The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-07-03

in New York each week on criminal
charges.
Lemons sixteen inches in diameter
grow abundantly in the mild neigh
borhood of Galveston, Texas.
Over q million acres of land in India
are devoted to the growth of the poppy.
The demand for opium is increasing all
Dver the world.
By paying a double fee, entrance is
obtained to the Paris Exposition as early
as 6 A. NJ. The building is not open to
the general public till 9.
The egg trade of New York amounts
to $40, 600, 900 a year, and in the
United States to sis, 600, 900. Besides
this, probably an equal amount is con-
sumed without going through the
market.
The late Prof Henry, of the Smithso-
MAN Institute, was in early life a watch
maker, and ever afterward he was able
to make the most delicate instruments
with which to experiment.. This was an
advantage to him, for he was not COM
PEELED to rely upon others for his ma
| chimes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler separated in
Hope, Mich, agreeing that each should
be entirely free from interference by the
other. Mrs. Tyler became q house
keeper for a bachelor, and Tyler, in
stead of sticking to the compact, went
to her new home with a party of friends
and tarred and feathered her. A few
days LAT er Tyler was killed.
There are in all Russia but 6,18l
letter boxes, but a trihe more than are
possessed by the city of New York
alone. The number of postal stations
in the entire country is 4,440, but of
these only 1886 have Offices attached,
which receive and forward letters ; 662
of the latter send out mails but once a
week. The letters do not average n a
year for each inhabitant.
From the returns of the British Board
of Trade for the first quarter of 1878 it
appears that the exports OF breadstufs
from this country to Great Britain were
S17, 900, 900 in excess of the amount in
the corresponding period of last year,
while our exports of cotton decreased
81, 500, 900 in the same time. The in
crease in wheat was $40, 600, 900; -four,
So, 900, 900; and corn, 100000 0
A correspondent in Concordia, Cloud
county, Kansas, gives the particulars of
a visit to a snake den, and the killing OF
one thousand nine hundred snakes in
one day. So great a curiosity is the
place considered that an excursion party
from Atchison, sixty miles distant,
came there to visit it. Thousand of s
snakes we're killed there last year and
the one before, but they are apparently
as thick as ever.
Samuel Lowery, colored man, Of
Huntsville, Ala, has made a great sue
cess in raising silkworms and making
silk. An Englishman gave him some
silkworm eggs, and the city of Hunts
vile granted him use of a large null
berry tree in center of town, enabling
him to make O beginning. He now has
a field planted with mulberry trees, and
100, 600 worms. He estimates that he
will soon have for sale from 1000, 900 to
5000, 900 eggs, worth 81 per hundred.
The underground world of Paris is
likely to befully explored this summer.
The directors of the sewers has organ
lied an exceptional service during the
Exposition. Four visits will take place
on Wednesday in each week. The
number of persons admitted is fixed at
eighty for each descent. Intending
visitors are requested to specify the
nature of their demands, as the cata-
combs, the reservoirs of Montsouris,
etc., belong to entirely different Sec
lions of the administration.
The annual crop of cat stories has
been enlarged by the following full
grown specimen: A sagacious st. Louis
cat observed that two of her kittens
were invariably saved and the rest
of the litter thrown into the Mississippi.
Again becoming a happy mother, she
hid two of her babies in an clubhouse
and carried the rest in a different dlrec-
ton. Investigation showed that she de-
liberately took them to the river and
threw them in, evidently preferring to
select herself the two kittens she wished
to rear.
The raising, culture, spinning and
weaving of silk and its preparation and
introduction into market as a source OF
profit to the colored people of the South
are among the ambitious objects for
which Lowery's Industrial Academy in
Huntsville, Ala, has been founded.
Twenty-Five acres of land, with build
ings costing originally over 800. 600,
have been leased, and the owner, ex-
Governor Reuben Chapman, has offered
to give the entire property to the foun-
ders if they will secure an endowment
fund by which the academy can be firm
ly and permanently established.
The difference of longitude between
London, Constantinople and st. Peters,
burg gives rise in these days of %telegraphs
to singular endorsements. There
are three hours of time between the first
and second and third capitals. The lat
ter car send kilograms until late in their
dav and must sit up late at night to re-
ceive those sent in the afternoon from
London. Were San Francisco the seat
of negotiations the diplomatists would
be obliged to say, for instance, on Tues
day: "We have received your Wednes-
day kilograms" or "We have received
to-day your kilograms dated tomorrow"
John Votrin was O brakeman on the
Iron Mountain Railroad, and lost his
left arm at the shoulder by being run
over at q switch near Chouteau avenue,
st. Louis. After opening the switch for
the train to pass, he started to run across
the track, but his foot was caught in a
frog or under the switch-rod, and hefell
and narrowly escaped with his life. He
sued the company for 500, 600 damages,
holding that they were responsible for
the accident. The case was a hot one,
lasting two days. The jury were out
but a few minutes, and returned o YER
dict for the plaintiff for $10,O 900 DANA
ges. A day or two previous, in a case
where a man had lost both an arm and a
leg from O similar accident, the jury