Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-09
GENERAL NOTES.

Brooklyn, n. Y, was named after
BrOukelen, Holland.
The Chicago bank clearings for the week
foot up nearly $5O,OO0,OO0.
snow is fifty feet deep in Tuckerman's
Ravine, New Hampshire.
The Northern Pacific Railro ad has 31O.-
1917 square miles OF land.
Sixty thousand school children are yell
ing schools outp' in Chicago.
Montgomery. Ala, has $4,000 popula-
ton according to the new directory.
Caviare is made in Germany from stur-
geons' eggs sent from Lake Michigan.
Gleenville, Miss, will prepare and ship
about 100 tons of iutc fibre this season.
Chicago has decided to have Pro-
testant reformatOry institution for girls
and boys.
Colorado, in the first six months of
1888. produced 226,947 tons of coal and
74,20S tons of coke.
Buildings to accommodate $4,000 per-
sons have been put up in New York in
the past six months.
The pow-wow of the Piute Indians at
Winnemucca has closed, and, contrary to
expectation, no successor to Chief Winnie
mucca was elected.
j. A. Wallace, living near Truckee,
Cal, shot his father-in-law last Saturday
night, mistaking him for wild cat, which
had got into his chicken house.
Swindlers are said to be catching the
farmers in certain parts of New York
State by buying cattle, paying one-third
in cash and the balance in bogus checks.
California ,,111rdarat vxroc
found in possession of small vial, be-
lieved to contain poison, and a carefully
sharpened steel shank taken from boot.
The receipts at the Patent Office during
June, 1888, were $96,5S1, an increase of
81, $50 over the same period last year. The
receipts for the first six months of the
calendar years since 1880 have gradually
increased.
The diving Mrs. Swift, of Rochester,
Mich, desired to see her daughter mar
ried. but the bridegroom could not be
brought in time. Therefore, as coming
nearest to her wish that was possible, the
wedding was held in her dead presence.
A nurse in an insane asylum says: owe
Outlive quickly all fear of our patients,
for we know by popularity in the eye of
each one when a dangerous outbreak is
at hand, and finally we reach so callOuS a
stage that sane people outside seem for
the nOnce lunaticS, while the maniacS
seem sane"
Edward Allen, of TorringtOn, Conn.,,
was struck by a fragment from a burst
emery wheel on Friday; the skull was
laid bare and q piece of the leather cap
visor was driven in. He remained on his
feet, bathed his head and then walked
down two flights of stairs to the carriage
waiting to take him home.
What is known in insane asylums as
''the Utica crib is large crib bedstead,
very strong, and with a massive slat
cover closing down upon it, enclosing the
frenzied patient. The victim lies on
mattress with bed clothing, but is allowed
ample room to turn over, and suffers no
more real discomfort than if in an Ordi-
nary bed.
4 Mrs. Smell, of Michigan City, Ind,
whose husband was in the habit of spend
ING the most of his time at the liquor sa-
looms, took a notion to do a little crusad-
ing on her own hook. She visited one of
the saloons. seized a cOal-oil lamp, and
demolished the bottles and decanters rang
ed behind the bar. After she had com
pleted her work of destruction she quietly
| went home.
In the matter of the purchase of Con-
federate bonds now going on, cOrrespon-
dent of the New Orleans Picdyune sug-
gests the following explanation: "Par-
ties abroad who had business transac-
lions with the Southern COntederacy have
credits to the account OF the Confederacy,
and are securing the maturing bonds to
be held as an offset, and square the ac-
count, thus relieving cOnscienceS of the
weight of the Indebtedness for which there
is no satisfactory receiver to settle with
The Rochester Union tells of a physi-
clan of that city who has, among the
poorer families under his care, one
wherein an infant has been left to the
care of a tender and aflectiOnate father
the mother having been taken to an in
sane ASYLUM. On a recent visit the doc
tor inquired how the child was getting
along, and what food he was giving it.,
EFIrst rate" replied the paternal nurse;
81 buy impaired food and condemned
milk for the baby and it thriYes well upon
| them" The doctor was wise enough to
! ignore the PartingtOnisms and ordered
| the treatment continued.
! One of the clerks of a New York news
company was put at his wits ends Satur-
| day by demure individual who wanted
! Whitman's "Leaves of Timothy" He
| scratched his head, but to no purpose
! He looked through the biographical list
| and the essays, and ransacked the agri-
! cultural section. 1t wasn't there. care
you sure about the title of the book p
| asked the clerk. "Wa'll, dunno, but it's
| Leaves of Grass but then timothy is the
! only sort o. grass in place that has leaves
| but clover, and if Teller Is gOin' to
write on clover leaves he would say so,
| wouldn't hep
A new form Of the Calling gun has been
made. 1t can be elevated so as to fire per-
pendicularly into the air, the new maya
zine feed supplying the ammunition as
promptly and effectively as though the
| gun was discharged while in horizontal
| position. Tests have been made with the
| gun, by which one hundred rounds of
cartridges can be discharged in two and
one-tenth seconds. The arm is especially
| adapted for attacks on Notifications, en-
| abling the assaulting party to throw q
| perfect torrent of balls into the works
| On shiphOard it'can he so depressed as to
! cover all approaches towards the side of
| the ship, almost annihilating an OppO-
nent's attack.
Nearly all the whalebone used in the
United States is received through San
Francisco, but nearly every pound re-
ceived there is shipped directly to the
East, where it is put up into shape for
use. WhalebOne is largely used in the
manufacture of whips. The catch of late
years has been comparatively light. The
receipts at San Francisco for the past
| three years has averaged less than 100000
pounds. The quantity which was report
ed in 1882 was 139.6O0 pounds. A Boston
paper says the total catch of Arctic whale,
bone in 1882 was only IA, 900 pounds, and
that on the LIST of November, 1882, when
this bone first came upon the market, the
supply of carry-Over stock in first hands
was only $4,000 pounds. The foreign de-
mand has been quite active this year, es-
pecially from England, where the con-
sumption is much larger than either
France or Germany
Canadian jewellers complain that it has
become almost impossible for them to
compete legitimately with dealers in
smuggled goods. They cannot pay duties
on what they buy here and sell at profit
when the same things are delivered there
at prices that are acknowledgment that
they have not paid. Struggled goods
reach Canada generally by way of De-
trOit, Buffalo, or Suspension Bridge. In
the Canadian cities there are plenty of
buyers who pay cash on delivery, and are,
of course, enabled to undersell the honest
dealers, This kind of smuggling is very
seriously affecting the legitimate trade.
Unless means are taken to prevent it, ali
dealers in Canada will eventually have to
depend on the smugglers OF go out of bust
ness. So bold have the smugglers become
that they solicit orders from the Cana
dian dealers, agreeing to deliver the goods