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WOODS THEATER.

MONDAY EVENING, October 8. engage
MCnt OF DEN THOMPSON,
In his Three Act Drama, entitled
JOSHUA WHITCOMB,
Supported by Miss Julia Wilson, Master Wal
ter Klein, and q full Dramatic Company, in
Conj Junction with strong Novelty Company,
including Miss Adrian Gray, Miss Ear Al
lison, Miss Julia Benton, Miss Ida Lawson,
Prof Mazoni, Miss Webster and several others
Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
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FRUITS.

Oranges and Lemons.
TUTST RECEIVED A LOT OF ORANGES
D. and Lemons direct from the vessel, and
VIII sell at lowest market prices.
ke25 Gountry orders promptly filed
WILLIAM FISCHER, Cor. Walnut and 9th.
aull-3m-S&ru
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opnssnn!AMf6SusE.| snAfS TONIGHT
Last week Of the Eminent Trasedian

:. Last week Of the Eminent Tragedian
LAWRENCE BARRETT.
THIS WEDNESDAY EVENING, October ",
RICHLLIEU.
Cardinal Richelieu. .......... Lawrence Barrett
Thursday, October liza Counterfeit Pre-
sentiment" Friday, October 2-"The Mer-
chant Of Venice" ana "David Garrick." Sat-
Hrday, October 13-" Julius Cesar"
Last Barrett Matinee Saturday. Coun-
terfeit Presentment."
! Monday, Octo. l5-The Lingards and Combi-
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-10

The gold taken from the bodies OF Col
lins and Bass, the Union Pacific train
robbers, who were killed at Buffalo,
Kan ,as, arrived at Omaha yesterday,
and the am Iunt is SIS, 800. 1t is probable
that they had originally just one.third
oil the amount stolen.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-10

The following marriage licenses were
ssued since our last report:
Ernst Wern and Katie Haag.
John Borkes and Nora Johnson.
joel Kennedy and Dora Vonkeinbuseh.
John Miller and Jusilla Marshall.
Wm. Jackson and Phebe Leeds.
Abijan j. NJ lies and Martha Golfer.
G. +. SlaW and Kate L. sullivan.
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NATIONAL THEATER COMIQJE,

Tonight and every night this week, MR.. A.
ii. SHELDON and MISS NELLIE SANFORD
Sn their fouI -act Sensational Drama, entitled
WEALTH AND CRIME, in connection with
our Vaudeville stars. tt
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-10

A new fancy IF Worth is shown in an
elegant black dress made with basqne
uud demi-trained skirt, with pleatings
on the edge of the front, and the side
cores trimmed with panels, and back
breadths caught together with long
loops and ends Of ribbon.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-10

George M Jewett. OF GAINESVILLE, Sat-
urday purchased of Henry BImple, H IT,
water aud Frank Harlan. Both horses
are we'll known TO the Ohio turf.
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Francis Murphy is to be in this CITY.
and speak at Pixies Opera-house. On
Monday and Tuesdny evenings, 22d Saa
2SI inst.
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ADJUSTMENTS.
ROBINSON'S OPERA-HOUSE.
b. MACAULEY......... Manager.

WEDNESDAY EVENING, October 10, third
night OF the famous
MIR. AND MRS. FRANK l. FRAYNE
In the celeb ated American Drama, entitled
81 SL0CUM; Or. The TR PPER AND HIS Doc.
Introducing the entirely novel sensation, the
Robbery Of Wells, Fargo \ Co.'s Overland Mail
Coach.
Saturday-Only 81. sLOCUM Matinee.
Next Week-Mr. and Mrs. w. J. FLOR
ENCE. supported by their brilliant New York
Company OF Comedians. Tuesday, October
22-First ni9ht Of EDWIN BOOTH.
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THE LATEST
THE ELECTION.
A Victory for the Democracy.
WOrkingmen Poll Heavy Vote and Gain
Plurality in Several Wards.
Silas w. Hoffman Defeated for
County Auditor.

The election yesterday passed off
quietly. But little lie and fire was
shown by the voters, and the politi-
clans were sorely puzzled as to how the
three tickets were running.
The Democracy felt some ewhat uncer-
tain until towards evening, when they
found they were likely to be ahead, ow-
ing to the immenee vote which was
taken from the Republican party and
cast for the Workingmsn.
The new system OF one hundred and
torty-seven voting precincts did every
thing In keeping order and making the
election one Of no excitement. But few
disputes were heard Of, and these
amounted to nothing of consequence
mere wordy brawIs, resulting in no az
rests. One man only was arrested Tor
selling liquor and two for illegal voting.
Scratching the ticket was never 80
fully INDUCED in within this city as yes.
lerday. This was enormous on the
Democratic side. The Workingmen,
however, voted their ticket straight
They carried several OF the German
wards, among them being the stanoh
Democratic Ward, the Thirteenth, which
never yet Went In favor Of the Rspub-
licans.
A terrible fight was made by the ri ngs
to secure the election OF Silas w. Hoff-
man for County Auditor. Every avail
able means to secure vote tor him was
resorted to. 1t seems queer that Hotf-
man only ran ahead of his ticket In the
Ninth Ward, III which Mr.. Alex. Sans
resides.
ln the remaining wards he invariably
kept far behind Bishops vote. His
name was unprecedentedly scra atched
by the Democrats, only minor portion
OF them voting straight ticket. In The
Twenty-tourth Ward some of tue pre-
cincts cast off Hoffman entirely, not CIV.
ing him a single vote.
The fact that Hoffman gained the vote
he did receive, IS partly due to the num-
Der of spurious tickets in circulation.
HutmaHs name was on every ticket,
and many OF the unsuspicious were
taken in badly. His defeat, however, is
certain. Below is the result of the eiec-
tlon as far as can be ascertained:
The following INCLUDE l4j out of 147
city precincts, and "a OF the 40 country
precincts:
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Returns are now all in except from
Columbia, Oakley, and two precincts OF
Camp Dennison. The tootlngs give
Bishop a plurality of 3,Ol6 over West.
Howel's plurality for State Treasurer
is 2 1853
The contest between Cappeller and
Hoffman is set led In favor OF the former
by the following vote:
Cappeller. R,.......................... l27
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CHICAGO, Oct. 10 Returns from Iowa
are from but comparatively few points.
In tiity-three precincts and towns. in
cludlng three counties, Gear has Ills
Irish Ais, Jessup 1877, S.ubbs 20s1
townships, &C., give m ,jorities as fol.
lowss r republican, call; Democrats,
1,O42; Prohibition, 80.
The best estimates place the Republi.
can maJ ,rity at u, 900 with a m ajorfty on
joint ballot approximating sixtY.tye.
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Cappeler's plurality y.................... 372
Senger, Workingmen's candidate, re-
ceived 1854.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-26
Morrissey and COlfax.

It is related that when John Morris
sey was elected to Congress, and Colfa1
was speaker, Morrissey, knowing Col
fake liking for a good cigar, dittidently
approached the door of the speakers e
room in the capital building one day,
but drew back when he saw that num-
Der of other members we're inside. AT
length the last visitor having departed,
John timidly ventured in. Colfax re-
ceived him with a kindly open hand.
"You like good cigars, MIR. Colfax?"
blurted out bluntly Mr.. Morrissey.
Mr.. Colfax smiled, with On affirmative
motion of his head. evil you please
accept from me box of the very best
Hayanas ever landed in this country p
"It would delight me exceedingly, Mr.:
Morrissey, to receive it." "l'n send
two of them to your house this after
noon" "Oh, Mr.. Morrissey, you are
too generous" Mr.. Morrissey, played
with his fingers awhile, and then blurted
out again "Mr. Colfax, I have favor
to ask of YOU" Colfax started, alarmed, !,
but asked: "And, pray, what is it,
Mr.. Morrissey?" "Why, you are just
now making up your committees, and !
would like to have you, if you will, put
me on one where I'll have nothing to
do" Colfax, relieved, smilingly gave
assurance that the desire should be
gratifed. And Mr.. Morrissey was made
chairman of the committee on revolu
tionary pensions. Francisco But
I'D:
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S0nhia Frey'S Case.

Sophia Frey, a girl of twenty-five,
heiress to $4,000, applies in one OF the
Philadelphia courts to be declared sane
and given the control of her property.
She was adjudged lunatlc in May, 1876,
upon the application of her aunt, who,
it is said. will inherit as next of kin
should Sophia die in an asylum, for
lunatics do not make wills-valid wills,
that is. When Sophia's father died,
leaving her a totally untaught and ig-
norant girl OF twelve, she fell into the
hands of an aunt who sent her off to o
country place in New Jersey, Sophia
STAYED there nire years, growing up
entirely wild and Observation-Disclosures at
her own instance or not does not appear,
except by suggestion, in the proofs 50
far taken. But in May, 1876, when her
aunt applied to have her adjudged insane
it was satisfactorily shown that she could
not read or withholding then twenty
one years old-could not count on her
fingers and did not know what money
was. Insane she was declared to be-.
But in the asylum what does she do but
find book and a teacher and learn to
read with great promptitude, as though.
being legally lunatic, she yet had =
certain sane appreciation OF things, and
even in her inexperience wished to sug-
gest that, had she chanced to be taught,
she might have learned before. Also q
physician says that she is really not
crazy, though her mind is weak, anu anu
that she is capable of administering hei
own affairs. If her case is correctly re-
ported doubtless the law will recognize
that n mind left idle for twenty years
NAV be weak as child's and yet not
rone.--N.w York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-26
Foreign Excavations.

Since Schleimann unearthed the
bones and treasures of Agamemnon at
Mycena, perfect fever of excavation
on ancient sites has seized upon the
Greeks and the outside world. Ger
mans are digging at Olympia, and they
have gone to the very root, laying open
the foundations of the ancient temple OF
Zeus, and developing the whole circuit
of the sacred enclosure in which the
Olympic games were celebrated. As
yet they have not dug up any of the
fragments of the ivory and gold statue
of Jove, by Phidias. The French are
excavating at Delos, the birthplace OF
Apolla and Diana, and the treasure
hold of ancient Greece. They have al
ready laid bare considerable remains of
the temple of Apollo, built in the 13Oth
Olympiad, and who knows if they may
unearth some of the hidden treasures OF
the confederated states of antiquity, and
in the neighboring cemetery-island of
Retina-bring to light the skeletons,
arms, and entsmbed relics of the
mighty heroes buried in that consecrat-
ed ground.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-26
The Signs Of the Times.

A sign on Clinton street, New York,
reads "Wite- Washing and Chimlies
Clened.
"Vade Me Come Cigars are for sale
at tobacco shop on Ann street.
One can get GA Good Dinner, Supper
and Breakfast for 10 Cents on Centre
street.
"Home made Oysters, Pies and Fam
lilies Supplied" is the sign outside a
West Broadway dining saloon.
A Thompson street barber announces a
Resumption Of Specie Shaving" what
ever that may be.
A sign on the fence around vacant
lot in Brooklyn, next door to butchers
store, reads "Tbis Land for Sale with
Gore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-26
The RuIe of Three.

A theological student, who ventured
out from an Ohio college recently to
preach in little village near Cleveland,
learned while there that countrymen are
appreciative of literary art, He preach
ed sermon on the mystical importance
of the number 3-three kinds Of life,
mineral, vegetable, and animal Noah
had three sons faith, repentance, and
baptism, the three things necessary to
salvation, etc. After the service an aged
deacon approached him and said
"Really, your discourse was one of the
most ingenious I ever listened to. ]
was sorry that you did not carry your
illustration in regard to that wonderful
number just little further. For in.
stance, there are three lamps in the
chandelier hanging yonder F.; there are
three aisles running through this house:
three books lie on the pulpit there are
three ink-spots on this table; and
better than all, I noticed three colored
men in the gallery"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-26
Celebrating the japanese Emperor's
Rirthday.

* correspondent Of the New York
Evening Post writes from Japan in re-
gard to the birthday of his majesty Nut
suhito, the emperor !: In the capital the
morning was devoted to q splendid re-
view of the victorious army by the en-
peror, and the evening to brilliant
gathering held at the seaside palace
O-Hamogoten, under the auspices of the
minister Of foreign affairs, b. E. Mr..
Terashima. The exhibition was opened
to the public free of charge, and one of the
imperial bands detailed. to furnish music
there for the delectation of tie crowd.
Flags of the rising sun and floral decora-
tions were universal, and the town wore
a holiday aspect. In Yokohama an extra
ordinary observance of the day was
held. All the men-of-war were dressed,
and a salute fred at noon. At dusk the
Japanese men-of-war were elaborately
illuminated and began discharge OF
fireworks that continued till late in the
evening. But the most astonishing of
all were the day fireworks set off from
public gardens. Bombs are discharged
high into the air, q thousand or fifteen
hundred feet at least, when they burst
with loud report and assume the most
delicate and lovely forms imaginable.
Usually the color is that Of feecy
cloud but sometimes purple, red, yell
low and even blue tints are introduced
with charming effect. The programme
included ninety-two pieces, OF which
about third were thus let off in broad
daylight. We had in these airy shapes
weeping willows, imperial flags, fishes, a
stream of silver threads, chrysanthe-
NUNS, dragons pursuing balls, various
animals, a fight of white heron, q
shower of maple leaves, Chinese tiger,
and finally q very curious and pretty
shower of umbrellas, which, released
with puff and bang, futtered down
in more or less steady parachute mo-
ton to the ground and the eager urchins
upon it. The evening fireworks had
greater brilliancy, of course, and were
often e1quisitely beautiful, but did not
create that astonishment and pleasure
caused by the afternoon display.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-26
A Strange Fish,

One day last week, after hard strug-
gle, George Whitney captured on
Cockenoes bar, off Norwalk, fish sell
dom seen in these parts. 1t answered
the description given by ichthyologists
of the goose fish 'or angler, also known
as the fishing frog. It was four or five
feet long, nearly as broad, flat, had one
flap on each side something like scale
with an opening or pocket behind run
ming forward under the mouth, and two
small legs with five toes webbed to-
eether. The strangest feature, how
ever, was it's immense mortar.shaped
mouth. When open it was frightful to
contemplate, and would just about COM
fortably take in an ordinary keg. It was
on exhibition for several days. 1t is a
worthless fish and lives on muddy bot
toms.-New Haven Palladium.
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Ingenious Pickp0cKets.

Lucy h. Hooper says that the Partisan
pickpocket has invented special mode
of theft. The thief enters the omnibus,
chooses his seat beside some well-dressed
and apparently afluent person, and re-
mains motionless and apparently ab-
sorbed in his reflections. But between
his finger and thumb he holds O very
small grain of shot attached to a black
silk thread of extreme fneness and
strength. When his next neighbor
opens his or her pocket-book to pay the
fare, the thief adroitly throws his grain
of shot into the pocket. book, retaining
the end of the silk thread in his hand.
The pocket-book is closed and replaced
in the owners pocket. grsin OF shot and
all. The thief profits by some extraor.
dinary Jolt of the vehicle to fall against
his neighbor, and in that moment he
draws in the silk thread and gains pos
session of his prize.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-26
A Telephone In the Mines.

The Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise
of late date says: The telephone was
Yesterday afternoon put into the Con-
solidated Virginia mine, and was found
to work to perfection. An instrument
has been placed on the 1850 level, from
which wire is carried up the shaft and
out :. to an instrument in the private
Office, O short distance south of the main
building. A number of persons, princi-
pally those connected with the mine,
were present when the tests were made.
Colonel Fair, who was above in the
Office, received the first message from
the depths. It was from one of the
gentlemen engaged in putting up the
instrument, and was as follows; "Col-
onel Fair, allow me to congratulate you
upon the Introduction Of the telephone
into the 1850 level of the Consolidated
Virginia mine"
Colonel Fair made some suitable re-
ply, and then, having an eye to the prac-
tical, called out: els Hugh Lamb (the
foreman of the mine) down there"
The telephone said "No."
Hugh Lamb was among those present,
however. but the man of the telephone
had not yet got the man and the name
connected. Hugh heard the call from
above and answered back: 81 am here,
staunch and true! !" or something to that
effect.
"Ah, there you are, Hugh, I know
YOUR voice." said Colonel Fair.
Then followed all kinds of mining
slang about wines, sumps, giratfes,
slopes, tagging, plungers, clscks, don
KEYS and such little notions.
4 wire will be probably run to the 9.
and G. shaft, and eventually, no doubt,
from the Consolidated Virginia office
through the Gould and Curry, Savage,
Hale and Norcross, and all other mines
in which Colonel Fair is interested.
A number of very successful and IN
teresting experiments were made with
the instrument night before last on the
surface. An instrument was placed N
the Washoe Club room and wires carried
to distant parts of the town, when those
in the club room listened to piano play
ing and singing, and conversed with
ladies and gentlemen far away.
We shall doubtless, from the present
start, soon see telephones in all our lead
ing mines. It will save much running
up and down of cages, at considerable
cost, in the carrying of messages between
the surface and the lower levels.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-26
Hunting the Giraffe.

A writer says: Giraffes, if not hard
pressed, do not go at any great pace, 80
that before long we were within one
hundred yards of them. Even in the
ardor of the chase it struck me as a
glorious sight to see these huge beasts
aashing along in front, Gathering over
the stones or bursting passage through
opposing bushes, their long, graceful
necks stretched forward, sometimes bent
almost to the ground to avoid horizontal
branches, and their bushy black tails
twisted up. And how easily, and with
how little exertion they seemed to get
over the ground with that long, sweep
ing stride of theirs Yet they were
going at great rate, for I felt that my
old nag was doing his best, and I could
not now lessen the distance between us by
an inch. I now saw that D. was about to
make a push, and, as the horse he was
Hiding was pretty fast, I knew that he
would press them into much quicker
pace and leave me behind altogether;
80, refining in at once, I jumped off, and,
taking as steady aim as my arm, tired
with fogging, would allow, fred at
large dark colored COW that looked to me
in good condition. The bullet clapped
loudly and I saw her stagger, but, re-
covering Immediately, she went on,
though slightly in the rear of the troop.
At this moment my friend jumped off
close behind them and gave another COW
a shot. I was now long way behind,
but my horse, though slow, possessed
good staying powers; so that, by dint of
keeping on hard galop and cutting
angles when T could, I again crept up
and gave my COW another shot, quickly
followed by third, which brought her
to the ground with a crash. She was
not dead, however, for as I approached
she raised her lofty head once more and
gazed reproachfully at me with her large
soft, dark eyes,. A pang Of remorse
went through me, and for an instant I
wished the shots unfred that had laid
low this beautiful and inofensive crea-
ture. But now the cries of my Kafrs
and Masaras, following like famished
wolves on the blood spoor, broke upon
my ear; 80, sitting the still small voice,
I again raised my rifle and put an end to
the miseries of my victim, whose head,
pierced with two-ounce ball, fell with
a thud upon the ground, never to re
raised again. Leaving some of the boys
to cut up the meat I rode On with the
rest to look for my friend, whom I found
beside another prostrate giraffe, which
he had killed little further on. AS the
one I had shot was the fatter of the two
we left the Ka6rs here and went back to
mine. It was now late; so, hastily divid.
ing the boys into two parties, and bid
ding them sleep by the two giraffes re-
specively and cut them.:up and bring in
the meat the following day, we started
for the wagons with our gun carriers,
who also carried a few of the fattest bits
of meat. I may here remark that it is
difficult to imagine anything more tasty
and succulent than steak of a young
giraffe COW when in good condition,
though it may be that hunger, the sauce
with which l have always eaten it, had
something to do with this opinion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-26
A Dollar or Two.

A Dollar or Two.
With cautious steps as We tread our wa!
through
This intricate world, as other folks do,
May We still on our journey be able to view
The benevolent face of dollar or two!
For an excellent thingis dollar or two;
No friend is so true as dollar or two;
Through country and town,
AS we pass up and down,
No passports so good as dollar or two.
Would you read yourself out Of bachelor
crew,
And the hand Of female divinity sue?
You must always be ready "the handsome
Although It tf shouIa ruuv yv,. ..-,.-..----- -
Loves arrows are tipped with dollar or two,
And affection is gained by dollar or two
The best aid you can meet,
In advancing your suit,
Is the eloquent clink Of dollar or two.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-12-26

The right index finger of the foreman
of machine shop in Webster, Mass,
was cut off by circular saw the other
day, and hurled through window with
such force that it cut q clean hole in the
glass like bullet, and want twenty feet
beyond.