The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03
TIMELY TOPICS.

The hostile Utes of Colorado did
something almost unprecedented in In.
dian warfare in surrendering the women
and children captured at the Meeker
agency safe and unharmed into the
hands of the United States authorities,
after having held them captives for
nearly three weeks, and Buffalo paper
says that this fact does something to
mitigate the barbarity of their revolt,
and if the government can induce the
Ute chiefs 10 surrender the Indians
guilty of the brutal murder of agent
Meeker and his male assistants it will
be a triumph for the peace policy not
easily over estimated. -"
Five and half millions of dollars are
spent every year by the Russian gov
ernment upon the military schools.
There are twenty sergeauts' schools,
twenty-five military gymnasiums, two
military teachers seminaries, seven Off
GERS schools, the institute of the i'm
perial pages, the military Typographical
school, the naval school, the naval
academy, the naval artillery school, the
naval engineer school, the military gen.
eral academy, the military artillery
academy, the military engineer academy,
four military veterinary schools, the
military medical academy. the military
law school and academy; in short,
there is only wanting military theolo-
gical academy. ...
Mojada, the. new Ell Dorado, which is
attracting thousands of Americans to
Mexico, includes parts of the States of
Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango.
The district has long been known as rich
in gold and silver, but the utter lawless-
ness which formerly prevailed, and the
frequent revolutions and forced loans,
deferred capitalists and prospectors from
developing it. Things appear to have
changed for the better; life and prop
erty are reported comparatively safe
under the strict rule of President Diaz.
The stories told of the richness of the
mines seem almost fabulous. It would
be well, however, for those who thirst to
become millionaires suddenly not to
rush too hastily into that foreign and al
most unknown region.
A murder that for GOODNESS and delib-
GRAFTON is not. often surpassed is reported
from Breitenbach, Germany. A married
couple having quarreled, the wife left
the house, and for several days stayed
away, sleeping at night in barns or
wherever she found it convenient. Mean
while the husband remained calmly at
home. This Indifference exasperated
the wife to pitch of diabolical hatred,
and about eleven o'clock one night she
returned to the house, and while her
husband lay asleep in an adjoining
room, went into the kitchen, started q
fire, filled the kettle with water and put
it on the stove. waited patiently until
it steamed, and then, taking it to her
husbands bedside, poured the contents
over hip, scalding him so badly that he
lived only few hours. .
Speaking ofmysterious disappearance
in London. the correspondent of pro-
vincial paper says: cat the time of the
discovery of the remains (and before
their Identification as those of Miss
Hacker) in Euston square, Chief Su-
perintendent Williamson Of Scotland
Yard received upward Of one thousand
| photographs of females who were miss
ing from various parts of the country,
the bulk of whom had been traced to
London, where the clue was lost. The
theory entertained by the officers is that,
| in many instances, after the victim has
been marked down, advantage is taken
of the lax state of the present lunacy
laws, certificate of lunacy, signed by
two unscrupulous practitioners, is OBJ
tanned, and the unfortunate creature is
conveyed to one OF the so-called private
asylums (scores of which exist unsus-
pected in our large tcwns). and detained
where help or discovery is next to i'm
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