The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-06-03
SCRAPS,

SCRAPS,
The famous Chicago breach {
promise case, Amanda Craig VS.. Elisha
sprague, is to be tried again.
The poet Bryant is worth $500, 900;
Longfellow, 5000, 900; Holmes, 81OO,.
600: SaXo, $4,000; Lowell, $40. 900.
and Whittier 100000.
Dennis Heart, Esq, the founder Of
tho Hillsboro' Recorder, diod in Hills
6oro', N. c., last week at the age of
Tho New Orleans Ice Company
mako from seventy to .seventy-five
tons of ice day, and sell it at $13 a
ton at the mandatory.
Tho President decides to remove
his family to Long Branch in June.
and not wait. till Congress adjourns.
IIe will also go there, to remain. a
short time, next month.
Much excitement still prevails in
San Francisco about the silver mines
of New Mexico; which are said to be
OF the richest in the world.
DR.. Paul F. Eve, the distinguished
surgeon, late of st. Louis, has accept.
cd professorship in tho Medical Uni
vcrsity of Nashville.
A Maino burglar in prison recently
gained possession Of hoop skirt, and
made tho steel springs into saws. with
which he cut the bars Of his cell win
dow.
The residence of N. o. Sykes. in
Fippah County, Mississippi, was burn
cd on Saturday night last. Two
daughters, aged eight and thirteen,
pcrished in the flames.
At an agricultural dinner, tho fol-
| lowing toast was given-"The game
of fortitude-shufde the cards asyou
will, spades will always win."
A brother and sister in IN Indian
town weigh respectively 5s3 and $50
pounds, and tho oldest is only twenty
one years of ago.
An exceedingly paternal man liv-
ing in Dennis Lake, Florida, aged
eighty-seven, is the father of sixty
children, the youngest Of whom is
nine months old. u '.
The Pail Mall Gozette, in alluding to
the case of Captain Eyre, of the
steamer Bombay, agrees with the
Times in the proprioty of his condem-
nation, and declares that the facts sus-
tain the most unfavorahle estimate of
his conduct. co..
v "Don't; you think" said vain fel-
lew "that am fit to best President of
the United States, or King Of Great
Britain2" "No; but you might mako
a dogo of Venice, If the title were
only curtailed by letter"
Paper napkins for table use have
just been introduced into the restau-
rants of Germany. They answer ov-
course will not stand washing any
moro than paper collars Three Of
them cost less than cent, and they
arc made of all sizes.
The following is a "Personap in a
late number of the Herald: aAs God
is my Judge, I had mo- intent to iniuro
the Rev; Mr.. Smyth BY my adverti-
sing in reference to tsgin; md. milk"
It was bad enough to Kill. John Bish-
op Hall without adding another crime
to my numerous and Emanifo1d sins.
-Thc.unrecti6ed. P,~':.
The following annoGncement ap-
pearcd under the marriag gs head in
some Of the New York evening pa
pers on Wednesday: "At Pau, April
30, at tho Marie, afterwafd at the
Church of Notre Dame. Bordeahx,
Gustave Lafitte, formerly Of New
York, to Kate, youngest daughter of
Cornelius Vanderbilt, of this city," :.
Bonner is reported to have spent
nearly 100000 since he was bittsn
by mania for "fast ones" The
prices paid for his most noted horses
were as follows: Pocahontas, $4,000;
Dexter, SO, 600; Bruno, 23,0O0yMa-
ior Widfeld, $4,000 ); LanteynRand
Light, $4,000; Flatbushi Maidy8, 500
the Auburn Horse, $4,000; Joe sEl-
lott, q colt now owned. by. hinisnd
expected to beat Dexter, cost,$ia,a90.
Napolcon's expenses in the Isle of
Elba are given for the first time in The,
sMcmoir and Archives" 1s0a-1ath,
Of tho treasurer there, M. LIE Baron
Peyrussee, published last year. The
military expenses were LAG, 900
francs; tho civil only 145; 900 frames;
those of the Emperors household
100000 francs, from May I. 1s to
Jnne 3, 1916. - j., :. -6e. ss,ss,>
The land sales Of the Uni9n Pacific
Railroad are now aversgfnH nsarty
forty Thousand dollars b fn8bt The
! total sales, to date amdunt 10 about
eight hundred thousand dellafa The
average per acre is about fSaf dollars
and half These faetAashoW that
the restriction Congress pfoposss to
apply to the lands off the Ncrthern
Pacific, at two dollars.And q, hale per
acre to actual sAStters1 is IathsS bes
low than aboys he prices pi ef the OH; 9th;
or road, -..assl.si OF, sssa ses,.sss ,t9sa 9,
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