The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-28
NEWS ITEMS.
What Is Doing In the Old World and the
New.

cars. 49,. The revenue officer Of the Fifth Nir
ginia district seized 179 boxes Of North Caro-
lima tobacco at Max Meadows station, on &C
count of fraud. Two other wagon loads o
illicit tobacco was on the road to the same DIES
~tiration at the lime, but were scared off by tn
seizure ..... Keeper easier, of Auburn prison
was killed and horribly mangled about the heat
by n convict named VIM. Barr. who had jus
come from the insane asylum ...... During
January the public debt was reduced s2,069,
.G69. II. February 1st the total indebtedness
was p, 220, $40, 579.2S ...... New York's annua
charity ball was attended by the elite of thu
citv's society, and was a grand success, in spite
Sl2, 600. ..... The officers of the broken New
York Security ms. Co. were indicted by thu
grand jury for emhezzlement and perjury go.
During n drunken carousal at Bay Shore, Long
Island, Thos. J. Pointz was murdered by a com
rade named Evans, who drove a carpenter!
gouge between the victims ribs, cutting the
main artery. Ia dispatch from Madrid states
that negotiations have commenced between
Spain and the United States for a revision oi
the treaty of 1875, so that j. fu ure citizens
of either country, when in the other, can be
judged only by the civil courts, even i'll Cuba,
unless taken in armed rebellion. The king
of Sweden, the Crown Prince. and Prince John,
Of Glucksburg, have been initiated into Free
Masonry.
Three Christians have been appointed pro-
vincial governors by the Turkish Porte......
BY a collision between the Mississippi steamers
Charles Morgan and Aggie, two of the latter's
passengers were killed and a third seriously IN
jnrcd... Gov. McCreary, of Kentucky. has
recognized Nichols as governor of Louisiana
by issuing q requisition upon him for the return
to Kentucky Of Maurice A.. Schwab, arrested in
New Orleans for alleged fraud committed in
Louisville ...... Comptroller Kelly reported to
the State Senate that New York city's debt is
$l4S. 107, 557. 70. and the sinking fund is t2S,
17a, 102. 79. 1.-THE Sioux and Arrapahoa scouts
who fought for the government during the last
Indian campaign have received their pay and
been discharged. They were well pleased with
their treatment, and have become convinced
that loyalty "pays" better than hostility 49,.
4 ship carrying one hundred immigrants sailed
from New York for New South " ales to open q
colony under the authority of the Australian
government. The col0nists consist of mechanics
! and laborcrS out of work ..... John L. Cham
bcrlain, the noted gambler of New York. has
gone into bankruptcy with immense liabilities
and tritling assets ...... Henry E. Speir, n New
York merchant residing in Jersey City, conf
mitted suicide by shooting himself i'll the right
temple on account of business embarrassmcnts.
Marvin's safe establishment in New York was
damaged 100000 by fire. An explosion of gas
Ill lllS CellhT severely llJUIcu INc tiilCL 49,.
Minnie and Annie Strilcv and Nellie F0orhrSc,
aged five, eight and ten years, were drowned
at Salem, Mass, by breaking through the ice.
...... A project is on foot to inaugurate a line
of steamships between New York and Brazil.
. ..... The Tennessee supreme court has decided
railroad property to be subject to State, county
and municipal taxation ...... James Flood. of
Sew York, who had been separated from his
wife for years, kept close watch Of her and
learned of her intimacy with a German store
keeper. One morning recently, suspecting she
was in the Germans sleeping apartment, he
gained access to the door, which he attempted
to force. The woman instinctively knew who
the intruder was and putting on q skirt ran out
into the street. The husband heard her, and
rushed after her by u different passage. The
ran to the door Of q house opposite,
franlically screaming ".Open the door," As
she reached the steps her husband caught up
with her and plunged a long, sharp steel instru-
ment into her breast, in the full sight OF the
%neighbors who had been called to their windows
by the wOman's screams. Mrs. Flood lived but
q few hours. The murderer escaped. .....A
large building in Trenton, n. j., used as a shell
ter for rolling stock, was destroyed by fire, with
eight locomotives and three cars belonging to
the Pennsylvania railway. Loss, 500, 600. 80.
Train wrcckers threw a train from the track of
the Western Maryland road near Canctown,
Nd, but no one was injured.
Midhat Pasla, has been dismissed from tho
Office of grand vizier of Turkey THO steam
ship George Washington; of the Cromwell
line, running from New York to st. Johns,
n. -, touching Mt Halifax, sailed from the
latter port January 18th, and three days after
ward went ashore on Mistaken Point, Cape
Race. The vessel went to pieces, and it is sup
posed the entire crew, consisting of twenty
three persons. with the two passengers on
board. persisted. Fourteen bodies have already
washed ashore. The Washington was n wooden
screw steamer of one Thousand tons, and her
cargo consisted of sundries. The George
Cromwell. Of the same line, has been missing
for over a month, and fears are entertained for
her safety. Thomas r. Agnew, a we'll
known New York grocer, has been declared n
bankrupt on his own petition. The liabilities
alc put at 1854, 900 assets, S46o. 600. The
British iron steamship Ambassador collided
with the American ship George +. Manson, off
the East Indian coast. and sunk in consequence,
carrying down twenty-five of the crew. The
Manson was dry locked at Bombay for repairs.
...... Some one of the patients in the insane
asylum at Northampton, Mass, killed a keeper
named D. +. Barrett 80. The directors OF the
great bridge between New York and Brooklyn
are buying the ground on the New York side
for an approach to the structure.
III tIIuClC llNlhll lidfS Ai'Ats
dcpredations of late in southeastern Arizona,
and Gov. Stafford. in Il message to the leglsla-
ture deprecatcs the inefficient movements OF
tho regular troops, and suggests that the legls-
latnre memorialize Congress to furnish money
to equip and pay a band of border scouts and
Indian fighters, who would soon put an end to
the outrages. If something is not done soon.
the governor fears that portion of Arizona will
have to he abandoned by the settlers. .... Many
1.A., ,.. ~l,a, - -, nrhs1n ,No rrinr fbyp1rnh
Connecticut, detectives were set to work to dis
cover the offender, and arrested the postmas-
ter at Southington, B. S. Ricock, a hitherto
highly respected citizen, who confessed his
crime. 800. The general superintendent OF the
Lake Shore road testified that evidence went to
show that eighty persons lost their lives and
sixty-nine were rescued from the ruiHs OF the
Ashtabula bridge. He contradicted tie report
of his having forbidden the Use of water on the
burning cars .....A collision between d 1releint
and q coal train Oh the st. Louis and South
eastern railroad caused the instant death of
, Frank Wilson. Il brakeman, and severe injuries
to the engineer and several brakemen. .....
The smallpox deaths in London are on the in
c~rcaSc-l03 occurring in one week. Three
men were instantly killed and one seriously
injured in an iron mine ut HensInSerylile,
Pa, by earth caving i'll upon them 800. Rear
| Admiral James Alden died in San Francisco of
COilECStlOll VI lllC "a : - AieA b"s> |cH
q, tanning :25, 600 in checks and drafts was stolen
between Newport, Ky, and Cincinnati. No
clue has been obtained as to the robber.
OF the thirty-two students who were arrested
in Russia during the latter part of 1876, for
! unfurling q red flag bearing the words Union
and Liberty" in the cathedral of kazan, all
but three have been sentenced to penal scrrl-
tudc or transportation. Eleven of them were
Young women. Ten men were killed by all
explosion in the Fass colliery near Bolton, Eng
! land. .... Successive rails have severely dam
aged the cotton crop of the presidency of Bonn
bay, India. . The British steamer Ethel,
bound from Bilbao for Newport, Wales, went
ashore on Lundy island and became a totaI
wreck. Nineteen persons were 49,.
The report of the superintendent of New York
city's public schools shows there are 1871, Az
scholars enrolled on the books, and that Al
average attendance of 100, 3G4 issccurcd. Ihcs,
are under the tuition Of 3,247 teachers. .....
An incendiary fire at Nanticokc, Pa, destroyed
five buildings belonging to the Snsqnehanns
Coal Co...... The planning mills Of Martin f.
Murphy in New York city were DESTROYED b,
five. Loss, $50, OOO. ..... The amount taken b!
the cashier Of the Franklin Gnd.) Nationa
bank amounts to S140, 600 being the entire
capital of the bank. He had been carrying OF
bis irroOr,1nritinc for yeors COVERING them III