Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-27
Brief News Summary.

Governor Witt, Of Louisiana, is reported
to be so sick, In New Orleans, that his re-
covery is doubtful.
Three steamers which arrived at New York
on Saturday brought 1890 immigrants. The
arrivals at Castle Garden for tho week were
1885.
Rev. Alexander H. Vinton, formerly rec
tor of st. Marks Church, New York, died
in Philadelphia yesterday morning Of pneu
monia.
One of the guests of the Sons of st.
George at its annual dinner in Baltimore, on
Saturday, was Prof N. Crouch, the venera-
BILE author of kathleen Mavourneen."
John Mohr, of jersey City, father of the
boy who lately died in the Charity Hospital
from the effects of beating administered
! by the parent has committed suicide by
hanging.
! On Saturday night Elijah Horton was
murdered by unknown persons In field on
| his own farm near Brownsville, Saline
county, Mo. His skull was crushed and his
| pockets rIf1ed.
Isaac Vanmeter, OF Lexington, KY, has
sold the well known trotter Won Arnim to
Commodore Klnsett, of st. Paul, Mimi, for
$4,000. Won Arnim is seven years old and
has record of 2:22.
The Methodist Conference at Bradford.
whereby members of the conference agree
not to marry divorced parties, except the
innocent one, where the cause of divorce is
adultery.
Sunday was the first in many years on
which no theatrical performances were
given in Cincinnati. A few of the resorts
gave free instrumental concerts. All the
theatrical managers late last week agreed to
acquiesce In Mayor Means order to close n
Sunday.
dispatch from Blossom Prairie saws:
"B. +. Ackerman, living ten miles north of
that place, while at the house ofsone of his
tenants on Monday, was fired upon by four
men armed with Winchester rifles and Sc
riously wounded in the face, breast aud
leg"
Sir Stafford Northcote has written to Mr..
Charles Bradlaugh, informing him that he
will object to his taking the oath as a men,
Der for Northampton in the House of Com
mons in the absence of any statement of
Mr.. Bradlaugh's which might remove the
difficulty felt by considerable number of
the members of the House.
Hopes are still entertained that the pro-
ject of Worlds Fair at New York in 1888
will not altogether fail. 1t is rumored that
Hon. Peter Cooper has promised the mana
gers subscription of $500, 900, while the
idea is advanced that Mr.. w. H. Vanderbilt |
will make his subscription unconditional,
provided other railroad people do the same.
Some of the Spectators" In life insur-
ance policies issued by Pennsylvania mutual |
companies have been extensively operating |
ia Frederick couney, Md, the aggregate |
sums insured reaching into millions, and so |
much interest has been excited by the recent |
discovery OF these operations that action by |
the next Maryland Legislature to prevent |
the traffic is confidently talked of.
A meeting of the trustees Of the Calves |
ton, Houston and Henderson Railroad |
Company was held yesterday afternoon at |
% William street, New York. Jos. Rudd, |
Jr., was elected as one of the trustees of |
the road to fill vacancy caused by the re-
signation of Jno. j. Donaldson. It was de-
cided to relay the entire road with steel |
rails, and to make number Of other neces-
sary repairs.
Littleton Hatchet, colored. has been con-
victed at Richmond, Va, Of the murder of
Moses Young, also colored, In Brunswick
county, Va, in December last, by admins
isteling poison In whisky He was sentenced
to be hanged June a. The murdered
mans wife Is to be tried as an accessory.
Another colOred man named Carol, tried on
the charge of abetting the crime by furnish
ing the poisoned whisky, was acquitted.
Two Brooklyn IN Y policemen saw three
men in a boat loaded with railroad iron,
which they had stolen. Hoping to escape
arrest, the men jumped into the water,
when the officers, securing the boat, pur.
sued them. They caught one, named Den
mis- Campbell, and while trying to secure
him the boat was upset and the officers
thrown into the water. They. however,
brought Campbell ashore, and then arrested
Michael CaDneran as he was swimming to
the dock. The third man was drowned.