Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-01

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81 ps ere made OF paper.
IT is proposed 70 establish union stock yards
ar FL PasO 70 accommodate the live STOCK
trade between Mexico and tie United states
AHEw process OF drawing and engraving
has been devi ed by which people or scenes
can be photographed Of an afternoon. and the
electr0Iype cut gotten ready fpr printing IN
the newspaper OF the following morning. Iue
cost is also less tlan the old method.
AN English railway employee wishing TO
leave TIE compauy's service must give notice,
but he can be discharged without warnIn g
In France . eUploye can quit when ne liEes,
tux 4 tie i dismissed ne IS atled 10 fifteen
days val -. In me Lte1 states SO notlce
or pay is Required or granted on either side.
As Az additional safeguard against the in
PRODUCTION u cholera through Old rags i'm
ported from Europe, the Secretary Of the
Treasury las given his approval to the loca-
tion VI 2 covered ghteF AZ the quarantine
stst.Jn IN the lower bay, New YORK. for the
alsintection by the superheated steam process
o. such raSg as u ag come from countries re-
carried q Injected.
DIR. EPSON has found that common Rio
coffee is pus through process Of poisoning
which transforms il into any desired variety,
aud this IS only one Of the many frauds that
be las detected in the grocery trace. Lead
and lts compounds are found n almost every
article Oh prepared food, While copper and
arsenic are IN common use. The ways Of the
WJT41 are peculiar.
LARGE ROCK from the side Of Lookout
Mountain broke loose early Saturday morn
ing, AID IL its rapid descent struck Pullman
palace car attached 70 a north bound tram on
the = ashvl.le ana Chattanooga Railroad.
portion Of the car was considerably mashed
N, but no passengers were injured. This Is
the first accident Of the Kind that has occurred
since the road was built.
l. the island of Goa, near Bombay, there is
singular vegetable called ''the sorrowful
tree" because it only Courishes in the night.
At sunset no flowers aie to be seen. and vet
after half hour il is FIJI Of them. hey
yield q sweet smell, but the sun no sooner be
gins to shine upon them than some OF them
fail Of. and others close up; and thus II con-
tlnues lowering in the night during the whole
year.
THE Robert Burns memorial, unveiled
few days since in Westminster Abbey. is on
the screen on the east side Of the Poets Cor
ner. at the right OF the Shakespeare monu-
ment and above that Of Thomson, Southey's
being at corresponding elevation at toe left.
The bust. which is aHer Nasmyth's portrait,
bears merely the name, with the date of the
birth and death Of the poet. The list Of con-
tributOrs TO the memorial fund numbered
9L0Oc, who sent ther sDlings from nearly
every part OF the world.
THE standing army of japan consists Of
400 men, the reserve OF $4,000, and the land
wehr, or territorial reserve. Of 10000. All
these troops are dressed and equipped in Eu-
roDean fashion, and thsy are at present part
3 armed with RaDlu sS1ons and partly with
Snlcers. They are, however, shortly 10 be
armed with new rife, thF invention Of a
/ japanese Colonel. w hlcd combines the merits
Of tie Gras, the C-e55-pot and tue Mauser
systems and the American officers who have
I tested It sieaE highly both Of its principle
/ and OF its workmanship.
/ TIE > Germans who were engage at Ber-
lin by Li-Fong- Pao have 81 had to take Chi
/ nese names upon erterng the service Of the
Celestial Empire. OGe Of them, who was for
merly Captain o. a corvette, is now called
! aug l. SlrlauC. which. when turned into
English means MI H gh M all. He has Just
! been promoted u inc rank Of Admiral, and
J com mauts the thao 0ung. Another German
/ officer Is now named Lin-RaO. or Mr.. Six Can
n4s. The pay of these officers must be very
. hfgl, for the common German gum ers receive
nearly $3.50 month, and about 1850 is the
amount u.ranteed 10 The family Of each man
/ ia case he is killed by the French.
WHILE the fate Of the proposed Broadway
Surface Railroad, in New York, and its twin
sister, the cable road, through Lexington ave-
nue. are stu in doubt, owing to the sturdy re-
sstance Of the property owners, it is an
nounced on good authority that money has
IL
4 SO on Broadway. Several ''syndicates" are
spoken of AS having the enterprise under con-
4 sdePatOn, embracing names not only of
/ capitalists Of the first position. but owners Of
I real estate, who believe that road of this
KIND, under the backbone OF the island, would
have an Immediate influence for the better
/ upon market prices" The plan is TO build a
section Of the road from the Battery to the
I CITY Hall, to show how II would work.
CAPT. W. ". O'NEIL, OF the coal firm OF
Z " G. 70 1,-4
challenge from the St. Louis and Mississippi
Valley Transpor alton Company, of St. Louis,
( Tor race Of LOCO miles between the W. w
/ O'Neil and a picked boat Of those owned by
/ the challenging company. Capt. O'Neil
/ promptly accepted and named June as the
! monta in which the race should be run. The
/ two boats are to hitch to q tow of six model
Oarges apiece and swing out wheel and wheel
/ from the wharf at New Orleans at the same
| tap of the pilots bell. The lows are 10 be az
/ nearly equal as 1t is possible to make them.
/ There is TO be no jockeyfhg. and the boat that
gels Its bow first across the finish line at c siro
] 1000 miles up the Mississippi, is Lne winner
! The stakes are the hOnoTs OF two competing
styles OF boat equippent-the short stroke
] system IN general praGlce on the river and
/ the long stroke innovation introduced BY
! Capt. O'Nen.
A NEW YORK DEMOCRAT the other day said: :
/ 81 never realized that until relative in Vir-
/ glnis told me Of his experience, He ran for
/ Congress and was defeated by the colored
/ vote. He had been a soldier in Lees army.
4 and this was shortly after the war. He was
/ nominated again. In making his canvass he
/ ran across an old darkey, who had been his
fathers slave and body servant and dis
coyeTcd that the man was going 10 vote for
/ his antagonist When questioned for the rea-
/ son, the old man finally said that all the col
/ oTed people had been led TO believe that If the
/ Democrats returned TO pow er they would be
I re-enslaved. My relative set the old fellow
| at work to invite all the old slaves Of his
] fathers plantation to a big barbecue. When
! 1t came on he made them a little speech and
J handed each man manumisson paper. tell
+ ing them that only thus could be convince
/ them that he had no wrong motive toward
their race. He was elected 20 Congress and
reelected time and again thereafter"