Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-03

The Treasury surplus Tor May Is estimated
at SlO,0O0rOOO.
According to the recent census the popu-
lstion Of London is 3,SI4,511.
Alfred B. Street. the poet, died at Albany
Yesterday, aged seventy years.
party OF one hundred aud twenty five
Frgiish immigrants arrived at WinniDeg.
Manitoba. on Monday, in seventeen days
from Liverpool.
The death is announced of 81. MsxtmiI-
Uan Paul Emile Littre, publicist and phil
oIogist. and member OF the French Acade-
nv. He WAS born in Paris, February LIST,
lSOl.
A San Antonia special says: "Advices
from Laredo state that Thos. Worth, an
American citizen, was billed on Tuesday
night by the Mexican police. An investiga-
tiJn Is gOlUg on.
A furui. ure dealer and shirt
in Philadelphia have been fined 500 each In
NE United States District Cour: for circula-
ting advertisements OF their business in the
shape Of greenbacks.
Mrs. Garfield bas been entirely free from
fever since Saturday, last, and is really con-
yalesing. The President will attend the
grsdr atfTg exercises of the Naval Academy.
at Annapolis, on the 10Th of June.
In the Kentucky pen!tentiary, John Gra-
ham, lszy white convict. paid a colored
convict twenty cents to cut off his hand at
the wrist, to keep him from backing hemp
The cOlOred nan did the job with an axe, at
g single blow.
Edwin T. Bum, a travelling salesman for
JetFras, SeelY Il Co Cincinnati, committed
suicide by jumping from the fourth story
OF the Emery Hotel, in that city, to the
Sidewalk. He had been subject to fits Of
dependency.
Three masked men entered the store of
Mccarthy 4 Hagsen, st NOrtoDyIlle, Kan
sas. covered Mccarthy, a clerk, two ladies
and two little girls with reyolVers, secured
$4,000 in cash from the safe, and made
good their escape.
The New Orleans Democrats Skipwith,
Mississippi, special says: st. J. Stephens
hru'ally murdered an old German at Lake
Providence yesterday. The murderer es,
capped. There is too much rain for good
crops in this section"
John Griscom, after his fasting, in Chiea-
60, remains apparently in "a healthy nor
NAL condition" He has lost eleven pounds
In weight. 'He plays games, visits the
theatres, and when he feels the need of
stimulation takes a leisurely walk"
The condition of the sleeping Hungarian,
at Allentown, Pa, is dsily growing more crit
cal, aud Il is believed that a few days more
will end the career of this wonderful man.
He is helpless as a child, aud has again
ceased to take food, nutriment now being
given him through the nostrils.
Dennis Dannahy, aged twenty three years,
was run over on the railroad at E sst Buffalo,
New York. The engineer says he was lying
on the track, and upon examining the
body Immediately after it was run over il
was found TO be cold, which would prove
that he was not killed by the train.
Jesse Little, q resident of Jefferson, in
Frederick county, Md, aud in rather desti-
tute circumstances for some time past, died
at that village recently, aged about eighty
three years Policies on his life to the
amount OF SOS 900 are said to have been
taken lately in different speculative COM
panies by various persons.
Marie Variau, aged tbirty-fve, a lager
beer saloon Keeper, has been arrested In
New York for setting fire to the saloon to
get "a, 500 insurance. Several persons were
asleep in the house, among them a sick
woman and child, when the house was fired.
The police had warning OF the affair, and
the match had hardly been applied before
the woman was arrested.
A stage coach on the Barlow and Sander
son line, in Colorado, was robbed few days
ago by four highwaymen while passing
through q canyon near Poncho Springs.
The robbers secured $500 in cash, draft for
50, 800, and several gold watches and other
valuables. Later in the day the same rob-
bers entered 4 store in POncho Springs and
compelled the proprietor to give up $3.50.
They were not masked, aud the leader was
recognized as Charles Allison, an ex deputy
Sheriff.
While Vienna was hurrahing over the re-
cent Imperial marriage, a poor tailor, the
father OF five children, all starving, shut
himself up in q room, bUtchered them, and
stabbed himself. Suspicion having been
aroused, the door of the room was burst
open, and the police found him just alive,
but covered with blood. He sat up for a
moment, glanced at the five corp'es, and
then at a cage in which canary was sing
ing. "Give him to the janitoT," he re-
marked "Otherwise he will starve to
death - then be lay down and died.
A terrible tragedy occurred at Coyle's
Ferry, IN York county, Pa, on Monday.
Emma Myers, 3 girl about twenty years OF
age, lived in the family of John Coyle, who
is proprietor of the ferry. His son became
enamOred of the girl, and desired to marry
her. She repeatedly refused him, and paid
no attention to his threat OF killing her II
she persisted in her resolution. On Monday
morning he followed her TO the spring
against her breast, and sent bullet through
her heart. He then turned the pistol to-
wards his own body and fired, but only in
acted slight wound. The murderer is
now in jail.
At Castle Garden, n Y 4, ,524 immigrants
arrived Saturday, anu 4, l97 ON Sunday. The
arrivals from the 1st to the 29th of Nav, in
elusive, during the year lSSO were % S91;
during the present year for the same period
they foot up "a ,07O. For the week nded
May 2Sth the arrivals were 20,17S, which is
the heaviest week ever known, the highest
previous week being the third week in May,
1873, when the number was 1880 The
total number of arrivals during 1877 was
6S.S55 and during 1878, 79.s01. The total
number Of arrivals during the first hve
months Of 1880 was 133, $50; there have ar
rived during this year up to the 2S-h inst,
inclusive, 179, ,361.