The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
South and West.

Clty, tho government Ofuereu d Douy VI
United States troops to proceed Immediately
to the stronghold of polygamy. The Nor
mons are reported to be holding secret meet
ings and to contemplate an instruction.
OVER $50 Scandinavians who have settled
in the West nave returned to their native
land on one steamer to spend the holidays.
A PRAIRIE fire in the vicinity Of Burton,
Kansas. spread over an area Of thirty miles,
destroying a great amount Of stacked hay,
grain and either property. Several persons
we're fatally burned.
DIR. LYONS and his fourteen-year old
daughter were murdered in their home at
Tyne Creek, No., by an imbecile named
Williams, who was Immediately afterward
shot dead by the doctors son.
THREE colored men were hanged a few
days since in the Gates county IN. c. Jail,
their crime being the robbery of a country
store last September.
CHICAGO company has just received an
order for 2,2oo, 0oO pounds of dressed beef for
the French army. The contract involves
tho slaughter Of 5000 cattle.
A HEAVY fall of snow has greatly impeded
railroad travel in portions of tine West.
darlington.
At q preliminary caucus OF Republican
Senators in Washington. on the 4th, upon
motion of Mr.. Edmunds the nomination OF a
| successor to the late Vice-President Hendricks
as president pro tenn. Of the Senate was unan-
imous,y rendered to Senator-elect Logan,
but Mr.. Logan declined tho proffered honor,
saving that he could be more useful on the
floor of the Senate.
SPEAKER CARLISLE has received a long
letter from Samuel J.. Tilden, urging
/ tho necessity of proper legislation look
ing to the strengthening Of our
sea coast defences. Mr.. Tilden says
that the property exposed to destruction
BY hostile naval invasion is worth five thou
sand millions, an that to leave ourselves de.
f~enseleSs in order to reluce the cost OF
whisky is q solecism.
The President has appointed James W.
! Porch, Of Missouri, to be United States con-
sul-general at Mexico; Van V. Richardson to
, be United States marshal for the eastern dis
trict of North Carolina; WilliamJ j. Tinnin to
be surveyor Of customs at San Francisco;
James L. Tucker to BIZ assistant appraiser OF
merchandise at San Francisco; Henry o..
Kent to be naval officer of customs. district
of Boston and Charlestown, Mass; Nathaniel
Newburg to be appraiser Of merchandise,
port of Cincinnati; Thomas j. Hamilton OF
Washington Territory, to be United States
marshal for the Territory Of Washington.
THE report of the supervising special agent,
| LOUIS ". IhuFUlll, W Glo Dull Cloi "S
treasury, shows that through the efforts OF
the special agents there has been paid into the
treasury during the past fiscal year So ,O,3lo,
as follows: On account of seizures, SlO,23l;
fines and penalties, Sl4,47G; suits, So, OJ6;
duties, Str, 2J2, and miscellaneous, s3l2
THE President has made the following ad-
ditional appointments: United States attor-
neys-John E. McComb for the eastern dis
trict Of Texas: Thomas P. Murphy for the
northern district Of Iowa. Receivers Of pub
lie moaeyfiM3 ,Sd. Mont MontgGRmeTEy s,i Of Of fdq idah ae
at Visalia. Cal Registers Of land
ofice-Frank w. Beane of Utah at
Oxford, Idaho: Henry Lockhart, of New
Mexico, at Santa Fe. Supervising inspector
of stoani vessels-William l.. DAILY Tor the
Eighth district, with headquarters at Detroit.
JOHN SHERMAN, to BIZ president of the
Senate; John e. Carlisle, to be speaker OF the
House; the bill making members Of the Cabl'
net eligible to the Presidential succession
speedily to become a law, and THOMAS d.
Reed, of Maine, to be the minority leader
in the House-such, in brief, was Inc cniel
result Of the various caucuses held by the
members of the two houses of the Forty-nlnth
Congress. All the old officers Of thu House,
except the chaplain, were renomlnated by
the Democratic caucus. For chaplain, Kew.
". b. Mllburn, the blind preacher OF Chlca'
60, was chosen.
DURING the past fiscal year the netrevenue
of the government was $3a3,G9o,7 oo, a ae,
crease Of s34,S2o, 1853 over the previous year,
and 1.-THE expenditure was s2So 10, 9oo, o.
SIG, 100, 800 greater than that OF the year Do
fore.
THE secretary of the treasury has trans
mittcd to Congress the estimates of appro
priations required for the fiscal year endIn:
June so, 1887. The total amount estimated q
required for all expenses of the government Il
$780, $50, 552, which is Slo,6'S,l oo more tnan
the sum called for in the estimates submitted
last year, and $50, s2G, no more than the ag
gregate Of appropriations for the present fs'
cal year,.
AS the Democrats have a large majority
in the Virginia Legislature, their selection N
caucus of Congressman Daniel to succeed
United States Senator Malone was equlva
lent to an election.