Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-21
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The cost of the $4,000 troops now in Ire
land is estimated at &c ZOO, 900 1880, ,OOO, ,OOOl
year.
Charles Barry, of Bradford, Pa, was
blown to pieces recently at Rlchburgh, N
Y, by the explosion OF four pounds Of nitro.
glycerine.
In the Virginia Senate yesterday. bill
was passed to authorize the consolidation
OF the Richmond q Aleghauev Railroad
Company with the Ohio Central lk, Atlantic
and the Norfolk & Western Railroad Com
panies.
a company Of Jews with a capital of
$1,000 900 has been organized at Montreal
for the purpose of bringing the persecuted
Jews from Russia and settling them in the
northwest of Canada.
At Bobcaygeon, Ont, William Mounting
has been arrested for attempting to murder
an old couple named Stewart by admins
tering strychnine in whisky. His object
was to obtain their money.
Ned Hathaway, the noted balloonist, who
was recently arrested at Decatur, Iii for.
sbducting beautiful girl and marry ing her,
Is now being tried. The girl SAYS she will.
continue faithful to him even II he is sem
fenced to ten years.
Mordecai Lester, sixty years old, has been
convicted at Troy, n. Y, of outrareouslv
assaulting Elizabeth Prue, aged thirteen
years. One son of the prisoner is in Albany
jail on similar charge; another, in jail at
Troy for horse stealing, lately tried to burn
the building.
Two negroes named Jasper Newport and
Samuel Williams have confessed to having
murdered a saloon keeper named James
Hall, at Loden's Point, Wayne county. New.
York, and then burned the house. together
With Hall's body, to conceal the crime,
Richard Newport is under arrest also as being
accessory to the crime.
At Canton, Ohio, Bucher, Gibbs & Co..
patentees and manufacturers of Imperial
ploWs, over $4,000 of which are in use,
have petitioDed for an Injunction and dam
| ages against Albert, Ball q Co., of the Red
Jacket Plow Works, for using the name
Imperial On plOws which are similar, but
not patented, thereby misappropriating the
business,
Mrs. Julia Taulane cut her throat at her
home, In Philadelphia, a few daYs ago
Her husband, who held lucrative position
at the League Island navy yard, died three
months ago, and it is believed the trouble
and the responsibility Of providing for their
five children have impaired her reason. She
attempted suicide before, but was prevent
ed. 4 Is believed, however, that her last
attempt will prove fatal.
Governor Cornell has sent special mes
sage to the New York Senate in relation to
the railroad disaster at Spuyten Duyvil
He says that an accident that might have
been so easily prevented is inexeusable, and
recommends the enactment of some statu-
! tory provision with adequate penalties to
compel greater vigilance in the management
OF the railroads of the State, over which
afty thousand passengers are carried every
day.
At Dublin, Thomas Woodhead, of the
Seventy-stxth Regiment, and VIM. North
more, OF the One Hundred and Fourth Regi-
ment, have been sentenced to death for the
willfUl murder of Jasper Humphries, of the
Sixtieth Rifles, at the Curragh Camp. on
November 8. The murdered soldier. who
was only eighteen years Of age, was brutally
kicked TO death by the prisoners because he
interfered to protect a car driver who was
being robbed and kicked to death by ne
murderers. 'De
At Rayville, La, w. T. LITTLE white and
Milus Matthews, eolored, Sc,c into an alter
cation at the Gem salocII about a lantern.
whlcn the IoEher accused the latter Of
sSeallnA' LIZ ne struck at Milus with a
anots" and he caught it, and they got
J mr. a kind of scuf1e over it's possession,
Little ordering Milus to let GO, and he hold
| ing on to it as a matter of self preservation.
Matthews finally let go his hold and started
to run. He had taken but a few steps
when the gun was discharged, the load enter
ing his neck and killing him instantly.
Little escaped.