The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-09-12
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Home and Abroa

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Homo and Abroad.
Hon. George q. Pendleton and General
Thomas Ewing opened the Democratic CAM
paign with speeches at a mass meeting in
Columbus. $500 In q long and exhaustive report
Of a committee of the Cuban League on the
present situation Of affairs in Cuba. 1t is as
serted that the greater part Of the island is
under control OF the patriots, that Spain retains
foothold only by reason Of the refusal OF the
United States to recognize the belllgerent
rights of the Cubans, and that the time has
arrived when Congress may with Justice recog-
nize the independence Of the island, or at least
accord the insurgents the rights Of belligerents.
......A greenback conference was held in
Rochester, N. Y. About forty delegates were
present, but the proceedings were secret......
Four men were arrested in New York for at
tempting to sell forged bonds Of st. Louis
county. Extensive preparations seem to have
been made to food the country with these
spurious bonds. 49,. Several carpenters were
injured by the fall Of a scaffGlding at Prince .Ss
memory Of the late General McCook Was un-
yelled in the presence Of a large crowd with
appropriate ceremonies. ..... An eclipse OF the
moon occurred on the twenty-third. At New
York when the moon rose she was hidden by
the earth's shadow for a short time, but soon
came into view again, and wholly %reappeared
by BIS P. M..... Resolutions favoring a recipro-
city treaty with Canada and amendments to the
resumption act and Bankrupt law were adopted
by the National Board OF Trade, in session at
Milwaukee, Wis.
John Butterworth beat and stabbed his wife
to death at North Andover, Mass, while under
{bo ;paY,arno ~ ufronn 6ript and Saa1onav
After the commission Of the crime the MUIR
derer attempted to commit suicide and inflicted
q serious wound upon himself ...... During an
alteration in Baltimore Charles Pitts, twenty
years old, stabbed and killed Charles Wilson,
aged nineteen years, both men being colored.
John Wesley Hardin, credited with COM
hitting twenty-one murders and for whose
tody the Legislature Of Texas had offered
a reward Of "a, 600, was captured on q train at
officers from Texas In making the capture
some twenty shots were fred, and q companion
Of Hardin, named Mann, was killed. .Presi-
dent Hayes returned to Washington from his
trip to New England. General Sherman
sent a dispatch from Helena, Montana Terri
tory, to the acknowledgement at Washington,
saying that there was too much confusion IN
the accounts from General Howard and the
Indians in regard to the hostile outbreak for
uun W uIahe ouI auytuAuS' puG Ina1 uo "ouio
Investigate and report as soon as posslble......
Congressman Page, Of California, brought a
suit against the San Francisco Chronicle, and
the jury failed to agree af.er being out all
night, standing six to six......A doctor named
Cooper, living near Charleston, W.. Va, was
arrested for poisoning his wife. He had been
married three times, and his two other wives
also died under suspicious circumstances. Their
bodies will be exhumed and examined for traces
Of poison.
The handsome iron bridge Of the Union
Pacific railroad company across the Missouri
river, between Omaha and Council Bluffs, was
partially destroyed during O heavy storm, caus-
ing o loss which is estimated at $3.50, 000......
A culvert across the Thames river near Mohe-
gan, Conn.,, was swept way by heavy rains, and
the engine, tender and baggage car of a train
that was passing were hurled into a ravine and
smashed. Seven persons were injured, some
severely. .... After q nights drunken debauch
William Wunder, residing in Philadelphia, re-
turned to his home, quarreled with his wife
aud struck her over the head with an ak, kill
ing her almost instantly. . Judge West, the
Republican gubernatorial candidate, General
Garfield and Stanley Matthews delivered cam
paign speeches at a mass meeting in Athens,
Ohio. The British team Of riaemen, who
are to compete in the international match for
the American trophy, arrived in New York and
proceeded to Creedmoor, where they will at
once begin to practice. ...A number Of Colorado
steers broke away from q herd that was being
driven to a slaughter house in New York and
ran through the streets IN every direction, toss
ing and goring q number Of persons AMI crea-
ting great excitement before they were killed
or captured .....A party Of twenty-one miners
on a prospecting tour in the Black Hills were
surrounded by 500 Indians and had q desperate
tokk1o ~ Goo ho,,ro, J,ro{ipn mn uyh;fo me-
and a number Of Indians being killed. When
nightfall set in the miners escaped to Dead
wood. ..... The covered bridge across the Tus-
caravans river near New Philadelphia, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, about $4,000.
......L. Roberts 4 Co.. grain and flour dealers
Of New York, failed with liabilities amounting
to $3.50, 900.
At Trenton, on the twenty-fifth Of Septem-
Der, the New Jersey Republicans will hold their
convention for the nomination Of q candidate
for governor. .....At Deadwood, in the Black
Hills, the sheriff captured three stage robbers,
one Of them %wounding an officer, and being
In turn shot through the body before he was
taken. .... Three neighbors-William Kramer,
William Selan and J.. Petershen-living in East
New York, N. Y, found the body Of o COW and
skinned it for the purpose Of saving the hide OF
the animal, which had died from the effects Of
eating heritage, over which paris green had
been sprinkled. Soon after Kramer was taken
sick and died Of poisoned matter that had
worked through sores on his hands, and subse-
auently Selan was also taken down and died Of
~tetanus, while Petershen was very sick
The hostile Indians, under Chief Joseph, at
taxed two small parties OF whites from Helena,
Montana Territory, and killed sixteen OF them.
but released them again. ..... The Buffalo Park
Refractory, Of Buffalo, was burned, causing
a loss Of $50, 900, on which there is $4,000 in
surance 49,. The striking miners OF the Penn
~sylvania Coal Company held a meeting in Pitts
ton, Pa, end resolved not to resume work
unless the company complied with their de-
mand Of an advance.
A meeting of the Republican State committee
Of New York was held in the Fifth avenue
Hotel. New York city, and it was resolved to
hold the convention for the nomination OF
oficers at Rochester, IN September &c.,.
A single-scull, three-mile boat race for the
championship Of the United States took place
at Saratoga! n; y, between Y Charles amas +; G R;5at
Of Port Richmond, n. Y, and Fred A. Plaisted,
Of New York. The race was won by Courtney,
who made the distance in twenty minutes and
forty-three seconds, Riley coming in second.
ia train on the New York and New Haven
plunged over all open drawbridge
across the Bronx river in Westminster county,
N. y, and the engineer James Marvin, was
drowned go. By a fire in a mine in Mexico
twenty -four lives were lost, and many persons
were severely wounded . . . . During an ARRAY
at Richmond, KY, Walter Sanders, late sheriff
Of Lincoln county, and his brother-in-law, Jack
Ballard, were killed, and Gus Edwards, town
marshal, and his brother were wounded.
Brigham Young, head Of the Mormon Church,
died at Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, on
August 20. He was born at Whittenham, Vt,
June /, 1901, and was consequently seventy-si1
years Of age at the time Of his death. Bis
father was a farmer, who had served inthe war
Of the revolution, and Brigham's youth and
early manhood we're passed on his fathers
farm. When thirty-one years old Brigham for
the first time heard Samuel H. Smith preach
the doctrines which afterward shaped his future
course in life. In September, 1882, Brigham,
who had already been baptized, Joined the
Mormon community at Kirkland, Ohio, where.
by his shrewdness and enthusiasm, lie speedily
gained a commanding position among his 1880
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