The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-06-10
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Gen. r. T.. Lee, has reached his
home at Lexington, Va, from Ill.,;
visit South, much improved in hcalt!l.
Bishop Simpson will leave Amcric,
on June 9th, to preside over the G,i
man and Switzerland Confcrenc",
which meets on Sumo 10th.
A newly invented cotton gin in S..
Louis is said to dispense with tLA
hand labor of picking cotton Go4..
the bolls.
a southern paper Announces IT,,
The editor is fortified against snu!
bites. Somo ono has sent him q ba.
rel Of whiskcy.
Mrs. Stevens made tho astound;,.,
declaration, at u recent womcn's er".
flage meeting in San Francisco, th,.
"womcn could not become men II the
tried"
Surveying parties arc busily cnga-.
cd laying Of the route Of tho propr
cd National Railroad from Phll;tdv:
phia to New York, in opposition -
the Camden and Amboy.
Tho P:,latka (Fla.) Herald is cro,.i
tably informed tha: there is q ma.
living in Orange County who mcus.
urcs nine feet and six inches in height
and otherwise proportionatcly large.
In Cincinnati, B. T. Redman, Jr.,
has obtained Il vc:.dict for $4,000 in :,
sniL against III. g. Culbcrtson, for Sc
duction Of his wife.
a young !aly being asked by rich
backcIor,"lf not yourself, who woul!
you rathor be ?" replied swceLIy any
modcstly, "Iours truly"
1t appears from recent invcstira-
tons that tho Southern Methods,
Church is rapidly losing it's colorc:i
membership, there bcin.: but abcn.
1000 members this year, against g..
OC0 last year.
Tho Mississippians are worl1in.,
and mancuvcring to negotiate trans.
fer Of Mobile to that State, in which
event Pensacola would be the seaport
Of Alabama. The Governor las sent
u commission for tho purpose to AL
ALBANIA.
The Mormon authorities, at Salt
Lake, took forciblc possession of tho
United States Court in that city OH
Tuesday, but surrendered. after a par
ley with the Judge and Marshal.
A Mr.. Wilson Wallace, of Meek
lcnburg County, N. c., while on his
way homo from Charlotte, was forced
to disrnount from his horse, on &C
count of sickness, when he was as
sailed by four colorcd men and rob-
bed of nearly $4,000.
General Walker, Superintendent of
tho Census, in his instructions to As
sistant Marshals says that no gravcr
offenso can bc committed by them
than divulging information acquired
in tho discharge Of their duties.
The. work of enumeration commences
on the first of June, and intermission
of duty will bo sufficient cause for re-
moval.
The Assembly adopted a pastoral
letter declaring that the distractions
preventing fellowship with the North
ern Churches were not created by tho
Southern Church, and they could not
allow tho Southern Church to be
placed in false position. The AS
sembly adjourns to Huntsville, Ala
bama. 1iGj .y-'
Mrs. Mary Powell, in her lecture,
on tho Indians, makes curious state
mont concerning children, which aro
fastened to birch bark and their
limbs kept confined till they are two
years old. II have socn," sho says,
'as many as two hundred Of them
together at one time, and no noise
came from their lips. They are heal
thy and comfortable, and have no
need to cry: Their arms of course
arc not confined, only their bodiesIand
legs" 80.
Important railway works in Peru
arc progressing most favorably. Moro
than forty miles of road ,aroi ironed
between Molendo and Arequipa, and
an equal distance is ready for rails.
Seventeen locomotives and several
hundred cars are in daily notion on
tho road, and by the first of July it is
expected that the first train. will
reach Arequipa from tho coast, and
presago tho prosperity Of that hith,
erto unfortunate city. .''' - fi'''@'
, A fro occurred at Cedar Keys, Fla,
on the Goth, which caused consider.
able loss. The fire originated on
board the steamer Louisburg willie
discharging freight at the. wharf of
the Florida Company. The,iwharf
and tho shed Of the Company, were
entirely destroyed, with about, ono
hundred and sixty bales sea island
cotton, four carloads Of goods, thirty
five tioroes lard and forty barrels -four
mostly covered by insurance. a {, :ah:.
The Hsra1f. news tS45n ntsleagsaamss lasa E. from ON.
China forwarded by way of Bombay,
India, and through the Atlantic cable
from England, give most fattering
and cheerful 9aeonnts of tie prospect
of the tea and silk crops in the, EN-
pire. Ihisis gloriops news for the
ladies' 1tnay haYe' the ofect Of rev.
olutjQniziI9 the asneot .of the mo,i