Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-30
GENERAL NOTES.

Inc Ol0cln0aJl inquirer IHlnhS Lildl
''the night Waterman of hotel is the
only person on the premises who is safe"
Jay Gould is credited with saying that
"a man is fool who tries to secure more
than competence" and Jay Gould ought
to know.
In 1880 the manufacture of white lead
in st. Louis amounted to 13, S26, 663 pounds;
in 1881 to 24.924,S 42 pounds, and in 1882 to
81 ,020, 593 pounds.
Massachusetts, has reduced her pauper
list from 80, 900 in 1876 to $4,000 at present.
1t cost the State last year for their MAIN
tenance 81, 800, 900.
J. W. Wilson, the st. Louis man who
has been fasting for II days, was arrested
on Wednesday by the police and required
to resume eating. He was then sent to
the City Hospital for treatment.
The Boston Ice Company, which has
furnished Havana with ice for over half a
century, have decided to relinquish the
business, owing to the competition Of local
artificial ice companies.
According to the report of the Indiana
Statistical Bureau, 15,699, 797 bushels of
corn were produced IN that State last year,
46. 62S.643 bushels of wheat, 19,G15,516
bushels of oats and 1854, $50 bushels of
Irish potatoes.
A Newfoundland dog seized a lady's
satchel in depot in Bangor, Me-, a day
or two ago, and ran with it UP street and
down, pursued by a score of men and
boys. Fleet of foot, he distanced them all,
and at last brought it back and laid it I'M
injured at the lady's feet.
Some years ago Patrick Gleason aban-
dOned his wife and son in Indiana. The
son, then Is, was fortnight ago recon-
mitted to the Jacksonville Jail for larceny
On his way to workshop he passed
through line of convicts; one of them was
his father. The Gleason family seems to
be fixed for the winter.
General Sherman, while looking thin
and angular, is so muscular that every one
is deceived in his weight. He says, if so
disposed, he can always win bet regard
ing his weight. He weighs neary two
hundred pounds, but any one who at
tempts to guess on the subject never esti-
mates it at more than one hundred and
thirty pounds.
1t is not generally known that there are
two memorial windows in Westminster
Abbey donated by an American. A visitor
to the abbey recently came across them.
They were~erected by Mr.. G. W. Childs,
of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, in
memory of COwper and Herbert. They
are the only instances the abbey furnished
of Americans having done honor to any Of
the English poets.
Violent opposition is shown in Balti-
more to the action of the State Board of
Health in calling upon the Federal Gov
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in Maryland. The merchants are sin
dignant that Maryland should be placed
in the position of a mendicant State ask
ing for aid" They say that if any money
was needed to eXterminate the disease
they would furnish it, but that none is re-
quired.
Judge Gray, of the United States Circuit
Court, at Boston, granted an injunction on
Wednesday against the Peoples Tele-
phone Company, Dolbear patent, in favor
of the Bell Company. The point in the
decision is that Bell was the first inventor
who successfully used electricity as a
means of conveying articulate sound, and
although DOlbear uses a different appar-
atus, he cannot claim the entire system,
the essence of the invention consisting not
in the apparatus, but in the general pro-
cess or method.
Josie Mansfield, about whom Edward s.
Stokes had his fatal quarrel with Jim
Fisk, is living in New York this winter.
She has had many ups and downs since
she was the favOrite of the railroad mil
honaire, and has lived most of the time in
Europe. She lives in a brown stone on
Twenty-siXth street, only little distance
from Broadway, and is said to own the
property. Last summer she took house
as summer resort on Long Island, and
she and her bOarders were not regarded
with favor by the neighbOrs.
4 "bunco man" in Washington was so
unfamiliar with the features of General
Grant that he approached him on one of
the most crowded thOrOughfares lately,
and. claiming to be a Deputy Marshal,
insisted upon serving summons upon
him. General Grant persistently declined
the proffered paper, saying it was not for
him, and when the man, still cOntending
that il was, at last asked, ''Well, who are
you, anyhow? what is your name?' Gen.
Grant said, decidedly, CHATS none of
your business strobe on, and left the
frustrated swindler.
The Chicago Tribune says: ''The occur
renee of a corner in corn within a few
weeks Of the time that the corner rule was
abolished has worked decided change in
the Board of Trade sentiment. The de-
sire to see some limitation set to the power
of few men TO squeeze the commercial
sponge is so general that the Committee
on Revision of Rules has made a partial
report, which covers this point, while leav-
ing the rules in general to be dealt with at
more leisure. The recommendation of the
committee is not yet published, but it is
understood to provide stringent measures
for relief in cases of oppressive manipula-
tion.r