Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-09

T.is estimated that one thousand miles of
,.H-Cst piu be built in Iowa the coming
year.
Tie steamship H1heT z)liern, at Balti-
nars from Bremen, brought ! 400 immi-
giants.
4brI allowing women TO vote has heen
,-lar-f 10 a third reading in the New York
Assembly by q vote Of 90 to 40.
+. The forty fourth anniversary Of the
,msrieau sad Foreign Bible Society, held
= NV York the TrcasuTer's report showed
tsa- The receipts were Sl5, 740 1G, and the
sf-brrseme-ts $l2, ,S59 6.
There Is now lying in the vaul's of the
f-a7--H States Treasury about Sl13, ,C00,OC0
fr---I aud $50 GCOOQ0 in silver-the largest
srant 0f coin ever collected Ia any one
mace in the history Of modern times
Ear the wear 1880 the United States tax on
s-5ri-. amounted 10 $6I, lS5 500: fermented
isao,s. SI1 -, ,S03 Total, S74, ,0I5 312 The
~ ru tCaacCO amounted to SIS, $50, 40
Ta.aI revenue from liquors and tobacco,
SLl2, 50 452.
speciaI meetinrof the Charleston Cham
taraf Commerce vas held Saturday, which
was al dressed by II. Leon Chateau, IN ex-
r.srs.i5u Of the new commercial opportu-
ftf4s created Tor tie United States by the
Fr-ac4 general tariff recently adopted.
ffss. Kellogg, aged sixteen, was knocked
rFa freight train s. So. Paul street bridge,
E.ehss-r~, few days age, and killed.
NuIe tlaU 3 dozen men, II ist.y brakesmen,
have Or. % killed before st the same place.
Ta- bridge is only three or four feet above
the top % tie cars.
Narhew Vasser aud his brother, John
Grv Nas-1r, have formally presented new
and handsome building known SIS the Vas
se- Home for Ola Men, aud other property
with H. al OF the y6lue Of SO. .OOO to the
'r1,.ets Of the institution al POughkeepsje,
y y and added so OG0 as an endowment
fund
In the United States District Court ct
Trenton, New Jersey, the grand jury have
brought ia tHO Indictments against five Of
The directors q the defunct First National
Bank II Newark, fer conspiracy and aiding
in the falsifcaiiOn Of the books and reports
- thr haI X They are wealthy ciCiZ rs of
Newark.
Ta- governments Ttctory at the Spanish
municipal elections was complete. In the
provinces seventy five per ceutUm of the re-
tn-us show The election Of friends Of Seuor
Sa-a-ta ii is rUmOred that SeEOr Sagssta
iateud. 20 dissolve The Cortes in June. The
government seems disposed 10 set the Cuban
prisoners az liberty
At HIuesburgh. Vt, while Frank Wei
ccme ami his sister jennie were returning
from q drive they came in collision with an
other tesn aud both were thrown violently
to the grcuaG, Jennie striking on her head
aai shoulders She has remained uueon-
scI-us since she was taken up, and has had
c5uvulsions most OF the time. The doctor
says she cannot live.
dispatch from st. Petersburg says: 'tAn
&C. H. - 1-.r.N
or Sunday lessening the rent TO which
peasants are liable for lands from thirty to
sixty five per cent. This viii apply to the
thirteen Northern gGve TumeEts. There viii
be other measures Of smelioTatiOn fer the
South. The expEctatit rs Of a constitution
are probably cbimeric4l."
James NJ. ScovelI, well known Jersey
politician, has been convicted at Camden of
obtaining money under false pre'ences. He
Induced John Christopher to indOrse two
pTUmissory notes, amounting to $3.50,
promising in return TO obtain his release of
note for 5000, made payable to person 20
whom one Of the two notes in question was
drawn. This he failed to DO, and Christie
pher was obliged to pay all.
A skull believed to be the missing head Of
tie body Of Mrs. L'Zz'e Lowell was
found in Lewiston, Maine, a few days ego,
near the Swi ZeTland road. a headless
skeleton, identified as that of Mrs. Lowell,
vas found near the same spot seven years
ago and her husband, James Lowell, was
convicted of numbering her. He is now in
the State prison for the crime. A reward
for the discovery of the head was offered at
the trial.
AT Erie, Pa, the counsel for a fratricide
caused q sensation by moving to quash the
entire iury list because the jury box was
q. -
Investigation disclosed that 10 legal jury
hsd been drawn iu Erie county for ten
years, owing to the custom of sealing the
wheel with mlcilage instead OF wax. The
Judge discharged al the jurors. There Is
intense excitement, owing to the prisoner
having to wait until September for trial.
serious cutting afTray occurred at
Youngstown, Pa, between two butchers.
Robert Bowers attempted to k Il his father.
The trouble grew out Of jealousy, each de-
ddrg customers for meat. The sOa threw
large knife At his father, striking him ia
the hip aud making sn Cgly WOaud- Then
picking mp q cleayer, he threw it With mur-
dsrlus force q the old man, missing him
ans striking 2 litsle girl on the head. 1t is
thought the child viii not recover. TGe boy
vas arrested.
4 very interesting experiment with the
molecular telephone invented by Robert NJ
lockwood and his son William, OF New
iork, wss tried between that city and Phila
deiphia over the ordinary telephone wires
used By one OF the principal telegraph com
panes. The result was q surprise TO all who
were present. Conversation even to q whisper
ID Philadelphia was heard with perfect dis
uaeiuess Of articulation, such as is perfect
" practicable for commercial purposes. Tie
pHIciple claimed by the inventors is that Of
molecular disturbance and the suppression
oi all vibration.