The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-10-13

TwEED's LIFE IN LUDLOW STREET
JAIL.-He sees nobody but his family,
his physician and his lawyers. Mrs
Tweed visits him daily, and his counsel
about as often. 1t is customary at the
jail when, for convenience, prisoner
wishes to be put out in the pure air for
a few hours in the company of an of1l-
Ger to grant him that privalege for a fee,
not fixed but assessed according to the
amount of the bail in default of which
he is held-a kind of discounting of the
risk involved. Mr.. Tweed's bail is tiX-
ed at So, ,OOO, 900, and half days liber-
ty iu his case would be scheduled at
about 500 He has only availcd him
self Of this license once, however, nav
ing no money las one of the orler-ot-ar-
rest officers says for anybody but his
lawyers, This solitary instance was a
few days after his arrival at she jail
when he went home for two or three
hours. When he left Blackwcll's
Island, Tweed spent the night before go
ing to court (whence he was sent to his
present quarters) at his house in Fifth
avenue. For that attention to his com
fort he has paid nothing yet, and is not
expected to pa& anything His family
figure is doubtless one element OF his
indispOsition to go out as it would lnev-
itably be recognized in q public place.
He pays $50 week for his accommoda-
tions indoors, and the cost of any Vlsit-
lug hcmay wish to do before he gets
cut of jail, which he thinks Mill uot be
more than six months, goes TO the ORDER
of-arrest department.
STRANGE COALITiONs. In the first
place we find the Nc,U York lp0'16,
which processes to be the national organ
of the Democracy, and host OF other
Democratic journals in the Middle anu
New England States using every effort
to defeat the Democratic ticket in ONO,
because of the initiation platform OF the
OhioDemocracy while the Democrats
of the South and Northwest look upon
the contest in the Buck Eye State as the
turning point in the national contest.
Then We have the Ho /. w. D. Kelly,
of Pennsylvania, dolble-dyed Repub-
lican, stumping Ohio for the Democrat
ic ticket, and Carl SchurZ, the late
Greeley champion of liberalism, stump
ing for the Republican ticket. In
Massachusetts,, we see old Ben Butler,
and in Pennsylvania Ex-Governor Cur
tin, beth musty old Radicals, siding
with the Democratic intlationlsts.
These are only a few of the singular
sights presented in the American body
polite. So we are not surprised to hcai
fro the Ghicdgo Tribune that Tildcn,
the Democratic Governor Of New York,
is seriously spoken OF as the Republican
candidate for the Presidency. .-Churtofc
Observer.
ga WE'LL MANAGED RoAD."-Un-
der this heading the Columbia tnion-
He,rtid says "thc Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, notwithstanding
the general depression in business,
makes a fine showing. The gross re-
ceipts are SlG.003 50 more for..August and
September this year than the same
months last year. The expenses &c.
543 II less, and net receipts S22,3lG G6
more for above months this than last
year. This is the best evidence of good
management that 4 corporation can pro-
duce."
Do not forget the Fair next week.
Upon the people Of the County depends
whether we shall make it Il great sue
cess.