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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-01

Mr. Beecher out OF Plymouth Church and out OF BROOK
lyn. That Is threat
The Witness-Wcll, In 80 far
Mr.. Beach-we spcakIi :, Sir OF personal threat
threat OF personal violence These Interruptions only
waste time Tho witness knows what refer to- To the
witnoss Did you consider that threat to shoot MI
Beecher you said So the threat of rrtated and
angry mani A. Well, hope he didn't mean 1t; l can
only to state what he said.
Q. Mr.. Storrs, that Is not answer to my question
You was there you know the feeling Mr.. Moulton had
In regard TO the charge against him OF being black
mailer; you and heard him, and ask you TO say
whether you did understand that to be the threat OF
an irrtated and angry A. Well, did understand
1t as man rrtated but whether he meant 1t literally or
not do not know.
O. Not A. I say hope he did not
O. No. Well what did you say In answer to thati A.
did not make any
O. You hoped he did not mean III A. Yes. Sir.
O. And yet when he told you that he would go
down and shoot Mr.. Beecher II you said so, you did
not feel that there any cause for you to reply 10
that A. No, Sir.
O. What A. did not.
O. Well did you think he would do III A. Well can
not say.
O. Mr. storrs did you think no would do iti A. Well,
don't know / could say thought he would, andsl
don't know that no would not can only say what nc
said.
O. know you don't know that he would not but you
did not think he would you did not any occasion to
make any remark, at any ratol A. did not, l think
O. Well, you did not see any occasion to make any-did
not feel that there was any occasion for you to
thing, did youi A. probably thought 1t was better
O. Did you feel that there any occasion for you to
say anythngi a. / cannot say how felt; dd not
make any. "'@~ , >
O. So far az you now rccollect did you feel that there
was any occasion for you to make any remarki A No.
perhaps did not
@ think you have substantially answered what de-
sire in regard to the conversation in August that Mr.
Mouton very considerably excited the charge
Of being blackmaieri A. Yes, Sir.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-01
MIR. MOULTONS REFUSAL TO BURN TIL
PAPERS.

Q. No, | think not. Now, Sir, in what con-
versaon that Mr. Mouton told you that he would
not or had not burned the apology; when thai A.
That fifteen days after the Trpartite Agree
ment," as we call It,
O. Ton or fifteen days after the swardi A. Yea. Sir.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-01

O. Tho latter part Of 1871 the early part OF 1871
A. Yes Sir.
O. where was the conversational A. I think one con-
yersation was on Broadway.
O. The one you spoke OF your direct examination Is
the one meant A. think he spoke to mo twice.
O. only want the one you referred to your direct
examinat6ns A I could not tell you only my impress
sions
O. As near as you cam siri A. say conversation,
I think, was when we going to lunch at Del
monco's; IL was In Broadway.
O. only asking for the you referred 20 on your
direct examination did you embrace the two In what
you sadi A. clear about the conversation, but not
as to when It occurred, or where 1t occurred.
O. Whether 1t was the other, you don't recolecti
A. No, Sir.
O. Will you please relate to me that conversation and
all Of It, as you cant A. Well, Sir, should not
like to give names.
Mr. Blackwell am sorry but shall have to ask for
them.
The witness-I am willing to give them to you outside
or TO the Court but think you the Court would say
should not give them, If you knew the facts have no
objection give them to the Court or to yourself OUTSIDE
but think should not give the names THE witness
here communicated the name to Mr. Porter in Whisper
and Mr.. Porter communicated 1t to Mr.. Beach,
O. You may omit the name, Sir but give mo the CONVEX
sation A. He said that person had made statement
10 another person In regard Mr. Beechcr and his we
of improper relations and that he felt very much oHehueo
by IT, and he thought Of suing the party FOR reportng
O. Do you recclect that the name OF Mr. Gurus was
mentloned-NIr Curts's family. See II you cannot re
fire al your recollection aid tell Did not MI Triton III
that conversation tell you that this nameless person went
10 tho family Of Mr. Curtis and reported that his wife was
lewd woman and had contracted loathsome dsease'
A. think he stated that. 40" go x
O. And that he went to the husband Of this lady and
told him Of the statement and that he knew way but
10 prosecute IT, A. think that ia very nearcorrect
G. Now Mr sorrs, recollecting that ask you 10 re-
fresh your recollection and whether you have not
conounded this conversation with other one by In
PRODUCING the name Of Mr. Beecheri A. No, Sir think
not
Q. You say that Mr. Tilton told you that this person
went to Mr. Curtis and charged his wife with being q
cwd WOMAN and having contracted oathsome discase'
A. Yes Sir; Mr.. Beechers used in connection
with IT,
O. Give II to me IN the connecticut A. cannot tell
YOU definitely, but il was used in the connection.
O. want you, to the best of your recollection, admit
ting that Mr. IfltOn told you what have repeated to
connect the name Of Mr. Beecher with 1t intellgenyi
A. cannot tell you, only his name was used.
O. Put in what connection it used you cannot tell
met A. No. Sir, cannot
Q. Have you given all of that conversation so far as
YOU recollcct ta A. All that think of at this moment
O. slrl A. All that comes to my mind at this moment
O. All that you now recollect, ask youi A. Yes
Sir
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-01
Mr.. TILTON'S THREATENED SUIT FOR SIAN
DER on HIS WIFE.

Q. You spoke OF an occasion when Mr.. Tilton
threatened to prosecute When wss that Mr..
Btorrsi 4. | could not tell you, Sir
@ What year was iti A. Wen, think II was in the
lst Of 1871 the fore part Of 1872 but not abso
nte about that remember the conversation well.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13
Why Cattle Require Salt.

We know why the animal Graves salt,
and why it ultimately falls into disease
if salt Is for time withheld. Upward
of half the saline matter of the blood
Isl per cent? consist of common salt;
and as this is partly discharged every
day through the skin and kidneys, tho
necessity of continued supplies of it to
the body becomes sufficiently obvious.
The bile also contains soda as special
and indispensable constituent, and so do
all the cartilages of the body. There
fore, if the supply of salt he stinted,
neither will the bile be able properly to
resist the digestion, nor the cartilages be
bnilt up again as they naturally waste.
And when we consider it to be fact
that without salt man woald rniserably
perish, rs among horrible punishments
entailing certain death feeding
culprits on saltless food is said
to have prevailed in barbarous times,
we may become partially convinced, at
least of the necessity of feeding salt to-
our stock that it is one Of the necessa-
ries as we'll as one of the luXurics Of life
for man and beast; and it should be
profusely provided at short intervals, in
proper places, if it cannot be kept by
them continually, so that each and ev--
cry animal may satisfy the demands OF
his nature. Then it shall not be said OF
us that while our pudding is we'll sea-
soned and salted our stock are allowed
to suffer for want of the same ingredient
which is as truly necessary for their
food rs for ours.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13
Hart; County.

Hart County is evidently good
County to live in. The El6ert0n Ga
settc SAYS that once,it was good joke to
ask what were the receipts of cotton at
Hartwell. The Gazette well says, lit
may have been a good joke then, but
the receipts at this point now is no lnslg-
niflcant matter. One firm there ships
more cotton than any house in Elber-
ton, and as much cotton goes to market
from this town as from our own village,
if not more, and they have no ware
house either. The trade of Hartwell
would surprise one not acquainted with
the vast improvements in the past few
wears. Thousands of dollars worth OF
all kinds of merchandise are yearly dis
posed Of, and many Of them for the
cash. All the people have some money,
and all the necessaries Of life are made
at home, so that man with dollar III
his pocket has a title to that dollar, and
is not afraid that the first man he meets
will ask for it. There is less money
owing in Hart than any place we know
of. Every man does not owe every
other man, consequently there is free,
independent bearing about its citizens
that vastly differs from the conduct OF
those enslaved by commission mer-
chants, and every other merchant you
can think Of. With the use Of fertil-
izers and hard labor, large quantity OF
cotton is produced, where formerly hard
ly any grew. This is sold for the mon
ey, and the farmer buys upon better
terms and the merchants never break
Chronicle GntlTSeatinCl.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13
The Poor and Their Cost.

From the Poor Returns for the year
ending September So 1875, we extract
the following items: The number OF
paupers supported in Poor House during
the whole, or any part of the year, Is
1G; average number, IA; supported out OF
Poor House, |; average weekly cost OF
supporting each paupcr in Poor House,
81 90; out Of Poor House, $1.l5; number
of white paupers, II; number of colored
paupers, 5.
. The present crop on the Poor House
farm, we are informed, is very fine, and
the Poor House will be next year, near
ly or quite self-sustaining. Last year
the crop was not good, besides two bales
Of cotton raised on the farm were de"
stroyed by an accidental fire. The Poor
House farm, according to size, is one of
the best in the County, and can, we
think, with proper management, be
made self-supporting. - Pickcns Sefta-
ncl
We have visited the Poor House farm
and find therein fair crop OF cotton
and corn, there being thirty acres in cot
ton and sixty in corn, which will prob
ably Weld ten or twelve bales OF cotton
and five hundred bushels of corn.
There are three mules upon the prem
ises which are in good condition, q
paupers-l4 white and colored-who
soy they are we'll treated.-Prescntmcnt
of Grand Jury ct Chester.
It would seem from the above that the
Poor in some Counties cost the people
much less than they cost our Edgefield
neighbors, who spend about S25 amonth
on their poor.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13
The Cloud Star.

Far up within the tranquil sky,
Far up it shone;
Floating how gently, silently,
Floating alone!
A sunbeam touched it's loftier side
With deepening light;
Then to it's inmost soul did glide
Divinely bright.
The cloud transfgured to a star,
Through all its frame
Throbbed in the fervent heavens afar
One pulse of flame;
Que pulse of flame which inward turned
And slowly fed
On its own heart, that burned ant
burned,
Till almost dead.
The cloud, still imaged as star,
Waned up the sky:
Waned slowly, palid, ghost-like, far,
Wholly to die;
But die so grandly in the sun-
The noon-tre's breath
Metbinks the glorious death it won,
Life! Life! Not death
Meanwhile a million insect things
Crawl on below,
And gaudy worms on huttering wings
fit to and fro;
Blind to that cloud, which, grown &
star,
Divinely bright,
Waned in the deepening heavens afar
Till lost in light!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13
Reconstruction Of Parties.

It is said that the hard money leaders
of New York, in view of the probable
election of Allen in Ohio, and Pershing
in Pennsylvania, and the adoption OF
the money plank of those States in the
National Democratic Convention OF
1876, are preparing to secede and form
new party on the hard money issue.
They hope to get large body of re-
cruits from the Republican party on
this issue, as the defeat of that party In
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York,
would give death-blow to the organi-
zation and prepare its members to unite
with new party.
As to the currency question is the
leading issue in the Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania campaigns it promises to be the
leading issue in the Presidential CAM
paign of 1885, and whether or not the
old names or the old party organizations
are to be kept up, still there Is to be
struggle on the paramount issue Of a
contraction Of the currency, and q re-
sumption of specie payments. On this
issue the capitalists Of the East will
likely to be arrayed against the business
men and laboring classes everywhere,
and in the issue between labor and cap
ital it is not difficult to see the result.
The present depression of business, low
prices, scarcity Of money and general
discomfort, will turn over the control OF
affairs into the hands of men who can
at least promise change, and whose
surest hopes Of victory are based upon
the fact that the present government
has brought no relief to the country.
Justly or unjust it will be held respon-
sible, and must pay the penalty. The
country demands change.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13

TIE local of the Charlotte Observer
has been interviewing writing ma
chine, and gives his conclusions as fol-
lows -
"The writing machine is good egg,
but unless you are up on spelling, you
don't want one. 1t will bring to grief
that old dodge of the lawyers who write
so that nobody can read what they say,
in order to keep folks from knowing
that they can't spell. Again, it Will
break up this steel pen "ring," which
has come to be a grinding monopoly y,
that keeps up taxes ard eats up the sub
stance af the dear peo pie. Besides this,
it will increase the spelling book busi-
ness, and thus put money in the pockets
of the printers, and dftuse knowledge
among the masses. The more we think
of this machine, the more we are con-
vinced that every family should have
one. It is more important to this coun-
try than the resumption of specie pay,
ment, and as public boon is second
only to the Kceley Motor"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13
Advertise Your Business.

Dou't wait for people to find out by
chance that you have goods that will be
sold at bargains; but tell them through
yolr country paper what you can DO.
It is mistake to suppose that people
will soon find you out. Tales i'll your
YOU. You may mark your goods down
ever so cheap but the masses will never
know it unless you publish it.. Some
think that when people buy
goods at low rates from them that
they will go and tell their
neighbors all about it, and therefore
that is advertisement enough. The
thing is absurd they will do no such
thing. 1t is not the way of the world.
When people obtain bargains they do
not want others to know where they get
them, lest they fare as well. The sure
thing is to put it in the paper and every
body will know it.
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ABBEVILLE, S. c., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER l3, 1875

With regard to the propriety of abol-
ishing the present National Bank sys-
TEN, and substituting Legal Tender
Notes convertible into Government
bonds at low interest, his views agree
with those Of other leading statesmen.
He says:
"The present national bank-monop-
oily ought to be discontinued, and q sys-
TEN of State banks allowed to take its
place. For ten or fifteen years prior 10
1860, we had as good system of cur
rency rs we could reasonably expect to
see. doubt if the community lost as
much under that plan as it does under
the present one. Indeed, in addition to
liabilities of individual losses, the pres
ent national bank organization, besides
its inordiDate gains, is enabled to make
so extensive combinations among Its
members as to place the business opera
tions of the country under its control,
aad the debtor class at it's mercy. Be-
sides removing it, the government
should, it seems to me, not only coin
specie but also furnish the paper needed
for circulation, BY making that paper
receivable for all public dues, it could
doubtless keep afoat larger volume
than we how have. 10 prevent depre-
citation, that paper should be exchange
able for government bonds at rate OF
interest not above four per cent. In the
first instance such paper should be eX'
changed for the present.national bank
notes, paid out for all its expenditures
except what it is bound to pay in specie
and in exchange for interest bearing
bonds at fair rate, until there was out
standing such volume as the wants OF
commerce and business required, to be
lessened when necessary by investmen'
in bonds bearing low rate OF inter
est"
From the present outlook in Ohio, he
thinks Aliens majority ought to be 100,
,OOO,-that rs the Democrats supported
Greeley for the Presidency, the Liberals
will likely concede the nomination OF
candidate to the Democrats-that Meth
er Grant nor any other Republican has
the ghost of a chance of election-tha
the business prostration, as it has beer
the cause of past Democratic victories
must ensure their triumph in the future
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13

A GOOD TRADE.-A good trade, says
an exchange, thoroughly learned, is
worth to the operative at the lowest cal
culaton So per day or 1880 per annum,
a sum more than equivalent to the in
terest, at the present legal rate on
$4,000. We insist that there are none
Of the mechanical branches well master
ed but will bring to the workmen 80
FER day; and there are some, such as
locomotive drivers, carriage and orna-
mental painters and carriage trimmers,
that command from 81 to 81 per day.
Bnt these men are skilled workmen
their handicraft is not picked up in q
month or year, but is the result Of
study and close application. But how
few of them are in the South, and those
that are here are generally of Eastern
importation. Skilled labor is always in
demand. Unlike clcrkships, supern-
tendents, salesmen, ollice-holders, ETC.,
the occupation seeks the man, while the
appointments to the latter are more frc-
oucntly the results of Influence and IA
Voritisnl rather than merit or capabllity,
and are consequently very unreliable.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13

THE GERMAN AND FRENCH SOL
D1ER.-Thc German soldier is almost a
machine; his obedience is silent; his
discipline is passive; he has no heslta,
tion he Possesses suborlination and
submission as natural gifts. The
Frerchman, on the contrary, has opii!n-
ions and ideas Of his own which no dis
cipIinc eau entirely drive out OF course
he is obcdicnt, because he would be shot
if he were not so /; but his obedience IS
not inert; it is All act of reason, and is
accompanied by quantity of mental
reservations and considerations which
never enter into Il German head: The
result is that he is not susceptible OF
being treated like 4 bundle which stops
where it is put until it is moved again,
and that therein lies serious disadvan-
tage in Il movement like q mobilization
where the first duty of each soldier Is to
fall in silently and stir no more Of his
own accord.-BkuchsrOOd.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13

A STRANGE CoNrEssIoS.-The Eren-
inn JonndI Of Richmond, Va, Il Repuh-
lican organ, makes this singular admis,
sion: "Therc is no opposition to North
ern men in Virginia because of their be-
ing born in that locality, nor is there
any to colorcd men because Of their col
or. If there is any, it is insignificant.
They are both opposed when they com
binc and seek to control public affairs,
for the reason that the native white ele-
ment fear to experiment in such mat
ters by cntrusting to an unlcttcred race
the control of their State, and they new
er will do it, and cannot be ccnsurcd on
that ground by reasonable people,"
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Final Discharge.

AIOTICE is hereby given that Mrs.
lS Sarah Mattison, Administrators
Of the Estate of Jackson Mattison, de-
ceased, has applied to Thos. B. Milford,
Judge of Probate, in and for the Coun-
ty Of Abbeville, for final discharge as
Administrators as aforesaid.
1t is Ordered, That the Goth day of
October, A. d. 1875, be fixed for hearing
of Petition, and final settlement of
said Estate.
J. G.. WOSMANSKY,
G. C. p, Abbeville County.
Office of Probate Judge, |
Sept. %, 1875, 25-4t*
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13

That is whole speech in itself,
crowded into two sentences, uttered by
Cassius NJ. Clay to the Ncep York SIM:
II am against initiation, but still more
AGAINST (irantism. Ishould hardly have
turned Tory in 177G because of Conti-
mental money" A great many people
of both parties will commit that speech
to memory, and many votes will be cast
to Yindicatc it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13

Said Jefferson Davis at one of the
fairs in Missouri the other day: ut
gIaddened my heart as drove to these
grounds to see the number Of sidc-sad-
dies on the horses hitched along the
way. I had almost began to fear that
NV American countrywomcn had lost
the art of riding-at least the art of ri
ding on horseback. Thank you, ladies,
fer coming on side-saddles."
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Final Discharge.

MJOTICE is hereby given that Jane:
~ II. Wideman, Administrator o
the Estate Of Daniel Collier, deceased
has applied to Thos. B. Milford, Judge
of Probate, in and for the County o
Abbevil.e, for q final discharge as Ad
ministrator as aforesaid.
1t is Ordered, That the first day O
November, A. D. 1875, be fixed fol
hearing Of Petition, and final settle
ment OF said Estate.
J. G.. WOSMANSKY,
G.. G.. P, Abbeville County.
Office of Probate Judge,
Sept. rs, 1875, 25-4t
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13

Diptheria is prevailing in some local
tiles of Grcenville county to an alarm
ing extent. Mr.. Laurcns Peace has bu-
ried the last of his chldren-tive in
number. All died Of diptleria, within
the last three weeks.