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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

A writer in the Peoples Health Journal
tells Of a debilitated patient who did
not do at all we'll on beef tea, but was
easily restored to health on a diet of
bean soup. The only remarkable thing
about this is that the patient ever cx-
pected to derive strength and nourish-
ment from beef tea alone. Considering
that we have upward of a hundred thou
sand doctors, and that a very large pro-
portion of them are fully agreed that
beef tea is almost valueiess, except as a
stimulant, it is surprising that people
continue to look upon it as a food.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

Fierce Duel Between Seven Men-
Three Fatally wounded.

Fierce Duel Between Seven Neil
Three Fatally Wounded.
A sensational and sanguinary conflict oc.
Cured a few days ago between two families
in Clay county, Tenn. among whom a bitter
vendetta is Of long standing. AS a result of
The affair three men were MORALLY wounded
and two quite seriously. Leary James, Budd
Taylor and George Scarborough attended a
school examination, and Oh their return home
began drinking heavily. In their drunken
orgie they met a man named Stewart, who is
related to q family named Coe, against whom
the Taylors had a feud Of long standing. They
assaulted Stewart furiously. and would have
Eeaten him nearly to death, Lad not three
members Of the Coe family come up at
this moment. All the parties were armed to
the teeth, and a fierce battle with pistols en-
suel. The short range ducls were very ef-
~fective. James Taylor was shot through the
bowels. Budd Taylor through both hips,
Scarborough through the lungs and George
Taylor was wounded in three places. The
Loes escaped unscathed. Two Of the Taylorf
and Scarborough were fatally injured
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

San Francisco claims to have a popu-
lation of 325, OOO-a gain of 90, 900 since
the taking of the census of 1880. The
claim may be an exaggeration, but the
progress the city is actually making
under adverse circumstances is really
wonderful. The completion Of the over
land roads took away an immense amount
of trade from that city. Still, she has
gone along building houses and making
improvements and increasing in popula-
ton as if nothing had happened.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

Experts who, with pick and spade,
have scratched the rough crust on the
line of the Blue Ridge, in the county of
Rockbridge, Virginia. report the discov'
ery of most valuable veins of tin ore.
This tin ore is large, and many tracts OF
land have lately been bonded to miners,
but the best veins appear to be along the
waters of Irish creek, in the northeast
ern corner of the county. The vein:
are generally less than a foot thick, but
some are three or four feet thick, and
the tin stone occurs in crystals, in nod
ules and in strings.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

A LIVE owl was an oddity in an opera in
London recently.
STUART ROBSON, the actor, was once a
congressional page.
MARY ANDERSON has been playing to
crowded houses in Boston.
WILHELM, the pianist, is giving a series
of concerts in st. Petersburg.
Miss FANNY DAVENPORT has given her
500th representation of Fedora"
"NANCY LEE" offered for $50, ultimately
paid its composer, Mr.. Maybrick, $4,000
LAWRENCE BARRErT's present tour is
proving the most successful he has ever
made.
THERE are now about 400 travelling com.
panies performing in the various sections OF
the Union.
EDWIN BOOTH and Signor Salvini will be
seen together as lago and Othello before the
close of the season.
CHRISTINE NILSSON has written an elabor'
ate work on vocal teaching and a proper
method of singing.
EDWIN BOOTH has never seen but cna mas
play Hamlet, and that was his father, when
he was himself. quite q lad.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06
d HOME DOCTOR.
Q

A most important part Of the treat
ment OF every case of nervous dyspepsia
is to secure and enforce thorough rest.
The conditions existing being those of
nervous irritation and exhaustion more
or less profound, rest becomes one of the
necessities of the case. To, often ner-
.vous dyspepsia occurs in persons who
are carrying heavy loads in the way of
business cares, anxiety or grief, or who
suffer exhaustion from some form of
emotional disturbance, and it is next to
impossible to restore such persons to q
normal condition hcalthwise without re-
lief from the causes which have operated
to produce the difficulty. While plenty
of exercise should be taken regularly
each day, the intervals between exercise
should be employed in more OF less abb
solute rest. Lying out.of-doors, in q
hammock or on 3 cot, for hours alta
time, during pleasant weather, is a
means for restoring nervous tone and
vigor.-Laus eLye.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06
Caro- Of the Ears.

"Picking the ears' is a most mis-
chie>ons practice; in attempting to do
this with hard substances an unlucky
motion has many a time pierced the drum
and made it as useless as a bursted rub
Der life preserver; nothing sharper or
harder than the end of the little finger,
with the nail pared ought ever to be in
truduced into the ear. unless bya ply
stefan. Persons are often seen endcavor-
ing to remove the wax" of the ear with
the head of a pin; this ought never to
be done; first, tecause it not only en-
dangers the rupture of the ear by being
pushed too far in, but if not so far, it
may crate against the drum, excite in
fammation, produce an ulcer which may
finally eat all the parts away; second,
hard substances have often slipped in,
and caused the necessity Of painful,
dangerous and expensive operations;
third, the a is manufactured by ma
ture to guard the entrance from dust,
insects and %unmodifcd cold air, and
when it has subserved its purpose it be-
comes dry, scaly and light, and in this
condition is easily pushed outside bynew
formations of wax within.
Journal. "
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

DR.. Toml;nson, a physician associated
with the Chicago health board, ru leIy
skaters many cherished maternal tradl-
tions concerning the care of babies.
Saffron tea he proclaims to be worthless
as water for the purpose Of clearing the
complexion. If the COWS are healthy
and the fluid not tempered with, the
milk of one cow is just as good as that
of another, and a change involves no
peril. Most infants are overfed, and
gorging carries of half of them who die.
81 don't count thu superstitions, he
adds, (which solemnly forbid the plac'
ing of three lights in a row in the same
room with the baby, nor the allowing
the child to look in the mirror, for IN
either case before the year is out a little
white coffin will lie in the front parlor.
But surely it is a superstition which
fears to have a cat in the room with
sleeping baby for fear it will jump into
the crib when no one shocking and suck
the innocent's breath. What good do
you suppose it would do a cat to draw
into its lung s breath which a human
being has just exhalcd2" Passing from
~infantile ailments to superstitious cures
for warts, DR.. Tomlinson uttcrs an earn
est warning against the practice OF
of %pricking the excrescences with a pin
or needle, because such growths when
irritated are liable to start a cancer
growing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

M. Levasseur computes that at the
commencement of the eighteenth century
there were $500, 900 Europeans who
lived in various lands outside OF Europe.
Including those people, the whole popu'
lation Of Europe was 1S5, 500, 900. At
present there are 81, 400, 900 in other
countries, but the population of Europe
continues to increase rapidly, and is now
1856, 00o, 900. That is, it has nearly
doubled since 100, while the emigration
from it is now nine times as large as it
was at that time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

The cattle industry has reached a
wonderful development in this country
within the last thirty years. In 1850
there were in round numbers about H..
77e, 900 head of cattle in the United
States. Ten years late this number had
been increased to IS, Geo, 900. In 1870
the:e was a slight falling of, the num-
Der counted being only $3.50, 900. The
loss was more than made good, how
ever, in 1880, when there was foaa'l to
be in the country not less than 81, 92j,
600 head of cattle. COMMISSIONS Cole
man estimates tat to day The number
is not far from As, 800, 600. It is diff.
cult to appreciate the vast accumulation
which this figure represents. The com.
missioner says that if a column should
be formed twelve animals deep, one end
resting at New York city, is centre en-
circling San Francisco, and its other
arm reaching back to Boston, such a
column could contain about the number
which now forms the basis of the cattle
industry of the United States. The
value OF these animals would not be less
than 81, 200, o0O, 900.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

South America is more than double
the size of the United States. The en-
pire of Brazil seems on the map quite as
large as Australia. 1t is twenty-four
times the size of England. The Argen'
tine Republic is nearly as large as
Europe, taking Russia out. Bolivia and
Venezuela are each twice the size Of
England. New Granada and Peru each
as large as England and Scotland, Ecua-
dor something less, Paraguay equal to
Great Britain, Uruguay and Chill about
the same, and the little known region OF
PATAGONIA and Terra del Fuego at least
double the dimensions of Great Britain.
British, French and Dutch Guiana a'e
nearly as large as Great Britain.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

Those who are accustomed to sheer at
mules will perhaps hear with surprise Of
the declaration of the Natchez (Miss.)
Democrat, that "the mule is about the
only product of the farm for which
dealers will seek, and every good mule
will command its market value On the
spot where it is grown. We rarely hear
OF a native-raised horse that a be sold
for more than 5000, and then only to
some enc that happens to fancy him;
but to good mules there is a fixed mar
ket value; $3.50 is no unusual price paid
for a fine mule, and in the cities of the
West 5000 and even $500 are paid for a
fancy team of mules"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06
NEWS SUM MARY
Eastern and Middle states.

A FLOOD OF water and quicksand broke
through the roof of a coal mine at Nanticoke,
Penn, blocking up all ways of egress. Most
of the six hundred men and boys in the mine
escaped, but about thirty were entombed.
Ths disaster causes great excitement In the
vicinity.
H1LAND HILL, governor of Vermont from
1858 to 1860, died. few days since at a sons
house in Springfield, Mass, aged ninety
years.
PROFESSOR JOHN G.. DRAPER, Md, LII
D., the eminent scientist, dieda few days ago
at his home in New York, aged fifty years.
The death Of Ex-Governor Hyland Hill, of
Vermont, has been followed by the decease
of his g~ubernatorial predecessor, Ryland
Fletcher, who died at Proctorsville in that
State, IN the Goth, aged eighty-six years.
NEARLY ali the principal business houses
in Tarentum. Penn, have been destroyed
by fire. The total loss is about $50, 600.
FERDINAND WARD, the %swindling partner
of Grant & Ward, is kicking a print!ng-press
in Sing Sing prison.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

In connection with the report that an
ex-United States consul to the Sandwich
islands had formed a plan for the an
nexat:ou of the islands to this country
and the return of himself and King
Kalakaua to the United States Senate,
there is a story that the leaders Of the
Mormon church once attempted to pur-
chase the islam Is as a suitable point for
the colonization of the Latter Day
saints. Missionaries were, in fact, sent
out there and made many converts who
still remain faithful to that belief. One
of the missionaries became wealthy and
got possession of the whole island. he
was afterward converted from Mormon
ism, and is at present premier OF the
kinodom-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06
ST. Paul determined to have an il

St. Paul determined to have an ice
palace during the present winter when 1t
heard Of the smallpox scourge in Mon
treal. The idea became popular at once
and will probably be carried out. Bat
in the headline Montreal is over its
smallpox visitation, and declares its in
tention of having an ice palace the same
as usual. st. Paul tells Montreal to 60
ahead with the old thing, and is making
preparations to beat the Canadian city
in it's own speciality.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06
DISALLOWING CLAIMS.
The Treasury Officers Refusing Il
Pay Some Accounts.

The Treasury Officers Refusing to
Pay Some Accounts.
A Washington dispatch says that "the new
accounting officers of the treasury have late
ly been SC. utinizing very closely all claims
and accounts presented to them for settle
ment, and have undertaken to disallow many
sums paid by disbursing officers, although
the payments were made in accordance
with established precedent. The comp
troIler appears to be opposed to tree
lunches andforeign travel at the expense OF
the United States. He disallowed one bill
of Sal. 225 for subsisting the House Appropri-
alton committed while visiting the Norfolk
navy yard and other places on the United
States steamer %Tallapoosa in March, 1854,
and charged Admiral Jouett with S!oo
expended by that officer in entertain
ing distinguished guests at the New
Orleans exposition. He has also charged
Surgeon John S. Billings, Of the army. with
sl,34).24 paid to him for 1878 miles OF
travel at eight cents per mile as a delegate to
the international Medical congress in Lon
don in August, 1851, and while travelling III
England, France, Germany and other Euro
pean countries under orders from the war de-
partment. Other interesting cases of disat-
lowed vouchers might be given, but the fore
going will suffice as samples"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06
NEWsY GLEANINGS

IN Paris, last year, there were So 7O births
and Y, 735 deaths.
ONE of the Farce islands has been swal-
lowed up by the sea.
An agricultural school for girls has bene
established in France.
AN extensive system of railroads is shortly
to be commenced in China.
THE total value OF the trade Of India e3-
ceeds Sc ,0Oo, 0JJ annually.
THE Missouri Cremation society las 4oo
members, twenty-five of whom are women
A CT AzY quiltshown in New York actual
" is pnt down in cold figures as worth S5,0Oo.
DURING the recent parliamentary elections
in En- md. Queen Victoria showed her SYM
pathy for the Tories in many ways.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06
Smith and WeSf

South and West.
RICHARD D. ANDERSON, Of Missouri, has
been appointed timber depreciation agent, and
William c. Torrey, of Indiana, a special agent
for swamp lands.
THE sensation at Detroit, Mich. is the dis
covery that Frank Knoch, his wife and two
children, all OF whose charred bodies were
found in their burned dwelling at Woodmere,
a suburb of Detroit, had been the victims OF
q foul murder. Suspicion resting upon two
brothers of the murdered man, they and
their mother were arrested.
A I R in Chicago destroyed business prop
erty valued at $3.50, 900.
A CRANK heavily armed was arrested a
few days since at Council Bluffs, Iowa. lie
| stated that he was on his way to Washington
to kill Cleveland.
A CROWD of masked men visited the Jail at
Rockingham. N. c., overpowered the jailer,
and Selling John Lee, q pris oner charged with
murder, hanged him to a tree.
A BOILER explosion at a distillery near
Dayton, Ohio, resulted in the death Of two
men, and serious injuries to two others.
Washington.
THE House committee On labor has at
tainel great prominence in the present con,
grass. and more than 100 members expressed
a desire to be appointed a member.
Foreign.
CHRISTIANS are being massacred in An.
nam. Three hundred converts were killed in
one fight by the natives.
A ST.. P~ETERSBUR3 dispatch states that
a terrible dynamite explosion has occurred
in the Pleijucbin mine in Siberia. The &C.
counts are conflicting as regards the number
of persons killed, some placing the number at
400, while others place it as high as 1000.
A SERIOUS outbreak is reported to have
taken place in Corea. A Chinese squadron
and American and japanese men-of. war
have left Shanghai for the Corean coast.
LIEUTENANT GREELY, OF Arctic fame, lee
tured in London under the auspices Of the
Royal Geographical society, and YVES warmly
welcomed by many distinguished scientists.
The Grand Orany e loigo has adopted an
address to the Orangsmen of Great Britain
and Ireland in opposition to tho home rue
plans Of Parnell and in favor Of imperial
rule in Ireland.
PERU has a civil war on its hands.
Four revolutioIis!s have been condemned
to death at Warsaw and twenty more to
various terms of Imprisonment in Siberia.
CHOLERA has invaded the province Of
Venice, Italy. Numerous deaths have Dc
Cured and people are fleeing from the IN
fected district.
THE four children bitten by a mad dog at
Newark, N. j., and sent to Paris for treat
ment at public expense, arrived safely in the
French capital, and were at once taken tc
DR. Pasteur for treatment. The doctor, whose
discovery for a hydrophobia cure has brought
him patients from all parts OF the world
treated the children by his method OF lnocu'
lation, introducing the virus into the system
without pain. and expressed himself as con
fident of the most successful results
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

Mrs. Garfield has recently denied the
report printed in the newspapers that
she was preparing a biography of her
husband, but says that ever since his
death she has been collecting the ma
terial for such a work. a good authority
states that it is not improbable that a
biography will appear before very long,
written with Mrs. Garicld's authority,
and for which she will supply many let.
tiers and important documents. Colonel
Rockwell, it is also reported. will be the
editor of the work.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06
TOOmbS' Exile.

Probably the most picturesque chapter
in an evcntful life was General Toombs'
escape from his home after the war. Ills
wife detained the Federal guard at the
door while he escaped through the back
yard. Taking to the woods ne remained
three days in the country, but in con-
slant communication with his family.
Securing one of his carriage horses he
rode through to Crawfordville to see MIR.
Stephens. He was joined by Mr.. Charles
d. Irvine, of Washington, a close friend
of the family, who accompanied him
through his long exile, and was his faith
full guide always. While riding in a
boat from Mobile to New Orleans, Gen.
eral Toombs spied u man who was eye
ing him closely and suspiciously. Fear.
ing detection and imprisonment General
Toombs called Mr.. Irvine quietly from
the deck Of the steamer and said:
"Charlie. that man knows who / am.
We must get rid of him. If he informs
on me we are lost. Shove him oil thu
boat"
True to his friend, Mr.. Irvine was pre-
pairing even for this emergency, when
the Suspect" said:
II know that is General Toam5s You
can't fool me; but you mistake me. |
was under him in the war, and | would
not betray him for the world.' And he
did not.
General Toombs sailed to Cuba, thence
to Paris, which he had visited before,
and where he was joined by Ills loving
wife. Together they made the journey
of the continent, and were preparing for
an Eastern tour when the Amnesty act
of 1867 suffered General Toombs to re-
turn. This ne was the more anxious to
do on account of the illness of one Of his
daughters augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06
TIE WORK OF CONGRESS-.
What HISS Been Done Up to the
Holiday Recess.

Since the present session OF Congress began
72S bills and joint resolutions have been in
PRODUCED in the Senate, and seven, one Of
which originated in the House. have been
passed ry that body. Twelve hundred
and forty.seven executive messages, con-
tanning about 1900 nominations, nave been
sent by the President to the Senate, and have
been referred to the proper committees, but
no nominations lave been confirmed. Two
treaties-one relating to the boundary Inc
between this country and Mexico, and the
other providing for the settlement OF the
claims of certain American citizens agains,
Nomenclature been sent to the Senate 10:
ratification.
In all 1000 bills anil Joint resolutions
ave been introduced to tho House of Repre-
sentatives, and four, TWO OF wil!ci, originated
IN the Senate, havo been assed."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

Mother Ewes daughters queen it over
the who'd world, of course, but South
Africa is their own special corner of the
earth. The expectations from that re-
gion last year were valued at $780,
600, and of that S25, 900, 900 were paid
for articles for women's adornment-
ostrich feathers, diamonds and that sort
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

An extraordinary attempt now IN
progress to make IN artlrclal crossing
between wheat and rye is described by
Charles Barnard in the January Century.
The attempt is to make a new and stand
ard cereal for breadstuffs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

American newspapers are said! to have
perceptibly affected election results IN
England. American women a amer,
can newspapers are the prettlest ana
most useful things in the world.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

UNDER the new law IN Italy, any circus
which does Lot fully perform every act
promised in the printed programme, or which
mlsleads tho public by means of pictures, is
liable to q fine Of $500 for each offense.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-06

Absolute stagnation does not exist
anywhere in the ocean, not even at the
greatest depths.
The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1886-05-08

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tmcfs
ldnHr n tiat smiling angel lunl
tnur fNipyg gone nud n thtif pilnsf
Wflv men anil ansIous women siml
Vet we Hiyo sonc litllr ones sulI olf.
They bay0 aopt 'ho baby slil. We
know
W leh We kissed ONE day nnl hil wiii
hpwers,
On their dead NiiIto iarr. long ago.
sloyo Ours, and dove drnm So knoa
Il,
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our own
And cold and cruel dawn may show u
Shattered, dcsocraicd, ogcHlmwn.
Only the dead hearts iors,k, lis never;
Love that to deaths Iowa care has fled
IA thus consccr atcd ours forever,
And no change can rob u, Of our dead.