Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-05
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The French Ambassador at the court OF
Vienna has resigned.
Judge Robert J. Caldwell. a prominent
! lawyer of Monroe, La, is dead.
At COrsieana, Texas, the mercury fell
Saturday 81 degrees in less than twenty
hours.
David White, a noted cOunterfeiter. has
Deen captured in NicksbGrg. lie Is want
ed in Texas.
J.J. Martin, station agent at Stevenson.
l~Ala., was run over by train Saturday
and died yesterday.
1t Is stated in Berlin that the Car has
ordered his coronation manifesto to be
ready Tor his signature on the 26th OF
February.
John b. Smith, a merchant of Birming-
ham, Ala, was killed Saturday bv vii.
liam DonOhue, after quarreling over a
game Of cards.
The trials Of sixty Nihilists and Social
lists, IT IS reported, will occur during the
next two months at st. Petersburg.
The President Saturday sent to the Sen
ate To be POstmasters: John Il. Sharp. at
Wilson. y. c.; Thomas VI. Green, at Bir-
mingham, Ala.
The cargo of the British steamer knight
Templar, Captain johnson, at SebastOpol
from Charleston, has been on fire. The
NesSel was not injured.
1t now transpires that King Leopold, of
Belgium, has been suffering during three
weeks from Inflammation of the intes-
tines He Is now fully cOnvalescent.-
The London and Southwestern Railway
Company's steamer Hilda, plying between
the Island of Jersey and SOUTHAMPTON.
ran into and sunk a French ship Satur-
day. Her name is unknown.
NJ. Viminac, Republican. has been
elected Senator from Cohors, France. on
the second ballot. NJ. Bonneville. ire
cOncilable, was elected a member of the
Chamber of Deputies from the Fifteenth
arrOndissement.
A special cable dispatch received ID
Philadelphia from London. Yesterday
morning, referring to the report that the
British steamship James Gray had foun-
dered at sea, says the body of the Captain
Of James Gray, and pieces OfwTeck of that
vessel have been picked up.
The River Pilots Association at St.
Louis has passed resolutions approving
the works so far done by the Mississippi
River Commission, expressing confidence
in the commission and the engineers en-
plOyed by them, and earnestly appealing
to congressman, regardless of political
opinions, to vote the commission the money
needed to complete the work.
At SOrOccO, y. NJ. on Wednesday.
Sheriff Simpson brought to town mangled
Mexican as a prisoner. He and another
Mexican had been paying attention to the
same girl. To settle their claims to the
girl they locked themselves in a room and
went at each other with axes. The man
who was brought in to town had chopped
his rival in a horrible manner. severing
his head from his body, while he himself
is terribly cut up and cannot live.
The police were notified on Thursday
of burglary in the Protestant Episcopal
Church of st, Andrews, at Prince and
Thompson streets, New York. The burg
lars had ripped up the carpet in the Gen.
tire aisle and cut the valuable oil pOintings
out of the frames. The sexton. who visited
the church in the evening, disturbed the
robbers. As he entered the church a man
with a knife between his teeth jumped out
of the window. The paintings were worth
several thousand dollars