Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-20
GENERAL NOTES.

In 1859 the ships built in the English
yards on the Clyde registered 81, 100 tons !:
i'm 1880 the registry reached 241.I14 tons {:
in 1881 POI vessels were built, registering
341 ,022 tons. We have no data for 1852,
but it has been year of uneXampled ac-
tiyity.
Charles Darwin Will turn over in his
grave, and Herbert Spencer will again be-
take himself to retirement. when they
read the following from DR.. Talmage's
sermon yesterday: Evolution is an old
heather corpse set up in a new morgue
with Charles Darwin, and Herbert Spencer
trying to galvanize it,"
Now that the Car has signed degree
dissOlving all the secret societies in Rus
STA, it is to be hoped that we shall hear no
more about those pestiferOus Nihilists.
When they're dissolved they're dissolved.
and that ought to put an end to them. 1t
is pity that the late Car never thought
of this simple means of getting rid of
them.
During the fiscal year nearly 5000, 200
bushels of potatoes paid duty at the yari-
Gus United States ports. They were val
ued at-$4. 5O0. 600 and the duty on them at
$1.1lS.416. All but about 100000 bushels
of these potatoes came from the Bermu-
das. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Few of those shipped from Europe were
hit for use on arrival here.
Senator ChilcOtt. from the Committee on
Pensions. has made favorable report in
the case of Mary J. Slower. daughter of
the late President Andrew Johnson. She
married a second time, and her name was
then dropped from the rolls. but in view
Of her relationship the committee report
in favor of restoring her name and paying
her a pension of $50 per month, which she
received before.
The Scranton woman who told the Off
GERS who came to arrest her husband for
burning her with red-hot irons that if they
would leave him alone she would get even
with him. wouldn't thank the Legislature
for an act providing for the logging of
wife-beaters. Ii is lucky for husbands
disposed 10 cruelty that the women are
scarce who want nothing but Il fair fight
and no faVOrs.
He heapeth up riches and another man
shall gather them. The youngest bank
President in New York, worth $4,000, 600.
recently died at the age of thirty: and
man named John Day. who set up a drink
Ing saloon along a Colorado road of fifty
miles. which previously had none. soon
Il
other morning he was found with half-a-
dozen ounces of lead in his head and his
gold all gone.
Now that hops are worth more than
dollar pound, the brewers object to buy
Ing the bags in which the hops are baled
and paying for them at the price of hops.
The bags cost the farmers eight cents a
pound, and if they are sold with the hops
there is profit Of about So per bale on the
bags. OF course the brewers cannot stand
this. and there will be such a modification
of the custom i'm sales as Will permit the
reduction of a proper tare.
The ex-Cincinnati Gazette tells a story.
illustrating journalism in the past, of
Captain Sleeper. who gave the Boston
journal its original prosperity. The late
:. y. StOckwill. then 4 reporter, told the
Captain that Daniel Webster was to make
a speech at a town few miles out of
Boston, and asked if he should not attend
the meeting. The Captain thought not,
adding: ''SOme one will send us in an ac-
count in a day or two"
Mr.. Vanderbilt does not seem to have
very high opinion of railroad men. He
is reported by the Mining Herald of
Pennsylvania as saying: Il can't think
too much of Mr.. GOwen. His rectitude
commands the admiration of all. He is
one of the very few railroad men who
could withstand the temptation of putting
$40, 900 in his pocket if an opportunity
presented itself. There are others like
him. of course, but they are not many
The death of Cardinal Dounet raises the
number of Princes of the Church who
have died since the accession of Pope Leo
XIII. to fourteen. There is but one Cardi-
nal surviving of Gregory NNI.'s creation,
Cardinal SchwarZenberg, while forty
seven of those created by Plus TX. are
still living. The total number of Cardi-
nails is limited to seventy; but at present
the Sacred College counts only sixty-one
members. There are. therefore, nine hats
vacant: and one of these will, as a matter
of course, be conferred on some member
of the French Episcopate.