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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
The Lobbyist Of the Season.

The Washington correspondent OF the
Chicago Tribune says: We have LADY
here this winter who bids fair to make
more noise than any Of her predeces-
sors, 80 high does she fly her kites, and
80 certainly does she secure her victims.
Indeed, she boasts that no job measure
can be carried through Congress with
out her approval, for which she demands
handsome contingent royalty on the
expected profits, in addition to q retainer
in cash. Her influence has often &C.
cured the attendance OF member when
his vote was sure and needed, and her
fascinations have been exerted when it
it was necessary that On opposition voter
should be absent from the capitol. She
is not handsome, but her steel gray eyes
fascinnte like those of snake, and her
manners are bewitching. True, she is
advancing in years, but n'importe, she
has genius, tact, a thorough contempt
for the conventionalities Of society, g
good share of strong, practical common
sense, and keen perception of human
nature,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
Seeking q Teacher for Linda.

She was al one OF the union school
houseshaf an hour before school opened,
says the Detroit Free Press. She had
"Linda" with her. She was tall
woman, forty years old, with jaw show
ing great determination, and "Linda ="
was sixteen, and rather shy and pretty
good looking. The mother said she
hadn't been in the city long, and that it
was her duty to get Linda into school
and see that she was properly educated.
When the teacher came the mother bold
ly inquired:
You know enough to teach, do
you I"
"I think do," replied the teacher,
blushing deeply.
"And you feel competent to govern
the scholars, do youi"
"Yes'm."
"Do you pound 'em with a aferrule, or
Lick 'em with whipi" :.
"We seldom resort to punishment
here" replied the embarrassed teacher.
"That's better yet," continued the
mother. II know that If Linda should
come home all pounded up I'd feel like
killing some ono. I suppose You are OF
o respectable character, amt you !"
Why-ahem - why "-stammered
the teacher, growing white and thenred.
"I expect you are," continued the
woman. "It's well enough to know
who our children are associating with.
Now, then, do you allow the boys and
girls to Gt togetherf" >...'.
"No, ma'am." ...- -.
"That's right. They never used to
when ! was young, and L don't think
Linda is any better than I am. Another
thing. Do you allow any winking 2"
"AnY whats" exclaimed the puzzled
teacher.
"Do you allow a boy to wink at q
grill" asked the woman.
"Why, mol"
ct was afraid you did. Linda is as
shy as bird, and If she should come
home some night and tell me that she
had been winked at I don't know what
I'd do. Now, another thlng-do you
have beau7"
"Why-why"-was the stammered
reply.
II think you do I" resumed the
woman, severely. ct know just how
it works. When you should be explain
ing what an archipelago is you are think
ing OF your Richard, and your mind is
way, way offl"
"But, madam -
"Never mind any explanations" in
terrupted the woman. "I want Linda
brought up to know joggerfy, figures,
writing, and spellography, and if you've
got beau and are spooking to the thea
ter one night, candy-pull the next, q
horse race the next, and 30 on, your
mind can't be on education. Come,
Linda, we'll go to some other school
hnnsa ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23

Christi. But he was unconscious OF all
around him; the sight of my face had
brought the last pang of earth to his
troubled spirit. ! kissed hie brow, and
told him how dear he had been to me.
I craved his pardon for my unfaithful-
ness, and promised him to care for his
widow and his fatherless little ones; but
his only reply, murmured as if in a
troubled dream, was Touch not
mine annointed, and do my prophets no
harm"
I stayed by him all night, and at
daybreak I closed bis eyes.
II offered his widow house to live
in the remainder of her days but like
a heroine, she said 4 freely forgive
you; but my children, who entered
deeply into their fathers anguish, shall
never see me so regardless OF bis memory
as to take anything from those who
caused it. He had left US all with his
covenant God, and He will care for us.
"Well, sir, those dying words sounded
in my ears from that coffin, and from
that grave. When I slept, Christ stood
before my; dream, saying: Touch not
mine annointed, do my prophets no
harm These words followed me till I
fully realized the esteem in which CHRIST
holds those men who have given up al!
for his sake; and I vowed to love them
evermore for his sake, even If they are
not perfect.
''And since that day, sir, I.have talked
less than before, and have supported
my pastor, even if he is not a very e1-
traordinary man. My tongue shall
cleave to the roof of my mouth, and my
right hand forget her cunning, before I
dare to put asunder what God has join
ed together. When ministers work is
done in place, I believe God will show
it to him. I will not join you, sir, in
the scheme that brought you here and,
moreover, if I hear another word of this
from your lips, I shall ask the brethren
to deal with you as with one who causes
divisions.
81 would give all own to recall what
1 did thirty years ago.
"Stop where you are, and pray God if
perchance the thought OF your heart
may be forgiv en- you"
This decided reply put an end to the
newcomers efforts to get a minister who
could make more of q stir. There is
often great power in the little word
"no;" )" but sometimes it requires not a
little courage to speak it so resolutely
as did the silent deacon CAristian
Messenger.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
Hard to Pronounce.

Many years since, minister, in his
travels, put up for the night with a man
who was supposed to possess but little
of what people call "common sense" ;"
Just as he was about to retire for rest,
the man said to the minister
"Tell me, sir, what three words in
the English language it is most difficult
to pronounced"
II don't know that 1 can," was the
reply.
"WeI," said the mnn, 81 will give
you till morning to answer me-"
The minister thought no more of the
question till it was proposed to him
again in the morning, when he said he
had not thought OF it.
"Then," said the man, ~ will tell
you the most difficult words to pro
nounce. They are-I am wrong"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
Daring Ride.

The perilous adventures which the
early pioneers encountered, and which
even now our Western settlers are
familiar with to some extent, are well
illustrated in the following incident in
the life OF Miss Cooper, sister Of Mis-
souri, settler, recently deceased. This
adventure occurred about the year 1915:
Just at daybreak the settlement was
alarmed by an attack Of Indians, and it
was only by the utmost bravery and
daring that they we're retained in check
long enough to allow the families to rush
inside the fort for safety. Once within
the wall they held thesavages at defiance
for time only.
On consultation it was decided that
the whites could resist but short time
the attack of the Indians and, in order
to secure aid, q courier must be sent to
the Kincaid fort, almost Immediately
opposite, and about ton miles from the
place in which they were surrounded.
There were but few m"n, and it was
too hazardous trip to think Of send
ing q woman. What to do they knew
not.
But delay was dangerous; every mo:
ment was fraught with peril, and had it
not been for the heroism Of Miss emil
lie" Cooper, in all probability thes
would have all perished. She stepped
calmly forward and bade them bring her
q favorite horse belonging to the family,
and with the tears and prayers of her
imperiled friends, rode forth on her no.
BILE mission. As she dashed out OF the
inclosure the murderous Indians let fly
shower of arrows, and with blood
trickling down her horses sides, she
fairly few from danger.
In short time she arrived at the Kin
caid fort and related her story. Re-
enlorcements were sent out immediate;
.ly, and before the dinner hour the ras-
caliy redskins were routed and the set
tiers saved. The noble bravery Of the
young girl won her name that was not
soon forgotten.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
Singular SurnameS.

In an old work on English Sur
names and Patronymics," 1 find the fol-
lowing. They are names taken from O
jury list in Sussex county, in 1868, the
year in which Richard Cromwell sue
ceeeded his father as protector
"Faint-not Hewett; Accepted Trevor;
Redeemed Compton Make-Peace Hea-
ton ; God-Reward Smart; Stand-fast-
ou-high Singer Earth Adams Called
Lower /; Meek Brewer; Be-courteous
Cole; Repentance Avis; Search.the-
Scriptures Moreton Kill.sin Pimple !;
Return SpeIman; Be-faithful Joiner !;
Fly debate Roberts Fight-the, good.
fight.of faith White More-fruit Fowler;
Hope-for Bending; Graceful Harding ;
Weep.not Billing ; Seek wisdom Wood;
Elected Mitchell; The-peace-of-God
Kniobt -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
Yield Of the Precious Metals.

According to the figures of MIR. Val
entine, the general superintendent of
Wells, Fargo & Co., the total gold and
silver production of the United States
for the past year was $50, $685. ,037. MIR.
Valentine estimates the total yield for
1875 at 800, 900, 900, of which, he says,
S50,OO0,000 will doubtless come from
Nevada. The States. and Territories, in
which the yield fell off last year were
California, Idaho, Utah and Washington
the States, Territories and foreign ma
tions, where it increased, were Nevada,
Colorado, Mexico, Oregon, British Co.
lumbia, Montana and Arizona. The
falling off in California is attributed to
the lack of water, resulting from mild
winter. To supply water enough the
Sierras must be piled high with snow.
In the winter of 1915 very little fell.
The total yield of California is set down
at $14, 842, ,010 in gold dust and bullion
forwarded by express, and 81, ,4S4, 2Ol BY
other conveyances, making grand total
Of SIG, 1926. Oil. OF this sum at least
seven millions were absorbed by the
general government in customs, and sent
East, and at least eight millions by the
railroad to pay interest on its bonds and
dividends Oh its stock. The total yield of
Nevada is set down at $40, ,478, 1863, and
the Virginia City Enterprise thus COM
nents upon the fact: Nevada is State
containing only about forty thousand in
habitants, but, by the above showing,
she is evidently entitled to some consid-
Grafton at the hands of her sister States,
the Territories; and the world. at large.
1t is no small thing to yield more of the
precious metals than all the rest OF the
Union, with British Columbia and the
Mexican coast thrown in. This yield
has been attained, Notwithstanding the
lire which swept over Virginia and shut
up the Ophir and the bonanza mines
from the twenty-sixth- day of October
till almost the present time. The yield
of Nevada for 1875 is about twenty
tive per cent. above that for 1874, and
more than that in excess of any previous
year. Those who are best posted will
ugree with MIR. Valentine that Nevada
will produce $50, 900, 900 next year. In
fact, there is ore sufficient in sight in
half a dozen mines to multiply that
amount ten times over. The yield is,
however, limited to the capacity of the
mills for reduction rather than that of
the mines for reduction. And still the
developments are increasing day by day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
Thoughts for Saturday Night.
Immodest words admit of no defense.


Next to faith in God is faith in labor.
While We are reasoning concerning
life, life is gone.
All men would be masters OF others,
and no man is lord Of himself.
He enjoys much who is thankful for
little. A grateful mind isa great mind.
A guilty conscience is like whirl-
pool, drawing in all to itself which
would otherwise pass by.
Whoever appears to have much cum
ming has in reality very little being de-
ficient in the essential article, which is,
to hide cunning.
It is hard to soy which of the two we
ought most to lament-the unhappy
man who sinks under the sense of dis
honor, or him who survives it.
No man oppresses thee, o free and in,
dependent franchiser But does not
this stupid porter pot oppress thees No
son of Adam can bid thee come or 60
but this absurd pot of heavy wet-this
can and does. Thou art the thrall, not
of Cedric the Saxon, but of thy own
brutal appetites, and this soured dish
of liquor. And thou pratest Of thy
"liberty," thou entire blockhead.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
Formulation of
A Glance Mt the SquaWs.

An Omaha letter describes the Indian
squaws as exceedingly interesting to
visitors to the agencies in that region.
Their faces are more oval-shaped than
the males and less stern of expression.
They wear Their coal-black hair in two
braids hanging down on either side Of
their heads. Their eyes are large,
almond shaped, and something of bark
brown, sparkling and merry. Large
holes are cut in the upper and lower
parts of the ear. In these holes are
fastened large brass rings, to which are
a tackled turquoise beads, divided into
five or ten longitudinal sections. On the
end of this earring is the handsomest
portion Of a mother of-pearl shell. A
necklace of the same material, and fash
ioned in the same manner, is worn about
the neck.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
A Lesson In Arithmetic.

A applied to B for loan of $100. B
replied: "My dear A, nothing would
please me better than to obGge you, and
I will do it. I haven't 800 by me, but
make note and I'll indorse it, and you
can get the money from the bank. !"
Grateful A proceeded at once to write
the note. "Stay," said B, "make it
5000; I want 800 myself" A did so, B
indorsed the paper, the bank discounted
it, and the money was divided. When
the note was due Bwas in California and
A had to meet the payment. What he
is unable to cipher out is whether he
borrowed 800 of B, or B borrowed 800
of him.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
Why Is 1t !

Three reasons are assigned why many
farmers do not get pay for keeping their
hens. One is the failure to supply a
sufficient amount of suitable food and
water; another may be found in their
neglect to secure the eggs which are
laid and to sell the chickens early in the
season, when they will command good
price; while the third is the general
neglect to provide a suitable place for
the comfort and convenience OF the
hens.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
Manufacturing Statistics.

10 illustrate State distribution of
manufactures, the following are the sta
tistics of the United States, the annual
value of whose manufactured products
exceeds $50,000,000:
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-02-23
State OF New York.

The following comparisons OF the
population of the State of New York are
made from the official figures:
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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
Chalk Marks.

The most wretched poverty | can
think of is to want what we are too
stingy to buy. Money is oftener a
master than servant. Everybody
SENS dissatisfied with their lot, but it
they should swap places with the first
man that they met they would all be
willing to give something to boot to
trade back tomorrow. Take the lazi-
ness all out of this world and you
would take most of tire sin with ii. 1t
amt the man who can live well OH the
least. but the man who can live well
on the most, who is the wisest and hap
piest All temporal things are COM
mon property, and what is mine to-day
NAV be another's tomorrow. 1t amt
the fast nor the slow that oftenest win
the race, but the middle-gaited. The
man whose aim is only to make Others
laugh is one whom it won't do to trust /;
he is as uncertain rs monkey. Idle
ness weakens Il mans soul AZ much us it
does his body until the devil and disease
divide the premises between them.
How few there are who can tell even
the name of their great-great-grand-
father. or know who owned the farm II
hundred wears ago that they own to-
day. | notice one thing, that those
persons who have an utter disregard
for money have a disregard for most
everything else Without curiosity
man would be but one peg higher thnn
the bugs aud fishes. Ii requires much
wisdom to distinguish between trutl
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
NToN, MISSISSIPPI, JANUARY %, 1876.

without manure, exhausting- the land
at last, SO that in working it farther in
broom corn proved loss. 1t was,
therefore, determined to change the
crop, and oats were put upon eight
acres of the land, which was then
seeded to clover to enrich it. The
crop of oats was fair one; the clover
took we'll, and covered the ground well
by fall. In the spring (the latter part
of May the land was ploughed and
put, with the rest of the island, to
broom corn. This was not so intended
when the clover was sown, but to grow
a crop the second season and turn
down. 1t was said to be mere waste of
seed in the case of the young seeding.
But the result was altogether different.
The corn grew up dark and rich, and
promises to be superior crop, while
that on the land Immediately adjoining
is small, uneven and ailing, and will
not yield, from present indications
third of a crop.
The oat crop could not have been the
cause of this, as the oat is severe ex-
hauster of the soil. 1t must then have
been the clover, or rather the roots of
the clover. This becomes evident
when we consider the growth of this
plant, which the first year makes, as
has been automatically ascertained,
three and half feet; only a few
inches more the second. Besides, the
strength is at once appropriated by the
long, greedy corn roots, ere the nitro
gen can escape.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
The Centennial.

At the recent dinner given to the Wis
itors from Washington at Horticultural
Hall, on the centennial grounds at Phil
adelphia, the following statement was
made showing the foreign approprla,,
tions and the subscriptions received and
required for the enterprise:
Foreign appropriations Brit
ain, with Australia and Canada (gol0,
$3.50, 900; France and Algeria, sl2O,-
900; Germany, s17l,OOO; Austria
SIS, 200; Italy-government,S sSS' 900;
Chamber of Commerce, s3S. OOO-s16-
600; Spain, s150,000; Japan, $780,
600; Belgium, $4,000; Denmark,
(gold), s1O,500; Sweden, 900;
Norway, ga, 900; Chill (owner of all
goods exhibited, and all expenses Ven
ezuela Gall expenses, amount unllmlt-
ed; Ecuador, 10000; Argentine
Confederation, 100000 (owner OF all
goods exhibited).
The amounts of money which have
been subscribed toward the work are as
follows:
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22

and falsehood, and some honesty to
adopt the truth after we have found it.
You can make money with one hand,
but it takes both to hang ON to it.
Young man, don't work for nothing;
you can't make money or even reputa-
ton by it. Fortune loves to be as
saulted; she never gave whining cuss
much of anything yet. Truth can
wait, but lie is always in a great
hurry. 1t is very difficult to find a
man that is above his condition in life.
A man amt entitled to any more
credit for having great pedigree than
he is for having caught the measles
he can't tell why. IF a man really de-
serves fame he needn't hunt for it: it
will hunt for him. 1t amt so much
lack of ability as it is the Lack of grip
that ails mankind. Adversely may
ruin a man, but it gives him a chance
to die game. There are some people
who are lords and masters of their
money, but most people are the serv-
ants Of it. Young man, don't ask any
favors of anybody: it is better to have
the world owe you ten dollars than to
owe them one.-Josh Billings.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
Women who Never Wash.

A correspondent of the London
Standard writes:
Those of your readers who have
Travelled to Spain have certainly re-
marked the dirty stripes on the necks
of the lovely senoras; no devout Span
ish woman dares to bathe without per-
mission of her confessor. This aversion
to cleanliness has come forward from
the time of the anchorites, Sabinus,
Pachominus, Beraoion and the other
saints of the desert, and, indeed, whole
sects of that epoch condemned all alb
buttons as heathenish, and were lauded
because they wore their clothes so long
that they rotted and fell off of them,
or because their bodies became as
"pumice stone" from the crust of dirt
on it. The superstition that cleansing
the body soils the soul exists to-day
among the women Of those Christian
nations who have long carried on con-
f1icts with the Mohammedans, on whom
the Koran enjoins frequent ablutions.
A female Bulgarian is permitted to
wash only once in her life-on the day
before her wedding-and in most south
Sclavonian families the girls are rarely
allowed a bath, the women never. l
recall with a shudder the interior of
the Montenegro huts. When woman
offered me wine she always dipped her
finger into 1t, the same fingers which
had just been engaged in the chase on
her children's heads, or which had been
gently scratching the pig, the pet of
the family, which is addressed by en-
dearing names. The adults squat or
lie down, the children tumble about in
the liquid manure which covers the
floor of the hut, and many women are
blear-eyed in consequence of the creo-
sote caused by the smoke, which can
only escape through the door. The
Princess Milena, as | have said, forms
an exception.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-01-22
Scarcity of Southern Farm Labor.

1t is always an ungracious task to
recommend workmen who have moth
ing to do in our over-crowded Atlantic
cities to "Go West )" it subjects the
giver of the advice to the imputation
of cheap philanthropy, while the adj
vice itself, except in rare instances, is
never needed. The Bulletin, there
fore, drops the west, but would say
good word for the south and the adj
vantages it has to offer to all who are
willing to labor. At this moment, as
we learn from our exchanges, there is
an urgent demand for almost every de-
scription of farm labor, especially
throughout Mississippi, North Ala
bama and Tennessee. In Mississippi
there is still an extensive area of cot
ton yet ungathered, most of which, it
is feared, will be left TO ruin in conse-
quence of the mere lack of hands re-
quired to do the picking. According
to statement in the Louisville Cour-
Ter, planters are willingly paying four
and five cents per pound for this work,
which would yield to industrious men
from three to five dollars per day.
For day labor in other departments of
farm work two to three dollars per day
is paid. If the proper authorities in
our large cities would take the matter
in hand it is reasonably certain that
vast amount of suffering would be
relieved by providing the requisite
facilities for immigration to the sec
tions where this demand for labor ex-
lists. Once there, industrious laborers
of steady habits would have no trouble
in obtaining employment as societies
are forming which will give places to
as many good hands as may come.
The subject is certainly deserving the
attention of all who recognize that the
best way to relieve the present de-
pressed condition of the labor market,
north and east, is to transfer idle
hands from places where they are in
excess to those where they are really
wanted, and where they would be
amply recompensed.-Ne~ York Bd-
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