Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-21
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The Democrats of the Tenth Tennessee
district nominated Casey Young for Con
gre yesterday.
At WASHINGTON yesterday Judge Hagnel
granted ex-senator Christiancy a divorce
from his wife on the ground Of desertion.
Advices from Cettinje indicate that an
offensive and defensive alliance has been
concluded between Russia and Montenegro.
Harvey Chace, one of the pioneers among
cotton manufacturers in Rhode Island, died
at Valley Falls yesterday morning, aged IS
years.
Burger s. Cushman, cotton brokers, OF
New York, announced their failure on
Tuesday. with liabilities of between $50, 600
and $1,000
A woman was recently shot by a process
server near Ghenties, county Donegal, Ire
land, while resisting the seizure Of her cat
tie. He has been arrested.
The District Amalgamated Association
Convention, at Youngstown, Ohio, on Tues
day voted by an overwhelming msjority to
return to work at the old rates.
A Catholic clergyman Of some rank has
been fined 200 marks at Barcelona for libel
ling Bismarck in an article on the ChAncel-
lor's attitude towards the KultuIkampf.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge Of Odd Eel
business of a formal character, went into
s. cret session, and so remained until ad-
iournment
James H. Elliott, lawyer, OF New York
city, has been arrested on the charge of
having broken into the house of Emmeline
Laurent, who was dying OF starvation, and
stealing a deed for $4,000 worth OF
property.
The Democratic Convention for the
Third Mississippi district met yesterday
and decided 10 make no nomination for
Congress. Judge G. w. Clarke, Republi-
can, has taken the field. as an Independent
candidate, against Judge Jefferds.
The securities OF the defunct Continental
Life Insurance COmDany were sold at auc-
ton recently in the New York county court
house, but the sum realized was compare
lively insignificant. For instance, claim
for 81, ,1S8 13 sold for $107, and another for
$22 IT'S 70 brought only IS.
Charles A. Ketcham, clerk at the Alton
Elevator, IN Kansas City, has been arrested
for stealing wheat. He employed express
men, at large pay, to carry away the grain
from loaded cars. He had been operating
for several months, and is believed to have
stolen several thousand dollars worth Of
wheat.
The Connecticut Republican Convention
Yesterday nominated General William H.
Bulky for Governor by acclamatiOn.
The platform declares IN favor OF a re
vision and reduction of tariff duties not
only for revenue, but also for the protectio
of American labor against the labor Of the
Old World.
A telegram from Washington says Chief
Brooks. of the secret service, has received
ga five-dollar note of the Evansville, lEdi-
ana, Business College currency, which had
been successfully passed as genuine cur
rency." Chief Brooks says that "some of
this same stuff had been circulated until it
had fairly worn to tatters without being de-
tected." A counterfeit silver half dollar,
"made of Babbitt metal and glass" is also
iu circulation. "It has a good ring and is
an excellent imitation"
The last New York Legislature passed an
act making attempts at suicide q misde-
meanor, the penalty of which is fine at the
discretion Of the court. A few days ago
the first arrest under this act took place.
The accused is one Christopher McCann, a
passenger on board the steamboat New
Haven, from that port, who. during the
trip, repeatedly attempted to jump over
board. On his arrival in New York, he was
handed over to the police, who brought him
before Justice Murray, at the Toombs. AS
his answers disclosed a mental alteration of
some kind, he was turned over to1the city
prison surgeons for examination.