Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-13
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.


is estimated at 464, 900 tons, against $780,
500 tons in 1880.
A special from Marshall, Texas, says in
the District Court on Friday r. L. Jennings
was acquitted of killing w. s. Coleman.
A fire broke out in the arsenal at Carls-
kropa, Sweden, few days ago. Many
shells exploded, and great damage was
done.
Advices from Buenos Ayres dated May
18th, received at London by way OF Lisbon,
announce the withdrawal of the Chilians
from Lima.
special from San Antonio reports ten
men killed In the southwest in fight be-
tween rangers and band of cow thieves.
There are no details.
A dispatch from Durham at London an
nOunces that the Beers have surrendered
the persons charged with the murder of
Malcolm during the war.
Robt. Paragal, while bathing in the river
at New Orleans, was drowned. His brother,
Lowell Paragal, in attempting to rescue
him, was also drowned.
Chas. Sutter, Dr. Zeigler, and another
man name unknown, died in New Orleans
from sunstroke Saturday. These are the
first cases there this year.
On the night of May II there was an
earthquake in Hayti. Rain fell in torrents
at the time. Several land slips occurred,
and many cattle were killed.
There was a renewed shock of earthquake
in the island of Chios Saturday, which
overthrow the minaret and ruined several
houses. Two men were injured.
A dispatch from Geneva state there was
a very perceptible earthquake shock in the
valley of the upper Rhone on Thursday,
which extended as far as that city.
The Russian commission to elaborate a
scheme for reducing the payments to which
peasants are liable for the redemption of
their lands will hold its first sitting on
| Tuesday.
A special from Austin, Texas, says: "The
Court of Appeals has affirmed the verdict
of murder in the first degree with the
death penalty in the case of Williams, Of
Tom Green county"
A special from Houston says: ''Harry Erp
was arrested here yesterday charged with
having committed an outrage upon the
person of little mulatto girl, May Lee,
near Glenwood, on Friday night"
A petrifed forest has been found in the
hills near Calaveras Valley, Alameda coun-
ty, California. One siliciied trunk, which
lies exposed, is about twenty feet long and
seven feet In circumference at the base.
A young man named Vostie Kilvlr, en-
ployed in Rock Island Arsenal shops, fell
from the third story to the ground, dis
tance Of fifty feet. His skull was broken
in two places aud the body was found
breathless.
Important coal discoveries have been
made in Arizona in the Guadaloupe Noun
tains. Troops have been sent from Fort
Bowie to the coal beds to protect the pros
pectors from Indians who drove off the
original locators.
Hon. A. NJ Kelley, of Richmond, is put
forward by the Petersburg hadeG-AppeaL as
an available Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Virginia. Mr.. Kelley is one of the
most eloquent speakers an brilliant writers
in the old Commonwealth.
John Booth, farmer living in La Grange
county. was driving a load of wheat to
Frank, aged II years. The boy fell off the
wagon, which passed over him, causing
death almost Immediately.
The sloop-of- war Yantic, which had been
sent to Merida to investigate the seizure
of the bark Acacia, arrived at Key Wes:
Saturday, and reports that the Acacia had
been surrendered to Captain Anderson be-
fore the Yantic's arrival at Merida.
The heirs of a man six months dead, in
North Attleboro, Mass, unable to find the
papers containing the records of his prop
ertY, dug up his body and found them and
$50 In money in the pocket of the molder-
ing coat In which he had been buried.
One hundred and twenty children have
died recently at LuddingtoD, Michigan, of
diphtheria. The total population of the
place is 4,000 The schools are closed, and
police are stationed at houses where sick
ness exists to prevent ingress or egress.
M. Henri Says new yacht Bstagne
sailed from Baltimore Saturday for Fortress
Monroe, whence she will proceed to Ber-
muda. Before sailing Rev. Mccoy, of st.
MarY's Star of the Sea Church, blessed the
yacht according to the rites Of the Catho-
lie Church.
A startling revelation was made bY the
experts who examined the null Of the Vic
soria at London, Ont. 4 large hole ws-
found stove In the bottom, conhrT..ng the
theory that she sunk thropeh pure leakaga
Where the hole was knocked I'm thera Is NO y,
evidence, but 1t was probably ON the pas-
sage to Springbank,
The Thirteenth Regiment, of Rrooklvn
have decided to attend the celebration of
the Yorktown Centennial, leaving Brooklyn
October 10 stopping in Washington on the
18th, going thence on the 18th tu Rich
Rand, where they win be tho guests of the
First Virginia Regiment, and with that
regiment they will proceed to Yorktown.
a special from Nashville, Tenn, saws:
'fJob Welch, the notorious moonshiner. who
nearly killed revenue officers Davis and
Campbell early last December, and who
was captured BY Davis on Walden's Ridge,
near Spring City, Tenn, about Nav 28th'
and shot while attempting to escape. dIed
OF bis wounds in jail Saturday morning.
NJ. Nikolus Rubinstein died lately IN
Paris, about the sau4e time as a Russian
Baroness. u II reported that their bodies
were seat to Russia by the same train. All
Rerlin The cofins were accidently changed.
with the result that while Rubinstein was
quietly Inferred at Riga, the body of the
unknown Russian Baroness was committed
to the earth with all the pomp and circum-
stances OF public funeral at Moscow.
The singular effects OF rattlesnake bite
are exhibited on the person OF George Han.
SOP, of Aarrodsburg, KY. Five years ago
he was bitten by a rattlesAake in the left
eye. The eye Immediately swelled and
went out. The other eye became blind in
lev hours. He was bitten on the 1Oth of
August, and every year at that time his
head swells to an enormous size. Hanson
saved his life by drinking freely Of whisky
after he was bitten.