The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-08-29
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Interesting Items from Home and Abroad.

'and released, and the whole Vigilance Com
rnittee at once assembled under arms in tn
store of the Lackawanna company. 49,. Sitting
Bull, with a band of from 5000 to 5000 Sioux
Indians, isin British America, and boasts that
he will soon return to the United States and
renew theconficb against the whites. 80. Twelve
persons were+mofe OF less seriously injured by
the upset6ng of two coaclles and two sleeping
cars OF q train near Centervile, Mo $50. The
famine in portions Of Indiais on the increase,
entailing great suffering upon the natives. a...
vention for the nomination Of governor and
other officers met and perfected it's organizes.
ton. Three hundred NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and ~girls-struck against a reduction Of wages
in New York. aa'- 9.
AS o train Of osrsfHsdNwith passengers vas
on its way from New York to Long Branch the
tender ran of the track while crossing a bridge
over Oceanport creek and the locomotive, mail
car and three passenger coaches went crashing
into the shallow water below. The: scene that
presented itself was terrible. From the wrecked
cars heads, arms and legs prokuded, while
Wild shrieks>for aid filled the air.4f One after
another Of the injured passengers WIS recov.
cred from the cars and o special train and
medical assistance were telegraphed for. 1t
was found that over seventy passengers we're
injured, two of them seriously. .... Senator
Blaine called the Maine Republican State con-
~vention, held at Augusta, to order, and Joseph
Drummond was appointed chairman. A reso-
luton indorsing the Southern policy of Presi-
dent Hayes was followed by a resolution de-
nouncing such policy, and considerable feeling
was brought ont in the convention. Speeches
in favor of the resolutions we're made by their
respective adherents, but upon a motion of
Senator Blaine-who thought the occasion in
opportune for an expression of o~pinion-both
were laid upon the table. Selden Conner was
renominated for governor by reclamation.
Resolutions were introduced and carried stating
that the Republicans Of Maine viewed with
solicitude and alarm the complete consolidation
Of all political power in the sixteen Southern
States in the hands Of one party and the prac,
tical Acknowledgement Of many voters that
the action Of the Democratic House of Repre-
sentafivesin refusing to appropriate money for
the army was unjusti6able that the Repubi-
cans Of Maine favored the publication, integrity
and independence Of the civil service that the
industrial interests Of the country ought to re-
ceiye encouraging legislation; that specie pay
mentsr ought to-be resumed that no further
lapd" grants or subsidies to railroads ought to
be- given = and finally. that South Carolina,
Florida and Louisiana had been fairly and
legally carried by the Republican national and
State tickets in November, and "for the Demo-
cratic party now to raise the cry Of fraud is
State Constitutional convention adopted a reso-
linton repudiating the bonds issued by the
reconstruction government.
At Troy, Kansas, a railroad train ran off the
track and q car full Of passengers fell over an
embankment fifteen feet high, smashing to
pieces. About twenty-five persons we're in
jured, several Of them fatally. The first
telegraph in China, six miles in length, has
been completed and is in operation. F. M.W.
Holiday was nominated for governor upon the
seventh ballot by the Conservative State con-
vention of Virginia, and General James A.
Walker for acknowledgements. The sessions
Of the convention lasted for several Days and
at times we're exciting and stormy. the struggle
being between the regulators and a~nti-repudi-
ators. The latter we're successful, and the
platform contained q resolution recognizing the
obligation Of the State debt and calling upon
the general assembly to endeavor to readjust it
with justice to the creditors and honor to the
State Senator Conkling has returned to
New York from his trip to Europe......At
T~ptonville, Tenn, Gen. II. Darnell, who was
on trial for murder, de6ed the court and
sheriff, and with twenty-five armed follow
ers at his back escaped into Kentucky....:
A number Of anti-administration papers in
France have been prosecuted and fined by
the government and others have been sup
pressed in portions Of the country IAN
attempt is being made to organize a strong
~workingmen's political party in Ohio, to parti-
cipate in the coming campaign. =.
A mass meeting Of %workIngmen IN Cincinnati,
Ohio, nominated q full State ticket, headed by
s. n. Bond, Of Cincinnati, for governor. Meet
ings we're also held in Philadelphia and Column
bus, Ohio, for the purpose Of forming a work.
ingmen's political party 800. Advlces from
Lima, Peru, state that the Pacific Navigation
Company's steamer Eten was wrecked on the
rocks in the South Pacific ocean, about seventy
miles from Valparaiso, aud the loss of Life was
large, probably reaching one hundred persons.
A number Of the crew and passengers took
English war steamer went to their assistance,
but were unable to take them off, owing to the
heavy seas running. About twenty survivors
on the rocks suffered 30 terribly from exposure
and want Of food that they eventually threw
themselves into the sea, to end their misery.
......Rev. C. Lazensby, a Primitive Methodist
minister. was dro sned while bathing in the
river at Plattsville, Ont .....A desperate battle
took place between regular soldiers and citi-
zens under Gen. Gibbon and the Mes Perces
Indians in Montana. The Indians we're sur
prised m their camp, but made . hard fight,
the squaws participating and p, lring deadly
Gibbons command had three ohcers, seven
teen men and five citizens killed and about
forty-fve wounded, the Indians suffering a
still heavier loss. 800. Lightning entered a
Swedish Lutheran church at Jamestown, N. Y,
during the Sunday school services and killed q
boy named Anderson, besides prostrating an
old lady and two children.
Colonel John A. Joyce, who was one among
the number convicted Of completely in the
nefarious transactions of the Western whisky
ring, was released at Jefferson City, Mo-, on
the plea that his sentence Of three years and q
half was cumulative, that he could not have
been legally sentenced to more than two years,
and that having served that period he was
il on the increase in England, and q Cattle
Plague committee Of the House of Commons
have recommended stringent measures to pre-
vent its further spread :.....A party OF fifteen
men from Mexico entered Rio Grande City,
Texas, broke open the Jail, shot Judge Cox and
the jailer, and released two notorious outlaws.
The civil authorities called upon the military
for assistance, and Colonel Price, with one
hundred regulars and two Calling guns, started
in pursuit, but the outlaws reached the Rio
Grande river ahead of the troops and recrossed
into Mexico. . y. Ii. MurtaSn, proprietor VI
the Washington National Republican, was at
tackled with a cowhide by J. r. Wheatley, q
Washington journalist, for refusing to retract
an article rejecting, on Wheatley's character
which had appeared in Murtagh's paper. ....
Cadet Northrup, member OF the third class in
the military academy at West Point, was
drowned while bathing in the Hudson 49,.
The main building OF the Taunton Crncible
works at Weir Village, Mass, was burned by an
%incendiary. Loss, S26, 600 insured.
The American rifle team for 1877, to par
ticipate in the coming international contest at
Creedmoor, has been chosen as follows, the
gentlemen selected being the eight who made the
highest scores in the preliminary competition
for places on the team. The names are T.. 8.
Dakin, captain; H. s. Jewell, /. L. Allen,
W. H. Jackson, l.. Weber, Frank Hyde, L. G.
Bruce, and C. Z. ~Blydenburgh, with L. L. Hep
burn and T. Lamb as substitutes . 80. An ex-
cursion train on its way to Bennington, VT,
was run into by a freight train at Hoosic
Junction and a passenger car was smashed.
Six persons were injured more or less badly.
The Democratic State convention Of Maine met
at Portland and nominated J. II. Williams, OF
Augusta, for governor. The platform adopted
reafirmed the principles and platform Of the
National Democratic convention at st. Louis IL
June, 1876, and asserted that "the reversal OF
the verdict OF the American people as expressed