The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-09-30

CoMMANDER.IN-CHGEF BURDETTE, OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic, has is
sued general order calling upon allmembers
of the organization to contribute to fund
for the erection of a monument to General
Grant A sum equal to a contribution Of fif-
teen cents each is required. HonorabIy dis
charged soldiers and sailors, not members of
the organization, are invited to join in the
movement.
THE solicitor of the treasury is about to
bring suit against George B. Loring, late
commissioner of agriculture, for the recovery
OF about SEQ, 900 of government funds alleged
to have been illegally expended by Mr.. Lor-
ing in the purchase of secl, etc, for the de-
partment of agriculture.
TIE wrecking schooner, Edwin Post, while
at work on a wreck in New York bay, was
run into by another vessel and capsizei.
Captain James B. Smith and John Phillips,
the colorcd cook. were drowned.
JUMBO, the big elephant killed by train
in Canada, has been disScctcd. Theskin will
be stuffed and presented to the Tufrt college,
Of Massachusetts. Tho skeleton will 60 to
tho national museum at Washington.
ADAM BREpESpEH, president Of the defunct
Erie county PENN savings bank, OH trial for
fraud and embczzlemcnt, was found guilty
of ten counts in tho Indictment against him.
Dir. ADELAIDE RICHARDSON, aged forty
seven. resident physician at Mount Holyoko
seminary, South Hadlcy Falls, Mass, com
mtted suicide during temporary fit of in
sanity.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, has just held great cell
ebration over tho sale of the one hundred
thousandth ko.Shcad of tobacco in that city
this year. This was tho largest years sale
ever known, and represented over Sl2,OOO,-
0JO. Tie procession in honor of tho event
was os nh industrial anu commercial charac-
ter, aud was eight miles long. Fifty thousand
strangers were in town.
BIsnop HENRY CHAMPLIN LAY, Of the
Episcopal diocese of Easton, Nd, died tho
other afternoon at the church homo in Balti-
mere, Me. He was born in Richmond, Va,
in 1923.
TWO men werc instantly killed and third
man was fatally injured by the fall of
bucket in mine shaft near Butte, Montana.
GENERAL T. II. SHERIDAN was elected
president for the ensuing year at the annual
reunion OF the Cumberland army, held in
Grand Rapids, Mich.
The President has appointed Lemuel B.
Fowler to be postmaster at Augusta, Me.
DIR. J. B. HAMILTON has resigned as super
vising surgeon-gencral of the United States
marine hospital service.
ADDITIONAL appointments Of presidential
postmasters: Russell T. Dobson ut Bowling
Green, Ohio; James Murray, at Fremont,
Ncb.: William H. Evans, ut Princeton, Ind;
John Crull, at Marietta, Penn; Joseph b.
Smith, at Fayetteville, N. c.
PRESIDENT DIAz, in his annual message to
the Mexican congress, recommends the early
ratification Of the postal and extradition OF
criminals treaties which the Mexican minister
in Washington has negotiated with the
American government
NUMEROUS cases of cholera have appeared
in Paris. At Palermo. Italy, the soldiers have
been attacked by the disease, and the wealthy
residents are fleeing from the CITY,
NAPLES, Italy, has had shock OF earth
Quake which lasted eight seconds.