The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-08-12
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The President will hold . Cabinet
'mcctnS before going TO st. Louis.
Tho yacht America, now owned by
the United States Navy, participates
in the regatta for tho Queens cup.
Since tho beginning of tho year,
small pox has caused rs many rs five
thousand deaths in Paris.
Tho war fever is dying out in New
York, but all anxiously await tho
news of tho first baltic.
There is immense cxultation in Eng
lanu at tho success of tho Cambria in
the international yacht race.
Prince Picrro Bonapartc, 1t is said.
has been dissipating ever since tho
murder of Victor Noir, and strong
drink threatens TO kill him.
Two certificates Of death in tho
San Francisco coroncr's Office read
"Ded from rapture of tho head" and
"Suilocatcd from eating poison"
Louisa Muhlbach has an evident
spite against Mrs. Napoleon, as sho
has just completed q novel which sho
calls '.Eugonic; or, Mistress and En-
press"
Charles Costun, colorcd, Of Balti-
moro, murdered his wife on Thursday
by cutting her throat with n razor.
The murderer has been arrested. It
Is is believed that he is insane.
The debt statement shows a de-
crease OF over S17,00O,000. Coin in
The Treasury s1o",0oo,0oO; currency
s32,00o,000-
An English life insurance company
has paid the insurance for the death
Of n man one hundred and threo
years old, who took out his policy in
1879. 1t is said to bo tho first in
stance i'll which an insurance has over
been pail on the life Of a centcnarian.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Union says:
a live alligator thirteen feet long,
captured at Nolusia bar, up tho river,
was brought to the city on the OAR
lington, Thursday, and shipped North
Oh the Dictator on Friday.
The great yacht race for the Queens
cup, won by tho America twenty
years ago, has been fixed to tako
place on Monday, August 9th. A
number of the fastest American
yachts and tho English yacht Cam
bria will compete for tho prize.
The Courier Office has been omerci-
fully preserved" from destruction by
tho timely discovery Of shell, whih
had snugIy cnsconccd itself in a ncioh-
boring chimney-huc, that has luckily
not been used since tho war.
A servant girl in PHILADELPHIA rob.
bed her employers and then turned
on the gas in Ill parts of the house,
SO rs 10 suilocatc tl.-!n. She was o;.!'.
hauled.
Two boys have died in Ls.yronec,
Kansas, from the effects OF oycr-excr
ton in climbing CREASED pole on
The 4th.
Tine Cariist movement in Spain has
been abandoncd-Don Carlos having
given offence to his adherents by o.
tcring to serve against Prussia.
Senator Sprague says there are
100000 sets Of corsets imported
into the United States annually.
These will pay, by q recent enact
mcnt, s5,000,0O0 of revenue tax.
The late NJ. Provost Paradol prom
ised his Paris publishers complete
"History Of tho United States"
which he intended to write in this
country.
The yacht Cambria, lately engaged
in tho race with tho Dauptlcss, has
been sold to q member of the Royal
Thames Yacht Club, for s, 500 guineas,
deliverable to the purchaser in De-
ccnber.
A special ambassador has been ap-
pointed to France by the Chinese
Govcrnmentst to offer satisfaction for
tho recent outrages to French citi.
zcns.
Tho Emperor Of Russia appoints
John Archimandrite and Inspector Of
the Ecclesiastical Seminary of Mos
COW, as tho Archbishop of Alaska
and the Aleutian Islands, to reside
either at San Francisco, Now York or
Sitka. Tho salary will DO paid from
tho Imperial.
The Revenue Department Is seek
ing statistics in regard to tho tobacco
Manufactures in the United States.
in order that comparison with tho
amount of revenue from tobacco, NAV
show tho eXtent of the frauds practic-
cd on tho government.
The New York Tribune says: It
may relieve the pious minds of those
who fancy that Chinese immigration
will make idolaters of us, to learn
that the Chinese shoemakers at North
Adams all 60 regularly to church on
tho Lords Day, and that the leader
of tho company is jealous Metho-
| dist.
MAKING NEwspApERs.-Every COL
umn of n newspaper contains from
five to twenty Thousand distinct
pieces Of metal, according to tho sizo
of tho paperand type. The displace-
ment Of single one makes. an error.
Is it any wonder that errors occurf
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