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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-03-04
LOCKED IN TIE ICE.
Arctic Adventures OF Il Steamers
Crew OF Lake Michigan.

Arctic Adventures OF Il Steamers
Crew OH Lake Michigan.
A Grand Haven Mich dispatch says that
particulars were received there regarding the
terrible experience OF the crew of the ice
locked steamer Michigan. On Sunday 1t was
decided that owing to short provisions, half
of the crew would AVE to 60 ashore, as the
food would only last a week longer. On
Tuesday morning from tho cross-trees
q rim of land was sighted to
the eastward. Thirteen men were
chosen to remain and seventeen OF tho
most hardy to 20 ashore. The mercury was
then 10 degrees below. At o'clock Joseph
Russell, first mate; David Martin. stewart;
crew started, with q days ~ru:ions, axes,
blankets, ETC., expecting that they might have
to he out over night, as the land s. emed thirty
miles away. When about twelve
miles away from the boat. Kenny broke
through the ice, wctting his right leg to the
knee. They went on about six miles, when
they found Kenny S leg frozen. All were ex-
haustel, as the leo was rough and block
ell into nearly impossible ridges many feet
miles Kenny could rot stand, and dragged
himself along on his hands and knees for
two miles, when he was completely
exhausted, and SO frozen that ho
could not move, and urged tbs
others to leave him and save themselves.
Some Of the party had by this Time o'clock
reached the shore and found a few houses
ut West Casco. They alarmed tho ~neighbor-
hood, and farmers went out and carried tho
brave but insensible Kenny to the beach. The
land there rises 100 feet, almost straight.
leaving lines were placed around
Kenny, and he was drawn up by those
above and carried to a dwelling. The men
were housed and fed by the farmers, who
willingly cared for them. Kenny recovered
consciousness at 10 o'clock, and everything
was done for him that was possible. All of
The men are able to take care Of themselves
except Clerk Kenny.
Milwaukee dispatches state that Like
Michigan is frozen from shore to shore, tho
ice ranging from nine inches to three feet in
thickness, The propellers City Of Ludington
and Wisconsin are frozen in somewhere in
the lake.
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NEWSY GLEANINdS

AMERICAN canned frogs are in great de-
mand in France.
LEMON growing is becoming a profitable
industry III FlollAa.
CAT fights are the latest diversion OF the
New York so-cailed '',port.'
1T is said tl.at over three million trees
were planted in Great Britain in 1885.
The manufacture OF artiii:ia ivory from
bolrs and scraps vi shccpshln is Il new indus
try.
TIE United States and France are the
greatest chocolate consuming countries IN the
world.
THERE were 46S postmasters who died last
year, while there werc Iu5 who We're SuS-
pend,d.
A WALNUT orchard Of seventeen acres at
Los Angeles, Cal, yielded lis owner s2,7JJ
this season.
MELBOURNE, ARK, with q population of
25U, has four churches, any one OF winch will
hold tue entire population.
ELEVEN national banks, twenty-five State
banks, eleven savings banks and twenty-seyen
private banking Institutions ialied lust Year.
The Bible mentions 63O places in Palestine
west of Jordan, and 30 have been identified,
l33 by the staff OF the Palestine exploration
fund.
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THE BRITISH RETREAT.
The Entire Plan of the Campaign
in Egypt Changed.
Wolseley's Forces to be Concen-
trated Around Korti.

1t is announced that in view of the fact
that the fall of khartoum and the death Of
General Gordon nave rendered the main OBJ
jcct of General Wolseley's expedition impos-
sible, tho British government has deemed
t e~xpedient to change the whole
plan of the campaign in the
Soudan. General Brackenbury, who sue
ceeded the late General Earle, has boon
ordered to abandon his advance IN Berber
and to concentrate his troops at Korti. Col
onel Sir Redvers Butler, who evacuated
Gubat and withdrew his forces to Abu klea,
has also boen or Tered to full back on korti.
All the available troops in General Wolseleys
command Will be concentrated at that place
and at Debbeh and korosko, the main body
being ut Kolti. 1t is prol able that General
WolSely may evacuate Korti and retire to
durham, Ell Obeid and Darfour con-
verge on the Nile. General Molseley
will there await help from England.
At Korti the general could be
surrounded. In the retirement all available
supplies will be swept up, and the whole army
intfenched at Debbeh could hold its own, il
necessary, until the rising of the Nile occurs.
Dongola, Hannek, and various other points
on Tue river DcCWeell DeDOeu duu t1aIAay
are held by weak dctachmonts Of British
troops. There is q line Of telegraph which
possibly might be maintained. while steam
launches on the clear reaches could keep
up some sort of communication with the sec
ond cataract. The moral effect Of this retire
ment will naturally be rather serious, though
it would be, to q certain extent, neutralized
by action in unmlstakable strength from
Suaklm. General Wolseley will probably
return to Cairo to consult with General Ste
phenson and others in regard to the present
situation of affairs.
General Brackenbury, commanding the
troops Of the late General Earle, has tele-
graphed from Ussi Island that the cavalry
corps entered Salamat finding it deserted.
When they entered Salamat the cavalry
we're about Ave miles in advance of the in
fantry. Tho horses and camels had got
safely through the Shukook Pass, which had
been prepared for defense, but was also
abandoned by the Arabs.
In regard to General Wolseley, the Pail
Mall Gazette believes that he will be recalled
either to Cairo or to London. In case he be
recalled to Cairo the only reason that will be
given will probably be that he can better di-
rect from that point the military operations
from Suakim against Osman Digna. In the
event of Lord Wolseley's recall to London it
can be said that he can be far more useful in
personal contact with the ministry than he
could be shut up in the mudirate of Dongola.
Several detachments Of British troops have
left England for Egypt to reinforce Lord
Wolseley.
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RIOTS ABROAD.
Demonstration by WOrkingmen in
London and Socialist, In Paris.

Great excitement was occasloned IN Lon
don a few days since by a determined dem
ons:ration Of unemployed workingmen. A
deputation Of workingmen, escorted by a
procession of 1000 unemp Dyed laborers, ac'
companicd by bands and carrying banners,
marched to the offices Of the local govern
ment board. Arrived there, tie depu,
for the unemployed of London
through the institution OF public works. The
officials in charge Of the board-rooms We're
somewhat dismayed by the demonstration
but informed the deputation that no official
answers to the demand could at that time be
given because the Right Hon. Sir Charles
bike, the president Of tho board, was
away, and during his absence
nothing could be done. This reply
was received in sulien silence and the crowd
rushed in q body into Downing street, des-
them, and, until dispersed, stood yelling
around the Official residence of the prime
minister. a large meeting Of unemployed
workmcn was held later on, and when the
crowd became demonstrative they were
charged by the police and dispersed.
Forty thousand people in Paris were in the
funeral procession OF NJ. Wales, the we'll
known sccialistic journalist. A number OF
German socialists in the procession carried n
German nag. lNlS pTOSOkel tuV FIelCLlIliSI
in the streets, vino shouted Down with the
German fagm The opposition soon
extended to the Frenchmen in the procession.
When the flag WAS not lowered i'll answer to
these shouts it was stoned. Then q free fight
occurred between the supporters of the Ger
man banner and The Frenchnen. y party-of
students made Il rush and endeavored to
seize the obnoxious German emblem. During
the scutfle which ensued two students were
injured.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

FANNY DAVENPORT has not had a losing
mousse this s,ason.
S~TOUTyE>S, in Sllvini's opinion, bars hi;
Hamlet. He will not play it again.
EDWIN BoOrH and Lnwrcn % Barrett have
been playing successful engagements in Nc"
York Guy.
ToSY PASTOR will probably enter the bur
lesque opera field, with Hllda Thomas in prin'
cipal roles
MME JANUscHowsKY is singing Prime
MethuSaleln's part III Boston with the Nc
Caull company.
MAURICE STRAKoscH viii bring Fides
D"vrl'S. tho gre It dramatic soprano, to this
country next season.
Mrs. LASurRY is angry with tho London
press because it has condemned her new play
and her manner OF acting.
BOSTON is to have a new theatre that will
S5UO, OU exclusive Of the lot.
BRET HARTE is writing n play depicting
life in tho lar West, minus the adjuncts OF
bowie knives and shooting irons.
LISzT has arrived ut Rome. The great
pianist is III perfect health; lie is said to have
Increased in flesh liz the past Year.
NINE. NILSSON has been decorated by
King Alfonso with the cross of the Civil
Order Of Beneiicence, founded by his mother.
CARRIE GonEREI will be the prina donna
Of the Thompson Opera company next sea-
son. Sic has been very successful in Austria
lin,
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The PRAYING Piutes.

The Piute Indians Of Nevada were in
the habit of paying annual visits to the
California coast towns. and some of their
women married spaniards at Santa Cruz,
which make them acquainted with the
Christian religion. Through the in1u-
cncc of the wives of the Spaniards, their
kindred, several Of their leading men
and women were baptized each year
when the annual trip was made to the
s~cacoast. Their W religion is not 4
bad one, and from it to any orthodox
Christian religion is but a short step.
Strange as It may appear, they are a
praving pcople-are a people always
ready to pray Or fight. The Princess
Sarah W]innemucca'S book is full OF in
stances where her people were assembled
in PRAYER. and she herself was wont to
nrav to the Great Spirit whenever she
rot into troublc-prayed aloud as sne
fed before her enemies on a wild cayuse
across the deserts Virginia City (Nse.)
E~nterDrtSe.
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A Nest Of Human "Dock Rats"

New York shelters its inhabitants in o
variety of ways. Putting altogether to
one side the common and ordinasy-rn run
of people who live in more or less costly
and respectable houses, the habitations
of the great unwashed are more or less
UNIQUE, ingenious and dirty. Sheds,
woodpiIes and dump carts furnish shelter
for many homeless stragglers, tramps and
wanderers. They have no settled place
of existence; they do no business. But
q Herald reporter came across an abode
without its equal in the city-a house
that has no landlord and o place of bust.
ness paying not a cent of rental.
It is in a celebrated locality. It is
under the arch at the foot of East Forty.
sixth street and over it is Michael Kane's
historic manure heap.
CPL show you a sight," said the big
policeman on duty to the reporter. The
policeman disappeared down a side Of
the manure heap, the reporter following
him. He thumped away at a door al
most concealed by the manure. A low
browed, dusty, swathy Italian opened it
and o NANCY cur bit at the reporters
heels.
"They would murder you if you came
down here alone" said the policeman,
''but now look around"
The vast open space under the dock
was divided up into huge compartments
One side of it faced the river, and mooree
to the dock were two dump scows. a
dozen or 80 Italians were raking, pulling
and picking among the refuse, putting
bones, tins and rags into baskets ane
carrying them on shore. In n of thu
large spaces was q tremendous pile o.
tins, old cans, kettles and scraps of tins
"They sell them to the toy manufac
turers down town." said the policeman
In another space were barrels, boxes
bales and heaps of rags. In another wa
q small pile of bones.
eve make them move the bones GU
daily" said the policeman, ION account
of the SMELL"
And away up al the head of the dock
close to where the sewer poured its con
tents into the river, was a small, roughly
boarded room, which acted as kitchen
sleeping apartment, parlor, dining roon
and pantry of the gentlemen engaged
outside. There were hunks along tn
side, tins on the walls, a charcoal fir
and an odor of everything nasty ane
vile. The reporter left. and the 1talian
scowled blackly after him and his guide
'The padrone pays SIS a week for tn
privilege of raking the scows," said tn
policemen.-Mew York Herald.
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Ancient Mexican Sacrifices.

The following extract Is from the work,
"Native Religions Of Mexico and Peru"
The Mexican sacrifices were, in truth, Of
the most frightful description. 1t was
an axiom among the Aztecs that none
but human sacrifices were truly efica-
cious. They were continually making
war in order to get a supply of victims.
They regarded the victim, when once
selected, as q kind Of incarnation of the
deity who was ultimately to consume his
flesh, or ut any rate his heart. They re-
tanned the practice of c%annibalism as a
religious rite, and as though they had
some of the redskins blood in their
veins, they refined upon the fortunes to
which they forced those victims, whom
they had almost adored tho moment be.
fore, to undergo at last.
To celebrate the close of the annual
rule of Tezcatlpoca. which fell at the
beginning of May, they set apart a year
beforehand the handsomest of the
prisoners of war captured during the
preceding year. They clothed him in
= costume resembling that of the image
Of the god. He might 60 and come in
freedom, but he was always followed by
eight pages, who served at once as an
escort and a guard. As he passed, l
will not say that the people either knelt
or did not kneel before him, for in Mex:
leo the attitude expressive of religious
alteration was that of squatting down
upon the launches. AS he passed, then,
the people squatted all along the streets
Us soon as they heard the sound of the
bells that he carried on his hands and
feet.
Twenty days before the festival they
redoubled their care and attention.
They bathed him, anointed him with
perfume, and gave him four beautiful
damsels as companions, each n bear
ing the name of a goddess, and oil of
them instructed to leave nothing un-
done to make their divine spouse as
happy as possible. He then took part
in splendid banquets, surrounded by
the great Mexican mobiles. But the day
before the great festival they placed him
and his four wives on board a royal
canoe and carried them to the other side
of the lake. In the evening the four
goddesses quilted their unhappy god,
and his eight guardians conducted him
to a lonely teocalli, a league distant,
where he was flung upon the stone OF
sacrifices and his heart torn from his
bosom. He must disappear and die
with the god whom he represented, who
must now make way for Nitzilopochtli.
This latter deity likewise had his human
counterpart, WHO had to lead a war
dance in his name before being sacri-
feed. He had the grotesque privilege
of choosing the hour Of his own immo-
lation, but under the condition that the
longer he delayed it the less would his
soul be favored in the abode of Nitzil.
opochtli.
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Foreign.

B. B. HoTCHKIsS, inventor of the world
renowned Hotchkiss machine shell gun, died
In Paris Of q paraIytic shock. He was sixty
years of age, and was q member of the firm
of Hotchkiss Sons, Bridgeport, Conn. The
deceased left a fortune valued at $1,000, OO0.
NJ. VALLEs,a prominent French journalist
is dead.
LONDON dispatches contained many con-
ficting reports concerning tho fall Of XII r-
toum and the flute of General Gordon. Ono
dispatch q serted that rative Messengers
declared Khar. ou.h had not fallen, and
that General Gordon was still alive.
On the other hand advices received by the
British war Office stated that a native testified
he had been an eye witness OF tho city's cap.
ture by the Arabs. and that Gordon was
killed by O volley from Arab ril!cmen while
on his way to the Austrian consulate.
WOMEN in Osman Digna's camp arc being
armed and drilled to oppose the British
advance in the Soudan.
SEVENTEEN mcn-eight soldiers and min
civilians-were killed by a powder explosion
in Gibraltar.
RUSSIA has ordered 1000 Krupp guns of
large size 10 aid in strengthening It's position
in Central Asia.
W. W. ASToR, American minister to Italy,
lao Vol MS lJoSLli'ii, Qiu no
has been accepted. Edward Plcrrcpont Will
act q schargc d'aTaircS until L new E.nister
arrives.
AFTER q series of stubborn contests with
the Chinese the French troops i'll Tonquln
nave captured the city of LanSson. Inc
Chinese lost heavily: tho Preach loss was ~
killed and 222 wounded.
A DYNAMITE scare prevails at Trankfort,
Stuttgart, and Mayence, owing to anarchist
letters AMI placards which have been clrcu'
lated broadcast, threatening explosions.
In a naval engagement between the French
fleet under Admiral Courbct and five Chinese
men-of war, the French torpedo boats SUM-
two of the Chinese warihips, tine three other:
escaping in a fog to Chinghai.
GENERAL GoRDoN'S trusted messenger
George, has arrived at Abu-klea. tic say:
..Iat a most all the native accounts agree that
General Gordon, on finding himself betrayed,
made a rush for the magazine near the Cath
Ollie Mission buildings. Finding the rebels
already in possession, he returned TO the gov
ernment house n was killed while trying t.
re-entar it.
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NEWS SUMMARY
En.lcrn and Middle Statcs,

DR.. LEOPOLD DAMRoSCH, ono Of the best
known musicians in America, and musical
director of the German Opera company per-
forming Mt the Metropolitan Opera-houss in
New York, died suddenly in that city after q
short illness. He was q native OF POsen,
Poland, and was born i'll 1888.
CAPTR1N PHELAN, the Kansas City ofIlcia
who was recently stabbed by Dick Short, in
O'Donovan Rossa's United Irishmun Office,
New York, was able to appear and testify
against his assailant.
Mr. FRANCIS A. DREXEL. the senior Of the
two brothers ut the bend Of tho famous Drc1-
Ell banking houses in Philadelphia, New York,
and Paris, died suddenly the other afternoon
III thilad alpha, aged sixty-one years.
THE destruction of five dwelling houses by
fire in Mahanoy City, Penn, rendered forty
Iersons homeless.
DR.. HELMBoLD, Of 'Buchu" fame, has
been released from a Philadelphia insane
asylum after some years Incarceration, and
will resume business in New York
AsAlL1NG vessel brought to New York tho
captain. first mate md two seamen OF the
Norwegian bark Alfred, which had been
wrecked at sea. The four men had been
picked up in an open boat. Eight men left
on the bark were probably lost.
ONE man was instantly killed and thirteen
others were seriously injured by an explosion
of gas 3N0 feet underground in q mine on the
outskirts of WiIkesbarre, Penn.
BIO snow drifts impedcd railroad travei
quite generally throughout Central New
York, Northern Pennsylvania and the East
ern States. In many instances trains were
stopped all along the road, unable to move
either way for several days.
A I in Lynn, Mass, destroyed the large
boot and shoe factory of G.. A. Coffin & Co.,
and two smaller buildings, entailing an esti-
mated total loss of s75O,OO0. The factory was
four stories high, 100 feet slong and IS feet
deep, and employed $50 hands.
Ex-Governor MOSES, Of South Carolina,
has been sentenced ut East Cambridge
Mass, to six months imprisonment for OBJ
tanning S34 under false %pretences from Colo
mel 7. ". Higginson.
THE Metropolitan Opera-house in New
York was draped throughout in black and
filled with spectators at the funeral Of
DR.. Damrosch. musical director Of the Ger
man opera. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher de-
livered tho funeral address, IL the leading
German singing societies of the city took
part in the impressive services.
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ANOTHER widespread snow storm, entail
Ing much delay to railroad travel, is reported
from the West and Northwest.
A REVIVAL Of religion ia spreading over
the Ohio valley from Wheeling, w. Va, to
tho Kentucky line. Scores OF towns and
cities report conversions ranging from % to
$40 each.
j. NJ. JACKSON, a levee contractor, got into
O quarrel with a gang Of sixteen mon, who
were in his employ, near Sun Rise, Miss. The
men tried to kill him. He was armed with O
revolver and fired six shots, hitting q man
each time. Three of tho men shot died.
jackson gave himself up, but was acquitted.
NANCY CAss WILMoRE, reputed to be 11G
years old, died q few days ago in Whining
ton, III.
Mr.. HENDRICKS, Vice. resident-elect, was
one of tho guests at q banquet given by the
Chinese residents of Indianapolis, Ind, in
honor Of the Chinese New Year.
WILLIAM W. MASSEY, teller of the Bank
Of Commerce, Baltimore, has been sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary, with hard
labor for embezzlement
EIGHTY thousand visitors were present
during the annual Mardi Gras festival in
New Orleans. King C~arnivalmade his usual
triumph mt entry INTO the city ut the head
VI q ploCCSoloiJ oLlA oo AlShc IL
brilliantly illuminated.
AS in the East, the West and Northwest
have suffered severely from impeachment to
railroad travel by huge snow drifts. Trains
everywhere in these sections have been
stalled or delayed. and in many cases it took
days to get them moving.
NUMEROUS deaths from exposure to the
cold are reported from the Northwest.
EMORY SpEER's nomination to be district
Judge for the southern district of Georgia has
been confirmed by the Senate by a vot, of ~
yeas TO &c nays, after a hard fight against con-
irmation.
a YOUNG woman in the Chicago hospital
has such brittle bones that they have been
FRACTURED over Ito times since she was two
years old.
Two brothers named Rainey, who murdered
Constable johnson and wounded Constable
Floyd near Marysvile, Texas, while they
were serving q process, were captured in the
Indian Territory and lynched by q party of
Texas citizens.
THE business part OF Bisbee, Arizona, has
been burned; aggregate losses SlOO,0JO.
JERRY COLLINS and his nephew, Samuel
Scott, quarrelel at She.byvllle, Tenn, over
a bet Of ten cents and fought with knives.
Mrs. Collins rushed between them and re-
ceived q wound in the back, from which she
died.
The firm of John ChaGee g. Sons, one Of
the largest cotton factors in New Orleans. has
failed. Liabilities, $5os, 402; assets, 81, $4,000.
THE first vote in joint ession Of the Illinois
legislature for Unitel States Senator to sue
coed General Logan resulted as follows:
John A. Logan, lOl (thc full Republican
strength present William R. Morrison, "a;
E.. NJ. Haynes, 5; Frank Iawler, l., and j. H.
Ward, !. Two members were absent. There
was no election.
AT a fire on a rancho near Cheyenne, Wy
oming, an imported stallion costing SIS, zoo
and a Cleveland bay WORTH $1,000 were
burned to death.