Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-12
GENERAL NOTES.

The Adjutant General of Texas wants
the treaties modified so that Texas rangers
in close pursuit of criminals can cross
into Mexico or the Indian Territory and
make arrests.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General has
begun proceedings against the Fidelity
Mutual Beneficial Society of Elizabeth
town, Lancaster county, a company desig-
mated as one of the graveyard" class.
Thomas Donahue, a respectable farmer
of Williamstown, y. c.. has made person.
al application TO the authorities for his
cOmmittal to a lunatic asylum on account
of an irresistible desire to kill some one.
\ resident of Alaska on visit TO San
Francisco says the bOmbardment of the
Indian village by United States man-of-
war was unwarranted. The naval Off
GERS were imposed on by the Northwest
ern Fur Company.
The y. & w. Sprague Manufacturing
Company has attached the property of the
Comstock Foundry Company for $780,
900, and the Perkins Sheet Iron Com
pany for 100000. The proceeding is part
of the Sprague complications.
The Yellowstone Park lies between lati-
tude A and 40 degrees and longitude 10
and III degrees. 1t is IS miles north and
south by 81 miles east and west, and COM
prises 3,575 square miles. The nearest
railroad station is BOZeman, on the North
ern Pacific.
THE Board" in New York city contains
eleven hundred brokers, each with seat
rented at $4,000. or $33, OOO,O for the
crowd, having nothing to do, it is re-
marked, but to sell the personal property
of the country like a band of self-licensed
auctiOneers.
The New York merchants and shippers
are going to make an effort at Albany this
winter to break up the pilot monopoly of
that port. The Pennsylvania pilots are
going to Harrisburg to ask the Legislature
to increase the rate of compensation for
bringing vessels to Philadelphia.
Professor s. A. Forbes, Director of the
State Laboratory at the Normal University,
bloomington, ILL.,, has nearly ready for
publication report of the zoology of
Illinois. The report will deal especially
with the inVertebrate animals of the State,
and will differ materially from all other
State reports in being adapted especially
for pupils of the schools and for the agri-
cultural community.
The Italian government manages to
spare out of its lank treasury about
$4,000 per year for the purpose of Great
ing a navy. 1t has succeeded in getting
aflOat some of the most powerful steel
vessels which have ever been built, The
Government of the United States spends
an average of $19,000,000 per year for
naval purposes, and has not q single
armOred vessel dit TO put to sea. But, then,
the Italians do not have Robson to man.
age for them.
The New York Tribune publishes a list
of the shipping disasters for 1882. The
number of vessels lost was 2S4. against 1913
in 1881. There were 2,0O2 lives lost in 1882,
and ], 459 in 1881. The increase in loss is
out of proportion to the increase in ship
ping, but 1t is perhaps not safe TO infer
that ocean travel is more perilOus than it
has been. There are seasons of disaster
as there are seasons of security. The
constant tendency is toward greater COM
fort and safety for travellers, both on land
and sea.
The Philadelphia Record says 1.-The
fruit importers of New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Boston have unsuccessfully
petitioned the Ways and Means Commit
tee to put lemons, oranges, bananas and
pineappleS ON the free list. The oranges
and lemons grown in this country do not
need any protection. Their superior quail
ity insures the ready sale of all that are
grown. To tax bananas and pineappleS,
which are not grown to any extent in the
States, is a refinement of the protective
policy which must have been instigated
by the devil, We do not need the revenue,
and we do need all the untaXed pineapples
and bananas we can get. They are good
and healthful.'
The San Francisco Journal Of Commerce
has this to say about hops: "The hop fam
inc has given rise to prices in this article
which have rarely jeen eQualed The adj
vance to S5@90c. on this market was four
fold the price of the very best hops
and more than siX-fOld that of medium.
The result has been the making of for
tunes both here and in the East. We have
heard of instances where 800, 900 has been
made. Hops will be dear right on to next
August or September, and if the crop of
this year at home and abroad IL not an
extra good one they will be dear then. 1t
is useless TO talk, as some have done, of
substitutes for hOps-there is nothing in
it. The hop-raising industry is full of
money in any event, whether crops are
good or bad"
Last year Great Britain exported $500,
622, 800 in cotton manufactures and $131,-
054,5l0 in iron and steel products. She
sells such goods to South America and
Central America and Mexico in large
quantities right under our noses, and all
these markets would be ours had we not
cut ourselves off from them by retaining
an uncivilized tariff policy, adopted dur
ing the civil war, For instance, Great
Britain sends from S3,OOO,0OO to $4,OOO,0OO
i'm cotton goods TO Central America. We
Al. 81 r.,.&I,
With immense natural advantages in their
favor. American manufacturers ought to
control the foreign market in cotton goods,
but the solid fact remains that they don't,
and British manufactures do control it,
and they will control it until we get rid OF
the asphyXiating atmosphere Of '.protec-
ton
some interesting statements were made
at German Trade Congress that was
held the other day at Berlin. For example,
Herr Won BGtticher, one of the Ministers,
stated that he had been struck during his
recent journey through the Rhine pro-
yinces and Westphalia at the immense
progress realized in the metallurgical
branches in recent years. He believed
that if trade was properly encouraged
Germany might become the first industrial
State in the world. Such is the progress
made by rail manufacturers that they are
enabled to supply cUstQmers in Greece
with rails at thirty francs per ton less
than the price paid by the railway COM
panies at home. Thus the Bochum Works
have carried off a contract for eighteen
thousand tons of steel rails at one hundred
and sixty francs, delivery at the Pireus in
cluded, whereas the minimum in Germany
is one hundred and ninety francs.
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