The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-10-05
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in gold and silver, annually, for every
man, woman anu child In the State.
Supervisor Perry, of North Carolina
has recently seized four tobacco Factories
In that State for evasion of revenue
laws.
Mrs. Haggarty, who was arrested il
connection with the voucher robbery II
New York, has been released on S5,oo
bail.
The Treasury Department announces
that the Government has saved S2O,4o
bv the destruction and loss Of fractiona
currency.
\ lady in California, with fortune
half million, has married ncathel
Chincc''-a poor, miserable specimen o
the tribe Mt that.
An American circus company is nov
norf,rminr in CuustantinoUle-then MS
circus that has ever visited the domains
OF the Sultan. .-
Ole Bull continues seriously i'll in
Maine. and his friends fear that he may
not recover, owing to his aye and his re-
Gently impaired constitution.
Tha Democratic Governor Parker, o
New | Jersey, nleatis ~ declare himself
in favor of. the "new DEPARTURE
The late Edward Everctt's sister and
John G.. BrrcSinridge's cousin are said
to be living as sisters OF charity i'll New
Orleans. ,.... ......
The Ntlanta, (Ga,) San says it has
learned that the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad" has leased tile Atlanta and
West Point Road. ,,
\ meeting Of Italians was held in
New IorE, Sunday, to make arrange
immigration bureau.
CAPTAIN Luther Libby, whose store
house during the war oceanic notorious
us "LibbyPrisoi,," died recently III New
Kent County, Virginia. at ...., ?
Hulwer SAYS poverty is only an idea,
In nine cases out Of ten, and that there
is really more happiness among the
working men in the world than among
those who are called rich.
The premium of S1Oo,Oo0 to he given
bv New York State for the best metiiou
of propelling canal boats, isto be held
nmn for competition by inventors untli
the close of the year iS12.
shocking rl,tllanism was devciopc1 a
q hc,t ricr rowetl by women on it:;rleni
Nivrr, abreast of New York City on
1h. .5ti, instant. The contestants ana
il,cir friends mutually "tOulcd," shrek
cd and swOrc. .
All cmployccs of Lowell corporation
who refuse to b. vaccinated are prolnpt-
IL discharged, the mills having nau 10
he run with ,horc than onc-fourth less
than the usual complement OF help on
account of the Infection. The same
scarcity prevails in Fail River, Law
renee and other centres Of textile manu-
iacturcs.
Wc understand that the prizes to be
distributed to exhibitors at. the State
Fair, which will b. held in Columbia on
Euvcmbtr 18th, are valued at S'!'oo.
Honor il something substantial, when
j, comes in the guisc of silver tankara,
u medal or Il roll Of grccnbacSs, and SO,
exhibitors will find it.. .... .,...
The Anderson IntrNiycacri' states that
the wire AMI insulatorS ior tile telegraph
between rliat place and Beitotl, are ali
ready: upon the arriratOf the efacketS
Anderson will be put in tclcgraphlc
communication with l'eltOn, Naihalla
und other important seaport towns
We take the following list Of recently
elected municipal officers tor Nliiiahh-
stun from the Anderson lnfrHtycn-
Ger: ..:i".~"'> -.
IntcrSant--Dr.M w. A.'McCorkle.
War,Iens-J. +. Wclborm, Il. }. Brad
ley, }. +. Campbell and IL. HIcoihb.
The Charleston Courier says: On Sun
dsv night last, about ii O'Clock, an alter
cstinn e,,sucu between two c"iored men
ON the Bermuda plantation, twelve
mile, from the village of Mount plt as
mt. in which one OF them, Peter john
SON, was shot by the other, Davenport
foreman Of the place.
The diamonds of South America are
turning out to be 4 genuine reality.
The Citpc .&ntfrM says that the dla-
mond discoveries are now "simply enor-
NOUS, TOnc diamond Of 1"0 cs.rats has
been found ut Du Toit's Pan. y letter
from this digging" states that the wrl-
ter secs ncwiS-f0undl diamonds OF fron
twenty to sixty carats every day. "A
moor man from England came out with
hardly money enough to Keep nm
fortnight, and in three months he went
home worth about S25U,oo0.
The rise IN gold is attributed by the
New York iSs,t tn several causes. That,
,mncr ifrn,afks that it is owing, in the
iirst place, to the fact that a syndicate OF
s,sc,ilators are operating for rise. Se-
c,,,,diy, a. shawn by the advance of the
rate of iutcrrst Us the Bank OF England,
the stagnation OF the European money
marked which prevailed during the sum-
1ner has come to an end, and the millions
which were1esnilMrarily sent over here
and loaned. ut two and three per cent.
,n.r afiffihl' Have been called home.
'rhirlly, opr imports are large, and that
creates. al hiFgel demand for coin Tor
u"''''' d ~ It!s%f '."
ANOTHER EUROPEAN ALLIANCE
Russiai France and Turkey, 1t is said arc
now Oh more friendly terms with each
other Tile alliance OF Austria and Ger
many, has no doubt frightened these
three Powers, and it would not be won
dcrful If, when the next European war
breaks out we should find Russia and
France and Turkey on the same side.
TIE GERMAN aOCCCPATloS OF
FHANCE-Thc telegraph Informs us that
the German evacuation of the depart
,ncntsemltig,ieasto to Paris has been com
plctc,l. = Fosir departments convenient
t. the capital are thus freed from the
Drcsence Of the German invader. Al
though the troops haveSfeft the places
which they held possession OF since the
close OF. the war il docs not follow. that
they have departed from French soil.
They have now taken upa position be-
yond the borders, and are awaiting i'll
structions announcing that tho sigma
lures tOstRea aAisacc treaty have been af-