Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-01
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Edwin B. Smith, Assistant Attorney Gen
eral, has resigned.
Kent McNutt, private secretary Of tie
Secretary OF State, was accidentally drown
ed at Nashville Yesterday.
Hon. Jas. Salesman, of Kentucky, ex-
! Congressman and eX-member of the Con-
| federate Congress, is dead
| Felix WYlie, charged with the murder of
young woman, was taken from the j all at
| Tiptonville, Tenn, and lynched by mob of
$50 men.
John Mackelfresh died in Muucie, In-
| diana, recently, from the effects Of a shot
| fired by his sister-in-law after he had
| broken into the house of his divorced wife.
! The dead body of Mrs. Julia Floody was
! found in a barn in Auburn, Mass. An in
vestigation showed that she died from ex-
posure. She leaves husband and six chill
dren.
Montpelier, the home and burial place of
President Madison, has been sold at public
| auction for $50, 900 to Colonel Darlington, of
the Exchange Hotel, In Richmond, Vir-
| ginia
The through rates on wheat from Chicago
| to Liverpool are Is cents per bushel via
Montreal, and Is cents via New York. These
| are the lowest rates ever known by these
routes.
! 1t is announced that the Emperor of Ger
many has conferred upon Prof. VIM. Dwight
| Whitney, of Massachusetts. the order of
merit made vacant by the death of Thomas
Carlyle.
Colonel B. Frank Moore, agent of the
Louisville Lottery, was arrested in New
| York on the charge of keeping a lottery
office. He was paroled until to-day for
examination.
Two cases of yellow fever-the first OF
| the season there-are reported at the New
| York quarantine. One of the patients is
| the Captain of the steamer British Empire,
| from Vera Cruz.
! The death is announced IN London of
| George Borrow, author of the "Bible in
| Spain,' and well known for his associations
with The Gypsies in Spain and elsewhere
His age was rs years.
The Advisory Board convened by the Sec
retarY of the Navy to consider the needs of
! the navy, with view to its reorganization,
after session of few days in Washington,
have adjourned, to meet In October next and
| prepare report.
! The dead body of Regina Leuschuetz, 13
| years of age, was found floating in the East
| river at New York. She had threatened to
| commit suicide because her mother had
forbidden her to keep company with GER
tain other girls.
The funeral services over the remains of
the Duke Auguste Ernst, of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, were held yesterday at Ebenthai
| The Emperor Francis Joseph, the Due
d'ADgale and the Comte de Paris were
present. The body will be inferred at Co
burg.
Deputy Collector Noah, in charge of the
Revenue District of South Carolina, reported
to Commissioner Raum yesterday that CASA
way, one Of McDow's confederates, surren-
4 o.,
Deputy Collector Jellson took him to Green
vile.
A package of dynamite has been dis
covered behind the furnace of the Hollside
Steel Works at Glasgow. 1t would have
been sufficient to destroy the whole works.
The police are investigating the matter but
it is generally believed that the dynamite,
which is used at the works, was accidentally
dropped there.
Mrs. McKiernan, a widow, of Montreal,
has had her claim established as one of
three heirs to the estate of the late Philip
DOnohue, of San Francisco. Donohue
emigrated from Montreal in 1852, a poor
man. His sister, Mrs. McKiernan, never
heard Of him after his departure until search
was made for his heirs. His estate, valued
at 81 100000, is divided among a brother
aud two sisters, all very poor.
a train containing large force of labor
ers, with their tools and a quantity of
gravel, ETC., sent by the managers of the
New York and New England Railroad, ar
rived in Providence, R. l., few nights ago.
The men were stationed along the fence di-
vidiDg the railroad track from the city
ground, "and at a signal four hundred feet
of the fence went down and three hundred
and eighty feet of track were moved nine
feet on to the city land" Before the work
was finished the police were aroused and
the job stopped, thirty Of the workmen
being arrested.
By a collision on the New York and New
Haven Railroad at Rye, New York, two To-
comotives and eight cars were wrecked; Eli
Latin, conductor, was killed, and Henry
Hallock, brakeman, and James MILDLY, en-
gineer, were severely injured. 1t is feared
Hallock will not recover. All the trains on
the road were delayed four hours by the
wreck. The damage to rolling stock is esti-
mated at about $50, ,000 "a mistake of sig
nails" is said to have caused the disaster.