Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-13
GENERAL NOTES.

The death of Mr.. Allen, the Hawaiian
Minister, makes Mr.. Preston, the Minis
ter from Hayti, the dean of the diplomatic
corps.
Ex-senator Newton Booth, of California
saws the Chinese law has practically ST.
fenced the Denis Kearney gang, and has
had the effect of allaying all feeling OF
hostility on the part of the working classes
against the capitalists.
The Postmaster of Lawrence, Mass.
SAYS that three-fourths of the clerks and
other employees i'm the post office when
he took it were Democrats. every one of
whom he has retained from that time to
this. What if HattOn should find this
out:
Five bills of indictment We're found in
the New York Court of General Sessions
against George J. Rice, late President Of
the Utica. Ithaca and Western Railroad
Three of the indictments charge him with
embeZZlement and larceny, and two of
them charge forgery.
A public meeting has been held at
Valley Forge, Penn, to take action to-
wards the erection of a monument on the
revolutionary camp ground at that place.
A committee was appointed to solicit sub
scriptions. and a. j. DreXel, of Philadel-
phia, was chosen treasurer.
1.Old Abe" once replied to a question
early in the war as to how the Union re-
verses affected him by saying: II feel very
much like a great stalwart Illinois neigh
Dor of mine who was out logging in his
bare feet. A log rolled over and crushed
one of his big toes before he could escape.
All drawn up with pain, he replied to a
question of how he was with: We'll, Pm
too big to cry, but it hurts too - bad
to laugh"
Colonel COppinger, who is soon to be
married to one of ex-Secretary Blaine's
daughters, is a son Of an Irish nObleman,
and is a communicate of the Roman
Catholic Church. He is fOrty-nine years
of age, tall and of fine personal appear
ance. Miss Blaine is some twenty-five
years younger than Col. Coppinger, whom,
it is said, she first met at one of our far
Western military posts, where the Colo
mel was stationed, and where Miss Blaine
was visiting the family of the command
ant. 1t is said that she will soon embrace
the Roman Catholic faith.
Mr.. f. 3. Hough has read before the
Senate Committee ON Education and La
Dor a paper setting forth a proposition to
prepare a summary of legislation for the
first one hundred years Of the government,
ending with 1889. He proposes to make
an index Of every law and resolution
passed by Congress, with an abstract of
its substance; every treaty made by the
government within that time; a complete
digest and index of all executive COM
municatiOns and other papers referring to
or emanating from the executive branches
of the government; and everything else
of which there is an official record per-
tanning TO Federal legislation or executive
action.
The mills situated on Puget Sound sup
ply. with the exception Of the redwood, a
large proportion of the lumber consumed
in the Pacific States. These mills are
largely owned by san Francisco capital
lists, and are Joined in an association
formed 10 regulate the production and
sustain the price of lumber. Mills which
do not belong to the association are hired
to lie idle, and the association find it prof
liable to sustain prices at the cost of
thousands Of dollars a month paid out in
this way. The profits of such an enter
prise are of course large. 1t is well
known that this lumber monopoly bears
heavily upon the growth and prosperity
of Washington TerritOrya and Oregon, and
even that California suffers from it.
Nr. H. Seebohm SAYS of Siberia, in Asia,
that it is "a magnificent country of SUI
perb forests and cOrnfields capable of
rivaling those. of Minnesota, while its
mineral wealth includes iron equal in
quality to that of Sweden, and gold al
most as abundant as that of California, to
say nothing Of copper, salt and cOal.'' To
Mr.. SeebOhm Siberia appears to be :" a
second Canada in reserve" and he thinks
that the political geOgrapher who looks
fan into the future, and wonders what
field will open itself for surplus popula-
ton and capital when North America has
become as densely populated as Europe,
''may postpone his anxieties for many
centuries, TO allow time for the civiliza-
ton of Siberia to reopen the problem"