Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-11-12
A GENERAL strike is impending of miners

A GENERAL strike is impending of miners
in the midland counties of England.
FIRST AUDITOR CHENowITH has submit.
ted to the Secretary of the Treasury re.
port of the operations of his bureau for the
fiscal year ended June 30th. During the
year there was audited 6,342 accounts Of
receipts, amounting to 81 ,OS9, 20S,2SG; 1862
accounts of disbursements, amounting to
81 ,l52, 493, $50, and ,lS9 warehouse and bond
accounts, amounting to $263, 1885,, 249, not in
cluded in receipts and disbursements,
were adjusted.
THE dispute between Greece and Portu.
gal as to jurisdiction in Guinea has been
settled.
FORTY bodies await the completion of the
furnace of the United States Cremation
Society at Fresh Pond, L. l. There are ru-
mors that an attempt will be made to pre-
vent the operation of the crematory under
an old law.
THE new corrective laws promulgated by
the Danish Government are very stringent
and comprehensive, the penalties for viola.
tion ranging from heavy fines to imprison-
ment.
THE Grand Jury at Indianapolis, Ind, is
investigating the late election frauds.
THE Treasury Department on the 3D.
purchased 200, 900 ounces Of silver for de.
livery at the Philadelphia and New Or.
leans minis.
RICH financial developments are prom
ised in connection with the recent gold.
brcl, swindle at Madison, Ind.
TROUBLE is anticipated between the In
dams and cattlemen in the Bad Lands re-
gion of Dakota.
BUILDERS and contractors are greatly
Inconvenience by the nail famine, caused
by the nailers' strike in the East.
A SERvIAN proclamation has been issued
| calling out the second class reserves, mum.
| bering 10000 men.
FEARS are entertained for the safety Of
the steamer Dominion from Yarmouth, N.
| s., due at Boston on the LIST inst.
THE Canadian Governor-G eneral is con.
sidering the cases Of the men under sem
tence of death in the Northwest.
The London Standard says the fictitious
revival of trade in America is meant to
excite fai tn in the efficacy of the new rail.
road pool.
| A LAND suit involving part of the city
| Of San Francisco based on an old Mexican
| grant, is about to be entered at San Fran
| cisco.
| A SALE under foreclosure Of the Toledo,
Cincinnati & st. Louis Railroad has been
ordered by the United States Court at Gin
cinnati.
THE British and French representatives
in Hayti have requested their governments
to send men of war there at once to protect
foreign residents.
OWING to the refusal of the Mallory line
agent at Galveston, Tex, to withdraw col.
ored 'longshoremen, a general strike Of
freight handlers has been ordered there by
the Knights of Labor
ON the Sd party of revolutionists dis
guised as sailors surprised the prison SEN
try at Cartegena, Spain, and released
twenty-five convicts. The leader and sew
eral others of the gang were captured.
ACCORDING to the report of the Register
of the Treasury, of 81 ,061 ,16O,262 United
States registered bonds only S1t927 800 ar
held abroad. The Register recommend
the erection of building for the perma
nent preservation of the records Of tn
Treasury, stating that the vaults now uset
are in bad condition.
THE German 1dgbldn warns German
traders to lose no time in protecting them
selves against American competition il
Japan, Corea and China.
THE Secretary of the Interior has re
quested the War Department to remov
the boomers from Oklahoma lands. TIL
information contained in the agents re
ports is TO the effect that large numbers o
persons, supposed to be boomers, bu
claiming to be freighters, are crossing tn
Kansas border into the Indian Territory