The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-09-27

Cobbites dancing about the head Of the MUIR
dered man, which had been impaled on . pole Z;
but az soon as they saw the crowd they pre-
pared to attack them, when the leader gave
the orderto fire and two Of the fanatics were
killed. The others, four men, four women
and two children were arrested.
A fire broke out in the town of Hyacinthe,
Canada, and owing to . isrce wind was spread
with tho utmost rapidity through tho business
portion of the place, only being quenched after
destroying th1ee banks, factories, post-ofRce,
SQUIRT house and other prominent buildings, as
we'll as eighty stores and six hundred houses.
Hundreds of families are homeless, their On
tire possessions having been lost. The losses
will foot up g. 900, 600. ..... Tho most decisive
battle Of the Servian-Turco war was fought at
Ale1inatz and resulted in the defeat Of the
Servians. The Turks acted on the offensive
all day, which closed with bloody carnage.....
By the explosion OF the boiler OF a ~thrashing
machine on . farm in Chatheld, Mimi, a Mr..
Lawton was blown 160 feet snd instantly killed.
Charles Arnold wss literally torn to pieces,
tho fragments being scattered around. VIM.
Burnett had tho top Of his head blown of
and another man was seriously nounded......
BY the breaking Of an axle Of coal train on
the Baltimore and Ohio read, several cars were
wrecked, and befo: 8 f.gman could be sent
back 9 second train ran into the wreck and
added to the pile Of debris, covering the pas
senger track. Shortly after a mail train ran
into the other two wrecks and was thrown
down an embankment into the canal. The
engineer was killed and q number of passen-
gors wounded. go. Albert Bros sanmill and
an adjoining lumber yard at Woodland, Pa,
were destroyed by fire, with one million feet OF
lumber. Loss, $40, 900. ...E1-Gov. Seymour
having positively declined to allow his name
to be used IS a candidate for the guborna-
torial chair of New York, q new convention
has been called by tho chairman.
Ike American ship Sonora and the Spanish
STEAMER Viyar collided of Holyhead, England,
and both sunk in . few minutes. Only one
life Was lost. ... In the first heats Of the race
for professional fours at Philadelphia, the
Thames crew beat the American crew. in 1921
the distance being three miles. In the Soc
ond heat, tho famous champions of the world,
the Paris crew Of st. Johns, New Brunswick,
were beaten badly by a comparatively green
crew from Halifax, Nova Scotia time, 1858.
...... VIM. Borden, q prominent merchant, OF
Peeksklll, N. Y, committed suicide by taking
s~trychnine ...Gen. Terry's command is again
on the march, after . rest Of one week, to re-
cruit the health Of the men and horses ......
The thirteen distillers, rectiners, etc., who
testified for the government in the recent
whisky trials ct Chicago, have at last been
fully discharged The Democrats Of Arkar-
sas have elected their State, ticket by a large
majority. .... Further dispatches from selvia
confirm the report Of An overwhelming victory
for the Turks at Ale1inatz. The carnage on
both sides Was terrible ...... By tho breaking
OF one Of tho supports VI a scanold about an
elevator in New York, four laborers were pre-
cipitated thirty feet into a ditch Of water, one
Of them being killed and the others seriously
injured. 90. While John aud Matthew Brennan
nckO AOo010S q III Sioy - 1oon -
Brooklyn, N. T., i've tons Of Garth caved upon
them, crushing John 30 hat that his entrails
were spread on either side Of him, and ipjuring
Matthew fatally.
Horatio Seymour, Of New York, gives the
following reasons for declining the nomination
rendered him by the Democratic State conven-
ton: The Democratic convention, acting I'M
der nisapprshensions, put me in nomination
for the Office of governor Of New York. This
its members would not have done If they had
known the facts regarding my health. For
many reasons I ought not to be their candi-
date. Duty demands that I should decline
the profered honor. While I am grateful for
the friendly sentiments which prompted their
action, my declination il compelled by ob:ta-
cles which I cannot overcome. For some
months my health has been infrm, and q re-
cent illness has unified me for mental or ply
steal e~xertion. lily own opinion, coEE- Md
by the judgment OF my physicians, convinces
me that I am unable at this time to perform
the duties deyolving upon the governor Of
New York. I could oheeriully sacrifice my own
purposes and feelings to meet the wishes Of
my friends; I would not hesitate to peril my
health to uphold those principles in which
I believe, or to promote the public welfare :;
but I feel that 1 should sacrifice the interests
Of the party which placed me in nomination if
l accept its action. Even the superior strength
of the party with which I act could not elect q
ticket with the known fact that its nominee for
governor Was unequal to the performance Of
the labors of that Office. could not %consci-
entiously enter upon them. I cannot do my
friends the wrong Of placing them in false
positions by trying to do So. I therefore feel
constrained to decline the nomination.