Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-01
It's estimated sE1as
public debt for the ID.
S14 600, 600.

Ifls estimated sha,
/ public debt for the MI
| $14, GOO. 900.
Archbishop Croke, OF the
| diocese Of Csshel and Eml.
Emly, County TipperarY, ady1s
not 10 emigrate.
TheLdberal Convention OF the Fir.
| Carolina Congressional District has nc
ted for Congress John B. Resshass, an
line Republican.
A treaty has been concluded between
| Spain and Chill. A Spanish frigate will
proceed to Valparaiso to exchange salutes
with. the Gillian forts.
While picking cherries on his employers
farm in Brandywine Hundred, Delaware,
Jonathan Dyer, sixty years old, fell from
tree and broke his neck,
K. B. Andrews 81 Co., clothiers, of
Raleigh, N. C., have assigned to Chester G..
Whiting. The amount OF preferred debts is
$4,000 in unsecured notes. Their assets
are supposed to be large.
Thomas Conuor, painter, living In Phila-
delphia, fell from the fourth story of Blum
den's mills few days ago while at work.
He landed squarely on his feet, uninjured,
in soft ash walk, but broke his nose when
tumbling to the ground.
A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company states that the Austrian Govern
ment having determined to subsidize a new
line of steamships between Trieste and New
York, Italy will also form and subsidize a
ltne between Leghorn and New York and
Baltimore.
Harrison Mellen, his wife, and Mary and
Joseph Smith, his brother in-law, while
sailing in small boat on the North river, at
New York, were upset. Mellen reached.
shore safely, but mis- wife was drowned
Smith was struck by the wheel OF q steamer
and received serious injury.
The Office Of the station agent of the Bos-
ton and Providence Railroad at Dedham
Massachusetts,, was robbed recently of 4
check for fifteen hundred dollars, and five
hundred dollars in cash, while the agent
was out a few minutes. The door was
forced open with jimmy.
While Mr.. Il. ID. Caldwell, Mr.. ]. Har-
gett and several children were standing at
the foot of a large tree near Charlotte
N, c., which Mr.. Caldwell was about to chi
down, lightning struck the tree and severely
injured seven OF the party, including Mr..
Caldwell and Mr.. Hargett.
While excavations were being made in a
ballast pit at Smiths Fall, on the line of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, perfect verte-
bre and portion of rib Of an immense
whale were found thirty-6ve feet below the
surface of the earth and twenty-eight miles
inland from the st. Lawrence river. The
find will be on exhibition during the meet
ing Of the American Science Association at
Montreal.
The Gazettd RemOntese reports a terrible
accident in one OF the sulphur mines at Pal
in Sicily. The rope by which a
wagon heavily laden with sulphur was
being drawn up an incline out of the UNI
ninelli'' pit suddenly snapped. The wagon
-hereupOn commenced descending again,
and, there being no possibility of stopping
{, the wagon rushed at tremendous speed
20 the bottom Of the pit, and was instantly
iashed to pieces. Owing to the high fric-
ion the birthstone burst into flames, with
he most disastrous results to the miners
Who were at work at the time. As soon as
he fire was extinguiehed there were not
ess than thirteen dead bodies taken out OF
he pit, the victims having all been suffo.
.ated and burned to death.