The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-06-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States

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mile and a half race for the Belmont Stakes,
for three-year-olds, was won by James r.
Keene's colt Spendthriit, in 2:422.
Peter Swigler, a colored man, was hanged
at Chambersburg, Pa, for the murder OF
another colored man last December. He ap-
peared unconcerned on the scaffold, saying:
IAN I got to say is what brung me here is
whisky and bad company. 1 advise all young
men to let whisky alone"
By the explosion of boiler in a brickyard
at Freedom, Pa, John Bryan and Frank
Matheny were instantly killed and four other
men badly hurt.
Great CONSERVATION was caused in Shenan-
doah, Pa, by the sudden sinking OF many
buildings in the town and the appearance OF
cracks in the ground three or four inches wide
and onc-quarter of q mile long. The openings
are over a mine and are believed to have been
caused by the coal being cut too near the sur
face.
At Rochester, N. Y, Peter Peters, n Prus-
sian, aged tifty-six, shot his wife, fatally wound
ing her, and then blew his own brains out.
The tragedy was caused by family troubles,
the man complaining that his wife thought
more Of their three boys than OF himself.
Felix Mccain, aged 1fty-four, was hanged
at Norwich, n. T., for the murder OF james
NJ. Hatch in Sherburne on December 8, 1878.
The immediate provocation was that Hatch
had shot u chicken OF McCann's; but there hnd
been bad blood between the twofamilies, grow
ing out of McCann's second marriage.
Lightning struck Rev. George Clark's cot
tnge ut Asbury Park, N. Y, and instantly
killed James Kelly and B. Fenton, two paint
ers who had been working on the building,
l,,k t,oI <olo, ,nE,~o ~ tho roroh
Three young men-Charles Fifield, VIM. o.
Pinkham and William Rowell-were drowned
in Salem (Mass.) hnrbor by the capsizing Of n
sailboat.
The great strike OF iron workers ut Pitts
burgh, Pa, is ut an end, the iron manutac-
turers having resolved at O meeting that under
existing circumstances they deem it inexpe-
dent to resist further "the unjust demands Of
the boilers"
Judge Blatchtord, in the United States Cir
cult Court at New York, hus decided, in the
suit agreed upon by Representatives S. b.
Chittcnden and B. +. Butler, that the leissue
OF legal tenders in time of peace was valid.
The case will be taken to the United States
Supreme Court, where it will be argued by
Senator Edmunds on one side and Genera!
Butler on the other.
AS Mrs. Honorn Lacy was driving from Will
mington, Del, to her home in Chester county,
Pa, some cotton and straw in the bottom OF
the carriage were ignited by q match, and in
All instant the whole interior of the vehicle
was in a blaze. The horse became frightened,
ran away, and before it was stopped Mrs. Lacy
was literally roasted alive, her flesh being
burned to a crisp. She died early the next
morning.
AT Jersey City, N. j., Mrs. Jenny R. Smith
and her lover, Covert D. Bennett, the con-
victed murderers OF the formers husband,
Policeman Richard H. Smith, were sentenced
to be hanged on the 25th of July. Mrs. Smith
received the sentence with ~composure, but
Bennett had to be supported from falling. The
crime iop which the prisoners were sentenced
is briefly told as follows: On the morning OF
August l, 1878, Police Officer Richard Hnrri-
son Smith, of Jersey City, was found dead in
his bed at his house, No. 1873 Pacific avenue.
His wife said that while she was in bed by his
side she saw a man in the room who chloro-
formed her, and when she awoke her husband
was dead. Tho officers skull was fractured in
two places and there were seventeen stab
wounds in the left breast. Mrs. Smiths night
garments were entirely free OF blood. The
suspicious circumstances caused the police to
arrest her and her paramour, Bennett. While
in jail they correspondent, and m eight-page
letter written by Bennett was intercepted and
assisted largely in their conviction. 1t appears
to be the general belief throughout Jersey City
that whether the condemned receive a new
trial or not they will never be executed.
Edward Parr, an old man convicted in Phil
adelphin of brutally numbering his married
daughter, fell to the floor OF the courtroom rs
sentenced OF death was pronounced upon him
by the Judge; and upon examination 1t was
found he had taken n dose OF strychnine. AL
though the doctors tried hard to keep him alive
he died after eighteen hours Of terrible suffer
ing.
Western and Southern States.
While workmen were tearing down the
ruins OF a five-story building in Cincinnati that
had been destroyed by fire, one OF the interior
walls suddenly fell, carrying with it portions
of the second, third, fourth and fifth floors and
twelve Of the fifteen men, four of whom were
killed and the rest injured.
Nine colored men and women were arrested
in Portsmouth, Va, for disorderly conduct,
and upon the mayors order the whole party
were whipped, receiving thirty-nin lashes each
at the whippins-post.
The planters OF Washington county, Miss.
have issued q memorial, addressed to "the
business men and benevolent societies Of the
North" saying that ii a single boat should
make its appearance, offering free passage to
Kansas to the colored people, ii would create
such Il stampede that every plantation accessl.
BILE TO the Mississippi would be depopulated
and Their owners financially ruined. The
memorial says further that the colored maj
has no real cause for dissatisfaction, and the
people OF the North are invoked to " interposc
their condemnation and power to prevent the
destruction OF tho industrial interests Of the
white and black alike OF the Mississippi valley
The Workingmen's State Convention, held
in San francisco, nominated F. White, Il
farmer, tor Governor. Dennis Kearney was
reelected permanent president OF tho party
After a session lasting scvernl days the Ma.
ST. Louis to meet in Buffalo, N. Y, the first
Wednesday in June, 1880.
J. j. Ayres, editor of the Los Angeles En-.
press, was nominated for Congress for the
Fourth district of California by the Working.
mems Convention.
Two monuments erected to the memory OF
Confederate dead were unveiled ut Stonewall
Cemetery, Winchester. Va. General Joseph
T.. Johnson was the chief marshal OF the pro-
c~ession, and United States Senator Morgan, OF
Alabama, the orator of the occasion. Gov
ernor Holiday also spoke.
John Blan, hanged at st. Charles, Mo-, for
numbering Elijah Warren, his brother-in-law,
after q quarrel, made O desperate attempt to
escape Just before the execution, but was
caught in the ante-room of the jail and secured.
On the same day Monroe Guy, colored, was
hanged at Hillsboro, Mo-, for killing Aaron
McPete last Christmas.
A bloody double tragedy, the result Of n
long-standing feud between the White and
Corners families, Of Ottawa, ILL.,, and vicinity,
took place a few days ago. Lawrence White
was shot dead by a revolver in the hands OF
D. Il. Corners, who was himself Immediately
thereafter killed by q bullet from some I'M
known hand.
A fire ut Dwight, ILL.,, destroyed eleven
business houses and one dwelling, causing IL
loss OF $4,000.
Heavy frosts have done considerable damage
to crops in Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and
some portions OF Illinois.
a terrible riot at Mcintosh, Ga, between
negroes belonging to the place md n party OF
colored excursionists from another county, re-
suited in the death of five men and the wound
ing of many more.
The Association of Medical Superintendent
OF American Institutions tor the Insane COM
menced its thirty-third annual meeting in
Providence, R. l., the president, DR.. q. IL.
Nichols, of the Bloomingdale Asylum, New
York, in the chair. There was a large atten-
dance of members. DR.. Clement a. Walker,
OF Boston, was chosen president, and DID