Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-23
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

A fire at Ripon, Wis, yesterday morning
destroyed property facing on the public
square to the amount Of 100000.
Letters from Moscow state that the eight
hundred persons expelled from that place
some time since for not having passports
were Jews.
In the Chamber Of Deputies Tuesday the
bill appropriating fifty thousand francs for
the demolition of the ruins of the Tuilleries
was carried by vote Of 376 to 10.
Mr.. o. B. Poster, owner Of the site of the
former World building, In Park Row, New
York, will not erect new building there,
but he Wall sell the ground for 100000.
The Norwegian bark sidoD, at New York,
reports that on the l4th inst-lt, In latitude
40, longitude II, she sailed through large
quantities of dead coddsb, extending about
fifty miles,
1t is stated that Senator Teller, of Colo
rado, will be nominated for Secretary of the
Interior, to succeed Mr.. KlrkWood. Mr..
Teller's term as United States Senator ex-
pires on March 4, 1888.
The House Committee on Private Land
Claims agreed yesterday to report favorably
q bill practically confirming to McGarrahan
the title to the Rancho Panoche Grande
tract of land in California.
Outside brokers in Paris declare they will
not negotiate M. Boutoux's shares of the
new bank, which is to take the place of the
Union Generate, and official brokers say
they will not grant them settlement.
1t is reported in Parliamentary circles in
Berlin that Prince Bismarck, upon being
questioned on some subject relating to in
ternal affairs, replied that his time and
strength were fully occupied In preserving
the peace of Europe.
The work of removing the Main Centen-
NAL Exhibition building, in Philadelphia, is
progressing slowly at the east and west
ends. The center building has not vet been
touched, 1t being Kept in the hope that
some one may purchase it as 1t stands. The
entire structure, however, must be taken
away before the first OF October.
Henry G. Rogers, who was the United
States Minister 10 Sardinia under President
Van Buren, and one of the three surviving
members OF the Pennsylvania Constitutional
Convention of 1887, died in the county aims
nearly eighty years. An attack OF insanity
while he was in the Sandman Mission
caused his recall, and he was unable to re-
establish his legal business, and finally be-
came q homeless and abandoned vsgrant.
The Marquis of Harrington, Secretary Of
State for India, declared recently that the
cloture proposal was nothing more than a
modification OF existing restrictions on de-
bates. The effect which the resolution
would have, he said, had been greatly exag-
gerated. The government were unable
under the present system to carry on the
business of the country with dignity and
effect. II other persons thought they could
do so, the Ministry would with pleasure re-
sign.
Counsel for A. G. Soteldo moved to
quash the indictment on the ground that
1T was found in violation Of a law OF Ma
Tyland in 1922, which he claimed is still in
force in the District of Columbia. This law
provides that an indictment shall be sent to
the grand jury by an express order of the
court; that the prisoner shall be bound over
to such court, and that the grand jury shall
find an Indictment OF their own knowledge. -
1t is claimed that, should the motion to
quash be granted, not only will another in
| dlctment be necessary in the Soteldo case,
but in all the pending murder cases now
awaiting trial, as well as in the the star
| route casas.