The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-01-09
Items Of Interest.

The language of the suspender is sup.
posed to be "Brace up p
Counting ont the number Of lost in
the present war, Russia has still some
70, ,O0O,0 900 men left.
The Troy butcher who hanged himself
in his ice box has furnished the coolest
case of suicide on record.
The old maxim, "Be chaste and you'll
be happy" is contradicted point blank
BY Black Hills man, who was recently
chased ten miles by party OF redskins.
The annual report Of the board of re-
vision of taxes in Philadelphia shows a
total depreciation of $50, 900, 600 in taxa
BILE property as compared with last
year. ....... ..... ..... ...a ~.
The Brazilian parliament has voted a
yearly subsidy Of $1O0, 900. during ten
years for q line Of steamers to the United
States. This is one Of the first fruits OF
Dom Pedro's Centennial visit.
The farmers in Scotland have suffered
severe loss this year by bad weather,
and their aggregate revenue Will fall
short of that received In good years by
an estimated amount Of $40, ,0O0, 900.
A band of Portuguese amateurs have
started out from LisbRp to explore
Central Africa in Stanley's tracks, and
to negotiate, if possible, treaties of com.
merce with the natives along the route.
A farmer residing near York, Pa.,
has kept q record of the number Of
tramps visiting his premises in quest OF
food. The number tom April l, 1877,
to November 18, was 545, or an average
of about sixteen per week.
Says the Pioche (Nev.,) Record. The
latest curiosity or freak of nature ls
apples without seeds in them. They
come from Utah, along with the regular
seed apples, and cannot be told by the
outside appearance from them, but on
the inside they present no appearance OF
ever having contained any seed.
A man, praising porter, said it was so
excellent beverage that, though taken
in large quantities, it always made him
fat. "I have seen the time" said an
other, "when it made you lean.
"When, should be glad to know"
inquired the eulogist. "Why,n no longer
ago than last night-against wall.
Notwithstanding famine and rewards,
noxious animals multiply in India from
the religious dislike of Hindoos to kill
ing anything. Cobras, lucky reptiles,
are held by them especially sacred, and,
with other snakes, managed in 1875 to
kill II, 900 persons but 270. 185 snakes
were killed. The loss Of cattle from the
same cause wss very heavy.
What's in name? A Chinaman In
San Francisco found there were thirty
days. he stole q Frisco mans door
plate and fastened it on his own door as
an ornament. He didn't know that the
name would betray him as he thought
that was merely carved on for the beauty
of the thing. The Chinaman now Ian
guishes in prison, another victim to the
mysteries Of English photography.
The Arizona Miner tells laughable
story of two friends who were recently
attacked by Indians in that State. They
were both on mules and the arrows were
whistling by them in clouds. The mules
were Of unequal powers OF speed, and
the foremost man sang out, Joe, why
don't you come along?" Joe, whose
arms and legs were flying in the air Like
q runaway windmill, replied, as an ar
row grazed his ear, "Do look like a
man who is throwing off f?,..---..~...-.... ?"
Harry Mainioy, q colored man, o.
Exeter, N. a., who died recently in the
eighty.frst year of his age, had a re.
markable. history. He was born in
Africa, about o weeks Journey ON foa:
from Senegal, and WAS stolen from his
home by slave traders in 1906, who toCE
him to Senegal and sold him for $25 to
Emery, of Exeter, who brought him
home. taught him the English language,
and gave him good school privileges
until he was twenty.one years old. He
was an industrious and useful man, and
brought up family of children, who
survive him. ....%
Andrew johnson, it is said, preserved
all his papers, and died leaving them in
the upper story of shop in Greenville:
Throughout his life he carefully saved
all papers, and even took to Greenviue
complete files of three daily newspapers
of New York covering his presidential
term. OF kilograms alone he must have
left more than q bushel in q compac!
form. He saved them all none wer
considered of 80 little importance as not
to be worth saving. BE remarked one
how little space folded letter took NJ.
and what small trouble to save then.
and how important they sometim"s
became.
Commander George P. Ryan is the
second of the class OF 1861 of tl'r
United States Naval Academy who has
lost his life by shipwreck ; Lieutenant
Commander William F. Stewart, OF
Pennsylvania, who was executive officer
of the United States sloop Oneida,
being the other who perished in the
collision of that vessel with the British
steamer Bombay, in the bay OF Yeddo,
Japan, in 1870, when onlytw officers
and ffty-seven men out of twenty-four
officers and one hundred and fifty.two
men we're saved from watery grave. 1T
is singular fact that all of the unfortu
nate national ships 4bst within the lar
decade we're named after the Indinr
tribes, as follows: Saranac, Saginaw,
Idaho, and Huron, in all of which ther"
,ro, , foo~e{,1 1ouu of 1ifo