The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1870-06-03
NEWS SUMMARY.

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California ..has now COO miles of
rail road, and confidently expects to
build Mt least $50 moro this year.
Tho idea OF an Qicumepical Coun:
Gil to be summoned by the Orthodox
Greek Church is gradually gaining
ground in that communion.
Bismarck is still an invalid Mt Var,
zjn, and at last accounts it was impos-
siblc to say when he would 10 stroug
cnongh to return to Berlin,
Most Of the salad oils now brought
into tho market arc made OF cotton
seed oil, refined anQ blcachcd, which
is said 10 be good substitute. .-
A white man in Holly Springs, Miss,
the other day, sold his wife for S22 -
the vito oouscnting 10 tho sale.
It is little singular that every
Cuban general officer Of noto is inst
now in New York. doubtless thcrc
is less danger mud privation' in that
city than on the island.
Fifty thousand tons Of phosphates,
shipped from Charleston 10 various
parts pprts Of tho South during the
last twelve months, have returned
about s2;p00,UO0.
The latest novelties In the way OF
engagement rings arc sapphircs set
with diamonds-onc large sapphire
in tho centre and q large diamond on
either side.
TO Charles Sumner tho dearest
thing on Garth is the negro. He
ought to havo married q negro. His
wife, they say, is very sorry he didn't.
Tho comfy of Richland is SGT down
for ten companies Of Militia, two OF
which have boon mustered in, to bc
cailod the second regiment Of the
third brigade.
The County Commissioners of Ian.
castcr have raised the retail liquor
:lioeuse to. 5000 per annu,n.. Well
Fdonol Tho greater restraint placed
upon an OWL tho better.
Tho British Board Of Trade, find
ing confirmation strong ns Holy
Writ in tritlcs light as Eyre, havc re-
fused to reverse their decision in tho
Bombay case.
Tho Boston Post says: "Schcnck
El1es tho income tax law, but it is as
odious to tho people as an animal
whose name comes worry near
Schencks's."
A number of actors in San Francis
CO have been shooting, stabbing and
fa,wh1ding each other, which the Bull
letin calls ''rcvival of tue Legitimate
drama"
A western man has died, after Prov
ing to tho world shat honesty and ef.
iiciency arc compatible with ,itinoran.
cy in cleaning and repairing clocks, "
It Is estimated that our "Jndiau
troubles" will cost tho country about
s1,000, 900 per day this summer.
. Theaa gei1tle E"wards Of tho nation"
anre, becening somewhat expensive.
Tho Edgefiold Adrertiser says that
An eXtensiyef guIno. msnufactory in
that county was burned a short timo
since. 1T WINS the property of Fran
cis.aFroEier, san entorprising colored
Tho, following appointments have
been made by tho Governor: D. II,
Dukes and, f. r. Lssscsno, trial iusti.
ccs, Williamsburg; Joseph Littlejoln,
trial justice. Union County George
]. MclntyreStrinl Justice, Collcton
". J.bBrues, trial justice, Clarendon.
There IL, porbapas,,i nothing whicl,
more clearly illustrates .,ther force oi
habit than The fact that Con. Sheridan
nevor secs sbarn; a mill or a haystack
without fasgiIlng in his pockets for a
box Of matches. =, ;
A Philadelphia, paper says Admiral
Porter;s recent letter, on The common.
cipf, and navigation, interests of this
county.is tho utteranco Of states
maa, but.it gives us no ciew as to
1Sbbos thhat statesman is., ....,..
THEleven hundred hands arc cmnloy.
ed. atlwork on the Port Royal R ii.
road >The work is progressing sim
at both ends, and the rail
fs bcing laid at the rate of half a milo
,n,aay,. So says the Barnweil Journal.
An article rs going tho. rounds of
the papers, stating that Mr.. Bessemer
wii0se name is cohnectel with the
manufacture of steel, has discovered
a. preventive of sen sickness in tho
.ise of o bedstend or swinging .borth
6orsMps, which constantly keeps its
leSAArsgardless of the motion Of the
ship The remedy is not now.
o,iJsmas i6mailwood, postmaster at
BHphfoxts IS. c., has been removed,
md a. celored woman by the .name of
1tSnch putin his place. Smnllwood
sxasta Republican. He wus removed
pRseepuut of alleged irregularities in
'theiof4ee, c,..~1 y ~. ! 20 1zg =,
<4 o6fdthbus, Kentucky ~ was at,''tBe the
scene of q most disastrous eonflag,rr.an::
ti9on on Saturday, hst. "a fire broke
o4ke En- The kitchen Of an :, old hotel
pai|dingf sNyHieh, pw;ng tQsa, wind pre-.
Esi Eailang end nt9, The oY9pden ,blilding
PH9eiPeeIk ee9mpo posing the town, rap,
1dlKiSRresM and before i could Be
ehRssksags agaspm forty one buildings
fa1sssl94G HM siaate loss Of fully. $50.
Qagsia1 MID RRt title insurance. "a, -.