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, 1880-09-13

"Tm sitting on the style, Mary" is
what the man said when he sat on his
wife's new hat, and thought it rather
dear joke when she retorted. "Give us
money, and we'll call it square,"
, 1880-09-13

White neckties are SO cheap this season
that many sad-faced man has secured a
railroad ticket at half price on the streng tn
of his throat-gear.
, 1880-09-13

Cars for the Manhattan Elevated are
manufactured by the Pullman :Coms
pany.
, 1880-09-13
Capital Stock, paid up. 81, 600, ,O00.8O
Surplus, $422,83253

OopASoA oooSA, pau uP' PA,OVO,OOO.OV
Surplus, $422,832.53
We desire to call yoMr attention to the an
nexed STATEMENT of this Bank: and offer our
services to any that may desire to do business with
us.
From Our long experience in Banking we
have thorough knowledge of the business and no
efforts will bespared by us to render those opening
accounts doing business with us every advantage
appertainin9 to their interest.
ASSETS.
Real Estate Bank Bufldins) 10000 90
Bills Receivable ............. I.3I3.S61 81
OverdraffS (SOlventl ... 93.44S OS
Real Estate taken for debt. 3.5Of SO
Land Ass'n and Dock Stock 7A37 60
Due from Eanks 4 Bankers 7O6,963 IS
Cash, tcoiaa isa our Vault -. 963.267 So
So, 1876, ,9S6 II
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock 81 600. 900 90
Reserve Fund (s,irpl,ss) 122 1872 5s
Due DepOsitOrs.. -. I,5I5,696 SO
Due Banks and BanAers 1854 3a
Due Dividends ........... 3.O37 80
S3,l36, 1856 IA
We respectfully call attention to our
facilities for doiug every kind of legitimate
Banking Business; and solicit accounts of
Merchants, Manufacturers, Banks and Bankers,
Farmers, and all doing business in our line.
We give advice in detail Of all credits, and
acknowledge promptly all letters, and viii furnish
private teiegraps.ac code to correspondents,
when requested
will have special and prompt returns
Bein" connected by Telephone with all
the principal warehouses and the So Produce Ex-
change, we keep thoroughly posted in the Wheat.
Grain and Flour market, and prepared at
all times to make loans Flour, Wheat ard Bar
ley, and other approved merchandise in warehouSe
Investments made Oh Commission. and
special attention given to the negotiation OF
hcst-class loans OF Cities counties and other cor
porations
we buy and sell BILLS of Exchange on
the Principal Cities il the UNITED STATES, ENGLAND,
FRANCE and GERMANY.
COLLECTIONS made and prompt returns rend-
cred at market rates of exchange.
'Feit-raphic Transfers made with NEW
York, Boston CHICAGO. and principal cities of the
L. s. also, cable transfers tC Europe.
letters of Credit and Commercial Cred
its issued on the principal cities of the UNITED
STATES and EUROPE
E.oans ma de OE gGOt! cOiiaferaIs or APP
proved names. Good Business Notes and
Drafts discounted at lowest market rates.
Deposits received, subject to csIecGA
without notice.
National, state. City and County BONDS
and Warrants and other Securities, bought
and sold.
Banking is a business that should be recip
rocaIy beneficial to borrower and lender.
Favor and benevOlence are not the attri-
butes of good Banking; strict justice and rigid
performance of contracts its proper foundation.
A gO0d III, 1, lker is one who takes better care of
other peoples money than his own
A Prudent aud Conservative Course is
one of the first principles of successful Banking.
This will be our policy.
Yours, very respectfully,
s. G. MURPHY, II. III. McDoNALR.
Cashier. President
, 1880-09-13
Vol+aic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich.

vii, send their cele ebrated Electr O -Voltaic
Belts to the afflicted upon 80 days trial.
Speedy cures guaranteed. They mean what
they say. Write to them without delay
, 1880-09-13

ALL Photographs made at the New York Gallery
No 20 Third St., s. F., guaranteed to be first
class. Prices to suit the times. J. H. PETERS & Co
, 1880-09-13
SAN Francisco. Neyemher 27. 1879

SAN FRANCISCO, Novem Ter z, 1873.
STANDARD SOAP COMPANY-Gents:
After number of trials of Soaps, l have
learned that the PHOSPHATE is certainly
the very best for shaving. thank you for
its introduction JAMES p ARTHUR.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16
A Frightful Condition Of Affairs.

For several years Southern Russia
has been in frightful sanitary con-
dition. Diphtheria broke out as an
epidemic in Bessarahia in 1871 and H,-
600 children died under the scourge.
Thence the disease spread through
Poltava where as many lives were sac.
ri6ced. and its ravages were not stopped
until 3 had overrun fifteen govern
mentss The mortality from diphtheria
alone since it broke out has been forty
per cent. Among the young the mum.
Der of deaths have from the nature Of
the disease been especially high. OF
those who caught the infection eighty
one per cent. were under twenty years
of age. and the percentage Of deaths
among these were no less than ninety
The children of whole villages have
been swept nway. and although II has
ragged for such q length or time COM
paratively little has been done to stay
the plague. The supply of medical re-
lief is quite insufficient to cope with
the epidemic. and where doctors have
endeavered to apply proper remedies
they found their efforts obstructed by
the ignorance of the people. When
they cauterized the children they we're
charged with murder, and at one time
the proposal was coolly made to hang
all the DOCTORS" Even now that the
medical men have obtained q footing,
they alone can do but little. The cause
of the disease is the squalid condition
in which the peasantry of the country
live, and even such an epidemic as the
present hardly sufices to rouse them
to cleanliness. Superstition supplies
other causes for the origin OF the dis,
ease and insanitary habits of life are
too Inherent to be easily rooted out.
The devoted people are now suffering
from famine as we'll as contagion. The
crcns have not succeeded for some time,
and cattle and horses have died from
want while the people without them
are helpless. Right south into Asia
Minor the distress extends, and with
lethargic governments, whose last
thought Is for the good Of the people.
there seems only one end to the troubles
Of those people living in the ira X OF
the pestilence-the depopulation OF the
entire provinces.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16
A Busy Scene In New York.

The place to see all the world, writes
the New Y York correspondent OF the Alto
California is the corner Of Fifth avenue
and Fourteenth street and Union Square,
west side. Here the tnrong Is 80 dense
that il is almost like coming out OF a
theater, and the lobby would represent
the street, or the street the lobby,
whichever you like-pay your money,
etc. 1t is perfect panorama *nd
variety fair-people, all well dressed,
for no other sort venture in this neigh
borhood. The stores like the streets,
are crowded from morning till night
with eager women, all intent on shop
ping, buying, until one wonders where
all the money comes from that they
spend apparently 30 recklessly. 1t is
almost impossible to get up to counter
and get waited upon. Every window
is blocked up by the people looking at
the display of hats, silks, dresses, works
of art and brio Ia brac. The rage for
the latter is growing more intensr: ::
Every dry goods store is magazine OF
arr, and speaking of that, those that were
once confined to the specialties, all dry
goods for instance, now include in their
stock every known variety OF small OBJ
iects of art and perfumery, soaps, toilet
articles, stationery. fancy boxes and
Chinese goods. The rage for the latter
is something wonderful. All along
Fourteenth street are little street-shops
and stands, venders Of Chinese bric-a-
brac. Daily auctions are held of ma
iolica ware, decorated china vases, ETC.,
" objects OF art, as they areadvertised-
an artful dodge. These auction stores
are handsomely flttt d up. The articles
for sale are shut off from the audience
by a fence across raised platform, or
which the auctioneer sits, and the goods
are held up by nice young man, te
whom they are handed by a stylish col
ored man in white kids. The bidders
sit in chairs and are mostly ladies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16

Crash! the coffin-lid burst open, and a
skeleton, thrown out in CHASTITY relief by
the red light that famed in its eyeless
sockets, started up with hideous rattle,
thrusting forward its bony arms and
grinning jaws as if about to spring upon
them. The honest servant gave one
yell sufficient to wake the whole neigh
borhood, and rolled on the floor in con-
vulsions. The second burglar, leaping
backward, dashed his head with such
force against the corner ofa bureau, that
he dropped as if felled with IN axe; !;
while Badger Bill. making a frantic
rush for the window, overturned the
ladder, and fell crashing along with it.,
breaking his leg in the fall.
"You see now, Harry" said the doc
tor, as they went upstairs after seeing
their unbidden guests marched off by
the police, "that my night watchman
did know his duty. although there's
nothing more unearthly about him than
a few concealed springs, which are re-
leased upon the approach ST any one,
and little phosphorus. AS for this
v onderful room, You see its only la
boratory after all. But the stories peo-
pie told about it amused me so much.
that must plead guilty to having given
them good deal of encouragement.
Now, let us be off to bed; and ] think
you may sleep In peace after this, for it
strikes me it'll be some time before any
body robs my house again."
And indeed. no one has ever attempted
n einca
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16
Rreaking BAD News,

Whether is it preferable. to break bad
news suddenly or graduallyP A case in
White Mills, Pa, shows how dreadful
result may be brought about by the
very means taken to avoid it. 1t ap-
pears that young man in one OF tne
Southern States for the past two years
has been paying his attentions to MISS
Schenck, q beautiful, wealthy and ae-
complished young lady Of that place,
and was engaged to be married at an
early day. About three months ago ne
started from his Southern home tor the
North with the intention OF iulhlllng
the engagement, when an accident 0c-
cured which resulted in his death Inc
news of his death reached the young
! lady's mother, who, knowing the strong
attachment her daughter entertained
for him, resolved to withhold tue sad
news from her daughter, If possible. 10
this end the mother intercepted the iet-
ter which conveyed the news OF ms
death, and the daughter was left in total
| ignorance of the truth. Time passed
by. and the girlreceived no tidings nom
her absent lover. Her only solution TO
the mysterious silence was that she had
been deserted. It so worked upon her
mind that soon her reason was ae.
throned, and she ise now raVlpg
maniac.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16
Lafayette's Generosity.

Unfortunately, too many great men
among those classed as statesmen, de-
serve the censure which Goldsmith
passed on Burke:
" Who born tor the universe, narrowed his
mind,
And to party gave up what was meant tor
mankind"
LAFAYETTE was not of this kind. Nor
was he guilty of the other ethical blum
der, which not a few good and great
men commit, OF being so engrossed
with principles as to be indifferent to
persons. He was not only patriot
and q lover of free institutions, but a
generous friend and sympathizing
benefactor.
Matthew Carey, the father of the
political economist, who recently dleo
| in Philadelphia, was obliged to leave
Ireland on account OF political
pamphlet whose sentiments were con-
sidered treasonable. He took refuge
in France, where he set up type for Dr..
Franklin, who had a small printing
office near Paris. There he made the
acquaintance of Lafayette. The mar
quis became much interested in the
young Irish patriot.
Some years after Carey came to the
United States. He was livingi in Phila-
delphia, struggling to establish a news
paper, when Lafayette visited that city
The marquis sent for him, inquired into
his prospects and promised to recon-
mend him to his friends.
The next morning The struggling
journalist was surprised to receive
letter from the marquis containing
four one hundred dollar notes, but not
a word in reference to the inclosure:
1t was nobe act, worthy OF tint
noble man who had spent a large par
of a princely fortune in the cause o
American liberty. He could not only
risk his life for a nation, but he coult
aid poor young man to MAKE living
Several years after, when the younl
Irishman had become well OH. he sen
a valuable present to the marquis
When in 1924 he again visited thl
country, broken in fortune, Mr.. Care!
sent him four hundred dollars. Tn
French gentleman, who did not like II
be repaid a gift, was with difficult.
persuaded to accept the money.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16
A Wonderful Lake.

Tulare lake is probably the most mys-
terious spot on the ntinent. 1t is
located on great plain three hundred
miles south of San Francisco. At q dis
tance the water appears to be higher
than the land. A mile or more before
reaching the water the dry land Of the
plain gives place to damp soil, and when
at last the margin of the lake is found
one may wade into it for more than a
mile before finding it knee-deep. The
bottom is formed of, clam shells, and
there are hundreds of email islands and
punches Of tules. The islands are ten
anted by millions, OF white birds OF the
gull kind, and upon one of them four
teen human skulls ranged in circle
were lately found, no other bones lying
near. Mounds have been discovered
along the shore, and it is expected that
the whole bottom of the lake will reveal
traces 1t q submerged city.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16
Drowned.

George Patrick, ten years old, of frv-
ing Station, Pa, while playing in a
swollen stream, was drowned.
Some fifteen or twenty fishermen were
drowned off Cape Disappointment, Ore
gon, by the capsizing of their boats in a
gale.
While playing on log in the river at
Mansfield, Pa, Philip Piper, ten years
Of age, rolled off into the water and was
drowned.
Jesse Robinson. sixteen years of age,
of Waynesville, Ohio, dived in the
water at Wright's flood gates the other
day and was drowned.
The little daughter Of Michael Muir
ray, of Maiden, Mas, was nearly
drowned by falling in pool of water
about which she was playing.
Dennis Kelly, of Chillicothe, Ohio,
thirteen years OF age, went fishing, al
though subject to fits. He followed his
line into the canal and was drowned.
The eight-year-old son of Henry Hell
ner, of Flint, Mich, and the two-year.
old child OF Patrick McGillis were
drowned recently by falling into a
cisterl.
Will G. Zimmerman had just reached
his majority, and Yves practicing rowing
for pleasure on the river near Burling-
ton, Iowa, and was drowned.
Willie Stevens, the twelve-year-old
son of John Stevens, of Elkhardt, Ind,
while fishing in the St. 10 river rolled
off the bank into the water and was
drowned.
Marie Lafrael and her son were
drowned in Lake Jombasin, on the Up
per Gatineau, Ontario, by the capsizing
of their boat as they were returning
from funeral.
An old lady of Kalamazoo went on
the flats to gather cowslips and fell in a
hole up to her neck. She rem aimed in
that position all night. and the next
morning some men saw her head and
rescued her.
The boom of the boat in which Albert
Oldfeld was sailing struck him on the
head, knocking him into the water. He
was drowned. He was eighteen years
old, and lived in Philadelphia.
The parents of Jacob Ward, OF West
Dublin, were compelled to witness his
drowning within q few rods of his home,
while they were unable to render any
assistance. He was twenty-three years
of age, md swamped his boat by over
loading it with seaweed.
While enjoying sail at q picnic of
Good Templsrs at Raleigh, N. G., two
young men named Crocker and McMil-
Ian were drowned by the capsizing Of a
boat. They lost their lives in their
efforts to save Miss Annie Mitchell, in
whose company they were.
Dan Flynn, of Port Huron, Mich,
saw the four-year-old son of Mr.. H.
White fall in the river. Young Flynn,
though but thirteen years old, jumped
70 the rescue. Mr.. White was on the
bank of the river and assisted the two
boys out. The father gave Dan Flynn
ten dollars.
While rowing on the river in four
cared iron shell Henry NJ. McIntire, of
Easton, Pa, lost his life. He was col
lege graduate, and at one time chemist
to Professor Edison, but lately employed
by the Vulcan Iron company of St.
Louis. He was drowned at Caron-
delet. Mo.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16
Old st. Dayid's at RadnOr.

What an image OF peace and rest
Is this little church among its graves!
All is 30 quiet; the troubled breast,
The wounded spirit, the heart oppressed,
Here many find the repose it Graves.
See how the ivy climbs and expands
Over this humble hermitage,
And seems to caress with its little hands
The rough, gray stones, as child that stand
Caressing the wrinkled cheeks OF age.
you GROSS the threshold, and dim and smal
Is the space that serves for the shepherd
fold;
Tie narrow aisle, the bare white wall,
The pews, and the pulpit quaint and tall,
Whisper and say, !" Alas! we are DID,"
Herbert's chapel at Bemerton
Hardly more spacious is than this,
But poet and pastor, blent in one,
Clothed with splendor, as of the sun,
That lowly and holy edihce.
1t is not the wall OF stone without
That makes the building small or great,
. But the souls light shining round about,
And the faith that overcometh doubt,
And the love that stronger is than hate.
Were Il pilgrim in search Of peace,
We're l pastor OF holy church,
More than bishops diocese,
/ should prize this place for rest and release
From further longing and further search.
Here would stay and let the world
With i,s distant thunder roar and roll:
Storms do not rend the sail that is furled,
Nor like dead Leaf tossed and whirled
In an eddy OF wind, is the anchored soul.
Henry ". LonQfellow. in Lippincott.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST. J

A smoke stack-A pile of cigar !.
High time-That kept by tower
| clocks.
The man who hesitates is often lost-
for words. e
Half cranberry bound on q com
| will soon KILT. 80
Everything good in man leans on.
something higher.
When the slow eater calls for ketchuy
he means usiness.-Picdyu.se. ~
Boat building continues brisk at the
various shipyards along the Hudson. 4
AKeokuk (Iowa) lady died Of grief ct ]
the hopeless insanity Of her husband. ~
The Sultan OF Turkey has 800 cooks.s
It makes one sick to think OF his
brot' r
Bancroft, the historian, has one of
tile finest collection Of roses in thi8s
country. u.
II die content" said the fly in the
bakers dough; "somebody will takeme
| for currant."
Square collars, made of the same ma
terial as the dress and bordered with,
lace, are worn with summer costumes.
There are only three men In this coun-
Itry who can tell the age of q sword- -hshS !
by looking at its teeth. The rest OF us3
have to guess at it.
"What do you most like next TO-
yourself9" :.sks an exchange. a gauzes
silk undcrshirt, If the weather Is very !
hot.-Boston p St.
In ancient Mexico it was the CUSTOM
to sacrifice human beings to the gods.
This was case where several wronges
made rite.-Bo.ton Post. E,
The ocean steamer Arizona made thu
passage from Queenstown to New fork
IN the remarkably quick time OF seven I
days ten and half hours. u
The soft Derby hat is very popular
It is made of cloth or OF the WOODEN
dress material, and is cut in cores End
finished with fiat button on top.
When lunch was called at the Sunday;
school picnic at Mckinney. fexasi
,Johpny Short, aged nine years, ws$
missing. lie had been drowned whiles
fishing. {
Americans are the most inventiys
race on the globe, nnd it seems singular
chat no plan for making dies stay iJi1
he'd until the entire household Is up has !
yet been patented. i
There has been such destruction Of the
forests about I.eadville, Col, that the
future supply of mining timber has be-y
come serious matter, and a good ttm-
Der ranch W II soon be as valuable as q
mine. "A g. g
The placing of stamps upside down
on letters is prohibited. Several post.
masters have recently been seriously
injured while trying to stand on the:r,
heads to cancel stamps placed In this
manner. -
A car loaded with giant powder took
fire at Sioux City, Iowa, but valiant
switch engineer ran alongside and put
out the fames in time to prevent an
explosion which might have destroyed
half of the town. e
The Americans are pre.eminently an
inventive race, yet no man has yet come
forward with better device for eaten.
inc flies than nature provides in the
open mouth of the sleeping schoolboy,
-Waterloo Observer. ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16
Words OF Wisdom.

To live long it is necessary to live
slowly. 80,
Give neither counsel nor salt until
you are asked for 1t.
There are calumnies against which
ven innocence loses courage.
Better be upright and want, than
| wicked and have superabundnnca.
Industry need not wish, and lie who
lives upon hope will die fasting.
A weak mind is like a microscope,
which magni6es trifling things, but can.
not receive great ones.
The source ofa craving vanity is often
restless modesty, that longs to hear
something better of itself than it thinks
OF itself.
Zeal is very blind or badly regulated
when it encroaches upon the rights OF
others.
Nothing so rare as that of acknowl.
edging sincerely that we deserve what
we suffer.
Those who give not till they die,
show that they would not then if they
could keep it longer.
As the FREELY only shines when on the
wing, so it is with the human mind
when at rest it darkens.
It is not merely the individual, but
ociety that suffers by every Idle, every
selfish, every mean, every unjust man.
He who is false to the present duty
breaks thread in the loom, and will
see the effect when the weaving ofa lile-
tinoo ia 11nraveled
Realmerit OF any kind cannot long be
concealed; it will be discovered, and
nothing can depreciate it but mans
exhibiting it himself.
Be then like the bird perched upon
some frail thing, who. although he feels
the,branch bending be- cath him, shows
that he has wings.
IA fretful disposition takes the ira
GRANGE out of ones life and leaves only
weeds where a cheerful disposition
would cause flowers to bloom.
Great men should retire occasionally
from the stage of life to avoid wearying
admiration; for, however brilliant the
sun be, il would be wrong or it never
| to set.