The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-07-22
SCRAPS.
Chicago is said to bo growing fss.
ter in deb. than in population. .

The Florida militia has q colorcd
brlgadier to commond it.
! They have young ladies for dcliv-
CRY clorks in the Boston Postofico.
Senator Ames and Miss Butler arc
to be married at Lowell, Mass, July
Nearly all of tho Fourth of july
orators had much to say about John
Chinaman.
PIcsidcnt Grant and Senator Sum
ncr arc said to have come to an open
rupture.
A lady in Saratoga camo to break
fast, few mornings ago, dressed in u
plain calico dress. with diamond car
ring and necklace.
The champion jumper Of America
is his score: "Singlc jump, 13 feet and
8 inches; three jumps, 40 feet; ten
jumps, 140 feet.
Another drove Of 700 Cinnamon
left San Francisco, yesterday, on a
special train, bound Cor Georgia.
The contract for the building of tho
';eorgia lntirmary at Savannah, for
tho benefit Of INDECENT colored per-
sons, has been awarded to Adam
Short, for tho sum Of $4,000.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Cross, Of Buffalo,
New York, has accepted the call Of
s.. Stephens Episcopal Church, of
Atlanta, AS rector Of that church.
The official canvass of the OREGON
election returns gives Democratic
majority on The Congressional ticket Of
BIB, and Of Csc for Grover, Democrat
for Governor
A meeting Of the slavc-owners is to
be held in I1avanna to discuss tho
most f,asiblc plan for tho early and
general abolition of slavery in the is
! land.
The namo OF General Gustavus W.
Smith, General Basil Duke and A. O.
L. Nicholson, of Tennessee, w,re
stricken from the Disability bill be-
fore its passage by the Senate.
The New York Yateh Club is ma
king arrangements for the reception
Of !h" E':u,.t.;s., an. Cambria. Pools
>'.a Saturday night a. ono hundred
ON the Dauntlcss 10 sixty on tho Cam
bria.
Mrs. General Sherman presented q
handsome bouquet to each of the six
scnator-Nye, Sawyer, Carpenter,
Wurncr. y .ott, and EucEinghar-
who spoke in opposition to tho arc.y
bill which reduces tho salary Of her
husband
The head chief Of tie K ,nsas Pot
tawo.tamics has dccv; Sc /, aged So
and weighing 1876. lie was Big
Indian, and his words had great
weight with his tribe.
All the Cinnamon in Paris, fearing
the anger Of the populace on account
of the recent massacres in Pckio.
carefully kept within doors, but ow-
ing to the Spanish affair the news
from Chi IL created but little sensa-
| ton.
A girl in Omaha left a man to
whom she was engaged for one she
liked better; wkereupon, tho first
; lover said he would kill himself be-
fore her if sho didn't marry him.
She said she would, but subsequently,
concluded she had better shoot her.
self-and did.
A verdant waiter on Pullman ex-
/ nj, hn 4
to fill the water tank through the
ventilator at the top Of the car. The
occupants Of the car were unexpec-
tedly trcated to shower bath, to the
great detriment Of linen and broad
I cloth.
A Cincinnati doctor protests against
pouring cold water on the head in
cases of sunstroze. He. prescribes
warm water applications and an emet-
ic, after which sriyitus 1ENeris sulphx-
rici in teaspoonful doses every fifteen
minutes and friction along the spine
by means OF mustard and strong lini-
mcnt.
The Rochester IN. W Express,
Radical comes out fairly in favor of
! cNHeiAS iIcu DOuSlitSS 10 succeed
Judge Davis in Congress. It says
Mr. Douglass is the ablest and most
widely know public man in his Con-
gressional district.
Colonel Joseph Hanlon, for several
years a prominent member Of the
New Orleans press, died Oil the 3D.
instant, ut the Rockbridgo CVa. J
Springs. He was an officer in The
Confederate army, and was badly
= wounded at tho battle Of Chaneellors.
Vile. a :5.'f.ss
President Grant, in oommdnica.
, tion to the Senate, through the Sec.
, rotary of State, hopes that Immediate
. steps will be taken for the security Of
, the rights of American citizens in
Cuba, according.to the provisions of
the treaty with Spain Of 1906. ga@
A large Florida planter, who has
> some fonr hundred negro hands .em
ployed, constituting majority Of the
/. voters in his county, has agreed with
his laborers to support one OF them
Z forrepresentative, they,l ia turn, to
!, support him for SENATOR, 10 tbis vol