Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-01-08
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DOMESTIC.

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Vanderbilt is popularity supposed to have
made between five anu six million dollars
by the lato corner in the New York Cen
tral.
Florida is called the poor mans para
disc 10y correspondent. lie says five
hundred dollar house there is as good rs II
two thousand five hundred dollar one al.
the North. There are no wood nile or hay
NOW TO provide, and tic land is City cents
;.n acre.
Two San Francisco policemen tried to
arrest a Chira,nan on tho 81 Of this
month. They found Il necessary to leave
him moment, anG SO bandcui!td him
with his alEis cac! size of lamp post.
When they returned their prisoner was
gonc-he had climbed up the POST and
swung his arms over the top.
Revcrdy Johnson yesterday received a
deputa,on of London artisans, who were
dcsiroua Of founding a colcny in Nebraska
Mr.. johnson favored the project.
A distii'ery, a plaster mill and seven
small dwellings in Richmond, wero de
strc,vcd By fire CT Saturday last.
Five houses in Lynn Massachusetts,
"erc destroyed by FIRE on Christmas day.
Loss 100000.
a desperate fight between negroes and
Germans occurred in IA ballroom in Nc
h.erze street, Newark, on Christmas eve.
at the commencement o! the trouble the
flights were pat out and tho greater part
of the fight took place in the dark. Five
persons were Injured ard nine negroes
were arrested.
Onc OF the San Francisco papers La.;
added new feature to its Li,,h, marriage
ard death column This de-
apartment ia as well supported and as mucL
a public convenience us lis companions.
1t becomes 1Hi;e question how far The
employment OF co!o:ed troops in the army
"pays," rs matter Of ccouomv. The
Surgeon report shows that !o
the las. year, among white soldiers, IT,,
proportion OF death to cases treated wa:
as l to OF; among the co!orsl solder.
AS l to SO; and the dispropor,ion o: sic!
to we'll was quite AZ marked.
The first Strawberries Of the season
--~aa-ancs in the New Or.
'eahs market last week, selling .,,,cc H.,
lars the basket. ''-
Tasre has been three thousand three
hundred bankrupt cases in Virginia.
| y. j. Monk, Union brisadier in the
wa', is on trial in New O,leans for robbine
itte mail. The jury cannot agree.
| sAvANHAH.-The Ogeechce troubles
still continue. hIiddIe,on's house was
burned last night, and The crop ruined
All the Whites on the place ca,ne to tie
city except one MAJ, who has not been
seen since the commencement Of the trou-
ble.
Travellers on the Ogeeche road, leading
10 Savannah, are stopped at various points
and Questioned by armed negroes. There
are armed and organized bodies of negroes
oneveEy road leading to that city, who
+ have their pickets stationed at short inter,
Sa'S 10 give notice. OF tho approach Of
travellers.
Fiotow, tie musical composer, was
lately divorced from his sixth wife in order
TO marry her sister. .'slaY
HORRIBLE AFFAIRS IN Gropcr.
lhe Apgns:a Chronicle Of Sunday saws
There occurred in the neishborins couu.
~ OF Columbia, ca night before last, eth
er most mysterious accident or what is
moro probable, an alrori.y pnparalie,ed
lin tho. annals Of crime. On Christmas
night house situated Gyo miles from ap-
pl"g Courthouse, the county site Of Co.
lumbia County, and occupied By; q Mr..
Gabriel Martin and two grown sisters, was
burned to the ground and ils thresej joccu.
pants consumed 10 the flames. Tie ne;o,.
bore arrived too late TO save the bodies
from the fire, hut it is generally believed
thatthe house was first entered by negroes
t he three persons numbered, and tho prem
'ses set Oh fire TO destroy all evidences O
The crime. Mr.. Martin was supposed to
have good deal of money concealsa on
uH
the place, and this furnishes the true skev
to the whole ira nsaction. 1t is SCARCELY
probable that tire e grown persons "a 4s,sould
sleep 50 soundly as to be burned alisg in
1he house without a single one escapspg.
FOREIGN. 80 s.,..ssss i
. Professor Carl Newman. of Mas Munaseb., a
diligent studeDtof Chinese antio u;,iss Al d
bitliog'sphy, has discovered tom i III iI,s.|
Chinese year-boots that . company 81
Buddhist priests entered Ibis yast sson,iS:sSe q
We Alaska Al thousand yesrs before I
Iaabas, sad explored thoroughly I @and iSsa
'slligib'y Ishe Pacifebosders. pensihasal
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