Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-19
GENERAL NOTES.

The State Auditor Of Indiana was pro-
fame in the presence of a policeman, who
Immediately dragged him OF to a cell.
California is not generally considered a
cotton State, yet one plantation in SOnoma
county this season yielded 10000 pounds
from 225 acres.
According to a local newspaper, cattle
valued at $13, 500, 600 are now grazing in
what was six years ago absolutely Indian
country in Texas.
According to the Berlin HIN. WOchen-
schrift, weak tartarie acid lemonade, taken
Immediately after quinine, will completely
remove its bitter taste.
Dos Palmas, station on the Southern
Pacific Railroad, in the Colorado Desert,
Southern California. is 260 feet below the
level of the sea. The mercury there in
the summer stands at 125 degrees at mid
night.
The Roman correspondent of the Ameri-
can Register says that the greatest female
singer i'm Italy to-day is an American
Alice Urban. Her maiden name was
Fleurv. and she halls from New Orleans.
No one draws such houses in Italy.
Col. George Bliss has no reason to feel
that he has been neglected by the admin
isfration. He has received for last years
work about three-fOurths as much salary
as his great crony, President Arthur.
Does any one imagine that George Bliss
could earn $4,000 year from his private
| law practice:
Mr.. Beecher, at the opening of the an
nual sale of pews in Plymouth Church,
said he thought his own work ''wOuld not
be for lOng''-meaning, apparently, that
his earthly race is. in his opinion, nearly
i,of GGxxrbila a fpxX would no
sorry, many would think hindrance out
of the way"
In South Australia in 1SS0-Sl there were
| 1887 acres of vines, producing 5O0,955
gallons of wine; in New South Wales
there were A, T241I acres Of vines, produc-
ing ga, 2S2 gallons, and inNictoria there
were 4.2S4 acres, producing 574, l43 gal
Ions. Recent reports state that the pro-
| ductiOn will soon be doubled.
According to statistics the annual meat
| product of the United States is in round
numbers: Dressed hogs, 29,000,000, weigh
ing 5,120,OOO,OOO pounds; beeves, $780,
600. weighing 3,124, 100000 pounds; veals,
| 100000, weighing 275,O00,000 pounds;
mutton, 100000, weighing 35O,0O0,O00
pounds; lambs, 100000, weighing 1OO,-
100000 pounds.
| sWere you not excited, Colonel, when
the fire bells rang last night?' was asked
of a Little Rock gentleman. ''Oh, no; for
YOU see my building stands off to itself,
! and is not insured, consequently it would
| have no excuse to burn" ''Were you eX-
| cited?" ''No: for you see my building is
| surrounded by lot of shanties and is in
sured."-ArkdnSdlg Irdreter.
The local option law of Maryland has
provision requiring a physician to write
in ink all his prescriptions for liquor, and
| to record them fully for the inspection of
! the State Attorney. The total abstinence
| people have begun to enforce this, and
! doctor is under six indictments in test
| case. He had given prescriptions to all
of his friends who asked for them.
A California capitalist hypOthecated
large block of mining stock for loan; the
stock Immediately began to rise, and the
person to whom it was pledged sold it.
| when the price fell he bought it back,
clearing $4,000 by the transaction. AS
soon as the real owner heard Of the spec
ulatiOn he sued for the entire profit as be-
longing to him, and the Supreme Court
has decided in his favor, and ordered the
sum paid to him.
An old Mormon Temple near Kirkland,
Ohio, has been opened after a number of
years of disuse. 1t originally cost $4,000.
There are forty Mormon families in the
new congregation. They do not practice
pOlygamy, their creed declaring that the
! law of God fOrbids more than one cOmpan-
| ion in wedlock. They hold that the doc
! trine of the plurality of wives was heresy
introduced by Joe Smith.
William Lane Booker, who has been pro-
NOTED to the position Of Consul-General of
Great Britain in the United States, has
represented his country in San Francisco
for more than thirty years. After being
| employed in the Consulate of that city, the
most important in the United States after
/ New York. on account of the large num-
! Der of British ships touching there, for five
! years, he was appointed acting Consul IN
| July. 1856. He received the full appoint
ment in the April following, and has held
| the office uninterruptedly since.
! According to the last annual report of
the Bureau of Statistics, the share of Mex
| leo in the foreign trade of the United States
| for 1882 was less than per cent. The
| trade with other near neighbOrs to the
southwark does not make better figure in
the report. This country exported to En-
| gland in 1882 upward of $4OO.0O0,O00 of
| products, mostly provisions and raw ma
! terials, and received for these nearly
| 5000, 100000, which together constituted
| nearly 30 per cent. of the whole foreign
| trade of the wear. For the balance En-
| gland paid largely with the sugar, tea, cot
! fee and other products of tropical and
| semi-trOpical countries, including Mexico,
| with which this country has very little
| direct trade.
! Tom Thumb celebrated his fOrty-siXth
| birthday on January 4, in Chicago. He
said that when first exhibited by Barnum
| he was only five years old, and so light
| that a strong man could hold him on the
| palm of the hand. A fashionable over
| coat of those days was like the ulster of
| the present, and had large sidepOckets
with flaps over them. "Barnum wore one
| of these" Tom relates, ''and | could get
in one of the pockets, and by doubling
myself up snugly the flap would conceal
me. 1t was a tavOrite trick of Barnum's
| to put me in his pocket, and appear i'll the
hall about the time for opening our enter
tainment. He would call for me, affecting
to be surprised that | was not ON the plat
| form, and then / would respond, Here
am. SIR emerging from the pocket. Alas!
| how | have grown since thenW
The latest fraud in hops has just been
discovered. Not satisfied with putting
| double heading on their bales, smuggling
in large wooden pegs, bale sticks, ten
penny nails, etc, some unprincipled grow
ers have resorted to the trick of mixing
sand with their hops, for fraudulent pur-
poses. Some time since a lot of fourteen
bales, grown in the vicinity of Geneva, N.
Y, were shipped to London by A. j. Luce
g. Co., of New York, to whom the goods
were represented as equal to the sample
on which they were purchased. On in
spection i'll London, however, it was dis
covered that a fine sand was mixed all
through the bales, rendering the hops
unfit for use. The entire lot is on it's way
back from London, and Mr.. Luce intends
commencing criminal proceedings against
the party by whom they were baled and
sold.
For Throat Diseases and Coughs.
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