The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-08-28
SCRAPS.

On the lower branch is the fruit for me
SCRAPS.
Why is capital punishment like
Long Branch !? Because it is sum
mary sort.
A Boston paper speaks of q boy
who was "suppositiously drowned
seven years ago.
"Keep your head level, your heart
in it's place." is the motto Of the Spar
ta (Ga.) Sentinel:
rFresh vegetables of all kinds re
ceiyed daily" is tho line to fill out the
column of an exchange.
Some helpless sort of 3 person ir
Pittsburgh advertises for zone or two
steady girls to help on pantaloons.
A farmer had a calf so contrary
he said, that he chad to pull his ears
off to make him suck, and phil his
tail off to make him let 60"
The following notice may be seen
on blacksmlth's shop in Essex: enc
horses shod on Sunday, except sick
ness and DEATH"
Another big tree has been discover
cd in California, measuring forty:fve
feet in diameter.
A gushing lover at Long Branch
recently presented the object of his
alteration with hundred dollar bou'
quet.
The drum of column from the
Temple Of Ephesus has been received
at the British Museum. Ten horses
were required to draw it.
Summers letters don't amount to
anything. Oh, mol But, then, every
Grant newspaper is growing like Sa-
tan over them.
$100,0o0 have been subscribed to
found home for infrm Episcopal
clergymen near New York.
Alexander Dumas, pere, vas one day
asked to contribute ten for the funeral
of bailiff who had died in destitute
circumstances. "Whatr exclaimed
the great novelist, "ten francs for
burying q bailiff! Here are ono hun
dred frapcs-bury ten 'bailiffs.
.aAlbany has four hundred dwelling
houses, and two thousand four hun
dred inhabitants, all standing with
their gable ends to tho Streets Sc
il was printed in a school geography
not long ago.
Joaquin Miller is to lecture in New
England next fall. By way Of ar
advertisement he has deserted anc
been divorced from his wife, has got
engaged to a Scotch peeress, and
wears shirt with pink boa-constrict
ors writhing on green ground. CHI
eago Post.
A Raleigh correspondent Of the
Richmond Dispatch, telegraphing un
der date of the 10th, says that sc
many evidences Of fraud will accumu
late BY November, that q contest o.
the election will be unnecessary, rs
the Legislature cannot declare Cald
well and his ticket elected, under such
circumstances.
It appears that China refuses tc
surrender to Russia certain subjects
Of the Gear. whom she has made pris
oners, and that, in consequence, ru
mors gain ground that an ultimatum
is being prepared by the Russian Gov
crnment declaring war against Chint
unless these captivcs be given mp.
Tho augusta Chronicle and .Sentine
says: Gen. E. P. Alexander has bser
elected to tho chair of Military Sci
once and Mechanics in the University
of Georgia. position which hi
talents and attainments will adorn
lis gratifying that such capable an(
true Southern men are being selected
to aid in the education Of Southern
youth.
Tho new Catholic cathedral, al
Boston, is approac ching completion
and when finished, it's tower will riva
the Statehouse rs prominent land
mark for people approaching Boston
Another junk from the seventy. five
thousand dollars document has ap
peared in the form of asletter from C.
g. Clay, Jr., to the Confederate GOV
ernment. It adds nothing to the
value Of Mr.. Boutwell's speculation
Supplies of meal have been sent
from Mobile TO the most necessitious
points of tho late overflow in Alabama
The suffering is represented to be
great, and of course this relief il
merely momentary.
Another delegation of the Apache
braves, including Sitting Horse, Red
Thunderbolt, Paving Buffalo and
1.eaping Panther, is on its way to
Washington. Sitting Horse is no re.
lation to Squatting Bear.
The son of Gov. Blair, of Michigan
has been turned ont of his mail agen.
ey for spiolatsng the rules of the
postal service" That is to say, hs
refused to give fifty dollars to the
Grant campaign fund.
Since the Republican party wus or
ganized it has elected five gentlemen
to the speakership of the United
Stotos House of Ranrasentativas viz