The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-11-28
VOLUME XIV.
Items OF Interest.


There are eight doctors in the present
Congress.
1t is no particular credit for man to
,lie game. Wolves and buzzards 10 that
very thing.
"Jane, it is eleven o'clock; tell that
young man to shut the door from the
OusIde."
Two hundred winding American
watches have been sent to India for rail-
way service.
4 grand international cattle fair is to
be held in Switzerland at the close Of
September, 1873.
"No, ma'am," said grocer to an ap-
plicant for credit, Il wouldn't even
trust my own feelings.
Franklin snys, "a poor man must
work to ird meat for his stomach,
rich one to find stomach for meat"
Some boys in Woodford county, KY,
tried to smoke ont rabbit. Result
1850 bushels OF barley destroyed by fire.
The longest railroad bridge in the
world spans an estuary of the Tay river,
in Scotland, and is nearly two miles in
length.
II NIL Russia and all Turkey should
come to engage in the strife, there would
be 81, ,OOO,OO Russians fighting 43,0OO,-
900 Turks.
Learned professors know about 3O, GOO
words children Of two from 200 to 7O5;
ordinary people, 5000; book agents,
$3.50, ,998.
Stonewall Jackson held that three
kinds of courage prevail among soldiers
in battle, based respectively on insensl-
bility, pride, duty.
4 drunken legislator said that lie was
self-made man. "Ihat fact, said MI.
Greeley, "relieves the Almighty of
great responsibility.
Flour" says Il Chicago exchange,
"has declined one dollar" 1t requires
a good deal of moral courage to decline
a dollar in these times.
During the year just closed the
United States sold ZOE, 5,000, 900 yards OF
cotton goods abroad, ten times more
than was exported the year before.
The telephone is being rapidly put
into use at Boston. About one hundred
mercantile houses are already connected
with every express Office in the city.
A boy undertook to torture a wasp
by touching lighted match to it body,
The wasp applied it's warm side to the
boys hand, and as it few away it gave
the boy these words of wisdom, Never
try to beat a man at his own game
R. NJ. T. Hunter, of Virginia; r. C.
Winthrop and N. P. Banks, of Massa-
chusetts; Theodore NJ. Pomeroy, of New
York; Galusha A. Grow, Of Penn
sylvania; Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana,
and James G. Blaine, Of Maine, are the
living cx-Speakers of the House of
Representatives.
The aggregate debts Of the six New
England States amount to $50, 1881. .ll9,
and the net debts to $3S, ,2l9,357. The
debt of Massachusetts is nearly two
thirds of the whole. The annual inter-
est account OF the six States IS 2,7O2,-
568. 8.1S, of which Massachusetts, pays
1877, 523.20 in gold, and the other
States combined pay 1,O25, ,O44.9S IN
currency. All the loans Of Massachu-
setts are at five per cent, and oil those
of the other States are ut SIX per cent.
WOULDN'T co.
Will YOU climb to the Bars with me- Susie?
There little left OF to-day,
See the trees, lit with fragments OF sunshine,
Forgotten to flee away.
The leaflets are glancing and dancing,
The river flow sparkling and bright
Let lis climb the gray cliffs to the highlands
And list 10 the voice Of the night,
"'ro the voice of the night will listen.
She said" but your voice is 50 fiat,
I'd rather stay in and wash dishes,
Than climb up those hills to hear that =
At Il meeting of the executive con-
mittee of the American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, held
in New York, the following report was
made by the superintendent: since May
last, 474 cases OF cruelty to animals hal
been prosecuted in New York and Brook
lyn, and out of that number four were
dismissed by the New York courts and
twenty-three by the Brooklyn magis-
trates. During the same period, 74S
horses were found working in lame,
sore and suffering condition, and sent to
their stables or hospital for treatment;
i 70 disabled horses were removed from
the streets in ambulances; 541 worthless
and diseased horses humanely destroyed,
and over 200 complaints from citizers
were investigated.