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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
Somebody who has figured on the sub

: Somebody who has figured on the sub
ject gives the ages of some of our most
noted public men as follows: Simon
Cameron leads in point of years; he is
81. Morrill, is rs; Edmunds, IS; ''Pig
Iron" Kelley, 70; Randall, So; Mckinley,
A.; John Sherman, 63; Lamar, 81; Tom
Reed, At; Blaine, Sc; Cleveland, 40;
Carlisle, 81; Beck, 64; ingalls,, SO; Hol-
man, 81; Schurz, 81; VOORHEES,, SO;
Morrison, 81; Logan, 60; Bayard, 5e;
Hawley, 60; Garland, 81, and Sunset
Cox. 62.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
A hollow steel float. eighty feet square,

! A hollow steel float, eighty feet square,
anchored in mid-ocean, and bearing a
sixty-foot light tower, is the suggestion
of an English inventor. He would have
this known as harbor of refuge in dis
tress, or place for transmission of ship
news by telegraph, and as a weather
station. The saving of cost in cable
telegraphing alone by the use Of relay in
struments on this ightship would, in his
opinion, be sufficient to pay its curren'
expenses. He undertakes to provide
secure anchorage, stability and harmless
DETECTION of waves.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
THE BRITISH IN BURMAH.

The Troops Powerless-4,OOO Houses
i'm Mandalay Burned.
Recent news from Burmah is very sensa.
tional and shows that the natives, with the
assistance of the Dacoits. have, temporarily
at least, got the better of the British army Of
occupation. One dispatch states that the in
surgents have got possession of Mandalay
and have burned no less than 1000 houses.
Among the buildings burned were the Chi.
nese and Siamese bazaars.
The hostility of the natives who remain
loyal to the dethroned King Theebaw to the
Chinese is intense, because of China's openly
avowed endorsement Of Great Britain's seiz'
ure of Burmah. The officers commanding
the British forces have telegraphed to Lord
Dufferin, the Viceroy, that they are power. tS.
natives, and have urgently asked for rein
forcemeuts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19

At recent sale of autographs in New
York, two letters by George Washing
ton, written before he became President,
fetched s51 each, and one by Martha
Washington s151. Letters by Charles
Dickens and Thomas Carlyle brought
$50 each. A page of Washington
1rving's manuscript of his "Life of
Washington" sold for $54. A letter of
Edgar A. Poe went at $45, and one by
Lafayette for $101.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States,

LEE five men constituting the Executive
Board of the Empire Protective Association,
the organization of drivers and conductors
which has been carrying on the Third ave
nue. horse-car strike have been indicted by
the New York Grand Jury on the charge Of
conspiracy and coercion.
BoYCoTTING has been declared illegal by
the City Court of New Haven, Conn.
MAxEY COBB, the champion trotting stall
lion of the world, died the other day at
Philadelphia. He had record of 2:13 ~
never equalled by any other stallion, and bis
owner had recently refused S40,O QUO for the
animal
THE New York police have arrested thir-
teen more men, all walters, charged with
boycotting.
NEARLY all the cars on the Third Avenue
line, New York, were reported to be running
again on the 4th, the places of the striking
employees having been filed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
GREAT STRIKE ENDED.
KNIGHTS of Labor on the Gould SYs-
TEN Surrender.

knights of Labor on the Gould SYs-
TEN Surrender.
The great railway strike on the Gould sys-
tenn of railroads in the Southwest has been
declared at an end by'John W. Hayes, OF the
Executive Board of Knights of Labor.
Notice was sent out in compliance With
a double pressure brought to bear by the
St. Louis Citizens Committee, in behalf OF
general trade interests, and an urgent ap-
peal made to the Knights of Labor by y the
Curtin Congressional Committee in a,se sesslon 4I
at st. Louis. Mr.. Hayes ordered that the
Knights of Labor make application to their
former employers for e-employment, closing
his communication as follows:
"In view of the fact that the business inter-
acts of the country are suffering, the Knights
of Of Labor al having the interest Of the whole
people at heart Willingly comply Wisl and fni
that of the Citizens Committee of st. Louis,
and declare this strike at an end, to take
effect Tuesday mozaing, May 4, 1885,"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
Two Styles in Staff Of Life.
BAKERS BREAD.

This is a loaf of
bakers bread, that's mixed
by men with faces red, and
puffed up like sponge with air.
until no nourishment is there. rTls
bleached with alum, ,and its -four, IS low
est grade and always sour. Alas for those
compelled to eat, this un-dough-mestlc
sawdust cheat, because some girls think it's
low bred to cook, and loaf around instead
HOMEMADE BREAD.
But here a good square loaf we show
Of homemade bread as pure as snow;
It's made by wives an daughters fair
At home, with cleanliness and care.
This is the "Staff of Life" indeed,
And little tots who OIL it feed,
Grow big with health and beauty great,
And learn to love instead of hate;
And papas too, who share this treat,
All stop at home with tempers sweet,
And praise their precious wives so good,
Who fill them with this Angels food.
--Goodolps Sun
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19

Steamers have been charted in Eng
land to hawk German merchandise at
ports on the Mediterranean. The saloons
will be used as pattern rooms. Customers
will make their selections on board and
their purchases will be landed direct
from the steamer without having to
undergo Custom House regulations.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
FALL OF A WALL.
Eight Men Killed and Six Injured in
Minneapolis.

The side wall of five-story building in
Minneapolis, Mimi, fell out the other after
noon, burying thirty men who were at work
in an excavation adjoining. Of these eleven
capped uninjured, as they were warned py
killed outright and six seriously in jured.
The building was a new fve-story brick
structure. on the northeast corner of Second
street and First avenue, south. The floors
we're supported by two parallel rows of
heavy wood columns, resting upon large
square timbers running from front to rear
Of the building. In this temporary wood
work was the weak spot. The Workmen
,vera eycavating at one side of the building
for ON addition. The wall was removed, and
the weight of the accumulated material on
the floors and roof caused the disaster.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19

The free Monday scientific lectures
have become such passion among the
daughters of the lowly of Birmingham,
England, that "wash day" has been
changed to Tuesday, which the London
Globe considers the greatest achievement
of science thus far.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
Washington.

IHE freSlQeQG mas uOIHludUtu oOSepA ~
Hendrix for postmaster Of Brooklyn, n: Y,
and Frank Brown for postmaster Of Balti-
more, Md, in place Of j. P. Veasey, who
was only recently confirmed.
OUT of the 10000 bills introduced in the
two houses Of Congress, less than sixty have
yet been sent to the President. OF these he
has approved, or permitted to become law,
all except four or five.
Two wife murderers-Louis Somer6eld
(white) and R. j. Lee (coloredl-were hanged
on the 3Oth in the city jail at Washington.
ADDITIONAL confirnlations by the Senate:
To be United States Cousuls - Gus
tave Luck, Of New Hampshire, at Sher.
brooke. CANADA; Francis Underwood, Of
Massachusetts, at Glasgow; Theodore W.
Downs, of Connecticut, at Quebec; Albert
Hathaway of Connecticut, at Nice; Darius
H. Ingraham, of Maine, at Cadiz. Te be
United States Attorneys: Job II, LlRpn-
cott, District of New Jersey; John
D. Burnett, Southern District Of Alabama.
Collectors of Customs-Charles A. Spot
ford, District of Castine, Maine; Leveritt
Saltonstall, District of Boston and Charles
ton, Mass John M Williams, District Of
Providence, r. I. B. G.. Armstrong, of New
York, Consult General, Rio de Janeiro. B.
W. Hanna, of Indiana, onsul-General, Ar.
gentine Republic.
The reduction in the public debt during
April was 1855, ,3S7.95.
CHARLES A. DANA, the New York editor,
appeared before the House Telephone 1nvesti'
eating Committee on the 4th and testified a1
to how tho charges against holders OF the
Pan-Electric stock first got into the news
papers.
MANY of the Washington employers whose
employees went on strike for a reduction III
the hours Of labor or an advance in pay have
yielded.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19

The Mormon elders are still searching for
young female converts in! some rural villages
in Pennsylvania.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19

Arrangements are being made for
Universal Shorthand Congress to be held
in London in 1887, for the discussion OF
the history and progress of stenography.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-19
South and West.

The delegates to the twelfth State encamp-
ment, Grand Army of the Republic, Depart
ment Of Ohio, in assemblage at Cleveland,
passed resolutions condelnnatory of the
speeches made at the reception given to
Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Ala.
IN ARMSTRONG was hanged in Perry
ville Ark, for the murder Of DR.. Ferguson,
and on the same day at Searcy, Ark, George
Carroll suffered similar fate for killing his
wife so be could marry another woman.
THE movement for eight hours as day
labor was formally inaugurated at Chicago
and other cities on the 1st, and in consequence
ing to accede to the mems demands In other
instances employers consented to the new
arrangement.
The unvailing of the monument to the late
Senator Benjamin H. Hill took place at At
lanta, on the 1st, and 80, 600 people thronged
into the city. Jefferson Davis was the centre
of attraction, and was received with the same
enthusiasm that had awaited him in Montgom-
cry. The ex-Confederate leader was almost
covered with flowers during the procession.
Beside him at the Hill monument sat Cen
eral Longstreet, clad in the Confederate uni
FORM The grafton of the day was delivered
by j. G. c. Black, and Mr.. Davis also made a
short speech. From Atlanta Mr.. Davis pro-
ceeded to Savannah, and his reception there
was of the same enthusiastic character as in
the other Southern cities.
STRIKERS at Milwaukee attacked railroad
shops with stones and sticks on the Sd, and
compelled q cessation Of work. Then the
strikers attacked other shops, but were
clubbed and dispersed by the police.
CHARLES DEAN, respectable young far
mer, of Elkhardt, ILL.,, shot and kill led hia
brother Leveretts in a quarrel, and then
committed suicide.
AN earthquake shock, sufficiently heavy to
sway houses, was felt few days since in sec
tions of Ohio.
A TERRIBLE domestic tragedy, caused by
family troubles, has been enacted at Te-
konsha, Mich. Ranodyne Shedd, farmer
seventy three years old, killed his wife with
an axe and put an end to his own existence
by cutting bis throat with razor.
The nitro-glycerine house of the California
Powder Works, short distance from P1nole,
Cal, was blown to atoms the other afternoon
by the explosion Of 1900 pounds Of nitro
gfycerine. Three Cinnamon and white man
were killed
R1oToUs Milwaukee strikers attacked a
company of military on the 4th and the
soldiers Immediately fired volley into the
mob, woundng several.
-FOUR men were killed by trains fall
over an embankment thirty feet high near
Delavan, Ill.
ROBERT HARDING, assistant postmaster at
Cleveland, Ohio, has committed suicide;
cause unknown.
The prisoners in the County jail at Win
field, Kan, knocked down two guards and
made break for liberty, four getting away.
Convict w. O. Bennett was shot dead.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08
NEWS OF THE moRNIN G.

FoREIGy:-An Indian uprising is i'm
pending in the Northwest Territory. A
portrait Of the Pope, painted from private
sittings, will soon be exhibited in the
United States. The schooner Sea Gull, of
Key West, Fla, has been lost on the Cuban
coast, with all on board w Fighting is re-
ported between the Albanians and Monte
negrins. The Gladstonians are undoubt-
edly defeated in the English elections.....
Silver in London, AID consols, IOl GIG
Is, 1881 AIS, 1135.
EAsTEgN.-Maxwell convicted of the
murder Of Preller in st. Louis. has been
denied a new John Warren shot
his son dead in New York, and then killed
himself. Romeo, Wis, has been COM
pletely destroyed by fire......Paul II.
Hayne, thy Southern poet, is dead.
Government bonds arc quoted in New
York at 1858 for IS of 1907: LIE for As
1909 for 3s; sterling. s. SSl@4 90: silver
bars, 974.
WAsHIEGToS.-It is thought Congress
will adjourn on the 10Th or 10Th inst.
S. S. Cox is about to resign his position as
United States Minister to Turkey .Sena-
tor Stanford will to-day present to the
President the invitation Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic TO be present at the
National Encampment in San Francisco.
PACIFIC CoAsT.-A fire in Deming, n NJ,
destroyed the principal business portion of
the town Lieutenant Isaac T. Webster
U. S. A., died suddenly in San Francisco
Jonathan Bleyin died in Lockeford,
San Joaquin county, from the use of chic
Ioforin administered by a physician...
George Schroeder suicided at Red Bluff
with poison.....Spontaneous combustion
caused the destruction of barn near Ne
Tada Civ.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08
Railroad Land Grants.

In June 1885, the Commissioner of the
General Land Office decided in the case of
Edmond Pate that the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad had no right to take land within
the indemnify limits down the line of
their road through Monterey, San Luis
Obispo, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles
counties. This is within the thirty-lnile
limit and outside of the twenty-mile He
allowed Mr.. Pates fling and decided the
railroad had no right of appeal Filings
were then received and many settlers availed
themselves of the opportunity. A few
days since the Commissioner decided in
the Post case, acting under decision of
the Seeretary's, that Posts filing, similar
to Pate's filing, is illegal, and that all
filings within the ten-mile limit of the At
lantic and Pacific Railroad previous to Nav
24th are void. AS this reversed the former
decisions, communication was had at once
with the Commissioner. who now, under
date of June 10Th, writes to c local attorney
thus; g 1t is held that all entries made on
lands within any portion of the thirty
miles withdrawn for said company prior to
May a, 1856. are invalid" This decision
has determined the Office here to apply the
same rule to all land within the ten Emile
limit of the Southern Pacific road, and no
filings will be received on those lands until
further orders. The lands principally af-
fected are in Monterey county, adjoining
San Luis Obispo county, and the townships
along the easterly line of San Luis 0bispo
county.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08
THE RIVER PRESERVATION BILL

The friends of the valley, and river nav
igation, will learn with chagrin and deep
regret that the Senate Committee ON Com
merce has stricken out of the river and
harbor bill the clause authorizing the Sec
rotary of War to bring suits TO enjoin
hydraulic miners from destroying free
highways of the nation. How Senator
Jones, who secured this amendment, can
justify his action it is impossible to con-
ceive. The Courts have decided hydraulic
mining that sends slickens to the rivers to
be public nuisance. The engineers have
declared that it is destroying river and
bay navigation. The Attorney (teneral of
tke United States has asked Congress to
intervene and provide for the stoppage Of
the evil The Secretary of War has said
that there is no difference between the
act of man who builds q stone bridge
across river to impede navigation, and
the action of him who builds bar of
slickens from the river bed up that i'm
pedes navigation, and he has asked Con-
gress to call a halt in this work of blotting
out nayigable streams. The House Of
Representatives has passed bill giving
the Secretary of War power, and directing
him to call to his aid the United States
Courts, to check the great evil. On the
heels of all this the committee proposes to
have the Senate strike out this last pro
vision o. the bill Why, if the hydraulic
miners are doing no wrong, did Senator
Jones of Nevada need to thus interfere :?
If their acts are lawful, what have they to
fear? If they are unlawful, then to COM
pei them to obey the law is the proper
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08

\ DESPERATE effort is being made to
found mugwumpery as permanency. The
idea is that the Independents are to be
constituted body of critics, holding po-
litical thunderbolts ready for launching
But what sort of a party is that which is
to be only the party of repression, opposi-
ton and grumbling? The independent
voter in his individuality is a great
power, a sort Of balance-wheel, that
steadies the motion of political machinery.
But organized into a permanent party, such
individuals are no longer Independents in
the true sense. Independent voters con-
stitute the unknown quantity which poll
ticians fear only so long as they act in
their Individual capacities.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08

TIE President is welding the veto
power with unexampled freedom in the
matter of private pensions. The pre-
sumption must be that he has information
in the cases not laid before Congress, iusti-
fying the refusal of his approval. Yet it
is remarkable that the National Legisla-
ture should approve so many measures Mr..
Cleveland deems fraudulent, or at least,
not justified Here is a President who in
a single day yetoes seventy-iiye bills, and
in a term of little over one year has filed
more veto messages than all the other
Presidents issued put together. The veto
power was given for wise purpose not
to thwart, but to guard legislation, and at
the final moment to disclose objections
legislators may have overlooked. Indeed
the rule has been to exercise this supreme
power only in cases of clear necessity.
Mr.. Cleveland possibly has different
view of the functions of the Executive.
1t may be that he proposes to take a more
active part in the legislative judgment
that is given the representatives of the
people to exercise, than custom has hereto
fore justified. 1t is scarcely probable that
Congress will quietly submit to so much Of
snubbing as the President seems inclined
to apply. Take one case, bill passed
granting pension to the family of a
soldier who died in the service. But Mr..
Cleveland concluded to examine into the
records of the War Department. There
he found the name recorded on
his company's roster as a deSerter
Forthwith he writes veto message, and
back goes the bill to the House But the
House knew already all Mr.. Cleveland
had learned by his laborous research, but
it knew a good deal more 1t knew that
the man turned up missing after one of
the battles, and was reported by his Cap
tain as having deserted. He was 50 put
down in the records of the War Depart
ment. But if the President had pursued
his research to the records of the Pension
Office, he would have found that the man
had never deserted, but that he was taken
prisoner, sent to the Andersonville pen,
and there starved to death. There are
many cases where a missing man is form
ally registered as a deserter, that being the
military rule, and applying until the fate
of the man is otherwise determined. The
President could have easily learned this,
had he been so minded.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08

Mr.. CLEvELANDs appointee 10 the
Court of st. james has broken an old rule
by refusing to keep open house for Ameri-
cans in London on the 18th of July. On
the contrary, he got about him a favored
few and shut the doors on every one else.
Mr.. Phelps by so doing has declared him
self to be prig. An American snob is
the meanest and smallest of mean and
small men1-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08

THE best thing that straightforward and
shoulder hitting journal, the New York
Tribune, has said in many day, is this !:
Every commencement day brings the
time nearer when man will be ashamed
of himself for afiording his sons better
educational facilities than he affords his
daughters
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08

THE outcome of the Electric Tele-
phone Investigation is the clearance and
vindication Of everybody by the Demo
cratic majority, and the scalping and quar-
tering Of those charged, by the Republican
minority. The examination was very
thorough at least, and 10 concealments
were made. The report of the majority
acquits the administration of the Depart
nent of Justice of wrong-doing, but the
public tribunal will, on the face of the
testimony, adjudge that private enter
prise was allowed to trade upon official
names, aud prop itself into Importance by
use of official allies.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08

WHATEVER the outcome of the English
elections this thing is certain, thanks
to Gladstone the grand, it will
be u step nearer to inevitable Dem
ocraey. Disguise and deny it as they
may, the English aristocrats see the APP
proach of the day when the vote of the
man without title will be as strong a
factor in English government as the vote
of the man covered all over with aristo-
cratic handles to his name. The governed
are getting their heads above water in
England, and wiz presently be shouting
that all men are born free and equal.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08

THE Exposition Universelle de Part
Culinaire > awarded the highest honors to
Angostura Bittefs as the most efficacious
stimulant to excite the appetite and keep
the digestive organs in good order. Ask
for the genuine article manufactured only
by DR.. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons, and beware
of limitations
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08

THE minority report Of the Pan -Elec-
trio Congressional Committee gives the
New York Times walloping. 1t declares
that the Times was the only paper accept
ing pay for publishing certain articles rela-
tive 10 the matter investigated The Times
retaliates by refusing to publish the mi
nority report. But this was gross mis-
take on its part. As news journal it
could not afford to suppress even the mi
nority renort.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08

A CRIMINAL Court in New York has
held extorting and eonspiring boyeotting
to be unlawful, and has sent five offenders
to prison for terms from year and half
to three years The men distributed cir
culars in front of place of business in
order to divert trade from it, and this was
held to be conspiracy. 1t viii be learned
after while, perhaps, that the right to
conduct ones business as he chooses within
legal lines, is one that cannot be infringed
without invoking the penalties of the law.