Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-29

Captain Oglesby's Texas rangers have
captured six stage robbers near San Anto-
nio.
The Readjuster Club, of Alexandra, has
adopted resolutions denouncing General
Malone as traitor to the party, and deelar-
ing its intention to oppose him in every way.
dispatch from Berlin says the Prussian
Government is considering the question
of the adoption Of the ScraGtal de liSte system
of voting at elections for members Of the
Diet.
Hon. Horace Maynard, Of Tennessee, has
been chosen as the orator of the day at the
unvefling of the Farragut statue, which will
take place In Washington city on April 25th
next.
The bark Tony Krogmen, from Galveston,
has arrived at Queenstown. She landed the
crew of the Italian bark Nina Ffglia, from
Sligo for New York, which was abandoned
at sea.
A contract has been made for the repair
ing of the ocean pier at Long Branch, and
its extension outward 1000 feet. The work,
it is expected, will be completed by the 10th
Of May.
A Canadian cattle shipper has been warn
ed by his Edinburgh agents not to expact
as high prices the coming summer as last,
owing to the greater supply OF cattle In
England.
The unfinished storehouse Of the Pennsyl-
vania Salt Manufacturing Company at
Greenwich Point, Philadelphia, was blown
down Friday, and several of the workmen
were buried in the ruins.
At the monthly meeting of the Green
Hill Building and Loan Association, In Phil
adelphia, 1t was alleged that the Secretary,
Jno. Sheppard, was deficient in his accounts
to an amount ranging from S., 600 to SIC, 900.
E. g. Knowles, well known merchant
OF Cotton Gin Port, Miss, who came to st.
Louis last Friday to buy goods, was found
dead in his bed at Spradge's restaurant, at
about 1870 o'clock Sunday night. 1t is sup
posed he died of congestion of the brain.
Acknowledgement Palmer, of Pennsylva-
MIA, has rendered decision that the act
of 1874, which allows members of the Leg
islature extra compensation, is unconstitu-
tional, and that therefore the members are
not entitled to more than one thousand
dollars pay.
In the House of Commons yesterday, Sir
Henry Tyler (ConservatiVe) gave notice
that lie would ask on Thursday what prog
ress had been made in the negotiations
with reference to the Fortune Bay dispute,
and whether 1t is decided to refer the mat
ter to arbitration.
Samuel Hawthorn, who killed Samuel
MCGEE in Vicksburg, Miss, last September,
was convicted of murder, and pending an
appeal, escaped while on bail, was arrested
in New York last week as he was buying q
ticket for Europe. He consented to return
to Mississippi, and was sent along.
The meeting between Weston and Rowell
for signing articles of agreement for the
next Ashley Belt contest has been postponed.
Weston, who In return for a concession
made to Rowen names time and place, says
he shall not name New York, and unless he
can find an American city where the rules
against smoking and had language can be
enforced, he will name London,
The highest vote cast for and against the |
constitutional amendments in Indiana last |
year was 32l S42, and the maiorities for the |
seven amendments then ranged between |
II, LIS for Amendment No. and 49, ,9S2 for |
No. 9. On the 14th inst. the total vote
upon the same amendments was 49,, ,915, or |
las, ,927 less than the vote in 1880. The |
highest majority for any amendment was |
127, ,S75, and the lowest, rs, 1856.
Seven masked ruffians few days ago en-.
tered the house of John Conner, aged |
eighty one years, who lives alone with bis |
wife at Catfish, a place fifty miles from
Pittsburg, bound and gagged the couple. |
compelled the old gentleman to give up the |
combination of his safe, and took from it |
$1,000 worth of government bonds, unregis- |
tered coupons, and over 5000 in cash. The
people were so roughly handled that they |
may not recover from the shock.
The State Department, in ccntradfcting a
report that Commodore Shufeldt has been |
sent on a special mission to China to reor-
ganize the Chinese navy, says: GAS It SEEM
ed possible that circumstances might make |
1t desirable to renew the effort to open com |
mercial relations with Corea, It was deemed |
advisable to attach CommOdora Shufaldt tn |
the United States Legation at Peking, in |
order that the United States Minister there |
might have the benefit of his information |
and experience, should it be decided to take |
any further action in the Corean matter"
Henry Willard has obtained from the |
Superior Court in New York q Temporary |
Injunction, restraining the Northern Pacific |
Railroad Company from issuing certain |
stock OF the corporation under q resolution
passed by the executive committee of the |
board OF directors. Willard claims that the |
issue Is void under the company's charter |
and under the United States statutes. |
He says that a fund of $4,000, 600 |
was made up, with $4,000, 900 of |
which his party secured control of $27,- |
OOO, 900 of common and preferred stock, |
thus making an absolute majority, but that |
President Billings called a secret meeting /
Of the Executive Board together and pre- |
vailed on them to pass resolutions directing |
the immediate issue of over SIS, 900, COO OF |
common stock still in the hands Of the |
company, the object being to maintain Bill |
lings and his friends in power. Three Of |
the board have since denounced this action !
as an outrage. Billings took to himself |
$4,000 shares, and his confederates mary |
thousands OF shares each..
An English Failure.