Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-27

Mrs. Garfield continues to improve
slowly.
The trial by court martial Of twenty-six
rfrg#ssieTs Of the auti-JeSish riots al Kten,
l. fxed for the 3Oth list.
The entire Democratic ticket is elected st
Alexandria, Va, by a larger majority than
v7s expected, ranging from 400 70 900.
Juige F5enez=r Peck, of Chicago. for
-,9rv wears the most intimate friend of
Sbraham Lincoln, is dead, aged seventy
six.
Seven students OF Phillips Academy. at
Evfter. New Hampshire, have been expelI-
q and three suspended, for insulting the
Professors
The Boston aud Providence Knights Tenn
Mar spent Yesterday on an excursion down
he James river They leave Richmond for
home this morning.
The FrqnkTirter Zsit,s"g has again been
rrOsecuttd for disrespect to Prince Bis
merck. and It's editor has been sentenced 10
one months imprisonment.
The winter wheat in Central Illinois is re-
uorted 10 b. suffering from the chinch bug
sud HessIan fy. Thousand OF acres have
been pIOughad up to plant corn.
The Central Union Republican Club, Of
Cincinnati, Wednesday night adopted a
resolution ALt4Ol oaE- L AG5aAELt b&Ellelu anu
derOuncing the action of ex Senators COnk-
ling and Platt.
Electric lighting is in successful opera
tion ou more than sixty steamers on the
Mississippi river and its tributaries. l. is
believed 10 add much to the safety Of that
kind Of traffic and travelling.
. Robert S Reynolds. a wealthy farmer,
aged 10 years, was killed by his sOp, who
struck him On the head with a stone, at
Anna. IiliUois. Reynolds himself killed a
man named Frazer year ago.
A special from DalIss, Texas, says: ''Tbe
report thai the Texas Central Railway had
bought the Dsmases and Wichita Railroad
is hoax, as the Gould combination owns a
two-third interest in that road"
A bank clerk in Boston was accidentally
locked up In the yauls few afternoons ago.
His frantic cries brGuCht no release, but,
fortunately, 2 book that bad been carelessly
left out caused the reOpening of the door.
The statement of the business of all lines
or TIE Pennsylvania Railroad, east of Pitts
burg and Erie for April, as compared with
the same month last year, shows an increase
0fnet earnings Of 500, ,22S; all lines west,
S2l4,693
A c0lored desperado named Cook was
shot and killed a few days ago by mer
chant named Himel at a store on the Dixie
plantation. on Bayou LafOUTehe, La. Cook
had visited the store with the svowed inten-
ton Of killing Himel.
The Census Bureau reports the total as
sessed valuation OF real estate in New Jer-
sey for 1850 to be S436 O32. .63S. aud OF per
s0ual property Sl26 ,2l5, ,9S5. The total bond
ed and floating Indebtedness, county AID
municipal, is $53. .S2S, ,247.
While workmen were hosting a large
iOist at the new TOuad house OF the Phtia-
depbia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail
road, at Bayview Junction, near Baltimore,
the roof fell in, irjuring five men. One,
named Charles Jackson, of Baltimore, is
uOtexpected 10 recover
The trouble in the Choctaw Nation be-
tween the white renters aud the natives con-
tinues. Inter Sc excitement exists through
out the nation. There is a rumor that the
Sheriff, who was attempting to collect
taxes, had been killed. The whites aIe Or
ganizing for protection, and conflict is I'M
minent at any moment.
In New York, Mrs Fanny Mordauut, wife
OF Frank MOrdaunt, the actor, becoming
alarmed by a noise on the premises Of her
residence, went to the door to call police
man, when a mau sprung up and threw a
quantity OF red pepper in her eyes, nearly
binding her. A police sergeant, who was
off duty as the time, has been arrested on
suspicion.
A Chicago bound train over the Kankakee
line struck 8 drove of cattle near Temple
ton, Ind. The engine was ditched, the en-
gineer saved himself by jumping, but fire.
man Teddy Ryan was caught under the
water tank and roasted and scalded to
death. The postal, baggage and smoking
cars we're thrown down the embankment, but
no other persons were Injured.
Mavor Shakespeare, of New Orleans, has
ordered the Chief Of Police TO close all
gambling places in the city not within GER
tsin prescribed limits. He also calls for an
early report of any gambling houses where
minors are permitted 70 enter. where dis
order occurs or from which come complaints
Of unfair dealing, and says that It is his in
tentlOp, on being satisfied Of the truth of any
such charge, to cause such house to be i'm
mediately aud irTev0cablY closed.
The Mansion House Committee for the
relief Of the Irish famine, by report just
published, have received from Europe
s32 153, and from Asia $50 SIG IS 81, from
Africs 81, ,4O7, from America 426, ,S75 As. ID.
snd from Australia e94, ,916 6s. Cd, max
ing, together with unclassIfied foreign sub
scripdOus and grants from the American
funds remitted to the Archbishop of TuaTO,
total Of elSl, $50 IS Id. The Uulted States
also sent the Constellation to Ireland with
relief provisions.
An item is Ia circulation to the effect that
5000 have been offered for the delivery in
New York city of fsgstoue measuring 10
bY . feet. Such q stone has been cut st
WsteTvil'e, but the problem how 10 get it
10 New York is still unsolved 1t is too wide
to pass through railroad bridges, and, If
placed edgeWise, would be too high.
Equally great difficulties are in The way OF
bringing it on the Erie canal. The largest
l1gstOue ever cut, it is said, was laid In
Coicago before the great fire. 1t measured
10 BY . feet, and was u inches thick.
Ia hut on an empty lot in the vicinity
Of Tenth and Spruce streets. Wilmington,
Del, lives the oldest inhabitant of the
State. He claims TO be $50 years old, but
cannot be much over 40 according to the
most avsiIsble calculation. His days are
last being numbered. He suffers greatly
Tom combination Of the drOpsy and
bHght's disease Of the kidneys. His form
Is very much bloated, and his skin has
cracked under the pressure In some places.
MS arms and legs are swollen to twice
.aeir usual size. He has lost none OF his
I2euities, and talks freely. Until the pres
snt attack, under which he Is prostrated,
le has never been sick He was born some
Ine back in the last century, near Bucks
tavern, Delaware, a small place about