Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-08

The Garfield monument fund OIL tln-
oinnati now amounts TO $1,000 IL. The
arrival CT somebody with a three-cent
stamp is anXiOusly awaited.
Girls at the Iowa Agricultural College
are instructed not only in cooking, but
also in the chemistry and comparative
economy of foods. the usual authorizations
and the methods of marketing.
The wife of Charles E. Upton, the Roch-
ester City Bank embezzler, wrote novel
Castles in the Air. which was pub
| lished in 1878. and in which occurs chap
| ter prophetically descriptive OF the trou-
bles in which her family are now placed.
Barnum's agent at Singapore has tele-
graphed to this country that he can Sc
cure white and gray elephant. He asked
for instructions as to purchasing the gray
| one, and an answer was returned to him
! that he would not be limited in any pur-
/ chase.
President Arthur is said to have been
deeply moved by the death of Mr.. Allen,
| Hawaiian Minister, during the New l ear $
reception. He looks upon it as the shadow
| of another evil augury for his administra-
/ ton, like the more tragic event through
which he entered the White House.
The Chattanooga Times thinks place
is entitled to be called an ''iron centre"
when iron can be turned out and sold for
| $13 30 per ton. This can be done at Chat
I tanOoga and Birmingham. If what fol-
/ lows follows, these be ''iron centres and
| their business don't need any government
/ coddling.
The union of Halstead's paper, the Com
merctdl, with Smiths, the Gazette, at Gin
cinnati, which have been rivals and more
/ or less ''gone for one another" reminds
/ the New York EUeniRg Post ''of the feudal
! houses in the Middle Ages, who some
| times, after long and bitter strife, would
make peace by marriage"
| There was an imposing simplicity in the
ceremonies attending the entrance of
| Governor Cleveland upon the duties of his
! Gubernatoria1 term at Albany ON the LIST
/ inst. The affair was over before the gene
raj public thought it was begun. This is
/ a wholesome start, and augurs well for
/ the new State administration in New
| York.
The Rev. George f. Pentecost, the
noted evangelist, says in the independent
/ that the conversion of sinners is becoming
| a lost art. ''The fact is sad and stubborn
that in the great cities of churches where
! the talent, wealth, culture, leisure and
/ opportunity to do revival work abound,
/ there the number of conversions is in an
inverse ratio to. the facilities"
! Outside of Washington and his own
/ State. Mr.. Edmunds is little more than a
name, and a cold and vague name at that.
| His personality is not known and felt
! throughout the country. He has been ut
| terly Indifferent to all the arts by which
| popularity is won. This may be to his
| credit as man, but it is against him as a
! candidate. His location is likewise adj
verse to him. as he himself has OWNED.
! The authorities of Baltimore are making
energetic efforts to suppress smallpox in
that city. Arrangements are completed
| to visit every household and vaccinate all
| the occupants who cannot show physi-
| clans certificate that they have been
already vaccinated. During the past year
| there were sol deaths from smallpox in
Baltimore, not including the deaths at the
Quarantine Hospital. The deaths from
diphtheria in 1882 were 707, and from con-
sumption, 1,217.
Whatever expressions the servant girl
may suffer in the crowded cities of the
''effete East She is certainly mistress of
the situation on the Pacific coast. In San
Francisco servant girls will not leave the
city for the suburbs, nor will they work at
/
and social position of the lady of the
| house come up to their standard of such
matters. For girls to till places in the
country as far north as Washington Ter
ritOry from $25 to $50 month and board
are vainly offered. There are plenty of
girls, but they will not work.
The new Governor of California has
other honors than attach to his military
record as a dashing cavalry officer. Says
the San Francisco CAL: "StOneman is the
| only tiller of the soil ever elected Cover
nor of California. OF his predecessors,
Burnett, johnson, Weller, Latham and
Haight were lawyers, Bigler a printer,
Stanford, Low, Booth and Perkins mer-
chants, and Irwin an editor. OF the
Lieutenant Governors who became Cover
nor, McDougal was a lawyer, Downey
druggist, and PachecO a stock raiser.
StOneman is both successful farmer and
viticulturist. and is the first representa-
tive either of these leading industries has
had in the executive chair of this State"
The venerable English constitution is
sutferingNnother strain, in the abolition
of the time-honOred office of tubman
to the Exchequer. On taking possession
of the new law courts, it was thought by
those high in authority that the expert
mont of abOlishing that functi0nary might
be safely made, and thus far the empire
still exists. The name of the officer rose
many years ago, because he took charge
of the tub at the bar of the court, which
was the measure of capacity in excise
cases, while his colleague, the postman,
took his name from the post which was
the measure of length. These officers had
the privilege of moving the court in prece-
dence of the Attorney General, except in
''the Queens business
Those Connecticut people who know
that the exterior of their capitol building
at Hartford has inches for the marble
statues of twenty-five of the States best
men are beginning to wonder who are to
be the immortals, and what sculptors
shall chisel them. The statues are to be
seven feet high, and their canopies and
pedestals are already in place. There are
also thirty-four medallion blocks Of mar
BILE, which are to receive likenesses OF dis
tinguished Connecticut men, and seven
teen tympana set in the walls of the
building, which are meant for historical
designs. AS Illustrations of the archi-
tect's idea, the statues of Jonathan Trum-
bull and Roger Sherman We're put in place
by the Commissioners, also the profiles of
Noah Webster and Horace Bushnell on
medallions, and a tympanum picturing the
famous old Charter Oak.