Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-11
personal.
sARoxY ofers Irving $1,000 for a mo

SARoNY offers Irving $1,000 for mo-
nopoly Of his photographs.
Miss CHAsfBERLAIN, the too celebrated
American beauty, has gone with her
parents 70 Hamburg.
JUSTICE HORACE GRAY, of the United
states Supreme Court. Is enjoying the
glorious dust Of California.
MISS SADIE Y. WELLBoRN. one OF the
bellies Of WarrentOn, Georgia, was mar
RED TO Charles H. Card. OF New Haven,
Conn.,, at Saratoga Springs, on the oth Of
oeptemb Der.
SENATOR GARLAND. Of Arkansas, VINO
has arrived in Washington for the season,
SAYS that his State will send solid Nc
Donald delegation 10 the next Preslden-
ton convention.
THE New York Tribune gives this adj
vice to Frank james: Write play, call
it injured Innocence and appear in the
. title role. 1t would doubtless run 1,OOl
successive nights in Missouri alone.
THE Boston Globe says it was Maine
girl who didn't want her lover to name
boat after her, because she didn't desire
10 read in the papers that Matilda Slo-
cum is up for repairs" Matilda SlOcum
is in the dock TO be scraped," etc.
HENRY WARD BEECHER's freely ex-
pressed views on the Chinese question
Francisco. and his lectures there are
poorly attended. He will receive by con-
tract s.. 400 for four lectures. but the man.
gers Will lose money.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN. President OF
the ITish-American Land League, adj
dressed a Catholic total abstinence society
in Brooklyn a few nights ago. and said.
among other things. ''that TO secure and
enjoy her political freedom Ireland must
first become sober
THE London Times announces the death
of August Heinrich Riedel, the nestOr Of
German painters. who was born in 1893.
and has lived in Rome since ls2S. He was
eminent as a cOlOrist and for the re-
markable perfection with which he pOr-
trayed the human body in pictures lighted
up by sunshine.
DURING the coming excursion of Sheri-
dams veterans TO the Shenandoah Valley,
Major General Stephen Thomas, of Yer
mont, VIA act as Chairman of Marking
/ Committee for the purpose of designating
the different positions taken by the Union
army during the battle OF Cedar Greek.
October 10, 1864.
THE body Of James Carey. the informer.
was followed to the grave by Mrs. Carey
/ and her children. the district surgeon and
the assistant magistrate of Port Eliza
[ beth. a rabble Of negroes also gathered
in the burial ground. No minister was
present. and no arrangement was made
for religious services.
The Pal .HdH Gdzette points out that
the Count de ChambOrd has died in d
month that has proved fatal to many
Kings of France. Philip /. died on the
Sd OF August. 1860; Louis VI. on the 1st
Of August. 110S; Louis IN. on the 18th of
August, 1226 Philip VI. on the 23d of Au-
gust, 1928: Louis II. on the 30th Of Au-
gust, 1861; Henry III. on the I'd of Au-
gust, 1883. Louis Philippe also died in
exile on the 26th Of August. 1850. The
oath Of August, the date Of the Count de
ChambOrd's death, is also that of the birth
Of the Count de Paris, in 1S3S-a fact
which will perhaps afford food for specu-
lation to the believers in Omens.- 1t is,
moreover, the anniversary Of the massa-
ere Of st. Bartholomew.
THE first notable event in the career Of
Mr.. Shapiro, the inventor of the "Moa-
bite" sheepskin decalogue, was his great
Z discovery Of SamsOn's coffin. "a few
years ago." says the Pail NdH Gazette,
he made mis- appearance in London with
this venerable relic of the period Of the
Judges. which he endeavored to persuade
the authorities Of the Palestine EXplOra-
ton Fund to purchase The genuineness
of the article was vouched by the name Of
Samson legibly inscribed on the wood in
archaic characters. MIR. Besant. we be-
lieVe, consulted DR.. Neubauer as to the
probable date Of the inscription, and it
was only when the Oxford savant pointed
out that the Philistines had unaccount-
ably misspelt the name Of the Hebrew
hero that Mr.. Shapiro and the coffin stimuli
taueOuSly disappeared"