Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-05
GENERAL NOTES.
Gen. George B. Mcclellan has become
the American manager of one of the old
est English insurance companies.

the American manager of one of the old
est English insurance companies.
A French Parliamentary committee has
recommended the increased of NJ. Pasteurs
pension from 50, 400 to $1,000, with reyer-
sion to his wife and children.
The Michigan Board Of Health is con-
WINGED that the children in the public
schools of that State are kept in health
destroying rooms, and made to study
much too hard.
One-sixth of the expenses of the London
Fire Department are paid by direct as
sessment on the fire insurance companies,
and it is proposed to enforce still larger
contribution.
Myron D. Whitney, the famous basso
singer, is a skillful angler, and at Big
Lake, Ont, recently landed a fish OF the
trout species weighing twenty-five pounds
eleven ounces.
A school teacher died in New Bedford,
Mass, of lockjaw, caused by a wound in
flicted while handling a toy pistol he had
taken from a boy lest he should Injure
himself with it. The toy pistol is deadly
in anybOdy's hands.
A brother of Professor Henry Ruggles,
of Dartmouth College, said, on going West
twenty years ago: ''YOu will never hear
from me unless | can come back rich"
All trace of him was lost. He has Just
returned, with his vow we'll kept.
The statistics of the charity Organiza-
tions of New York and Brooklyn show
that 100000 persons in those cities receive
charitable assistance. In London, with
population more than twice as great,
there are only 900 such persons.
The descendants of Rebecca Nourse,
who was hanged as a witch in Salem,
Mass, in 1892. are going to celebrate the
pleasing event by picnic next month.
By happy coincidence, the old home
stead of these people, who are such adopts
in being Jolly under all circumstances, is
at little place called Tapleyville.
T. d. Jones, of Durham, N. c., has in
his possession a long, black whisky bot
tie, out of which Generals Johnston and
Sherman took their last drink after sign
ing the articles of the surrender on the
26th of April, 1865. The bottle was left
with Mrs. Bennett, who lives four miles
west of Durham, where johnson sur
rendered.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons
in Buffalo has prepared twenty young
men for graduation, but has been enJoined
from issuing diplomas. The college
claims to be legally Incorporated, claim
that will probably be argued IN the courts.
1t tried to get charter last winter, but
was defeated by the REGULARS"
The Swiss Rifle Association has been in
existence over fifty years, and the coming
meeting at Lugano promises to excel any
heretofore held. The President Of Switz-
erland, NJ. BuchOnnet, with his Ministers,
NM. DrOZ, Schenck, Deucher, WettI,
Hammer and Scherner, will participate
in the target shooting, also NJ. Frey, the
American Minister.
A Paris correspondent says: ''The
American papers have recently published
an item to the effect that Father Hyacinthe
is about to visit the United States again.
This is a mistake. Mr.. and Mrs. LOys0n
have long desired to cross the Atlantic
once more and they even engaged their
passage on one occasion, but important
work here in Europe will prevent the
realization of their wishes for some time
to come"
Senator Bayard, while addressing the
Yale law students, struck at least one
observer Gas above the common height, OF
faultless proportions, neither too spare
hair Just tinged with gray, close shaver,
fair and ruddy in complexion, genial,
speaking eye and mobile mouth, his eX-
preston animated and winning, and his
address simple, natural and graceful"
A gossip writer in the Troy Press says
of Bret Harte's father, whom he met years
ago when he was private tutor of two OF
his playmates: 81 remember him well, a
very pleasant gentleman. He married a
girl out of the mill. She was one OF the
most beautiful girls | ever saw, as hand
some as a doll, but had no education. Her
husband educated her, and she became
one of the finest ladies in Hudson"
Boston claims to be the second banking
city in the Union, far Outranking Chicago
and Philadelphia. 1t has tifty-three ma
tional banks, with a combined capital of
$50, 45O, 900, and total outstanding circu-
latiOn of $50, AL 1872. The city has also
eightv-two banking establishments, hav-
ing a capital of 81, 93S, 200, and four State
banks, with capital of $l,S5O,OOO, and
fourteen savings banks, having deposits
amounting to $64, 49,, JAG.
Salvini has said since he returned to
Italy that he made $4,000 by his last
American tour. He was 90 on the LIST of
January, and means to retire from the
stage when he is %. Until October next
he will live in retirement with his family
near Florence. Then he proposes a pro-
fessional tour in Spain; from Spain he
goes to Russia, and, having played in
Moscow and St. Petersburg, he will return
to America and conclude his theatrical
career in Mexico.
The Hartford Times reports that Mr..
Orange Judd, the well-known agricul-
tural editor and publisher, and benefactor
of Wesleyan University, is dying in
Florida. word to that effect having been
received by his two sons, who are students
at WESLEYAN. Mr.. Judd's health has been
poor for some time. He is now about
siXty-one years old. 1t is said teat when
he was a student at MiddletOwn he
erected the first telegraph line in Con-
necticut, leading from his room out and
around the college building and back to
his room again.
There are in Boston 50 banks operated
under the national banking law, and their
combined capital is $50 100000. The Mer-
chants National has the largest capital,
$4,000, 600, and there are two others which,
have a capital of $2,000,000. The total
liabilities of the banks amount to $195, 70S,-
1852 20. the largest single item, of course,
being individual depOsits-$68, 664, 217 II.
These banks have total outstanding cir
culation of $50, AL, 1S2. The surplus fund
of the Boston banks reaches the sum of
$1l, 431, 365 SO, and the Individual profits
1901, 700 As.
A. c. Hesing, a German editor, and
sometimes ''boss" of Chicago, was caught
in the whisky frauds and the government
recovered Judgment against him for $780,
600. 1t can't be collected, Of course, any
more than the one against Tom Ochiltree,
and, like the warm-haired Congressman,
'BOss" Hesing proposed a nominal COM
promise of 81, $50 Before it could be ac-
cepted, Michaelis, a rival German editor,
offered the Secretary of the Treasury $780,
900 for the judgment. This offer may be
accepted unless Hesing raises Michaelis
out. Michaelis, it is said, wants the iudg-
ment to use in case of an editorial tilt
with Hesing.
Not long ago Mrs. Charles Baldwin, of
st. Joseph, Mo-, received a postol order
for $22, and gave it to her husband to
cash. BY way of joke, he handed her
only $50, exclaiming that the post office
charges were 50. Thinking that this was
ON osEorbitanJ ne, size Complained, with
out her husbands knowledge, to her moth
or, who had sent the postal order, and she
in turn complained to the office at which
it had been drawn. The Postmaster for
warded a statement of the case to Wash
ington, and the Department forthwith
sent Inspector Metcalf all the way to st.
Joseph to investigate the case, That hus-
band will pay all the money over next
time