The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-09-02
NEWS SUMMARY.


iHcs the death of tho Living Skeleton
as 4 swindlo on Tho worms.
General Tom Thumb and wife,
Commodore Mutt and Minnie Warren,
will soon leave Australia for tho E:lst
Indies.
The Savannah Advertiser says that
two-thirds Of tho cotton crop in MAJ
con county, Ga., has Gccn destroyed
by rust in tho last tsn days.
A Chicago ncwsboy recently sung
out; "Iirc s yer extra! Great battle
in tho Alps. French fleet defeated"
Tho pcorlo Of Southern Californi,
arc stirring for III independent State
organization.
California is shipping fruit cast ii,
c,rs with revolving fans in the ROOF
driven by tho motion.
RFcrman ladies propose, as tho eli
max Of patriotic sclEsaciificc, absti
ncncc from French fashions.
II is reported that tho fall fashion
For ladies' hats will be u filnncl-sharcd
arrangement, with the small cnd be,
hind.
Tho cascmatc OF Fortress Monroe,
whcrc the Hon. Jefferson Davis was
40 long incarccratcd, ~ we'll ~ Car
Ioll HALL, where l,c WAS subsequently
confined, arc both now occupied IL.
officers quarters.
A French ffati$tician estimates that
since tho departure of tho GuarIr
Mobile from Paris thcro is but Ono
able bodied man to eighteen women.
\ paper called the Magnolia Flow.
CT blossoms in Arkansas, but the cdi-
tor complains that it docs not max ~
Il scent.
A Jolly Texan painted and disSuie
cd himself "a an Indian, went to his
own house, scared his wilo into fits,
set the dogs to bowling, and caused
his chi!d to jump into Il cistcrn.
Mrs. steele, sister Of tho Hon. Ros-
coo Conklinss, has been appointed ny
Collector Murphy insrcctrcss OF Qua
toms at the port Of Now York, and
is discharging tho duties of her Office
Max MarctzcIl has returned home
from Europe. On the Continent, he
is said to have succeeded in his hunt
for novelties beyond lis anticipations,
actors and dancers alike boing but
too glad to como to America on any
tcrme, to escape tho consequences Of
war.
Tho State militia and ono hundred
special constahles were required to
keep tho strikers from riot yesterday
ut the Durfce Mill, Fall River, Massa-
.ChuSettS.
An express car on tho Pacific rail
road was entered by Disguised men,
who gagged the messenger and stole
$4,000 from tho esfc. They lcapcd
from tho train, and there is no clue
TO lead to their discovery.
Adviccs from Paris report eight dc
partmcnts in tho possession Of the
Prussisns: Lower and Upper Rhine.
Moscllc, Mcnrthc, Mcusc, Vosscs,
Marnc, and IIautc Marine. They con
tain 3,3G 900 inhabitants.
II uGSto "dS CauSS!lI III a. tllssll = gar
den at Roanoke, II. c., tho other night
in close proximity to a lot Of ifno cab.
bagcs. When intcrrogatcd rs to what
he was doing, he replied: "Good Lord !
dis nigger can't go no whar without
being troubled"
There is a magnificent pictorial
map Of the scat Of war in tho last
number Of Hsrper's Weekly. II
gives . surface Wow Of tho whole
country, with rivers, mountains, towns
and villages, &C., plainly defined II
is tho most intclligible map Of the
war yet published.
At tho date Of tho latest adviccf
from China tho French negotiations
ut Ticn-tsin for satisfaction for tho
recent outragcs wcro suspended
Tho French demanded that three
Mandarians, implicated in the massa
Gro, should be given up to be shot
but tho Chinese are only willing &c
surrender ono Of them.
Tho Paris correspondent of tn:
N. Y. Express says: Tho other even
ing a correspondent Of tho N. Y. Tri
bnne, amiablc, pleasant Mr.. Clarence
Cook, was attacked on the Boulcvart
ms Prlssian spy, simply because O
his fair appearance, md because hi:
accent is not as yet perfect. His as
.scrtion that no WAS On American, ant
not a Prussian, mot with no belief
and he would havo met with rough
treatments had not Bignon, tho f.
nous restaurateur protected him.
Mrs. Partington has been sick, and
being inspired, expressed her feelings
in the following language: t1Ia, me
here j hnve boen suffering tho biga
mics Of death for thrco mortal weeks
First, I was ysoizcd with q bleeding
-phrenelogy, in tho left ,hamshire Of
tho brain, 'whichlwas exceeded by the
sstoppnge of the left ventlator of the
heart. This givos mo an inflammation
of the borax, and now, I'm sick with
the ehloroform morbus. There's, nc
blessing Ike that of. health, particu.
ilarly when You're sick" ~. =
Tn Possia ism Chinese doctor who
has made much money and fame in
San FfanciBc5; ard CHS is his diagno-