Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-20
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Adolph Charles Bonnegrace, the distin-
guished French painter, is dead.
The Pimlico races have been postponed
| till to day on account of rain yesterday.
Annie Black, aged 63, being insane. arose
from her bed in Brooklyn recently, and
running down to the dock, jumped over
board and was drowned.
In regard to the failure of Royal, Storrs &
| Co., the we'll known manufacturing firm OF
| East Dedham, Mass, It is claimed that theil
liabilities are $437, 800.
The jury in the libel suit of the actress
Marie Prescott against President Tousey, oi
the American News Company, rendered
| yesterday verdict In favor of the plaintiff
for $12, 500.
The Birmingham, Ala, rolling mills
which shut down on July 1st, will resume
operations to-day, a conference being held
and the men agreeing to resume on last
years scale.
About one hundred and fifty bales OF
| cotton were burned on the Midland Railroad
wharf at NeWbern, N. c., yesterday after
noon. They were in transit to Norfolk,
New York and Boston.
The fastest long run ever made by rail
westof Chicago was made by the special
train which brought the Vanderbilt party
miles-at an average speed of SO miles per
hour.
During storm at Fairfield, Iowa, a few
| nights ago. wild ducks in great numbers
gathered about the electric lights and ex-
tinguished all but one, demolishing several
globes. Nearly 200 dead ducks were picked
up within three hours.
Judge Edward Hammond died at his resi-.
deRce in Howard county, Md, yesterday
afternoon, aged 20 years. He was member
OF Congress from 1S49 to 1858, and at the
time of his death Associate Justice of the
Fifth Judicial Circuit.
A Mormon named Hintze has been arrest
ed in Salt Lake City, ON complaint of bis
neighbors, for violation of the Edmunds
law, 1t being alleged that he was cohabiting
with more than one "wife." He was about
to start on mission when arrested.
The schooner Anna L. Henderson arrived
at Boston yesterday In tow of the tug Alert,
from New London. This schooner was from
Apalschicola, and was picked up, aban-
doned, by a fishing vessel some time ago.
She is loaded with lumber and is full of
water.
Eighty Frenchmen, assisted by fourteen
hundred African laborers, are about to COM
mence the construction of railway between
the Niger and Senegal rivers. Their opera
tions will be protected by military column,
which plant the French flag and erect two
forts on the Niger.
Congressional nominations were made in
various States yesterday, as follows: Jona-
than Chsce, by the Republicans of the Sec
ond Rhode Island district H. j. Spooner,
by the Republicans OF the First Rhode
Island district Edgar e. Dean, by the
Democrats of the Second Massachusetts,
district William A. Fredler, by the Demo-
Gratis of the Sixth New jersey district.
Indictments have been found at Freehold
N. j., against John FL. Cook, editor of the
Register, Of Red Bank, and Henry Clay and
William j. Kellet, two reporters, for libel
and conspiracy in sending to New York
newspapers the false statements about the
typhoid fever epidemic, which they claimed
was raging at Red Bank. The reports greatly
Injured business in the town and nearly
ruined several of the summer boarding
house proprietors.
A telegraph from Chicago says that the
three unknown persons drowned there last
Sunday are believed to have been the hus-
sen, who are missing. 1t adds: "This
drowning was the result of the strange
ruling Of the Supervising Inspectors OF
Steamboats, that tugs must not, under
fine of $500 for each person carried, take
any passengers on board. Tug owners have
humanely insisted upon exception In cases
where they could save drowning persons,
but no exception was allowed. Six lives
have been sacrificed In this harbor as the
result of this inhuman ruling"