Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-31
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The condition of the Archbishop of Can
terbury continues grave.
"The American Bag Loaning Company"
of New York has filed preliminary certif-
cate of Incorporation at Albany, It's capital
to be $500,000.
The Republican State Convention met at
Kalamazoo, Mich, yesterday and renomina-
ted David II. Jerome for Governor by
unanimous vote.
The Supreme Court at Providence has
issued citation to William Sprague and F.
d. Moulton to appear next Saturday, and
be heard in the matter Of the possession of
Canonchet.
A dispatch to the London Times from Dur
ban states that the Kaffir chief, Secocoeni,
his sons, and fourteen Of his followers have
been killed by Mampoor, the chief put into
Secocoeni's place by the British.
A cattle train on the Grand Trunk Rail
road was thrown from the track and pre-.
cipitated down sixty-foot embankment
near Toronto recently. Nine cars were
wrecked and one hundred cattle killed.
Rev. Father Nugent, OF Liverpool, visited
Castle Garden, New York, recently, with
view to arranging for the location Of i'm
migrants from the West of Ireland. He
will visit Bishop Ireland's colony in Mime
sofa before returning home.
The wife of Charles Harvey, in Thetford,
Michigan, few days ago, tied herself and
her fve-year-old child together, and
plunged her head and the child's into a
washtub full of water. Both were drowned.
1t is supposed the woman was insane.
Admiral Clitz has been advised from
Washington of the rejection of Commodore
Shufeldt's treaty with Corea, requesting
that ship of war be sent tn Cores, and
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Envoy to China, would assume diplomatic
control Of the question.
A telegram from Wichita reports the
notorious Captain Payne encamped on the
Canadian river, in the Indian Territory,
with ga colony embracing twentY-seven
fighting men, who are well-armed and we'll
mounted" Neither Indians nor Federal
soldiers have yet interfered with the
raiders.
Forty.two of the forty-seven applicants
appointed by Congressman for admission to
the Military Academy have arrived at West
Point, and all of them have passed the medi-
cal examination. Among them is Lemuel
W. Livingston, colored, applicant from
Florida, who is described as "nearly six
feet in height and jet black"
An excursion train returning from Grand
Rapids to Toledo, Ohio, recently, was cap
tured by five or six ruffians, who drew re-
volvers and robbed the passengers. One
excursionist lost seventY-ive dollars and
was thrown off the platform. The conduc-
tor was badly beaten. One of the robbers,
''Larry" King, was arrested in Toledo; the
others escaped.
r. B. Welch, ex-Principal Of the Pontiac
school, writes to Bloomington, Illinois, from
Topeka, Kansas, that his life sis in danger
from the liquor men" Of the latter place.
| AS Assistant State Attorney he has been
| prosecuting violators of the State law.
Within a day or two "they have cut his
buggy to pieces, disfigured his horse and
| threatened mis- life,'' and he ''has had to call
a meeting Of the citizens to prevent being
mobbed."
A man giving the name Of James McGin-
mis- has made a confession in Brockville
| Ontario, that, five years ago, while a waiter
In the Grosvenor Hotel, London, England
he, In company with two others, whom ht
| did not know, murdered three men, also
unknown. He came to Canada few dayl
ago, but the crime so preyed on his MIND
that he decided to give himself up. Al
inquiry will be made as to the truth of hi
statement.