Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-15
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

lHe TRIAL Ol Une flOJefS OF MOntceau-leS-
day.
A rich gold mine is said to have been
discovered at Santa Lucea, near Santiago
de Chilli
The .Australasian mine in Creswick,
Victoria, has been flooded. Twentv-two
persons were drowned.
In the Dickson case Brewster Cameron
was cross-eXamined yesterday, but moth
ing OF Importance was elected.
In the star route case Yesterday the iurv
was completed, and Mr.. Bliss began the
opening argument for the government.
The Chilian Minister of Finance roughly
estimates that there are only 65O.OOO tons
OF eXpOrtable guanO on the Peruvian
coast.
NJ. Re1chmuet, Radical, and NJ. Welt.
Liberal, have been elected President and
Vice President, respectively, of the Swiss
Confederation for 1888.
Articles of incorporation of the Little
Rock and ChOctaw Line Indian Nation
Railroad were filed in the Secretary of
States office at Little Rock yesterday.
Sllas X. Kenyon, lawyer, of Newark,
n. D., 10 years of age, committed suicide
at street crossing in Elizabeth recently
by throwing himself under a railroad
train,
A European company, headed by Benz.
N1eWgas, OF Liverpool, has just completed
the purchase of 100000 acres of cotton
lands in Arkansas and Checot counties.
Arkansas.
A motion was to have been introduced
IN the Corte, yesterday declaring that the
present Spanish Constitution satisfies the
requirements of the nation and it's aspira-
tions for liberty.
John Z, Rudd, an ex-mail agent of the
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad. was
Yesterday sentenced in the Federal court
at Little Rock to three years Imprisonment
for stealing registered letters.
The Dublin cooperative stores were de-
stroyeG by fre yesterday. The building
was IulI OF goods. The loss is very ex-
CenSite' II IS repaired that the caretaker
ana his family persisted in the flames.
b. Foley, Jr., and j. r. Gouthreaux.
commissioners of election in Assumntion
parish, La, indicted for election fyauds
were brought before Judge Billings YES
terday morning and released on bonds to
appear for trial,
a warrant has been issued for the arrest
OF Mr.. Whalley, member of Parliament for
PETERBOROUGH, who failed to appear in an
sWer TO a summons charging him with
obtaining f56 pounds from a hotel pro
prletor at Ramsgate by false pretences.
The list of subscriptions in New York
TO the pedestal to support the statue of
Liberty EnlIghtening the Worldv
amounts thus far to $36,50O Most of the
SUBSCRIPTIONS are for sums ranging from
headed the list with $4,000. The tots;
amount to be raised is $250,OOO.
Senor Camacho, the Spanish Minister of
FINANCE, has presented in the COrtes a
Dill authorizing the payment of 400 600
Pesetas TO indemnify the French sufferers
Dy the Carl1st and CantOnalist rebeIlions.
rms actlOp is in consequence of Frances
having given notice of her readiness to
pay an indemnity to the said sufferers.
William 6. Butler, of New Haven. who
was an anti-mOnopoly candidate for Con-
gress IN that district at the last election.
purposes to contest she election of Charles
l.: Mitchell, WAe was chosen by the voters
OF the district. Butler received only 40
votes, but he alleges that E'the ballots cast
Tor both Mitchell and Merwin were de-
1ectlYe, as they were not printed on plain
White paper, as the law pTescribes."
The arrangements looking to an amica
bic adjustment of the differences between
the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail-
road Company and its lessee, the Midland
North Carolina Railroad Comnanv- hov-
ing tailed, the directors of the Atlantic and
North Carolina yesterday made a formal
demand for possession of the leased road,
which was refused by the directors of t6e
Midland Company, Litigation win prob
ably ensue,
Ihe extensive depot and wharf, To-
gether with sixty cars and ten locomo-
yves, OF the Manhattan Beach Railroad
Company, at Bayridge, n. Y, we're de-
stroyed by fire yesterday morning.
large pile of lumber belonging to the Sea
Beach Railroad Company, adjoining the
Manhattan depot, a canal boat al the
dock, the wharf and everything on it,were
burned. The company estimate their loss
at 100000.