The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-02-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Homo md Abroad

S12, ,673, ,451.44, Of which the commission has
dispo 'ed OF $9,704, COS, IS. .... There have
been important Egyptian successes in Abys-
sinia. -. Tho report of the American Iron
and steel Association shows there were 2, 1OO,-
900 tons Of pig-iron manufactured in this
country last year-a falling OF Of 6OO, 900 tons
from the previous year.. It is reported
that Prince Bismarck and the vatican are
coming to terms . The number of failures
in 1875 was 7,74O, the average liabilities being
less than the year previous ... Thirteen
distillers Of Chicago, representing tho largest
houses in the city, pleaded guilty to con-
spiracy...... A fire in Mobile, Ala, DESTROYED
the block of buildings bounded by st. Francis,
st. Michael, Royal, and st. Joseph streets,
with the exception Of the Bank of Mobile, the
registers Office, the old Western Union tele-
graph Office and the express Office.
The legislature Of Servis has voted to i'm
peach all the members Of Maipovic's cabinet
Tor allowing the expenditures to exceed the
amount authorized by the budget 49, Tho
vatican has instructed the archbishops of
cologne and Treves to endeavor to find means
OF preventing their disposition from their
sees. Two boys were drowned while skating
on Colgate creek, near Lower Canton, Md
The wife Of ex-President johnson died at the
residence OF her daughter Mrs. Judge Pstter-
SOD, near Greenvile, Tenn. .Bowdoin College
will remain in the boating association
War has been declared between Guatemala and
Ban Salvador, Central America. ... Germany
Will only purchase tho railways of Prussia
at present, as somo OF the smaller states
oppose the sale.
A young Englishman named Henckley laid
down on railway near Baltimore for the pur-
pose OF being killed by the cars passing over
MIN, but the engineer discovered him and
stopped the train in time to avoid him. where
upon the would-be suicide drew pistol and
shot himself dead -Four colored men, all
confessed cotton-gin and house burners, wero
forcibly taken from Coahoma county Miss
jail, at Friar's Point, and shot dead by masked
men ....T The Democ attic national committee
will meet in Washington February %, to select
a time and place for the nomination of Presi-
dent. ...... The Tredessr iron works at Rich
mond, Va, have suspended, throwing six hun
dred hands out Of work ... The English
national rifle association accepted the chsl-
lenge OF the rifle association Of America
The London Times Berlin special says that
the government will close the Ursuline con-
vent and school on the first of April. Ger
many's preparations for the Centennial are all
complete, and the articles to DO exhibited will
shortly bo shipped.
George Luokhauser, of New York oitv. ON
being refused by young lady, became des
perate, and procuring soma sulphurio acid, he
swallowed 1t at the entrance of tho girls
and linz la,.
pistol infiioting slight wound. Supposing
he had killed her, he attempted to blow out
bis brains, but the poison began working and
msde his hand unsteady. He subsequently
died. %. .Ex-dov. 8. J. Kirkwood has been
elected Unite States Senator from lows.
The liabilities OF the Tredegar iron works, of
Richmond, Va, are now put at 81, 800, 900.
correspondent of the London Times, writing
from Vienna, says that Turkey is endeavoring
to pacify the insurgents and thus avert foreign
Intervention. .....A thousand more colliers
have struck in north Wales, owing to the re-
duction Of wages by employers. :. James b.
Beck has been elected United States Senator
from Kentucky, in place Of Senator Stevenson
whose term expires in 1877 .Japan's con-
tributions to tho Centennial have arrived in
Philadelphia.
The Italian government has closed the
Catholic seminary at Como for its refusal to
admit government inspector This is the.
strongest step yet taken in the States dealings
with the church, and will doubtless produce
great results. The books of the Post-ofice
department show that under the new postage
law some ofsthe leading papers paid as follows
for postage for 1875 New York Tribune. $40.
2s4 16; Chicago Inter- Ocean, S13 O29. "a: New
York Times, Sl1,586.02; New York Herald.
SS,o4S02 Cincinnati Times, %, ,96S. 90; Gin
cinnaG Gazette, 81, 4Ss.32 ); Boston Journal,
ZIG; st. Louis Republican, s3, 961; Chicago
Times, S3,644.60; Chicago 1ribuue, $3, OO4. SO:
Cincinnati Commercial, S1,726. 70 st. Louis
GLOBE Democrat, $8,300.82 .... The debt of
Alabama has been fixed at ton million dollars.
Gen. Lees birthday was generally observed
throughout the South. E. =. The Turks were
routed near Ragusa by the insurgents under
Gen. Peko. The Turkish loss was consider
able.
Owing to the numerous applications for
space In Memorial hall, at the exhibition the
Centennial board of finance have decided to
erect an additional building for the accommo
dation OF fine arts, and have already given out
! the contract. Montenegro threatens to
make war ON Turkey IL the latter menaoes her.
...... Maine has selected her delegates to the
Republican national convention, and instructed
them to vote for Blaine for President of
the United States ....... At one of tho
Moody revivals in Philadelphia, collection
(being the only one during the revivals there)
was taken up in aid of the new building Of the
Young Mems Christian Association, and $780,
OOo was realized. BY . fire originating from
the explosion Of an oil lamp, In Apollo, Pa,