Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-02-12

property. Tue bill indicting him for high
treason failed. -. ~. =: 81 =
Snow fell in, such Abundance in S,
Petersburg and its suburbs in tho lau+
half OF December, that in several stree,
it rose to twelve feet in height. Accounts
from the provinces state that whole villages
are buried under the drift.
AT recent ball at the Tuileries the
guests consumed ten thousand ices. fifteen
hundred glasses Of punch, six thousand Of
sheroet, four or five hundred chickens.
eight hundred bottles of champagne and
fifteen hundred bottles Of bordeaux.
The Princess de Latour d'Auyergue has
bought the Mount of Olives, built chapel
on it and given it to Napoleon.
Sixty folio volumes are daily filled with
the accounts Of the Bank of England, and
eight book binders are constantly employ ell
in putting these volumes together. Tie
number OF bank notes printed daily is
s"S".J'S'6he Ihoostatia.
Dispatches from the East report bloody
battle between the Turks and Montenerrins
near Niksc,zs, hut no particulars have
been received. .
The wealth;est heiress in Russia is Anna
Gagarin, the daughter Of a Moscow mcr
chant, whose fortune is estimated at on,
hundred million roubles. The young lad,
- his vrly daughter, well educated anc
good looking. Among her sutors ar,
nearly all the sons OF the most alistocratie
Russian doyars.
~ report is current that General Dis
protested against the unusual honors will
Which jefferson Davis was recently r..
:eived at ST.. Cyr while on visit to til,
military schools there.
TIE Greek Cabinet has voted, four t,
A'ree, in favor Of signing The agreement o
the Conference.
Seward has authorizes Minister Norris
1t Constantinople, TO offer the medialio,
It the United States to Greece and Tur
key.
Dr.. ". A. SMITH, President of the Cen
raj College, Mo-, Methodist Ep:scopa
Church, South, obtained for thas iusti,u.
lion from the three ST. Louis churches
Centenary, First and St. J.hn's-S55, 60,
n interest bearing bonds
THE FInsT Episcopal cathedral ever bull
&" New England WAS opened for the fire
'me on Christmas. 1t has been fully OF
gan zed, at'er the English system, by tn
Right Rev. Dr.. Nicely, the Bishop O
Maine. TIE youngest diorese in the Ne,
England tates, that Of the Stale Of Main,
IL The first one to have It's tull cathedr:
-rstem. Chicago, Buffalo, Pi,lsburg an
>"me other cities have already adopted it.
scR1DSER & Co., published in 1856.
Prayers from plymouth pulpit by Nj
Beechrr, "phonographicaliy reported" A
!, shor. sermons, they are equal, often, 10 N
Beesher's best, but not uuti! the day whe
Ill secrets are made known, will the huns
mind be able to fathom Mr.. Beecher's ret
sons for calling them prayers.
The LAST MsNAsTEaY IN PRUSSIA -
The monastery OF Neustadt, the closing G
which was postponed until its inmate
u should die of, was discovered to be 8,
cretIy recruiting its members. The Ber!i
Chamber of Deputies has now suppresse
'he establishment, which was the last G
P hat class of houses in the kingdom.
The BR1r1su PROTESTANT CHueoH.-
a Wesleyan minister, the Rev. G. F. U,
e ling, proposes in the Recorder that th
Wesleyans take the title of the British
t. Protestant Church, and advises, in orde
to get ready for the change, that a circuIa
D be sent to the trustees of all the priucipa
e London chaple's, explaining the reasons fo
+ The proposed change, and suggesting th
experiment Of placing a board iu front {
each chapel with the words, "Wesloyau, 9
British Protestant Church" so that at ,b
), next Conference, the word "Weseyan
f may be tulen out, and the words "Britis
, Protestant Church" allowed to remain, o
q the board itself entirely removed, as th
e Conference may determine. He also r.
. commends that the venerable Tboms
# jackson nail the board on the front of Ci,
Road Chapel; adding these lines to ,b
Iproposal:
2 So faithful Luther seorned the Roman mower.
f and nailed his themes to the sacred door.
II TIE New YORK Sunday Herald says
"1a all the churches-grand exposition {
. millinery and baberdashey 10 thsbest sea,
:. - morning aad afternoon--in the name {
pisty. How spleudidly We bumilis.e ou,
tsslves T. %. :. r.sr7 y
. | -.i :; s.'ra - ,.-a.4
SAN FRAEc1soo can claim, sto have T.:
= greatest variety Of religions worship of an
city in the land. Not only. has It q Ctinss
temple, but Gresk church began its nut
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