Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-27

JUDGE STILES, of the Common Pleas Court
at Louisville, Ky, has appointed Mrs. NJ. j..
Pottinger a Notary Public.
DIR. do LEWIS processes extreme astonish-
ment at finding barrooms open all over Iowa,
with easy facilities for customers, but be might
consult Webster Flanagan as to what the bar
rooms were there for.
EXPOSITION correspondents at the Crescent
City describe President DiaZ's wife as only
%, tall and slender, with very long Roman
nose. and no doubt she has an equally long
Spanish Mexican pedigree.
THIS WEEK Henry Carey Baird, the pros
porous Philadelphia publisher, Will celebrate
the centennial anniversary of the foundation
of MS house-an unusual event in the business
annals of the Quaker City, or Of any other
city in this country.
COY. CORNELL wanted to enroll himself in
the Blaine book of life Of the Twenty first Dis
trIct OF Newl ork, and was asked, Are you
a Republican, He was 50 indignant that he
couldn't speak. j { signed his name and was
challenged, and was then more indignant
than before.
LORD LYrToN, at the time of the declara-
ton Of Queen Victoria as Empress Of India
and the striking Of the splendid medal honor
ing the event. lmpudently bought one,
altered the inscription to Victoria, Empress
of the Arena" and sent it, richly set, to an
cqucstrienne.
LIEUT.. sHUFELDT, Of the navy, who re-
Gently made extensive explorations IN NADIA
DAYS for London. From there he will proceed
to Alden and Mozambique, to renew his travels
in Madagascar. He will enter that country
from the west, reversing his former route.
WHEN Grants article on Shiloh reaches
Constantinople there will be trouble. Lew
Wallace will resign his post as Minister at
once and come home to explain the causes of
his failure to reach the battlefield in time to
prevent Grants disgrace. The Sultan is very
much attached to Wallace and he will weep
when he departs.
DIR. BALDwIN. Of the Christian Union. ex-
presses the encouraging opinion that profanity
and bad language are nov much less used in
business circles, the workshop and among in
telIgeut and thoughtful men OF to-day than
say twenty to thirty years ago" But posi-
bly, the doctor Is not around as much as he
was twenty or thirty years ago, aud probably
hiss not been to Augusta, Me-, since NOvem-
Der.
DICK YARwOOp. the pedestrian, who ls
matched to walk $3.50 miles in 100 days, at
ROrdeutown, \. j., and who has already done
over half that distance. has quite an interest
ing history. His real name is George Miles.
and his Youthful days were spent in Borden
town. For having committed some boyish
deprcdal ion he was arrested, but managed to
give his captOT the slip while waiting at the
railway station for the train, and for a long
while nothing was heard from him. On
reaching mans estate he set sail for England,
but was rocked in sight of the EddystOne
light. Among the crew of the vessel was a
man named NarwOOd who was drowned, and
Miles decided to assume his name. After
living a while in England he was made a
member Of the Queens Life Guards, but firing
of the position, he returned to America. He
is a fine look ing man, fully feet in height,
ant possesses a splendid physique. His back
ers are confident of his performing the task
he has undertaken.
ROSWELL GRANT, a farmer, aged s. years,
died at his home in St. Adams, W. Va, Sat
urday. He was the last of a family of eight
children, all of whom lived to an old age. He
was an uncle of Gen. L. S. Grant, and was
born in Ohio. During the war he sympathized
with the South, but predicted in 1861 that the
South would not succeed because Ulysses, his
nephew, was on the other side. He was mar
ried three times, and survived his last wife.
He voted for seventeen Presidents, all of
whom were elected.