Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-04

EuSIanu, 1Gdly anu turkey nave reSOg-
nized the Kingdom of Roumania.
The Guadalquiver river has risen half
metre higher, causing great anxiety.
The statement that Archbishop McCabe
Is to be Papal Legate in Ireland is denied.
The overdue steamer City of New York,
from Sydney, has been sighted off San
Francisco.
A bomb was exploded under the windows
OF the palace of the Duke of Santona in
Madrid. Nobody was hurt.
The Madrid Cabinet has decided to
apply the Spanish Constitution and press
laws to Cuba and Porto Rico.
The Vienna PreSse says the great powers
will on Austria's initiative formally and un-
animously recognize the Kingdom of
R0umania.
The total number Of hogs packed in Gin
cinnati during the year ending March 1st
was 12,243, ,354, an increase of l ,241 ,655 on
the number for the preceding year.
Prince Ghika, Minister of Roumania to
Russia, and General Maidel, Commandant
of the fortress. have died in St. Petersburg
of colds caught at the burial of the Gar.
n w. Perry, E. M, son of Hon. Aaron
lima for the purpose of examining 10000
acres of iron land In which many Cincin-
natl capitalists are interested.
Lewis Scranton, one of the most promi
nent business men of Mobile, and senior
partner of the firm of Scranton, Barrey &
Co., died at Healing Springs on Thursday
night, and was buried in Mobile Saturday
Forty-six freight brakemen have been
dismissed from the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad, the perfected sys-
tenn of signaling along the entire line doing
away with the necessity for more than two
brakemen to train.
A new line of steamers, to be known as
the Shamrock line, is to be established be.
tween New York and Swansea, in Wales.
The first steamer will sail from New York
May 18th, and assurances have been
given of liberal patronage.
There will be a meeting in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, on Saturday, the
Both Of April, the ninety anniversary
of the inauguration of George Washington
as the first President of the United States,
to perfect necessary arrangements for the
centennial celebration at Yorktown, Va,
in October next.
A party of cowboys who were creating
disturbance at O'Neil City, Holt county,
Nebraska, one day last week, were partially
disarmed by Sheriff Bernard Kearns and
went away. They soon returned, however,
and one of the party, named Harry Peans,
shot the Sheriff through the heart. A
deputy sheriff was also wounded.
An express train on the Wabash, st. Louis
and Pacific Railroad was thrown from the
track at Cotton, twenty miles west of To-
ledo, Ohio, on the night of the Both ult., by
a defective switch, and collided with a
freight train standing on a side track. Sew.
en- persons were seriously injured, among
them f. Quicker, musical director of the
Rive King troupe,
Lord Brierdale, who by the death of his
father In New York Monday, succeeds to
the title of the Earl Of Caithness. will sail
for England on the 18th of April, and as
soon as possible and proper under the cir
cumstances after his return the Young Earl
will have to take his place in the House of
Lords. As he is only in his twenty second
year, he will be the youngest peer In Par
lament.
The total valuation Of the State of Cali
fornia for the year ending June 30, 1879, as
reported to the Census Bureau, was 1885,
273,5 in real estate, and $1i8,3O4, ,45l in
personal property. The total bonded and
county Indebtedness (not including that of
municipalities and school districtsl was
$7,6l4, IA The valuation of real estate in
San Francisco was $3.50, ,3S9, ,410, and of per
sonal property, $54, 237 $50.
In Philadelphia, Thursday, two men en-
tered the jewelry store of Joseph K. David
son, and one OF them asked to have a dia-
mond ring which he had purchased several
days ago exchanged. When the men de-
parted it was discovered that they had taken
tin box containing diamonds, sapphires
and other precious stones valued at So, 500,
and left In its place duplicate box con-
tanning white and colored papers, such as
are used by jewellers to wrap diamonds in.
At the meeting of the Fish Culture Asso.
citation in New York last week, Mr.. Page,
the Vice President, stated that he had re-
Gently had conference with Professor Hux-
ley upon the question of the introduction of
American shad into the English, Irish and
Scotch rivers, and promised him that half a
dozen specimens packed in ice would be
sent to England In time for the fish exhi-
bition at Norwich, England, in Easter
week. He had also held conversations with
other persons interested In fish culture in
England who had requested him to make
for sending over half million
shad eggs and some specimens of the Ameri-
can herring.
Thursday morning, 31st ult., near Lynu-
port. on the Berks and Lehigh Railroad,
Benjamin Reitz, aged fifty years, and his
daughter, aged twenty, left their home.
near the station, in a two horse wagon, to
help one of their neighbors to move. While
crossing the railroad they were run into bv
a passenger train, the engineer OF which
did not see them until too late to stop his
train. The engine struck the forepart of
the wagon, entirely demolishiDg 1t and kill
ing both horses. The man was hurled to
one side and escaped with apparently slight
Injuries, although he complained Of being
injured internally. The woman alighted on
the pilot of the engine and was carried
some distance. Her injuries are not con-
sidered fatal.