The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-10-11
Col. Mills. with q detachment of one hundred

Col. Mills, with . detachment of one hundred
and fifty men, and entirely destroyed. Gus
ter's Little Big Horn guidon was recaptured,
with valuable stores Of robes, ponies and
plumber. It was = complete Indian defeat,
many braves and squaws being killed and cap
tured and the balance Of the band scattered.
The troops met with considerable loss, a num-
Der being killed or wounded. Lieut.. Won
Lentwitz was shot in the knee and suffers AM
putation Of the leg. The hungry and way
worn troops arc to be- supplied with food from
the Black Hills, where q council Of war is 10
be held as to further operations. Gen. sher-
man will preside at the coulcil. 900. New York
city sent ten physicians, q cargo Of ice, and .
cargo Of tar acids to Savannah ..... Henry
Smith, from st. Louis, and one companion
and . pack train, left Yuma for Los Angeles,
and wandered four days on the Colorado
desert without water. Smith opened veins Of
his arm and drank the blood, which olotted in
his throat. he then cut his windpipe to re-
move it and died q few hours after. His com
panion reached the station in the last stage Of
exhaustion. ..... The equinoctial gale which
extended along the Atlantic coast and for
som distance into the interior was very
severe and did much damage. Ion the
nineteenth Of September the Jews throughout
the world inaugurated the New Year, 56S7,
with great solemnity .....The typographical
union of Philadelphia has agreed to reduc-
kt4r - kN~ 1n~k IN ka6A nHhnk m and
after October 2. This applies to book as well as
to newspaper work. IA dispatch from Madrid
says William n. Tweed and William Hunt,
who was arrested with him, we're embarked at
Oorunna for Cuba as prisoners on the twenty
first Of September ..... Beef is nog sent from
the United States to England on the steamers
in houses prepared for tho purpose and packed
With leo. The cattle are slaughtered in Jersey
City the day the steamer sails.
The number Of grand lodges Of Odd Fellows
in the United States, a. shown by the last re-
port, is forty-eight; subordinate lodges, $685.;
grand ensampments, thirty-nine; subordinate
encampments, 1,756; lodge limitations, 80, 04S;
lodge members, 454, $50; encampment mem
bers, s7,45O !; total relief, 81, O96, s6s. 90 p; total
revenue, "a, ia, 241.7 70. The report Of the
grand secretary shows the total amount ex-
pended for relief, for the period embracing
the years 1880 to December 81, 1876, to be
$22, 27S, 1886. &c., and the total receipts for the
same time, $50, Os5, 92e. 81 ..... The official
returns of the State election in Milne give q
total vote Of 1s6, 400 Conner, 1910; Talbot,
81, 1851 scattering, 529. Connor's majority
over Talbot is IL. 459. Ibis il the largest vote
ever polled in the State by about FIVE thou
eand. One hundred and twenty Republican
representatives and twenty-nine Democrats
are elected. ..... Several bands of Sioux have
surrendered at the military stations, and the
Indians say they are tired Of fighting .....At
the Hot Springs, Va, q young married couple
arrived from Cincinnati, the husband suffering
from disease of the heart. After remaining
two days the husband died suddenly. His
wife became a maniac on the spot. Neither
husband nor wife we're more than twenty-five
years of ago. 1.-The steamer Canadian, from
Montreal for England, grounded on the coast
OF Ireland and is q total loss. No lives were
lost. go. During the late gale many vessels
were wrecked or the Atlantic and gulf coasts.