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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-09
NEWSY GLEANINGS

THE Great Eastern is to be moored at
Gibraltar as a coal-hulk.
The mightiest of sea monsters is a Russian
ram now being built at a cost of s2,5OO,WO
The next Legislature of Ohio will have two
colored members, as a result OF the late cleo
tion.
AN establishment where opium smoking is
to be taught will shortly be opened in st.
Louis.
A SPANISH journal advocates the use OF
condemned criminals for cholera expert
ments.
COTTON seed pressed into blocks has just
been put upon the market as "kindllng
wood"
MANITOBA is filling up with people. The
number of schools there in 1871 was sixteen,
in 1881 it was 12S and in 1854 it reached $50.
A BUFFALO surgeon says cancer is beconl'
ing alarmingly prevalent in this country. III
two years practice he has encountered over
$50 cases of the disease.
THE work of tracking and returning prls-
oners who escape from the Jail at Yumas,
Arizona, is intrusted to Indians, who, 1t IS
said, succeed III almost every instance.
THERE Is a movement on foot among the
colored people of the country to raise a large
sum of money for the erection of q monument
at Washington to commemorate their eman'
c~ination from slavery.
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COST OF GRANTS FUNERAL.
The e'nderfakcr's ELL snpatd-Som'
Items OF Expen>e.

The enderfa'<crs Ell ON
Items Of ExpeM,e.
Undertaken stephen Merritt, Of New
York, was shown copies of Western newspa.
pers containing statements that his bill for
the funeral expenses Of General Grant had
been refused payment by the war depart
mont accounting officers. 1t is alleged in
these dispatches that the fetal expenses for
the funeral amounted to SIS 1000, of which
5000 was charged for carriages. The state
ment is a'so male that an Objectionable item
in the funeral charges is the $50 asked Tor the
carriage used by a certain naval official. Cen
eral Hancock is quoted as opposing the allow.
ance of thes. charges on the ground that
they are excessive. Mr.. Merritt and his son,
who is a partner in the firm, expressed an
noyance and surprise over the matter. "Our
bill is very modera'o," they stated, land
amounts to s!4, 163. Is only. We don't know
where the other $ll, 900 comes in. Our bill
includes all expenses at Mount NC
Oregon, VIII ,ro we hal five men working
day and night for sixteen days, railroad rare
mn and down from New York, the cost of the
casket, the preparations OF all kinds before
burial. the gloves and trimmings of all con
cerned, the carriages, horses, and indeed
everything required for the burial occasion,
The largest charge for any one carriage was
s35. This was for President Cleveland, and
was drawn by six horses; the Vice-Presi'
dents carriage had four horses, and the
others two each. No charge of $50 for the
carriage of a naval officer is in our pill,
and we made no item 'tn,no of 6'S 800
for more than 500 carriages. This is very
reasonable when it is considered that the
New York owners OF carriages put up a
corner on US as soon as General Grant died.
It required much tact to do anything with
carriage owners, and we only broke the
corner prices by securing vo1 Rea
owners out of town put up prices" Refer
ing to the statement of opposition to MS bl.l
on the part of General Hancock, Undertaken
Merritt said: 81 can scarcely believe it.
Why Colonel Hodges and General Perry
commenting on my bill when it was pre-
sented to them for auditing, said it was sur
prisingly moderate. The whole trouble or
iginates, think, over the lack Of money H.
the war department to the credit OF the con
tingent fund out of which the funeral ex'
penses must be paid"
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sketch Of Alphonso'y Life.

Alfonso XII. was the son Of Queen Isabella
II. and the Prince Consort, Francisco de As
sisi, her cousin. He was born November q,
1857, and bore thu tit of prince Of the As
turias until his accession to the throne In De-
cember, 1874. The revolution Of 1858 drove
his mother from power, and the young prince
was educated in exile partly in Austria. part
ly in France, AMI in England. On the over
throw Of the republic by a military conspir-
acy, led by Generals Martinez, Campos and
Paviaf in 1874, Alfonso was proclaime king,
his mother having some time previously alb
dictated in his favor. A regency was pro.
claim ed on December 81, under the presidency
of Senior Canovas del Castillo, the present
premier, and Alfonso made his triumphal
entry into Madrid January IA, 1875. The
country was rent in civil war, the partisans
of Don Carlos being still in possession OF
portions of the Bisque provinces and
large bodies Of troops having still to
be kept in the Southern cities to overawe
the Intransigentes. whose formidable insur-
rection had just been suppressed. The boy
king was brought to the front and assumed
the nominal command Of the armies operat-
ing against the Car,ists in tho North, but his
first battle was a disastrous defeat, n for q
time it looked as i! his tenure. Of the throne
was doomed to / Of short duration. Finally
after much sanguinary fighting the Carlists
were nuG OOWu uUu lTOLu GldI lIkuo Jill IL
death there was no serious in direction, al
though Carlists and ReYub!i ans never ceased
to plot against him. He was married Janu-
ary g, 1878, TO the Princess de las Mercedes.
daughter Of tue Dug de Montpensier, one Of
the sons OF Louis Philippe, the deposed king
of the French, but the young queen lived
only a few months after the marriage. Tha
present queen, his second wife. Marie Chris
tina, Is a daughter OF the late Archduke
Charles Of Austria. By her he had two chill
dren, both daughters.
The king has not been in good health since
the spring Of 1854. At that time be began
to show signs Of catarrhal fever. and in the
summer he took the waters Of Beteln with
complete success. Las summer he was again
recommendedto take a second course OF the
waters. but he de lined to 90 to Beteln and
separated from the royal family, as cholera
was raging but two leagues from his summer
quarters in Ia Granja- Since September he
has suffered from Catarrhal fever. indiges-
ton and diarrhoca. The kings condition has
been greatly impaired bv his utter disregard
of his physicians advice to take care OF him.
self.
During the prevalence of cholera in Spain
last summer King Alphonso visited the In
fected districts, and bv his action greatly en-
deared himself to the mass OF the Spanish
people. . -
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LOUIS SoMMEREIELp, a Pole, aged ffty-tvvo
years, shot and instantly killed his wife and
Gottlieb Eissnbaurn at the latter's saloon in
Washington. Jealousy prompted the crime.
THE President has made the following adj
ditional appointments Of consuls: To lie con
suls of the United States-Preston l.. Brilg-
ers, of North Carolina, at Montevideo, Uru.
quay; William H. McArdle, of Mississippi,
at San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua: Joseph
w. Merriam Ia citizen of the United States),
at %Iquique, Chile, and William C. Emmett,
of New York, at Smyrna, Turkey.
THE coast survey reports great earthquake
waves on the Pacific ocean at San Francisco.
These earthquake waves were thirty-tive
minutes apart, and were as great as those Oh.
served during the great %upheaval in Java
some years since.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS, of the land Office,
has decided that the Communication of a
homestead is a turning of the entry into a
and is illegal.
REPRESENTATIVES, of a dozen or more conf
mercial bodies in New York city have united
in a memorial to the President asking him to
urge Congress to pass q national bankruptcy
Law.
Or the 325 members in the new Congress
lS3 are classed as Democrats, 40 as Republi-
cans, one Greenback Democrat, Mr.. j.. B.
Weaver, of Iowa, and one Greenback Re-
publican, Mr.. Charles N. Brunm, of Penn
sylvania.
THE President made the following addi,
tional appointments: Andrew II. Ward, to
be special examiner Of drugs, medicines and
chemicals in the district Of Boston and
Charlestown, Mass: William A. Beach, of
New York, to be collector of internal revenue
for the Twenty. first district Of New York;
Bartlett Tripp, of Yankton, D. r., to be
chief justice Of the supreme
court of the Territory Of Dakota;
George w. Miller, of Washington, Tenn, to
be marshal Of the United States for tho west,
ern district of Pennsylvania; Elijah Gates,
of st. Joseph, Mo-, to be marshal of the
United States for The western district of
Missouri; George N. Baxter, of Faribault,
Mimi, TO be attorney of the United States
for the district of Minnesota; Benjamin +.
Ledbetter, of Sumlnerield, La, to be sur
veyor-general of Louisiana; Thomas J. But
le;, of Ringgold, La. to be register of the
land Office at New Orleans, La.
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A E R remarkable company of fifty per-
sons, consisting of ladies, gentlemen and boys
of Russian nationality and forming The vocal
chapel in Moscow, will undertake this winter
a concert tour through Europe. The whole
fiftv persons are clad in the fine old Russian
costumes OF the sixteenth century, and the
tour will last one year.
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FISHERMEN'S PERILs.
A ycar.. Loxscs OF Vessels aud Lives
Il, tI,c C~IOucestcr Fisheries.

A Ycnr's Losses OF Vessels II Lives
In tho Gloucester Fisheries.
The annual summary Of the losses OF yes
sells and lives in the Gloucester fisheries LOT
tho past year show that thirty-four lives
were lost, against 13l last year and an
average Of ia for each of the previous
fifteen years. The men lost left five widows
and thirteen children in the city. Inc NUM-
Der OF vessels lost this year was Twelve W.tn
y tonnage of about $50 tons, and representing
a value Of about sci, OOo, on which was s33,oJo
insurance. Last year the losses numbered six
teen vessels, with a tonnage of 1,lo l. tons
valued at ss7, 900, and insured for $4,000
The average loss per year for the previous
fifteen years was fifteen vessels, value at
SIS, 900, and insured for $4,000.
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UNITED STATES SENATE
How 1T is Divided, and the Elections
10 Occur.


70 Occur.
In the United States Senate, OF the new
Congress, the Republicans have nineteen
States, as follows:
California, Massachusetts,, Oregon.
Colorado, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Connecticut, Minnesota, Rhode Island,
Illinois, Nebraska, Vermont,
Iowa, New Hampshire, virginia,
Kansas, New York, Wisconsin,
Maine.
The Democrats lave fifteen States, as fol-
lows:
Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina,
Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina
Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee,
Florida, Mississippi, Texas.
Georgia, Missouri, west Vlrglnla'
Four States Indiana, Nevada, New Jer'-
sew and Ohio-have ono Democratic and one
Republican Senator. The States where the
terms of Senators expire March !, 1887, are
Rhode Island, West Virginia, Missouri
Michigan, Massachusetts,, Vermont, Nevada,
Mississippi, Maryland, Maine, Indiana, Con-
nec;icut, Tennessee, Florida. Minnesota, Vir-
ginia, Texas, California, New York, Penn
ssylvania, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Ohio, Ne
braska and Delaware.
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THE curfew is strictly enforced in many OF
the towns of Oregon. Young men under
t~wenty-one and young ladies under eighteen
found on the streets after nine o'clock are
promptly arrested, unless they can give a
good reason for being out
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Cure for O Cold.

Put your feet in hot water
AS high as your thighs:
Wrappe your head up in flanneIlo
AS low as your eyes;
Take a quart of rum'd gruelle
When in bed as a dose;
With a number -four dippe
Well tallow your nose. o>
(Written IN 1430.)
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THREE hundred and fifty-eight criminals,
who. have escaped from Georgia in the last
few years, are wanted in that State. The re-
wards offered for thom aggregate $780,
ON
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THE FAMILY e 7
Uses OF ~Tnrpentinc c.

Let any one who has an attack Of
lockiaw take a small quantity Of turpen'
tine, warm it and pour it on the wound,
no matter where the wound is, and re-
lief will follow in less than a minute, &C
cordins to an exchange, which says
further: Nothing better can be applied
to a severe cut or bruise than cold tur'
pentine; it will give certain relief almost
Instantly, Turpentine is almost a Ger,
tain remedy for Group. Satura'e a piece
of flannel with it and place the flannel
on the throat and chest, AMI in a very
severe case three or four drops on a lump
of sugar may be taken inwardly. Every
family should have a bottle on hand.
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Typhoid fever is never found unless
in connection with some violation OF
sanitary laws. On some premises the
c%esspool is so constructed that when it
is full and overtows the overflow will
be into the cellar of the house. We know
many such instances. This overflow is
most dangerous aud should be antici-
pated and prevented; but if not, disin-
f%ectants and ample ventilation should be
freely used, until the cellar is perfectly
]innocuous. And here we would throw
out Il hint to those who are building to
avoid this contingency. On some prem
Uses the sewage is so disposed of that it
filters through the soil into the we'll and
pollutes the drinking water. On some
the barn-yard is so near the we'll that 1t
cannot fail to pollute it. CemcntcJ
c~isterns and c~isterns above ground, such
as are seen in New Orleans, San Fran
cisco, and other places, insure clean and
wholesome drinking places, with only
moderate care. Life and health can b.
maintained only by obedience to estab'
lished laws, and those who violate these
laws, whether through ignorance or
carelcssness, must pay the penalty
american Rural Home.
Boiled Water rs a HI caithful Drink.
I wish to call the attention Of your
readers to the beneficial effect of boiling,
in increasing the portability of water, u
fact which does not appear to be gener-
ally appreciated or understood. Had
this practice prevailed on the first out.
break of the typhoid disease at Plymouth,
Penn, it is very probable tn t the NUM-
Der of cases of illness and OF deaths might
have been very greatly diminished. In
cholera seasons this treatment is espe-
cially important, as water is largely the
medium of introduction of the injurious
influences into the system. During the
Centennial exhibition | was stationed In
West Philadelphia, near the Centennial
buildings, for six months, and although
cases of diarrhea were prevalent all
around me, the use of boiled water ap:
peared an absolute preventive. We had
several cases of illness of this class be-
fore we began to use this very simple
p%recaution, but none afterward. The
fishy taste of the Potomac water at the
present time, due to the solution in it of
decomposed vegetation, or of fresh
water sponges, can also be in, great
measure removed by the same process. l
have usually enough water boiled in the
morning to last through the day. This
is placed in a large water cooler, without
ice, and drawn from when required to
fill ice-pitchers, etc. The water should
boil actively at least for half an hour, in
order to completely destroy the germs OF
disease. Of course this is only effective
in cases of organic impurities, as mineral
poisons would not thereby be destroyed.
Spencer F. Baird.
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South n West.

Ex-MAYOR JOHN BOWMAN, OF East st.
Louis, ILL.,, was shot and killed by an un-
known assassin while walking home.
FIVE women we're burned to death in a fire
which partially destroyed the County infrm-
ary near Sandusky, Ohio. The superin-
tondent was badly injured.
NINE out of the twelve prisoners, including
two murderers, in Jail at Greenville, Ohio,
made their escape.
A LARGE tree fell upon a cabin near Seattle,
Washington Territory, and crushed three
miners inside to death:
THE will Of David Dickson wealthy Geor-
gia planter, who left the bulk o: his estate
to a co:orsd woman in trust for her two
uulatto children, has been sustained by a
jury.
IRWIN GRUB, in Jail at Piaeville, Mo-,
for numbering and iobbing a deaf mute, was
taken out by a crowd and hanged to a tree.
THE annual convention of the National AS
ISOLATION Of Cattle aud Horse Growers was
held in st. Louis.
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IL am inexpressibly shocked by the surprising
and painful intelligence Of the sudden closing
Of the career of your husband. He has fallen
with the honors thick upon him and in the
acme Of popular esteem: In yGur p Esh;1a al
common with the whole country l deplore
the loss of Mr.. Hendricks as a public calam'
ity."
Flags were displayed everywhere at half
mast, and it was amor ed that the funeral
at indianapolis would be the most elaborate
heldin the West since President arheld's 90.
seuuies. President Cleveland and cabinet
signiaed their intention Of being present. At
a meeting Of members Of both houses in
Washington committees of thirteen Senators
and fifteen Representatives were chosen to
attend the funeral in a body.
The body of Mr.. Hendricks was elnbalmed,
and a cast Of his head was taken by R. H.
Parks, an eminent sculptor.
rrJR. HENnR-CKS, GARRETT.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle stato,.

"sA
DANIEL WILKINSON was hanged a few
days since at Thomaston, Me-, tor the muir
der of Policeman William Lawrence i'll Bath.
SENATOR WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs presided
at a dinner given by the New York Union
League club in honor Of Al. Bartholdi, the
sculptor of the Liberty statue.
A at Plainfeld, N. j., destroyed a
large lumber yard containing 400, ONO feet OF
lumber, several dwelling houses and other
structures, and caused..a loss of about sl3o,-
030.
GENERAL McCLELLAN's will has been nd
mitted to probate and letters testamentary
granite to his widow, his soc execntrIx.
Mrs. MARY FlALKA, a widow and her
two little daughters, aged six and seven
years, were burned to death in a New YORK
tenement house fire.
JOHN SHARPLEss, one Of the most promi.
nent orthodox Friends in Delaware county.
Penn, was murdered at his farm in Neither
Providence by a strange colored man., the
motive for the crime being robbery.
Up to recent date the Grant national
monument fund had reached SlO0,OOO.
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In the United States Senate, Of the new
Congress, the Republicans have nineteen
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1885-09-10
A MENAGERIE IN HIS STOMACH.

DIR. Rowles of the Chicago Marine
Hospital, tells of singular occur
renee in connection with an opera
ton recently performed at the hos
pital. Some time ago a sailor applied
for admission. lie was tall, lank
and cadaverous, and was suffering
from an almost perpetual pain in his
stomach. At times he would be seiz-
ed with trightful commissions and
nothing seemed to allay his suherings
but food. He had ravenous appe-
titc and could eat hearty meal Il
dozen times day. The doctors, af-
ter a long course Of treatment, sue
ceeded in taking from the man II tape
worm and also a snake thirteen inch
es long resembling a monstrous angle
worm. The physicians were some
what astonished at finding so strange
a resident as the snake in the mans
stomach, but they were quite dumb
founded by the startling phenomenon
that presented itself soon AFTER
While examining the reptile the
physicians found that it was actually
giving birth to another claimant for
the vast quantity of food devoured by
the unfortunate Jack tar. They could
account for the appearance of the
snake in the mans stomach, but that
"A reptile which, when quite small,
had found its way there should in
crease to its present size and also
have young, was a problem which
they were unable to solve. The tape
worm, together with the snake and
its progeny, were carefully placed in
a bottle, and are now on exhibition
at the dispensing department in the
Custom House, New York Times.
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DON'T GIVE UP,

A dull boy in a certain school was
frequently reproached by his teacher,
and made little progress. One day
he made first attempt to write. The
scrawl was so wretched it excited the
laughter of the boys who satnear him.
A gentleman, visiting the school and
witnessing his distress said to him:
"Neyer mind, my lad, do not be
discouraged, and you will be a writer
some day. | rccollect when ! first
began being quite as awkward as
you; but l.perseyereG, and now look
See what | can do"
He took his pen and wrote his
name in large, legible hand.
Years afterward, when the dull boy
had become one Of the most celebra-
ted men of his day, he met again the
man who had spoken to him those
few words of encouragement. He
said to him:
at is my firm conviction that
owe my success in life, under God.
blessings, to those few words you
spoke to me that day when | sat SC
discouraged, trying to write"
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GNIK.

The BoARDING-HoUsE TRINITY.
A long WASTED, slab-slided brother,
with rather clerical air, walked in
to a well-known inn on the camp
ground and inquired how much for
table board.
six dollars week, your rever-
ence."
"And how much for dinner p
six dollars"
what, The same for one meal
as for three p
"The identical"
''But will you be kind enough to
explain the apparent inconsistency Z"
Il will. My friend, you are doubt
less familiar with the doctrine of the
trinity"
II trust that ! am
"Well, sir, Eve had the boarding
house trinity, the great three-mcals-
in-one racket, played on me too
many times to get taken in on that
lug any more" And then the jovial
skipper turned to the by-standers and
told how when he first opened his
hotel gaunt women and Acknowledged
men used to come there and engage
for dinners only, at half price, and
get up at in the morning and eat a
couple Of crackers and then come in
at noon and fill up like dromedaries
with enough to last till the next day
Other folks may continue to try it OIL
if they want to; but not for Joseph
l. Cottage City Chronicle.