Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-09
GENERAL NOTES.


High living in Washington has given
Senator Fair, of Nevada, the govt.
The Vermont farmers are wondering
when the season of sugar making VIII
come in. This years crop promises 10 De
small.
DIR. schlieman has completed the eXca-
vations at Thermopyla without finding a
trace of Leonidas and his three hundred
Spartans.
General Francis A. Walker will deliver
the grafton at the opening of the Manu-
facturers' and Mechanics Institute Fair,
i'm Boston, next September.
The Archbishop of Chicago issued, be-
fore the late election, powerful appeal
70 the Roman Catholics of that city TO
sustain the high license movement.
The hard winter in Iowa is reported to
have killed nearly all the fish, in some
way. Many of the rivers show dead nsh
along their shores, washed up from under
the ice by the rising floods.
The mother of Oscar Wilde has long
poem ON Ireland in the Boston Pilot. Her
conclusion Is that the Irish people, driven
frantic. Twill take their stand in might
Ter land, beyond the broad Atlantic"
Northern capitalists are purchasing
large tracts of timber land in Alabama,
and when the Northern sources of supply
are exhausted extensive lumber opera
tiOns will be carried on in that State.
John Howard Payne's eldest sister,
Eloise, lies buried in an old cemetery at
Lancaster, Mass, beneath a large white
marble tablet supported by six stone pill
lars, which stand upon red sandstone
base.
A man out in Arizona says he has had
some twenty-three different occupations
in life. from PLAYING the clarionet in a
circus to teaching school in Virginia and
practieing medicine. His last is story
teller.
The growing commerce of Alaska is be-
ginning to engage the attention of the
Treasury Department, and it is evident
that the Territory will ere long assume
| greater importance in the affairs OF the
nation.
His most illustrious Highness, Presl-
dent Blanco, of Venezuela, wears the uni
form of a French field marshal, and goes
| about surrounded by guard of picked
men, showily attired and armed with
! Remington rifles.
Edwin Booth appeared as Hamlet IN
Vienna on Sunday evening before a
| crowded house, and was received with
great applause. The PreSSe, however,
expresses disappointment, and says that
| his acting in Hamlet was much below
what was expected of Booth.
| Travelling In Spain is not to be recon-
mended at present, especially in the Sierra
Nevada or the Sierra de ROnda. Brigands
and murderers are liable to be encoun-
tered at any moment, turbulent political
| situation having transformed picturesque
| peasants into desperate villains.
1t is a custom among the Chickasaw In
dams to release convicts under sentence
of death on parole of honor until the day
of execution. 1t is a tradition among the
| tribe that no one, under such clrcum'
| stances, has ever failed to appear at the
time and place appointed for the exc
| cutiOn.
A correspondent writes: "Ihe Wander
bilt, the head of the house, is not as baC
a fellow as they paint HIM. Let news
paper man 90 to him and explain that he
will get into trouble if he doesn't HOOK
ON to a certain piece of information, anC
Vanderbilt will tell him what he wants tc
know"
A comparison of statistics shows New
York as the third German city in the
world, coming after Berlin and Vienna
Chicago, Philadelphia and st. Louis rams
close to Frankfort, Hamburg and Ores
den. Boston is the only large city in the
country where Germans are not found IL
large numbers.
Antwerp, city of 100000, had no water
supply but wells and canals, and in 1875
works were built to filter the waters o.
Nethe by passing them through filters o.
sand and spongy iron and gravel. The
plan has proved successful, but the sup
ply is very small according to American
ideas. being received in tank of only
$4,000 gallons.
The Democrats of the Third district Of
West Virginia have nominated ex-Mayol
c. Philip Snyder, of Charleston, for Con.
gress, to fill tie vacancy caused by the
election of Mr.. Kenna to the Senate. He
Is spoken of even by the Republicans as q
strong and enthusiastic man, who is very
popular in his own county, and having
many friends throughout the district.
Gustave Dore left one-third of his for
tune to his brother Ernest, an army OH
Ger: one-third to his sister. who is mar
ried, and one-third to the Society of Ar
fists. To his second brother he left moth
ing, because, years ago, when GustaVt
had established him in business, he took
to gambling in stocks and lost 100000,
which Gustave was obliged to make good
Lieutenant j. Evarts Greene, now edi-
tor of the Worcester (Mass.) Spy, wa:
taken prisoner at the battle of Balls Bluff
and surrendered his sword to Captain
Singleton, of the Confederate army. Las
week, Captain Singleton, now Represen
tative in Congress, sent the sword to Sen
atOr Hoar, with a note requesting him t
restore it to Lieutenant Greene, which
he at once did.
General Hancock was visited at Cover
nor's Island by ex-President Diaz. The
latter was accompanied by Generals Fris
bee, Romero and PachecO. General Han
cock and staff received the visitors at the
landing, the band playing national airs
Twenty-one guns were fired as a salute tC
the ex-President, and fifteen guns in honor
of General Romero. The guests lunched
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