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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
FOR THE LADIES.
News and Notes for Women.

News and Notes for Women.
A nin~e-year-old Boston girl, Of good
training and pleasant home surround
ings, voluntarily went off with o blind
beggar, to lead him and hold his cup.
A Paris correspondent says it is a
fact worthy of note that all coming prima
donnas-birds of song destined to
blossom in the immediate future-are of
American origin.
A woman hanged herself three times
in one night in a Springfield cell, using
strips of her clothing to make nooses,
and each time she was cut down before
she wa quite dead.
Partisan hostesses send out invita-
tions SO long q time beforehand that
they are obliged to forward q visiting
card a few days before the day appoint
ed, or they would be forgotten entirely.
Miss Henrietta Beck, one of our sing
ers, lately sang, "Come, live with me-
so delightfully."- in London that it is said
many of the masculine inhabitants think
they would just as 500 live with her as
not.
Complaint is made in London, Eng
land, that the top seats of o%mnibusses
and horse-cars are monopolized by
women, so that smokers (for whom
these seats are intended) have no
chance.
A number Of the most fashionable
ladies in New York are vieing with the
Chinese m%andarins, and letting their
f%nger-nails grow without ever trimming
them, then %scraping them till they are
of a chalky wilderness.
A New York lady makes a livelihood
by giving instruction to her illiterate
sisters, whose education in early life
had been neglected. She has plenty of
scholars, and receives from So to $40 q
lesson prices graded to suit the means.
The following order has been issued
by the navy department: Women shall
not be allowed to reside on board YES
sells of the United States navy in com
mission for sea service, NOR shall they
be taken as passengers on such vessels
under any circumstances.
An old gentleman finding a couple of
his nieces fencing with ~broomsticks,
said: "Come, come, mydears, that kind
of an accomplishment will not help you
in getting husbands" ~ know it uncle"
responded one of the girls, as she gave
a lunge, "but it will help to keep u
husbands in order when we have got
'em."
The beauty which has been so gener-
ally accorded to the women of the city
of Mexico is pronounced mythical by a
correspondent of the Chicago Times,
who says that they will bear no compar-
ison with United States women. He
charges the Mexican belle with being
artificial. Her face is a mass of chalk
and rouge, and he thinks it is seldom
washed.
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The body ofa French aeronaut, who assembled
in a balloon from Montpelier, was found o few
days afterward on tho sea coast, frightfully
mutilated.
ALoNDoN dispatch says that the Archbishop
of Canterbury orders the clergy to offer special
prayers for the harvest, as there is in many
parts of the country reason for much anxiety.
From 100 to 800 natives are dying daily of
Asiatic cholera at Bangkok, Siam.
DURING a landslip in the village of Tatarini,
Moldavia, sixty-five houses disappeared, but no
1;,.o, ,r,ro Loot
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
Best MuIching Material.

Mulch is placed about plants to pre-
vent the sun from evaporating the mois-
ture. In many cases it takes the place
of cultivation. No doubt, if it were
not for the expense and trouble, it
would be more extensively used about
herbaceous plants. We have found in
our trying climate that a fine mulch
of manure, completely covering the
ground, is an excellent thing for bed
ding plants. With trees and shrubs a
serious objection to the use of mulch is
its liability to harbor mice, which may
iniure or destroy the plants. For straw
berries mulch is used to keep the fruit
clean as it ripens, and to protect the
plants in winter and spring. For straw
berries we have had the best success in
applying the mulch quite late in au-
tumn, and in leaving the materials thin
enough over the plants to barely
expose a few of the leaves. The more
changeable and severe the season the
greater the need OF mulch, and
mulch in generous quantity. There
is q great variety of materials employed
for mulching. I have heard of the use of
beach sand or fine gravel with excellent
results. Theinexperienced gardener can
try old clover hay, as I have done, and
get a good crop of thrifty young clover
to kill out the next spring or he can
employ rich timothy OF June grass, and
soon find the ground seeded with a crop
he was not prepared for. Or. again, If
he like better, in the spring he can
mulch with oat straw not half threshed,
or full of chaff containing oats still
plenty. Then he can dig young oat
plants all summer among the strawber-
ries. Digging out the young plants of
clover, grasses, oats, etc., is healthful ex-
e%rcise, and stirring the soil will not
hurt the strawberry plants. i once tried
all the above methods. [ also tried
crest leaves, for autumn mulch, adding
corn stalks to hold them down, and
thought I had a good thing. In spring,
after an open, windy winter, the leaves
were not to be found. A few at a time
they had blown away. Having tried all
these to my satisfaction, l now prefer
clean straw (old or new or marsh hay
or corn-fodder cut two inches long, less
or more. Pine shavings get into the
soil and are a nuisance. The same OBJ
lection may be urged against tan bark
or any other material which does not
decay readily and help to enrich the
soil.--Prof. J. ". Zeal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
Halnunn dara for the haldha AIDED

Halcyon days for the baldhe AIDED
fraternity are come at last. A Lo ndon
capillary surgeon that he
will replant barren fields and make
them flourish like weeds in a turnip
patch. First, he administers a "bald
bolus," which is taken to produce COM
posure. Then the scalp is removed
piece by piece, and a new n is grated
on meanwhile.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
Disuaraging the Prophets.

It is just as we'll to bear in mind,
when you read the wild representations
of Mr.. Vennor and his great rival, that
q rain fifteen hundred miles square no
more makes a rainy day on this CONT.
nent than a ly-speck on the dome OF
the capital makes the District Of Co.
lumbia. or even all of the dome, black.
Anybody can say, "therc will be rain
and thunder-storms and cyclones in the
United States during July" and it
would be a mighty safe thing to bet
money on. What we want, what the
country clamors tor, is a man who can
tell us when and where the cyclone is
going to strike, and whom it will hit.
And up to date that mar hasn't said a
word about the weather.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
TROY IN. ~ Morning Telegram and Wing
Rubbing the Midnight Oil.

In the Philadelphia Times, of recent
date, We notice. an item referring to the
m%iraculously quick cure of a prominent
druggist of that city, Mr.. j. NJ. Hig-
gins, Germantown road and Morris
street, who had an awful attack of rheu-
matism of the knee. He applied st.
Jacobs Oil at night, and next morning
we'll and in his store as usual.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
DIR. GREEN'S OXYGENATED BITTER
WARRANTED FOR 81 YEARS

To CURE Group, Spasms, DiarrhGa. Dvsentery and
Sea Sickness, taken internally, and GUARANTEED
perfectly harmless; also externally, Cuts, Bruises,
Chronic Rheumatism, Old Sores, Pains in the limbs.
back and chest. Such, q remedy is DR.. TOBIAS
VENETIAN IMMINENT.
81 No one once trying it will ever be without it,
over COO physicians use it.
25 Cents will Buy n Treatise upon the
Horse and his Diseases. Book Of 100 pages. Valuable
10 every owner Of horses. Postage stamps taken.
Sent postpaid by NEW YORK NEWSPAPER UNION.
$50 Worth Street, New York.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

Inactivity Of the kidneys seriously and prod-
mately jeopardizes their health. When inactive
they need a stimulant. The fiery excitants Of
commerce only serve to irritate them, but they
may be safely stimulated with Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, the tonic principle of which
serves to increase their vitality as well. The
diuretic properties of the Bitters also serve
another good purpose. It is by the efficient
action of the kidneys mainly that the blood is
dcpurated or purified. The Bitters, by giving
to their s~ecretive and discharging functions a
healthful impetus, serves as a purifier of the
vital current, removing from it those impurities
which beget rheumatism, dropsy and other
maladies. 1t endows those organs with yigor,
and prevents them from lapsing into a state
of disease.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

A Detroit young man denounces the
poke bonnets "because they chafe his
ears" Here, now, is a question for
scientists. Can they explain how it is
that a bonnet worn by one person can
chafe the ears Of another person not
wearing it? Eth? How's that? Oh
we'll, we'll, now, that may be it. How
stupid not to see it before. -DetroiI
EI-ee Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
Little Billy'S Mean Trick.

"Where is your little brother Billy"
asked an Austin school-teacher of little
Johnny McSpilkins.
"He is home in bed. He is too sick
to come out, and l am glad of it," re-
spondedJohnny.
"Why do you speak so unkindly of
Billy" 1885,.
because he played me a mean trick"
"What was it?"
Chilly told me that ma said the boy
that eat the most meat for dinner should
have the biggest piece of watermelon.
| beat Billy all to pieces eatil 6 meat.
He didn't hardly eatany meat, ard when
the watermelon came on ~I-bOo-hoo-
had eaten so much meat that I had no
room for the melon, and Billy, who
hadn't eaten any meat hardly, ate up
nearly the whole watermelon, and now
he is sick, and I'm SC glad it amt me.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
(St. Louis ChrOnicle.)

Advice is cheap. d%readfully cheap.
But we must trust to orr instincts OF
humanity and tell our suffering friends
to use st. Jacobs Oil, and surprise their
rheumatism and themselves also at the
result. J. D. L. Harvey, Esq, of
Chicago, says: 7 would be recreant to
my duty to those afflicted, did I not
raise my voice in its praise.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
THE FARM AND HOUSEHLD.
Breaking Colts to the HnlIcr.

"A stitch in time saves nine" in
handling colts, as we'll as in handling
clothes. Commence handling the young
foals from their very birth. They are
much more easily gentled and halter
broken during the first few months than
at any subsequent period, and, as q rule,
the longer it is deferred the more diff
cult the work becomes. The easiest way
in the world to break O colt to
the halter is to tie him in the stall by
the side of his dam, and to lead him by
her side occasionally when she is taken
out for work or exercise. The time thus
employed is never missed, and many a
young thing that might otherwise grow
up wild, vicious and unruly, is made
gentle, kind and tractable.-Lire Stuck
JOurnul.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
nr1nken SfuT

How many children and women are slowly
and surely dying, or rather being killed, by ex-
cessive doctoring, or the daily use Of some
drug or drunken stuff called medicine, that no
one knows what it is made of, who can easily
be cured and saved by Hop Bitters, made of
Hops, Buchu, Mandrake, Dandelion, etc,
which is 80 pure, simple and harmless that the
most frail woman, weakest invalid or smallest
child can trust in them. Will you be saved by
them2 See other column.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

Expose yourself day and night; eat too much
without exercise; work too hard without rest;
doctor all the time; take all the vile nostrums
advertised, and then you will want to know
How to Get Well,
Which is answered in three words-Take Hop
BittersI See other column.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

Miss Blanche Street, who looks so
sweet, and dresses so neat, says she's
never heard of the oceans feet, but, no
matter where she may 60, she's sure to
hear of its undertoe $50 strange,
Won knowr'- PhT1delDhid Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

Pretty house aprons CT white satteen
have pockets, on which are bee hives
in Turkey red stitched embroidery,
each hive in a different perspective.
Bees fn.n the border, and are scattered
over the apron.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
The Chinese are buying -four in pref
erence to using rice; and -four exports
from California are rapidly growing.

PURE COP LIVER OIL made from selected
livers, on the seashorc, by CAswELL, HAZARD
Co., New York. 1t is absolutely pure and
sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer
it to all others. Physicians have decided it
superior to any of the other oils in market.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

a Treatise upon the Horse aid lis Diseases.
Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner
Of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent post
paid by New York Newspaper Union, $50 Worth
Stroot Na,y yorl-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

UlC lloll llS OAASSN ~'eN>
Five graduates of Fisk university
have gone to Africa as missionaries.
Paris at the present time contains
forty regularly ordained Protestant
churches.
There arc said to be t~hirty-sjx Meth
odist churches in Baltimore, with a
membership Of 1850.
There are said to be l3l Baptist
churches in the Indian Nation in a pop
ulation Of about $1,000.
The two Church of England foreign
missionary societies report this year Il
total income of 81 ,6S9, 9lO.
OF the graduates of Madison univer-
sity eighty-six, it is said, have become
missionaries among the heather.
All OF the Congregational churches IN
Chicago, except one-the Union Park
church-are reported to be free of debt.
The additions to the Presbyterian
churches in indianapolis, resulting from
recent REVEALS, will number 500 or
more.
According to the Baptist Yearbook
there are 2,29G, 1927 Baptists in America,
the net increase for 1880 having been
1929.
A bureau has been established in
Chicago for the purpose of supplying
clergymen with sermons. L. is said to
be of foreign origin.
There are twenty-sevcn Protestant
Episcopal clergymen, including the
bishop, in the State of Delaware. The
communicates number 1850.
The largest Sunday-school in Canada
is that of s.. James cathedral. Toronto.
Although there are on its roll the names
of 1925 children and sixty teachers, the
average attendance is about 500. Six
hundred OF these regular attendants are
in the main school and 300 IN the in
FAINT department.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

An English correspondent writes to
the Free Press that it is predicted in
England that messages by the new At
lantic cable will cost only six pence per
word. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
The average age at which students
enter American colleges is seventeen; a
century ago it was fourteen.
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SUNDAY READING.
Look Oul for Hrcnkcrn.

A writer in the Presbyterian says:
There are so many ofthem on the sea Of
life. They come to us when out en- the
waters or On the shore. They come in
the morning of life, or noontide, or at
midnight all the same. Sometimes, like
the pillows which break against a rocky
shore, theycome with q force which will
be heard and noticed. Again, they
come softly, quietly, peacefully, like
waves which wash the shore IL. the sum
shine or play around a vessel on a calm
sea, and Just as much VT need to look
out for the gentle waves as for the angry
billow. Just as often as the II harms
US as the other. An old seaman, a wise
bather, is always on the outlook. He
knows that forewarned is forearmed. 1t
is only children and fools who do not
trim their sails before the wind, who do
not look out for breakers OIL a rocky
shore, or who 60 quito battle in a storm,
or who sit quietly on a smooth beach at
incoming tide. But there are q good
many people who have passed their
childhood, and who are not counted as
fools, who on the voyage Of life never
trim their sails before the wind, be 1t
ever so boisterous and threatening; who
never think of looking for breakers, be
the coast everso rocky; and who, though
never having learned to swim, go cut
on a stormy, unknown coast, beyond
their depth, or sit on the smooth beach
idly, and let the tide of prosperity flow
around and wei them till its %sunshiny
waves become great breakers between
them and the green land and loved ones
beyond.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

The United States owns 5,528, $40
acres of coal land which the land Office
adyertises for sale at from SO to 500 an
acre.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

CAREoL1SE, q natural hair restorcr and dress
ing, as now improved and perfected, is pro-
nounced by competent authorities to be the best
article ever invented to restore the vitality Of
youth to diseased and faded hair. Try it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07
HENRY,S CARBOLIC sALvE

Is the BEST SALVE for Cuts. Bruises, Sores. Ulcers,
Salt Rhcum, letter, Chapped Hands. Chilblains,
Corns and ali kinds of Skin Eruptions. Freckles and
Pimples. Get HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE, as all
others are counterfeits. Price % cents.
DIR. GREENS OXYGENATED BITTERS
Is the best Remedy for Dyspepsia, Biliousncss. Ma
laria, Indigestion and Diseases Of the Blood. Kid
neys, Liver, Skin, etc.
DEMONS BALSAM cures Coughs, Colds, Rheu-
matism, Kidney Troubles, etc. Can be used exter-
nally as a plaster.
IsaREA IL0pSE pQIrAED e.. uaxsaa and Gattls
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

YEaETINE.-When the blood becomes ~lifeless
and stagnant, either from change Of weather or
of climate, want of exercise, irregular diet, or
from any other cause, the VEGEr1NE will renew
the blood, carry off the putrid humors, cleanse
the stomach, regulate the bowels, and impart a
tone Of yigor to the whole body.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

Flies and Mosquitoes.
15c. box Trough on Rats" keeps o house free
from flies. bcd-bugs, reaches, rats, mice, etc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

From the year 1875 to the present
date l7G murders have been committed
in Chicago. OF these, as is the case
generally, nearly one-half were com.
mitted in the hot months-June,
July, August and September, chiefly in
July and August. Only two of the l76
murderers were hung for the crime.
But in that year, 1878, one of the hot.
test summers known, the number OF
murders decreased, from thirteen in
the summer of 1877, to six; increased
next year to nineteen, and this year
bids fair to exceed it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-09-07

A correspondent Of a London paper
warns people against throwing broken
bottles among sun. dried grass or heat
at this time of the year, as the bottoms
of such bottles frequently act as burn
ing glasses. The Australi MS know that
extensive and damaging brush fires
have taken place in Australia in conse-
uuence of broken bottles having been
carelessly thrown down among the dried
scrub.
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FACTS AMI COMMENTS.

The United States dollar of 1904 sells
for $500. If the government officials
had known how highly these coins were
to be valued they might have made a
grand speculation by turning out a few
millions of them. AS it was they
thought eight would "meet the bust
ness wants of the country" and eight
they made.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-11
SAN DOMINGO.
Two Hundred and Fifty Per.
sons Burned 20 Death
ReVOIutiOn-EGe.

San Domingo, July 29.-At Puer-
toplata, on the night of the 10th, a
tremendous fire destroyed the
fortress, and 25O lives were lost,
principally by an explosion.
GuillermO started from Ponce.
Porta Rico, on the night of the 18th
of July, with two Schooners, having
on board 200 men, for the purpose
Of invading San Domingo.
A schooner with thirty exiles
from San Domingo arrived at Maya
gus, Porta Rico, on the 18th of July.
AT Martinique, in consequence of
an alteration between a leading
physician and the editor of the
radical newspaper, during the fete
of the republic, a mob of several
thousand negroes attacked the dwell
ling of the physician, on the 18th of
July, Quilted it, and severely
wounded the occupant, and robbed
him. Mayor st. Pierre and other
citizens, while endeaVoring to pro-
tect the victim, were seriously ia
jured. The next day the attack was
renewed, and the mob only dispersed
by charge of infantry. There is
great excitement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-11
The Spanish Elections.

Madrid. IO.-Gagasto, under The
monarchy, says he can realize those
reforms that CASTELAR, intends to
ask of the present rulers, namely :
universal suffrage and establish
ment of civil marriage, trial by
jury, obligatory military service,
abolition of slavery, and in fact,
the entire programme Of the
Spanish revolution. CASTELAR,, as
usual is very severe against radi-
calism and advances republicans
His candidates will receive the sup
port of government in the general
election. The canvass of all parties
is very animated. Castelar'S electoral
speech, delivered in north Arr
gon is commented upon with con-
ficting criticisms by the Spanish
press. 1t is much condemned by
the majority of republicans and
democrats on the ground that it
makes too many concessions TO the
conservative principles OF govern
ment.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-11
Bank ers' Convention.

Niagara Falls, lO.-The c0nven-
ton Of the American Bankers AS
ISOLATION met to-day, i. Mitchell, of
Milwaukee, in the chair, the presi-
dent and vice president being absent
E. G. Spaulding, Of Buffalo, was
chosen temporary chairman. The
treasurer reported finances in
good condition. A commit
tee was appointed TO nOmi-
nate officers, who are to be elected
tomorrow. Papers read by Henry
Martin, of Buffalo; Ex-Governor
Fenton, John Thompson, of New
York; n. B. Vanslyke, and w. Z.
Gould, were all referred to the ex-
gcutive council. There was a brief
discussion on the collection of the
checks Of country merchants, sent to
New York merchants for the pay
ment OF goods. Thos. T. McGrew
of Springfield, O., spoke on the grain
products and of the magnificent
system Of shipment to seaboard by
the lake and canal, without break
of bulk.
A resolution was adopted convey
ing hear,y sympathy with President
Garfield in his severe suffering, and
expressing the earnest hope of a
speedy recovery.
Adjourned till tomorrow.