The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10
OFNEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

George Werham and Hans Tuelf had a
swimming match from the Battery, in New
York city, to Coney Island. The distance
SWAN by the two men is about thirteen miles,
and was made in four hours and twenty min
utes, Tuela coming in ahead.
The Surf House at Rehoboth, Del, has been
destroyed by fire. Sixty persons were in the
house ut the time, but all escaped, one woman
only being slightly injured. The guests lost
all their baggage.
What to do with the city's garbage is a mat
ter bothering the officials of New York O great
deal. the refuse is taken down the bay on
scows and dumped overheard; and a city paper
has created quite an excitement by showing
that the harbor channels are rapidly being
filled up by the city's sweepings, so that IN
time it will be impossible Tor vessels to enter
the bay.
The swimming match ut Newport, r. l.,
between Captain Paul Bovton, the American,
and Captain Matthew Webb, English cham
pion, was won by the former. The conditions
OF the match were that Boyton should make
twenty-five miles in his rubber suit while
Webb swan twenty miles unasslsted. boyton
had made ton and Webb q little more than
eight miles when the latter was seized with
violent cramps and had to be taken from the
water. Boyton continued on his course, and
covered the twenty-five miles in nineteen
hours and thirty-four minutes, winning the
prize of ST., 900. The contest was witnessed
by a large crowd.
The Hon. John c. Ten Eyck, who repre-
scented New Jersey in tho United States Senate
from 1859 to 1865, died the other dayat Mount
Holly, n. Y, aged sixty-five.
At Pottstown, Pa, Samuel Willauer, q
member of the town council, was killed, and
John Hoffman, Price ,Yillauer, Wharton Bell
and Il man named Boyer were dangerously
injured by the falling Of an arch which was
, being removed in order TO make some repairs
ut the blast furnace Of the Pottstown Iron
Company.
Upon complaint OF Henry Bergh, president
OF the New York Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Animals, n man named Nesbltt
has been sentenced to ten days Imprisonment
Tor permitting his horse to starYe to death.
Two trains collidcd near Salamanca, N. T.,
and the engine Of one train crashed into the
caboose OF the other, turning it sid
up down a very high embankmcnt, with the
brakeman, Henry Thurstone, OF Rochester,
who WINS making his first trip, underneath 1t.
The car took fire and he persisted in the flames,
being literally roasted alive. His companions,
powerless 10 aid him, were obliged to witness
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twenty minutes his shrieks and piteous mp
peals. or the forty iron-ttni cars in the trains
only seven remained standing, the others with
the engine going over the high bank and being
piled three deep.
The annual session OF the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement OF Science was
held ut Saratoga, n. Y.
William Harloe, II prominent builder OF
| New York city, and ut present mayor OF
Pougnkeepsie, n. y has failed and made an
assignment.
The boiler of the tugboat Essex exploded
while the tug WINS moored TO q pier in the East
river, New York, and LeandTr Fuller, the fire.
man, was so terribly scalded that he died alter
suffering excruciatins agony. The engineer
was also dangerously scalded.
At Scranton, Pa, Il locomotive belonging
to the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company
jumped the track and was precipitated over an
embankment q distance OF thirteen ieet. John
Blackwood, chict engineer Of the company, and
Daniel Vaughn, n brakeman, were killed, and
several others were slightly injured.
Western and Southern States.
j. w. Cotton, station agent and grocer ut
Williamsburgh station, on the Kansas Pnclfc
railroad, near Topeka, Kansas, was murdered
by q tramp. The tramp called for cheese and
crackers, and while Cotton was reaching into
Il barrel to get the crackers the tramp struck
him on the back of the neck with an TX, nearly
s~evering the head from the shoulders.
John Laban, n saloon keeper at Phoenix,
Arizona, was fatally stabbed by one McClOskcy,
who was arrested a1d confined in Jail. The
next morning the vigilance committee marched
to the Jail and took McCloskcy and John
Keller, another murderer, and banged both to
a tree on the plaza. Alter warning n number
OF well-known bad characters to leave the
town the CT >wdd dispersed.
Bunk Axe, q colorcd man twenty years old
was hanged at Austin, Texas, for nssaulting Il
little girl. The culprit smoked q cigur on the
scatfold and denied his guilt.
George johnson, a Chicago milk seller, wa
struck by lightnin. and killed while watering
milk.
The Governor OF Georgia offers a reward OF
81 900 for the forgors of the great seal OF the
State on fraudulent land grants, many OF which
have been sold in New York and other Eastern
cities.
A fire at Farmer City, ILL.,, destroyed twen-
ty-four buildings and burned out twenty-five
firms. The main part OF the business region
OF the city is in ruins. The loss was about
$500, 900 and the insurance about S45, 1000.
N, h. Bell, cashier of the American Express
Company at Kansas City, Mo-, has decamped
with SIC, 900 of the company's money.
Police Sergeant Jacob Nohl, atToledo, Ohio
arrested Ross Salisbury, who has served i'll
various penitentiaries tor burglary and other
crimes, on the charge OF being q suspicious
person. The next day Salisbury printed q
card abusing Nohl and rejecting on his char
actcr and qualifications as an officer. Nohl
called upon Salisbury and demanded a retrac-
ton, which being refused, Nohl shot Salisbury
twice and then shot himself. Both men died
in u short time. Noll is described as having
been q brave and efficient officer.
At twelve o'clock noon, n few days ago, a
man entered S. S. Rickly's bank in Columbus,
/ Ohio, and began Il conversation with the pro-
prietor, who was the only person i'll the place,
concerning negotiations for some bonds. While
the two were thus engaged u confederate
gained entrance to the bank by a rear window
and carried off So, 900 in currency and $4,000
in registered bonds. The theft was not dis
covered until some time aiterward.
Samuel II. Pemberton apd William Roberts,
while returning from Galla,in, ILL.,, to their
homes near Walpole, were waylaid and assas-
sinated. 1t Is supposed they were murdered
by persons with whom they had q lawsuit.
From Washington.
The Bureau OF Education and the Smith
sonian Institute have both received special
invitations to forward articles for exhibition
at the Sydney and Melbourne expositions. The
Bureau OF Education has already prepared and
shipped the articles forming its contributions.
They consist mainly OF official documents
showing the condition Of education in the
United States, rs represented By the reports
of the bureau and OF States and cities, together
with Il small collection OF public library cata-
logucs and other educational literature, etc.
The exhibit forwarded is in short q copy on Il
small scale OF that which attracted so much
attention ut Paris Inst year.
The August returns OF the Department O.
Agriculture show that the general average OF
the condition Of corn on August l was SO, the
same as in July; at the same time last year 1t
was &c. The New England and Middle States
all show a high average. In Virginia and the
South Atlantic States the drought cut short
the enrly planted corn, but the lnte-plnnted
was in II condition to be benefited by rains gen.
orally reported nj dutc OF returns. Louisiana
shows poorly, and Texas makes the worst
record of any Slate. Kentucky, Ohio and In
diana report an average condition, and the
States west ot:thc Mississippi nll report extra
ordinary growths. The condition OF the potato
crop is y against So in July. The New Eng
land States snow II stationary condition mt So;
i the Middle Estates risetroin 95 to 102; the South
Atlantic States tall from 80 10 IS; the Cult
Stat s are stationary ut 90; tho Southern in
land States fill from 81 to 81; the States north
of the Ohio show II very marked improvement,