The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1869-10-15

Ambrose Hodges, of Pine Bluff, Ark,
has realized $1,000 from the proceeds
of six acres of broom corn this season.
Mrs. Abraham Lincon is still at
Frankfort, Germany, living in great
retirement, and in very unpretcnding
Quarters.
Governor Walker of Virginia, who
IS only thirty-scvcn years old, is the
youngest governor tho State has ever
had.
Madame Rachel is sued again by q
lady in London for e2GOO for havin"
failed to mako her customer beautiful
forever.
Mr.. Maurice Strakosch has conclud.
ca an engagement with Miss Adalina
Patti for tho season Of 1S71-72 in this
country.
1t is announced that NJ. dc Lessons
has passed through tho Suez Canal.
from Port Said TO Sucz: in steamer,
in fifteen hours.
MIR. John Swinton, for many years
OF tho editorial staff IF tho New York
Times: has resigned his position on
that journal.
1t is believed that Sam IIildcbrand.
the outlaw, has escaped from Missouri,
as nothing has been heard Of him for
some time.
Tho Rev. e. Husband, an English
rltualislc clergyman, has been recciv.
cd into the Romah Catholic Church
by DR.. Newman.
Sa1saparilla Townsend died in Bos-
ton on sunday. IIo was scventysix
years Of age, and Of course had never
indulgcd in his medicines.
Isaac '. Fowler, whose defalcation
and disappearance many years ago,
when postmaster at New York, is
well remembered, died ON Wednesday
in Chicago.
London is to have street railway
along the bank of the Thames, through
tho heart Of tue city.
Mrs. Andrew Johnson, wifo of tho
cx-Presidcnt, is not expected to live
through tho winter.
photographed copies Of tho gold
bulletin boards Of Friday last arc sold
as curiosties in Nrw York and Boston.
Pins found in tho ruins of Thcbcs,
and made three hundred years ago,
have been placed in the Louvre Mu-
scum.
Horace Greeley has been invited to
preside at the Capital Removing Con-
vontion, to be held in st. Louis on Oc-
tober goth.
A bronze statue Of General Grant,
representing him on the battlefield, on
horseback, in full military costume, is
being made in Washington
One of the Salt Lake saints has for
three of his wives, a grandmoth-
er, mother and daughter-in this way
avoiding the unpleasantness of q
mother-in law. -.
The merchants of Louisville, Ky,
have contributed $4,000 towards de-
traying the expenses of the CONNER
cial convention which meets in that
city on tho 18th Of October.
1Iersog, tho famous running horse
that made n mile in 1:434, the best
time on record, died on Wednesday at
the Buckeye Course, Ohio. His own
er refused $4,000 for him within q
few days.
During the month of August, at
the public baths in Boston, 32,80O
persons indulgcd in the summer luxu-
ry ali increase Of 101,931 over the
same month last year. Of the num-
bcr 5S,G70 were girls. ~
Agassiz and Nathaniel Bowdftch
were too poor in early lifo to purchase
tho books they needed for their stud.
les, and were compelled to make man
uscript copies. rhose which Dr..
Bowditch copied are in the Boston
public library.
John G. Breckenridge, having been
recently addressed as General" by
the Judge in a Kentucky court, Brock
inridge suggested that hereafter all
military titles be disregarded in the
courtroom. The Judge said he ac-
quiesced with pleasure. 49,
In the Nashville municipal election,
on Saturday, the Conservatives made
a clean sweep, elccting all their oandi-
dates by large majoritics. It is con-
sidered singular that the negroes de-
serted tho Radicals in this election, for
the first time.
Alex. II. Stewart & Co., Arnold,
Constable & Co., and other large Now
York establishments, who advertise
extensively, generally give the prices
Of the articles advertised. This is q
good rule, and should be foilowed.by
all who advertise, whenever practica-
BILE. ,.,-.. ..,.~~n
The kangaroo skip is .anew!thing
with young ladies at Newport They
lap the hands, keep tho arms close to
the sides, and go skipping and j1mp-
ing, hopping and bouncing, very mulch
like the kangaroo. The motion must
be as graceful as the dignifed, strut
of a lame Shanghai chicken in the wet
grass. "''
Washington College Genieeffal ieffl 1ee's)
opened on Thursday, the 18th ult.,
with larger number:of students than
it had this time last session. a Judi
eious professor has suppressed the opin-
ion Il that eot the number This session Will
At Bellevue, Eaton Comfy: Co, .1Mioh.,
on Tuesday last, anegro at workiin a
feld, without any provocationjf shot
and killedsa nine year, old son, Of his
employer, Captain Fitzgerald. The
murderer escaped, but Yves tracked to
cupA,EThs s. nsws ,sssI non 81, Cuba looks
sqnaflyy for. tie patriots. The New