Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-14
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The death is announced OF Baron Mag.
nus, the late German Minister at Copen-
hagen.
nounced that $S,500,000 of the $40, 900 600
Pacific Railway bonds have been taken up.
The following were the imports at New
merchandise, S., $50, ,7O5. Total, ~, ,11S,S6S
Specie, SS2.929.
Judge VIM. NJ. Levy, OF New Orleans,
did not die at Saratoga last Thursday IS
published In some New York papers, but
was alive yesterday.
Lizzie Brown, employed In Crouse's to-
bacco factory in Reading, Pennsylvania, was
fatally injured recently by falling through
the elevator way from the fourth story, q
distance Of fifty feet.
Professor Odlum, swimming teacher At
the HYgeis Hotel, Old Point Comfort, Vir-
ginia, recently swan across the roads to
Ocean View, five miles distant, in two hours
and half, for wager of 800.
Walter R. Pool was nominated on Friday
by the Republican Convention of the First
North Carolina distrfcs for Congress. He is
a Republican. The convention refused to
indorse Jno. B. Respass, recently nominated
by the Liberal Convention of that district.
A special dispatch to the Boston JoarmaI
from Paris announces the publication of a
decree, which allows commercial, educa-
tional and financial associations, authorized
In the United Ssates, to have q legal status
in France Of the free exercise OF their rights
In all the French courts.
The person who it was reported by the
Vienna RreSSs on Friday, had been arrested
at Kamnitz and was being conveyed un-
fN
General Ignatieff, as was then stated, but
simply an individual from Odessa, who had
assumed the name Of Ignatef.
Col. Joseph A Joel, editor of the Graad
Army GGzstte, who was arrested and Indicted
for criminal libel against Col. Jas. McLeer,
the Brooklyn Postmaster, and who was also
sued for $4,000 damages in a civil suit in the
Brooklyn City Court, has been surrendered
by his bondsmen. A bench warrant was Is
sued on Saturday for Joel's arrest.
The walters in the Ocean Hotel at AsburvN
Park struck for higher wages few days
ago at dinner time. and refused to serve the
meals until their demands were granted.
The proprietors yielded, but refused to take
back the leader OF the strike, whereupon
the walters left the hotel In a body. The
bosrders helped themselves, and new watt
ers were secured later in the day.
The Democrats of the Second C,onOres.
sional district of West Virginia have inst
concluded two days. convention at Kew
ser's. The proceedings were characterized
by much personal bitterness between Che
followers OF the rival aspirants, who are
Judge Hoge, the sitting member, and
Daniel B. Lucas. The result is a split of
the convention into two factions, each
its man.
III 1rt1slyo, of Havana, publishes letter
from the President of the Central Board of
Agriculture of the Republic OF Colombia to
Captain General Preudergast, warning the
laVter 10 take effective measures to prevent
The larv@ aud locusts now devastating that
Republic from being introduced into Cuba
Oy vessels carrying cattle to the island. Ii
Is recommended Ia the letter that the cattle
0n board the vessels be fed with hay onlv.
These loeusts are rapid travellers, and are of
enormous feeunditY, and they would soon
invade the United States after reaching
Cuba.