The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-01-19
Foreign News.

LOUIS AUGUsTE BLANoUI, a prominent
French communist, is dead in his seventy.
sixth year. During his eventlul and stormy
life he was confined in thirty-four French
prisons.
The district governor of OrenburS, Russia,
has resigned because tho central authorities
refused to provide 500 900 rubles to relieve
tho distress of tho Kirguiz and other inhabi.
tants of the province who, because of the sue.
ccsaive bad cattle years, are starving 10 death
by hundreds.
THE Russians and Turkomans have been
lighting, with heavy losses on both sides.
TIE Gal!cna and Tarnet tribes OF Sierra
Leone, Africa, have been slaughtering eacl
utherin great numbers. Prisoners were either
killed Immediately or put to horrible tortures
A BAND OF torgers oil bonds and receivers OF
stolen bonds have been arrested in Mum
Italy. They belong TO an organization CON-
prisipg Italians, Ffenchmen, Englisbmen,
Poles and Americans, having branches and
agents in the chief cities OF Europe, and were
selling forged or stolen French bonds in lta'y,
Italian bonds in France, and so on.
The gross revenue OF Great Britain for 1880
was in round numbers SAG, DOC, 900.
The minister Of Holland to Spain was found
lead in his bed at Madrid.
MONSTER land league meetings are being
Ecll in various parts OF Ireland. At ono
which was held at Drogheda the riot act was
read and the crowd dispersed.
WAR between Greece and Turkey is now
regarded as almost certain, Greece having re.
jected all offers OF mediation and insisted on
the execution OF the treaty OF Berlin.
TIE British government intends to crush
the rebellion Of the Beers in the Trausvaal,
South Africa, and then lay before parliament
the question of restoring the territory to the
Dutch settlers and recognizing their republ c.
TIE famine is spreading through Russia,
and it is said that Of the 1000 German co...
o1ists on the Volga, one oil tho best agricu!-
tural districts in the country, not moro than
six iami.its are wholly able TO support them
selves, the remainder being compelled to beg
Tor food.
Tie Berlin correspondent oil n London daily
papcrtclcgraphs as follows: "Iteports receive
here of a demonstration in the United States
with the object of protesting against the anti.
Jewish agitation hero are producing a very
u~nfavorable impression, the feeling being tina!
Germany can tolerate no intervention in home
affairs by a foreign state" The other day q
large crowd, mostly composed OF students.
smashed in tho windows OF q Berlin restaurant
much frequented by Jews and mobbed all
the jews they met. Largo aud stormy meet
ings against the Jews continue 10 be held, and
the crusade seems to be gaining force, tho fist
Low being substituted for tho tongue.
In the province OF sarato!f, Russia, 100000
peasants arc starving, and in tho province
of Snmara upward of a million persons arc
rcported to be in absolute want.
GENERAL MoRIoSEs, one of the ablest
officers in the civil wars OF Spain, is dead.
A DISPATCH from Paris announces the death
of Hector Martin Lelucl, a celebrated French
architect, at the age OF seventy years.
TrI: ~I:ussian troops under General Skobe-
Ie!l have been badly defeated by the Turco-
mans.
a NEW play by Tennyson--"Th The Cup
has met with great SUCCESS in London.
AT Clnrenorris, Ireland, q prccess-server,
guarded By constables, was on his way to
sew Il writ when the party was halted by n
d Itch dug across the road and assaulted with
H. shower OF stones thrown by q crowd oI
PEASANTS. Tue police charged upon the crowl,
killing one man fatally wounding three others
and ~injurin !, several more.
TnEHE has been another violent shock o!
earthquake at AgrLm, Auslrin.