Princes name would give us
/ the biggest fish Of all.
A sea serpent or something has been
seen in the Platte river near silver creek,
! Nebraska. 1t is described as long as a
telegraph pole, as large around as a bar
/ rel, and walking on eight legs.
Loaded with 100000 San Bias cocoanuts
and $4,000 ivory nuts, the schooner Emma
| Ritch arrived at New York few days
ago. This is the largest cargo of the kind
| ever received, and the schooner is the
largest vessel engaged in the fruit carry
| ing trade.
A young lady in Dennison. Texas, ON
Wednesday, received a note from young
man she was unacquainted with, c0uched
in improper language, requesting an IN
! teryiew. She made the appointment, ana
when he made his appearance she drew a
revolver and snapped it at him twice:
/ There was no explosion and the 'masher
escaped.
A few days ago the Chattanooga Times
reported the death of Grandpa Jordan, a
well-knOwn citizen on Walden's Ridge,
whose age was known TO be 1O7 years.
] 1t saws: awe now learn that a gentleman
4 ma rpCiHinO in Rbp1 county.
is 10j years old and hale and hearty. His
/ son was in Chattanooga few days since.
1 His age is eighty-tive years"
Lord ArlingtOn's pheasant-cOOps, at
Crichel, are protected by an ingenious
mechanism, which, when fixed, fires
/ gun when the lid is raised. A few nights
! AGO some pOachers event fOr'' the pleas
/ ants, IN blissful ignorance of this arrange
| ment, and, as the keepers were, of course,
| aroused by the report of the alarm-gun,
the thieves were captured before they
/ could get away.
The Sheriff of Upton county, Tenn, is
good dreamer. He dreamed that the
prisoners in the county Jail were making
an effort to escape by the aid of wooden
| KEY and pieces of iron. He went into the
Jail and by threats forced confession
that the prisoners had concealed four or
! IlNe OARS Ol IRON lIOul lhCuCo " NhlCC
| feet long, and also a Well-made wooden
key. Planks had been lOosened and plans
| for escape had been matured.
One ofthe cOmpositors of the Pittstield,
Mass, journal is nephew of jefferson
Davis, late President of the Southern
! Confederacy. When boy of eight years
old he's attended hanging, and being
much impressed by the occurrence, he
inaugurated himself as Sheriff and eXer-
cised the functions of his office upon a
little slave boy, whom he succeeded i'll
| putting to death by suspending him from
| tree until dead. He was severely spanked
for his prank.
James Whaling is one of those human
mysteries who can beat the hotel keeper.
Puts up with wife and one son at the New
York Hotel. Boards 500 worth. Bill
presented. Gives in payment check for
| 800 on Buffalo firm. No good. Before
check is returned borrOws $40 from hotel
cashier and gets him also tOpay $50 worth
of small bills. Likewise bOrrOws 5000
/ from a bOarder. Finally Tecreates at
| Cranston's West Point Hotel. Arrested.
Bail, s., 800. Is said to have done a large
! business among hotels and business men.
The quantity of whalebone used in dress
! bodices in England is now enormous, and
! W DtIl IL 10 remembered llCtJ lAC bOiACo
| in cOrsets now exceed by about $50 per
cent. what they used to be no wonder will
! be felt at the extreme stiffness and angu-
larity of the fashionable figure feminine.
! Even muslin dresses have three bones at
! the back, one under each arm and four in
| front. Dressmakers are anXiOusly look
ing for the advent of crinOline, round and
large. Then, they say, gowns will need
fitting only from the waist upward. Now
they have to be made to fit like gloves on
the hips, and ladies are never pleased.
The English system of postal savings
banks has attained a satisfactory footing
in India inside the short space Of year.
The banks were established over portion
of India April l, 1882, and as soon as ar
| ran@ements are perfected with the banks
of Bengal and Bombay, which have hith-
| ertO held mOnOpOles. the system will be
extended over the whole Indian Empire
| During the first nine months of the exist.
ence of the banks 81 sos accounts were
! opened, of which 1928 were by Europeans
and EurasiaDs and 2S,770 by natives. The
balance on deposit, December 81, amount
ed to $1,039,3S0.
There was an amusing innovation at the
BarOnne de Cambourg's recent ball, in
the shape of spoken quadrille. The
mistress of the house performed the part
of an incOnsolable widow, the Com Jesse
de CeZancOurt that Of a gay young mar
ried woman; two other ladies were re-
! spectively a sentimental old maid, and
| very naive young girl The four men per-
| formed the characters of husband, a
young magistrate, dashing officer and
| DhilOSODbe deS SdtOHS. The usual figures
| of a quadrille were gone through while a
| lively conversation was being held be-
! tween these different characters, which
were most successfully impersOnated.
Mr.. Fred. Hassaurek, the German Gin
cinnati editor, who is spending his fourth
honeymoon at Clarens, Switzerland, writes
a private note to Samuel Romeo Reed, the
Shakesperian Commentator of the Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette, saying: Il cam
not refrain from telling you what in
tense pleasure | find in reading the arti-
cles marked S. r. r. in the Commercial
| Gazette There is a wonderful freshness,
bOldness and originality about them. L
read them regularly and enjoy them
! hugely" And Mr.. Reed, who represents
all that is modest and retiring in Ameri-
can journalism, puts this able indOrse-
ment IN a conspicuous corner of his edi-
! tOrial page.
A well known Paterson mechanic,
named William Sutcliffe, is building a
steamboat with a wooden boiler, which
will be placed in the Passaic river above
the Falls in few days. The boat is a
propeller, sixteen feet long, The boiler is
made of a new ale cask, and is said to be
! capable of standing a pressure of 200
| pounds to the square inch. 1t has already
! been satisfactorily tested at forty pounds
! pressure. This novel boiler is fitted with
.fiues, and the fire, instead of being under,
! is on top of it, a draught being supplied
| from tube underneath. Mr.. Sutclitfe is
! not crank, but thorough and practical
mechanic, holding responsible position
! in one of the Paterson locomotive works.
| 1t is the first time in history that an at
! tempt was ever made to raise steam in a
! wooden boiler, and it looks as if the eX-
pertinent would prove success,
Says the Chicago Inter- Ocean, which
! tells this story: ''Some young ladies are
very expert with type-writers. The Rail-
way Exposition closed yesterday, and it
| is now in order to tell the following story
| in point of the pretty blonde young lady
whose taper fingers played a typewriter
on exhibition there. Two youths in swell
! attire stopped before her booth one day
| during the Exposition, and one of them
| asked for a sample of type-writing.
! Quickly her fingers flew over the keys,
| and a piece of paper inscribed, This
| is sample of SO=and-So's type
| writer was handed to the youth.
| Pretty little hand, isn't it ? muir
INJURED his companion. The girl colored,
| but devoted herself to playing on the
machine. Pretty little hand,' repeated
! J., naI,o