The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-08-02
South and West.

lWO ldEuolS u0lnoo oShSo oAN SA
a difficulty at the house of the latter in Whitos-
borough, Texas. Jackson was shot and killed
and Ichor fatally cut. A farm boy who inter.
fered was also badly cut.
FIRE destroyed the entire business portion OF
DAYTON, ". T.; four buildings IN Fayette, No.;
eleven buildings aud stores in Owen Sound,
Ont; aud the Catholic church at Dunville, Ill.
The loss aggregates about $5OO,OO
DISPATCHES from a large number OF points in
the Sout and West show that the wheat, corn,
hay aud cotton crops will be bountiful, and in
many places will far exceed any previous har-
vesting. Farmers are now gathering the great
est cereal crop ever raised in the West.
Two thousand nc Q Of grain have been de-
st Dyed by Il sto m in Dakota.
UNITED STATE; SENATOR BROWN, of Georgia,
has given So. 0oJ TO the Georgia State univer-
ity for the purpose OF educating poor young
MEN.
An impromptu duel was fought near Wedder.
burns, Va, between Joseph Addison, OF Balti-
more, aud Richard Garland, a resident OF
Luuenburg county. The duel was fought
at o distance OF six feet. Addison's
pistol hung fire four times, and he
only fired once, the bullet striking Garland in
the wrist. Garland fired five times, one shot
taking effect. Addison died from the effects
of the wound. The duel resulted from Gar.
land telling a young woman who lives in
Lunenburg county, to whom Addison was en-.
eagel to be married, that Addison Was flirting
with her.
Mrs. MARY LINCOLN, wife Of ex-2re sident
Abraham Lincoln, died in Springfield, ILL.,,
from the effects Of q p~aralytic stroke received
on the evening previous. She had been ill fol
a long time. Mrs. Lincoln was born about 1915
in Licking on, Fayette o1un,y. Ky. She was
the daughter of Doctor Robert s. Todd, a
practising physician we'll known and greatly
respected in that region. She was married In
1912, and Was at her husbands side in
Ford's theater, Washington, when he was shot
on the night of April II, 1865. Mrs. Lincoln
suffered such a shock by her husbands assas.
~sination that her mind became to a certain
extent affected, and it became necessary about
sven years ago for her friends to take legal
me ssures to have her placed und'r restraint.
Under medical treatment she recovered sutf-
GENTLY to be released from restraint AMI she
thereupJn sailed for Europe, where she re
mained unit the fall OF 1880. Mrs. Lincoln's
eldest and only surviving SOL is tho secretary
Of war.
CAREFULLY gathered reports from Ohio.
Indiana, Illinois. Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansa',
Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri show that
the wheat crop which is being harvested in
many places will he much above tho average
and that the corn crop has betn greatly adj
vanced by recent warm weather and ligh,
rains.
The steamer John Wilson, plying between
New Orleans and AtchAfaIaya river, struck a
stag at II o'clock T. NJ. and rapidly sank. Six
lives were ost.
AT San Francisco $50 Chinese cigarmakers
struck because three of their fellow countrymeu
bad Dten discharged. The strikers were
promptly paid off.
THE strike between the boilermakcrs AM
Well cUllIlUN CIo AZ OliISluudtl SCl CLllStp
he men resuming work at m advance OF ten
per cent. on their former wages.
Two years ago Dr.. Roberts was killed a
Millville, Mo-, by DR.. Keys, q Young physician.
Keys was twice tried, tho second trial resulting
in a plea of insanity being sustained. lie wa,
sent to the insane a-ylum at st. Joseph, but
was released recently as carol. Upon his ar
rival in Millvilie Charles Roberts. con OF the
murdered DR.. Roberts, was told Of his pres.
ence. He left his shop, secured a revolver and
hunted Keys up. He opened fro on him,
w%ounding him in the breast. Keys started to
run, but Roberts followed, firing two more
shots, both taking effect, and Keys died almost
Instantly. Roberts was arrested.
OSCAR GOODWIN, cashier OF the Logansport
QuI.) national bank, s,oi: SIS, 900 of the insti-
tutinn's funds and thee disappeared.
AT tho Texas Democratic State convention i
Galveston q telegram was received from Gov
crnor Roberts declining to be a candidate 10
denomination. John Ireland was nominated
for governor by reclamation.
A PARTY Of three women and four men wer,
on the Portage river at Houghton, Mich, wh,n
the boat overturned, resulting in the drowning
of two women aid one OF the men Mrs. Jostpl.
Dlanchette and George Lacrosse and wife
JOHN SPRINGER, aged l05 years. died in the
County intirmary, near Marietta, o.
THE Georgia Democrats at their State con-
veution 10 Atlanta nominated a full ticket.
head ed by Alexander Fl. Stephens for governor.
J. r. HAaooD, a prominent citizen of Warren
county, N. c., and widely known througllout
that State and Virginia, was crushed to death
By being caught in the machinery of wheat
thresher.
Ar the Ohio Democratic State convention in
Columbus the ticket nominated consisted OF
John W. Oakley, the present incumbent, for
supreme Judge J. ". Newman for secretary
of state, and Henry Wclble for member of the
board of public works.