Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-13
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

There was brilliant display of zodiacsI
light last evening at Pensacola.
The late cyclone did much damage in
Vuelts Aoa1o, Cuba, and especially at Con-
The Archbishop of Tuam has forbidden
the clergymen of his diocese from taking
part in the Irish National Conference.
The American schooner Flora Woodhouse.
from Tampico for New York, has arrived at
Key West with all hands sick except the
master.
A dispatch from Athens SAYS that with
the evacuation by the Turks of the positions
claimed by Greece the difficulty between
Turkey and Greece is regarded as termi-
mated.
A three-year old daughter of Joseph Wa
terhouse, in Cohoes, New York, has been
poisoned, perhaps fatally, by eating the
seeds OF plant known as "Snow on the
Mountain"
The depression in the cotton trade has
led to the posting OF notices in many mills
in northeast Lancashire of the abolition of
the fule requiring fortnight's notice to be
given to operatives.
Fifty thousand loaded breech loading caps
blew up in the Union Metallic Cartridge
Shop at Bridgeport, Conn, few days ago.
The building was utterly demolished, but
no person was injured.
Rev. j. L. Benton. State Superintendent
OF Education in Arkansas, committed sui
eide recently by jumping from the balcony
OF Judge Gregg's house, In Fayetteville. 1t
is said he was mentally unbalanced"
The series OF gold certificates, which are
being numbered and printed st the Bureau
Of Engraving anu Printing, will probably
be ready for issue in about two weeks, The
supply OF this series will be regulated
altogether by the demand.
At meeting OF the stockholders of the
Texas and st. Louis Narrow Gauge Rail-
road, held at st. Louis Yesterday, a PROPOSE
tion to increase the capital stock OF the road
in Missouri and Arkansas from 81, $50 900 to
$l5,OOO,OOO, was unanimously adopted.
A dispatch to the Vienna Psesse from St.
Petersburg says: sit is positively rumored
that Count Tolster, the Minister Of the IN
terror, and M. Burge, Minister of Finance,
will resign, aud that Count Peter Schouva-
loft and NJ. sAbasa will probably succeed
Them"
Thirty persons in London, Ontario. have
been poisoned by eating head cheese made
by local butchers, and some of them are
very low. but 1t is believed they will re-
cover. Physicians attribute the trouble to
"bristles which have been chopped up with
the skin OF the pork, causing irritation OF
the stomsch's inner coating"
Messrs. Hayes and Hoxie. Vice Presidents:
A. A. Talmage, General Manager OF Trans
portation; @. G. Newman, General Ticket
Agent; F. Chandler, General Passenger
Agent of the Gould roads. and /. q. Rsker
superintendent of the Western Union TeIe-
graph Company, arrived at Galveston by
special train from New Orleans yesterday.
In the suit Of Edward L. Owen (WaIl
street broker) against Rev. Stephen H.
Tying, Jr., to recover S.. .O55 SO, alleged to
be due plaintiff from Joint stock transac-
tions, the plaintiff, It will be remembered,
demurred to the bill of particulars furnished
by the defendant, and, through counsel,
moved further statement of all the trans
actions In detail. Judge Donahue, in the
New York Supreme Court, denied the mo-
tion.
at meeting of the new Board of Dlrec-
tors of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany yesterday morning at New York, the
following named were elected officers OF
the company: DR.. Norvin Green, President:
General Thomas 7. Eckert, Vice President
and General Manager; Augustus Schell,
John Vanhorne and Harrison Durkee. Vice
Presidents: D. H. Bates, Acting Vice PresI-
dent and Assistant General Manage and j.
b. Van Every, Acting Vice Preside e.eTtIns - IN
other officers hol0 over. NNN
1t has been announced that satisfactory
compromise On the question of a reform OF
the Spanish constitution is being arranged.
Omclal notification of the formation of q
new party and a statement of its political
views will be published during the week.
No manifesto will be issued, the leaders re-
serving the complete explanation of the
party's programme until the reassembling
OF the Cortes. The ministerial press con-
tinues to vigorously oppose re-establish-
ment OF the constitution of 1859.