Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-18
RRIEF TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

rss cable between Key West and Havana
"a. bsen repaired, and communication has
Eeeu restored
The accounts from ireland agree that the
.srart numerous arrests there taYe not
rt4cttd agitation.
III carseuueLce Of rain the races at PIN
res announced for yesterday, were post
-6Det until to-day.
sir members Of the Burns family, num-
5srirsr twelve, living at Hanover, LuZerne
cSrTty, died Of small pox recently.
M fewer than twenty fn-back whales
-.re shot with the bomb -lapees, near Prov
-efown. Massachusetts,, few days since.
x,mber Of failures In the United States
- Canada the past week, ninety five,
s-- .-er--se Of twenty one compared with the
breeding week.
Robert L0werY's planning and turning
Ill st Nashville, was destroyed by fire on
Ii-r5gy night. The loss is about 81. .000.
me insurance is light.
" c. Maxwell. the bogus "Lord Court
~ who vas arrested in Utah on charges
offorgery in England, haa sailed from New
York. iu custody, fer Liverpool.
s,scssl from Weatherford, Texas, says:
..I,7ra Hood Yesterday pronounced SEN
enc of death on Wm. Burton for the muir
srorJsck Rush. Burton will be hanged
July irsr.'
The ..u7ents Of Trinity College, Hart
,,-i were Dismissed for three weeks by ad-
vice 4of the Board Of Health. on account of
s.sss n vsrioiotd and the possible exposure
ofother students.
Tb.auurafsers Of the estate Of the late
MI HrDkfns. Of the Central Pacific Rail
r-sf have f ed their account In San Fran
css,6. The to'gl valuation Of the property
fo5ts up so, 100000.
Vsrk fin the Hudson river tunnel is now
Dr5rrsssiug et the rate of five feet daily. a
new air lock has been put in the south tun-
TeI 40 feet from the shaft. Another will
h 1rsced in the north tunnel, 800 feet from
the shaft.
4 s9ecisI dispatch from Waco, Texas,
s4ys. s. A solid mountain of fine red, brown
ana white sandstone has been discovered
rea- Reagan, on the Texas and Pacific Rail-
r9sd. Experts pronounce the stone to he
equal 90 any IN America"
The annual report Of the Insurance Com
missioner Of Massachusetts, shows that
there has been great Improvements the past
wear in the insurance business so far as the
magnitude Of operations is concerned, but
the in crease in premium receipts was only
eight per cent.
small party Of negroes recently rose in
iDsar-ecfiOn at Guantanamo. Cuba, killing
aSergeaut and a private. The party was
afterwards beaten and its leaders killed.
The 4 rsUrgcnt General, MsceO, has not
landed on the island. A war steamer has
sailed FOR Guam aDamo.
The Postmaster General hss already cut
CT sufficient useless star route service TO
save the government Sl96,000 per annum,
snd decisions have been reached Tor the
dsCCutiGuaEce of other routes, the con-
tracts for which viii soon expire. This
seton has been taken without affecting the
efficiency of the service.
Trouble is feared with the Navajoe In
iiaus in New Msx CO. The ratiOns for them
sre txhaust ed, but, it is said, they are aoun-
6autly supplied with whisky by spectators.
The Young men wish for war, aud have in
terfcred with the U lired States surveyors.
military force viii be detailed for the
protection Of the latter.
4 Jersey City dispatch says: "The re-
mains Of the girl found murdered in Op-
dyke's woods at Gutenberg, were buried
this afternoon IN the poor ground OF Hobo
ken Cemetery. Chief of Police Donovan.
assisted by the police OF Morrissania, is
working up a clue which tends 10 prove
that the girl came from that place"
A telegram from San Francisco says that
10 the eugTOssing Of the tax levy Dill the
eisuse fixing the rate OF taxation was omit
ted hv a mistake Of the clerk, and the Gov
eruor signed the bill before the omission
was discovered. The extra session of the
legislature had then adjourned, and most
Ofthe members gone home. The validity
ofthe Dill in its present form is a matter OF
controversy.
- -. IL Of
Indiana. a few days ago. 'sI5 rushed over
The town, as low SIS the tree tops, with the
Iaar o. 8 hurricane and only thirty-lve
seconds elapsed from the time it appeared
ultil il disappeared. 1.-The sky was clear
st tie time-the sun shining" but q re
ductlou Of ten to fifteen degrees in the tenn
pers,ure followed the passage of the cloud
and Continued for about ten minutes" A
similar uhenOmenon was witnessed In
Bloomfield.
A Berlin dispatch Gays: cat the trial Of
the new electric motor on the railway be-
tween Lchtesfelde and Cadettenbans sim
pc Tram car was used with an electric bat
teIy entirely conceal, q between the wheels.
i was connected through the rails on which
i ran with the principal battery at the sta
ton. Tle rails are thirty-nine inches apart,
and rese mole those of an ordinary railroad.
The greatest speed obtained was eighteen
English miles an hour, but, IL necessary, a
FAR greater speed can be obtained"
The total gold circulation Of the United
States, iucluding bullion in the Treasury,
a jhe beginning Of the present month"; Is
esim1'ed by the Director of the Mints at
$4,000 GOO, OF which about S264, Coo GOO
vas Ieli as Treasury and national bank
RESERVES, and $3.50 000 600 was in actual cir
eaiaiion- There has been total gain OF
Eoid coin and bullion to the country since
su.y lsr, 1879. of S234, ,OOO, 600. OF which
S9N0O GOO was added 10 the Treasury, S59,-
N0tOO to the banks, and $40. 600, 600 TO the
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