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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
The Indian Question.

Bishop Tuttle, of Montana, holds that
y lasting solution of the Indian problem
can only be arrived at by observing the
following rules
l. The disarming of all Indians OF
both tame and transiently hostile ten.
denotes, including all agency bands of
whatever tribe or previous conduct, and
prohibiting under the most severe
penalties the sale Of any kind of firearms,
whatever their character, to the Indians.
2. A complete and final obliteration
of all tribal laws and organizations
among the Indians, placing them on q
common footing as wards of the govern
ment. Treat them as such, and wipe
out the distinctive feature of nations,
tribes and clans, making them amenable
to our civil laws and punishable fol-
their misdemeanors as are white crimi.
nails.
8. Do away with the Indian bureau
entirely. Place all Indians in control OF
the Wa department, Under military
surveillance, leaving the work OF
Outstanding the Indian open to the
missionary work of all the churches, and
not attempt by government favoritism
to make it the exclusive job Of any par.
ticular denomination. While an earnest
attempt is being made to Christianize,
let the War department control the In
dian, the Indian bureau having proved
q miserable failure and "peace com.
m%issioners" having worked no perma-
nent good.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
Moral Character Of the Oyster.

In temper he is even mild to placidity,
although he is sometimes slightly ruff
fed, on his edge at least. He is quiet
always, and usually very we'll behaving
and yet he participates in nearly every
scene of debauch aad revelry. He fire.
quents midnight suppers and is the COM
panion-the bosom companion we may
say-of wild fellows of every degree.
He makes no noise, and does no quar-
reling, but he is present in we'll nigh
every riotous company, and is found at
table with wines and liquors of every
kind, name and quality. In himself,
and 30 far as his personal behavior is
concerned, the oyster is perfectly re-
spectacle, and gentlemen and gentle
women have him at dinner without
soruple; but there can be no doubt that
his name is suggestive of dissoluteness
and dissipation, precisely as the horse,
noble as he is, is in%dissolubly associated
in our minds with certain forms of
knavery and with %jockeyism sin all its
branches" as the street signs say.
Dickens, we believe it was, who pointed
out the fact that the moment that any
man falls into the poverty which comes
of drunkenness and idleness, he begins
to eat oysters as a regular diet, and not
withstanding the high estimation in
which the best of us hold this mollusk,
his name somehow suggests irregularity
of living, late hours, unwholesome
haunts and rotations of gin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
Entertaining a Tramp.

Elias Schweitzer, a farmer living neal
Beartown, Pa, agreed to entertain q
%gentlemanly looking tramp who pro.
fessed willingness to pay for his lodg.
ing. After having partaken of supper
the tramp took a cigar and handed one
to his host. They smoked and talked
on different topics until ten o'clock,
when Mrs. Schweitzer told the two boys
to 60 to bed. At this point the stranger
said he would amuse the boys before
they retired. BE performed several
tricks which very much amused all. He
said he could take q ball, which he held
in his hand, and place it in the barn
without leaving the room. This aston
ished them all. He said thatif the fam
lily would permit him he would 60 into
a room up stairs to arrange the ball,
which would not require more than
twenty minutes, and when he stamped
on the floor they were to go into the
barn, where they would find the ball BE-
hind a horse, where they kept a curry
comb, wrapped in a piece of silk. Tho
family being anxiousto see the perform
ance, showed the stranger into tste best
room and then waited. for thea nal to
go ont. In about twenty miSStes the
stamping was heard and the party left
for the barn and examined the curry
comb box and on the ground, but could
not End the ball, and in about ten min
utes returned, when Mr.. Schweitzer
went up TO the room and found it empty
and S78 taken from q drawer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
The Keynote Of Married Life.

Forbenrance is tho keynote of mar
ried life.. There can be no great dis
cord, there can be no large divelgences
from tunefuIncss, so long asthe husband
forbears and the wife forbears. Now
this cannot be attained without some
labor. Results are approached gradu-
ally in character. as they are iu making
a sand hill. 1t is grain upou grain,
shovelful upon shovelful, and load upon
load that makes the mound to rise. So
results OF character come gradually. An
act at this time, 4 deed yesterday, n
word this morning, q word tomorrow
morning, a cross answer to-day, repeated
q month hence, and so on, till at last you
find there is n ridge between you and
your wife's or husbands affection.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
Victims of the Dime Novel.

A Baltimore detective observed two
boys, one of them fourteen and the
other sixteen years of age, going to the
Norfolk boat with guns Oh their shoul-
ders and altogether ready for battle.
The detective approached them and, in
answer to questions, the older boy stated
that his name was Jackson and that OF
the other boy Smith, and that they were
just returning home to Virginia from
their vacation in the North, where they
spent the time in hunting and other
sporta. The boys were taken to police
headquarters and letters werefoundupon
their persons which showed that their
names we're Q. 81. Colt and Fl. J. Hum
bardt, and in their pockets and blankets
were found bullet molds, percussion
Gaps, powder, matches, sticking plaster
and dime novels. On being closely
questioned the boys admitted who they
were, the elder saying that he belonged
to Brattleboro', vt and that the other
was q resident of East Pittsburgh, Pa.
They met at the Centennial Exposition
and decided to "eo West" and fight
the Indians. They were sent home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
Fashion Notes.
Felt has had its day for hats.
In ornaments silver abounds.

Some of the feathers are tipped with
jet.
Link buttons are again fashionable in
place of sleeve studs.
Russian belts studded with silver nails
are a novelty.
Velvet will be the fashiL liable material
for dress bonnets.
Many tourists are investing in Indian
cashmere costumes.
The most fashionable earrings are
arrows of small diamonds.
There are bright silk pockets intro
duced to wear with any toilet.
The new blue violet velvet makes up
charmingly into fanciful bodices.
Silk skirts of cardinal red are talked
about to wear under cream colored pol
onaises.
After foliage and flowers fancy feath-
ers will be the favorite trimmings on
winter bonnets.
There is no doubt but that the Pc
culiar shade known as cardinal rcd
will be much patronized.
Six cards for fans and chatelaine bags,
and MORE bows for the same purpose,
are replacing meta hooks and chains.
There are velvets of two %colors, such
as Havana brown and chestnut brown,
separated with thin yellow lines of silk.
The new navy blue is almost black, it
is so dark in shade, and it is most stylish
when in combination with cardinal rod.
In artificial floral trimmings, foliage is
preferred to flowers, especially dark,
quaint autumn leaves, spotted as if by
decay.
The crowns of some of the new
capotes are made entirely Of feathers,
/ and the brim is bordered with a band
TO correspond.
New bonnets have high, pointed
crowns and close fitting capote. fronts ;
in fact, the brim, or front, is so neal the
head that there remains only space for
a slight plating Of lace or silk, or a
small twist.
At a recent fashionable wedding in
London the bride was dressed in ivory
colored satin, richly trimmed with point
lace. She wore a tulle veil Y a
wreath of real orange blossoms and jes-
samine. Her six bridesmaids we're at
tired in corn silk, with muslin trimmings
and wreaths of blue forget-me-nots and
white flowers. They carried bouquets
and ivory prayer books, with silver
monograms, the gilt of the bridegroom.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
He StOrmed Stony Point.

Years ago Charles M. Lee was a great
lawyer in Rochester, N. Y. On one oc-
casion he was defending an old veteran
for passing a forged promissory note for
thirty dollars. There was scarcely a
doubt of the mans guilt, but Lee, get
ting over the knotty points Of the evil
dence as well as he could. undertook to
carry the jury by an escalade on the
ground of the prisoners Revolutionary
services. He d .scribed in graphic terms
the bloody attack on Stony Point by
Mad Anthony, at which the prisoner,
then a daredevil of nineteen, had dis
tinguished himself, and closed his
speech as follows:
"Gentlemen of the jury, will you send
to The State prison, for passing a con-
temptible thirty-dollar forged note, an
old hero of three-score-and-ten, who, in
his youth, cheered the heart of his coun-
try in the darkesthourof the Revolution
by storming Stony Point?"
This was a poser for the jury, who,
r.tiring, returned after an absence OF
about two hours, when the clerk went
through the usual formula:
"Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon 8 verdlct2"
eve have"
EDO you find the prisoner at the bar
guilty or not guilty."
"Not guilty, because he stormed
Stony Point !" Numbered the foreman.
The audience applauded, the crie1
raped for order, the district attorney
objected to the recording of the verdict,
and the Judge sent the jury out again,
telling the foreman, in a sharp tone,
that they must find an unconditional
verdict.
After an absence Of a few minutes
they returned, when the foreman rem
dered the simple verdict of not guilty,
adding, however, al he dropped into his
seat:
cit was good thing, though, for the
old Revolutionary veteran that he storm
ed Stony Point !"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
How II WAS Lost.

The following Incident, related by the
Cleveland Herald, shows how packages
are sometimes lost in the mail: About
four years ago a registere package,
valued at fifty dollars, was mailed at
Liudenville to a post.ofice in Pennsyl-
vania. 1t disappeared: and all search
for it was unavailing. Lindenville is a
country pos; Office, and the mail is car
ried thence to Williamsfield by a route
agent. In this case the Lindenville
postmaster had a receipt for the package
from the agent, but as the agent had
none from the Williamsield postmaster,
it could be traced no further, and the
route agent was compelled to pay the
loss. A short time ago the package was
found in the Williams6eld p~ost-ofice.
It had been received from the route
agent in a small pouch, together with
about forty letters, and as the pouch
was an extra one occasionally used, it
was by mistake hung upon q hook near
the postmaster's desk, and there having
been no use for it since, it had been
there all these years. Recently the
pouch was taken down for use, and its
contents found intact.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
Plague Stricken Savannah.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writes as follows Since the
twenty-frst of August there have been
over thirteen hundred interments in
Savannah, almost a defamation at the
highest estimate OF remaining popula-
tion and considerably over at the lowest.
OF these about four-ffths are given to
yellow fever proper, the remainder to
swamp fever, congestive fever, remittent
fever, congestion of the brain, AMI kin
dred affections, all of which are but thin
disguises for the milder types Of the
great destroyer. Of the people remain
ing in Savannah to-day there is scarcely
q 1.-THE who have not either had the yell
low fever in former years or during this
epidemic, or are at present either taken,
dying OF convalescent, and in spite of
the kilograms from there that the back
bone of the fever is broken the assertion
is uneontradictable that it's force will
not be spent until, like an une1tinguish-
able conhagration, it dies for want Of
fuel. Jack Frost is what is prayed for
by the living who have yet escaped the
disease. But the frost fingers long in
those low ATTITUDES, and in the last yell
low fever epidemic there the last case
did not happen until Christmas day-a
long and dreary hope for the well, but a
welcome delay to the sick, for n of the
peculiarities of the terrible disease is
that when the frost strikes, while it is
safety for those yet free from the fever,
it is almost inevitable death tor the sick,
whether fresh sick or convalescent.
A singular feature or freak of the dis
ease is its refusal, thus far, to attack the
genuine negro. Not one of the full
blooded blacks has yet been attacked
with any of it's symptoms. Where there
is the slightest faint or mixture of blood,
however, the ravages of the epidemic are
apparent. Justly approaching their hap
py immunity, the colored men and
women have banded together in a little
army of their own, and have performed
a most efficient service from the very
beginning Of the disaster. They are to
be found in every house where the dis
ease is raging at its utmost, and their at
tention has something poetic in the sac
rifces which surround it.
The city everywhere is draped in
mourning, and the hand Of death is
carved most indelibly upon every wall.
Men and women meet each other in the
street and speak not of the past. When
they say goodbye there is a dread fore
boding in their voices. Those who meet
in the morning and exchange greetings
are on their way to the cemetery at
night. The mortality has been greatest
among the Irish and Germans. The few
Italians that have been afflicted are
recovering.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
Peruvian Syrup vs.. Alcoholic TONES.

1t has been q deslderatum with the medical
profession to procure q preparation Of iron
less Objectionable than any Of those Low in
use, which often produce unfavorable effects
upon the system, especially when prepared
with alcoholic fluids.
In many cases Of debility and convalescence
from disease, where a tonic is indicated, wine,
brandy, porter, etc., have been recommended
but these are Of very doubtful efficacy, to say
the least. Alcohol is never digested, is ranked
among the dihusible stimuli, and is incapable
of anording nutrition. It creates generally
an unnatural excitement and arrangement OF
the circulation, irritating the whole system by
preventing the blood from losing it's carbon.
Again, how difficult 1t is to obtain an article
approaching to purity, almost all the wines,
brandies, porters, etc., being more or less
a%dulterated.
Such being the case with regard to the
spirituous preparations of iron, and the alco.
holio drinks, Of which any one can satisfy him.
self, by investigating the subject, an oppor.
tunity is now presented in the Peruvian
Syrup, for the trial of an article in general
practice, which has the strongest recommen.
dations from medical aud scientific men of the
higher characters preparation which &c
happily combines the pruto1ide Of iron w.th
the other constituent parts that the effect in
cident to the use OF iron salts are entirely
obviated.
For all GASES in which iron or any tonic il
needed this preparation is confidently believed
to be far superior t. any other. 1t seems to
purify the very fountain Of health.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
ELECTORAL VOTE, 1876.
Mineral Wool,

The mineral wool seer at the Centen.
NAL Exhibition is made at the Krupr
works, Essen, Prussia. The pig iron
furnace is provided with a tap an inch
in diameter, out of which a continual
stream of Stag is allowed to flow and fall
a distance of two feet six inches, al
which point the falling stream of Stag is
met by q strong blast of cold air, the
effect Of which is to separate the Stag
into myriads Of hair-like threads, as
white as snow, resembling the finest
wool. These fbers, like spun glass, il
handled, will penetrate the skin. The
mineral wool is used for packing steam
pipes, boilers, etc., and is a valuable
product.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
Hotel Reduction.

Lrland's Sturtevant House, Broadway, 2sth
and Goth streets, New York city, has reduced
one hundred rooms, with board, to $500; one
hundred looms to $3.50; parlor and second
floors. 3d. w per day. The Sturtevant is kept
in hrst-olass style, superbly furnished. Eleva-
tor and every improvement. Location con-
vo:iant to all places of interest to the visitor.
Street cars pass hotel for depot and Central
,o.1,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
An Indian Romance.

In the early days of Pike county, Mis-
souri,, when the cat-like panther roamed
the hills and the feet footed deer bound
ed through the forests, there lived near
Bowling Green a man named Noah Ad-
kins. Realizing the truth Of the adage
that sit is not good for man to be
alone" he took unto himself a wife.
This lady was named Allison, who had a
son William by q former husband.
This son William WAS a fine physical
man, and not inferior in intellect. In
1846 he Joined Colonel Rails regiment,
in Sterling Prices brigade, and marched
to the wars in California, where he took
part in the conflict at Santa Cruz and
other battles. After his return he got
into a quarrel with his %stepfather. They
adjourned to Cranes lanyard to eight it
out, and by singular fatality each shot
the others arm off. This affair brought
on a separation between Noah and his
wife, and the latter went with her son
William and her son-in-law, James Rob-
bins (once a candidate for sheriff of
Pike county,, to Independence, Mo.
Some time previous to this q son John
had been born to Mrs. Adkins, and he
concluded to follow the fortunes or mis-
fortunes of his mother. After living in
Independence some time William ALI
son got the contraction carryingthe mails
between Independence and old Santa Fe.
While acting in this capacity he was
killed by the Indians. The boy (John)
wandered away, and wa, captured by the
Sioux Indians. It is rarely that ever a
prisoner escapes torture and death at the
hands of the savages, but Adkins seemed
reserved by some u~naocountable stroke
of fate for another destiny. He became
acquainted with the ways Of the red
skins, settled down to live among tn m,
and finally became one of their chiefs,
and was in command of one of tho de-
tachments at the Little Big Horn mas.
sacre, where the gallant Custer and his
heroic little army rode into the jaws OF
death. These facts were related by an
old scout named Cook, who told them in
Bowling Green.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08

In time of panic, when the bubble
speculation breaks and the timid soul
calleth for it's balance, the way of the
banker is hard !; but alas for the rich,
rich capitalist who has millions that he
cannot invest. The Fnancier gives
this touching incident of financial dis
tress in London: Calling up, n an &C.
quaintance the other day, he appealed
to u sympathy, by exclaiming: 81
have just had a great misfortune. !"
'Indeed," we asked: "what has happen
ed9" "Wenl" he replied, can old
customer has just called and left with
me 100000 on deposit" It was an
old and valued customer, and 80 the IN
fortunate banker could not refuse to
take the money ; and now he is at his
Wits end to know what to do with it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08

There is hardly a schoolboy in tn
land that has not read of Merchants
Gargling Oil. Before the public for
the last forty years, it has become
almost a household word from the At
lantic to the Pacific. As liniment and
exterior application in burns, scalds,
sprains, bruises, frost bites, flesh
wounds, ard the numerous ailments of
flesh and limb in both man and beast,
Merchants Gargling Oil stands un-
rivaled in the world. Merchants Worm
Tablets, a certain and safe remedy for
worms, in either children or adults,
have likewise become famous for their
e~ffeotual curative properties. These
remedies can be obtained at almost any
drug store in the land.-Sandusky
(Ohio) Register.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
Just What was Needed.

On a recent visit to New York We were for
tunate in 6ndug d new hotel, adapted to the
times, facing au open square, all front rooms
aud everything new and clean, at the follow.
ing prices Single rooms, 90 cts, rs Gus. ard
81; family, ell So aud p. At the restaurant,
on the European plan. you can live as cheap
q. at home. Go 10 the Congress Hall Hotel,
Chatham Square and East Broadway, only -FOUR
blocks above new post-ofice. Cut this out spd
show It 10 your friends and you will benefit
them. MIR. O;is, the proprietor, ID an old
merchant AID we'll known.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08

In q police court two young men &C.
cused of stealing pie from q bakers
shop pleaded that they were hungry.
"Why didn't you steal bread, then ?"
the Judge asked, and the s%entenious
reply was "Liked pie better"
The Philadelphia Exhibition is to
clc7e on Nov. 10, the day originally
cI sen, the managers having decided
not TO extend it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
The Curse of Rum.

An officer of New York city
was called into a house to quell q dis
turbance which had occurred in the
room occupied by John and Catharine
Farley. He found there the Farleys,
man and wife, Mary Kelly and James
McGrath, all beastly drunk. Two little
children, Annie and Nelly Farley, aged
six and four years, were found lying on
a miserable straw pallet, so exhausted
from hunger as to be unable to speak.
They had not eaten any food during
fourteen hours. The prisoners being
arraigned, the children were sent to the
House of Mercy and the Farleys, Mary
Kelly and McGrath, whom the officer
declared to be drunkards, were COM
mitted,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08

When impurities in the blood are
deter mined to the surface in the form OF
blr,ches drv calculations, rashes, etc.. the
safest and most expeditions remedy is GLEN
SULPHUR Soar. Depot, Crittenton's, No. Z
Six Ii a, enue, New York.
RI. '.a.r il benefited as vol 80 co!t red by
bills Ha.r Dye.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
TIL cir Destiny.

Three years ago the Modocs were re-
moved from Oregon to a reservation
heal Seneca, Mo. At that time they
numbered 1853. OF this number fifty
eight have died since then, and the
mortality during September was greater
than ever. AS in the case of the Fiji
Islanders, diseases to which they have
not been accustomed and of which they
are entirely ignorant have attacked them.
The comparatively innocuous mslady of
whooping cough prevails among them,
and eight have died of it. The saddest
feature of their case is that there is no
physician at the reservation to care for
them, and they readily fall victims to
the diseases that attack them. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08

A licensed drover at Brentford, Eng,
who, while driving q bull along the road
several weeks ago, struck a cat with a
thick stick, was ordered to be sent to
prison, with hard labor, for a month,
without option of fine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08

Crowd at depot waiting for late train {:
Affable young man accosts gruf old
gent: "Sir, I think I have had the
pleasure Of meeting your before. Your
face looks familiar" Old gent : "Does,
eh! Soil yours fore you're ODDS I am"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08

Chapped hands, face, pimples, ring.
worm, ssltrheum, and other outsneous afec-
tons cured, and rough skin made soft and
smooth, by using JUNIPER TAR Soar. Be care.
full to get only that made by Caswell, Hazard d
Co., New York, az there are many limitations
made with common tyr, all of (which are worth
aaa INN