Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-23
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The Tennessee Press Association arrived
at New York Tuesday night
The population of Victoria, British Co.
lumbia, is shown by the census returns to
be 6, 364
The annual procession in celebration of
Corpus Christi, at Montreal, was participated
in by &c, coo persons.
The round house of the Boston and Howell
Railroad, at Lowell Mass, was damaged by
fire to the extent of 100000.
The census of Halifax, Nova Scotia, lust
completed, gives that city population of
6,lCO, an increase OF c, ,527 in the last de-
cade.
Sixty thousand Jews are expected to i'm
migrate to Spain, in consequence of de-
cision of the government allowing Jews ex-
PEELED from Russia to come to Spain.
telegram from Victoria, British Column
bia, says that an American outlaw recently
crossed the boundary into the province and
brutally assaulted Catholic priest and q
number OF citizens.
A gang Of strikers from st. Sauveur
marched into Quebec and tried to drive off
all the men at work in rebuilding the
burned district at less than ST per day. The
police dispersed the mob.
The funeral of two of the victims of the
yesterday and was witnessed by large but
orderly crowd Of people. Numb bers of
Italians are quitting the city for Italy.
The store of DE-. Conkling, at Centreville,
California, was blown up with giant pow
der. COnkling, who slept in the building,
was taken out Of the ruins In critical con-
dition. The explosion is attributed to an
enemy.
The shipments of the Newfoundland Cop
per Mining Company, since May 18th, have
amounted to nearly 10000 tons of ore,
valued at nearly $4,000 The total output
for the year is estimated at $4,000 tons,
equal to nearly $600,000
Two Frenchmen at Marseilles have been
sentenced to years and fortnight's i'm
prisonment, respectively, for participation
in the riots, and two aliens have been SEN
fenced for three months, and four others to
months imprisonment for stabbing.
At meeting Of the Council of Cleveland,
Ohio, j. II. Wade offered as a gift to the
city large tract of land, on its eastern
limit, valued at $500,000, which he has been
converting, during several years, into a
beautiful park. 1t will be known as Wade
Park.
A special of Tuesday'q date from Austin
says; The Sabine and Western Railway
Company iled their charter to-day. The
AOaA ID " tAb6uu lIOul GdDIl6 EaSS TO H0uG-
ton, distance OF eighty miles. The incor-
porators are all of this city. The stock is
placed at Sl,500,000."
& Aranza, the famous three -year-old race
mare, recently purchased by Mr.. Pierre
Lorillard for $4,000, was severely injured
during transportation from the Rancocas
stud farm to the Coney Island race course.
Her head was badly bruised, and it is feared
the injuries may extend to her brain.
A bill for the reform of the constitution
OF Victoria has now passed both Houses of
Parliament. 1t reduces the property quail
ication OF members Of the Legislative Conn
Gil to 9l0Oi fixes that of freehold electors
at 9l0; that of an occupier at e25. There
is great satisfaction at the settlement of the
question.
Ihe tents horses and parAphernalia of
the Great London Show, a circus. were
seized by deputy sheriff from Chicago. at
Des PLANES, Illinois, on Saturday afternoon,
lust as performance was about to begin.
Inc seizure was made on an attachment for
debt OF eight hundred dollars. The cir
Gus material was taken to Chicago
The severest thunder storm of the season
In Baltimore visited that city recently. The
rainfall in half an hour was more than two
inches, Lilo inches falling in ten minutes of
That time. The wind reached a velocity of
thirty miles an hour, and the temperature
fell from 81 to 6S degrees. Many sewers
were burst and streets torn up by the rain.
Advices from British Columbia say thai
Rogers, the Pacific Railway Synd.sstels en-
gineer, who went to explore Howse Pass.
"Was stopped by the snow on the Selkirke
range OF mountains, and had to break up
his party and retrace his steps. De will
make another attempt soan TO get through.
II is believed that the effort to flnd a new
pass viii fail, and that the Yellow Head
Pass must be adopted" 81