Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
CERTAIN fastidious citizens of Memphis
Tenn. whose mouthpiece is the Ara
bnlcbe, wish the telegraph and telephone
poles to he painted some bright and fash
ionabl2 color.
SOME Of the Democrats of Boston are
talking Of making Wendell Phillips their
candidate for the Senate of Massachus It's,
but his friends say he would not accept
the nomination.
THE prisoners in the jail in Gonzales,
Texas, have their own code of laws and
set of officers. An offender was recently
sentenced to endure five lashes. He hired
negro to be his substitute, paving him
five cents.
TWENTN-THBEE counties in Texas ne
elected to make any returns at all to the
Secretary Of State of the votes east upon
the constitutional amendment which
were submitted to the people and ratified
in August last.
\ CORRESPONDENT who has been in
specting Western cities says: Helena,
the capital of Montana. is accented orally
and morally, on the first syllable. 1t is
probably the richest and wickedcst city of
It's size in the country
\ COUNTY JUDGE in Wales recently
complained of 1.-THE infamous perjury"
which was freely committed all over
Wales. 1t was sickenIngs and made his
blood boil to meet such ''unblushing ly-
ing among people who made loud profess
siOns of religious belief, and in a country
scattered all over with churches and
chapels.
\ MAN of West Grace, y. y, suffered a
peculiar and painful accident recently
while hitching his horses to a carriage in
which To ride to church. He was in the
act of speaking when one of the animals
threw up. his head, hitting the untortu-
nate maifunder the chin. forcing his teeth
through his tongue, making cut nearly
an inch wide.
THE ascent OF Mont Blanc was accom-
plished the other day by a Young Irish
lady of -. Earlier in the summer a Nor
wegian damsel named Guennessen per-
formed the same feat, but she was a year
older than the maid Of Erin. who can now
boast that she Is the youngest of her sex
who has ever reached the highest among
European SUBMITS.
NONE of the most famous Russian
authors Of the present century has at
tanned great age. With the exception
of JOukoysky and Derjavin. who died at
the age Of 90 and % years, respectively,
TOurguenieH has lived longer than any
of his contemporaries. LOmOnOSsOff died
at the age of 53, Won Wiesen at IS, ka-
ramsin at 60, Griboyedof at 81. I'ushkin
at -. GOgOl at rs, Belinsky 81. IIerzcn
at y, LermOHOh at >, Nekrass0h at 10.
Pissemsky at 81 and Dostolyivsky at 60
TOurgenief. Pissemsky. DostOlyivsky
and NekrassOil were I'LL born in the year
1SlS-lS2l.
TIE consolidation Of the Swan and Ed
ison Electric Light Companies, in Eng
land, is officially announced. The
agreement takes the form OF sale to the
Edison company ''Of certain of the bust
ness, good will, patents, rights, privileges
and other property" of the Swan compa-
ny. The company, on the completion Of
the arrangement Will be registered under
the name Of the Edison and Swan United
Electric Light Company limited). The
arrangement with Mr.. Edison is that he
i to have half the profits after the share
holders have had per cent.
WHEN the Belgian chemist NJ. Creteur
was charged with the publication of the
battlefield of Sedan he was compelled to
resort to cremation in order to dispose of
the heaps of half-cOvered bodies. Not one
wOrkmen, though they were at work I'M
der a blazing sun. After the battles of
Worth and GraVelotte and the two sieges
of Paris the bodies of the slain were ere
mated and none of the usual contagious
disorders occurred. In Russia, after the
retreat of the grand army, cOrpses were
burned wholesale, and later, before Paris,
1000 were cremaled with a similar avoid
ance of bad effect. 1t is said if a similar
huH .afIo in
cholera would not have broken out at Da-
Meta.
\ CORRESPONDENT draws this picture
of economical Newburyport, Mass.
Families here pinch and save in every
way. because they are compelled TO. boz
ems of them residing in High street. which
would be the fashionable street if the
word were locally applicable, use kero-
sene instead of gas; do their own kitchen
work; set the plainest table: indulge in
no pleasures or recreations that demand
money; make their own garments; prac-
tice, in short, every possible
frugality. Nobody knows the ex-
tent of their self-denial and
sacrifice; but they appear well, neatly
clad and serene in public, thanks to the
ingenuity, management and practicality
of the Yankee nature. Many NeWbury-
out Of doors except for purpose, neither
paving nor receiving visits, nor moving
out of their deeply worn groove. II you
pass their houses at 9 o'clock in the eve
ming all will be dark. They may 20 to
bed to save lights-and, indeed, at any
hour, there are no signs of habitatiOn.'
FoR the first time in several years, the
tourist has considered ireland sufficient
~ tranquil to warrant a visit to the fam
Gus Lakes of Killarney without danger of
obstruction by the police. The hotel
keepers, guides, boatmen and mountain
GERS have reaped rich harvest. SSH
John Courtney" remains a character in
KILLARNEY. He is popular with tourists
whom he has conducted over the hills,
through the Gap of DunlOe and across the
lakes. lie was asked how he OBJ
tanned his title. at happened like this,
SIR he answered. "The hrst time the
Prince of Wales was here was
the guide for his party. lie was
then a lively young prince, as you are
aware. no doubt, and enjoyed himself as
he liked. We were upon the mountain
beyond one day, and the party were ieel-
ing in lively spirit, when the Prince be-
gan Joking me. Then they all JOked ne,
and, knowing my place, l kept 1t. AT |
last the Prince, saying | was a deVlllsh |
clever fellow. declared, still in a banter |
ing way, that he would knight me; and |
so, ordering me TO kneel, he placed his |
cane on my shoulder and declared me |
Sir John Courtney from then ever after' /
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