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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09
A Concentrated Jury.

In land case being tried in San An
tonic, the jury having been dispensed
with, his honor acts as judge and jury
both. 10 Lave single man acting for
twelve seems very simple, but it is be-
wildering to the deputy sheriff, who has
been attending juries for a long time.
One morning, for instance, he looked
f1edly at his honor, and after counting
him several times, inquired:
"Where is the rest of youi"
"When court adjourned, the sheriff
said, rather sternly, We thought, to his
honor:
"Now, don't you go talking about
this case among yourselves, and all o.
you boys be on hand promptly, or III
hunt some Of you up in q way that you
won't like" - =. -.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09
Items Of Interest.
The longest periods in a boys Life are
those between meals. -.

The longest periods in boys Life are
those between meals. -
There is no man clever enough to
know all the evil which he does.
Two hundred liquor ssllers OF Port
land, Me-, have just gone out OF busi-
ness.
"Leisure is sweet to those who have
earned it," and it is very comfortable II
your uncle has earned it for You.
Dobbs says the first time girl kissed
him he felt as if be was sliding down
rainbow with butter and honey in each
hand.
A couple of young women at Frye
burg, Me-, appeared on the road hoe
in hand o few days since to work on
their highway taxes.
Ask no favors of any one, and you
will succeed q thousand times better
than those who are always beseeching
some ones patronage.
A man in neighboring town who had
good spyglass looked at his third
cousin through it, which brought him
as near as first cousin.
This is the season Of the year when
man delights to lie beneath wide spread :
ing shade trees, communing with nature
and getting bugs in his ears.
The nominating days have come, the maddest
When every podacisn chap struts round like
chanticleer; .!
He flaps bis little wings and crows, and makes
mighty noise, Z
And then be strikes the candidate for cash to
treat the boys. cs--. y
To feed sparing y and irregularly is
to lose allyou give to fowls; butto study
into their wants ard anticipate them is
to render them very profitable.
A woman who was purchasing some
cups and saucers was asked what color
she would have. "Why, Iain't partcu-
lar" she said !" color that won't show
| dirt"
"How ministers are killed ~ lis the
caption of an article circulating through
the newspapers. You may not have one
to kill, but it is well to know how it Is
done. .......... rl.- >.
Agricultural journal: Question-Wll
the editor please inform me how the
Hollanders salt cucumbers Z Answer:
The most common way, as We observed
when abroad, is to salt them with salt.
Young ladies who intend celebrating
can do 80 to the best advantage by In
sertirg the butt of 6recracker be-
tween their teeth before igniting it. It
often crimps tie front hair splendidly. !
And now sone one says that it is
idiotic to suppoNe that sunstroke is
caused by stroke of the SUI that, in
fact, it frequently occurs at a time when
there is no sun at all, and that the
physical break down called sunstroke is
simply nervous exhaustion aggravated
by. excessive heat, whether in sun or
shade. All this may be true, even
though it, does knock over venerable
pet theory. ...s .7--- .--.----,.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09
A Story About Worms.

The Allentown (Pa.) Register contains
the following curious narrative /: MIR.
George T. Hersh, of this city, while on
a recent visit to Hellertown, met an ao-
quaintance, who related most singular
story concerning an army OF worms.
The occurrence took place in Bucks
county, and the story is this: GAS I was
at home they told me that about mile
and half away there was an army Of
worms marching from one given. point
to the other and thence back sgain.
This seemed very strange to me, and !
came to the conclusion that I would go
and see for myself. Consequently I
hitched in the carriage and drove to the
place. I tied my horse to the fence,
and commenced to examine, and to my
great astonishment 7 beheld the worms
in great numbers creeping at the place
named, just from one given point to the
other, distance of about three or four
bundled yards. No worm is to be seen
anywhere else. This worm travels
only mornings and evenings-evenings
after sunset and mornings till about
eight or nine o'clock. In the daytime
they lie concealed under rocks and in
openings. I saw them lie under rocks,
one against the other. tits so full at their
marching time that you cannot help
killing number at every step you take
when walking through that place. It is
a worm about an inch or an inch and
quarter long, having whitish or yellow
ish color. with black stripe over its
back. It has sixty.six feet, with which
it hurries itself along at very lively
speed. When you catch the worm it
screams. It has also very offensive
odor. It is so tender that if you touch
it little hard it goes to pieces. 1t is
not a destructive worm, as it only eats
earth. I never saw such worn and
the curiosity of them prompted me to
procure some; 81 I caught number of
them and put them in alcohol. Hun
dreds of people flock to that place to
see the worms"
In another paragraph the Register
adds the following: Mr.. Charles Eek.
ert was in Bucks county, and by
friend taken to the place where that
singular army of worms holds forth. He
reports that the place is visited by many
people from all sections of the county
and from distant places. An immense
crowd was on the ground Watching the
marching of these curious worms.
Scientific men who have seen specimens
of the worms say that they never saw
anything Like them, and can give no
reasonable theory for their presence in
this peculiar locality. The place where
this curious phenomenon, if We may 80
call 1t, can be seen Is about three miles
from Dunnelltown. near Pleasant hill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09
The Century.

Through storm and calm the years have led
Our nation on from stage to stage,
A century's space, until we tread
The threshold OF another age.
We see where DER our pathway swept
Atorrent stream OF blooi and fre;
And thank the guardian power who kept
Our sacred league OF States entire.
Oh checkered train Of years, farewell,
With all thy strifes and hopes and fears;
But with ue let thy memories dwell
To warm and teach the coming years.
And thou, the new beginning age,
Warmed by the past, and not In vain;
Write en- fairer. whittier page
Tho record Of thy happier reign.
William Cullen Bryant.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09
Circassian Girls.

The sale OF Circassian girls to Turks
stiH continues. ssA correspondent of the
London Times says that "a Moslem
dealer makes choice Of four young, un-
sophisticated. girls, imports them to
Constantinople, cells them and then goes
bach, for more II he can aohieve four
such trips in year he can make good
living out Of sixteen women: Many OF
the Oircassians are living in Turkey, and
there actually breed children for sale,
having 70 more shame about it than q
fashionable English mother may feel
about bringing out her girls for the
matrimonial market.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09
Declaration Of independence.

The Declaration Of Independence Of
the United States was drafted by Jeffer'
son, and examined and slightly amended
by Franklin and Adams. It was writ
ten by Jefferson in the first room of the
second story of the house of Jacob
Graf, southwest corner Of Seventh and
Market streets, Philadelphia, which
is still standing. Jefferson was a board
er in that house, and in that chamber,
according to his own statement, made in
a letter to DR.. James Mease, September
16, 1926, the Declaration of Indepen-
dence was written.
Congress adopted the declaration in
secret session. It was already known
on the fourth that Lees resolution,
which was the vital act in the opposition
to Great Britain, had been adopted on
the second. The declaration was mere
ly an assignment Of reasons for the
passage OF the resolutions, vindica-
ton of an act already done. There was,
therefore, no excitement in Philadelphia
at the time the declaration was adopted.
In fact, the character of the declaration
was not known until two days afterward,
when it made its appearance in Dunlap's
paper. On the fifth Of July Congress
sent out circular letters, to all the as
semblies, conventions and councils Of
safety of the various States, asking that
the Declaration of Independence should
be proclaimed. Such proclamations
generally followed. In Philadelphia,
The declaration was first read to the
people on Monday, the eighth of July,
by John Nixon, in the State house yard,
from An observatory erected there in
1859 to observe transit Of Venus over
the sun. Nixon was a member of: the
council of safety, and read the declar-
alton instead Of the sheriff of the
county, who WIS originally requested to
perform that service. In the afternoon
the declaration was read to the five bat
taIions OF associators on the commons.
The kings arms over the door OF
the supreme courtroom were torn
down by q committee Of associators ap-
pointed for the purpose. In the eve.
ming they were burned amidst the &C
CARNATIONS OF a large crowd OF spects-
tors. Bonares were lighted, bells were
rung, and the most noted of all the
peals which sounded over the city was
that of the old State house bell, which
had been cast twenty-four years before,
bearing upon its side the prophetic and
remarkable motto: "Proclaim liberty
throughout the land to all the inhab.
itants thereof"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09

To MAKE THE HAIR Grow UPON 4
Spor WHICH has BECOME BAbD.-Rum
and sweet oil 6; mix equal parts; then
wash the spot three times day. Rum
constantly used to wash the hair keeps
it very clean and free from disease and
promotes its growth, and is also very
strengthening to the roots OF the hair.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09
The Sioux Chief Sitting Bull.

Mr.. Maginnis, Of Montana, in the
United States House, during q discus
sion on the Indian question, gave the
following history Of Sitting Bull:
The drst time that Sitting Bull be-
came known to the people Of this nation
was during the great Minnesota massacre
in 1852. In 1868 he fought Sully in
the Black Hills. In 1864 he ravaged
the Missouri river, attacking several
steamboats,. In 1866 he made war upon
the peaceable Indians. In 1865 the
government sent out a peace commits
sion to Fort Yuma, which gave him
presents, including twenty kegs OF
powder, and as soon as he got the pres
ents he broke up the commission and
drove away the commissioners. In 1867
he continued a career of predatory war
fare. 1868, when Shis treaty was made
at Laramie, he refused to come in and
be party to it. In 1869 he attacked
the settlement on the Musser Shell,
which was the FIRST time he was ever de-
feated, because the settlers had got no
tice of his coming and had ambuscaded
him and killed thirty-si1 of his war
riors. In that same year he made war
upon the Crows and the Mandaus. In
1870 Gen. Hancock thought of an expe-
dition to subdue him. About that time
this peace policy fever was raging, and
on consultation with the other generals
of the army, Gen. Hancock recon-
mended that another effort should be
made by the government to make a
treaty with Sitting Bull. In the sue
ceeding winter Congress appropriated
$3.50, 900 to buy peace from Sitting Bull.
That was the celebrated Teton-Siou1 ap-
preparation, in regard to the expendi-
ture of which some criticism had been
made. Any how, they succeededln get
ting about one.half of his force into the
agency at Fort Peck, but he himself re-
fused to come in. In 1874 he still car
ried on war upon the settlements of
Montana, and ravaged them constantly.
He also carried on war upon the Grows,
whom he drove from their reservation,
upon the Shoshones, and upon every
Indian tribe friendly to the United
States. In 1876 he attacked two gov
ernment stages, run off the stock of
the stage company, and again drove the
Crows off the reservation into Montana.
By this time the peace commissioners
saw that he was intractable. and that he
must be disciplined. Messrs. Brunt and
Stewart, and peaceful men Of like char
acter, petitioned the Indian department.
to take steps to subiugate Sitting Bull.
This petition resulted in the War de-
partment finally taking hold of the mat
ter. ask whether the government has
violated its faith in making war on this
intractable Indian, who has never re-
cognized its flag; but who defies it's
authority, and boasts that, if he could
get the Sioux nation to join him, he
would drive this government into the
ocean.
Mr.. Townsend (Rep., New York)-ls
this the same Indian who organized the
conspiracy to murder Senator Allison
and other citizens, last summer.?"
MIR. Msginnis-It is the man who
planned and organized that conspiracy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09

SHORT CAKh-One pint Of buttermilk
or sour milk, one teaspoonfu OF soda
dissolved in the milk, one Tablespoonful
Of lard, . little salt mix soft, and cut
With q tumbler or cake cutter; bake on
Q gr1ddle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09

What the hog lacks in culture hs
naakes up IN zeal land enthusiasm.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-08-09

A true American Is too proud TO beg
and TOO honest TO steel, he gets trusted.
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fate OF the other i've companies WHICH
had been separated from them on the
twenty-ffth to make an attack under
Custer on the village at another point.
While preparations were being made
for the removal of the wounded, party
was sent on Clusters trail to look for
traces of his command. They met a
sight to appall the stoutest heart. At q
point about throe miles down the right
bank of the stream, Gen. Custer had
evidently attempted to ford and attack
the village. From the ford the trail was
found to lead back up the bluffs and to
thenorthward, as if he had been repulsed
and compelled to retreat, and at the
same time had been cut off from rejoin-
ing the forces under Reno. The bluffs
are cut into by numerous ravines, and
all along these slopes and ridges and in
the ravines lay the dead, lying in the
order of battle, as they had fought.
Line behind line showed where defen.
sive positions had been taken up and
held, till at last few were left to fight,
and then, huddled in narrow compass,
horses and men were piled promlscu-
ously.
At the highest point of the ridge lay
Custer, surrounded by his chosen band.
Here we're his two brothers and hi:
nephew, Mr.. Reed, Capt. Yates, Lieuts.
Cooke and Smith, all lying within cir
Gle of few yards, their horses beside
them. Here behind Yates company the
last stand had been made, and here one
after another of these last survivors o1
Clusters FIVE companies had met then
death. The companies had successfully
thrown themselves across the path OF the
advancing enemy, and had been annihi
lated. Not man had escaped to tel
the tale, but it was inscribed on the sur
face of these barren hills in language
more eloquent than words.
Two hundred and sixty-one bodies
have been buried from Custer's and
Reno's commands. I
The history Of Reno's operations com
;nrises all that is now known Of thil
saneuinary affair. Itseems that Custer
WITH eight companies. reached the rive
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-28
Turkish Cruelty.

THE devilish cruelty of the Turks
makes the Servians express themselves in
tones of deep horror and disgust. After
the defeat at Velixi- Izvor they commenced
to mutilate the Servian wounded, and to
murder the prisoners who fell into their
hands, to the number of nearly 900. I'm
fortunately great many officers were
made prisoners, and these were the special
objects Of Mussulman hatred and saw
agery. After being tortured in manner
worthy of the red Indians of the plains,
their heads were cut off, and reeking and
dripping, carried about on poles, in the
Turkish camps, to be hooted at and
stoned. These odious and revolving acts
were reported in due course to Leschan-
inc, and received them from the lips of
his chief of staff. So great has the
horror become among the Servians
at these continued acts Of barbar-
ism, that officers and men will always
endeavor to reserve one cartridge in their
revolver, SO as to blow their own brains out
as soon as they fall into the hands OF the
Turks. 1t is easy to affirm the truth of all
this. Your partial correspondent and
your diplomat may stand at a distanc
and pooh pooh, but the facts will remain
" Civilized" Europe is always considered
the leaucF Ol tllc "uIu, UuI SAc dllOWS
Turkey to butcher and destroy; she allows
Emperors to he made and unmade within
the holy precincts of st. sophia-rulers
who neither know nor condescend to under
stand the people they govern-and al
though women and children are murdered
by regular soldiery like pigs and sheep,
and dead bodies mutilated beyond recog-
milton, the Porte is still considered as be-
ing within the pale of civilization and
one OF the "Great Powers of the nine
teenth century.-Belgrade Letter, IN N. Y.
Herald.
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debut under the patronage of the railroad
companies, advertising to cross the rope
on a velocipede. fhis announcement
created no little sensation, the popular
supposition being that something after
the pattern of the ordinary bicycle was
intended to be used in the exploit. Prof.
Jenkins was rawboned, uncouth gentle
man from one of the interior towns of
Canada. His rope was stretched across
the gorge at the same point where Leslie
had performed, and was necessarily with
out guys. The so-called velocipede con-
sisted of two deeply-grooved wheels to fit
the rope, being balanced and held secure
by a long iron bar with heavy iron balls
at either end, suspended six feet be-
low the rope. The velocipedist' was
seated on saddle between the wheels
which just cleared the rope, and gov
erned the movements of the machine by
cranks and cog-wheel gearing. The first
veloclpede performance attracted large
attendance of spectators, both on the
American and Canadian banks of the
river, and the general opinion pronounced
the show rank imposition. Prof Jen-
klns was so pointedly denounced by the
newspaper reporters who were lured to
the exhibition, that in fit of exaspera-
ton he advertised reward of $500 to any
reporter who would accomplish the cross
Ing OF the rope on his go-devil" The
challenge was as promptly accepted by
| half dozen reporters from different
cities; but from economic motives the
Professor neglected to deposit the stake,
and hauled in his rope and departed. The
velocipede season was thus closed with a
single exhibition.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-28

the Danish Vice-Consul at Porto Rico, who
was . passenger, was killed by being thrown
from the deck-house against the bulwarks
by sudden lurch of the vessel.
A LONDON telegram of the 10th says the
Porte's answer to the demands of the Pow.
ers for peace requires that Servia shall send
back oil persons who emigrated to that
country from the neighboring Turkish
Provinces; that the statu quo ante 6elluns in
respect to Montenegro be maintained, and
that war indemnity be paid. A later dis
patch says an agreement had been signed to
suspend hostilities for ten days. It was re-
ported that the Porte had contidentially no.
titled the Powers that it would redress the
grievances of her Christian subjects.
ACCORDING to a Madrid telegram of the
10th, Tweed and his Secretary would en-
bark for Cuba on the 21st.
A BELGRADE telegram of the 18th an
nounces that Gen. Tchernayeff's army had
proclaimed Prince Milan King of Servia.
Berlin dispatches of the same date say that
the Turkish conditions of peace had been
disapproved by the Powers. It was appre-
hended that Russia would carry out her
threat of direct interference. The general
opinion in Belgrade was that peace was fur
thor off than ever
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-28
FOR EIGN INTELLICENCE.

A BELGRADE telegram of the 18th says the
Servian bulletin announced that the fighting
at Alexinatz and Deligrad the day before
had terminated in favor of the Servians.
THERE we're serious disturbances at Am
sterdam on the nights of the 18th and 18th,
in consequence OF the suppression of fair
by the Government. Troops had been called
out and the mob attacked, resulting in one
killed and fourteen wounded.
ACCORDING to Berlin dispatch of the
14th, Russia had entirely abolished the for
mer independence of Polish administration,
and abrogated the Office of Secretary for Po-
land.
The Servian Government has commenced
the issue of forced currency in sums rang
ing from one to 100 francs.
IT was reported from Berlin and Vienna on
the 18th that Germany will not aid Russia's
demands upon Turkey, and, in the event of
war between the two powers, will remain en-
tirely neutral.
A LONDON telegram says Tweed and his
Secretary, Hunt, left the San Simons
quarantine depot for Ell Cantillo de San
Sebastian, and passed through vigo on
foot at noon on the 18th. Both were look
ing well. particularly Tweed.
DURING the passage Of the steamer Cam
bria, which arrived at Plymouth, England,
from New York, on the 18th, J. 7. Maisop,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-28
A Mouse Captured by q Spider.

A few days ago gentleman in the west
corner of his cellar, and noticed that it
was struggling TO escape from some re;
straint. Examination showed that one of
the hind legs of the little animal was held
quite firmly by several fibers of spiders
above. This leg was drawn up from the
three legs the animal was scratching to
free himself. The spider-not a very
large one-was busy in multiplying the
secure. The gentleman took precautions
turbed, and watched the progress of this
curious exhibition of engineering. The
next day the spider had extended its web
to the other legs of the mouse, which was
alive but much weakened, possibly from
the bite of the insect. Finally the mouse
died. The engineering progressed until
nearly an inch from the cellar bottom, and
ing feast upon the captured rodent. On
Saturday during the absence of the gentle
man from home some accident befell the
WOlhS VI ZIG Ai1Ae euSluecI, anu Cne SuS-
tanning webs were broken. There was
fall of mouse meat simultaneously with
the fall in coal. During the operations
of the spider several of the neighbors of
the gentleman called in to watch the per-
formances of the industrious insect.
Several remembered reading an account
of similar capture by spider in a
newspaper" but they did not then believe
the story. This illustratio and expert.
ence were undoubtedly given them to
show how unjust they had been, and to
teach them to rely with more confidence
upon what the truly good" newspaper
tells them.-Hwvord Comm Couyant.