The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-02-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle STATES.

The body OF Miss Dolly Hartman, q beauti.
full school girl who died at the age of eighteen
at her home in Allegheny City, Pa, was
burned in the LIE Moyne furnace at Washing
ton, Pa. At death she expressed a preference
for cremation. This WAS the fifth cremation
at the Washington furnace and the second OF
a woman.
Adolph F.. Borie, General Grants first SEQ
rotary of tho navy, died in Philadelphia the
other day, aged seventy-one years. Mr..
Borie had been a prominent merchant OF
Philadelphia. He was with General Grant on
his recent tour abroad.
refers to the late difficulties and recommends
m investigation OF the whole subject of count
ing the election returns.
Later reports show that during the rece"t
heavy storm at least eight vessels were
wrecked and ten lives lost on the New Jersey
coast.
that Mr.. D.. j. Whitney, chairman Of the
committee for the enforcement Of law OF the
Society tor the Prevention Of Crime, was col
lecting what he termed a "black list" made
up of the names Of persons OF wealth and as
summed responsibility whom bis detectives
found irequenting gambling houses and other
places of ill-repute, has caused a great deal OF
indignation, and much il.feeling against the
society. The secretary of the society pub
fishes a card asserting that the society does
not authorize any espionage or the making Of
any lists except Of names OF witnesses for the
prosecutions which it has undertaken.
A Senate subcommittee, consisting OF Sen.
ators Wallace, Garland, Mcdonald, Hoar and
BAR, has held u two days session in New
York city, examining witnesses in regard to
alleged illegal arrests made by United States
Supervisor Davenport and his marshals on
election day in 1878.
Mrs. Sarah Dilin. ham, thirty-three years
old, wife OF a farmer living near Londonderry,
n. H., was outrageously assaulted and then
shot and probably fatally wounded by her
nephew, Frank Dillingham;, twenty years old.
After committing tie crime Dillingham; made
an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide and
then surrendered himself. His aunt was found
unconscious with q rope around her neck and
q bullet hole in her head.
Two white and three colored prisoners were
publicly whipped q few days ago at Newcastle,
K two horse sleigh in which Howard
Hackett and James Feeney were carry
ing 100 pounds OF Hitro-glycerine over.
turned near Bradford, Pa, and the compound
exploded, tearing a hole in the frozen roadbed
twenty feet lopgand fifteen feet wide. Feeney
jumped from the sleigh as it was going over
and was found under the debris severely in
jured. Hackett was thrown fifty feet by the
explosion and instantly killed. Two houses
and u barn in the vicinity were wrecked by
the conclusion, one of the buildings being
literally shaken to pieces.
The Chatham mills, an extensive three
story brick building in Philadelphia, was de.
stroyed by fire a few days since, involving a
loss of about $4,000.
The city hall at Albany, N. Y, has been do.
etroyed by IRE. During the conflagration six
firemen were injured more or less severely by
the falling of the dome. The loss is estimated
at 500, 900. Both houses OF the legislature
adopted a resolution directing the trustees OF
the old capitol to provide accommodations In
that building for the holding OF courts whose
rooms in the city hall were destroyed.
A gang of six masked men, supposed TO BE-
New York burglars, bound and gagged the
only Waterman on guard at Westport, Conn,
entered the First National bank OF that place,
and attempted to blow open the safe, which
contained q large amount OF money. They
succeeded in blowing open the vault without,
much trouble, but in trying to blow open the
inner cafe the explosion was so terrific that
the burglars were frightened of, obtaining
only about $4,000 for their pains. The noise
made by the second explosion arorsed the
whole village and was heard halt a mile away.
Subscriptions large and small from I'll parts
of tie country are pouring in to the New
York ReraM fund tor the relief OF the
amine-stricke people OF Ireland. Among
the larger subscriptions is one OF $4,000, re.
csived from the Nevada bank, OF San Fran
cisco, and another Of ST. o., given by John
W. Mnckay, the California bonanza king.
Including the 800, 900 contributed by the
New York Hcrafd the fund has reached III
the vicinity Of 5000, 900.
Major. General w. B. Tibbets, OF Troy,
N. Y, died the other night, aged toIty-three.
He served through the civil war. rising from a
captaincy to a heterogeneous rank.
The destruction by fro Of the Protestant
Episcopal church OF the Holy Trinity in New
York involved a loss OF $4,000.