Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-08

BRIEF NEWS SU UMMARl.
Henry Vieuxtempss the celebrated Bel
giau yi0linist, is dead.
Sir VIM james, Lord Justice of the Eng
Ilsh Court Of Appeals, is dead.
E-cEsbmg had g 500 600 fire a few days
age originating in sash, door and blin d
factory.
Len Jones was stabbed seven miles from
willis, Texas, on Monday morning by Nose
Duncan. Both are eolOred men.
bov named Thompson threw a stone at
adlgin Scranton, Pa, which glanced and
struck lis brother, killing him instantly.
Yesterday afternoon at DAnville, Virginia,
VIM. B johnson shot Pleasant Simmons
with q pistol, fatally wOunding him. Both
arc cClOred.
Robert Ball, a prominent stock owner. in
attempting to cross the Big Wichita river
near Henrietta, Texas, on horseback on
Nenday. was drowned.
The directors Of the Texas Central Rail-
road were elected directors of the Waxa-
hstehie Tap Railroad yesterday, and will
take possession Of the same to-day.
special received in Galveston says:
.The body Of a mat was found in the woods,
twelve miles north OF Oakville, with his
throat cut from ear to ear"
Tie California Academy Of Sciences gave
arsception Monday evening to the officers
az The Arctic relief steamer POdgers, which
vii. sill for The North some day this week.
Two little children of Jacob Herbolate,
Of Jane stOWp, Texas, were poisoned by eat
ing btrries from poisonous weeds. The
eldest eh.ld, three years old, is not expected
% live.
special from Morgan City, La, SAYS:
"Duriug a thunder storm to-day a cOlOred
man, living about three miles from here,
was instantly killed by lightning while sit
ting ia his cottage"
In shooting afTray az Moberlie, Texas,
between Z4ck Sucker, a barkeeper, and
jim Moore, a gambler, at Smiths dance
house, Moore was fatally wounded.
ucker was arrested and lodged in Jail.
The Womeu's Missionary Society of the
General SYuO3'of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in the United States met in con-
vention at Altoona, Pa. yesterday morning,
with an attendance from all parts of the
country.
TeIegrams from the City of Mexico re-
part that owing to the prevalence of yellow
fever al Vera Cruz, the Mexican Railway
Company has put on a special train on the
days Of the arrival Of steamers to take pas
sergers direct TO Oriz2ba.
S. B. Evans, Of the scientific expedition
from Chicago, has discovered an immense
caleI dar stone in an excavation among the
ruins Of Tt ZcOco, Mexico, with the largest
repr, sentation Of the human figure known
among Mexican antiquities.
The negro who committed the rape upon
the wife OF a leading citizen of Rocking
ham county, North Carolina, near Reids-
Vile, has been taken TO Greensboro for safe
keeping from lYncheTs, together with an
OJEer man also implicated in The crime.
The headJess body of a man found at
Wiunetka, ILL.,, is thought to be that of q
German named Bernard Pa zig, who disap
peared from South Evanston about the be
ginning OF last March, just after be had re
ceived a remittance OF S277 from Germany.
Mr.. Gale Sherman, who rode on a bicycle
from Lima, O0iO, TO Boston, is now making
the return trip on the same teed. he was
at Albany a few days ago, and while there
said that he would cut across to Baltimore,
and 90 West by the old National turnpike
Canton, Ohio, has been greatly excited by
tiuding a vault in its cemetery, which haC
been closed for twenty five years, broker
open and the bones of the dead scattered
around. 1t is supposed the object of the
desecTatiOn was to steal jewelry from the
bodies.
Three BOYS Daniel Frazier, William l.
Pounds and Edward KirWinj were buried
under falling emOankment at No. 90 East
Broadway, New York, and were taken out
dead Thomas MollOy, another boy, was
caught under the falling mass, but after
ward escaped.
Mr.. P LoriIlard has matched his colt
Sichem, by War Dance, dam Sly Boots,
against Messrs. Dwyer Brothers colt ODon-
daga, by bennington, dam Susan Besne,
three quarters Of a mile, for s. 600 a side.
The race viii come off at Jerome Park on
Saturday, 25th instant.
Alta meeting of the members of the Pro
duce Exchange OF Boston, resolutions were
unanimously adopted in favor of holding q
Worlds Fair in that city in 1885, and prom
ising substantial aid to the enterprise. A
committee Of six was appointed to act In
the matter with other committees appoint
ell already.
Portions Of tie body Of an unknown man
were found scattered on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad track near Montrose
station. In one Of his pockets was an un-
punched ticket for Madison, Wisconsin. l.
Is supposed he was robbed and thrown from
train, and was run over while lying sense
less on the track.
at Peru, Nebraska, a few days ago, an
immigrant named Albert Clark. being
seized with a fit of mania, cut his wife's
throat with pocket knife, and then went
into the street with gun and killed the
first man he met, a harness maker, named
Sargent. Clark then cut his own throat
with the pocket knife, making a mortal
wound. Clark leaves fire children, and
Sargent also leaves & family.
10 the session Of the Masonic Grand Lodge
a. New York yesterday, r w Bro. Charles
lugIesbY, Grand Secretary Of the Grand
Lodge Of South Carolina, r. w. Bro
Isasc, Grand Secretary Of the Grand Lodge
of Virgins, aud r B. Robert Bingham,
Grand Senior Warden Of the Grand Ledge
Of North Carolina, were introduced TO the
Grand Lodge, and were received with fitting
h0dors.
The Chinese Empress dowager of the
las, and not she of the West, has died Of
diplthelia. The second dowsger Princess
continues seriously i'll. The young Empe-
TOT q Chins, who is only eleven years OF
age is laid up with the measles Ii the
Empress should die the State power will
l4l into the hands of Prince Chun, father
ol The Emperor, an anti progressive. He
IS reported to favor the cabal directed
agaiust Ii Hung Chang, the progressive,
Nlo has been striving with his party for the
extension OF railroads and other 'innova-
tons in China.