The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-09-16
VOLUME XVIII---NO, 81.
SCRAPS.

kOIlAIOs
The total number of French soldiers
who fled into Belgium territory is
believed to be about $1,000.
A board of engineers has been ap-
pointed to inspect and repair martel-
10 towers on the British coast.
A New York drummer, struck with
a pretty girl out in Mount Carmel,
ILL.,, solicited permission to call. Sho
chcoriuliy gave it, adding, ebut you'll
go home bald-hcadcd.
The schoolship Savannah, having
on board one Of the classes of tho
Mldshlpmcn from the Naval Academy,
arrived ut Hampton Roads from Ma
dcira on Monday.
AS showing the slccplcss oncr~v
with which the Prussian war has bccn
carried on, it may be stated that king
William did not take his first Nap uil
til after the capitulation Of the French
army.
Indian outragcs continue in New
Mexico and Arizona. Tho last Tue
son mail coach WAS captured by Indi-
ans near Fort Boucc, Arizona, and tho
conductor, driver and soldiers wcro
killed.
A box containing black bear was
received at an express Office in SAN
francisco the other day, with this in
ssription Black Dare. If ycw don't
want to get bit, kepc yer tigers outcn
the craX!'
a woman with q masculine namc
Of Ladd, has been appointed by tho
Governor of Maine q Justice Of tho
Peace. This is the first appointment
OF woman to this Office ever made in
New England, and probably in tho
United States, cast OF Wyoming Ter
ritory.
The canopy over Plymouth Rock
has been surrounded with q curbcd
terrace of green, with cross walks: ut
an expense of about $1,000. Tho
plank that has SO long dis sgraccd tho
rock is taken away, and visitors to tho
rock now have the pleasure Of stand
ing upon it.
Emilio Olivier, giving an account Of
his lcavc-taking with the Empress,
said that sho shook him warmly by
the hand. "And what impression did
that produce p said his friend. "It
moant this, I think" said oliver,
"upon my honor, am not at oil sorry
to get rid you"
THE JEWISH OATH--The .Je,o;xh
Times asserts that there is no specific
"Jewish OATH" 1t declares that ac-
cording to the Jewish law, q simple
affirmation is equivalent to nm oath,
and that every good Jew feels bound
by his conscience and religion to OBJ
servo such an oath. There is, it adds,
no religious position in which o Jew
is to take all oath.
Iowa claims q young and worry prct-
ty girl who has worked in the fold all
summer, wearing malo attire. Her
| personal attractions arc indicated by
tho fact that while hoeing particu-
lar two aero patch Of potatoes, sho
received three offers Of marriage from
well-to-do yonng fasmers.
A young Pluto Indian arrived in
Washington day Or two since, who
came of his own accord from Utah, to
ask that he might be educated by tho
government among tho whito youths.
lie is without means, and his case is
now being considered.
"Wifc." said brol1cr a few days
since, edo you think 1 shall ever bo
worth $50,0007' "Ain't worth that
to your" said tho confding spouse.
"Y-o-s," said tho other half; ''but I
can't put you out at interest"
There is considerable excitement at
Salt Lake City, in consequence of tho
arrest by tho United States Marshal
of Mormons implicated in the burning
of the property Of Mr.. Engelbrecht,
Gcntilc. Tho Marshall has sworn in
hundred special depurics to assist i'll
enforcing tho laws.
"Historicus" writes to tho London
Times, protesting against the gift by
q number of English gentlemen, of a
statue of Stonewall Jackson to tho
State of Virginia. Ito says that 'sthis
traffic in the memories of the dead to
inflame tho passions Of tho living is
alike desecration of tho past and IL
provocatlon OF tho future"
The editor of the Bainbridge Sun,
who has beon Or q recent visit to AL
bany, says of the crops on the route
Crops along the line of railroad, sare
with few exceptions miserable. -Wo
saw immense cotton fields that will
surely not yield balo of cotton to
twenty acres, and in some of which
tho grass is higher than the cotton.
Fields and patches Of corn appear that
certainly will not bc worth gathering.
A bungling execution rccontly took
place in Dunklin County, Missouri,
wherein the victim was strangled to
death by tho rope. He was after
wards taken in charge by two III DIS,
who, by tho application of electricity,
resuscitated tho poor fellow just as the
shoriff came in to stop their proceed
ings. A disgraceful scene then occur
red. The sheriff insisted on ro-exccu.
ting the man, while tho doctors ignor-
cd tho sherifrs authority. Tho man
died.
Fort Gary has been captured; Ricl
has fed, and the Red Eiver rebellion
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