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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
ANOTHER NEGRO EXODUS.

Hundreds Leaving Southern States
for the West.
A Chattanooga Nenn.) dispatch says that
"another large party Of negroes, numbering
several hundred, passed through the city yes
terday en- route from the Carolinas to Arkan-
sas. The exodus of negroes from the Caro-
linas, Georgia and Alabama to the West is in
creasing each week. Fully 1000 have passed
through this city in the past fortnight, and
hundreds of others are making arrangements
to leave as soon as possible. The movement
is more general than ever before, and is pro-
duced chiefly by high rents, bad crops and the
defective tenant system in this section of the
South. The movement is beginning to be
felt in all the States of the South, and is at
tracing widespread attention"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
How Long Have We to Live?

The following is one of the we'll -au-
thcnticated tables in use among London
assurance companies, showing the aver
age length of life at various ages. In the
first column we have the present ages OF
persons of average health, and in the Sec
ond column we are enabled to look, as it
were, behind the scenes of an assurance
officer, and gather from their table the
number of years they will give us to live:
This table has been the result of careful
calculation, and seldom proves misleading.
Of course sudden and premature deaths,
as well as lives unusually extended, occa-
sionally occur, but this is a table OF the
average expectancy Of life of an ordinary
man or woman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27

The study of the drink question in
Switzerland has disclosed the fact that
the use of alcoholic beverages is largest
in those cantons in which wages are
lowest, and the people are the poorest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27

Milwaukee, Wis. 80. 9
Duluth, MINI. Is
st. Paul, MINI. .22
Des Moines, Iowa. .13
Davenport, Iowa. 16
Cairo, Ill. l.......... 6
Fort Garry, MINI. 81
LeavenwOrth, Kan. 10
Omaha, Neb. Is
Huron, D. T. .25
Bismarck. D. T. 81
Fort Custer, NJ. T.. 2
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27

The adults Of the village of Ste. Marthe,
Canada, with q population of 1000, on i
recent Sunday pledged themselves to ab-
stain from Intoxicating drinks for i
wear.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
More wears to Live.

Boston constructed more buildings dur
ing 1886 than in any year since that fol-
lowing the great fire. The total value OF
these was So, 900, 900.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27

Saranac Lake, N. Y.17
Portland, Me. 2
Fork Smith, Ark 4
Brownsville, Tex. 6
Nashville. Tenn. 8
Indianapolis, Ind. 10
Cincinnati, Ohio. IL
PittSburg, Penn. -. l
Ottawa, Ont. .....2O
Cleveland, Ohio. s
Sandusky, Ohio. -. &
hackinaw City,. =. l
Chicago. III. ....... y
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
BELOW ZERO.

What the Thermometer Registered at
Various Points.
The thermometer at o'clock A. NJ of the
18th, registered below zero at the following
v,oiDts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27

own lOI SOlCo Ol OOu.
If you have this prayerful spirit you will
surely avoid all female scoffers at the Chris
tian religion, and there are quite number of
them in all communities. 1t must be told
that, though the only influence that keeps
woman from being estimated and treated as
a slave-aye, as brute and beast of bur-
denis Christianity, since where it is not
dominant she is so treated, yet there are
women who will so forget themselves and for
turers malign Christianity and scoff at the
most sacred things of the soul. A good wo-
man, over-persuaded by her husband, may
20 once to hear such a TRADE against the
Christian religion, not fully knowing what
she is going to hear. But she will not go
twice. A woman, not Christian but q re-
specter of religion, said to me: II
was persuaded by my husband to go
and hear an infidel lecturer once, but going
would not 60 again though my declination
should result in our enforcement forever"
And the woman was right. II after all that
Christ and Christianity have done for a
woman she can 60 again and again to hear
such assault she is IN awful creature. and
you had better not come near such reeking
lepress. She needs to be washed, and for
three weeks soaked in carbolic acid, and for
whole year fumigated before she is fit for
that woman be a Christian before mar
riage, she must have regard for the Christian
religion or she is a bad woman, and unworthy
of being your companion in a life charged
with such stupendous solemnities and vicissi-
tudes
What you want, oh man, in a wife is not
butterfly of the sunshine, not giggling nom
entity, not a painted doll, not a gossiping
gad-about, not mixture Of artifcialities
which leave you in doubt rs to where the
humbug ends and the woman begins, but an
earnest soul, one that cannot only laugh when
you laugh, but weep when you weep. There
will be wide, deep graves in your path of life.
and you will both want steadying when you
come to the verge of them. tell you! When
your fortune fails you will want some one to
talk of treasures in heaven and not charge
upon you with bitter II told you So" As
far Us can analyze it, sincerity and earnest
ness are the foundation of all worthy
wifehood. Get that and you get
all. Fail to get that and you get nothing but
what you will wish you never had got.
Don't make the mistake that man of the
text made in letting his eye settle the question
in which coolest judgment, directed by Di.
vine wisdom, are all important. He who has
no reason for his wifely choice except pretty
face is like man who should buy a farm
because of the dahlias in the front door-yard.
Beauty is a talent and when God gives it He
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01

Buddhism gives no explanation of the
beginning OF all things; its starting
point is that the world and men exist,
and that everything is subject to change.
Everything moves toward either de-
struction or renovation. Niryana--
perfection or salvation"--is the state
toward which the righteous tend; for
the theist there is the absorption of the
individual in God; for the atheist alb
sorption in nothing. A human life is
not separate entity: it is q portion, 80
to speak, of the universal life. The
life that sinneth it shall die, saws
Buddhism; it shall sink through lower
and lower forms until it reaches ami
hilation. The righteous life, rising
ever upward, attains at length to MIR
vana, and is reabsorbed in the Divine
Essence. There is ever-increasmg Joy
in ever-inereasing wisdom. and after
one life is ended there shall be another,
even ascending the scale Of holiness,
stretching up to beatific and illimitable
heights. This was trnnsmigration not
of souls-for Gautama held that there
is no slch thing as soul--but of life !;
each individual, according to the good
or bad use he makes Of his present life,
becomes after death another individual
Of higher or lower character. And vet
it is almost an error to say that Buddha
taught absorption into God us the stage
OF existence beyond Nirvana; for it
does not appear that Buddhism ac-
knowledges God. Perfection can 60
no further; it is the vanishing point OF
the human landscape. - The CULVER.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01
In the SQUARE.

A letter was received by Lisbon street
marketman, last Friday, from man in
Somerset County, hundred miles away.
1t read: Dear Sir: Please send me one
cake yeast" In an enclosed, smaller Ell.
velope we're 8 cents. The storekeeper was
amused. He put the yeast cake in the
smaller envelope and marked ON the out
side: @In account with MIR. B.--Yeast
cake, cents; total cents; received.
cents; due, cent" and in this way sent
the letter. BY the return mail be received
the other cent in the same envelope, and
the account was squared. The yeast cake
cost the Somerset man cents, not count
ing his stationary, but he probably bad the
satisfaction of doing straight business
transaction. LearistOn (Me.) journal.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01
skipper Toms Snappcrs,

Capt. Tom Kelly, now dead, was one
of the pioneers in the Rio trade and q
man full Of Irish wit, says the Balti-
more Herald. The last boat he COM
handed was the brig Lapwing. The
captains of other vessels used to call
her Tom Kelley's wooden shoe. Capt.
Kelly got into little difficulty with
the custom-house officials in Rio at one
time. He was hauled mp for trial and
accused as a Frenchman for violating
the customs rules Of Brazil. az French
man, did We soy?" said Capt. Kelley.
"Be jabers, did We liver see a French
man with as big foot as that ?" and he
held up his big feet. The court of in
quiry laughed and let Capt. Tom go,
Capt. Tom was annoyed, as the other
old pioneers were, by the Rio custom
house officers, who in the old days per-
sisred in even searching mans pocket
when he landed there.
While the Captain was loading in
Baltimore for Rio one day colored
man with two swapping turtles about u
third grown boarded his brig and of
fered the turtles for sale. "Phat We
want for 'em" asked the captain.
"Quarter-dollar apiece" "How long
will they ive?" alive till dey die,
boss, EN- sometimes longer. Doan want
ter feed 'em, nuther.' "I'll take 'em. !"
SAYS the captain. He put the snappers
in q box and placed them in the cabin.
He nnrsed them carefully and watched
them closely until he got back to Rio.
When he got there he put on his over
coat, although it was warm, and put q
snapper in each pocket. He landed at
the Palais steps and started up to the
custom house. An officer got on each
side Of him, bowling and saying Bono
cdpitono, bono Americana, /" and each
one thrust hand in Capt. Kel1ey's
cvercoat pocket.
The snappers grabbed finger of each
Of the hands and the dir was blue with
Brazilian oaths, but the turtles wouldn't
let 60. The officials begged the cap
tain to stop and release them, but he
pretended not to know what was the
matter, and, telling them that he was
in hurry, dragged them along to the
custom house. When he got there the
mems hands were taken from his pockets
with snapper clinging to each, and
the turtles heads had to be cut off be-
fore they would release their hold.
The chief of the custom house Was angry,
and wac about to reprimand Capt.
Kelly when lie told him that he had
brought the turtles as Q present to him,
and he had no idea that his subordinates
would attempt to rob him on the way.
Capt. Kelley's pockets were never
searched after that
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01

Not all the domestics in Portland,
Oregon, are Cinnamon. Mrs. Scott, of
that city, rejoices in the assistance of
an excellent Scotch girl by tire name of
Martha--an ancient and pious female.
Martha is a jealous theologian and an
ardent exhorter. Her religion, more
over, is of the practical kind that shines
all the brighter under the rub of every-
day temptations. She is honest, truth.
full, industrious, and obliging, but that
she is not always coherent the following
anecdotes show:
A few days ago as Mrs. Scott was
screwing the cover on the last OF long
row of patent, self-sealing, indestructi-
BILE fruit jars, she remarked, with a sigh
of relief: well, that's the last of the
Strawberries, I'm thankful to say"
"Then it will be raspberries or some-
thing else," replied Martha. "Still
what beautiful world we live in, and
yet we are born to die and shapen in
iniquity.'
The next day Mrs. Scott said: "Well,
Martha, we'll have chocolate pudding
for dinner-the recipe / just got, you
know"
Lord, ma'am," said Martha, show
many new things there are, and yet how
soon we pass away into never, never
ending eternity where our fate is sealed
for ever never, ever-'never!"
But it is not always that Martha
carries off the honors OF controversy.
On one occasion she was fairly foored
by Aunt Phoebe, good old colored
woman of the Methodist persuasion.
Aunt Phoebe had been giving an ex-
PLANTATION Of the Methodist doctrine Of
falling from grace, to which Martha
had listened with supercilious inn
patience, and which she ut last inter-
rupted by saying: IF 1 believed, like
you, that / could fall from grace forty
times year and get up again and MOTH
ing said about it, I'd lie an steal an do
everything wanted to-"
"Lor' bless yer heart, honey" said
Aunt Phoebe, in her soft, nnctious tones,
"ob course you would an OATS de reason
why lie good Lord made you a Presby-
terrain. Detroit Free Press.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01

Literature, like the ministry, medi-
cine. the law, and all other occupations,
is cramped and hindered for want of
men to do the work not want Of work
to do When people tell You the re-
verse they speak that which is not true.
If you desire to test this you need only
to hunt up first-class editor, reporter,
business manager, foreman Of shop,
mechanic or artist in any branch Of in
dustry and try to hire him. You will
find that he is already hired. He is
sober, Industrious, capable and reliable
and is always in demand. He cannot
get days holiday except by courtesy
of his employer, or Of his city, or OF the
great general public. But If you need
idlers, shirkers, half-instructed, unam-
bitions, and comfort-seeking editors, rc-
porters, lawyers, doctors, and mechanics
apply anywhere. There are millions
of them to be had at the dropping Of a
handkerchief.
The young literary aspirant is very
curious creature. He knows that if lie
wished to become. "a timer the master
smith would require him to prove the
possession OF a good character and
would require him to promise to stay
in the shop three years--possibly four
and would make him sweep out and
bring water and build fires all the first
year, and let him learn to black stoves
in the intervals. Ii he wanted to be-
come q mechanic of any other kind, he
would have to undergo this same
tedious, ill-paid apprenticeship. II he
wanted to become lawyer or doctor,
he would have fifty times worse, for he
would get nothing at all during his
long apprenticeship, and in addition
would have to pay large sum for
tuition and have the privilege of board
ing and clothing himself. The literary
aspirant knows all this, and yet he has
the hardihood to present himself for
reception into the literary guild and
ask to share its high honors and emolu-
ments without single twelve months
apprenticeship to show in excuse for
his presumption.
He would smile pleasantly if he were
asked even to make so simple a thing as
a ten-cent tin dipper without previous
instruction in the art, but, all green
and ignorant, wordv, pompouAy assert
i've, ungrammatical, and with q vague,
distorted knowledge of men and the
world, acquired in back country vii
lage, he will serenely take up so dan
gerous weapon as Il pen and attack
the most formidable subject that
finance, commerce, war, or politics can
furnish him withal 1t would be
laughable if it We're not so bad and so
pitiable. The poor fellow would not
intrude upon the tin-shop without an
apprenticeship, but is willing to seize
and WELD with Impractical hand an in
strument which is able to overthrow
dynasties, change religion and decree
the veal or woe of nations.-Mark
T3gnin
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01
Gambling In New York.

The passion for gambling afiiicts
every grade Of New York's population.
In the hotels the solutions below stairs,
the porters who shoulder monstrous
trunks and shine your boots, the wait
ers in the dining hall, the newsboys at
the stationery counter, the genial clerks
in the Office, the "artists" in the bar,
and the hospitable proprietor himself
bet Unfortunately and constantly on
everything, from . steeple-chasc to q
race between snails. While betting is
the commonest and most open form OF
gambling here, II must not be forgotten
that every known device is employed to
tempt the thousands who are taintc,,
with the disease-for gambling has
really become the most troublesome
malady that afilicts the body social in
the country's commercial capital "A
well known journalist Of the city said
to me, while chatting in the private
Office ct Wallack's Theater: "In New
York gambling has practically killed
most other forms Of home amusements.
Poker il the rage in private circles Why,
| il il hardly credible, and yet person
ally know il to be true that for months
past poker has absorbed uptown So
ciety to the exclusion OF all ordinary
pleasures. It has come to the point
that a. soon as the cloth is removed
after dinner, out come the cards and
chips, and the long sessions begin Big
money is won and lost in aristocratic
homes, where women, especially, play
with reckless desperation surprising
belief. But then what are you going
to do about it? Everybody CANDLES
here in one form or other, and the mad
ness Is spreading northward with every
new moon. It is q mildew that is fast
rotting away the foundation of society.
There is only one remedy for il; let
the women set their faces against it in
private homes-make it Questionable
uptown, and we shall soon see healthy
change. Will they do it? Vel, hardly
ever, for when the woman of New
York starts her toboggan she's going to
the bottom Of the slide or break her
neck.
Be wise, O Gotham! or it shall be
more tolerable for the Land Of .Sodom
in the Day Of Judgment than for thee.
Detroit Free Press letter.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01

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3.Sk 1890 IN = LII looked Ike =
Unen Il. vhalf rs apurOach. e
/ 1SSS. = is rnsS Willy froan fhe roon VS.
IfS sslssk ~ = lu.,1inent.
Il ~ skeiefoll dressed is ! gray rown.
a1flh 80 mon IL had. stiIi covered
V6k ~ Iu19 blSck hair. ihai Law there.
Xs1Rnr mn Uood VA 81 cent nom home
!. ~ "a tirno. when he returned BE found
lhe lcnR eeaIed csrfet door opened. heard
| III Wffe'e slcfy amilst her sobs 81 terror.
md Proceeded 10 ire SPOT. There he stood,
Ehans6xsd With horror and astonishn,ent.
9ho ekcleton mon the bed wore the gray
drees. the vhite can. md had the straight
blsck heir 81 ia vomsn VINO had appeared
Is Him is The vision. Demanding The execu-
don ~ Iii aunt. Maud Heywocd.
WhaGeyer thfs meant. the discovery had
been q public one. and so must the ex-
planetjou ",
Arthur cent for the proper authorities.
snd also Tor the lawyer In whose possession
~ : codicil Of the will which had given
Arthur possession Of the estate. This
cotlicii hsd been enyeloped and scaled liz
Mrs Maud. who alone knew the contents.
i contained these words
aThib parer will only be opened IL the
anrret Il opened also. In that case INV
secrect will b known to those who are OF
my own age, for there was much excitement
when Jane Jaryille disappeared. She was
well known Ia the neiQhborhood. and but
Tor letters which wrote myself and ex.
hibited to curious folks, the truth might
have been suspected nc the time.
sJane came to live with me as house,
keeper when I vas but 20, thirty years
aqt,. was betroihed 10 q man / adored.
nv brother Rupert hated him. He
placed Jane Jarveile in my house as
= spy. She intercepted letters and
worked IN snch WV thar nv engage.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01

An officer who was patrolling Mullett
street saw crowd of people at q cor
ner, and he FASTENED his steps to dis
cover man sitting on the ground with
his back to 4 tree, while score of wo-
men and boys surrounded him. When
the officer made inquiries Ms to what had
happened, short, stout woman with
her sleeves rolled up confronted him
and replied:
"HeYs my husband. He's good-for-
nothing lazy-bones OF man, and we've
had row.
"What about?"
"Well, I've had to support him by
washing for the last year, and he's been
humble enough up to week ago. Then
he took fifty cents Of my money and
went to fortune-teller. She told him
that / would die very soon, and that
he would marry strawberry blonde
with 90, 600 in cash.
"6eventy-iave thousand dollars, my
dear, sighed the man On the grass.
"You shut up! He came home step
ping high and feeling smart. aud half an
hour ago he had the cheek to tell me
that I stood in his road. In fact, he
wanted to know when ] was going to
die!"
Il merely inquired, groaued the hus-
band.
"And / merely left my suds and
jumped into him, " she continued. ut
was pretty even thing in the house,
but when / got out where i could swing
my right / gave him couple below the
belt and tied him up. strawberry
blonde - $40, 900 second marriage
humph! I'm his strawberry! When
get through with him Ill make that
fortnne-teller see strawberries for the
rest OF her born days!"
.Well, be gentle" cautioned the off,
cor, - he passed On.
@Ohl / won't hurt nobody nor moth.
ing she replied; and Is the officer
| passed on she lifted the man TO his feet
and hanged him up the steps and into
the house in > double-entry style Of
bookkeeping that ratified the shingles.
II f~S,e<.s1 EN.so~ Ds.nan -
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01
0Oyer and Over Again. -

Repetition is sometimes the only way 10 inn
press truth upon the mind. Accordingly
take notice that DR. Pierce's pheasant Purga
tive Pellets" Nhe original Little Liver Pills.
continue to be wonderfully effective in case, Of
sick and nervous headache, constipation, indi-
gestion, rush Of blood t. the head, cold ex-
fremities, and all ailments arising from OBJ
struction Of the bodily functions. Their ac-
ton is thorough yet gentle, and the ingredi-
ents being entirely vegetable, they can be taken
with impunity into tho most delicate stomach.
All druggists
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01
Military Men at Hotels.

We have good many military men
among our transient guests who regis
ter with military titles before their
names. such as "Col. John Smith, and
other guests frequently ridicufe the
practice when they see the names so
signed. A general idea seems to pre-
vail that any man who puts Col. be-
fore his name is either vain or foolish
and most people at once conclude that
one who writes Ills name that way is
IN Arkansas colonel" who never saw
battle in his life, and never even be-
longed to regiment. Officers fre-
quently write u. s. A. after their
names, but nobody Ands fault with
~ = = ! great popvsnisacs, foF
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01
A coed Book. Keeper.

Smith--Say, didn't you tell me that
young Jones was good book-kceper?
Fogg-Why, yes, believe did.
Smith Well, lie amt; he can't tell
an inventory from flexible roller.
Fogg- All ! know is, that loaned
him about half OF my library and he has
never returned them. so l supposed he
was good book-keeper. Detroit Free
Press.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-12-01
Iuporsa,.s.

When you visit or leave New York Oily, savs
baggage, cxpressage, aud IS carriage hire, and
stop at the Grand Union Hetel, opposite
Grand Central Depot
6lS rooms, fitted up at = cost OF ono million
dollan, u and upwards per day. European
plan Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the
bsst Horse cars, stages. and elevated rail-
road TO I'll depots. Families can live better for
lees money 1t tho Grand Union Hotel than d
any other first -class hotel in the city.