The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-08-26

Boston's free baths were used hv
470, $50, persons during the month OF
July.
The Sandwich Islands are 30 far a6
vanced in civilization as to have pass
cd divorce law.
The protticst style of photograph
&c album invented lately has a GOO.
musical box inserted in the cover.
In Hendricks county, Indiana.
'here Is couple-brothcr and sister
-whose sou united weight is something
over 1900 pounds.
A Western editor, demoralized bv
the heat, says that at 50 degrees in
the afternoon the thermometer indi-
catod 25 minutes past 2 o'clock.
Clara Louise Kellogg, it is said, bas
recently purchased q farm in New
Hartford, Conn, and intends buildinp
fine residence on n slight cminence
overlooking the town.
A woman lately carried child to a
London hospital-a child in a nearly
dying statc-and the doctor elected
from her that she had been admins
tcring spiders to it as cure for whoop-
lng-cough.
Tho Austrian Archdutchoss Maria
N.elcria has just been appointed CEN
Sign of tho fifty-fourth battalion.
The Archduchess was already colonel
OF regiment Of Hussars.
The eldest brother of the KIM Of
Denmark, and chief of the ducal fnm.
ily from which His Majesty derives.
his descent, has joined the Prussian
army: The Duke Of Nassau has also
joined the Prussians.
The English mails Just received,
note the most active preparations for
the war in all parts OF Great Britain.
Charles Dickens, Jr., it is said, was
the purchaser at auction OF his faith
| cr's h, use at Gad's Hill.
The French Postoffice Department
announces that during the war letters
and sums, not exceeding fifty francs,
will be sent free to tho soldiers at tho
front.
Tho sum Of s573s,75 havo just been
subscribed to tho French Patriotic
Fund in San Francisco, "to be distrib-
utcd to the families of tho French
soldiers killed or wounded on the field
Of battle"
In Paris, the General Omnibus Com
pany placed at tho disposal of tho
French Government 1900 horses. at
moderate prices. This company has
withdrawn eighty-five carriages from
it's lines.
When the Pope was officially in
formed of the proposed departure Of
French army, his only reply was,
"God will provided May mover 500
French troops again."
The Census Marshal has discovered
in Carolina county, Maryland, two
centerarians-Jane Hudson, aged 116
and Ann Murray, aged 11O. The
Denton Union says the records show
these to be their true ages.
James Renforth, the English cham
pion, accepts Coulter's challenge, and
| will row in Canadian waters IN Sep
tember for the sculling championship
Of the world.
Berlin is growing moro rapidly than
any city in Europe. In 1882 it was
the eighth in order of European capt.
tails, its population being 25O, 900; in
1869 it was the third, only London
and Paris it's superiors, its population
being 100000.
Rev. John Shannahan, the third OIL
dest priest in the United States, died
on Monday at the Parsonage of St.
Poters Church. Barclay street, New
York, where he has resided the past
fifteen years.
A Berlin dispatch says: sBis,narck,
before leaving, was asked whether, if
successful, Germany onght not to in
sist on Napoleon's abdication7 He
replied, No. Germany can only fight
German OBJECTS, not for French"
There have been fourteen deaths
from yellow fevor at the Philadelphia
sIazaretto, including the physician of
the institution. Tho disense was
brought by the bark Thorne, from
Havana. 49,. ~
There are over five thousand papers
in the United States, But there are
persons living who have seen Bepia-
man Franklin, tho founder of the
fourth newspaper established Id this
country. s5t-.ss':
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