Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-24
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

my bill.
The President yesterday nominated John
H. smyth, of North Carolina, to be Minis
ter to Liberia.
Three strong shocks of earthquake have
been felt in Chios. The people have taken
refuge in tents.
Nine soldiers of the Preobariensky Guards
have been arrested at Tilsit for connection
with Nihilist plots.
The increase of specie in the Bank of
France for the week is 12, OPS 900 francs in
gold, and 4,175 900 francs in silver.
A Vienna dispatch reports that fire in
Emad, Hungary, has destroyed three
hundred and fifty houses. Nine lives were
lost.
Mile. Jeanne Bonaparte, daughter of the
late Prince Pierre Bonaparte, who shot Vic
tor Noir, was married yesterday to the Mar
quise de Villeneuve Pargemont, a LegitI-
mist.
Seven hundred moulders are now on
strike at Troy, n. Y. All the moulding
shops but one or two were closed yesterday,
and 1900 men are thus thrown out of en-
plOyment.
The Secretary of War yesterday issued
instructions that fifty additional hospital
GCuIo Uo IQllaU6lplla TO
Vicksburg for the benefit Of sufferers from
the floods.
The Captain of the schooner Pioneer.
at Halifax, reports that on Satur-
day, in tremendous gale on Georges
Banks, he saw two fishing vessels go down
with all hands.
The Emperor William, In his speech on
Sunday to deputation Of the Conservative
Central Committee, also mentioned the
death OF President Garfield, who was the
peoples choice, as showing the peril to
which rulers are exposed.
1t is reported that George Ellis, on whose
confession Craft and Neal were convicted of
the murder OF the Gibbons family, at Ash
land, Kentucky, called Notary Public to
the jail and made affidavit that his confes-
sion and testimony were false.
Senator Hale has presented a protest
against the admission of Dakota as a State,
until her record is purged of the repudia-
tion with which 1t is charged in the matter
OF the Yankton county bonds, issued In
1872, In aid Of a railroad in that county, upon
which interest payments have ceased"
Justice Wylie, in the Criminal Court at
Washington, has deferred his decision in
the Soteldo case until the counsel for de-
fendant shall have submitted references to
certain authorities which they wish to pre-
point made in the Soteldo case will not af,
feet the star route cases.
In the Supreme Court at Providence re-
Gently, Mr.. G. B. Farnsworth, custodian ~
the Quidnick Company's property. t,ok ont
writ against VIM. Sprague and Sunerin.
tendent Corey, Of the Arctic Mills. for con.
tempt OF court. 1t is alleged that Sprague
and Corey refused to allow Farnsworth to
enter the mill for the purpose of making an
inventory, and that "Sprague threatened to
throw Farnsworth into the river"
Intelligence has reached New York of the
safe arrival OF the tiny steam yacht Moon.
dYne at Bermuda, after a run of four and a
half days. The Moondyne was built at
Poughkeepsie, and is to be used for carving
the mails between Hamilton and the Bermus
da dock yards. She is the smallest steam YES
sci that ever made the voyage to these
islands, being but 28 tons register, 73 feet
long, IL feet beam and feet depth of hold.
Owing to recent storms it was feared she
was lost.
The Marquis of HuntleY, charged with
obtaining large sum Of money from Ben
Jamin Nicholson under false pretences.
some time since, surrendered himself at the
Bow Street Police Court recently. The
Marquis was Femanded, and was eubse-
quentlY admitted to bail, furnishing GO. 600
himself, and two other sureties for the same
amount each. After leaving the Bow
Street Police Court he was rearrested on
two Mansion House warrants. The hearing
at the Bow Street Police Court was fixed
for April Sd, and the hearing at the Mansion
House for April 14th. In the Mansion
House case bail was given in two sureties
OF E5,OOO each and two Of $500 each.