Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-11
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

gist, is dead.
Charles Alexandra Lachaud, the distin-
gulshed French advocate, is dead.
A Paris dispatch says: ''The water has
invaded the Chamber of Deputies"
General Sir Evelyn Wood will leave
Chatham on the 10th inst. for Egypt to
take command OF the Khedive's new army.
The death is announced in Scotland of
Sir Hugh Allan, proprietor of the Allan
Steamship Line.
The remains of the late Anthony Troll
lope were buried on Saturday in Kensal
Green Cemetery, London.
Robert Wilson, who killed Frank B.
Russell in Memphis last September, was
ON Saturday sentenced to be hanged on
January 3.
The French Senate has unanimously
passed a vote of credit for 1000, 900 francs
for the relief of the sufferers by the floods
in the Seine district, which are now sub
siding.
II. Mennier, young married man, who
took passage at Point a la Hachee on the
steamer Morning Star, has been missing
since the disaster, and is supposed to
have perished.
Governor Foster, fOhiO, has ordered an
election to be held January I'd, to fill the
vacancy in the present and the next Con-
gress, caused by the death of the late Con-
gressman Updegraff.
a London dispatch saws: s'Late Satur
day Postmaster General Fawcett had con-
siderable hemOrhage from an air passage.
and consultation of physicians was held
The bleeding has subsided, but a recur-
renee is feared"
The provost and students of Trinity
College have presented a massive silver
fn
yers, of the Kings Rifles, who assisted the
police at the time of the murder of Detec-
tive Cox.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has is
sued peremptory writ ordering the reg
listers to count the disputed precincts in
the Ninth district. This elects James O.
Brodhead to Congress for the Ninth dis
trict, and defeats Mclean Rep
difficulty occurred on Thursday night
at Ensley's convict farm, ten miles south
of Memphis, between c. NJ. Tardy and f.
M. Wheeler, two guards, which resulted
in Tardy shooting Wheeler in the bowels
Wheeler returned the shot, and killed
Tardy.
At Baltimore yesterday morning James
II. Barney, ex-City Collector and Presi
dent of the Baltimore Warehouse Com
pany, was found dead in bed at his home.
1t is thought that death was caused by an
affection of the heart. He was sixty-three
years old.
During the performance at the Odeon
Theatre, in Barcelona, SATURDAY. night a
thief who was present cried "Firer' A
panic ensued, and many persons were
trampled upon in the rush to get out of
the theatre. One person was Killed and
eighteen others injured.
James E. Campbell has petitioned
the Supreme Court of Ohio for a
writ of mandamus directing the
canvassers to issue a certificate to him in
the Seventh Congressional district of that
state instead of to Heary L. Morey, the
motion to be heard on Thursday.
Judge McHenry, in the District Court
at Des MOines, Iowa, yesterday morning
issued an injunction to the State can
yassing board fsrbidding them to count
the vote Of Taylor precinct, Marshall
county: If they obey the writ it will elect
Frederieks Dem. in the next Congress,
The board has submitted the question of
legality of the injunction to the Attorney
General,
The attorneys for the Mutual Union
Telegraph Company have filed with the
Attorney General of New York an appli-
cation for leave to bring suit to annul the
charter Of the Western Union Telegraph
Company on the same grounds that Jay
Gould alleged in his complaint against
the Mutual Union. The latter claims that
the Western Union has violated the char
ter in watering the stock without cash
representation,
The announcement that Robert Garrett
purchased the Marietta and Cincinnati
Railroad on Saturday was an error. The
road was bid in by T. Il. Bacon, of New
York, who, with T. Edwin Hambleton, of
New York, represented the Committee on
Reorganization. The price was 81, ,375, 900.
The bidders were Messrs. Bacon, Hamble-
ton and Garrett. Fifteen statutory nOti-
fications were given by holders of claims
to save their legal rights. Notice was
also filed by persons in Marietta interested
in the abandoned line.
A lawless and disgraceful row took
place In 0pelika, Ala, on Saturday last.
between the followers of two whisky deal.
ers, resulting in the fatal shooting of one
of them, X. NJ. Maloney, and the wound
ing of several others on both sides. Sew
eral fights with shotguns seem to have
taken place between the parties at differ,
ent times since the rise of the feud some
time ago, eliminating in the general
melee on Saturday, in which the police
took hand and got worsted. The diff |
Guilty was still unsettled at last accounts.
with threats of renewal at any moment.
and the citizens are reported in a high |
state of excitement over the affair,