Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-14
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL,
Interesting Little Flashes from the
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interesting 11CJi6 r EldSneB from the
Wires Printed in Condensed Form.
Mrs. william NJ. sngerly. wife of the-pro-
prietOr Of the Philadelphia Record, died last
night.
At Lordon the sentence of Capt. Dudley
and Mate Stephens, the Mignonette caunI-
balls, has been committed from hanging to six
months Imprisonment without labor.
At Liepsic Madame Kalomine's appeal in
her divorce case to the Imperial Court has
been privately conducted. The decision of
the court will be published on Dec -.
The District Court at Zohnger,. in the can
ton of Oargau, switzerland, has fined and
imprisoned two Mormon apostles and forbid
den them when released from prison to enter
the canton for three years.
In spite of the great depression in the
British iron and steel trade. it is reported that
the government intends to give the contracts
for the making of the heavy guns for the new
irOnclads to German firms.
The Spanish nobility have presented a Pc
tition to SerOr CanOvas del Castillo, Prime
Minister, asking for a revival of the law of
premOgenitune. The Prime Minister has re.
fused to take any steps IN that direction.
Many councillors of the department of the
Bouches du RhOne demand the cOnvokjng of
an extraordinary session of the General
Council to protest against the proposed in
crease of the duty on foreign cereals,
George E. Wingate, cashier of the North
British Canadian Investment Company, of
Toronto, accused of embezzling $4,000, was
ARE ted at etew Orleans last night. Eighty
eight hundred dollars were found on his
person.
The Russian Government has abolished the
quarantine against France and Italy estab
lished because of the cholera in these cOun-
tries. The embargo on the importation of
rags from those countries is, however, still
maintained.
The French Chamber of Deputies yester-
day passed the navy estimates, coupled with
a recommendation urging the building of
numerous swift cruisers and torpedo vessels
nQf in fba g,f
large men -Of-war.
union has been formed, consisting of $50
members of the German Reichstag, to consider
the monetary question, which is aTOusing re-
newed interest in Germany. Herr Won SchOr-
nemeraldst, one of the leaders of the Ultra
mOntanes, IS President.
Turkish atrocities in Macedonia are increas-
ing. AS many as 200 Christians have been
three villages have been burned. kidnap-
ping is common, and the inhabitants are
afraid to leave their houses.
The entire property of the New York GraDA-
&c Company was purchased by J w. Hinkley
on Tuesday last. 1t was sold piece by piece,
aud it is now said that Mr.. Hinkley's title is
''bullet proof" The final papers in the mat
t + were signed and sealed this morning.
Near Baxter Springs, Kansas. Frank Covey,
young farmer, was shot dead Friday after
noon by Morgan Henry, a negro, who was
huntington COvey's farm, and whom he had
ordered off the premises. posse of armed
ClblLcHS art SECURING tiG Country IN search OF
the murderer.
The subscription of the Courier des Flats
Unis, of New York, for the victims of cholera
in France, closed yesterday with a grand
total of $l2,972. The Courier had already for
warded to the relief committee in Paris SlI.-
56l, and the balance, $l.41l, VIII be sent to
France by the next steamer.
The third installment Of the German White
Book has been published. Ii recommends an
increase in the navy, and that permanent
German Consulships be established in New
Britain and New Ireland, and strongly urges
the necessity of enforcing respect for the
German flag from English traders.
An International Agricultural Congress
will meet in Pesth during the exhibition Of
1885, for the purpose of discussing measures
looking toward the alienation Of the general
agrarian crisis in European countries The
congress will also devote attention TO the sub
ject of agrarian legislation and to the agri-
cultural credit system.
At London yesterday the action brought by
Mrs. Weldon, the assduous htigant against
Mr.. Rivelre for illegally ejecting her from the
Covent Garden Theatre, London, was de-
cided. A verdict was given for Mrs. Weldon.
but the jury were unable to agree on the
amount of damages. Mrs. Weldon, however,
1 said that she did not care for the damages.
All she wanted was verdict showing that
she was right. Mr., RIviere has to pay the
cost Of the trial,