The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-06-20
NEWS ITEMS.
What Is Doing In tho Old World and the
New.

representing that he n0Q equipped al ARMY ol
60, 900 men when he. had only 10000 at his dis
posal. Corruption on an scale is said
to have been discovered ...... Fifty additional
cmployecs-including four chiefso of tle division
have been removed from the bureau of en-
craving and printing in the Treasury depart
mcnt at Washington. .....An incipicnt panic III
a Catholic church in New York, caused by a
little girls veil taking fire, was checked by the
GOODNESS Of the clcrgymcn in ttcndancc 49,.
In Boston the suit of Mrs. Sarah NJ. hicc
against John T. Coolidge and others, for de.
famation of character, was opened. Some OF
the parties to the suit arc we'll known and
prominently connected. ..... Miss Lizzie Cal
houn was killed in jumping from a carriage
that was being dragged by runaway horses i'll a
cemetery in Albany, N. Y......J. B. Stillson,
correspondent of the New York Herald in Salt
Lake City, Utah, t~clegraphed that two attempts
were made in that place to take his life. The
first time nc was fired upon while riding in a
carriage, and n few days afterward q man
called ut his room and attempted to stab him
while pretending to hand him a paper, but both
attempts at assassination failed .....:A teacher
OF French in Hartford, COMM. ~Alyergnet-
WAS bitten twice by a small dog, and after
brooding over the matter for several weeks he
was taken with symptoms of h~ydrophobia and
died after much suffering. .... In a champion
ship billiard match in New York Joseph Dion
was defeated by William Sexton .....A Catholic
church in Wieschcn, Grand Duchy of Posen,
WAS struck by lightning on q Sunday while ser
vices were being held, and six of the worshipers
were killed and about seventy seriously injured.
Hon. Elisha Watson, of South Kingston,
r. l., committed suicide by drowning line
jury in the case of Lizzie A.. Mink, on trial for
shooting her lover, Charles w. Kicker, in Lowell,
Mass, brought in a verdict Of manslaughter.,
The village of New Ccntreville, in Pennsyl-
vania, was almost entirely destroyed by fire.
......A telegram from ErZcroum says the Rus
slams were cannonading Karadagh, the turks
replying vigorously. The Notifications OF Sofia,
on which thousands Of men were working for
months, have been completed, and mounted
with heavy Krupp guns. Theya are considered very
strong. .....A bar Of red hot steel coiled about
the legs of John Langdon, a workman, in
Gautier's rolling mill in Lafayette, n. j., terri
bly, burning him before he could be released.
-. John Logan has declined the collector
ship of customs at Chicago. The village OF
Orota, on Lake Superior, Mich, caught fire
from the forest fires, raging thcreabouts, and
every house except the church and schoolhonso
were destroyed, depriving seven hundred people
Of their homes. a tugboat with provisions and
clothing for the sufferers was dispatched from
Marquette. .... The queen of Holland is seri-
4 "NAS o. 49,
the woods in the vicinity of Halifax, n. S 49,.
NJ. Hansen, leader of the Left in the Danish
parliament, is dcad......T The public debt was
reduced in May Sc, 9S1, 900, the total reduction
since July /, 1876, being about s36, DOC, OOO::.
The increase in hours of work in the New York
custom house, recommended by the committee
of investigation, has gone into effect. The
great scandal case of Mrs. Rice against Coolidge
and others, in Boston. was taken from the jury
aftc.. one days trial, and put i'll the hands OF
three eminent lawyers for private adjustment;
..... General Grant was formally introduced
to the Prince of Wales, and went with him to
the track near Wyalusing, Pa, crushing in four
passenger coaches and causing the instant
death of two ladies, and the serious woundinG
of seventeen other persons, five of whom were
expected to die. IA coal oil refinery in Balti-
more was burned for the fourth time. The
burning oil ran through the streets and cutters,
setting on fire n block Of tenement houses,
badly damaging them.
The Turkish cavalry near Kars was repulsed.
Circassian troops at Bckli Ahmed, near Kars,
were defeated in all engagement with the Rus-
slams. and the place was given to the flames.
The Turks are in great need Of good comman-
ders, according to a dispatch. -. The queen OF
Holland died June 3, aged fifty-nine. edward
Otto struck Edward Harrington, a saloon keeper
in New York, over the head with n cart rurg,
causing his death. In Washington there
arc several hundred applications for vacant
consulships on file. The failure is announced
of Geo. II. Wolff & Co., dry goods jobbcrs of
New York and Cincinnati. with debts amount
ing TO $3.50, O0J ...... T.. II. Taylor, one of the
distillers of Kentucky, has failed, his
liabilities exceeding $4,000 600: assets, about
$3.50. COO. ..... Three men assaulted Mrs. Wins
low and her sixtecn-year-old daughter, near
Portage City, Wis, intlicting a horrible outrage
nnon the two, and beating them so they arc
k"ly TO die. .....A FERROUS drought-owing to
til absence of rain for several weeks-prcvailed
in Alabama. 800. Thirty thousand barrels of
oil were destroyed by fire near Millcrstown Pa.
The fire originated i'll an oil tank. which was
struck by lightning. .... Anthony Gardner has
been elected president of tho republic of
attempted to saw the main brace of the railroad
bridge across Big Creek. near Canton, ILL.,, with
the intention of wrccking a coming train. He
was discovered and fired upon, but got away.
.....A commission composed of one Rcpub-
lican, one Democrat and a special agent of the
Treasury department-has been appointed to
look into the management Of the Philadelphia
custom house. ..... The village of Glenwood,
Mich, was completely swept away by fire com
municating from forests i'll the vicinity, which
were in flames. The residents were compelled
to hurry away for their lives, leaving all their
property behind ......A locomotive ran into O
who was stonins, a train near Amster-
dam, N. y, instantly killing him. =. In the
Ellcntown 6. c. conspiracy cases the jury ac-
quilted one of the accused and failed to agree
in regard to the. other ten persons on trial..
Rome celebrated the iiftieth anniversary of the
dav on which Plus IX was made a bishop by q
large demonstration and papal reception ......
Frederick, Nd. Rev. John NJ. Friday, pastor
The Lutheran church at Harpcr's Ferry, Va,
was drowned.
A small land of hi-BaZouks and Circas-
slams crossed the Danube By stealth, attacked n
Russian guard, killed several, captured fifty
head of cattle aud took some prisoners. The
Danube has been heavily swollen by rains this
so than any time the last thirty
years-and it is thought the Russians will not
its passage before July Southern
Illinois was visited by 4 fearful storm of wind
and rain, which swept through that section,
ruin and devastation in its track. At
Mount Carmel twenty persons lost their lives,
and half q million dollars worth of property
destroyed, among the buildings blown
down being two churches, two schoolhouses
and stores and dwelling houses. From thirty
to fifty persons were wounded and about twenty
were missing. At Mattoon buildings were I'M
rooted and overturned and i'll some cases com
plctcly demolished .....A Peruvian rebel turret
ship that had been committing acts of piracy
against British subjects was attacked by two
English vessels and badly damaged after 4
sharp engagement. 1t escaped nthc darkness,
was aftcrward compelled to surrcndcr.....
A sanguiliary fight took place i'll a bar-room
filled with drunken men i'll North Hudson,
n. j., and one Of the mcn was stabbed beyond
hope of recovery, another had an eye gouScd
out, and five more wcrC wounded with knives
and glasses. .... The arrest Of NJ. Duvcrdicr,
president of the municipal council in Paris, Oh
the charge Of "insulting Marshal MacAIahon
and melting civil war and assassination, caused
great excitement among the working classes,
with whom the prisoner was popular. .....A
villainous attempt to wreck n train and plumber
the passengers was made on the st. Louis and
San Francisco railroad. about 15i miles from
st. Louis. by the displacement OF rails, the
locomotive and baggage car were thrown down
n bank fifty feet high. but the rest of the train
fortunately escaped the fearful plunge. The
engineer. fireman and one passenger were
killed, and the conductor was fired upon by tho
wreckcrs, who escaped in the darkness.... A
Spanish cruiser boarded the American whalcr
Ellen Rizpah near Cuba, and demanded her
These icing shown they were con-
sidcred insufficient. and the captain Of the
wllalcr was kept III close confinement for four
DAYS A WatrrSpOut near Burlington, Iowa,