The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-10-09

seats.
Rail Road Signai.-Busser's rail road
signal, for the prevention of accidents ut
draw-bridges, crossings of highways, switch
es and curves-now OH exhibition ut Bos-
TONS entirely selfacting, not dependent
upon the carclessness ola watchman or the
irregularity of u time apiece. 1t signalizcs
only when all is right; when there is dam
ger ahead no signal can be given, and the
engineer has to como to full stop and as
certain the cause. The signal operates as
follows:
"At any desirable distance from the
projecting above the rail, through slot i'll
the rail or at the side of the rail every
wheel Of tho train rs it passes over the
cam presses it down on an elliptic spring
underneath, moving one end OF the spring
forward against n shoulder OH tho end of IL
rod reaching to the place Of danger, which
motion moves srid rod an inch or two,
ringing Il large bell at the bridge, switch or
crossing, giving notice OF tho approaching
train !; at the same time, and by the same
operation, another large bell is rung be-
side the passing train, assuring tho engi
nccr aud passengers i'll the train that notice
has been given at the place Of danger, and
that all is right.
"The apparatus is SO arranged that one
bell cannot ring without the other In
moving from the bridge, switch or crossing,
neither bell can ring"
Successful application of EYcci,icity in
the Chrc of Discasc.-Dr. RuLert Rcm,k,
Of the University of Berlin, Prussia, known
to the medical profession of both heuis-
phcres as IN eminent Psychologist, and no.
ted for his valuable discoveries in the sphere
of microscopical observations, has lately in.
vented and successfully applicd,a Il new meth
Oh OF Introducing cons!amt galvanc currents
into the nerves and muscles of patients,
whereby cases of palsy Of every kind, apo
plcxy, atrophy of the muscles and Of the
spinal marrow-some of them from ten to
twenty years standing been, it is said,
entirely cured within few minutes. With
tred patients that had lost the Use of their
limbs and muscles, upwards OF two hunircd
have been entirely restored to health, whilst
the remainder were rapidly improving un-
der the treatment. y printed synopsis of
this scientific discovery anL its results, trans
mitted 10y its author, will appear in the next
January number Of the Medical journal
in this city.
Il Wrinkle about tie -iyc of ILorsrs.-A
few days ago we met Il gentleman from
Alabama, who gave us Il piece of inior,na.
tion III regard to ;,Sccrt;,;nlm" the arc of :,
horse, after lie or she has passed the ninth
year, which WIS new to us. and will he, w.
arc s":c, 10 most Of our readers. 1t is tlii.
alter the horse is nine years old, Il wrinkle
comes on the cye'i'l at the upper corner of
the lower iii, and every year thereafter he
has one well defined wrinkle for each wear
e"e- '.'''. w. sn= ;-tn.,rn, 81 hor-.. has ,.....
wrinkles, he is twelve; if four, lie is thirteen.
Add the number of wrinkles to nine, and
you will always get it. So says the gentle
man; and he is confident it will never fail.
As good many people have horses over
nine, it is easily tried. Ii true, the horse
dentist must give up his trade. Southern
Planter.
Horse Shoes on Nrw Princ;plc.-A
Philadelphia mechanic has constructed Il
horse shoe in such u manner that it re-
4ulrcs no nails, and can Le put OH l,y any
one without the aid Of n blacksmith. At
tachcd to the shoe is tlangc extending
around the hoof, and at the back Of the
shoe, which lies over the frog of the horses
foot, is joint, held in its place by screw.
which allows the Shoe to open and close SO
as to accommodate itself to the size of the
hoof. Between the hoof and the plate is
placed layer OF guta pcrclia, for the pur-
pose of preventing injury to the hoof or
leg of the horse by concssion, while run
nlng over hard roads or streets. The me
chauism is very simple, and the cost
much below that Of ordinary shoes.
Singular Premiums. Among the prem
iums offered by the Coles County Fair,
held at Charleston, Illinois, last week, were
the following To the ugliest man in this
or adjoining States, to bo adjudgcd by
committee of ladies, $40 mirror; to the
tallest man, SIS walking stick to the short
est man SIS pair higl, hecled boots to the
smallest animal Of any kind Of its age, one
volume Pr. Farmer: /: to the lest original
conundrum, one volume New Orleans Plea
y"me to the best original toust, one vol
ume National Intelfigcncer to n word or
sentence with best comic definition, one
Com. Blackstone.
ihe immense amount of property de.
stroyed by fire in the United States is with
out precedent in any other country in the
world. According to the record Of tho N.
Y. journal Of Commerce, i'll which APP
pear only those fires where the loss exceeds
$4,000, the number of fires from the 1st
january to the lst September was 253, in
voiv'ng loss of $12,054,ooO. In the
same months Of 1855, the amount Of prop
erty destroyed by fires, where the loss of
each one exceed $4,000, was only $o,.
$4,000.
Missouri MurGke.-The St. Louis Iutelli-
ge''eer describes specimen of Missouri
marble, from the mountains west of the
Pilot Knob" and about 10 miles from