Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

THE British Government pays K4 80 per ton
for transporting freight from England to
Egypt forlthe Soudan campaign.
TIE Roma -Kwai of Toxic must outrank
all other societies for literary reform. Its
purpose is the substitution of Roman letters
for Chinese characters.
WEEK before last, while the Baptist Church
of Clinton. y. c., was being recovered, one of
the wOrkmen. who is a great sinner by nature
and much more so by praetlce, got on top of
the sDire which put him about one hundred
feet above the ground, and thinking then the
most apt time that ever would present itself,
sang, Nearer, my God, to Thee"
AN extraordinary act of vandalism has
been committed at Laval, France. The fine
statue Of Psyche" by the sculptor Lavigne,
which had been purchased by the Minister of
Fine Arts, who presented It to the town OF
Laval, was found to have been knocked down
from its pedestal and broken by some un-
known person during the night recently.
Some Of the inhabitants had objected to 1t for
the absence Of drapery.
THE sO.called maidstone" is a composite
substance in the shape of a porous stone,
sometimes found in the stomach of rumi-
mating animals, usually deer, and is popu
larly supposed 10 be efhcaciOus IN drawing the
virus from the wound made by a mad dog.
The matter was not long ago Investigated by
a committee of physicians where the mad
was that belief in its efficacy was delusiOn.
SOME striking taiIors, arrested in Boston.
gave such fictitious names as Stanisiaus
Spooliski, Martin GraberkollaroG and Ivan
Tookinastitch, and their ingenuity completely
deceived the grave and reverend cOngrega-
tlOnalist, which, taking them for Russians,
remarks that their names are significant as
to the nationality Of the men who attempt to
enforce the tyranny of trades unions in a free
country, to which they have fed from Old
World restrictions"
NOTTOwAY COUNTY, VA, the region in
habited by the first settlers, and made in
tcresting by "reminiscences of Capt. John
Smith and Pocahontas, is fast returning tOlts
primeyal condition. I'm twenty years IL Will
be a wilderness" propheses a visitor. The
residents are old and sad. The young have
gone to more promising regions. Deer
browse where cattle fed, and the oak and
pine cover great plantations where the negro
once cultivated corn and tobacco.
.sMR. LODGE" as New York correspondent
writes. .'has taken great pains with an
edition OF the writings OF Alexander Hamil-
ton which the Putnams are bringing out at
New York in eight volumes, but of which
only the first has yet appeared. The edition
ia n small and costly One-limited to 500 copies
and sold for IS a vClume-but il will be COM
pIetc and will contain the pamphlet on the
REYNOLDS scandal in HamiltOn's career, which
has long been suppressed, so that copies are
now very difficult TO procure"
LAST Friday Daniel Smith, from Washing
ton county, Me-, arrived at Richmond, KY,
and went to the country where ''Smith, the
hermit" who has been in that region nearly
quarter of a century, was found in his hut.
The hermit soon recognized his brother. He
il Capt. LOrcy Smith, formerly of Nova
scotia, who, in a state of mental alteration,
left his home over 20 years ago. He accom-
nsnied his brother to Maine. He has a family
In Nova Scotia and about 200 acres Of land.
IT'S likely that the Arst opposition Cleve-
land will meet with from the Democrats when
Congress convenes will be upon the cur
rency qustion. Upon this the Eastern Demo-
Gratis and Republicans agree. They will fight
shoulder to shoulder and 1t VIII bring
them closer together, Whlle the Dltter-
ness of the silver Democrats. II they are de-
feated. wilt widen the breach between them
and their executive. The Republicans VIII
make this an issue in the Congressional cam
paign two years hence and VIII charge the
Democrats with being opposed to honest re-
form il they fail to support Cleveland at THIS
time.
In view Of the fact that while in other cOun-
tries the population is increasing, in France
the deaths outnumber the births in some de-
partments, NJ. Sarcey contends that fashion
has a good deal to do with the stagnation of
the population, and It being the fashion 10
in the better classes, is a family limited to
two or three children. lie has observed that
in England the mother of eight, ten, or even
more children is an object of respect, and not
by any means liable to be ridlculed, while
French woman, moving in good society, with
such a large brood, is considered almost
phenomenon.
LORD WoLsELEY's old French instruc-
tor at Montreal relates this incident:
"Once 1 said to him, quite prophet
cally, as it turned out: Colonel, / be-
lieye you VIII some day rise to be the COM