Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-14
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Interesting Little Flashes from the
Wires Printed In Condensad Fnrn


A special from Vicksburg says that the cot
toE seed pool is broken. and planters are now
receiving offers of from $40 to $l2 per ton for
their seed.
President Arthur held his first regular re-
ceptlon of this season last night, It was
given to Congress, the army and navy and the
diplomatic corps.
The Tichborne claimant, who was recently
released from prison In England, has lately
made arrangements to come to the United
states on lecturlng tour.
Mrs. Houston. a woman living near Ar
cadIa, La, was run over last evening by
special train on the VIcksburg and Shreveport
Railway. She had her S-months-old babe in
killed.
The French Senate has adjourned until Jan.
20. The Chamber of Deputies adjourned until
tomorrow, when the government will be
questioned concerning Gen. Campenon's re-
tirement from the Ministry, and regarding
Eastern affairs generally.
Thomas Clyde, a wealthy shipowner.
founder OF the Clyde steamship lines and
largely interested in various lines of trans.
portatlon in New York. Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Southern ports, died last night at
his residence in Philadelphia.
The negotiations between NJ. Ferry and the
African international Association continue
Nj. Ferry offers to agree to the naturalization
of the Congo State on condition of the recOg-
milton of the French claims for an extension
of the limits of French territory.
La France, OF Paris, SAYS that it is rumored
mat mat Prlnce william Of Prussia, son of the
Crown Prince, will soon be appointed Cover
nor of Alsace and Lorraine, and that it is
possible that the autonomy of the provinces
will be proclaimed Immediately afterward
A boiler in Fishburn's Phosphate Works,
near Jacksonboro, S. C., exploded yesterday
morning. wrecking the works. T. E. Thames
George HiOtt and Ransom EdmOnstOn whites
were seriously injured Thames will probably
die. Five colored laborers were also badly
hurt.
Earl Derby, the English Secretary of State
for the Colonial Department, has sent a cir
cular dispatch to the governments of the diff
IerenC Australian colonies reassurlng them
that the imperial government is taking action
to prevent the extension of annexations of
foreign powers in the Southern Pacific.
Gen. Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, has fled
with the Secretary Of War formal charges
against Gen. Chauncey McVicker. Assistant
Adjutant General, for alleged remarks de-
rogatory to Lieut.. Greedy and the manage
ment OF the expedition sent to his relief bv
the Signal Office.
In the Court Of Claims at Washington, D.
T., yesterday judgment was given in favor of
the board of field officers of the South Caro-
lima State troops in the sum OF 81, 1899 in the
suit against the United States for the use and
occupancy of their buildings by government
troops soon after the war.
G. r. Mason, the oldest Southern railroad
contractor and head of the con 'ractlng firms
of Mason, GOOch & HOge and G., r. Mason Il
Co., lessees Of the Kentucky penitentiary,
died Monday night near Staunton, Va aged
Sc years. During the war he was chief of a
pioneer corps under Stonewall jackson,
Yesterday morning the tank at the solvav
process works in Geddes, near Syracuse ex
ploded, carrying portion Of the roof 100 by
rs feet, by which 1t was covered, away. Eight
men were in the wrecked part Of the buiIdIng
at the time of the accident. Seven of them
were more or less hurt, one being badly
scalded IN the boiler room. The damage is
about 100000.
A steam sawmill belonging to J. r. Will
lams, eight miles south of Smithsfeld, o.,
exploded yesterday morning. wrecking the
building. The boiler was blown a mile away
Three persons, John Evans, Hiram Evans
ana Wlllle Armstrong, boy, were killed.
). u. Evans was horribly burned. Walter
Morrison was badly hurt. The cause was
too much mud in the boiler.
The Pope is now engaged in preparing a
Archbishop Gibbons as well as all the Bishops
recently assembled in Baltimore in plenary
council upon the issues of their deliberati0ns
and upon the harmony and unity with
which the conclusions of the council were
reached. 1t is generally believed at Balti-
more that Archbishop Gibbons will be created
a Cardinal in May next.
At Greenville, Texas, at l O'Clock Sunday
morning, Tom Peddy, negro went to the
house Of Mrs. Webb, widow, broke in the
door and attempted to outrage the lady. Her
outcries caused the negro to flee. He was
apprehended some hours afterwards and
jailed. Late Monday night 200 masked men
demanded the prisoner. The Sheriff, seeing
that he was pOwerless, surrendered the negro
and the mob hanged him.
The Ohio Wool Growers Association has
adopted resolutions calling upon all the in
dustries of the United states to unite for
common protection against the fallacv of a
tariff for revenue only, urging them TO on
pose the Spanish treaty on the.ground that il
would destroy the sugar, rice and tobacco in
dustries, and calling upon wool growers to
unite in demand for the restoration of the
tariff OF 1857 on wool, and pledging them to
the support of the party which Teco0nizes
their interests and demands,
The Executive Committee on the Improve
ment OF Western Water WAYS began its ses
SION in Washington yesterday morning, Mr.
B. ID. Wood, of New Orleans, presiding, and
Col. George l.. Wright, of st. Louis acting
as Secretary. The committee, which is a per-
manent organization, consists of delegates
from the Boards of Trade in the Mississippi
valley, and the object OF the meeting is to
urge upon Congress the necessity Of liberal
appropriations for the improvement of the
water ways in that part of the country.
Robert Brewster, State Registrar of Voters,
who was shot at New Orleans Monday, in an
affray at the Mascot Office, by its editor, Mr..
Osmond, died at O'Clock yesterday morning.
He was q native of Ireland, and aged A years.
He had been prominent ward politician in
New Orleans many years, and was formerly
criminal Sheriff. He had gone to the Mascot
ofice to aid in killing Osmond. Osmond and
Zeneck, who were engaged in the affray. were
arraigned o-day, and the former was re-
manded to the parish prison, without bail,
charged with the murder Of Brewster.
Zeneck was admitted to bail in the sum of
$4,000. Houstons bail was fixed Monday at
81, 800. The fueneral Of Brewster viii take
place this evening.