Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-01-22
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NEW WORLD.

oeho'"Se " c'''Aens, ainy oHcels anc |
members Of Legislature. !
4 railroad train is snowed up at Chap
paquiddiddis, Maine. Served i.right, for
going to SIGH : place.
Nine newly married couples put up at
the St. ] ames Hotel. Cincinnati, on Fri
day last. That was sweetness enough for
one hotel, in one day. surely. 80. !
New York has discovered tha. beef
tongues end beef tea are made from horse.
Trains on the Central Pacific Railroad
are running on schedule time to Carlin,
Neysda, six hundred miles from San Fran
cisco. Track layers o:e at Humboldt.
Canon, twenty five miles further east. No
interruption has occurred from SHOWS SO
far, the twen,y.,wo miles OF snow.sheds
at The summit Of the sierrss working sat.
iisfac.sc'iy. y, !
Hon. Thurlow Weed, editor and prcpri.
etor Of the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser, Intends to spend the winter at the
South.
The reading clerk of the Florida Sen
ate isa Northern negro.
Ono Of the Republican judges Of Alaba..
ma has decided that the present govern
ment Of that State is illegal.
The President has nominated G. J.
Coolies, Assayer of the Mint at Charlotte,
N. G,
The New York Times says; "During
the past ten days failures 10 the extent Of
about four million Of dollars have occp;-
red in this city, among jobbi"g and com
mission houses in the dry good trade.
4 noile prosegui has been entered in
the United States District Court for the
District Of Columbia in the cases oil Mr..
Davis and General Breckenridge, under
instructions from Attorney General to en-
ter no!h proseqni in all cases coming with
in the Presidents amnesty proclamation.
coLyMnrA.-The Senate ia executive
session confirmed the nnomiDs,ien Of s,ol-
brand as Superintendent Of ihe Peni.eu-
tiary, apd 4omlipsep as State Auditor. =
A Boston gentleman. a fewsday ago,
dined with club, and invited its mem.
bers to dine with him, on Tuesday. AT
'he time appointed they assembled at bis
hoass-no. to dinper party, but e attend
his funeral. ~ ;.
A KENTUCKY TaAaED1.-Ater SCHOOL
exhibition at Sharpsburg Kentucky, on
Christmas eve, number Of young men
repaired to drinking saloon, where two
Of them, Joshua Sharp and Dick Taylor,
auarrelied and went into tha street With
pistols to settle the matter. Sharp took
position on one eide of The street and lay.
lor on the other, about one hundred feet
apart. Sharp eaid. "Ara yea yesdy z"
Taylor replied, "I am They then be-
gan to fire. sharps' pistol missed fire the
frs. time, giving Taylor the first Gre which
was harmless. They then fired, about,the
came time, and were both Instantly killed.
Sharp vas shot through the head and
Taylor through the heart: They had pre-,
viously been friends, aud would have :cou
tinued so but for the draobm shop.
0n7bursday afternoon last, stranger sn
ing the station at Fond du Lac, Wis.
for the purpose Of taking the train, was
. pet upon and murdered at the gate, his
watch and money stolen, his body jlef,
whore it fell, while the assassin took the
cam. ..ss,s.s
Cicero Mushstt, native African. spp-
posed to have been one hundred and .ter
years old, died last week in, Winnsboro
8. G. He remained until death with hi
former owner, Mr.. J. S. Stuart. BE sale
some time ago that freedom had no. mad,
afool of him, as it had in. The case
most negroes for he had been free before
and was born free in Africa. During tb,
last year (ls6s) Of his life by uuremi.-
tipg industry to the day Of bis death, b,
made two bales Of cotton, doing all til,
hoeing and picking. also twenty busbeI
Of. corn-more, therefore, than man,
younger mFaen in their prime.
FOREIGN.
The Bank of Montreal was entered b,
burglars on the eleventh, the safe blowr
opeoi aud robbed Of $500, 900 ip Canade
legal.ten6er notes. J..
A letter from Colino, Mexico, dated De-
cember 2l, reports severe earthquake. !
Two dwarfa, the gentleman" Iamou.
CIRCUS performer, were married at Rouep,
France, recently, and twelve busdrsd per
sons we're present at the wedding. Th,
bride is sseamstress. ~: ? sat
Baron James de RothscbA Of Paris
is.s hls widow gihesAandssme dover e
100000 ayeas Il IA #
Aphdsps ]. .gasse. ssat a .iDt
friend TO two prisoners in q. Canada iii,
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