Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-09
BRIEF NEwo SUMMARY.

The Papal nunciO did not attend Gam
betta's funeral,
Ex-senator Lot NJ. Morrill, was reported
to be dying at Portland, Me-, last night.
Judge Smell yesterday held Foreman
Dickson in $1,000 to answer before the
grand jury.
LIE ,SOir, of Paris, says that NJ. Tissot,
the French Ambassador at London, has
resolved to resign.
Doctor Lyon Playfair, member of the
House of Commons for Edinburgh and St.
Andrews Universities, has resigned his
seat,
George w. Click was inaugurated as
Governor of Kansas yesterday. Both he
and ex-Gov. st. John made short ad-
dresses.
The liabilities of Bull & Son, builders
of the New Law Courts, London, whose
failure was announced on the 9th inst,
are 100000.
The SOcietie FFdncdiSe FIHdnciere shares
have declined from 34Of. to S0f., the fact
becoming known that NJ. DuYal, the
director, has fed.
A Berlin dispatch says: "Germany will
ignore the demonstrations at Gambetta's
funeral, and avoid everything likely to
excite French public opinion"
A dispatch from Paris says: '0There
will be an autopsy on the remains of Gen.
ChanZy, the suddenness of whose death
has caused probably unfounded suspi-
cions."
A dispatch from Cheney, Washington
Territory, says: eighty citizens took a
Chinaman from Jail, who was arrested for
killing and rObbing Chinese woman, and
hanged him TO tree on Sunday.''
A Dallas (Texas) special says: 1T is
that Y of
Texas and Mexican Central Railroad
Company is to be turned over to the Gulf
Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Tomorrow
a Geneva telegram states that the alb
scOnding manager of the Interlaken
Compton de Compile, who was arrested re-
Gently at Alexandria, threw himself over
board on the passage between Alexandria
and Trieste.
A Henderson (Texas) special says: s.A
negro named Andrew jackson, who at
tempted an outrageous assault upon a
young lady, was taken from the iail by a
large mob and hanged to tree in front of
the hotel Don Juan"
A Baton Rouge special SAYS: .eThe Gov
ernOr has oommuted the sentence of death
passed on Luke Landry, convicted of
murder in Richland parish, to imprison-
ment at hard labor for life; and also the
sentence Of Laura bright, convicted of
participation in the murder of her husband
in Desota parish, from death to imprison-
ment for life."
Prince Krapotkine refuses to employ
counsel, and will defend himself. The
charge brought against him Of being the
contriver of an anarchist plot has been
dropped, and he will be tried under the
law of the empire making Communism
punishable by Imprisonment for five
years. There win be no jury. Three
Judges will try the case.
A fire at Lebanon Tenn Yesterday
morning DESTROYED the jackson House.
the largest hotel in the place, Insurance
$4,000; The furniture is almost a total
loss, and was insured for $1,000. Very
few Of the lodgers saved anything. x
two story brick building adjoining the
hotel, and used as the Odd Fellows Hall
and law offices was also DESTROYED, In
surance $1,000.
The resignation of Haron Blanc, Secre-
tary General OF the Italian Foreign
Affairs and formerly Italian Ambassador
| TO Washington, has Deen finally accepted,
owing to a divergence az opinion on
Egyptian affairs, Baron Blanc rendered
his resignation as long ago as last June,
because he considered the preponderance
of England in Egypt the best solution in
the interest of peace and those of Italy.
For dressing the hair, and beautifying it
when gray, nothing is so satisfactory as
Parker's Hair Balsam.