Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


for the subjugated and enslaved whites.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The editor Of the only paper at Red
Bluff. Cal. is in jail on a charge Of muir
der. He has turned his cell into a sane
tum. and works as cheerfully as if seated
in his own office. 1t is not an easy matter
10 crush a Western journalist. The only
sure way to do it is 10 take liquor away
from him.
THAT misfOrtuncs never come singly is
saying TO whose veracity the experience
of Egypt is just now bearing persuasive
witness. Ismail was followed by Arab,
Arab by the war. the war by the plague.
and now, while the cholera is Staying its
thousands. the rising waters Of the Nile
threaten the destruction OF the crops.
They're beginning to think there that
there are things about as bad as having
George IL. Butler in the country.
THE New York Wdii says: Persons
named Cattel. Russell and the like, who
insist on the accent in pronunciation
being thrown on the second syllable Of
their names. Will be annoyed by Mon
signOT Capers insistence on a correct
pronunciation of his name. which should
have the Vitus on the first syllable. g.,
Cav-pel." Blessed if we see why they
should he annoyed. His prOnOuncing his
name one way don't prevent them from
prOnOuncing theirs another.
WHILE Judge Black was a reporter Of
the Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania he
was asked one day by the Governor how
he manages i'm reporting arguments in
cases when ne himself was employed as a
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Of the reporter to give an abstract Of the
argument of the counsel. i am like DR..
johnson. as he said of himself when he
reported the debates Of the British Parlia-
ment.' answered the Judge. Il always
manage to make the rascally Wings get
a little the worst Of it,
THE Swiss authorities are playing the
tyrant in regard to the Salvation Army.
They have forbidden praise and prayer
meetings. and also the sale of religious
/ books. Consequently there is loud com
plant. not only on the part Of the Saliva
tiOnists. but from the lovers Of freedom
generally. Had the Salvation Army peo-
pie been a little more moderate when they
began to hold their Geneva meetings, and
had tLey shown a fair amount of common
sense the action of the Swiss authorities
might have been different. But they made
q llbbOAS uDAct az tiAClA meetings. anu tt-
haved themselves very insolently to the
/ authorities, bringing on themselves a
great amount of public indignation.
AMONG the stories ofthe Comte de Cham
bord's last sickness related by Vienna
! correspondents is one to the effect that his
passion for hunting remained so strong
that he recently had his couch wheeled
out into the park, that he might there.
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steadied by an attendant, shoot a stag
which was caught and led up to him for
the purpose. A counterpart of the story
is found in the French National Library,
where a caricature by TraYies represents
the COmte de ChambOrd's grandfather,
Charles Y, IN dressing-gOwn and night
cap. seated in an armchair, aiming at
rabbit which the chief huntsman holds
near the muzzle of the royal gun.
HANS MAKART, ''the Silent" the distin-
guished Viennese painter, whose remark
able picture, Charles V. entering Ant
werp i'm triumph obtained the first place
at the Paris International Exhibition in
1878. is even more taciturn than Won
Moltke, the man who is silent in seven
languages. An American, who has been
told that the best way to get on friendly
terms with the artist would be to play
chess with him, challenged him. The
game went on with no other sound than
the moving of the pieces. At last the
American made the winning move, and
exclaimed. ''Mate!' Up rose Makart in
disgust and stalked out, saying angrily to
a friend who asked why he left so early,
''Oh, l can't stand playing with a chatter
bOx!'
THE Free Thinkers Convention is to
moot ~, tho DQ+b of thic month or Doobac
ter. Among the speakers will be ex-Rev.
George c. Min. The idea has been circu-
lated in some quarters that in his under
taking the championship of Christianity
before this body, the Rev. Mr.. Mitchell, Of
Brooklyn. has been appointed by ''the Or
thOdOX Christian churches" This is en-
tirelv mistake. The orthodox Chris
tan churches have not made any APP
pOintment of representative, delegate or
champion. Mr.. Mitchell goes on his own
responsibility entirely. His responsibility
is vouched for by two clergymen. one a
PRESBYTERIAN of this city. the other a
Brooklyn minister. Mr.. Mitchell is of the
Methodist persuasion, and is engaged in
literary work. The Secretary of the Free
Thinkers Convention has formally ac-
cepted Mr.. Mitchell as "a representative
of evangelical Christianity" Whether
Mr.. Mitchell succeeds or fails in his de-
bate, evangelical Christianity may be
expected to work its way along very much
as it has been doing for some time past.
SOME MONTHS AGO a country parsOn in
Ohio was so pleased with a certain re-
Iigious paper that he got up a club Of
TWENTY-FIVE subscribers for it among his
church members. The paper is one Of
exceptional purity as to its advertising
department. rigidly excluding all men
ton of nostrums and quack medicines,
Yet this worthy Ohio clergyman has be-
come disguised with it on account Of the
advertisements it contains, notably those
of some life insurance companies. He
writes to the publishers of the paper say
ing that he totally disapproves of life in
surauce. and that he does not wish to
circulate through his congregation a
paper containing such advertisements.
He asks not only that the twenty-five
comics Of the paper be discontinued. but
that the proportion of money tor the I'M
expired term Of subscription be refunded
to him. The publishers do not see the
matter in the light in which he views it,
and advise him and his friends to keep on
reading the issue of the paper which will
be sent them until the term OF their SUBJ
scriptiOn expires.
After much disappointment and many
DELAYS. the Able Moignot has succeeded in
raising the large sum Of money asked for
wherewith to dredge the bottom of the
Red sea. He is after Pharaoh's chariots
and the costly trapplngs of the Egyptian
army. He sees no reason why some OF
these relics should not be recovered even
at the trouble of removing the sand which
has for centuries OVERLAND them. He is
enthusiastic IN the hope of fishing up solid
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scheme, as well as finding much that is
valuable to the scholar and the archaolo-
gist. The enterprise does not seem much
more chimerical than those which have
been set on foot in this country for the re-
coyery Of treasure supposed to have been