Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-15
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The Porte has finally decided to dispatch
neither troops nor commissioners to Egypt.
The sculling match at Toronto Tuesday
between Mckay and Mcdonald, 3 miles, was
won by McKay-time in 21:S3.
A thousand copies of a socialistic revolu-
tionary proclamation have been distributed
In all parts of Vienna. Two arrests have
been made.
A landslip occurred recently near the vii
lsge of Elm, in the Canton Glarus. Two
hundred persons were killed and thirty
houses destroyed.
The Standard and Times agree in thinking
that the Egyptian settlement is only tempo
rary. The Times urges the suppression OF
the Khedive's army.
A "moonshIne distillery," consisting of
two mash tubs and a sixty gallon still, has
been seized by revenue officers in Parke
county, Indiana. No arrests have been
made.
A violent storm of wind and rain passed
over a strip of the country north of Harri-
sonburg, Virginia, few days ago. Fruit
and corn were destroyed. roofs blown off
and houses demolished by the wind.
In the Malley trial at New Haven, Conn
yesterday, Miss Bertha Williamson, cham
bermaid at the Foote House, testified to
a
the hotel on the night of the murder.
The emigration returns for Liverpool for
the month of August show that 81 1921 emf
grants left that port, being 1869 more than
in July. OF this number the destination of
18, ,072 was to the United States, and 2,968 to
British North America.
At the Ecumenical Methodist Conference,
Monday, In the discussion of the historic re-
lation of Methodism to reforms, and espe-
cially to the observance of the Sabbath,
Bishop Simpson deprecated the statements
that there was falling off In this respect.
Postmaster General James has accepted
the bond of Mr.. Hildreth as Postmaster at
West End, Long Branch. The bond, which
is for $780, is signed by Russell Sage and
Cornelius K Garrison, whose joint sigma
lures are said to be worth about $40, ,O00, 900.
Cornelius O'Leary, his wife and three
children we're seriously poisoned by eating
canned mackerel in Cincinnati. The mack
erel had been put up in tin can, and it is
supposed that acetate of lead was formed
by the mixture of lead with the tin used in
manufacturing the sheet tin from which the
can was made.
It Is said Howgate's case win be one Of
the first presented to the Washington grand
jury, and that the examination of mis-
accounts, which is still going on, adds
largely to the amount of his thefLs- He has
left Washington for parts unknown. The
star route cases, and, possibly, that of Gui-
teau, are expected to come before the grand
jury in short time.
The Dublin correspondent OF the Times
says: "The movement in favor of Irish trade
and manufactures is the key to solution
of the Irish problem. The sum already
subscribed toward an exhibition of Irish
manufactures is 9l,146. An Influential
requisition has been presented to the Mayor
asking him to convene a general meeting
for the purpose Of organizing an exhibition,
and he has appointed Wednesday next for
such meeting"
San Antonio, Texas, is to have one of the
grandest hotels in the United States. Col.
Ed. Wickes has the matter In hand, and Jay
Gould and G. P. Huntington are down for
O,OO0 each, to be increased to $100, 900
each II necessary. 1t will be known $50 it
is now thought) as the Great Southern
Hotel, and will be the halfway house be-
tween the City OF Mexico and New York.
as well as between San Francisco and New
York. All the money necessary to build 3
mammoth structure can be had at once.