The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-04-07
NEWS EPITOME.
Eastern and Middle states.

Eastern and MldoIo states.
Tho Maine legislative committee On the
contingent action of Ex-Governor Garcelon
and his council, after investigation, has made
a report charging that alterations and torgeriea
were made in the returns of the election, all oil
which acts were q part OF a premeditated
plan to secure a Fusion governor and legisla.
ture, and that the governor and his council
must have been parties to it.
A passenger train stopped at AWHILE, Pa,
the other night and O number OF passengers
alighted and stood on an adjoining track, when
the western bound express passed through the
crowd killing Michael Bachman and severely
injuring four other men.
CYRUS W. Field has resigned his position as
president of the New York Elevated Railroad
company and as president Of the Wabash,
Pacific s. st. Louis Railroad company for the
purpose OF taking q pleasure trip around the
world.
The Rhode Island Republican State convon-
ton, in session at Providence, nominated a
ticket headed by Alfred H. Littlefeld for
governor, and appointed delegates to the
national convention at Chicago.
The New York Herald Irish famine relief
fund has reached $500, 900. The total amount
contributed so far by America tor the famine
stricken people Of Ireland is estimated at over
81, 900, 900.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State con.
vention for the selection OF delegates to the
national convention at Cincinnati will be held
in Harrisburg, April %.
William B. Pierson was hanged at Geneseol
n. Y, for the murder by poison OF L.. b
Whitney at Avon in 1877. Shortly after
Withey's death Pierson, who already had g
wife and i've children, eloped with bis vic
TINS wife. Mrs. Whitney WAS tried in 1879
as principal in the crime, but was acquitted
Pierson, who was a fne-looking man, weigh
ing nearly 200 pounds, protested his innocence
to the last.
The New Hampshire Democratic conven.
ton for the selection OF delegates to Cincin
matt will be held May s at Concord.
The building in Boston occupied by the
morning Journal was partially destroyed by
Ore a few nights ago while the editors and
compositors were at work getting out next
days paper. With the help Of other papers
the Journal appeared as usual the next morn
ing. The loss to the Journal was about
$4,000
During a public school entertainment at the
public hall in Lincoln, Pa, part OF the flooring
suddenly gave away, precipitating about lou
persons to the floor below. About thirty per-
IONS were injured more or less seriously.
Troy, n. Y, has had q three hundred
thousand dollar IRE, the flames destroying q
large building occupied by several shirt and
collar manufacturers.
At the Rhode Island Democratic State con.
v~ention, held in Providence, q ticket headed
by Horace NJ. Kimball for governor was nomi-
mated and delegates to the national cohVen'
ton at Cincinnati were chosen.
Many OF the striking piano-makers OF New
York have gone to work, the employers WITH
drawing their demand that their employees
refrain from joining the union.
The Pennsylvania Greenhackers, in conven'
ton assembled at Harrisburg, nomina'eda Stale
ticket headed by +. W. Dewee5 for supreme
court Judge, and elected delegates to the ma
tional convention at Chicago. The conven-
ton endorsed Henry b. Wright, Congtess-
man from Luzerne county, iorthe nomination
TOR President.
Sydney Holly, a wellto-do farmer OF
Branchville, n. j., committed suicide a lew
nights since. He had specialized LATELY IN
Wall street, and having lost nearly all ms
wealth, it is believed that in IL TT OF melaii'
choly he ended his lite.
For some time past Rev. DR.. Morgan DIX,
OF New York, has been excessively annoyed
and prosecuted by constant calls at his house
OF persons in every walk OF lite who showed
letters and postal cards that they had re-
ceiyed, signed by his name and inviting them
to call upon him for one purpose or another;
For instance, the prosecutor would send postal
cards to a large number OF tradesmen, asking
them to call at DR.. Dix's residence on a GER
tain day, to receive an order for goods hat
the clergyman desired to purchase; and as
49, - x1-1a .rnSa tr-or a osfFnod With
the name and address oil DR.. Dix, on the day
in question his residence would be besIeged
by an army OF people, who would then learn
Tor the first time that they had been victim
lied. Finally the annoyance became 80
great that DR.. Dix placed the matter in the
hands OF detectives, who after a vigorous
search succeeded in finding the prosecutor in
the person OF one Eugene Fairfax William
son. This man had been a Sunday-school
teacher in Trinity church, at which DR.. Dix
oficiates, eight or nine years ago, and moved
in Lood society, but disappeared after getting
himself into some disagreeable scrape. Will
hanson has served a year in Newgate prison,
London, for committing a precisely similar
offense in England, where he was arrested
alter sending out an immense lot OF black
mailing letters from his headquarters in a
leading London hotel. The mans residence is
in Pittsburg, Pa, where he is a church
member. He was arrested in Baltimore,
where he had gone on a visit from New York,
dnd at once confessed his crime, but gave no
reason TOR sending the annoying letters. As
some of the letters sent to DR.. Dix demanded
al, 900 as the price OF cessation from the per-
secution, Williamson has put himself within the
pale OF the law and will be dealt with accord
ingly.
The New York Greenback Labor party, in
convention assembled at Albany, chose dele
gates to the national convention at Chicago
and adopted a long platform demanding an
imitation of the currency and a payment OF
the $500, 0,0L0 OF bonds, yet to be funded,
in legal tenders.
The will of the late General Tibbits, OF Troy,
n. Y, leaves 800, 900 tor the establishment
OF u soldiers home in that city, to be known
as the " Tibbitt's Home" provided that $780,
900 additional be raised by subscription within
five years.
Western and Southern States:
In st. Louis Conral Hieman, who had beer
drinking to excess, killed his wife and stabtec
fatally the infant that was in her arms. HE.
man also stabbed his brother in the back anc
RlGerDTU6n u XIII no AtIuS" ho IN
wounded, but the boy escaped by outrunninR
the maniac. Hieman was arrested.
The Illinois Democratic State convention
for the nomination OF a gubernatorial ticket
and the selection OF delegates to the nationa
convention has been called tor Springfield
June 10.
Two young men, a lawyer and a travelling
salesman, recently fought q duel in Bruins
wick county, Va. They exchan ged one shot
the salesman receiving a wound in his righ
arm. Before hostilities could be resumed,
constable, armed with a warrant, arrested
both p~arties. The cause OF the meeting wa
a political dispute.
Samuel II. Myers was hanged at Dallas
Texas, Tor numbering his mother = in Law
in 1877.
Edward C. Palmer, president OF the sus.
pended Louisiana savings bank, OF New Or
leans, found guilty of misappropriating $47,.
900 OF the institutions funds, has been sen.
fenced to three years imprisonment at hard
Clarence Davis, a bigamist with thirteen
wives, tried to commit suicide in a Chicago
Jail, to which his many marriages had brough,
him, but was prevented. u
cisco has decided that the Inv iorbidding the
emnlovment OF Chinese by corporations il un'
constitutional. ,,
Frank Lewis, Of Marshall, Texas, while in
sane, killed his boy with poison, and then
goiug to his wife's grave, took poison himself
and died.
General Grant with party arrived in Gal
weston, Texas, from Mexico, Il few days ago
and was received with military honors and &
banquet.
An incendiary fire destroyed about a doSe'
houses in the business part OF Chatham, Va
From Washington.
Washington circles have been considerably
stirred by the arrival from Peru, where n
had been soiourning as United States minister
of ,sanator Christiancy, of Michigan, an