Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-03

All the coast of New Jersey is wearing
away. The beach at the foot of the bluff
in Ocean avenue, Long Branch, has been
badly washed in several places by the
high tides. Opposite the United States
Hotel the sand has been taken out up to
the bluff and the next high tide will cut
deep hole into the bluff. Near the Scar
borO Hotel the bluff has been torn away
for a distance of six feet into Ocean
avenue.
jefferson, when American Minister in
Paris about hundred years ago, obtain
ed the best copy possible of what he con-
sidered an original portrait of Columbus,
in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. He
deemed it, as he wrote, 'sof public concern
that our country should not be without
it, In 1914 he spoke of it as one of his
chief jewels at Monticello. This portrait,
which after the sale at Monticello and the
dispersion Of Mr.. Jetierson's effects, had
been lost sight of, has recently been redls-
covered by J. d. Butler, of Madison, Wis.,,
in the hall of the Massachusetts HIstOrl-
cal Society.
A New York statistician mentions the
following fortunes: Vanderbilt, $3.50, 0OO,-
900; Gould, $1OO,OOO,OOO; Stanford $780,
900, 900; Huntington, 500, 900, 900; Croker,
1000, 600; Mrs. Hopkins, $5O,000,000;
Sage, $40,000,000; Flood, $4O,OOO,O 200;
Fair, $40,000.0OO; Mackey, $4,000, 900;
Field, $25, 000,O 600; Keene, $20,00,0OO; heirs
of Thomas Scott, $40, 900, 900; Garrett, $2O,-
100000. AS much of this has been saved
by Withholding the fees demanded by
sleeping-car pOrters, it is easy to see how
the ACCUMULATION took place.-LOatSUttte
COuTier-JOufRdl.
A san Francisco tailor by the name OF
Felix Everasts lately committed suicide
with the aid of revolver. So far the
facts were plain enough, but the police
were greatly puzzled to decide with what
the revolver was loaded. The entire
crown of the mans skull was found fifteen
feet from the rest of the body, and the
mutilatiOn was such as could not have
been produced by ordinary ammunition.
The theory generally adopted is that the
suicide put in heavy charge of powder
and over that thick wad, and then filled
the barrel with water.
The coming Legislature of Maine, which
will be composed of thirty-One Senators
and one hundred and fifty-one Representa-
tives, will have six Senators and twenty
seven Representatives who are college
graduates. Twenty-three lawyers appear
among the members-elect, the farmers, as
usual, having the largest proportion. The
ages of these statesmen are pleasantly
diversified. Two are over seventy and
two are but twenty-five, seVenty-fiYe are
between forty and fifty. Less than one
third have had legislative experience
twenty-five Senators and thirty-One Rep
resentatives. Only nineteen were born
outside the State. Fifty-eight represent
towns in which they were born. POliti-
cally, the Legislature is divided as follows:
Senate, twenty-eight Republicans, three
Greenbackers; House, one hundred and
nine Republicans, twenty-siX Democrats
and sixteen Greenbackers.
In Bavaria, the compulsory attendance
of school for children begins with their
sixth year, ending with the completion of
their thirteenth year as regards weekday
far as the attendance of Sunday schools is
concerned. According to the Prussian
law of public instruction of March oath,
1868, every child has to attend the instruc-
ton prescribed for public schools from the
completed sixth to the completed four
teenth year. In the Grand Duchy of Baden
the term is the same as that in Prussia,
beginning and ending on the 23d day of
April of the respective years. In the
Duchies of Anhalt children are likewise
required to go to school on the completion
of their sixth year; girls, however. are eX-
empt at fourteen, while boys must con-
tlnue to the completion of their fifteenth
year. In tho Kingdom of SaXOny and the
Duchies of SAKE, the duration of the COM
pulsOry school term is eight years; in
Wurtemberg, only seven, say from the
seventh to the completed fourteenth year.