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

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Brief News Summary.
The O'Leary six-daV walk at Chicago has
been postponed until May IA.
General Grant and party arrived at Vera
cruz from galveston at noon yesterday.
The Governor of Tennessee has signed
the bill to settle the State debt at par, with
three per cent. interest,
The New York Cotton Exchange decided
by ballot yesterday to close on Good Friday
and the following Saturday.
At Evansville, Ind, Sunday, George
Schmidt, two years old, died of hydropho.
bis, after thirty hours suffering. He was
bitten March z
1t is officially announced that the mar
rage OF the Crown Prince Rudolph and the
Princess StePhsnie of Belgium is fixed for
the 10th of May.
The Tennessee House has passed the
Senate bill to settle the debt of the extinct
municipality OF Memphis at 331S cents, and
4 per cent. interest.
Mount Holley, n. j., were burned early
Tuesday morning. Loss, $50, COO. The fire
was the work of an incendiary.
A clock OUT" started four weeks ago at
the Detroit Stove Works, in Detroit, still
continues, the Union workmen seeking to
exclude four non Union men from the shop.
John Williams, colored, will be hanged
to morrow, at Waverly, Tenn, for the muir
der OF his wife. The Governor has declined
to interfere with the execution of the SEN
tence.
An English stock company has secured
about LOG, 900 acres of land In the province
of Quebec, where it is proposed to colonize
a large number of English and Scotch
farmers.
A Gordon of ten thousand Turkish troops
has been drawn around the Hauran district
OF Syria in consequence of conflict be-
tween the Druses and neighboring Moham-
medans.
The one hundred and thirtieth anniversary
OF the birthday of Thomas Jefferson was
celebrated on Saturday night in New York
by the members of the Tammany General
Committee.
Angeline Buell., aged forty-fve years, en-
plOyed as q domestic in Albany, n. Y. was
burned so badly by the ignition of a varnish
she was mixing for application to the floor,
that she died shortly afterward.
In Memphis Tuesday night, Samson Shell
ton fired a charge of buckshot into the
breast of Luclus Cobb. killing him instant
lY. Both are negroes, and their quarrel was
about the favor OF a colored girl.
to be Eugene P. Ellis, carpenter, of EN-
pOris, Kansss,) were found In a railroad
tunnel at st. Louis recently, evidently hav-
ing been run over by several trains.
The great Corliss engine which was on
exhibition at the Centennial and was taken
to the new town of Pullman, few miles
south of Chicago, has been placed in the
Pullman Palace Car CompanY's works.
The stockholders OF the Pullman Palace
| Car Company, at a meeting In Chicago re-
Gently voted to increase the capital stock
from six to eight millions. Three -fourths
Of the entire stock were represented at the
meeting.
1 General Loris Melikoff has prohibited the
| retail sale of the newspaper R0riGdok, and
| has suspended the WeSt1llk newspaper, of
| SmOlensk, for publishing an account of
\ disturbances among the peasantry In the
/ Government of Kier.
/ A man about twenty.eight years of age,
/ who registered as ~. p. Ames, of Pitts
| burg" committed suicide by shooting, in
/ Peppers Hotel, Baltimore, on Saturday.
/ He was well dressed, and of gentlemanly
/ appearance and manners.
An incendiary fire in East Cambridge,
Macs, Sunday, destroyed the lumber shed
and car house OF the Lowell Railroad Com
! pany, with large quantity of lumber and
/ several freight and passenger cars. The
/ losses are estilated at $4,000.
The Vienna ITesSc says. Russia, after
having aceeded to the Austrian proposal
for the unanimous recognition Of the king
dom of Roumania, now makes her consent
| conditional upon the adoption of measures
against the Nihilists in Moldavia."
Twenty thousand shares Of fifty francs
| each cf g new steam freight line from
Havre and RordeauZ to New Orleans, the
I H. E4.w har ftFllr
covered at Paris, although the subscription
lists from the provinces are incomplete.
The skeleton of Joseph McLane, who was
killed by Utes in July, 1878, was found on a
prairie thirty miles from Wallace, Colorado,
few days ago. There was a bullet hole
through the skull. The remains were iden-
titled by revolver, which was found with
the body.
A Boston dispatch states that in addition
to the entries already made in the great
] stallion race for purse OF $4,000, offered
| by W. Z. Palch, the stallion Monroe Chief,
of Chicago, ana the stallion Bonesetter
have been entered. fhe latter, which has a
record of 2:19, is entered by H. Y. Bemis,
Of Chicago.
4 telegram from Syracuse, New York,
/ says that a man calling himself G. W. Wat
son, about tao geeks ago, stole from a
lithograph company OF tnat city 8 lot OF
blank drafts of the National Bank of Say
etteville on the Fourth National Bank OF
New York, and has since been forgin ,
them in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
4 movement is on foot among the leading
holders of Northern Pacific stock, in Phila-
delphia and New York, to pool their hold
iugs to prevent any detrimental action 0a
the part OF adverse parties. 1t is thought
an arrangement will be reached which will
preclude the possibility of any of the new
| shares being thrown on the market in the
near future 10 any event.
A French paper relates the following ex-
pertinent: A COW was pilksd three times
day for eleven days, and Welded one hun
dred and seventy quartz OF milk. With two
milkings daily she gave only one hundred
and forty-six quarts In the same number OF
days Analysis, moreover, showed that the
| milk In the first case was richer in butter
globules by nosc than one-seventh than In
the second case.
The Chicago tribune says: "There are
four hundred saloons in this city which are
merely the vestibules of dens of infamy-
| roome where prostitutes of the lowest grade
| ply every visitor with solicitations too vile
fcf description and publication. In these
! saloons men are made drunk and robbed,
and handed over to the tender mercies Of
the inmates of the brothels of which they
constitute the entrance"
Wallace Ross says II he is unsuccessful in
arranging a race with Smith, the Halifax
/ oarsman, he will issue challenge to Han
/ Ian for Z race for $1,000 a side, and he
(Ross) does not want any allowance of time
| or distance either st the etart or finish. He
is confident of his ability TO beat aay man
In the world, but before challenging Hsnlan
he is anxious to wipe out his defeat by
Smith as we'll as to ''silence the brag of
! Hosmer and Courtney"
John Donohue has been arrested in Pat
| erson, New Jersey, On suspicion of having
killed his father The latter Was drunk the
night before, and, according to the state
ment of his wife and son, fell on the stove,
sustaining injuries of which he died next