The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-08-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle StateA

LEWIS q. REpr1ELp, the Oldest printer and
journalist in New York State, died at Syracuse
aged eighty-nine years.
THREE fires, which broke out in New York at
about the same time the other night, destroyed
a storehouss near the Battery, q building in
Pearl street and q factory near Canal streets
causing an aggregate losa OF $780, 900.
PRESIDENT BARR1os, Of Guatemala, Central
America, arrived in New York the other day.
He has come to visit his family, and secure the
good Offices OF the United States government in
settling the boundary line between Guatemala
and Mexico.
national Temperance Camp Meeting"
opened the other day at Ocean Grove, N. J.
GEORGE WOODRUFF, Of Derby, Conn.,, aged
fifteen, bent over to watch the motion OF q
grain-cradle swung by his fathers hired man,
when the llade struck him in the throat, cut
ting the jugular vein and causing instant
death.
A PRIZE fight with gloves in Gilmore's Gar
den, New York, between John L. Sullivan and
tug Wilson," an Englishman, was Witnessed
by over -, 900 persons, who paid each 81 or 81
admission. The conditions Of the fight were
that Sullivan was to knock Wilson ont OF time
in four rounds. Sullivan failed to knock out
the Enylishman in four rounds, and tho latter
vas awarded the victory and something like
$40, 600.
The New York Decentralization State con-
vention at Albany adopted a platform leafirn'
ing the one adopted bv the convention at Chi
cago June 9, 1880, condemning the railroads fl
their conduct during the strikes, as we'll as the
penal code and the prison system OF the State,
demanding that incorporate capital should he
r~e>tricte | in power, that all public officers
should be elected instead Of appointed, tina
the thirteen specific demands made by the
C. ntral Labor union OF New York city were
to be approved, and declaring the party to be
the original anti-monopoly party Of the coun-
try. Epenctus Howe WAS nominated for gov
ernor on the first ballot. James Allen fol
Acknowledgements; S. J. McParlin for chief
Judge of the court of appeals; s. j. Mcdonald
fer congressman-at-large.
GREAT damage was done to property in Boz.
ton by a heavy stolm.
BY the decision OF the highest tribunal Ill
Connecticut women are now entitled to prac.
ice in the courts Of that State.
OK December 16 the ship Theobald, Captain
N. L. Warehouse, sailed from Philadelphia for
San Francisco, Since that nothing has been
Heard of her, and she and her crew OF nineteen
mon are supposed to have heen lost.
Miss FANNY PARSELL, sister Of the noted
Irish land league leader died suddenly ufllcari
disease at BurLentown, N. J. Miss Parncll Wa
tN euty-eight years old, had been Conspicuous
in tho affairs of the ladies' land league, an
frequently male appeals i'll bvhalf Of the Irish
cause at land league gatherings.
GENERAL N. NJ. CURTIS, a Federal govern
ment employe charged. by the New York Civil
Service Reform association with receiving from
other officers and employees OF the Federal
government money for pol,ticl purposes, WAS
found guilty by the United States circuit court
and sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 General
Curtis will appeal to the Uultcd States supreme
court. The case has excited much interest in
political circles.