Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-19
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The President sent to the Senate yester-
day the nomination Of Daniel BoyntOn TO be
pension agent at Knoxville.
A dispatch has been received at st.
Petersburg announcing that five more sailors
belonging TO the crew Of the Jeanette had
arrived at Irkutsk.
The total exports of domestic breadstuffs
from the United States during 1881 were
valued at 1924, lis, $50, against $275, ,936, ,859
in the preceding year.
The death is announced of Sir Daniel
MacNee, President Of the Royal Scottish
Academy, and well known as a portrait
painter. He was aged "a.
The track of the Mexican National Rail-
way has been laid across the State of Tamau-
lipas, and is now being laid at the rate Of a
mile day in the State of Nuevo Leon.
The House Committee on Appropriations
agreed Yesterday to insert In the first def
cheney bill an item of thirty-fve thousand
dollars, asked by Professor Baird to aid in
the propagation of white fish.
In Wilmington, Ohio, a few days ago, a
child died Of what was supposed to be
chicken pox, and its funeral was largely at
tended. Since then fifty cases of virulent
smallpox have developed in the town.
Two brothers named Dean, in Perry coun-
peddler Of S400 in money and a quantity OF
goods. They were arrested while dividing
the plumber 1t is thought the wounded
peddler will die.
An express train on the Dubuque division
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad, was wrecked near Lansing, Iowa,
by the breaking Of car wheel. A child
was killed and twenty other persons were
injured, two fatally.
Near Owenton, KY, two young men
named Scott Hayden and John Culver, went
to the house OF W. A. Montgomery for the
purpose of soaring the latter. Montgomery
took down gun, when it was accidentally
discharged, killing Hayden instantly.
Thaddeus o. DOane, fireman, while hold
ing the nozzle of hose pipe throwing a
powerful stream on a burning building IN
Piainfeld, New Jersey, lost control of the
pipe. The stream of water struck him on
'he cheek, crushing in one side of his face,
and causing such injuries that his recovery
is doubtful.
1t is reported in Washington that Mr..
Hall, our Consul General at Havana, will
soon be appointed Minister to the Central
American States, it being desirable, in view
of the prominence of the interoceanic canal
question, that this country should be repre-
sented in Central America By an experienced
diplomat.
Advices from Peru to the 2Sth ultimo re-
port that the American Commissioners had
left Lima for Chilli. There was a severe
earthquake the day Of their arrival at
Callao. Nothing had yet resulted from their
visit, and affairs were in StGtU quo The
probable results OF their mission were the
absorbing topic of discussion along the
coast.
The ecclesiastical bill to be presented in
the German Landtag permits the govern
ment to dispense with the oath of allegi
ance from Bishops, s,readmits the dispossessed
Bishops to their beDefices, allows foreign
priests to assume ecclesiastical functions,
and provides for the resump ion of the
monetary grants from the State, which
shall only veto appointments of priests
when they appear untitled for their posts.
Fifteen of the seventeen BROOKLYN Alder
men who deted the court by passing a reso-
luticn over the veto of the Mayor after an
Injunction Of the court had been granted
restraining them from taking any action in
the matter, were sentenced to imprison-
ment in the county jail from ten to thirty
days and to pay a fine Of $3.50 each
The Sheriff escorted the distinguished party
to jail. Later they were released by an
oToer OF Judge Pratt, OF the Kings County
Supreme Court.
The Alexandria correspondent Of the Lon
don Times telegraphs as follows: "The
Egyptian situation is becoming very grave.
Parliament refuses to surrender its right of
voting the Budget. TIE programme of
Parliament clashes with that of the Khediye
and Cherif Pashs, the Prime Minister. II
Parliament persists In It's attitude Cherif
Pasha will resign. The Anglo-French note
has not ogerawed the national party. The
policy Of England and France is anxiouslY
awaited. Precipitate action might produce
actual danger.n