Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-22
GENERAL NOTES.

IL Is estimated Iuat the tluOuHb VI the
claim of Texas against the United States
for the protection of the frontier will reach
s., $780, 900.
Canada has a salary grab in prospect,
the Dominion Parliament proposing TO
vote a salary of $500 to each Of its men,
bers instead of the $1,000 now paid them.
Samuel Wood, "a merch ant of New York,
left over 100000 to found a college of
music in New York city, and after a five
years fight over the will the courts have
decided in favor of the will.
The bonded debt of st. Louis is So, 232,-
600; decrease in the past fiscal year, 49,
GOO. Floating debt, 81, 452, 600; interest
on floating debt, at per cent, $4,000:
net decrease in city debt, $1,000.
Joe Coburn, the prize fighter, has been
refused a license to run a saloon by the
New York Excise Commissioners. The
refusal was not based on the fact that he
was a bruiser, but because he was con-
Wet.
The Brooklyn Bridge Commissioners
have fixed upon a tariff of tolls. Those
who walk on it will be required to pay
cent: those who ride cents. Street car
passengers are included in the latter cat
egOry.
Yale College has 1895 students. OF
these 900 are undergraduates: log are in
the theological seminary; 80 are in the
medical school; 50 are in the law school;
2O6 are in the Sheffield scientific school,
and GIL are in the academy department.
Victor Hugo promised not long ago that
the concluding volume of his Legende de
Siecles would shortly appear, ''unless the
author should end before the book In
accordance with this promise the volume
will be published about the middle of next
month.
According to the United States Com
missioner of Education, ,$61, 40 600 has
been given by private individuals for
educational purposes in this country
within ten years. This does not include
the recent gift of Slater and others,
amounting to $S,000,O00.
Rose Etynge has written a letter to the
New York Herald in regard to the lack Of
funds for the pedestal of the BarthOldi
statue. She suggests that on the coming
Fourth of July performances be given for
the benefit of the pedestal fund in every
theatre in the city and State of New York,
and that every American actor and ac-
tress take part in them.
The Abbeville Ala.) Times tells of a
young man in thai neighbOrhOOd who
worked for a man last year with the I'M
derstanding that he was to have at the
end of the year, as compensation for his
services, the mans daughter for wife
and double-barreled shotgun, and, hav-
ing labOred faithfully, in due season re-
ceiyed his double reward.
Senator Thomas w. Palmer is to deliver
the annual address at the fair of the West
ern Michigan Farmers Club, in Grand
Rapids, in June. Accepting the invita-
ton, he wrote: Il shall be on hand at the
time named. Providence permitting, and
shall be very glad 10 meet your people at
my usual terms, viz: if you will stand
the address | will stand the rest"
Miss Jennie COrsOn, known as the
Montana Shepherdess," went to Mon
tana about year ago and bought a band
of sheep and ranch near Okla, in Meagher
county, paying therefor $4,000 cash. She
has managed her business entirely her.
self, and now has as good a sheep ranch
as there is in Montana. Her sheep and
ranches are said to be worth $500 more
than they cost her year ago.
Anthony X. Henderson, who died in
Erie, Fenn., on the 18th inst, bequeathed
his fortune of $500, 900 to S2J0,000, after
some small personal requests are deduct
ed. to the towns of Newcastle, Penn.
and Cleveland, Ohio, for the establish
ment and maintenance in each of an in
dustrial home for poor boys, in which
they may be taught the trades and given
a sufficient education for the ordinary re-
quirements of business life.
In an address read before the Kansas
Editorial Association the other day Mr..
F. g. Adams, its Historical Secretary,
said that State has more newspapers to
the population than any State east of the
Mississippi river, but not as many as
some States west of that river. For,
while Kansas has newspaper to every
5000 persons, Nebraska has one to every
2,400; Colorado one to every 1900; Dakota
one to every 1,S0O, and Arizona one to
every 1,j00.
Captain w. 5. Mcintyre was at one
time well known as one of the most sue
cessful commanders of the steamboats,
which piled to and from New York to diff
ferent points on the Hudson river. How
ever, he desired to make money more
quickly and embarked in mining specula-
tons. Sunday morning he placed wal
let containing $4,000 in United States
bonds. ana S24,OUU IN STOCK III 8Olu mines,
in his inside coat pocket, and started to
get shaved at the barber shop in the Ash
land House. On arriving there the Cap
tain discovered that his wallet was miss
ing. He does not know how he lost his
property, and does not recall anybody
brushing against him on the street.
On a certain occasion the late Leopold
de Meyer, the popular pianist of Dresden,
was summoned to play before the Sultan
at Constantinople. He borrowed a grand
piano, and had it set up in a large recep-
ton room at the palace. When the mOn-
arch entered the room he started back in
alarm, and demanded of his attendants
''what that monster was, standing there
on three legsw Explanations followed,
but We're in vain. The legs had to be
taken off and the body of the instrument
laid fiat on the floor; and Leopold de Mey-
er, squatting cross-legged on a mat, went
| through his programme as best he could
in that awkward attitude and without Pc
dals. But the Commander of the Faith
ful'' was delighted, and, when the last
piece was played, gave the artist $4,000 as
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