The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-12-27

election laws, fraudulent practices, etc. There
is universal feeling in favor Of the new gov
ernment. ...... Gold Is daily drawn from the
European banks to be forwarded to this ooun-
try..... Tho official canvass Of New Jersey
gives Tilden 1886; Hayes, 103,519, and
Cooper, 712; Tilden's majority being 12,445.
...... .Cslifornia's canvsss. excepting one
county, give Hayes 7s,6OS and Tilden 1884.
.Indiana's official figures show Tilden re-
osi7ed 213,526 votes; Hayes, 207,911, and
Cooper, 9,5S3. ...Senator Ransom has been
reelected by the North Carolina Legislature.
...... One Of Gen. Crooks officers has cape
tured an Indian village Of one hundred lodges.
go. North Carolina's ohicislvote gives Tilden
122,5SO and Hayes 106, ,4O2, Tlden's majority
being 1s, 17s. The Florida canvassing board
gives the Republican msjorities in the State
as 1850, and the majorities in Democratic
counties as z, ,4l8. This would leave Repub-
ican majority Of forty-two- The Republicans
protested against the retur rs Of sixteen ooun-
ties being received, and the Democrats against
those of nine counties, and all Of these will be
contested. The returns from one small
county were not in and not canvassed.
The statue symbolixing religious liberty,
erected by the Hebrew ordsr Of B'nai Birth in
the Centennial grounds at Philadelphia, Was
unveiled in the presence of large crowd.....
There has been great fire in the city Of Yedo,
Japan. It WAS one Of the most destructive
which has taken place in many years. The
foreign settlement WAS partially destroyed....
An incendiary fire at Enfield, Mass, destroyed
ten stores and tenement block. Loss, s1s,-
500 insurance, SO, 500. o. Massachusetts, vote
for governor numbered 256, ,s04 this year against
1871 last year. Tho vote WAS divided:
Rice, Rep, 1866; Adams, Dem, 06,s50 {;
Baker, Labor Reform, Prohibition and Wo-
man Suffrage, 1924: scattering, 116......
Thanksgiving Was generally observed through
out the country. The various asylums and
correctional institutions Of New York sclty
feasted their inmates in bountiful manner.
go. New York's grain business is shown to be
declining in comparison With that Of other
as new revolution is looked for at any time.
The fearful hurricane which visited the
little Island Of Grand Cay1nsrlas in the West
Indies, last month has not left fruit tree
standing. The sea WAS go high and so furious
that it actually washed over the island, which
is low and at it's brosdest part only two miles
broad. The government Of Jamaica has sent
q vessel Of war with provisions for the suffer-
ing inhabitants ...... Unsuccessful attempts
were made to burn the Congregational and
Unitarian churches in Laoonia, N. H....New
Jorsey elected four Democratic and three Re-
publican Congressman ...... Illinois official
figures: Hayes, 277,226; Tilden, 25s,6Oz, and
Cooper, 17,109.
Tho schooner Equal, Of Rockland, Me-,
from New York to Winterp,rt, was run down
and sunk of Cape God. The captain was lost
and the rest Of the crew were saved. While
Robert Lee, Of New York, was sitting at the
supper. table with his wife and nine-year-old
daughter, lie took new revolver from his
pocket to show them, when it Was discharged
in some manner, the ball eutering the brain Of
the little girl and causing instant death.
According to the treasury statement the public
debt at the close Of November amounted to
s2,221, ,G85 1853, loss $1s2, ,349, ,6s6.47 cash in
the treasury-an increase during the month OF
S457, ,662.64. The amount Of coin in the treas-
ury is s79,ss 47124; the amount Of cur
renoy, 11,74s, ,215.2s, and the special deposits
for the redemption Of certificates Of deposit,
SO, ,T25, 900. -. Rhode Islands Legislature
elected Presidential ele7tor in the place Of
Mr.. Corliss, who is United States Centennial
commissioner. .. Incendisries started several
fires in New Orleans and an immense conha-
grafton resulted therefron-the fire depart.
ment being comparatively helpless for lack of
water. One hundred and twelve houses were
destroyed with their contents, including twenty
on Columbia street. twenty-four on Robertson
street, thirty-two on Vilere street, three on
Msris street and ten and St. AIMS church on
Esplansde street. 4 few OF the structures
were pslatial residences, but the majority
were occupied by poor families who lost their
all snd gill suffer intensely during the winter
During the progress Of the coofsgration
colored man, In the act Of firing building,
vas fred at unsuccesBfuily, and made his es
cape. Twenty hromen were moro or less in
jured by accidents during the excitement. ...A
dozen buildings on the Exhibition grounds at
Philadelphia, belonging to the "oard Of finance,
which aggregated %, 500, 900 ntheir construo-
ton, realized at auction sale only $296. 100.
The Main building, being the only one Of the
principal structures put up for sale, realized
$2O0, 900, and was bought for the Permanent
Exhibition Co. The original cost was 81 ,6OO,.
900. "A colored man named Crutoher was
hanged by mob in the woods near Nichols
vile, KY, for attempting an outrage upon the
wife of. G. Oogar, white.
IN q game Of football between tho Harvard
and Yale freshmen the former were success
full. :. One thousand houses have been swept
from Adrianople by an inun dntion. ......A ter
rifc gale prevailed throughout Great Britain
and much damage Was done by foods. Nu-
merous shipping disasters are also recorded.
go. An illicit distillery in New York WAS
seized by officials, who left two Of their num-
ber in charge over night. During the evening
the watohmen were overpowered by crowd Of
men, who then loaded forty-one barrels Of
spirits on q truck and drove of f...... Official
returns from Nevada give Hayes majority of
1859. -. .Si1tnen Icelanders and fourteen
Indians have died at White Mud river, in
British America, OF the smallpox. Between
there and Gimli, distance of thirty miles,
the diaease il in every house. The govern
ment storehouse has been converted into
hospital, to which all patients are removed,
their dwellings, being burned. The steamer
Mary, Of the Morgan line, for Texas port,
was lost with tho entire cargo, the joint value
being 5000; no insurance. No lives were
lost. Kuouf Il Co.'s planning mill at Milton,
Pa, Was destroyed by fire, which is supposed
to have had an incendiary origin. The loss is
estimated at from $15,000 to $4,000; insur-
ance, e1o, 900. .. Irene A. Y. House, who shot
and killed her husband at Lawrence station,
N. J., several months ago, has been gradually
lspsing into insanity for some time and has
been confined in tue Trenton lunatio asylum.
-. Scarlet fever is raging to an alarming e1-
tent throughout the Western States.
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