Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-18
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4 RECENT TRAVELLER along the line or the
Panama canal predicts that Of the 1900 work
men now engaged there fully two-thlrds will
be dead before the canal is completed.
A FRUIT MERCHANT estimates that from 10
10 30 per cent. Of the fruit shipped from for
eign countries to this country il rotted on the
way, the greatest loss being IN oranges, ana
the least ~ cocOanuts.
THE first instance in the United States,
probably. where a lady OBLIGATED as clergy
man at a wedding ceremony was at COlum-
bus o.. recently, when Mrs. J.. G.. ROmick,
the Evangelist, performed the ceremony.
4 BIBLICAL STUDENT has arranged the fol-
lowing: What Sunday is to Christians Mon
day is to the Greeks Tuesday to the Persans,
Wednesday 70 the Assyrians, Thursday to the
Egyptians, Friday to the Turks and Saturday
70 the Jews.
IT 10 commented upon as an important
epoch in the theological history Of Boston
which seen installed in the Old South pulpit
a clergyman who ''dscards the doctrine Of
vcariOus atOnement. and does not assert that
Of endless punishment"
ACCORDING to the London World, nobody IN
these days can possibly complain that the
British court is unduly exclusive. At the last
Ievee the husband Of famous court milliner
was presented, and at the drawing room there
appeared the daughters Of Well-knOWn
brakeman in Bond street.
THE new army bill now before the French
Chamber Of Deputies is causing serious alarm
among the bOurgeOisie. Under the present
system young lawyers, doctors. and other per-
sons are able to avoid the five years term
by volunteering for one year. but the new law
proposes that pOthing short Of physical inca
pacitv shall exempt nybOdy from three years
service. The bill would raise the peace foot
ing Of the army from $4,000 TO 100000 men,
and the annual cost from f24,0cO,0JO to E3O,-
100000.
Az official report, recently ordered for the
British House Of Commons, shows that the in
come Of the British government from duties
on spirits beer, wine, tobacco and excise Ii
censes are SI95, ,3l5 and the revenue from
customs duties, land taxes, house duty, in
come tax and railway passengers duty is
1859, 49,, l70, making an aggregate Of s365,024,
ass. Of which ireland contributes $50, 270,645.
from population of 5,042,572. England and
Wales contributed 1921, 725, l9j, with popu
lation Of S26,152474.
THE laureate has presented himself at the
House of Lords but once since his elevation,
and then he vanished ere his brother Peers
could well say such thing had been. But
his passing presentation was highly effective.
lie first showed at the doorway for a moment
in a loose capped cloak and a high-crOWned
felt hat. with a broad leaf turned up at the
side His attitude was that Of the first villain
lust after he has said, But SOFT must dis
sembe" He did not cross the portal. nor
was he well visible before the Prince Of Wales
hurried out and bore the poet Peer of with
him.
THE old Catholic movement in Italy has
this winter received a considerable impetus
by the adhesion Of one Of the Pope's domestic
prelates MonsgnOr Giambattsta Savarese.
He has lately completed a course of confer
ences on the subject in Rome, held on sun
DAYS, which were well attended by both
Italians and English. He and Count Cam
pellO formerly one of the canons OF ST.
Peters, together conduct the services IN the
Old Catholic Church in Rome. Father Curci,
who, unlike them, works, for reform within
the ROmish pale, has come under the Papal
censure, though he has as yet escaped eXcOm-
munication. In his last work, III Naticano
RegiO," he sets forth the evils accruing to the
church from the policy pursued at the Papal
court. He opinion has all the more weight
as coming from one who was for fifty years an
ornament OF the Jesuit order, from which he
was cashiered not long ago for the llberality
of his opinions and his advocacy of the over
throw OF the temporal power as a cargo heavy
enough TO sink the bark OF st. Peter.
THE Russian authorities ruling over the
newspaperpress continue to distinguish them
selves by effectng the most ridiculous results.
When the funeral Of the late Count Vladimir
Adlerberg took place recently, the Emperor
and Empress and nearly all the Imperial
Grand Dukes and Duchesses were the most
conspicuous among the chief mourners, ana
the Emperor even rode for a short distance
behind the remains in the procession, which
is an honor reserved by the Russian Cars al
most entirely for deceased members Of their
own imperial families. For three days the
06fc al Messenger did not publish single word
about this great public funeral, and all the
other journals gave their different accounts
without uttering a syllable as to the presence
of the imperial family. They were deferred
by the standing order forbidding all mention
OF the movements of imperial personages I'M
til officially chronicled in the GO5ernment Ga
sette. Yet the fact Of the imperial presence
at the funeral was telegraphed the same night
to Moscow, and unreservedly published the
next day IN NJ. Katkons favored journal.