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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10
Cured by Damp Earth.

Some one writes the following letter
to the New York Sun: Seeing in your
paper an account Of death from malig-
nant pustule, I feel it my duty to give
to your readers, with your kind consent.
my own experience with the dreaded
disease and its manner of cure. Some
years ago 7 had considerable irritation
at the outer edge of one of my eyebrows.
which increased to such an extent as to
be very uncomfortable. I discovered it
was produced by a purple pimple, or
pustule, which soon caused intlamma-
ton all around the eye and a formation
Of water under the skin, which lay over
my cheek in a little sack, as it were.
Knowing then the nature of my visitor,
I lost 70 time in treating it with a dose
of rich wet earth from my fower-pot,
which I folded in a thin cloth and laid
on the parts affected, changing it every
hour through the day. The relief was
Immediate, and on the third day all
traces of the disease were gone. Pre-
viously to this 1 had been bitten bysome
poisonous insect (spider, l presume. as !
entertained the greatest hatred toward
then), and all the usual remedies Of am
monia, alcohol, etc., had failed, while
the color of the inflammation had
changed to a dark purple hue ana
spread to q great distance. Being in the
country, where I could obtain it, I APP
piled mud successfully. Without it l
would have lost my life, I verify believe.
Now, why would not damp earth be
good in cases of smallpox and other
diseasesp .... 49,.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10

absent at Vallejo, and he arrived by boat be-
fore shutdown. Several thousand worldngmen
received him at tho boat. The worHngmen1s
military companies, to tho number Of l60 men,
with rifles and fixed bayonets, were on hand
as an escort. With Kearney at their head, the
procession moved up Market street for the
sand lots, filing the streets Jor several blocks,
and making the air ring with cheers tor Kear-
ney and cries of Chang De Young" .
Kearney realized the situation fully, and
addressed himself to the task of quieting the
passions OF his followers. He reminded them
that in ten days the election would put the
whole machinery Of the city government in
their hands, and that without fail the pro
prietors of the Chronicle would then meet
their deserts; that any present attempt at
violence would be met by the revolvsrs OF the
police and rifles and Calling guns OF the mill
tary, and that the game was not worth the
shedding of the blood OF one honest man. He
adjured them by their regard for their reputa-
ton throughout the country, the eyes OF
waich were upon them, to do no violence, but
dispense quietly to their homes. Never was
Kearney's boundless influence over his follow
ers exhibited to greater advantage. Although
the vast crowd were fairly bowling for the
blood OF the De Youngs, they yielded implic-
lily to his advice, and when he dismissed them
they surged away in various directions, evil
IDENTIFY prepared to follow his advice to the
letter. Mr.. Kalloch's condition was critical In
the extreme on the day after the shooting,
and the physicians were unable to give a de-
cided opinion on his case. ~, FL. ....
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10
The Story Of the Sea.

A New York correspondent says:
There is sadly romantic story connected
with Far Rockaway, which any one
can verify, rs the poor sufferer is still
alive. Years and years ago q woman
watched with agonizing dread the fate of
a vessel tossed upon the breakers, and
which depended upon the turn of the
tide for its chance Of safety. Her hus-
band was ON board, and the tide did turn,
and the schooner came safely into port.
but the horror of suspense and anxiety
were too much for the faithful wife, and
she died in giving birth to a little girl,
even as its father clasped it in his arms.
The child. however, now and for many
years Z woman. has always lived in a
State of half idiocy, half insanity, her
suffcrings f%rightfully augmented by each
recurring tlowing-in of the tide. There
arc times when she is comparatively
quiet, and only means. like the sound Of
the sea, but the tidal change wakes in
her the intensest agony. Then she PAGES
the beach wringing her hands, and can
hardly be restrained from throwing her
selfinto the waves, until the time is past,
and she subsidies into sad, wistful, weary
apathy again. Probably it vas upon
these self-same shoals that the hapless
ship containing Margaret Fuller, her
husband and child, was stranded, and il
would not be Il bad idea to have Il grotto
sacred to the memory of one of the most
truly pepl sentative of Amcrican women.
us IN ornament Of the new park.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10
Sing Cuckoo.
When grass is mown, and bends the grain
Before the sickle's keen caress,

When grass is mown, and bends the grain
Before the sickle's keen caress,
When shrllly creaks the loaded vain
and groans the spouting cider press,
A nying shout from tho haunted wood,
By tangled thicket and roaring flood,
Merrily ringeth the bright day through
Cuckoo! cuckoo!
When bleating lambkins seek the told,
And from the %farmyard barks the dog,
When rusts the sunsets wealth OF gold
And fields are dtenched in river toS,
While fits the bat in the village streets,
This unseen, magical voice repeats
4. mourntul chant mid the falling dew
Cuckoo! cuckoo!
When stars are brightest in the sky,
And low the spectral crescent swims,
When from the woodland ome a cry,
And DER the marsh the owlct skins,
While all the life OF the cad day sleeps,
A ghostly watcher his vigil keeps,
Bitterly weeping the long night through
Cuckoo! cuckoo!
Beneath the sun my spirit sings
Like you, oh, bird, q measure gay,
But through the night, on leaden wings,
1t wceps DER hopes long laid away,
And hearing thee .sobbing thy sad refrain,
My heart cries out witt. a sudden pain,
For the dead past wakes rs | list to YOU
Cuckoo. cuckoo!
-Sidufy Dickinson, in Sunday .Afernoo'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10
A Census Of Centenarlans.

1t is suggested in a Western newspaper
that there shall accompany the publica-
ton of the next census returns a list Of
persons in the United States who have
lived their hundred years-the gentleman
ians to be hunted up by the postmasters
and the names to be preserved at Wash
ington. Should this be done it will be
found almost every village has it's Me-
thuselah. Bailey, an English writer on
old age, gives a list Of 1000 persons as
certained by him to have lived beyond a
hundred. Vespasian had a nsu taken
Of the old people of his empire. and found
30 who were l40 years old; 40 who were
1876; 40 who were 100: 20 who were 1875;
II who were ITO. and ST who were 100.
The Cincinnati Gazette found a family in
Lexington. Scott county, Ky, who live
up to the natural rule that the lives of
animals should average five times their
growing period. The present head of
tn" family is Kinder Furgeson, who was
brrn on Sunday. August %, It'll, or lO6
years ago. His mother lived TO be lO7,
his grandmother LOG. and his great
grandmother 104. further than which the
g~rnealogy is lost. He was married in
1892. and his eldest child, Mrs, Nancy
Priest, is now 81. Kinder has a great
great great great grandson living. Kin
1er's father lived on the York river, in
Virginia, and he heard Lafayette's troops
march past the house. He served through
the war of 1912 and is now drawing n
pension. He is in good health now
mtladelphtd Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10

Easily Incurred, Terribly Obstinate,
Is rheumatism. Even at the outset, tho or
binary remedies are frequently powelless to
cope with it. This is more particularly the
case when a tendency to it is inherited. 1t
should be combated before It becomes chronic.
When the first 'twinges are ielt, recourse
should be had to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
n depurent which expels from the blood those
irritating principles which, by contact, cause
inflammation and pain in the muscles and
Joints. Poisonous medicines which are US
ually administered for this disease, but which,
in a slight overdose, may terminate it by de-
stroying life itself, should be avoided, and
this sale and more effective medicine used
instead. Those disorders oil the bowels,
stomach and liver which frequently accom-
pany rheumatic and equity ailments are ,inva-
riably removed by this excellent botanic cor
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10
A Hint to WOrkiDRmon.

The honest workingmen OF the country,
many OF whom have large and increasing
families to support, have been the chief suf-
terers from the great financial pressure under
which we have labored for the last lew years.
Diminished wages have not been attended by
IL corresponding diminution in price of every
thing which the workingman needs. Rents,
fuel, food and clothing are cheaper, but these
do not constitute al his necessities. 1t is
sometimes necessary for him to employ a law
yer or physician, yet the tee rates OF physi-
clans and lawyers are as high as they were in
"fush " times. Yet cheap medicines are as
necessary rs cheap rents oriuel. Cheap med
icines are not necessarily poor medicines. 1t
must be obvious to every intelligent person
that medicines, compounded and put up at
wholesale, can be sold ut much lower rates
than when retailed from the doctors pill bags.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and
Pleasant Purgative Pellets have completely
restored persons who have spent hundreds OF
dollars in vainly seeking relict from private
practitioners. and all at a very slight e1pendi-
tnra.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10
The Sihilist Demands.

Laud nmd Liberty, published at St.
Petersburg. says: The programme of the
Nillilists of Russia, rs now summed up,
runs thus:
/. Security o~fpersonal freedom (habeas
corpus).
9. Religious liberty. .
8. Freedom of The press, of speech and
of association.
4. Self. government of cities, of dis
tricts and of provinces.
S. The assemblies of the elected repre-
sentatives of the people shall control the
administration. .
. &. Investigation of tie economical and
social condition ofthe people.
+. General amnesty.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10
A Paragrapher'S Proverbs.

The hindmostdog may catch the hare,
but never bet on it.
a drowning man will catch ut Il straw
hat.
A close mouth catches no flies, but
nobody but u dog wants to catch a fly
in his mouth any way.
Better half loaf than Il whole day
spent in idlcncss.
Better an empty house than a bad ten
ant. unless you make him sign a tight
lease.
TO forget n wrong is the best revenge,
particularly if the other fellow is bigger
than you.
Look not Il gift clothes-horse in the
joints.
Have not the clonk to make when it
begins to rain. unless you know where
You can borrow an umbrella.
A kings cheese goes half away in par
ings. because it is out of the question
for the queen 10 be in the kitchen all the
mr.-Ginciu7Ati Enquirer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10

The other evening ut nine O'Clock Il
policeman found Il family of five persons
and two old trunks under u shed near
the foot of Second street, waiting to go
up the river on n woodbridge which
wouldn't leave until the next forenoon.
The man had both hands pressed to his
face, the woman was wiping her eyes on
her handkerchief and the children were
squalling. ..
"What seems TO be the mattcr?" in
uuired the officer rs he halted among
them.
"Oll, nothing much," answered the
man. i've got the jumpln' toothacllc,
but it allus slacks up on me about mid
night" ., .,,,
"Oh, she's kinder tired out and ncrv-
GUS. but rs soon as she gets Il good rest
for her back agin the wood-pile she'll 90
to sleep and forgeta all about it. She's all
right, she is"
But the children are crying" con-
tinucd the officer.
"Yaas, kinder crying" replied the
man, "but that's nothing. That boy
Augustus Cesar he wants II stick of
gum, but he'll soon chaw himself to
sleep on n silver. The next one, Charles
Henry, he's howlin' cause | wont buy
him a rockin'-horsc, but soon's l get
time TO spank him he'll curl down and
20 to drcamin' Of angels. That gal,
Minerva, has got her mouth made up for
fried cakes and milk, but I'll give her a
bite o. pork and bread from the trunk
and she'll never know the difference.
We are kinder sprawled out here and we
seem to be kinder afflicted, but we are Il
regular happy family. "-DctroI Free
Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10

A little boy pickedu up whathe thought
was a rather pretty pebble while playing
on the bank of the Little Miami river,
at Waynesville, Ohio. It turned Quito
be o pearl, and he sold it tor $3.50.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10

A curious case of death is that of Karl
Golcr, n butcher, who died in New York
from malignant pustule. He had been
handling some diseased meat, and his
fingers must have become impregnated
with the virus. He rubbed his mouth
with his hand. and shortly after the ma
lignant pustule appeared, and in a few
DAYS caused death.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10

Only one American Cabinet or Parlor Organ
maker has ever succeeded in bearing off the
highest honors at any Worlds Exposition,
where they came in competition with the best
European makers, and this is the Mason &
Hamlin Organ Co., who AVE taken first medal
or highest honors ut every such exhibition for
twelve years, ending with the Paris exhibition
this year, where they were awarded the high
.,of ootd mada1
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-09-10
Marriages

The truth is that these too frequent
unhappy marriages are the offspring o
ignorance quite as much rs of actual SIN
or wrongs. Fools, and especially vicious
fools, have no right to get possession OF
an honest woman's life and soul which
thew cannot comprehend, and the ele-
waiting Influence of which they throw
away even more by stupidity than by
wilfullncss. A woman, by her sex and
character, has q claim to many things
besides shelter, food and clothing. She
is no less q woman for being welded,
and the man who is fit to be trusted
with a good wife recollects all which this
implies, and shows himself perpetually
chivalrous, sw~eet-spoken, c%onsiderate
and deferential. The fools and brutes
who abound among us may think such
demands hard; but they are not nearly
as bad as to live the cat. and-dOg life,
missing the dearest possibilities of
human intercourse.
What right has u man to expect hap
piness in a household who brings no
sunshine into it? What right has he
to lool0for graces and refnements OF
early love when he violates them with
rough speeches, i'll manners, and the dis
regard of those little things upon which
the self-respect of a wife is built and
maintained? The cynic who rails at
marriage is generally one and the same
with the thoughtlcss cgotist who comes
into the presence OF his wife careless. stub
born and sour-tenpered. The faith is
horrible which q poor and faithful girl
may endure. by encouraging in him
whom she WEEDS not mere actual cruelty
or injury, but stupid incompetence to
understand q woman's needs. dull forget
fulness of the daily graces of life and OBJ
livion of the fact that while men have
the world, women have only their home.
These cases of masculine ingratitude do
not, indeed, often led to visible catas-
trophe, mol grow into absolute tyranny;
but they equally tend that way. They
drag down 4 wife's soul to the point
where she must despair: they change
the sublime meaning of marriage to vul-
garity and WEAKNESS; they spoil the
chance of that best and finest of all cdu-
cation which each MAJ obtains who
wins Il reasonable good woman for his
companion, and they cost more to u
million households than money or re.
pcntance can ever pay back.-Erchtngc.
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10 develop healthy and harmonious action
among the organs OF secretion, digestion and
evacuation, take DR.. Motifs Vegetable Liver
Pills, which healthtully. stimulate the liver,
give tone and regularity to the liver, counter
net a tendency to costiveness and purify the
blood. Their cathartic action is unaccom-
panied by gripping and is never violent and
abrupt, but gradual and natural. These pills
are O fthe greatest assistance in overcoming
scroiulous tumors and eruotive maladies. All
druggists sell it.
S1,375.S7 Fronts In 30 Days. 49,.
What $40 has done in Wall street by legiti.
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ing two unerring rules for success mailed tree
to any person upon application.
Address, A. SIMPSON & Co.,
40 Exchange Place, New York.
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colds and coughs, "Brown's Bronchial
Troches have proved their efficacy by a test
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Judge for Yourself. 49,.
By sending thirty-flve cents, with age, heighti
color OF eyes and hair, you will receive by re
turn mail a correct photograph OF your future
husband or wife, with name and date OF maj
riage. Address W. Fox, P. O. Drawer 81
Fu1tonville, N. Y.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
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N-77 A VEAL and expenses 10 agents. Ou'ntF'e
Address p q Anprsf aa'nA
A Month ami expenses guaranteed 70 Agents
Outfit free. SHAW L CO.. Augusta. MAINE
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-28

II it were not for the intense heat
that accompanied the rays OF the sun
when that luminary saw tit 20 Shin"
yesterday, the day might have been
taken for a relapse into April. The
heavy showers did not apparently AZ
feet the temperature, the thermometer
standing at about 81 most 81 the day,
but close sultriness pervaded the at
mosphere made IT seem much warmer.
Early in the morning storm burst over
the lower portion OF the city and the
rain fell in sheets, accompanied by thnn-
der and lightning. The streets were
flooded, and every gutter ran toward
the river like a torrent But, strange To
say, this shower missed the northern
parts 81 town, rhe edge of the storm be-
ing plainly visible at Sixteenth street.
This scene was several times repeated
during the day, ana enough water fell To
lill the heart of the average riverman
with joy. The growing corn will also
rejoice.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-28
RELIGToUs NOTES.

Rev. Lewis Hay, of Allegheny City,
Pa, will preach at the English Luther
an Church tomorrow. Subjects OF ser
mons: lO1 A. NJ, Respectable Sin"
7JP. NJ, "0ur Nations Trouble"
First Reformed Episcopal Church.
Services at McLain's Hall at 1890 A. NJ.
and 1850 p. NJ. Subjects: Morning, "A
Model Worker in the Early Church,;
evening, "The Barren Fig Tree. +. ii.
Jenkyns, pastor. -, ,
Quarterly meeting will be held in the
Kirkwood NJ. L. Church, tomorrow.
Presiding Elder Carr will preach in the
morning.
Rev. b. s. Deanwill deliver an address
next Sunday evening. at the Disciples
Church, Bellaire, 10 the Sunday school
teachers. All interested in the work are
invited TO attend.
Services will be held in the Bellaire NJ.
f. Church, tomorrow, for the first time
i'm three weeks, the house having been
closed for repairs.
Thirtv-six of the Alumni OF Washing
and Jefferson College, attending the late
Presbyterian General Assembly, at Sara
toga. held a reunion and had very
pleasant time. The oldest Alumnus pre-
sent was Rev. John Stockton, ID. d., OF
Cross Creek, who graduated at Wash
ington in 1920, and the next was Rev.
John Patton, d. d., who graduated at
Jefferson i'm 1916.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-28
WELLSBURG.

From the Herald.
THERE is difficulty about the further
occupation of the grounds on the prem
Uses of the late Thomas Buchanan,
known as Bellyiew, for camp-meetlng
purposes, the heirs declining 10 continue
or renew the lease, at least on the same
terms as heretofore, rs We understand
bv direction of Mr.. Z. before his death.
Quite number Of improvements IN the
shape of cottages are on the ground.
An arrangement may possibly be ell
iccted.
Wg hope to be able to give our read
ers some good news i'm regard 10 the
much-talked-Oi coal shalt project, in our
next issue, to the effect that its prOsecu-
ton may be- relied upon with certainty.
1t is sufficient for the present to say
that the Eastern parties, who are entire
" responsible, were on the ground on
Thursday for the purpose, and very
probably by the close of this week the
selection and purchase OF the location
will be effected. I'm that event, work
will begin early in July and he proSecu-
ted with all diligence.
Z. S.-SinCe the above was in type,
last Thurspay afternoon, the purchase
OF the location has been closed, ;! acres
from James d. l.azear, and a payment
made on the property. The coal shaft
NAV now be- set down for a fixed fact,
and upon the same We take pleasure in
rongratulating all concerned.
LAST Saturday, being the third wool
Saturday this season, there was a good
deal OF the staple brought to town.
Good authorities say that about three
iourths Of the wool of this immediate
region, say within Il scope OF twenty
five miles each way, with WellSburg for
"A centre, has been sold and brought to
market. Payments for it have been
generally cash. and considering the
large amount of money that has
thus, within an unusually short period
Of time, been distributed throughout
this region, it would seem that, if
scarcity Of the circulating medium has
been what was the matter, business Of
every sort ought now to improve. The
ability to pay debts, little ones as well
as biz ones, certainly has been increased
10 lust the extent OF the cash disbursed,
and if the will has been increased in the
same proportion, we may with conf
denCe look for better times.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-28
THE ALLEGHENY ROB
Berry.
Arrest OF Charles DALEY for
Completely.

On the 3Oth of last April, the Work
inymen's Savings Bank, of Allegheny,
was entered and considerable money
and yaluables were taken. Since that
time. none of the guilty parties have
been arrested For several weeks past,
suspicion has been directed toward GER
tain persons in this city, and few days
AGO Detective Jerry Smith arrived and
has been prowling about here on the
track of the thieves. Various rumors,
all more or less without foundation,
have been in circulation in regard to
whom ne was i'll pursuit, but matters
took no positive form until last even
ING. Ii was known TO some that Charles
DALEY was under surveillance by
smith, who was also working up con-
victing evidence. Daley was known to
be intimate with band of burglars, and
has been under suspicion since his in
dictment for passing a revolver into the
Jail to Punch Long, and 1t was
apparently only lack OF damaging evil
dence that withheld his arrest.
Last evening Detective Smith and
Bob Junkins arrested Daily on the hill
above Twelfth street. They had been
Swallowing. him all day, and following
him up the hill. the detective placed
him under arrest and started at once for
Pittsburgh.
There was 500 reward offered for his
capture, which will be given to Bob
Junkins, who has been busily engaged
i'm working the case up.