The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-06-16
TIMELY TOPICS.

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growing country, and in 1879 furnished
Great Britain nearly one-fifth Of its an
nual supply. The tea product of India
is steadily Increasing, having risen from
27,6l4,OOO pounds in 1876 to IS, 42O, ,0O0
in 1878. The tea is stronger and cheaper
than the Chinese teas, but is said to be
not so mildly favored. Small consign-
ments which have reached this country,
however, have been highly praised by
New York tea. tasters. As the Eng glisll
statutes against adulteration are vigor.
ously enforced in India, 1905 chests OF
tea adulterated by "dust" were burned
recently. Indian teas are not "faced "
or colored as Chinese teas are, and the
leaf presents a more irregular appear
ance. The new teas as they come into
use are likely to displace the Chinese
teas of the lower grade, result gene
rally desirable.
State street, lined on either side by
barrooms, dance halls, gambling dens,
variety shows, and frequented by hard
ened sinners from every country, is the
most prominent thoroughfare in Lead
vile, Col. In the gambling dens, on
each side of the room, stand tables de-
voted principally to faro, and at every
turn of the cards are heard boisterous
curses and the vilest blasphemies. 1t
is not an uncommon sight to see men
who have staked and lost their last cent
commit suicide by poison or pistol, and
drop in their seats or tracks around th1
boards. In such cases the games con-
tinue with their usual clockwork regu-
larity, the dead bodies being summary
hustled off the scenes by the well-armed
staff of the establishment. Gambling IS
the leading amusement of the town,
which is increasing $50 settlers per day.
Peter Grub sold his share in an iron
mipe at Cornwall, Pa, reserving tue
right to enter upon the premises forever
and take therefrom sufficient ore for the
supply of one furnace. That was al
most a hundred years ago, when iron
ore was smelted in somewhat crude
fashion, and the average yield OF a fur
mace was l,500 tons q year. That was
about the amount taken by Mr.. Grub
during his lifetime. But the process
has been vastly improved since then,
and now furnace turns out as much in
a single month. The question arose, of
course, whether the heirs of Grub were
entitled to as much ore as would supply
an eighteenth or nineteenth century
furnace. A law suit has been in the
courts for twenty -four years, employ
ing some of the ablest lawyers in the
State. The supreme court has just G.
cided. on appeal, that ore can be taken
in sufficient quantity to supply furnace
of the present time.
DIR. Guillasse, of the French navy. in q
recent paper on typhoid fever speaks Of
the great benefit which has been derived
from the use of coffee. He has found
that no sooner lave the patients taken
few tablespoonfuls of it than their fea-
lures become relaxed, and they come to
their senses; the next day the improve
ment is such as to leave no doubt that
the article is just the specific needed.
Under it's influence the stupor is dis
PEELED and the patient rouses from the
state of somnolency in which he has
been since the invasion of the diseasei !
soon all the functions take their natural
course, and he enters upon GONZALES
cence. DR.. Guillasse gives to an adult
two or three tablespoonfuls OF strong
black coffee every two hours, alternated
with one or two teaspoonfuls OF claret
or Burgundy wine-a little lemonade or
citrate of magnesia to be taken daily,
and, after a while, quinine.
A singular and interesting table o
statistics has just been published IN
Paris. The budget OF French crime, ex-
tending over five years, has been brought
out, and the political economy of pun
ishment supplied with fresh install
ment of facts and figures. The chancel-
lor of this criminal exchequer points to
his budget with pride, and, like other
dealers in figures and tables, Is anxious
to show that there is no cause for alarm
or dependency. The population OF
France may be roughly stated at about
81 900, 900, and the annual crop OF muir
ders is about 200, of infanticides about
100, and of upjusti6able homicides about
1913. It is curious to ind how very little
variation there IS in the annual harvest
Of crime. Thus, in the gravest charge,
go was the greatest return OF murder
ers, and 1876 the least, and there is the
same equality of proportion in the other
The return gives emphasis
to this fact as explaining the singular
that in the course Of five
years there were almost the same num-
ber of capital sentences carried out. At
the last census the population Of Great
Britain amounted to %, 500, 900, but the
number of murders was by no means so
uniform. 1t would be consolation for
4 Frenchman to know that only one in
q million of his fellow countrymen is
puil]otined, were it not that "extenua-
ting circumstances cave wide mar
gin of doubt.