Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-28
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The outlook Of the Labrador fisheries is
the best for twenty years.
Charles Christian Brubns, the eminent
German astronomer, is dead.
The Sprague property in Augusta. Me,
has been attached TO the value Of S5OO,OOO
on a suit OF the Quidueck Company.
During the week ending on the 23d inst. +,
twenty i've deaths occurred from yellow
fever, and nine from smallpox, at Havana.
consignment of Minnesota wheat,
shipped in barges to New Orleans aud
thence bY steamer to Liverpoo has arrived
in good condition.
II. NJ. Locharq and Miss Jessie Edwards,
engaged to be married, went rowing on the
lake at Cleveland, o., and were drowned.
Their bodies were rec overed.
The treasury of Stark county, Ohio, is
said to show a deficit of Sll, 200. The
County Treasurer, however, claims that a
mistake has been made in computation.
Thomas Hook, a stock raiser, shot his
father dead at TontO Basin, Arizona, on
Tuesday last. His parents had been di-
vOrced, and all had quarTeled over the
! division OF their property.
The resignation of W irner Miller as Con
gr ssman from the Twenty-second district
iu the FOrty-sevenJh Congress, to take effect
Immediately, was filed in the Secretary of
states office at Albany Yesterday.
The dOIy CITY Of Bath, which started
from Maine for Havre, France, several dsys
a o, and which put into TrepasSy, n. F., to
stop a leak and take provisions, is expected
to sail again on its hazardous voyage
shortly.
A st. Petersburg correspondent telegraphs
{ laJ the first great trial IN connection with
&c ut political events in Russia is to COM
fv,,
male and female Nihilists will be brought
before q court martial.
The wife Of Jose Gallardo, of Flushing,
L. l., during the absence Of her husband a
day or two ago, cleared out, taking her two
children and most of the household furni
ture with her. For several weeks previous
the GallardOs had bOarier, who has also
mysteriOusly disappeared.
William GAVIN, while suffering from de-
lirium Jremens, at Troy, New York, jumped
headfOremOst from precipice, one hundred
sud twenty ive f. ct high, to the rocky bed
Of the POestenkill creek. Strangely enough,
be was not killed, and, though terribly cut
and bruised, is expected to recover.
a disastrous drought, similar to that of
last year, is reported in Northern New Jer
sey. The market gardeners are said to
have lost thousands of dollars in cOnse-
quence. Hundreds OF wells, cisterns and
streams are dry, and in Orange many fami-
lies are buying water at two dollars per
wagon load.
A disastrous fire, occasiOned by heat from
a hull machine, occurred at the shipyard of
the PuseY q Jones Company, at Whining
ton, Delaware, few nights ago. A steam
boat Just built for parties in SOUTH America,
a business office and several shops were de-
stTOyed and foundry slightly burned. The
loss is estimated at from 500 900 to $780,
600.
John McMullin, of Fall River. Mass a
teamster, savagely beat John L DTelly on
Sunday, for suspected intimacy with Mrs.
McMullin. Subst quently BE pounded his
wife, and reported 10 the police that he had
found her dead in bed The appearance of
the rlOm and Of the wOman's body indica-
ted that she had been murdered by her hus-
| band, and he was arrested.
Ervan Reese, Is years Of age, went up to
/ the tOpmOst portion of the new breaker OF
the Butler COlliery Company, I'm Carbondale,
| Pa, and was standing on the upper screen
| ing wheel, when a companion named Low
/ Tay arrived. The latter told Reese to come
/ down CT be would pull out the iron bolt
/ holding the screen wheel, which makes
/ thirty revolutions a minute when in motion.
l Reese refused to come down and the bolt
l was thereupOn withdrawn and the screen
/ turned so rapidly that it threw Reese fifty
/ feet. He struck head first upon a large
/ rock below, his brains being knocked out
and his body otherwise mangltd.