The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-30
LATER NEWS.

A BIG banquet was given on Staten Island
a few nights ago by Erastus Wyman in
honor Of Robert Garrett, president Of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and to cele-
brate the proposed connection Of that rail-
road with New York city by way Of Staten
Island. The four great States of New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland
were represented by their governors or by
officers or ex-oaicers of high degree, and
many other prominent men were present.
AT a meeting of the Anti. Monopoly league
in New York Edwards Pierrepont, late min
lister to England. presided, and the silver
question was exbaustively discussed. Speeches
in favor of unlimited silver coinage wero
made by Congressman A. j. Warner, Of
Ohio, and Others, and a series of resolutions
were adopted calling upon Congress to reiun.e
the coinage of the standard silver dollar Of
4l2 grains.
FRANK KNocH, of Woodmere, Mich, his
wife and two children were burned to ciuders
by their dwelling catching fire at night.
HE President has nominated Hon John
Bigelow to be assistant treasurer in New
York and General Franz Sigel to be pension
agent in that city. Both nominees are resi-
dents of New York. Mr.. Bigelow has served
as our minister to France, and as secretary
of state for New York.
REVOLUTION is rampant again In Mexico.
Ex-President Gonzales is in the state OF
Guanajuato with 5000 men willing to sup
port him against the present administra'
tion.
ELEVEN Europeans employed by a trading
ompany lave been murdered in Burmah by
native troops.
THE weather is 80 cold in the Balkans that
a number of Servian soldiers at the front
nave been frozen to death.
MR. DAVID MILLS, town treasurer OF
Milford, Conn.,, was gored to death in his
barn by a young Holstein bull.
CARNATIONS are Of quite frequent &C.
currence at the new crelnatory on Long
Island. The other day the bodies of DR..
Louis Lambert and his wife, of Jersey City,
N. j., were reduced to ashes.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, has been the victim
of O disastrous fire, much business property
being destroyed and the total loss being esti-
mated at $3.50, 00U. One fireman was killed
and three others were injured.
The Dakota self-make Estate legislature
has elected two United States "Senators."
This action of Dakota in forming itself into a
State government is done to compel Congress
to either accept or reject the Territory as a
Slate.
THE courts wore called upon to prevent an
announcement Of the recent local election at
Atlanta. but thu judge has dissolved the i'll
junction and sustained the constitutionallty
of the Georgia prohibition law. ,
SAM WILSON (colore1 u murdered q colorol
woman and her two children at Laurel, Miss
He was captured and suminarily lynchel.
A REPORT just made to the treasury shows
that during the three years ended August !,
1885, the number of Chinese who left the
United States was 41,322, and the number
who arrived, 2O,077.
CHOLERA is raging with great fatality in
Hioga, Japan.
MUCH excitement has boen arouseG IN
Great Britain by the announcement that ex-
Premier Gladstone favors home rule for Ire
land, with an Irish parliament at Dublin.
Some of the English papers opposing this
scheme predict civil war.
THERE lave been held in Canada lO6 in.
dignant meetings, LOG protests have been
made by the city councils, societies, etc., on
account Of the governments action in hang
ing Riel, the rebel leader: