The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-02-11
WEEKS EVENTS.
Eastern and Middle States.

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Twelve counterteners were captured at
Oswego, N. Y, in the act OF coming money.
Daniel 5earles, a negro, was hanged o low
dovs 400 at Owcro, N. Y, for the murder,
Last June, oil Eldridge Rewey, an old bachelor
farmer, tho object of the crime being robbery.
After the body of the 0olored man Searles,
hanged at Oswego, n. Y, was ont down it
was sold by his father to two doctors Tor $l5.
Taking it home they severed the head from
the trunk, removed the brain, found that II
weighed iorty.si1 ounces, and then placed II
in a glass jar, which was aiterward hcrmeu-
cally sealed. This done they filed the town
with bills announcing they would lecture tnat
night on the nature and construction OF muir
derers' brains in general and Searles' brain IN
particular. They further proposed to carry
the headless corpse through the country ana
deliver anatomical lectures in connection with
it.
While an engine carrying q number OF work
men was going down Eighth avenue on the
Elevated railroad in New York, it was thrown
from the track and fell to the ground: seven
men were injured, two or three fatally.
On the Oath the Fusionist wing OF the Maine
Legislature ordered a number OF questions
to be submitted to tho supreme court. The
Republicans having placid a body OF militia
with a Calling gun in the State-hcuse, the
Fusionist governor, Smith, issued a proclama-
ton denouncing this action and denying that
his followers contemplated a resort to force.
A heavy tall in prices for grain caused
great excitement in the New York Produce
Exchange, and temporarily crippled one
broker. All grades OF wheat fell three to Ave
cents q bushel in one day, and during the
week prices tell from seven 10 nine cents.
The walking mania has caused the death Of
Newburg, N. Y, OF two young men VINO
over-e1erted themselves in their efforts to
make big scores and were taken down with
consumption.
A loss of 500, 900 was incurred by the dc.
s~truction by fire Of Stephen F. Whitman &
Sons large confectionery establishment in
Philadelphia. -,
The Rev. H. H. Hayden, whose long trial
at New Haven for the murder Of Mary STAN
nard resulted in a disagreement OF the jury,
has been released from Jail on a bond OF S9'-
900. On account OF the disagreement OF the
jury Mr.. Hayden says he will not 80 back to
the ministry, although the wardcns 81 MS
church nave asked him to return to them'
While in confinement he wrote an autobiog-
raphy OF his life which is 10 I've published IN
book form.
A workshop in the grounds OF the Kings
county penitentiary on tho outskirts OF Brook
Iyn was destroyed by fire a few days ago.
There were nearly 800 c~onvicts and employees
in the building at the time, but no lives were
lost. The total loss on building, stock end
machinery belonging to the Bay State o
and Leather Company, is estimated at $ZGo,'
0C0. :.
In answer to the questions submitted 10 l,
BY the Fusionist legislature the Maine supreme
court decided that those questions were not
submitted by any legally constituted body
and that the Republican senate and house Bit
ting in the capitol at Augusta were the only
legal legislature Of the State.
Governor Van Zandt in his annual message
to the Rhode Island general assembly recom'
mends the extension to women OF the right 10
vote on school questions, and q prohibitory In
stead OF the prevailing liquor law.
Mrs. Mary B. Lindernier, q robust woman
of torty.seven. living in Philadelphia, died the
other day in great agony from h~ydrophooia,
having been bitten by a dog six or eight weeks
ago.
The Maine Fusionist legislature, after q pro-
longed secret session, held on The day after
the adverse decision of the supreme court was
published, adjourned until the first "Wednesday
In August. Regarding tho supreme court de-
cision and his future movements. the fusion.
ist contestant for governor, MAJOR Smith, snid
to a correspondent that it was no more than
he expected; that "as law. abiding citizens we
must submit and 20 to our homes" and that
he should never re-enter politics. Concerning
the future movements OF members OF the Flu.
sionist legislature, q dispatch says that " many
of them will 20 home not to return to Augusta
before August and others will take their seats
among their Republican brethren; some OF the
oounted-in members will 60 home, while
others will contest the seats of their rivals IN
the capitol"
The story OF the child inmates OF The Shop
herds Fold in New York, as told during tho
proceedings pending before the supreme
court, reveals q terrible story OF cruelty ant
privation. The little ones testified that they
were insuflciently ied, made to 40 the hardest
kind OF work, cruelty beaten and generally ILL.,
treated. Their emaciated appearance bore out
their tale of suffering.
Western and Southern States.
On the forty-ninth ballot the Democratic
| legislative caucus at Jackson, Miss, nomi-
mated Mr.. George to succeed d. K. Bruce as
United States Senator from Mississippi; and
at New Orleans General r. l.. Gihson was
chosen on the second ballot by the Demo-
cratic legislative caucus 10 succeed United
States Senator Kellogg, whose term expires
in 1888.
By the explosion OF a sugar boiler on a
plantation at Baratario, La, the engineer and
two colored men were killed and thirteen
others wounded.
At a fire in Cherryvale, Kansas, the Globe
printing Office was destroyed, and E. 8. Hen
derson, foreman, and William McLain, another
printer, were burned to death. On the same
day q fire at Alton, ILL.,, destroyed the alter.
noon Telegraph and other property, causing
o loss OF $4,000.
An explosion in the boiler.room of the
Yeach coal mine at Brazil; Ind, killed R. R.
Roberts, the owner of the mine, and fatally
injured William Elder and a blacksmith
named Jones.
Messrs. J.. c. George and R. L. Gibson, the
| Democratic candidates, have been elected
United States Senators by the Mississippi and
Louisiana legislatures respectively.
A material train on the Virginia Midland
| road at Rockfish Station, Va, ran off the track
down m embankmert oi fifty feet. Con-
ductor Dabney Wilson and two bnkemcn
were killed, Captain H. D. Lucket and six
rosa hands seriously injured and six cars oom-
pletely wrecked.
All the prisoners ~(sixteen in number) in the
Greensburg (Ind.) Jail made their escape
through a hole in the floor OF the upper cells.
and left for parts unknown.
tANew Orleans dispatch says the steamboat
Charmer, with 2, 100 bales OF cotton, has been
totally destroyed by fire fifteen miles above
the mouth of the Red river. Eight lives were
lost-two chamberInnids, two cooks, two
! cabin boys, one fireman and one deck hand.
The boat and cargo were valued at $l3O, OO'.
A dispatch from st. Louis says that 700 col
ored emigrants rom Louisiana and Missis-
sippi, on their way to the West, arrived in
that city during the past lew days. Three
hundred colored emigrants were in st. Louis
at last accounts, awaiting aid to enable them TO
move on.
Majors Z. A. Burke and H. j. Hcarsey
well-known New Orleans journalists, fought {
duel with pistols near that city u few days
ago; but after two rounds had been fired
! friends interposed and the matter was amicably
settled without any harm having been done
During a 1t OF insanity Charles Ponder,
thirty years OF aye, a Methodist preacher OF
New Albany, Ind, committed suicide by hang.
ing himself.
Serious trouble is reported from Shennn-
doah county, Va, on account Of the substitu-
ton of colored Tor white men by tho proprie-
tors OF Columbia Furnace, near! Edinburg,
in that county. Their works have heretofore
been almost entirely run by white men, and
when colored men were brought from other
counties to replace them a collision occurred.
Several persons were injured, and Governor
Holiday ordered a company OF militia to the
scene OF disturbance.
From Washington
The National Woman Suffrage convention
met at Washington n few days ago. Among
the resolutions offered was one by Mrs. Sara
J.. Spencer maintaining that General Grant
won his first victory through the military
plan and genius OF Anna Ella Carroll, OF