Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-21
GENERAL NOTES.
The assessed property of Alabama is


Eben Kidder, Of StewartstOwn, Me-,
made ton of maple sugar this season.
Gold coinage has just been resumed in
the English mint, after two years without
any.
North Carolina has had a hailstorm
with hail as big as partridge eggs and a
foot deep.
1t is estimated that Nebraska's crop OF
corn for this year will reach 100000, 600
bushels.
The range of all estimations of the
Penobscot river lumber cut is 14O, 200, 600
to 160,O0O,0O0 feet.
The Washington Hansoms have met
with such success that their number is to
be increased from twelve to fifty.
A college secret society, the Delta Kap-
pa, consisting only of women, has been or
ganized at Albion Mich. College.
n floating fish cannery has been
launched at Victoria, B. C. 1t will fol-
low the run of the salmon from river to
river.
One of the Catskill mountain hotels
Will make its own gas, do its own print
ing, and issue a daily paper the coming
season.
Lincoln Park had the first wolf puppies
known to have been in confinement, but
the old ones ate them up before they were
a week old.
The Grange cooperative store at Meri-
dian, Miss, which started business in
1879 with a capital of $50, sold last month
$5,o6O worth of goods.
1t is expected that portion of one of
the British regiments stationed in Canada
will be present at the military encamp-
ment to be held in Indianapolis in Au-
gust.
The people residing on the shores Oh
Lake ChampIain have gone crazy over the
discovery of a few pieces of Spanish gold
coin dated 1879 and 1740, and they are all
engaged in digging for more gold.
1t is proposed to utilize the natural gas
well near Wheeling to a greater extent in
manufactures than they now are used. A
company will bring the gas to the city,
and the Register is enthusiastic over the
scheme.
Notwithstanding that Mr.. Curley, of
Waterbury, Connecticut, will be one hun
dred years old on June ,, he still retains
all his faculties, and exercises himself
daily by chopping wood and doing chores
about the house.
The Musical Convention of Virginia
and North Carolina, which is to be held
in Petersburg on the 18th of the present
month, will be opened with a grand con-
cert at the Academy of Music on the eve
ming of the 18th.
Railway construction in the United
States for the year 1888 is estimated as not
likely to exceed s 1000 miles, against II, 900
miles last year-a decrease of nearly 80
per cent. Some authorities put the pres
ent years mileage as low as 5000 miles.
The International Congress of Oriental
lists is to be held at Leyden, on September
Il, this year, instead of 1884, owing to the
International Exhibition at Amsterdam,
which, it is supposed, will attract large
number of Asiatics and POlynesians.
A shad net in Quinnipae river, at North
Haven. was so heavily loaded with fish
that Charles Thomas, while helping to
pull the net ashore, lost his footing and
was drowned. His body was drawn
ashore in the net with twenty bushels of
fish.
The New Haven doctors have recently
shown such Partially for lemon juice in
prescriptions that the large drug stores
now buy lemons by the box. In one pre-
scription, weighing eight ounces, prepared
a day or two ago, there were six ounces
of lemon juice.
1t is reported, apparently on good au-
thOrity, that the great Singer Sewing Ma
chine Works, at ElizabethpOrt, on New
ark Bay, are to be closed, and 800 men
thrown out of employment. Works have
been built by the company at Glasgow,
Scotland, Montreal, Canada and Cairo,
Ill.
The disaster of the Grayling has pro-
yOked a hot discussion of the compare
tive merits of the English and American
form OF yachts. The English yachts are
deep and narrow, while the Americans
are broad and shallow. 1t is not unlikely
that a combination of the two will meet
the final requisite of yachtsmen.
A man in Illinois has brought suit for
divorce because his wife allowed him to
go to work mornings with no other break
fast than cod liver oil, and had bought a
piano, which she did not know how to
play and had not the means to pay for
The neighbors did not worry so much over
the dainty meal that idiot swallowed as
they did about the piano racket.
White of egg, heated to 2l2 degrees, and
kept there awhile, will become dry,
shrunken and horny, If the heat is car
ried little further, it becomes converted
into a substance which is so hard and
tough that a valuable cement is obtained
by simply smearing the edges of the ar
ticle to be cemented with white of egg,
and then heating it to a little above 2l2
degrees.
The State Of Virginia expended more
than a million of dollars in 1882 for the
support of her common schools. OF these
1902 are white schools and 1,525 eolored
The State Superintendent of Schools
strongly urges increased facilities for the
cOlored children. The white population.
between the ages of five and twenty-one,
was, in 1880, 3l4,S27, while the cOlored
population between the same ages is 204,-
$50.
A petition of Matthew T. Ryan, Juliet.
his wife, and their children, Clyde E.,
Hattie NJ. and Lulu, to change the family
name to Millington, has been granted by
Judge Fursman, of Troy, y. Y. The par
ties claimed that the name of "Patrick
Ryan," owing to the notOriety of paddy"
Ryan, unpleasantly affected their social
relations, and that the business of the
first named petitioner was injured in con-
sequence,
1t is said that down in Mesquite when
an editor ''retires' from Journalism he
doesn't put his farewell into quite as ele-
CANT language as Hurlburt, Of the World.
would use, but he talks to the point.
Here is the valedictOry of the editor of the
.HeSqliter: ~ lay down the Faber, shove
back the paste pot and hang up the scis-
sOrs, and take active hold of the yard
stick From now on I will hp fnl1 nd i'm
the store or on the farm"
More than twelve months ago a s'per-
petual clOck' was started at Brussels.
An up-draught is obtained in a tube or
shaft by exposing it to the sun; this
draught turns fan, which winds UP the
weight Of the clock until it reaches the
top, when it actuates brake that stops
the fan, but leaves it free to start again
when the weight has gone down little
This clock has been keeping good time,
after running continuously for nine
months.
The Swiss National Council, by a ma
jority of y to 40, has passed a resolution
in favor of substituting, as far as may be
compatible with existing commercial
treaties, protectionist for the present
free trade tariff. This resolution has still
to come before the Council of State, and
is likely to be confirmed. But before the
resolution can take the shape of defini-
tive law it will have to be submitted to
the popular vote, and the chances are
Enthusiastically in favor of its rejection.
A Springfield Republican correspondent
writes that, although he is not leading
citizen, he believes in trapping the man.
holes. And he wants the city to burn all
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