Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-06
GENERAL NOTES.

1t is now said Cincinnati is to have
new paper, the Morning Journal, issued
from the office now occupied by the Ga
Sette, and sold for one cent copy.
The daily earnings in the cotton facto-
ries of this country are nearly double
what they were in 1910. The total number
of spinning spindles is 1853, 435; OF looms,
225, 759. The actual consumption OF cotton
last year was /, 760,000 bales.
A block of land, bounded by Third and
Lexington avenues and 106th and 10th
streets, New York, which was sold at
auction for 100000 some ten years ago,
was mOrtgaged few days ago for $751;
600; of this $450,000 was advanced by the
Mutual Life Insurance Company on two
years credit.
At Farley, Iowa, ON Saturday night last,
a hanging coal oil lamp fell into the lap of
Miss Mary Capon, who was sitting direct
ly under it holding a little boy in her
arms. The child was burned to death,
and Miss Capon and her mother, who at
tempted to extinguish the flames, were
badly burned.
The methods of transporting cattle
across the Atlantic have been so improved
that the voyage is accomplished by the
cattle now in safety. A system of venti-
lation has been adopted, whereby in all
sorts of weather, even with the matches
battered down, the holds in which the cat
tie are can be kept free from the noXious
vapors, which otherwise produce sutfoca-
ton.
A Missouri doctor reports to the Phila-
delphia Medical and Surgical Reporter the
case of farmer who has nine children,
the eldest of whom is ten and the young
est two years of age. The list begins with
the girl of ten years; then come twins
(bOy and girl of eight years, twins girls
of six years, a girl of four, and finally
triplets { all girls two years old. Father,
mother and children are all in good health.
A Western furniture firm has sent an
agent to the Piedmont country of Virgin
ia, North and South Carolina, with instruc
tions not to return until he has secured
100000 acres of suitable woodland. There
is no telling the vast amount of wealth
that the South is sure to realize in the
near future by the sale of its timbered
lands. The Northwest will be practically
exhausted in the next decade, and then
we shall be masters of the situation.
Mrs. Ringenary, a German woman liy-
ing in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania,
has given her musical sisters a bright and
shining example of what a woman may
do. For a long time she worked with her
husband in the mines, drilling and blast
ing coal, receiving ordinary laborer's
wages. Recently she purchased horse
and wagon, and is now hauling coal and
supplying the local trade of the town.
She is violinist, and she frequently has
displayed her talent at parties and con-
certs.
Louis Blanc, the French historian and
cfo4acroon who pooapf1v dia6 Onop said
BLESSED are they who believe in immOr-
talIty; without it the universe is a grim
and fearful riddle" When he heard that
Harriet Martineau said she took pleasure
in thinking her identity would not be con-
tinued, he said: 81 must say of her what
st. Theresa said of the devil-'Unfortu-
nate being; she has never loved" 1t
made him desperate when his faith in i'm
mortality broke down, and he thought that
he should never see his wife and friends
again.
Wild are the stories told of Gambetta's
youth and early manhood, when he first
made his appearance in Paris, studying
law, but mainly talking politics in the
cafes. He was poor, something of a BO-
hemian, and his whole life was wild and
romantic. Slowly but surely he rose to
fame as politician of the ultra-Liberals.
ne dUbdcheu Jn6 Imperial UONeIuHleuJ Oll
every occasion, denOuncing the arbitrary
measures of Louis Napoleon with all the
fervid eloquence of the South. His
speeches attracted attention, and he be-
came one of the leaders of that small band
of Republicans then battling against i'm
perialism.
The Toronto Mail says: cit was hoped
that so simple a matter as the cOnsolida-
ton of the Michigan Central and Canada
Southern Railroads could be effected with
out any further increase of indebtedness.
But it seems matters are to take their
usual course. The agreement between the
companies contemplates the borrowing of
$6,000,0 600 with which to dOuble-track the
Canada Southern and build a new bridge
at st. Thomas. The debt of the Canada
Southern now amounts to $13,546,S on
which per cent. interest is guaranteed
by the New York Central Company: the
Michigan CentraPs indebtedness is $685.
442, 200. If the amalgamation is made in
the most approved Vanderbilt way there
will have to be new issue of stock as
well as bonds in connection with it,"