Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-20
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Inc missouri PaclfH Railroad was COM
pleted to Mineola, Texas, Saturday.
A consistory will be held in Rome to-day
to proclaim the canonization of the Blessed
De Rossi and Labre.
At Montreal, Judge Dugas pointedly al
luded, from the bench, to the prevalence of
perjury by parties coming before him.
Attempts to burn the two Roman Catho-
lie Churches of st. Sanveur have been
discovered and thwarted at Quebec.
An appeal has been lodged with the Fed
eral Tribune at Berne against the prohi
hition of the Socialist Congress, by the
Zurich authorities.
E. 2. Cutler IL Co., Boston, iron and metals
commission merchants, have failed for
about $500, 900, of which S100, 900 is due to
New York creditors.
President Garfield, Mrs. Garfield and
their three children, Col Rockwell, DR..
Boynton and wife left Washington Satur-
day for Long Branch.
John Cummings, of Licking county, Ohio,
has been fined $25 and costs for having pun
ished his child by quitting split stick,
with tack in it, on its tongue"
A dispatch from Bucharest says the Min
lister of War, Minister Of the Interior and
Minister of Finance have resigned in conse-
quence Of the adverse vote of the Chamber
Of Deputies.
A census report upon the fishery indus
tries of the Pacific States and Territories
shows that in California, Oregon, Washing
ton Territory and Alaska the producti is val
ued at SO, ,54S, ,277.
The Russian Premier, Mustapha, has ar
rived at Paris. Adviees have been received
from Algeria to the effect that the French,
who are pursuing the revolted tribes, de-
feated them, inflicting heavy losses.
The indictment against Midhat Pasha and
the other persons accused of being con-
cerned In the murder of Abdul Aziz, has
been communicated to the prisoners. The
trials will be commenced on Thursday next.
The police of st. Petersburg have discov-
cred pot for causing a general rising of
the people. 1t also involved the
destruction of all the bridges leading to the
city, in order to render helpless the mill
tary.
The ChiIiam Times says that without any
indication or warning, a furious whirlwind
rushed over q part of the town of ValdiVia,
aud in few minutes wrecked an entire
block and killed and wounded several ger
sons.
A colored man named Ruse, charged with
feloniously assaulting a white girl, was
taken from the jail at Weston, Missouri,
and lynched. After being hanged his head
was cut off and thrown into the Missouri
river.
Martin Corcoran, striking printer on the
Dispatch newspaper, in Pttsburg, was IA
tally shot by W. j. McCahill, one of the
men employed In place of the strikers
Corcoran assaulted McCahill as the latter
was going home, and McCahill used pistol
in self defense.
News of the removal of Mr.. j. w. Rob-
erts, Postmaster at Montg Ala, has
created a sensation there. His administra-
tion has given great satisfac action, and an
immense petition will go to President Gar
field urging his retention. The business
community are unit in his favor.
The Emperor William of Germany has
appointed Herr Won Puttkammer to be Min
lister of the Interior and Herr Won Gossler
to succeed Herr Won Puttkammer as Minis
ter of Public Worship. He has also grant
ed to Prince Bismarck leave of absence to
recruit his health, appointing Baron Won
Botticher as his substitute.
The suit of the wife of Elkins, we'll
known artist in Chicago, against a saloon
keeper, named Cudney, for $50 600 damages
for selling her husband liquor and assisting
in ending his career in an inebriate asylum,
resulted in the discharge of the Jury for
Isl ur0 GO aRTSe. Inc Lrldl Ia5JeQ ten QaVe.
1t was In evidence that the work of Elkins'
brush, when he was sober, was worth
about thirty dollars per day.
There arrived in the customs districts of
Baltimore, Boston. Detroit, Huron, Key
West, Minnesota, New Bedford, New Or
leans, New York, PassamsGuoddy, Phila-
delphia and San Francisco during the
month ended May 81, 1881, 122, 999 passen-
gers, of whom III ,482 were immigrants.
The number of immigrants which arrived in
these districts during the eleven months
ended May 81, 1881, was 564 294, as follows:
From Germany Ia, ,306, Dominion of Cana
da ITO GIL, England and Wales 57,S61, Ire
land 81, ,796.
An accident occurred to a passenger train
on the Schuylkill and Lehigh Railroad,
seven miles from SlatingtoD, Pa by which
Charles Matthews, the fireman, was in
stanty killed. John Herbipe, the engineer,
jumped from his engine, receiving slight
injuries. The engine was completely
wrecked The cause of the accident was a
log several feet in circumference, which
had been placed on the road. One end of
it had been thrust under one OF the rails,
and the other end rested on the opposite
rail. Several passengers were slightly In
iured,