Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-08
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Navigation was suspended yesterday on
the upper Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
1t is stated that efforts are being made
to establish cotton exchange in Boston.
1t has been decided that the funeral of
Louis Blanc shall be at the expense of the
State.
The Piedmont House at Spartanburg,
,. e., was burned yesterday, The loss is
covered by $1,000 insurance,
The loss by the burning of the Alham-
bra Theatre, in London, aggregated f15O,-
600. The insurance is trifling.
Cicero Collins, who was sentenced to be
hanged at KinstOn, n. c.. on December 8.
has been respited by the Governor until
/ January 10.
| The Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad
shops at kingsland, n. j., were burned
| yesterday. Loss $4,000. Insured on a
floating policy.
! A dispatch from Berlin saws: "a Young
| lady, lately banished to Siberia for COM
plicity in the Nihilist conspiracy, has kill
ed the Governor of the Fransbaikal terri
terry.
The river Seine continues to rise. The
French Government has asked the Cham
bers for d grant of 1000, 900 francs for the
relief of the sufferers In the inundated
districts.
A fire broke out on Wednesday at Lead
vile, Col, in the Texas House, the largest
gambling establishment in the West.
which was entirely destroyed, with other
neigboring buildings,
The extensive emigration from the
mountain districts of Hungary to Ameri-
ca has caused the Hungarian Government
to request Austria to stop emigrants not
provided with passports.
HnOtaViIIa 10
General Joseph Wheeler was Yesterday
nominated by the democrats to tll the
vacancy i'll the FOrty-seVenth Congress.
caused by the death Of Mr.. Love-"
Two capitalists of Wisconsin have
| bought 5000 acres of land in Lanzlade
county, in that State, for $4,000. 1t is
said that the tract contains about 700. .O00,-
600 feet Of the best pine timber in the
State.
A fire at Covington, Tenn. yesterday
morning destroyed the PRESBYTERIAN
! Church, Masonic Hall, a newspaper office
and number Of business houses. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, The insur.
ance is small
The President yesterday nominated the
following to be POstmasters: George s.
Krouse at Culpeper, Va; Robert w. p.
Morris at Lynchburg, Va; Maria Z. Sui
livan at Starkville, Miss. John A. Malone
at Holly Springs, Miss.
In the case of the United States against
Oppenheimer, 1itIhian and White. one of
the Halifax county, n. c., election cases.
the evidence for the government was so
insufficient that the District Attorney
withdrew the case and the matter drops.
the defendants being released.
Frank Holt, of Chattanooga, VIM. Frei-
tus, aged sixteen, and Sarah Young (col-
plOsiOn on the 'Morning Star" on the
Mississippi, have since died. OF twenty
one persons on board at the time of the ac-
cident, but five are now living. II is stat
ed that the Morning Star was racing with
the Sunbeam when the explosion oc-
CURED. " -
some scQundrels few nights agoralged
SIX paddles in q lock Of the Erie canal az
Brighton, near Rochester, and Lot tho
water into the lower lock, the paddles of
which were closed. The water Overlooked
the banks and washed out part of the tow
pain, carried away two small bridges and
destroyed cuIVerts on the Central Rail-
rroad, also washing away the tracks.
In cars of freight train tumbled into
the chasm, but no person was injured.
The Captain of the ship Joseph E. Shin.
ney, which arrived at San Francisco re-
was made TO sink the vessel in mid-ocean.
When she was four weeks out it was dis
covered that there was nearly four feet of
water in the hold, and on examination
three auger holes We're found bored
through the bottom, just to the right of
the keelsOn, below the breast hook
hole in the inner sheathing. The holes
chad been plugged and covered with loose
dirt to conceal the source of the leak. and
the water had filtered in between the inner
and outer planking." A close watch was
kept on the crew, but nothing was dis
covered to warrant an arrest.
During the trial of woman named
Sturla, in Chicago, a few days ago, for the
murder of man with whom she had
lived, startling scene occurred. The
Wretched woman was placed on the stand
and told the story of her relations with
the man she had killed, occupying nearly
five hours in recital of the abuse and
brutality she had suffered at his hands.
As she approached the date of the tragedy
she grew nervous and incoherent. While
describing walk in the rain the night
before the murder ''she suddenly threw
up her hands and fell forward from the
witness chair in hysteric commissions
which it required half dozen men to re-
strain. With her shrieks ringing through
the room she was removed, and the court
adjourned"