Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-01
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The life of the Archbishop of Canterbury
IS IN great danger. He has taken leave of
his servants.
A proclamation will shortly be issued
placing the suburbs of Dublin under the
curfew clause.
There are extensive inundations in Hol
land. A large tract of country is already
submerged, and the rivers are still rising.
Advices from Sydney, New South Wales.
report the sinking of the steam collier
Moniora in a gale off Botany Heads. and
the loss of sixteen lives.
A dispatch from Berlin saws that two
letter bags containing official cOrrespon-
dence from Prince Bismarck have been
stolen while on the way to Berlin.
The family of laborer named Sullivan.
IN san francisco, were poisoned recently
''by eating fish," Two children are dead.
and another not expected to recover.
The first of three iron steamships to run
between Newport News and Brazil was
launched recently from ROach's ship
yard, in Chester 1t is of 1900 tons bur
then.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has re-
yersed the decision of lever court legal
lzlng the Nlncennes lottery. The lottery
men III indianapolis at once refunded the
money paid for tickets for the last draw
ing.
a special dispatch from Nicksburg
says: For the dredging in Nicksburg
harbOr, RitterhOuse & Moore. of Mobile.
bid Il LILO cents per cubic yard. which
being the lowest bid, will doubtless be
accepted by the government"
The European police force at AIexan-
dria is to be reduced to three hundred, and
that at Cairo to two hundred and fifty
men for the purposes of economy. The
remainder of the force will be sent home
at the expense of Egypt Much dissatis-
faction is expressed at the reduction of
the force.
The double-tureted monitor Miantono-
nah, which has been lying at the League
Island Navy Yard for a long time past, left
recently under orders for the Breakwater
and Norfolk. 1t is understood that she
Will go from Norfolk to Washington for
official inspection by the Secretary of the
Navy and. Congressional Naval Commit
tee
Last Sunday the family of Thomas
Hughes, living near SpOttsville, KY, went
to church ''to be gone all day." leaving an
infant in care of colored girl. The girl
went to neighbOr's to spend the day,
leaving the infant upon a pallet on the
floor. When the family returned they
found that the child had been gnawed to
death by rats.
The State Department has issued a
pamphlet entitled ''Ostrich Farming in
the United States," which contains E1fulI
information concerning ostrich farming at
the Cape of Good Hope and Algeria, from
the Matching of the eggs to the export of
the feathers, together with the estimated
expense of importing birds into the United
States, and the probabilities of the sue
cess of the experiment."
Of bo
vatory at Phelps, New York, asks Sin be-
half of astronomical science and astronO-
mers' that on Sunday next prayers be
offered in all the churches for clear weather
on the 9th of December, the date of the
transit of Venus. He reminds the public
that ''the solution of the sublimest prob
lem known to science is to be attempted
on that occasion, the opportunity for
which will not occur again for 122 years"
1t was discovered a few days ago that
on October 10th the Wabash Railroad
ticket office in Adrian, Michigan, was
robbed of nearly $4,000 worth of tickets by
a young man named Charles Z. ROWell
who had been discharged from the COM
pany's employ. ROwell was arrested in
indianapolis, where, disguised as a tramp,
he was attempting to sell some of the
tickets. He confessed his guilt, and is
now i'll Jail at Adrian. Four of the stolen
tickets were found in the hands of ''scalp-
ers" in Detroit.
Madame Christine Nilsson gave her first
concert in New York Tuesday evening
Her American engagement is for fifty
concerts, and down TO the close of her sea-
son at Philadelphia last week she had ap-
peared in eleven concerts, of which the
aggregate gross receipts were 1886.
Her two Philadelphia concerts yielded
$12,O13. She will give another concert at
New York on Saturday, and then leave
for Chicago and San Francisco, her mama
ger, Mr.. Abbey, accompanying her. She
will return to Philadelphia in the spring.