The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1848-01-05
From the Luurrnsriile Herald
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| AiH.N:ht EMO ~ AOhoAD
CATcH THE TnlEr.-There was quite
sensation in our village on Monday las eau
srd W the appearance of two strangers, who
has IN their possession Il rnulal,o girl abou;
twelve years oIagr, who said she was free,
and that her mother was white woman
! The pretended owners Offered her for sale,
! and represented themselves as brothers in
law, one of them by the name of Seaborn
! jackson living i'll Georgia, and the otlle..
John Evans residing in West Tennessee,
aud that they were selling tho girl ior par
llllOn.
The girls statement excited the suspi-
: clons OF some OF oar most worthy citizens,
that she had been Kidnapped or stol..n.-
They therefore entered into Il private cxa-
: mna:lon OF iii. gir.-Jacks,u 4 Exams.
anl s)on became: satisfied that she h III been
stolen from North Carolina. a warrant
was ISSUED, Jackson was arrested. tE. ether
making his escape through tic !o:cst north
OF the village.
Jackst when brought before the mauis-
trale, stated tha, his real name was Joseph
5. Gibbs Of Rutherford Co. y. c., and his
companion in crime, was named William
! Wilson oi The same pacc-lhut the gi, in
their possession WIS the daughter OF Mrs
! Ssarcy OF that County, and that they had ia
ken her from the residence Of one Mr.. Brown
| with whom she was living. on Thursday the
2}d late a. II ght. and brought her to South
Carolina with (; view of making il Christ
mas speculation.
Gibbs (alias) Jackson was committed TO
! Jail. to await his trial, ii, the next General
Sessions.
Wilson (alias) Evans made his escape
on foot, is about five feet ten inches high,
light complexion, and wear: large whiskcrs
of il reddish sandy color.
~ The friends Of justice and humanity,
will be on the look-ou. for him
STEPS are about 10 be taken be Congress
to regulate foreign coins out of circulation.
lfany measure can he devised for banish-
ing the small and deprecated Spanish coins
the public would be greatly the gamers by
UPWARDS OF five millions OF acres of pub
lie lands in Wisconsin, Florida, &c: embra-
cling every variety of soil, climate, &C., are
advertised to be sold by the Government in
January and February.
The population of New York is now cs-
| linatcd ut nearly half millon. Philadel-
phia and Its suburbs, 35O,OOO Cincinnati.
100000. New Orleans, 10000. Bufalo,
10000.
DURING a thunder storm at Vaux, in
France, Oh the 9th ut., the ground was CO.
vered with frogs, supposed TO have been ta-
ken up,by water spout, from an extensive
marsh i'll the neighborhood.
HEIGHT OF THE PREsIpENrs.-Almost Ill
our Presidents have been tall men, as if we
selected our rulers as the children Of Israel
did their first monarch, for his height
George Washington was fully six feet; Jno
Adams, five feet ten inches; Thomas JEFF
ferson, six feet two inches James Madison
FIVE feet nine inches; James Monroe, full
six feet; John @ Adams, five fee, ten A.
jackson, six feet one inch; Martin Van
Buren, five feet eight; VIM. H Harrison,
| five feet ten John Tyler, six feet; James
IS. Polk, five feet ten:
These are heights above the average of
mankind, except in Kentucky and Tennes-
| see.
AN officer writing from Mexico, says
every thing is high in that city, he paid
$40 for new coat; pair Of shoes cost S5,
pound oftea $5, and every thing in pro-
portion.
A SOUND PARAGRAPH.-Thc time is no.
far distant when the merchant whose rent
costs him more than his advertising, will be
universally regarded as one who does no,
understand his business, and vii. not long
have any business to understand
Bread UPON THE WATERs."-The
American Tract Society have recently
started two Coiporteurs, with fat bottomee
boats, laden With their valuable publications
for the purpose of supplying the numerous
boatmen, traders, and travellers, on tn,
waters of the Tennessee and MISSISSIPPI
rivers to New Orleans, with healthful, mo
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