Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-01
TAPPING THE WIRES.

A dispatch from Santa Cruz states that
eighteen Cinnamon who were employed in
cutting timber on the line Of the South Pa
cihc Coast Railroad, were buried alive by
half a nile Of mountain falling upon them.
Another dispatch from the same place,
states that Camp Capitola, on the Souquel
creek. near Santa Cruz, was washed to sea
By rain storm, only four houses being LETT
standing.
Count de Lssseps has made his first report
to the Panama Canal Company. He says
1 2O9. SOC shares have been TAKEN Of which
France took 994, sos shares. Seventy en-
gineers, superintendents and doctors have
been sent to the Isthmus-
The Democratic Senators held q caucus
n Washington yesterday to consider what
course should be pursued in regard TO max
ing arrangements for counting the electoral
vote next week. Among other things II
was decided to press TO q consideration In
an all night session II necessary, resolu-
ton declaring that the Vice President has
no constitutional right to count the electo-
raj votes
Needham W. Freeman well known
farmer living In Dlnwiddie county, Va,
was arrested on charge Of forgery, near
Durham, ". c., yesterday, and win be taken
TO Richmond for trial.
The New York stock market was irregu-
lar and unsettled all day yesterday. Trans
actions aggregated AZ. 900 shares.
The Washington Star says that serious
charges have been preferred against Judge
Billings by Mr.. Farrar, late City Attorney
Of New Orleans. His friends claim, how
ever. that the charges are fOundationless,
and can be easily refuted, and that they
have been fnstigated by parties who desire
to secure Billings rejection as the successor
Of Judge Woods, so that they can get the
place.
A Tucson dispatch, relating to Indian
outrages in New Mexico, says that there are
not less than two hundred Indians, In bands
OF from ten to twenty, on the war path, and
not less than forty people have been muir
dered BY them in fifteen days.
The propeller ST. Adams, belonging to
the Ludington Line Northern Transporta-
ton Company, has been wrecked sixteen
miles out on Lake Michigan. Her crew
and passengers escaped in boats and were
picked up in tugs.
Tremendous rains have prevailed on the
Pacific slope. In Sacramento levee was
washed away, and losses are roughly est
mated at SIOO, 600. y hurricane swept over
Washington county, Oregon, unroofng
houses and doing much damage. From
Texas and New Mexico come incredible
accounts OF the amount Of the rainfall.
The Central American Submarine Tele-
graph Company, the object Of which is to
connect the whole OF Central America with
the United States and Europe by cable, has
been organized.
a fire in Philadelphia yesterday burned the
Beth Eden Baptist Church, corner Of Broad
and Spruce streets, and the flames spread to
Horticultural Hall aud several houses in
Spruce street. The losses By fire and water
are over 81, 600.
In Congress yesterday nothing Of any con
sequence was done in the House. In the
Senate, Mr.. Dawes delivered long speech
upon the killing Of Big Snake the Ponca
Chief, by United States soldiers in the ONCE
OF the Indian Agent, in the Indian Terrific
n. He criticised, with great severity, the
course pursued by Secretary Schurz and the
Interior Department towards the Indians.
Mr.. Logan defended Schurz and the Interior
Department. The Senate then resumed
consideration Of the Indian land in severslt5
bin, and without action thereon, at 4;20 P.
m. adjourned.
The freight train on the North Carolina
Railroad, going east. jumped the track near
Gibsonvflle, Sunday night. The conductor
and fireman were killed and the engineer
badly scalded-