Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-22
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The steamer Straits of Dover, from Nor
folk for Liverpool, is ashore off Crosby
light.
The Chicago Board of Trade voted YES
terday to adjourn from to-day to Tuesday,
December 26th.
The report that the Archbishop of Bor-
deauX had died is untrue. He is still
alive, but is seriously ill.
The calico print works of Dalglish &
FalcOner at Glasgow were destroyed by
fire yesterday. Loss 100000.
United ireland says a company is FORM
ing in Dublin with capital of f1 900, 900
for developing Irish manufactures.
A WinOna, Miss, special saws: sTEx-
Governor Benz. G. Humphreys died sud
denly at his residence in lie FlOre county
yesterday.
A fiat car loaded with forty or fifty bales
of cotton from Marshall, Texas, for New
Orleans, was burned near Shreveport on
Wednesday.
VIM. Reed, cOlored, who killed Isaiah
Brantly last August, was Yesterday con-
victed OF murder at Baton Rouge, without
capital punishment.
The fine new building of the Commercial
AdUertISer in Buffalo, and two stories of
the Masonic Temple We're destroyed Dy
fire tonight. Loss 100000.
In the Police Court at Washington YES
terday, Foreman Dickson was further
examined in the suit in which he is de-
fendant. Nothing new or important was
elected.
On Wednesday afternoon at Cash Point,
Bossier parish, La, Ed. Lee. coIored.
struck Joe King, white, on the back of
the head with an axe, inficting a mortal
wound.
The President has recognized Mario Com
paguoni MarefOschi as Vice Consul of
Italy at New Orleans, and Manuel Zapata
Niera as Consul Gd interim of the United
States of Mexico at New Orleans.
The courts of inquiry and courts-martial
at Cairo, Egypt, have been dissolved. 1t
is expected that decree will be issued
tomorrow banishing some of the rebel
prisoners but releasing the bulk of them.
The approximate gross earnings of the
Norfolk and Western Railway for the first
two weeks in December were S96. .210 81.
being an increase as compared with the
corresponding period of last year of SO, $50.
BY decree of the Chancery Court the
Memphis AUdldnche will be sold at public
auction to the highest bidder on January
18th, 1888. This is the result of the recent
suit in the courts to wind up the partner
ship Of the former company.
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Hard Times plantation on Wednesday.
Louis Morrison, cOlored, shot and killed
Joe Guss, also cOlored. Morris sur
rendered himself, claiming that he was
justified in committing the homicide"
A dispatch from DenisOn, Texas. saws:
''Willie Calbert, well known Young IN
dian, who recently shot a cOlored man in
road near here while intoxicated, was
yesterday shot and killed by a man named
McGothlin at Lanes Ferry, near here"
President Bontout and Manager Teder,
OF the Union Generate, who were yester-
day sentenced to Imprisonment for acting
in connection with the management Of
that institution, have lodged an an
peal against their sentence, which will be
heard in February.
The Dublin Ereen3dn'S Journal confirms
the report that the police have received
information which is likely to lead to the
arrest of the murderers of Lord Mount
morris. 1t is believed that arrests will be
made in time to allow of their trials tax
ing place in February.
El Concrete, of Lima, stated that YES
terday, at the closing of Congress, Presi-
dent CamperO alluded to the fact of the
cOuntry's enjoying constitutional freedom
even during the war, and besought Chilli
not to seek her own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT alone.
but also that of the other republics of the
Pacific coast, which are destined at some
time to form South American cOnfedera-
ton,
On the news reaching the Prince of
Wales of NJ. Gambetta's relapse, he tele-
graphed inquiring as to the real condition
of the sufferer, A reply was forwarded
that NJ. Gambetta's wound had thoroughly
healed, and that a careful examination
had satisfied the physicians that the con-
dition of the patient was as satisfactory
as could be expected
The suit of the government against
Harrison Johnston in the great cotton
claims was continued in the United States
Circuit Court at New York Yesterday.
John A. Nelson, planter of New Co
lumbus, Luzerne county, Miss, was the
only witness. He testified that in 1865 he
was a sub-agent of Johnston's at New
Columbus, and twenty-five men were en-
ployed to guard the cotton there stored.
He had been employed by c. A. Johnston,
son of the defendant, and made weekly
reports to Harrison Johnston,