The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-03-13


Up from It's trammels the freed spirit win
Higher to soar;
Altar immortal, q pure essence fings-
Sweet eyermore
Items OF interest.
The deaths from scarlet fever in New
ork city during 1877 numbered 3,482.
The boy who grows up with an over
whelming fear of dogs will not develop
ipto book agent in after life.
"Distilled sea water is the latest in
vention from France, offered to the pub
lie to cure or prevent all kinds OF dis
eases, g..
It is confidently believed that every
modern hackman was in the cavalry dur
ing the war, and hence his audacity in
charging.
The Peace Dale (R. L Manufacturing
Company is to introduce the co-opera-
tive system on the 1st Of February, and
will thereafter divide the surplus profits
among its workmen.
Samuel Bowles used to say there was
sixth sense-the " newspaper sense"
There is also q seventh sense-non-
sense. This paragraph is specimen Of
it.-Nor7istotOn Herald.
Says the Cincinnati Breakfast Table,:
Greek is the language for poetry,
French for love and italian for hand
organ melody, but a man with shirt
cellar that don't fit ia the same helpless
being in all. ..
Scientists say that the age of iron is
approaching its close, and that steel
will eventually take it's place. The
scientific gentlemen are Little slow
we have been in the midst Of the age of
steal for some time.
Three hundred men Witnessed fight
between ten dogs and bear in Sharps-
burg, Ky. The battle lasted two hours
and q halt, and then was drawn, for the
bear attacked q horse, and there was q
stampede Of the spectators.
It is q curious fact, that, in the first
territorial legislature of Alabama, the
upper branch OF that body, or the
Senate, was composed of one member.
James Titus sat alone in the chamber,
and decided upon the acts of the lower
house.
A Mobile business firm came to sud-
den end the other day. H. q. Hopper,
one member, while at the store. leaned
over on his desk, said his head hurt him,
and died; and half an hour after, Thos.
Duggan, the other member, who was at
| ho,oo o;ob 1;ad fhara
CHI where did you get them trou-
sers ?" asked an Irishman of man who
happened to be passing with q pair Of re-
markably short trousers on. " 1 got
them where they CREW." was the indig.
nant reply. "Then, be me conscience"
says Paddy, "you've pulled them year
to soon !"
"And where WAS the man stabbedH
asked an excited lawyer of q physician.
"The man was stabbed about an inch
and o half to the left Of the medal
line, and about an inch above the um-
bilious" was the reply. "Oh, yes, l
understand now ; but I thought it was
near the town hall"
"Young men," said an old college
president to q coterie OF .dissiPated
students, call these excuses of your
youth are drafts upon your age. begin
ming to mature about thirty years after
date, and continuing to press and draw
heavily on your bodily resources all the
residue of your lives"
Nine thousand feet per minute, that is,
nearly two miles per minute, for the rim
of 9 circular saw to travel, may be laid
down az a rule. Shingle and some other
saws, either riveted to cast iron collar,
or yery thick at the center and thin at
the rim, may be run with safety at
greater speed.
Kentucky youth sent to New York
for some visiting cards, and received
some OF transparent kind which, when
held up to the light, reveal the outlines
Of q donkey. Unaware of this peculiar
ity the young man gave his sweetheart
one, and was astonished to hear her say
that she didn't want his photograh.
Near Berlin, Germany, is church
building, circular within and octagon
without, and capable Of seating 1000
persons, whose reliefs outside and
statues within, roof, ceiling, and CORN
THAN capitals are papier-mache, render
ed waterproof by saturation IN vltrlol,
lime and water, whey and white OF eggs.
In Hardwicke's Science Gossip
there is an anecdote showing the remark
able tenscity of life in the cat. A little
girls pet fell from third-story window,
distance of more than forty feet, upon
the stone pavement below. It was lifted
up. to all appearance dead, being limp
and motionless, and blood streaming
from the mouth and ears. About three
hours after it WAS crawling feebly about,
and the next morning it caught mouse
and was as lively as ever.
The report of the national department
of agriculture for 1877, states that the
Weld of wheat in the United States tor
the wear was $50, 600, 900 bushels, or 50,-
OOO, 600 more than was ever before pro-
duced. Deducting the amount necessary
for home consumption in food and seed,
upward of 110, 600, 900 can be spared for
export. The acreage of winter wheat for
1878 is greater than that of 1877. The
corn prOuucG WIS !, 1,OUU,VOO,OOO Doon0AoI
with corresponding yields of oats and
potatoes.
A brutal affair recently took place at
springsboro, Ohio, during the progress
of ball. A stalwart young farmer
named Hoover, who had previously been
the master Of all his associates in trials
of strength, was made intoxicated and
attacked by the entire male portion OF
the company, who beat him 80 terribly
that he was not expected to recover.
After performing this feat they drew
him into another room and the dance
went on, the women being required to
loop up their dresses to keep them from
from being soiled with Hoover's blood,
which smeared the floor
. "Old Bill" the roam battle-horse OF
Major General W. B. Tibbits, OF the
second New York cavalry, has just died
at Hoosick Falls. He was probably the
only horse that served through the whole
war and wound up his campaign with a
visit on duty to the plains. He was a
great pet of the men of the Grlswold
? cavalry and an animal of peculiar ways.
, In camp or on the march he was slug,