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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-08
Compulsory Education.

The superintendent of truancy IN
New York city reports that the cases OF II
10,189 "truants and non-attendaDts -
have been looked into during the past
wear; of these 1880 had no residence
that could be found, and 1890 were de-
tanned at home by poverty or sickness,
leaving 4,194 habitual truants residing
at home. OF this number, 1857 were
returned to school; l, ,121 who never
went to school were placed in school
(mainly in industrial schools), and only
about sixty were obliged to be committed
to public institutions.
Thus nearly four thousand children,
growing mp in ignorance and exposed
to all the temptations OF vagabond
life, were placed in school and brought
under regular discipline. The report
shows that since the law was put in exc.
cution the daily average attendance OF
the public schools has risen 6,515, and
that of the industrial schools l,O09,
making total number Of 7,614 children
who have been taken from the ranks oi
the ignorant, and compelled to take the
first steps in acquiring knowledge. The
expense of thus gathering in these 7,6O(
children to places of education has beer
! 814,3S6. .|'s.'r. ...'. =
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-08
About Horse Races.
The New York Herald, in, an article
on horse racing, says: ; H.,.. -"

The New York Herald, in an article
on horse racing, says: J. H.'.' 90"
A horse is of little use that cannot
carry man Of ordinary weight, and it
is sheer nonsense to pirate about racing
for the advancement and improvement
of the breed of the thoroughbred horse
without he can be bred to carry a man
weighing one hundred and fifty pounds
or more and run fast also. !, 1t is his
torical fact that three-year.old thor
oughbred, Copenhagen, bore the Duko
of Wellington on his back for twelve
hours on the last day Of the battle OF
Waterloo, and when the French were
beaten and Wellington dismounted the
colt came near kicking the dukes bralns
out by letting his heels fly over the
great generals head. Of such colts ls
this country much in need at the pres
ent time, as too much attention has been
wasted on the breeding Of fast short dis
tance runners, instead Of having them,
as we said before, to carry weight and
run too. A horse that can run with one
hundred and fifty pounds on his back
four miles in eight minutes is an inti-
nitely superior animal to the one that
couId run a mile in one minute thirty
nine and one-half seconds, as LoDgfel.
low was said to have done in the first
mile in the race for the Saratoga cup
with Kingfsher. And it is probable
that Longfellow would not have broken
down in his rae; with Harry Bassett had
the weights been what four-year-old
will have to carry next summer, as it has
been demonstrated that it is the pace
and not the weight that breaks down the
forelegs of the racer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-08
intoxicating Liquors.

During the discussion on the bill in
the United States Senate to control the
LIQUOR question, Mr.. Morrill, Rep.), OF
Maine, said while the whole question
regulating the sale of intoxicating
drinks belonged primarily to the States,
he could sec that this bill was for the
good of the whole country, and the In
quiry proposed should be made: The
government authorized the manufacture
and importation Of alcoholic liquors,
and surely Congress had the right to
inquire into a subject which brought
revenue to the government. The inquiry
should be made as to the moral, social,
and economic aspect Of the liquor traf-
fic. The question was not new one at
oil. At the close Of the Revolutionary
war, and for two or three decades after,
the people of this country drank more
liquor per capita than those OF any coun-
try on the face Of the earth, and who
ever would take the pains to look into
history, would see that it was in conse-
quence Of the government raising a
revenue from alcoholic liquors. In the
wear lOUU bu6E6 WcIO 4oSOoV ASee~AA
licenses issued, and intemperance grew
80 that we were soon denominated over
the civilized world as nation Of drunk
ards. When the government OF Great
Britain encouraged the importation and
manufacture of alcoholic liquors, retail
shops were opened, crime asincreased,
and the prisons were filed. In this coun-
try a hundred million gallons were
manufactured annually.
Mr.. sherman-Besides the crooked
whisky. daughter. ..
MIR. Morrill, asked what became OF this
great quantitya 1t was used by forty
million people, and by it they were poi
soned. Pauperism, crime, beggary,
want, and death were the result. Three
fourths of the pauperism was attribute.
BILE directly or indirectly to the use OF
intoxicating liquors. Congress had the
right to inquire into the matter. The
use of liquor was the gigantic crime Of
crimes in this country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-08

est trouble. Fuchs did not know what
to do with it, 50, wrapping it up in q
Newspaper, he placed it in basket,
threw brown towel over it and went
out about twelve o'clock, walking to
Million street, Gresnpoint, where hs
carefully placed the head behind the
pile of lumber, whore it was discovered
two or three hours afterward. Fuchs
having gotten rid of the head, and
hoping that he was unobserved, returned
home, and after the purchase and drink
ing of a quart of beer resumed his hor-
rid work OF concealment by digging a
hole III the hearth the size Of the Chin
noy, the dirt from which he carried into
the yard and carefully laid it along the
front of the house. His wife objected
to his digging the hole, but he showed
her quantity of common lime which,
he said, would destroy the flesh when
buried with it.
Suspicion having been aroused Fuchs
was arrested, when fhe horrible facts as
related above were developed. He and
his wife were looked up in prison.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-08
"MOther Is l.0

The mother is i'll to-day
The mother 30 merry and sweet,
Who has such . wonderful way
Ofkeeping the kitchen neat,
OF putting things into place,
And dropping 3 pleasant word,
With smile on her sunny face,
And voice like the song Of bird.
Father has done for them all
The very best that he can
Fastened the buttons small
With the clumsy touch Of man.
Carried the baby about,
And stirred the porridge in haste,
And the children have no doubt
He will give them each taste.
Taking in turn Is fun;
And what can be half 30 good,
Is the thought Of each little one,
As the baby's sweetened food?
The very chickens and cat
4 change In the household know,
And the turkey looks aat
And sage 81 told you 80 "
All, well Vacation days
To the mother seldom come
Her husbands tender praise
Is the crown Of her happy home.
He smoothed her tangled hair
And touched her aching brow
With lovers gentlest care
And fondest art but now,
While he bade her lie and rest
He would keep the baby still,
Held close to his patient breast
All day when mother was i'll
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-08
Real Editors and the Other Kind.

The Boston Post, in an article con
cerning the crowd of Indiana people
under the name OF editors recently in
Washington, says: Editors cannotspend
a great deal OF their time in travel!
When they do they necessarily part
with their profession. In point OF fact
the real journalist, or editor as some in
sist, is personally about the least known
of sn living individuals who WELD an
equal amount of influence or perform an
equal amount of work. The preacher
appears weekly to the public in the
sacrod desk the physician visits his
patients daily and talks with them the
lawyer harangues juries and pleads with
judges; the Journalist alone is unseen
and popularly unknown. he is content
to see the silent but effective operation
OF his influence. It is his journal that
speaks for him. He would as soon
think of prancing about the country and
exhibiting himself to the public in diff
fereat cities as he would OF standing on
the corners and hawking his own sheet.
He would much sooner perform under
Barnum at the Centennial than perch
himself in the gallery Of the United
States Senate for exhibition. He is
not in the habit of wearing a chalked
hat, sleeping in free beds at hotels,
promising puffs for his rations, or u, join
ing travelling troupe of men with n.y.
inc hair or young women with flowing
feathers. His life is one of work, and
not of excursions. When he goes forth
to inhale the fresh air and bask in the
sunshine of the outer world, no one is q
greater stranger than he, and the last
subject you can induce him to talk
about is a newspaper This troupe OF
F, &c sier "editors" is panty that has
been organized to see the country and
feast on its products without having to
e1pend a dollar. 1t is the other klnd
of editors-the real editor-that hotels,
railroad companies, Congress and poll
tical managers would be only too glad to
entartain
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-08
Bad Boys.

A certain parson, who is also school
teacher, handed q problem to his class
in mathematics the other day. The first
bow took it, looked at it awhile, and said;
II pass" Second boy took it and said:
"I turn it down." The third boy stared
at it awhile, and drawled out: =" can't
make it," :" Very good, boys" said the
parson, "we will proceed to cut tor g
new deal" And the switch danced Like
lightning over the shoulders of those de-
prayed Young mathematicians.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-08
EATEN BY RATS.
Nh. s,orv or n German Family In Missouri

Tho story or n German Family In Missouri.
A sedalia (Mo.) paper says: There
was told to us story, the truth OF which
we can vouch for, and the details OF
which are so pathetic, and yet so horrid,
as to sound more like some witch's work
than like the plain fact it is. It has
never been published before, and was
known to but two OF three persons
until only day or two since. -.
Near Cambridge, Saline county, Lies
an island out in the middle Of the Mis-
souri, river. It is large one, and its
soil is fit for the raising Of corn and mel
ons and q few kinds of vegetables. Upon
this resided q German family, Waggoner
by name. It was composed of husband
and wife and two very pretty children,
aged respectively five years and ten.
The old man had him comfortable
house built, and made his living by boat
ing and by what yield few sandy acres
might give him.
Ono day the husband Of this family
had some business on the mainland, and
30 he bade bis wife. and children good
bye, got into his boat and rowed across
the stream, intending without fail to be
back the evening Of that day. This was
on the morning Of Tuesday. The night
following, the mother of the family TOOK
sick with collie, it is supposed, and died.
No aid could reach her, and there she
was dying, out on that lonely island in
the nipht. and with only her two little
children at her bedside. AnMously must
she have listened. with her hearing al
ready deadened, for the coming OF her
husband, and wistfully must those Little
children have stretched theirsight across
the water for the return Of their father.
But he came not, and there In mid
stream, and in the darkened cabin, those
children were left alone with a dead
mother. They could, OF course, do
nothing for themselves, and there was 10
aid in reach of them, 30 they bad to Let
the body remain just as it lay in the last
struggle Of death. ...'....' '.as =,
That night the cold came on, and by
morning the stream was blocked with
ice, so that no skiff might cross it in
safety. .:,'..' -.
The days went YEARLY BY, and the
children, frightened and fatigued be-
yond anything we may imagine, began
to feel the want Of provisions. There
was scant supply Of them in the cabin
when the father left, and they were now
about consumed. Most horrid OF all the
story, but no less the truth, the rats
began to seek the corpse Of the dead
mother, and when the husband return
ed, a week from the day OF his depart
ure, who can picture the horror that
befell him as hs entered his once happy
home and found his wife lying there
with her face half eaten off with the yer.
min, and his little children almost starv-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-08

BATH BRICKS. The annual importa-
ton of Bath bricks into the United
States is estimated at 10000 boxes,
there being twenty-four bricks in each
box. These bricks are manufactured
from the deposits of the river Parrett,
Bridgewater, England, where millions
are made annually. Nowhere else are
these deposits found, so that Bridge
water supplies the world, and Bath
brick are as well known in America,
) China and India as in England.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-08
Exp1os1yE.-The pumpkin is not gen.

E1P1osrvE.-The pumpkin is not gen.
orally supposed to be dangerous vege-
table, but the recent experience OF q
woman in Massachusetts proves that it
may be. This woman, proposing to
make some pumpkin pies, found that
the pumpkin was frozen, and put it into
an oven to "thaw out" When she
went to remove it it exploded with the
report of q bombshell, part striking
her in the face with great force and
burning Her severely. ,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25
LOCAL BREVITiES.

THE official count of the vote for City
Solicitor gives Mr.. Peck majority oi
b,005.
FRANK JOHNSON, the walkist, claims
to have made the quickest mile on rec
Drd at Exposition Hall, last saturday.
Time, 6:2.
THE trestle-work has been placed in
position over Spring Grove avenue, ana
It is expected that trains will be running
Dver to-day.
THE National Theater Comique. with
Its new attractions and all oflast weeks
rayorites in new acts, got its usual large
house last evening.
ONE of our bully butcher boys, Joe
Wilson, has been challenged to pul-
lock dressing match, by Garrett Sulil-
van, hide-snatcher from Chicago.
THE Consolidated Street Railroad
Company held its annual election yes
terday, which resulted in -electlon
nf the old Directors, with Mr.. Cassidy
In place of Mr.. West. Mr.. Bullock ex-
Dressed the hope that the Board would
elect some other member to the Presl-
nency, which they probably Will not DO.
THE Mccullough Dramatic Club. gave
an entertainment at Thoms' Hall last
evening to a large house. The perform
nnce opened with splendid variety in
terlude, in which the following ladies
and gentlemen were prominent partlcl-
pants: English and Peters, Joe I. Rem
ard and Miss Hannah Cohen, johnny
Jones, and Miss Sallie Cohen, the little
queen of song. The performance closed
with Byron's beautiful drama, sDearer
than Lite" which was acted out In fine
style. The ladies in the cast, Miss Sa-
die Birch, Miss c. Heffernan and Miss
Hannah Cohen, deserve particular men.
tion for the manner in which they played
their respective parts.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25
Guardians Sale.

TIME STATE OF OHIO, HAMILTON
i COUNTY, SS.-Pursuant to the command
OF an order for sale, from the Probate within
and for the County of Hamilton and State of
Ohio, and to me directed, will offer at public
sale, on the premises, in the City Of Cincinnati,
on TUESDAY, February s, 1875, at II O'clock
A. NJ, the following described real estate, to-
witt
Situate in the City of Cincinnati, in the
County OF Hamilton and State of Ohio, to-
wit: Beginning at the southeast corner
Of Race and Longworth street, thence run
ming south along the east line of
Race street sixty (6O) feet 10 an alley, sixteen
Q6) feet wide more or less; thence east with
the north line of sad alley eighty (SJ) feet;
thence north parallel with Race street sixty
(60) feet; thence west along the south line of
Longworth street eighty (SO) feet to the place
OF beginning. Being lots numbered one hum
dred and twenty -four Q24) and one hundred
and twenty five (l25), on the plat of subdivision
of James Ferguson, recorded in Book 2,
page Az, Of the Records OF Hamilton county,
OHIO, o,subjectihowever,to an annual ground rent
Of s2,l09, payable quarterly as per a certain
lease dated April 9th, 1878, made by Daniel f.
Barker to Lorenzo ID. Sine, for the term OF
ninety mine years, renewable forever, with the
privilege OF purchase at any time for thirty
thousand dollars, valued at $35 QUO.
Terms Of Sale-$:0,0O0 cash, on the day Of
sale and the balance in two equal payments in
six and twelve months, with interest the de-
ferred payments to be secured by notes and
mortgage on tne premises Solu.
Also-On WEDNESD AY, February 0, 1916,
at II O'Clock A. NJ, at the Couit-house, tho fol-
lowing described real estate, to-wit: Lying
| and being situate in the County of Hamilton
aud State Of Ohio, and described, as follows,
| viz: All that certain lot OF ground in Section
thirty (S0), Township four ~, and first frac-
tional range. said lot being known as Lot
twenty -onc (2l) In Robert W. Burnet's subdi-
vision OF lots in said Section thirty (3O), plut
| OF which subdivision is recorded in Plat Book
No. 2. page s45, and Plat Book No. 4, page 30
Of the records Of said Hamilton County, said
Lot number twenty-one (2l) being one Of the
twenty -four (.4) lots heretofore leased by said
Robert W. Burnct to Michael T. Farrell and
George N. Leighton.
Valued at 81 900. Terms OF sale: One third
In cash on day OF sale. and the lance in two
equal payments in six and twelve months with
interest,", the deferred payments to be secured
by notes and mortgage on the premises sold.
To be sold by order OF Court in the case
wherein John d. Norris guardian Of Lorenzo
d. Sine, Is plaintitl, and Lorenzo d. Sine ct al
are defendants Case N :. 1881.
JOHN d. MORRIS,
Guardian Of Lorenzo d. Sine.
A. G. HoRyoN Aucsioneor. dess 9tru
Il .<1ar
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AN EXPERT.

DIR. Price Is well known as an expert in the
manufactures of Steele Il Price are the result
Of his researches. One of these discoveries is
the Cream Baking Powder, by the use Of which
light, sweet biscuits cakes, &C., at all times
are certainty. The market is flooded with
cheap inferior baking powders, and adultera-
tion Is soextensiyely practced that the cream
Baking Powder does the work with two thirds
Of tine Quantity required of any other kind. In
view Of such cheap inpositions,, the public are
advised to ask for these pure and excellent ar
ticles. If they can not be obtained Of one gro
Ger may be Of another. The purer the articles
that compose our daily food the better they are
for health. DR.. Prices True Flayoring Ex-
tracts are really delicious.
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BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
ROAD NOTICE.
COUNTY ROAD NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that petition will
IN be presented to the Board OF County Com
missioncrs OF Hamilton County, Ohio, at their
March road session, A. d. 1876, praying to es-
tablish County Road, In Delhi ana Miami
in said County, beginning at the
intersection OF Miami pnd Independence
streets, in the Village of Home CITY, in Delhi
IUwnship; thence in northwestorly direc-
tion along and over said independence street.
through Home City, and along and over said
street. extending through the Prico farm;
thence along and over private road through
the property OF John Q. and Charles w. Short.
TO a convenient crossing over Muddy Creek;
thence in d northerly direction to the River
Road, in Miami Township. at point near the
bridge over Short Creek; thcnce ia westerly
direction along und over said River ltpad to .
point at the intersection Of an avenue bound
ing the west side OF a lot of land occupied by
Ii. N. Rulison, northwestcr!y along said ave-
nue TO the land OF Plicoc A. Kiug;thcncc noI tn.
westerly through the land of Phebe A. King
and otners TO Taylor avenue; thence west
wnrdly along and over said avenue 10 its in
tcrsection with the Cieycs and North Bend
Road, tho place Of termination Of the road
prayed for. n. SAYI.ER,
JSO. *. WARDER,
JNO. O. SHORT. 4
jasb-4tTu And Others.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25

Mayor Johnston held Court yesterday
afternoon at the Chiefs office, and Capt.
VIM. Borck was put on trlal charged
with drunkenness, oppression III othce,
and ungentlemanly conduct. Ann Wag-
ner. notorious character, was the pros
ecuting witness, and number OF her
girls also testified against the Captain.
The Mayor dismissed the case, except
as to the charge oil oppression in office,
upon which he reserves his decision for
q few days. The whole affair resulted
from the "pulling" OF the Madame's
house short time ago.
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Fire Last Night.

An alarm from box 7S about 8 O'Clock
last night brought the engines to the cor
aer of Sycamore and Abigail streets,
where 1t was discovered that serious
fire was und er headway In Albert Fis-
cher IL Co.'s Star Preserve Works, stu
ated on the canal between Main and Syc'
'amore, and extending through to Hunt
street.
The building contained large quan.
tIty ofcatsups, glassware and prepared
meats. which were mostly ruined from
lire and water. Mr.. Fischer estimates
his loss at 10000, although it will proba.
bly, fall short of this. There was an in
gurance of $4,000 on the machinery, but
none ON the stock.
q. Klein & Co.'s -four store and LIE
brechps meat house, both adjoining Fis
che's works, were slightly damaged.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25
Common Council.

The Boards OF Aldermen and Council
men met in joint session yesterday.
The bond of Hiram D. Peck, City So
licitor, signed by Judson G. Harmon,
Isaac q. Collins and George W. Ziegler,
in the sum OF $4,000, was approved with
out opposition. The bonds of jackson 2.
Noble, Superintendent of Street-cleaning
Department; Louis Stuebing, Constable
of the Tenth Ward; Jacob Gessert and
Thomas Sherlock, Assistant Street Com
missoners, were also approved.
Solicitor Peck sent in the nomination
Of Mr.. G. W. Gerard, County Prosecuting
Attorney, as his first assistant. De.
clared out Of order.
The Common Council then adjourned,
and call was issued for meeting to.
morrow TO confirm the nomination for
Assistant Solicitor, to approve his bond
and elect Constable.
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The School Board met last evening.
Resolutions condemning one hundred
Snd thirty-six feet of ground to enlarge
The grounds OF the Eighteenth District
School on Hopple street were adopted.
The appropriation OF $3,8O4 19, for book
bills, presented by the Board Of Man.
Rgers Of The Public Library, was ordered
10 be paid.
A resolution was adopted, that the Su.
perintendent of schools be instructed to
consolidate at once every room in the
Night Schools where the average is less
than thirty to teacher.
. Salaries and claims In the High Schools,
amounting to $4,5U0 IS, were reported,
nhe report was received and the appro.
priation made.
!. Library salaries amounting to $2.94O "a
were ordered paid.
The G ommiltee on Bills and Claims re.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-25

At the meeting OF the Board OF I'M
proyements yesterday General Halpin,
City Engineer, submitted report, in
which he suggested suspicion of fraud in
the filling of the Glenn lot; also express
Ing the belief that certain map has been
STOLEN from the Engineers office by par
ties interested.
Various ordinances were recommend
ed, contracts awarded and the pay-rolls
affirmed, after which the Board ad-
lOurned.
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ported a total Of Sl2,50O, for which the
necessary appropriation was made.
An appropriation OF $172O was made
for the representation of the Cincinnati
Schools at the Centennial. A committee
of five was appointed to take charge Of
the mattar