The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-06-23
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Cavalry arrived at Darlington from
Columbia, on Wednesday.
More than sixty applications
day for passports are received at the
State Department from Americans
dcsiring to travel in Europe. ;-
Mathew NJ. Strensky, a Chicago
beer saloon keeper, committed sui
eide on Sunday i'll consequence OF
a police order closing his bar-room
on Sunday ..~ o., -.. E.
The contract for the destruction
of the Column Vendome was
35,e0Of,' but as a penalty Of 5oO0f.
was stipulated for every days de-
lay, after the 4th of May, the tota!
will be reduced by 6,Oo0t.
The steamship China, on her last
trip from Shanghai to Sau Fran
cisco, picked up a Chinese junk at
sea with five persons on 1t DYING
from starvation. Eleven Others
had already died.
The brother of Henry Heine, the
gifted German poet and satlrlst,
who died in Paris several years ago
in very humble circumstances, ls a
millionaire in Vienna and proprie-:
tor OF avery tlourishipg daily news
paper. -
Bcrezowsy, the role who tried to
assassinate the Russian Gar in the
year 1867, was in Paris lately, and
was elected Lieutenant in one OF
Belleville battalions OF the Ma
tional Guard. ?.
The New York. WorlI, few
days ago, being hard up for a sen
sation, started the story that Queen
Victoria has made proposition for
the marriage of the Princess Bea-
'trice to Fred Grant, son of the
President, aud that the wedding
will take place in 1873. --
The New York Evening Post
says. there is no truth in the report
that Bishop Potter has sent letter
TO Rev. Stephen II. Tying, Jr., cen
suring him for preaching in the Rev
Mr.. Cheney's church in Chicago.
The Bank of Prussia has been
authorized to establish branches in
Alsace and Lorraine. With Ger
man language, the ceded provinces
will now have a fair opportunity for
rapid rehabilitation rs German
communities.
The German Americans of San
Francisco, in convention, approve
the reconstruction acts; favor uni
versal amnesty and the payment OF
the national Jebt according to the
contract; oppose Chinese labor and
railroad grants, and demand a mod
itication Of the tariff. and the repeal
of Sunday and liquor traffic laws.
The enormous fees received by
the New York clstomhouse on-
cials is forcibly illustrated by the
official statement OF the moicties
and fees from seizures for April,
wherein it appears that the collec-
tor, surveyor and naval officer re-
ceived nearly $4,000 apiece, the IN
formers an equal amount, and the
government the other half. This
is at the rate Of nearly 100000 a
year for each of those officials.
There is disease prevailing to q
large extent among the car horses
of New YorkCity which seems to
he contagious, and to defy the vet
erinary surgeons. In general char
acter it resembles diabetes or dis.
order of the kidneys, manifesting
itself in running sores on the back,
preceded by weakness of the loins,
or sort of paralysis. A great
mauy horses have died from the
disorder.
The Messrs. Putnam have been
for some time endeavoring to dis
nose of, for tile benefit of Mrs. Au-
dubon. who is greatly in need, the
magnificent plates Of the great nat
uraIist's great work, trusting that
theywoull be secured by some pub
lie institution, Mr.. William f.
Dodge, learning of the need Of the
worthy widow, came forward aud
bought the plates with the inten-
ton of holding them until some OF
the great literary bodies of the
country-great bodies proverbialIy
move slowly-should be ready to
purchase them. ..'..
Thomas sllly, the eminent por-
TRAIT painter, is living in Philadel-
phia, in the SSth year of his age.
lie is still bright and active in his
studio. Sully was born in Eng
land. His mother came from Eng.
land to Norfolk, Va, in 1884, and
Sully took his first lessons in Char
lesion, S. G., where he began mini