The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-10-22
Western and Southern States.

Western and Southern States.
Joseph Kemp was hanged in presence Of
8 500 persons at Evening Shade, Ark, tor the
of Marion Hulsey in 1869.
While Paul Aubert, OF New Orleans, was
cleaning his gun he accidentally discharged it,
and the contents entered his mothers head,
her.
Ten more persons who were On the grand
stand at the fair in Adrian, Mich, when it fell
in, died on the following day, making the total
of deaths sixteen. The blame OF the
fatal casualty is laid upon the. architect OF the
grand stand, as it was built unusually light, to
admit OF space for tho exhibition OF vehicles
underneath, and the timbers were simply
spiked together instead of being morticed and
braccd.
Frederick 2. Ferriman, a young man, died
ct Cincinnati OF congcstive chIls; and on the
next day his betrothed, Miss Lulu George, a
portrait painter of ability, shot herself fatally,
having been driven insane by her lovers
death.
Professor Colgrove and C. II. Williams, the
latter manager OF Woodward Gardens in San
francisco, made a balloon ascension the other
day. The wind was blowing a gale and the
balloon flew along the tops of buildings, tore
of telegraph wires, collapsed and iell in Fol.
som street. Colgrove was instantly killed
and Williams fatally injured.
Some unknown white men Mt Whitewright,
Texas, recently surrounded the house OF the
Wadsons, colored, consisting Of a mother and
two children, a boy OF eighteen and a girl OF
nine years, called them to the door and slot
them down in cold blood, killing the mother
and son instantly and moltally %wounding the
little girl.
A late Memphis dispatch says the days
record shows o marked increase in the spread
OF the disease, both inside the city and beyond
the corporation limits, on account OF the warm
weather which prevailed during tho week
past. The dispatch says further: "The yell
low fever death list to dnte from the COM
mencemcnt OF the so-called epidemic on July
8, 1879, the da; on which Francis Mulbranden
died, just ninety days ago. aggregates 405, be-
ing on average ofless than five daily. During
all this time tho city has been, under the man
gemen and control OF an institution created
during the past winter and located at Nash
vile, known as the State Board OF Health,
under tho advice, influence and pay OF the
National Bourd o! Health, fenced in like u be-
sicged city. For more than seventy days
there has been q total cessation OF
and travel, and every avenue by which the
population could earn a livelihood has been
closed tor nearly three months. A deathlike
stiffness has reigned. Not d sound to disturb
the monotony, except around the seini-mili-
ta,y headquarters Of the superintendent Of
quarantine. On the outskirts only the dash
Of the cavalryman, the picket and the scout
troopers, in the pny OF the National Board OF
Health, breaks the r~tainlnl silence. In taking
a retrospective view OF the situation one is
iorcibly reminded of tho epidemic OF 1873 in
this city and other yellow fever epidemics in
various cities OF the land of FIVE times tho
magnitude OF this one, where the lever was
not q hindrnnce to local and travel.
All this was before tho National Board OF
Health was heard OF. But how is it, with
Memphis in 1879? Unless upon the spot, the
most vivid imagination could not picture 10
itself the d~esolate, iorIorn and wretched con-
dition OF q city once 80 attractive to the mer-
chant and tradesman. This peculiar state OF
aff,irs, following so soon after the birth OF the
National Board OF Health and the adoption OF
the system-new to civilized ages-oi besieg-
ing und fencing in the unfortunate city, IS, to
suy the least, very significant"
L. a. Wilt has been nominated for Gov
ernor by the Louisiana Democratic Suite Con-
y~ention.
From Washington.
The statement OF the coinage executed at
the United States mints last month Is as toll
lows: Gold pieces double eagles, eagles and
halt eagles), l33, 562, worth ST., 1869, l20; silver
pieces (standard dollars, half-dollars, quarter
dollars and dimes), 1886, 200, worth $780,
O92. SO; minor pieces Give cents, three cents
and cents), Sl,469,l 5O, worth l4,694.5o.
Under the provisions OF the circular of the
Secretary of the Treasury, OF September 10
last, in regard to the shipment OF gold coin
to parties desiring it, there has been sent out
from the mint gold to the amount OF Sill 1850.
In addition to this the sub.treasuries are all
supplied with gold and are payingi it out freely
on current obligations, and the Treasurer's
checks tor called bonds redeemed are being
paid by the Assistant. Treasurer in New York
in gold through the clearing house.
The postof1ce authorities nave issued a cir
cular directing postmasters not to deliver
mail matter addressed to lottery concerns or
to their agents when designated as such.
Foreign News.
Cetewayo, the Zulu king, is a prisoner in
LllC ~ olS Ao""D
The captain of q vessel which arrived in
San Francisco from the Arctic soa tho other
day REPORTS that the natives on the Siberian
coast are starving. Some had died at Plum
mer's Bay from sheer want, n at 1njun
Point, about thirty miles distant, out OF a vii
LACE of 200 persons. but one man had survived.
There had been no whales, seals or fish OF any
kind near the Siberian shore, and the natives,
more fortunate, nj Plummer's Bay, were SUBJ
sistins chiefly upon what they had left from q
catch of the year before and a few whales this
year.
The British troops in Atghanistan have had
a fight with hostile tribes at Shutargardan.
The Afghans were repulsed with the loss OF
twenty killed.
A dispatch from Panama gives particulars
OF IN attack by plunderers upon the town OF
Bucaramaugn, in Colombia. The Alcalde,
Pedro Collazos, headed by a crowdo of l%ufhans,
made q raid on several wealthy establishment
of the city, among others the only bank in the
place, and completely sacked them, killing
and woundinc persons who endeavored to de-
lend them, and also burning the buildings.
They then retired to the two cuartels, carry
ing with them their plumber, and there in
trenched themselves, bidding defiance to the
authorities of the state. The city remained
in a state of alarm and terror for tour days.
MANY families fed to the woods, and Others
barricaded their doors and kept guard night
and day. General Witches, the president OF
the state, fastened from the capital, Socorro,
which is more than sixty miles distant from
Bucaramauga, with a small but well-disciplined
force, with which he attacked the robbers in
their intrenchcd position, and completely
routed them. He killed several OF the leaders
and TOOK many prisoners, the principal, COL
LAGOS, unfortunately escaping.
A large meeting has been held in Paris in
favor OF a Franco-American treaty OF COM
merce. The meeting was addressed by Con-
gresham Fernando Wood and others.
Late news from Cuba is to the effect that
yellow fever is slowly dying out there, and
that 1900 troops have arrived from Spain to
reinforce the force moving against the insur-
gents.
The St. Petersburg police have discovered a
secret printing office and workmen engagedin
printing nn interdicted pamphlet.
The Russian press makes a fresh outburst OF
hostility against England and Germany. The
St. Petersburg Nopoe Vremyr says: "sooner
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