The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-07-08
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TO keep warm Of cold day, wo-
men double tho cape and mcn double
tho horn.
I TO cure corns, hold your foot by
the stovo until tho corn pops. Said
to be Il sure cure.
"Young ladies of tho lower parlor."
is what tho kitchen girls. of Boston
call themselves.
lie who is not the better for his re.
iiSlous knowledge will assurcdly bo
tho worse for it, HNately.
1t is only by lator that thought can
DO made healthy, and onIv bv
| thought that labor can be mado ban-
py.-Ruskin.
An Illinois jury has awarded DAM
ages of threc-quartcrs of cent in q
libel case against an editor.
The "History of tho Dcvil' has lust
been published at Lcipzic. Daniel
Do Foo wrote a work, with q similar
title, in English.
Washington's body servant still
lives? His whole namc, this time. il
Samuel Randall Motts he lives in
Syracuse, Now York, and he is only
113 years old.
The continued illness of both Mr..
James Gordon Bennett, Sr, and Mr..
Horace Greeley, occasions much anxi-
city to their friends.
Red Cloud is of the opinion that
tho pacific Indian policy of the Gov
ernment consists in driving the red
men into tho Western Ocean
A gasoline lamp, on truck in Jer-
sey City, exploded day or two ago,
killing the driver.
Florida secs Chang, tho Chinese gi-
ant, and goes foot better in the per
son of a resident nine feet six inches
in height.
A colorcd man named Jack Brown
was drowned at Charleston on Thurs
day, by the swamping of batteau.
General Wade Hampton has beaten ,
his sword into an $4,000 steam
plow.
Between tho extraordinary heat
and tho long drought, France is in q
bad way. In Paris the water of tho
river Seine is SO low that grass is
growing at the foot of tho quay
walls.
A Cincinnati man has been fined
Sl0 and costs for cheerring for jeff.
Davis. Wo would like to know under
what hoad in the penal code of Ohio
that offence comes.
Mothers used toprbvide a switch
for their daughters from the nearest
bush; now tho daughter gets her own
switches from the hair drossers
In suit of Nowton Seibert and wifo
vs. John Loeson, for assault, tried in
Baltimore ON Friday, tho plaintiff.
obtained verdict of So, 900. The as.
sault consisted in Lccson's havinr
kissed tho hand of Siebcrt's wife,
against her will, during her husbands
absence from home.
A colorcd girl, named Lucinda
White, while. picking bIacl1bcrrics
near Savannah, Georgia, on tho o5th
instant, was bitten by a rattlc-snalc,
from the effects Of which sho died in
n few minutes. Blaczbcrryinr has
been discontinued in that vicinity.
Tho worlsingmcn Of New York ci
ty arc organizing in opposition to tho
introduction Of Chinese labor,-and
secret sessions of tho labor unions aro
to be held to discuss tho Aabjoct.
In his Cuban message, Mr.. Grant
deprecated thecruolty Of the Cuban
war. By whose orders were 400
barns burned in the Shenandoah Val
ley, in single day?
In Lynn, Mass, Mrs. Brown tried
to fill q kerosene lamp from q can
without blowing it out. They buried
her tho day but one, and tho house
was not insured. Total loss.
Drunkenness is on tho,incrcaso in
Paris, which tho citizens charitablv
debit to tho English and Americans.
In st. Petersburg drunkard, no
mattcr his social position, IL condemn
cd to sweep the streets for a day.
Tho Parisians demand this measure.
Light still comes from tho North.
A story is anoat in the papors that
Walt. Whitman started in lifo as O.
driver of omnibusos. Ho is type
setter by trade. From type-settinn
ho proceeded to write for newspapers,
and for years was contributor to the
columns Of the various journals of
New York. This was the occupation
he followed for livelihood. There is
hardly one Of the Journals in New
York-especially the weeklies-on
which he did not at one time hold an
editorial position. ..esa .ct
The Jackson Clarion states that
there has been a"bust up" in the
Mississippi Railroad ring. This ring
was composed of. Radical and Demo-
cratic members Of Legislature; but
at n reeent meeting the Democratic
portion, being informed Of The mode
Of operations by which it'was pro.
i6psed to swindle the people, not only
fretired from the concern, but denounc-
ed the syindle III terms more forcible
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