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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-05
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
'U1cIDE is increasing in England.

SUICIDE is increasing in England.
THE Louisiana rice crop will be short.
TIE Constitution Of Servia is to be re-
vised.
THERE are 100000 voters in the United
States.
NEW YORK CITY has 427 miles Of street
sewers.
ONE of the Burgess yachts has won a race
in Japan.
THE visible supply Of oats is notably the
largest on record.
IT costs 100000 per annum to keep the
streets of Paris clean.
A CANAL will soon be cut between the
Black and Caspian Seas.
THERE are $500 pensioners in Illinois who
receive annually S4,244, l64.
WOLVES are doing great damage to the
live stock in Northern Montana
THE tobacco crop of Missouri is not only
large but the finest raised in yeurs.
AN epidemic of royal berrothals seems to
be sweeping all over Europe just now.
FOURTEEN vessels hailing from Gloucester,
Mass, have been lost during the year.
NEARLY twenty thousand men have been
naturalized in New York City this year.
LEPRosY is said to have been transmitted
to the Indians OF British Columbia by the
Chinese.
THE area sown to winter wheat in the
Middle and Western States is fully equal to
LOST year.
MoNTANA's population is estimated by the
Governor at 140,OU0, an increase Of 10000
over last year.
THE City of Louisville. Ky, has purchased
q park of 500 acres within five miles OF the
City Hall for $500.
THE British Government will shortly ask
Parliament for $l5, ,0J0, 900 for the purpose Of
increasing the navy.
Az American syndicate is forming in St.
Petersburg, Russia, for the purpose of build
ing railroads in SiEera.
Mrs. HANNAH STARKEY, of Youngstown,
Ohio. uged II, has just died. She was born
in County Cork, Ireland, in lit.
OVER two hundred and fifty gold and silver
mines have Leen registered lately in the de-
partment OF Antioquia, Colombia
THE exports of Chilli for the first seven
months of this year were S7,pOO, ,O1O in excess
of those for the same period III 1887.
The German military budget contains an
item of $1l.1;U for the breeding, training
and maintenance Of carrier pigeons.
IT is estimated that the sum of $2,000000
was locked up by ee 'tion bets III New York
city alone during the recent national contest
GOVERNOR SEMrLE, Of Washington Terri
tory, estir1ates the population of the Terri.
tory at lI7,HS:4!, u gain OF 24,0oO the paS
year.
ProrEsGOR NArsEER has succeeded in OK
n,or:rr the i.itpr!)" of Greenland and has
arrived at GoilLaab with his four Norwegian
athletes.
THE dismissal of Mr. Denny, the American
adviser of the King of Corea, has been de-
nanded by EHung Chang, the Viceroy at
shanghai, China.
THE consumption of cotton hv the South
srn mills or the year ending August II was
i56, 6,U'O bales, against 1Ol, l52 bales during tho
previous twelve months.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

AN apparent shortage OF s2:',nm has been
found in the accounts of W. p. Cnpp, the
missing tax collector OF Sausus, Mass.
JOHN FLACK, fifteen years cd, was killed
by being diSemioweled ut Bellelonte. l'enll.,
by falling upon the coupling o. Il revolving
Shaft
TIE car strike on fourteen miles of street
railway in Brooklyn has Eeen brought 10
close by State Arbitration Commissioner
Eenovan'S decision III favor OF the company.
The men have returned to work.
A GREAT snow storm swept ten-nlie belt
Of country south OF Erie, Penn, and the
oldest inhabitant says that 1t beats the rec.
ord. Snow filled the roads and shut OIL
travel. Cattle in the fields almost perished.
INVENTOR JOHN w. KEELY, of Keely mo.
tor celebrity, has been sent to prison and will
stay there until he has pnrgcd himself OF the
contempt committed in not obcymg the or
der of the Court, which required him TO
clearly explain to committee OF experts the
workings of his machine.
REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES H. BALDWIN,
United States Navy, has died of Brights
disease, at his residence i'll New ork city.
He was born in that city on September 5,
1922. and graduated from the Naval Acad'
emy at Annapolis on April -, lS39.
a SECOND and successful attempt to burn
SOiiSOdplc ID Oliielo - 49,
Penn, has been made by an incendiary.
Loss, $4,000.
JOHN HoDEI, a life convict, has committed
suicide in his cell at the Connecticut State
Prison.
THE election in Rhole Island resulted in
aboliShing the property qualification for vot'
ing for general officers.
JOHN r. MACGoNIGLr, Collector of the
Ninth Revenue District of Pennsylvania and
for three times Mayor of Lancaster, has
died, aged tifty eight years. In early life he
was a telegraph operator and was tue first
person to apprise President buchanan OF his
election, carrying the message to Wheat
land.
JOnN W. kEELY, who was sent TO Moya,,
mensny rriscn. Philadelphia, for contempt
of court. in refusing to give to experts APP
pointed by the Court information regarding
his mysterious motor. has been released on
bail.
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LATER NEWS.

: CHARLES T. PARSONS, an Immigrant laooI
contractor, drove into Holyoke, Mass, with
a Polander chained to his buggy for sale.
who wore nothing but pair of overa'ls, s
thin coat and pair of shoes. The poor fei
ow almost perished with the cold, and the
tears actually froze to his face. Parsons
narrowly escaped mobbing.
THE wife of Thomas Leddy was burned tt
death in q tenement house fire in New 4orh
City. The husband was prevented from
going to her rescue by the policemen VINO
were maintaining the fire lines.
o. F. ADAMS, City Treasurer of Macon
Ca, has been suspended, and is reported to b
short $50, ,0O0 in his accounts.
GENERAL MCCooH, of Fort Leavenworth
Ran, has planned great work for lmproV
ing the course Of the Missouri River at thai
point so as TO reclaim thousands Of acres o.
valuable bottom land. Military convicts
will be employed in the work.
ONr-rHIRD of tho population of Oxford
Iowa, is down with diphtheria and scar'ei
fever, and twenty-five per cent. OF those
stricken have diel. Audubon, Eagle Grove
and Saix, in Iowa, arc similarly afflicted.
JAKE and Joe Tabler, who murdered Johr
Goodcounty nnd James Cassan, August y.
1855, in the Indian Territory, have beer
hanged by the Federal authorities at Wichita
Kan.
WILLIAM W. DRUMMoND, ex-Chief-Ju'tice
of Utah, has died suddenly in a low barrel
house in Chicago. He was in rags and tot
tering with the inirm;teS OF dissipation.
TIE Home Savings Bank, of Norfolk,
Va, which was founded on the ruins OF thf
old Freedmau's Savings Bank, has suspended
1t is thought that the depositors will lose
but little.
PIEsIDEST-ELECT HARRISON some days
ago offered the position of private secretary
to Elijah W. Halford, editor OF the Indian
apolis Journal, and Mr.. Halford's accept
ance has been made public.
IT has been settled that the inauguration
ball shall be held in the Pension Building, al
Washington, where the Cleveland Inaugural
ton ball was held.
TIE auction sale Of the retiring British
Minister, Lord SackvilIe Vests effects. IL
Washington, realized nearly S7OOj, about
double their value
WALTER E. SCuDDER, a young Ne"
Yorker who held responsible position II
the Government Printing Office in Washing
ton, accidentally shot himself and died al
most Immediately.
ORDERS have been issued from the United
States Navy Department for the new stee
cruiser Atlanta, now at the Navy Yard, New
York, to be prepared for voyage around
the world similar to that taken by the uniteo
States steamer Ticondero "a, nearly ten years
ago
The North German bank, the Discounts
Gessellschaft and the Krupps, have formed
syndicate to build railroads in Venezuela.
EDWARD HARRINGToN, Irish member oi
the British Parliament, has been fined s@3ol
for contempt of court by the Parnell Com
mission Judge.
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A FINANCIAL CRASH.
A Durham IN. C.,) Bank and SIX
Firms Fail for !S1,O0O,O00.

The largest failure ever recorded in the
State of North Carolina, has just occurred at
Durham, and it threw the whole town into
the widest kind of excitement. 1t was
the failure of the Bank OF Dur
ham, State bank, owned by w. L.
Blackwell. People were standing IN groups
at all parts Of the town discussing the
financial situation and the widest kind OF
reports could be heard Business foc the
day among merchants was paralyzeC
The failing bank has made an GsslgnmenG
10 Messrs W. S. Halliburton, cashier and
Y. Ballard, business agent OF w. l. Black
we'll. The liabilities are estimated at about
The banker is the founder of the famous
Blackwells Durham bull smoking tobacco.
and has always been very liberal ana enter
prising.
nc an assignment six firms hal to suspend,
anl all made assignments, excepting one.
They are as follows: w. 4. ElliS drygoois;
amount of liabilities astimated, S25, ,0Oo; pre-
ferred, S.5,D00; Robolns & Stone, gen
sral merchandise; estimated liabilities,
BIG, 6,G00; Muse & Shaw, dry goods;
estimated liabilities S25,OuJ: james w:
Blackwell and wife, real estate dealers and
manufacturers, estimated liabilities, Sljo,OOo
J. Parrish, leaf tobacco dealer, estimated
liabilities, 100000: Mr.. J. s: LocShart,
leaf tobacco dealer, has made deed OF trust
to Mr.. j. S. Carr. securing him for $40, Ooo:
Mr.. w. w. Fuller. attorney for some OF
the largest failures, estimates the Liabilities
at from $3.50, 600 to 81, ,OoO,0oo.
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NEW POSTMASTERS.
More Than 1000 Fourth Class Ap-
pointee's During the Year.

pOlni &C 'utihE thS ~S'
First Assistant Postmaster General of the
United Sta:es Stevensons report shows that
during the last fiscal year fourth-class Post
masters were appointed as follows: On resig-
nations and commissions exp red, 6521;
on removals, 1874; on deaths Of Postmasters,
$50; on estnbl shnent OF new fostoiiices,
3Sj4: total, 1879 The increase in the whole
number OF Posto!!ires is shown to have been
22l9, AS against l543 for the year 1881.
As illustrating the comparative growth OF
the several geographical sections OF the
country. the increase or decrease for the year
in the whole number of Postotfices in opera
tion in each are given. The report shows
that in the New England States the net
increase was = as against 45 for the previous
year; in the Middle States lS3, as
against 2O2 the previous year; in the
Southern States, including the indian
Territory, 14OG, as against GS5 last
year: in the three States and three Terri
tories Of the Pacific slope 100, as against il5
last year; in the ten States and six Territories
of the West and Northwest 412. rs against $40
during the preceding year. There was an in
crease in the number of postoftices in opera
tion in all the States except Maine ana New
Hampshire, and in all the Territories except
Idaho anil tab. The total decrease for tho
four was @.
There was an increasa of 100 or more post
Offices in each Of the following States: North
Carolina, ljS: Texas, l36; Virginia, 1?6;
Kentucky, 12b; Alabama, lO6, California,
10Ii; West Virginia, 1O5; Arkansas, lOi;
Pennsylvania, iO0.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-05
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
SAN FRANCISCO has a winter circus.

SAN FRANCISCO has a winter circus.
THE title Of Augustin Daly's new play is
'The Undercurrent."
IT is estimated that there are 10000 anna
teur actors in America.
VERDI, the composer, has just entered his
seventy-fiftf year in health and wealth.
RICHARD MANSFIELD will play 'Richard
ILL.," Gefore his London engagement ends
An effort is being made to bring Charles
Gounod and Camille St.-Saens to this coun
try.
Mr.. II. c. MINER is in Europe. trying to
arrange for the production of paul kauvar''
in London.
Miss MARY Anderson has opened her sea-
son in New York, at Palmer's Theatre, in "A
Winters Tale"
WILLIAM CRANE, it is said. sold his inter-
est in THE Henriettan to Stuart Robson at
Omaha recently.
SIGNoR LEoNHARDT SABATT, the new tenor
of the Clara Louise kellogg Opera Company,
is Swelc by birth.
A. NJ. MoRGNI, Of Paris, has invented q
contrivnnce enabling children to use the
pedals of the piano.forte.
LOUIS JAMES and Marie Wainwright have
been winning eStravagant praise from Cali
fornia critics and public.
Mss GRACE HAWTHORNE, the American
actress, will produce Henry Pettitt's Hands
Across the Sea" at the Royal Princess's The
ntre, London.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN says the familiar
song, The Lost Chord" realized little short
OF $50. aGO, one-third of which was the share
OF the composer.
NINE. MATHILDE CoTTRELLY is having a
successful season in San Francisco, where
she is playing in German comedy at the
Baldwin Theatre.
THEATRICAL competition is severe in San
Francisco. One OF the theatres there gives
an order for crayon portrait to each pur-
chaser of a reserved seat.
ARL1E LATHAM who plays circus on third
basa during the summer with the St Louis
Browns is now an actor. He appears in the
farce comedy, Fashions"
MARIE LOUISE PAINE, the young American
pianist now in Venice, delights the Venetian
sweils By picking ban 10 while sailing in her
gondola on the Grand Canal.
Sriy0R PERUGINI, tho tenor, has signed
with tre Clara Louise Kellogg Opera Com
pany Tor {; series OF special representations of
Faust" Carmen" and Martina"
ANNIE PIxLEY, of "M'liss" fame, travels
this season IN a private car. She has aban-
doncd her contemplated Australian trip, and
will go to Europe in the spring instead.
PARIS is excited over the announcement
that Patti is to create the roll of Juliette at
the production of Gounod's new work in the
Grand Opera. Gounod himself will conduct
the orchestra
AN old-tilne friend of the late Lester Wal
lack thinks that there is a sort of grim pro-
priety in the fact that the first play produced
IN his theatre in New York under the new
management bore the title: Held by the
Enemy"
EuGEN1A BLAIR is to wed Robert Down
ing, the athletic tragedian, of whose COM
pany she is at present the leading juvenile
Miss Blair was formerly the wife Of Forrest
Robinson, one of the Madison Squares lead
ing men,
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THE ARMY AND NAVY.
Important Vacancies to be Filled
by the President.Elcct.

I'm pOrtanG vacancies TO De F1iieO
by the President-Elcct.
President-elect Harrison will have ct bis
disposal during his four years in office several
important army appointments, the vacancies
being created by retirements. The law
gives the President unlimited discretion in
selections to fll these vacancies. He can, II
he so desires, appointfrom civil life. Presi.
dent Cleveland has pursued the policy OF
giving army appointments to army officers.
The first appointment President Harrison
will be called upon to make is to I'LL the
position Of Adjutant General, which will be
vacated by the retirement Of General Drum,
May rs, 1889. The next Bureau officer to be
placed on the retired list will be Paymaster
General Rochester, who reaches the age limit
February l5 1850.
In the same year Quartermaster General
Holabird will retire June 10, Commissary
General MacFeely July l, and Surgeon Gem
eral Moore August l6. General Benet retires
January % Of the following year.
The only Bureau officers who, except In the
event of voluntary retirement or death, will
hold their places until the close Of the Harri-
son administration, are Chief Signal Officer
Greely, Inspector General Jones, Chief Engi-
neer Cary and Judge Advocate General
Swain. The latter is now undergoing SEN
tence Of suspension for twelve years.
Yin the line of the army the next President
will also have an opportunity to fill several
vacancies of some Importance. Brigadier
General Gibbon retires April 20, 1891. and
Brigadier General Stanley, June !, 1882!
This gives two places which it is customary
to fill by selection from the colonels Of the
line.
The navy will also give General Harri-
son a number Of important appointments,
as the four years Of the eight Bureau
Chiefs, as we'll as that Of the Judge Adyo-
cate General, will expire during the next adj
ministration The terms of the Bureau Chiefs
will expire at the following dates: Commodore
Harmony, yards and docks, March 90, 1889;
Captain John 6. Walker, navigation, Octo-
ber 22, 1882; Captain Montgomery Sicard,
July l, 1889; Captain Winfield schley, equip
ment and recruiting, September 8. 1892; Sur
geon General John NJ. Browne. in the spring
Of 1899; Paymaster General James Fulton,
Decemle er Is, 1S9J; Engneer-in- Chief George
W. Melville, August 9. 1891; Chief Naval
Constructor Theo. D. Wilson, December Is,
1890 and Judge Advocate General William
9. Reney, juno l2, 1892. 80
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Capture Of Coun:erfciterS.

Chief bell OF the Secret service of the
Government. with serera. Of his men, has
for the past few days been closing in around
a gang of counterIeitcrs, who have been
the cause Of a great deal of annoy
ance and trouble They were making
ho.us money, of a kind that it was almost
HposSibie to detect, in dollars and half
dollars. None bat experts have thus far
been able to tail the spurious money from
genuine, and on!- after it hal been carried
some time, when the coin begins to turn
black, can its true value be discovered.
Large quantit cS OF it have been made, and
Erie. Penn, " orrcn Penn, Oil City, Penn,
and jamestown. \. Y. have been the greatest
sufferers. Some of the staff also reached
Buffalo. Seven o. the gang are under arrest
The authorities thought t best to separate
them, and put them il different ja;t a!
others are wanted.
esquire" Richardson, one Of the mon who
is said to have attended to the manu-; ;acture
of the money, was brought to Buffalo AMI
taken to the Erie County Jail. Richardson
is fully sixty years of age, and 1t is thou: hi
he will "s1ueal" on the whole party. He
was arrested at CasadaGa. \. y.
More arrests are expected. 1tis imDoSsi-
be - Get the names of the gang at present.
as they are scattered in the different county
iailS in New York and Pennsylvania, and the
Secret Service men will not talk.
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Drowned to Save His Bride.

Patrick Waters was married at st. George,
the County seat of Thomas Tucker County,
w. Va, to charming young lady of that
town, and for bridal tour the young couple
set out on trip up the Black Fork River.
Arriving at the junction OF Shal1cr's Fork.
they stayed all night at the house
of friend, and about eight O'Clock
next morning started to cross
the unfinished railroad bridge on a narrow
walk of single plank. When about half
way over Mrs. Waters became dizzy and,
losing her balance, fell into the river. The
stream is very high, and tie current, always
extremely violent, was running about twen-
ty miles an hour.
Waters plunged into the river after his
bride and succeeded in reaching her. Grasp
ing her in his arms he attempted TO reacn the
shore, but he could make no headway against
the violent current ard was borne rapidly
away. The heads Of the half drowned couple
were seen occasionally as they bobbca above
the waves Half mile below the
bridge at Slas Ferry the boat was in mid
stream as Waters AMI his wife came along,
and they were rescued after one Of the ferry
men had nearly lost his life.
Waters was dead when taken from the
water and his wife apparently so, but she
was revived after unre;Hitting exertions ex-
tending over half an hour.
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South and West.

THE Chattahoochce Valley exposition has
been opened at Columbus, ia.
CAPTAIN JOHN MILLER, a farmer living
near .Jonestown. Indian Territory, who had
the name Of having killed thirty-two men, has
been shot ami killed by tenant named Jim
.Abes, whom he attacked with knife.
MAMIE T!lwN, Allie Rednan and Emma
NickenS, three young girls, were caught by
train at Circlevillc, Ohio. Miss lawns leg
manglcd, both dying. while their companion
escaped with serious Injuries.
LENDAUER BROTHERS g. Co., the largest
wholesale clothing firm in Chicago, have
failed for SlSl ,;52.GS.
1t is estimated that at least 100, 900 bushels
of corn between Evansville and Green River,
Ind, have been ruined by the overflow or
tile Wabash and Ohio Rivers.
HENRY w. KING, JR., son of a million
nare clothing dealer of Chicago, was shot
dead in an Omaha tNeb.) hotel by woman
claiming to be his wife,
THERE are indications of hard winter in
Albuquerque, New Mexico which may cause
q loss of millions of dollars to stock growers.
JOHN COOK, of Berea Village, Ohio, was
struck with stone by his son Joseph while
trying TO stop fight between the latter and
his brother Louis. The fathers neck was
broken and lie died instantly
Mir. CLEMENT HANDuRY. brother of Lord
Hanbury. OF London, England, was found
dead in his bed ON his ranch at Brady, Texas.
He was very old, and lived alone ten miles in
the country.
ALREADY fatal billiards. have begun in
Western Kansas, and tie people have been
compelled TO leave their horleS from fear Of
starvation. Ness City, Dighton, Scott City
and many other towns are almost depopu-
latch The people have had no crops and
are heartbroken.
EVA MITCHELL, a pretty girl nineteen
years old, was nlysteriously murdered IN
Chicago.
MILE. GouDERT, young French govern
eSs in Youngstown, Ohio. committed suicide
by jumping from rcot.
AT the old concentration of the Eoston and
Montana Consolidation Works at Meader-
vile, Montana, Il boiler exploded, killing
four men and injuring three.
The public school building of Carrollton,
ILL.,, has been burned. Loss S50,001.
THE first heavy snow in Indiana. Illinois
and Michigan, of the season, has fallen
FIRE broke out in one of the cells of the
Watcrtown. Dakota, Jail. Hans Nelson
from Webster, Dakota, had been in the cell
about an hour when the alarm was sounded
He was burned to an unrecogniZable mass
FORTY passengers were more or less injured
by the wreck Of a train near Harrison, Ohio
THE house of John Gregg was burned at
Leesville. Ky, and five persons persisted in
the flames.
GEORGE H. FoEBEL, who dropped" about
81, 900 at the time of Hutchinson's Septem-
Der wheat squeeze, killed himself at his
boarding house in Chicago.
THE Georgia Legislature has elected A. H.
Colquitt UniteI States Senator to succeed
himself Henry w. Grady declined to be
candidate.