The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-06-27
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Home and Abroad.

Iuterestinx Items from Homo and Abroad.
The international Typographical Union will
send a delegate to France, to represent the
compositors of America at the Paris Exposition
citizen of North Hadley, Mass, was killed by a
stroke of lightning, and two workmen en-
ployed bv him were Frustrated by the f1ash....
The Russian car has arrived at the headquar-
tiers of the army on the Danube. The health
of the Russian troops has been very poor since
the beginning of the heated weather. The
waters of the Danube have fallen considerably,
and the attempt to cross is likely to be made
soon, although it is said in military circles that
the passage Of the river will not be made at all,
as the Russian victories in Asia Minor will be
so decisive as to bring on speedy negotiations
for peace. .....A bridge in England, thirty feet
above the river Avon, snapped in two, while
covered with people, and twelve persons were
killed and over fifty wounded ....A settlement
was made in the suit of the people OF New
York against Peter 3. Sweeny, of ring notorlety,
by the promise Of the defendant to pay to the
city part of the money for which lie was sued.
$500. Two women-Mrs. Eliza Carr and Mrs.
Dissell-jumped from a burning building in
Boston and were fatally injured. while several
other people were more or less badly burned in
their efforts to escape ...... -Four Missouri train
wrecicrs, who attempted to throw a train down
a bank for the purpose of robbery, have been
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Cross of the Order Of Plus IN upon Marshal
MacMahon. ..... The United States revenue
steamer Crawford was dispatched in search of
the whaling vessel Ellen RiZpah to obtain the
sworn statement of the master regarding his
detention by q Spanish cruiser, his imprison-
ment, and other atrocities.
A heavy storm in Omaha and other parts of
Nebraska blew down a 1 number of buildings.
A semi-oficial telegram from ST. Petersburg
states that the Russian ambassadors to London,
Berlin and Vienna will be able to guarantee
political map of Europe. Horrible Turkish
outrases arc reported in Servia .....A. D.
Hazen has been promoted to the position Of
third assistant postmaster-general in place of
Mr.. Barber, resigned. $50. Mrs. Sarah Guide,
a young wife Of twenty-one, living in Brooklyn,
n. Y, had a trivial quarrel with her husband,
and followed it up by committing suicide. .....
Three Republican clubs in France were closed
by the authorities on account Of unauthorized
political meetings. ..... John Doran was found
on the track of n railroad in central New York
with q bullet hole in his head. A train of cars
had passed over his body, badly mutilating it.
...... During the Popc's jubilee in Rome he re-
ceived 81, 300, 600, excluding valuable presents.
......A number of dismissals has been made i'll
the Treasury department at Washington OF
employees who had relatives i'll other branches
of the government. 800. Four hundred thou
sand dollars is the sum which was made the
basis OF the compromise in the suit of the peo-
pie of New York against Peter B. Swccny ......
The South Carolina Legislature passed a tax
bill which includes q provision for the payment
of the interest OH the bonded debt Of the State.
......Three persons were killed and several
were severely injured by accidents in the mines
il the vicinity of Scranton, Pa ...... Lafaytto
Coffman, c prominent farmer of Lancaster,
Pa, shot off both hands while hunting SPUR
rels ..... The commission appointed to inresti-
gate tho workings of the Philadelphia custom
house have begun their labors.. -. In New
Hampshire Gov. Prescott was inaugrrated.
He reported the State in q sound financial con-
ditiOn ..... Joseph j. Couch has been elected
Grand Master of the Free Masons of New York
State ....A Brooklyn On. " blacksmith named
Daley was killed with an ak during a drunken
quarrel. A man and his wife were arrested as
the murdcrers. A woman i'll Methuen, Mass,
gave birth to four children, three of them dying
soon after they were born.
Mr.. Lewis, n colored man, was appointed
naval officer at New Orleans, and John Tyler,
Jr., son of the late President Tyler was
made inspector of customs at Richmond,
Va......B BY a friShtful accident which occurred
during a fire in East Bridgeport, Conn.,, eleven
men-sevcral Of them prominent ci~tizens-losC
their lives. The published accounts say that
flames were discovered issuing from the third
story of a hat factory, at eleven o'clock at
night, and soon the whole upper part of the
Luilding was on fire. A number of men were
ut work in the Office, removing the furniture,
when the walls Of the burning building suddenly
toppled in upon them, burying them out Of
sight in n mass of hot bricks and burning TIM
bcrS. In tho early morning the ruins We're
reached. and eleven bodies were taken out,
frightfully mangled and burned almost beyond
recognition 49,. The Russian official newspaper
published a decree ordering q new levy Of the
unusually large number of 21S, 900 men. After
an all-day battle the Montcnegrins defeated
the Turks, who lost 5000 men,. In Boston
Charles Fagerstrom, aged three years, had his
skull fractured by a brick thrown at him By
q boy named WEIGH, two and a half years old.
......A fire in Galveston, Texas, destroyed
twenty-six business houses, causing a loss of
about So 600, 600. .... 1t was resolved, at a
lengthy cabinet meeting, to follow up the pro-
secutions of persons alleged to be implicated in
the Mountain Meadow massacre in Utah, and
to furnish necessary troops to carry out the de-
crcos Of the courts III case any attempt should
he made to prevent the punishment Of Mormon
leaders ...... Fifteen months imprisonment
and a fine of 1000 francs was the punishment
inflicted upon NJ. Duverdicr, president of the
Paris municipal council, for "insulting PreSi-
dent MvcMahon and melting civil war and as
sassinatiOn. ...... Two men were hanged
Louis Rousseau, in Louisiana, for the murder
of a butcher, and Jack Peasants, a colored
man, in Virginia, for the murder Of his sweet
heart, Ann Lundy. -. The Legislature of South
Carolina adjourned after passing a concurrent
resolution creating a commission to inquire
into the expenditures of public funds and the
election of United States Senator Patterson.
Two criminals in the Ohio penitentiary con-
fessed that they were the authors of the muir
der and outrage of n young girl at Pontiac,
ILL.,, in 1869, for which crime q young man
named Wiley was arrested, tried, convicted and
hung, although he protested his innocence to
the last.
A man named Elliott, who was under arrest
for being connected with the passing OF a forged
check for $4,000 in New York last April, es-
capped from the crowded court room almost
under the nose of his keeper ...... Charles
Dahlmann g. Co., wholesale clothiers Of New
York and San Francisco, have failed liabilities,
5000, 900. ....A butcher of Jersey City, n. j.,
named Frederick Bauer, resisted a constable,
who had warrant for his arrest, and was NOR
tally wounded after q number Of shots had
been exchanged. ....A fire in the Auburn
Wooden mill, at Auburn, n. Y, destroyed nearly
800, 900 pounds of wool, causing loss OF $780,
000.. Mr.. Calvin B. Camp, a New York
cotton broker and conspicuous member Of Mr..
Beecher's church, shot himself at his residence
in Brooklyn while suffering mental agony
caused by business trouble. ... .District-At-
torney Howard, of Utah, has furnished Attor-
ncy-General Devens with the unpublished re-
mainder of the confession of John D. Lee,
which is said to implicate Brigham Young and
other prominent Mormon officials in the mas
sacre at Mountain Meadow. 49,. Two young
sons of Patrick Clcary, q blacksmith of Newport,
II. l., were terribly logged by their father, and
their mother, who was in a delicate condition,
was similarly treated by the inhuman wretch.
who was arrested .... Evan Morris defeated
William Scharff in a rowing match for the
championship of the United States at Pitts
burgh, Pa..... Thousands Of people are in
danger of starving in China, where a terrible
famine prevails. IA young lad named O'Mara
died i'll Jersey City, N. j., two weeks after be
had been bitten in the cheek by n dog ...... A
state of siege has been proclaimed in Tounania.
...... Hon. Clarkson n. Potter, member of
Congress from New York, had one Of his ribs
fractured by being thrown from a carriage ill
New Rochelle, N. Y.
The governor Of New York was welcomed
to New York city by the Democrats in n torch
light procession 80. A sudden rise Of the
Danube delayed Russian military operations.