The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-27


after birth.
The marriage of white man to q negro
woman nearly melted the people of Shef.
field, Mass, to 4 riot.
An excursion party Of Boston custom
house officials ate the clam chowdcr ont
of kettle, and found an old mop at the
bottom.
A San Francisco rumseller was convinced
Of the degradation sof his business when
his daughter eleven years old, got drunk
and was arrested.
ASt. Paul husband has sued his mother
in-lsw for alternating his wife's affections
from him, and inducing her to leave him
and return to her parents.
A dyspertic at the Virginia sulphur
springs hung himself the other day, leaving
note behind which read:--"Its mighty
good JOKE on dyspepsia And so it was.
Men are e,Tafc William Homer, Of
Memphis, permitted his wife to give .
grand party. and when The guests had ar
rived he brought in the garden hose and
sprinkled them out.
The Empress Carlotta is worse, and her
death, it is believed. is close at hand. For
some time her insanity has taken the
most british FORM She. never leaves
her bed, and has all the habits Of an ani-
NAL.
The old superstitious iden that the hand
of a dead man is n taiisman against evil,
once, prevalent amo . Southern negroes
seerns not to have died ont. A vault in
,,Greenvile, Miss, was recently broken open
and the hand cut from corpse.
A Denver boy pulled the bung out Of a
beer barrel and stuck in his thumb, the
barrel rolled over and brole the thumb so
badly that it had TO he amputated; and the
father of the boy SIZES the owner Of the
barrel for $4,000.
A gambler in Iowa, to escape arrest, at
tempted to cross Il ri a. with II pocketbook
between his teeth. His strength or skill
not proving adequate. he was obliged to
open his mouth in order to call for help
and his lpocketbooS, containing $1,000 went
to the bottom. ..,.
Mr.; Gwynn Of Virginia is dead His
last memorandum provided that ne should
be buried with his head. eighteen inches
higher than his fc''; that his cane and
sheepskin should he placed in the coffin
: with him, and that the coffin should be- care
fully wrapped in a blanket. .... ...
A cat annoyed Louis vollman of Monnt
Airy, Ohio, and he r. ded heavily double
bar1elled gun, inte,i'" lg to shoot the pest.
He fred once, wonnding the cat, and then
chased it, striking with the stock of the
gun. A blow hit the floor hard enough
to explode the other charge, and Volman
was killed. .-,:.,., a'....-" " .isu....1 -..s.
The latest tyranriral decree Of fash
ion is that colxets sh Il conceal and fatten
the feminine breast hv . system of whale
bones. Open war. for some reason or
no reason, has been declared against
prominent busts, and the flatter the lat.
ter are, the more distingNe are they con-
gidered. $500
We learn from the Glasgow Citizen that
"a young gsntleman" Of the name Of Scott
has been convicted Of insulting a town
councillor by inqu: 'ng "who the devil
made him a town cc1ncillor? The magls-
.trate imposed a fne Of seven shillings
and six pence, or four. doys' Imprisonment.
Justice is administered with consider
able, dignity, it l''oars, in "aterto"n,
Wis. A Justice of the Peace engaged in
fight With an old >lnan there the other
day, and fred at her. with a shotgun
while she in turn pnmmeled his head with
hammer until they were separated by
bystanders. " u.
"A boy at Mona, Iowa. was struck by
lightning recently, ard the back Of his new
coat torn entirely OF, although no other
injury was done until the boy got home,
when his economical father thrashed him
for tearing his coat How sharper than
the lightning's flash tits TO have partcu-
lar father. .n.,4. - .gay...i.-. /. esq.,. ..,.
. Solomon GHagar was a lazy drunkard
who lived with his industrious brother at
Harvard Mass. i He. wenth home drunk and
the brother threatened him with expulsion
from, The premises If he did not reform.
.aYou' Win bee SORRY for that" said the
sot; and lthereppon he went to the barn, set
fire to now Of hay. and was burned to
death in the conaagration.
The Rev. Mr.. burrows, Of Elmira, N. Y,
was fined $3.50 some months ago, by an
.idiotic iuly,- who thought that to rub fried
potatoes in his ~ire's hair, rub her down
with apple sauce, and dress her off
with a platter, wae. neither clerical nor
becoming. He appealed to higher COURT
and explained that he only meant to tease
her. 14s. ..i''.i = - ..-
A funny incident, ia related of a con.
stable in Adrian, Mich, who arrested u
prisoner in distant town. He handcuffed
the prisoner and himself together land laid
down TO sleep. In Tie morning the hand
cuffs We're on the constahle's wrists the
prisoner was gone, and SO was the pocket:
book, money. and watch Of the officer.
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