The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-06-17
SCRAPS,

SVkAPS.
/ The Rothschilds aro said TO hnro
lately lost enormous sums of money.
1t is thought that ono hundred Ohio
families will mi gruto to Middle Ten.
nossec, in the full.
The largest shoes mado for women
in tho Philadelphia market 20 to
Utah; tho smallest aro sent to Ha.
vann.
A German chemist has found q test
80 delicate that ono part of Arsenic
IN ono millions parts Of solution can
DO detected.
Mr.: Motley, our Minister at Lon
tiT' aTn' insists on being addressed as
~ our Excellcncy," in public as we'll
as private.
Scvcnty-fvc Cinnamon left San
Francisco tho other day for Massa-
chusctts, to work in boot and shoe
mandatory.
On the Sth instant tho cornerstone.
of the new Masonic Temple will be
laid in Now York with imposing GER
.cmonics.
Tho Fcnians, Gleason, Donnclly,
Lindsay, Cullum, Fitzpatrick, Mcneil,
Glass and Smith have been released
on bail.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has been elcc.
ted president, and William II. Van.
dcrbilt vicc-prcsidcnt of the New
York Central and Hudson River Rail-
road Company.
The debate in Congress on tho in.
como tax thows that there is q clear
majority in favor of reducing tho tax
to three per cent. and extending ex-
cmption TO two thousand dollars.
a company Of negroes havo orga-
nlZcd for the purpose of building u
colored hotel i'll indianapolis, Ind, to
which no white person will bo admit
ted.
A. married lady in st. Pauls has
been in trance for six weeks, and
her husband refuses to send for doc
tor. Lie says he intends to enjoy u
quiet time as long rs possible.
In recent speech General NJ. W.
Ransom said cit was to the interest of
all good men to unite in great, pow
crful and liberal movement to cor
rect the abuses Of the party in power,
and to do full Justice to all men, whito
and colorcd."
Gum-chewing has become the fash
ion so extensively at Council Bluffs.
Iowa, that recently the editors of tho
Council Bluffs Times say they count
ed scvcnty-scvcn fcmale gum. .chewcrs
in the streets in fifteen minutes.
The woman's Suffrage Convention.
at Boston, was astonished on Tues.
day by Mrs. Lydia Maria ChiIds cx-
cusing her prcvious absence by sta
ting that she could not leave her
pressing domestic Z. duties" This
certainly was not orthodox.
A woman called at the Springfield
Republican Office recently, soliciting
money to defray the expenses of fur
nishing now house which he had
just completed. This is tho latest
specimen of progress"
Judge Jesse Lambcrth, of Rome.
Ga, has officially united 270O couplcs
in'1is life, but resisted tho temptation
himself. until fey days ago.
I. 1t is said that within a circuit Of
one hundred and twenty-five miles
around tho White Sulphur Springs of
est Virginia, there is moro iron orc
than in the whole ofGreat Britain.
The political campaign in Oregon
has opened bitterly. The disaffected
Republicans oppose the re,election of
United States Senator Williams, and
the Democrats are concentrating their
strength upon Nesmith to elect him
to succeed Williams. %e,[,
The silk manufacturers Of :Patter-
son New Jersey. are looking forward
to the time wien raw silk con be OBJ
tained from California, and members
of the leading silk firms have been
sent to that State to acquaint, them
selves with the prospects oesilk cul-
ture. there.
The now French ministry have had
another decided success in the Corps
Lcgslatif: Tho Deputies of the left
declined voting on be question. Z.
Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the prime
minister, attended a tea meeting of
three hundred and fifty poor mothers
in London, and. expressed her deep
sympathy with the poverty and G,
tering prevailing in the East End.
The Bostonians are lessoning tho
drudgery of cooking, by.sindaiging
largely in corn fish as ats> article Of
daily food. It is q news preparation
they are patronizing, md sis called
specifically "patent: dry 1eorned fish,"
The burglat Of the coming period
is, to dispense. with the rids Jimmy
and vociferous gunpowdsr, md to
melt safe locks quietly and chemical
ly by means of thefcrthydrogen blow
pipe Thus does sotenee daily. multi.
Fply it's benefits .t nahkind
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