The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-11-09
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MclnpnS young iauioS 9'o l'ef"rr
ing torsmarried life by, practiclng IN
gymnasiums. a. ..'.
Justice consists in doing no injury
OF men; decepcy, in giving them no
offence. = -
Well-infoImed Americans in Paris
write that they believe that Napoleon
willbe restoredto power within year.
Thepeople sigh already for q return OF
the tgaudy, show and extravaganza OF
royalty. The tradesmcn especially long
for the old days of the~empire.
The, reconstruction of the Vendome
Column in Paris commenced last week
lundertlle direction of NJ. Renard, the
well known contractor of public works.
An the first class hotels and cigar shops
jim Chicago were burned up. 1t was
more than o. week before the citizens
could procure good cigar so as to join
the ruins in smoking.
It fsannounccd positively from Wash
ington that CatacaZy will not he receiv-
cd after the visitof Duke Alexis. Should
he persist i'll exercising the functions of
,minister from Russia his passports will
be handed him.
Chicago isto have q new law court
to settle disputed land titles arising in
consequence OF the recent fire.
The capital cmploycdin the wine trade
of France is s590,000,OO0, while that
embarked i4 the cotton trade is but $40
0O0,090. .s.-.
The Massachusetts mills have sent an
agent to Hong Kong to employ coolies
for operatives a cargo Of them is ex-
pccted at Salem.
Russia has new mitraillcur, invented
by General GorloF, which kills men
twice as fast and twice as fur, as the
FRENCH affair killed them. ..--.
The nail manufacturers of the Atlantic
States have decided to advance prices
fifteen per cent, in consequence Of the
loss Of 100000 kegs by the Chicago fire.
The honor of bcing the richest man in
the United States lies between William
i. Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt and a.
n. Stewart Probably neither Of these
Of what he * worth, and there is not
supposed to be much difference between
them. q" :"
Louis Napoleon is said to have recent
]y answered 4 letter from little boy of
Wilmington Del, who has conceived
great Admiration and sympathy for the
French Ca-ar,. thanking him for his
friendly words, and expressing the hope
l. = 1st r.s la
quietlSapd happily than himself.
A narrow gauge railroad has been !
opened to traffic. between Toronto and
Orangcville, in Ontario, Canada, and is |
doing successful business in the trans
aortatontoffrcight and passengers. The
gauge. three feet and q hah, is found no
obstacle to- It's efficiency for carrying !
freight, while the accommodations for
passengers are described as entirely COM
fortabic and satisfactory.
TheLonadn Telegraph, commenting
upon the published Interview OF n cor
respondent of the New York World With !,
Charles Bradlaugh. the coming Crom-
we'll of Engtand, says it would be put
ting the ease mildly to say that We are
on the brink of revolution. We should ;
indicate the danger very gently by say !.
ing that we are on the edge of the crater !
of II voleano, for revolutions are some !,
times mind, and volcanoes sometimes
slumber, Willie our doom is sure.
Concerning the intimation of suspen-
sion Of tlIei writ of hdbc1s corpus IN
Georgia, the Augusta GA Chronicle re-
ports, upon, Republican authority, that
tho threatened counties are Washington,
jefferson. Burke, Hancock, Glasscock,
Warren, Columbia, Lincoln, Eibert and
Wilkes, and in the counties of Floyd,
Chattooga and Whitfield and, it adds,
sin this same district we hear of boasts
from Certain parties that they will wreak
revenge by the aid of United States
troops.ns ~
Russia, while waiting for an opportu-
nifty to make her grand stroke on the
Danube, IL continually employing her
leisure in eonqueSts on her eastern bor-
der. Tile New York Tribune gives an
account Of the Russian invasion and an
nexation of Dzoungaria, on the north
ern slopes of the Tian-China mountains.
Almost without exciting the attention of
the world, the army of the Car has in
twice us large as.I rcland. rich in miner
John Quincy Adams comes out fat
footed against woman suffrage. In a
letter to the committee appointed by the
suffrage seekers of Massachusetts to OBJ
tain the views of the candidates on this
subject, he says: "After careful thought
and some study I am firmly and une-
quiv0calfy opposed to woman suffrage,
and shall feel tiny duty in the very i'm
probable contingency of my ever occu
pying any considerable public office to
stand by the old immemorial division of
activities and functions which seem to
me to be Ut the foundation of society,""
A good instance of "sharp practice" is
that Of a man in Ohio, who was acquit-
ted of fmuYder on plea of insanity. He
had secured his lawyers by giving them
mortgage on his farm, but now repu-
dates the martgagc on the ground that
he was insane when he mad, it, accord
ing to the showing Of these same law
ycrs. -
Eugene declined all public honors
while travelling in Spain. She replied
to King Amadeus's :protfer Of civilities
by saying that she returned to Spain as
al unfortunate woman, anxious to see
once more the land of her birth, where
she had been 50 happy.
Observation-Disclosures, November 4.
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