The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-07-25
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
InterestinE Items from Home and Abroad.

and Secretary Evarts assert that. there is no
scheme on foot for the annexation OF Mexico,
as has been rumored go. Col. Wilkins was
suspended from the collectorship of Baltimore
and MIR. Thomas has been put in possession of
the Office. 1.-The business portion Of the vii
lage OF Chester, N. Y, was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire, entailing q loss Of over S67, 900.
......The ocean steamships Elphinstone and
Redewater collided in the st. Lawrence river
and both we're sunk ; total losses, SITS, OOo....
Daniel McQuay, Of Williamsport, Ohio, got
into 8 dispute with one Of his harvest hands
named Radcliffe, and knocked him down. Red
cliffe drew o pocket knife and stabbed McQuay
ten times, instantly killing him. 900. The four
members Of the Louisiana returning board
Wells, Anderson, Konner and Casanave-were
indicted in New Orleans, charged with having
on the fourth Of December, 1876, falsely and
felonously uttered and published as true the
altered, forged and counterfeited election re-
turns for Presidential electors from the parish
Of Vernon at the election Of November last by
adding 1853 votes to each Of the Hayes electors
and deducting 395 votes from each Of tho Til
den electors"
Henry Blair, Of Sullivan street, New York,
fatally stabbed his wife during a dispute. Re-
ligious differences led to the act. 49,. France
has announced that her Exhibition will posi-
lively be opened next year, but this government
will not appoint q commissioner until Congress
meets John German, a night Waterman in
Hoboken, N. j., and his son Of twelve were
drowned while fishing in the Hackensack river.
...... Great swarms Of reg-legged locusts have
made their appearance in Michigan and are
devastating the growing grain......A recent
hailstorm in and about Watertown did damage
in the town alone to the amount Of 500, 000...
William NJ. Tweed has written a letter in answer
to the charge Of the Encouragement Of New
York that he Tweed) was acting in bad faith.
Tweed offers to refer the question whether or
not he intends to keep faith to Charles O'Conor.
1.-The two-year-old daughter Of Henry
having been bitten by a dog . At La Grange,
Ga, Jack Thomassen, a colored boy Of fifteen,
Was hung for the murder Of the two children Of
Charles Miller, also colored. The murdered
children we're aged eight, and two years, and
the crime was one of unparalleled atrocity,
young Thomassen being instigated to it out OF
motives Of revenge against Miller and his wife,
who had forbidden him to come to their house
OLeary, the pedestrian, who undertook to
walk 500 miles in six days, failed in his attempt,
having accomplished At miles at the end Of
the sixth day ..... The Keeseville On. W Ma
tional bank was robbed Of about S75. 900 by
seven or eight masked burglars, who bound
and gagged the watchman, blew open the safe
uAN uooIlu IlIO SOL4lSlllo - sO0Aiho
an English carpet manufacturer, has failed
with liabilities reported at $3.50, 600. Three
boys, all under twelve years, were drowned
while bathing in Niagara river ..... Recent dis
patches from Cuba report that over 100 insur-
gent prisoners, who were captured in various
actions of late, have been shot. ..... The steam
ship Wisconsin, from Liverpool, arrived in New
York, having on board $50 converts to Mormon
ism on their way to Utah......A lieutenant,
ten soldiers and two citizens we're killed by the
Indians who revolted recently in Idaho and
near Nashville, illinois, exploded, killing N. W..
Moore and Harvey Lee, and injuring three
others. .....W. II. H.. McAllister, deputy COL
lector Of the st. Adams (Vt.) custom house,
has become a defaulter to tho amount Of nearly
8 1,70O. ..... The Planters House of Carbon
dale, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
.... Elijah Killam, q farmer Of Wayne county,
Pa, was struck by lightning and killed.
Troops under command Of Gen. Ord crossed
the Rio Grande into Mexico in pursuit OF q band
Of horse thieves, with whom they had q severe
fight and defeated, recovering the stolen horses.
The event caused considerable excitement
throughout the country, as the occupation Of
Mexican territory by American troops Is sup
posed to be the result of the policy determined
upon by the government towards Mexican
marauders OF the border. . In India over
l ,250, 00O persons are receiving relief from
famine ...... The plague is raging in a portion
OF Persia, and many persons are dying daily.
1890. There will be u State election i'll Alabama
and Kentucky, August 6; California and Yer
mont, SeRtember S; Maine, September 10
Colorado, Iowa and Ohio, October2; Louisiana
Massachusetts,, Minnesota, Mississippi. Nevada,
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wis
consin November 6......Dr. W. Gadding, Of
Taunton, Mass, has been appointed successor
Of DR.. Nichols as superintendent OF the gov
ernmcnt hospital for the insane at Washington.
......A tornado in Wisconsin destroyed the
numbering village Of Pensaukec, killing eight
persons and severely injurirg about twelve
others. All the buildings i'll tho village in
Guiding o hotel, scLoolhouse AMI lumber mills
were swept away. The neighboriug town of
Coullardyille was also severely damaged.
A fight took place at Chester, Pa, between
about a dozen men, and two Of them were badly
cut, probably fatally ......The German Bank,
Of st. Louis, has suspended on account OF all
insufficiency Of business ..... Messrs. Moody
and Sankey were present at Rome, Pa, at the
dedication Of the monument to the church
song writer, P. P. Bliss-one OF the victims of
the Ashtabula railroad disaster. The monu-
ment is partially the result of contributions Of
three thousand Sunday schools, representing
over SOC, 900 scholars in this country, Canada
and Great Britain. .....At Portsmouth, Il. l.,
the centennial of the capture Of the British
General Prescott was celebrated ...... The re-
moval is announced of Captain Bracket, the
revenue officer who recently brought to Light
the heavy operations Of a gang Of silk snug
glers in Now York ...... DR.. E. FL. Reed and q
lady were drowned by the upsetting Of a car
risge in the canal near Trenton, n. j..
A number of men at work in a coal mine near
Wheatland, Pa, succumbed to the deadly
fumes Of gas generated by a furnace, and OF
the thirty odd miners who were taken out I'M
conscious seven died, while several were seri-
ously injured .....As a team containing Ira
Davis. Mrs. Jonah Davis, Mrs. Ira Wakefield,
ing the railroad traci; near Greenfield, Mass, a
locomotive ran into it, h.linG the whole party.
They were returning from . berrying expe-
dition. ..... The sentry on guard b. the military
barracks in Montreal bayoneted a young man
named McKeown, who was one Of the ,'arty OF
young men that had attacked the sentry in an
endeavor oforce an entrance into the barracks.
A large crowd gathered and attacked.the guard
with stones, but was dispersed by o few shots
from the soldiers. -. "A man named Green
fatally shot his wife at Roanoke, No., and q
few days after his arrest he was forcibly taken
from the sherif's hands and hung to a tree by
q party Of fifty men......The Yorkvile Say
ings bank Of New York was closed by the State
bank superintendent, investigation having dis
closed a deficit Of about $500. 1.-The session
Of the international cotton convention opened
in Liverpool. 80. Several members of the cabi-
net-among them Secretary Evarts and Attor-
ney-General Deyens-will visit the coal mines
of Pennsylvania soon 1.-The Greenback party
of Iowa met in convention at Des Moiues,
adopted a platform, and nominated q State
ticket headed by Daniel H. Stubs for governor.
1000. The Brazilian mission has been given to
John McNulta, of Illinois.
The Depths of Degradation.