Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-20
AMERICAN STOCKS ABROAD.

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/ regarding the feeling in London towards
American investments. After being for &
/ long time drug in the market, they are
now, to a certain extent, eagerly sought
/ after. This result has been brought about
by the unsettled condition of Europe, due
/ to the Egyptian war. Although the dis
4 position of the continental powers thus
I far has been to allow England to solve the
1 Egyptian problem as best she can, vet
peaceful counsels may not always hold
I sway, and, in the opinion of capitalists. a
/ general war may ultimately result from
! England's attempt to get possession of the
! land of the Pharaohs, although this re-
| suit is far from probable yet, as the per-
/ sons who take this view are the ones who
| have money to invest. European invest
ments are proDOrtiOnately at discount.
Having no place in the Old World TO
/ put their money where it will do the most
! good, Continental capitalists. as we'll as
| English. are seeking fresh fields and pas
/ lures new in the New World. Thus far
/ they are fighting shy of American rail-
/ ways, the depressed condition of things in
/ Wall street not being calculated to inspire
confidence in that class of securities, but
/ there has been, and is still in pro-
! gress, a great "bOOm" in mines and Texas
/ lands. Mines which are beyond suspi-
/ cion of being ''salted." and which show
signs that cannot be cOunterieited of con-
! tanning ore, are readily salable, while
/ perfect mania exists to own ranches in
the West and in Texas.
| Unless my informant is very much mis-
taken, which is unlikely, in a short time
British gold" will be flowing into this
country at rate sufficient to offset the
/ specie now being exported. The con-
tdence, too, thus shown by foreigners in
American investments, viii 90 far to-
wards reYiving business here at home.
and, in spite Of its being election year,
1884 bids fear to end more prOsperously
than did 1888.
| HEARD THE REV. DIR. sATTERLEE,
| Of Calvary Episcopal Church, make an
/ acknowledgment at the evening service on
/ Good Friday, which, coming from a
/ clergyman, was startlingly suggestive.
Rating the population of the city at
100000, he said that not more than
400, 900 persons went to church. He did
not explain whether he meant that but
/ one person in three went regularly, and
the other two not all, and have reason to
/ think that his figures are at once too high
and too low.
In view of the fact that there are more
than half million Roman Catholics in
New York, his figures, if he meant that
two persons in three do not 90 to all,
are too small, as even a ROmanist, who is
far from being consistent, finds his way
into the sanctuary on the festival days, if
not oftener. To illustrate: A man was
found dead by the police with his throat
cut in west side tenement on Christmas
morning, several years ago. 1t was at
first given out by his family that he
had committed suicide, but finding
that as a suicide his body
could not be buried in cOnsecrated ground,
one Of the relatives finally ACKNOWLEDGED
that he had been killed by his son. The
evidence showed, that, after coming
home from early church the man had
intoxicated himself to madness, and in
his drunken fury attacked one of his
daughters. The son killed him in her
defense, the daughter holding her father
while her brother cut his throat. Now
when people of this sort 90 to church, DIR.
Satterlee's figures are manifestly too low.
On the other hand it is not likely that
AGO. 900 persons 20 to church regularly in
New York. In fact, they could not, there
| not being churches enough TO contain them.
| The inadequacy Of church accommoda-
ton was shown last Sunday, as II always
is on festival days, when, not only did the
crowded condition of the churches con-
trast conspicuOusly with the compare
lively sparse attendance on ordinary oc-
casiOns, but there was not room for late
corners.
THE MOST SUGGESTIVE PASSAGE
in Judge Noah Davis essay on Marriage
and Divorce" which he read before the
Nineteenth Century Club on Tuesday
evening, was incorrectly reported in the
newspapers. | will give it to you as
remember it: A supposititiOus parsonage,
whom the Judge named after the first
letter IN the alphabet, marries a wife and
has children by her in this State. In the
course of time he tires of her, and, going
to Indiana, obtains, at a small expense.
| a divorce, and marries a second time. A
I second crop of children follow the second
marriage. Again this tickle person
tires OF his better halt and ne goes to
| California, where he obtains a divorce
from his second wife, and marries a third,
by whom he also has family. Finally
/ he finds his way back to New ! Ork,
where he learns that his first wife has OBJ
tanned divorce from him, according to
the laws Of this State, on account of his
adulterous marriage in Indiana. He,
therefore, is dOubly divorced from her.
Inspired by the fact, he goes to COnnecti-
cut and gets divorced from his California
wife: marries fourth wife in New Jer-
sey, as he is prohibited from remarrying
in this State, and, returning to this
State, raises a second New York family.
Now, when he dies intestate, what is
the legal status Of his different children
The children by the first wife are legiti-
mate everywhere, the children by the
second wife are legitimate in Indiana
but illegitimate in New York; the chill
dren " the third wife are illegitimate in
Indiana, but are legitimate in California
and New York. because the divorce OBJ
tanned by his first wife left him free to
contract the third marriage, and the
children OF the fourth wife are legitimate
in Connecticut and New Jersey, but are
illegitimate in california; l may have
literally mixed these babies up in tire
foregoing, but it is an improvement on
the newspaper reports.
AN ARTIST OF MORE OR LESS REPU-
TATION,
whose name, however, does not occur to
me Just now, tested the genuineness of
the Indians at Barnum's greatest show on
earth the other day. Somebody had sent
him brace Of scalps from the West, and
ne exhibited the CHASTITY things to the
noble red men at the Madison Square
Garden. At once there arose such an eX-
citement and chattering in horrible gut
turals that the painter was convinced that
the Indians were the genuinest of the
genuine. Indeed, the scalps seemed to
arouse so much dormant appetite for such
trophies that he almost feared his own
would be added to the pair!
Easter Week, IN addition TO the Ma pie
son Opera Company at the Academy of
Music. has much to offer in the shape of
novelties at the theatres, but little appar-
ently that is not painfully open to criti-
cisn. ''Betsy," at Wallack's, is not even
novel, it being merely an old farce in new
shape. 1t is adapted" from the French
by f. c. Burnaud, who, in leaving out
the wickedness, and cOntrive to also
leave out the wit of the original. A.
+. Cazaman's play, "The Fatal Letter."
at the Union Square Theatre, seems to be
an utter failure, while ''The Dime Mu-
scum at the Comedy Theatre, skipped
by the Light of the Moon" at the Fifth
Avenue Theatre, and "A Rag Baby at
Tony Pastors, are the class Of farces
whose reason of being, as the French say,
is merely to afford opportunity for ''song
and dance artists to display their infinite
variety"
''Falka," the new comic opera at the
Casino, is, so to speak, a horse of another
color. Although the music is not of a high
order, it is very tuneful, and there is
really plot, which is generally cOnspicu-
Gus by its absence from comic operas,
while the librettO, barring a few bad puns,
is quite bright and witty. 1t is superbly
mounted, and is acted with a dash not
often seen outside of a French theatre.
THE REAL THEATRICAL EVENT
Of the week is the performance for the
benefit. of the Home for the Destitute
Rlin6 on the afternoons of Yesterday tn.