The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12

1858 and 1859. In 1860 he took seat in Con-
grees. In 1867 Mr.. Wheeler served as chair
man of tho New York constitutional conven-
ton. He was reelected to Congress in. 1868,
and made chairman Of the committee on tho
Pacific railroad.
The black plague has broken out in Persian
Koordistan ,x.... While Templeton's woolen
factory at Ayr, Great Britain, was on lire
recently the roof fell in. Twenty-four women
were buried in tho ruins and perished. .....
MIR. Bristow will retire from the Cabinet at the
end of the month, as his private business de-
mands bis entire attention. IA report from
Colorado states that the Sioux Indians attacked
cattle rancho at Tremont's Orchard, about
eighty miles down the Platte, killing fifteen
men, and driving Off the stock. Christian
KIotz murdered Almira Street at Clermopt
Mills, Md, and WAS taken into wood, and
there hung himself before the young lady's
friends. Two Cabinet ministers were killed
and one wounded in Constantinople by Hassin,
an insubordinate officer ...... Six people were
killed and thirteen wounded by the e1plosion
Of tho boiler of the Mississippi steamer Oriole.
A new railway has just been opened from
Denver to the Rio Grande. The President sent
messages to both branches Of Congress urging
the necessity Of speedy action on the Appro-
priation bills. In Boston Peralto rode ITO
miles in fifteen seconds less than five hours,
using twenty mustangs. 80. Henry Server,
assistant cashier Of tho New York Methodist
book concern, is under arrest for embezzling
$15, OOo worth Of bonds belonging to the es-
tablishment. :. "A family, consisting Of David
Reed, his wife and two sons, flooded out OF
their house at Huntington, Pa, by the late
rain, were drowned in crossing swollen
mountain stream. 90. Deputy Sheriff Smith,
Of Dawson county, Neb, was killed while
endeavoring to arrest a desperate named
Howell. The man was subsequently arrested,
and at night was taken from the Jail by a
masked mob and hanged. 80. BY the wrecking
of b freight train on the Greenville and Colum-
bis Is. o. railway the conductor and all the
train hands were killed go. A fire broke out
in lumber yard at st. Johns, in the province
Of Quebec, Canada, and fierce wind carried
sparks far and near and famed them into
flames so that in short time the entire bust
ness portion of the town was on fire, and in a
few hours was completely consumed, notwith-
standing the aid from Montreal and st. Albsns,
vt. Every place Of business and public Office
we're destroyed, including about fifty stores,
five hotels, two factories, two banks, the
United States and British custom houses, the
American consulate, post-ofice, Ne'os office,
six boats at the wharves, several lumber mills,
and large number of residences and other
buildings. Several persons were burned to
death. The loss cannot fall short Of 81 500,
900, Ct which Ghere is an insurance Of only
about 5000, 900. More than $50 families were
left houseless, and we're obliged to put up In
the government barrrcks. The fire is supposed
| to have been incendiary.
The people OF New York were nonsuited In
the canal ring Albany basin case. ... Six men
were killed by dynamite explosion at Glas-
gov, Scotland. -. Moscow, Russia, has suffered
from fire which destroyed fifty houses ......
Reports from the fisheries in the neighbor.
hood Of Cape Breton are moat encouraging,
.....A fire at Athens, N. Y, destroyed severa
boats and the Hudson river depot, including
one hundred loaded freight cars. Loss, $780,
O00. .. The Barbados riots we're not caused
by any suffering among the people, but on &C
count Of the impression prevailing among the
negroes that the queen had given all the pro
perty on the island to be divided among them
and that it was wrongfully withheld.