Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-27
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

A foot of snow fell at Buffalo. y. Y.
Yesterday, the first of the season. No de-
lays 10 trains are reported.
DevOe's oil works, situated near Kenton
Creek, Long island, opposite New York.
was burned yesterday afternoon. Loss
$4,000.
A Fort Worth, Texas, special says: "A
young Nirginian named Chas Morrison
cut his throat to-day and is dying this
evening""
The extensive stove foundry of Bennett.
Duffy & Co., at Quincy, Ills, one of the
largest in the West, was burned last Sat
urday night. Loss $135,00O.
A special from Waco, Texas, says: "A
noted desperate named Smith has been
captured here. Smith has killed five men,
and has innumerable wives in Texas"
The Chicago Tribune of Yesterday had
four-column letter from Senator Logan.
in reply to General Grants recent article
in defense of General Fitz John Porter.
In consequence of several weeks of
heavy rain, it is estimated that the yield
OF the next coffee crop in Brazil will be
much less than 1t was the previous year
A dispatch to the London DaiW Ne,rs
from Cairo says the Egyptian Govern
ment intends to subject to revision all
press kilograms destined for England and
the continent.
A dispatch from Bangor says the Hatch
adm Iron Company suspended payment
Saturday. Its payment has gone to pro-
| test in the Portland Bank. The unsecured
debts are over $4,000.
John II. Pratt has brought civil suit
against the WOmen's Medical Hospital at
Phlladelphia for having caused the death
OF his wife, Clara ", by maltreatment.
He claims $4,000 damages.
! Thomas l.. TullOch, who has for several
! years occupied the position of Disbursing
! officer i'll the post office in WASHINGTON
was yesterday appointed Postmaster OF
that city, In the place of d. d. Anger,
removed.
The steamer Algiers, of the New Or
leans and New York line, has been libel
! ed at Philadelphia at the suit of Captain
! Harper, of the. schooner VIM. NJ. White.
4 recently sunk in collision. The damages
claimed are $4,000.
After very thorough examination of the
! case the grand jury at st. Louis have ig-
nored the bill against John A. Cockerell,
editor of the POSt-DiSpdtch, for shooting
| Col. Slayback, and it is not likely that any
! further action will be taken in the matter
! W. Butler Duncan, c. H. Clark, A. Be
| lin, Jr., Jacob Hayes, j. H. Fay, w. II.
Hays, A. l.. Rives, NJ. Waring, ii. Hall,
| w. Ii. Pratt, August Belmont, Jr., Z. L..
! Russell and j. p. Mcmahon have been
| elected directors of the Mobile and Ohio
Railway Company.
Near Dublin, Ga, four men entered the
| house of Council O'Neil, on Thursday
night, and after taking him out about fftv
| yards shot him. Suspicion points to sew
! eral negroes who had an old grudge
against O'Neil. The Coroner is investi-
| eating the murder.
The Montreal City and District and
| Savings Bank has instituted twentv-eight
| suits to recover $l65, 900 from the Directors
of the City Passenger Railway Company
| for losses sustained by the bank in money
! loaned on security of stock of the railway
| company, alleged to have been inflated bv
an illegal declaration of dividends which
| it had never earned.
II. II. Wilkins, Deputy Commissioner of
Revenue for Richmond and Charles W.
Golden, Notary Public, were arrested at
Richmond, Va, Saturday, on warrant
charging them with a violation of the
Federal election laws. Wilkins is charg-
ed with forgery in procuring an illegal
vote, and Golden with certifying to the
same, knowing it to be forgery. They
are held in 1000 bail each until Wednes-
day next.
The Paris Union publishes the pontifi-
claI circular issued in connection with
the action of Signor Martinucci against
the Papal Major DOmO before the Court
of Appeal, which confirmed the decision
of the court of first instance, that the
jurisdiction of the Italian tribunals eX
tended within the walls OftheVatican. The
circular declares that the sentence of the
Roman tribunal is in violation of the ex-
ira territorial character of the Vatican
and an insult to the Pope.