The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-11-23
Foreign News.

PRINCE BISMARCK declares that lie ulSap-
proycs of tho persecution Of the Jews in Ger
many.
Six French fishing boats, containing 119 men,
who went out to sea from Boulogne-sur-Mcr,
are believed to have been lost in the recent
storm.
r-E British corvette Wolverine visited the
island of New Guinea, landed a force and pun
;shed the inhabitants Of the village OF kalo ior
numbering mission teachers. After a short
fight the head chief was killed and the natives
yielded.
SEVERAL lives have been lost in a hurricane
at Rome.
CANADA is moving for a copyright treaty with
the United States.
Two German editors have been sentenced
to eighteen months imprisonment
one for imputing unworthy motives and actions
to the minister of work, and the other for insinu-
ating that Prince Bismarck, as the private
owner of Varzin, used his public position to
ciroumvent and crush a litigant peasant pro-
prietor.
OK "Guy Fawkes' day" efigies of Mr..
Gladstone, Mr.. Parnell, Mr.. Biggar and others
we're burned in the poorer districts of London,
according as the Irish or English clement pre-
dominated, but no disturbance occurred.
Among tie cfigies burned at Lewes, where the
anniversary was as usual celebrated with great
eclat, was che of Guiteau.
CARDINAL G~1ASNELL1, Archbishop Of Sardis,
is dead.
ACCORDING to advices from Western Africa
yellow fever has caused terrible havoc in Sene-
gal.
The dcatha from epidemic choleraic foyer at
Umritsir, India, amount to 5000, or ten times
the normal rate of mortality.
LEROY, the Englishman whose murder Of
m old gentleman on q train a short time ago
created unwonted excitement throughout Great
Britain, was found guilty of the crime and SEN
fenced to death.
A DISPATCH from Hong Kong, China, an
nounces that q terribly disastrous typhoon has
ravaged Western Tonquin. Two hundred
churches, thirty-fo four presbyterics and colleges
and 2, 900 houses have been reduced to ruins.
Sixty thousand Christians have lost I'LL they
possessed, and the suffering is frightful.
OK the Lord Mayors day in London this
year the American flag was carried in the pro-
cessiou and cheercd along the route.
Mn. GRANT, member of parliament for Mary
lcbone, at a public meeting declared, amid
great cheering, that the growing thought in
england was toward rcpublicanism, and tina
the land should be restored to the people.
FRAUDS on the government amounting to $40,
900, 600 have been discovered in Cuba.
THE French ministry having resigned NJ
Gambetta, at President Grevy's request, formed
a new cabinet.
HE.yY floods in Upper Albania have done
great damage to property and caused some
loss of life.
The sole survivor of the steamer Calliope,
which was recently totally wrecked on the
Spanish coast while OH a voyage from Odess9
to Bremen, believes that six passengers who
embarked on the steamer at Gibraltar wcrf
Americans.
AovIcEs from Cape Coast Castle, Africa, stat,
that the king Of Ashantec has killed 200 youn:
girls Tor the purpose of using their blood fo
mixing mortar for the repair of q state build
ing.
DURING a horse race near Liverpool Mac
donald, the English jockey who rode the Ameri
can horse Foxhall to victory in tho race for tn
C~esarewitch cup, was thrown and had his skull
fractured.
THE total loss throughout Ontario by busl
fires during tho past season is estimated at be
tween $40, 900, 900 and SIS, 100000.