The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-07-07

The Pensacola, Fla, Jail is the
best place in the the country to Freak
out Of
Tho ,ollins:mill in Rome, Ca, cir.
culatcs sl4, 600 month in that vii
lago.
A live alligator, seven feet long, was
caught i'll the. streets Of Belteville,
Ala, i few days ago.
There has been a coloced confer
once organized for tho States OF
North Carolina and Virginia.
Ireland, between 1861 and 1871 has
lost about 100000 population.
Large Numbers Of Poles arc said to
he emigrating to America this year
A hundred thousand volumes of the
library in the Paris Lonvrc were des-
lroyed. ...
American hotels for American visi-
tors a,c soon to be erected in London
and Paris. -...
The London Spectator declares that
nothing can be made absolutely safe
from fire. ...
The latest story about General
4 h,,, Incl h m u n pf fH
is nomed McAuliH T. .'.....
Punch paid Douglass Jerrold. s25
for the famous "adTlcc to people about
to marry-don't' .
Even France, in all hcr straits for
money, declines 10 resort to so ou'uuss
u measure as the income tax.
The number of homeopathic ply.
sicians in the United States has in-
creased from 1O0 i'll lS44 to 5000
now.
The receipts of cotton at Memphis
up to Friday last were five hundred
thou$a..d bales, the largest ever
known in o like season.
The rumor has gained ground in
England that Napoleon is about to
leave Chlselhurst to take up his resi-
uence. in the Parish Of Malnhead, III
Devon.
Tho overflow at New Orleans hay
ing almost entirely disappeared, the
city engineers are engaged III seeking
to repair some OF the damage.
Tho John Bull newspaper of Lon
don believes that "Enyland is haslcn-
ing with sell-acccleralcd momentum
10 the drcary abyss oi democracy.
A detachment OF twenty-five Uni
ted States troops has been station cd
sst Tullahnma, Tennessee.
a child residing near San ratr;cio,
Texas, was recently poisoned by cat
ing matches, and last week died.
The timc-honored game of 'hull-
gall" is the popular amusement at
Nashville, SO says the Union and
-A,aeracan.
The preachers of Bainsbridge. Ga,
are called upon to save the town from
obstruction by preaching against in-
$n,,, Mann onH res,!t,. "
Tho question is being agitatcd in
Texrs whether it would not be well
for the State to raise force sufficient
ly strong to clean out the Indians
that are now on the "War patti"
The Farmvillc (Va.) Chronicle tells
us that u colored woman, named Mar
tha Nash, lives in this vicinity, who is
the mother Of seventeen children,
though she is only twenty-three years
of age.
Judge Emerson, Of the Fifteenth
Judicial Circuit of Missouri, is to
abandon the bar for the pulpit. lie
has been studying theology for sew
eral years, and will begin to preach
next January.
South Nashville is overrun with
mad dogs. Among the funeral notices
in the Nashville Union ind Ana ricans
local column, the death of dog Of
hvdrophobia in South Nashville is an
nounced.
It is curious fact, demonstrated
by the recent British census. that the
population Of Ireland is actually less
than the number Of Irish who are
now in the United States.
The result Of the. late Derby races
was forthwith telegraphcd from Lon
don to the East Indies. where the dis
patch arrived at Kurrachec in three,
at Bombay in four, and at Calcutta in
five minutes.
The london Fortnightly Review
thinks the recent European war has
reduced the great powers from five to
to two-Germany and Russia-thus
counting out Austria, France and
England. -...-... -. ..- -,
It is said that only one copy exists
of tho English Register of Consols,