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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-11-09

Ex-Go,ERNoR MoaaGN having declined the.
nomination Of secretary Of the treasury the
President nominated Charles ]. Folger, chief
Justice O.; the New York supreme court, and
he was promptly confirmed by the Senate in
executive session. Secretary Folger was born
in Nantucket, Mass, in 1918, and twelve years
later removed with his parents to Geneva,
N. Y. IA was admitted to tie bar in 1880, was
appointed in 1874 Judge of the Ontario court Of
common pleas, but resigned after one years.
service. In 1851 he was elected county Judge
of Ontario county, holding tho office four years,
and in 1861 he was elected State senator,
serving for eight successive years. In 1869
Mr.. Folger was appointed United States sub
was elected Judge of the court of appeals. Al
the death of Chief-Judgo Church in May, 1880,
he was appointed to fill the vacancy.
THE President nominated Thomas L. James
of New York, to be postmaster-general; Frank
Hatton, of Iowa, to be first assistant postmas-
tcr-gencral; Charles Payson, of Massachusetts,,
to be charge d'affalres to Denmark; Ferdinand
Vogeler, Of Ohio, to be consul-general at Frank
fort; Simon Wolf, of the District of Columbia,
to be consul-gcncraI at Cairo. Consuls 6. P.
Hubbcll, ofNew York, at st. Johns, Quebec; j.
H. Moore, of Illinois, at Callao; v. V. Smith,
of Arkansas, at St. Thomas; VI. P. Pierce, Of
Georgia, at Cienfuegos; Charles Kahlo, OF In
diana, ct Sydney; George W. Roosevelt, Of
Pennsylvania, at Bordeaux; ]. A. Leonard, oil
Minnesota, at Lcith; John T.. Robson, Of Ten
nessce, at Tripoli. Tho Senate confirmed
Messrs. James and Hatton on the Same day
that they were nominated.
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NEWS OF WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

In Boston tho question Of having a worlds
fair in 1883 is still being actively canvassed,
but nothing more definite than the appoint
ment of a committee of thirteen to SEQ whether
the necessary IS, 900, goo can be raised has
been done.
BLANCHE DOUGLASS was a%rraigned in the
superior court, New Haven, Conn, on the
charge Of numbering jennie E. Cramer on
August 6, "by inducing her to take and swal.
low down a certain deadly poison commonly
called arsenic" Sho was cent back to jail to
await a grand jury hearing in January. In the
complaints against tho Malley boys for Miss
Cramer's murder five distinct counts appear
drowning, drugs, suffocation, arsenic and
chloroform.
FRANK and Henry Rumborge1, convicted at
Harrisburg, Pa, of the murder Of Trautman,
were sentenced to DO hanged.
A FIRE in Clean, N. Y, destroyed q sash
factory, carriage factory and several dwellings,
NEW YORK CITY has contributed about t120,
600 for the relief Of tho Michigan sufferers by
forest fires.
THE thermometer at Mt. Washington, N. H.,
fell the other day to three degrees below zero,
and there was q light snow storm.
THE New York superintendent of the life in
surancc department refused the application o.
the Littlestown Pa.) Mutual Relief ASSOCIATION
for permission to operate in Now York state
saying: "I cannot entertain the proposition
of anv life insurance association that insuref
people from fifteen to eighty-cight years O.
age"
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SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

Among the greater variety OF forms
on the mound builders pipes are those
of animals like the elephant and mas
todon.
The liver and respiratory organs are
developed in an inverse ratio, the liver
being largest where respiration is most
feeble.
That fish sleep has been well de-
termined by observations conducted by
DR.. Hermes aud others in the Berlin
aquarium.
/ Onion, garlic and leek owe their pc
culiar pungent flavor to a certain white,
volatile oil, and contain much phos-
phoric acid.
Capaine, obtained from trees in the
Molucas and a Fart of South America,
is used to forward digestion, as opium
produces sleep.
Some species OF vetch throw their
seeds to a distance, owing to the elas-
ITCHY of the pod, which opens with a
jerk when ripe.
Mr.. H. G. Hovey finds the mean tenn
perature of the Mammoth cave, Ken
lucky, to be ffty-four degrees Fahren-
heit in summer.
For those who have been suffocated
by carbonic acid, the careful inhalation
of ammonia has been proved a most
eficacious remedy.
In q recent note Mr.. ". T. Blauford
described the distribution of land in the
Indian Peninsula and the intervention
of a vast plain traversed by the Indus,
Gangcs and Bramaputra. This plain
has been generally considered to have
been the basin of q great sea, pu IN
the opinion of the author the evidence
advanced does not appear to contain q
single fact in favor of the sea having at
any geological period occupied the
Gangetic or eastern portion of the
plain. The tract is evidently a depres-
sion area filled up to above the level of
the sea through q long period of time.
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Lord LOrne's Costly Magazine.

Would you like to buy that Hdr-
per's Magazine?" asked the soft.voiced
and timid peanutter on the east bound
Union Pacific train the other day to a
middle, aged passenger who was looking
over the Harper and reading Judge
Goodwin's article on the Mormon stu
alton.
"No," said the middle-aged party.
cit is my own magazine, and therefore
I do not care to buy it."
Excuse me-" said the poor little
frightened peanutter, while the tears
came into his eyes. 81 fear yen want
to cheat a poor orphan boy out of his
books, Please pay me, sir, d. let me
have the magazine back again. All,
sir, you would not rob me OF my
goods"
"No," said the stern stranger, "I
do not wish to rob you of your book,
my boy. but I bought this on the Utah
Northern road and paid for it. When
| went into the eatipg-house for break
fast the train butcher took it out of my
seat and sold it to me again in the after
noon. I was in the middle of an article
when W. got to the dinner station, so I
turned. down the leaf and left it again
in my seat. I had to buy it once more.
Now the magazine has cost me So, and
you want me to give it to you so that
you al sell it through Nebraska, no
doubt. No, my poor little orphan lad,
you may go and soak your head for an
hour Or two and bathe your tear
bedimmed eyes, but I cannot give up
my So magazine. Peddle out your
bead moccasins, made by the hostile
Indians of Chicago. Sell out your lit
tie stock Of nauseating apples at S27 per
barrel, with two prize worms in each
and every apple, but do not disturb me
while I read my expensive periodicals.
I will not bother you while you sell
your fancy mixed candies that have
Teen running yer the road since go.
1 will not interfere with you while you
sell your Indian curiosities made in
Connecticut. Go ahead and make all
the money you can, but give me a
chance to peruse this article without
the regular assessment"
The hurt and grieved orphan boy
went to the sleeping.car conductor and
asked who that sarcastic old cuss over
yonder might be, and the conducto,
said it was the Marquis of Lorne.
And it was, too.-Boomerang.
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An Interrupted Wedding.

Uniontown (Ky.) society has been
given a shock from which it will take q
long time to recove The trouble cul-
minated at wedding. The about-to-
be bride was young, refined, and, as her
masculine acquaintance aver, beauti-
full. The groom had been introduced
into the best circle of Uniontown peo-
pie a few months before, and had COM
pletely won the confidence of the young
woman's parents. He was handsome,
scholarly and Of fascinating manners.
A week or so ago the friends of the
bride met at the church where the cere-
mony was to be performed, and soon
the bride herself entered, with flowing
veil and rosy cheeks. The clergyman,
whose services had been secured for the
occasion, eyed the, bridegroom closely,
and when the latter drew near the good
man dropped his book as though both
amazed and Mortified.
81 cannot marry this man." he said,
recovering quickly.
"Why not, sir {" asked the BRIDES
father, rising in anger from his seat and
moving toward the clergyman.
because I married this man to an
other woman at Evansville, Ind, less
than a year ago."
Some of the ladies tainted, the bride
groom-elect gesticulated violent pro.
te~stations, and the wedding party col
lapsed. Investigation showed that the
charge was we'll founded.
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Successful Skin.Grafting.

Some months ago we made reference
to q case of skin.grafting in this city,
performed by DR.. John Deyo, and we
may now state that the operation has
proved wholly successful and the high
est expectations have been realized. 1t
will be remembered that the person
operated on was Mary Foster, a little
girl of ten years, who lives in Mill
Street, who had the misfortune to
plunge into and overturn on herself a
boiler Of very hot water. The upper
part of her body was badly scalded,
particularly her right ARM, which was
wholly Invested of skin from the
shoulder to the tips of the fingers. The
other burns got along we'll, but this
arm caused the child untold pain, while
the great discharge from it was neces-
sarily very weakening.
It was at this state OF the case that
the physician named resorted to the
skin. grating operation, which he per-
formed on Sunday morning, May l,
calling into service four or five young
men who volunteered to take part in
the interesting case of surgery. These
young men barred their arms, and one at
a time sat close to the bedside of the
suffering child, while DR.. Deyo care
fully cut from one arm of each man the
gratis of skin and quickly placed them,
while yet full Of vitality, on the ex.
posed, ~quiveripg flesh on the scalded
arm of the little sufferer. Some OF
"the boys" had sore arms for a few
days, but this was little thought of,
and they now have the satisfaction of
knowing that their %self-denial was not
in vain. The second day after the
operation Yves performed it was found
that about three-fourths of the trans
planted gratis of skin had adhered and
taken roo.. and the little white specks
slowly grew in circumference till they
covered the intervening space, and
joining together gradually began to
afford that protection from air OF which
the injured arm was in need.
The arm was pretty we'll healed in SIX
weeks, and the child was able to be
about, but since then she had in play
twice hurt the still tender limb-once
in the latter part of June and once in
July, the latter time being struck with
apiece of sod, which raised q very large
blood blister. The set-backs have been
overcome, however, and the arm may
now be said to have got completely
well--just as good as ever. There is
not a c%icatrix in its whole length-not
as much as there is on thearms of some
of the boys who supplied grafts-and
the skin is as soft and smooth as any
of the rest on the girls body. 1t only
differs from the rest in being somewhat
red in color, but this redness is gradu'
ally passing away, while tho girl uses
the arm with perfect freedom and seems
to have in it the normal quantity OF
strenqth.-Necbur.y ~. " Journal.
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nj. Mcmahon, q farmer, and an active MEM
ber Of the land league, has been 1oundmur-.
la..J 900, Enpio .FFs=er r-aS

80 ~
nj. Mcmahon, q farmer, and an active mem
ber Of the land league, has been found muir
dered near Ennis.
At .. meeting of, the Dublin corporation
twenty-three members voted in favor Of MIR. E.
DIVER Gray's motion to confer the freedom OF
thecity upon Messrs. Parnell and Dillon, and
twenty-threc voted against it. The motion was
negatived by the casting vote of the lord mayer.
A priest, near Clare Morris, evaded police
interference by holding a land league meeting
in his chapel. 1t is thought this plan will be
generally resorted to for future meetings :.
Tho tenant farmers in the county OF Water
ford have resolved to start q "Tenant Farmers
Emergency Association" in view of the sup
preston OF the land league.
Tho suspects" in Galway Jail have passed q
resolution approving the "no rent" manifesto.
Mr. O'Ncill, the organizer and paid secretary
of the Cork branch of the land league, has
been arrested.
A dispatch from Dublin. 70 the New York
Irish World says: Arrests still continue. The
land league has ceased TO hold public demon.
STATIONS, but continues to meet privately il
chapels and houses. The ladies' land leagues,
through whom the external work is now being
done, are increasing both in the towns and
rural districts. There is an evident determine
ton to hold on 10 the organization in somt
ahpnn.
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The Fat Woman.

Speaking of the recent death IN In
diana of Mrs. Craig, known as Barnum's
fat woman, the New York Sun says:
DR.. Oscar Kahn, who was doorkeeper
at Barnum's museum, and acts in the
same capacity at Bunnelps, remembers
her. ssThere is q big difference in fat
women" he said. "Some are very con-
trary and hard to get along with; but
Rosy was very sociable and willing.
We we're very good friends. She was
the only daughter of an Indiana farmer
of ordinary size, and when Barnum got
her she wa about twenty-five years old
and weighed 425 pounds. 1t is not true
that she was the largest woman in the
United States; neither was she tall, as
the account says. She was only about
four and q half feet tall, and that made
her such a good fat woman, for she
seemed as big around as she was tall.
She was very fond of her meals. When
the fire in the museum took place l
rushed to help Rosy, and a lot OF US
managed to get her out. She was eat,
ing at the time the fire broke out, and
all she saved of her things was a spoon
and one potato. -,
"About q year afterward she married
Craig. He was not q big man, but ne
seemed to like bigness in others. The
account is wrong..in saying that he was
O big man, too. he came from Indiana,
and took her around and exhibited her
at fairs. The last time I saw her was
in Troy in 1870 or 1871, when Barnum's
circus was there. She and her husband
came to the circus. They had been do
ing very poo business and were hard
up. We took up q collection for them.
After that I guess she got out OF the
show business and went back to lndl-
n to live. It has been ten or eleven
years since she was in New York. l
guess she was about forty-ive years old"
Speaking OF the claim that Mrs.
Craig wa the largest woman in the
country. MIR. Starr, of Bunnelps mu-
scum said : Mrs. Annie Battersby, Of
Frankfort, Pa, is doubtless the largest
woman. She weighs nearly GOO pounds,
and is about six feet tall. She came
from Portland. Her maiden name was
ferklQS. Olo IudlllcN q IAfAhS
ton named John Battersby. BE was o
tall man, with a large bony frame, but
he weighed only sixty pounds. He
had a long beard and whiskers, and had
no use of his lower limbs. It looked
very funny to see her pick him up and
carry him in her arms like an infant.
At length Battersby began to pick up
until he fattened out of the living skel.
eton line of business. Mrs. Battersby
is about forty years of age. Ada Briggs,
now in Europe with the midgets, weighs
500 pounds, and is five feet tall. Mary
Cannon, who is with a travelling show,
is bearded as we'll as fat. She weighs
3s5 pounds, and is five feet ten inches
tall. The claim that Mrs. Craig was
the largest woman in the country can
not be s~ubstantiated but she certainly
was o very large woman"
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Tho Trauhle i'm Ireland.

In consequence Of the proclamation against
the land league the Freeman's Journal pub
fishes an advertisement from the league advis-
ing the Irish people, while remaining firm, to
abandon for the present all projected meetings
which tho government could take advantage OF.
The Dublin Freeman's Journal publishes q
reply by Mr.. Egau, the treasurer of the land
league, to the letter of Archbishop Croke pro-
testing against tho manifesto of the league.
He declares that the archbishop falls into two
grave errors. The original programme OF the
league, he says, was not fair rents" but the
abolition OF landlordism. There is
no comparison between tho present sit
uation and that when Mr.. Davitt and
the first of the "suspects" were arrested:
Tho government las now thrown away oil
prctcnscs, appealed to brute force, and sup
dressed all forms OF constitutional expression.
lie asks whether Archbishop Croke advises tho
peoplc to surrender at discretion, pay rent to
their real iailors, and rcsuscitato the corpse OF
landlorlism. The executive of the land league
have long and carefully considered tho advis-
ability of O strike against rent, and believe 1T
the only wise course. They arc confident that
it must secure a sure and speedy triumph.
The suppression Of the land league goes
on. The land league rooms in Cork and Linz
crick are occupied by police. No members are
allowed to enter.
DlNtCGl HllSSto "Sbo AAeN
various places in Ireland.
An indignation meeting in London, held to
protest against Parnells arrest and the c0er-
Give measures used in Ireland, was attended by
over SO, 600 persons. Resolutions denouncing
tho "cowardly and lawloss action of tho coer-
cion government in attempting forcibly to sup
press freedom Of Speech" wero unanimously
carried.
At a recent meeting of the land league in
Cork it was decided to pursue the agitation.
DIR. Kenny, q member Of the executive OF
the land league, and well known as the mcdt
cal attendant of several of tho imprisoned
suspects, has been arrested and conveyed to
Kilmdinham Jail, Dublin. Miss Hobnett, OF
Bally'lchob, was also arrested for persistins in
exhibiting a copy Of tho "No rent" manifesto
in n window of her house, and refusing to re-
move it when requested to do so by the police.
Her father, who is also a prominent m OF
the land league, had been previously arrested
under the coercion act, and is now in prison.
The Dublin Frccman's J.urnal publishes a
portion Of an interview with Mr.. Parncll, who
Gays he thinks the farmers will to a great ex-
tent adopt tho "No rent manifesto. One-half
of the Irish farmers do not hope for any bcne-
fit from the land act. Small tenants who are
in debt to shopkccpers, he says, would obtain
considerable reduction, but they would be
compelled to sell their new interests in order
to pay their arrcars of debt. If the farmers
staad firm for n year they will bring the gov
crDmetit aud landlords to their knees. The
fight is q question of money and courage.
Mr.. Wall, editor of the Roscommon Herald
and a member of tho land league, has been AZ
rested and lodged in Galway jail
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Foreign News.

ANARCHY prevails in Peru, the Calderon OF
provisional government having collapsed and
the Chilians having assumed full authority.
At the Paris electrical exhibition, as a mark
of the highest distinction, diplomas of honor
were awarded to the United States Signal Office,
the Smithsonian Institution, the United States
Patent Office and Messrs. Edison, Graham anu
Bell. A large number Of gold, silver and
bronze medals we're also awarded to American
exhibitors.
TIE original sum Of s5OO, 600. given by the
late George Peabody in 1862 as a fund for
building lodging-houses for the poor in Lon
don, now amounts to s720, 600.
vENNoR, the Canadian weather prophet, pre-
diets q warm winter in the United States.
The British bark Lebu has been abandoned
off Douglas, Isle of Man. A Gfeboat, when
rcscuing the crew of the bark, capsized and
twelve persons were drowned. 4 brigantine
has been wrecked near Falmouth, and all
hands drowned.
THE trial Of fifteen socialists at Leipsic, Ger
many, resulted in the sentencing Of eleven to
various terms OF Imprisonment, and the &C.
quittal Of the other four.
GARFIELD memorial services have been heldin
the city Of Mexico. The services were organ
lied by Governor Fernandez and city council,
were the most impressive ever held in Mexico,
and we're attended by an immense number OF
people.
A STEAMER which left Liverpool for New
York q few days ago had on board 400 Nor
mon emigrants.
The British steamer Clan Macduff foundcred
off the coast of Wales, and from twenty to
thirty lives were lost.
AT Paris Mr.. Morton, tho American minister
to France, drove the first rivet in tho putting
together of Bartholdi's statue of Liberty, des-
tined for New York harbor.
The reception given the other night by secre.
tary Blaine 1T Wormley's, in Washington, to
the French and German Yorktown guests was
one Of the most brilliant entertainments ever
given in tho city. Secretary Blaine received
the guests at $50 o'clock and introduced them
to the visitors. The reception closed the
formal attentions in Washington to tho distin-
guished foreign visitors.
COMBINATIONS by the Senate: Hans Matt
Son, Of Minnesota, consul-general at Calcutta;
Willard B. Wells, Of Michigan, consul at Dun
dec; John F. Winter, Of Illinois, consul at Rot
terdam; John NJ. Bailey, Of New York, consul
at Hamburg; Edward F. White, coiner at the
San Francisco mint.
TIE Senate committee on privileges and
elections hold a meeting for the purpose of con-
sidering the petition Of certain members Of the
New York legislature against the seating Of
Messrs. Miller and Lapham as Senators.
The petition was, after discussion, referred to a
subcommittee Of two Democratic members,
Messrs. Pugh and Hill, Of Georgia, who we're to
investigate it and report to the full committee.
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KOSSi'S Duel.

Now that Senior Rossi, the italian
~tragedian, is in the United States, the
cunning ''advance agent" is, as they
say, upon the street, "getting in his
work" His fine Italian hand is visible
in the stories which are related of the
actor, particularly of his duels. Once
while he was playing Hamlet in Milan
a party of ladies and gentlemen became
so boisterous that he suddenly turned
in the midst of his lines and remarked,
II shall keep silent so long as you are
not" The actor was greeted with
cheers, and the party retired. The
play being over Rossi was waited upon
with a card and a challenge. As he
was to leave Milan early next morning,
the duel would have to be fought that
night. So calling upon the challenger,
he proposed that they should fight with
pistols in Rossi's apartment. This be-
ing accepted, and all being ready, q
knock from the landlord and an
inquiry if Rossi was ill interrupted
the affair. Replying that he was not,
and blowing out the light az if he were
retiring, Rossi said to his opponent:
owe must fight in the dark" The
challenged party replied that that was
absurd, but agreed to Rossi's sugges
ton that they should each smoke a
cigar, the fire doing service as a mark.
Two shots were fred, and Rossi's oppo-
nent got o bullet in his shoulder. The
noise aroused the police, who carried
him before the justice, who said: "You
are q wretched knave, a monster. l
shall send you to prison for five years."
and the actor was locked up for the rest
of the night. The next morning the
magistrate, entering the prisoners cell,
addressed him as fol]ows: "Last night
the representative of tho law spoke to
YOU rs was his duty; this morning
listen to what the friend has to say. I
Was present at your performance last
night. You play like a god. You did
we'll to chastiso that scrub. I know
that You arc expected at Milan; take
this ring as q mcmento, and go away as
quickly az you can" Rossi went and
still wears the ring.
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There is nothing in all the earth that
you and I con do for the dead.
They are past u help and past our
praise. We can add to them nc glory
we can give to them nc Immortality.
They do not need us, but forever and
forevermore we need them.-James A.
GorHa1d