The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
LATER NEWS.

lHE COnnecClCuG assembly las passeu q
bill prohibiting the employment of children
under thirteen years of age.
LAURA A. MILLER, a pretty nineteen-year-
old girl of Buffalo, N. Y, committed suicide
skating rink.
THE New York senate passed resolutions
favoring the passage by Congress of bill to
reimburse the State to the amount OF $5,OOO,-
600 for canal improvement.
ST. PATR1cK's day was celebrated by the
New York Irishmen this year with an unusu-
ally large procession, banquets and speeches.
In other places, too, the day was observed
more than ever on account of the present
agitation for Irish home rule.
A New ORLEANS dispatch of the 18th said
the strike on the Gould system of railroads
was likely to be settled by arbitration.
A CARRoLLToN (Miss.) dispatch says that
during q trial there in the J. NJ. Leddell case
fifty white men rode up to the court house
and fired into the room, killing instantly ten
negroes. Three others died soon after. Seven
others were injured. Leddell, a young law
yer, had been wounded in a quarrel with
some negroes weeks before in which shots
were exchanged.
GOVERNOR MURRAY, of Utah, has resigned
at the Presidents request.
The secretary of the navy has dismissed
four cadets from the naval academy at An
napolis for 'hazing" another cadet.
The Irishmen in all parts Of Great Britain
celebrated st. Patrick's day with parades,
banquets and addresses. At the banquet in
London, many Parnellite members Of par
Lament participated, but Parnell was absent,
owing to illness.
ALDERMAN H. w. JAEHNE, Of the New
York board of aldermen, has been arrested
upon the district attorneys complaint that
he had taken bribe of $4,000 for voting to
give the Broadway horse-car company its
franchise. The arrest was the elimination
of the legislature committees investigation
into charges of bribery against several alder
men and ex-aldermen,a a number of whom left
the State to avoid examination. The arrest
Of Jaehne was made upon what was consid
cred conclusive evidence Of his guilt. It took
place on the 18th, and other arrests were
then imminent
THREE oil tanks on freight train near
Reading, Penn, caught fire and six employees
Of the road were severely injured.
THE wife of Eugene Bohrman, Of Avon
dale, Ohio, while deranged, killed her four
teen-year-old son, Albert, dangerously
wounded another son, and then committed
suicide
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND celebrated his
forty-ninth birthday on the 18th by attending
a performance of "Mikado' at the New Ma
tional theatre.
The Senate, in executive session, on the
18th confirmed the following nominations:
John D. Anderson to be pension agent at
Augusta, Me-: Cornelius Voorhis to be col
lector of internal revenue, fourth district Of
Missouri; John Woessner, of Texas, to be
consul at Saltillo; Henry W. Nc
Cory to be attorney for the Western
district of Tennessee; William c. Jones
to be marshal for the district Of Kansas;
Robert w. Hutchins, of Eureka, CAL, to be
receiver Of public monies at Humboldt, CAL;
Daniel o. Barr to be purveyor of customs in
the district of Pittsburg; V. o. King, of
Texas, to be secretary Of legation and con-
sul-general at Bogota; Brigadier General
Alfred H. Terry to be major-general, as
successor to the late General Hancock; An
drew Welch to be collector Of internal rev.
enue for the second district Of Illinois. A
number of postmasters were also confirmed.
THE treaty of peace between Servia and
Bulgaria has been ratified by the powers in