Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-30
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Arkansas Is crowded with men buying up
climber lands Thousands Cf acres are. sold
weekly
4 coI9red man was struck and killed at
Alexandria, Virginia, yesterday by fast
through train.
The President Saturday appointed Charles
Esyle Of Indiana, IS CO1sul OF the United
states at Berlin.
The specie IN the three banks OF EHglsnd,
Germany and France has decreased S4S, 49,
Is3 in the past year.
The business OF papar making in the
r-rfrrf stats is estimated to employ over
$4,000 eco of capital and 10000 persons.
shirley. an engineer in a Louisville dis
tlT4rv, bile oilIng the machinery, fell on
~ dg-wheel. His body was torn to pieces.
Tie Mississippi river this year has flooded
territory as wide as the State OF Massa.
rtusetts and longer than from Boston to
Omaha.
Hon. John Preston, sged 65, died Of heart
dl.esse or hts home in Trimble county, Ken
tnckv. 90 Friday. He has been prominent
man in State stf airs for years.
After discussing a number of minor re-
por.s the Presbyterian General Assembly
n session st StauntOD, Va, adjourned to
meet ia Atlanta, Ga, next spring.
The S.ndbrOok Nil, at Ouell, Lancashire,
has been burned The damage amounts TO
me sun Of e30,CO0. One hundred and fifty
employees are thrown out of work.
The lower house Of the Michigan Legls-
Istrrr has passed the bill restoring capital
punishment in that State, but there is no
probability that it will become a law.
Hattie Hull, aged twenty five, attempted
10 commit suicide at New York by throwing
herself ID front Of an elevated train. The
trsin was stopped in time, however, and
Miss Hull escaped with 8 crushed hip.
George Wheeler, who murdered his
asferin-law bY strangling. tried to commit
suicide in San Francisco by hanging himself
with q rope made from a blanket. He was
discovered, cut down, and confined In an
other cell.
a ot Cf Indians at Virginia City, Nevada,
developed the smallpox, snd, fearing that
the authorities might get after them, they
scattered and fed. At present small pOx is
breaking out wherever Indisns appear in
the ueigl lbOrhOOd.
The new road to San Francisco through
Arizona runs for sixty miles along a basin
that Is $50 feet below the level OF the
ocean This region has two to four
feet Of salt and alkali covering its surface.
The ground is perfectly white.
"THs fact that the small pOx prevails here
tOa considerable extent can no longer be
concealed. Vaccination is the order of the
dsv, and IL is hoped that with proper pre-
cautions the rayages Of the disc ase may be
checked"
During 1880 the number OF pieces Of mat
ter msiled in the United States, of all classes,
VASE 20, 234 600. Number of letters mailed, :
1858. .253, 900; a24 555 900 postal cards; Sl2,-
032 OOO newspapers; so, 149, COO magazines
and other periodicals; 81, $4,000 packages
Of merchandise.
Ii is announced that the designations Of
A. T. Williams, Superintendent of the
Seventh district, with headquarters at Gin
CInnsti, and Of Frank A. Armstrong, Man
ager Of the Cincinnati Office, have been ten
dered to the present management of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
The Galveston and Pacific Narrow Gauge
Railroad Company was organized at Gal
weston Yesterday with a capital stock of
$50 OC0 The route Of the road will be
from Galveston to Victoria, San Antonio
and Camargo. Subscription books for the
capital stock viii be opened next week.
The wheat harvest has begun in the vic!n-
fly of Dallas, Texas, and the quality Is bet
ter than at any time during the past twelve
years. Crop prospects over the whole
State are reported as most promising,
though in some sections the acreage Is
smaller than last year on account of the
scarcity Of labor
About eight O'Clock Yesterday morning a
block Of five frame dwellings in the western
quarter of Alexandria, Va, was burned.
The fire originated in 3 house where two
small children were locked in in the absence
Of their parents. The flames spread so
rapidly that one Of the children. an infant
Of nine months, was burned to death before
it could be reached. The other escaped un-
hurt through a window.
On Saturday one of the Republican Police
Commissioners of Troy. y. Y, was sus-
pended by the Mayor for malfeasance in
Office, and the Board OF Commissioners
Immediately proceeded TO select a police
force largely Democratic. The force is
already on duty, and the action of Mayor
Murphy gives general satisfaction. The
city had been without police or detective
since the 2d Of this month.
With all the poverty of Ireland, the per
centsge of psUperism IS much smaller in
tbst country than in England. In 1873,
5000 persons were relieved IN Ireland at a
cost Of 1890 600, while In England nearly
$4,000 persons we're relieved at a cost of
%i6So OO0 Taking the population Of Eng
land 40 four times that of Ireland, it will be
seen that pauperism in Ireland is not half
what tt IS in England, in proportion to the
Population, and is even II per cent. less
than in Scotland.
The profit on cinchona planting in Cey-
Ion has hitherto been estimated at 40 and so
per cent, but the plantations of the govern
ment 10 India, and the immense aud thriV-
lng cinchCna groves at La Paz, Bolivia, will
soon be sufficiently advanced to come into
competition with them. The cultivation of
he cluchOna in this, its original home, Is
easy. The chief danger is from drought or
ANS during the first two years, and the only
aoor necessary is to keep the young plants
nee from weeds. To give shade to the
Seeding plants, bananas are planted be-
tween them
The London Standard publishes the
Holc"ing statement prominently: "Our
Iunis correspondent wires that he was
summoned to the telegraph Office to receive
.le Price Of thirteen messages not forward
sl- On inquiry he wss told that the tele-
s-ams we're dispatched from Tunis, but
Stopped az Paris by order of the govern
-saL' The Standard makes the following
eg4meIts: "If the explanation CT the Tu-
.slan telegraph officials is correct we have
P-olIg TO say, except to congratulate the
sLeheh republic on an incident which is
Ssoflny Of The best or the worst days Of the
second Empire"
Railway President Resigns.