Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-29
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The Spanish Chamber of Deputies has
passed a bill for the conversion of the debt.
A Conference of Bishops of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church is in session in
Baltimore, the object being the cousolida-
tion of the two African church bodies.
The Senate Committee on Post Offices
and Post Roads have decided to report
favorably on the contested nomination of
General James E. Slaughter to be Post
master at Mobile.
The estate of the late Edwin Forrest, the
tragedian, will be finally settled next mouth
in Philadelphia. The estate amounted to
$297, ,599, of which 1892, ,793 was left to the
Edwin Forrest Home in Philadelphia.
John l.. Sullivan, the we'll known pugilist,
has been sentenced to three months In the
House of Correction for an assault on Chas.
Robbins In a barroom on Elliott street,
Boston, recently. Sullivan has appealed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has turned
out OF its Altoona shops a double ended
locomotive weighing sixty tons, that carries
1000 gallons of water and runs with fa-
cility forward or backward. The monster
is called Jumbo by the employees.
It has been discovered that the thieying
Philadeldhia tax Office clerks used private
marks to denote bills registered as unpaid,
but which really were paid and the money
stolen. The mark used was pin puncture,
and every account so far examined was
SO designated.
A Mr.. Alexander Swift, a merchant of
Cincinnati, was accosted on Broadway, New
York, few nights ago by strange woman,
named Sadie West, and although, he says,
he stood but for a moment, his wallet, con-
tanning 5000, suddenly disappeared The
woman has been arrested, and committed
without bail.
John Dean Young, boy in charge of the
Chicago and Alton Telegraph office, at Cen
tralia, Mo-, was chloroformed few nights
ago by two unknown Tuff1ans, and died
from the effects of the drug. The men,
whose object is supposed to have been rob
berry, put out the lights In the office. but
were frightened off before they could secure
anything. II
The anti-monopolY conference at Albany.
N. Y, was attended by four hundred dele
gates, of both parties. Letters were read
from Peter Cooper, Gen. Franz Sigel, Rev.
Howard Crosby and Vice President David
Davis. The reading OF letter from John
Kelly provoked opposition, and was finally
dispensed with. The conference adjourned
after the adoption of anti-monopoly resolu-
tions.
An ingenious method of extracting gold
from coin was recently found in a five dol
lar piece delivered at the United States
Mint in Philadelphia. About eighteen grains
of gold had been drilled from the edge of
the coin, the cavity filed with wire and
covered over with film of jewelers. solder,
the milling being neatly executed. The
coin in this mutilated condition was eight
grains light.
The warm weather of the last ten days
has materially improved the crop prospects
in the Northwest. Throughout most of the
southern part of Minnesota the soil is dry
enough for agricultural operations, and
seeding for wheat is generally going on.
The same is true of the northern part OF the
State, and Of Dakota, except in those sec
tions visited by the late spring rains and
foods, which have delayed seeding opera
tions somewhat.
An attachment, iD the name of Leopold
H., King Of the Belglans, for $340, COO, has
been obtained by the Belgian Consul in New
York from Judge Barrett, of the Supreme
Court, against one Leon Bernard, who is
accused of robbing prominent Archbishop
Of Belgium of bonds, money, Jewels, etc..
to the value Of over 81, ,200, 900. The ac-
cused is said to have property In New York.
Detectives are on the lookout for him. and.
It is said, extradition papers have been pre-
pared In case be Is arrested.