The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-08-10
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Nevada is vegetatiDg in minerals
Of all kinds. asss ~ ..c3.ess sses&SyS...
Mobile exports NOR. orange. than
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st, Louis has forty.eight school.
houses, valued at ~, ,730, 900.
A Toledo genius starts baulky
horses by blowipgin their ears.
Boston sells 10000 bean:polss q
year to suburban agriculturists. a:s
AN Illinois man, breaches Sundays
and drives. stage week days:
Ia Heliogoland all foreigners arc
called "skit,' which in their. dialect
means dirt. 6. ~ ,.sNF
In New Orleans recently, q woman
choked herself to death with 9 pair
Of suspenders. u
The Empress Eugene is in treaty
for the sale of her diamonds, which
are valued at s320, 900.
If you are afraid you ehonH scream
when your tooth is being pulled. you
sheuld hold your jaw.
A Philadelphia judge has decided
that a procession has. no right 70
interrupt the ordinary travel On the
streets. {. &
An exploring party in Mnhita,
county, Texas, found an arrow head
Of pure gold and yery fine specimens
of copper. - +.
Coy. Holden's IMPEACHMENT trial
cost the people of North Carolina
the nice little sum Of $61, $40
The wife Of Colonel .Alexandsr
Hamiltop son Of the great Hamilton,
and q niece of President, Monroe, dlsd
at New Brunswick on Friday night.
Fun; commenting On the provsrb
"Peace hath her victories; says,
"Just so; more fall in Lore than in
war"
a sale Of oak trsee ID, reported In
England, in which some brought as
high as $3.50. They were cut for
timber. -. .s5s q.
The New York Herald shrewdly
suggests that "no public man in these
days can afford the luxury Of 9 .ausr-
rel with . newspaper
Worth, the celebrated French male
.modiste, has returned TO Paris, and is
once more cutting and fitting dresses
for ladies,o Of ths.;nobAity.
Tho Tredegar Iron WORKS as: Rich.
mond, Va, are reported ss turning
outflve tons of iron now to every one.
turned ont before the war. - 80
In the Kentucky lottery prosscu.
tion, q lawyer for the defence claimed
that lotteries were "a great moral,
religious and Christian institution"
L'Nende, Of sPsrn, proposes that
Corsica be rendered to the Pope an
inviolable residence, BY which means,
it claims, the supremacy Of France %
the defender of the faith will: be main
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The o'Donohue, NJ. P.owho has
spent a large fortune, has made an
arrangement with his. creditors, aud
the bankruptcy proceedings will sts
annuiled.. sa@as=4l9 s,,,;;.. ..!ssi3-<4s ssis3S-<s ,.:s,s
2 A patriotic Indiana youth took, Bis
fathers COW to the pound, and -reali-
sed fifteen cents for Fourth Of July
expenses. -. '..s' n,s.:., 49, IS
Bismarck had to kissf aixty hand
some young ladies at q recent recep-
ton, and did it without the assistance
Of a clerk. ., ,.
A. parliamentary speaker lately re-
marked that innocence is like an um.
brella, when once we have lost it we
may never see it again. Z
A sarcastic young lady says she
never. was so much in love with
man that.two rainy days together in
q country house would not effectually
F.. A little boy, after watching the
burning of the schoolhouse until The
novelty of the thing had ceased, start
ed down street, saying: "Gollyl rs
glad the old things burned; didn't
have my jogffy lesson nohow"
A Virginia paper ispuzzled to know
whether whiskey should be spelled
with ane. Spelled any way it is q
bad spell for most people, and it
would not be bad to drop all the let
ters and 60 get rid Of the word, in
hope the thing itself would follow
There is but ono peddler in all Ire
land. He takes his certificates from
the county of Down. The fact ap-
pears in parliamentary retHen, and
occupies a wholepage: There are in
England and. Wales $685. peddlers,
and in Scotland 1852.
NJ. Rocksfort has had bis troubles
increased by the elopemsnt Of bis
daughter, aged Is, with young man
of l8. She was school in Jersey, it
is said, whence tbSpair went to Lon