The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1871-06-02
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be on trial in some of the departments
in Washington.
Nilsson is to favor the San Fran
'ciscans with opera as we'll as concerts.
handolh supplies Verger's place in
her troupe.
lie New York ladies wear their
parasols sword fashion, at their sides,
whsn not IN use-a killing military
style.
Queen Victoria is said to have set
tied her favorite estate of Balmor,l
upon the Princess Louis.
This week, Mr.. Bowen, of South
Carolina, has little engagement in
Washington, to be tried for bigamy.,
Many of the young men in Paris
with beardless, blooming faces, have
taken to female apparel to avoid the
conscript law OF the Commune.
The Presbyterian General Assem-
qly, now in session at Chicago, adopt
cd resolutions of fraternal greeting, 4
and transmitted them to the Baptist
Assembly, in session at St. Louis.
The Courier-Journal, in view of tie
report that Worth, the man milliner,
is coming to this country, hopes that
Congress will net abolish the Ku Klux
before he gets here.
1t has been said that an inch is Is
good deal in the length of q mans
nose, but a Milwaukee prodigy tis
noted, who could spare an inch from
his and still have four inches left. &
A Bostonian, who did Mount
Washington on foot last year, has In
formed the Transcript THAI he got as
ravenous as a raven among the ra-
vines, and sat down in one Of the
gorgeous gorges and gorged ghim-
self
It was Madame de Stael who re.
marked of a .conceited acquaintance
Whenever I see him, l feel the same
pleasure that I receive from looking
at fond couple-he and his self love
live 50 happily together" -
The Danbury News tells q story OF
. new boy in one of the Ridgeheld
Sunday Schools, who, being ssked
who made the beautiful hills about
them, replied that he did not know,
as bis parents only moved into town,
the Friday before.
A gentleman in New England re-
Gently made dying request that q
friend should be pail bearer; But
the friend almost at the Same mo-
nent died and his funeral took place
the same day.
At Union, Monroe County, West
Virginia, on Friday, 10Th instant,
William. Johnson, colored, was execut-
ed for the murder of George III Hun.
ter, on October "a, 1870.
: "Whiskey is your greatest enemy"
"But." said Mr.. Jones, "don'ts tho
Bible say, Mr.. Preacher, that we are
to love our enemies?" "Oh, yes,
Jones, hut it don't say We are to
swallow them" -. -..
The first through train from New
Orleans, over the Alabama and Chat
tanooga Railroad, reached Chattanoe-
ga Wednesday night, making tho
run in twenty-six hours and ten min
utes. 49,.
As four or FIVE darkies were pass.
ing ap agricultural implement store
on Third street, the other day, one of
them gointing to a cultivator, said:
"A man can iist sit on dat thing and
ride while he's ploughing."
One Of our Southern editors head
ed leader the other day "a Cut and
Dried Affair."" and when he came to
real it the next morning his piety
was not the least increased by read
ing, "a Cat and Dried Apple"
A live anaconda, six feet long and
nine inches in circumference in the.
largest part of his body, has just ar
rived in Northampton, Mass, from
Brazil, in response to q request for an
anaconda skin wherewith to construct
q pair Of boots.
Patrick Fitzgerald undertook to
climb into the house of one Corb:n,
his brothcr.in-law, at Detroit, on We'd
nesday, and, while endcavoring to
force bis entrance through window,
he was shot by Mrs. Corbin. He.
will probably die from the effects of
the wound.
The Horny News estimates 100000
worth of crude turpentine is sold an
nually in that county, in seven months
Of each yerr, and also states that TIM
Der is also in good demand, and bring
ing good cash prices, both in that and
Georgetown market.
A turtle mailed from DeKalb,
crawled out Of his package at Omaha,
much to the discontinue of the post
office clerk. The funny man of the
Sterling Gazette says if Uncle Sam is
going into business Of carrying live
packages, we have q small purp of
the Fifteenth Amnndment stripe to
send.
A company has been organized for
constructing a large tunnel under the
river from Detroit to Wiudsor, for con-