The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-12-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

sullivan-Hanford trial in Chicago, has re-
ceiyed : request, signed by eight thousand
business men, asking him to resign. ..... John
Baldwin went to his home in New York in an
intoxicated condition, and during an alterca-
ton with his son WAS 30 severely injured on
the head IS to cause death. The son was ar
rested 80. Larry Holton died in Newark, N. j.,
thumb received from a companion during q
drunken quarrel. -. The floods in Cuba ruined
about twenty plantations. 500 President Lerdo
has been declared reelected by the Mexican
congress ...... Cardinal Antonelli, principal
adviser to the Pope, is dead ..... The United
States supreme court has refused permission
for q female lawyer to practice In that court.
A Japanese naval and military force at.
tackled the insurgents at Hagri, in the pro-
vince Of Nagato. .The insurgents were beaten
and fed. .... Mrs. John Bowman, Of Washing.
ton, Me-, aged ninety-dve years, was burned
to death while in bed, the bedclothes catching
from an open fire.. Tho life saving stations
on tho coasts of New Jersey and Long Island
have rescued 3,18S persons in the last four
years ...... Al attempt WAS made at night to
steal the remains Of President Lincoln from
the cemetery vault at Springfield. Ill. The
plot WAS suspected some time since, and Elmer
Washburne, United States detective Tyrrell
and his assistants watched the vault. The
scoundrels broke in the outer and inner doors
Of the vault, opened the several cases OF the
sarcophsgus, and were about to make of with
the remains when the detectives accidentally
discharged a pistol, which alarmed the van
dsls, and they fed precipitately, escaping in
the darkness. A slight clew to their identity
remaiDs, and their capture is probable. ...
The Duchess OF Aosta, e1-queen Of Spain, is
dead. ..... During = drunken alteration in
New York city John Fitzsimmons was killed
by having a n umbrella tip jammed through
o!c IT his eyes into his brain.
Tha vote Of the city of New York, at the late
e~lecti,l, was rs follows Robinson, DEM,
III, 519 Tilden, DEM, Ill, 26S and Ely,
DEM, ILL., S3. Mr.. EIy's majority is the largest
(53, 706), because Dix went behind his ticket.
Tilden's majority is 50, 1859 over Hayes, and
53,027 over all. Robinson's majority is 50, 1874.
Calvin, DEM, for surrogate, has . majority of
10, 900. OF the district aldermen nins are
from Tammany, one from Anti-Tammany and
three Republicans. The board will stand
seventeen Democrats to five Republicans. The
Democrats elect seven OF the eight Congress-
men, McCook, Rep, beating Ward, DEM. in
the eighth district. Iammsny elects fifteen
assemblymen, nti-Tammany one, and the
Republicans five.
The khan Of Khiva, Id consequence Of the
complaints Of his subjects, has offered to cede
the remainder Of his territory to the Russian
government. ... The district of B~ackergunge,
in the northeastern part Of India, has been
rsvaged by . cyclone. A thousand native
houses were destroyed. THE town of Dow
lutkhan was submerged by . wave and five
thousand persons are believed to have per-
ished. The government sent relief to the
desolated section. 1900. Much gold coin has
been withdrawn from English banks for ship
ment to New York ....Relief works have been
established in the s%holapore district, India,
where there were fears Of famine, and forty
i've thousand Of the inhabitants have been
given employment. There is plenty Of grain
in the district. 80. Georgia is harvesting fifteen
or twenty per cent. more cotton than last
year.. The United States steamer Franklin,
having on board Tweed, as q prisoner, has
been forty-three days on her voyage from
Vigo, Spain, and fears are felt for her safety.
l1oy p 2horhar5 ~ Uoob;1~k,, n n
is financially embarrassed -. Peter Lusbey,
who was acquitted q few months since of the
charge Of numbering q colored mar in Union
town, WAS found near louisville, St. Georges
county, Nd, with his head crushed and two
bullet holes in it. 1t is thought he WAS MUIR
dered to avenge the death Of a colored man
killed by him.
The electoral college Of the United States
does not vote as = corporation, but each cleo
tor has one vote for President and one for
Nce-President. In case Of the absence of any
e~leotor, either from death or any other cause,
his colleagues cannot cast his vote. In q case
opposed MI. Hayes had 1876 votes aud Mr..
Tilden 1s4, il one Of the Hayes electors died,
neither Mr.. Tilden or Mr. Hayes could be de-
clared elected because neither would have re-
ceived 1S5 votes. The result would be the
throwing OF the election into the House OF
Representatives . . Canadian military authori-
ties pretend to fear q Feniau raid from this
side OF the border 800. BY an accident on the
Hannibal and St. Joseph railway, two persons
we're fatally wounded and about twenty others
moro or less seriously injured. 5000. The great
Philadelphia Exhibition has been formally
closed with speeches and ceremonies. Presi-
cent Grant made the final announcements.
Edwin Adams, the popular and we'll known
actor, is reported to have died in Australia.
80. Great Eastern beat Rarus in three straight
heats at Utica, N. Y. The track beilg heavy
and the day chilly the time made was poor, be-
ing 2:s5, $50, 2:241H..... Since the surrender
OF the large tribe Of Indians to Gen. Mics,
and the close pursuit Of Sitting Bull to the
Businesses Of tho mountains, Gen. Sheridan
telegraphed Gen Sherman that the Indian war
Is practically over, and Sherman has congratu-
lated him on the result. IA fire In Tarrytown,
N. Y, destroyed seven stores, two factories, .
public hall and q livery stable. The fire sp-
paratus Was defective and little could be done
to stay the flames. LOSS, $50, 600. zee. The
entire vote Of Massachusetts, with the excsp-
ton Of the town Of Goanold, is as follows:
Hayes, 149.206; Tilden, 1Os, 247; Rice, 1885,
2S2 Adams, los, S2si Baker, 1871. Rioe'e
plurality is 8 ,45S his majority, 49, 1926. .....
Jules Briere, q Frenohman, Of Boston, swore
to kill himself il Tilden was elected, and 90
cordingly, on reading a dispatch announcing
Mr. .Tilden's success, he wsut home and hanged
himself.
On the opening day Of the Centennial E1hi-
bition Philadelphia furnished nine-tenths of
the visitors. There were 76,172 paying aduis-
sions, but the attendance fell next day to
4,722, and the day after to 10, 252. On the
sixteenth Of May it was only 7,058. The high
est figure reached in that month was Al, iii,
on the thirtieth, and the average for tho
month was 1885. In June the highest At
tendance WAS 1856, the lowest 20, S4s, and
the average 26,756. In July tho attendance
Was 4c, 290 on the fourth, and 1895 on the
fifth on tho thirtieth it Was only Is, 2O7. In
August the largest attendance was On jersey
day-55, $50; the smallest Was %, III, and the
average ss. 655. On the first Of September
81, 1872 visitors entered the gates; on the fifth
En ono .od a~oapt an opo roip1 ds1 {ha fatal