Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-14
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

George RISE, better known as "Arthur
Sketchley," is dead.
A Shreveport dispatch says that there
was frost and ice there Sunday morning.
Anarchial placards have been posted on
the walls OF the arsenal at Rochefort,
France.
A partial strike of compositors has begun
at Vienna. Three newspaper offices are
already affected.
A Dallas, Texas, special says there was
frost Sunday night. The mercury yesterday
morning stood at % degrees.
Psiae & Sacket, wooden manufacturers,
OF Providence, K l., have made an assign
ment, Liabilities $300,000.
The effects of Wm. Clark, grocer, of
Dallas. Texas, have been attached for
SIS GOO. Assets are $1,000.
A Russian subj set was murdered at Alex
andrts oy native watchman Sunday even
Ing. The affair has created great sensa-
tion.
In the Criminal Court at st Louis yester-
dav John Hayes was sentenced TO be hanged
on December 29 for the killing of Phillip
Mueller, saloon keeper, last fall.
<. NJ. Hemstadt, dry goods dealer, at
Paris, Texas, has failed. Liabilities $45 900.
Assets nominallY, S25 600. His creditors
are chiefly in New York and st. Louis
A Austin, Texas, special says: "The
| Governor will raise the quarantine on the
| 18Th pIox Reports from different locaIi-
ties say the weather Is cold and heavy frosts
! prevail"
Secretary Folger has requested Messrs.
Aleck Boarman, William Harper and j. NJ.
Ahollingsworth to act as a commission to
select site for the government building at
Shreveport, La.
At Worcester, Mass, Yesterday, Charles
3 Lawrence, of Auburn, was sentenced to
| prison Tor 10 years, in the Superior Court
Yesterday morning, for train wrecking on
the Boston and Albany Railway, on Sep
| tember 18th.
The Queen of Spain and her intent are
both progressing favorably. AccordiI e to
the present arrangements the bsp ism OF the
child will not take place until Saturday.
| The Empress OF Austria will be one OF the
sponsors. The Pope viii be godfather.
Hon. Eugene Schuyler, United s ates
Minister resident and Consul General for
Servia and Roumanis, presented his creden-
tials to King Milan yesterday. They after
| wards exchanged Publications of the Servo
American commercial treaty.
On the report of the referee Judge Doua-
| hue, In the Supreme Court OF New York,
Yesterday, granted the discharge of Charles
Dixon Jackson, an alleged lunatic, who had
|
Asylum for about two years.
1t is officially announced that Count
| Mensbrea has been appointed Italian Am
basssdor to France. The appointments of
| CheValier Ntgra. the present Italian Ambas-
sad0r st st. Petersburg, to succeed Count
Mensbres a. London is gszetted.
| W. A. Atkins has been arrested by the
United S-aGes Marshal of Newport, Ark on
charge OF passing counterfeit fifty dollar
| Dill In 1879 Atkins claims that he didn't
know the bill was counterfeit until year
| afterward, when he sent the person good
money. Atkins was taken to Arkansas for
trial.
A Crockett, Texas, special reports that
! the court house, in which was the j all and
post office, was completely destroyed by
fire Yesterday morning at about four O'Clock.
All OF the records were lost. Two prisoners,
q White man named Oliver McCsury and
negro named Samuel Daily, perIshed in the
| fl imes.
A dispatch from Havana says that King
Alfonso, expressing his desire that the
money which would be used to celebrate
| the birth of the infant Spanish Phncee be
devoted to the relief of he sufferers by the
cyclone In Vuelto Absjo, a PROVINCIAL depu-
| tation In Plvsr Del Rio has sent petition
to the home government asking that It buv
In Vuelta Abajo the quantity of tobacco 1t
usually purchases IN the United States
In the case of the city of New Orleans
against the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas
Railway, which was dismissed in the United.
States Supreme Court by stipulation short
time since, petition was filed
Yesterday at Washington by the board of
liquidation of the city debt, asking leave to
prosecute an appeal IN behalf of the bond
holders, and to have set aside the dismissal
agreed on between the original parties.
The remains of John Howard PAyne are
to be brought home to this country from his
lonely grave in Tunis, the expense being
borne by Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, of Washing
ton. They Will probably reach this country
hext spriDg, and will be placed In
Oak HUI Cemetery, West Washington. A
memorial service, to be held at the grave
some time in June next, is contemplated.