Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-09
1850.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
The Earl of Lonsdale is dead.

4Hc Earl Ol LO0SQate is QeaQ.
A Bombay dispatch says: "The Oomra-
wutta cotton crop is the largest ever re-
corded"
The FeHian Tobin, who was on Tuesday
convicted at Leeds, has been sentenced
to seven years penal servitude.
The river and harbor bill will, It is
thought, be ready for consideration by the
House about the 1st of April next.
Michael Corcoran, forty years of age,
was struck and killed by 400 pound frag-
ment Of iron in a foundry at Providence re-
Gently.
On account of a recent leading editorial
article, the st. Petersburg GOlOs has re-
ceived first warning from the government,
and its retail sale is forbidden.
Sara Bernhardt tainted during her per-
formance in the "Dame aux Camellias," =" at
The audience cried Enough !'' and quilted
the theatre.
The grand jury in Washington have be-
gan an inquiry into the alleged straw bond
cases in the Post Office Department. The
case commenced with is that of Albert E.
Boone, contractor.
The pulley on an elevator at Wrigley's
factory in Newark, N. j., broke a few days
ago, ard four men were precipitated dis
tance of forty feet. Two of them are not
expected to recover.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the
nominations of F. A. Vaughan as Collector
OF Customs at Saluria, Texas, H. G. c. At
wood, of Louisiana, as Consul at Trinidad,
and I. w. Thurman as Postmaster at Griffin,
Ga.
Oscar Beckwith, the alleged murderer of
Vanderpool, whose body was found cut in
pieces near Austerlitz, Columbia county,
New York, on the 10th of January, was
captured recently in the woods, twenty
miles from the scene of the murder.
The insurrection in Yemen, Arabia, is
gaining ground. Numbers of Arabs have
deserted the Turkish standard. The insur-
gents are in possession of the principal
interior towns and occupy positions from
which they can only be dislodged by large
force.
A dispatch from Berlin says: GA letter in
the Deattche MOaltdgSblGtt attributes recent
order OF the Gar, that only wood be burned
in the palace, to the fact that Nihilists had
succeeded in smuggling into the fuel in
tended for stoves in the palace several
blocks charged with dynamite.
At the Bow Street Police Court recently q
warrant was issued against the Marquis of
Huntly, Knight of the Thistle, for obtain
ing money under false pretences. This is 8
separate case from the one pending at the
Mansion House, in which the Marquis is
charged with an offense OF similar nature.
Mr.. Joseph P. Roberts, of Mound City,
writes to Washington denial of the reports
of destitution In Southern Illinois. He says
that while it is true that the crops were
short in parts of that section, in conse-
quence Of the summers drought, there is
an abundance of food everywhere for home
consumption.
While John Cevish, John Mashka and
Joseph Pachka were pushing a coal car on
trestle, at Locust Point, Baltimore, the
trestle gave way, and the men and car fell
to the pier, twenty feet below. Cevish was
instantly killed, Mashka died in half an
hour, and Pachka was carried to the hospi-
tai in dying condition.
The steamer Mas, from Rotterdam, which
has arrived at New York, reports that on
the 22d ult., in latitude 50:13, longitude
13:40, she passed a large ship on fire. The
vessel was waterlogged, probably loaded
with lumber. 1t was painted black, with
greenish yellow scroll work on her bow,
and had scraped topmasts. The Mas saw
no boats.