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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-28
How We Take Cold.

Getting wet, and wet feet, occupy n
very serious place in the list of colds;
and there is no doubt that damp and cold
applied to the general surface is the most
efficient means Of producing chill and
vital depression, with congestion of the
internal organs. It is necessary that
cold be combined with moisture to pro-
duce this effect. Even if all the clothes
on the body are wet, no harm will come
so long as they are kept warm; and this
suggests the very great value, to all per-
sons liable to exposure to wet, Of light
waterproof o%veralls. They may either
be put on to keep the Undertaking
dry; or if the underclothing has become
wet, either by weather or by perspiration,
they may be put on to prevent too rapid
evaporation and consequent reduction of
temperature, especially when the person
is about to remain still after getting warm
with exercise. In this variable climate,
therefore, schoolgirls, g~overnesses, shop
and factory girls, and all women whose
occupations call upon them to brave the
weather, ought to carry with them COM
plete waterproof mantles, made as light
as possible, but extending from the neck
to the ankles, which can be put on or not
MS required; and boys and men, similarly
exposed, should carry waterproof over
ais.
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The Ashtabula Slaughtpr.

Charles Paine, general superintendent
of the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern railway company, testified He has
q list of those supposed to have been
on the wrecked train at the Ashtabula
bridge /; some of whom were at first re-
ported as missing have been ascertained
hot to have been on the train some were
simply mistaken and some were fraudu-
lently so reported the list contains the
names of seyenty-two adults and eight
children supposed to be lost and sixty
nine saved !; some are marked doubtful ;
this list includes the names Of all known
to have been on the train, both passen-
gers and employees, many OF whom have
not been identified by any articles found
among the remains 4; have no means OF
knowing how many were on the train ex-
cept by conductors report he reports
1913 adult passengers, elk trnin hands,
five sleeping car hands, three express
men, two baggage men, and one news
boy; concerning the rlmored orders
aboutthe use of water on the fire, he did
not issue any such orders, and. knows OF
no such orders having been issued by
any officers Of the company MIR. Collins
never expressed any distrust of the safety
of tie bridge to him, and, on the con-
trary, said to him that it's only fault
in his opinion was its great surplus of
strength,
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An Extraordinary Story.

The New York Herald publishes an
extraordinary story, Of which the follow
ing is a very brief synopsis: Elizabeth
Mary Sanxay was born in Mulberry
street in 1927, and was married in 1871
to her cousin Louis Gordon Keith, a
naval captain in the United States ser
vice. On the death of her husband she
remained in Baltimore under the care OF
her cousin Archbishop Egglcstpn, who
placed her in supervision of st. Einccnt's
Asylum for Orphans on First street III
that city. The institution was formerly
in charge of the Black Cap Sisters, who
refused to retire until threatened with
legal process. A year later Mrs. Keith
and her infant daughter were kidnapped,
and conducted by one Lovegrow to the
Mount Hope lunhtic asylum, where the
mother was forcibly detained for seven
years, being mourned rs dead by hel
relatives. She finally regained her
liberty through the interference OF
Archbishop Hendricks, and returned to
her father i'll New York. In search OF
health she went to Williamsburgh, Va,
where she was again kidnapped, and
confined in a lunatic asylum for eighteen
years. She was finally liberated by II
military commission, appointed by Major
General Hanco, TX, by which she was
pronounced sane. Even then she was
detained on various pretexts for some
months, but vas finally restored to her
brother r. Selby Sanxay, who had been
informed of her existence. The lady who
is said to have undergone this terrible
experience is now living in East Twenty
eight street, in New York city.
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Running O Bank.

The first national bank of Franklin,
johnson county, Indiana, has closed its
doors, the cashier, Richard T. Taylor,
having absconded after a long series Of
forgeries, which have nearly absorbed
the entire capital of the institution. An
indianapolis letter says: The defalca-
ton is the largest ever perpetrated in the
State, and the full particulars have not
yet been disclosed. Taylor was in this
city and sold SIG, 900 worth Of exchange
belonging to the bank to the Indiana
banking company, $1,000 on New York,
49, 900 on Louisville, and $4,000 on Gin
cinnati. He kept $40, 600 and left $4,000
to the credit of the bank. He was last
seen going toward the depot and said he
was going home. His disappearance led
to an examination of the affairs of the
bank, and it was ascertained that he had
taken out $25, 900 of the reserve, and
that the running money Of the bank was
So, 900 short. The bills receivable are
about $62, 900 short, and the supposition
is that he discounted them and used the
money, rs many foreign bankers have
lately been writing here making inquiries
about the bank. His brother, Elmer
Taylor, who is assistant cashier of the
bank, received letter from him explain
ing that the affairs of the bank were in
q worse condition than one would mag
inc; that he had been forcing balances
and deceiving the bank examiners fora
long time, and had been paying divi-
dends to stockholders without earning
them. He took with him the general
ledger, in which all the accounts of the
bank were kept, and therefore it is i'm
possible to tell the condition OF the
bank. The bank is the fftieth national
bank in the United States and the second
in this State, and had q capital Of $780,
900 and q surplus of $4,000, making a
total of $3.50, 900. The deposits were
probably q few thousands less. The
bank is owned by rich farmers of the
county, who know little about banking
business, and Taylor has been cashier
and general manager Of it since 1870,
and had almost unlimited control Of it's
affairs. He is about thirty-two years of
age and has always stood high in the
community. He leaves q wife and one
child behind him. He had good habits.
It is thought that he has been operating
largely in Chicago margins, and this is
supposed to be the cause Of his downfall.
It is expected that he has absorbed the
entire capital of the bank, and rs he was
not required to give bonds the farmer
stockholders will have to stand the loss.
It is feared that al examination will re-
veal that some Of the banks of this city
will lose by his deialcations, as the bank
had almost unlimited credit. Such an
excitement was never known in the town
Of Franklin before.
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The GOSPEL OF Merit.

Where there is omuch rivalryasin the manu-
facture of family medicines. lie who would Sue
coed mnst give positive and convincing proof of
merit. This is an age of inquiry. People take
nothing for granted. Tehy must know the
"mhys" ard "rherefores" before acknowledge
ing tho superiority of one article over
another. Among the few preparations
that have stood the test, those marufac-
tured by Il. V. Pierce, N. D., of the
Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo, n. Y, have for
many years been fM emost. The truth Of any
statement made concerning them can be easily
ascertained, for DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery are now
prescribed by many physicians in curing obsti-
nate c~ases:of catarrL and ~incipient cons,mp-
ton. The Discovery has 10 equal in curing
coughs. colds. bronchial and nervous affec-
tons. 1t allays all irritation Of the mucous
membrane, aids digestion, and when used
with DR.. Picrcc's Pleasant Purgative Pellets
readily overcomes torpid Hrer and cons ipa-
ton, while the Favorite Prescription has no rival
in the field of prepared medicine in curing
discusses peculiar to females. If you wish to
"know MyseJ' procure q copy of 1.-THE
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser" an
illustrated book of nearly ] 600 pages. adapted
to the wants of everybody. Price s1.5O, post
age prepaid. Address the author. r. V. Pierce,
Buffalo, n, Y.
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Down in a Coal Mine.

The difficulty of obtaining coal at
greater depths than those now reached
is more formidable than is commonly
supposed. It is we'll known that at a
depth of fifty feet below the surface of
the earth English biologists mark a zone
Of equable temperature, the thermometer
there showing fifty degrees. Observa-
ton shows, too, that this temperature
increases at the uniform rate of one de-
gree for every ffty-tive feet; so that at
the depth of l Zoo feet the temperature
is about seventy-eighf degrees. One
mine in England, 1,640 feet deep, is, it
is said, already worked to great disad-
vantage, owing to the inability Of the
miners to endure the steady heat: In
the c~olliery the shaft is 2,376 feet deep,
and the temperature is n~inety-eight de-
grees, or blood heat, and there pro,
longed labor is impossible. The limit
of profitable mining, therefore, is be-
lieved to be about LOO feet, and at
1000 additional feet mining is impracti-
cable. At the depth of 1000 feet the
temperature would, according to this,
be not less than 1872 degrees, and at 49,
600 feet it would be at the boiling point,
if not higher.
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4 FerYent Appeal.

4 good story of a hospital Sunday ser
mon was told an exchange. In a district
inhabited by wealthy people, but mostly
connected with trade, and in which "com-
mcrcial credit is everything, the clergy
man in question preiacoI his discourse
with these words: "Befnre commencing
my appeal to your purses, my friends, L
will mention IL case Of conscience which
las been put to Inc this morning by an
esteemed member of this congregation.
He is, he says, to all appearance a rich
man, but in reality is on the verge of
bankruptcy. He would wish to put his
S. note in the collection plate as usual !;
but would it be honest, he asks, seeing
that what money lie has left is, in fact,
his creditors, and not his own. I have
advised him, dear friends, not to give !;
and if any of you are i'll Il similar I'M
happy plight, 1 also say: BE Just
before you are generous Those III good
circumstances will, on the other hand,
give acc riding to their means" 1t is
said that so many S. notes were never
seen in the collection plate before rs On
the occasion of that sagacions appeal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-28
Remarkable Cures.

Gen. \. J. Pleasonton's theories con-
corning the influence of blue and sun
light upon life and disease are attracting
much attention. 4 correspondent Of the
Chicago Tribune has recently striven to
renew public interest in the matter by
relating some of the remarkable cures
which have been wrought by means of
blue glass. For instance, two old friends
of Gen. Pleasonton were afflicted with
rheumatism in the forearms, from their
elbow Joints to their finger ends, 50 Sc
we're at times that they were unable to
hold pens. They obtained a piece Of
blue glass and set it up loosely in Il of
their windows. For three days they
AIRED their arms and held them in the
associated blue and sunlight for thirty
minutes. Each day brought them re-
lief and at the esd Of three days the
rheumatism had disappeared. A little
child that had, from its birth, scarcely
any use of its legs, WAS taken to play
daily in a room where blue glass formed
a portion of one of the windows. In a
very short time it obtained the use of
it's legs, and learned to walk and run
without difficulty. The correspondent
gives a page from his own experience.
"A lady OF my family, about six weeks
ago, had a violent hemorrhaSe of the
lungs, and for ten days raised more or
less blood daily. She was very much
weakened by the loss of blood, and con
siderablv frightened withal. / obtained
some blue glass and placed it in the win
dow where she was in the habit Of sit
ting, the blue glass constituting one-half
Of the lower sash of the window. The
lady sat daily in the associated lights, al
lowing the. blue rays especially to fall
upon the nerves of the back Of the neck
for about an hour ii day. The second
day, the suns rays being unusually
strong, she got too much blue glass, and
at night felt peculiar sensations III the
back OF the neck, among the nerves, and
an unpleasant fullness in the head.
These sensations wore off next day, AND
since then she has not remained SO long
al II time under the blue glass. But
from the first she begun to grow strong
er. her face soon gained its natural full
ness, and in a week she was to all APP
pcarances as well as ever. Of course
size was not cured Of the trouble in her
lungs in so short a time, but the sore
ness in her chest has passed away and
she begins to feel well again." Another
lady who had lost her hair sat under
glass and regained it. Another-but a
paragraph, like all other good things,
must come to IN end sometime.
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The Troops in Washington.

A Herald dispatch says: Anticipat-
ing @ request for information from the
special committee on the use of the
army in certain of the Southern States
as to why troops were concentrated in
Washington, it is understood the Presl-
dent has instructed the secretary of war
to answer that in November last, when
the order was given for troops to come
here, there was grave apprehension lest
the negro population OF the District OF
Columbia, then represented to be in
great restitution, should attempt a raid
on the treasury building and otherwise
endanger the peace of the citizens OF
Washington generally. That there was
great political excitement growing out
of the Presidential vote, and the ext
geucy demanded the presence here Of an
armed force which was brought here at
very little extra expense over that OF
transportation, and that on the whole a
change of station had been beneficial to
the troops. Any political intent is dis
claimed for the order bringing the
troops to this city.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-28
The First White Child.

In 1897 Jasper bankers and Peter
Sluyter, two travellers, appeared in New
York, who had been sent from Europe
by q religious sect, called Labadists, to
find some suitable place for a colony.
The founder of the sect was Jean De
Labadie, a native OF Bordeaux, and he
had not many converts to his doctrines
among persons OF learning. His public
declaration that he was inspired and
specially directed by Christ filled the
clergy with dismay, and caused him and
his followers to be driven to Westphalia,
and aftcrward to Denmark.
The two ENJOYS landed about four
O'Clock on Il September afternoon, and
were invited to a supper by a fellow pas
scnger at the house Of his father-in-law
jacob Swart, where they were invited to
spend nc night, and graciously re
cepted the invitation. The next day WAS
Sunday, and, after partaking OF al APP
petizing breakfast of fish and fruit, they
went to church "to avoid scandal as
they said. In the afternoon they were
escorted by Mr.. and Mrs. Swart to a
tavern, where their daughter lived.
Toward evening they called upon one
of Mr.. Swart's %neighbors. His name
was Jean Vigne. He was the first male
child born in New York, of European
parents. The date Of his birth, accord
ing to these travellers, must have been
1914, the very earliest period Of white
settlement. His mother owned Il farm
near Wall aud Pearl streets. He
was at this time i'll possession OF the
old homestead, andkept an ancient wind.
mill constantly ct work upon the hill
back of his house. He was q brewer,
as well as a farmer ; and he was II O
the great burghers of the city. He tillec
the Office of schepen in 1863, in 1855 ant
in 1856. He left nc children ; bu
the descendants of his sisters are scat
tered through the country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-28
How Il Woman Orders q Chest

Holokus writes During married
life my wife has insisted that we couldn't
keep house properly without a large
chest, for be0 clothes and odd traps.
Last week I took the dimensions from
her, questioning as follows
elbow long?'
"Well, say ten feet" and she held
her hands about a yard apart.
Chow wide?"
"Well, pretty wide, say six feet"
measuring it on her apron.
Elbow deep?"
ooh, have it deep, I guess eight feet
will be about right"
Bridget arrived while we were ut tea.
"Sure, sir" said she, "that Ryan, the
storekeepcr, is here wild a small barn on
n sthone boat. He's torn down both
the gate posts drivin' in. 1 think it's n
chist he calls it, and he says where1yez
have it?"
I've succeeded in proving by the origi-
nal mem. of measurements that there
was an error somewhere. The "chist y
has a window in it, and contains the
COW, cali and one bale of hay. Wife
says she is going to find a man that
knows how to build a chest and not
make it large enough for a cattle barn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-28
A Change.

When you feel Disguised because the
street cars are cold and your Office chilly,
says a city paper, imagine yourself a
farmer out watering n drove of stock in
q creek five miles from home, with the
ice twenty inches thick, the snow two
feet deep, the mercury clear down in the
boots of zero, the wind blowing like q
1,OOO-horse tanning mill from the north
east, and every animal in the crowd try
ing to horn you in the back because you
don't chop holes fast enough.
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From ]. II. Jackson, Esq, of Croton, N. "
About six years since, my wife was attacked
with a difficulty of the lungs and stomach, spit
ting of blood. etc., accompanied by great sore
ness. and was thought by all to be in Il danger
ols condition. She WIS under the care of n
Rkillful physician for more than Il Year, and
aftcrward tried many of the most popular
cough rcmcd es. but slle received no permanent
relief until WrsTAI's BAIsAM was used, a few
bottles Of which restored her to her usual
health. / would add that this balsam has been
used by other members OF my family, and I can
truly say that 1 know of no other cough remedy
in which I have so much confidence. l would
recommend WISTAR's BALsAM OF WILD CHERRY
to all in need Of q safe and reliable cure for
coughs, colds or any other diseases Of the throat
and lungs"
so cts. and 81 a bottle. Sold by all druggists.
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Apples being SO abundant this season,
the sheep may be treated to n feed once
n week. There are none Of our domestic
animals who feel the change from green
food to dry so scnsibly rs the sheep, and
they need a feed of turnips, apples, cab
bage or something Of that kind quite
often. This prevents costiveness or
stretches, an ailment common to sheep
in this country but unknown in Great
Britain, where turnips are fed daily.
Sailing sheep is quite as important in the
winter season rs i'll any other. Indeed,
all animals should have access to salt
daily.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-02-28

Our readers who may visit New York
on business or pleasure will find the fremont
Amity sts., pleasantly and centrally located,
conducted on the European plan good rooms
st rs cents and one dollar per day. A frst-class
restaurant, with very reduced prices. Tho pro-
prictors and clerks are attentive and obliging,
and. any one going from this section will do well
, to give them q call.
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TURN ABoUT.-"Going into partner
ship with Jones! I should have thought
you'd had enough of partnerships, after
Brown" "Ah, You see. when we first
became partners, Brown had all the ex-
p%erience, and I all the money. Now,
Jones has all the money, and I've all the
experience"
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Is there one reader of this paper suf-
fering from rheumatism? If so write to
Helpllcnstinc & Bentley, druggists, Washing
ton, D.. c., for 4 circular of Durang's Rhcu-
matte Remedy This medicine is taken in
t~ernally, and will positively cure any case of
rheumatism on the face of the green earth.
Price, one dollar a bottle.
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There arc more than one thousand
different kinds of pills in the United States.
Some Of them are worthless and injurious,
others are good and beneficial. Old DR.. Par
sons invented the best anti-bilious pill We ever
saw or heard of. They arc now sold under the
name of Parsons Pmrgdtire Pills.
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MISSISSIPPI.
1881. Branch X. Bruce.
1883. l.. Z. G. Lamar.
MISSOURI.
1879. L"riS !. Bogu.
1881. F. ". Crockett.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
.i1S79. B. Wadleigh.
!1SS3. L. II. Rollins.
NEW JERSEY.
1881. T. =. Randolph.
1888. j. r. Mcpherson.
NEW YORK.
1870. Roscoe Conkling.
1881. Francis Herman.
NEBRASKA.
1881. y. ;. Paddock.
1883. Alvin Saunders.
NEVADA.
1879. John p. Jones.
William Sharon.
NORTH CAROLINA.
1879. 4. S. MrlrimOn.
1883. Nat. ". Ransom.
OHIO.
1879. John Sherman.
1881. 4. q. Thurman.
OREGON.
1879. John II. Mitchell.
1885. L. Il. Grocer.
PENNSYLVANIA.
1870. Simon Cameron.
1851. Vim. 4. Wallace.
RHODE ISLAND.
1881. 4. Z. Burnside.
1888. H. b. Anthony.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
1879. J. J. Patterson.
1888. d. T. Corbiu.
TENNESSEE.
1881. lanes +. Er1ley.
1883. LShdnt &. Harris.
TEXAS.
1881. S. 3. Marcy.
1888. Richard Cole.
1879. Justin $. Morrill,.
1851. Geo. f. Edmunds.
VIRGINIA.
1881. Robert E. WiiherS.
1888. j. ". Johnston.
WEST VIRGINIA.
1881. Frank Hereford.
1888. Henry q. D0ris.
WISCONSIN.
1879. Tim. 0. Howe.
1881. Angus Cameron.