The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-30
SUMMARY OFNEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

A statement lust issued by the New York
Mercantile Agency of Dun, Barlow & Co.
shows the number of failures in the United
States during the first quarter OF 1879 to have
been 1924, with aggregate liabilities Of $43,-
liz, Cos. During the same time in 1873 the
total failures were 1856, with $S2,O7S,826 OF
liabilities.
General Richard Taylor, son of President
Taylor, and broCher-in-law of Jefferson Davis,
died of q cancer in the stomach while visiting
some friends in New York. General Taylor
was born near Louisville, KY, in 1926, and
graduated from Yale College. He became
aide-de-camp to his father in the war with Next
co, and was n State Senator of Louisiana from
1856 to 1860. At the outbreak of the war he
accented the colonelcy ola Louisiana regiment,
and the close of the conflict saw him a lieuten-
ant-general in the Confederate service. He
visited England in 1873, where he made quite
| a position for himself in society on account OF
his culture and brilliant conversational pow
ers. He came to New York just before his
death to supervise the publication Of O work Of
personal "reminiscences of the war, entitled
"Destruction and Reconstruction" The fun
erpl services took place ut the "Little Church
Around the Corner" the pail bearers being
William NJ. Evarts, Senator Bayard, Hamilton
Fish, Charles O'Conor, August Belmont, D. d.
Withcrs, William Constable, Mayor Cooper,
Abrun S. Hewitt, Charles L. Perkins, George
Ticknor Curtis, William r. Travers, DR..
Fordyce Barker and DR.. Austin Flint, Jr. The
body will be taken to New Orleans for final
interment.
The Providence Savings Bank and Trust
Company of Providence, Pa, has suspended,
owing to inability to meet its obligations. Its
liabilities are $4,000.
Forty male contestants started on another
SIX days walking match at Gilmore's Garden,
New York.
Fulton Market, one of the oldest and best
known markets in New York city, has been
partially destroyed by fire.
An official call, signed by the Governor o
Pennsylvania and other officials, has been
issued, inviting proposals for q State loan OF
49, 900, 900.
The body OF Benjamin Singerly, State Printer
of Pennsylvania, who died in 1876, has petri-
lied into n mass OF yellow stone weighing 925
pounds.
There are 400 vessels aggregating 28,6l5.22
tons, in the Gloucester fishing fleet. The de-
crease the past year was ~twenty-si1 vessels.
The loss during the past three months was
twenty vessels of l,563.l2 tons.
Andrew Tautz, Sr., aged sixty, OF Highland
Falls, N. Y, was bitten by his Spitz dog last
August, and recently was taken sick with n
| disease which his doctor said was hydropho-
bin. He began to spit and froth, and died in
great agony.
At the Academy OF Music, in Now York, a
novel entertainment has taken place - game
OF chess with living pieces. The kings were
stalwart men, with flowing boards, wearing
crowns and long, rich cloaks. The queens
-Lo,. Tho e-,srhfo Huntso
armor; and the bishops wore miters and full
p~riestly attire. The pawns were girls in the
attire of pages. All the pieces were person.
atcd by members of o chess club and their lady
friends.
Christian Leslie, of Norristown, n. j., shot
and dangerously wound his wife aad then
killed himself with the same weapon. Excess
sive drinking led to the tragedy.
Hezekiah Shaffer was hanged at Chambers
burg, Pa, for numbering his wife by poison in
February, 1877. Shaffer was too weak to
stand, from an attempt at suicide, and had to
be carried to the scaffold.
An association OF nineteen banks and bank
ing firms in New York and Boston has sub
scribed to $3.50, 900, 900 Of the four per cent.
bonds, and $40, OOO, 900 funding certificates,
which closes the 1910 bonds.
Western and Southern States.
There is q great rush from nearly all parts
of the West to the new mining camp at Lead
vile, Col. Miners are focking to that region
ut the rate of 800 n day, and it is thought the
mines there will yield $36, OOO, 900 Of the pre-
cious metals per year.
Pensacola, Fla, hns been visited by a hail
storm-a thing unknown there before. Hail as
large as hens eggs fell.
The town OF Collinsville, about eleven miles
from St. Louis, has been visited by II terrible
tornado, which tore through the place, demol-
ishing ten buildings, running about thirty Others
and damaging more or less seventy-fivc resi-
dences and business houses. Annie Reynolds
was killed and several other persons were
badly injured. The storm lasted only two or
three minutes, but was frightfully severe.
The mysterious murder OF Josiah Bacon,
treasurer OF the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite
Company, of Boston, in Baldwin's Hotel, San
Francisco, has been cleared up by the sur
render OF DR.. Chalfnnt, q dentist, who con-
fessed that he killed Bacon in q fit of anger.
Bacon had brought suit against Chalfant for in
tringement OF a patent, and it was during an
interview between the two men, in Bacons
room, that the murder took place.
The St. Louis Grand Jury has indicted all
owners, vendors and attaches Of the Missouri
State Lottery, some sixty in number.
Some time ago William James called at the
Baltimore business house in which his former
friend, Denwood B. Kinds, was employed, and
the two at once engaged in a terrible duel, each
emptying his revolver at the other. Both were
severely wounded, but recovered. James
charged Kinds with having betrayed his sister,
and tho young lady's death subsequently was
asserted by her relatives to have been the re-
suit of her betrayal. Ever since his daughters
death, her father, an engineer on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, had been in IN excited
mental condition, and threatened to kill Kinds
on sight. A few days ago the two men met,
who returned the shots. The old man was
wounded four times, and died as he reached O
doctors office, to which he had been taken.
Kinds was wounded in the arm.
The trial of j. P. Olive, known as tile king
oil the cattle men in Loup county, Neb., and
one of his herders, on the charge OF taking two
innocent prisoners from q sherif's guard last
December, hanging them to a tree and then
building Il fire under the swinging bodies, re-
suited in q verdict of murder in the second
degree, and they were sentenced to imprison-
mcnt for lite. The two victims were Ami
Ketchum and his father-in-law, an old man
named Mitchell, both Of whom owned home
steads in Custer county. The sheriff in whose
charge they were, with several other herders,
was also implicated in the murder.
The citizens of Wyandotte, Kansas, have
issued an appeal for pecuniary help on behalf OF
destitute colored persons, seventeen hundred
OF whom have recently arrived in that place
from various points in the South. The mayor
of Kansas City, Mo-, which is close to Wyan-
dotte, also appealed to the Secretary of War
for an order for the issuance of rations from
Fort Leavenworth, and Secretary McCary re-
piled that he was without authority to issue
such order, and that application should be
made to Congress.
Great destruction 10 life and property has
resulted from q heavy storm which swept
through the lower portion Of South Carolina
and IL section OF Georgia. In the village of
! WATERFORD, S. c., more than one hundred
dwellings and all the churches were swept
away, and three-fourths of the inhabitants were
rendered homeless. Fifteen persons were
killed and many wounded. At Oakley, a
station on the Northeastern railroad, all the
houses occupied by negroes were leveled, and
one negro was killed and mnny were hunt.
Similar casualties are reported from various
points in the track of the tornado. At Water
boro the residence Of DR.. G. N. Reeves was
blown down, and the doctors wife, daughter,
and Mr.. Philemon Sunders were killed,
From Washington.
The House of Representatives, after n long
| debate upon IN amendment to the Legislative
Army bill, increasing the appropriation for
eradicating contagious diseases among domes-
tic animals to $3.50, 600, struck the whole SUBJ
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