The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-04-11
NEWS ITEMS.
What Is Doing in the Old World and the
Now.

Now.
Unknown parties murdered Ebenezer Larg'
and his son, John, who slept in the store o
Fielder Magruder, in the District of Columbia
and after robbing the establishment, set fire II
it and burned it to the ground TIL secre
tary of the treasury has issued the forty-thirt
call for five-twenty bonds Of May and Novem
Der, 1866. The call is for $500, GOO registered
and 80, 900, 900 coupon bonds. 80. TIL govern
inent suit against Jacob Rehm for 81, 200, 600
for fraud, in connection with the Chicago
whisky ring, is to be carried on vigorously.
Tile report of East Indian affairs for the fsca
year of 1856 shows a deficit of S19, 000, 900
and the estimates for 'TG-7 place the deficiency
at $50, 400, 600, On account of the famine, de-
crease of revenue oGcasioned thereby, and the
immense works Of improvement which have
work to keep them from starving. The Samana
bay transaction is again being agltated.....
The steamship City Of Chester brought $500, OO(
in bar silver from England ...... The business
portion of Bismarck, Dakota Territory, includ'
ing two hotels, was destroyed by fire. Loss.
$3.50, 600; no insurance. ..... Fifteen womer
received the degree of NJ. D., from the Womcn's
Medical College of Pennsylvania .:.... DR.. W.
c. Pike, of Chicago, shot and killed Stephen
s. Jones, editor Of the Rrtgio-h Philosophical
journal for alleged criminal intimacy Will
MIS-. linz. Liz HluluClcl SaNC ullbSli ny "
justice. .....At a $50, 900 fire in the rear of the
American House, Boston, a number of persons
we're severely injured. Mr.. Rice, the proprie'
tor of the American, WAS 20 scared by the fire
as to cause death. 49,. White scoundrels at
tackled a cabinful of Chinese laborers, Mt Chico,
California, numbering five and MORALLY wound
cd another. 49,. President Hayes appointed
Fredk Douglass, the colored orator, to be mar
shall of the District Of Columbia.
Desperadocs stopped q railroad train near
Caddo, Indian Territory, and i'll n fight which
ensued with the train NEIL, shot and killed an
cx-marshal. They then drove tho inhabitants
into their houses at the mu2zle Of rcyolvcrs and
took what they chose from the stores. 49,. The
Arkansas river steamer Gov. Garland, with Coz
bales of cotton, was burned at Red Fork. The
: steamer was valued at S25, 600, and insured for
SIS, 600. -Four persons persisted i'll the flames.
......N. H. LOOMS, a prominent produce mer-
chant of New York city, died of hydrophobia,
caused by the bite of a little cur, some time
previously ...... Peter r. Sweeny, a member
of the former New York "ring," returned I'LL
expectcdly from France, whittier he has been
sojourning since the exposure. o colorcd
men were hanged at Aiken, s.. c., for numbering
two Germans, robbing the store and then burll-
ing the building. Th murdercrs confessed the
business Of their sentence, and also acknowl-
edged having committed another murder and
burned a Baptist church. Fully five Thousand
persons witnessed the execution. 4 fifth Gull
prit was respited by Gov. Hampton. -. Fifty
one thousand dollars we're lost by. the burning
Of the Goldman building, Boston. 1t was occu-
pied by several firms. ....O One side of the public
square of Lebanon, Tenn, was burned at night.
The loss is $50, 900, and the insurance $1,000.
1890. Fire destroyed a number o. buildings in
Parkersburg, Iowa. Loss, $11,f00 uninsured.
......The administration of President Cabal,
in Hayti, is fearful Of being overthrown, and
az a consequence arrests and imprisonment is
the order Of the day "A boiler in Hunter
Bros sawmil at Worthington, Ind, exploded
with fatal effect. Two Of the Hunter brothers,
two brothers named Bender. and an unknown
man were instantly killed and several others
dangerously wounded. 80. United States securl-
ties are eagerly bought in the European market.
.... The public requests of the late Oliver Ames
are $780, 600 for a public library in North Eas-
ton, Mass; $4,000 for a parsonage for the
Unitarian parish of the same town; $4,000 to
keep the church and parsonage in repair $780,
600 for public school purposes in the town of
East0n, $50, 900 to the town Of Easton, and
$50, 900 to the same town for highways and
public roads.
A conflagration in Pittsburgh, Pa, destroyed
the Fort Pitt boiler works, valued at sl40,OWO,
and insured for sos, 600. Wilson, Snyderd Co.,
founders. lost :15. 600 insured $40, 600. Mans
field & Co., brass finishers, lost 5000 900, fully
insured $3.50. The English rear admiral. Sir
Edward Belchcr, who commanded the eXpedl-
ton which searched for Sir O Franklin, in
1852, has Just died at the age of scventy-eight.
...... Great mortality is announced in Corea
from the famine, and the Chinese government
has been appealed to for aid 49,. A Rochester
On. " Jury gave Wealthy NJ. Green q verdict
of So, 900, against John J. Briggs, for breach
of promise 49,. Mary Matthews, of Newark,
n. j., refused to marry Patrick Decgan, where
upon the man attacked her with a knife, and
cut her severely on the neck and arm in IN en-
deavor to take her life. The girl escapingfr from
him, he took a rifle and put a ball through his
own BRAIN. The iron steamship Husband,
from Antwerp for New York, encountered a
binding snowstorm when off Sandy Hook, and
getting of the course, ran hard aground at
Long Branch, n. j., and proved a total wreck.
The $50 people on board were rescued by the
life service men stationed on the coast. Part
of the cargo Of wine, glass, ETC., was saved.
When morning broke, the officers of the Rus
land found they were ashore not far from the
Amerique, which stranded a few weeks. preyi-
ously. ..... Joe Goss, who fought a prize fight
in Kentucky. and was tried for the offense, has
been sentenced to prison to work out a fine of
$3.50 go. Internationalists III Berne, Switzcr-
land, celebrated the anniversary Of the Paris
commune by a procession, in which was carried
a red flag. When the police attempted to con-
fiscate the flag, a fierce riot occurred, in which
a number of men were stabbed. .....Ihe boiler
explosion at Worthington, Ind, was more de-
s~tructlve of life than at first reported-twelve
persons having been killed outright and seven
severely injured. The neighbors we're gathered
in the sawmill Mt the time to inspect the work.
ings of a new grist mill, which had been at
tached to the power.
q Samuel C. Bell, formerly cashier of the Hat
boro pa national bank, has been sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment for embezzling
funds of the institution. .....A telegram from
Zaza saws q six hours obstinate fight took place
between the Turks and Bosnians near, Bona
ventura. Both sides suffered heavily. The
Turks retired into Livno. An unknown
man committed suicide in Kingsbridgc, n. T.,
by jumping from the mountain side into a rail-
way cut, a distance of ninety feet .... One of
the most powerful locomotives on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad exploded at Kcyscr,
W. Va, killing the fireman and severely in
Turing the engineer go. President Burgers. OF
the TransYaal republic, in southern Africa,
favors union with Great Britain The sultan
of Turkey, in his speech at the opening of the
Legislative" body put the fault of the present dis
astrous state OF the financial condition Of the
country upon the intrigucs which have been
collsimmating since the Crimean war, and
have kept Turiey under the expense of con-
stantly providing material for possible hostili-
ties. ..... Successful religious ~rcvivals arc be-
ing held in Albany, n. ....:. A colored man
named Edward Wells murdered a pcldler,
known rs William O1Bricn, near Buckhead, Ga,
by striking him with al Ak. Wells then sold
the goods Of the murdered man and was pre-
pairing to decamp when arrested. Ex-GoY.
Emory Washburne, IL. D., died at Cambridge,
Mass, i" the age of seventy-seven 80. The
United States supreme court has decided that n
State has the constitutional right to deny I'll
insurance company. belonging in another State,
permission to transact business within its boun-
darics. Observation-Disclosures Key, in writing
to an inquirer, stated that when a vacancy oc-
CURED III his department i'll the Southern States,
preference would be given to Republicans i'll
making the selection 80. The prospects of the
English grain cr@p arc good. 49,. Major Reno,
who commanded a portion of Clusters regiment
on the day Of The massacre. and who calamity
saved his followers from Clusters fate, is on
trial by.courtnartial for improper proposal to
fellow officers wife. and the prospect is that
he will be dismissed from service.
The investigation by the New York Legis-
lature, brought out the amount paid by inaur.