Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-30
GENERAL NOTES.

Boston has issued 1000 liquor licences
this year.
Potato bugs are very numerous in Ne
braska.
Recent observations show that some
parts of Greenland are slowly sinking.
There are two thousand Indians in Da-
kota that belong to the Catholic Church.
Asbestos long enough TO tie into a knot
has been found in Nevada. 1t is very fine
and silky.
The Mexican National Government pro-
misses a daily mail service through the
frontier States.
1t is estimated that there are 100000
pounds of spring clip wool in store at Los
Angeles.
DIR. Dillon, of Xenia, Ohio, is under ar
rest for giving a patient too much NOR
phine while operating for cancer.
Fourteen tons of fireworks and 10000
separate pieces were burned at the New
York and Brooklyn Bridge opening.
The Mexican revenues, which in 1879
were but SIG, lbs, 900, rose last year to
nearly S32, 900, 900, and are expected to
reach SAC, 200, 600 this year.
y ,
much troubled with ''rats" stealing her
pies and cakes, her husband set spring
trap for the offenders and caught the
hired man.
The California fruit crop, except in the
foothills. promises TO be from an average
to an unusually heavy yield. The crop in
the foothills will probably be greater than
was anticipated.
The average cost of every school house
in Illinois was 81, 1886; in Ohio, $500; in
New York, $2,5S4; in Tennessee, $262; in
Virginia, $49l; in North Carolina, $50,
and in South Carolina, $47.
Johnnie Hamilton, at Troy, y. V, tried
TO drown his dog, but the canine jerked
Johnnie in and ran off. When Johnnie's
body is found the funeral will take place
from his fathers house.
\ Russian traveller in the Malay penin-
sula claims to have found in use there
the smallest ''cOin" in the world. 1t is a
minute wafer, made from the juice of
tree. Its value is about the milliOnth part
Of a dollar.
The following shows how many hard
earned dollars 90 annually into the liquor
sellers tills. In paying out$700 in wages
settles, H., privately marked all the bills,
Within two weeks $342 of it was deposit
ed in the local bank by saloon keepers.
The Greensboro (N. c. Patriot says;
"a correspondent whose veracity has
never been questioned writes from James
town that a ferOcious wild man has been
seen i'm the woods near that place, and
that he attacks everybody he encounters.
He is said to be full six feet tall, very
muscular and entirely naked, with long
matted hair and beard"
a Dover, n. H., paper says Ten
weeks ago one of our citizens hired a
house girl. She was married three weeks
later, and left the following day. He
hired another, and she skipped off to get
married four weeks later. Then he hired
a third, and she resigned yesterday to
enter the married state. Now he wants
another girl, but prefers one who does not
think of marriage.
Jennie Cramer's mother, whose hus-
band died soon after the trial in which
the Malley boys and Blanche Douglass
figured, has become so reduced in cir
cumstances that she was compelled to
plead poverty before the New Haven,
Conn.,, tax committee, to secure an abate-
durable disease and is very poor. Her
taxes will be abated.
\ Paducah young man took his girl on
a fishing excursion 70 the Illinois lakes,
They embarked upon an imprOvised raft,
the frail bark soon went to pieces and the
young man tumbled into the water and
swan ashore, leaving the terrOr-stricken
girl floating around on a log. The young
man walked three miles to the head of the
lake, got a skiff and returned to her
rescue. The young lady has given the
young fisherman cold shoulder.
A Rostonian recently returned from
Europe relates an incident which is not
without its point. He was standing one
evening in hotel at Amsterdam when
lively collOquy took place between a valet
de place and a courier. The former, while
wiping the perspiratiOn from his face,
burst out: "These Americans beat every
thing. A. family came yesterday and said
they must see Amsterdam in one day. /
put them through, and have Just started
them off in the cars. Why, these Ameri-
cans when sightseeing work like
horses" EYES," added the courier SEN
.tentiOusly, land they spend their money
like asses"
Last Sunday man and his wife named
Palmer, living in Crowley county, Kansas,
while labOring under a delusiOn. stripped
themselves, and, not being adorned by
even the historical fig leaf, wandered
about their corral and orchard all day and
night, imagining they were in Eden and
Obeyng the behests of Jehovah. AS the
husband is a very strong and powerful
man the neighbOrs were afraid to 20 near
them, but on Monday morning some of
them coaXed up courage enough 20 90 to
them and persuade them TO clOthe them
selves. Their children were in the house,
bat We're unable tC do anything with their
parents. The couple are now quiet, but
still out Of their minds. The woman, who
is very well educated, was bitten by
rattlesnake few days before the above
occurrence, but trusting solely III prayer,
refused to allow anything to be done to
cure the bite.
The existing cedars of Lebanon are
only 900 years old. The cypress trees at
Montezuma, Mexico, according to a
French h0tapist, are 6,0Q0 years old, ard
consequently he makes them out o0eVal
with the creation of the world. Still, that
is only estimate. The oldest tree on
earth. so far as absolutely known, is the
''BO" tree, in the sacred city of Amara-
pOOra, Burmah. 1t was planted in 2S8 b.
C.. and is accordingly 2,171 years old. Its
great age is proved by historic documents,
according to Sir James Emerson TenneHt,
who says: ''TO it kings have even dedi=
Gated their dominidns, in testimony of
belief that it is branch of the Identical
fig tree under which Buddha reclined at
Urumelya, when he underwent his
apOtheosis." It's leaves are carried away
as streamers by pilgrims, but it is too
sacred to touch with a knife, and there
fore they are only gathered when they
fall.
What will Browns Iron Bitters cure9
1t will cure Heart Disease, Paralysis,
Dropsy, Kidney Diseases, Consumption,
Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, and all similar
diseases. Its wonderful curative power