Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1869-09-24
DUST AND DIAMONDS,


Hagablo young women in thrco
blocks.
Isabella occupies sixty rooms in q
big hotel at Trouvillc, and pays s2O,-
600 q month board.
Tomatoes arc fifteen cents bushcl
in New York. >"
John Covodo writes to Forncy,
"beo On yuro gard for Hopper he'd
trods in filcdclfy."
! "A Canadian bride at Saratoga
100000 worth of diamonds. =
cafe, andturb;do wants TO sell his
Spanish thron6. tho contest for tho
-Four female cdite> ...
tress will talk at the CHa ono, doc
mans Suffrage Convention. ~Ntl Wo-
The most popular hair apparent
I'rlnco Arthur's whisilcrs. ....f-...
A follow in Sioux City, who dosert-
cd his wife, has had to pay his father.
in-law $3.50 for board.
Experience is one of tho Oldest and
best Of Teachers but her prices arc
ruminously high.
A Scotchman has assembled Mt.
Blanc, wearing the kilt, and de-
scribes the sensation as delightful.
A clerk in a Now York city de-
partment has aal,c>i to have his
salary reduced. lis name is Girls
void, and will get on the roll of
fame some day.
A Frenchmafhas invented re-
porting machine, which prints q
speech as it is delivered. It will
be out Of favor with after-dinncr
orators. u....
Frank Ward, q son-in-law of
VIM. 3. Astdr, jumped off tho
steamer Sacramento and drowned
himself because he couldn't pay
his vino bill.
Those prosecuted billiard saloon
keepers out West think to concili-
ate feminine wrath by devoting one
day of the week exclusively, to
ladies' play.
The fact that Western railroad
dead heads clcrrymen has devel-
oped the existence of one hundred
and seven preachers residing along
the line of very short road.
A Louisville negro found him
self under arrest the other day. for
carrying concealed weapons, be-
cause the broken handle of. an um-
brella protrudcd from his pocket.
The last loyal Legislature of
Louisiana LOCALIZED gambling, and
now that vice is said to be making
New Orleans "niscrablc commu-
nifty Of gamblers" ,.,'-~a,
The Sultan declines Miss BuiTtctt
Coutts' offer to repair the water works
of Jerusalem, but promises to do it
himself '''" 80 . a"~
A private letter from Adclina Patti
to an old friend says: "I expect to
visit America again, but not to sing.
1 will never sing again in New York"
Lord Lytton's Horace, the. appear
anco of which has long beon delayed,
is now being prepared for publication.
The work will consist of the orr fnal
and tho translation in opposite pagcs.
Mr.. Charles Dickens, in lis cafpfacity
of president Of the Midland Institute,
Birmingham, will deliver the Address
at the opening Of tho otautum,i session,
which takes place this month. w.
A son Of an ex-Prcsidont Of. the
United States, who, for some months
has been living no one knows exactly
how, has been admitted to charity
ward in Providence Hospital, Wash
ington. -, go
Right Rov. DR.. Lynch, Bishop of
Charleston, S. c., is to deliver a lcc-
ture in aid Of the Catholic Home for
Destitute Orphan Girls in Philadel-
phia. His subject win IeaThs Life
and Times of Bishop Eng
The champion rat-terricr is, in, Illi-
nois. He recently disappeared for
eight days, at the end g of;wLieh time
he eamo up, lean but fierqe,. through
the grouud, where ,ho had beer, bur
rowing in his chase for a a Fatx ea that
length of time. ~
An Englishman was recently caught
and almost cudgelled!- TO-, death in
Spain. Tho. people theugbtahip a
wisard who carried off ittles ehildren !.
to eat then. flesh and use fhsiE aat to-
grease the telegraph wires: -,
Brigham Young and the csopa Or
Joseph arc quarrellfpg. The former
hasforbiddon the latter the use Of the
6 Tabernacle" but the Gentils house
of worship has been ,tendefed them