The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-12-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

qnez, was shot and instantly killed near
Arizona, while attempting to escapo arrest.
. -Secretary Chandler has offered T.. 8.
Toby, OF Boston, the office OF commissioner of
lniisn affairs. -. .EI-Gov. James E. English,
OF New Haven, Conn.,, has been appointed to
nj the unexpired term Of the late United
states Senator Ferry .... The Ontario (Cap, }
manufacturers have adopted resolutions call
ing Tor the taxation OF American farm pro-
ducts, ,inasmuch as Canadian products are taxed
on crossing to this side; also that the customs
be more strictly looked after. - The officers
OF the lost steamer Pacific were blamed by the
coroner's jury for poor discipline. =. Col. Des
Anges, a New York custom house official, con-
cerned in the revenue frauds on smuculed
silks, has been sentenced to two years i'm
prsonment and pay a fine Of SIC, 200 ....
lie Nord the Russian organ, says that the
purchase by England of the Snez canal stock
will not affect the peace OF Europe. 1t ia
stated that, with view to preventing Austrian
intervention, Montenegro has proposed to
servta an offensive and defensive alliance in
favor or Herzegovina, and IL the offer is &C
oepted both countries will take Joint action in
April. 49,. The roofs Of the Chauncsy and
drand Tunnel mines, in the Wyoming valley
"a, oaved in, entailing q loss Of over $780,
600, besides throwing an immense number Of
miners out Of work at q critical season of the
year. The miners one hundred and twenty
nVe In number, escaped only two hours previ-
ous to the disaster; and it was owing to the
watohfulness of one OF tho proprietors that
they were not all crushed
duel was fought near Baltimore betveen
r. w. Baylor, of Norfolk, Va, and Col James
Z. Keegan, as the result Of quarrel in Phila-
delphis. Baylor received a shot in the left
side.. The Isthmus canal commissioners
appointed by the President, have reported in
favor OF the Panama and Nicaragua route as
the mosa practicable. The estimated cost is
s66, 00O, 600 ...... The United States supreme
court has sustained the position Of the Union
Pacific railroad company by affirming the de-
cision Of the court of claims, manly that the
company has the right to retain one half of
it's earnings on account OF transportation for
the government. .... There will be no sales of
treasury gold ordered for the month Of De-
cember, the currency balance being large
enough to obviate the need of any such sales.
..... After January first the rate of letter
postage to Japan via San Francisco will be
twelve cents iastead of fifteen cents "A
stif gale prevailed in all parts OF the country
and shipping disasters are reported from all
along the coast as we'll as from the lakes.
Charles Atkinson, a oolored man OF Franklin,
La, outraged little white girl, but was
caught and lodged in Jail. He as subsequent
ly taken from the sheriff by q mob and hanged
to tree. Accounts from Tifiis represent
the Russian losses in the recent rising at
Khokand as being heavy. Part Of the garrison
at Khokand were massacred The rubber
shoe factory at Maiden, Mass, was entirely
destroyed by fire, involving q loss of 5000, 900,
on which there was an insurance Of s156, 900.
Over eight hundred operatives were thrown
out Of employment
Cattle stealing on the Rio Grande continues
it being asserted that the thieves have a con-
tract for 1S. 900 head to fill at Monterey. The
Mexican government claim that il they send
soldiers to stop the thieving, they in their
tprn will become thieves, and so add to the
number. Count Won Arnim, of Prussia, is
to be indicted for treason ....... The Liberian
troops, In an attack on q native settlement
were repulsed, with q loss Of many men and
three pieces Of artillery. The natives at once
began to lombard Latrobe with the latter.
DR.. Davis and wife, the abortionists, of Of
tawa, have had their death sentences CON-
muted to imprisonment for life, ON account Of
their aid in convicting their victims seducer.
...... Minister Gushing has returned an AMIGA
ble note to the Spaniah government ......
Russian papers advocate the occupation by
Prussia Of tile balance Of Khoksnd ...... The
police OF New York STOPPED the lottery of
church fair, and announced their intention
OF preventing any more similar gambling.
The National Temperance Society, at meet
ing. thanked Secretary Bristow for his prose-
cution of the whisky ring, and demanded that
the Centennial commission rescind their de-
cision tohaye liquor sold on the grounds Of the
national exposition. Hereafter the govern
ment clerks in Washington are to work until
four o'clock, instead Of three O'Clock as hereto
fore ...... By the sudden breaking Of q chain
attached to the hoisting wagon, which was be-
ing let down In the mines Of the Buckville
coliery, at Tuscarors, Pa, the wagon came
down with great force. instantly killing Hugh
Sharp and Patrick Mcintyre, and wounding
four other miners. A woman In Washington
gave birth TO four children, and at last &C
counts the quartet and their mother were
doing wen... There is q great Improvement
in the Quebec lumber market, the reason
assigned being that the Norwegian govern
ment has issued orders to curtail the supply in
that country.
The authorities Of Toledo, Spain, hav:
closed the Protestant church there, and on
PEELED the pastor and sohoolmaster ...... The
public debt statement shows Q decrease during
November of e4s0,07s. The coin balance is
go, ,404676; currency balance, s12, ,014, ,962.
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