Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-31
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Interesting Little Flashes from the
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Wires Printed in Condensed orm.
The French Parliament will reopen Jan. 49,
Earl Derby denies that he intends to resign
the Office Of Colonial Secretary.
Mrs. L. Q. G.. Lamar, wife Of Senator La
mar, died Monday night at Oxford, Miss.
Geo. I. seney has resigned from the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia directory.
Catulle Medes and Octave Mirabeau fought
a duel IN France with swords yesterday.
Both were wounded in the arm.
The report is confirmed that Princess Bea-
trice will marry Prince Henry Of Battenberg,
The couple must reside near the Queen.
Privy Counsellor Karitzky. of Russia, has
tiOn with the medical department Of the
army.
An explosion Of gunpowder occurred yester-
day in a Kunsmith's chop at Kralup in Bo-
hemia, destroying three houses, killing three
persons and injuring many more.
Ogilvie & Co. have shut down their flour
mills in Winnipeg. They state that Minneap-
oils millers are now selling flour in Canada at
less than the price Of Canadian wheat.
1t is thought that the appointment OF Baron
Ring to succeed Marquis DeNOailles as French
Ambassador to Turkey, indicates diplomatic
hostilities at ConstantlnOple against England.
The Italian Radicals are trying to induce
Premier Ferry to permit the transfer of the
remains OF Orsini to his native town, RO-
magma. The Italian Government objects to
the transfer.
At Helena, Tex, Sheriff Terry was shot and
killed by Emmet Butler on Sunday last.
Butler, while attempting to escape, was killed
by an unknown person in crowd. Terry
was prominent stockman.
The st. Paul, Mimi, EUenin0 ceased to exist
yesterday morning, being consolidated with
the evening Dfspatch. Capt. Castle is editor
ip-chief. The name OF the paper will still
continue to be the DisDGtch.
The bodies Of Charles Smith and Henry
Davis, alleged burglars, who were lynched
near Raleigh, n. c., last week, have been re-
covered from Neuse river. They were bound
in chains. handcuffed and riddled with bullets
DIR. Won schloezer, Prussian Minister to the
Papal Court, acting under orders from Prince
Bismarck, who wished to mark his sense Of
the hostile Catholic influence in the Reichstag
refrained from paying the usual Christmas
visit to the Vatican.
Prince Bismarck is about to 20 to San Reno
with his family for sojourn Of six weeks.
Apartments have already been secured for
private interview between Prince Bismarck
and Premier Ferry at San Reno.
A man supposed to be James Greenwood, OF
Chippewa, while crossing Niagara river
Yesterday from Chippewa to Port Day, about
a mile above Niagara Falls, lost control Of
his boat, which was drawn into the rapids,
where 1t upset and he was carried over the
falls.
The Chicago Daily Ee.es yesterday morning
printed fac simile Of the forged tally sheet
of the Eighteenth ward election returns
together with numerous fac SMILES of VIM. j.
Gallagher's hand writing, and the charge is
MADE that the prima facie case made against
the accused by this showing alone will require
strong evidence to shake the conclusion Of his
guilt.
At StornowaY. Scotland, eight crofters were
committed Tor trial yesterday. They were
released on bail and escorted around the
town by crowds, accompanied by brass band
and number OF pipers. BoaTmen refuse to
ferry process servers. The Sherif1s officer and
his assistant were knocked down three times
and seriously injured by about 200 crofters at
Glendale.
At st. Paul, Minn., the worst snowstorm of
the season set in early last evening. At mid
night the wind was blowing twenty miles per
hour and the snow was drifting badly. There
viii be great delay Of trains on all roads in
that State and Dakota. The Signal Office re-
ports cold wave rapidly approaching from
the northwest. which Will probably reach st.
Paul to- morrow.
At Greensburg, Pa, while on lark Satur-
day night four young men named Joseph
Randall, Charles Smith, George Nichols and
Scott Robertson, procured half a gallon of
alcohol at a drug store at Mount Pleasant and
drank 1t. mixing portion with oyster etews,
which they ate. On Sunday all OF them were
taken sick, and Randall and Smith died in
great agony. The other two are still living
and will probably recover.
An attempt was made Monday night to
wreck north bound passenger train on the
Virginia Midland Railroad about 80 miles
north OF Danville. Va. A heavy piece Of tim
Der was forced into the ground between the
ties and cattle-guard, the end projecting
about feet from the bed and of the centre of
the track. The weight Of the engine and the
speed at which the train was running were
all that prevented them from being thrown
from the rails and disastrously wrecked.