The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-05-27

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The population of Berlin has in.
creased from 25e, 900 in 1882, to SO0,-
900 In 1870, and it is now the third
city of Europe.
Ex-Confederate General Wigfall is
at Central City, Colorado, represent
ing an English mining company.
Mr.. Fame, one of the secretaries of
the British legation at Washington,
has nude a match to walk 80 miles
On the road in hours. .
Governor Yarmouth has appointed
General James Longstreet Adiutant-
General Of the Louisiana State militia,
vice Sheridan. resigned.
Jenny Lind is so embarrassed in
her peauniary affairs that she thinks
Of opening singing school in Paris
Horse racing is dying out in vir-
ginia, and the Richmond papers
mourn the. degeneracy Of the times.
The American officers who havo
taken service under the Viceroy of
Egypt are twenty in number.
Josh Billings says he will never
patronizc u lottery 30 long rs he can
tind nny one else to rob him at reas-
onable wages. %.
Tho entire amount 80 far collected
in Baltimore for tho relief Of the
Richmond sufferers amounts to &I5,-
600, lcluding $4,000 derived from the
benefit at the Holiday-street Theatre.
It is reported that five Of the large
French Null steamers passing through
the Sucz catial have each broken from
two to three blades of their screws,
and that other steamers have been
compelled to return to Suez for re-
pairs. .... ~.
North Carolina has another pair of
''Siamcse Twins" These are coIered
boys joined together after the man
ner OF Eng and Chang. They wore
born in Columbus County, are III good
health, and are intelligent. They
are about eighteen years old
Butler says: 'Now, we know that
Massachusetts ideas, Massachusetts
statistics, the education Of .Massachu-
setts people, quite considerably i'm
press the legislation Of the whole
country" Yes, and The sMassachu-
setts men put the public money in
their pockets considerably. .; =
Tie Calcutta Englishman, Of March
Sd, reports that cotton in the central
provinces Of India hassuffered during
the past year from damp weather,
rain, red fly and boil worm, and in
many parts the loss.5is estimated at
fifty per cent. 81 :. -
Certain .timbers Of great durability
when framed together, act upon each
other 80 as to produce mutual destruc-
tion Experiments with cypress and
walnuts, and cypress and. cedar, prove
that they will rot each other
while jointed together, but on separa-
tioh they will ceasey yand the timbers
remain perfectly sound for long Pc
riod. .h?.'@ --'i
At the annual mesting Of the wo-
mans Suffrage Assosiation, in New
York, last Wednesday,; Henry Ward
Beecher, in the speech Of, the day,
declared "He had hS doubt that in
fifteen years it would seem strange
that tho rights of women 20 the saf.
frage had ever been donied."
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Jim Fisk, the prince Of Erie, took
the Democratic Delegated To- the
Rochester Convention from that place
in a special train to New York, run
ming part Of the time at a. speed sof
seventy,f1ve miles an hour: Wander
bilt ran a tram from Rochestere:tol
Syracuse last Sunday, eighty+one
miles; in: one hour and 'thirty-one
Fast men. Fisk train
gained, FIVE hours on.lightning express
time. - Gsgsai
It is stated that there afesMoW six-
ty -four cables in active use, tHH short
est Of which Is three miles lSiR ana
the longest. is y3014, aud tkpiE Total
length Is 22,007 miles. Ddsina this
year and the next 0,s28 mites more
Of cable are contracted for, in1enRths
to vary from 116 to 1916 miIest de.
signed to conHect, various important
points in both the Eastern and Wee
tern hemispheres. r'. '.H = .';i'>,
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The colored people Of Louisville, III
their recent fifteenth antspdnen6
celebrations, had q transp4tsney III