Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-28
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The No0oe Vrenaya, of st. Petersburg, has
bitter article on the saluting of the British
fAg at Yorktown. 1t refuses to believe that
the token Of amity is sincere.
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies has
approved the contracts made by the Execu-
tive for the establishment of a national
bank and the draining of the valley of Mexi-
co. The approval of the Senate is yet re-
quired.
The death is reported in New York of
Lawrence Helms, laborer, born in Ireland,
from old age and general debility. He had
passed one hundred and three years, yet
had been robust till Tuesday last, when he
began to fail.
The ship Samaria, at San Francisco from
Philadelphia, reports that on September I'd,
of Cape Horn, she saw an iron ship, with
painted ports, aba7 doned and on fire. OnlV
the bowsprit was standing. The name could
not be ascertained.
On Sunday night last burglars entered a
house in the town Of Varpalanka, Hungary,
aud murdered whole family of nine per-
sons, including an infant aud man aged 80
years, while they were alseep. No arrests
have yet been made.
A derrick which was being used to raise
large iron column for new building on the
corner Of Franklin street and Broadway,
New York, shifted from its position and
fell, killing John Dean, and injured two
others who were working at the crank.
The Garfield Monument Association at
Cleveland has devised plan for raising
funds by converting the material used in
erecting the pavilion in which the late
Presidents remains lay In state into "rel-
ics," to be sold for the benefit OF the mont
ment fund.
It is thought that the town of Knoxville
is built over a mammoth cave. An en-
trance to the cave was recently made in the
heart OF the city at q distance of two hun
dred feet below the surface Of the ground.
A larger hole was made, which opened into
4 chamber of unknown size. One of the
hands threw a rock aud could hear 1t fall in
the distance.
Superintendent Charles 8. Waller, Of the
Chicago water department, has rendered
his resignation to Mayor Carter H. Harrison
In a more or less pertinent letter, in which
he writes: believing that wave of ras-
cslity and peculation is about to submerge
your administration, l decline risking a
good character In such company as you ap-
pear to favor at present, and hereby tender
my resignation as register of the water de-
partment, and wish to be relieved as soon as
possible"
Foxhall is the only horse that has ever
won the Camoridgeshire stakes carrying
such weight as one hundred and twenty
six pounds. No horse previous to him ever
won both the Cesarewitch and Cambridge
shire except the four-year-old Rosebery,
who, In 1876, won the Cesarewitch carrying
one hundred and three pounds, aud
the Cambridgeshire with one hundred and
seventeen pounds. The highest weight for
the latter ever carried by q successful
three-yesr-old was See-Saw's one hundred
and fourteen pounds In 1863
Mr.. Henry NJ. Francis, chief bookkeeper
for Wells, Fargo 81 Co., who has been miss
ing from his home in New York since Thurs
day of last week, has not yet been discover
ed. The secretary Of the firm says he had
evidently been as far south as Baltimore, as
his family had received telegram from him
at that place, stating that he was suffering
from temporary attack of insanity. His
wife has sent officers thither in pursuit Of
him, but up to this time their errand has
been fruitless. On Friday night, it is re-
ported, he telegraphed to his wife, from
Philadelphia, that he had been temporarily
deranged, but was then on the mend. His
accounts are correct.