The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-01-05
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Prince Bismarck threatens to resign il the
penal code Is not adopte ,as submitted ....
Ex-Ohief Clerk Avery was convicted in st.
Louis OF conspiracy to defrsud the govern
ment. This makes the third conviction of
members Of the whisky ring. .....A number
Of the Pennsylvania GOAL mines have been
closed on account Of the over-supply, and
about five thousand miners have been thrown
out Of work. 1t is reported that the Penn
sylvsnia railroad will build grand depot on
the old navy yard site. The Mslayans are
preparing to resist the British. -. In Rut-
land, N. Y, Sarah Conklin, aged fourteen,
was murdered in piece Of woods while re-
turning from school, and evidence points
strongly against q sixteen-yesr-old boy named
hutar, who was arrested. 1t is believed he
attempted to outrage her, and failing in his
effort, killed her with q small hammer which
was found near by. -. james II. Armsby, the
eminent surgeon, died suddenly in Albany,
N. Y. He was the founder of several medical
institutions. The hotel bill sg ainst the
city Of New York for entertaining King Kala-
kaua, OF the Sandwich islands, amounts to
S6,35s.91. and is still unpaid.
By the burning of hotel at Back river,
u
Catholic priests were burned to death
A dispatch from Campo. San Diego county,
CAL, reports an attack by Mexican bandits
They are supposed to be Chavez's band. L.
Gaskill, merchant, his brother and others
we're seriously wounded, and several are miss
ing. One Of the robbers was killed and num-
ber wounded. Gaskill's store was robbed.
The governor Of California has asked for the
apprehension Of the bandits. :. .Raouf Pashs
succeeded in throwing fresh provisions into
Goranske. for the Turkish troops held in state
OF eeige there, but the Herzegoviniaus assert
that he was subsequently defeated near GAL
schko, losing one thousand killed and wound
cd. At q sale Of shorthorns, draft-horses
and cotswold sheep at Toronto, Can., the total
sum realized was s79, 900, the three highest
prices paid being "a, 500 for Seventeenth Duke
Of Airdrie; $4,000 for Kirkleighton Duchess
Eighteenth, and s3, 700 for Oneida Rose.
terrible explosion took place in the Powell
Duffryn pit near Tredegar, England. Twenty
miners were killed, and ten have been taken
out severely injured. Gen. Baboock, private
secretary of President Grant, has been in
dioted BY the st. Louis grand jury for COM
plicity in the whisky frauds. The President
has appointed Gems. Sheridan, Hancock and
Terry as . commission to investigate the
charges against Gen. Babcock to SEQ il he
should be courtmartialed, in addition to the
civic trial. .....Wm. NJ. CBoss) Tweed, who
was in confinement ct Ludlow street Jail, New
York, on suit brought by the city for the re-
oovery Of $4,000, 600. escaped from Warden
Dunham and deputy sheriff and no trace of
him has been found. The story told by the
officers Is to the effect that Tweed frequently
went riding about the city, under charge of
the wardens, and this Saturday afternoon they
stopped at Young Tweeds house in Madison
avenue, and all entered. While there, Tweed
asked and received permission to "sup M
stairs to SEQ mis wife; but shortly after War
den Dunhsm sent young Tweed to inform his
father that it was time for them to return
to Jail. Young Tweed went up stairs and
Immediately returned with the information
that his father was not there, and had es-
capped. The officers Immediately searched the
house, and not finding any trace of him hurried
to police station and sent alarms all over the
country. The story Of the officers is dis
credited, and 1t Ia supposed that they willfully
allowed him to escape, aud that he embarked
on q sailing vessel for foreign port, az his
large form was too well known to permit his
travelling on land ..... Foreigners are stiu
molested In China. War between Japan
and Corea is doomed averted.
The European grain market is stiff, but
prices will not advance before spring, owing to
the large stock on hand. :. The estimates
| for the fiscal year ending June 80. 1876.
amount to $50, ,0s0. 76e. 80, and she appropria-
IN M r,<l
| showing shortage" Of S16, 1854, ,592. .S2. 80.
| Ihe failure Is announced Of William Spotten
d Co., linen manufacturers and bleachers, of
| Belfast ireland. Their liabilities are esti-
mated at Sl,6Oo, 600. 80. The steamer @. II
Durfee, when twelve miles up the Red river,
burst her Steam pipe and Kill cd one man snd
scalded three. Three others jumped over
board and were drown ed. {. BY an explosioA
In the Swaithe colliery, in the southern part of
Yorkshire, England, one hundred and fifty
lives were lost and as many more persons
] injured. The explosion was the result Of care
less blasting. similar disaster is reported in
regard to coal mine near Pentyrch, Wales,
by which twelve were killed and ten wounded.
......- gypt denies that she wanted to annex
Abyssinia. .-At q meeting Of the trustees of
the bridge between New York and Brooklyn
now In course Of construction, it was shown
that the receipts have amounted to $780,
lo9.4S and the expenditures 1855. 1851.
Samuel Hibberd, ot Delaware county, Pa,
with his hired man, named Sheridan, ordered
some gunners from his premises. and ON their
declining to 60 and indulging In insulting Ian.
guage, he shot one OF their dogs, when the
gunners Knocked him down and shot Sheridan,
killing him instantly. The party then ran OF,
when Hibberd fred at them and wounded ona
Of them.