The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-12

through the Suez canal this summer.
Farming on grand scale, even with
the assistance of improved machinery
and implements, is dangerous expert.
ment, and in the West has terminated
disastrously. It is estimated that the
money sunk during the past ten years
in such undertakings amounts to over
800, 100000.
Several vessels laden with exhibits for
the international exhibition to be held
at Melbourne, Australia, in 1880, have
already sailed from the United States.
The exhibition will open October 1,
1880. and all applications for space
should be made not later than June 30,
1879. Buildings will be specially erect
ed for the exhibition.
France has it's experiment in common
with other countries in the matter ofem'
bezzlement. At Bordeaux, NJ. Del
becque, director of the Eint, was sem
fenced to six years imprisonment and
1926, 900 fine for embezzling $3.50, 600 in
bullion, which had been lodged in the
mint by the Rothschilds. N. Delbecque
substituted galvanized copper bars for
the bullion which he embezzled.
A new sect of Mormons has sprung up
in Southern Indiana, and two Latter
Day Saints are preaching there success
fully. The peculiar tenets of this wing
of Mormonism are anti-polygamy, heal
ing by the laying on of hands, INNER
sion, the second coming of Christ in the
near future, Intervention of God in tenn
poral and spiritual affairs, miracles OF
special providences in the interests of
the saints. The scot number about sixty
members in Floyd, Washington and
Clark counties, made up OF respectable
farmers.
It is estimated that when the national
census is taken in 1880, the returns will
show population of over Al, 900, 600 in
the United States. If the basis OF
representation remains the same as at
present, and no new States are admitted,
the increase in members of Congress
will be si1ty-six. The representation
will remain the same in the States of
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Flori-
da, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada. New
Hampshire. Rhode Island and South
Carolina. After the next apportionment
the NATIONAL House of Representatives
will consist of 359 members and the
electoral college of 435. The New Eng
land States will gain one member, the
Middle States ten, the Western thirty
two, the Southern nineteen, and the
Pacific States four.
A New York paper throws out this
curious suggestion in regard to the ele-
waited railroads: If an ivy or some run.
ming vine were planted at the base OF
each iron pillar on the elevated roads,
we might in few years convert long,
unsightly skeleton of iron into fes-
tooned bower, giving GOODNESS, shade,
pleasing the eye and even beautifying
the city. In France the general hard
ness, grimness and angularity OF the
railroad tracks in the Immediate vicinity
of cities and towns are quite concealed
by masses OF foliage. Paris, in the
shading OF so many streets and boule-
wards with two, four and sometimes six
rows of trees, has motive, and that mo-
tive is the rendering of the city more
and more attractive to strangers, there
by tempting within her walls travel,
trade and money. When this is fully
comprehended here then more attention
may be paid to the ornamentation of a
CITY with the noblest site on this CONT
pent.