The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-03-07
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New.
\. grand ball was given ut Norfolk, Va, in
honor Of Alexis and the other officers of the
Russian navy......A nolt" iroSeq"i has been
entered against Mr.. Belknap, by order of the
attorncv-Gcneral, and with Gen. Grants ap-
prevail. ......All the United States mints are
over crowded with work. and it will take a full
year longer to complete the $50, 600, 600 of
silver money authorized by Congress ...... An
armed mob broke into Il Jail at Wilksboro. NC,
and liberated three illicit distillers confined
herein famous shorthorn COW, Tenth
Duchess of Geneva. died i'll England. This
animal was bought by Lord Beehive in New
York Mills. III the State of New York, in 1878.
for over $50, 1000. Samuel Cantrcll, n wealthy
New York boot and shoe dealer. committed
suicide by shooting, while Under an hallucina-
ton that he was poverty stricken ...... August
Quack, Of Quack & Burger. cotton brokers' of
New York city. is q runaway defaulter. He in
dnced the confidential clerk of a large house to
join him III his speculations, and he also fled
after becoming q dcfaultcr to the amount of
$1,000. ..... Queen Victoria opened the British
parliament in person. III her speech she ex-
pressed hopes Of a peaceful settlement of the
Eastern question. ....R Rear Admiral Charles
Wilkes died in Washington, aged scvcnty-six,
after fifty years active service. He was the
officer who captured Mason and Slidell during
the late ar...... Lego & Bros photographic
establishment in New York city was destroyed
by fire. Loss, :3t,c00 800. The Tennessee
State Senate concurrcd in the Houscresolution
directing the comptroller and treasurer to suS-
pend the payment of interest on the State
bonded debt.
Cashier Taylor, of the broken Franklin Ind
bank, who was q fugitive defaulter, returned
to tho town in the night and when discovered
i'll the morning was in n critical condition
through sickness. No money was found with
him.. Gushing, Kirk & Mclean, wholesale
dealers III boots and shoes in Chicago. have
failed, with liabilities amounting to $4,000
and assets figuring up Sln',0G0... ... Charles
Henry Simpson and Martin Henry, both COL
orcd men, were convicted on circumstantial
evidence and hanged at Port Tobacco, Nd,
for the murder of John ". Everett. in July last.
....Of the nine men composing the rev of tle
oyster schooner Laura, which was lost lear
Annapolis, Nd, eight of the bodies we're re-
covercd......A verdict for !22. o0O was given
i'll Salt Lake City against eX-JudSe Clinton,
for having, when on the bench. declared q grog-
shop a nuisance and ordered the destruction of
its stock Of liquors. The proprictors Of the
Wamsutta mills, New Bedford, Mass, have
given notice that on the first of March the
wages Of their operatives wi be advanced to
the same prices as paid in January ...... The
summer hotel at ShuteSburg, Mass. known AZ
the Mount Mineral Springs House, was de-
stroycd by fire. Loss, Sl2.ur0 $50. Harrison
Turner fell in love with and wished to marry
the daughter of Milton Anderson. at Sorrel
Hill, Pa, and on the father and the young lady
both refusing him encouragement, he killed
the father with an army mlSkct. and then re-
loading it blew out his own brains.
Sir Vim. Ferguson. the famous Scotch sur
geon, and sergeant surgeon to Victoria, died in
I pplpp ou.l .5yf- ,i,n IIn ,,.s on np,innpf
author on surgery. 4 dispatch from Cal
cntta, India, reports that a Sunpowder cxplo-
sion has occurred at Adhemabcd, by which fifty
persons were killed and one thousand wounded.
$500. During 4 quarrel between Charles and
George Seifcrt, brothers, at marlborough, Pa,
George drew 4 revolver and shot Charles in the
breast, i~ntlicting 4 wound which resulted in
his death i'll Il short time ..... Four men were
killed and three wounded by the explosion of
the boiler in Jones sawmill near Noblcsville,
Ind. ..... The noted Sioux chief, Spotted Tail,
selected . bodyguard of two hundred picked
warriors from among the agency Indians and
started for the hostile Sioux camp. in the capa-
city of paciticator, to eIdcavor to induce them
to accept the terms offered By the government.
...... During a street fight lctween two gangs
Of roughs in Williamsburgh, \. u. Fred. Hert-
fielder was stabbed i'll the neck and killed by
Vim. Abernethy ...... The Abyssinians have
oO"hA NNASosNS AN 1SS ptiNiA' w. koFh'o "tiA.
...... Potatoes imported from France arc now
being sold in the New York market ...... Mrs.
Richard Conklin, of Brooklyn, n. u, accident
ally set her clothing on fire and was burned to
death. Her husband was seriously burned i'll
his efforts to subdue the flames.... President
Tracy and Cashier Chapman, of the Hartford
Conn Farmers bank, have been arrested for
embezzlemcnt and classifying the bank accounts.
Both men held high places in the city. The
cotton laden steamer Bavaria. from New Or
leans for Liverpool, was burned at sea when
OF the Carolinas, and the passengers and crew
were forced to take to the small boats, leaving
everything behind. After drifting for nineteen
hours they were rescued by 4 passing vessel.
The cargo and steamer were valued at , 500, 0G0.
The Lake Shore road has paid S5,l75 TO the
widow of L. c. Grain, Of New Haven, who was
.....ltcar Admiral Theodorus Bailey died i'll
Washington, aged scvcnty-two. He was the
third rear admiral to die within a period of two
weeks ..... Intelligence from England is to
the effect that forty Yarmouth ard owe
stoft fishing vessels, having on board two hum
drcd souls, arc missing ..Lcredo dc Tejada,
the refugee president of Mexico, arrived i'll
New York from Panama, accompanied by Gen.
EScohedo, heretofore reported killed. The
future movements of the party are uncertain.
Revenue officers raided the il icit distilleries
in the mountainous regions of North Carolina,
supported by government troops. Thirty-three
distillcries were destroyed and eighty-four men
captured. The stills and their contents were
destroyed. During The night following at
tempts to rescue the prisoners were made by
their friends, and Lieut.. Mcintyre, of the
regular army, was killed by them and his body
taken off. A detachment sent for the body was
obliged to kill three of the desperadoes before
accomplishing their object.... Ihe thirty-ninth
call for the redemption of ten millions of $40
bonds of the issue May and November. 1865,
has been issued .....In consequence Of the
prevalence of rinderpest in Germany the impor-
tation of cattle and hides from that country
into the United States is prohibited 900. When
Deputy United States Marshal Il. H.. Hughes
attempted to arrest two murdcrcrs near III
dependence, Mo-, he was shot and killed by
them. Win. Green was hanged 1T Pitts
burgh, Pa. for the murder of his half brother.
On the scafrold he cxhorted his hearers to put
their trust in God as he had done......A Cali
fOrnia farmer was arrested for offering to give
Secretary Chandler $500 to decide a land claim
in his favor ...... john Sullivan, nge four,
and John Swccnv, age five, were drowned at
Ansonia. Conn. 49,. Receivers have been ap-
pointed for the Lehigh and Wilkesbarrc coal
company.
A man giving his name as D. S. Gooding was
lodged in Jail at Poughkecpsic, n. u, charged
with swlndllng Duchess county farmers IN the
sale of corn shelters, whereby he obtained their
signatures to alleged receipts, when i'll fact
they were notes for various sums. He has also
been operating i'll Putnam county. 80. The
festival of Mardi Gras was appropriately cele-
brated in New Orleans and Memphis by street
parades and balls. .....Thec council Of the Uni
vcrsity of the City Of New York has decided to
admit female students ...... The body of Col.
John OMahoncv. the dead Fcnian chief, after
lying in state for five days III the armory of the
New York SiXty-Ni.;h regiment, was taken to
Europe, accompanied by a guard Of honor.....
An Indian runner brought III the intelligence to
the Red Cloud agency to the effect that u few
weeks previous eight hundred lodges OF Crazy
Horses warriors, encamptd on the Tongue
river, discovered between three and four hum
drcd United States soldiers marching uponthem.
whcrcupon they threw foIthward a few war
riors as dccoyS, while the main body of Indians
formed an alnbuscade in a canyon in order to
amihilate the soldiers. The troops did not
follow up the dccoyS. and thus saved them
selves from u deadly ambuscadc.. Mrs. Nellie
Whistler, who was acting as postmistrcss at
North Liberty. Ohio, clopcd with a Fclloo!
teacher, and three days aftcrward vas arrested
for having distracted valuable letters from the