The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-07-28
From Washington.

1ue uoA6ury uepdItuent QAS purCuhSoQ
38l, 900 ounces Of silver for coinage into
standard dollars.
A statement made by the postofaee depart
ment shows that the issues OF postage stamps,
stamped envelopes and postal cards during
the past fiscal year amouns to $3l, 932, 619-
an increase of nearly SO, 6O0, 900 over the pre-
ceding year. This percentage Is about double
the average ratio OF increase during the pre-.
vious five years. The greatest proportionata
increase is in postal cards, the issues Of which
amounted to S2,753, 47O, against S2,2l7,9l7
for 1879. The largest actual gain was in post
age stamps, which during the year aggregated
S22, Ala ,928-an increase OF $2,297, 1853 over
the preceding year. The Issues Of newspaper
and periodical stamps in 1879 amounted to
5 ,0S8, Az, and 81, 1852, s03 for the fiscal year
Of 1880.
The postofice department has ordered the
establishment in a few days OF a large number
OF additional m~oney-order offices.
A Washington dispatch says that owing to
the small appropriations made by Congress tor
the government printing Office, a discharge oil
about twenty-five per cent. of the force now
on duty in that department will in all prob
ability coon become necessary.
The President has appointed Orlnge Judd,
OF New York, and OF the american .agrtcul-
turist, to be a member OF the board of Indian
commissioners, vice Barstow, resigned.
The treasury department has prepared a
statement showing in detail the operations
connected with the retirement and retundiug
of the United States bonds and the, amount OF
interest saved by the transaction. The entire
amount saved by the ~retunding from Deoem-
Der /, 1871, to July l, 1880, is stated to be
S5S, 2S9, 1853. The total amount of bonds re-
funded is 81, 1895, 347, 800.
At a cabinet meeting it was determined
to investigate the recent Narragansett dis
aster on Long Island Sound, in order to
determine if the steamboat Inspectors were in
any way responsible.
According to the report OF Colonel Worth
inpton, statistician OF the agricultural depart
ment, tho wages of farm laborers throughout
the United States have increased during the
last fiscal year. The report says that in the
Pacific and mining States and Territories the
rance of monthly wages for farm laborers
without board is between $50. rs in Montana
and 800. So in Washington Territory. OF the
States east of the Mississippi, Minnesota pays
her farm laborers better than any other North
ern State, the monthly wages with board
being 1888, while Vermont pays $l2'62.
Tn the Southern States the prices paid range
from Sl2.26 in Louisiana to 1882 in South
Carolina, the average being $3.50.
The Hon. John Allen Campbell, late third
assistant secretary OF state, died at his resi-.
dence in Washington, a few days ago, aged
torty-fve years.
Foreign News.
The Marquis OF Ripon. the new viceroy OF
India, has reached Bombay.
Pierre Lorillard's brown colt IroQuois won
the race Tor tho Chesterfield cup, valued at
So, 500, at Newmarket, England.
" The village OF Guisa, in Cuba, has been de-
stroyed by nre.
Pierce Egan, the well-known English au-
thor and journalist, died in London a few
days ago, aged sixty'six years.
Switzerland, in the vicinity of Geneva, has
been shaken up by a severe earthquake.
Two men wore killed and a portion Of the
| summit OF q mountain fell, overwhelming
a large wood. An earthquake ut the island
of St. George, one OF the Azores, has resulted
in the formation of another island 600 yards
distant and about $4,000 square yards in
extent.
Thomas Boothroyd, a wealthy farmer Of
Howard township, Ont, was attacked BY o
boar, which threw him down and bit him IN the
side and throat, completely s~evering the jugu-
lar vein and causing his death in fifteen
minutes.
An official decree has been published in
France granting full remission OF sentences 10
all individuals convicted OF participation in
the insurrection of l870-'7l and subsequent
insurreclionary movements.
1t is stated that there are already grave
dissensions in the new British cabinet.
Tho special correspondent OF q New York
paper reports better times in Ireland.
DR.. Paul Broca, a French senator and an
eminent surgeon and author, ls dead In his
Htty-si1th year.
The weather throughout Spain is intensely
hot, and many cases Of sunstroke are re-
ported.
A timber raft with forty persons on board
was dashed to pieces in the rapids of the
river Dnieper, and all persisted.
Tom Taylor, a ~well-known English drama
list, and at one time editor Of London Punch,
died in London q few days ago, aged sixty
three years.
The capture of africa by the Chilians is con-
sidered a death blow to the hopes Of Peru,
but President Pierola still urges war to the
bitter end, and is taking the most energetic
measures.
Great damage to the standing crops has
been sustained in tho western counties OF
Ontario by the recent storms.
Two thousand Turkish soldiers, whose time
OF service had expired, threw down their
arms and demanded their pay, but were over
powered and confined to their barracks. This
occurrence induced the sultan to dismiss
O. man Pasha, minister of war.
Tho Russian wheat harvest is reported to
be a failure.
Lima, the capital Of Peru, is to be besieged
by tho CHILEAN army if the terms OF peace pro-
posed by Chill are not accepted. Bolivia, be-
ing satisfied with the offers of peace made by
Chill, has Withdrawn from the contest as
Peru's ally.
Six actors were seriously injured by leaping
from a burning theater at Perpignan, France.
A London dispatch says that at the annual
dinner of the Golden club ]. W. Garrett,
president OF the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
related q hitherto unpublished anecdoto which
excited great interest. He stated that on the
termination OF the civil war in the United
States Mr.. Richard Golden wrote to him and
urged forci5ly that the Federal government
should adopt a magnanimous policy toward
the Southern leaders. The letter was read at
o meeting OF the American cabinet, and pro-
duced 81 great an impression that it turned
the scale in favor OF clemeucy.
The national holiday of France-the taking
of the Bastile by the French revolutlonists in
l7S9-has been restored, and was celebrated
this year with a grand military review, Ilu.
limitations and fireworks. The streets and
houses OF Paris were profusely decorated, and
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