Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-19
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

a dispatch from Atlanta last night stated
that Senator Hill was very low.
The Senate Yesterday confirmed James E.
Slaughter to be Postmaster at Mobile.
Four bales of new cotton were received
from Texas at New Orleans yesterday.
Jules Simon has ceased his connection
with the Paris GGulOiS. 1t has now become
a Royslist organ.
The President yesterday nominated John
Q Lowell, of Louisiana, to be Assist ant
PaYmaster IN the Navy.
Martin P. Avery, "the great and only liv-
ing skeleton" attached to a museum in
New York, died recently Of chronic dyspep-
sia.
Folger & Co., hardware merchants, of
New Orleans, have failed. Their books
show assets of $4,000, and liabilities of
$4,000.
An insurgent chief surprised q District
Governor who was recruiting, with an escort,
near Cettinje. The Governor and judicial
chief were beheaded and twenty-five Of the
soldiers accompanying were killed.
William Carroll, Felix O'Brien and Mark
Adams, all of Boston, were discovered in
the act OF placing a large rock on the track
of the Nantasket Beach Railroad, at Nan
tasket. They were captured after a long
chase.
While Edward McGlYnn, a young mau
employed by the Franklin Note Company,
in the Tribune building, New York, was
looking through window in the elevator
shaft, the elevator descended on his head,
killing him instantly.
William Hufnagle was kicked to death
by Henry Myers, youth Of eighteen, in a
quarrel about pail of cherries at Nesco-
mock I.nZ Do 20
days ago. Hufnagle had drawn pistol on
Myers. Both were drunk at the time.
While Frank Knight, 9 years of age,
was driving cows to pasture at North
Adams, Mass, he lied rope attached to
one end of the animal around his waist.
The COW threw him down, and, becoming
frightened, dragged him half mile over
rocks and railroad ties. He was so badly
injured that he died in a short time.
The Spesrfsh and Redwater valleys, in
Dakotah, were visited on Friday night by a
destructive storm Of wind and hail, which
"entirely wiped out all the growing crops
for distance of thirty miles by four wide.
1t is estimated that two thousand acres of
wheat, oats and barley, nicely headed and
giving promise of an unprecedented yield,
were entirely destroyed"
Edward Mckinley, Thomas King, and
circus employees, were riding from Millers-
burg to LYkens, Pa, seated in the open
door Of a box car, with their legs hanging
out While passing siding near Lykens,
McKinley's legs coming In contact with a
car, he was thrown violently against his
companions, and all three were knocked off
the train. King was killed and the other
two suffered severe injuries.
The foreign imports of the week at New
York foot up SO, 152, Al, of which 81, ,57O,-
454 was general merchandise and the re-
mainder dry goods. From January 1st to
date, $271 959, ,074, sg linst 1921 ,O8S 656, cor
responding period last year. Among the
leading items for the week were the follow
ing: Coffee, $500, $50; sugar, $1,184, sos:
iron Of all kinds, $130OOO; buttons. $i23,-
2l5; precious stones, $253, ,7l0; undressed
hides, S574, ,274; dressed do, $1S6, ,OS6; steel,
$94,5l9; do. blooms. $44, OIL; tobacco, S57, :
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