The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-03-09
THE MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING.
THINGS OCCURRING ABOUT US.
The Romance of n Weddins-Hnd no Dress
Coat-A Woman on Trial-HogC holern,
ETC., Etc.

The Romance of a Weddins-Hnd no Dress
Coat-A Woman on Trial-HoR Cholern,
ETC., Etc.
A CALIFORNIA letter says: Judge
David S. Terry, senior counsel in the
divorce suit of Sarah Althca Hill against
Sharon, and to whom she was lately
married, became associated with Sarah's
original counsel at q time when solid
backing for that side of the case was
greatly needed. Early in his connec-
ton with the case 1t was generally re-
marked that Terry took more than an
attorneys interest in the fair plaintiff.
AS the case progressed Sarah and Judge
Terry entered and lett the courtroom
together. They were seen ut the theatres
together, and otherwise comportcd
themselves rather as lovers than counsel
and client. These relations caused UNI
pleasant remarks, the source of which
was traced to Sharon's attorney and
caused Judge Terry to endeavor to pro-
woke a quarrel and duel with Sharon's
principal attorney, Gen. Barnes. Since
the end Of the trial in the Superior
Court Terry's wife has died. Then his
attentions to Miss Hill became more
marked than ever. Lately Sarah Althca
removed to Stockton, where Terry re-
sides. 1t was only Il few days ago that
rumors of a marriage reached San
Francisco. The romance Of the mar
rage is this: In 1856 Judge Terry, then
Justice of the Supreme Court of Cali
~fornia, was imprisoned by Il vigilance
committee for %wounding an office. of
the committee who was trying to arrest
Judge Terry's friend. The Judge APP
pealed to VIM. Sharon to secure his re-
lease from the vigilance committee
prison. Sharon refused. Judge Terry
vowed vengeance on Sharon, and the
first opportunity he had of wrcaking it
occurred when Sarah sued for a divorce
from Sharon. Judge Terry entered the
suit to get v with Sharon, but was
captured by his clients charms and now
marries his old cnemy's alleged widow,
with a chance of recovering So, 500 q
month back alimony and SIS, 900, 900 or
So, 900, 600 in money from Sharon's es-
tate.
AT a meeting of the Pathological So
ciety of Philadelphia, DR.. Formal pre-
sented an analysis of $50 %antopsies on
drunkards. He found that the most
prominent troubles caused by chronic
alcoholism were cyanotic induration of
the kidneys, fatty intiltration of the
liver, and mammillatcd stomach. He
thought that the exposure, irregularities
Of diet, ETC., incident to drunkenness
have as much to do with the maladies
as alcohol itself. The prevalent idea
that drunkards are apt to have ''hob-
nail" livers was not confirmed; in the
whole number of cases he found only
six of cirrhosis with contraction. In
220 cases the liver was enlarged owing
to fatty infiltration. The Doctor said
he had once ''tcstificd in court that n
certain person was not likely to have
been n hard drinkcr, because at the au-
topsy no cirrhosis was found" But
this was before he had made the recent
220 autopsies. DR.. Musser thought that
-cirrhosis' was caused not so much by
heavy drinking as by persistent drink
ing of spirits on an empty stomach.
THE method pursued in removing OBJ
structions from the pneumatic tubes in
Paris is that of simply firing a pistol
into the tube. The resulting wave of
compressed air, travcrsing the tube at
the rate of 1000 feet a second, strikes
the impeachment, and is then DETECTED
back to it's origin, where it strikes
against a delicate diaphragm, its arrival
being recorded electrically upon a very
sensitive chronograph, on which, also,
the instant of firing the pistol has been
recorded previously. The wave of
sound on reaching the diaphragm IS re-
corded. and thence reflected back a Sec
ond time striking the obstacle, and re-
f,,rninr RI fhn So,>hro ~ Tl;, o,>or,
ton being several times repeated, sew
eral successive measurements are thus
made of the time required by the sound
wave to traverse to and fro within the
pneumatic tube. Other means have
been resorted to for, the accomplishment
of the purpose in question, but none has
proved equal to this.
In New York six black horses drag
ging a snow-melting machine started
toward Broadway, and aroused great
enthusiasm on their way through the
Seventh and Fourth wards. After try
ing three or four hydrants, the machine
filled up with water at n hydrant that
was notefroZcn. Then it knocked off its
smoke funnel against a couple of electric
light wires, which stretched across
Broadway betw cen Cortlandt and Dey
streets. The funnel was hitched on
again and steam was got up in the big
tubular boiler. Then snow was shovelled
into the hot water and melted. One
machine, it is said, will melt snow as
fast as fifteen men can shovel snow in.
The President of the Snow Melting
Company says that two machines driven
along Broadway from the Battery to
Chamber street would clear off the snow
between daybreak and Ga. m. To clear
the snow from tho whole of Broadway
eight machines would be required.
ILLIaITIMAcY IS something wonderful