Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-15
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The Rpsskg KWlJer, of Moscow, has been
suspended for four months.
A London dispatch says Charles Geo.
O'Noel, Earl of Gainsborough, is dead,
aged sixty three.
Captain Carlisle Patterson, Superintend-
ent OF the Coast Survey, Is dangerously i'll
at Washington.
The frontier relations of Egypt and Abys-
sinia are strained. A nephew of King John,
OF Abyssinia, was killed in late raid.
Congressman Hendrick B. Wright, who
has been seriously i'll in Wilkesbarre for
several weeks, is reported to be gradually
sinking.
In the New Hampshire House of Repre-
sentatives a bill to establish general rail-
road law was indefinitely postponed by a
vote of 169 to s.
1t is reported that vein of silver two feet
wide, assaYing $1,000 to the ton, has been
discovered on the top of a mountain at
Moretown, Vermont.
Mrs. John T. Terry, of BaYport, Long
Island, while bathing in the surf was thrown
Violently upon a stake supporting the life
line. The end of the stake pierced her
side, causing injuries which are supposed
fatal
The Alexandria correspondent of the Lon
don Times says: "The Ministerial crisis has
been temporarily allayed by the dismissal of
the Minister Of War at the demand of the
officers of the army. Daoud Pasha succeeds
him.
The news Is published of the release OF
the French Catholic Bishop of Massna, who
with four missionaries, while on tour of
inspection Of the missionary stations in
Abyesinia, was recently captured by the
natives.
o. H. Browning, ex-senator from Illinois,
and ex-Secretary of the Interior under
President johnson, died at Quincy, H., re-
Gently, at the age of seventy-fve years. He
had been very prominent in the politics of
that State.
A dispatch from Tunis states that the
Arab chief Ali Ben Kalifa is inclined to
solicit amnesty from the BeY. He will en-
gage to make all rebels submit and revert to
a condition of order, in return for which he
asks an appointment as Cadi of Nefetis.
General Maxine Jerez, Nicaraguan Minis
ter TO the United States, died suddenly at
his residence in Washington. One of the
inmates of the house, going to his room to
call him to dinner, found him sitting by an
open window dead. Heart disease is sup
posed to have been the cause.
At Benton, Missouri, man named Jack
son, having insulted woman named Lang
ford, the latter's husband attempted to
| chastise Jackson but was fatally stabbed by
the latter. Mrs. Langford, appearing on
the scene, shot Jackson through the breast,
inficting a wound which is believed to be
mortal also.
Advices from Fort Yates, Dakota, state
that when Sitting Bull heard of the killing
of Spotted Tail he said it was "a fit ending
for fool" The settlers along the Missouri
river are urging that more troops be sent to
| Forts Yates and Lincoln, as they are fearful
that Sitting Bull may lead another outbreak
among the Indians at the agency.
Secretary Kirkwood, on the 26th ult
directed Indian Inspector Haworth, who
was then in Kansas, to go to the Navajo
| Agency, In New Mexico, and ascertain the
cause of the reported troubles there. Ha-
worth left the agency on the 9th, and his
report is expected to reach Washington by
mail In a few days.
Christiana Taylor, an old colored woman,
| arrested for the murder of little boy and
| girl, aged respectively three and six years,
on the Fisher farm, in the District OF Co
lumbia, last Saturday week, has confessed
the crime. She assigned no motive for the
deed, saying: "What / killed them for
don't know. The devil got into me, so that
| could not help doing it.''
James Wetherelf, a widower Of seventy
years, aud Margaret Doherty, a widow of
| fifty, were married In Ottawa on Wednesday
night. A gang of roughs "charivaried" the
bridal pair from IL O'Clock at night until
| O'Clock In the morning, and then broke in
the door and demanded money. It was re-
| fused, and the old man beat them off and
| followed them. At daylight his body was
found by the roadside, with the head
crushed in.