Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-24
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
The yellow fever is reported to be disap-
Dearipg from Barbadoes

The yellow fever is reported to be disap-
pearing from Barbados.
An old crank named James Graves shot
and killed little boy named Eddie Lodep,
at Newark. n. j., without the slightest
provocaSon.
MIR. Draper, a well known merchant Of
Hammond, Ind, died recently in Chicago
in a dentists chair, from the effects of
chloroforru administered by DR.. Lewis
Dodge.
Mr.. George G. sickles, ninety-two years
of age, and father Of Gen. Sickles, was mar
ried in New York few days ago 10 Mrs.
Sawyer, widow of Major Sawyer, Of the
British army.
A band Of burglars broke into the house
of Senior Ferrieros, Brazilian Minister in
Lima, recently, and carried off booty of great
value. They tied the Minister to his bed
and so maltreated him that he died.
Mr.. Leveshu, editor of the Berliner Ta9e-
bldtt, has been sentenced to prison for three
months for suggesting that the threatening
letters that were received by Prince Bis
marck during the recent election were
bogus.
Twenty thousand pounds OF beef was
shipped from San Antonio recently in re-
frigerator cars Of the American Refrigera-
tor Company, for New York, thence to
Paris, France. 1t is the first shipment of
the kind over made.
News from the Northwest Territories say
some time ago a war party of three hundred
Backfeet and three hundred Crees left for
Low River, on the war path across the line
against the Crows. A large number is said
to have been killed.
The Mincing Lane markets, the London
Stock Exchange and the Liverpool Cotton
Exchange will be closed on Saturday and
Monday, the oath snd 26th inst, and the
Liverpool Cotton Exchange will also be
closed on the 31st inst. and the I'd of Jan
uary.
Charles j. Gregory, who is teaching school
at Gwynn's Mills, in Shelby county, IDdians,
shot at a scholar because he refused to write
on a slate. The bullet missed the boy, but
his face was filed with powder. The
teacher was arrested, and great excitement
prevails.
A great cooking main took place at Oak
land, Wisconsin, few nights ago between
Chicago and Milwaukee birds. Eleven bat
ties were fought, Chicago chickens winning
seven OF them. The Milwaukee sports bet
heavily and lost large sums of money. The
battles were fought in the upper story of
the village hotel.
Aspecial from Knoxville gives an almost
literal fulfllment of a dream. A man
dreamed for two nights in succession
that be had been shot by neighbor in the
hip. A few days thereafter he attended g
shooting match, and his neighbor of whom
be bad dreamed let his gun fall, and the
contents entered the dreamer's body, killing
him almost instantly.
Hon. John B. Finch, the well known tenn.
perance advocate, while in Plattsmouth,
Neb., was attacked by a newspaper. Mr.
Finch took the law in his own hands and
thrashed the editor-in-chief and local editor
Fortunately for the rest of the staff, they
were "out" at the time. Finch was arrest
ed and plead guilty to assault and battery,
the citizens paying his fine.
News from Bolivia proves that there is
little probability Of the invasion of Tara
paca. Camnero has 5000 men under arms
10 La Paz Potosi and Oruro, he being in
the latter city with five Thousand. A few
weeks ago, it is said, he ordered two batal-
lions to march to the coast, when they at
once stacked their arms and refused to move
unless they received their pay.