Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IOTiutQ a Society LnetOUJcCb OA WHO'LL 10 W PAS-
vent work IN building on Sundays.
THE plate glass insurance companies Of New
York ook in cash premiums last year amount
ing to 1919, 274, and paid losses amounting to
$l76,52i.
THE finest docks in the world"-those
huit after four years Of hercueau labor at
Tlbury, Eng.-were opened without FUSS
or splash on saturday.
GOOD butter makers are in demand in all
the dairy districts of the country. Secretary
McGlIncy reports that the wages offered for
| such skilled labor is from $50 to $40 per
month.
T. L. MARKS. of the New York State fish
hatchery. at Caledonia, has stocked the waters
4 Lake Ronkonkoma. L. l., with black bass.
The expense was betrayed by the citizens of
Water Mills.
1T is becoming a somewhat common prac-
tice IN a few English churches to give an
oratoro or part of an oratorio at the second
service instead OF sermon. Some of the
church papers vigorously attack the prac
sice.
A CARLOAD of willow baskets ia nests of
four from New York arrived in Los Angeles,
Cal. few days ago, The whole carload
weighed only l9O0 pounds, and at SC. pound
the whole freight bill for distance of over
1900 miles was only 50 so.
THE Brooklyn bridge has proved serious
competitor to the ferries. The Union Ferry
Company shows that its receipts have fallen
of from 100000 per annum to IS q, 100. and
with the approach Of mild weather the COM
pnay is obliged u discharge sixty of its hands
| IN the great procession in Providence of
the men who favor a constitutional conven-
| ton this was one of the notices displayed in
the ranks: six states only tax the suffrage;
The 70 Of dshonOr: Georgia. Tennessee, Del
aware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode
| Island"
THE Bishop of Oxford sent to the church
wardens in his diocese a circular of inquiries,
among which was: "Does your officiating
clergyman preac h the Gospel. and il his con-
yersat'on and carriage consistent herewith"
| The church warden of Wallingford replied !:
He breaches the Gospel, but does not keep q
carriage"
| ONE of the latest books to circulate in the
Canton bazars is a Chinese version of "The
Pilgrims Progress" The little volume is i'll
lusirated with pictures drawn and engraved
! by Chinese artists. In these, Christian ap-
pears In Chinese costume, the House Beauti-
full as Chinese pagods, and throughout the
book all the scene and incidents are depicted
In garb familiar to the people for whom the
book is intended.
Two FRENCHMEN visited MuIey-el- Hassan,
the Sultar of Morocco, at Fee, a few weeks
ago. When Muley-e ell Hassan received the
mounted on a white horse with trappings of
green velvet, two attendants being engaged
IN keeping of the flies" Amid the discharge
OF artillery the troops shouted: MAY Allah
give victory to the Sutan!" Then the French
men were given audience.
Elk REGISTER OF WILLS of Chester county.
Pa, Mr.. b. F. Widdcombe, recently had a
portion of a hattened bullet taken out OF his
shoulder, where it has rested since one of
the carrier battles Of the late wal and where
during the whole intervening period it has
occasioned much pain. He now has it hand
somely mounted in gold and he wears it upon
the lapel of his coat as a memento Some
wears ago he had one extracted which he
wears as charm on his watch chain.
WHILE workmen were removing the bodies
from an old burying-ground at Thirteenth
and Lombard streets, Philadelphia, thew
raised to the surface that of Thomas Mercer.
who was buried IS year ago. Upcn oOening
the coffin the body was found to be in pers
| feet eta, Of preservation and completely pet
| rifed. The shrOud was in a perfect state, The
body and features were natural, and the HAIR
| wa still in good condition. The corpse had
| turned slightly yellow, was as hard and un-
| impressionable as marble, and weighed about
| 1000 pounds.
! 1T is NOT GENERALLY KNOWN WHY the
Bishop of Rochester left the City of Mexico
| in such a hurry No reason was assigned
| why that dignitary and mem berof the House
of Lords should sosuddenly leave the capital
| of the AZtecs when il was generally believed
before he arrived that he intended to stav
! several weeks. 1t has been said since that an
OfficIOus police officer mistook che great Prot
estant Bishop for Jesuit, because he appear
| ed on the streets in his knee breeches and
| cloak and lOw-crowned hat. and advised him
| to go back to his hotel and change his clothes
| He Is said to have made up his mind then,
| and only then. to leave MOXIco.
THE Welshmen who do not approve of SIM
/ do oatn
| vice common in Scotland. In the north coun-
try you can sometimes get glass Of whisky
on Sunday if you pay sixpence for a biscuit
/ to eat with 1t. The drawback here has al
ways been that some persons have drunk the
] whisky and then given the biscuit back But
/ in Wales barber undertakes to shave Won
| on Sunday at higher charge than that made
! on week days, and to refresh you ne gives
| you glass of beer. 1t has become so G. mmon
| for Weshmen to defer getting shaved hi
| SUNDAY that the law has inte fered; and Sun
day shaving is now called liquor selling with
| out license.
THE British snip Alexander Yeats. Cant
Dunbarn, from Labos for Falmouth, while
leaving her anchorage at Panama, struck
| heavily upon a shOal and commenced to make
water. 1t was sometime before the pump,
| would suck, but they were got in wOrKing or
der and we're gaining on the leak when the
| influx of water suddenly stODprd. The vessel
put in'o Callao Peru, for examination, and
the diver found that a large hole had bee Il
| knocked in the bottom. In the hole and com
pletely filing it was the body of very large
fish. IL is supposed that while swimming pa 4
the vessel it was carried in by the water, At
| all events the fish saved the vessel aud her
| cargo of 1000 tons OF guanO.
AN unforeseen trouble has arisen in conse-
quence OF the secularlzatisn of the Pantheon
in Paris. The splendid frescoes which have
occupied the leading artists of France nearly
ten years are already showing signs Of injury
| from damp. So long as regul ar services were
| held in the Pantheon the constant influx OF
| fresh air and the warmth generated by the
congregations kept the interior tOerablv dry,
| Nov these influences are withdrawn step.
| must be taken TO preserve the fre Goes. I'm
| fortunately there are no existing means of
warming the building, so that il will be ne
cessary To erect stoves II the works OF Puvis
| dc Chayaune', Cabanei, Laurens, "a. Levy
and others are to be preserved.
THE labor denomination in New York on
May / in favor OF the eight hour rule, will
wind up with a grand to-chight PROCESSION
and mass meeting for speeches, etc. in
Union Square. The Committee Of Arrange
ments say 10 VIII be the most impressive nom
uar turnout ever witnessed IN New YORK.
since the great uprislngs Of the civil war, and
that among he prominent men who have ac-
cepted invitations TO make ad resses are
some Of the most influential member OF Con-
grees ana Governors and Ex-Governor of
states. Gen Butler is included in the list.