The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-09-21
ITEMS.
Laurens county has no agricultural
society, and wants one.

Laurens county has no agriculture
society, and wants one.
Milton Atkins, and aged citizen {
Laurens county, died very suddenl
Monday last. =
Mr.. John Marshall, Jr, prominen
young merchant of Charleston, die
on Wednesday evening at his resi-
dence, in Washington street, IN tn
thirtieth year Of his.ago.
Numbers of gas wells are bein!
sunk in different parts of Buffalo. tt
get supplies of gas for illnmlnatin!
purposes. ss 49,.
It isodenicd that tho cholera i
abating in Russia, and it is statet
that there is still an average Of on
hundred and fifty deaths a day ii
,Klew. .... .ee..
James Stephens, formerly Fenia,
"Head Centre" is said to have beer
taken in partnership by wealthy
Bordeaux wine merchant, and is com
ing to America to sell vines.
Cold Springs track, Milwaukee
lover which Goldsmith Maid made
such wonderful time, measures sixty
nine feet more than q mile.
The opening of the Mont Gents
tnnnel, which was fixed to the 18th
instant, has been indefinitely pospon-
ed, says the Prussian Gross Gazette,
on account nf the unsatisfactory rela-
tions between the French and Italian
Governments. ee
The State Democratic Convention
of Massachusetts has nominated John
Quincy Adams for Governor.
A grand mass meeting and barbe-
cue is to be held at Huntsville, Wal
ker county, Texas, on tho 2lst in
slant.
An election for delegates to the
lately ordered Constitutional! Conven-
ton will be held in West Virginia in
October. Members Of the Legisla-
ture are also 10 be chosen.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., paid
$11O,0o for the yacht Daunrless, and
it costs him in the neighborhood Of
$40, 900 year to run her.
Wachtel tho famous tenor, comes to
this country quite unheralded, intend
ing, it is said, to organize German
opera troupe, with Madame LIGHT
may us prinia donna. =
BY a recent act of Parliament, days
of grace in the case Of bills of ex-
change and promissory notes, payable
at sight or on presentation, are abol-
ishcd in Great Britain.
An Englishman has won wager Of
$500, by writing one million strokes
. with pen within month. lie did
it in twenty-thrce days, but his arm
was nearly palsicd by the opera
ton.
Robert Bonner, undismayed at the
reports of Goldsmith, Maids achieve
mcnts, offers 100000 for the horse
that can beat Dcxtor, and if the
owner declines to sell, he then offers
$4,000 sto see it done" -s-
A negro, recently escaped from the
Georgia Penitentiary, was arrested
the Sunday following, after robbing
house, and while baptizing some
colored people whom he had persuad
ed that he was preacher.
There were 80 now cases of colcra
at Konigsberg on the 18th inst, and
!63 dcaths; on the 11lh, there were
6S new cases and As deaths. The
disease has disappeared from Dantzie,
andis merely sporadic at Stettin. g
1t is said that movement is on
foot to recognize the Mozart Halp'
wing Of the New York Democracy,
and that the gentlemen who will take
an active part in the organization are
mon we'll known for their storling
Democracy and unblcmished intcgri-
ty.
Geargc, Augustus Sala, who lately
baggcd G5O0 damages from lain
Friswell for an attack upon him in
"Modern Men Of Letters" now sues
ahc London publisher, Solon Camden
4lotten, for damages ir reprinting
Bret Hart's burlesqne on Sala's style
in the "Condensed Novels"
1t is proposed to introduce a new
telcgraphic service in tho German
army for artillery in action. Expe-
rienced artillerymen are'to be posted
undcr cover far in advance Of the
batteries to watch the..e1fccts Of can
nonade and report back BY means Of
small portable telcgraphic ap
puratus. .,.
? Late advices from Rio Janeiro show
that the discussion in tho Brazilian
Legislature on a clause Of the eman'
cipation bill had terminated, but the
measure would probably not, become
a law during the present session, ow
ing to the strong opposition Of its
passage. g .....
Twenty years ago, shoemaker:
apprentice, at Unionville, New York