Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1894-04-20
NEW HAVEN. CONN, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 90 1894.

there has been retrenchmsnt all round, but
yet the revenue returns are not satisfac-
tory. In the colony Of Victoria the az
penditurss of the government during the
susrter lust ended exceeded the revenue
by somsthing like $4,000 The inter
est on depedts In the State savings banka
has been reduced from 81 to 3per cent.
A Mr.. Hall bought Cumnor place froz,
the Earl of Abingdon on the express rsn.
resentation of the agent that Il 4, th.
place whsre Amy Robsart disd Sud tb.,
the ghosts Of Amy and Var <.v ana An.
thony Foster periodically , perambuls,sd
there. Upon taking p, ,<s.s.Ion. Hsll and,
that the Cumnor <aaes La not the right
place, that AM Robsart didn't die there,
that thsie r.rs no ghosts in stock thsrs, and
that no .sody looks Of the place with awe -
he passes by. 30 he sues the Earl Of
Abingdon, and an English court is to be
asked to decide whether ghosts can be .
true ehattel in . bargain of this kind
The annals of the Psstsur Institute in
Paris for 1893 havs been puhlishsd. They
show that last year 1,64s persons were
treated for bydrophobia and that only six
of them died of that disease. OF the num-
Der mentioned there wore 40 French
people and 17s foreigners. Among the
foreigners were 48 Spsniards, So Greeks,
2S English, % Belgians, 10 Egyptians, II
British subjects from India, Swiss, Q
Dutch and Portuguese. Since n. Pas
tsur began to practice his inoculations
against hydrophobia 4,480 persons have
been treated by his method, of whom only
70 have died of the disease. What pro-
portion of the others would have suffered
from the disease If they had no. bean treat
ed It Is impossible, of course, to say, but
the showing il clearly q good one.
Mayor Stuart of Philadelphia very prop
erly declined to allow the Universal Peace
union to float it's flag over Independence
hall in place of the stars and stripes day
before yesterday, when 1t held g oslsbra-
ton In the historic building to oommsmo-
rate the signing of the arbitration treaty at
Washington on April 1s, 1890. Mayor
Stuart said: 81 have always refused to al
low any flag other than the American Asg
to be raised over Independence hall, and
must decline to grant your request. No
flag excepting our national ensign has ever
been permitted to hy over that building,
and feel that you and your union, upon
reflection, can but agree with me that un-
der no circumstances whatever should the
American flag. which floats there through
out the entire year, be permitted to be
hauled down to be replaced by any other,
no matter what that other msy be or rep
resents."
There is law In Pennsylvania that de-
clares guilty of misdemeanor any person
who wilfully states, delivers or transmits,
editor, publisher or reporter of any news
paper or periodical, any ibelous statement
concerning any person or corporation, and
the penalty Is fine not exceeding $500, or
imprisonment not exceeding two years, or
both. Recently a responsible citizen of
Williamsport, Pa, informed the reporter
of q newspaper published in that town
that the wife of q gentleman residing there
had given birth to four children at once.
The interesting announcement WAS pub
lished, and 1t subsequently turned out that
there was no truth in the report. The
publishers of the newspaper thus imposed
upon have now caused the arrest of the
person who gave the information to the re-
porter, and q wholesome Lesson is likely to
be taught those people who furnish bogus
information to newspaper reporters.
There is q settlement near Mobile, Ala
bams, called ''Littls Africa" which has
strange history. Its people are pure
bloodsd DshomeyanR, who settled there
after the war, and have mover married or
given in marriage outside themselves.
They are said to bs exceedingly fine spsci.
mems of the Afriosn race. They are the
representatives of the last cargo Of negroes
brought into the United States from Africa.
They were brought here in 1859 as the re-
suit of a bet made In 1857 by the captain
of river steamboat in Alabama with four
northern men, passengers of his, that be
could bring over q cargo Of slaves In two
years in spite of the strictness of the law
against such traffic. The Federal officers
learned of the arrival of the vessel, and
the captain was compelled to get under
csver. The planters who had promised to
purchase the slaves were afraid to do so,
and they were in consequences, never sepa-
rated. Mrs. Caroline Dali of the Woman's
Anthropologioal society read paper re-
Gently In which the facts were brought ont,
and more thorough investigation is prom