The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

On the third day of the races at Charter On
Park, Hartford, Conn.,, the chief attraction WE
the tree-for-all race for $4,000, in which Raru
and Hopeful were announced to appear; an
much disappointment WAS caused when 1t wa
stated that Rarus had been sold by his owner
Mr.. Conklin, to n New York gentleman to
S36, 900, and would not start. MIR. Conki1
and the horse were then expelled from Tn
track for not fulfilling their engagement.
The New York Board of Health has cause
warrants to be issued against a number
persons who keep poultry on their premise
contrary to the health regulations. In tn
basement OF one house 300 ducks and 2o0 hen
were found crowded together.
ABoston dispatch says the schooner Stephe
Bennett, of Camden, Me-, was seen bottom u
near Phoenix Island. She sailed from Bosto
in ballast for Baltimore, and it is suppose
was capsized in the recent great gale. Sh
was in command of Captain George Bet!net'
part owner OF the schooner, who lived at YVES
Roxbury, Mass, and there were on board O
passengers Mrs. Bennett, William Richa rds
aged eighteen, and Mr.. Bennett, of Maine
nephew OF the captain. Besides the person
named above, there were four seamen anc!
steward on the lost schooner.
At the State Convention of the New Yol1
Greenback party, held at Utica, Harris Levi
and John M. Wleting were nominated foi
Governor and Lieutenant Governor respec'
lively by reclamation. The other nomination.
we're: Secretary OF State, P. Mccain; Comp.
troller, John A. Shannon; Treasurer, Julian
Winnie; Attorney General, George Wright
The platform adopted demands that the ma:
tional bank currency shall be withdrawn and
that all the money that is used by the people,
whether gold, silver or paper, shall be lssued
by the general government, and be made a full
legal tender for all debts and dues, public and
private, the volume of such money to be about
$50 per capita, or sufficient TO meet all the re-
uuiremcnts of trade; that the established vol
ume of the currency shall BIZ increased from
time to time in direct ratio with the increase
in The business and population OF the country,
so as to maintain for the dollar as nearly rs
possible a uniform purchasing power; that all
new issues of paper money shall be used to
cancel the Understanding debt Of the nation,
to promote needed public improvements and
to nav current expenses; that the surplus
money now in the treasury OF the nation shall
be used 10 cancel Understanding debts; that
the national government shall issue no more
interest bearing obligations, and that all out
standing bonds shall be paid and Cancelled at
once; that postal savings banks shall be estao-
lished; that taxation OF property Shall DO
! equal; that salaries OF public officers be re-
| duced; that reliable statistics be collected TO
the end that labor may be fully and Justly
compensated; that equitable rates OF railroad
fares and transportation be established; that
the Legislature pass a law giving to mortgagors
of real estate the right Of redemption tor I'VE
wears after sale; that laws be enacted to pre-
! vent land monopolies; that the State prison
contract system be abolished; that no political
assessments be permitted in the party on can-
didates for office or office holders; that the
legal rates of interest be reduced; that debts
due for labor done take tie precedence OF oil
other claims, that no more public lands be
voted to corporations; that a tariff be estab-
| lislcd which shall protect American industry
and manufactures, and that the government
faithfully perform its pledges made to the
Union soldiers by giving them 100 acres OF
land on being discharged, in fee simple, and an
equitable payment PER month OF each soldier,
| according to the value OF the full legal-tender
dollar. Resolutions were also passed express
ing sympathy with and extending the hand OF
fellowship to the workingmen's party OF San
Francisco and praising Denis Kearney.
Tho centennial OF the revolutionary battle
of Newtown was celebrated at Elmira, N. Y,
with great enthusiasm. The governors OF
New York, Pennsylvania and New Hamp-
SHIRE, uni q number of prominent army off,
GERS, were present. A monument was un-
yelled and an address delivered by General
Sherman. The days proceedings terminated
with q display of fireworks and n reception.
George W. Hardie, employed in the New
York county clerks office, was drowned in
presence OF his wife and sister while celebrat-
ing his torty second birthday at Long Branch,
N. j.
A monument to the memory OF General
Custer was unveiled at West Point. General
n. z. Banks delivered the Grafton and John
Mccullough, the actor, rccited "Custer's Last
Charge"
During the first eight months OF this year
76, 1909 emigrunts arrived at the port OF New
York-an excess OF %, 654 over the CORES
ponding months last year.
4 wild Texan steer escaped from a slaughter
house in New York and created a panic on
Fifth avenue by charging right and left, scat
tering pedestrians and vehicles in every direc-
ticn. Before he was shot the brute tossed Eve
men and one woman, and injured q child and
two policemen.
A wonderful feat in craftsmanship has been
performed ut the Columbia Rifle Range, West
End, N j. Mr.. A. G. Holcombe scored thirty
seven consecutive bulPs-eyes at 500 yards, and
made 1873 points out oil a possible Z0O.
Charles Drews, Oldest of the four men under
sentence OF death at Lebanon, Pa, for muir
dering an old MAI named Raber in order to
get the insurance on his life, has made a full
confession, telling how the crime was COM
nitted by his confederates.
Lena and Frederick William Susick, one and
tree years old, children of a painter living
atLinlen, n. j., died q few days ago from the
ELECTS of eating toadstools that had been gath
ereLnnd cooked under the impression they
were mushrooms. Other members of the
tamil: were also made very sick by partaking
Of the poisonous food.
Rev.'V. II. H. Murray has a communion
ton in he Boston papers denying that he
went to ian Francisco clandestinely in order
TO escape lis creditors, but that he went there
on busincs; that his debts are small, and he
should havebeen-uble to meet his obligations
had not his property been attached by impa-
tient creditor; that his estate is valuable
enough to pay III creditors and leave a surplus,
and If not he vii 60 to work and pay all he
owes, and that g retires from public life, de-
clining to remain in a service in which his
motives are traaced and views misreprc
sented.
Senator ConklIng was temporary president
and Vice-President Wheeler permanent presi-
dent of the RepuBlicn State Convention at
Sarntosa. Alonzo B. prnell was nominated
for Governor upon the arst ballot, receiving
234 votes to lO6 for Robrtson, 40 for Starin,
80 Tor Pomeroy, "a for Hiscock and l tor
Sloan. The remainder OF the State ticket is
rs follows: For Lieutenantqoverno George
G. Hoskins; Comptroller, J.W. Wadsworth:
Secretary OF State, General jig. Carr: Treas.
urer, Nathan d. Wendell; At.rney-General,
Hamilton Ward; State Engieer, Howard
soulo. The platform adopted pledges the
party to "national supremacy, tual rights.
free elections and honest money! arraipns
the Democratic Representatives iCongress
as guilty both OF revolutionary atte,pts and
multiplying schemes; declares an uhomnro.
missing opposition to any attempt to rehal The
national election laws; asserts that Il, Re-
publican party "neither ~justifes nor ~toltates
military interference with elections" INT
"seeks only to protect the ballot-bo2 from 10
interference OF force md fraud" charges tn.
the Democratic party 'toIced the extra ses
sion Of Congress without warrant or excuse
prosecuting its partisan purposes by revolu'
tionary methods and persistently obstructine
RESUMPTION" and that 'its Southern element
" Cancellation only with violence" al
firms that "the successful resumption Of specie
payments, despite Democratic prediction ant
hostility, is the browning element OF the Re
publican financial policy" and that "ou,
whole currency should be kept at par with the
monetary standard OF tho commercial world
aud any attempt to debasc the standard, tt
depreciate the paper or deteriornte the coin
should be firmly resisted" protests ".agains
the partisan and unpatriotic greed which ex
pels old Union soldiers from their we'll de
served rewards and advances Confederate