The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-07

mayor, by Charles De Young, ST., prupriesos
Chronicle newspaper. -. 80. A monument
to General Custer unveiled at West Point.
California State election.
Massacre OF British embassy at Cabul. ...5.
Several persons killed or injured by boi er
explosion on steamer Alaska, Lake Erie
....S. State election in Maine I'LL. Tam
many bolts from Democratic State Conven.
tion at Syracuse. 18. News received OF
the capture OF Catewayo, Zulu king, by the
British .... 20. General Grant arrives in
San Francisco after two years absence
abroad. international salking match for
Ashley belt begun in New York. ..22. Par
ticluars received of great fire at Kiev, Rus
sia....23. Alliance formed between Ger.
many and Austria. .26. Partial destruction
oiDeadwood, Dakota, by re....H. Rowell
wins the walking match in New York. 80.
%. Prof. Wiso and companion ascend In
balloon Pathfinder, at St. Louis, and never
heard from again %. Bloody battle be.
tween United States troops and Ute Indians
in Colorado.
OCrOBER.-2. Monument to Andre erected
on the spot where he was hanged, at Tap.
pan, N. Y. About fifteen persons killed
and many more wounded by tall OF grand
stand at fair in Adrian, Mich. :. 4. Be.
ginning OF pedestrian match for O!Leary
belt in New York. General Merritt's force
relieves Captain Payne's troops, beleasuered
by Utes, in Colorado. ..8. Capture OF fl.
nous Peruvian iron.clad Huascar by Chill
ian vessels after desperate naval fight....
10. Fifteen persons killed and many
wounded by railroad collision at Jackson,
Mich 80. II. Murphy wins tho walking
match for the OLeary belt. IL. British
troops enter Cabul. ...l IA. State elections in
Ohio and Iowa. .. Is. Disastrous foods in
Spain. lis. DR.. lie Moyno cremated at
Washington, Pa. Hanlan md Courtney
nuke 6zzle OF their boat race on Chautau.
qua Lake....l8. Loss OF Spanish steamer
Nuevo Pajaro del Oceano in Bahama Straits,
West Indies, by dre, and torty oil her passen.
gers and crew perish 10. Formation OF
new Turkish ministry. 20. Twenty.seven
British troops and many Aighans killed by
blowing mp OF magazine in 0bul. 81.
Terrible distress in Hungary on account OF
bad crops reported. rs. Yellow lever cpl
dcmic in Memphis declared at AN end.
Five men killed by explo.
sion OF tre lamp in colliery near Scranton,
Pa....4. Elections in number OF Stntes.
....5. Obsequies of General Hooker in New
York, and OF Senator Chandler in Detroit.
....7. Steamer Champion sunk by the ship
Lady Octavia, near Cope Henlopen, and
thirty lives lost. g. Three lives lost and
damage exceeding 100000 done by break.
ing OF train thi ough the iron bridge over
tile, Missouri at St. Charles, Mo. Several
persons killed by the iall of q cracker fac-
tory in Kansas City, Mo-. ..l0. A party Of
fifty white men from Now Mexico, attacked
by Indians in Mexico and thirty-two killed
I'LL. Fatal cyclone in Crawford county,
Arkansas. :. II. Reception to General Grant
in Chicago. Five persons killed at New
York tenement-house hre 80. II. About
thirty Cinnamon killed by an explosion in a
lost by the sinking OF portion oi town on
Lake Ontario. l9. General Thomas statue
unveiled in Washington. Great excitement
eral persons for seditious utterances -. 26
Great sale OF 250, 900 shares New York Cen
trail railroad stock by w. II. Vanderbilt TO
asyndicate Of bankers for So 1000, ,000....
u. Thanksgiving day....2S. Marriage at
Madrid OF King Alfonso TO Marie Christine,
Austrian archduchess.
Opening OF the regular ses-
sion OF Forty-sixth Congress. ....2. Attempt
10 XIII Tue Czar Ol ftlSsla Whl!e Oh MS way
to Moscow. 3. Banquet to Oliver Wendell
Holmes in Boston in honor OF his seventeen
birthday. ....S. Opening OF the international
dairy tail in New York. United States
Senate confirms Secretary OF War McCrarJ
to be United States circuit judge. -. lU.
Ex-senator Ramsey's appointment as suo
cessor to Secretary OF War McCraIy con.
frmed by the Senate. National agricultural
society formed in New York. II. News
received OF great floods in Transylvania
and Hungary. Destruction by fire OF Red
Rock, Pa. .... Is. Twelve miners killed and
eight injured by an explosion in u salt mine
in Wurtemburg, Germany. Great
welcome to General Grant in Philadelphia
....l9. Details received OF heavy bate
between Chilans and allied forces Of Per,
and Bolivia. II