The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-01-21
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There are forty-three farmers in the
Ohio legislature.
Paris contains 74,740 houses besides
the public buildings.
Seventy new lives are ushered in every
minute Of the twenty.four hours.
Pride hath two seasons-A forward
spring and an early fall.-New York
NesUS.
The South raised l2,000,0O0 pounds
more oftobacco the present season than
ever before.
The Nina coat for children is hand
some, made of camels hair, trimmed
with velvet.
When a fellow rushes from the house
in q tearing passion, it's an outrage
New York Nous.
When q grocer retires from business
he weighs less than he did before
Boston Transcript.
The farmers of Minnesota harvested
this year q bushel of wheat for every
inhabitant of the United States.
"Can you call your soul your own?"
asks an exchange. We can. We pay
our shoe bill, thank you.-Salem Sun
beam.
Tennessee has twenty-five tobacco
manufactures, one snuff factory, twenty
cigar factories and $50 leaf tobacco
dealers.
A servant of President Grevy, Of
France, who was addicted to drink, re-
Gently committed suicide by hanging
himself in his bedroom.
Before marriage arl frequently calls
her intended "her treasure" but when
he becomes her husband. she looks upon
him as her treasurer"
There have been sixteen executions OF
females in England since Queen Vic,
toria's accession to the throne, and
during the same period one woman has
been hung in America.
There WINS young man at Crow Wing
Had his doubts ii a hornet could sting;
so he gave the boast some
Severe pokes with his thumb.
Aud then yelled, "It just does, boys, by jing!
Chicago Tribune.
It is said there are more frogs' Iegt
eaten in America than in France. But
this is not as strange as the fact that
there are more Havana cigMs made in
this country than in Havan -Norris-
toa0n Herald.
Ask the average husband to run down
cellar for pan of potatoes for breakfast
and his enthusiasm over the growth
and prosperity of America decreases
one-half before he reaches the middle
step.-DetroL Free PrtSs.
The heirs and trustees of DR.. lie
Moyne will permit the use Of his furnace
for cremation purposes at Washington.
Pa. 1t is said that more than nifty per-
sons have by letter opened negotiations
for being burned in that furnace.
Land steward to tenant farmer
"Wcll, Giles, what are you going to SOW
in here ?" Farmer-"Ain't 'zactly made
,ip my mind, sir; but If we could put in
few stewards and land agcnts-thcy
seem to thrive best on the land now
adays!"-Londoa Faln.'
From the criminal statistics just pub
lished by the government OF Italy, 1t
appcnrs that in the first nine months OF
1879 there were no fewer than 2,9O0
murders or attempts at murder COM
mitted in the kingdom, being an average
of ten and two-thirds a day. In the
same period of three-quarters OF a year
there occurred 200 cases Of robbery on
the highway, If the perpetrators OF
which rs many as 800 had entirely es-
capped the hands ofjustice.
A singular case of death by strangula-
tion has occurred on a farm ten miles
north of Mendoza, III. A young man
named Ables was standing in front OF a
horse while the animal was feeding;
The horse coughed and elected a kernel
of corn, which flew into Ables' wind
nine. He ran into the house, and by
sirns endeavored to make the family
understand what had happened. A
messenger on horseback was immedi-
ately dispatched for 4 physician, but
long before he arrived young Ables was
corpse.
Horse thieves are no better treated
Russia than in the Western States. The
wilma Messenger says that horse steal
ing has grown so frequent in the district
of Toki that the population became nigh
desperate about it. and the owners OF
valuable horses sold them at any sacri.
flee. A fellow who was suspected OF
being one of the thieves was seized, tied
to a horses tail, and dragged at a
gallop around the market place OF the
Village of Olkenikf, with train OF IL
furiated peasants and farmers after him,
armed with sticks and stones,
Jeremiah Austill, who died in Clarke
county, Ala, not long ago, ut the age OF
eighty-six years, was the herr ofa fight
with the warriors OF Tecumseh. When
that great chief dug up the hatcllet il,
1918, Austill and three companions found
themselves bound down the Alabama in
a canoe. One morning an Indian canoe
containing eleven warriors shot out from
Ahc river side, fcrccly assailing the pale
face voyagers. Few shots were ex-
changed, for the boats crashed together.
and all fought with the butts of the
rides, hand-to-hand. Ahstill was knock
ed almost senseless by the chief. but re-
covering dealt him such blow that his
brains covered both canoes. The eleven
Indians were killed or drowned. and
though the white men Were soreIy
wounded they escaped with their lives.