Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-03-08
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

During the months of January and Feb
ruarv 1865 emigrants left HamburgI for
the United States.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Goldsb orough
OF the Marine Hospital Service, has been
ordered from Baltimore to Mobile.
The Senate yesterday confirmed as post
masters, Chase W. Buckley, at Montgomery,
Alabama, and Mary E. Wiley, at Huntsville,
Texas.
Jacob Fl. Schift, of New York, Treasurer
OF the Russian Refugee and Colonization
fund, acknowledges thus far the receipt of
$40,383.
In the Circuit Court at Milwaukee. Louis
Spoehl obtained "a Judgment for S., 900
against Policeman Stroslow for striking him
with club.
In the House OF Lords Yesterday bill,
introduced by the Earl of Redesdale, ex-
cluding atheists from each house of Parlfa-
ment, was read for its first time.
Joshua r. Surpass, lawyer and politician
OF Easton, Pa, has been arrested for having
"unlawfullY procured" the vote of a colored
man at the last Presidential election.
A convention OF lengshoremen was held
recently In New York to consider measures
for perfecting a system of "boycottingn
against non union men who compete with
union wOrkmen.
dispatch from Wilwa to the Moscow
Gazette says that there are serious signs of a
movement among the Poles. Arrests of
very prominent Nihilists have been made at
Odessa lately, and secret press has been
discovered.
W. N. Sturgis, of Chicago, a prominent
grain operator, was arrested in Keokuk
few days ago, on the charge of defrauding
Ero r. n ~
OF $5O,OOO worth of grain, stored in a Keo-
kuk elevator when Sturgis was its pro-
prietor. The accused was released on $4,000
bail.
A libel has been fled in the United States
Court at Wilmington, Del, by John B.
Virden, pilot, against the brig Mary E.
Leighton, which, being outward bound,
refused his services. This is intended to
make another test of the Delaware pilotsge
law, the issue being the legality of compul-
sorry pilotage on vessels bound to sea from
the Breskwater.
The Legislature of Utah has adopted a
concurrent resolution calling q Territorial
Convention on the 10th of April to frame a
State Constitution for Utah. elect delegates
to go to Washington and urge the admis-
sion OF the new State; nominate and pro-
vide for the election Of State officers and a
Congressman, and take such other steps as
may be necessary in the case.
At the formal examination of Mrs. Wall,
who fatally shot her husband at New Ut
recht, L. / the other day, the charge, which
comprehended the crime of manslaughter,
was read to her, to which she pleaded not
guilty, and, waiviDg an examination, she
was conveyed to the Raymond street jail,
Brooklyn. 4 numerous crowd was la MI
tendance, which seemed to be abon'. eousl-
ly divided as to her guilt c.; cT innocence.
=, A statement of the transactions of the
New FORK post Office during 1881, just sub
mitted, shows that $58, 1872, 76S 81 passed
through the money order department, or
$I76l, ,Ol9 n more than in 1880; that, dur
ing that year, 81 539, ,525 letters and 10, ,23 O55
postal cards were delivered by the carriers
in that city; that 974, ,534 letters were sent to
the Dead Letter Office, and that :, 1892 valu-
able letters were recovered from there, and
that 1924, ,490 letters were forwarded to,
and ID, l49, $50 received from foreign coun-
tries, The sales Of postage stamps amounted
to 3S, 92S, ,5fl 30, or $445, ,4O6 10 more than in