Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-28
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Albert Chspsky, a clothier of New Or
leans, aged So, committed suicide in that
| city recently. He had suffered from rheu-
matism.
The Mormon leaders are very active In
| circulating petitions for signatures protest
ing against anti-polygamic legislation by
Congress.
A report has reached Vienna that one Of
the Herzegovinian leaders has been captured
and shot at Ragusa, and that another has
fed to Montenegro.
Reports from the numbering districts on
| the south side Of the Ottawa river, In Can
ada, continue to state that operations are
almost at stand still, owing to the scarcity
of snow.
Captain H. G.. Littlefeld, of the Second
Artillery, has been assigned by the War
Department to general supervision of target
practice in the army, ''in the interest Of the
improvement of Workmanship"
A colored woman, aged thirty-fve years,
residing on Emerson street, New Bedford,
Mass, recently gave birth to child with
one body, two well developed heads, four
arms, three legs and two spinal columns.
The Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Associa-
tion has written to the New York and Ma
tional Cotton Exchanges asking for thor
Ough investigation into the sanding of cot
ton, which must in some instances have
been wilful.
A house on the Big Cotton wood Canyon,
Utah, inhabited by a wood chopper named
Taggart. his wife and five children, has
been swept away by a snow slide. A party
OF men are trying to recover the bodies,
dead or alive.
Horace Randall, aged 30, whose business
was destroyed by the recent fire at Haver-
bill, Mass, attempted suicide by cutting
his throat with razor and stabbing himself
several times in the side. The wounds are
fatal. He has wife Shd three children.
The Gernania of Berlin says Herr Won
SchlOeZer, the German representative at the
Vatican, and Cardinal Jacobini, the Papal
Secretary of State, hold conference twice
a week. 1t is declared on both sides that
there is good prospect Of the negotiations
being successful.
Professor Jackson, proprietor OF the pyro
technic works at Chester, where the terri
arrested. Charles Van Horn, his assistant,
is also under arrest, but, being in such
precarious condition that be cannot be re.
moved from his house, is placed under
guard there.
El DiGriO Official, the organ of the Next
can Government, has published an article
expressing confidence In the future of rail-
ways IN Mexico. Ii says the recent eXcur-
sion of Cabinet Ministers on a section OF the
National Railway has produced feeling OF
confidence in American enterprises in that
country.
Ex-Governor Palmer, of Illinois, denies
the truth of a report published in some
papers that he "had received proposition
from Mr.. iilden to become candidate for
the second place on the ticket with him for
the Democratic Presidential nomination In
1884" The Ex-Governor says "the report
Is purely sensational"
Mrs. Mary Glynn, of East Hampton. Me-,
has pleaded not guilty to the charge of muir
dering her daughters infant. The body of
the infant was found in q cavity of the cell
lar of her house, and bore signs of straDgu-
latiOn. The Coroner's inquest rendered
verdict charging her with numbering the
infant. She was held without bail for trial
at the August term OF the Superior Court.