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ISLAND OF CUBA.
Showing the position OF Havana and The other ces)

chase price to be paid on acceptance Of the
bid and twenty per cent at the expiration Of
each ten days thereafter, or, all cash, at the
option Of the purchaser. This Is the ad-
vertisement: :Nt
tTREAsURY DEPARTMENT., J.
"WAsH1NaToN, D. c., January 6, 1886.
"OFFIcE OF THE SECRETARY.
"Notice Is hereby given that sealed pro-
posals will be received at the Office OF the
Secretary of the Treasury at Washington un-
I'll IL o'clock m. ON Wednesday, the fifth day
OF February, 1895, for the purchase OF one
hundred million dollars (s100, ,000, ,000) Of
United States four per cent. coupon or reg
istered bonds, in denominations of fifty dol
lars CS50) and multiples OF that sum, as may
be desired by bidders. The right to reject
any or all bids Is reserved.
"The bonds win be dated on the 1st day Of
February, 1895, and be payable In coin thir-
te years after that date, and will bear In
terest at per eentum per annum, payable
quarterly In coin. but all coupons maturing
on and before the 1st day OF February, 1896,
will be detached, and purchasers will
be required to pay In United States gold coin
or gold certificates for the bonds awarded to
them, and all interest accrued thereon after
the first day OF February, 1895, up to the
lime Of application for delivery. 5a
Payments for the bonds must be made at
the Treasury OF the United States at Wash
ington, D. c., or at the United States Sub
Treasures at New York. Boston, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, st.
Louis or New Orleans, or they may be made
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THE pRADo LEADING STREET IN HAVANA.

at San Francisco. with exchange on New
York, and all bids must state what denom1n-
ations Of bonds are desired, and whether
coupon or registered, and at what place they
will be paid for.
Payments may bemade by installments, as
follows: Twenty (2o) per cent. upon receipt
of notice of acceptance Of bids, and twenty
(20) per cent. at the end of each ten days
thereafter; but all accepted bidders may
pay the whole amount at the date OF the first
fnstallment, and those who have paid all
installments previously maturing may pay
the whole amount of their bids at any time
not later than the maturity OF the last In
stallment.
.The bonds will be ready for delivery on
or before the 18th day of February. 1886.
"Notice Is further hereby given that 1t the
issue and sale Of an additional or different
form of bond for the maintenance Of the gold
reserve shall be authorized by law before the
9Th day of February, 1896, sealed proposals
forthe purchase Of such bonds will also be
received at the same time and place, and up
to the same date and upon the same terms
and conditions herein set forth, and such
bids will be considered, ss we'll as the bids
for the four per cent. bonds herein NEIL
toned. j. u. CARLISLE.
"Secretary Of the Treasury"
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COURT. OF ARsITRaTIos..s
Suggestion Mads 81 Justice Harlan Ar
proved In the vsnezuelan Question

Suggestion Made ~ Justice Harlan Ar
proved An the Venezuelan Question. II
The Westminster Gazette says . move
ment Is on foot IN London 20 put into
effect the suggestion alleged to s. haye
been made BY Justice Harlan. of the,
United States Supreme Court that dtfs
ferences between Great Britain and the
United STAKES be settled by q commiaion
composed OF an equal number OF judges cfl
Her Majesty's High Court Of Justices and Of:
tue United states Supreme Court Already1
private meeting composed OF Engiisnmeh
and Americans has been held to consider
what further action shall be taken.
The disclosures made In the Daily Ohxon-
icie's Washington dispatches concerning the
venezuelan dispute have encouraged the
leaders Of this movement to publish thair
proposals, which amount to advocacy Of the
establishment OF Q permanent court OF arbis
tradon. tx, i!: I; Z: v =! sS6s y 4
The Westminster Gazette, Liberal, inSits
leading editorial, argues that now is the
time for Salisbury to- Withdraw troml his
Venezuelan position. Il w s
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AN ARMENIAN HECATOMB.

Nine Hundred Persons Killed at Biridjlk,
Near Aintab. -.,.,. .
The correspondent at Constantinople tele-
graphs, under date Of January 8, that terri-
BILE massacre has taken place at Biridjik,
near Aintab, in Asia Minor. The official re-
mort CT the occurrence states that 800 per-
sons were killed.
II is believed that the massacre at
Biridiik was committed by the Kurds OF the
Hamadieh Cavalry. ..
The recent massacre at Oriah was terri
BILE affair. The Porte admits that 800 per-
sons we're killed there, but other accounts
say that 1000 were slaughtered.
An Imperial trade has been issued order
ing the reorganization of the Turkish A rmy
and increasing the Turkish forces IN Mace
donia. Crete and Ell Hejaz, Arabia. The IN
crease will be completed oy spring.
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KILLED BY FIREWORKS.
Many Lives Lost in Terrific Explosion at
st. Louis, Mo.

Many Lives Lost in Terrific Explosion at
st. Louis, Mo.
A series Of terrific explosions laid waste
the vicinity OF Second and Vine streets, st.
Louis, Mo-, where printing houses and allied
trades are numerous. On the day after the
tragedy FIVE persons were known to have
been killed and over o score Of men and wo-
men injured. Nineteen persons were also
missing.
The cause Of the fire and tho consequent
holocaust was unique estionably the fireworks
in Grubbs's commission house. One OF the
Grubbs's employees gives 1t as his theory that
some one threw lighted cigar into the base
ment by accident, igniting the heavy cannon
crackers. He says that each Of these giant
crackers contained quarter OF pound OF
dynamite.
Two bodies were taken out Of the Anchor
Peanut Company Building. No. S09 North
Second street. The bodies Of ". s. Williams,
Charles Erickson and two others were known
to be under the debris. This makes eleven
killed.
7 Many printers who worked in the block
we're journeymen and bad no families. 1t
may be long time before they are misse d.
and until then it cannot be known If they
we're killed. The work Of removing the de-
briS is very slow.
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Prominent People.

Z The estate OF the late Eben d. Jordan, of
Boston. is estimated at 81, ,000, 900.
Vest. OF Missouri. is the mos. unconVen-
tional man in the United States Senate. i
The King of Ashanti sits on golden stool
instead OF throne, and always wears an old
plug hat. .... ...r--. ~, g.ssHt
King Leopold Ct Belgium despises instru-
mental music, which Is said to cause him,
real physical pain.
Sir Augustus William Lawson Heming has
been appointed Governor and Commander
in-Chiei OF British Guiana. 81
The latest reports from China say that Ii
Hung Chang. who Is living in retirement in
Pekin, is rapidly failing In health.
When Emperor William shoots he has a
lsth fxed upon which tho gun rests, as he is
unable to hold 1t up on account OF his In
trinity. 4
They say that it is quite settled thing;
that W. W. Astor will marty Lady RandolpE
Churchill as soon as the lady is out OF
mourning. 20
Cardinal Melchers's death, following close
" on those of Cardinals Persico and Bona
parte. wild keep alive the superstition that
Cardinals always die in threes.
William H. Evarts, who is now seventy.
eight wears old, says: II attribute my good
health to the fact that always get out o.
bed late, and never take any physical exer-
else" -
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was appointed to inform the Governor-elect
and Lieutenant Governor-elect that they
were In session. After the announcement OF
the committee, Chief Justice Field and Asso-
ciate Justices Allen, Holmes, K1owlton,
Northrop and Barker. Of the Supreme court:
O'Brien, and followed by Chief Justice
Mason and Associate Justices Blodgett,
Hammond, Bond, Richardson and Gaskill,
Of the Superior Court. The sergeant-at-
Arms then announced Frederick T. Green
halge, Governor-elect, and Roger Wolcott,
Lieutenant Governor-elect who entered, ac-
companied by the members OF the Governors
staff in full uniform.
The oath Of Office was administered to
Governor Greenhalge and Lieutenant-Gov-
.ernor Wolcott by President Lawrence OF the
Senate, and after the proclamation had been
made by Secretary Of State Olin. Governor
GreenhaIge delivered his inaugural address.
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wholesale republican propaganda at work
among the soldiers from Spain. and & IT Is SAID
A later cablegram dated Havana states
that the rebel forces, commanded. by GeE,,
eral Maxine Gomez, have captured several
of the towns near the city, and the citizens
of Havana are in state OF intense excite
ment and terror. Under General Gomez's d.
rection the insurgents made vigorous on
slaught upon the centre of General Camposs s
line and, after fierce fight, they swept the
Spuniards aside, forced their way through
the line, and are now marching triunphantiy
westward toward the Province OF Pinar del
Rio. In this province are the finest TOBACCO
plantations In Cuba, and these seem to be
now at the mercy of the rebels. u
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The engagement lasted three hours. TWEEN
ty-thrse insurgents were left dead on the,
field; four of Navarro's. officers
and twenty-five of the Spanish troops were
wounded. Navarro captured one prisoner.
The Spanish forces continued on their
march. The course the rebels took WIS not,
learned It is believed they belonged to
Maceo's command, Tf . I.
It Is said unoflcially that the rebel leader
Nunez was killed and that the rebels lost two
hundred men. ~ &c
Another report has 1t that the insurgents
were surrounded by Spanish troops, under
Generals Suarez, Valdez, MADAM and Ma
yarro, and completely annihilnted.
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der site. OF the territory in dispute, autl
IL second appointing a committees to select
,utabln quarters to be useI Us the Office of
he commission.
The most important matters which the
commissioners were called upon to consider
were those rected to them. first by Secre-
tary Olney and later, after tn, adjournment
of the commission, by the President. Just
what transpired at these conferences neither
OF the officials named no- any OF the CON-
missioners cared to discuss.
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AN Germany Upholds Emperor lWiIlian.

All Germany Upholds Emperor william.
Emperor Williams act IN sending o mes
sage to President Kruger, Of the South AFR
can Republic, cengratulatlng him upon the
victory Of the Beers over the armed force
led into the Transvaalt by Dr.. jane
SON, Administrator Of the; British South
Africa Company, Is hailed with enthusiasm
throughout Germany, and will add greatly
to His Majesty's popularity as being true
interpretation Of the intensity Of German
public hostility toward Great Britain. The
message Of the Emperor could not have been
very great surprise to the English
Government, as some days prior TO the
publication Of the message the Emperor
instructed Count Won Hatzfeldt. the Ger
man Ambassador to Great Britain,
to inform Lord Salisbury with the
utmost frankness that It was the firm de:er-
minstion Of Germany not to allow the Goy-
ernrnent OF the South African Republic to be
overthrown. !. 8 - ~, z +
President Krueger, OF the South African
Republic, has replied to the Emperor's mes
sage with a long cipher despatch, in which
he thanks the Kaiser warmly for bis support.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-01-22
Dahomeyans in a Rage.

The Dahomeyans in the village on the
Midway, at the Atlanta (Ga.) Exposition,
became enraged and attacked Major Pene,
the Concessionnaire. There were fifty saw
ages and only six whites in the enclosure.
Mrs. Pene rushed to her husbands assist
ance, struck the chief OF the village IN the
facc, and her husband drew pistol. One OF
the whites rushed to the gate and gave an
alarm. Police ran in with drawn pistols and
drove the Dahoneyans back and quiet was
rt,rtarad
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NEW DESTROYER FOR UNCLE SAM.
A Torpedo Boat That Can Move Under
Water at Will.

A Torpedo Boat, That Can move Cnder
Water at Will.
In the ship yards Of the Columbia from
Works, at Baltimore, Nd, is an engine Of de-
struction which is expected to be more for
midable in navy warfare than England's
greatest battleship. It Is a submarine tor
pedo boat. which Is being constructed under
contract for the United States Government
by the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Com
pany.
At first it was designed to have this boat
ready for launching early in April next, but
owing to the Venezuelan issue orders have
been given, it is said, to finish the vessel as
rapidly as possible.
If the vessel performs all that is promised
she will accomplish fully ssventy-fye per
cent. more than any submarine vessel ever
built. Her dimensions will be: Length, 80
feet; diameter at maximum width, IL feet;
dtsplacement-Gght, or floating on the sur
face-118.5 tons; with superstructure awash,
or with only her turret showing, 1877. "a tons;
expected to have reserve buoyancy, orten-
dency to rise, of 66.100 tons when awash, and
375 pounds when lying still under water.
When the boat is running at full speed on
the surface she must reach depth oftwenty
feet within one minute after the order Is
given to dive. Automatic arrangements
must be placed 80 as to keep the vessel from
sinking below a required depth.
There are. besides, conditions regarding
the storage Of ammunition; for steering
fixed course beneath tho waves; for supply
ing air to the crew; for escape OF the crew
in event of serious damage to the hull, and
for hundred other details.
The cost must not exceed $3.50 600, and the
inventor exnects to complete her for less
than $4,000 '-.....
Her armament, which will consist Of auto
mobile torpedoes and two expulsion air
tubes, with the plant necessary to operate
The expulsion tubes, eight inches in dame
ter, fred by compressed air, will send 15o-
pound projectile son feet. In the war be-
tween Japan and China, it is reported, auto.
mobile torpedoes costing $4,000 damaged
Chinese war vessels to the amount OF $4,-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-01-22
BREWER IS CHOSEN.

Vel ezuelan Boundary Commission Elects
the Justice Its President. -,.
The American Venezuelan Boundary Com
mission began its work at Washington by
elec,ing Justice Brewer President. Owing
to the unavoidable absence Of Andrew D..
White, one of the commissioners, the trans
action of any except the most formal mat
ters was prevented. .....
The work OF the commission was confined
to organization and to the adoption OF two
motions, the first to obtain information as to
the best map setting forth the physical char
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-01-22
Albert ". woodley Hanged.

Albert ". Woodley was hanged at Pitts
burg, Penn. He had had five reprieves
since he was sentenced to death. Woodley
killed Mrs. Jennie Buchanan at her home.
Allegheny City, May 9, 1894. he was en-
gagged to be married TO the woman. The
cause OF the murder was never known.
Woodley always said that he was drunk
when he did the shooting. His parents re-
side in brooklyn, N. Y.
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Mar:strate Kills a Footpad.

Justice Jarvis Blume was passing under
meath the Alley 'L" structure at Thirteenth
street, Chicago, ILL.,, at 1.SO o'clock a. M,
with his daughter May, when two masked
men attacked him. One threw his arms
about Mr. Blume's neck and tried to strangle
him. The other made an attempt to find his
pocketbook. Justice Blume drew his re-
volyer and fred without an instant's warn
ing. One man uttered a cry and tried to
run. He went few steps and fell, Before
the police arrived he was dead.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-01-22
Ca,npos Declares Martial Law.

Startling advices have been received from
the city of Havana, Cuba, to the effect tina
the whole Province Of Havana is up in arms
against the Government. The Government
troops are falling back everywhere in the
disaffected western regions before the
triumphant rebel army. Captain-General
Campos has declared martial law in the ex-
treme western provinces of Cuba. con-
spiracy to destroy the Government buildings
in Havana by dynamite has been disclosed
and the plot of the conspirators frustrated.
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National Debt Decreased.

The debt statement just issued shows net
decrease in the public debt, less cash in the
United States Treasury, during December,
1895. of sl,179, ,34s.so. The balances Of the
several classes of debt at the close OF busl-
ness December 81 were: Interest bearing
debt, STAT, 1861 $3.50; debt on which interest
has ceased since maturity, 81 ,674 $40 rs; debt
bearing no interest, 1916, ,2SS, ,992.14. Total,
S1.l25, ,S25. 1852. 40. The total cash in the Trea-
sury was sTs7 .57S, ,447.62. The gold reserve
was s6S. .262, ,26s, and net cash balance, Sll4,-
TeI o9o %
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yenezueia,s Revolution.

President Crespo issued q decree recogniz-
ing the existence OF revolution In YenezueIa.
It Is believed that Crespo's decree is aimed
especially at GuzmAn Blanco or Roias Panl.
who are supposed to be treating with Eng
land in the interest of the rebellion. The
Government prisons are full OF those sus'
pected, and the Polytechnic School has been
converted into prison, the students being
transferred to the Academy Of Fine Arts,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-01-22
Train Wrecked "For Fun"

There was railroad wreck near Goshen,
n. Y, and inquiry finally led to the
hope of four little colored boys. sons OF q
washerwomau who lives near the scene OF
the wreck. The boys were placed under
arrest and have made full confession;
Their names are Jerome, David. Harris and
Edgar. Darby, the Oldest only fourteen years
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-01-22
4 POPULAR GOLD loan.
Call for Bids for $lOO,O00,O0O Of
United States Bonds.
THEY ARE FOUR PER l'E'.. CENTS. n

s 4 Z IA z
Thirty Days Allowed for 0fers--- Sealed !,
Proposals May Be Sent to, the Secretary
of the Treasury---Payments to Be Made
in Gold Coin or Gold Certiflcates---To
Be Sold to the Highest Bidders.
Secretary Carlisle, just after the stroke OF
midnight on the morning on which 1t had
been predicted that negotiation with the
Morgan syndicate Of bankers would be con-
cluded, issued a call for $1Oo,ooo,o0o Of
bonds, as popular loan, to be sold to the
highest bidder. The Secretary invites pro-
posals, to be opened February s, for one
hundred million dollars Of four per cent.
bonds. payable thirty years after date, to
bear date Of February I, 1895. The purchas-
ers are to pay in gold for the bonds and ac-
crued interest, twenty per cent. Of the pur-
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GOMEZ MEETS SERIOUS DEFEAT. s. e.

Insurgents Routed Near Guauajsy, Not
.@ Far From Havana.
Official reports indicate that In a sharp sczs
tion General Navarro defeated grssiiy auss
perior ipsurgent forces under Gomez on the
road to Guanajay, near Bsrba de zagua
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FoRTY.FlVE STATES NOW.

The President Signs the Proclamation Ad-
mitting Utah.
Utah was admitted to the sisterhood OF
States at 1908 o'clock a. m, when President
Cleveland signed the proclamation to thar
effect. There was no ceremony. Mr.. Cleve-
land and Private Secretary Thurber were
alone In the Presidents office at the time,
and the signing was done with a steel stub
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-01-22
Outnut of LOGON otiYea.

There was O considerable increase In the
output Of railway Locomotives and freight
cars in the United States during 1895 over
1894. Last year l109 locomotives we're built.
as against 695 In 1894. and 81 1903 freight cars
were built, as against 17,o29 In 1894.
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Her Babies Burned.

At Palmyra, Ohio, while Mrs. Thomas T.
Bebb was making call her house was burned
and ner two baby boys cremated in the ruins.
She almost lost her life in an attempt at res
cue, and has Secome insane as result OF
the shock.
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Georgia'5 Gold Fcver.

Georgia is getting the gold fev>r again.
One or two old gold mines are belnS re-
worked. and three boats are dredging the
sands Of the Chestatee River for 10 gold
they are supposed TO contain.
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REBELS. MENACE HAVANA
The Insurgsnt Forces Within Sight
Of Cuba's Capital.
SPANISH TROOPS DEMORALIZED.

End is Fast Approaching---The Rebels
Pierce Campos's Line---Terrified Citi-
zens Prepared to Evacuate the City,
Cuban Patriots Made Vigorous Dash
---Three Towns Destroyed by Fire.
A dispatch from Havana, Cuba, says:
Unless all indications are deceiving, the end
OF the Cuban insurrection is approaching,
and the result, it would seem, must be in ia
vor Of the insurgent armies. Maxine
Gomez, Antonio Maceo and Quintin Bandera
are nearing this city from three different di-
rections.
1t is no longer a cry OF "on to Havana"
from the Cubaus. They are here, slowly but
surely surrounding this Capital, after tri-
umphant march from the eastern end of
Santiago de Cuba, in spite Of all the best
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Bic Cnstom House De:alcation.

A report has been received from carta-
gena, Colombia, of defalcation OF 100000
In the Custom House at that port. Several
prominent officials are said to be implicated
In the fraud
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New Moolen Mil for Georgia.

Application for charter was made AZ
Rome, Ga, by the Trainer Manufacturing
Company. The company has a capital OF
81, 900, 900. 1t willmanufecturs woolen goods
and the finer qualities of cotton goods.
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sAToLLl A CARDINAL.

Formally Vested With the Scarlet at the
baltimore (Md.) Cathedral. K
In the Baltimore CMd.) Cathedral Francis
satolli, titular Archbishop of Lepanto and
Papal Ablegate to the United States, was ele-
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SOUTH AFRlcA'S CRISIS.

The Troubles In the eTransvaalBetweent the
Beers and the Aliens.
The South African Republic, also known
as the Transvaal, was originally formed by
part of the Beers, who left the Cape Colony
Tor Natal, but Quilted that colony on its an
nexation to the British Crown. In 1852 the
independence Of the Transvaal was recog-
nized. The legislative power OF the State is
now vested in first and second Tolksraaden,
of twenty-four members each. To the first
Chamber only those born IN the colony can
be elected, while aliens who are naturalized
and own property in the State can be
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New Race of African White Men.

A strange story comes from the Gold Coast
of a race of white men, with light hair and
blue eyes. dwelling In caves to the northeast
of the Koranza country, through which the
Ashantee expedition is to marcn.