Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-27
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

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| ton Saturday.
| Nine men have been hanged In Arkansas
by lYnchers within month.
The Mexican Government on SATURDAY.
| deposited $145, 900 for American claims.
The government win erect a signal sta
tion at Point Barrow, In Alaska, in latitude
% degrees.
The cable steamer Dacia has successfully
finished repairing the second cable between
Havana and Key West.
A cyclone has occurred in the district OF
Blois, France, causing damage to the ex-
| tent of several millions of francs.
At the thirteenth annual commencement
Of Princeton College the graduating class
numbered one hundred and three.
Thus far the Register of the Treasury has
mailed to holders of the five per cents ex-
tended at 81 per cent. total OF $157, JOG 600
in bonds.
A special from Austin, Texas, says the
jury in the celebrated Rosseau murder case
on Saturday returned q verdict of mot
guilty."
Mumford, of Perseverance Club, of New
orleans, won the free for all single scull race
In the Mississippi Valley regatta Friday at
Peoria, Ill.
The Secret Service agent at New Orleans
reports the arrest of Hugh Dominick for
passing and having in his possession coun-
terfeit coin.
Eight carrier pigeons were taken to Lonss
don, Ontario, from Strathroy, twenty one
miles distant, and liberated. They reached
home in fifty-ive minutes.
Littleton Hatchett, colored, who was to
have been hanged Friday in Brunswick
county, Virginia, for murder, has had a
writ of error granted in his case.
A Tunis dispatch says: "Some tribes near
Sfax have cut the telegraph and assumed
defiant attitude against the Bey. The Eu-
ropeans there are panic stricken"
A party of Southern journalists, who
have been In New York since Wednesday,
started for home Saturday on the Old
Dominion steamer, which sailed at 3 p. m.
The death is announced In Havana of the
Archbishop OF Guatemala, who was perpet-
ually banished by the Government Of Qua
temala In 1880. He has siuce then lived In
Havana.
A fire at Gadsden, Ala, Friday night, de-
stroyed portion of Line q Winchester's
saw mill and J. Russell's residence Loss
10000; insurance 81, 900. The cause of the
fire is unknown.
Captain General Blaco, of Cuba, has tele-
graphed to Madrid asking the arrest in
Spain of three high ex xfunctionaries of the
Cuban Treasury. Two others have been ar
ressed at Havana.
Charles T. James, son of Postmaster Gen
eral James, and A. r. Conkling, nephew OF
ex-senator ConkliDg, have been appointed
United States Assistant District Attorneys
By District Attorney Woodford.
James B. Doyle, the counterfeiter, has
been sentenced by Judge BIodgett, ia
Chicago, to ten years in the penitentiary.
Doyle, when arrested, had in his possession
nun conn a., &aH%
bonds.
Two attempts to wreck trains on the VIII
miDgton and Northern Railroad, by placing
obstructions on the track, have been dis
covered aud frustrated, near Birdsboro,
Penn. Suspicion rests upon party from
Brdsboro.
In Detroit Clarence Davis, aged IS years,
attacked his sleeping bed-fellow, Alonzo
Barrett, aged 40. and pounded his head
with stick so savagelv that he died a few
hours later. Davis escaped, and his motive
for the assault is mystery.
The Federal Council at Berlin has ap.
proved the treaty with Hamburg, incorpo-
rating that city in the Zollverein, and has re-
1ected the accident insurance bill, consider
ing that the Reichstag's amendments Of the
bill has rendered 1t unacceptable.
The Secretary of State of San Domingo,
In circular apprising consuls and envoys |
of the assumption of the Dictatorship of |
President Merino, orders that they an
nounce everywhere that San Domingo will |
tsell Samana Bay to the United States.
At Clarksville, Tenn, Friday, Jack
Everett shot John Averitt. Averitt was |
place, and attacked him in the house. |
Everett shot him twice. Averitt is dying. |
Everett gave himself up, and is now In jail. |
Archbishop Kenrick, of st. Louis, has re-
ceived a letter from Rome announcing that |
the Pope had appointed DIR. Mac Mullen, of /
Chicago, Bishop of Davenport, q new
diocese, formed out of the southern half of
Iowa, and including, besides Davenport,
the cities of Keokuk, Des Moines and
Council Bluffs.
A dispatch from Tunis to the Paris Temps
says: ''The Bey's steward has taken refuge
at the Eoglish Consulate with securities AM |
jewels which the Bey claims, a million
francs which he embezzled and the accounts
OF his stewardship for many years Surprise
is felt at the British Consul for protecting |
the embezzler."
1t is reported in Victoria, British Column
bia, that a syndicate of Americans is In
treaty with the Provincial Government for
the transfer of all the coal and mineral
lands on the eastern part of VancoUver's
Island. The syndicate, It is stated has |
already bought all the coal lands in Wash
ington Territory and the line Of steamers
running to Victoria.
In consequence of the number of persons
bearing foreign orders, especially those OF
Portugal, the Two Sicilies and Venezuela,
who walk about the streets of Paris with
red ribbons IN their button holes resembling
the Legion of Honor, the government has
decided that they must not wear the ribbon
without the cross attached, which will show
what their decoration really Is.