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

Anumber of medical students in In
dianapolis recently undertook to make
a victim of a professional "resurrec-
ZIONIST" Fhey told him that they had
secured a body and asked him to re-
move it from its hiding place. The sup
posed corpse in the bag wasa live medi-
cal student. The students pointed out
the spot where the bag was concealed,
and the professional threw the bag over
his shoulder and set out for the college.
The corpse. who had no knowledge of
his whereabouts. Strengthened out just
as his bearer was crossing the canal.
With rare presence of mind the intended
victim of the joke hcaved his burden
over the bridge into the water and
calmly walked on. Had not the com
panions of the unfortunate fellow
rushed to his rescue there would have
been "sure enough" corpse in the
party.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03
Trifling with Health.

Man is the only animal who violates
the laws of health knowingly, and yet
continues the bad practice. An illus
tration of this moral and physical eccen.
tricity is afforded by the habits of
Thackeray.
Unlike Dickens, he took no regular
walking exercise, and, being regardless
of the laws of health, suffered in conse-
quence. In reply to one who asked him
if he had ever received the best medical
advice, his reply was:
"What is the Use of advice if you
don't follow it? They tell me not to
drink, and I do drink; they tell me not
to smoke, and ! do smoke; they tell me
not to eat, and I do eat. In short, do
everything that I am desired not to do,
and, therefore, what am / to expecte"
And SO one morning he was found
like DR.. Chalmers, in the sleep of death
with his arms beneath his head, after
one of his violent attacks of illness, to
be mourned by his mother and daugh'
ters, who formed his household, and by
wider public beyond, which IhaG
learned to love him through his admira
BILE works.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03
Household Hints.

Old boot tops, cut into pieces the right
size and lined, make good iron holders.
The leather keeps all heat away from
the hand.
Sprigs of wintergreen or ground ivy
will drive away red ants; branches OF
wormwood will serve the same purpose
for black ants.
After a stove has once been thoughly
blacked, it can be kept looking well for
a long time by rubbing it with a news
paper every morning.
To remove grease from wall paper,
lay several folds of blotting paper on
the spot and hold hot iron near it
until the grease is absorbed.
To make macaroni tender, put it in
cold water and bring it to q boil. 1t
will then be much more tender than if
put into hot water or stewed in milk.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03

Horse cars in Philadelphia are now
comfortably warmed. Each car is pro-
vided with two small portable furnaces,
arranged on either side beneath the body
of the car and between the two wheels.
By means of fues the heat is directed
beneath the cane-covered seats, from
which it becomes diffused throughout
the car. The smoke is conducted to
the front platform, and thence, by means
of pipes, to the roof of the car. The
consumption of fuel is small, a'shovel of
coal, and few sticks of wood suficing
for the entire trip.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03
Two Ways Of Putting It.
The Sultan awoke with stified scream;
His nerves were shocked by fearful dream


The Sultan awoke with a stifed scream;
His nerves were shocked by fearful dream
An ONE: OF terrible import and doubt
His teeth in one moment all fell out.
His wisemen assembled at break OF day,
And stood by tho throne in solemn array.
And when the terrible dream was told,
Each felt shudder, his blood ran cold,
And all stood silent, in fear and dread,
And wondering what was best to be said.
At length en- old soothsayer, wrinkled and
gray,
Cried, "Pardon, my lord, what have to say
otis an omen OF sorrow sent from on high:
Thou shalt see all thy kindred die"
Wroth was the Sultan; he gnashed his teeth,
And his very words seem to hiss and ssethe,
As he ordered thu wiseman bound with chains,
And gave him hundred stripes for his pains.
The wisemen shook as the Sultan's eye
Swept round to see who next would try;
But one OF them, stepping before the throne,
Exclaimed, in loud and joyous tone:
"Exult, oh head of happy state!
Rejoice, oh heir Of a glorious fate!
"For this is the favor thou shalt win,
Oh sultan-to outlive all thy kim"
Pleased was the Sultan, and called slave,
And hundred crowns to the wiseman gave.
But the courtiers they nod, with grave, sly
winks,
And each one whispers what each one thinks.
"Well, can the Sultan reward and blame:
Didn't both OF the wisemen toreteli the same?
Quoth the crafty old Vizier, shaking his head
$50 much may depend on the way things
ssidn
-Harper's Young People.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03
Agriculture in Great Britain.

A New 7 4Ork paper says: Ine agrl-
cult ural returns of England for the cur
rent year give precision to the general
report of agricultural depression. and
also afford some interesting comparisons
with similar figures for the United
States. 1t appears that the total ares
under cultivation in the United Kingdom
in 1879, including even grass crops, was
47,437, 900 acres, which is 5,646,00 acres
less than are now producing maize. or
Indian corn, in the United States. The
acres under wheat in the United States is
more;than ten times that for the United
Kingdom, being 3,O56, 900 acres for Eng
land, as against twenty-five per cent. of
the total wheat average since 1859, while
the rate of increase for the United States
is much greater, it,being necessary to 60
no further back than 1875 to lind an in
crease of very nearly the same per cent.
Comparing the total "corn " crop acre
age-the English returns include under
this head, wheat. barley, oats, rye, beans,
and peas-of 1869 and 1879, it appears
that there has been in tine United King
dom decrease of ten per cent, the tig--
ures being for 1879, 10,777, 900 acres. and
for 1869, $4,000, 600 acres. Ireland is re-
ported to furnish a disproportionate
share OF this decrease, but precise figures
on this head are not given. A crumb OF
comfort is found in considerable in
crease in the land used for gardens,
orchards. and diary purposes. Doubt
less, this is the forerunner of an in
portant change: in English agriculture,
not unlike that which began some time
ago in the Eastern States of the United
States. There, too, the farmers have
realized the impossibilisy of competing
with tire Western farmers in raising
grain but are every year findingiincreas;
ing profit in supplying milk fruit, and
garden truck" generally, to large
cities. They found, as the English
farmer will, that the demand for fresh
vegetable food increases with the supply
of 4 really good article at a low price.
In this direction the future holds large
possibilities for English farmers, if only
they have the wit to see or make the de-
mand, and adaptability sufficient to en-
able them to supply it. How large a
field is open appears from the astonlsh-.
ing statement that with large areas of
land lying idle, England annually pays
foreign farmers not less thanS475, 900, ,OOO.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03
The Paraguayan government has i'm

The Paraguayan government has i'm
posed tax of S5 a year upon all single
men between the ages of twenty. five and
fifty. Women are not taxed, on the as
sumption that they are not to blame for
remaining single.
The disproportion of women to men
in criminal records is strikingly exempli-
fed in some statistics published by the
Italian government. During the past
year the courts sentenced Al, ,555 persons,
of whom 35,99s were men and only
1856 women, and the police assizes con-
demned 7,544 men and only 1888 women.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03
Butter Without Salt


A New York paper says: The liking
for butter that contains very small
percentage of salt is taste that is rap
idly growing in this country, and one
which dairymen would do well to cater
to. Of course, as butter of this descrip-
tion will not bear long keeping, it must
of necessity command a~higher price
than that which can be held TO meet the
demands of the market. On this ac-
count it's manufacture will ordinarily
be restricted to dairies that are situated
within a relatively short distance Of
certain great centers of consumption.
In this city the demand for this species
of butter, due, doubtless, to our large
German and French population, is very
great, but as mentioned above, the liking
for this article is rapidly growing
among those with whom the taste is not
an inherited one. Indeed, it only needs
short sojourn in an inland town or on
farm in this country to become aware
of the strong liking that exists for butter
of an exceedingly salt variety. There
may be not the least difficulty in obtain.
ing butter that is fresh as regards time,
but the landlady of aviliage boarding
house, or the wife Of farmer, cannot un-
derstand the liking that her guests, have
for what to her is IN exceedingly in
sipid article Of food. Another cirum-
stance that must always add to the cost
OF butter with which little or no salt has
been worked, is the fact that q much
greater degree of care is required in its
making. Salt, when plentifully used, is
notorious disguiser of imperfections,
while, on the other hand, impurities can
be detected in strictly unsalted butter
that are not apparent in the milk. For
this reason the utmost cleanliness in the
manufacture is necessary, and though
what is known as naturally cold hand
for touching butter is often spoken OF
as highly desirable, it is much better to
have itmade in such manner that di-
rect contact with the hand is unneces-
sary. A device which seems to have
originated in Holstein, has recently been
introduced into one OF two of the fancy
dairies in the State of Massachusetts,.
This is a rapidly rotating separator:
built upon the principle Of a centrifugal
machine in q sugar refinery. The fresh
milk is poured into this, and by it's rapid
revolutions the cream is in minute or
two separated from the thin milk i;
presses are then used which squeeze out
all the Tactic acid that is to be found in
the buttermilk. By this process un-
salted butter can be made which will,
by careful keeping, retain its good quail
ties for some little time. No doubt, as
the demand increases. facilities for
meeting it will be found and applied, as
Americans are never backward in adapt
ing means to ends; but under the most
favorable conditions. butter of this kind
will probably command. q price fully
fifty per cent. higher than that demanded
for the ordinary grades.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03

"Ouida," the novelist, has just re-
ceived the medal of the Paris society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals /;
but she never would have received it it
the animals had been educated, and had
made practice of reading her books
american Punch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03

The people Of burned Deadwood are
asking for an extra session of the Dako'a
legislature as i means through which
relief may come through the many COM
plications arising out Of the destruction
of Ill their public records; and it will be
necessary to appeal to Congress to Sc
cure authority for the proposed extra
session,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03
An Argument.

As, one by one, along LIES hinty way.
The hopes OF youth iade in the heat and die
And OF our prime the aspirations high
Remorseless circumstances crush and slay,
Then, "Courage," to our fainting hearts We
cay, s..s 49,
'rBeyond this life the sunny uplands lie
Where these shall all be ours, again to try,
The bright ascent toward the perfect day" 4
Oh, land OF the hereafter! can it be,
When to thy sacred keeping we commit
AL our.best treasures so conhdingly,
Our dead, oar hopes, our aspirations Lit
With quenchless hre, that immortality
And thy fair plains are all o myth, cheat
n. E. Starreh, in Good Company.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03

Girls are wearing boys' hats, boys
ties and boys cravats.-Yonkers Gazette.
And boas about their necks, the dar-
lings.-Lockport Union
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-12-03

It's a wise mineral spring that knows
its spa.-Corry Herald.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13

Mrs. J. D. WATSON called upon US
yesterday and left an affidavit which
shows the relations which formerly ex-
listed between herself and Crawford
Spear. As the latter had left at the
every Evening" Office several atfidav-
its affecting Mrs. Watson, and all invi-
tation having been given or persons
who wished to come and see them, the
affidavit left at the REPUBLICAN office is
complete offset to them, and if any
person interested in the case wants tC
know more than We care about publish
ing i'll our paper, they can see Mrs.
Watson's affidavit by calling at our of.
flee. BY doing this we are not taking
either side in the controversy, but as
Crawford Spears affdavits have not
only been left at the Every Evening"
office with a published invitation for
all interested to call and see them, but
have been printed in slips and
scattered broadcast through the city, it
is no more than fair that Mrs. Watson
should have the same chance to defend
herself. Her affidavit can be seen at
cur office, but it will not be published
on slips and scattered free gratis
amongst scandal mongers.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13

Orr DELAWARE Senators are having
hard time OF it in Congress. We
stated yesterday that Salisbury was
disguised at the way things were going
in the Louisiana contested election case
and now correspondent to the Phila-
delphia Evening "Bulletin' says tina
Bayard is pestered beyond endurance
on account of his financial opinions
which are of the stalwart order, and
threatens to resign his Craftsmanship
of the Financial Committee if his party
don't stop talking about him. Bayard
is blamed for choking the Warner sill
yer bill in his committee, and the Ohio
Democrats say that if that bill is not
passed the Democrats will have no
chance to carry Ohio this fall, and will
consequently settle the election of 1880
in favor of the Republicans. 1t will
be interesting to wait and see what Mr..
Bayard is going to do about it.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13
Depression OF Labor.

Hendrick B. Wright looms up once
more as a demag who knows how to
make his profession paying one. lie
has received permission to visit Cali
fornia with his committee to "In7esti-
gate the Canses of the Depression of
Labor" and he will start as soon as
Congress adjourns. This expedition
will cost the Government good round
sum, and will enable Wright and his
companion bumbugs to enjoy Summer
vacation at the expense Of the people.
In return for it, the country will not
receive particle of information which
it does not already possess, but will
be obliged to pay for the printing of a
clumsy report written by demagogue
upon subject which he is unable to
understand.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13
From Bellevue station,

for lhc Rcpubllcan.
Within the past ten days, this vi,
cinity has been the scene of sorrow and
pleasure. On the Bird inst, Mrs. Per.
kins, wife of Christian Perkins, Esq,
was inferred in the Mt. Pleasant ceme-
terry. A very large concourse Of friends
attended. The sermon was preached by
Rev. Mr.. Pierson, Pastor of Mt. Pleasant
church, of which she was good men,
Der.
The friends held strawberry festi-
val at Mt Pleasant church last week
which, Notwithstanding the storm OF
Thursday evening, was pretty well at
tended. All things passed Of pleasant.
ly. The friends were pleased and the
financial result was reasonable sue
cess.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13
New for 0otiysbuFg.

There is yet one place where the
rebels have not built . monument in
commemoration Of the deeds Of the rebel
dead, and that place is Gettysburg
Thousands of them lie buried where
they fell, and no marble shaft is yet
erected to their memory. This was the
most important battle Of the war, and
if it was necessary to have such rebel
demonstration at Winchester as was
witnessed on Friday last, it is doubly
more appropriate that there should be
a great unveiling Of rebel monumental
shafts in honor of the patriotic rebel
dead at Gettysburg. If it was right at
Winchester it would be right at Get
tysburg. No doubt large portion Of
the Democracy of Pennsylvania would
be present on such an occasion, and
would loudly applaud the rebel speak
ers as they proclaimed from the plat
form that it is no treason, but devotion
to holy cause to take up arms against
the government. Let the rebels come
on now and erect their marble shafts at
Gettysburg. Let Cemetery Hill and
Roundy Hill Top resound once more
with the rebel yell the valley breezes
float back the music of rebel bands,
and the rebel stars and bars be unfurl-
ed to the wind. Gettysburg should not
be forgotten, and there could be no
grander occasion than a demonstration
like that, to which Jefferson Davis
should be invited to deliver the Grafton
of the day. He could tell the enthusi-
astie thousands that were engaged in
the rebellion that they had done no
wrong that no Southern woman had
ever yet been reconstructed, and that
the children of such mothers must rise
up to vindicate the lost cause. He
would no doubt express the greatest OF
regrets that Lee had not beaten Meade,
and he would have considered the
burning of Chambersburg a humane
act. Shouts from thousands of rebel
throats would applaud the sentiment,
and the brass bands would answer in
full chorus by striking up the tunes of
the Bonnie Blue and Dixie. This may
not be a very pleasant picture for loyal
men to lock at and contemplate, but if
such things are right and proper at
Winchester there can be no good rea'
son why they should not be right and
proper at Gettysburg, only short dis
tance farther North.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13

whoever should point to these graves
and say that they cover traitors, resorts
to falsehood that cannot be formulated
into statements Of facts. What they
did was not the work Of delusion or
treason. The South had no quarrel
with the Constitution of the United
States. They carried itwith them into
the conflict, and for this posterity will
give them due credit. Brothers in.
blood, but under different banners, all
will accord they died for the right"
This is an alarming doctrine, the
same States Rights doctrine that
plunged the nation into the last war,
and must eventually, unless checked
by an overwhelming Republican victory
in 1880, again plunge the nation into
war. If the rebels who fell during the
war, "died in the cause of truth and
Justice" as Senator Morgan says they
did, then the Union soldiers who fell
must have died in the cause of lie
and injustice, and this great Republic
of ours is but standing, tottering
fraud and glaring imposition on the
rights of man. What is the use of laws
if every rebel is to be the supreme
judge of his duty ?" If rebellion against
the Government is no treason tEen
every Union soldier who yielded up his
life on the battle field in defence of the
Government died in wrong cause.
Things have indeed wonderfully turned
round when here, at this day, only
fourteen years since the rebels laid
down their arms, it is found ont that
they were in the right, and the Union
soldiers were entirely wrong. 1t is not
difficult to forsee that if the Democratic
party, which is ruled.and governed by
the Southern rebel dictators, should get
full control of the government, treason
will be made respectable, and the
cause for which the Union soldier
fought will be made odious. 1t is high
time that the tocsin of alarm was
sounded throughout the loyal North,
that when the ex-rebels strike again
to destroy the Union the people may be
found ready for any emergency. Such
a thing as confidence in the rebel lead
ers is entirely out of the question, and
from present appearances nothing can
avert the present threatened danger
but an overwhelming Republican vic
tory. TO gain this victory it is the
duty of all who love the Union, wheth-
er Republican or Democrat, to unite,
that the country may be saved from
the devastations of another civil war.
The next national political contes. will
mean more than a simple contest for
the Offices between the Republican and
Democratic parties it will be contest
between loyalty and treason, and be-
tween the two there is but one choice
for loval men.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13

The DEMOCRACY of Delaware will have
nothing to do this coming fall but to
see that the Republicans are kept off
the assessment books, and to look on
the battle as it RACES in Ohio. If they
get the vote of the State reduced in the
next two years as much as it has in the
last two, there won't be many left to
vote. Two years ago the vote of the
State was about $1,000, but last fall it
was reduced below $4,000. The same
ratio of decrease will leave about 5000
voters in 1880.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13

SENATOR VEST of Missouri who wears
an enormous white vest, is fully in
vested with the idea that Ohio is com-
pletely in the hands of the Democrats.
He made the astounding statement the
other day that the Ohio majority for
Democrats would be $4,000. Mr.. Vest
will shortly be divested of that idea, and
then he will be required to pull down
his vest.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13
Grand Excursion

To Fort Delaware, on Monday, June
10th, 1879, by St. Peters Congregation,
on the commodious Steamer "John A.
Warner" Tickets 25 and SO cents
Boat leaves French st. wharf at s
o'clock, A. M. and at p. NJ. We wish
pleasant day and fine breeze that
it may prove a success.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13

A NOTE.
The ''Republican" still leads In
elroulasiOn. Advertise where yOu
get the most for yO0r money and
the ..kepu ltcan" II that DaDer.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13

TIE STAR CHAMBER Jury in the Rowe
Duggan- murder case have found out at
last that they didn't know every thing
about the murder, and that the repor-
ters who were excluded really knew
more than they did. We know that
some of the reporters had found out all
about the mysterious pistol that did its
deadly work, and could Aave told tn"
jury all about it while they were west
ling with that question and had to give
it up. The fact that another man was
in the house at the time Colonel Rowe
was shot and who knew more about the
shooting than any other man in it ex-
cept Duggan himself, and the jury new
sr having found it out, does not speak
well for this jury, and after all we need
scarcely wonder why such a jury did
not want reporters present.
Daily Republican., 1879-06-13

TIE EDIroR of the Cincinnati "Com-
mercial' grows enthusiastic over the
mission Of Ohio in the struggle for en-
lightened freedom, while showing how
she led the revolt against the Jackson
VanBuren regime in 1S40, bore the
standard in the Wing victory of 1862,
was the first to grappe with the pro,
slavery enemy in 1854, fought bravely
for Fremont in 1856 and for Lincoln iu
1860, and how in lS6a she crushed the
traitors .under Vallan1igham with a
majority of 1000. During the era of
reconstruction her voice rang out clear
for the right, and now when the work
of the past is imperiIled she is again
the first called to its defence.