The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-11-05

accuracy and uniformity in the agricultural
statistics tor the tenth census, has Just issued
q circular setting forth the aims and wishes of
the bureau with regard to the method of
arranging such statistics. The census enum-
Grafton will begin June l., 1880, and end on or
before June 80, 1880, and all persons engaged
in agriculture are desired to make notes from
time to time Of the quantities and values of
their several crops gathered, and the number
of acres OF land planted, in order that the
statements, when made to the enumerators,
may be OF the highest possible value.
The forthcoming annual report Of the Pay.
master. General Of the Army for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1879, will say that the re-
ceipts Of the Department were Sl5,3 600,
OF which amount $l2, 700, 1000 were disbursed,
$500, 900 have been deposited, and the bal
ance, 1883, 900, is on hand.
The annual report of Surgeon.G eneral
Barnes will be q very long document, and
among other things will show that during the
last fiscal year the average number of troops
in service was about $1,000 whites and l,942
colored. The total number of cases OF sick
ness among the white troops was about 1900,
and among the colored about 500. The aggre.
gate number OF deaths was: Whites, AL; col
ored, 23l. The report will give in detail an
account of the operations Of the surgical divi-
sion, and a medical statement OF the casualties
in the fourteen engagements between United
States troops and Indians during the last fiscal
year. The report will also show that there
were Gil new specimens added to the medical
museum during the year; that twenty-five
assistant surgeons were promoted, and thir-
teen candidates tor appointment examined
and passed. The number rejected aggregates
about thirty-one. There are two vacancies in
the list OF regular surgeons. Fourteen men
ale on sick leave, eight OF whom are incapaci-
tated tor service. Six are on regular leave
and l54 are on duty. There have been during
the year $500 new volumes and pamphlets
added to the medical library, which now in
cludes 4 $4,000 volumes and over that number
of pamphlets. .
One Of the cases in which it is sought to
transfer actions against Federal officers from
State to Federal courts has been argued before
the United States Supreme Court. T. p, co..
Foreign News.
Carl Eokert, the composer and conductor
of the royal orchestra at Berlin, is dead.
Aparty OF French agriculturists, numbering
10 6UGS I'LL luOu1 WoukCh oAA AAAAAS A~NS
left Havre tor Southampton on their way to
Texas.
New nights ago hurricane in southeastern
Spain was accompanied by heavy rains, which
OVERLOOKED the rivers Mundo and Seg1ra, and
flooded the populous and fertile valley which
they water. The cities of Lorca, Orihuela,
Murcia and Crevillente, and a large number
of villages between Murcia, Alicante and Car
tagenu, were more or less injured. The rivers
suddenly rose several yards during the night,
and the Inhabitants were compelled to fly with
out saving any property. The streams were
covered with wrecks of ~farm-houses, agricul-
tural implements, dead cattle and some human
corpses. The churches and public buildings
were occupied by thousands of fugitives. The
same storm also partially flooded Malaga, n
interrupted telegraph and railway commune
cation AS far as Huelya and Seville. One hun
dred and nineteen corpses have been recov-
cred. Four villages are in ruins and thousands
OF peasants are wholly destitute.
The Turkish ministry has resigned and q
new cabinet has been brmed Of the following
pashas: Said, grand vizler; Sawas, minister
foreign affairs; Mahmoud Nedin, minister OF
the interior; Cadri, minister Of commerce.;
Aarif, president OF tho council; Edid, minister
OF finance; Djevdet, minister Of justice, and
Soubhi Vakoufs Safvet, Encouragement OF re-
forms and chict OF inspectors, with the right OF
communicating directly with the Sultan.
Meanwhile, as explained in a letter from Con-
stantinople, the Sultan remains stubbornly OPP
posed to reforms such as would give Christians
the same civil rights rs Mahometans enjoy.
This IL ascribed to the teachings of the Koran,
which the Sultan must, at his peril, respect.
An explosion in q powder magazine ut Cabul
killed twenty-seven English soldiersan many
A1ghans. In the attack on the British camp
ut Ali Kheyl four thousand Atghans were re-
pulsed at the point of the bayonet, e ving on
the field forty killed and two hundred wound
ed and two standards. The British pursued
them two miles. The British loss was two
killed and fourteen wounded. The combined
frontier tribes are retreating. Amer Yakoob
Khan has announced his determination to ab-
dictate.
More than 1000 persons have persisted,
2, 1000 houses nave been destroyed and damage
exceeding $4,000, 900 has been done by the
floods in Spain.
Lieutenant-C Commander H. H. Corringe, OF
the United States navy, sends the following
dispatch by cable from Cairo, Egypt, to the
New York World: "I have been presented
to his highness, the Kbedive, as authorized
by the State Department OF the United States,
to receive and remove to America the obelisk
OF Alexandria known rs "Cleopatn's Needle,
which was presented to the city oil New York
through the Department OF State byhis father,
the late Khedive, Ismail Pasha. His highness
received me with great courtesy, expressed
his pleasure at the acceptance OF the gilt, and
has authorized me to the work OF
removal at once"
Sir Francis Hincks, one of the directors OF
the Montreal Consolidated Bank, has been
found guilty OF the charge Of making false re-
turns to the government concerning the con-
dition Ct the institution.
Herr Won Bulow, the German secretrry o
State Tor foreign affairs, isYdead.
The ex. Empress Eugonie will embark for
South Airice next February to pray on the
spot in Zululand where her son, the Prince
Imperial, was killed.
A Paris dispatch to the Lonlon Times
places the damage done by the floods in Spain
rs high as Sl2, OCO, 900, and says $500 houses
anu l20 mills we're destroyed.
Alphonso Rosenberg, editor OF the London
Torn Talk, and the printers of that paper
have been indicted for libel against Mrs.
Langtry and Mrs. West, the two celebrated
English beauties, and Lord Londesborough.
A fire ut Uia, a town in Russia, containing
6,UOD inhabitants, a mosque and several man.
uiactories of various kinds, destroyed more
than a fifth part Of the place. Many persons
were killed and the loss Of property was
enormous.
The Spanish commission on reforms in Cuba
nave agreed to recommend that the slaves
shall be entirely emancipated in seven years
from the date Of the passage of an cmancipa-
ton bill.
Terrible distress in Hungary on account OF
the bad harvests is reported.
The Emperor OF Austria has given his for
NAL sanction to the marriage OF the Arch
duchess Marie Christine to King Alfonso, of
Spain.