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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-18
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CONFER
ENCE.

ATLANTA, Ga, May II, 1873
The General Conference OF the Methodist Episcopal
Church South to-day decided not to Increase tho
number Of bishops. Tho following fraternal
messengers wero received from the Mctho-
dist Protestant Church Alexander Clark, ID.
d.: +. S. u. Henderson, d. D., and q.
r. Barr. d. d. The messengers wcro intro
duccd by Bishop Pierce aud cordially received
Dr. Alexander delivered address full OF iratcrna
love aud Christian greetings, He was followed by
DE- Henderson IN an eloquent address In The same
line. Botn speeches were frequently appiauded. Dr.
Barr not wei. enough TO speak. Bishop Pierce
rcs bonded TO the greetings given the Conference.
paper introduced aud referred, look ing 10 grand
Methodist centenary 10 DO hciG IN Boston IN lSS4.
Tho Conference will adjourn In a week.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-18

John Doan Is small boy with largo bootblack
trade. His particular bailIwck Is In the neighbour.
hood OF the Registers gloomy building. where for nve
sc~ts shine he poIishcs the boots OF publican poll
tican aud general citizen. Yesterday he got into
trouble. rival by the namo OF Malachi Eagan, Jsat
OF his rapidly increasing wealth. cd UPON
his domain. Hard words followed, and John, rendered
desperate by tho Tear Of losing portion OF his trade
made a vigorous attack on tho body of his rival
using during tho scuthe, penknife with when hs
stabbed bim Ia the leg. tho rate John speedily
found himself IN ths clutches OF the Law, aud nov
field Of his late ownership open 10 his hated rival
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-18
THE DlChlE WILL CASE.

Tho hearing OF testimony WINS concluded yesterday
In contested Will VI tho late Patrick Dckic
before Surrogate Gavin. Tho following Witnesses
we're called Tor tue contestants alcge that GER
conduct Of the tcstator was an indication OF uh
sound mlnd:--Mr. j. L. Adams Mr. James b. secor,
Jr., aud Mr. william j. Doyle The circumstances
they testified 10 have already been published In the
report oil the opening speech OF Mr.. Boardnan, tho
counsel tor the cUntestants. Tho summing up oI
counsel fixed Tor October next. day to be agreed
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-18
locked and sealed tho laboratory whom he len dur.

MRS. vosBuRGu TESTIFY.
The Attorney General declared has Intention to call
Mrs vosburgh for the State submitting 10 the Court
the question she be compelled 10 testify
against her hu stand. "rhc defence u
he said shave repeatedly taunted us that she Is in
court aud can tell her ewn story. IL the Court
rule on the question that We will submit we may
take them at their word, but we do not
bind ourselves TO any particular course
in his matter rho counsel for the defence have bee
very fair and have conducted the case with great
m oderation and l. therefore, In all frankness, give
this notice nten TO call Mrs. Vosburgh: bur
desire the Court counsel the OF hor to un.
dcrstand that We do rot feel bound 70 do So"
The Court was adjourncd at hall past tour O'Clock.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-18
WIFE BEATERS PUNISHED.

For having INDUCED III the pastmc OF beating their
wives, Thomas y. Kelley, William Fox, Dents 0Kocio
and John Francis wore, yesterday, In tho Court Of
SPECIAL Sessions, sentenced TO the Pcnitentiary-the
two former Tor SIX months ana their companions Tor
three months each. The punishment Of the iaf ~
was reduced because oil mitigating circumstances
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-18
SOMEBODY'S HAND.

human hand was fouud yesterday by John
Bowling IN a PHO Of refuse taken from sewer AZ
the corner OF Union and Hicks streets, Brooklyn,
aud conveyed to the Third precinct station house.
Ii had evidcntiy been thrown into the sewer W
some medical student, as II presented tho appear.
anco OF having icon olssectcd.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
How Edison Amuses Himself.

Edison, the phonograph man, is
wretched unless he invents half dozen
things every day. He does it just for
amusement when regular business
isn't pressing. The other day he went
out for a little stroll and he thought out
O plan for walking on one leg, 80 rs to
rest the other before he had gone a
BE hailed milk wagon and told the
driver of o little invention that had
popped through his head just that mo-
ment for delivering milk without getting
out of his wagon or even stopping his
horses. A simple force pump, with nose
attached, worked by the foot. would DO
the business, Milk men who dislike to
halt for anything in their mad career
because it prevents them running over
as many children as they might other
wise do, would appreciate this improve
ment. Edison isn't sure but that sau-
sage and pigs feet could be delivered IN
He stepped into hotel Office, and OBJ
serving the humiliations which guests
encountered in seeking to obtain infor-
nation from the high.toned clerk, he
sat down in the reading-room, and IN
five minutes had invented a hotel olefk
to work by machinery, warranted to
stand behind the counter any length OF
time desired, and answer all questions
with promptness, correctness and suav-
itv-diamond pin on and hair parted IN
the middle if desired.
He went through the barber shop OF
the hotel, and as he did so he sighed to
think that with all his genius and crea-
tive imagination, he could never hope
to equal the knight of the razor as q
talking machine. This saddened him
40 tbat he went home and invented no
more that day.-Cincinna6 Saturday
Minht
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
An Aerial Spy.

Mr.. W. B. Woodbury. has recently
proposed an ingenious idea for taking
photographs of an enemy's works from
q balloon, without necessitating the pres
ence of an aeronaut in the car. Electrl-
cal wires are run along the cable oy
which the air ship is held captive. In
stead of car a box is provided, inside
of which another box is pivoted SO that
it will keep horizontal. In the inner
box is the Photographic apparatus. and
over the lens is an ebonite shutter
moved by the current, to open or shut
instantaneously. There is also sensi-
tized tissue on rollers in rear OF the lens,
which is operated by clockwork, also
controlled by the current. When the
balloon is elevated to the required
height, the lens properly focused and
the tissue in position, the shutter is SET
in motion by tho current, giving instan'
taneous exposure. A Photograph is thus
obtained, and by further controlling the
clockwork fresh sensitized surface may
! be exposed and additional images taken
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
DEPTHS of Lakes.

A foreign paper publishes an interest
ing comparative statement of the depth
of lakes. Among European lakes the
Achensee, in the Tyrol, heads the list.
At some points the depth OF this lake
amounts to $500 feet. The greatest
depth of the lake of Constance Is about
975 feet, that of the Chiemsee about 458
feet, and that of the Walohen and Kon-
igssee, GIL feet. The measurements
made about 1870 at the Dead Sea showed
that at the deepest part it's depth is 1886
feet, but if we consider that the level of
this lake is already l, 1894 feet below the
level of the Mediterranean, then we find
, that the total depression in the soil here
amounts really to $3.50 feet. The Lake
of Tiberias is extremely shallow in COM
parison on it's eastern part the average
depth is only twenty-six feet, while on
the western side it lies between nineteen
and twenty-five feet. In Lake Baikal
depths have been found which for lake
are truly astonishing. In the upper
part of the lake the depth is 10000 feet
(about the height of Mount Etna), but
downward the bottom constantly de-
scends, and near the opposite bank the
depth amounts to 1920 feet. This
depth far exceeds that of the Mediter
ranean Sea, which at it's deepest par
measures only 1890 feet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
An Interesting Monument,

Among the various churchyards in the
city of Hanover is one which has been
closed for number of years-the gar
den churchyard. Owing to it's anti
quated monuments and the fact of its
being the resting place of number of
celebrated characters, it awakens the
liveliest curiosity. Charlotte Kestner
(Werther's Lotta) is buried here. This
is not the only interesting feature which
makes it worthy of visit. Nature her
self has paid her tribute. A few PAGES
east of the unassuming little church in
the graveyard is monument tottering
from its foundation. It is built in the
form of steps, and the massive stones
are secured by heavy iron clamps. The
monument was erected in the year 1882.
Beside the usual family inscriptions, at
the base of the monument is engraved
these arrogant lines: "This sepulchre,
purchased for all eternity, is not per-
mitted to be opened" Opposed to
this determination of man, beech seed,
perhaps carried by the wind, found it's
way into crevice of the foundation. In
the course of years this little seed grew
to be strong, luxuriant tree, Knocked
the proud inscription of the monument,
raised the massive stones from their
foundation, and rent the strong iron
clasp asunder.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
Two Fearful Diseases,

Speaking of "a sanitary measure OF
more than ordinary importance, not only
to the southern seabcard states but to
the country at large, recently passed in
the form of bill to be known rs the
National Quarantine Act of 187S,' the
object of which shall be, by means of
an efficient uniform national system of
quarantine, to prevent the introduction
of contagious or infectious diseases into
the United States," the Scientific
american says:
In Asiatic cholera we have disease
caused by the access to the alimentary
canal of q specific form of organic
poison, which is portable, communica-
BILE, and capable of reproducing itself in
everybody in which it obtains lodgment.
It always has its origin in Hindostan;
and whenever it appears outside OF the
limits of that country it is absolutely
certain that is an exotic. It was in 1756
that the fact was first recognized that the
disease is a periodically returning
twelve-yearly epidemic, connected with
the twelve-yearly Hindoo festivals at the
greattemples. The prevailing direction
in which the epidemic always advances
from it's birthplace is to the west and
north, always proceeding along the lines
Of the greatest and most rapid travel;
and at each periodical recurrence, e1.
tending it's limits and spreading itself
over an increase of territory. 1t made
it's first visit to the United States in
1882, starting from Quebec, where it
had been introduced by ten or twelve
Irish emigrant ships. From this time
on it's periodical returns have been
pretty uniform; and Judging from the
past, we should expect another oHtburst
either during the present or next year.
In our next contest with the epidemic,
orr whole safety lies in efficient quaran-
tine and thorough dlsinfection.
As of cholera, so we may say OF yellow
fever, it comes in every case from with
out; there is no spot in the United
States where it is Indigenous. Its birth
places are the West Indies, the South
American coast, and possibly, Vera
Cruz in Mexico. From these neighbor-
ing countries it evades almost every
summer our sea-board cities, and occas-
ionally produces a desolation such as
words fail to describe. This disease
made it's first appearance in this country
in 1868, and from that time down to
1877 it had visited us seven hundred
and forty-one times, spread its ravages
to two-hundred and twenty-eight cities
and towns, and extended to nty-eight
states of the Union, causing 65,3ll
deaths counted-besides the innumera
bic deaths of which no record was made.
Ola these numerous appearances of the
disease among us, forty-fve per cent.
are directly traceable to foreign origin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
How q Day Is Gained and Lost.

Questions are frequently asked as to
how a day is lost or gained in going
round the world. Professor Davidson
gave popular explanation of the phe-
nomenon to the Academy of Sciences.
He started a traveller westward from
London, or rather from the meridian OF
Greenwich, precisely at noon, and ne
made him travel round the globe at pre-
cisely the rate of speed that the earth
carries us eastward in its daily whlrl OF
twenty.four hours. The Traveller is al
ways in local time at meridian he
goes round the globe in twenty.four
hours, and it's always noon with him.
At New York his application of time
agrees with the clocks of the city, but
his watch, which was at twelve, noon,
when he left London, is now five P. NJ.
He goes still westward. and in long.
itude 12O, the border meridian OF
Nevada and California, he is still at
noon locally, and his watch indicates
Greenwich time to be eight P. N. lu
longitude 1870, the sun is at meridian.
and the time occupied by his journey is
twelve hours and in the longitude OF
the Ganges, eighteen hours have
elapsed; and continuing his transit te
Greenwich he has still the sun in me
ridian, and finds that twenty-four hours
have been lost. The rising and setting
of the Gun for one day has been wit
messed by the people of London ane
not by the traveller. Actual time is the
same, but in his case the division hat
not been marked.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
Going Home.

Where are you going so fast. old man?
Where are you going so fast?
There's valley to cross and river to ford
There's clasp Of the hand and parting word,
And tremulous sigh for the past, old =.
The beautiful, vanished past
Tho road has been rugged and rough, old
To your feet it's rugged and rough;
But you see dear being with gentle eyes
Has shared your labor and sacrifice.
All that has been sunshine enough, old man;
For you and me, sunshine enough.
How long since you passed DER the hill, old
Or life? DER the top Of e..hill?
Were there beautiful valleys on the other side ?
Were there flowers and trees, with their
branches wide,
To shut off the heat Of the sun, old man,
That heat Of the feversh sum-
And how did you cross the waves old, man,
OF sorrow, the fearful waves?
Did you lay your dear treasures by, one by one,
With an aching heart and Goods will be done, "
Under the wsyside dust, old man
In the grave meath the wayside dust?
There is sorrow and labor for all. old man;
Alas! there is sorrow for all;
And You, peradventure, have had your share,
For eighty long Winters have whitened your
hair,
And they've whitened your heart as well,
old man:
Thank God, your heart as we'll.
You're now at the foot Of the hill, old man;
At last at the foot Of the hill.
The sun has gone down in golden glow,
And the Heavenly City lies just below.
Go in through the pearly gate, old man
The beautiful pearly gate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
A Cats Fierce Attack.

The New York World says : At the
beginning of the winter Mrs. Sager,
German woman, who lives in the tene-
ment house at No. % Sherman avenue,
Jersey City, remarked to her husband
that their rooms were overrun by mice,
and asked him to get q cat. In COM
plance with her request he one day
made her present of cat. 1t was
large.sized cat, entirely black, with the
exception of white spot on the breast,
and it had such gentle eyes that it
speedily became the pet of the family,
and was the favorite plaything of the
youngest member of the family, q boy
of three, who was in the habit of rub
bing its fur the wrong way, pulling its
tail and doing all sorts of things to it
which ordinary cats do not allow to be
done to them. Besides being an orna.
ment, the cat proved to be useful, as it
drove all the mice out of the rooms.
Last week it presented litter Of kittens
to a grateful family, who promptly
drowned them. Since then a change
was observed in the cat it's tail Stunned
the fingers of the baby. On Sunday
afternoon the cat slept for some time in
the cot of the baby. When it woke up
it uttered melancholy moan, and then
walked gloomily into corner. Mrs.
Sager took pity on it, and pouring some
milk into saucer, offered it to the cat.
The latter turned it's head away at first,
then it gave fierce cry and leaped with
stiffened tail and distended claws upon
/ HE- nfo "a
like Bird" was the way in which Mrs.
Sager described the movement. The
cat held itself tightly on Mrs. Sager by
sinking it's claws into her dress and then
tried to bite her neck. It failed in this,
but succeeded in burying it's teeth
deeply in her right arm near the elbow.
Mrs. Sagcr's three children ran into the
room attracted by her cries, and man
aged to take the cat off their mother.
But the cat appeared to have become
crazy and attacked the three children.
Nettie, aged twelve, was bitten on the
nose and cheeks F.; Louis, aged four, on
the legs, arms and hands; Margaret,
aged nine, was slightly bitten on the
foot. The attack was so fierce that Mrs.
Sager and her children ran out of the
room, leaving the cat alone. A message
was sent to the police station, and an
officer went to the house and shot the
cat after an exciting hunt. The wounds
of Mrs. Sager and her children were
cauterized and no serious result is ap-
pretended. The only member OF the
family who was not bitten is the baby.
Mr.. Sager at the time was away from
home. ....s 81
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
Geographical Mispronunciations.

Des Moines, instead of Da- -Moins, is
oft called Dez Moines. Chicago is mis-
called She-caw-go. California pronoun-
ted Kell-ee-for.nee, (and thro' the nose
at that.) Iowa miscalled Ioway. Cal
houn should be pronounced Calhoun.
Buena Vista should be called Bona Wis.
to, and not Buna Vista. Louisa is not
Loo-i-see instead of Loo-e-sa. Cairo is
not Kaa.ro but Ki.ro. Russia is Rush-a,
not Roo-sho, and Prussia ditto. Paris
should not be Pare-is. Vienna is Ve'
en- ma, not Vi-en-nee. Baden Baden not
Baydeu Bayden, nor Rome Room. Mi.
Ian should not have the accent on the
first syllable. italian is Italian, not
Italian. China and Chinee should not
be pronounced alike-nor Africa be call
ed Afrikee, nor America Amerikee. Don
is Spanish title: Dom Portuguese
therefore, Dom Pedro.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
The History Of Pews.

The first seats provided in churches
are seen in those of some Anglo Saxon
and Norman edidces still standing in
England. They consist of stone benches
which project from the wall running
around the whole interior excepting on
the east end. In 1919 the congregations
are represented as sitting on the ground
or standing, and it was at this period
that the people introduced low, rude
three-legged stools promiscuously over
the church. Not until after the Norman
conquest were, wooden seats brought
into use. Ii 1887 decree was issued,
In regard to the wrangling for seats
(Which had become decided nuisance),
that no one should call any seats in the
church his own except noblemen and
patrons, each person taking the nearest
empty seat he could find, as he entered
the church. From 1880 to 1540, as we
approach nearer to the reformation,
seats were more generally appropriated,
their entrance being guarded by cross
bars, and the initial letters of their own.
ers engraved upon them. But directly
after the reformation the pew system
commenced, for there is extant q COM
plant from the poor commons addressed
to Henry VIII. in 1916, referring to his
decree that a Bible should be in every
church at liberty for all to read, because
they feared it might be taken into tie
"guyre" or some 'fpue." Galleries in
churches were not known until 1908.
As early as 1911 luxurious arrange
ments were considered essential in
church pews, and thy we're baized or
cushioned all over their sides. and the
seats furnished with comfortable cush-
ZONES, while foot-stools we're also intro
duced.. Next the sides OF the pews were
made 80 high that they entirely conceal
ed the occupants from view. Freplaces
were also built in the pews, and every
possible convenience added for the COM
fort of the highly-favored few. But the
services were often 80 long and tedious
that the listeners fell asleep, and fire.
quently nodded their appreciation of the
minister's sermons, while they were to-
tally oblivious of its teachings. Swift's
lines, which we quote, allude to the pre-
vailing fashion of church upholstery:
IA bedstead Of the antique mode,
Compact Of timber many load,
Such as our ancestors did use,
Was metamorphosed into pews,
Which still their ancient nature keep,
By lodging folks disposed to sleep"
With the reign of Charles I. the rea-
sons for the heightening of the sides OF
the pews disappeared: and from the civil
war they declined to their present
height.-Springfeld (Mass.) Repu6h j.
can.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-05-29
Russian Wounded During the War.

During the late war thirty-six trains,
specially fitted up for the purpose, were
constantly employed in removing the
sick and wounded of the Russian army
in Bulgaria and Roumelia from the
theater Of operations into the interior of
Russia. OF these trains, twenty-four
were provided by the military authori-
ties, seven by the Russian Red Cross
Society, two by the imperial family and
three by Germany, the average number
of carriages in each train being twenty
four.
All the sick and wounded in Bulgaria
who could be moved were in the first
instance carried to Sistova or Simnitiza.
There they were placed in hospital,
their cases inquired into, their wounds
bound up afresh, proper medicines and
food given to them, and then after few
days. rest, they were transported in car
riages to the terminal station of the rail-
way at Fratesti. At the Russian frontier
a permanent commission of thirty doc.
tors was established. These examined
carefully all the patients that arrived,
and divided them into three classes. In
the first were placed those that were so
severely wounded or 80 seriously i'll that
it would have been dangerous to move
them further. In the second class came
those who we're only 80 slightly injured
or unwel that they would probably be
able to shortly rejoin their corps, and
these were cbelonned along the railway
running into the interior; while in the
third class were placed those who could
be moved with safety, but who were not
likely to recover speedily, and these were
sent back into the heart of the country;
care being taken to assemble all those
i'll with the same disease at the same
places.
Two OF the ambulance trains started
for the interior every day, the doctors
and attendants accompanying them, each
being allowed fourteen days rest after
each journey.-PaU Mail Gazette.