The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-07-02

"a lSAuo JUL uai o"y . Gnao WheA ot<1l "
ing for Livadia, the Russian Gar went to
the station in m ironclad carriage, escort
ed by about 400 mounted guards. The
station was surrounded by military and
police, and entrance was strictly pro-
hibited. Similar precautions were taken
at all stations along the line. A train
full of police and, guards preceded the
emperor's, and no one for twenty-four
hours was permitted even to approach
the rails.
There are certain comparisons between
the vital statistics of France and Prussia,
| in recent report to the Academy of
Sciences of Paris. Thus, itappears that
in France 100 marriages. give about 900
children; in Prussia, 40. It is also
shown that in France the annual in
crease in population (births over deaths)
is 2,4O0 for each million of inhabitants,
while in Prussia it is l3,6OO.. At this
rate the population of France should
double in 10 years; that of Prussia in
forty-two!
The failure of jury to convict the
Yoakum brothers of murder, at Bakers
field, CAL, displeased the populace. A
mob broke into the Jail at night, and
one of the prisoners was quickly hanged
to the bars of his cell, moose being
thrown over his head, and the rope
pulled through the grating. Then the
| iynchers went to the others cell door,
and found that he was fettered to the
floor. AS they were unable to enter,
they tried to lasso him, as they had
done with his brother, and then choke
him to death by pulling at the rope,
but he lodged the moose successfully.
So they killed him with their revolvers,
firing so recklessly that two of their own
number were accidentally wounded.
A new method of breaking in horses
by means of q galvanic battery was
the subject of recent patent in Eng
land, and exception was taken to it as
being Intellectual and cruel. 1T ap-
pears, however" says the London Nea0s,
THAT when properly carried out it is
not only effectual, but the reverse of
cruel, as the animals are so astonished
at the power displayed by their masters
that they quickly become dociie and
tractable. The experiment has been
tried by the General Omnibus Company
of Paris, and the scientific experts ap-
pointed to report upon the method de-
clare that it is more effectual and less
cruel to the horses than the ordinary
practice"
"a six-penny phonograph" is the
latest invention, emanating from the
brain of Mr.. Lambrigot, a French gen.
tleman. Photographic impressions are
first taken in stearine, which is then
electro-plated and matrices made OF hard
metal. Into these lead wires are pressed
so that the impressions made by the Vi
brations of the diaphragm in the stcar-
inc are perfectly reproduced on the lead
wire. Half dozen Of these wires, each
containing q short sentence, are then
fastened to small board. The rest of
the apparatus consists of sixteen inches
oflead wire to one end of which is at
tached hollow pasteboard cone, one
and-a-half inches in length, and to the
other end /. small pasteboard disk. BY
moving the disk along one of the wires
fastened on the board, words are made to
issue from the cone, as in the ordinary
phonograph, only with less distinctness.
The life of the seeker for precious
metals is not an easy one A gentleman
who recently, went with o party OF
capitalists to Leadville, Col, says:
Prospecting is about az near like
gambling as any downright honest bard
work can be. It requires genuine pluck
to 20 out upon the mountains at OF near
timber line, where the nights are always
cold and snow falls nine or ten months
in the year, to live alone in rude cabin
without even the necessaries OF LIE, to
say nothing of its comforts, and to dig
day after day and sometimes month after
month without even an indication OF
pay dirt And yet this is the life of
/ the prospector' year after year. One
man in hundred, or thousand per-
liaps, makes strike and obtains
wealth which he rarely. knows how to
use. The remainder are always poor,
their best luck being when they can in
duce some one to give them grub
stake that is, to furnish them food for
a share in their mines if they find any"
United States Senator Carpenter, OF
Wisconsin, has smoked himself into ILL
health, us the following statement, tele-
graphed from Chicago, makes MANIFEST:
The announcement that Senator Car
penter has been advised by his physician
to 90 to Florida for his health was a
genuine surprise to his friends in Mil
waukee. Few supposed him to be in
other than the best health and spirits.
"A personal friend of the Senator said !:
Il tell YOU no man can smoke twenty
Havana cigars day, and keep up the
practice without encounterins certain
death. 1t is a hazardous thing to do,
and Matt Carpenter is doing it. You
observe the consequence. Matt is Il slave
of tobacco, and it is killing him slowly.
but surely. He is wasted so that his
limbs have become emaciated to the
semblance of pipe stems. They call 1t
rheumatism, but it is tobacco and moth
ing else that has wasted him away to
this extent, and it will continue its
work until death steps in anu CLAIMS
another victim.'"
The recent sinking of several men-of-
war together, in South American waters,
recalls the battles of the classic age,
when the recognized mode OF tlghtlng
was to IRAN" the enemy's vessel with
heavy Prov of iron or brass, and the
sinking of at least half the beaten fleet
quite q matter of course. Modern war
| fare. however, contains not Il few strl TX
ing instances of the same kind. At the
battle of Sluys, under Edward ILL.,. an
English crew, feeling their ship settling
down, boarded and carried the nearest
| Frenchman Just in time, their own YES
sci sinking the moment they had quilted
her. Sir Richard Grenville, in 1886,
performed a similar feat, floating him
self in q raft alongside the heavy Span
ish galleon whose guns had shattered his
light cruiser, and captured her while his
own ship sank unheeded. A few years
later the same hefo kept at bay fifty
three Spanish sail for a whole night
with lis single ship the Revenge, sinking
four of them, and at length bidding the
gunner blow up his vessel with al
hands. She sank, however, before the
order could be obeyed. In one OF the
great sea fights of the last century. Il
French and an English ship went down
side by side before the grappling-irons
could be cast off, and very few of either
crew were saved.
When the Duke Of Argyll, father of
the Marquis of Lorne, Canada's Gov
ernor-G General, arrived in New York, on
Cunard steamship, he was interviewed
before he could land by the ubiquitous
reportcrs. one of whom described the