The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-07-28
NEWS
Ea.tsru md Middle states.

ERHtaru aid M100lo States.
A nre at Tyrone, Pa, DESTROYED about
thirty buildings, including all tho banks, the
onera house and the postof1ce. TIL damage
is estimated at $3.50, 900 and the insurance at
Colonel William Tilden Pelton, nephew and
seoretary of Samuel j. Tilden, died at a New
York hotel the other day, aged ftty-tWo years.
The deceased, it will be remembered, was an
important witness in the presidential o,Pner
dispatches " investigation made by the fotoer
congressional committee.
Lee & Murdock's shoddy mill ana one
dwelling house at East Douglass, Mass.' were
DESTROYED by fire a few days since, causing
loss of about $4,000.
The Salvation Army has settled upon Oape
May as the place most in need OF rs Hoors'
A statement prepared by the receivers o.
the Reading railroad shows a total indebted'
ness between the Philadelphia and Reading
rail- Dad and the Reading Coal and Iron COM
pany OF 5000, 0O7, OLA 10.
A Maryland-born colored woman living at
Syracuse, N. Y, has hair as white as q"
But, then, she has passed q century OF lhe,
being in her lO2d year. She is O cripple from
a fall about one year ago, but otherwise as
well as ever.
Fred Grable, engineer, and William blaok,
fireman, were killed by q boiler explosion In
a Pittsburgh (Pa,) iron mill. An iron-clad
building used az q boier-room was comple'e'y
wrecked.
The rush to Long Branch is 80 great that
the hotel proprietors have been compelled 10
turn away hundreds OF people.
Laree temperance meetings are being held
at Asbury Park, N. j. The Women's tom
perance convention began there the other
day and attracted multitudes.
A wagon containing nine persons on ls way
from the Glen House to the summit OF Mount
Washington, in New Hampshire, was tipped
over and Mrs. Ira Chichester, OF Michigan,
was instantly killed and five other persons
were injured.
The New York mercantile agency OF Dun,
Barlow b Co. has issued a circular snowng
that the number of failures IN the Onlteo
States during the first six months OF loSo was
2,497, with liabilities amounting to $3Z $780,
763. During the same period IN lo1? :.h 5ne
number Of failures was 4,05S, and the lanlh'
ties $65, 779 800.
Alta meeting in New York of the Demo.
cratic national committee W. H. Barnum, OF
Connecticut, was elected permanent chairman,
and F. Il. Prince was chosen secretary: ,
The Committee appointed by the national
Democratic convention at Cinclnnau 10 IN.
form General Hancock and Mr.. English OF
their nomination for President and Vice.
President performed their duty the other day
at General Hancock's headquarters on GOV
errors Island. The committee proceeded IN
q body TO his residence, and after Governor
Stevenson, chairman OF the Clnclnnat con-
v~ention, had been introduced, a letter was
read signed by the full committee and ten
dering the nomination to General Hancock,
H. ...l.oJ ~, fo11owo. IMr Chairman And
| Gentlemen of the Committee appreciate
| the honor conferred upon me by the national
Democratic convention lately assembled IN
Cincinnati, and I thank you for your
courtesy in making known that honor to me.
AS soon as time permits to give the subject
that careful attention belonging to 1t, l snail
prerare and will send you q reply OF formal
nature. accepting the nomination by the
Democratic party to the Office OF Presldent OF
the United States" The members OF the
committee we're then introduced to General
Hancock, who was in mourning Tor his Jour
month-old grandson and namesake, whose
death had taken place a few hours previous.
William II. English, who was also present,
having come on from Indiana, was then Tor
mally informed OF his nomination Tor vice.
President, and he briefly thanked the conn
mittee, saying that he would at an early day
lOrnully anu Ill HIllLue AAhh0 ~~SSf
usual on such occasions.
The Democratic national committee and
the Congressional campaign committee pald q
visit to the residence of Me-. Tifden, in New
York, and presented him with a copy OF the
resolution Of respect passed by the Cincinnati!
convention. Mr.. Tilden cordially returned
thanks.
A curious accident took place on a train OF
the Long Island railroad Mt East RockaWay
| the other day. Twenty-s seven italian laborers
were swept from one Of the platform cars by
a heavy wire rope attached to a derrick at the
side OF the track and which sagged as tho train
swept by. Two or three oil the men were
fatally injured, and nearly all tho rest were
hurt more or less seriously. .,
M. X. Waite & Co. have filed notice with
the New York secretary of state that
they have discovered q mine OF gold ore IN
the tow OF Northampton, Fulton county,
N. Y.
Three 25, 900 barrel oil-tanks near Brad
ford, Pa, were struck by lightning and de-
slroyed.
Western and Southern States.
At Chicago Mccormick & Co.'s elevator,
containing so, 1000 bushels OF oats, l0,OO
bushels Of corn and 1000 bushels OF wheat,
together with an adjoining warehouse flled
with stoves, was destroyed by fire, causing a
total loss Of $4,000.
Several farmers near Wabash, Ind, have
been arrested for cutting the dam which sup
plies that city with water. They desired 10
stop the back-water overflow on their farms.
A St. Louis dispatch says the scheme to in
wade the Indian Territory and settle on the
government lands is gaining strength daily;
that thousands OF families are preparing to
enter the Territory and that If the military
are instructed to eject them there will prob
ably be a conflict.
Peter Sullivan was killed and another boy
had his leg broken by an explosion OF blasting
powder in an old lookup at Holyoke, Mass.
Sullivan's body was blown through the roo:
Armour & Co., a Chicago firm OF pork
packers, have been engaged in an immense
speculation in pork. The frm began buying
pork as lar back as December. Their cash
purchases amount to l65, 900 barrels, and for
August, September and October delivery
about 250, 600 barrels. They began buying to
hold when pork was out at $40 to $l0.5O, and
the other day it closed at $1,000 to $lO.S2t,
having touched $l4.30 on a preceding Thurs-
day.
George Allen Price, q colored man, was
hanged at Cincinnati for the murder of Willie
Black, a tobacco merchant, who had discharged
the condemned man from his employ tor steal
ing tobacco.
Daniel Washington, a colored man, was
hanged at Chester, s. c., for the murder OF