The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-02-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

WIDOW GRAFT and her two sons, q very poor
family, living in Greensburg, Pa, have received
notice of having been left q fortune of $500, OOO'
by the death of q relative in Sweden.
A TERRIFIC gallo has done great damage to-
property of all kinds in many parts OF tho
Eastern and Middle States. Barns and houses
were overturned, trees uprooted and other
property damaged to the extent of hundreds OF,
thousands of dollars. At Nashua, N. H.,
a shoe mandatory, a four-story building, in
which 300 mea were a. work. was lifted from
its foundations All moved Two feet from itz
proper position. One of the escaping men was
fatally injured by jumping from 4 window. At
other points persons were also injured more or
less seriously.
An explosion of the boiler in the mill of the
Kennebec Framing company, at Fairfield, Me-,
resulted in the instantaneous death Of two fire.
men and fatal injuries to the engineer, time
keeper, foreman and another man.
GEO. W. GooDNow, a merchant of Boston
and q deacon in the First Baptist church OF
Cambridge, dropped dead in church. light Of
his brothers and sisters had previously died OF
| apoplexy, and the death of the deacon 'waa
from that disease. -
REV. DE-. HENRY ". BELLOWS, the leading
New York Unitarian minister, died the other
day, aged sixty-eight years.
Ar Gratz. o small town near Harrisburg, Pa,
a prominent citizen who died Of smallpox had
a public funeral, as the attending physician
did not divulge the character OF the disease.
Seventeen of those who attended the obsequies
have been FRUSTRATED by the malady.
M1sER, who, with his wife, was found FER
ishing from exposure, at Troy, N. Y, had his
pockets filled with gold, and before dying be-
oueathed about $4,000, mostly to charitable
objects.
OSCAR L. BALDWIN, the defauhing cashier of
the Mechanics National bank, Of Newark, N.
j., was sentenced to confinement at hare labor
in the State prison for f.tcen years.
Mr.. HIRAM MILLER, father OF United States
Senator Warner Miller, was killed on q street
crossing by a locomotive at Utica, N. Y.
BABY elephant--the second ever born in
this country-was born the other day at Bridge.
port, Conn. Its weight at birth was 100 pounds;
height two AMI a half feet and length three
feet.
Mayor GRACE presided and William NJ.
Evarts and other prominent citizens psrtici.
pated in o public meeting held in New York to
express sympathy with the prosecuted jews
of Russia. On the same evening q meeting of
-:.1-- I.-ooko~ ~,oo ho16 in Tnn00n and
presided over by the lord mayor.
AFTER O deadlock OF five weeks In the
New York legislature Charles E. Patterson, OF
Troy, was chosen speaker CT the house. This
result is understood to have been attained
after a conference between che regular Demo-
Gratis and the Tarnmany members, the latter
agreeing to vote with the former il all the
Democratic caucus nominees for officers OF the
house except Mr.. Patterson be Withdrawn.
A DISPATCH from Lieutenant Danenhower, at
Irkut.k, Siberia, to the New York Herald
states that he has discovered records Of the
Jeanette commander, De Long, which show
that three native, found him and Lis compan-
ions in October last and took them to a SETTLE
ment. Lieutenant Danenhower began the
search for them five days later. They have
been traced to q Wilderness, and every effort is
still being made 10 find them.
THE American Agricultural association, COM
priced of delegates from the various agricul-
tural societies of the country, met in a three
days' national convention in Now York. Presi-
dent Sprague in his opening address, said the
question before them was how could they elc-
yate their calling. increase the products of tho
land anG make farming profitable and attrac-
tive to young mel? Many questions OF interest
10 farmers were read.