The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-06-24
VOLUME XVIII---NO. 9.
SCRAPS.

SChAPS.
Tho Port Royal Railroad, it il
believed will be completed to Angus.
tn, by the 1st November.
Miss Amy NJ. Bradley is tho first
female office holder in North Carroll.
ma. She has been appointed exami-
ner Of schools i'm Now Hanover Coun-
ty.
The German translators Of Dickens
latest novel are in despair. They as
sert that mono of his previous works
offered the same difficulties as tho
present one.
Ihcro is at present at South Ken
sington, London, an international ex-
hibition of fans, in which Queen Vic
toria and the Empress Eugenia are
among the contributors.
The arrangement of the cable lines
Of telegraph, which has lately caus-
cd much inconvenience, has, to q
great cXtont, boon rcmcdicd. The au-
thorities promise all diligence to
make tho restoration complete.
So plentiful arc the grasshoppcrs in
Salt Lake City, that tho stencil aris-
ing from the accumulation of their
dead carcasscs is terrible, and is Sc
riously affecting tho health Of tho ci.
ty.
Miss Louisa Stratton, Of Cass Coun-
ty,. Indiana, challenges any man in
the State TO a ploughing match with
her. She PR poses a two-horsc team,
each competitor to drive tho horses
and hold the plough.
Victor G. Darringcr, Esq, of North
Carolina, Judge James, of Ohio, and
Benjamin V. Abbott, of New York,
have been appointed new commits
sion to codify tho laws Of tho United
States, tho salary to be $4,000 a year,
with u stationery, &c.
Legal practice pays when ono
reaches 'thc upper story" David
Dudley Field received $3OOOOO free,
from the Eric Railroad: jeremiah S.
Black got s235,0O0 from the New
Almadcn mine case. William M.
Evarts has q professional income Of
S125,O00, and recently charged S.
600 for ono speech which occupied
eighty minutes
Large sums of money, irrespective
OF sect, have been subscribed for the
sufferers by the late fire ut Constanti-
nople. Tho number Of lives lost is
variously estimated at from 800 to
1900. The Turks wcro freely throw
ing open their houses to tho Chris
tians who were burned out.
A clergyman in q recent sermon, in
New York, quoted an anecdoto of an
old merchant who instructed his
clerks: when n man comes into q
store and talks Of his honesty, watch
him; if he talks of his wealth, don't
try to sell to him; if he talks of his
religion, don't trust him u::dollar."
A Fenian ssgeneraP' in green
uniform and waving plume Of the
same, lately called on the British
Consul in New York, and impress
sively remarked: sI have. to inform
you, sir, as the immediate represen-
tative of British interests in this
city, that for every one of my cap
turcd countrymen's lives that shall
be taken in Canada, the lives of
ten British subjects shall answer in
the United States" and boldly de-
parted.
The new Cunard steamer Abyssin-
ia is one of the four new ships fitting
out in tho Clyde to carry the mails
between this country and England,
under Messrs Burns & McIvers, con-
tract, which, it will be remembered,
they obtained from her Majesty's
Government for eight years, at s7O,
600 year. The vessel is ono of tho
finest specimens. of naval architect
ure. The Abyssinia is unlike any Of
the Cunard steamers now afoat, as
she is a four-docker, and with herr
heavy iron masts and plum stem looks
more like q line-of.battle ship than q
vessel destined for the service Of the
Cunard Company. +.
= Euvious people should not al
way trust to first impressions. "A
venerable Danbury lady, Of a rath-
er credulous turn of mind and q
poor stretch Of vision, saw a pair
of grays dash by her window one
day last week, and, in agony Of en-
Wy, she shook her fst.at the estab-
lishment and cried out: "Ride,
darn ye; it will be my turn by-and- .
by" The handsome grays VERY
attached to a hearse.~
A Boston man proposed to. visit
New York recently, via the Hart
ford & Erie Railroad. As he was a
little early for the train, he bought
q newspaper, and, after looking at
the stock sales, picked up his valise
and started up street. a1 thought
you were going to Nes York by
this route? said a friend. swell,
so was, but I'1lbs hanged fri
go over a road when q share Of it's
stock is worth less than a SINGLE