Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-04
GENERAL NOTES.
ears are uncommonly numerous this

GENERAL NOTES.
Bears are uncommonly numerous this
season in the upper portion of Maine.
I The latest discovery is coal-tar sugar.
Its advantage is said to lie in its superior
sweetness.
1t is considered disgrace for Hindoo
! girl not to be married when she is eleven
or twelve years old.
The lightning-rOd conference lately held
| in England decided that copper is the best
material 10 use in rods.
During the year 1882 Albany produced
242,951 barrels of ale, 104,O03 barrels OF
! lager and $50 barrels of weiss beer.
Mr.. W. W. Wood, of Oxford, \. C.s has
a rose bush in his front yard, pyramid
shape, which has ., $50 rosebuds upon 1t.
Amber is a very fashionable color, and
one of the most beautiful importations
| from Worth is an amber satin reception
costume.
The glucose works at Iowa City, Iowa,
have passed into the control of the Buffalo,
| y. Y. Company, which now owns most of
the largest glucose sinks in the country.
Nebraska has one woman minister, one
woman lawyer, six women County Super
intendents, and ten women physicians.
| Many women are engaged in editorial
work.
| The figures show that the Central Pa
cific handled 2O,605, 900 pounds of through
/ freight during the first four months of this
year, and the Southern Pacific during the
same period 80, 1874 800.
The New York Tribune gives the Opin-
| ion that poker sharp is apt to be a cool,
| quiet, gOody-goody sort of a chap from
some country district. At least this was
the case in the army during the war.
Messrs. Minkham & Co., publishers, of
Anthem, in Holland, have begun printing
their publications in blue ink on a light
green paper. This method, they state,
gives great relief to the eye of the reader.
Among the curiosities that will be seen
at the New Mexico tertio-millennial is
the cross which Coronado planted in Zia
| Pueblo when he took possession of that
village in the name of the King, 342 years
ago.
A thief has been rObbing many Brook
| lyn houses of silverware for weeks past,
after night, under the noses of the police,
and orders have been issued that no sum-
mer vacations are to be allowed until the
| police catch the thief.
Miss Rebecca Mclean, who recently
was the subject of no little comment in
the New York press in consequence of
the breach Of promise case brought
| against her by an elderly suItOr named
Barwich, has since married George HOfer,
| a printer, about whom all the trouble
| grew which led to the rupture with Bar
witch.
Cyrus T. Lane, OF Gambia, n. H., lately
told a stranger who asked for lodgings
that it would not be convenient to receive
him, but when the applicant remarked
that he was Mr.. Lanes youngest brother,
and that the last time they met was
thirty-three years ago, quite scene oc-
CURED, and a thanksgiving was at once
inaugurated that continued far into the
night
The richest man Of color in America is
probably Mr.. Aristide Marie, of New Or
leans. He was large slave owner before
the war, and his income from the rents of
his property in New Orleans is not less
than SO, 900 year. Besides that he has
! a large personal estate, consisting of first
class securities. Mr.. Marie is a man of
fine accomplishments, graduate of one
of the best institutions of France, and
| lives abroad about half of each year.
1t appears that, in Southeastern Africa,
| a large caterpillar is harvested by the
natives, like a field crop. Wherever it
| appears in large numbers the negroes
march out in full force from their viii
| lagos, camping out for weeks in the
| wilderness, to gather and cure the crop.
| After the intestines are squeezed out, the
| caterpillars are dried before the fire and
| rolled up in packages of fresh leaves. TO
a civilized taste they are most disgust
| ing. the smell reminding one of that of
our cabbage worm.
a st. Louis burglar made clean sweep
of all the valuable presents given to the
newly married sciOns of couple of upper
| ten houses. After all the pawnbrOkers in
| the city had refused to advance him any
| thing on the lot, he sat down and wrote
| the bridegroom a very insulting letter,
| charging him with fraud in palming off a
| lot of pOt-metal ware on an innocent bur-
glar. He wound up by saying the glitter
ing Junk could be found under a certain
wood pile on a certain lot, and hoping
that he would have better luck at his sill
yer and golden weddings.
At Hollywood Cemetery, near Rich
nlond- Ea- in the Soldiers, Section B, row
u, is plain granite monument inscribed
Catherine Hodges, Co. X, 9TH La, 1863"
1t is said this grave is never overlooked
on Memorial day. She came to Virginia
as the UiUdndiere of her company. IL was
her intention to nurse the sick and care
for the wounded. Her life was devoted to
the Confederate cause. In some of the
holiday parades that marked the presence
of Southern soldiers, in the early days of
the war. with gray red cap and ZOuaVe-
like dress, she marched at the head OF the
command to which she was attached.
Her mission was to nurse others, but her.
no fol faly
and died, and was buried amidst the
sOldiers-one poor, lone woman among
Il, 900 men.
The trials and obstacles which true love
often encounters were eXemplified at Ire
mont Temple, Boston, Tuesday afternoon.
A woman about forty-fve years of age
entered the building, closely followed by
a meek-loOking man, and approaching one
| of the attendants, said: ''Say, lady, this
man wants to marry me. Would your
The attendantdid not know any of the
| circumstances, and declined to offer any
| advice. The woman continued: ''Well,
| there are three or four that wants me, but
| this one think will be kind to me; and
| he's got the license. Where's DR.. Ellis!"
The reverend gentleman was not in his
| study, so the couple waited for him, and
| when last seen were hanging about, the
/ HAL luOlltnbdIlil SlOhlIlS lLOlG ACCblC
and mOurnfully resigned, and the woman
| seemingly more fixed in her purpose to
capture him while the occasion was ripe.
| Whether they at last succeeded in their
| purpose or not is not known.
Vanity Fair comes vigorously to the
| defense of Mrs. Langtry. ''The American
newspapers" it says, ''cOntinue their as
founding attentions to this lady, and some
of their comments indicate that they de-
sire to treat her rather as a victim than
as a heroine. One of the New York news
| papers, which describes her temperance
| in that city as 'Galatea,' takes the OppOr-
tunity to enter into a long, and far from
polite, criticism on her personal attrac-
| tiOns, and draws picture of her mouth,
her nose, her shoulder blades, her Shout
| ders, and the rest, which would be Ia
inevitable to those who do not know her
personally. There is also much about
| Mr.. Frederick Gebhardt, who is de-
scribed as being fin full force am afraid
there is a clique banded together in the
States to injure Mrs. Langtry, for the re-
| marks published, besides being incredible
for their vulgar and bad taste, are, many
of them, palpably. untrue. For instance,
the writer of the article to which | refer
saws of her. ''Her beauty is a quarter her
own and three-quarters WORTH This is
absurd. No lady ever owed so little to
| dracc DC Mrs IanptrV Her first and