Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-31
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
interesting Little Flashes from the
Wires Printed in Condensed i Form.

The French Chamber of Deputies Will de
bate the 1Ill raising the duties on cereals and
cattle ON Monday next.
At sitting Of the municipal Council Of
Paris yesterday VI. Valiant made a violent
attack on the capitalist classes. which he said
must make way for q prOletarlat armed with
revolutionary dictatorship. He moved an
appropriation or 50OO0.Ou0 francs for labor
associations. The motion was rejected by
vote Of 6S to >.
The miners Of TUscarawas valley. Ohio.
have accepted the 10 cents reduction proposed
hv the operators. The miners IN the district
number about 1000.
The New York health board claims to have
discovered that qUinlne Is adulterated to an
enormous extent 10y druggists of the city.
Dr. Cyrus Edison purchased samples at half
the drug stores in the city and says that he
has evidences Of alarming adulteraton.
At Berne. Switzerland. the Federal Council
have received notice Of an intended dynamite
plot upon the federal palace 10y Anarchists,
hoax. special police have been detailed TO pro-
tcct the building
a handsome memorial cross erected over
the grave Of jerome Collins, the meieOrOlO-
.cist Of the Jeanette expedition. was blown
town by a storm at Cork yesterday.
Capt. sears. Of the United States Engineer
CoTuS, who has Just arrived at NlcksJurg,
Miss on a tour of inspection Of the levees
Memphis down, reports the levees broken
in several places. some Of which lt viii be I'm
possible 10 repair until the water subsidies
These breaks are all on the west side of the
river in Arkansas.
Two more members of the krall family
who were mysterlOusiy poisoned at Bunker
Hill. Pa, have died. making fOur in all. The
remaining three are considered beyond re-
cOvery.
Al Auburn. y. Y. Yesterday. while James
sampson was repairing the Interior Of one OF
q set Of three boilers the fireman turned the
steam on thinking that il was cut of from the
boiler in question, and Sampson was horribly
s-alded. He lived only an hour.
Post Office inspectors yesterday arrested
the Postmaster at EdentOn. y. Z. He was
Short $3.50 in his accounts The Office is in
charge Of inspectors
A dispatch from Sydney, y. 5. w, states
th@f an express train between sydney ana
IV3pgq while running at high rate of speed,
was precipitatcd into a creek by the weak
ness Of a bridge, and forty passengers were
killed
dispatch from Sydney. y. ;. W, says
that heavy rains have prevailed throughout
New south Wales, and that much damage mas
been caused 10y Hoods
The gross earnings Of the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad for December were S24l,O5i. the
expenses sI3l.4SS, and the net earnings SIl2'-
j5f. being an increase Of S29,4tt as cOmpaIeu
with the corresponding month OF the preVlouss
year. The gross earnings for the year ~
were S2-2ll.lOf, expenses Sl.Ol6,S5S, anu tnS
net earnings Sl.l94.246. being a decrease OI
Sl0S.956 as compared with 1883.
Bishops Dane Of Richmond. Va, Spaldlng
OF Peoria, Ills, and Ireland Of Minnesota, al
dressed a great temperance meeting at New
Ork last night, AT the new church OF the
Paulist fathers. Fully 5000 persons were
present. Bishop Ireland said that the exist
ing excise laws were farclcal, IN that they
were not and could not be carried out.
At Rochester, y Y, the grand jury has
presented indictments against the following
named persons: City Clerk Peter Sheridan
ex-Assistant City surveyor william I. cray,
Alderman j. Miller Kelly, President of the
Common Council, Alderman Peter q. Siener,
and Alderman Charles A. JehOrds. All gave
bribery.
The steamship City Of Savannah, from Sa-
vannah, arrived in New York Friday night.