The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-10-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

Piano making is the third manufac
turing interest in volume in this coun
try.
Many imperialist French migrant
arrived at New York on Friday OF
the St. Laurent,
St.. Louis is to have new Union
; passenger depot, which is to cover
three blocks and include fine hotel
The effect of the prohibitory law in
!; Massachusetts has been to double the
manufacture Of malt liquors in Bos'
ton.
Illinois claims to have grown more
rapidly in population during the past
ten years than any other State in the
Union.
The bylaws of the Grand Lodge of
Masons of Illinois, which prohibited
colored persons from admission into
Masonic lodges in that State, have
been repealed.
The number of lives reported to
have been lost by the freshct in the
Shenandoah River, between Harper's
Ferry and Staunton, numbers nearly
one hundred.
A "revised list" of German mer.
chant vessels, captured by the French
published by the London Times Of the
10th ult., makes the whole number, Of
all sorts, thirty-three.
The Mormon Conference is in pro-
gress in Salt Lake City. This is the
largest attendance which has taken
place for years.
Six hundred and forty-one thousand
dollars worth Of treasure, mostly sill
yer, has been shipped overland to New
York from San Francisco since the lst
instant.
The friends of Prince Salm-Salm, Of
American army fame, will be glad to
learn that it was not he that was kill
ed at Gravelotte, but Prince Fforentin
Salm-Salm, Second Lieutenant in
Queen Augustus regiment of Prus-
sian Guards, boy of nineteen years.
Tho Washington Star says that
Gen. Beaurcgard, who is reported by
cable to be in France, "was in Lynch
burg, Virginia, no longer than last
week. he is not in the lead-and-salt-
petre line at present, but on the other
hand, is about to marry a lady of
Richmond"
A correspondent Of o country pa
per in England, says he heard a min
ister descanting on the present war
from the pulpit the other Sunday, and
in the course Of his remarks the di-
vine exclaimed: "How horrible it is
to hear the stifed groans of tho dy-
ing, together with the shrieks of the
dead 7" ...
In the battle of Metz some of the
German soldiers, as protection
against the continual showers Of bull
lets that the enemy poured upon them,
fastened their knapsacks across their
chests. After tho battle many were
convinced that these tactics had saved
their lives. In them they found no
small number Of bullets.
A Paris paper gives the following
"The Surgeon General is reviewing
the Garde Mobile. A young garde
steps forward. tAnd on what ground
do you claim an exemption p asks the
surgeon. i have palpitation of the
heart so much the BETTER says the
surgeon, turning to tho next, If your
heart palpitates for your country"
Gen. Won Wcrden, the Prussian
commander, reports that the bcsiegers
lost from the 2lst of September to the
capitulation of the place 80 killed and
1875 wounded. During the entire siege
the Germans lost 906 killed and woun-
ded, including 1l3 officers. The be-
sieging force is now moving towards
Paris.
Madame Amelie Mezzara, who for
tour years, during the rebellion, acted
as sister Of charity, without having
taken the veil, accompanying the am
bulances, and passing the whole OF
that period by the couches Of the
wounded soldiers, left San Francisco
one week ago for France, intending
to resume her occupation Of soldiers
nurse.
A dispatch from Lexington, Va,
says the freshet has washed away all
the bridges on the North river. The
damage to other property has been
great. The greater portion of Jor:
dams Island, near Lexington, with all
the houses upon it was swept away
Accounts of the destruction of houses
come in from all quarters.
| A good many fortunes have been
made, as we'll as lost, in the Pennsyl'
vania oil regions. The present IN
come of one Fortunate oil prince is es'
timated at $1,000 per day, which
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