Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-14
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

President Garfield's life is insured for
$25, 900 for the benefit of his wife.
Lieutenant Greeley's Arctic search expe-
dition will sail from st. John, New Bruns-
wick, early in July.
The new Superintendent of the Naval
Academy, Rear Admiral G. Z. P. Rodgers,
assumed command of his post Yesterday.
A. B. Elwood, ex-State Senator, was
killed at Richtield Springs, New York, by
falling through stairway at one of the
hotels.
George Armour, of Armour, Dale & Co.,
one of the Oldest and most prominent resi-
dents Of Chicago, died in Brighton, Eugland,
yesterday.
John E. Gaines, colored prisoner in the
Baltimore scity jail, sentenced to three
months imprisonment, hanged himself to
his cell door.
kilograms state that hundred persons
were killed and sixty injured by the earth
quake which recently deVasted number of
villages in the Pashalic of Var, Armenia.
An official dispatch received at Oran,
Algeria, states that General Detrie has de-
feated both of the insurgents, killing fifty of
them. The French had two men wounded.
Work on the Mexican National Railroad
is being pushed very rapidly, and on eight
uflSlOuo SO,OOO MCu arc now 6mQlOyBUs
Nineteen kilometers of the road are now in
operation.
A son of John Bowker, living near De-
Witt, Ill, while eating new potatoes, was
| poisoned from paris green that had been
sprinkled on them to kill potato bugs, and
died In great agony.
The bill abolishing all distinctions on ac-
count of race or color in the public schools,
which was passed by the Pennsylvania
Legislature before It's adjournment, has
been signed by Governor Hoyt.
1t is stated from st. Petersburg that NJ.
Pobedonostzeff, the Russian Minister of
Justice, has received threatening letter,
warning him not to continue his Jesuitical
and reactionarY advice to the Gar.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln's physician has
given up all hopes of her recovery. Her
strength is gradually failing. In the last
two days her mind has failed. She does
not recognize her most intimate friends.
A genuine Raphael painting, about eight
inches square, and nearly four hundred
years old, is reported to have been dis
covered in the possession of q French
family, named Malliard, living in the village
of Avon, Fulton county, Illinois.
The Franco Tunisan treaty has been ratj-
fed. M. RoustaiD, French Minister, has
informed the foreign representatives at
Tunis that the BeY, by special decree, has
appointed him sole Intermediary for the
transaction of business with them.
George G. Gatling stabbed and killed bis
wife at the Atlantic beer gardens in San
Francisco. He suspected her infidelity, and
wrote her decoy note, which she answer
ed by going to the gardens. He met her in
the room and stabbed her to the heart,
Several strawberry pickers Ia Anne Arun-
del county, Maryland, took refuge in an
old building from a thunder storm. The
building was struck by lightning, and
man named Herman and .hfs son were
killed. Another man had thigh broken.
The death is announced of Andrew VIII
son, the traveller and journalist, who at
different periods edited the China Mail, the
Star Of India and the Bombay Gazette. He
visited America In 1861, where he was well
known as the author of "The Abode of
Snow"
The Republican State Centra. Committee
of Virginia will meet on the 29th instant to
consider the propriety Of calling conven-
tion. Many leaders are opposed to joining
the Readjusters. It is rumored that the Re-
adiusters will attempt to prevent the meet
ing of the convention, and falling In that
will try to capture 1t.
At the close of the year 1880 there were
graph lines, and during that year 80, ,I55, ,99I
messages were sent. The miles of wire were
about 100000. This does not include the
lines used exclusively for railroad business.
The other countries having the greatest
length Of lines are as follows: Russia, sc, 40
miles; Germany, Al, ,43l; France, Sc, $40; Aus
tria Hungary, 30,403; Australia. 26,842;
Great Britain. %, 1856; British India, 5000;
Turkey, II ,085, and Italy, 1864.
.Advlces from Liberia report that at the
biennial election, held on May Sd, Anthony
w. Gardner was elected President, and
Rev. A. F. Russell Vice President, of the
republic, by majority in all the counties.
1t will be Gardner's third term. The sue
cessful candidates are pledged to ''the edu-
cation of the masses, the Incorporation of
the native tribes into the body polite, the
expulsion Of rum and alcohol, the honest
settlement Of foreign indebtedness, and fru-
gal administration of the government"