Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-24
ARTHUR OVERWHELMED.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The South Carolina Legislature will con-
vene In extra session on the 9Th at IL m. to
re-district the State.
The Bishop of Limerick has refused to
sanction the reappointment Of Father
Sheehy to the curacy in his diocese.
NJ. Roustan had an audience with Presi-
dent Grevy Yesterday, prior to his departure
for his new post as French Minister at
Washington.
M. B. Cowden, City Surveyor of Harris
burg, Penn, was accidentally shot and IA
tally wounded a few days ago, while en-
gagged in glass ball shooting.
Three boys were swept over the Lehigh
dam at Allentown, Pa, In a row. boat, re-
Gently, and one Of them, Elmer Erdman,
aged nineteen, was drowned.
At Mspleton, Kansas, a few days ago, az
old man named Wallace was shot dead bY q
young man named Wallace because he OBJ
jected to Wallace visiting his daughter.
The President yesterday nominated as
Collectors of Customs Francis E. Whitsell,
for the district Of st. Augustine, Florida,
and Joh2 M. Tarble for the district of Pen
sacola, Florida.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, who Is still at
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is all the time
confined to his room, and most OF the time
to his bed. There seems no Improvement
in his condition, and his friends have little
hope OF his recovery.
A dispatch from Marshall, Tex, saws:
"Jas. F. Martin and W. D. Mcdonald, par
ticipants in the celebrated train robbery
near Ranger, on the Texas Pacific Railroad,
some time ago, arrived here late on Satur-
day night in custody of officers"
Nelson Garfield, aged nine years, fell into
the canal at West Troy, New York, recently.
While some men on the bank were ''dis-
cussing the means of rescue" William Tin
nard, ten years Of age, jumped into the
water and brought the drowning boy
ashore.
Shllwell W. Russell, ex-United States
Marshal for the Western district of Texas.
who was arrested on the charge of misap-
preparation OF government funds, was
arraigned in the Criminal Court at Wash
ington yesterday, and placed under 81 900
bond to appear before the United States
Circuit Court at San Antonio, Texas, at the
June term.
Thomas Murphy, drunken young rough,
met Edward Marshall, an inoffensive young
man, in one of the streets of Stamford, Ct,
and asked him ''to go and take q drink"
Marshall refused, whereupan Murphy pick
ed up stone and struck the former vio-
lent blow on the temple, which caused death
III hLtCcH Huiuuless murphy got ON y Lraln
for New York, but was arrested on his ar
rival In that city.
While returning home from GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, in railroad car, John Brummage,
being drunk, stabbed in the breast an in
offensive young man named Axline, who
was standing on the platform. Axline, in
self defense struck Brummage, knocking
him off the car. In falling, Brummage's
brains were knocked out by his head strik--
ing a telegraph pole. Axline's wound is
considered fatal.
The schooner President, from Antwerp,
has arrived at Quebec with six of the crew
Of the ship Western Belle, lost in the ice on
May lst. The Western Belle ran into an
iceberg during the night, had her bows
crushed In, and sank in twenty minutes.
The Captain and thirteen of the crew per-
ished by the swamping Of one OF the boats
as the ship went down; the mate aud six
others escaped In the remaining boat, and
were picked up next day nearly frozen to
death.