Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CHICAGO has for 1888 a new building front
age Of ten and a half miles.
ONLY THREE EXECUTIONS for murder took
place in France during 1888
AN ICE BRIDGE has been formed across the
st. Lawrence at Alexandria Bay.
1T is said that there are more people out of
work in New York city to-day than at any
time for years past.
AN English nobleman, now travelling in the
West. is charged with falling in love with the
hOusemaid of Il Denver hotel and wanting to
marry her.
IT Is reported that horses and cattle west OF
Medina river, in Texas, are dying by hun
dreds for want of grass. Owners are driving
their stock SOUTH
LONDON Truth says that the portrait OF her
self which the Queen is about 20 present to
the National Gallery is a copy by an amateur
OF the one painted by Angel, and that the
amateur is really the Princess Beatrice,
A GENTLEMAN by the name of Brown, living
in Stafford, near Fredericksburg, Va, had
severe attack of the earache one night last
week and poured spirits of turpentlne in 1t,
which soon produced paralysis and death.
NEW YoRK's charity commissioners are en-
deavoring to perfect a plan by which the
Migrants brought to the several prisons shall
be required to saw the wood used IN the
various public schools and other Institutions
ONE reason why a Detroit wife desires di
vorce is because her husband lied to her. Be-
fore marriage he said he owned One-hOrse
wagon and had $500. After marriage he could
only claim the wagon, and one WheeI was
gone at that.
IN the ten Southern states there are 296 es-
adjustments for the manufacture of agricul-
tural implements, working $3,6O9,SSl capital
and 1888 hands, consuming $l,646,760 of ma
teriaI, requiring S795,0l2 of wages, and ere
atIng 1857 SCI OF products.
WHEN the late DIR. E. S. Frazer, of St. Louis,
was returning from the Black Hawk war, in
which he was a surgeon, he crossed ferry,
and, having no money, got the ierryman 10
trust him for the toll-l0 cents. year later
he rode sixty miles on horseback to revisit the
ferryman and pay the debt,
THE SALE made by Gov. Eyerista MADEIRA of
500 leagues of land in the State Of COahuila to
foreign company has not been ratified by the
Federal Government. Notwithstanding the
presence of Gov. MADEIRA in Mexico, who is
urging its approval. 1t appears that the con-
tract does not provide for dividing the land In
sufficiently small tracts.
THE New York Sun gives as a test Of geu-
uine Persian carpets that used by the natives
themselves, namely, to drop piece of red
hot charcoal upon it. This leaves a singed
round spot. If the carpet is good one of the
first quality, the hand can then brush of the
singed wool without the least trace OF the
burn being afterward discernible.
STEPS are being taken to hold a oOnven-
ton in st. Louis or Chicago at an early day,
of all cattle ranchmen Of Texas, Indian Ter
ritory. Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Dakota
and other territories to organize a national
association for the general protection Of their
interests. Circulars have been sent to all
parts of the country named, and from returns
So far cd nrOipct meets HnlVer-
sal favor.
THE Convention of COlored LabOrers and
Sugar Growers, called to take action relative
to the sugar tariff, met Monday evening in
New Orleans. The resolutions OF the Sugar
Planters Convention were Endorsed and
series Of additional resolutions adopted, pro-
testing against any reduction or removal or
the tariff on sugar; the ratification Of the
Mexican reciprocity treaty, or the contlnu-
ance of the Hawaiian treaty
MISS HoGARTH, the surviving eXecutrix of
Charles Dickens, has taken measures to pre-
vent the publication in England of Dickens
letters to his solicitor. Miss Hogarth says
that Mr.. Dickens never intended that those
letters should be published. They were pre-
served by the solicitor as curiOsities, and were
bound in an album with other Dickens me-
MORALS. They were sold by the solicitors
executors with the rest of his library, they
having no knowledge OF their contents.
1T is stated tnat IL WouIu not nave Deen ne
cessary for Mrs. Langtry to have changed the
title OF her play, Peril" if she had shown
sufficient courtesy toward Mr.. Barley Camp
bell. The latter had an adaptation of the
same play under that title, and called on Mrs
Langtry to arrange the matter. HIS peril"
had been tried and failed years before, and
the title was of no value to him. and simple
'sthank you'' would have recompensed him.
Mrs. Langtry, however, CURLY refused to see
him, and employed a lawyer, who informed
her that she was at Mr.. CampbelPs mercy.
Consequently the title had to be changed to
1.-THE Wife's PERIL at the cost of reprinting
all of her stock of bills and heavy lawyers