The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-01-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Homo and Abroad.

State cauvassers Of South Carolina, and dis
charged the members from arrest under thu
contempt proceedings OF the supreme court O.
the State. ..... The report Of the Democratic
committee who went to Louisiana has beer
made. The committee quote from the cleo
ton laws to show that the returning board
had no jurisdiction over the electoral vote
there being no law as to who shall count tht
vote whatever. They say that tho law wal
not complied with as to protests by supervisors
from the intimidated parishes. They do moi
deny that there WAS no lswleseness, but they
do not admit that intimidation was proved
They report that oolored men in LOUISIANA are
not necessarily Republicans.
New York city revenue officers captured al
illicit distillery which, with its contents, was
valued at s45, 900. Ia widow named Collins
while temporarily insane, drowned her two
little daughters in the canal at Bryson, Can
The body OF ono Of them has boon recovered
...... Valparaiso suffered from q large oonfla-
grafton, which burned for two days and de.
stroyed q vast amount Of property. The
naval commission reports in favor Of abandon
ing the naval establishments at New London
New Orleans and Brunswick, The
Colorado Legislature elected the Hon. Henry
A. Teller as United States Senator for ii,
years, beginning next March ...... New Hamr
shire's Constitutional convention voted te
abolish the religious test and to hold the cleo
tons in November biennislly.. .... By the
brigantine Capt. Sitemap driving ashore al
Herring Cove, near Halifax, during the recent
heavy storm, four persons were drowned.
F. o. Prince, Democratic candidate for mayor
Of Boston, Was elected by a majority Of $500
CONGRESSMAN A. s. Hewitt, chairman OF the
Democratic national executive committee, has
issued the following address, by order Of the
committee: To the people Of the United
States: The rational Democratic committee
announces as the result Of the Presidential
election held on the seventh OF November, the
election Of Samuel J. Tilden, Of New York, as
President, and Thomas A. Hendricks, OF In.
diana, as Vice. President Of the United States.
We congratulate you on the victory for re-
form. 1t now only remains for the two Houses
of Congress, in the performance Of their duty
on the second Wednesday Of February next, to
give effect to the will Of the people, thus
expressed in the Constitutional mode by 8 ma
jority of the electoral votes, and confirmed by
a majority of all the States, as we'll as ty an
overwhelming majority Of allthe people OF the
United States. In reply to this, 2. Chandler,
chairman Of the national Republican commit
toe, has issued the following An address has
been issued by the Democratic committee. 1t
the last desperate attempt to prop a failing
cause. Gov. Hayes has been fairly elected by
a clear majority Of tho electoral votes. There
no indication that any rightminded citizen
has a doubt as to the result. The address Of
the Democratic committee is an impudent and
audscious attempt to prejudice and pervelt
the public judgment. Hayes and Wheeler are
aud the will Of the American people
will be carried out and maintained.s
By the breaking Of an icebridge in the Ohio
near Cincinnati a railway bridge was carried
of, and q number Of coal barges swept away.
New York city banks are endeavoring to have
their taxes reduced ...... Intense suffering
exists among the poor Of New York, and the
city missionaries continually appeal for aid.
...... The Democratic State central committee
of New Hampshire adopted resolutions decIar-
ing their belief in the election Of Mr.. Tilden,
and calling on all fair minded men Of all par
ties to secure his Inauguration. ...Iu Indiana
the Democrats have called for mass meetings
to be held in different parts Of the State to
the political situation ...... In many
of the Western cities one hundred and eighty
five guns we're fred by the Republicans as q
Specification Of their belief that Gov. Hayes
elected President. .....T The United States
war steamer Michigan, which has been sta
toned on Lake Erie, has virtually been put
out Of commission-nesrly all the officers
having been transferred and the crew dis
charged. ..... Third-class Midshipmen Joseph
Beal, OF Washington, and R. NJ. Barclay, Of
Missouri, wore dismissed from the Annapolis
naval academy for huzing ...... The president
Of Brooklyn's board Of health, after witnessing
be cremation Of Baron do Palm, says that he
is not convinced Of the necessity nor adapta-
bility Of the process to our times and country.
$3.50. Fourteen steamers, which had been laid
in winter quarters at st. Louis, were caught
in an ice jam which came from above and were
crushed, several Of them being totslly wrecked.
The losses amount to $3.50, 900.
In an alteration in Albanv, n. Y, Mrs.
Robert Mcdonald, in defense Of herself from
an assault by her husband, shot him in the
head. ..... Reports from Little Rock, Ark, are
to the effect that a most disastrous coDflagra-
ton ragged in the city, doing great damage,
and at one time threatened tho entire place
with destruction. ... The most disastrous fire
which has visited Augusta, Me-, in twelve
years is reported. The Losses amount to 500,
600 .....Wm. NJ. Ream, q banker OF Somerset,
Ohio. was taken from bis bed by masked men
and forced to open the bank vault under pen
atty Of death. The men took therefrom SO,
200 and escaped. On the alarm being given,
the citizens secured the country unsuccessfully
...... Gen. Crooks forces are in camp on the
north fork of the Belle Fourche, recuperatine
for future action. .....A $40. 900 incendiary
fire is reported from Blackville, s. c., and
another from Florence, in the same State. . .
By the sinking Of the steamer Homer in the
Red river ten deck passengers were drowned,
The vessel and cargo we're. a total loss. 80.
Mayor Wickham, of New York, was appointed
by Judge Brady receiver Of the Security life
insurance company, which has failed with
liabilities Of SO, 450, 900 and assets Of 81, s4S,
900.
president Grant, in his letter to the United
States Senate, replying to the resolution re-
questing information as to whether troops
of the United States were stationed at the city
Of Petersburg, in the State Of Virginia, on the
seventh of November, 1876" answers I'll
may be that the presence Of twenty-fou,
United States soldiers, under the command OF
q captain and lieutenant, quartered in the
custom house Of Petersburg, Va, on the
seventh Of November, at a considerable dis
lance from any polling place, without any in
reference On their part whatever, and without
going near the polls during election, may haze
secured a different result from ,chat oouh haze
been obtained if they had not been there (c
maintain the peace in case Of riot) on the .Jact
of he returns. But if such is the case, il
is only proof that in this one congressiona
district in the State of Virgins the legal an6