The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-11-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS,

Items Of Interest from, Homo and Abroad.
The public debt statement issued Oct. 1,
showed reduction Of s3,342, ,562. .6l during
the past month, the total debt now being
S2,255, ,74s,S96.95. The currency balance in
the treasury is "a, 7so, ,S52. 90 coin, s67, $685.
1854 including coin certificates, s11, ,645, 200.
The large Boston lumber firm OF Shepard,
Hall Il Co. have failed for 81, 500, ,000. -. The
bishop Of Breslau, Germany, has notified the
eoclesiastical court that he is determined not
to obey It's summons to attend for trial, on the
ground that the court is not competent to try
him Willard Carpenter has given $780,
600 to endow an educational establishment at
Evansville, Ind. He promises s2OO 900 more.
......The jury In the Jefferson Borden mu-
tineers, at Boston, returned verdict In which
Miller and Smith were found guilty Of murder,
and Glew was acquitted. Nathan Hollo-
way, his wife, and Mrs. Smell were drowned by
the upsetting of their boat while crossing the
river from Gananoque, Canada, to Fishers
Landing, N. Y ...... BY treaty with the Sal
teaux and Swampy Cree Indians, Canada
secures the territory covering both sides Of
Lake Winnipeg, and its estimated area, exolu-
sive Of water, is sc, 900 square miles. By this
treaty free navigation Of portion Of the lower
Saskatchewan will be secured, as we'll as free
access to the shore and inlets of Lake Winpi-
peg. 1t is said that the peculations of Pin
ney. the defaulting clerk OF tho Navy depart
ment at San Francisco, will amount to over a
million dollars, which will mostly fall on pri-
vate parties. On and after January l. 1876
the secretary Of the treasury will redeem the
following bonds Of the issue Of June 80, 1874
Coupon bonds, $50, No. 3,3O1 to No. $500,
both inclusive 800, No. 10, sol to No. IL, OOO
both inclusive $500, No. 15, SO1 to No. Is, ,OOO
both inclusive; $1,000, No. So, ,7O1 to No. g.
Ooo, both inclusive; total, %, 500, 900. Regis
tered bonds. $50, No. 60 to $50, both inclusive;
300, No. COL to No. 1000, both inclusive
S50O, No. 4S2 to No. 750, both inclusive
$1,000 No. 2,65l to No. 1900, both inclusive
$4,000, No. 1851 to No. 2,1OO, both inclusive
$4,000, No. 3,75l to No. 1900, both inolusive
totol, %, 100000.
The famous trotting horse American Girl
fell dead at Elmira, N. Y, while trotting the
first heat Of c race. A post-1nortem examins
tion showed that her death was occasioned bv
over-exertion while recovering from the epi-
zootic She was valued. at S25, 900. and her
best record was 2:17h... "A Catholic procession
In Toronto was attacked by q mob, which was
fired upon by the police, and several persons
injured. -. The assistant treasurer of New
York has been instructed to sell "a, 900, 900 of
gold during October. "A decree is published
In spain re-enacting the law OF 1870, prescrib-
ing the election to tho cortes by universal suf-
frage, OF one deputy to every fifty thousand
inhabitants IA railroad train was stopped by
brigands between Sarragossa and Barcelona,
spain, and all the passengers were robbed.
Among them were seventeen officers and sea-
men Of the American man-of-war Franklin
Mayor Slocum, of Newport, R. l., has forbid
den the Fall River MASS committee to solicit
aid in Newport for Fall River strikers, and
ordered them arrested il they attempted it
young lady In England swan ten miles,
without support or stimuiant, in two hours and
twenty-three minutes. -. The authorities of
Kingston, Jamaica, have seized the steamer
Uruguay, which was laden with guns and am
munition for the Cubans. Albert 81. League
approached the sacristy Of st. Patrick's church
in Boston, while services were going on, and
attempted to shoot the pastor, Father Gaetley,
ON account, as League alleges, of Father Gaet-
ley having put his Qeague's) daughter in
Catholic convent in Indiana. League was ar
rested... "a waterspout swept away part of
Las Cruces, New Mexico, and the next day an
other waterspout washed of all the remaining
houses. by the swamping of q batteau in
Lake st. Peter, Canada, Capt. Hamel, the
owner, his wife and three children were
drowned.
The Swedish steamer L. j. Bager, running
between Lubbock and Copenhagen, hes bsen
burned in the Baltic. Twenty -four of the pas
sengers and eleven Of the crew persisted
George Miller and William Smith, convicted
OF murder on board the schooner Jeffer-
son Borden, were sentenced TO be hanged Jan.
IA ...... fire broke out ut Aurora, N. Y, of
supposed incendiary origin, destroying the
tavern and store Of 81. r. Miller and three
large barns belonging to G. J. Hamlin, of
Buffalo. The loss is estimated at $40, 500 in
sured for GIG, 800. ... Craft, the pedestrian,
walked eight hundred miles in fourteen days
at schenectady, N. Y, finishing in good con-
dition two and o half hours ahead of time.
The Montpelier Female Humane Association
Lottery, OF Aexandria, Va, has been declared
fraud by committee appointed to examine
the Affairs after the drawing. Over $500, 600
had been received .for tickets. .. Martha
Hutchinson, Of Boston, was injured at the
time Of the great fire by the blowing ND of a
bmiding With gas. She accordingly sued the
Boston Gssight Company for damages, and
jury has Just awarded her $12, 500. Dis
patches from China indicate that the existing
complications have been temporarily adjusted
by MIR. Wade, at Pekin. . :. The Vanderbilt
University, at Nashville, Tenn was formally
opened by Bishops Daggett and wightman.
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