Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-07
GENERAL NOTES.

The semi-annual dividends payable in
Boston in February will amount to S3,5S4,-
S19.
The first newspaper published in Japan
was established only twenty-three years
ago.
The New York passion Play" will re-
quire the services of 1874 people on the
stage.
The Prince of Wales is at Cannes,
France, where Gladstone is sOjOurning for
his health.
The total cost of the st. Louis bridge
was ST, $50, 729 80. The cost of construct
ing the east and wnSt niers is given at
$1,O76, 700.
Father Martineau, Roman Catholic
priest in Montreal, is waking up the
churches in that city on the temperance
question. and obtained, in very short
time 5000 pledges to total abstinence.
The Supreme Court of New York, on
motion of the Union Pacific Railway
Company. has set aside the judgment en-
tered by default in favor of the Credit
MObilier of America, in October last, for
S1.299,347.
Japanese currency is at a discount of 40
per cent. compared with gold, but only 30
per cent. compared with silver. What
our almOnd-eyed friends need is the Bland
dollar, and law that says silver shall be
just as good as gold.
Eyes, sir" says the DeadwOOd man,
''ParsOn ROunder is saint. He's always
willing to sacrifice himself. He threw
down a straight flush hand the other night
to go and pray with a dying man who sent
for him. l call that true martyrdom."
A waiter at a masquerade ball in San
Francisco was discovered filling empty
bottles with the remnants Of the cham
payne and selling it to the fuddled drink
ers. The man who discovered the trick
gave him a licking, and on being next day
arraigned on a charge of assault, was
discharged by the Magistrate with COM
mendatiOn.
Near Vineland Station, Cal, on recent
Sunday afternoon, some fast young men
riding along in wagon threw lasso and
caught a Chinaman. He was dragged
some distance and received dangerous in
iuries. 1t is said that the good people of
Vineland laughed until tears rolled down
their cheeks when they thought of the lu-
dicrous involuntary strides taken by the
Chinaman.
The Des Moines (IOwa) Leader, a DEM
ocratic paper, says that it is an open
secret in that city that negotiations are
actively proceeding to unite the Green
back party and PrOhibitiOnists of the State
into one organization, and the programme
is to run General Weaver for Governor on
the combination ticket. This, the Leader
thinks, would make a formidable third
party, which ought to command 10000
votes.
The Japanese are in great trouble be-
cause they have no word for our hell.
Their '.jikOyn" means place consisting
of eight immense hot hells ranging one
beneath the other in tiers. Each of these
bells has sixteen additional hells outside
its gates, like so many ante-chambers, so
that there are in all one hundred and thir-
ty-siX hot hells. There are eight large
cold bells, and there are the same number
of bells of utter darkness.
Madame Albani's great success in opera
in Paris has attended the debut of another
American, Mrs. WiXOm. Her contract !
with the French manager calls for $1,000 a |
month during the present season, 81, 100 |
next season and 81. 200 a month in the fol- |
lowing year. BY the expiration of her |
present contract she will thus have |
earned $4,000 at the Opera COmique. |
Then she will come home to America to |
achieve greater triumphs,
The Ohio State Forestry Association |
does not seem disposed to give up the good |
work begun last year. 1t has under con-
sideratiOn draft of law to be submitted |
to the Legislature for adoption in the in
terest of tree planting. 1t defines the kinds
o. trees and distance to be planted; pro-
vides that the fourth Friday in April shall
be "ArbOr Day" in the public schools. A
reward of 81 per tree is to be paid for
on the highway and keeping
alive for one year. A State Forester is re-
More judicial incongruities are chroni-
cled by the London Truth: At Stoke-on-
Trent, on Thursday last. brute was
indicted for beating his brother about the
head with poker until the weapon broke
i'm two. 1t is wonder that the poor fell
low escaped with his life, but he did, and
so Justice was (Or at least the Justices
weie) satisfied by a sentence of six
months Imprisonment. About the same
time a boy of II was sentenced at North
ampton to twelve months imprisonment,
with hard labor, for stealing a pigeon,
value Is. Sd.
In the Surrogate's Court at White Plains,
Miss Gabrielle Greeley was
granted letters of administration of the
estate of Mary Y. C. Greeley, her mother,
deceased At Mrs, Greeley's death, some
~ wears ago, Horace Greeley was made
At his death his daughter
Ida was made Administrative, but her
death, which occurred nearly year ago,
necessitated the appointment of another
Miss Gabrielle is the only
direct living descendant of Horace Gree
lev. The estate is valued at about 1000,
and is situated at Chappaqua.
Word comes from abroad that the
Naples coral harvest has been very plenti-
ful, although the quality is not very high,
and over million and quarter pounds
have been fished up, worth about $1,000
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