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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
THE NATIONAL GAME.

GILLESPIE, of the New Yorks, used to be a
coal miner.
CARRIER pigeons are used at every game
in Pittsburg.
WHITE gets $500 a season for guarding
third base for Detroit.
The new grounds Of the Philadelphia Club
will ba the finest in the country.
The Pittsburgs have shut out the famous
St Louis Browns in two successive games
THE recent record of Temney, Of Syracuse,
at short field, fourteen chances without an
error, has not been beaten this season.
WASHINGTON is good base ball city for q
winning club, at present. notwithstanding
its poor showing, 500 spectators attend the
games.
New ORLEANS Is very anxious to secure q
place in the Southern League next year, and
it is possible that it may obtain the place re-
Gently made vacant by the Augustus.
The Washingtons played strong game in
their last series with the New York g1anls
They won the first game, were oesten ~ 10 o
in the second and played tie In the last.
RApBoURN, Stenlmeyer and Buffinton, the
three Boston pitchers, have accomplished
what no other clubs trio of pitchers have
done-each has disposed Of an opposing nine
for but one hit
THE st. Louis Browns have won more
games than the Baltimores and the Metro
politans combined, while the Detroits nave
won more than the st. Louis, Kansas Cltys
and Washingtons combined.
"JoE" START, the veteran Of the diamond
field, has settled down in Hartford, alter re-
fusing handsome offer from the Kansas
CITY team. He will cover the first base FOR
the Hartford nine occasionally.
A LEAGUE is to be-formed next season
taking in the towns of Steubenville, Ohio,
Barnesville, Ohio, GAINESVILLE, Ohio, Mckees-
port. Penn, Erie, Penn Wheeling, W. Va,
and two other towns yet to be decided upon.
GARRISON now has the League strike-out
record for the season SO far, Ge.ng but one
neg below Ramsey, the Association pitcher.
The latter struck out seventeen Nets, whiie
Clarkson cau.ed sixteen Cowboys to IAN the
air
A PIrrSBURG man who has been timing
the pitchers says that Terry is the swittest IN
the association. He held the watch on Gal.
vim and Hecker and found the ball Travelled
from pitcher to catcher in seven-eights OF
second
THE largest number of runs made by the
Bostons in game this season has been 10
(Washingtonsl; Chicagos ~ lSt. LOUIS De-
delphias); New Yorks, Is (Washington9; !;
Washingtons, 12 (Bostons.
THE Athletics left the West their last trip
with nine defeats and three victories, the
Nets with nine defeats and two victories, the
BrooklyEs with eight defeats and four VIC
tories and the Baitimores with ten defeats
and two victories. AS on the first trip,
Brooklyn again makes the best showing.
Her defeats, however, this time were the
worst in her history, and indeed in the his
tory of the game-l0 to 0, IL to y aud IL to O..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
AN OCEAN TRICYCLE..
A Machine Twenty-seven Feet High
to Aid Wrecked People. <

A Machine Twenty-seven Feet High
to Aid Wrecked People. :,
An ocean tricycle., twenty seven feet high,
is in course Of building in Camden, N. J.
says the Philadelphia Ne,os, and will be COM
pleted so that the inventor may test it in the
surf ut Ocean City within two weeks. A
tricycle. on which to ride through and
over the breakers which beat on the Allan
tic Coast may have been dreamed Of, but
that it would ever be thought Of when awake
and sober has entered into the minds
OF few besides E. B. Lake, who has secured a
patent for his invention, and expects to find
millions in it The object Of this, probably
the largest tricycle. ever built, is not sim
ply for exercise and amusement as are the
less pretentious three-wheeled vehicles, but
it is proposed to utilize it as means for
the saving OF life from vessels wrecked
on the dangerous beachea This one
will be used by the life-saving station at
Ocean City, and IL it proves success, as all
will be built for the life-saving stations all
along the coast
The machine may be run by two men
easily and yet is SO strong and so constructed
as to pass through the toughest water with
out injury, and without ever wetting the
men who may ride upon it, except such wet
ting as may be due to spray.
1T can be run out to wreck at any time,n
said the man who was experimenting the
work, land it will, beyond question revolu-
tionize the present system Of saving life on
the coast. There need be no trouble hereafter
in launching the surf boats, and the motor
used for shooting line across stranded
vessels may be laid aside forever, once
this machine is in working trim. Instead
of requiring an hour or two to reach q
wrecked vessel, it may be done on the 'sea
wagon in ten minutes, and without the least
danger. The imperilled crew could be taken
ashore on the machine if desired; in fact
perfect communication between the land and
the wreck will be established, and absolutely
without danger, when this machine is put
into general USE"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
A Mushroom Which Grows on Trees.

A New Zealand mushroom, which
grows ON the trunks of trees, is likely to
become an article of expectation to Ing
land 1t is exported in large quantities
to China, where it is used in the prepa-
ration of soups. When dry, the mush-
room becomes shriveled up, and is as
hard as horn; when wet, it is soft and
elastic, almost sub-gelatinous. 1t 6 ows
in compact gregarious masses. The ex-
ports average over hundred tons year,
worth probably not less than $3.50 ton
at the place of shipment, and much more
in China. Court Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

Figures, which proverbialiy cannot lie,
ihow that the cornields of the United
States cover territory as large as Eng
land, Scotland and Belgium united,
while the grain fields surpass Spain III
territorial extent. The acreage of oul
farm lands under cultivation is equal ir
extent to all of the United Kingdom OF
Great Britain and Ireland, France, Be-
guim, Portugal, Germany and Austro
Hungary
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

Maine man who says that he is
leading physician of Portland announces
that he has located the Captain Kidd
treasure, and proposes shortly to unearth
s7,OoO,o 900 of it. The value Of his dis
covery is somewhat damaged, however,
by the fact, as he asserts, that whenever
he begins to dig for it the treasure is sur
reptitiously shifted by the malign intiu-
snce of the spirit of the defunct pirate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
A Stage Coach Robbed.

A dispatch from Winnipeg, British Ameri-
ca, tells of the second stage robbery IN IL the
Northwest Territory in one month. Ihe
Edmonton stage was stopped by two masked
men, eighteen miles from Calgary, There
were in the stage Pete Campbell,
the driver, j. Burns, commercial
traveller of Winnipeg, travelling agent and
all unknown Frenchman. The masked men
wore stripes from Union Jack over Their
faces and CARRIED a carbine and two Colt
revolvers. They were on foot and jumped
out Of the loug grass ten feet in front CT the
stage, which stopped. They ordered
the party to descend. They then
marched the prisoners into a coulee,
where they went through their pockets:
The robbers then returned to the stage went
through the baggag, an! op ned the mail
bags. 4 mail bag containing registered let
ters was overlooked. The stage horses were
then taken out and driven away, ard the
highwaymen disappeared. The footpa1s
were evidently new at the business and ner,,
vous They took none Of the passengers
watches. twenty-five mounted police were
sent out in search for them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

OWING to the Teutonic taste for raw b IN.
every German town has On official micros-
copist whose duty it is to examine all the
hams placed in the market. At Schebitz, re-.
Gently, seventy persons died of trichinosis,
and the court, having found a verdict against
the mcroscopist for careless performance OF
his duty, condemned him to two years iin-
prisopment
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

RANSOM REDpY, of Wakulla, Fla, has
raised vine Of genuine black pepper, from
which he has already gathered one crop OF
berries. He got the root of the vine from a
friend in California, who had sent to the
Island of C,ylon for it in order to expert
msut
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

SOME Chinese miners recently found mug
get of gold In Sierra County, California, that
weighed l5s ounces They sold it for sS6, ,oQo.
This Is the third in size Of the largest nuggets
found in the world. = -.
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EoreigL

ELBERr B. Cook and daughter were
shot and killed at Buonos Ayies, South
Ameri q, by an insane man. Cook was
President Of the Cook & Sackett' bank, of
Havana, NY, and some time ago embezzled
all the institutions available fumes and fed
to Canada.
THE British steamer Aberdeen, rom Han
kow for London, with large cargo OF tea,
foundered while leaving the Chins, Sea.
AsrAr1c cholera is still spreading in Italy.
A PARIS dispatch says that II Grevy's
probable resignation Of the Presidency Of the
French Republic is generally discussed in
that city. M. de Freycinet Is said to be the
strongest candidate In the field
THE city of Mandalay, the capital of Bur-
nah, has been inundated The loss Of life
and property was very large.
THROUGH the efforts of the Russian Gov.
ernment Prince Alexander Of Bulgaria has
been compelled to abdicate and has been es.
corted to the frontier. After deposing the
Prince the people Of Sofa adopted a resolu-
ton praying the Gar to re-e1tend Ills SYM
pathy to the Bulgarian people. The assem-
blage proceeded to the palace Of the Russian
Agent and submitted to him the resolution,
ali kneeling. The Agent assured them Of the
Cars friendship. A Provisional Govern
ment has been formed
THE revolution in Honduras, Central
America, has been quelled. The leaders have
all been killed.
A MOB at Belfast, Ireland, visited the police
and wrecked their barracks. Soldiers restored
order.
The unquiet feeling aroused in Bulgaria
by the forced abdication and expulsion OF
its ruler, Prince Alexander, has resulted in
the Provisional Governments declaring So
fla, the capital, in state of siege.
GLADSTONE and Parrell both delivered
speeches for Ireland's cause the other night
in the House of Commons
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15

In Brazil the liberated slaves show an dn.
centrollable disposition to flock to the coast
cities. Immigration is looked on as the oily
source Of supply for agricultural laborsrS
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
South and West.

A HEAVY storm at Galveston, Texas, has
done great damage The streets we're over.
flown in every direction, many b,ing COW
cred with three feet Of water. Hundreds Of
families were made temporarily homeless,
and small boats took the place Of street
cars The total damage is estimated at $780,
900. Six lives were reported lost
A PROLONGED drought and consequent
failure of the crops in the counties Of West
ern Texas has caused much suffering. and
many people have been @orced to abandon
their homes and seek elsewhere for subsis-
tence. An appeal for relief has been issued.
THE same storm which proved 80 destruc-
tive at Galveston, Texas, caused great dam.
age and some loss Of life along the coast Of
that State. At Victoria, Indianola, Rock
port and other places hundreds Of houses
were either completely destroyed or partly
demolished.
SAH FRANCISCO has Just been visited by
one OF the largest fires on record in that city,
the buildings burned including numerous
large factories, and the total losses being esti-
mated at s., ,00O, 900.
FRANK WooD, of Milledgeville, H., shot
his wife dead and then killed himself. He
was crazy.
DIR. s. A. RICHMOND hiss been acquitted Of
the charge of numbering Colonel ]. w.
Strong, managing edltOr OF tne SG. Joseph
(Mo.) Hergd, the jury finding the defendant
insane at the time of the killing and at the
present time
A FOREIGN lady who lost $50, 900 at the
Monte Carlo gaming tables has committed
suicide. This makes the seventy-sixth case
Of suicide owing to losses at Monte Carlo
since the beginning Of the season.
NUMEROUS small vessels were destroyed
during the recent storm of the coast of
Texas.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

DR. c. G. BEERS and Mrs. Sarah Robinson
have been held without bail in the Somer.
vile (Nass.) Police Court to answer charge
of poisoning the latter's daughter. Both
pleaded not guilty.
A FIRE at Earlville, N. Y, destroyed
nearly the entire business section, causing an
aggregate loss Of $125 900.
THE first Sunday that the President and
Mra Cleveland spent in the Adirondacks
they worshipped in q quaint log church in
the forest near their hotel Rev. Mr.:
in the great North Woods, conducted the
services
MRS. CLEVELAND opened the Exposition at
the machinery in motion by telegraph frorn
her stopping place in the Adirondacks. The
President, it is stated, has been quite success
full in bis frequent fishing excursions.
BOYD C. CALDWELL, late cashier Of the
suspended City National Eank, Of Williams
port, Penn, is charged with embezzling
SEQ, 900 of the institutions funds. he denies
the charge.
A NEW submarine torpedo boat. grimly
named the Peacemaker, has just been sue
cessfully propelled eight miles an hour,
thirty feet beneath the surface Of the Hudson
River at New York.
Horr. JAMES G.. BLAINE's first speech in
the Maine State campaign was delivered
numbering about 1000 people. The speech
was mainly devoted to national affairs and
an attack upon Secretary Bayard for his
attitude toward Canada and Mexico.
SEVERAL of the New York horse-car lines
have stopped running. owing to strike
among the employees. Many Of the clothing
cutters have also struck.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
HERE and THERE
Some Newsy Happenings From
Various Localities.
Narrow Escape Of United States
Senator Evarts

Senator William NJ. Evarts narrowly es
capped being killed few days since at Wind
sor, Vt, where he owns country seat. he
was driving with Charles C. Perkins, well
known resident of Boston, anf Miss Jen-
ME Matthews, daughter Of Judge Stan
ley Matthews, Of Cincinnati, when the
horses took fright, the carriage was up
set and Mr.. Perkins was instantly
killed. Mr.. Evarts fortunately escaped with
a serious scalp wound and Miss Matthews
some severe bruises. Mr.. Perkins was the
father in-law of Senator Evarts's daughter,
and was widely known in Boston art and
musical circles. The accident Is descrloeo as
follows: ,
It was just $50 when the party started
from the farm OH their return to the house to
dinner. They had reached the dixie and we're
about half way across when one Of the horses
became frightened and tried to run away.
Roberts, the coachman, relned him up
smartly, when the bit parted and the bride
came off, Instantly both horses started into
gallop. The coachman made leap
for the head Of one of the horses, but missed
and was hurled down the embankment in a
heap. Madly the horses tore on. until, while while
turning a sharp corner, the carriage capsizad
and the occupants were thrown violently to
the ground. Mr. Perkius's head struck against
a stone wall and he died instantly. Mr..
Evarts and Miss Matthews were stunned
by their fall, but they were soon picked
up and carried into the house: The
utmost CONSERVATION prevailed Tor
some time, as it was not known whether Mr.
Perkins was the only victim. Later, how
ever, beth Mr.. Evarts and Mrs. Matthews
recovered consciousness and, it was thought,
were out of danger.
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A German publication giYcs statisti

A German publication gives statistics
of the railroads of the world, prepared
for the most part from official sources,
making the aggregate length, at the end
of 1884, 300, ,75O miles, of which no less
than 62,7ss miles have been opened sine :
1879. Of this there were in the several
grand divisions of the world:
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I'd divisions of the world:

Of the 300, ,750 miles of railroad in the
world, no less than 174,O16, or 60 per
cent. are in English speaking countries
The countries which have the greatest
mileage in proportion to population, or
the smallest number of inhabitants per
mile, are Australia 1854 people per mile},
the United States (4G0), and Canada
1856. Even the Argentine Republic
has smaller population per mile than
my European country, namely, 1000;
while in Europe, Sweden, which has
:ewest, has 1,113; Great Britain and
Ireland, 1870; Germany, 1888; France,
i,94S; Belgium, 2, 100; Austria Hungary,
h7s6.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-09-15
Condition Of workmen in Belgium

VI " OThInCh HI
At the International Trades Union Con-
gress held in Paris, Mr.. Auseele gave the
following particulars as to the condition Of
workingmen in Belgium. He declared that
in no country was the workman so poor. The
miners worked for thirty eight cents q day.
Some had even worked $50 yards below
the surface of the earth for TWEEN.
ty q day. A few miles over the
frontier the French miners earned fifty to
seventy-ive cents day. Near Charleroi be
had known some young women descend into
the pit at in the morning, remain there till
II ut night and only receive thirty eight
cents. In the quarrtes, in spite Of the srdu-
GUS nature Of the labors, fifty cents was
the ordinary pay. In the weaving. indus
tries fnll-grown men gained but 80
week, though at Ghent by Organization and
strikes, costing some $15, 600, they had sue
ceeded in getting the salaries raised to IS
week. The last strike was that Of some young
girls who protested against the discharge OF
a married woman he:ause she had not re-
turned to the factory six days after her con,
finement The truck system also prevailed
throughout Belgium and the government IN
quiry went to prove that the employers
sometimes bought back the -four they gave
out as wages to their men. AS the repre-
sentative Of the Belgian workmen, he spoke
in the name of l26, ,OOv men and Ito societies.
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Governor Hill Removes Squire.

Governor Hill Removes squire
Recently Mayor Grace, of New York, pre-
ferred charges against Commissioner of Pub.
lie Works Rollin NJ Squire. This position,
controlling as it does thousands Of workmen
and the annual handling OF millions
of dollars, is one of the most powerful
in the United States. The principal
charge against Squire was that at
the time of his appointment in
1884 he had written letter practically put
ting his Office in the power Of Contractor
Maurice B. Flynn. The letter was produced
at Suuire's trial. Mayor Grace removed
Squire, the removal being subject to Gov
ernor Hills approval The Governor has
denied the motion Of Squires counsel to re-
open the case for further evidente
and approves the Mayors order re-
moving Squire from the Office Of Com
missioner of Public Works. The Governor
does not at this time promulgate any formal
opinion giving the grounds Of his decl sion,
because, as it is understood, Of lack Of time,
although he may hereafter do so. He con-
ours in the result, without indicating
whether It is placed solely upon the Flynn
letter or upon the violation Of the civi-ser-
vice law, although it is believed to be upon
the former grounds.
The Mayor Of New York has appointed as
Suire's successor General John Newton,
Chief Of Engineers Of the United States
Army, well known in connection with his
successful removal Of the distractions at
He'll Gate.
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Suicide of Rev. j. b. Beecher.

The Rev. James B. Beecher, Of Cascob,
Conn brother of Rev. Henry Ward Bescher
and Rev Thomas z. Beecher, committed
suicide at the Water Cure, Elmira, n. Y,
a few days since, by shooting him
self through the head with small rife.
He had been suffering under severe
mental troubles for q number Of
years, and for time was under treatment
at the Middle.own IN. " Asylum. He came
to Elmira recently in the care Of a special
att ndant At the cure he appeared to be in
pretty fair health, and on the day Of bis
death enjoyed himself with others in shoot
ing at target in Dr. Gleason's range. Dur
ing the evening, while conversing OH the
piazza, he suddenly went to his room, and
taking rifle, placed the muzzle in his mouth
and fired, killing himself instantly.
Mr.. Beecher was about fifty nine years old,
and was the youngest son Of DR.. Lyman
Beecher He was graduated from Dart.
mouth College and Andover Seminary.
He was chaplain of the Seamen's Bethel
in China: chaplain of Brooklyn regiment
during the civil war; became q colonel,
and was mustered out as brevet brisadier:
general; was pastor Of Congregational
churches at Oswego and Poughkeepsie and
also had charge of the Bethel Mission in
Brooklyn. OF late years he has lived on g
farm in Ulster County, N. Y.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-09-25

vessel IN the little narpor, and all its rigging
and spars seemed to be coated with ice. Icould
see men and women walking on the shore
clad in unwieldy garments of fur; while
close at hand thousands of elder duck and
other beautiful sea fowl were swimming on
the water or nesting on the little black
rocks which everywhere rose just above the
surface of the sea.
Luncheon is ready, and this keen air
must have given you an appetite" 1t was
Branksome who spoke. had hoped that l
should not have to make another meal on
board the yacht, but I felt that l could not
refuse the DOCTORS invitation without dis
courtesy, so I 81 below.
Certainly this meal was very different
from those of which had partaken lately.
Ny companions at the table in the magnifi-
cent dining saloon were Branksome and
Fosdyke, and it was evident that they were
resolved to do all they could to entertain me.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-09-25
--LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
ARREST ON SUSPICION.

BARTON, Friday morning.
This morning Mr.. Eastmead, chief con.
stable of Barton, acting on infor nation re.
ceived, proceeded to Great Lorton Hall, and
there arrested Miss Daisy Stanclifre, niece Of
MIR. Mauleverer, on suspicion of being con.
cerned i'll his murder. Miss Stanclife, il
will be remembered, was the only known
relative of the deceased, and attended his
funeral o. Monday as chief mourner. She
is said to be a young lady of remarkably
prepossessing appearance. 1t Is rumored
that evidence of a very startling kind will be
laid before the magistrates in support of the
charge against her. The prisoner will be
brought before a special sessions at Barton
this afternoon; but it is understood that on
this occasion only formal evidence will be
rendered"
read it all The words burned them.
selves into my brain never to be effaced;
and them suddenly grew sick and cold,
the objects about me seemed to be spinning
round, and Immediately all was blank. For
the first time in my life I had tainted.
As l slowly recovered consciousness,
Branksome's voice was the first that / heard.
"He is coming round. Take him below
In obedience to the curt command, I was
carried down to the main saloon and laid
upon a sofa. In a moment Branksome fol
lowed me. He waved aside the sailors who
had attended me.
SWELL" he said, you understand now, ]
supposed"
His face was almost as white as I felt that
mine was.
mo; l understand nothing" I answered
in faint tones