The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-07-01
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bishop Amos is among tho will
men OF tho West, white and red.
Tho French Emperor is troubled
with gout and rheumatism.
A mandatory of castor oil bos
boen established in Galveston, Tenn.
A daughter has just been born to
the crown Princess Victoria of Prus-
a man bit off the head of a live
Iat on wager in Ross county, Ohio,
tho other day.
Drought is severe in the French
provinces, and -four has advanced .fiva
francs at Paris. ''''
The Ecumenical Council voted m
the dogma with the penalty of anath-
ema against all objectors.
Ohio pays $4,000, 900 internal tax
more than half the aggregate paid by
all tho Southern States,
. A elegant gold mounted set of
raise teoth" is the prize in q rattle Of
ladies' fair in Toledo.
General George B. Mcclellan has
neen elected PRESIDENT Of the Attain:
tic and Great Western railroad.
Coo, the lover-murderer of Miss
Abbie Summers, of Quincy, Illinois.
mas been captured and lynchod.
With. threo thousand citizens. Co.
!umbus, Texas, has but one church
building, and not an ordained minister
in tho town.
There is q copper colored infant q
year old in Cincinnati, whose head is
thirty-three inches in diameter,
Sound and healthy.
The editors of the State are to have
q Convention Mt the Supreme Court
Capitol building, Nashville, on Mon
day, July 11th.
Tho Mississippi Legislature has i'm
posed tax OF fifty cents per bale on
cotton raised in that State.
General Forrest has ncarly'a thous-
and lrishmen at work on the Mem.
phis and Selma railroad, near Colum-
bus.
A youth of twenty, at Perryopolis.
Penn., has settled his board Bill bv
marrying his landlady, q gushing
widow: Of seventy.
A man in Detroit who, drew
Szo00 in a gift enterprise was good
enough to give twenty dollars to the
blind man who drew the tickets.
Three murderers escaped from the
Jail tn Wilmington, North Carolina, O.
DAY or two since. Blankets cut in
strips did the business.3 Z
Georgia has rival in absurdfty to
the Fat Mems Association. 1T is q
Slipper Club" composed of gentle
men who have been rejected BY the
ladies Of their choice.
AS the nose is said to be an indi-
cative Of genius as any other feature
OF. a mans face, somebody asks tho
question, "What great italian genius
does Dick Yates nose remind us off,"
A.fsr', we should say"
A Philadelphia paper calls on Con.
gress to "ntterly. wipe out the prize.
ring, for the benefit Of the whole
country" It would be much more
beneficial to the whole country if the
prize-ring would utterly wipe out
Congress.
Many Of the reforms promised by
Saldanha to the Portuguese have been
realized. DEGREES abolishing the
death penalty and court pensions
have appeared, and the right Of petit i.
ton and Of holding public meetings
will be granted in a day or two.
Judge Jones, while holding court in
Greenyille, North Carolina, went to
sleep while on the bench, and disturb
ed the lawyers and the gravity of the, +,
conrteroom by snoring. .>r e.
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation Of Detroit propose building q
block In that city, to cost about one
hundred thousand dollars. i 81,
A Georgia Judge has had to tsquest
the lawyers not 90 eat. pea-nut9 an his
court as the noise Of cracking and
!! disturbs the course of JUS
There are two annoyanoes that
have existed, probably from tha Aoun-
dation Of the world, which no system
Of laws seems adequate to meet
SHORT weight bread and watsred mi''-
It is recorded. Of Noami, the
daughter Of Enoch, that shs was
five hundred and ninety years old
when she was married. gonrage
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There was nsvsr goosss 20 grsyS gs$s
~. but some dAy-.sopH orlatsss 4 foiss,i,
:; IA honest gander aine thatWey,
And took hsf Tor his mats -
It is patent that ykis congress
will not pass a gsnSta& ! ssianesty. It
dare not. The MEn5 0s tEe times
are all that the MOI WIN send q
Democratic Inaiors SO sthe next
Hotse; and ,in dew 81 s1nch proba-
biHty, how rbn khe Toll bs Sxpeeted'
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