Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-11
GENERAL NOTES.

OF the tomato.
There are $50 grand army posts in the
State of New York.
Chattanooga, in a scholastic population
| of ,. 100. has an enrolment Of 1,466; ave-
rage attendance, SO.
The tombs of the English Plantagenet
kings, in the Abbey of FOntevrault, France,
/ are now part Of a mems prison.
Richland, a little village in OnslOw
/ county. y. c., of not more than one hun
| dred inhabitants, has four churches.
/ The total stealings of the San Francisco
| HarbOr Commission ring, according to
/ the experts report, amount to $Sl, 24S 10.
/ The Smyrna Del Times says that
John GOldsbOrOugh has a Durham-Alder-
ney calf, eight months old, which gives a
/ quart of milk daily.
A Chicago Wholesale cloak house adver-
tised for a ''female model with a thirty
six inch bust" Offering SIS a week. There
were twenty-five applicants in two hours.
1t is estimated that the miners and me-
chanics of Butte, NJ. r., have on deposit
! at the three banks of that city about
/ $500, 900.
| The negroes of the lower Mississippi re-
/ giOn are exodusting in large numbers to
/ North Louisiana, Arkansas and East
| Texas for fear of yellow fever breaking
/ out in their old homes this summer.
| All P. Il. Barnum has to show for $l15,-
/ 600 spent on trying to get two Burmese
white elephants are the ears, tusks and
! trunks of the two beasts and the two
/ priests who allowed the elephants to be
/ removed.
q IN "a
| country. hardly comes up to its name. 1t
has fifty buildings-lOg cabins, slab shacks
and canvas tents. Half of the structures
are saloons. There is population OF
about $50.
A new style of counterfeit coin is being
circulated quite freely about Boston.
French ''dix centimes" pieces are washed
with silver, when they make to all appear
ances very good half-dollars. They are
worth two cents each.
As the Des MOines State Register justly
says: ''The efficacy of the maidstone may
reasonably be doubted. Fred Remy, who
died of hydrophObia at Red Oak, in Iowa,
recently. had applied a maidstone to the
wound soon after being bitten.
Alabama has fourteen iron and steel
manufactures, eighteen cotton factories,
eighteen foundry and machine shops, S07
Touring and grist mills. and 3S4 lumber
mills. The capital invested in these in
dustries is So, S42, 223. Employment is
given 1856 hands, who receive $3.50, 119
wages.
The annual value of England's harvest
of the sea has been recently estimated by
a competent person at a little over four
teen millions sterling. of which over three
and a half millions are represented by the
| herring, and about six millions by all
kinds of round and fiat fish; shell fish of
all kinds also total up to three and half
millions.
The New Orleans grand jury has
caused the arrest of several dealers in
the city markets for exposing rotten fish
and meat for sale. The houses were found
to be in a filthy condition in every
instance, the result of farming out the
public markets to a ring of spectators
and the appointment of political hood
lums as market inspectors.
LOrdsburg, New Mexico, is a frontier
paradise. 1t has 500 inhabitants and
thirty-seven saloons, besides a choice col
lection of dance houses and gambling
dens. Since July 3, 1882, fourteen persons
have died in the town, and the causes of
death may be classified as follows:
Lvnched, one; murdered, three; suicides,
six; smallpox, three; doubtful, one.
The "HabbertOn" divided skirt Is this
summer a favOrite, at least, for bathing
purposes. Over this skirt is worn a Nor !
folk Jacket, coming some inches below the |
hips, the whole giving perfect freedom to |
the limbs. The sleeves are elbow length, |
and the jacket is cut square in the neck |
and covered with braid of two cOlors, |
crossing each other in wicker-work |
fashion.
curious change has taken place in
England in the manner of selling real |
estate and pictures, Formerly the favor
ite method of selling real estate was by
auction; now it is by private negotiation,
and the auctiOneers have become brokers.
Private picture dealers find their Occupa-
ton gone, auctions having usurped the
business. The latter change is explained
bv the fact that buyers like to see their
names in print
The close fitting sleeve is yet popular,
though it is not worn so uncomfortably
tight as formerly. There can be no more
ridiculous sight than that of a lady-par-
ticularly one with naturally thin arm
and Woodworking her sleeve drawn so
tight as to oblige her to keep her arms con-
tinually at one angle because she cannot
move her elbows. A little more latitude
here is conducive to considerably more
grace, as well as indicative of the wearer's
having listened to the small but profound
voice of common sense.
An interesting illustration, in small
way, of the working of high license is
furnished in the town of Mt. Vernon, IL
Iinois, population 5000. For several
years the Town Council refused to grant
licenses for saloons, preferring to adopt
the principle of prohibition. There was
not a licensed saloon in the place, but the
drug stores and groceries sold spirits by
the pint to be carried off the premises and
drank, and it became practice at last
to sell liquor by the glass to be drunk be-
hind partition on the premises. Drink
ing was not arrested, and the only OBJECT
of the prohibitOry system was to deprive
the town of the revenue which licenses
would yield. About six months ago the
Council passed a license ordinance fixing
the fee at $500 year. One saloon was
opened, and in two months the proprietor
had made enough money to pay for his
license and keep up his establishment
besides, and there was no greater per-
ceptible amount of drinking in the place
than had been before.