Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-10

some talk has arisen among members oA tho |
House as to the advisabiity of like pro- |
vision for the benefit of Representatives.
JOHN T. GAME, the delegate to Congress
from Utah, has written and sent out tor
publication reply to Governor Murrays
message to the Utah legislature. He says
the message was filled with misrepresentar |
tions and perversons of fact, evidently with
the purpose of deceiving the Eastern public.
THE death of E. w. NJ. Mackey, the only
Republican Representative from South caro-
lima. makes the sixth member of the present
Congress that has died. Contrary to usual
custom, the announcement of Mr. Mackeys
death was not made by a member from h1s
own State, but by Mr.. O'Hara, OF North
Carolina, the only colored member OF the
House Mr.. Mackey was born at Charles
ton, S. c., in 1915, and had been editor, law.
yer, alderman sheriff, assistant assessor OF
Internal revenue, speaker of the State legis-
lature and Congressman.
THE President has sent to Congress
message recommending an immediate np-
preparation for the work Of improving Hell
Gate in the East river at New York.
REPRESENTATIVE MORRISON chairman OF
the ways and means committee, has COM
pleted tariff bill, but will not introduce 1t
in the House until 0 her members of the COM
mittee have had an opportunity to consider
it and offer suggestions. AS prepared the
bill provides for general horizontal reduc-
ton of twenty per cent, but IN no event
Is the reduction to be lower than the tariff
rates in tie Morrill, bill of 1861.
LAUREN BLoDGETT. of Philadelphia, for
merly chief of tie customs division, has
brought a suit for SOD acres of land situated
in the fashionable part Of the west end OF
Washington. He claims to be descendant
of Samuel Biodgett. one OF the founders OF
the city Three years have been spent III the
preparation of the suit.
A GREAT throng of people came to the cap
itol to witness the funeral services OF Con-
gresham Mackey in the House. The spacious
galleries of the House were pack with
s. ectators AMI the body OF the hall was
crowded with Senator's and Repr esentatlves
and the mourning family and personal
friends of the deal Congre -sman. Soon
at o'clock the Senators file1 into the hall
and We're given seats in front of the Speak
ers desk. A tap of the Speakers gaYel
brought the Senators aud Representatives
to their feet aud they remained standing un-
til the coffin containing the body had been
placed before the desk OF the reading clerks.
As the procession s'owly q lvanced solemn
silence prevailed. The widow and immediate
relatives clad III deep mourning, were given
81 ats near the colin The services compr .sed
reading bv the chaplain of the Senate OF
few verses from the Bible, and a short, feel
ing and eloquent address b Rev. Or. Ship
pen. after which the bene LECTION was pro-
nounced by the chaplain OF the House. Tne
bldy was then borne away for burial in
Glenwood cemetery, near Wasaington
Pore1gn.
GENERAL GORDON has been appointed gov
ernor of the Soudan by the khedive of Egypt.
TIE body of Herr Lasker, the distinguished
German statesman who died suddenly in New
York, was received by a large number OF
prominent Gerua / citizeus up n its arrival
in Bremen. From thence the body was con-
yeyed to Berlin, where preparations for
great public funeral had been made.
THE Marquis of Herttord, a wel-known
English nobleman and general in the
British army, died the other day from in
/ lure; received by being kicked by horse
while hunting.
ToNoUIN has been blcckaded by the French
feet.
| WHILE thirteen children were sliding on
the ice at Rohr, Fomerania, the ice broke
! and ali were drowned.
GREAT excitement exists in Vienna over
/ the murder of prominent det ective named
Bloch. The murder is declared to be the
work of socialists or "anarc hsts, and the
mu urderer, man of education, has been ar
rested. The anarchists have published q
list of names lamong which are those OF
prom inent fnanciers and journalists) OF
persons who have been condemned by the
executive committee.
ELEVEN persons were kille1 by an explo-
sion in a Welsh coIliery, and resculng party
of three men, including the manager of the
mine, also lost their lives.
ANOTHER heavy storm has done great dam
age to property in London, Paris and other
places, and numerous lives have been lost.
MANY vessels were wrecked, and large mum
Der of persons drowned.
STEAMERS sent to C ear the Blue Nile of
Ell Mahdi's Insurgents have failed of their
purpose. They were attacked furiously by
the rebels, who waded out to the assault and
were only driven back after suffering heavy
loss. FL Mahdi marched from Ell Obeid with
an army of 81, ,00l men and plenty of Krupp
guns.
PROFESSOR KLINKER, a noted German as
tronomer, committed suicide at Gottingen
by shooting himself.
MANY houses in the manufacturing city OF
Iaurvig, Norway, have been destroyed by a
fire.
THE American Lumber company, Of To
ronUo, Canada, hasfailed for 81 ,OJO,oOO.
PERMISSION TO erect a monument to Mar
tin Luther at Riga has been refused by the
Russian authorities
AT an open-air meeting Of 400 socialists il
Paris a resolution was adopted declaring
revolution the only means Of ending the labor
crisis.
Ten THOUSAND persons, among them many
distinguished Germans followed the boiy Of
Herr Lasker, the German statesman, to its
last resting place In the Jewish cemetery al
Berlin
BOOK containing articles grossly ibelou.
of the German imperial la nily has causec
great irritation in Berlin, where it wa
seized by the police, and its circulation il
France has been forbidden by the French
authorities. The articles were reprinted from
French periodical.
ELEVEN men were lost by the wreck of ,
steamer near Cardiff. Wales
Mr. LOWELL, the American minister re
sponded the other night to a toast at the din
ner of the London chamber of commerce
He said that commerce was the great acif
Gator between countries. 1t brought mel
face to face, and it was the great correcto
Of the eccentricites of nature, Sd that bat
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