Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-12
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Mrs Garfield is quite III with a malarial
disease.
In the New York Assembly yesterday the
trTto allow women TO vote was defeated.
Sig steamships have landed at New York
s9jI immigrants, making total of about
9g00O for the first nine days Of May.
1ap5ie Jewell, Of Oakdale, Mass, aged
.t-E.spn wears, drank hedbug poison for
,[-tsr. from the effects Of which she died.
The International Sugar Refining Com
,srr of Amsterdam, has failed in cOnnec-
KIM with the failure Of b. II. Schroeder &
%.
Csrl Mink, Of Mansfield, Ohio, committed
.ri,fip ID PittsbUrg by hanging himself on
tpIcket fence. He had forty dollars in his
pockets.
The Emperor Frapcis Joseph has granted
an amnesty 0 all persons imprisoned for
offsrses airing from Poverty which were
uot premedlta'ed.
A crowd Of children in New York plagued
C5rnel!us NcEnrOe, aged twenty-three, aud
r4threw q beer bottle at them. I5 struck
Iirfle Girl named Albertina White, aged ten,
rsctuIiug her skull.
duel fmpends at Paris between NJ. Le-
mere. formerly Minister of the Interior, and
General for the Department of YoDne. The
a.ter is seventy six years Of age.
Cadets Lodeman and Ashby have been
dismissed from the Annapolis Naval Acade
ms. having been found appropriating TO
tb,ir own use the dwelling of an officer,
who was absent with his family.
Judge Billings, Of the United States Cir
cult Court, Yesterday decided the case of
&c. Hancock VS.. Z. J. HslbroOk ct al,
involving the ownership of the New Orleans
RmguHs In favor Of the defendants.
10 the United States Circuit Court at Bal
tlmore, Judge Bond has filed q decree in
favor II The Charleston Steamship Company
FOR s. .255 So against the schooner s. G.
TryOu for damsges Tor sinking the steam
ship Falcon.
an engine ran over the body OF Houston
Lsmery, in infant nearly two years of age,
a. Montgomery, completely severing It. The
mother, no Witnessed it, tainted when she
ssw the wheel strike her child, and is now
erazsd with grief
Letters from Algeria state that the rem
12uts Cf Colonel Flatters' Sahara expedi-
ton were finally driven to take refuge in a
cave, Ehere they were starving, and TesOrted
20 t0cauuibalism. Fifteen were eaten, inclu-
ding sub officer named PObguin.
Ia the past sixteen years the British In
diau budget has shown deficit sixteen
times, ana the sum total Of the defeiisi in the
past four financial years reached over $780,
0C0 coo. Military expenditures have at
sJrted 45 per cent. CT the revenue.
Tie contract for boring tunnel through
Boston Mountain, on the Arkansas division
0f ft5e S. Louis and San Francisco Railroad,
btween Fayetteville aud Fort Smith, has
been closed. Tie tunnel is 10 be l $50 feet
long, and is to be finished by January 1st,
lSS3
The Secretary of the Treasury has, In q
letter to Hon Daniel J. Morrell, of Johns
town, Pa, rejected the claim of the manu-
fac;urers Of hoop iron, and decided taat
cotton ties shslI pay only 30 per cent duty,
thus sustaining the ruling Of Secretary
Sherman.
The Russian CZgrina is said to be ia terror
for her children, and to suspect her maids
Of honor of completely with the Nihilists.
The Gar, it Is said, had narrow escape OF
being blown up by means Of explosive tubes
hidden in the wax car dles which are burn
ed 50 his desk.
News has been received at Sophia inst the
Christian population of Koritscaa, Mace
i0uia, has risen against the Turks on &C.
count Of heavy taxation. and abuses by the
authorities. Some fighting has taken place,
and number Of persons were killed. The
Christians were victorious.
A dispatch from Texas says the Ttxas
and Pacific Railroad management hsve ask
I'd that q company of United States troops
be sent 10 the western terminus of their
Tlsd to protect their workmen and property
from dspredatiOns by lawless young men,
Who have cOngTegated there.
The caD d'eat Of the Prince of Bulgaria
has created a sensation in Berlin and Nienns.
Tie Liberal papers consider that he has
made great mistake, and that he has taken
So attitude which is unworthy Of his Ger
nan origin. General ErnrOth, who is now
the virtual dictator, is Russian officer.
q few days sgo, Maggie Clark, aged ten,
vent into & vacant building in New York to
gather sticks. A bog named WIN. Reynolds
Qu4rreled with her about the ownership of
i1e wood which she had found, and, after a
short alteration, lie knocked her down aud
s'csed her IN the abdomen. She has since
died.
Matthew v B. Fowler, President of the
Commercial Fire Insurance Company, died
strY suddenly al the Office of the company,
IN New York city. He WAS opening a
Meeting OF TIE stockholders for the election
o. directors, WI ei., without warning, he be-
came unconscious and died in few min
1,es.
Counsel IN the suit Of Rufus Hatch against
re consolidated telegraph companies at
NeF York, sgreed upon an order yesterday
ming continuing the Injunction preyi-
yy-sly granted. IL restTains the Western
l1on Company from distributing the pro
g.sed Increase Of SIS, 100000 OF capital
lie Captain Of the steamer Dean Adams
col trms the news Of the break in the levee
I. Alsatia La The break is about two
-unGIed ards vide, and is spreading rapid
Y. Inc aater is running through with
sleat vOlocity, and there is little prospect of
hsavy
CHARLES Schiller was one of party made
" near WILDER, Nebraska, to shoot ployer.
= laAlng his gun out Of wagon, he pulled
! loSard him muzzle first. The trigger
e5lglt On the end board and the entire
l--Ise lodged in ScAi!ler's chest. He was
IN, member Of a wealthy family living In
"lll CaIOlina.
! Ten n-yearold son of n. V. De Witt, OF
olUofd county, Virginia, was attacked
a.ae weeks since with a pain in one of his
S!Ssi Which was pTOuOuced TO be neuralgia.
~ lle eye-bail burst and came out OF It's
e.-A5', and shortly afterward the other eye
s.oIuded, leaving the child blind and in
- - misery. Desth finally relieved him
-'on these suterings.
touf negroes at work on the A. G. 8. con-
.--e.lon train were killed at MaxwelIs
vel, not far below Tuscaloosa, Ala. They
Le digging under bank when it cayed
alu caught TWO of them. The others
ss----.ssllatety commenced digging out their
s-.9'tl-ef.ng comrades, when it caved again,
Iis1h,lg two more and burying the four
ave IN one grave.