Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-02
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The President yesterday appointed il Jacob
G. Degrees Postmaster at Austin, Texas,
vice Rather Rauff, suspended.
John Shepard's pair, Mill Boy and BIon-
dine, in time race at Beacon Park, Bos ton,
beat their previous record, trotting a mile
in 2:23A.
At New London, Conn, yesterday the
race between the eight Dared crews of Yale
aud Harvard Universities was won by the
Yale with ease.
A few days ago q little girl named Eva
Scbafer, got caught in a eorusheller at
Mount Pulaski, ILL.,. and was ground to
death before she could be rescued.
horrible casualty took place recently
near Lancaster, Ohio. A little five -year-old
boy, while standing in the wheat, was run
down by the reaper and had both legs cut
off.
During q thunder storm the house of Mr..
Lowe, at Edmonton, Ont, was struck by
lightning, and two brothers, sleeping to-
gether, were struck. One was Instantly
killed and the other only slightly shocked.
Advices from Buenos Ayres OF the 5th
ult., received by way of Lisbon at London
yesterday, stated that ex-Presidept La LORE
has invaded Uruguay, and that Colonel
Santos, Minister Of War, is marching against
him.
The Erlanger syndicate have bought the
Spanish fort at New Orleans and the rail-
road leading to it for $4,000. The rail-
road will be used as the route of entry of
the New Orleans and Northeastern Rail
road.
The Nation will hereafter be issued as the
weekly edition of the New York EUening
Post, retaining its name and having the same
editorial management as heretofore, but its
contents will in the main have already ap-
peared in the Post.
1t is understood that the Bank of Mon
treal, doing business in Chicago, has con-
cluded to pay, under protest, nearly $50, 600,
the assessable amount Of its capital under
the late decision of the Commissioner of In
terDal Revenue, and bring suit for its re-
covery.
William F. Sinclair, Chief Clerk of the
Water Board of Baltimore, and George w.
Sharrets. a clerk of the board and a son of
the Register, were put upon trial for an al
legged embeZzlement of $4,000 water rents,
but the indictments were quashed upon
technicality.
The Treasury Department has been in
formed that the United States Court at
New Orleans had decided in test case that
: the Treasury ruling fixing the duty on
cotton ties at 30 per cent. ad valorem is cor
rect. This reviews a previous decision by
the same court.
A man is detained at Gravesend, England,
who is supposed to be Arthur LEROY, ac-
cused of the murder of F j. Gold, in car
rlage OF Brighton Railway express train
on Monday last. A telegram announces
that LEROY has been arrested on train of
the Windsor and London Railway.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa, special says that
thirteen Hungarians, employed in the
mines at Drifton, had been poisoned by eat
ing bologna sausage. Five are reported
dead. 1t has been ascertained that besides
eating sausage they had drank diluted al
cohol. The doctor is Of the opinion that
poison was contained in the bologna.
A few days ago the Alta Chemical Works
at Clark's Landing, Alameda county, Cali
fornia, blew up. Owing to the peculiar
character of the powder the explosion made
but little noise. Prof. Monnier, manager of
the works, his son and Engineer Anderson
were all badly burned, but no lives were
lost. About 1900 pounds of compound
went off with hiss or puff.
G.. ClauseD, a Swede, recently arrived in
San Francisco from Honolulu, reports that
several hundred Scandinavians who went
to the Sandwich Islands under labor con-
tracts, made by Captain Larange, are held
in virtual slavery. They have been disposed
OF By lot among the planters, care suffering
from climatic influences and held rigidly to
the terms OF the contract on pain of penal
servitude. although the other parties to the
contract have failed to carry out at least it's
spirit"
Late advices from China, received in San
Francisco, report that Christianity is spread
ing rapidly, especially in the eastern dis
tricts. German and Chinese gunboats have
gone In pursuit of the Chinese pirates who
attacked the German ship Occident. A pro-
ject for the establishment of a telepone ex- |
change at Hong Kong was meeting with |
great favor. A serious food was threaten
ed at Foochow. It was believed that the |
party In Corea favorable to opening the |
country to foreign intercourse was gaining |
strength. There were anti-foreign demon |
strations In Peking, but they were soon
suppressed, aud official proclamations were |
issued forbidding hostility to foreigners.