The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1874-11-25
NEWS OF THE DAY,
Items of Interest from Homo and
Abroad

Balances in the United States Treasury ::
Currency, s15.460, 1Q1 special deposits Of
legal tenders for the redemption Of certificates
Of deposit, $53 165, ,001; coin, $S4, ,O9S, ,OOO in
cluding $21, ,067, 900 in coin certificates out
standing legal tenders, s3s2, ,O00, 600. Miss
Charlotte Cushman bade farewell to the stage
at Booths Theater, New York. Mr.. William
Cullen Bryant. presented the distinguished
actress with laurel wreath and Mr.. Roberts
read poem by R. a. Stoddard, after which
there was a serenade ar the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. 80. United States Marshal Selye and
Lieutenant Hodgson, U. 8. A., were sent to
prison for ten days at Vienna, La, for con-
tempt OF court. 49,. The murderer of Mr..
Haber, the German Consul to Japan, has been
beheaded.. DIR. J. @. Aver was burned in
efigy in the town Of Aver, Mass, which was
named after him. In condemnation thereof
numerously-attended citizens meeting was
held, when deprecatory resolutions were
passed. Dr.. Aver is the well-known patent
medicine man who was an unsuccessful candi-
dae for Congress :. :. While the funeral of a
MIR. Lapauge was being held at Pa wpaw, Mich
little son of the deceased wandered to the
river near the house and was drowned.
A scientific report received by the United
States War Department shows that the Black
Hills country is admirably adapted for settle
ment 1t abounds in timber, grass, flowing
streams and springs. The soil is of wonderful
fertility. No coal has been found, but iron.
gypsum, and traces of plumbago and indica-
tions Of gold in the soil near Harvey's Peak as
well as in quartz in considerable quantities.
The difficulty between China and Japan has
been annicably arranged. China agrees to paw
an indemnity Of 500, 900 taels, in consideration
OF which the Japanese troops are to be with
drawn from Formosa. Over six hundred
OF the laborers on the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western tunnel, Hoboken, struck. against
reduction of 10 per cent. on their wages.
Goldsmith Maid failed in her two efforts to
beat her best time, 2:14, in Philadelphia. She
made the first mile in 2:21t, and the second in
2:1Sf. The New Orleans Committee of
Seventy request the President to withdraw the
troops from that State. Joseph Rosenstell.
who lived in the upper story Of 413 East
ihrteenth street, executed an oft-repeated
threat OF numbering his wife by enticing her
to the roof Of the building and then throwing
her on. She was instantly killed.
The famine in Asia Minor continues. The
khedive Of Egypt has sent corn to the dis
Iessed districts. Full returns now in I
place MIR. Gaston's majority for Governor of
massachusetts at G,G6e. During special
services in the French Parish Church at
Montreal, an alarm of fire was given, when the
large congregation made rush for the doors.
Fully 800 people were trampled under foot and
MANY wara fafalIv ipiurad do,,o .o-l.
mores OF Bates College, Lewistown, Me-. 80
shamefully abused q freshman in hazing |
bout that he may die of his injuries . :. Near |
Phinfeld Conn, boy IL years old shot his |
brother, aged two years, dead on the spot, and |
his sister fatally. The deed YES !
lone with an old gun which was left loaded in
he bedroom. 80. Mrs. Harriet Barrett, a
'espectable widow, hanged herself in Keene,
v. H., with skein Of yarn. She was hypo-
80. Prof. A. B. Smith, ex-President
" the Arksansas Valley Collegiate Institute,
'ays there are fully 10000. people in Kansas
md Nebraska who are either now or shortly |
viii De in absolute want of the necessaries of |
ife, and he earnestly appeals, not only to the |
atizens OF st. Louis, but to the people of the |
whole country, to send them aid i'm the shape |
If provisions and clothing, and as speedily as
'ossibie. .....A carpenter at PawtucketviIle,
Mass., died from the effects of bite of q pig
received week before.
MIR. semmes, an engineer in Washington,
while oiling some machinery, got the sleeve of
his right arm entangled between two large
cog wheels, and was at once drawn in by the
revolution of the same. Seeing his danger, q
fellow workman seized him by his body and
held him with such power that his arm was
OF at the shoulder. Fred. Egnsr
made full confession Of the murder and
roasting In furnace Of Herman 'Schilling in
Cincinnati. He said that Rufer proposed the
murder, and his father and himself assisted.
They beat the victim over the head with clubs
first, and then the elder Egner stabbed him
twice in the abdomen with o fye-propeed
stable fork. It was then proposed to throw
the body in vat in the lanyard but they
feared being found out, and they dragged the
body to furnace aud showed 1t in, whore IL
was found burned to horrible crisp
The printers Of the United States, by a resolu-
ton Of the International Typographical Union.
have been engaged for some time past in
raising fund for the purpose of erecting a
statue OF Horace Greeley. They now say that
full steps have been taken to carry out the
work. .Diphthens is alarmingly increasing
In New York and Brooklyn. >. The whole
vote Of Massachusetts, foots up as follows
Gsston, 95,901; Talbot, 89,243; Andrews
Qabor reform), 100. Gaston's plurality over
Talbot, 6,65s; Gaston's majority, 6,65s. The
total vote lis 1s5, 5,24f-over 5000 over last
years, when Washburn had 50, 1s3 to $500
for Gaston-and but Z, ,4O6 short Of the Presi-
Dental vote in 1872. when Grant had 74,212
majority. or the 53,e01 additional votes
36,5A went 10 aaston, while Talbot had but