Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-10

BRIEF NEHS SOMMAh1s
P.ser. scott shot and killed his uncle,
rarr Scott, in seifdefense Saturday at Ed
wsrI,yille, ala.
Fl. Schroeder 81 Co., OF Amsterdam,
tsra failed. The firm is in good standing,
s-f deal chiefly in sugar and cotton. Some
n their loss falls on London houses.
The white lsborers emp'oved by the Choc-
.sr Tgdsan farmers are on a strike against
Cumbersome tax imposed on them by their
-~1.ayfr=, aud trouble is anticipated.
lam N0rtherner and wife had an alterca-
.ssr aver the possession Of their child at
Cs~raIr0u Iud, when William Boien, broth
rrof Mrs. N1rtheTner, interfered and shot
the husband dead.
pg-1g April from S0,OOO TO $1,000 immi-
Grants from foreign lands passed through
T5iesga 70 settle in the States and Terrific
m cf tie Northwest. This is an increase
H f6stv Per cent. over last year.
Daniel can, farmer living near Elwood,
Tai was Eicked by a horse Saturday morn
ir-. its feet both striking him in the fore
head. and literally peeling the scalp of the
sEurI nearly 70 the top Of his head. He may
recover.
The vacancy Occasioned in the Second
Conerez-ionfl district of Maine by the elee-
a0a aof Mr Frye 10 the Senate, viii not be
frsdffI the regular State election, on the
second Monday IN September.
AdIsps'ch 10 LloYd's from Copenhagen
ss,srhp British steamers Ben LOmOnd, from
M O-leans, and the Naworth Castle, from
New York, came in collision in the roads.
TheBeu lomOHd is leaking, and has been
teacast.'
Mrs Stokes, aged seventy-une, OF Jersey
Cftv Heights, recently died from starvation
sri neglect. She had been living alone
srce Der husband died, six weeks ago. She
haG s. 500 10 a bank, and owned the house
Ia which she died.
Aparcel Of powder was exploded under
the walls Of the barracks, at Chester, EGG
land. one night last week, but the damage
vas tr-f.ng. 1t is believed that the perpe-
traitors Of the act are some miiitiamen who
had been punished.
H-s. Carrie A. Wells, twenty-fOur years
o. age, wife Of Mr. Wells, proprietor OF q
hotel 80 West Townsend, Mass, died a few
iays sg0 from an overdose of ehlOrOfOrm,
admiu cred by DR.. BOynton, of that town,
FOX extracting teeth.
Eiward Mccarthy, who is afflicted with
small uuE 10 its me - YiTulenJ form, was
refused atmittsuce a. the Charity Hospital,
driven out of the station house, and left
sau1iug on q street corner In Jersey City,
Y J.. Saturday for several hours, until
smallpox hospital people could call for him.
uumher Of people in Kings county, n.
are FL cted with what some physicians
cali EInter cholera. Within the past week
or tu1 there have been nearly three hun
tred cases in Jamaica. Residents of other
towns on the island also suffer from it, and
physicians say IL it was hot weather the
mortality would be great.
The master Of The British ship Governor
Lzre5Hn, from Pensacola March 10, which
5as arrived 81 Grecn0ck, reports that on
March 81, thirty miles eff Cape FiCrids, he
rescued "a man from q small boat wEO said
bis name was J. ". Gin. and that he was 4
sob of q General Of ths United States Army.
He had been blown 10 sea ard had been
i've days without food.
There was great excitement at Fair Play,
Colorado, Saturday, IN Tie acqul,tal Of Tat
tersol, tried for the murder Of Fitzgerald.
The widow Of the latter procured 4 musket
and rushed after IaceTsOll, but a Oystander
i.saimed her. The excitement and Eympa-
tdvfr the woman Tan high, AID Abraham
Burgu, Delegate 10 the Legislature, openly
advocated lyuchiug. Tatterson saved him
sals tr leaving town.
Mr. August n. Keep is a stout mar, who
keeps s. store a. 9S3 Second avenue, New
l|Lhs n lew laT1 dEg q tOtAtA ulAu I'll
tered the store, punched Mr.. Keep in the
stomach, and while the man was rolling
vth pain on the floor the young scamp took
S5 Ir0m the money drawer and ran away.
L-ter in the day Eugene Cummisky was
arrested and identified as the thief.
Intelligence has just reached Little Rcck.
o. horrible murder at Council Bend, in
Lee county, Arkansas. Isaac Green, g co.
orti desperado, got into row with John
Richards, when the latter kROcked him
t0gn- Green sTrang up, seized maui,
ielled Richardson to the earth, snd pounded
bis head to a Jelly lie theu i4d, but was
pursued, c3ptureda aud placed IL jail. Lynch
lIg as d sequel is feared.
u Glmbetta, who was present at ban
qlet 10 celebrate the abolition of slavery,
proposed the toast: "To al French sub
i-cJs beyond the seas, without distinction of
race or cOlOrn An address from the Eng
lsl committee for the abolition of slavery
vas read proposing the formation of
Franco English committee for the abolition
ct slavery 10 Egypt or a similar plan to that
controlling the Egyptian finances.
Tie principal operations Of the French
10 the hrOumir territory are the destTue-
u1n e. crops and hUts aud pluudering the
property left by the Kroumirs, who mostly
lave a4d TO the mountains, taking their
Cattle. There IS no fighting, hut an occa-
souai exchange Of shots at long range with
aieE hruum.rs courageous enough to try
20 ambush forsgiug parties. Tunisian ac
counts represent the French are behaving
Win tx-Tsme TCthlessuess. French officers
tegy this.
Dr. Stephen H. Tying, Jr, who lately re-
.sled the rcctorship Of The Church of the
A1iY Trinity, has accepted 3 proposal from
az insurance company in this city to super
Use tie operations Of the company in
Ea'aIe, with headquarters in Paris. Ia
april Iyug had published an exhaustive
4lcie ou life insurance which the INSURANCE.
c9alanIes considered the best presentation
Y llelr case ever printed. One company
le1 one hundred thousand copies made for
slel.asoa. Tying has bis own life insured
lie Chicago Tines has two pages Of re-
l4.S on spring wheat prospects. Its
s-4Esls says the situation of affairs is salts
.-t'1F{. indeed ii NAV be said to be highly
encouraging, for the best reports come from
.eAl-les where most spring wheat is raised,
~ tor tle most part the least encouraging
-lPlf-s are from sections where winter
.-S4l has been found the more profitable.
- '-l-lesOta, Nebraska aud Dakota, which
= = silost holly given up TO spring wheat,
--5le Is largely increased acreage and the
F'Ospect is thoroughly good.