Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-10-01

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
NeWs from Everywhere.
IT Is reported In Constaptnople that
Turkey intends to fight for the restora-
ton of the statu quo in Roumelia.
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I, HOP. pIcKERs on the estate of the Duke
eof Edinburgh, County of Kent, England,
struck on the 25th and carried their point.
ALARMING reports were received at
Paris on the 2lst to Che effect that China
is massing large force of troops on the
ToDqun frontier.
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THE New England Veterans, %, In
number en- route from Winchester, w.
Va, called upon President Cleveland at
the White Hous, on the 22d.
IT is Stated emphatically at st. Pet ers-
burg tlat Russia will sustain Bulgaria in
the Union with Roumelia, even to the ex-
ten, of going to war with Turkey.
VI THE Governor and Supreme Court of
Ohio have both refused to interfere with
the sentence of Patrick Hartnett, to be
hanged on the 30th for wife murder.
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TROUBLE appears to be brewing in India
over the Franco Burmese treaty, and the
various chambers OF commerce are pro-
testing against 1t, alleging thai 1t Sc
riously affects British interests.
1T Is understood that the President has
decided not to make change In the office
of Sur seon- General Of the Marine Hos
pital service, and accordingly will not ac-
cep. DR.. Hamiltou's resignation.
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s. s. MANN, chemist for the Standard
oil Company, was found dead in his bed
at Cleveland, o., on the morning of the
22d. His family lives at Jersey City.
Death was caused by heart disease.
CAPTAIN LEE, the agent OF the Chey-
enne and Arapahoe Indian Reservation
has telegraphed Commissioner Atkins
that only $4,000 head Of cattle remain on
removed by the end of the month.
THE Captain of the Dauntle,s does not
take his defeat with as much equanimity
las the commander of the Genssta, but ex.
cuses his defeat and boasts that ne can
beat any thing ahoat, the Genesta pre-
ferred, on trip across the Atlantic for
ducats.
A ST. JOHN, N. f., dispatch of the 25th
says: An unusual portsnt appeared in
the sky in the northwest region last
night. A huge red meteoric body rose
over Conception Bay and within seven
minutes traversed an area of between
thirty and forty degrees.
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LIEUTENANT GEO. M. STOREY, COM
handing the expedition to Alaska, re-
ports to the Secretary Of the Navy, under
date Of July 18th, his arrival at Hotham
Inlet on July 11th He was to start on
the day of writing with the larger part of
River.
A CRANK signing himself "Henry N,
Kerp, President-elect of the U. S. Phil.
Dr., NJ. D., Professor of Military Juris-
prudence, National Military Home, Vir-
ginia," has written letter to tho Presi-
dent calling upon him to res ign October
3D., as his functions will no longer be re-
quired.
SECRETARY LAMAR, who has been con-
fined to his house for several days with
aft aI- - ia
on the 2lst as being somewhat better.
His physicians, while entertaining no
apprehension, Of serious results, urged
The Secretary not to leave his house for
several days.
The Secretary of the Treasury on the
21st received request from the Governor
Of Massachusetts for tho appointment of
medical inspectors on the Canadi an
border east of Lake Ontario, to inspect
passengers arriving by rail through
Northern Vermont, and the matter was
taken under consideration.
THE full ticket nominated, by the New
York Democratic State Convention is as
follows; Governor, Dav B. Hill; Lieu
tenant Governor, Roswell L. Flower;
Secretary of State, Frederick Cook; At
torney General Dennis O'Brien; Treas
uren Lawrence ]. Faz gerald; Engineer
and Surveyor, Nathan Sweet
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y The Postmaster -Gen ,ral has ordered
that the exchange of mails between the
Poss-oflices of Benson, ARR, and Noga les,
Mexico, be discontinued, and that all
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Benson, Ariz., be sent via Nog ales, Ariz,
to be included in tho exchange between
that office and Nogales, Mexico.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has d.
rected the suspension of Mr. Geo. H.
Sterling recently appointed weigher at
the New York Custom -house In place OF
Captain George B. Bacon, pending an In
vestigation to be made by the collector
Of customs of all the clrcums tances at
tending the change in the office
TIE office of Chief of the Post office Iu-
spector has been rendered by the Post
master-General to VIM. A. West of Mis-
sissippt Mr.. West is prosperous farm
er living near Oxford, Miss. and has en-
gagged successfully in mercantile pursuits
In St Louis and New Orleans, and has
been President of a bank in Oxford.
WASHINGTON, D. c., is suffering water
famine. A break of seven or eight square
Ieet in sizs has occurred iui the principal
main in Georgetown, and the materials
not being at hand with which to make i'm
mediate repairs, the city is receiving only
halt supply of water, all of which is alb
sorbei by the occupants OF the lower por-
tions
HE Fire Insurance Underwriters' AS
ISOLATION of the Northwest began their
slxteenth annual session at Chicago or