Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-15
GENERAL NOTES.

Company, who lectured Friday night in
New York. declared that $S5,000,0 600 of the
stock had been subscribed, and that work
was progressing on large portion of the
canal.
The Petersburg IRder-Appedl says that
Mrs. Garnet Preston, widow of the late
Walter Preston, one of Virginia's most
noted ante bellum lawyers, has been elect
ed matrOn at the Blacskburg Agricultural
College.
The committee of the International EX-
hibition Of Fine Arts, to be held at Munich
this year, announces that artists may de-
liver works at any time during the month
of May. The exhibition lasts from June
to October.
Ten per cent. at least Of deaths in Phil
adelphia last year were caused or aggra-
waited by bad sanitary arrangements, and
if is stated that 10000 cases of sickness
annually might be prevented if the au-
thOrities and the people would unite in
keeping the streets and houses perfectly
clean.
''The Tennessee House Yesterday says
the Memphis AUdldHche of Friday, ''vOted
to pay interest on Mrs. Folks bonds, but
refused to pay the interest on the bonds
held by the blind girl of Lawrence county.
If the ghost of Andrew Jackson could ham
die a club there would be cracked crowns
at the capital
For quarter of century Mrs. Lydia
Maria Child and her husband lived with
out a servant i'm their humble and pleas
ant home in Wayland, Mass. Once, re-
lates lions Herald, when he said to her,
Il wish for your sake, dear, l was as rich
as CrRsus." she responded, '1YOu are
fot L ~
The three leading winners on the Eng
lish turf last year were Mr.. Crawfurd,
Mr.. Lefevre and the Duke of Westminster,
with respectively $4,000, $7S,500 and
$4,000 gross gains in stakes. The Duke
of Hamilton won $4,000, Lord ROsebery
$4,000. Prince SOltykO1f $4,000, Mr..
Keene $500, and Mr.. LOrillard $1,000.
The library of James Mcmillan, which
has been presented to the University of
Michigan. is said to contain the rarest
editions of Shakspeare's works in the
world. The volumes owned by the come
dian Burton, the reading-deSk edition
owned by Fannie kemble, and another,
with Macready's name on the title page,
are among the number.
The cost to the government of printing,
binding and lithographing during the last
twenty years has amounted to about
$34, 100000. The expenditures for these
objects during the past fiscal year eX-
ceeded those for 1881, then the largest on
1882, adding the census printing, the cost
of this business has more than doubled.
Prof Wilson, of st. Louis, announced
that he would go into a trance and remain
in that condition three days. Several
physicians watched him, and their opinion
is that he really remained unconscious
for that period. If he was shamming he
did it very cleverly, for he was motion
less, and neither ate nor drank anything.
Wilson says that this was an episode in
his development as a religious prophet.
His next step towards perfection will be
a fast Of forty days.
Wagner, the composer, as is well
known, ran away with the wife of Hans
Won BulOw, the eminent pianist, with
whom he was then on terms of intimate
friendship. Won BulOw's wife and his
two daughters now live with Wagner, as
though legitimately the latter's wife and
daughters. This singular arrangement
does not seem to cause much difficulty or
dissensiOn in the respective families, and
it is reported that Won BulOw's mother,
who is very wealthy, has just made will
bequeathIng $50, 600 marks about 120,000)
to each of the granddaughters whom
Wagner has cared for.
The railroad corporations are exercised
over a bill which is to be presented in the
New Jersey Legislature and pushed
through if possible. Heretofore the basis
of taxation of railroad property for State
and municipal purposes has been the
''true value" of the property, and this has
been taken to be whatever the companies
have reported. The new bill provides for
a commission who shall have charge of
the whole matter and shall assess the
property at its cost. The Commissioners
are TO be appointed by the Governor with
out consulting the Senate, and are to hold
office for the same term only as the Gov
ernOr who appoints them.
General Butler, who put more meat in
his inaugural message than we are accus-
toned to find in dozen such State pa
pers put together, treated the question of
free public education in the right spirit.
sour school money is diverted from the
many to whom il does belong to the few
to whom it does not belong" is a sound
remark, which applies to other States as
much as to Massachusetts,. Because the
people are so willing to eXpend money on
free education, quacks, theorists and va
riOus interested individuals have been |
gradually extending the course of in |
so that it is no longer confined |
to the elementary branches of study re-
quired by the many, but is made to in |
clude the purely ornamental branches re- |
quired by the few.
Mr.. B. d. Godfreys, formerly of Milford, |
Mass, and now of Newtonville, in the |
same State, and who signs himself 'shOe-
maker, farmer, and original proprietor Of /
GOdfreys' 'Patchen,'" sent as New Years /
gifts copies of the Bible, with letters call
ing special attention to what he deemed |
appropriate texts, to General Butler, Gov.