Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-17
GENERAL NOTES.

Recent tests of yarn made from different
hemps gave the following relative average
strengths: Manila, 245; Italian. 221; New
| Zealand, 143; Russian, 12S. Manila is
| evidently the yarn to be hanged with.
Silk production is said to be in the fol-
lowing proportions: Italy, 81 per cent:
| China. SO: France. s; East India Bengal ),
| :; Japan, 8; Spain, ,; Persia and the Lee
want, 4.
The scheme to give money from the pub
lie Treasury to private business firms is
| concealed under the harmless phrase
drawbacks to ship-builders." 1t sounds
better than subsidy" but it means the
same thing.
European papers state that a Nine.
Tamblez, living near Baden, has distin-
guished herself at the age of "A years by
giving birth to male twins. Her husband
is So years old. They have had before but
one child, son, who is now 81 years old.
The extravaganza which prevails in the
municipal government of New York city
is illustrated in the salaries received by
the police justices. There are eleven of
these justices, and each receives $4,000
year salary, or an aggregate of $4,000 a
year.
If Gov. Butler should lend willing ear
to the tiend of ambition and accept Mr..
Hoar's seat in the Senate of the United
States. what would become of the long
bead-rOll of reforms which he has prom
ised to accomplish for Massachusetts
within the next year?
\ fruit and vegetable company from St.
Louis has bought section of land near
Ponchatoula, La, on the Chicago, st.
I D.
going extensively into the business of
raising and shipping fruits and garden
truck to Northern markets.
Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ire
land, will give his earnest attention to
the starvation going on in the west of
Ireland. To the suffering people the
knowledge that they are under his Lord
ships distinguished observation will be
worth several good square meals.
Chief Engineer Edwin Wells, of the
navy, has been sentenced by a court mar
tial to be reprimanded in general orders
for assaulting an enlisted man. The Sec
rotary of the Navy rightly tells Mr.. Wells
that he who cannot govern himself is unfit
to govern others; and every good officer
will say Amen
According to the Journal deS lubricants
de .Sucre, the production of beet root sugar
in Europe this year amounts to 1,920000
tons, an increase of 49,, 800 tons over last
year. Germany is still the greatest pro-
Queer. heading the list with 675, 600 tons:
Austrian Hungary ranks next with 49,
600 tons; France third, with 100000 tons;
Polish Russia fourth, with 275,000 tons.
The National Tobacco Association has
discovered that if the growers are allowed
to sell leaf tobacco free of tax to con-
sumers. il will be the cutter ruin of manu-
facturers and dealers in tobacco" and
equivalent to an act for the confiscation
of our property" Which indicates be-
yond question that it is high time for the
association to adjourn without delay and
go home.
1t is related that the Hobbies of the cap
itOl at Washington are crowded with the
agents of the interests that are concerned
in keeping up taxes upon the consumers. |
Representatives of iron and coffee, wire
fences, tin plates, lucifer matches, quinine,
.bituminOus coal, blankets, flannels, hoop
skirts, red lead, salt, sugar and rice |
swarm the Hobbies and hotels. But there
are among them no representatives of the /
consumers, and very few on the floor of
either House.