Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-08
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

A dispatch has been received in New
York, said to be from a prominent Con-
gresham Of that city, asserting that Mr.
Lowell, our Minister to Great Britain, had
been recalled.
Daniel Collier. employed at the iron
works In Troy, New York, was killed re-
Gently by rod of iron turned out Of the
rolls piercing through his body while he lay
asleep on plank.
Four Of the regular annual appropriation
bills, the legislative, naval, deficiency, and
sundry civil, remain to be reported to the
House, but all are well under way In the
hands of subcommittee.
Governor Plaisted, of Maine, has written
letter stating as his reason for not calling
an extra session of the Legislature of that
State, that 1t has no power to redistrict un-
til a new enumeration has been made.
A large crowd gathered at the sale of the
Sprague properties In Providence. the upset
price being fixed at $2,80O, 600. The party
offering this Did having withdrawn, and
there being no renewal of the bid, the sale
was adjoorned until the 18th inst.
1t appears that the discharge papers of the
Ohio soldiers In the late war, entrusted TO
the State Agent at Washington for the col
lection of bounty claims, were boxed up bv
him sand afterwards sent to New York
without authority, and are now lost"
One end of Sweeney's drinking saloon at
Cedarville, Ohio, was blown up with dvns-
mite few nights ago. Sweeney and his
family, who slept at the other end Of the
building, were thrown upon the ground. An
attempt was made at the same time to blow
up an adjoining drug store, but the charge
failed to explode,
A verdict for four hundred dollars was
rendered in the Superior Court in New York
in favor of Mrs Hagan, who sued, under
the civil damage act, to recover five thou
sand dollars damage from John Carroll and
Aaron Hershfeld, saloon keepers, 223 Third
avenue, for selling whisky to her husband
and making him drunk, thus depriving her
and her family OF their means Of support for
the time being.
The dead body of man about twenty
years Of age, with the head half severed
rom the body, was found recently in a
piece OF woodland near Plaipfield, N. J. It
was learned that he was q Russian Jew, an
itinerant chair bottomer, who had received
little money to go back to Russia. and #
is supposed that he was murdered by two
companions for the money. The police are
searching for these men.
Ephraim Sherman Durfee, an old Mason
and soldier of the war OF 1912, died re-
Gently in Oshkosh. Wisconsin, at the age of
ninety-seven. He was Master OF the Roch-
ester Lodge of Masons in 1928, and con-
ferred the degrees on Morgan, who after
wards exposed the Masonic initiation and
disappeared. Owing to the aDti-M Masonic
excitement following those events, Durfee
was obliged to leave the country for time.
The EysAi'g Journal, Of Chicago, reports
that ''the poverty of the Eailk retailed to
housekeepers'' In that city has caused an
investigation, which develops the fact
that most Of the dairy farmers" in that re-
gion 'Fare feeding their COWS on sugar corn
meal, an article consisting Of the residue
left after extracting the Siacose fEom CON.
1t produces large quantity OF very poor
milk, and costs only about one quarter of
the price q good feed. The consumers
have 40 prospect of stopping the practice,
as it does not violate any law,n