Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-26
GENERAL NOTES.

Erie canal tonnage continues heavy.
The total for the week ending June II was
1SS, IA this year to 165, eos last.
There are at the present time in this
country $1,000 Jersey cattle. OF these
from 5000 to 5000 are imported animals.
The total expense of the coronation of
the Gar of Russia, apart from the remis-
sion of taxes, is estimated at u 800, 600
rOubles.
OF the LOIS girls who were examined
College this year, 964 passed through the
ordeal successfully.
The assessed valuation of property in
the city of New York this year is esti-
mated to be 81, go, 0O0, 900, of which $780,
DOC, 900 is on personal estate.
A piano firm in Berlin has bought the
oaken piles which have just been taken
out OF the Rhine at Mayence, and which
are said TO be the original timbers of the
bridge which Julius Cesar constructed.
A Providence man slapped strangers
face for staring at his wife in a street
car, and he was beginning to feel himself
a hero, when the car stopped, and a little
girl helped the impudent fellow of. He
was stone blind.
lawfully the head chief of all the Apa-
ches. When he was gilded youth of the
cigarette smoking period he got the name
Loco, or ''fOOl," but during recent years
his ability as scalp-taker has been
proven more than once.
The tallest princess in the world is the
Crown Princess Of Denmark. She is six
feet two inches high. She is very fond of
dancing, but has often to forego the pleas
ure, because, being keenly sensible of rid
icule, she does not wish to have an made
quate partner.
Marcus Thrane, who once headed the
Socialist party in Norway, and then, dis
pairing of effecting a revolution there,
came to the United States to study Repub-
lican institutions here, has returned to
his old home, well cured of the rabid no
tons of his earlier years.
One Of the most interesting features of
the commencement at the University of
Vermont will be the unwilling, to-day
Of the statute of Lafayette, by the
sculptor, Mr.. J. Q. A. Ward. At the
same time will be relaid the old corner
stone of the old University building,
which was originally laid by Lafayette.
A Judge in California was very much
who deposed that he had seen in the
plaintiffs field "a right smart chance" of
hogs. On asking for anexplanation, he
learned that, in the vernacular of the
place, ga right smart chance" meant
fourteen, and the jury were so charged.
HidesabrO SAFE, a Cornell graduate of
last year, who, before entering the uni
versity, studied at the Oswego Normal
School, has returned to Japan, his native
country, after marrying a young lady of
Indianapolis, and is employed at a salary
of $4,000 a year by the japanese Govern
ment in its agricultural department.
A Chicago man entered suit against
Barnum's show for damages received at
the hands of one of the attaches of the
concern. The constable took the attach
ment out in search Of a trunk, and in his
rounds came across Jumbo, upon whose
huge frame he laid the writ. An indem-
nifty bond was given, and the show goes
on.
The Magnificent Cologne Cathedral is a
last actually completed, 6S5 years after
it's foundation, and nothing remains but
to take down the last shed and put the
terrace in order. Over $1,000, 600 has been
spent in this work since 1864. but about
$40, 900 more than the money on hand is
needed to tear down the encumbrances.
and this will be raised by another and
final lottery.
Wellington spoke of Abd-el-Kader as
"a captain, who, with more troops and
better arms, would have made Algeria
uncomfortable" Marshall St, Arnaud is
alleged to have said unhesitatingly to Ma
poleOn Ill, sAh, if Abd-eI were a
Frenchman we should never have anoth-
er Napoleon ssPerhaps it is as well for
me then that he is an Arab, was the dry
imperial reply.
The government of italy has awarded
contracts for 1000, 600 kilos (about 10000
hogsheads) Of Kentucky tobacco, and
2.OOO,O 600 kilos about 1900 hogsheads) of
Virginia tobacco. The purchase of the
latter will be executed by Messrs. Ricards,
Leftwich & Co., of Baltimore, who will
represent the contractors at Lynchburg,
and ID. Tiedeman 4 CO., of Richmond, who
will operate ON that market.
1t is asserted that $50, 0O0, 600 of English
capital was invested in American cattle
ranches last year. There are now in the
West agents from several large institu-
lions in England and Holland buying up
water privileges, and il may be safely es-
timated that an equal amount will be in
vested this year in the same way. Already
the largest ranches in the country are
controlled by foreign capital.
ChiIlicothe, No., is the point selected
for the next meeting Of the National Anti
Horse Thief Association, TO be held Sep
TENDER 26, 1888. The first constitution
and bylaws for the Grand Order A. II. T.
A. were formed in Luray, Clarke county,
NO., and the organization of the Grand
Order Of the A. II. L. A. Of Missouri and
sister States was completed October p,
1868. The organization Of the national
and State orders was in 1851.