Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-11
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Monsieur Lois CASTOR de Segeur, the
eminent French prelate and author of many
religious works, is dead.
The Reichstag yesterday rejected, by Q
vote of 153 to 102, the credit demanded by
Prince Bismarck for the establishment Of
an Economic Council.
An encounter has taken place between
Turkish troops and Bulgarian bands In
Macedonia, in which eight Turks and thir-
teen Bulgarians we're killed.
Two OF the new locomotives for the
Canada Pacific Railway have arrived at
Toronto. Eleven hundred men are now
employed on Section B of that railroad.
Private kilograms have been received In
st. Petersburg announcing the outbreak of
disturbances at Kharkoff aud other towns
In Southern Russia. Several ineendiary
fires are reported.
1t is reported In Toronto that Boston
capitalists have subscribed IS, ,000, 900 to-
wards the construction of the airline from
Winnipeg to Daluth. to be built westward
from Duluth this summer.
The British Board of Trade returns for
May show an increase of go, 1858 ,S28 in the
value OF imports as compared with the
same month last year, and an increase Of
81, sos, ~ Ia the value of exports.
George W. Hubley, mail route agent, has
been sentenced, In the United States Dis
trict Court. tn one year's imprisonment In
the Eastern Penitentiary, aud to pay a fine
of 500 for having embeZZled a college
badge or pin from the mails.
A letter is published at Havana with
fly signatures, asking lenitV for General
BOet, saying consideration should be ex-
tended to a defender Of Spain. General
Boet is under trial at Havana for execu-
tions ordered in Santiago de Cuba, from
1868 to 1870.
Barnum's show Is In Boston this week.
The chief feature of his circus entertain
ment is the performance of Nine. Elise
Dockrill. Mr.. Barnum states that his show
gives employment to $50 persons and makes
use OF 3lO horses and 26S, 600 yards of can
vass. Its daily expenses amount to 81, 500.
The tents will accommodate 1900 specta-
trs.
Samuel d. Haynes. who murdered his
guard In prison, in Rockland, Me-, attempt
ed to escape from the State prison at
Thomaston. In company with another
prisoner named Brogden, by throwing harts-
horn In the face of a sentinel. Another
sentinel shot Haynes through the lungs,
aud both were secured. The wounded man
may die.
The first death by lightning in Nevada
ever recorded occurred at Virginia City
few days ago, the victim being Chinaman.
During the same storm the lightning struck
a cliff In Castle District, some six miles
north OF the city, and dislodged mass of
rock that would weigh not less than fifty
tors, tumbling IL down the face of the
mountain into the valley.
Numerous outrages have occurred near
WestpOrt and In little Compton and liver
ton, Z. l., several parties having had hay
stacks burned and cattle poisoned. A short
time ago the well of Edward Rowland was
poisoned, resulting in Il Q death of a boy
and the severe illness of three other persons.
IL Is stated that the people are afraid to
testify against the party suspected
The Havana Official Gazette promulgates
a decree postpohing the custom house reg
ula'iOns until July 1, and the regulations
with reference to captains manifests until
July /, for all vessels arriving from the
eastern coasts OF North America, the Next
can gulf, and South America to the mouth
OF the Orinoco; also from all islands in the
Mexican gulf, the Antilles and the Carib-
bean sea.
Adolph Albers, Captain of the Hamburg
steamer Silesia, Capt. Meyer, of the steamer
Ohio, and Carl Wiegaud, Captain Of the
steamer Salier, have been all arrested in
New York for carrying an excessive num-
Der OF passengers In violation of the law.
The first-named was held in $4,000, second
in $25 600, and third In 5000 by the United
States Commissioner to await the action of
the grand jury.
AT Westminster, Mo-, Chief Justice Bar
tol, in the habeas corpus case of Col. Wm.
Z. MaulsbY, committed to jail by Judge
Hayden In default of payment of a $40 fine
for alleged misbehavior in court, refused
the petition for discharge and remanded the
petitioner to custody until the sentence Of
Judge Hayden shall have been obeyed.
Col. Maulsby again refused to pay the fine
and " as returned to jail, but later MEM
Der OF bis family paid the fine and the
Colonel was released.
Mrs. Muller cut her throat at Cincinnati
nine years ago. Her attempt at suicide was
failure, though she has never fully recov-
cred from the wound. She had quarreled
with her husband, and their differences
have continued. Muller frequently up
braided her for not dying when she wished
to, and urged her to try again. On the an
niversary of the event, few davs ago. he
said that he would show her by taking his
own life how properly to commit suicide.
He aimed pistol at his heart and fired, but
rib diverted the bullet, and he will re-
cover.
The suit against the Catholic Church
property OF the Cincinnati diocese, brought
by the assignee Of Archbishop Purcell, Is
against all property which is held in trust
by the Archbishop, and includes churches,
schoolhouses, hospitals, cemeteries, ,and such
city and other property as has been given
by benevolent persons for the use of the
church, and has been held In trust by the
Archbishop. The creditors represented by
the assignee number about five thousand.
and their claims aggregate four million dol
lars. The suit will, by agreement, go at
once to higher court. The chief point at
issue-one which, 1t is said, has never been
decided the in courts-is whether property
held in trust by Bishop of the church ID
liable for his debts.