Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-30
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The new steamship Servia is being fitted
with ninety-eight electric lamps.
The exertions OF American lady teachers
in Asia Minor have established 400 schools
for children In that region.
The number of patients treated by the
Marine Hospital surgeons last year was
80, 700, of whom 456 died. All were sea-
men.
The Hamburg American Steamship Com
paDy will hencefOrth send twos teamers from
Hamburg to New York weekly, instead of
one week as heretofore.
Postmaster General James has'issued an
order providing for a strict inspection of
the accounts of Post Office Inspectors and
superintendent Of the Railway Mail Service.
Miss Minnie Reeve, a telegraph operator
and railroad agent at Hopkins, Minnesota,
was killed recently by collision between
an empty train and a locomotive on which
she was riding.
A special from Austin says: "The Paris
and Great Northern Railroad Company filed
their charter here yesterday, providing for a
standard gauge railroad from Paris to the
Red River, distance Of thirty miles. The
capital stock is $4,000
A large mass meeting Of the taxpayers of
Danville, Va, have adopted a resolution
favoring the purchase by the city of the
water power Of the Dan river, with a view
to improve and lease it, so as to make Dan
Vile manufacturing city.
The Lumbermen's Exchange of Chicago,
at its meeting, decided to advance the price
of thick clears and one inch finishing 81
per thousand. A similar advance was made
on several other grades. The demand for
lumber is at present greater than the
supply.
Charles Parker, a guide in the Adiron-
dacks, while taking Mrs. George Bull from
Forked Lake to Long Lake, to be the guest
of ex-senator Platt, made a felonious as
sault upon the lady and nearly strangled
her. A later dispatch says the scoundrel
has been arrested.
1t is reported from San Laricia, New
Mexico, that rancho near that place, at
which were two men and several women
and children, had been surrounded by In
dians. A detachment of soldiers left on
Monday for the scene, and volunteer party
followed on Tuesday.
At a largely attended meeting of the
Western Nail Association held in Pittsburg.
after general discussion, showing that the
stocks everywhere are unusually light,
resolution was adopted reaffirming the rate
adopted at the meeting of June Is, namely,
a selling rate of 81 IS, subject to no dis
count except 2 per cent. for cash.
The potteries in Trenton, New Jersey, in
cluding those for decorating purposes
alone, are 90 in number. and they employ
nearly 5000 persons. They have an aggre-
gate capital of 81, 9O2, 500, and the annual
value of their products is about 81 500, 900
said to be little more than half the value
of all the pottery produced in the United
States.
A whirlwind passed through Cumberland
Centre and Yarmouth Foreside, in Maine,
recently, moving a path quarter of mile
wide through fields and orchards, destroy
ing fences and crops and swapping off trees
six inches in diameter. There were no
buildings in the path of the wind, but the
glass In many houses were smashed by an
accompanying fall of hail. About fifty
farms lost 5000 to $400 each by damage to
their crops.
The Kansas City Commercial Indicator
publishes reports from more than one hun
dred counties in Western Missouri. Kansas,
Southwestern Iowa and Nebraska, which
show largely increased acreage of corn,
only six counties having a smaller acreage
than last year. Should the weather con-
tnue favorable, a largely increased yield is
anticipated. A material decrease in the
supply of hogs in the same territory is in
dicated.