Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-07
TAPPING THE WIRES.


TAPPING THE WIRES.
The debate on the election Of officers was
continued in the Senate yesterday. The
petition in behalf Of Michael Boyton was
again presented by Mr.. Mcpherson, an
after some discussion was read and referred
70 the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr..
Bayard took the floor and defended the
Democrats in assuming the position which
thew occupy on the question Of the election
OF the officers. He also denounced the at
tempt OF the Republicans in supporting
Rlddlebarger to influence the Virginia cleo
lion as q dangerous usurpstiOn and q step
toward Capitalization. Mr.. Sherman said
the resistance of the Democrats to the cleo
lion Of the officers was simply treason. The
Senate then adjourned.
The Democrats elected Carter Harrison
Mayor of Chicago by q handsome majority.
They also were successful in the city cleo
lion at Columbus, aud secured control Of
the municipal government Of Omaha. In
St. Louis the greater part of the Republican
ticket was elected by nearly Is, 1000 majority.
This result was brought shout through dis
satisfaction with OTerstoltz, the Democratic
candidate for Mayor. and the manner Of his
domination and consequent divisions Of the
Democracy.
Mr. MahOne's desk In the Senate chamber
Yesterday was graced with a handsome TO
raj anchor, the gift Of the colored Yirginians
resident in Washington.
The Governor Of Tennessee has signed
the State debt bill.
The latest accounts from Chic give the
estimated number of victims Of the earth
quake there at FIVE thousand.
A Paris dispatch says that an apparently
s~emi-oficial announcement states that Aus
trf having taken the initiative Of drafting a
proposal TO Greece and Turkey, all the
powers have accs pied It. 1t stipulstes that
Greece shall acquire Fort Punta, that the
Notifications Of Preyesa shall be rszed,
and that the navigation of the Bay Of Orta
shall be free. The proposal does not form
3 part Of the POrte's proposals, but it shows
Greece the futility Of Directing to it.
The Standard says Mr.. Gladstone's bill
extending the Bright clauses Of the land
act viii be deferred till later in the session.
The bill to be introduced 70 day is simply a
landlord and tenant measure, embodying
the principles Of free sales, fair rents and
fxity Of tenure.
It IS thought that the land measure to be
introduced in the House Of Commons to-
IL msFT v-~-rs1- .L-A No. sannr1- nhan
first be offered to the landlord, who may
prohibit the sale Of the tenancy where res-
sonable grounds exist. The question as to
reasonable grounds may be referred to a
Land Court. Where the landlord
proposes to raise the rent 70 the
purchasing tenant, the latter may
resell and shall be entitled
to demand a capitalization equal to ten
times the annual increase demanded. The
sale bars the claim to compensation for
disturbance or improvements. For accepting
the increased rent and receiving c0mpensa-
ton the tenant is not to be disturbed for
fifteen years, nor shall there be eviction or
increase Of rent except II case Of the breach
Of certain statutory provisions. If be de-
clines he increase ana sells bis holding he
can demand from the landlord ten times the
amount Of the proposed increase.
The police were attacked il county Lett
rim yesterday By q crowd Of women with
stones and sticks, and one girl Of twenty
was fatally shot and another injured.
The annual reunion Of the Society Of the
ARMY Of the Tennessee was held In Gin
clnnati yesterday. General Sherman pre-
sided. The society was welcomed by the
Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Magdalens Mills, g resident Of New
York. became insane from trouble and loss
OF money, and voluntarily starved herself
TO death.
Two men were killed and several wound
ed By a bursting milestone in Monroe coun-
ty, Arkansas, Wednesday.
The New York stock market opened firm
and dull, and after considerable fluctuations
closed at an advance. Sales were $4,000
shares.
The graves Of the Confederate dead at
New Orleans were decorated yesterday.
Lord Beaconsfeld continues to improve.
The National Convention Of Telephone
Exchanges assembled in Chicago yesterday.
Nearly every leading city in the Union was
represented.
George Hoover, aged fourteen, the son Of
a widow, living near Sunbury, Pa, became
involved in a quarrel with hts sister at the
dinner table yesterday. He withdrew, pro-
cured a shotgun, returned and discharged
the load into her neck. The reason he as
signed for the deed was that be did not get
enough to eat.
A quarrel, begun on election day at Deer
Creek precinct, in Grayson county, Ken
lucky, caused the killing Of one man. La
ger, the feud was renewed, and 3 fearful
ray occurred, in which the weapons used
re fence rails, stones and knives.
.eese d. Horton, one Of the original
1 principals, was bound over to keep the peace
after the second melee. ION leaving the
Magistrates Office last Saturday, the day Of
Horizons trial, the quarrel was renewed by
the partisans Of Horton and his opponents,
and two brothers named Williams were ter
ribly gashed. It is feared that the entire
community will be involved in the feud.