The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-09-19
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Homo and Abroad.

Interesting Items from Home and Abroad.
Tho State Savings Bank of Chicago, closed
its doors, and the failure caused great excite
ment Throughout the city. many Of the de-
p~ositors being poor people. A feeling Of
uneasiness communicated itself to the de-
p~ositors of some of the other savings banks of
the city, and heavy rttns ,scrb made ,tpon them.
..... .1terurts itoth india i'll regard to the
terrible ~fariine, which has been prevailing
theFe, state that over fifteen hutidfed Thousand
persons are, receiving relief in Various ways.
a pier, struck q party Of five persons, instantly
killing Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Swazey, inficting
injuries upon their con Wilbur F., and Miss
Rachel Clifford, from the effects of which they
died soon after, and badly wounding another
man. ....A reduction Of salaries among some
Of the employees Of the Boston custom house
has been recommended by an investigating
commission ...... Carl Messner stabbed his
brother John to death with n chisel, while
working at his bench in a furniture factory in
New York. The murdered man was calling
wife OF the latter, when the crihie WAS COM
mitted 800. The death is announced Of Ad-
miral Raphael Semmes, commander Of the
Confederate cruiser Alabama, during the late
war. He died at Point Clear, Ala, aged sixty
eight years. ia passenger and freight train
collided at Enfield, Mass, and a brakeman
named Aldrich was fatally injured, and a con-
ductor named Couklin seriously hurt.
Hugh Deviue was struck by lightning and
instantly killed in Philadelphia. .....A fire
broke ont in a saloon in Paris, Mo-, and spread
rapidly on three sides Of the public square,
until ten blocks of business houses and dwell
ings, including three hotels, we're consumed.
Many families we're rendered homeless, and
a number of lives arc believed to have been
lost. TIL %pecuniary loss will amount to about
twelve hundred thousand dollars. ....Ex-Presi-
dent Grant arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland,
and was presented with the freedom Of the
city. .... The superintendent Of tho govern
ment printing office, at Washington, has issued
q circular to senator's and representatives, re-
questing. them not to lend their influence in
behalf Of any person seeking appointments in
the government printing Office, as he intends in
the future to run the Office according to bis
OWL Judgment.
Tho bank commissioner Of Massachusetts
having investigated the affairs Of the Sandwich
Savings Bank and found it insolvent, obtained
an injfnction restraining the institution from
doing any further business ...... The funeral
of Brigham Young took place in Salt Lake City
on the Sunday after bis death, and was attend
ed by large throngs from all parts OF Utah
Territory. The Mormon Tabernacle, where
the body had been lying in State, was filled
with over twelve thousand people. Inc BODY
reposed in a redwood coffin, and was carried to
the grave by former employees. A band pre-
coded the funeral cortege, and after camo his
family, members of the Mormon priesthood
and adherents, all foot......T Ten thousand
cotton operatives are on a strike in Bolton, Eng
land ...... Alvin Adams. founder of Adams
Express Company, died at his residence IN
Watertown, Mass; aged seyenty-three years.
..... Two ~convicts confined in the Connecticut
State prison, at Wethersfeld, manufactured
false keys and unlocked their coils, with the in
Wells Shipman, q night Waterman, whom they
had seized, bound and gagged and then, as
Shipman made an outcry, one OF the convicts
shot the helpless man in the breast, inficting a
mortal wound. The prison breakers next fled
to the attic, were they were besieged for five
hours. but ut last gave themselves up $50.
Tho celebrated American tragedian, E. l..
Davenport. died in Canton, Pa., aged slxty-one
years. .....A little boy supposed to be Charlie
Ross, was brought to Philadelphia from Ohio,
and taken before Mr.. and Mrs. Ross, who
failed to identify him as their stolenchild.
Tho governors of Tennessee, Kansas, Iowa
Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey arrived in New York from q visit to
points of interest in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, and we're received by the mayor and a
Louis Adolphe Theirs, ex-President Of the
French Observation-Disclosures predecessor and
the most prominent citizen OF France, died in
Paris, aged eighty years. AS q statesman, his
torian and deplomat. NJ. Theirs occupied a
formost place among Frcnchmen at the N
Of his death-September Sand had the cur
rent Of French politics compelled Marshal Nc
Mahon to resign the Presidency, the deceased
statesman would have been elected to the posi-
ton by a laxge majority OF the people, who
looked upon him as the champion Of French
republicanism ......A brick building in Clncin-
natl came to the ground with a crash, burylng
about twenty people beneath the ruins and in
stantly killing a woman and two men, while
several persons were severely injured 800.
Brigham Youngs's will divides about s2. DOC, 900
among his forty-four living children and seven
teen wives. IA fire that broke out in a piano
mandatory in New York consumed an entire
block of over twenty large manufacture and
tenement houses before it vas subdued causing
reported heavy loss Of life and the destruction
Of property valued at about one million dollars.
The fire began in the second story Of John P.
Hale's piano mandatory, an eight story build
ing on Thirty-tfth street. A strong wind was
prevailing at the time, and the flames rushed
through the building with lightning-lik rapid
ty, compelling the workmen-of whom there
wers about 200 in the place-to run for their
lives. The stairways we're blockaded by smoke
and flames, and SONS Of the bewildered and
frightened employees sought safety down the
elevator ropes, while others escaped by means
Of the fire escape. When the fremen arrived
q number Of men we're seen at the windows OF
the upper stories, calling for aid, and soon four
of them jumped to the ground and were carried
off badly hurt, one man dying in the arms Of
those who were taking him away. A great
scarcity Of water prevailed and the iremen
were compelled to carry 5000 feet Of hose
along the street from the North river before
they could obtain a supply. The wind kept
veering around in every direction, and the
flames from the piano mandatory soon COM
municated to other factories and dwelling
houses. In q little while the whole block was
in q mass Of seething fire and roaring flames,
and hundreds Of families we're driven from
their homes. Most OF tho inmates of the
thickly populated tenement houses escaped,
but one invalid lady who died from fright and
a little girl was suffocated. People were conf
PEELED to flee from the houses leaving every
thing behind, and the scene in the streets was
indcscribably heartrending. Families were
broken up and the members were wandering
about weeping and seeking one another. The
streets were filed with household goods partly
taken from the burning dwellings, and fremen
rushed about hoarsely shouting, while police
men kept back the crowds Of spectators, num-
boring over 100.0 900. The area Of property do
stroyed comprises tho block between Thirty
fifth and Thirty-sixth streets and Tenth and
Eleventh avenues. Two lives are known to
have been lost and it was thought more bodies
would be found beneath the ruins when they
cooled off sufficiently to allow a search to be
made.
A fire destroyed the Eagle FIGURING Mills and
Is, 900 bushels of wheat at Oakville, Ill, causing
a loss OF $55, 900, on which there is an insur-
ance Of SIS, 900 80. The colored Masons Of
the United States held a national convention
in Chicago, at which delegates were present
from nearly every State to tho number of
seventy $500. At Wilmington, Del the city
election resulted in q victory for the Republi-
cans, who elected the president Of the council,
city treasurer, one assessor and six councilmen,
the Democrats electing one assessor and seven
councilmen 80. Investigation on the day after
the great fire in New York disclosed the fact
that not more than eight persons were missing,
but as the ruins Of the piano mandatory were
still too hot for examination. the search for the
bodies was deferred. The number Of lives lost
will not be as large as was at first supposed...
At Newcastle, KY, a body Of armed men pro-
ceeded to the jail, where Robert, James and