The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-11-16
Foreign News.

CONFEDERATE bonds were quoted In London
o few days ago at Fl lbs. Cd. per floo face
value. Bonds of the face value of $50, DOC, 600
we're bought up in three days.
THE emperor and empress Of Austria, the
king and queen of Italy, and a large number
of notabllities ard foreign and military attaches
were present al q grand military review in
Vienna.
THE French chamber of depntios elected NJ.
Gambetta its provisional prcsida1t.
A PROCESSION in Buenos Ayre5, South
America, in honor of the momory of Garfield,
numbered over ten thousand persons.
CHINESE newspapers give particulars Of a
desperate battle hctweon Chinese gunboats and
pirates. The encounter took place near Ling
Pc, and upward of 200 pirates were slain or
drowned themselves, nine were captured alive,
and seventy escaped. Eleven pirate boats were
taken. The pirates were in shallow water, and
the gunboats, being unable to get near them,
lowered their boats and fought in them.
A LONDON special dispatch says that the
agricultural depression in England is intense.
In Kent IL, 900 acres arc lying idle and in other
countries large estates are running wild. The
proposed reforms will benefit the farmer to
some extent, but it is felt that he cannot stand
up against the American competition of the
future.
NINE Americans have been arrested by the
Mexican authorities for digging and shipping
guaro OH Key Arenas, an island off the Mexi-
can coas:.
the SUCCESS Of some OF Bismarck's bitterest OPP
pononts.
Mrs. BETHUNE, aged twenty-five, and her
child we're burned to death at Halifax, N. s..
The mothers dress caught fire while she was
attending to the stove.
FUNERAL service in memory Of President
Garfield was held at the tow hall in Berlin.
Professor Gneist delivering tho grafton before
q ~colosssl bust of tho deceased. The building
was dra ped in mourning, and many prominent
Germans wero present.
TIE recent death of Baron Rothschill in
Paris WAS caused by the bursting Of an aneur
ism, said to have been brought about through
anxiety at the loss of SIG, 900, 900 by tho fall Of
stocks.
CONCERNING the boom in Confederate bonds
q leading London newspaper denies tho report
that there is a large sum of money in tho Bank
Of England which was deposited to tho credit
Of the Confederate government and is availa-
bic for The payment Of Confederate bonds.
ANOTHER Nihilist plot has been discovered in
St. Petersburg and several arrests made, in
Guiding five employees in tho czar's palace at
GStchina. Numerous Nihilist proclamations
have been distributed about st. Petersburg.
By tie sinking of a ships boat at Pauillac,
France, thirteen persons were drowned.
The first complete railroad train has just
passed through the st. Gothard tunnel under
the ALPS, making the trip in fifty minutes.
DUnGSG a storm at Manzanillo, Mexico, fo1r
large Vessels aud ali the small craft in the har-
Dor wee lost, and the custom house and many
large sores were destroyed.
SPECIAL dispatches from Newfoundland give
particulars OF serious disasters to shipping dur
ing recent gales. The coal-carrying vessel
Ontario and tho schooner Helen both, went
down with all on board. A large number Of
vessels. were wrecked and abandoned.