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

The national system of grain inspection
will be adopted in Chicago October 1st.
Five bales of new cotton were received In
Columbus on Friday from Georgia, Ala
bama and Florida.
A fire in Palestine, Texas, on Thursday
night destroyed two frame blocks. Loss,
$3O, 900; insurance about $4,000.
Three little daughters of D. Q. BIey, an
industrious farmer, living ten miles from
Sherman, Texas, was struck by lightning on
Friday and instantly killed.
Most of the Ute Indians now in Colorado
will be removed to their new reservation in
Utah within the next two months. The
whole number is about 2,700.
A Petersburg dispatch says cit Is an
nnounced that Sibouroff, the Russian Am
bassador at Berlin, is to succeed Prince Lo-
banOH as Ambassador in London"
Allen Miller shot and killed John Faison
| and seriously wounded Thomas Faison,
seven miles from Lagrange, Texas, Friday
evening. The shooting was uuprovoked.
A young man, whose name from letters
| found on his person is ascertained to be DR..
Edward Sneed, of Nashville, Tenn, died
| Saturday at the station house In Galveston
The town of Plymouth, in Luzerne cour
| ty, Pa, has been so completely undermined
are
caving in. About thirty dwellings are now
In peril from recent giving way of the
surface.
The will of the late Jas. Stokes was ad-
mitted to probate in New York on Satur-
day. His estate Is valued at $1,000, 900.
About $4,000 is bequeathed to different
societies and institutions. The remainder
is divided equally among his children.
The dead body of French Canadian
named Felix Cate was found on the
old Dyke bridge, near the Revere line, in
Chelsea, Mass. His skull was fractured
and his face badly cut. He leaves widow
and son in Canada. There are suspicious
Of foul play.
The Cincinnati Commercial started a one
cent subscription to pay the fine of an old
soldier in Licking county, Ohio, for striking
a man in the mouth who said that he "wish-
ed to God President Garfield would die. u
The sum needed was 1872 The contribu-
tions already amount to $50.
EI Liberal, a newspaper published at
Madrid, says: "The Spanish Consul at
Tunis has investigated the circumstances
of the capture of Sfax, and admits that the
Vice Consul, acting on the spur of the mo-
ment, unintentionallY exaggerated the mis-
conduct of the French troops"
The blast furnace of the South Pueblo
Steel Works, at Denver, Col, will be ready
to blow In about three weeks. The works
cost over a million dollars. These steel
works are the first and only ones establish
ed in Colorado, and the event is looked
upon as quite an era in the history of the
State.
The North Carolina election returns con-
tinue very unfavorable to the prohibi-
tionists. Every county thus far heard from
nc O noin fncf
Wilmington Star has received specials from
nearly every section of the State, and esti =
mates the majority against prohibition at
fifty five to sixty thousand,
James Baker, farmer, living fifteen
miles south of Fort Wayne, near Sheldon.
Ind, shot William Howell with rifle kill
ing him instantly. A son of Howell, on
hearing,the report of the rife, went to his
fathers assistance, when Baker reloaded the
rife and fired al the son, missing him. Ba-
ker, who was under the influence of LIQUOR.
has not yet been arrested.
The total acreage OF wheat In Minnesota.
as shown by the official report for 1880,
amounts to 2,960,073 acres, and for 1881
2,BO,67o acres, showing an increase of only
6O5 acres. The crop for 1880 is reported to
be SO, 81, ,799 bushels, which gives an aver
age yield per acre for the State of ID 80
bushels. The prospect is that the State
will produce a fair crop Of wheat, while the
other cereals promise more than average
results,
4 special telegram from Palmyra, Wis,
says 1t is settled beyond all doubt that the
Williams brothers have been in that town
and IN adjoining bluffs and woods several
days. Detectives and officers aye after
them, tracing them to Eagle, from which
point they are yet 10 be hunted. The bluffs
and woods for miles round have been
thoroughly patroled. and It is thought thew
must soon be heard from In some other
locality.
A Kingston IN. Y. dispatch says that
one hundred and hftY colored laborers.
principally from Maryland and the District
OF Columbia, are now employed in the con
struction Of the West Shore Railway. along
the Hudson river. One hundred more are
expected to arrive from the same sections
In a few days, from which It is inferred that
those now at work on the road are doing
satisfactory work.