Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-02
GENERAL NOTES.

1t speaks well for the solidity of the
landed interest in Great Britain and Ire
land that after seven years severe depres-
sion scarcely any landhOlders have
figured in the Bankruptcy Court, nor ever
in Ireland has there been bank smash.
Great excitement prevails in Dakota
over the secret marriage of DIR. V. Sc
baikin Ross, young Russian physician,
and Sister Mary Paul, of the Catholic
Convent of the Sacred Heart. The doctor
is a determined man and proposes to
stand by his matrimonial rights.
The daughter of wealthy Buffalo man
quarreled with him and left her home. A
large reward was offered for her discov-
cry, and the detective soon found her do
ing kitchen work in a Detroit family. Her
employer was 10th to give her up, she had
proved such an efficient and industrious
servant.
The question chow long is it necessary
to keep children away from school after
an infectious disease ?"was answered some
time since by the Academy of Medicine
Paris. With scarlet fever, diphtheria,
measles and smallpox, isolation is to be
maintained for forty days. Chicken-pOX
and mumps lose their contagious power
after twenty-five days.
mends that trees be thickly planted be-
tween that city and the swamps of Essex
and Kent. The idea is not merely to re-
claim these marshes, but to make the
trees a barrier against the winds which
now drive malariOus air into the city. The
trees may be set out without danger,
provided the work be not done at night.
The cable announces the elevation of the
Irish Acknowledgement to seat ON the
judicial bench with 1900 year. The
Irish law officers always accept pusine
iudgeshipS, while the AttOrney-General
in England is not content with anything
less than a chief-justiceship. The reason
is that no practice in Ireland averages
over 100000 a year; but this means at
least $4,000 in New York.
Among the recent boiler curiosities,
says the Iron, was the discovery of
piece of plate covering Il space Of about
six inches square, full of fine cracks.
Thee cracks had evidently come from de-
feet in the iron in the first instance, but
the boiler had been run for two years at
from eighty to ninety pounds pressure,
and the boiler inspectors had just pro-
nOunced it perfectly safe for one hundred
pounds.
Ostrich farming has a great future in
California, unless the San Francisco
Chronicle is mistaken. The twenty-five
Ostriches shipped from Africa, upon which
the egg-laying and feather-growing capa-
city of the industry must depend at first,
arrivedin good condition at the farm in
Fresno county. The climate differs very
little there from the region from which the
birds came, and has such vegetation as
they thrive on.
An old topper was locked in a police cell
at Dallas, Tex. In the night he yelled for
help, declaring that monkey was in the
room. a policeman thought he had the
delirium tremens, and assured him that
he saw nothing. After that he became
more frantic, and in the morning was
found dead. The monkey was no delu-
sleiiif, however, but had got INTO the cell
after escaping from its owner, an incar-
cerated organ grinder.
An old woman in st. Louis saved 81, 100
out of the hard earnings Of thirty years,
and the other night lost the money in the
street. The newspapers described her
pitiable grief, for she was completely
Frustrated by the loss, and when she read
one of these accounts she felt still worse,
for she said she did not want the V hole
world to know her trouble. But when .
boy came in with the money. and eXplainc
papers, she thought better Of journalism NJ.
At the Globe Dime Museum, Dos Dowery,
\. Y, there were prizes offered
several weeks ago for the home
lest woman, the handsomest man,
the woman with the biggest
foot. and the best dressed woman. John
f. Dunsmore. brunette from Boston,
took the $40 prize as the haldsOmest man.
The prize of $50 for the biggest foot was
given to Mis- Nellie Reeves, of Norfolk,
Va, and she also took the $25 prize for the
best dressed woman. The prize for the
ugliest woman is not awarded yet.
Mr.. John D. Stetson, a prominent hat
manufacture 1fTlladelphia. is said this
year to have spent 100000 in making
Christmas gifts to his 700 employees, not
counting some other such tritles as three
twenty-year SIC, 600 life insurance policies.
and a hundred shares of building and
loan association stock. These gifts in
cluded twenty-three gold watches, three
seal skin sacques, fifteen fur lined clOaks,
and several hundred pairs of kid gloves.
In return Mr.. StetsOn received superb
bronze Ginning clock, worth $3.50, and
some other choice mementOS.
4 statement made out at the Treasury
Department shows a great decrease IN the
receipts from tobacco since the agitation
of the question of tax reduction began. In
four of the principal tobacco manufacture
ing districts of New Jersey and Virginia
the receipts have fallen from 81, ass, 013 in
November and December of 1881 TO $685.
906 in the corresponding months of the
present year. 1t is thought prObacle that
the aggregate of the tobacco tax receipts
for the past sixty days will show a falling
off of nearly $500, 900, as compared with
the corresponding period of last year.
New Hampshire's educational pros
PEGS are not bright, according to the an
nual report of the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction. Within year eighty
nine schools have gone out of existence,
and the attendance has fallen off in those
that remain. The pay Of teachers aver
age $3.50 a month for men and $22 for
women. The Superintendent complains
that the schools do not do thorough work;
leaving the boys hands, eyes and ears UNI
trained, examining his memory with use
less things, and attempting to enlighten
his understanding with visionary and alb
.surd illustrations.
The story is told in Hartford of a dis
charged State prison convict who, as soon
as he reached that city, burst into tears
and was inconsolable because he had left
his pet mouse in his cell. The little beast
was the only friend he had. 1t came
from hole in the corner every mOTuns.
and ate the crumbs from his hand Ill
would playfIllly run down ny arm and
play about my face, let me feed him, and
stay by me when | was eating my sup
per-" he said; ''When | went into my cell,
and did not pay immediate attention to
my little pet, he would chatter and scold
at me in such an earnest way that it made
me laugh. He was my one friend, and l
have come away forgetting him." The
agent of the Prison Association restored
the mouse to his friend.
Indian Agent Porter, at Fort Peck, Mon
tana, under date of Dec. %, telegraphs to
the Indian office that the Milk River cOun-
try is overrun by white hunters, who are
Strengthening buffalo by the thousand.
The Assiniboine and YanktOnnais Sioux
are becoming restless in consequence of
this destruction of their game, and the
agent fears trouble unless the white
hunters are driven off the reservation.
The Indian police, he says, are without
arms. and therefore useless, and he asks
that the military be requested to eXpel the
white hunters. Indian Commissioner
Price this afternoon sent the following
telegram to Agent Porter: "White hunt
ers have no business on Indian reserva-
ton, Secretary of War will be asked to-
day to have them removed"
In recent letter the Hon. r. Brinker-
bOff of Ohio saws. 81 think il might he