The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-08-21
TIMELY TOPICS.
The cotton crop will net the United
States this year $500, DOC, 600.

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The cotton crop will net the United
States this year $500, DOC. 600.
It Is thought the wheat crop OF the
coming year in the United States will
reach the round sum Of 400, 0O0, 600
bushels. ~
MI. Thomas Mort, who spent $780,
600 irving to solve the problem of send
ing frozen meat to England, has died in
Australia.
The perfect imprint Of a tree may be
seen upon the breast of Thomas Briggs,
of Wellsburg, ". Va, who was struck
by lightning on July fourth.
There are over rs, 900 Touring mills in
the United States, giving employment
to co. 900 men. These mills turn out
annually 80, 600, 900 barrels of -four.
Mr.. Ross says he spent $4,000 in
looking for the lost Charlie. He recent
" declined to receive subscriptions for
bis relief that had been sent to q New
York paper.
The country from Canyon City to
Pilot Rock, Oregon, over which the In
dams recently swept, is desolate waste:
Not a building is standing; hundreds OF
starving colts were whinnying besidethei
dead dams; all the cattle were killed for
the sake of their tongues, and the Indians
have chopped off just below the knees
the forelegs of every sheep they could
catch.
A convict at Auburn, N. Y, escaped
hard work during his confinement OF
two and half years by feigning Paral,
ysis. he was so successful in the raud
that he WAS lifted about by attendants,
and on his release had to be carried to
the depot in o chair and placed in the
cars. An hour afterward he visited the
prison officials and astounded them by
his speedy and full recovery.
Lockjaw is one of the most terrible
diseases to which mortals are exposed.
A California exchange asserts that no
one need be in danger OF such an attack
from wounds caused by rusty iron. The
worst cases of inhamed wounds may be
cured by smoking the injured part with
burning wool or wooden cloth. Any
thing that produces safety from such q
fatal disease is worth recording.
At the Missouri State prison, at JET.
ferson City, during the last six months OF
their term, prisoners that have been we'll
behaved are allowed to 60 out and work
in the city as teamsters, laborers, etc.
They are perfectly free. and are not IN.
der any supervision by guards. OF
course at night they have to return to
the penitentiary. While in the city they
are not allowed to enter any stores or
saloons; if this regulation lie infringed,
they are immediately confined to the
prison. Attempts at escape whilethus
working from all surveillance have been
very rare, for. should they be recaptured
they have to serve q double term, under
more stringent rules.
Gilmore and his American band are
having an unqHestionable success, &C.
cording TO q cable dispatch from Paris
ID tie New York Herald. Along arti-
ole appeared In the sanfi-Ameriean,
Gau10is critisising Gilmore's first cons
cert at the Trocadero, and therein e1los
giving highly the conscientiousness ana
precision of the instrumentalists and the
excellence of the soloists. The band
PLAYED in an intermede at the Theatre
on the same evening. Figaro
says that the performance was remark
able for entrcin and precision, and that
it created great enthusiasm among the
audience. The Paris Journal confirms
this appreciation and says their success
was immense.
But q few years since Isaacs Fried
lander was called the Grain King OF
California. He controlled q grain feet
Of 800 or 400 sailing vessels, while MS
operations involved the use OF 4 ,00O,-
900 capital. His name was potent In
the grain districts of the Pacific slope,
in the corn exchange Of San Francisco,
while even Mark Lane was anxious to
concilliate 80 powerful an element in
the price of breadstuffs. Two years
ago he failed in his gigantic undertake
ings. and his name was no longer in
peoples mouths. Recently he died, and
o two-line telegram was considered suh.
Gent to announce the demise of the
great Grain King, showing the way hard
times boil down obituaries.
American girls will learn with interest
that the value of a French girls nose
has.just been judicially valued at $1,000.
Some time ago q Paris omnibus horse
frisky, there was a collision, a
was smashed, and q passenger
q young demoiselle-received some o
the broken glass in her face. It was at
first thought the hurts were tria;ng, and
her parents declined the proffered ser
vice of the omnibus company's doctor.
But the scratches did not heal as they
we're expected to, and the girls father
suit against the company, alleg-
ng that her nose had been permanently
narred, and that this seriously diminish
ID her prospect of establishment in life
in other words, of getting q husband:
BE obtained 5000 IN the first trial ana
81, 900 on the second.