The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-12-10
LATER NEWS.

THE Brazilian war ships Aquldaoau anu
Guanabara, bearing the great gold medal
sent by the new republic Of the South to the
President of the United States, as token of
gratitude for his prompt recognition of the
existing Government, arrived in New YORK
Harbor.
B. H. SHILLABER e'Mrs. Partington), J,
died at his home in Chelsea, Mass, few
days ago.
AT Nineveh, Broome County, -. Y, Ray
French committed suicide by shooting. He
was nineteen years old, and had been mar
ried only few months.
DIR. AUSTIN ScoTT, Of New Brunswick, n.
j., has been unanimously elected President
of Rutgers College. He is at present one Of
the Professors in the institution. He is forty
and graduate Of Yale College.
Dr.. CT. BEAN,of Chelsea, the largest man
in Massachusetts,, is dead, aged sixty. He
weighed 495 pounds. For fifteen years he
had been growing more corpulent, the result,
it is said, of medicine taken for malaria.
EVA HAMILTON, wife Of the late Robert
Raw Hamilton, was released from the State
Prison at Trenton, N. j., by the Court OF
Pardons. She had served one year, one
month and twenty days Of her sentence, hav-
ing been lodged in prison on October S, 1889.
AN assignment was made by the large cot
ton commission firm Of Richard n. Allen &
Co., New York City. Tight money was the
cause. The parent house at Memphis, Tenn.
Thomas H. Allen &C. Co.., also made an as
signment.
The Potts Salt and Lumber Company, of
Detroit the largest firm in Michigan, own
ing nearly the entire salt and lumber inter-
ests in Fosco and Oscoda Counties, has failed
for more than million dollars.
THE Civil Service Commission recently re-
ceiyed letter from a man in Columbus
Ohio, Offering them $50 if they would raise
his sons average on a recent examlnation
from sixty-fve to seventy per cent. and make
him eligible to position in the Pension VI
flee.
A STATEMENT prepared by the Chief OF the
Bureau o. Statistics shows that the exports
of merchandise from the United States dur
ing the year ended October 81 last aggregated
ssGO. .875, $40, and the imports Ssl7, ,32i, 2S9.
FIVE persons were killed and eleven badly
injured by q boiler explosion in sawmiil al
st. Johns, New Brunswick.
THE Queens Speech was read, opening the
British Parliament, and was atterwaro
discussed in 10th houses. Mr.. Gladstone
will withdra,. from the Home Rule fight Il
Mr. Parnell continues its leader; Mr.. Parnei
| was unanimously re elected to the Leadership
nv the Irish Nationalist members of Parlla
ment.
THE Duke of Nassau has officially accepted
the crown Of Luxembourg. In his address h
makes the usual appeal to God to assist hin
in reigning justly. Kaise" Wilhelm has sen
congratulations.
A DESPERATE frontier fight took place a
Anton Chico, Mexican village, betweel
COWBOYS and Mexicans. Twelve men wer
killed and twenty-eight wounded.
DISPATCHES from Eberfeld, Germany, sa!
that rle Wupper River has risen, and tha
five persons have been drowned in the floods
Two bridges have been carried away AM
other damage done The neighborine tow
of Barmen was flooded.
A FINANCIAL crisis prevails in Bueno
Ayres. Several credit houses have closed
There was q tumult ON the Bourse, and tn
police were called upon to quell the dis
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