The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-08-06
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hur,. Va. for ono hundred umd ok dollars per
hundred pounds.
Within tho city Of Philadelphia nnl i,s su-
Lurl,s there arc near three hundred churches
Over four hundred students have already mado
engagements for the next session nt The CniVcr-
sity of Virrinn, unl the number, IL Is supposed
will reach eight hundred
The Boston papers arc discussing tho question
ut this time, whether or not the moon is inllab-
| tied.
Trains have ceased TO pass over the Niagara
Suspension Bridge, since the first Of July ~ the
extreme risk Of accidents was con. i,.:-.i UNIV .r
nntablr.
Tho trade in boots and shoes has lccn uns,,.
ally heavy in Boston, recently, and at advanced
prices, so the papers state.
Tho papers of South Wcstern Georgia md
Middle and West Florida report having received
copIous rains, and fine prospect for crops. In
many sections the farmers say the promise Of all
abundant corn, cotton, tobacco and sugar crops
was never better.
The total cost Of all the Railroads in the Uni
ted States is estimated at seven hundred millions
of dollars, tho interest OIL which, at per cent.
is $Si2 million dollars per unnum.
The degree of Doctcr OF Divinity has been
conferred OH the Rev. L. L. Buist, of Greenville,
by the University of Oglethorpc, Georgia
Sugar seems to be OH the decline in New York
and the losses TO spcculators have recently been
heavy.
DremsIm Shipmrcck.-The barque Monascu
WAS wrecked oil the coast Of st Johns, n T.. ON
the 2lst. She had OH board 50 Swedish cmi-
grants, of whom six, together with tho crew,
were saved.
In 1916, there was frost in July, and not IL
busllel OF corn was raised north Of Mason and
DX"n's line. In July 1857, frost has also pre-
vailed in the saDle region
Tho revenue which Chicago derives from liouor
selling licenses, amounts this wear TO s.o Urw.
eight hundred persons and firms were licensed.
A man has been fined $50 in st. Louis for tho
use of obscene language in the presence of ladies'
upon tho street.
a curious effect of an electric shock wos cx-
Pcr'ehceu hy party who were recently ascend
ing Mourt Washington. New Hampshire; their
mar stood OIL end, and il another person pointed
towards 1t, it instantly rctreatcd.
Last week, Friday, the coroner Of ST. Louis,
held thirteen nIucsts on the bodies of persous
WHO had died from exposure TO the sun.
During recent storm in Do Soto county, Mis-.
sissiprl' the lightning struck ten negroes ut une
d"si'' inJuring one of them seriously.
The Mayor Of Newport Kentucky, receives
The extravagant sum of ten dollars per annum
ior li's official services; IL member of the Civ
Council lately proposed to incresc it lo $3.50, but
the fathers were alarmed at the expense and
wouldn't do it.
IL hie'atnS young man in Coplcy, Ohio, named
McConkey, resolved last week to commit suicide ::
lie took arsenic, found he did not die c.. his throat
still lived; jumped into q wcll-was taken out
alive, but died soon after.
a gentleman who has been aveling in Coaho-
ma County Mississippi, over ono hundred
rattlcsnakes skinned and hung on n tree, being
the spring cropof one small farm the proprietor
said 1t had not been good season for rattesakcs.
"A train of cars recently made the run from
Rochester to Niagara Falls. &c miles, in one hour
and twcnty-six minutes, including three s,ops-u
rate of more than 52b miles all hour.
or the sevcnty-fivc negroes in AlLermarlc Co.,
Va, cmahcipated under Capt. james ii. Terrclls
will, and sent 10 Liberia last December, nineteen
died i'll fourteen months after lauding Oh the coast
Of Africa.