The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-08-17
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Claxgctt has been sent "a do cg:t
to Congress from Mountana.
Several of the leading Communist
have been banished for life.
y steamer, built in New York, ha
been launched in Salt Lake.
$500. 900 of treasure reached Sal
Francisco in one stsS'ner Thursday
1t is rumored that Napoleon viii
take up his residence in Switzerland
New regulations regarding pensions
for tho war Of 1872 have beer
issued.
Tue cattle in ireland are dying b,
scores from foot aud mouth disease.
Chester lost txo good citizens b,
death last week. Dr. Go ,rgs Ii
Barnes, and Mr.. Jones RAIDER:
A railroad from IIaurens, S. c., tt
Augusta, Ga, IS contemplated.
A comfortable passengers dspot has
been erected at Chester.
Hoises are said to be so scarce il
Paris that the carriage rates arc cxor
bitant, and the legal prices for con
veyance arc totally disregardcd.
The German government have pre-,
scented seven hundred dollars in gold
to Carl 'Wilheim, the composer of the
famous German national tune, "The
Watch on tho Rhine"
The British Crown lands in Ireland
produce about 945,OOO year, not
more than s1500 of which is expend-
cd in Ireland, the rest going to Eng
land. In this. case, AS in SO many
other instances, poor Ireland suffers
from absenteeisin.
The Rome Commerci.l reports ter:
rible fire at Talladega, Ala; twelve
business houses and $4,000 in specie
were burned Insurance 81 Quo.
The sule of the public property
court house and other buildings-hc.
longing to the County Of Camden, ad-
vcrtiscd by the sheriff and coroner.
has been postponed.
A difficulty occurred between
.Bicssrs John Kirkpatrick aud john
Hancock, in Chester, en- Saturday las,
when the latter received Two severt
wounds.
A plan for tunnel across the chan
mel between England and France ha
been accepted, aud work v i'll soon b
commenced on oi,c side, ut Dieppc
nnd on the other, ut Newhaven. Th
cos, Of the: work is estimated al S45. &.
10000 and six years will be rrqul .
I'd tor its completion.
Atlanta, Ga, mas rcccivcdIit frs
narrow gauge locomotives. 1t wa:
manufactured 1T Paterson, n j; is oi
t!.rrc-trrt gauge. and intended for tn,
Tn>kcscc and. Chrhaw Railroad. ]
the road succeeds in spite af it's name
the triumph harrow gauge may hr
regal dcd Is complete:
a correspondent Of the New York
Wor''! % Ills t,pnI NJ tn h, July 2o'i
an arroahs of: All interview with DR.
Duliingcr. The EtTons professor i.
made to say: Tell the American.
that | am Catholic still, and hop
Ia iii" Catholic and that nothing
would grieye me more than to be til,
ciusu Of u srhlsm III the church."
\ suit was brony yhtin the Superio'
Court, in baltimore, on Friday, m
lIcnry W. Roger. against Mrs. Ellen
u. Wharton. for tho recovery Of thu
sum Of S,69S,93, being tho amount
due upon four months promiss"ry
note for $500, dated March II, 1871.
upon which the payment of $1,000.
with interest, was made on the 10Th
Of July, the day OF Mrs. Wharton +.
arrest. The signature of Mrs. Whar:
ton appears in bold but rather her,
vous hand.
A Washington telegram says: "Th.
Grand Army OF the Republic, as aI'
organization, has taken in hand the
matter of the appointment Of ex-Co"
fedcratcs to positions under the Gen
eral Government. The posts here
will bring the matter to the attention
OF the National Encampment, and
will demand tho removal OF all who
arc employed to the exclusion o.
Union soldiers. Of course this ought
to include General Longstreet and At
torncy-Gcneral Akcrman. Member.
Of the Grand. Army say they vii
vote for no man who favors these ap
pointments, and will 20 agains. Gen
cral Grant himself unlcs ho makes 8
change, or sees thst it is made"
A San Francisco. correspondent q
tho New York Herald has had ,
somewha remarkable interview re
Gently with Mrs. FAIR, the murdcrc>!
of Crittendcn, in her cell in the Sal
francisco Jail. This strange woman
it seems, contested the right Of Crit
tcuden to live with his wife bccaus.
they did not love one another, any
holds, to it that she {thc murdcrcss
and C,ittcndrn were the lawful pai
because they did lovo one another
Accordingly, in a moment of tempo
rary in sanity, she shot Cri'
pot rresienden AMI new regretted
LnK ON, thinp-that he Wa