Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-05
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

DR.. John W. Draper died yesterday morn
ing In New York at the age of II years.
The extra session of the Louisiana Legis-
lature adjourned yesterday afternoon Sine
William Leppe, aged twenty-seven, a Ger
man gardener, fell down the cellar stairs of
his house on the Williamsbridge road, near
New ork city, and fractured his skull, from
the effects of which he died.
Louis Otto and William Polk have been
arrested in Chicago and carefully secluded
from interviews with newspaper reporters.
1t is said that $4,000 fraud is involved,
and other arrests are to be made.
Judge Cox, already noted in connection
with the Guiteau trial, allowed Captain
HOwgate, charged with embezzling nearly
100000 from the government. to leave the
District jail and hold a. New Years recep-
tion at his house.
A st. Petersburg dispatch to the Central
Nel0S says that Nicolai Sankowsky, who
made an attempt upon the life of General
Tcherevine, in November last, and his
accomplice, Melnikoff, have been sentenced
to transportation for life.
The Cork corporation has conferred the
freedom OF the city on John Dillon, mem
Der OF Parliament for Tipperary. Twenty
seven of the flfty-six Councillors attended
the meeting. Copies of the resolution were
sent to Messrs. Gladstone and Forster and
the Irish corporations.
In New York city, a few nights ago,
Nicholas Caperal, an italian laborer, was
stabbed in quarrel with his brother Anto-
MO, and the latter's wife, Philomena, and
being left to himself during the night bled
to death. Timely aid would have saved his
life, but when the police learned of the oc-
currence the man was dead.
George NJ. Crippen, merchant of Sara
toga. New York, advertised some weeks ago
that purchasers in his store would receive a
numbered ticket, and that on New Years
ten sewing machines would be distributed
among the ticket holders by lot. After the
drawing had begun, Crippen was arrested
for holding an illegal lottery, and the ma
chimes were seized.
George Herndorf, a porter in the employ
OF Park, Scott u Co., Chicago, has been
arrested on the rather peculiar charge of
having stolen thirty tons of copper from
his employers, which he sold to junk deal
ers at five or six cents a pound, while the
market price was thirty cents. The firms
loss is about S1S,0OO Herndorf's irregulari-
ties cover about years time.
Colonel George W. Dalton, of st. Louis.
has organized a company for the cultivation
of alligators. A ranch will be established
at some point in the low lands of South
western louisiana, and the saurian will be
brought up in the way he should go.
Colonel Dalton, who denies Indignantly that
he is Colonel Sellers, thinks-that the reve-
nue. from hides and oil twill be immense"
Arab 1. Bey sends to the London Times a
long statement Of the aims OF the national
party in Egypt. He says it is loyal to the
Sultan and KhediVe, but is determined to
oppose any attempt of either to assume des-
potic authority. 1t hopes to gradually re-
deem the country from the hands Of its
creditors, and desires that the army be
strengthened so as to protect the assembly
in obtaining fair measure OF popular
rights