The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-09-02
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importing Chinese servants.
Garabaldi doesn't think there il
yet. '''
Let hetara' n'!, the noted gymnast, dicd in
The number of immigrants TO New
DIX last week amouu,td 10 $3.50.
Lato adviccs from rio Janci:o
speak enthusiastically v Of the SUCCESS
OF Carloita Patti AT that city.
n beautiful aurora borcalis wos
seen in Memphis on Friday ui.hi
causing turn out Of ,hc fire dcn;:, l.
mcnt.
One hundred and ninety out Of
thrco hundred and twenty c.n:us dr..
tricts of Now York give pp,.vt:,ion
Of 4oS,307.
Tho war correspondent Of tho Pal
Ma'l Gazette calls England 'that
county Of first rate fogs and second
hand sermons"
The peace tcrco of r:uss;an
corps darmcc is in round Numbers,
1900 mcn on q wen footing, 10000:
and with ihc LandwcI'ri IS, 10000.
Richard Tai'mao. young man.
was killed at Sing Sing: \. Y on fii-
day, while stealing lIde on tho rail-
road cars. lie was lunnin- awav
with S'rl from II,cn, who was in
side Inc cars.
Krupp, the mann Hacturcr of cam
2on at Essen, has offered two Lnn-
dred dollars to the first PIuSsia,, sail.
or who distinguishes himself by the
hrst lneritrlous action in tho face Of
the foe.
A gentleman paid a compliment to
beautiful German lady ut Newport,
ny telling her she rcscmbIed tho
Prussian army. "How SOP" she ask
ca. "4ou are winning" was the re-
ply"
A Turkish Pacha recently caught
rebel, nailed horse shoes to his baro
1cct, aud then gavo him a minutes
start before the soldiers fired upon
him.
The heads of Washington, Jeffer-
son, Pinaoln, the two Adamscs. Bur-
hngaDe, Farragut, Rawlins. and Gov
crnor Andrew, will bo used on the
new bonds now preparing at tho tres
ury Department.
An article on Hawthorne, in tho
Atlantic Monthly says, TO illustrato
his shyncss, that cat breakfast ho
could not lay piece Of butter upon O.
iadys plato without litiIe trembling
Of the hand"
The National Council of the Union
League passed resolution sympathi-
zing with the German people in tho
present war with France. Tho
League has q membership of mil
lion and half.
A contemporary tells Of q "shrcwd
Jersey farmer" who doesn't shoot
boys that steal his melons. but let's
them eat all they went and takes his
revenge when reading their obituary
notices in tho paper tho next day.
Tho law making murder capital
offence IN this country, sometimes re-
suits in hung jury, but very rarely
in the hanging of anybody else.
Tho "nninion of agitation" ia tho
Maggish title Greeley bestows upon
Napoleon.
A Florida paper tells of a cucum-
Der raised thero that was seventeen
inches long, and then wasn't full
grown, on account of q worm eating off
one end of it. Florida is the cucnm-
bcrist State down that way.
A fcw mornings since, two gentle
men wcre accosted in the following
magniloquent terms, by bcgear:
"Gcntlcmcn, will you administer tho
balm OF consolation to q dcbilitatcd
A Saratoga belle, who dresses ninc.
teen times n day, has gone into q
decline. So has hor father. He de-
clines to pay his notes.
The Knoxville Wing says East Ten
ncssee has raised this year 5000, 900
ou''SA' "hOaV, duu Viii nave Il SurDluS
of 100000 bushels for sale. More
than has been raised in that section
for twenty years.
A census tal<er recently stumbled
upon ayonng couple heaf Lima, Ohio,
with family Of seven children. The
father is not quito twenty-eigbt, and
tho mother said 'she had not reached
her twenty-fourth year." They had
had nine years Of wcdded bliss.
The new issue of bonds for the
of the public debt 1.-THE ex-
tent Of fifteen hundred millions of
dollars will consume sixty tons weight
of papcr. The papor has sbeen espe.
cially prepared for this purposes.
The unprecedented. drouth and
great scarcity eff water in the neigh
borhood of West Point Military
Academy, has made it necessary for
the War Departments to remit the
annual detached gencampment, this
year. - ~ s.. - -. s,
Mr.. Frelinghuysen, according to a
Chicagop paper, has decliueh the Eng
lish missson, and Senator TrumbuG.
who hss been offered it, has also de.
eined. IL is hn unusual thing for
such q mission m that. IN St Ior,Soo ,+o