The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1873-10-29
News Items.

ciL1iio1 w ch1o PASStNSN w.
Deems in New York.
On last Saturday afternoon four
prisoners succeeded in breaking out Of
Jail, at Orangeburg.
The yellow fever has no terror fer
book agents. Two Of that class AZ
rived at Shreveport the other day
and began to canvass among thS
nurses for subscriptions to a soEg
book. ~
Joe Coburn offers to fight Tom "a
len in West Virginia or Canada f3r
five thousad dollars.
The Selma, Ala. Exposition l's
been postponed to November 18th ~
account Of the yellow fever fright.
The Palmetto Sabre Club, of Ed; 6
field, will, by invitation of Presid, =
Woodward, attend the State Fair e
Columbia.
The Edgefeld Advertiser defies
the rumor that ex-Gov. Bonham IL.
tends to remove from the State ;.,ra
settle at Staunton, Va. i. ~ IL 4go
Benjamin McCaskill, ono aofetl,e
commissioners Of Kershaw coup3Y.
died in Camden, on Monday, the III,
instant, Of congestive chills.
The Augusta, Ca, Exchange has
cenformed its cotton classification IL
the New York rule. Heretofore it
corresponded with tho Liverpool
style.
Gcntlemen's collars appear to he
increasing in size, to keep pace with
the rufles Of The ladies. es.Ey;f
Mr.. Froude is said to have made
only five hundred dollars afterpaying
all expenses, by his lecturing tour,i.,
this country. ITS z 2
The abolition Of the gambling Ia.
bles in Baden Baden has causet ~
falling off Of $4,000 in theanumbessyf
annual visitors.
nm- The Rev. P. f; Stevens L,p
been associated as one of the profst-
sors Of the Carolina High School at
Anderson. Is. ~ az ~
By rigorous enforcement Of y tbs
liquor law Boston has managed op
reduce the number of its barroonis
to n little over thousand.
The gin-house Of Mr.. b. II. Single.
tary, in Williamsburg county, Nas
destroyed by fire on Sunday last.
Geo. VIM. Brown has been nn,hi-
mated to succeed the late Judge;F.
Parker Scott, Of Baltimore. lat,:f
The, fight between the Sioux jal.,l
Ponca Indians, on the 18th instal
resulted in the killing Of twenty Nj
riors. - ~
The prosecution in the Stokes c:i,t
has closed. The defending counsel
begun his argument, but became u.
well, and the court adjourned.
The Brazilian consul at Boston
committed suicide yesterday by sho6s.s
ing himself. Financial difficulties ars
supposed to have teen the cause Vt
the deed. 49,. ,.
The U. S. Agricultural Report for
October gives an unfavorable Wow of
the condition of the present crop.
The first female graduate of the
University of Michigan, is said to
have married o classmate. - s.Ei
Miss Agnes Ice, daughter Of Gen.
r. E. Lee, died unexpectedly at her
home in Lexington. Va, on Tuesday
last.
DR.. JOHN S. THOMPSON has moved
his office to rooms over the Citiz b.
Savings Bank, where he will Ls
pleased to see his friends. He is \
skillful and thoroughly educated ds'p-
tist.
A Washington dispatch says the
German minister has just received
from Berlin stating, nv.
that Madame Won Bis
marck is not only not dead, but not
sick.
Fifteen Chinese shoemakers left
North Adams for California last week.
where they expect to get sixty dollars
per month in shoe factory. Thy
included some Of the first arrivals,
and all of them can read and wriie.
The Election returns, though in
represent largo Democrat:
gains, and a falling off Of Republicans
majorities. lu Ohio the Democra'.
have returned a majority Of the mens-
bers of the Legislature, and have
elected their candidate for Governor.
Postal cards have proved so popu.
lar in this country that during ,lic
first five months of their use more
Than sixty-fve millions have been is
sued. When Congress authorized tho
issue it was expected that one liun-
lrcd millions Of these cards would To
issued the first year.
A correspondent of the New
York Evangelist writes to correct
the story now going the rounds
tkat Mrs. Theodosia BURR Aston
was a victim of Gibbs, the pirate,
and says that Gibbs, just before his
death, told the late Commodore
Kearney that he knew nothing
whatever of Mrs. Aston or her
fate.