Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-05
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Governor RObie, of Maine, was inau-
gurated yesterday.
The sale of the st. PETERSBURG GoJoS
on the streets is prohibited.
The Tennessee Legislature Yesterday
adopted resolution suspendine the nay
ment OF the January interest on the State
debt.
Another war contribution of 200 silver
sOles each has been levied on fifty persons
whose names appear in the Dtdri0 Official
of Lima. ''0'V'
Hon. VIM. D. Porter, one of the most
promInenb and hest known citizens of
South Carolina, died yesterday in his
seyenty-third year.
1t is stated that the negotiations he
tween France and England in relation to
Egypt have terminated, England making
no new proposal on the question of the
control.
JEFF Walker, a mail carrier between
Belfield and BicksfOrd, Va, has been ar
rested, charged with robbing the mails.
ID he confessed that he had beeA robbing
them for three years.
The Monitor, of Rome, denies tbe state
ment recently published in the Vienna
Idg6tGtt that the Emperor Francis Joseph
nad Oflered to act as a mediator between
King Humbert and the Pope.
Major Francis DeGress. of the firm of
WeXel & DeGress, the largest firm of
merchants and government contractors i'm
the MeXlean Republic, died Wednesday
night at Rencardia near Vera Cruz.
A dispatch from Vienna to the TENNIS re-
ports that Austria will be intrusted with
the execution of the decision of the Damn
blan Conference if Roumania does not
take part IN the proceedings of the confer
ence,
A man named Carney, a tenant farmer.
mas been beaten to death by partv Of
men near Claremorris, Ireland. Carney,s
brother-in-law has been arrested on
suspicion OF being connected with the
murder.
st. Mary's Episcopal School for youno
ladles, at Knoxville, ILL.,, was burned
early yesterday morning Loss 800. 600.
me inmates escaped in their night
clothes. Several accidents occurred, but
no lives were lost.
A NelcS Laredo special SAYS it is re-
ported that the Mexican Government has
taken possession, under forfeiture. of the
roadbed and fixtures of the G3uld-DeGress
concession, known as the Mexican Ma
tiOnal Extension.
The Coroner's jury have returned a YER
Wet OF WIlful murder against the emer-
gency bailiffs who fired upon number of
peasants at Upper Cross, county Tiper-
airy. W ednesday and killed one man. The
hailiffs have been arrested.
The Second Comptroller of the Treasury
mas made report upon the war claims Of
the owners of the steamer j. d. Swain, of
New orleans, involving the sum of $780,
O5O, in which he recommends favorable
action on the part of Congress.
The boiler in the box factory of the Pc
nlnsular Manufacturing Company, at
North MuskegOn, Mich, exploded yester-
day. -Four were killed and as many more
seriously injured. The end of the factory
was demolished, and the whole building
badly damaged. Low water in the boiler
caused the explosion.
The Clerk of the Superior Court at New
Haven, yesterday forenoon, received a
postal card from Judge Park on which
the Judge wrote: ''The Legislature haV-
ing validated the black ballots, there is
no use of proceeding further in the matter
OF the New Haven city election. Please
notify counsel" This was the case which
it was supposed would inYalidate 1000
Democratic ballots.
The body of man who fell dead on
Tuesday of last week at the corner of
Fifth avenue and Eighteenth streets.
brooklyn, of heart disease, was about to
be sent to the pOttersfeld for burial fFom
the morgue, when it was identified bv
Thomas Walsh, of 365 Bergen street. as
that of General John j. Martin, an ex-
Confederate officer, who had been in the
dry goods j0bbing business for several
years at 14O West Broadway.