Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-05-28
GENERAL NOTES.
There are ITO boys in the Colorado State

There are 10 boys in the Colorado State
Reform School.
The average value Of cut flowers sold in
London is $4,000 daily.
silk trouserings are among the last de-
velopments of dudeing.
4 species of green worm is killing the
copperhead snakes of Marlin, Texas.
The worms fasten themselves to the body
of the snake two inches from its head.
Their legs are armed with sharp, strong
fangs.
Our large g0blets excite in the German
mind amazement at a people who drink
such enormous quantities OF water, and
the beer glasses excite a similar amaze
ment at people who are content with
such diminutivc draughts of beer.
Mrs. Coppinger Murray, who. under her
maiden name of Mary Rock, was promi-'
nent actress half 4 century ago, and
was protege of Walter Scott, was buried
Monday, at Albany, where she had for
years earned scanty living by teaching
music.
The house in which the poet, Edgar A.
Poe, lived for some time at FOrdham, is
to be sold at public auction, under fore
closure. on June 9, the day appointed for
the interment Of the remains OF the poet,
John Howard Payne, author of "Home,
Sweet Home" at Washington.
Some weeks ago a woman eloped from
Portland. Me-, with a young man. Her
husband took it calmly and did not try to
find her. Monday he received a letter
from her, dated at Boston, in which she
said; 80 far God has blessed us with
health, but John has no regular work
yet"
The death is announced of King Omoru,
one of the sovereigns of the African
coast This monarch was. as the SAYING
is, very much married. He had 706 wives
and % children. - OF the latter being
still alive. His eldest son and successor
is as uxOriOus as his father. having al
ready 412 wives.
A New Hampshire paper says that
while a Rev. Mr.. Stocking was on his
wedding journey last summer he occupied
one of the pulpits in that State. He was
a very little man, and when he gave out
his text, ''She hath done what she could"
the ladies of the congregation smilingly
accepted his apology. in behalf of his wife,
for not having paired herself better.
The Suez canal. which has long been
Familiarity described as the ditch through
the desert, is now, it seems, in fair way
of becoming an open and stagnant sew
er. The stations on its banks are drained
into its waters. 1t is never flushed, there
is no tide, and the stencil is becoming in
tolerable. DiarrhGa and sickness prevail
on board vessels detained in the canal.
Sobbe, the man charged with the MUIR
der and robbery Of the registered letter
/ carrier, COssalth, on the 18th of March,
was found guilty at Berlin a fortnight
/ ago. and sentenced to death. The prison.
/ err in the course of his examination,
/ stated that he planned the crime on the
/ 4th of March, after reading newspaper
4 account of the murder of Vienna letter
/ carrier by Francesconi.
/ A Norwich Ct, church is pastorless.
Cause, dancing. Pastor objected to dane
| cling at a church fair. Ladies getting up
/ the fair indignant, declared it wouldn't
raise a cent unless the bowels of the cat
drew out melody from the hair of the
horse, while flying feet kept time. Ladies
1 won. Pastor resigned. Lots of dancing.
/ No preacher. Great change, though, from
| the Connecticut Of Cotton Mather,
Fourteen years ago Charles Lewis, then
of Lockport, y. y, had the initials of his
/ ''best girl engraved on two ten-cent
pieces and manufactured into earrings.
Cllt.lOL lihiUZ LuCil III llltNJ Sll1 mt Dl
the hooks and spent the dimes. This week
her brother in Chicago received one of
them in change, recognized the coin and
forwarded it to the owner, who is now
Mrs. Lewis, Of Suspension Bridge.
BY order of Secretary Teller, twenty
seven Ute Indian children have been sent
to the Indian school at Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Heretofore the Ute Indians have
4 nrotaCf tod nOainGf SANDING fhAlr children
| to school. and the fact that they have
now been persuaded to submit to it is
looked upon as an important step toward
Indian civilization. The children We're
taken from the Southern Ute reservation
in Colorado.
We are apt to think transportation on
coal in the United States is high. We
find that there is business in coal to
London, England, of l0,000,000 tons an
nually, and the railroads compete for the
carriage Of the coal. 1t appears, on the
best authority, that the cheapest is
S6-100ths of a cent per mile, net, and the
( highest is one and One-tenth cents, net,
/ per ton per mile, Distance was 10 to l12
miles from pits to London,
General Villegas, of the Argentine Re
public, who has been conducting cam
paign against the Indians, has" says a
/ Buenos Ayres paper, mot only secured
| the country clean of Indians, but has dis
covered the long-lost pass of Bariloche
! over the Andes-a pass that for the last
! one hundred years has been held by the
| Indians, and which facilitated their rob-
/ berries of cattle on our estancias, as the
/ stolen cattle were swept oil and driven
! over the Andes through this very pass,
! which is the best of all, and is in fact a
carriage road over the Andes. The Ar
lgI,
tOric pass, and the Indians can no longer
! avail themselves of it,
According to the new edition Of the
| ''Gerarchia Cattolica," the dlgnitaries
composing the Roman Catholic hierarchy
number 1929, including siXty-two cardi-
nails, one Of whom, however. Cardinal
Antici-Mattei, died after the edition was
printed: nine patriarchs of both rites, 49,
| archbishOps and bishops Of the Latin rite,
and fOrty-SiX of the Oriental rite, holding
sees; 343 archbishOps and bishops IN par
THUS, twenty-siX patriarchs, archbishOps
and bishops without sees, and six prelates
mullins diPceSis, During the twelve
months since the last edition was pub
lished four cardinals, eleven archbishOps
and thirty-eight bishops have died. The
oldest cardinal in the Sacred College is
Cardinal BOnnechOse, Archbishop of ROu-
en-, aged eighty-fOur; and next comes
Cardinal Newman, aged eighty-three, and
Cardinal Gulbert, Archbishop of Paris,
eighty-one. The youngest are Cardinals
Parocchi and Zigliari, both aged fifty, and
Czacki, recently created, aged forty-nine.
The senior members of the college itself
are Cardinal Prince schwarzenburg, ere
ated by Gregory XVI. forty-one years ago,
Cardinal Di PietrO, dean of the college,
who has worn the purple for thirty years,
and Cardinal Mertel, created twenty-five
years ago. OF the siXty-One cardinals llv-
ing, one was created by Gregory XVI.
forty by Plus TX, and twenty by Leo NH.
Counting one more reserved IN Dett0 at
the COnsistory held on December t3, 1880,
whose name has still to be declared, there
remain eight hats vacant.
VICTORY OVER MALONE.
The Democrats Succeeded in Making