The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Iatsrestinx Items from Home and Abroad.
The President asked for and received the
resignation of Postmaster General Jewell, and
appointed Assistant Tyner to the position.....
Mr.. Pratt, commissioner Of internal revenue,
has resigned. ..... The surrogate of New York
has dismissed the petition to set aside the will
of A. T. Stewart. 80. The committee appointed
for the purpose formally rendered tho candi-
dacy for tho Presidency to Gov. Tilden, who
accepted in a brief speech, putting special
stress on the necessity for political reform....
A terrific thunderstorm extended over the
Middle and New England States, the lightning
striking in numerous places, killing several
persons and doing considerable damage to
property. 49,. The king Of Italy has sent a
congratulstory letter to this government on
its centennial. .
The mercantile agency Of R. &. Dun & Co.,
in their statement for the first six months OF
1876, give the number of failures for this period
in the United States as 4, 600, witt. liabilities
amounting to $1Os, AIS, 400. In the -rst six
months of 1875 the failures were 1858, with
liabilities amour ting 10 s76, 600, 900. In Canada
the failures for first six months OF 1876 were 1858,
with S12. 694, 2S6 liabilities. In the frat quarter
Of the year the failures in the United States
were 2,s06 in the second quarter, 1,794. The
agency says 1.-THE marked decline in failures
for the past quarter affords some encourage
ment to the belief, now very generally enter
tanned, that We have seen the worst effects Of
the present depression, 70 far as casualties Of
this character are concerned. It Ia true that
business continues in a very depressed con-
dition that the results Of trade, with rare e1-
ceptions, have been exceedingly unsatisfac-
tory that values continue to decline. and that
uncertainty and anxiety exist in all quarters.
Yet, in the face Of all this, there is comfort in
the reflection that the causes which produced
this condition Of things have been almost
completely reversed. In the place Of reckless
over-trading, we have now lessened sales
guided by caution, and also prudence in pur-
chasing"
A fire in the Cosmos oil refinery on the Ale
gheny river, near Pittsburgh, destroyed three
warehouses, three thousand barrels and eight
carloads OF refined oil. Loss, s25, 000......
The House passed the resolutions declaring
Gen. Schenck's action in the Emma mine az
fairs "ill.advised, unfortunate, and incompati-
Ill -rsk1 kLa lnSao ~ hSo pooikion "
Theodore Deschner, q Prussian gunsmith, at
Ithaca, N. T., shot and killed Andrew Smith, a
cartman, for alleged improper intimacy with
his wife. .....A special dispatch states that
tho Sioux committed terrible atrocities on The
bodies Of Clusters command. Rain-in-the-
Face cut out Clusters heart, and erecting it on
q pole held q grand war dance around it......
W. O. Handy, a farmer of Somerset county,
Md, was tied by four masked robbers and bis
safe robbed Of 81, 600, mostly in gold coin.
He was robbed Of 8 1000 in q similar manner
ten years ago......O Adams Stevens, vice.
president of the Albany and Greenbush On. Y.)
Bridge Co., has been arrested on q charge OF
embezzling $500, 900 worth Of the bonds Of the
company. James 8. Wilson, treasurer Of
the District Of Columbis, is q defaulter to the
amount Of $1,000.
Three brothers, named Charles. Albert and
Adif Thielhausen, residing in Newark, N. j.,
we're formerly employed in Daweon's tannery,
from which they we're discharged by the FORE
man, whom they have threatened with violence
over since, until he finally sued out a warrant
for their arrest, which WAS put in the hands OF
Policemen Elsden and Diokerson to serve. No
sooner had the officers appeared at the house
and made known thoir errand to the brothers
than each armed himself with q huge navy re-
volver, shooting Elsden dead on the spot and
wounding Dickerson 80 that he expired in
a few hours. They then ran from the house
toward the tannery, on the way seriously shoot
ing q MI. Cahill. Arrived at the tannery they
asked for the foreman, and not finding him
shot and killed an inoffensive workman named
| Fischer. At this time the foreman's son-in-
law, John Albers, went into the room to find
out what the firing was for, when he instantly
was shot down and five balls fired into him,
from the effects Of which he died. The work.
men had now recovered from the stupor into
which they we're thrown by the horror OF the
scene, and closed in on the murderers with the
long knives with which they work; one Of the
brothers having the right hand nearly severed
at the wrist. By threatening with their revolt
vers the desperadoes made their way to the
street, followed by the crowd, which now
numbered hundreds. The brothers ran toward
the river, and finding the crowd pressed them,
jumped into the water and endesvored to
escape by swimming. The crowd Of enraged
men meanwhile arrived at the bank OF the
river and began throwing missiles at the heads
Of the murderers in the water, who were ex-
hausted by their long run and soon sunk from
sight under the waters. The crowd stayed
about until certain the men were drowned, and
there was no need to infict the lynch law 60
freely threatened.
While the British ironclad Thunderer was
making q trial trip Of a measured mile In
Stokes bay, her forward boiler exploded, kill
ing twenty-five of the crew and injuring sixty
othors, many fatally. .... The Turks burned
the Seryisn town Of Ken.erdemau ...... Hay
wosd Grant, convicted Of arson, was hung at
Rome, Ga. He confessed to having killed
ur men, one of whom Was Gen. Hindman, Of
the Confederate army, at Helena, Ark......
The chief Bear Stand Up has arrived from Sit
ting Bulls camp, and says that Sitting Bull
will fight until the Black Hills question is set
tied ...... The grand total of the Texas cattle
drive to July 8 is So5, 900 head. OF this num-
Der 80, 698 have been held in northern Texas,
while the remainder, 254, 652 head, have been
driven north. Several thousand head which
were wintered In northern Texas last season
have also been driven north, which probably
will swell the total to between 10000 and
270, 700 head go. A heavy rAinstorm swelled
the Crows Run creek, near Freedom, Pa, so
that many houses on It's banks were flooded,
and that Of Thomas Lighthill was washed
away. Mrs. Lighthil and her four children
we're carried off by the water and drowned.
The stallion race for 81, 900, between Judge
Fullerton and smuggler, at Philadelphia, was
wol. by the latter, the fastest time for stations
in this country being made. There were foul
booto &bo oooopd haipo q dead heat Time