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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
IS Feel o. NV Pulse.0

"Feel O. my pulse; feel O. my pulse,
quick" gasped a seedy, cadaverous-
looking man a he staggered into the
Eagles local room yesterday afternoon.
The city editor eyed him with sus-
picion, and then told one of the reporters
to accommodate him.
Find it weak. ehp" whispered she
thin tramp. Find it futtering like,
eh?"
NO. responded the reporter. cit
seems all right"
"Take my respiration" moaned the
tramp.
"That seems TO be strong, too," re-
marked the reporter, smelling at it
cautiously.
fetch me two ounces of water"
sighed the tramp. Fetch me two
ounces of spring water, quick"
Haven't got any spring water" re-
Joined the reporter; whats the matter
with you, anyways"
Pm a faster. Haven't eaten any
thing for forty months and forty
"Well, what of it? What do you
want"
Hire a hall and have me watched.
I'm on my forty-6rst month and I'm liza
BILE to eat at any minute up less I'm care
fully guarded. Watch me till my times
up"
About when will that bc?" asked the
city editor.
I'm going a hundred months on a bet
with the chief of police. Say, you fel-
lows want to make some money!"
"How?"
"Just bet that I don't do it Bet
that you dassent set a meal before me
without my. cleaning it up in forty
seconds, and then set up the grub.
You a win any amount you want
to-"
"But who are we to bet with?"
"Chief of police. Bet with him if
you want to win wealth, I tell you"
He isn't here"
THAT'S so; l forgot that. Bet with
me. l can afford to lose. I'll bet you
dassent set o meal before me consisting
of steaks, and chops, and turkey, and
chicken, and eggs and ham, and mush
and milk. and bread and coffee, and
hard tack and pie, and pudding and
rolls, and bacon and clans and lob
sters. Bet you half a dollar. Bet you
anything you like"
II reckon not. Don't care to bet"
"Then I'll bet you five dollars I don't
eat it. Bet you either way. I want to
lose some money somehow"
Rather not. Reckon you'd better 60
away"
Don't you want to have me watched
in a hallP Big gate money. Divide
square. Only got sixty months to Co."
mo, l reckon I won't touch it. You'd
better 60 somewhere else."
LET me have q couple O. ounces O.
water, spring waterp"
Haven't got it, I told YOU"
before I go?"
mo, / got all l want"
Feel O. my pulse nee more, inst
oncep"
"Get out, will your"
"Got any old papers you don't wantp"
"Somebody put this fellow out, 'howl-
ed the city editor.
"Haven't got the San Juan Fernandez
Bbw Pipe of three weeks ago Thursday,
have youp 1want to see the news from
home"
And then he rolled down stairs and
, picked himself up in the counting-room.
"Icalled for The money for that article
o. mine," he explained to the cashier,
"but as it amt printed I'll take four
dollars on account. It's a thing about
science, and the man upstairs said it
was worth half hundred. Gimme four
cases and I'll call for the balance"
And then he fell out through the
door, and q tall man. dressed in blue,
took him up to his friend, the chiet of
police.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
FOB TIE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.

Mummy-cloths of fine pure wool, a,ld
in stylish dark colors, are offered tol
winter.
The crown and brim of the bonnie,
this fall are smoothly covered with
beaded net.
All feathers used in the new bonnets
are fastened but once-that is, at the
stems-and the tips are left loose.
Suits in dark colors are being made
for dressy purposes. Surah glases and
changeable fabrics are used for these.
Coifures arc not quite 80 low in tie
back as they have been, but the ten
dency is to plain and fiat, not fluffy, hair
dressing.
It is said that the cinnamon shade
Worth has used during the summer will
be among the most popular colors next
winter.
The new wooden handkerchief are q
yard square, which is the whole width
of the fabric, and are sold in sets with
out cutting the square apart.
For the street dark shades of CASH
mere are shown in four Of the stylish
purple shades ranging from mauve to
dahlia, all of which have red tints.
Large black silk collars, with flowers
painted on them in water colors, like
designs on a tan. have made their ap-
pearancc in New York city.
A pretty sash to wear with a white
costume can be made of white toile re-
ligieuse, finished at the ends with sec
lions of India shawl patterns.
Large and finely finished claps, re-
sembling cloak clasps, but more ornate
and jeweled, are used to fasten the plush
strings of bonnets.
A combination of plain goods with
wooden Madras plaid will be the leading
style this fall, and suits of this descrip-
ton are already becoming popular.
Ostrich feathers, long, demi-long and
tips, will be used on winter millinery,
quite to the exclusion of flowers. Birds
Of all kinds will also be worn.
A favorite combination for fall suits is
coachman's drab for the principal part
of the co.udme, with borderings OF
shaded stripes of heliotrope and Ophelia.
The colors for fall are heliotrope in all
shades (Which includes mauves and
violets), sea-browns and cofee-browns
(coffee in the bean, roasted and ground),
vanilla, a shade OF yellow resembling
Indian corn, slate-gray, willow-green.
| steel-blue and porcelain blue.
Fall bonnets are principally small
copate shapes of plush finished felts End
furry beavers. They are trimmed With
plaid velvet and feathers land are to be
worn far back on the head.
Fine all-wool goods with a border tor
trimming are among recent imports
tions. They come IN all the new fall
colors, and the borders, which are from
three to five inches wide, are very hand
some.
Uncut or Terry velvet is now shown
in changeable colorg, the ribs of a differ.
ent tint from the body of the goods and
will be much used next winter for mil
linery as well as for dress trimming,
lining and facing.
The princess dress continues to be
worn. Certain alterations are made,
such as having a basque in front, and
the princess cut in the back, or the
basque in the back with the princess
cut In front. Sometimes it is made in
the back with a postillion or long coat
tails.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
Dipping.

The Countess of Antrim has. effected q
diversion. The cards for h.r last after.
noon cat Home" in Ln'Hndes square
were marked Dipping. at 4: 80 precise.
ly,"and, as may be Imagined, this Gre
ated q considerable excitement. What
could he about to happenp Was the
countess bent on a bathing partyp Was
it some American surp,iseP What
could it beP 1t vas Simply that each
visitor dipped his or band into a vast
receptacle and drew forth some small
and elegant present. The idea proved a
great success, and will, I have no doubt,
be frequently ador ted at fashionable re.
captions. 1t adiIs considerably to the
opportunities f,r display; it will enable
people to shor.J off their wealth in an
undenia6!e manner, and that seems the
great ambi' ion of society," london Let
for
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
Chnrninp hi Cont Power,

The most striking feature Of the dairy
ranch of F. S. Clough, in San Mateo
canyon, is the new dairy house which
Mr.. Clough recently completed at Il cost
of 81. 500. 1t is eighteen by thirty-six
feet in ground dimensions, finished ex-
ternally in rustic style, and inside is as
trim and clearly az the thrifty house
wife's "best room" The butter-room,
an apartment ten by fifteen feet in d.
mansions, is carpeted % and as inviting
as a parlor. The apparatus for hand
ling the milk and making the butter is
complete in every detail, and is designed
throughout for the saving of labor. A
receiving vessel, fitted with a strainer,
is located in the milking yard, and COM
municates by q pipe with the dairy
house. The mixers pour their milk
in this receiver and that is the end of
their duties. The milk passes down
through the pipe to a2OO.gallon tank in
the dairy house, whence it is drawn by
the dairymen, undergoing, meanwhile, a
second straining process. 1t is then
placed in pans to cool and raise the
cream. Water is brought in pipes
through the house from q mountain
spring. The churn holds tifty-two gal
Ions Of cream and turns out from 100 to
100 pounds of butte at each churning.
it is worked by goat power, the appli-
ances being a treading wheel eighteen
feet in diameter, which connects with
and operates a shaft running into the
dairy. house, and this in turn connecting
with cog wheels working the dashers.
Mr.. Cow says that the goats, in operat-
ing the wheel, indulge their natural
propensity for climbing and they apply
themselves to their work with great
gusto. Tie herd consist of some eight
or ten animals, ranging from the grand
mother and old Billy with the whiskers
down to the youngling not over a foot
high. When released from their pen
they. n and all, great ard small, run
bleating for the wheel, and the only
trouble to contend with thereafter is the
excess of power which they are apt to
give it in the course of their frolicsome
gambols.-Los An5elos (Cal.) Express.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
Fashion Notos.

Large collars and fchus are much
worn.
Shoes grow more fanciful every sea
son, and are now embroidered in colora
or slashed open to display the hosiery.
Pelerines of jet beads are worn with
black toilets.
Large red chenille cords will be used
in millinery.
Jet and garnet will be used on dresses
and bonnets.
Bonnets will be trimmed with long
piled silk plush.
Strings of new bonnets are of plush
lined with satin.
Long straight directory mantles are
the fall wraps.
Skirts are either very plain or much
rufled and draped.
Wooden handkerchief dresses are
among the latest importations.
Cords and tassels are worn instead OF
belts with the newest costumes.
Very small bonnets and very large
round hats are worn this fall.
A succession of small ruf1es or
flounces trim the skirts OF rich fall COS
tunes.
Wooden goods bordered On one sell
wage with stripes are a feature on fall
goods.
Side combs of shell, jet, ivory and
coral, as well a. gold and silver, are
again in use.
Japanese parasols formed entirely of
peacock's feathers are among attractive
novelties.
The new metal ornaments for hats and
bonnets are large and very handsomely
finished.
Among the most fashionable ball
dresses are black tulle toilets embroider-
ed with gold.
Plush and furry felt hats and bonnets
are among the first fall productions and
importations.
There is a tendency toward making
sleeves much wider at the wrist than
those worn at present.
Bags or reticules carried on the arm
or fastened to the waist accompany
nearly all new costumes.
Long pile silk plush, in bright, dark
colors, tipped with white or old gold,
will be much used in millinery.
Cloth of gold embroidered with pearl,
garnet and amber beads, appears among
choice fall importations.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
The Wind.Swept Wheat.

Faint, faint and clear
Faint as the music that dreams we hear
Shaking tho curtain.told of sleep
That shuts away
OF day,
Her sorry joys, her phantoms, false and feet
So softly, softly stirs
The winds low murmur in the rippled whea.
From west to east
The warm breath blows, the slender head
droop low.
Az il in prayer.
Again, more lightly tossed in merry play,
They bend and bow and sway,
With measured beat,
But never rest. Through shadow and through
Goes on the tender rustic OF the wheat.
Dreams more than sleep,
Falls on the listening heart, and lul its care
Dead years sent back
Some treasured, half-forgotten time.
All, long ago,
When sun and sky were sweet,
nhappy noon,
We stood, breast high, mid waves OF ripened
grain
And heard the wind mako music in the wheat
Not for to-day
Not for this hour alone--the melody,
30 soft and ceaseless, thrills the dreamer's
OF all that was and is, OF all that yet shall be.
It holds q part
Love SORROW, longing, pain;
The restlessness that yearns;
The thirst that burns;
The bliss that, like a fountain, overfows;
The deep repose;
Good that we might have known, bnt shall
not know;
Tho hope God took, the joy he made complete
Lies chords all answer from the wind-sweps
wheat. -Christtan Union.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22

It is exactly a half century since the
first locomotive was built in the United
States the first which were used being
imported. The locomotive in question,
q queer looking, trunkless affair, with
upright boiler, no cab, six inch inclined
cylinder of sixteen inch stroke and four
driving wheels, was constructed at the
West Point foundry. 1t was named the
BEST Friend of Charleston" and ship
ped there by seaO ,tobs 1880, for use
on the Charleston and Hamburg rail
road.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
Pam the Lad that Follows the PloM.

Pam the Lad that Follows the Pl0M,
lam the lad that follows the plow-
Robin and thrush just whistle for me-
In a hickory suit that's pretty well worn
lgo to the field at early morn,i
I help to scatter the golden corn
Robin and thrush just whistle for me.
Out in the meadows and woods and lanes
Robin and thrush just whistle for me-
I watch the sheep and lambs at play;
When the grass is high. I toss the hay;
There ian't a boy in the. world 90 gay,
Robin and thrush Just whistle for me.
Igo with father TO shear the sheep
Robin and thrush just whistle for me.
fodder the cattle, the managers all,
drive a team, I 60 to the mill,
milk the COWS with a right good will
Robin and thrush Just whistle for me.
help the peachesl> Ilums to save.
Robin and thrush Just whistle ior me =
For / am the boy that can climb q tree;
There isn't an apple to high tor me,
There isn't O nut that I can't See
robin and thrush just whistle for mo.
When I am q man III own q farm
Robin and thrush just whistle for me-
Horses and sheep and many a cow
Stacks OF wheat, and a barley NOW;
I'll be q farmer and follow the plow;
Robin and thrush shell whistle for mt.
IT'S better to stand in the golden corn
Robin and thrush just whistle for me-
To toss the hay on the breezy lea,
To rluck the fruit on the orchard tree,
Than roam about on the restless sea;
So, sailor boy, I'll follow tho pillow.
IT'S better to hear the wild birds sing,
Robin and thrush on the apple bough-
IT'S better to have a farm and q wife,
And lead a busy, peaceful Life,
Than march to the noisy drum and die;
So, soldier boy, I'll follow the pillow.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
About Lying.

"Where were you when the first shot
was fred ?" asked Galveston lawyer.
Il was lying down on the sofa"
"Where was your husbandp"
"He was lying down on the gallery"
And your children-where were
they"
"They were lying down on the bed,
fast asleep"
ANY other member of your family
lying DOWN."
"Well if my brother-in-law was here
I expect lie would by lying down in the
courthouse. He is a lawyer, unless be
has reformed recently"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22
n exchange piyes the followin @

An exchange gives the following
remedy for earache: Take a small piece
of cotton wool, make a depression in the
center and fill it with pepper; gather it
into a ball and tie it up; dip it into
sweet oil and insert it in the ear. In
slant relief will follow. Another remedy
il TO dip a Chinese trecracker 10 nitric
acid, put the cracker in the aching ear
and explode it. The acid will prepare
the ear for the fireworks.-Rcaynne
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22

A Western reporter records the fact
that the defeated candidate '''took his
way to the train, wrapped in gloom and
new store clothes. The gloom Was an
elegant fit, but the store clothes were
too short in the legs and very baggy
around the shoulders"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22

St. Louis has successfully employed
the electric light to aid the loading OF
| steamers ut her warves ut nipht, in the
place of the old fashioned pine torehes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22

A letter goes over M post route, a
telegram over q route of many posts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-22

There are some men so talkative that
nothing but the toothache can make one
of them hold his jaw.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
The City Representative Ticket

The men named by the Republicans of
Portland to represent them in the next Leg
islature were the men named and chosen to
represent them in the latest-chosen by
majority large even for this city, and elect
ed by fair vote that has never been sue
cessfully impugned. They were counted
out by the Tabulators on the most frivolous
of technicalities, the expressed will of our
citizens was contemptuously ignored, and
our votes were treated as waste paper.
Portland was not permitted to take part in
the organization of the Ffty-Ninth Legisla-
ture. 1t was seized by the throat and the
attempt made to stifle its voice on the ques-
tions. in which, like that of the State valua-
tion, it had the most imperative and vital
interest.
The attempt to defraud US of our repre-
sentation failed. The men we elected took
their seats. As commend alton of them and
in vindication of that right to legislative
representation for which the founders of
the Republic fought, and in condemnation
of those who sought to swindle us out of
that right and to win by villainy what they
could not achieve by votes, we have put
these same men in nomination. We have
made square issue. A vote for our repre-
sentative ticket is voice for the honor and
dignity of Portland, so grossly attacked last
Winter. A vote against it is voice in ap-
proval of our disfranchisement, of the State
steal, and of the declaration so exultantly
made and so fatal to free government, that
elections no longer exist.
There is but one choice, the choice be-
tween the Republican and the Fusion rep
resentative tickets. Ballots thrown for 9th
er names are thrown against the Republican
ticket and for the Fusion. We are called
upon to choose between vindicating our city
and vindicating the Tabulators. A vote for
any other ticket, whether it be called Pro-
hibition or License, is vote against hon
esty and for fraud. All is fish that comes
to the Fusion net.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
The Democrats in Blue.

by curious law of compensation the
Democratic heaviness of heart is made mp
by lightness of head. That is the Demo
cratic idea of compensation. At the open
ing OF the campaign the Democrats we're con-
tent with asserting that Hancock was
brave and skillful Union soldier, and that
tney should elect him. They felt sure of
his success, and thought they could afford
to efface themselves-until the Fourth of
March, As the fight wore ON they found
that Hancock was not powerful name to
conjure with, that the people were not so
much concerned as to what he had done
under Republican dictation as to what he
would do under Democratic dictation. The
idea slowly dawned upon their minds that
the people distrusted them, abhorred their
record, and doubted their professions. There
upon they conceived the plan of appearing
as the original Union party, and have since
gone about proclaiming that they fought the
war, freed the slave, reconstructed the
South and replenished the Treasury They
have stripped the blue coats from the Union
soldiers they shot down on the battlefield,
have donned that dress, and are now para
ding as Hancock Veterans. At first they
were satisfied with asserting that their can
didate fought for the preservation of the
Union. They now insist that the entire
party was in the Union ranks.
By the men who did do the fighting this
monstrous masquerade of the Democracy
will be held to be an insult and sacrilege.
That many Democrats stood by their side,
and fought manfully and well, they will be
the last to question, the first to admit; but
they know that all through the war the enc
my whose attacks they had most to fear was
not the Southern rebel in their front but the
Northern copperhead in their rear. Knowing
this, and feeling the old righteous wrath
possessing them, they are in no mood to
swell the Hancock procession of fantasies,
or to assist in parodying themselves and
their heroic struggles.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
Worcester Spy.l
Irish Republicans.

The announcement made yesterday that an
Irish Republican club with thirty-two men,
bers only one of whom had been Republican
before, was formed in this city, suggests some
reflections. Why should an Irish Republican
club be something new or strange? Is there
any reason why Irishmen should not be Re-
publicans? We knew of none, but there are
many reasons why they should be Republicans
rather than Democrats Irish clubs or any
others which by their names or membership
keep up distinctions founded on race or ma
tivity among those who, whatever their origin,
are now all alike and equally citizens OF the
United States, are not in themselves desirable
We should prefer to see such distinctions ig-
nored, but there may be special reasons ior
this form of organization and no doubt there
are such. 1t is easier, Of course, FOR those VINO,
acting as their Judgment and tneir sense Oh
duty prompt, are forming new political reia-
tions. tn bear the reproaches OF their former
ossoc;otes and to give each other mutual help
and encouragement by holding together for a
time. than by scattering among clubs and Or
carnations where their knowledge OF each
o,ber and sense of mutual support are lost IL
ia desirable also that tho result OF any new
movement in politics should take form ana
place of its own 50 far as possible, 80 tha' ito
extent and importance may be constantly visi-
ble On these grounds and others which
might be suggested, the ORGANIZATION oi @n
Irish Republican CLUB is clearly deiensipie'
This club, as we have the means oi knowing,
had its origin with Irishnen exclusively, and
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
DEMOCRATIC OPINION OF THE
COUNT.OUT.


There is NO possible way i'm which Alon-
20 Gareel0n can be prevented from maxi
ing himself Governor as long as he lives,
and keeping his precious set of vii
lains i'm this State i'm Council for
life, provided they can secure nom
inati ons for the places, and can find
courage to throw out Republican returns
enough each year to seat their own tools
i'm the Legislative chamber. Popular liber-
~ thus far has had its throat cut i'm liberty
loving New England by a scalpel of a Down
East doctor, and nothing but the hope
that the infinite Justice of heaven will over
take him, stands between this and the fu-
ture subjection Of the State of Maine TO his
dictatorship, if he is brazen enough to con-
tinue this kind of work. There is but one
thing that would meet the case with per-
feet justice, and that would be the short
shrifi Of this man with a great cord from
one of the elms of Augusta. But New Eng
land takes the more tardy, but equally sure
way through the ballot box, and even pup
pet Garcelon and maestro Pillsbury will
not have assurance to use their power
against one more verdict by the sturdy sons
of Maine, which they will get next Sep
tember.-DEMoCRATIc LOUISVILLE COURIER
JOURNAL ON THE CoUNT-OUT LAST WINTER.
The Portland daily press., 1880-09-10
The Great Rally.

The demonstration last night was the
grandest rally ever held by any political
party in the city Of Portland. The process
sion was large and brilliant, the enthusiasm
along the line of march great, and the illu-
limitations fine and abundant. Notwith-
standing the rain which began to fall early
in the evening, the. streets were crowded
with people. And still enough crowded in
to City Hall to listen to the eloquent speech
OF Mr. Horr of Michigan to fill that great
audience room. The whole affair was a
complete and marked success and most
cheering indication of the political feeling
in the city.