The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-11-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
and Middle States.

THOMAS FLATELEY, Secretary Of the Irish
National Land League at Boston, reports that
from the Buffalo convention to dat @ there has
been sent from that organization to the home
executive of the land league s127,s 1914.
COLONEL. J. HOWARD WELLEs, a well-con.
nccted New Yorker, has been caught in an
elaborate scheme to blacknail Jay Gould, the
welI-known stock operator, by sending him
letters threatening death in case the sender was
not given "points /" regarding the probable rise
and fall in stocks. 1t was ler.rn ed that all tho
letters were mailed for station E, and on SUM-
day fifty detectives and fifty letter carriers
watched all the lamppost boxes. in that district.
Presently a letter was posted which o letter
carrier found to be directed to Mr.. Gould, and
at q signal a detective arrested Welles, who had
dropped it in the box.
Mrs. EDWIN Boo7H, wife OF the tragedian,
died the other day in New York
TEE Massachusetts Paper company, of Spring
field, Mass, has failed, widl liabilities Of
$500, 900.
OFFICIAL returns from every county in PENN
s~ylvania give Baily, Republican, for State treas
urer, 1902 plurality over Noble, Democrat.
A sK1FF %ferryboat containing nineteen per-
sons, while crossing the river from Troy, N. Y,
to Port Schuyler, was swamped by tho swell oil
passing propollers, and five men we're drowned
A BosroN dispatch Gays that the commission
to investigate the conduct OF the Ninth Mas
sachusetts regiment, during its recent visit to
Yorktown, has reported to Governor Long that
members of the regiment were guilty of gross
misconduct in Richmond, some Of it OF a very
grave character. 1t is recommended that the
colonel of the regiment BIO required to make q
searching investigation, go as to discover and
discharge tho offenders. Governor Long at
oncs directed tho issuance of a special order
! remairing tho colonel of tho regiment 70 ascer-
tain within thirty days what officers or men had
been guilty of improper conduct. Failing to
present such names as required, the dispatch
eays, tho entire regiment will be held strictly
RESPONSIBLE for the reported misconduct and
will DO Liable to such action as the governor
may direct.
THE tabulated returns of $50 officers Of The
PENNSYLVANIA board of agriculture for the
quarter ending November Is led to the follow
inc estimates of the crops Of Pennsylvania for
1881: Corn, 80, $50, 900 bushels; wheat, 49,
40, 600 bushels; oats, 81, $50, 900 bushels buck
wheat, 1,6s7,O bushels; potatoes, 6,O31,25O
bushels; tobacco, %, OPS, 900 pounds.
TIE will of the late Charles H. Northam, OF
Hartford, Conn.,, bequcaths over s25o,Ooo for
charitable and religious purposes.
AT the International Labor Congress, held in
Pit:sburg; ninety delegates, representing 22O,
600 workmen, were present.
The bark Low Wood arrived in New York q
few days ago having on board tho captain and
crew of the b%arkentine Bend Or, which was
wrecked in mid-ocean. Inrecsuing tho men O
matc and four sailors of the Low Wood were
drowned.
Two p~ugilists, Holden and White, have beer
having q fight for the "~lightwcight champion
ship" in tho vicinity Of Erie, Pa. A large
crowd of roughs and "sporting men" were
present, but tho brutal exhibition was stopped
by tho police after four rounds had been fought
FcRTY-rnnEE fishermen and seven vessels
belonging to tho Gloucester Mass.) district
were lost during tho fishing season of 1881.
NEW comet, the seventh Of 1881, has beef
discovered by Professor Swift, Of Rochester.