The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-14
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.


Major e. W. French, q clerk in the Maine
acknowledgements Office, attempted to have
l2O rifles and 81, 900 cartridges conveyed from
the State arsenal at Bangor to Augusta; but
the wagons carrying the material were
stopped by a large and excited crowd, and the
mayor OF Bangor, appearing on the scene,
asked Major French upon whose authority the
arms were being removed. Major French re-
Piled upon the authority OF Governor Garce-
lon. The mayor then said that in the present
excited state of the crowd he feared that, with
the meager police force under his control, he
could not guarantee the safe conduct oil the
arms through the CITY. Major French then
ordered the wagons TO return to the arsenal.
The affair created great excitement through
out Maine.
When the Italian lark francesca onovarra
arrived in New York, the details OF q terrible
tragedy at sea were made public. 1t seems
that two sailors on board mutlnled 1or t1e
purpose OF obtaining possession OF tne Vessei,
drove their companions alott, stabbed ana
killed the cook and boatswain, wounded the
mate and cabin boy and then tried to COM
plete their murdcrous work by killing the cap-
tain, who, however, confronted them with a
revolver and shot them both dead.
George W. Brill, q veteran Journalist, oieo
in Albany, N. Y, the other day, from the
effect ofinjuries received while getting on a
train at the Grand Central depot, New YORK.
Recorder John K. Hackett, tho famous New
York criminal Judge, is dead in his nity-nlnth
year.
Hurt, the colored pedestrian, came ont first
in the si1-day "go~-as-vou-please pedestrian
contest in New York, covering $40 miles and
winning n belt and So 5000. The other win
ners and their scores were: Krohne, 534
...te-. E1La- COL, o1rnr (nN1nrolN rOE.
Fitzgerald, 52o4; Hughes, $50; Williams
(colored), 502; Campana, 500.
One OF the handsomest business blocks in
Boston has been destroyed by fire, among the
heaviest losers being Rice, Kendall & Co, paper
makers, Houghton, Osgood Co., publishers,
and the Union Express Company. 1he
total loss ia variously estimated at between
l 1000, 900 and 81, 500, 900.
During 1879 there were 2S, lG5 denths, 25,-
1872 births and 1886 marriages in New York
city.
George Jones, universally known a" Count
Joannes," q peculiar old man familiar to all
New Workers, died in the metropolis q few
days ago, aged si1ty-nine years. He had
been an actor in early lite, but for the last
twelve years had practiced law, without,
however, obtaining any clients. Some months
ago he gave q series OF theatrical perform
ances in New York, playing III Shakespearean
parts to large audiences OF men, who attended
merely to amuse themselves at his expense by
continuously applauding his acting, OF which
he was very proud. AT most OF the perform
ances the noise made by the audiences was 80
great that the actors could not DO heard, and
occasionally the police had 10 interfere. The
"Count Joannes" was continually writing
letters to the New York papets-letters that
we're selt.laudatory Of the writer or dcscrip-
tive OF some incident in which he had cut q
prominent figure. His title to nobility existed
only in his Imagination, and his eccentrlcltles
and inordinate vanity were doubtless the re-
suit OF a diseased mind.
Western and Southern States.
At Delphos, Ohio, Bernard Pickers, an old
German, was called to the door OF his house
at two O'Clock in the morning by three armed
men, who demanded his money, and upon his
refusal to comply with their demand he was
shot and killed. The ruflians then seized and
gagged Mrs. Pickers, and placing the solcs OF
her feet TO the fire they tortured her until,
unable to endure the pain longer, she told
where the money was. Securing $l,5OO, the
murderers departed. -.
Miss Julia jackson, the s~ixteen-year-old
daughter OF Stonewall Jackson, has been
presented by eS-Confederate soldiers OF hlary-
land with a silver pitcher. Miss Jackson is
living at a boarding-school in Baltimore.
Minnesota has experienced unusually cold
weather, the thermometer in st. Paul falling
to forty degrees below zero, while in some
places it fell to sixty degrees below zero.
A Messenger train on its way 10 Kansas
CITY. Mo-, from st. Louis, was thrown from
the track and wrecked by Il broken rail, and
the porter OF the sleeper and Col. L.. r. BOND,
OF Auburn, ILL.,, were killed. and about twenty
five other persons were injured, but none
seriously.
Robert and Dennis 'atrick, colored, quar-.
elled in Madison com ty, Ala, while killing
hogs, and in the scufic the brothers grappled,
rolled into n caldron OF boiling water and were
scalded to death.
While Fred. Jaynes was personating Santa
Claus in Paris, Ky. he was so ba oily burned
by his costume catching fire that he died Inc
next morning in great agony.
DISPATCHES fromthe Los Pinos (Col.) Indian
agency state that the Ute chief, Ouray, who
promised to deliver mp those Utes implicated
in tho massacre OF Agent Meeker, had hcen
unable to carry out his agreement; that Gen.
Hatch, head Of the commission appointed to
investigate the cause Of the massacre, had lost
confidence in the ultimate success OF his
efforts to induce the Indians to give them
selves M for trial, and that another Indian
war is probable. 1t is asserted that IN the
secret testimony taken before the commission
it was proved that Mrs. Meeker and the other
women Mt the agency had been outraged by
Chief Douglass md some OF his followers
after their capture.
Two men named Woodruff and Seminole,
the latter a hall -brced Indian, who muir.
.lcred r.. B.. Hayward, a farmer OF JET.
1870 ~ folynn trim tho lqIl
| at Golden by $50 masked mp and lynched.
A dispatch from Bismarck, Dakota, says
that David Hall, John Gallagher and a man
called Missouri were frozen TO death on the
Northern Pacific railroad extension, and that
it is feared many others have met the same
fate, the thermometer having averaged fifteen
degrees below zero for two weeks.
Four colored men in confinement ut Amite,
Ala, on the charge OF murder, were taken
from Jail by O crowd oil 1l!ty men and shot to
death.
From Washington.
The United States consul at Buenos Ayres,
in a dispatch To the department OF state, dated
October 81, 1879. announces that a continental
exposition will be opened in that city on Sep
tembcr Is, 1880, to continue until December
Is OF the same year. The exposition IS to be
divided into six sections. All the nations OF
South America car contribute to md COM
pete in the exposition; but the United States
and Europe are limited to one section for ma
chinery only.
The most expensive private residence in
Washington, belonging to ex-senator Stewart,
OF Nevada, and known as Stewards CASTLE"
was nearly totally destroyed by fire a few
nights ago. The original cost OF the building
and furniture was not far from $3.50, 600. The
house contained seventy rooms and was most
deliberately furnished throughout.
Foreign News
Tho Peruvians and Bolivians are reported
to be completely powerless to continue the
war against the Chilians.
By a colliery explosion near Bolton, Eng.
land, eleven men were injured, several H.
tally.
The Spanish senate hos passed a bill for
the abolition OF slavery in Cuba.
A British soldier in Cabul states that one OF
Yakoob Khan's generals told Sir Frederick
Roberts, commander of the English troops in
Afghanis,an, that Yakoob Khan himself signed
the death warrant OF the British embassy,
and ordered the bodies of the murdered men
10 be dragged through the streets of Cabul.
During a Mahometan religious festival at
Candahar some mounted Ghazis became e1-
cited and ran n muck through the British
camp. General Tyler was wounded and four
OF the fanatics were killed.
The Albanians nave created a disturbance
at Prizrend, setting fire to two Greek churches
aud several houses belonging to Christians.
Unless prompt help is given to the destitute
PEOPLE in Roumelia thousands must perish
from cold and starvation.
An appalling railroad disaster is reported