The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-02-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

mans proposition FOR the establishment OF
common unit Of money for the United States
and England. VIM. M. Evarts has been
reelected president of the Yale Alumni Asso-
citation. .. Victor Hugo issued an address to
the senatorial delegates from Paris and
France, asking them to found q democracy
which shall end foreign wars by arbitration,
civil war by amnesty and distress by educa-
tion.. The dead body Of Elizabeth from
barcher, German girl, fourteen years Of age,
was found at Youngstown, Ohio. Her veil
was tied around her throat, and she bad evil
IDENTITY been strapgled. The verdict OF q
coroner's jury was that she had been ravished
and murdered. 80. The Pope is i'll ...... The
scale shop Of E.. & T. Fairbanks Il Co., at
st. Johnsbury, VT, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is covered by insurance. Tho shop will
be rebuilt at once. Jacobs was hung in
Joliet, Illinois, for numbering his wife. 80.
John Kelly has bought the Erening Express, to
bs published in the Interest Of Tammany
Several members Of the Mclean hose COM
psny, at Passaio, n. J., have been arrested for
incendiarism. They fired buildings simply for
the purpose of taking out their hose carriage.
......The Tul ks have received another defeat
at the hands Of the insurgents at Trebigne..
There is prospect OF another revolution in
Hayti. "A Mrs. Meeling and her paramour
one Williams, who we're under arrest at Bar
boursville W. ", for the murder of Mr. Meel-
ing, were taken from the Jail by masked
mob, and told they were to die. Both con-
fessed, and Williams was speedily hung but
as no one was willing to put the rope about
the woman's neck, she was returned to the
Jail. :. The direct cable to Europe has broken
for the third time. The fracture is 14O miles
from Nova Scotia.
The commissioners to examine into the
State debt of Alabama, report the total in
debtedness at $50, 0Oo, 900, and the assessed
value OF property in the State at s16O, 600, ,OO0
1.-Two inashed men rode up to a field
in which "Doc" Magrum was working, on the
tennessee river, and shot him dead. As
Magrum was noted for his daring and cruelty
as Federal guerrilla during the war, it is
PROBABLE that some atrocity committed at that
time brought about his death Recent re-
ports from the Black Hills state that there are
twelve hundred miners at work, and that the
yield averages one dollar per hour per man.
..:.Jonn scannell, who murdered Donohue in
New York in 1872, and escaped hanging ON the
plea OF Insanity, for which he was confined in
State lunatic asylum, has been pronounced
in sane condition at present by the proper
officers, and will shortly be released. The
Reformed church in Rockville Center, Long
Island, was burned recently. It was built two
years ago. and cost S14, 600. . New York's
Attorney General Fairchild paid to Comptrol-
Ter Green 1855, ,345. "a, proceeds Of the judg-
ment recovered by the State against the es-
tate Of James Watson, late of the ring ......
Marshall Grain, one OF the notorious william
son (ul.) county gang, was hanged at Marion,
IL, for the murder Of two men. Grain con-
feseed the crime.
Hon. T.. ID. Winslow, a prominent politician
OF Boston, and owner Of the Ne,os as we'll as
treasurer OF the Post association, left the
country suddenly with his family, and it has
been since transpired that he has been sye-
tenatically forging Inducements to checks for
the past Few years, the amount being vari-
ousiy estimated at from S100, 600 to $3.50 OoO.
= The bill appropriating 81, 500 900 for the
Centennial passed the House by a vote of 146
10 lSO ...... The commission appointed to
examine works of French artists for exhibition
at the Pbiladephia Centennial exposition have
completed their labors, having selected 67O
pictures, 100 sculptures, and sixty engravines
and designs. 80. The celebrated French race
horse Gladiateur, winner of the greatest races
IN EuS1re,, Is dead. A band OF Sioux war
riors, headed By Sitting BdlI, is on the war
path. -. The Turks threaten to invade Mon
tenegro II that government does not cease
giving aid to the insurgents "A crowd of
two hundred men .Jok two white murderers
named Dawson and Estep from Jail at Charles
ton, w. Va, and hanged them. Later ON r.
mob OF oolored men took out Hines colored
murderer, and hanged him also.
A revolution has broken out in the northern
and central portions Of Mexico. The Penn
syivapia coal mines are to be closed from the
seventh of February to the eleventh of March.
on account Of a glut In the market .Intelli-
gence has been received from Col. Gordon.
the Nile explorer, dated at Duffie, stating that
ne was safe and well. The surgeon of tho
expedition had died, and Col. Gordon was the
only white msn remaining Hehad just reached
the rapids, which he feared were impossible,
The London Times says the United States
bonds are being heavily bought In that coun-
ira - an investment. Capt McNslly, of
Texas, says that Mexicans along tile Rio
drande fsiriy support themselves by cattle
raiding "A fire in Hollis hall at Harvard
College caused . loss OF s15, 900 AT meet
ing Of the creditors Of Edwin Booth, the
famous actor, his liabilities we're stated to be
s250,0O0, ON which q dividend of five and one
quarter per cent. was declared . The ship
Lothair, from Yokohama for New York. lost
overheard the first oficer and two sesmen
from the topsail yard. ....A bill has passed the
House reducing the postage on third-cIass
matter to one cent for two ounces.