Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-25
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY,

Mr.. De Bardeleben has sold the Pratt Goa
mines In North Alabama to company OF
Northern capitalists, receiving therefor the
sum of 81 100000.
A dispatch dated Buenos Ayres, Saturday
the 22d inst, announces that the boundary
treaty has been approved by both the Ar
gentine and Gillian Congresses.
The imports of gold and silver coin aud
bullion for the twelve months closing Au.
gust 31st, show an excess of $50, ,224, ,747,
being &c. ,Sl6 more than same time IN
1880.
Forgeries known to have been committed
by young Herbert Theirs, of Keuoshs, Wis,
now foot up over 100000. Almost every
moneyed man in the county has been vic
timized to some extent.
For the twelve months ended August 81.
1881, the excess of merchandise. exports
amounted to $251 ,531 ,613, but for the month
of August alone OF the present year the ex-
cess was only $5, ,604, 1874.
A dispatch from Dsrjeeling to the London
Times says that the choleraic feyerfs still
raging at Umritser. Business is at a stand
still. Nearly all the shops are closed. Not
a single occupant has escaped the disease.
The furniture store of John g. Graybill,
at Mifdin, Penn, was robbed one morning
recently Of $50 in money and notes to the
the notes were found on the opposite bank
of the river,
While e. p Ferry and wife were out rid
ing on horseback near Park City, Utah,
Mrs. Ferry's horse fell and rolled over upon
her, crushing her so badly that she died
soon after. Mr.. Ferry is brother of Sena-
tor Ferry, Of Michigan.
A construction train on the Cumberland
Valley Railroad was thrown from the track
six miles north of Chambersburg, Penn.
by pieces of timber which had been wedged
in the cattle guards by some unknown viii
lains. Charles Sheckels, the conductor, was
fatally injured.
The steamship Bolivia, Of the Anchor
Line, which sailed from London on the 5th
inst. for New York, has not been heard
from. There are about 200 immigrants and
100 saloon passengers, mostly returning
tourists, on board, and many inquiries are
being made at the Office by friends OF the
numerous passengers.
The forthcoming report of First Assist
tant Postmaster General Tyner will show
there are now A ,572 post offices in the
United States, an increase of 1.5O0 during
the fiscal year. OF the total, 1868 are Pres
idential, an increase of 102. The number
of money order offices in the United states
is 500, of which Illinois has the largest
number.
In the trial of George Wood, at Philadel-
phia, charged with throwing vitriol into the
face OF George Sheppard, by which the lat
ter was terribly burned and lost one eye, the
jury returned verdict OF act guilty on the
ground of Insanity of the defendant at the
time OF the commission of the act TheJudRe
said it remained with him to decide whether
Wood should not be confined In an institu-
ton for the Insane II he has not yet recoV-
cred reason,
At Tuscarora, New, recently, Orrin Har-
ris and Willie Tpple, aged about nine or
ten years, descended the ladder in disused
shaft of the Young America mine to the
sixty foot level, where, through some mis-
hap, their lights were extinguished. While
CROPPING about In the dark they both fell
down an incline to a further depth of from
sixty to one hundred feet. Instead of being
Instantly killed, as anybody but boys would
have been, they both were able to Chamber
to the surface without assistance. Young
Harris escaped with few slight bruises,
while Tipple sustained severe wounds and q
slight fracture of the skull.
A few days ago an old man presented
himself at the Treasury and gave his name
as Baldwin, from Ohio. He took from his
valise United States 6 per cent. bonds
amounting TO $l7, ,149 and demanded paw
ment in gold. Treasurer Gflfllan endeav-
ored to persuade him to take checke, but
he refused, and fpally the amount was
paid him in $50 gold pieces. He put the
coin In his valise, and, as 1t weighed seventy
pounds, he could not carry 1t. He would
not exchange the coin for anything else,
and as he appeared to be partially dement,
ed, the Treasurer sent for the Captain Of
Police to take charge of him and his money
until his friends could be heard from.