The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-05-21

of the government /" to locate civilized Indians
and freedmen thereon" the lands were not
open to white settlers. 1t was decided to call
upon the military, in case of necessity, to as
sist i'll e~iecting intruders.
Senator Calls bill to establish IN "experi-
mental farm" in Florida proposes to appro-
pirate $25,000 to enable the Commissioner Of
Agriculture to purchase two hundred acres OF
land in that State, "and establish thereon an
experimental farm, and to determine by actual
cultivation on such farm the products best
adapted to the soil and climate Of that part Of
the country, and, as rapidly rs such products
are successfully matured, to propagate and dis
tribute such OF them as shall be best adapted"
etc, with such suggestions and instructions
as will enable them to be successfully grown"
Foreign News.
About forty heads were broken by the police
and a policeman's skull was fractured during q
two days riot in Cork, Ireland, arising out OF
a difference between rival bands.
A London Times dispatch from Calcutta,
India, says that nearly a million pilgrims as
sembled at Hurdwar Fair carried the cholera
in various directions, and that $4,000 deaths
have already occurred.
Advices from Panama state that there was a
revolt against the government last month,
which was promptly checked. The revolt
arose out of m attempt to upset the state gov
eminent. Alter fighting in the streets fourteen
hours, during which time thirty-five officers
and mel on both sides were killed and many
hundreds wounded, the revolters surrendered
conditionally to the government troops.
Isaac Butt, the leader of the Irish home rule
movement, q lawyer of great repute and n
member Of the British Parliament, is dead in
his sixty-fourth year.
Edward Hanlan, Of Toronto, easily won the
three-mile boat-race against John Hawdon, at
Newcastle on lyme, England. A match be-
tween Hanlan and Elliott, the English cham
pion, has been arranged, to take place next
month.
An explosion OF dynamite, on a car laden
with that material in the Grand Trunk freight
yard, al Strattord, Ontario, blew TWO men into
fragments, seriously injured several others,
utterly demolished about fifty freight cars and
wrecked several frame buildings. The center
of the town, although q mile distant, was
shaken as If by an earthquake.
A gentleman who has just returned to New
York from Havana states that he was an eye
witness to a series OF fires in Cuba, last month,
which destroyed sixty-eight large sugar plan
LaUlOuS, FUlueu III ulOIc Iiuil Ollt uLlOl ~ I'LL
lion dollars The censorship of the govern
ment over the press OF Cuba was vigorously
enforced to prevent q true account of these
heavy losses from being given to the world.
After winning three races in England, Loril-
lard's American horse Parole was defeated in
the race for the Chester Trades Cup at the
Chester meeting. Parole came in fourth.
At the annual meeting OF the Iron and Steel
Institute, in London, the Bessemer medal was
awarded to Peter Cooper, Of New York.
Two New York prize-fghters, Elliott and
Dwyer, accompanied by about 500 adherents,
haye just fought a "buttle" ut "Longmont,
Canada, tor what they were pleased to call the
Heavyweight championship" The two men
pounded each other Tor twelve minutes, when
the fight was awarded to Dwyer. No arrests.
The prospects Of n speedy end to the war
between England and Aighanistan are good,
as the Afghan Ameer, Yakoob, has arrived in
the British camp ut Gundamnk and expresses
O desire for the return OF friendly relations be-
tween the two countries.
A Nihilist printing press has been discovered
I'M government office ut st. Petersburg and
eight officials have been arrested.
On the day after his defeat for the Chester
Trades Cup, Parole turned the tables on the
winner of that race-Reefer-by defeating him
and all other competitors in the race for the
Grand Cheshire Handicap Stakes. This made
the fourth grand victory in England tor the re-
doubtable American horse, and it was all the
more creditable inas1nuch rs he was heavily
handicapped, carrying 1874 pounds, while none
of his contestants carried more than 1913
pounds, and Refer only lib pounds. a cable
account of the race says " Parole was last in
the first turn round, then arousing himself ran
through the competing horses like n flash OF
lightning. The other jockeys looked at the
performance in perfect stupefaction, almost rs
II they had q phantom horse in their ranks.
The applause for the American horse WINS i'm
mense as he came in on n canter past the win
ninp chair"