The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-04-25
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
terestinE Items from Home and Abroad.

The United States consul at Acapulco, Mexico,
was arrested on the street by soldiers and con-
fined in prison. The consul had had q difficulty
with the authorities, growing out of the arrest
of q man claiming his protection. Owing
to the action of the Brotherhood Of Engineers
in ordering their members to leave several rail-
ways, the Reading railway company OF PENN
sylrania has issued a circular requiring oil en-
gineers in their employ to leave the order. The
company offers to form a benevolent association
for its employees which will pay larger returns
for smaller assessments, than the Brotherhood.
...... It is now claimed that the Chinese mas
sacre, at Chico. Cal, WAS ordered by the Coun-
Gil of Nine, of the Labor Reform, whose COM
mands were implicitly carried out 10y members
of the order, all of whom are under oath OF
secrecy 800 The British ship Trowbridge, while
crossing the ocean, picked up i'll Underwater,
a boat containing a number of the crew Of the
vessel Florence Oulton, which had been abaE-
doned in n sinking condition. Another boat
containing nine of the Oulton's crew could not
be found. ..... George +. Seward, late consul
general of the United States to China, has been
charged by his successor in Office with accepting
n bride of 81, 900 for liberating q pirate and
murderer. The charges are to be investigated.
...... Norman McQuaig shot and killed James
B. Jackson, aged sixty, and his son, aged
twenty-one, at a ranch on Horse Creek, near
Cheyenne. The cause Of the shooting was q
quarrel about q woman, q cousin of McQualg.
-. John Chamberlain, the noted New York
gambler, recently declared q bankrupt, paid
one cent on q dollar. . Russia has just ordered
that all railways in the country must hereafter
purchase locomotives and rolling stock manu-
featured in Russia. This is heavy blow for
the lrussian iron industries.
Twenty carloads Of silks, teas and other valu-
able articles from China and Japan, on their
way to England, camo overland from San
Francisco to New York in ten days-being the
fastest timo ever made by q freight train. .....
Another dam in Connecticut has broken down,
under the accumulation of water occasioncd by
spring frcshcts. The dam at Rainbow, O the
Pennington river, gave way unexpectedly, and
three large paper mills had a narrow escape
from destruction. The loss will not exceed
Sc, 600. "A rapid rise in the Saco river, Maine,
carried of Jordan's sawmip, with its valuable
machinery. at Salmon Falls 5000. The revenue
collector of the sixth district Of North Caro-
lima, accompanied by several men, raided an
illicit d~istillery in Watauga county, when they
and the collector wounded. Capt. Bogardus,
the pigeon shooter, showed his skill to u New
York audience by shooting one thousand glass
balls sprung from q trap. AZ sixteen yards. He
succeeded in breaking 972 balls in seventy-six
minutes-thc time, which he was allowed for
the feat, being limited to one hundred minutes.
..... The drought in South Australia is over.
......H II. Macy, the proprietor of "Macy's"
well known store in New York city, died in
Paris, Of Bright's disease Of tho kidneys.....
The Grant House, at Wheeling, W. Va, was
totally destroyed by fire, and a i number of the
guests had a narrow escape from burning.
The fire was started by an incendiary, and con-
suncd 800. 900 worth of property "A fire
at Cornwall Landing, n. Y, destroyed Mead u
Taft's planning mill and several other buildings
to the value Of $4,000 partially insured......
Near Walton, KY, a colorcd man named Parker
Mayo committed MI assault upon n nine-year-
old daughter of VIM. Murray, during the alb
scnce of the parents. Tho child was severely
injured. The next day he assaulted q farmers
wife residing in the vicinity. The succeeding
morning his body was found hanging to the
limb of a tree about a mile from the town.
Spring freshcts in Nova Scotia have washed
away large quantities Of logs as well as & num-
Der Of mills and bridges. =. The European
contcsting powers have signed the much-talked
of protocol, but peace is doubtful, notwith-
standing. 49,. The government of Colombia,
South America, claim that in less than a month
the rebellion i'll that State will have been
crushed out, meantime brisk fighting is I taking
place. -. A fire in Barre, vt, consumed the
factory Of the Stafford e. Holden company.
Loss 500, 900; insurance, 100000. The towns
of Xenia and Emincnce, both in Indiana, lost
their principal business houses by fire. The
loss in the first mentioned place amounted to
S25, 600, and in the latter to $50. 600. The
population of st. Louis is put at sol ,4S9, by the
last directory. . A tenement house in Rhine
cliff, n. y, was destroyed by fire, and Mrs.
Peter Burns and four of her children were
burned to death. The woman succeeded in
pitching q feather bed from the upper story. on
top of which she safely threw her year-old
child, but the flames overlook her before she
could rescue the other children in tho same
manner. One child jumped to the ground from
q height OF twenty-fivc feet, and escaped. Several
others in the house narrowly escaped death -.
It is now satisfactorily settled that A. Oakley
Hall, cx-mayor of New York city, who had been
missing for two weeks or more, sailed for
Liverpool from Boston Oh a freight steamer,
though the causes which led him to thus take
himself off surreptitiously are completely in
the dark.
The greater part of the business portion of
the Ohio town of Monroevil!c was destroyed by
fire. Loss, SIS, 600 :; half of which is covered
by insurance. ..... The State Of New Jersey had
$50. 900 deposited in the State bank OF New
jersey at New Brunswick ...... The Railway
(N. j. WOODEN mills were burned to the ground,
involving q loss of $21, coo. ..... Heavy rains
and melting SHOW flooded the lower streets of
, SlllSUSp W SllCu al CAltIlt IL " llCSCSSItdlC tilt
use Of boats. Much damage was done by the
water ...... &. Smith Carman, one Of the loan
commissioners Of Chemung county, n. y, de-
campcd, leaving some 5000 of the fund i'll
trusted to linn unaccountcd for. .....1n cOnsc-
quencc Of disagrccmcnts with other ministers,
Prince Bismarck resigned his portfolio, but the
emperor declined to accept and acknowledging
the princes great services to the country, gave
him p years leave Of absence to recruit his
l,.,1t1, Dn,>a.{ M, {h, NIoIra, /T,l;o \
famine are to the effect that seven thousand
additional laborcrs have boon taken on and pro-
vided for at the government works. 49,. Comp
troller Kelly, of New York city, showed that
S226, 111.a hsd been spent in the "rinS /"
suits, and $500, St9.52 recovered ..... The pub
lie debt was reduced during March over $14,-
900, 900, principally by retiring some five per
cent Geneva award bonds The brig Roanoke,
from Philadelphia for Porto Cabello. was dis
abled in Il storm at sea and partially filled,
driving the three passengers and crew of nine
men on deck, where they were obliged to lash
themselves to avoid being washed overheard
Being unable to get any drinking water andbut
little provisions, for three days they suffered
intense thirst and hungcr-so much so as to
craze one Of the passengers, who sprung into
the sea and was drowned. Portions of the YES
sci now ave way to the shock Of the waves and
were swept or, carrying their living freight,
uHlll Uut OLc vi lue tTCN WcIc flt. III WdS
rescued in an exha, .stcd condition by the
schooner Addie Todd ..... President Hayes,
after hearing the arguments ana investigating
the case, ordered the nited States troops to
be removed from the State house at Columbia.
S. G.. Gov. Chamberlain entered an earnest
protest.
Fierce personal pickering has taken place be-
tween Gen. Mendcz and President DiaZ. Of
Mexico, In some Of the States the recall of ex-
President Lerdo is openly called for. 49,. Owing
to the disscnsionE among the Republicans OF
Fremont, Ohio, the holne Of President Hayes.
they could not agree upon any person to recon-
mend to tif the vacant postmastership, and 50
held q popular elcction-the candidate re-
cciving the highest lumber Of votes to be rec
commended for the position ...... The full his
tory of the escape Of VIM. (Boss) Tweed has
been published by Mrp@r'S Weekly, from
memoranda furnished by Tweed himself, from
which it appears that when in Ludlow street
jail he make the acquaintance of bank robbers,
who suggested his flight and offered to put him
safely on Spanish soil for a certain sum. Mr..
Tweed, after much hesitation. accepted the
proposition and bound himself to obey their
orders one Of which was that not Il person,
even his own family. should be acquainted with