Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1868-12-04

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Madras, Inia, within ono yoar.
The price Of wheat in st. Paul
Min, has gone down TO IS and 80
/ cents per hushel, and -four sells at S.
per barrel.
The San Francisco Bulletin savs
the loss in that city by the recent
earthquake to buildings will not cx-
coed s5oo,Coo, and may fall within
that amount.
A man at IIliers, Franco, nearly
KILLED himself by drinking eighty-four
cups of coffee for a wager. A cnp of
strong salt anl water poured down
his throat in time saved his life.
lie that is truly polite knows how
TO contradict with respect, and TO
please without adalation. and is canal.
~ remote from insipid compIaisance
and low familiarity.
Tho highest vote ever polIcd in
! Philadelphia WAS 1872 900, till th;s
year, when it was 1872 on the Sta,o
| ticket. This is 5000 moro votes ,A.n
New York city ever polcI.
The Gar has i,:,uc;l an ulasc hv
virtue of which ninc-tcnths Of tLr
drinking saloons now existing in the
RUSSIAN empire arc to be suppress
ed.
1t i' proposed to issue German.
weekly newspaper in Goldsboro'.
\. C., so rapidly is that part Of the
country f!iing up with hardy German
, settlers.
Ihcre IS vuluntccr company in
New York, numbering seventy men.
none OF whom have boards less than
foot i'll length. The captain, named
\Ictcnhcimer, cnltivates an ornament
OF that kind which extends to his
knees.
Russia is getting large amount O.
| Dreach-loading arms manufactured in
thS 4 Hlleu ctatcS.
The census of 1870, it is said, Will
show the population of the United
States to be forty-two million.
A $4,000 diamond necklace appear
cd among the bridal presents at
New York wedding recently.
Robert Bonner says his Ne,o York
Ac"ger is to be the "oilicial organ" Of
President Grants administration.
The Dispatch says 1000 bushels of
California wheat have lust been re.
celvcd Gy one Of the mills Of Rich
mond.
European physicians, it is said, have
successfully used electricity to restore
persons who have taken nm oyerdoso
OF faudanum Or opium. ,.
The Queen of Portugal, Victor
Emanuel's daughter, is crazy, and oc-
cupies padded room to prevent her
from breaking her head.
Canadian ladies do not take to the
Grecian bend, but they have adopted
another dciormity called the Montreal
wriggle.
The brigands of Southern Italy arc
teaching rich men the worth of Iife.
They have now one prisoner whose
existence thoy value at $4,000.
The Chinese at Yangchow recently
became cnragcd at the idea that the
Protestant missionaries boiled up chill.
dren into soup, and proceeded to mob
them in q truly loyal mapnor.
Tennessee says slso has bad the old.
est of all our old men--ono Of hor in
hatitants having died at the ago of
one hundred and ffsgfour*ss5a
s.. The 'Abih gdon; ;tvirginia, salt works
have'jnsesee b isased- for fise years by
n NasuvilIeFcompany, at an ANIMAL
rental OF thirty-one thousand two
hundred dollars, thoa 1cssecs TO pav
forty fvc thousand dollars taxes now
due. H." /" .'i't: :" .tt = .,.E.r
A justico in Buffllp recently decided
that umbrellas arc property, and sen
tenccd q man to tho ponitontiary for
thirty days for stealing one Of those
useful articles.
The largest manufactory of shoe
pegsintais conntry4is said to DO at
Burlington, Vermont, whore one fac
torynisI accustomed ITO transform, eve--
fy day, four cords1 of wood into four
hqndred bushels'o 'of,shoe-pegs. 1877
The skull Of &ss.oaoopp,; mas. ton; measuring
three foot in length, TWO TWO feet oight
inches 10 wi6th, and two feet across
the .nostriis, @d wsighinngf.'iocin one Is hnn-
drod poun g ss is ,rrleportssd, hseesa
found IL Piko s. "..6snsy, >,,4 ),
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