The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-11-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
Hastetn and Middle Staten

At the request of the Massachusetts bank
commissioners the Lexington savings pank mas
been enjoined from doing further business,
and its affairs will be wound up without loss to
the depositors.
Haar & Co., New York stock brokers, have
failed for about s200,0OO
The Concord savings bank, OF Concord
N. g., has suspended.
Justin s. Morrill,, has been reelected Unlted
States senator by the Vermont legislature.
In the case of Row. q. a. Hayden, charged
with the murder of Mary Stannard, IN MADISON.
Conn.,, the grand jury found q true Dill Oh
indictment for murder in the first degree.
According TO Dun, Barlow & Co. New YORK
mercantile agency the number OF failures IN
the United States during the first nine months
in 1878 is 1878. the amount Of liabilities being
s197. 211, 1919. During the corresponding period
in 1877 there were G,565 failures, with Sl4l,-
862, 2G5 of liabilities. In Canada there were
1912 failures in 1878, with s1S,13S,S2l OF la
bilities, and in 1877 the failures number Z
1,64G, with 500, 9O4, 976 of liabilities.
The New Hampshire Prohibition party met
in convention at Nashua and nominated q
ticket headed by Asa s. Kendall for governor.
The bark Susan, Of New Bedford, hlass.,
Capt. Peaks, sailed from New Bedford on a re-
cent Saturday, with a crew Of twenty-five men,
on a whaling voyage. At twelve o'clock she
encountered a hurricane and at seven P. NJ. the
vessel capsized. Eight men were in the fore
castle at the time. They got on boards. cnests,
and dunnage stuffs, and kept above the water.
On Sunday at noon two Of them dlVed
and came up outside through the companion,
way. One man who could not swim was left
in the forecastle. The other five at length fell
through into the water and were drowned.
The two who got ont lashed themselves on
the weatherside OF the wreck. On Tuesday
morning New York pilot boat No. 8 fell in with
the wreck, took off the two men who were
on the outside, and cut through the bluff OF
the bow and took out the man inside alive.
One man, who had dashed himself in the rig
ging at the time the ship capsized, was left.
The roll Of the vessel had nearly cut him In
two. Three men only Of the ships company
OF twenty-five were saved-namely, Joseph It.
Reig, Henry Gonsalve and Manue! Alpho.
The Delaware Greenback party held a State
convention in Wilmington, nominated Dr. X.
j. Stewart for governor and John G.. Jackson
for Congress, and adopted a platform which
demands the payment Of the bonds in green
backs that greenbacks be made q loyal tender
for all debts, etc.
Hiram Paulding, rear-admiral and senior flag
officer on the retired list OF the United States
navy, died at his home near Huntington, Long
Island, the other day, aged eighty.one years.
Admiral Paulding waB the last surviving ottlcer
Of MacDonough's squadron in the victory over
the British on Lake Champlain, Oh September
II, 1914.
Patrick Butler, q wealthy New York manu-
f~acturer, was thrown from his carriage while
riding in Central Park and killed, and his wife
was seriously injured.
Job W. Green, aged eighty-one, committed
suicide at his home, in Brooklyn, by hanging
himself. His mind was affected.
John O'Neil was sentenced to death at Sun
bury, Pa, by Judge Rockefeller, for the muir
der OF Coroner Hesser at Hickory Swamp, near
Shamokin, in December, 1874. Peter Mo
Manus, his accomplish in the crime, has
already been sentenced to death.
Captain Anderson. Of tho schooner Moss
Glen, Of st. John, N. B., reached Boston, the
other day, and reported the loss Of his vessel
during the recent heavy gale of Cape Cod.
The steward and two seamen were washed
overheard. The captain, mate and two sailors
dashed themselves to the mizzen chains and
drifted about for four days without food or
drink, when they were rescued by a passing
vessel.
Western and Southern States.
Nine convicts dug through the wall Of the
prison at Koxomo, Ind, and escaped to the
woods.
During the progress of q marriage at a
colored Baptist church in Lynchburg, Va, some
Of the ceiling plastering fell, and the immense
crowd at once became panic stricken, many IN
the galleries jumping from the windows OF the
second and third stories, while Others threw
themselves headlong Town the stairway on the
surging people below, There was only one
door OF exit Town stairs, and through this men
and women crowded frantically most OF the
killed being literally crushed to death. Ten
women were killed three more fatally injured,
and about thirty persons received wounds more
or less severe.
Five illicit distilleries we're recently destroyed
in one dayin Putnam county, Tenn, by United
States revenue officerS.
Official returns from Ohio give Barnes,
Republican candidate for secretary Of state, q
plurality Of 8, 1854.
The California constitutional convention
adopted q resolution to memorabilia the Presi-
dent and the United States Senate to 80 modify
the Burlingame treaty az to prohibit Chinese
immigration.
Five people were drowned near Sanford,
in Orange county, Fla, o few days ago. Two
were ladies named Hughey, and two were
children Of Calvin Martin. The fifth was q man
named McIves. They werei in a wagon en- route
for home from a camp meeting, and drove into
a deep hole at the lake side. A sixth person
was rescued after standing up in the wagon for
several hours with the water up to his chin.
George T. Nelson, while climbing a fence
near Kennedyville, Nd, was accidentally
killed by the discharge of his gun. When the
news Of the accident reached his mother, six
hours after, she was 30 overcome that she died
Of grief.
By the bursting Of a boiler belonging to q
sawmill near McLeansboro, ILL.,, the proprietor
and another man were killed and three other
men were fatally injured.
Ten persona were poisoned at a wedding
feast at Azalia, Ind. They partook OF food IN
which some person--supposed to be q dlsap-
pointed lover Of the bride-had placed strych-
nine. Three OF tho persons affected were made
dangerously i'll.
A Memphis (Tenn.) dispatch says a party of
white men killed q colored man near Glencoe,
Tenn, shooting him while in bed, in bis own
house. In retaliation, q party of colored men
captured and xii ed q white man supposed to
have Seen the murderer, while asleep on the
porch of o grocery at Cuba, on the next night.
It turned out they killed the wrong man.
The failure of staglo Brothers, Of Green.
field, Ohio. is tho heaviest that has occurred
in that section for years. They owned the
largest farm in Fayette county. It comprised
1900 acres. The liabilities exceed 1920, 900
the assets will probably reach ten per cent.
The appearance of frosts in the districts OF
the. South given up to yellow fever, was the
cause Of great rejoicing among the long-suffer-
ing people. The epidemic Immediately de-
creased in the number OF deaths and OF new
cases to such an extent that the medical and
charitable associations Of the largo cities,
called into existence by the plague, began to
end their labors, while many persons, who had
fed from the fever, returned to their homes.
The failure of Dodd, Brown & Co., the
largest dry goods house III st. Louis, IS IN
the yellow fever in the South Was one OF the
principal causes OF the failure. The firms
liabilities are estimated to be between 81, 500,
900 and 80, 1000, 900, with assets at about
81, 600, 900.
The First national bank, Of Auburn, Ind,
which suffered 30 heavily from the defa!cation
Of George Hazard, its late cashier, has sus'
pended.
"Big Mike" Roark, leader Of a gang OF
Western highwaymen, for whose capture a
reward Of $1,000 had been out, was taken
prisoner near Kansas City, Mo-, and q com
panion named Dement, was shot dead. This
breaks up one Of the most desperate gangs OF
train robbers in the country.
kilograms received in Omaha, Neb., show
that prairie fires in Butler, Seward and Saun.
doris counties, are far more destructive and
sweeping than was at first supposed. The fire
originated in the Platte river bottom, north
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