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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-26
RaYageS Of LOCuSts.

The London Standard, in an article
on the recent ravagcs by locusts in
Koumania, says: Again and again the
various species have wrought dire havoc
wherever their wandcrings have taken
them. pestilencc usually comes in the
rear Of all, and is aggravated, if rot
occasioncd, by the cllluvium from the
dccaying bodies of the dead cattle, or
of the insects which have been blown
into the sea and aftcrward cast up on
shore by the waves and tide. \ case is
on record in which the stencil from such
q bank was carried $50 mics into the
interior, and early in the Christian era
the hunger and plague combined which
followed Il visitation of locusts in North
Africa caused the death Of eight hundred
thousand persons. Four centuries ago,
it is narrated on what seems fairly trust
worthy data, more than 200 persons
pcrlshcd within The bounds Of the
Venetian territory from the lack of food,
owing to the locusts having eaten up
everything, and since that date locust
plaques have been so numerous it is not
difficult to accept the earlier tales as true.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-26
NEWSY GLEAYINGS.

FIFTEEN million horses are npw owncl III
America.
TIE electric light is gradually coming into
use on locomotives
TIE gold product Of Georgia is estimated
at $4O0.0IO yearly.
THE total assessment cf The 'tat" of Kan.
sas for 1SS4 was $'!!:;..Ol:'.,: ,:Hi1b
TIE average wcn.th"f Massachusetts, farm
crs Is said tD be about 500 PER capita
A LEMON weighing foHr pounds and thir-
teen ounces is one Of F'iorllas recent produc-
tiuns.
Cork cuttings nrc new uscl in making
bricks which are said to bcuninjurcl by heat
or moisture.
THE milk crop in England is of more value
than the wheat crop, bling worth e3J, ,olJ,-
700, or about 5O,OOU,OW.
THE mortality from swine fever in Eng
land has reached 4 point when about 2,CO)
animals perish every week, Or 10000 per
year out of =, OOO, 700 swine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-26

THE TEMPORARY TOMB. RIVERSIDE PARK.
During the passage of the procession the
streets of the city other than those immedi-
atcly in the vicinity Of the moving column
were almost deserted. From dense crowds
along the line. recruited from the suburbs
and from distant towns and cities, it is u fair
estimate TO say half Il million people were
spc"ta orS of the funeral procession Of Cen
Cra 'trnut
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-26

\ man claiming to be Il scientist wants
some one to bore the earth to prevent its
bursting. We have a friend who We
think would be able to do it, Up 10
this time he has devoted all his boring
energies to us, and we would be glad to
sec linn try it on the rest of the carth.-
RLxtOn {Oyk
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-26

Afghanistan's population is about
equal to that of the State of New York,
while the extent of its territory. 225, 900
square miles, is considerably less than
that of Texas, which contains 231, 5O4
s0llarc miles.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-26
he NATIONAL LEAGUE.

The government postal service in Japan
emyloys about 7,0jO persons Mail rruts
$3.50 miles in aggregate length have ben
established since lo1l, and 3,J!i p,s. ,.lice'
added
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-26

Biologists say that the coal beds of
the earth will be exhausted in 10,S1O
years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-26

til IT. p;y> 4 nplntr oi ga h"a for tho
SralI,S ui rnntnr. bat til hiilS are 81 sly that
it does not pIy to hum them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-08-26
STATE FAIRS.
Where and When ihe Agricultural
Fairs will be Held,

Below will be found list Of the State,
provincial, and general agricultural fairs and
tha times and places for holding them:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
Fancy Drinks at the Bar.

A new drink, says "fancy" barten-
der at leading Chicago house, is an
impossibility, though "new names are
often given to old prescriptions. The
other day." he said, III French-looking
fellow asked me for an absinthe frappe,
which is simply frozen absinthe, tipped
with brandy, but which he evidently
thought was some difficult compound.
The ordinary drink costs twenty-five
cents, but charged him half dollar,
just to keep him from being disap-
pointed. All kinds of names are fired
at me, but never look or act surprised.
1 simply mix up something from two OF
three bottles if I'm in doubt, charge q
stiff price, and ten. chances to one the
man who calls for the drink doesn't
know any more what he's drinking than
do. It's little way we have. Phil
adelphid Ledger.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
Biography Writing.

Those who have attained measure
of reputation which justifes biogra-
ply are entitled to treatment of q rea-
sonable and discriminating kind. 1t is
not necessary and it is not proper that
their private papers should be ran
sacked for piquant details of their in
tercourse with friends and acquaint-
ances, or that all the fippant and de-
rogatory observations of envious con-
temporaries should be repeated against
them. They have right to justice not
only, but also to q certain degree of
charity. BY the act OF becoming noted,
they do not authorize ready liberty to
be taken with their personal records.
1t is the duty of the biographer to sift
all the facts carefully, and exercise q
sound discretion as to what belongs to
the public and what is none of the pub
lies business, and this duty he owes
not less to his audience than to his sub
ject The best biographies are not
those which go into minute particulars,
and follow the theory that everything
should be told, leaving the reader to
do his own discriminating and to pass
his own judgments. To tell the story
of great mans life in q fair, correct,
and Impressive manner, It is quite as
essential to leave certain things out as
it is to putcertain things in.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
Sydney Smiths AnecdOte.

"Have you ever Observed" wrote
Sydney Smith, "what dislike serv.
ants have to anything cheap? They
hate saving their masters money.
tried this experiment with great sue
cess the other day. Finding we con.
sumed a great deal of soap sat down
in my thinking chair and took the soap
question into consideration, and j
found reason to suspect that we were
using very expensive article when a
much cheaper one would serve the
purpose better. / ordered half dozen
pounds of both sorts, but took the pre-
caution of changing the papers, on
which the prices were marked, before
giving them into the hands of Betty.
well, Betty, which soap do you find
washes best?' oh, please sir, the
dearest, in the blue paper; it makes a
lather as well again as the other.
Well, Betty, you shall always have it.
then And thus the unsuspecting
Betty saved me some pounds year.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
HOPS 4 MALT BITTERS Co, Demon, nes.
Sad ACCIDENT.
MIR. OSCAR CRAIGG Blown up by q Pro-
mature Blast I'm the Rosendale Cement
Quarry-DEsTRUCTI of an EYE
Its Subsequent Removal by
Surgical Operation.

Mr.. Oscar Craigg was foreman in cement
quarry at Rosend lie, Ulster Co., N. Y. BY an cx-
plosion one day in the quarry he lost an eye
lost IL totally. Under an impression that tho
matter was less serious the local physician told
Mr.. Craigg that his eye was not lost wholly, but
could be saved by treatment The experiment.
was tried and failed. Worse remained behind,
for he was in danger OF losing the other also,
through sympathetic Inflammation. In this
strait he consulted Dr. Ddrid Kennedy, of Ron
dout, N. Y, who told him the injured eye must
be taken out to save the ether 10 this Mr..
Craigg demurred and went back home in doubt.
His local physician said: go 20 New York To
New York the patient went, and one of the most
eminent oculists in the country, having looked
at the case. said: You have lost one eye en-
tirely; go hack and do what you can To save the
other" Briefly DIR. Kennedy removed the ruined
eye, and treated Mr.. Craigg with "Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy" to build up his system, and
the result was successful.
DR.. Kennedy great success as a Surgeon Ia
due to the use of 'Favorte Remedy" in the alter
treatment
Are you troubled with Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plant, Constipation, or arrangement of the Kid
neys and Bladder, then use Dr. Kennedy's "Fa-
vorite Remedy" 1t will not disappoint you
On. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy" for sale by
all druggists.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09

by the terrible volcano storm of Novem-
Der %, A. ID. 70. Painters pots and
brushes and workmen's tools were
scattered around, and spots of white
wash starred wall and floor. Pots and
kettles had been bundled up in corner
by themselves, but dinner had not been
forgotten. A solitary pot stood on the
stove. The oven was filed with loaves
of bread, and a sucking pig was await
ing on brown dish its turn to be baked.
But the pig never entered the oven,
and the bread remained in it eighteen
centuries. Monsieur Florelli's museum
at Pompeii contains the loaves-twenty-
one in number-rather hard and black,
but perfectly preserved.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
Dynamite.

The indignation with which the dyn-
amite crimes are regarded is very much
greater than any terror which they pro-
duce. The means of criminal mischief
were familiar long before the days OF
Guy Fawkes. Gunpowder and fire,
the bullet and the steel, the bravo and
the assassin, are all we'll known. But
the ease with which most destructive
explosive can now be manufactured,
and the secrecy with which it can be
applied to its work, are so tempting
to assassins that great catastrophes may
be apprehended. But as they are
merely wanton crimes, outraging hui
manity, and involving the lives and
happiness of the most innocent persons,
as, in fact, they are intended only to
produce terror by indiscriminate de-
struction, they have but one effect
that of intense Indignation and desire
of vengeance.
If every public building in London
should be destroyed by Irish dynamite,
the result would be, not Irish indie
pendence, but Irish determination.
Carlyles cynical suggestion that the
true Irish policy would be to put the
island under water for twenty-four
hours would be the purpose of England.
The atrocities of the French Revolu-
ton are applicable. They were the
mad outbreak of misery and brutality
which the Government had fostered,
and for which it promised no relief.
But this kind of explanation is wanting
to the dynamite terrorists. Their con-
duct might have been extenuated as at
least not surprising during the height
penal laws. But for nearly a century
there has been constantly advancing
relief of Irish suffering and correction
of injustice in Ireland, until now there
remains no abuse or inequality for
which constitutional agitation is not the
surest remedy.
1t is true, indeed, that the degrade
tion and ignorance of large part of
Ireland are the logical result of En-
glish misconduct. George Mason truly
said that Providence Furnishes national
sins by national calamities. But this
cannot be pleaded in justification of the
dynamite crimes. There is no people
in the world that follow leadership
more loyalty than the Irish, and the
Irish leaders, like Mr.. Parnell and his
associates, are neither ignorant nor de-
graded. Just so far as they yield to
the brutality of their followers, they
are guiftier than those followers, and
the significant fact in the late crimes is
not that they were committed, but that
Mr.. Parnell, speaking in Ireland at the
very moment when the whole civilized
world protested, said not single word.
In protection against such attacks
the cause of England is the cause of
civilization. 1t is not question of
politics, or of single national interest !;
it is that of orderly society against
anarchy.-George William Curtis, IN,
Harper's Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
Harmony.

A certain political editor who had
been making public some very rash
statements was called on by man from
the opposition.
"Did you write that article?" he in.
quired angrily, holding up the paper
with his thumb jammed into the para.
graph.
"Yes, sir" replied the truthful ed
itor.
We'll, all I've got to say is that it's
lie, and you are liar"
"Do you really think SOP" said the
editor, without any evidence of anxiety.
II not only think so but say so"
"That's funny"
whats funny?"
"Why, four men have been in here
before you, to see about the same article,
and every one of them said the same
thing. / hadn't any idea that there was
SO much harmony in your party"
The editor went on writing, and the
visitor hadn't the heart to disturb him
further. Traveller.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09

A sailor returning from long cruise
brought with him young parrot, which
he bestowed upon his half-witted son,
and then undertook the task of their
joint education. Having his own ideas
OF teaching and teaching made easy" "
and sea voyages having been chief fact
ors in broadening his views of life. he
proceeded to institute course of travel
which should combine pleasure with
knowledge. From place to place they
went, seeing sights and shows, among
which none were more in favor than the
common play-houses or places of cheap
theatrical entertainment, found every
where. The old tar, IN imagination,
here revisited the haunts of his sailor
life, the boy, Tommy" gazed with
open-mouthed wonder, and Poll
chuckled with delight.
L'appetit Went en- mangeant, but in
stead of growing also critical and dis
eliminating, Tommy only became insa-
tate, and one scene was scarcely OIL the
boards before he cried, whats next ?"
And Polly came in with an invariable
echo of "What's nex'?"
The old man tried in an Intellectual
but probably conscientious way to in
fuence and train their Judgment by ap-
plause or condemnation, or by exclama-
tions such as Good playin' that" or
Mighty poor Mixed plot-mixed
plot" "Wager 'twont run week, Z"
ETC., etc. But the boy only turned his
head to demand, whats next" and
the parrot cried, whats nex'?"
In the course Of time they reached
San Francisco, and found themselves
one day in the Chinese quarter, and "at
the front" In one of its celebrated play
houses. Hours of delightful instruc-
ton and rapid acquisition followed, and
the fathers fondest ambitions seemed
in fair way OF being realized, when his
school was suddenly broken up by the
unforeseen event of O premature explo-
sion OF gigantic firework. After flames
and smokewere subdued, and the police
in possession, it was discovered that the
unfortunate sailor and his son were
victims of the disaster, a flying missile
having knocked them off their seats and
in some way caused their death. Broke
their necks," remarked by-stander
AS the veteran charger answers to the
well-known bugle note, so forth from
the debris came feeble but distinctly
piped What's nex'?" Excavations
brought to light the battered, singed,
and bruised body of poor Poll. With
one weak, Intellectual effort at recon
struction, choking and sputtering, she
exclaimed: mighty poor playin' that !
Mixed plot-dretful mixed Bet 'twon't
run week." Then, with an ineffable
chuckle, as she took her poor, limping
way along: "But it brought down the
house, Tommy. What's nex'?"-Ed-
aOT's DrdUer. In Harper's Moqazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
HOnors to the Secretary Of Wyoming.

We had secretary once who thought
when he was appointed that the crown
ed heads of the world would probably
make the welkin ring with glad acclaim,
and fairly make the Atlantic boil with
red-hot congratulatory cablegrams; but
they did not. When he landed at Chey-
enne the shock was not great. The social
fabric of that wealthy and bright little
city did not seem to totter much. Not
single tot. The secretary even had some
difficulty in getting the best room at
the hotel, even when he stuck his chest
out and announced that he was Secre-
tary of State. He did not then know
that in matter of social standing and
salary the poorest paid justice of the
peace in Cheyenne looked down on him
and pitied him. He did not know that
when he announced himself as a FEEDER
al appointee he began to be looked
upon with suspicion, and that he would
have to behave mighty we'll for years
to come in order to erase the bad i'm
preston which he had unwittingly
made. The people of Wyoming will
never forget him. He hoped for
a demonstration when he arrived,
but he prayed that there would not be
one when he went away. He was the
champion ass of the known world. He
wanted to be preceded by the blare of
trumpets. He yearned to walk over
the wild and woolly yahoos of the
rowdy West. He liked to have the
Governor go away, so that he could APP
point Notary Public at Deadman's
Ranch, and sign it as acting Cover
nor, with a big, big Il. He did not
know that the people of the West
walked on their hind feet till he went
to Wyoming. For many months he
kept it we'll before the people that he
was Secretary of State, but before he
went away he tried to conceal it. He
travelled incog., as a matter of safety
and comfort. 1 know one man who has
held an important Federal Office two
terms of four years each and is liable
to continue through the third term,
which he has just begun, but he did
not begin by calling out the troops to
come and hold his head while he
thought of hard word. He knew
when he went West that the Lord
reigned there also, and that the man
who kept his mouth shut most of the
time was less liable to get an overdose
of daylight into his vitals. He has
lived and prospered and been twice re
appointed. The hoodlum West knows
when it is well used, and it also knows
when the President is seeking to plan
an April fool trick on it.
When a man goes into Territory
nowadays to enter into trade or bust
ness, the people Mt once offer him every
kind of encouragement; but when he
goes there as an appointee he must be-
have himself for years before he can
secure that perfect love which casteth
ont fear. BILL Nye.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
Facts About London.

About 1900 horses die each week.
About 122, 600 paupers infest the city.
About 1900 police keep good order.
About 1900 foreigners live in the
city.
About 10000 strangers enter the city
each day.
About 5000 new houses are erected
annually.
About 700, 600 cats enliven the moon
light nights.
About 1000 clergymen hold forth
every Sunday.
About go churches give comfort to
the faithful.
About l25 persons are added to the
population daily.
About 80 miles of new streets are
laid out each year.
About 500,000 dwellings shelter the
population of London.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
E. ST. JOHN.
wen-DeCerved Promotion or a Railroad
Man.

lIOnOIiOn a RAILROAD
Man.
[Chicago telegram
President X. II. Gable, of the Rock
Island Road, has issued the following
important notice:
"Mr. Z. st. John is hereby appoint
ed assistant to the General Manager,
appointment to take effect July /. The
general ticket and passenger depart
ments will remain under the jurisdic-
tion of Mr.. st. John as formerly, and
all communications in connection with
those departments should be addressed
to him as General Ticket and Passen-
ger Agent"
The above announcement of Mr.. st.
Johns promotion will be read with
interest and pleasure by the many who
have become intimate with him during
very long career. He has been asso-
ciated with the road so long that he is
always considered part of the system,
good, reliable, and ever on time. Mr..
st. John entered the railway service in
1862; was clerk in the general ticket
Office and depot ticket agent of the
Quincy and Toledo Railroad at Quincy,
ILL.,, until its consolidation with the
Great Western Railroad, when he
assumed a clerkship with that COM
pany in its general ticket department
at Springfield. ILL.,, remaining in its SER
vice until July 3, 1858; on July 4,
1868, and until November, 1864, he was
employed as clerk in the general ticket
Office of the Chicago and Rock Island
Railway. Nov /, 1864, to- Sept. /,
1869, he was Chief Clerk in charge of
the general ticket department; Sept. /,
1869, he was appointed General Ticket
Agent, and Jan. l, 1879, he was APP
pointed General Ticket and Passenger
Agent, which position he continues to
fill. On Saturday, July 4, Mr.. St.
John will celebrate the twenty
anniversary of his connection with the
Rock Island Road. Mr.. st. Johns
promotion is another illustration of the
well-known fact that the Rock Island
Road appreciates the merits of its Of
ficials, and gives tangible evidence of
its appreciation.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09

The arrest of a suspicious character upor
bis general appearance, movements, or com
panionship, without waiting until he ha,
robbed a traveller, fired house, or murdered
a fellow-man, is an important function of q
shrewd detective. Even more important 1,
the arrest OF a disease which, IL not checked
will blight and destroy a human life. The
frequent cough. loss of appetite, genera
languor or debility, palid skin, and bodily
aches and pains, announce the approach OF
pulmonary consumption, which is promptly
arros ted and permanently cured by DR..
Picrce's "6olden Medical Discovery" SOLD
by all druggists.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
The Bantam Grandmother.

Ordinarily newborn chicken will
follow any hen, and any hen will cluck
and scratch for any newborn chick, if
not over day or two old, but not SO
with five little bantams recently Matched
in Justice Poe's hennery. His little
boy, Harry, possessed very beautiful
little bantam hen, which was priced
for its beauty and gracefulness, but no
sooner had she served her time on the
nest, and came strutting forth with five
little beauties, then her worldly exist
ence came to an end.
In this dilemma Harry tried to get
another hen to be tender and true to
the little orphans, but it remained for
the grandmother of the orphans to as
sumo this responsibility. The grand
mother herself was on nest and try
ing to raise another brood, but readily
gave up the prospects aud began to
care for her grandchildren, and shows
unusual affection and sympathy for the
orphans. Constitution.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
A New London Vocation.

A new industry for women is develop
ing in London. 1t is that of adviser of
household elaboration. AS practiced 10y
the sisters of William Morris it consists
in driving from house to house and tell
ing the newly rich what they want in
the way of decoration. -Ne,0 York
Tribune
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09

To TEST the purity of water there has
been found no better or simpler way
than to fill clean pint bottle three.
fourths full of the water to be tasted,
and dissolve in the water half tea.
spoonful of the purest sugar-loaf OF
graduated will answer; cork the bottle
and place it in warm place for two Oh
three days. If in twenty-four to forty
eight hours the water becomes cloudy
or milky it is unfit for domestic use.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09
81 Don't Want Relief, but Cure"

Is the exclamation OF thousands suffering
from Catarrh. To all such we say: Catarrh
can be cured by Dir. Sages Catarrh Remedy.
1t has been done i'm thousands OF cases; why
not I'm yours? Your danger is in delay. In.
close stamp to Worlds Dlspensary Medical
Association, Buffalo, N. Y, for pamphlet OF
fhIs disease