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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
Seryian Martyrdom Defined.

Emilio CASTELAR,, e1-President Of
Liberia, ip letter to the Herald writes
rs follows:, Unhappy people = Their
rnartyrdom is one of the most heart
rendering trag' dies in the pages of his
tory. Their mountains are the highest
of Calvaries, and, perhaps the most
bloody among the cruciGxion Of nations.
Prosecuted, martyred, their life during
the last three long centuries seems like
continuing death. Their oppressorf
cast portion of them from the bosom
Of the cities to the bosom of the woods,
and compelled them in a savage state to
wan ier in the mountain Businesses ard
to:cloth themselves in tho blrks of trees.
Those who remained in the city carried
their heads bowed upon their breasts
and their eyes fixed on the ground. Il
they raised their heads it would be said
that they elevated it to look for the light
of heaven: and not for liberty. If they
raised their glance it would be said tina,
they elevated it to look ut their tyrants
and this would bring down death. Some
were dragged from their families, sc
tnaG tuoy uiSht uoI o'otth VI onSn Soua
try-even at the fireside with their chill
dren, or III the nuptial couch with their
wives. Terror reigned to such de
gree that the old men and the womer
went in search of the strongest in the
tribe and said: "Slay US before leav
ing us to the will of the oppressor.
How often has the mountaineer, on de-
parting for the woods, caught his be-
trothed by the hair, gazed upon hel
with the ecstatic eyes OF love, driver
his hunting knife to her heart, launch
ing forth an agonizing wall and receiv
ing in return dying smile from the
martyr glori6ed and trans6gured. The
principal hero Of Servian indepcudenct
killed his own and honored father will
lis own hand. In that eternal captivity
in those ages OF misfortune, this race
acquired mixture of enthusiasm ant
dissimulation of pride and self-abnega
tion, of strength and, astuteness which
hardened it and gave it the cunning ano
patience Of tho weak, as well as tht
energy and the might Of the strong. :.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
The White House.

The debate on the proposed constitu.
tional amendment limiting the United
States Presidential term was closed by
MIR. Knott, chairman of the judiciary
committee, who, in the course OF his
remarks, thus pictured the allurements
of the Presidential office:
A salary of $50,000, mansion sus-
tanned in q style of luxury that few per:
SONS dreamed of, furnished, repaired
and heated at on annual expense OF
S25, 900, with the very air breathedt there
periumed by rare exotics, propagated Id
a S55, 900 garden house, maintained at
an annual expense of $4,000; private
secretary at $4,000 O year to do the
Presidents S writing; two assistant secre-
taries, at 50, 500 year, to do the work
of the private secretary; two clerks at
S2,250 to do the work of the assistant
secretaries; O steward at 81, 600 to supply
the Presidents table with the choicest
wines and the richest viands that could
tempt or satiate his Appetite; with
$4,000 year for books, periodicals, sta
tionery, telegrams and other continger.
cies. If the children of Israel sighed
for the feshpots of Egypt, what must
be the anguish of o sensitive soul when
taking last long farewell of such salary
and Injuries. 49,,
The bill was defeated by vots Of 14A
yeau to 106 nays.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
Percales, Cambrics, Etc.

Ali kinds of wash goods will be used
this summer for street suits, fashion
journal SAYS. The foulard percales are
brought out in cheviot (twilled) stripes,
checks, blocks, and irregular plaids Of
one color on a white ground. Gingham
patterns are especially liked in the fine
cambrics that are sold for orty-five
cents u yard. Blue and gray "gingham
plaids," and oil the quaint old oolors,
browns, snuf-color, and blue and white
cottons, worn by our grandmothers, are
reproduced. Cream color is especially
liked in cambrics, French iaconets, and
percales. There are also many "lace
bordered" cambrics; thus cream colored
grounds have figures representing black
lace for borders. The dark solid colored
glazed percales also reappear in navy
blue, brown, and gray, to which are
added cardinal red and myrtle green.
The latter are warranted to wash, but
will scarcely be liked for dresses, though
they will % useful as pip'nge and tac'
iugs,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
Retrenchment at West Point,

Mr.. Hamilton (Dem.) of New Jersey,
who has charge of the bill to cut down
the expenditures for West Point, said in
the United States House that figures
and facts showed there was large room
for retrenchment. The estimates sent
in for the military academy amounted to
s437, 900; but the committee on appro-
priations had cut them down to S243,-
841, and the committee believed that re-
duction could be made without impair
ing the utility Of the institution to any
extent. It was mere looping off OF ex-
travagance. He asserted that the pres
ent compensation OF the superintendent
of the academy was better than that OF
any government officer except the Presi-
dent, he receiving by direct pay and al
lowances about 81, 600 year. The COM
mandaut of cadets would receive by
this bill $4,000 o year, with a furnished
residence, which, with other incidentals,
was equal to 81 500 more. This officer
now receives 96, 900 year, or something
like it. Four professors OF the academy
receive $3.500; and four other profess
sors, who are not army officers, receive
$4,000. This bill now proposed to give
them s., 500, q furnished house, fuel and
Light, equal to $1,000 year. He COM
pared this compensation with that OF as
sistant secretaries of departments in
Washington, who received only So, 500 a
year, without any house or other allow:
ance, and with that Of the governor of
New jersey, who only got $4,000 year
without any residence or other con-
tineencies. But che f. people Of New
jersey! don't know anything about ex-
travagant modes of living, and that was
the reason their State was not in debt.
They had lived in something like the old
style of economy and prudence, not in
the hifalutin st yle of living that pre-.
vailed in Washington. This bill pro-
posed that army officers stationed at
West Point should have the same pay
and allowance as they had in the army.
AS to the pay of cadets, he said he
should be very sorry to destroy the
utility of West Point. He was nm advo-
cate of that academy, and he desired to
see it upheld. He had a brother who
graduated there, and he himself had
been on the board of examiners, so that
he knew something about the institu'
tion. When his brother was there the
pay of cadets was twenty-eight dollars
per month, and now this bill proposed
to give them forty-fve dollars. En-.
trance to the military academy was
eagerly sought for. It was the road to
distinction. It was tho road which led
Taylor, and Jackson, and others, to the
Presidency. He did not wonder that
the aspiring youth of the country sought
it by scores, and nobody could doubt
that, if it were allowed the academy
would be filled up without any charge al
all to the country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
Machinery Hall.

The civilized nations of the world
were informed that the machinery ball
on the Centennial grounds had In round
numbers 1000 SO quare feet, and they
wero requested to say what space they
would require for the display of their
machines, and of the machinery pro-
cesses used in any Of their industries.
Great Britain demanded 1925 feet;
Germany, 1854 feet; France, 10, 139
feet; Belgium, 9,375 feet; Canada, !, 500
feet; Brazil, 1000 feet; Sweden, 3,16e
feet; Spain, 2,44s feet; Austria, l,536
feet; Russia, 1900 feet; Denmark, 5S5
feet; Italy, 5S5 feet. And the great re,
mainder Of 314,265 square feet is de-
voted to the youngest nation OF them
all, the United States, At the present
writing 1,150 applicants, exclusive oi
foreigners, have applied for space.
The foreign exhibitors have been
given the position of honor at the east
ern end, where the grand entrance is
England, that furnishes from one-thir6
to one-half of the whole foreign display
occupies very naturally the most i'm
portant place in the center, and on the
north avenue is opposed to Belgium
Brazil and Russia.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
Crooked, Whisky Sentences,

In sentencing the crooked whisky
men in Indiana, several of the prisoners,
who wererevenue officers, befores sentence
was passed, pleaded their honorable
wounds and faithful service in the army
and various other reasons in mitigation.
Judge Gresham admitted the unpleas-
antness of his duty, but could not allow
sympathy to make him forget the crime
they had committed. He drew a de
cided contrast between the officers of
the government and distillers. The
former ere trusted servants in the pay
of the United States, while the latter
are not trusted, but watched by govern
ment officials. Therefore the former
ought to have increased punishment.
He then announced that those officers
who had betrayed their trust should
have two years in either of tho peni-
,tentiaries thoy might prefer, and pay q
hns Of 81, 1000 eaoh.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
A Wicked Joke.

At Milwaukee, Wisconsin, few even
ings ago, Robert Wilson, ten years OF
age, was left alone while his mother at
tended wake in a neighboring resi-
dence. Suddenly the door was opened
by a masked lad, who rus bed wildly in,
raised q stick, and threatened to kill
Robert. The ittb boy received such a
shock that he fell senseless to the floor,
and remained unconscious throughout
the night. He has since recovered sufi'
ciently to explain the cause OF his fright,
but IS still in a very critical eondihon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
The Fertilization Bill.

The United States House committee
on appropriations completed the Forti-
fication bill, appropriating for the pro-
lection, preservation, and repairs OF for
tifications and other works Of defense,
100000; for the conversion of heavy
ordnance, 100000; for projectiles Of
heavy ordnance. $4,000; for carriages
for heavy guns, Sl5,000; for proving
ground and proving cannon, $25, 600;
for torpedoes, $50,0C0. The estimates
we're S., 600, 600, but the committee cut
down the appropriations to 1915, 900.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
Esquimaux Dogs.

Ten Esquimaux dogs mako q full
team, and will draw q sledge twelve
miles an hour. On good surface, six
or seven dogs will perform in day a
journey of sixty miles, even with weight
amounting to thousand pounds to
draw. When there is no snow, the dogs
are made to carry burdens in kind of
panier, and one of them will travel thus
with a weight Of twenty-five pounds
upon his back. Asa general thing, they
ali have names, to which they will
readily answer, and they are more at
tached to their masters than gratitude
alone would require, for they are never
carcsscd, and suffer much hard usage.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
Spring Goods.

The fret importations OF spring goods
received al the wholesale houses, New
York fashion journal tells us, are soft
woolen de beges, arranged, as most new
fabrics will be, to show three different
patterns in costume, viz: plain
grounds, graduated stripes. and plaidis.
The natural beige brown is the popular
color among these goods, and Is shown
in the plain part of the costume. The
stripes consist of three tones OF color
dark, medium, and Highland are OF
graduated width. Merchants cay that
these graduated stripes Of three tones
are conspicuous features repeated IN all
the various kinds Of materials for spring
suits. from silk down to cambria. The
plaid part of the beigo costume shows
the same tones arranged in cross bars.
The French costumers mako the
sleeves. lower skirt, and founces OF the
plain stuff the stripe forms bias bands
on the flounces and on the overdresses
while the plaid is used for the overdress
entirely. Black and gray shades are
also much used in these costumes.
For handsome suits for the early
spring the choicest materials are the
damask figures wrought by the jacquard
loom as itch and heavy looking as the
brocaded Iampas used by upholsterers:
These will be used for habits, polonMses,
and other overdresses with skirts OF silk
or velvet. The best colors are cream,
faded looking pale blue, darker gray
blue, French gray, and the rich dark
blue that China collectors know and
like to call " old blue" Cream colored
damask is imported in larger quantities
than any other shade there are also q
great many cases Of 'cafe-au lat
damasks. D. b.
Cream color will be even more abun.
dainty used next season than it is at
present. Importers show three shades
of cream color in fine tissues, grenadines,
and damasks. The first and ightest is
ivorie, or ivory; the next, tint deeper,
is BILE vert, like half ripe wheat and
the third is bic naur, or ripe wheat
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
Sixty.three Persons Burned to Death.

The Goloss, in m account OF the ter
rible railway accident near Odessa, Rus:
sia, says that the train was conveying 4lS
recruits of Oumana and Qmiew from
Elisabethgrad to Odessa. Some rails
had been removed from the line where
it runs over a. high embankment, and the
engine driver failed to notice the dan
ger signals. The train went off the
rails, and the carriages rolled down the
embankment. Piled one upon another
thew took fire, and though only three
persons had been killed on the spot,
sixty-three were burned to death. In
addition, ffty-four of the recruits were
badly burned or wounded, 80 the total
number of victims was 120.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15
An Old Mans Dream.

Oh, for one hour Of youthful JOY
Give back my twentieth spring!
Idrather laugh . bright haired boy
Than reign gray haired king.
on with the wrinkled spoils Of ago.
Away with learn 'g's crown;
Tear out hfes wisd m-written page,
And cast it's trophies down.
One moment let my life blood stream
Fr,m boyhood's fount Of fame;
Give me one eiddy, reeliDg dream
OF Gfe, Of love, and fame.
My listening angel heard the prayer,
And, calmly smiling, said:
"If but touch thy silvered hair
Thy hasty wish had sped.
"But is there nothing in the track
To bid thee fondly stay,
While the swift seasons hurry back
To iiad the wished-for day2"
All, truest soul Of woman kind,
without thee what were life3
One bliss ca rot leave behind
I'll take my precious wife.
The angel took sapphire pen =
And wrote in rainbow hue:
1.-THE man would be boy again,
And be abusband too.
"A q Is there nothing yet unsaid,
Before tho change appears2
Remember thy gifts have fed
With those dissolving years"
"why, yes, would one favor moro:
Ny fond psternsl joys s..
could not bear to lose them all
III take my girls and boys."
The smiling angel dropped his pen.
"Why. this will never do;
The man would be boy again,
And be father tool"
nd 80 laughed. My laughter woke
The household with its noise,
wrote my dream when morning broke
. To please my girls and boys
-Oiuer Wendell Holne
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JoK1sa.-Mr. Holman, in the United
States House, ridiculed the dispatche,
OF our ministers abroad. Mr.. Monroe
replied that if the foreign missions were
to be abolished because of some ridicu-
lous letters, the House of Representa-
tives should share the same fate for some
OF the speeches Of its members. This
was greatly enjoyed by the rnombers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-03-15

No S1eN.-A grocer in Newport who
has been doing business for nearly fifty
years, and has no sign to designate his
place of business, gives rs his reason
for the omission, that all his old friends
know where to find him, and the balance
would either come for money or to get
credit, and as he has no desire to see
either Of these classes, he prefers to re-
main as he is, even though ga wicked
and perverse generation may seek for O
gi1n,"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-02-25
BrattlebOrO Church Directory.

FInsT DAPr1sr.-Maln St.; Rev. Horace Burchard
Pastor. Sunday services at 10 $50 a. M, 1850
p m. Sunday School IL $50 a. m. Missionary Con.
cert 1st Sunday evening in each MONTH Sunday
School Concert last sunday evening in each month,
Prayer meetings on the other Sunday evenings
Monday evening, young peoples prayer meeting,
Friday evening, prayer meeting, 7:lS.
WEST BRArTLEBoRo BAPTIsT.-Rev @. A. Votey, Pas
tor. Sunday services at 10 80 a. m. :l5 and 100
p. m. Sunday School at 2l5 p. m. Wednesday
evening meeting at 1880 Seats free.
CENTRE RCosaRKoATIoRAL.-MainS St.; -,
Pastor. sunday services 1880 a. m, T:Oe p. m
Sunday school12 m. Missionary and s. S. Concerts
take the place Of the evening service the LIST and
I'd Sundays OF the month, respectively. Young
peoples meeting Monday evening at IA to 8.
Prayer meeting, Friday evening at Ia to 8. Thurs
day p. m, ladies' prayer meeting, O'Clock.
CoNGRxGATIoNAL.-west Drattleboro; Rev. C. II. Mer-
rill, Pastor. Sunday services-Sermon in morning
atl0:30 Missionary concert the FIRST Sunday even
ing OF each month. Sermon every other Sunday
evening at O'Clock Seats free. Sabbath school
follows morning service.
EPIscoPAL.-Main ST.; Rev. W. II. Collins, Rector.
Sunday servicss Morning prayer and sermon 1880
q. m, Evening prayerand sermon 1900 pm; sum
day School l2:l5 p. Holy daye, II 100 a. M. Holy
Communion 1st Sunday in the month, and on all
great festivals The children Of the parish cat
echised the 1st Sunday In every month at p. m.
METHODIST Observation-Disclosures in lower town hall ;
Rev. N. +. Perry, Pastor. Preaching Sunday
at 1880 a. M; Sunday School ~ M; prayer
meeting in the evening. s. 8. Concert 4th Sunday
Of every month. Glass meeting Tuesday evening;
prayer meeting Friday evening. Seats free.
ROMAN CArnoLIc.-walnut St. D.; Rev. Henry Lane,
Pastor. Sunday services-High mass 1880 u. IN. !;
vespers and Benediction 1880 r. m.
UNIrARIAH FREE CuURCH.-Man St.. Rev. Vim. l..
jenkins, Pastor. Services Sunday a. M, at 1890;
Sunday School and Bible Class after the morning
service. Seats free.
FIRST USIvHRsALIsr.-CAnal st. Rev. NJ. H. Harris,
Pastor, residence ON North ST. Sunday sermon
1o:9Oa. m. Services Monday and Friday evenings
at7:30.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-02-25

pie Of his district stood by their represen-
tative7 While he was serving out his
term in prison, they recalled him to Con-
gress, by greatly increased majority, and
he came back to Philadelphia in triumph.
The Fedoralists tried again TO expel him,
and obtained vote OF forly-nine to forty
four against it. Such was the inlatuation
of that party only eighteen months before
1t was swept from power forever!
This prosecution, and long absences at
the seat of government, broke up Lyons
business in Vermont, aud he removed in
1901 10 the new land of Kentucky, where
he again became leader both in business
and in politics. In two years be came 10
Congress from Kentucky. His old ene-
mics, the Federalists, we're then in dwind-
linJ minority; and Matthew Lyon, from
having been the butt of an insolent faction,
found himself hero and favorite Of the
democratic majority. He served in Con-
gross until 1911, when he declined further
election, being sixty-fve years of age.
Some years later, Mr.. Monroe appointed
him agent to the Cherokee Indians, and he
continued to be an active business mao, a
patriotic politician, and faithful servant
Of his country, trusted by the Indians, and
beloved by his neighbors to the close of his
long life. He died in 1922, at Spadre Bluff,
high up on the Arkansas River, aged sew
cnty-seven years.
On the fourth of July, 1910, Congress
bonored itself by ordering the tine of a
thousand dollars, with forty-two years in
terest on the same, to he paid to the heirs
of this pioneer democrat.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-02-25

THE EDITORS OF THE LEADING AMER
IoAN MAaAzINEs.-The editor in chief of
the venerable North American Review is
Henry Adams, a son of Charles Francis
Adams. The Atlantic has for its editor, as
everybody knows, that clever story.telier,
Mr.. ". d. HCwells. His assistant, who
has held the position for only few months
past, is Mr.. George p. Lathrop, tho author
of recently published volume of poems
and tho son-in-law of Hawthorne. Har-
per's Monthly is under the editorial super
vision of Mr.. Henry NJ. Alden, a gentle
man of many accomplishments, with SOW
eral assistants. To the staff of this nIaga-
zine Mr.. George William Curtis is, of
course, still attached, but writes only the
"Easy Chair essays. DR.. j. G. Holland is
the well-known editor OF Scrlbner's Month
ly, but he has under him as managing ed
itor, Mr.. Richard Watson Glider, author of
the recent volume of lyrics and sonnets
entitled "The New Day." or the Galaxy
the editorship is now confined to one of the
magazine founders, Mr.. William c. Church,
his brother, Mr.. Frank p. Church, who has
been so long associated with him, having
just accepted an important position on the
New York Sun. Llpplncotrs Magazine IS
under the sole editorial charge of Mr.. John
Foster Klrke, who wrote the "Life of
Charles the Bold" published few years
ago.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1876-02-25
CaStOria.

Cross, sickly babies and children may enjoy health,
and nlOthers have rest, If they will Castoria.
Worms feverishness teething, wind collie, sour stom-
ach and undigested food make children cross, and
produces sickness
CastoriA will assn.ilAte the food, eNpcI worms,
and correct all these things For twenty years DR..
Pitcher experimental in his private practice to pro-
duce an effective Cathartic and stomach regulator
which would be effective Castor OIL without its
unpleasant taste recoil
The reputation Of his experiment extended. Ply
sicians and nurses rapidly adopted his remedy to
which he gave the name Of CastOria.
Castoria is as pleasant to take honey, regulates
the stomach and bowels, and does not gripe. It is
adapted to all ages contains alcohol and Is absO-
IuteIy harmless to the most tender infant
Try castoria once, and you will never be " iIh-
out IL.
Prepared at the Laboratory Of ]. d. Rose & Co.. I6
Dey Street. New York. 81
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RatIr0a1s.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD.
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Ga-% ARRANGEMENT.
TRAINS GOING SOUTH

TRAINS GOING SOUTH
LEAVE BRATTLRBoRo at 80 and as am. ;at 2:G9
and 3:4O p. m.
MAILTRAIR-Leave st. Albans at 40 q. m. Braule-
boro at 3:4Op .m.-connecting at New London
withsteamer for New York.
NIGHT ExPREss.-Leaye OgdenBburg at 10:4O o. m.
Montreal at 2:l5 p. M, st. Adams at $500 p m
Brattleboro at $3.50 a. IN, for Springfield, New
York, &c.
MAIL TRNs.--Leave White River junction at :e0
a. m, Brattleboro at & as a. M, arriving at New
London at :l5p.m.
MIXED TRAIN Leave white River Junction at 900
p. in., Rutland 80 p. arriving at Brattieboro
at9:40p.m.
ExPREssTRAIs.-Leave Brattleboro at $500 p. m.,-
reaching Milers Falls at 2:5Op. m.
GOING NORTH.
LEAVE BRATTLEBoRo at TOO a. m, 10 80 m. :56
p M, 10 :20p,m.
MAlLTRAIS.-Leave New London at 30 q. m. Brat
tleboro at O:3C a M, for White River Junction,
Rutland, Burlington, ST. Albans, Montreal, and
Ogdensburg.
MIXED TRAIE.-Leave Brattleboro at 700 q. M, for
Bellows Falls and White River Junction.
ExPREssTRAIs.-Leave Miller's Falls at II :25 q.
arriving at Brattleboro at l2:24p. m.
AccoMMoDATIoE TRAIE.-Leaye New London at 8:25
am, Brattleboro at 1855 p. M, for white River
junction and Rutland
MONT RxPREss.-Leave Brattleboroat 10 40 m. for
White River Junction Burlington, st. Adams,
Montreal and Ogdensburg.
Pullman's Drawing Room and Sleeping Cars arerun
on nighttrans between Springfield and Montreal
J.W HOBART, Gen supt.
st. Adams, VI, Ncy. %, 1875. 39tf