The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1869-09-29


atce of which has long boon delayed,
is now being prepared for publication. |
The work will consist of the original
and the translation in opposite pages.
Mr.. Charles Dickens, in his capacity
of president of the Midland Institute,
Birmingham, will doliver the address
ut tire opening of tho autumn session,
which takes place this month.
A son of on ex-Prcsidcnt of the
United States, who, for somo months
has been living no one knows exactly
how, has boon admitted to q charity
ward in Providence Hospital, Wash
ington.
Right Rev. DR.. Lynch, Bishop of
Charleston, S. c., is to deliver a, Ice
turo in aid of tho Catholic Homo for
Destitute Orphan Girls, in Philadcl-
phia. His subject will be The Life
and Times of Bishop England"
Tho champion rat-tcrrier is in Illi-
nois. He recently disappeared for
eight days, at the end of which time
he came up, lean but fierce, through
tho grouud, where he had been bur-
rowing in his. chase for rat that
length of time.
An Englishman was recently caught
and almost cudgelled to death in
Spain. The people thought him n
wisard who carried off little children
to eat their. flesh and use their fat to
grease the telegraph wires.
Brigham Young and the sons of
Joseph arc quarrelling. The former
has forbidden the latter tho use of tho
"Tabcrnaclc,' but the Gentilo house
of worship has been tcndered them
and they puncturc the prophet not a
little.
| Tho man who, whether in his hab-
its or his actions, in great things or in
small, separates himself from his
friend, seems to set every evil and en-
vious feeling of our nature in array
: against him. Distinction is purchased
at: the expense Of sympathy. ..
George F. Adams, formerly mer.
chant in Augusta, Ga, and captain
n the Confederate service during the
Confederate service during the war,
died in England on the Goth ultimo.
1 Henry Hart prominent citizcn Of
New Orleans, connected with the rail.
road and omnibus interest of that city.
was drowned at Grand Isle on Satur.
day last. ..~..-. -. =.
Why is one dollar grccnback bet
tor than a silver dollar 2. When you
fold it, you double it, and when you
open it you find it increases,
The coolest place in London is the
reading room of the British Museum,
which, strange to say, is cooled by
steam. &,;;t .
'The Avondale relief, fund in Phila-
Edelphia amounts. to over 5000, 900.
The Riching's concert in behalf Of the
sufferers netted s779.15. .
Train told, the: Morinons the other
,. evoning that he had :aznore power in
directing public opinion than any
other fvs hundred men In tho nat ion."
The Israelitess of New York have
organizeds . free burial society, for
the purpose Of providing decent inter:
ment for Ill ;Isrealites who die there,
in Strengthened circumstances, q: :. !. !.
:, One who went from New York; 10
Shanghai 1861 consuming etwohun:
dred and forty days IN. the journey,
has ,just,retnrned in thirty zone days
and twelve honrargnn:ng time. !:
An exchange says that courtship is
bliss, but Marriage Is blister:
z:Twcnty 'ysaas ago there wefo- six
lpostof6eesins Minnesota. Now thore
are six hundred. iT,::E..
I Two hundred Cinnamon ars ia,i about
Ito be set ct work.: to reclaim 1000
kaeres of swamp land near suissn, ,,sa.
Iona County, Cal y
:; ;,+1z ,;t>.s., 81 !, lsE:.. =,
+ Husbapds' promises to givo up to-
bacco nsuslly end in. smoke. :.