The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-07-15

The Democracy Of Missouri will
nominate no ticket This fall, but nrc.
I&crEc II policy Of ''pa$;ivo rcsislancc."
The cdito" or the Raleigh Standard
has received Il fig mcasurin@ cirht
;AchrS Oh" way and nine the olhr.
Fin;--oa" ".loscpl.itc" Mormons left
( :" !'n, Utah, Oh the seth uIt.. for
!"";' former i:omrs in t!.c New Eng
!&ul |,;tvs.
III" New i'amshirc Legislature adj
;"n"ngd y:a" die on Saturday after =
''<H'oH "F twenty three days.
y Philadelphia woman has eleven
,'I'!!"t iio">r pots surrounding her
houa".
Those spots on Tic sun that were
recently charged with mai;inor ito
weather! cold, are ROW accused Of Tho
hot :r>.!.
I'::v New York Ercn:ng Mail cal
l"m;iy says: The sweetest thirr in
';>Iic,' hats wc have 3ycn this sca.on
1re ti.uir ja,c:.
Tho:a:.s n;cIincs, supposed TO hc
'ha last. survivor o! the naval engage
mcnt between the Shannon and the
Chcsarca;ir, died recently in Eng
i&nh.
New York city is considerably
warmed up Ga the ice question, on
account or the high rate; charged,
short weight, and tho irrcgularity Of
"a" supply at houses.
Eighty niles on q bicylc in cioLt
and ~ half hours; has just been ac-
comp'ished by Il gentleman at Dun
dec.
During last week, $1,000 cmirrants
lett Liverpool for the different Amer
lcan ports. nine-tcnths Of them sailing
Tor New York.
a boy named Wm. J. Bushwcll. on
Friday night last, while asleep, walk
cd eff steamer lying at Peck Slip.
New York, and was drowned.
The collection Of tolls at five hum
drcd turnpike gates in England was
abolished on the 1st July, under tho
act passed at tho last session Of Par
lament.
It's now Asserted that tho c6lorcd
youth, Jas. W. Smith, from South Car
o!ina, -. has passed an examination
Ahcad Of forty-sevcn white youths,
and Is IN accepted West Point cadet.
\ Russian millionaire has just died
in Paris, who is famous for having
once given i banquet to q select party
OF eight, and fed them with parrots
tongues steWcd with truit1cs.
a IIynchburg man, arrested as q
Tag:aEt, protested that ho had rcgu-
a: trade, and that was, smoking
glass for total cclipscs of the sun.
lie remarked that as these occur SO
seldom il was not to bc wondered nj
that he seemed out Of employment u
good deal.
a farmer raised thrco thousand
bushels Of Irish potatoes this year on
ten acres Of land on Buffalo bayou,
near Houston, Texas. At ono dollar
per bushcl-a low figurc-thc crop is
beats cotton at fifty cents pound.
A case oc feminine daring is related
Of Virginia belle, who rode to tho
edge OF u rrcc;p!cc, and dciicd any
man OF the party with whom she was
r;'ihg to follow her. Not q man ac-
ccptcd tlrc cAalicngc.
4 Texas paper asserts that the bit
tcrc*t &a1;cal in the Legislature Of
that State is an cX-Confedcratc Gcn-
cral, who went to Brazil at the close
OF tho war because he could not live
under the hated Government Of the
Yankees. lie was wiser now than he
was at the close OF tho war.
A Southern woman is said to DO
buying up live stock in Indiana for
Southern market. Sho is a good
iHlgr, shrcw,, and has "stacks Of
.jrccnbachs."
JovL Ellon left his whole fortune
to the establishment Of an insane asy-
lum. IL restore to madmcn," said he
'ihc fortune l owo to thcm." Lord
Eldon was lawyer.
Portland. Me-, Claims the champion
mean man. lie insisted upon being
admitted to panorama at half price
because he has but one eye.
Dclano has increased tho revenue
collections over fifty millions, and has
made himself, next TO Grant, the most
unpopular man in the country.
Eccchcr says he thinks that fulsomo
praise in addressing God is not acccp-
table TO Him any more than to human
being Of tender and generous nature.
Governor Stevenson was in Cincin
natl Sunday; and left for Washington,
whence he goes to Washington Col
1egc, Virginia, to deliver the. annual
address before tho alumni of, that in
stitution.
Tho Empress Carlotta, in her mad
ness, is posscd of the idea that load
cd pistols and muske1s are constantly
being pointed at her breast. This
idea gsads her frequently to such
madness that her paroxysms Of rago
and terror are itdescribably shocking.
The Courier Journal complains that
9there are half dozen mon In Con-
err,noo r1,ha l,,,o ~ ~on.o h,,;,o,o