Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-03-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

railway will omen M several districts of east
ern Bengal, and eventually form part Oh Ihe
line to Assam.
SINCE the accession Of Pope Leo XIII. "A
Cardinals have died. OF the Cardinals ere
ated by Pope Plus TX. 26 are still living. the
remaining "a have been created by Leo Nil:
There are now 10 vacancies IN the oscfeu
College. Cardinal Newman Is the OLDEST
of the Cardinals. There are now ] -2OS ulgnl-
taries in the Roman Catholic hierarchy
A RUMoR is current in royalist circles in
France of a marriage to be arranged between
the eldest son of the Comte de Paris and the
daughter OF H. r. II. the Prince of Wales. 1t
| IS added that the journey Of the Prince 10
Cannes ana his short stay there VIII be 9tl-
| lied in this sense. One of the strongest adVo-
Gates of the alliance is the Marquis de Beau
voir, the equerry and friend from childhood
| of the Comte de Paris, to whom is in great
measure due the union of the House OF France
with that of Denmark and Portugal.
THE GERMANS are beginning TO find out
what sort OF climate they have to deal with
in their West African colonies. News has
just reached Berlin of the death by marsh fe-
| yer of a gallant sergeant of the Kaiser Alex
! ander Guard regiment, who was sent out by
! the Foreign Office last April to drill into
sort of gendarmerie a number OF the natives
on the West African coast. In a letter to
relative, written shortly before his death, the
sergeant complains of having lost 20 pounds
| weight from the effects of Two intermittent
fevers in one day. Clearly this region is not
so well suited as Poland for the settlement of
German peasant farmers and workmen.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, dislikes court balls
and royal fetes, and when he has to attend
them he looks painfully bored. His Majesty
prefers to remain in his private apartments
playing billiards with his aides and ordnance
officers, or talking about horses and hunting
through dense clouds Of tobacco smoke. He
went to the theatre once during the first year
| of his reign, but could never be persuaded to
| II nf
and always goes to the Apollo when there is
something attractive presented. When her
| Majesty appears in her Lo0e the artists stop
ana the orchestra strikes up the Royal March.
The artists 10 not like this, but they gracefully
yield to custom.
THE RECTOR of Trinity Church, New York,
is out with a statement, correcting what he
calls the erroneous reports that are in eireu
lation concerning the wealth and income Of
| that corporation, both of which, be says, are
greatly exaggerated. The entire annual in
come OF the church property from all sources,
he says, last year did not exceed $5S0. 900.
Moreover the corporation pays taxes on every
foot of ground used for secular purposes, and
nothing is exempt from the assessor except
the church ediices, the cemeteries. the edu-
catiOnal institutions, in which dairy free
schools and night schools are m maintained, for
the benefit OF the poorer classes, and hos
pital in which the sick poor receive gratuitous
| treatment, etc.
PROF. LUDWIG MEYER opens a new chapter
in the discussion Of the temperance question
by cOntestIng the very generally received idea
that the use OF lighter beverages tends to di-
minish the consumption of strong spirits; on
the contrary, he h0lds that there Is a steady
increase in the use OF both. In Holland the
use of spirits has increased 80 per cent within
| II yeaEs; in Belgium Ii has doubled itself in
| the last 40 years, and even in that home of
wine France, it has risen from an average of
four annual btres per head to seven IN the
two decades fn8m 1850 to 1850, /. e., an increase
Of 20 per cent. la Prussia between 1855 and
1850 the consumption of spirits rose from eight
TO ten litres per head, while that of beer rose
from 81 to IS litFes.
THE FUND for Mrs. Hancock has reached
1876. A ''Tar Heel" writesto the editor of
the New York World: IAN ex-Csnfederate
member of A. P. HIPS Third Corps, Army of
Northern Virginia, offers 81 (which find in
closed for the Spanish pistareeD contributed TO
the Mrs. hancock fund by his brother tReb,'
DIT. T.. Maggie. We're his means propOrtIenate
to his desires he would gladly make the Offering
81 for each year Of the coins existence.
Should the amount forwarded secure the
prize and the writer sincerely hopes that 1t
will mott. he will forward his address upon an
intlmation in the World to that effect. II 1t
does not, please credit the sum 70 the fund in
any instance as an appreciation of so
worthy an object, and Is coming from an
humble but ardent admirer Of a brave and
distinguished OpPOnent-the hero of Gettys-
burg.
THE Moscow Gazette publishes aletter from
Sofia delayed because brought by hand, con-
tanning the following piece Of infOrmatiOn,
which, If true, speaks plainly for itself: Dur
ing the Servo Bul Rarian conflict on the night
of Nov. 4, a suspicious rider tried to get
through the lines on the Bulgarian right flank
; TO reach the Servian positions, and was shot
dead in the attempt. Papers on his person
them was a letter written in German By tine
secretary Of an Austrian diplomatic agent at
possible in the following term: Your Majes-
! ty IS advised to make every endeav0r to-day
or tomorrow to enter Sofa, or else il will be
; too late and too difficult, as the ROumelian
troops are Fastening to the support OF the
} BUgarians." The donbke role played by
Austria 10 OF course again severely comment
: cd upon ON the strength Of this discovery.
"ONE who has just come back from the
, balmy shores OF Cuba says that Gov. English,
of Connecticut, and his bride of 20 summers
are at the top Of the heap in the American
| colony Wiptering in Havana. The Governor
is nice old gentleman whose days have run
along into the eighth decade. The couple do
not mind the disparity Of age in the bliss OF
their comPanionship: They are as loving as
| charming little body, has been taken right
into camp by her cOuntrywomen. They ebafi
her good deal about the lord she has chosen.
{ Il should think, dear sail one Of the more
3 daring Of the party, that you would feel like
| Gov. EngIsh's daughter, not his wife, And
the wInsome bride laughed heartily. %, as
for that she replied nalvely, you have no
idea how one gets used to It,. When he IS at
nv side our ages blend beautifully. | feel as
IN old age was creeping over me, dom you see.
And then | quite like him, too. for he's Eng
lish, you know?"
THE Texas cowboy pianist" A. II. Babel,
, gave his first public recital Friday night
in stelpway Hall, New York. He appeared
In the regulation cowboy costume, WOO en-
, shirt. shaggy wastcoat and frlnged leather
leEgiags. He was introduced as "a son Of
nature who had never received any instruc
ton, and played entirely by ear" He began
20 ulay about seven years,agO and in that time
! has aequir "A repertor OF 200 numbers His
performance must be considered entirely on
the cowboy basis, says New York paper,
a. he has no other claim to artistic recogni :
ton A fair-sized audience was alterna civ
delighted and amused by his playing With
regard TO his rapid execution and eXtraordin-
ary feats of memory. his performance was
wonderful. But the ''son of nature" would
predomnate, and his power Of execution,
limited apparently only by the strength Of the
pinpo, at times resembed one of his mothers
cvconic m Ods. His original arrangement OF
"Home, Sweet Home" with twenty -One varia-
tions. n duet movement and three -oetaVO
skips. was suggestive by his former Journeys
and life on the hurrican deck of Of mule.
TIE MENTAL CONDITION Of Gen. W. T.
Sherman. says Washington correspondent
! is giving his friends some uneasiness. He has
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