The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-09
LATER NEWS.

ions Of the Mildls States. In Pennsylvania
;he snow was twenty-four inch, IS dep.
A coNvE 1TloN Of believers in the faith
cure has just BEEN held at Pitts5urs. Penn.
SLEIGHING' has already been enjoyed in a
portion Of Maryland.
WASHINGTON ministers are opposed to the
proposed opening Of sons Of the public build
ings OIL Sundays.
CoNsUL WILLIAM SLADE, at Brussels, in
his annual rep ,rt to the secretary Of stat e,
says the average size Of farms in tho two
Flanders, provinces of Belgium, is about
seven acres, aud that a farmer will support
his family upon the profits Of q tract Of six
acres.
The total number Of emigrants arrived in
the United States for October, 1885, was
. ,9lS, against 33,037 during the same period
in 1854.
FURTHER appointments by the President:
Richard D. Lancaster to b. surveyor Of GUS
toms for the port Of st. Louis, Mo-; Oliver
P. Renlick to be first assistant engineer in
the revenue marina service Of the United
States; N. L. Mccormack, Of Grand Fork,
D. r., to be secretary Of Dakota Territory.
To be registers of land o1ices-Robert V.
Yeakls, of Little Rock, Ark at Little Rock,
Ark; Henry c. Upton, Of Melbourn, Ark,
at Harrison, Ark. Chester H. Warner, Of
Colfax, W. T., at Walla Walla, w. T
Bartholomew Coffey, of Salem, Oregon, to be
agent for the Indians of the Umatilla agency
in Oregon.
SERIOUS earthquake shocks have been felt
in Spain and on the African coast.
LONDON advices state that four deputy
commissioners and four assistants have been
appointed for Burmah. This is tantamount
to annexation to British territory.
JOHN BRIGHT defeated Sir Run lolph
Churchill in the elections for member o.
the British parliament.
Two unoccupied frame dwellings in jersey
City, n. j., suddenly fell, crushing to death
four little c~hildren-two boys and two
girls.
AFTER a bitter and exciting canvass Full
ton county, Georgia, in which Atlanta IS
situated, has been carried by the Prohibition.
lists by 22S majority. Party lines were lg-
nored in this remarkable canvass, and on
election day the Prohibitionists and anti
Prohibitionlsts vera out in strong force,
working for their respective sides.
The Chicago Columbus Centennial Worlds
Fair and Exposition company has been In
corporated, with a capital of sl,OOO,U0u, to
hold an international exposition in Chicago
in 1892. In that year it will be 400 years
since Columbus discovered America
A TRAIN was thrown from the track by an
immense boulder near Asheville, N. c., and
plunged into a whirlpool eighty feet deep.
The engineer, fireman and a brakeman were
killed.
GENERAL JOHN B. SToNEHoUsE, assistant
adjutant general Of tho State Of New York,
died in Wa,nin ston the other morning OF
paralysis. General Stonehouse was born in
Kent, England, about 1872, and came to this
country in 1910, settling in Albany.
PRESIDENTIAL postmastars appointed; Ed
ward D. Porter, at Joplin, Mo-; }. S. MCGEE,
at Paris, Mo D. Wilmot Scott, at Galena,
ILL.,; John Marens, at Hamilton, Mo. Lloyd
H. Lease, at Tiffany, Ohio; William II.
Canon. at Merrill, Wis; Robert }. McNally,
at Keeseville, n. Y; Frank White, at Muir
freesboro, Tenn.
GENERAL JOHN EATON, commissions OF
education, has resigned.
TuR war between Ssrvia and Bulgaria
over disputed territory is practically ended
King Milan having accepted the armistice
proposed by the European powers. King
Milan has returned to Belgrade, having had
quite enough Of fighting, his Servian troops
being repulsed toward the last at every point
by the Bulgarians under Prince Alexander.
MARSHAL SERRANo, the ~well-known Span
ish general, ex-president Of Spain, and an
INSCRIPTIONS politician of much ability, is
dead in his s~eventy-sixth year.
THE elections for members Of the British
parliament have been most exciting. Among
the defeated candidates was the Marquis Of
Lorne, husband Of Princess Louise, and
among the successful ones was the youthful
American husband of Baroness Burdett.
Coutts, the richest woman in England. The
tories were most successful, the liberals,
whose leader is Mr.. Gladstone, losing many
members.