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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-07-21
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE are 6,OOO, 900 widows in India
PHILADELPHIA has a saloon that took in
s325, 900 last year.
CORN eight feet high is reported from the
southern counties of Kansas
A CHINAMAN at Vancouyer,B. G., fattened
a 400-weight hog in his laundry.
A VEIN of iron ore discovered at Negannee,
Mich, turns out to be l50 feet in thickness.
THE catch of Holsters off New Brunswick
does not exceed one fourth Of that OF last
season.
JOHN N. WEYMAN, rolling mill operative
in Pittsburgh, has just fallen heir to property
in Germany valued at S25O,COO.
THE Conference Committee OF Harvard
recommends expulsion from college as the
penalty for cheating ut examination.
CINCINNATI policemen who served in the
war will wear on their lett sleeve red tape,
to distinguish the soldier cement OF the
force.
THE four most important towns of Aus
tralasa are now Melbourne, population ~,
941: Sydney. 224,2ll; Adelaide, 1Oj,SG4 and
Auckland, G0,000.
THE English census returns show that
while in 1861 only ,931 women were em-
ployel in the civil service Of that country,
the number has risen in 1881 to 1870.
AT Marlette, Mich, the other day. two
Young children ate several nutmegs.. Iney
wer, taken i'll, and before morning the
younger, boy about six years old, died.
A PARTY, under direction of officers Of the
United States Geological Survey, is about
to make an extended exploration OF Crater
Lake in National Park. 1t will tie necessary
to lower them 200 eetdown the stony crags
in order to reach water.
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Investigations are still going on, par
ticularly in France, with view to utili-
zing the heat of the sun as a source of
power and warmth. One of the most
interesting and practicable methods in
this line is that devised some time ago by
Professor Morse, of Salem, Mass, the
limitations of which, it is hoped, may
be overcome by future improvements.
This device consists simply of shallow
box, the bottom of which is of CORFU
gated iron and the top of glass. This is
placed outside the building in such a
position that the sun shines directly
upon it, the heat rays of the sun pass
through the glass, and are absorbed by
the iron, heating it to quite high tenn
perature, and, by system of ventila.
ton, current of air is passed through
the apparatus and into the room
to be heated. By this means the air was
heated, on pleasant days, to about ninety
degrees in passing over the iron. 1t is
admitted, however, that the chief diff.
Guilty in all these methods of solar heat.
ing, as a substitute for the ordinary or ar
tiicial means, yet to be overcome,
being available only in fair weather;
though, in connection with the custom.
ary system, a solar apparatus may ef-
feet saving in the quantity of fuel
usually consumed.
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BLOWN TO ATOMS
The Fate Of Ten Men in q New
Jersey Dynamite Factory.

The Fate Of Ten Men in q New.
Jersey Dynamite Factory.
At the Atlantic Dynamite Works, No
GAINESVILLE, N. j., there occurred at 7:40 A.
NJ, the other morning, the most dis.
astrous explosion that has ever hap.
pened in the northern part of New Jersey.
McCainsville is beautiful little village sit.
uated on a plain at the foot Of the hills,
against the sides Of which tho
works works were lH built ,,5 Nearly every house.
of the works, and among these households
there were many scenes of terror when the
crash Of the explosion came, jarring the
plaster from the ceilings, and breaking the
panes of the windows. The terrified women
and children rushed at once for the works,
filled with forebodings for the safety Of hus-
bands, fathers, and brothers
Just how the explosion occurred will never
be known, for every person in the building
was blown to atoms. 1t is doubtful II even
these knew how it occurred. a grain Of
sand in the nitro.glycerine faucet or the
scraping of a foot over a particle that had
fallen to the floor would have caused it.
The men entered the building at about
1880 o'clock, and had only been at work ten:
minutes when the disaster happened. Al:
fred Lowell, the superintendent, passed
through sut few minutes before and
was not more than 500 feet away when
the crash came. There was light report,
followed Immediately by a tremendous
roar. A cloud Of smoke rose from where tho
mixing house was, and when it had cleared
away there was not vestige Of the building
remaining The wooden structure, 50x30
feet in dimensions, had vanished In
its place was a circle Of pulver-
lied earth about 100 feet In
~ 4 -
mass Of broken timbers, pieces Of pipe and
machinery, and twisted scraps Of the metal
tanks. The trunks and limbs Of the birch
trees in the thicket were stripped Of
bark from the root to the tips Of
the branches No foliage was to be seen;
upon them, and the ground was covered
with green mould, composed Of the fallep-
and pulverized leaves Not one timber
of the building was left standing, and
several acres Of ground was strewn: a
thiekly, with splinters as il there
There were 1850 pounds OF nitro-glycerine
in the reservoir OF this building, and the
wonderful force of the explosion may be im-
agined when it is remembered that the ex-5
plosion of single ounce Of it would wreck
a building of this size. -
One large building, 500 feet away to the
southwest, withstood the effects Of the out-
ward blast, but was blown down toward tho
crater by the inward rush Of air that fol-
lowed. ~. .'1..ss go. Z.
A force Of employees at once began to,
search the thickets and the open field to the
south for the remains Of the ten workmen
who were killed. Like the fragments Of the
building, bits of flesh were strewn every:
where, and these the searchers picked up and
put in pals. All that was found OF the re.
mains Of the ten men filled only four, water
buckets. Five of the ten victims were mar
ried. y J,tf..
The remains were buried In single coffin
provided by the company in its lot at Sue
caSunna. ~
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1t is firmly believed by many good au-
thorities that there are not now more
than from fifty to 100 buffaloes in the
whole of Montana, outside of the Ma
tional Park, where there are probably
from 200 to 800 head. Hunters lie in
wait outside the limits of the National
Park, waiting for the animals to
cross the line, when they lose no time in
dispatching them as soon as possible. A
stampede may occur at any time, which
may result in all the buffa,oes now in the
park leaving, and if such were the case,
very few, if any, would escape. Skins
of buffalo heads are now valued by taxi.
dermists in Dakota at $50 each, from
which it may be assumed that they have
given up all hope of procuring any more
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MORE FISHERY TROUBLE.
Several American Vessels Taken at;
Nova Scotia Port.

Several American vessels Taken at
a Nova Scotia Port. 81
A Washington dispatch says: When the.
fishery troubles first began, Gloucester,
Mass, seemed to be more concerned in them
than all other American towns put together.
But thus far it is perhaps Portland, Me. {
that has suffered most The Ella NJ Doughty,
seized in Digby basin, was Portland
craft, and now during the past week
alone no fewer than four Portland vessels be-
came victims to Canada's policy, ths City
Point, the G. w. Cushing, and the C. B. Har-
der of the Dominion cruiser Terror at Shell
burne, Nova Scotia, and the mackerel sein-
ing steamer Novelty warned away from Pic
tou harbor. -, 2.
A Halifax Nova Scotia) dispatch says
Great excitement was created here this after
noon by reports of the seizure Of three Amer
lean fishing schooners at Shelburne. This
came like thunderclap after the recent
changes in the Ottawa instructions. A cor
General, Mr. Phelan, and inquired about the
truth of the reports. He said Shelburne was
200 miles from Halifax by stage coach and it
was difficult to get full information about the.
matter. .- -|
'But," he continued, s'the reports of seiz-:
ures which reach me are such that am
loath to believe that any responsible official
could seize vessels Of a friendly nation by
wholesale for any such trivial offences as
these alleged against these three Portland
vessels. There does not appear to be any
substantial violation of any law in
either the Dominion customs laws
or even the old statutes made
when George III. was King. Take the
case of the City Point; she put into Shell
burne for repairs and water. One boat was
sent ashore for water. Two Of the boats
They embraced the opportunity to visit their
families and remained home all night. These
men, it must be remembered, are not
under naval or even mercantile dlsci-
pline.' They ship on shares and the Cap.
tain has no control over them. But these
men undertook to visit their friends while
the Captain had gone up the harbor to re-
ments for getting repairs effected when he
was met by the Captain Of the cruiser, or.
dered back and his vessel taken possession OF
by the Dominion authorities. How that
fact can possibly be construed into vlo-
lation of the treaty Of 1918 puzzles me- She
came into port late on the afternoon CT the
30th and was taken possession OF before the
Captain could reach the Custom House. The
charge against the vessel is that the men took
some clothing ashore, probably to get washed
at their homes. AS regards the other two
vessels have just received the following dis
patches from the Captains. ;--
"tOur schoonerS were seized to-day,
charged with seeking bait and not reporting
at the Custom House. Have not purchased
anything. Was boarded and seized eight.
miles from the Custom House."
A later telegram from Shelburne says that
the Collector of Customs. under Instructions
from Ottawa, imposed fine of S4CO each on
the seized Portland schooners G. B. Harring-
ton, City Point and George w. Gushing.
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The windows of some of the South
street (New York city, ship chambers
stores contain this sign: "Marine OIL"
"It is an oil specially prepared to smooth
an angry sea-" said one dealer. "Boilcd
oil or animal oil will do pretty we'll, but
this oil will stand greater degree of
cold without congealing than ordinary
oils. The demand for it has recently
arisen through the publication by the
photographic Office of the value Of oil in
a breaking sea. 1t has become the fash
ion 10 use oil. 1t is singular charac-
teristic, but many old ship captains boast
that they arc not book sailors, and take
a pride in refusing to do what the books
recommend and in refusing to take up
with what they call new-faagled notions.
They hav heard about the value of oil
ever since whales were first captured of
Nantucket, but it was not the fashion to
use oil. and so they let the ships sink"
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! Chaplain Edgerton, of the prison at
Sing Sing, sees to it that the convicts get
no reading matter that is liable to con.
taminate their minds. All the books
sent by friends have to pass his censor
ship, and he has about 5000 volumes in
the library that are in large part the re-
suits of his careful selections. About
three-fourths of them are good works OF
fiction; the others a:e histories, biogra-
ph!es and philosephic, scientific and re-
ligious works. Most of the real good
books, outside of fiction, are quite nice
and clean. To considerable extent the
Rev. Mr.. Edgerton is influenced in his
selection of books, when he has not time
to read them, by the reputation of their
publishers.
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FIRING ON THF FLAG.
4 Procession i'll Chicago Assaulted
by Anarchists.

4 Procession i'll Chicago Assaulted
by Anarchists.
The American flag was fired on at Chicago
q few days since by Anarchists as it was fly
ing over procession in the northwestern
part of the city. The flag was carried hy
procession of Norwegians from the north
side They were on their way to "a picnic
given by the Norwegian Saengorfest. A. one
point where tho sidewalks were crowded
with PEOPLE, men in the crowd suddenly
drew their reyolvers and fired directly
at the flag Six bullets went through
it. Emil Nelson was hit III the neck
by a spent ball, which inflicted a slight
flesh wound. The marching Norwegians
started on a double quick, holding tue stars
and stripes proudly aloft Several bullets
whizzed past them and they were much
alarmed, fearing another riot like the Hay
market. There were no police in sight. The
procession made rapid march to the park
in jefferson There the affair was reported
to the authorities.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

DR.. TALxAGE gets S., 900 q year for an ad-
vance copy of his serm ms.
TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE MURPHY is
gathering in converts in Cincinnati.
HERR SINGER, Social Democrat and .
member of the Reichstag, has been expelled
from Berlin.
SECRETARY MANNING is reported to be
much improved in health since his visit to
Hot Springs.
CHANG, the famous Chinese giant, has gone
selecting bride
GENERAL BucKNER, the once fiery Con-
federate soldier, now leads quietand pace
full life on his farm in Kentucky.
Mr.. And MRS. BEEcHER expect to be alb
sent until the lst of October They will spend
their tine in England Ireland and Wales.
HENRY M STANLEY, the African explorer,
who is coming to this country to lecture,
will begin in the British provinces next &C.
tober.
SENATOR KENNA, aged thirty eight, is the
only Congressman in the upper House under
forty years of age, and there are only four
teen others under fifty.
SINCE his arrival at New Londcn, Conn,
e1-Presitent Arthur has been enjoying much.
improved health and his physician Is now
hopeful of his recovery.
Mr.. HYNDMAS, the English Socialist, who
was connected with the late London riots, is
coming to this country to lecture and re-
pleniSh an exhausted excheluer.
LILLIAN SMITH, of California, fourteen
years of age, is having her praises sounded
by the trump Of fame because she has broken
in succession 323 glass balls with rife.
CHARLES WEBSTER, whose firm is pub
in two wears Mrs. Grant will have realized
fully $500, 900 from the sale in this country
alone
OR. B. Hays children, Webb is a trunk
maker at Cleveland, Burchard is practicing
law at Toledo, Rutherford is teller Of saw
ings bank at Fremont and Fannie and Scott
are at school " -~.-.--
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A statistical expert calculates that if
1000, 900 babies started together in the
race of life, 10000 would drop out in
the first year, $4,000 in the second and
%, 900 in the third year. At the end
of forty-fve years about half of them
would still be in the race. Sixty years
would see $40, 600 gray heads still at it.
At the end of eighty years there would be
D7, 900 remaining on the track; fifteen
years later the number would be reduced
to 223, and the winner would quit the
track forever at the age of 103.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-07-21

First Comptroller Durham has decided
that the President can set apart but one
day in the year as day of thanksgiving,
or order but one day as public holiday.
There was wager in the Senate on the
question, and Judge Durham was made
referee. The question arose upon the
proper construction of a section in the
law which, after naming the legal public
holidays, authorizes the President to set
apart "any day" for fasting or thanks
giving. 1t is understood that Senators
Evarts and Edmunds and other legal
authorities were of the opinion that the
President could direct as many thanks
giving days under the law as he chose.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-07-21

The popular impression that cutting
the hair short tends to increase its
growth is doubted by the Herald Of
Health. It says that "women rarely be-
come bald; yet they never cut their hair
of, as do men. May not their immunity
from shining pate be partly due to the
fact that they do not patronize the bar
Der, nor wear tight headgear3 If, in
early life, our young men would look
after their scalps, even while they do not
appear to need attention, it might save
them the trouble of looking after them in
borrow at later period, when it will do
less good. If they do not, the time will
come when we shall have race of human
beings without hair"
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
NEW York defeated st. Louis nine straight

NEW York defeated st. Louis nine straight
games.
AS near as can be learned, baseball grew
from the old English game Of FOUNDERS.
The Atlantas have made eighteen home
runs this season in championship games.
BRIoDY and Hackett, are both doing big
work behind the bat for the Kansas Citys
THE New Yorks won every game in st.
Louis and Kansas City on their second trip
west.
ANsoN, of the Chicagos, has made more
errors than any o.her first baseman in the
League.
GARDNER, of Charleston, refused to play
owing to the hot weather, one day recently,
and was fined 5000.
MORE than twenty-five thousand witnessed
the three recent games between Detroit and
Chicago in the former city.
SEERY, of st. Louis, is considered one of
the best left fielders in the League. He covers
lots of ground, and is sure catch.
MATHEWS, of the Athletics, has been
pitching for nearly twenty years, and is yet
the peer of many Of the twirlers of to-day.
McGARR, the short stop of the Haverhills,
is making great reputation, and next sea-
son will undoubtedly find him in some League
or Association team.
The boy mascot fever is spreading. Chi
cago started it, Detroit and New York fol-
lowed suit, and now we suppose all the other
club; will fall into line.
CoNNoR and O'Rourke, Of New York, and
Richardson Brouthers and Thompson, OF
Detroit are the League batsmen who have
made sixty or more safe hits apiece.
The glorious uncertainty Of the national
game was never more forcibly demonstrated
thau in Brooklyn recently when on one day
demoralized Baltimore was beaten u to
and yet the next day turned around and
beat their whlom conquerers by to5.
IN a Chicago-Washingto game at Chi.
cago, Paul Hines give Mike Kelly a dose of
Chicago tactics. In the first inning Kelly
made sneak for third base on careless
ground throw of Gilligan to Barr. The lat
ter fielded the ball to Hines from whose
hands it caromed ten yards away. Hines
and Kelly fell in heap on the bag. When
Kelly attempted to rise, Hines held him by
the leg. Despite the shouts of the players
and SPECTATORS, Hines refused to relinquish
his lock until Pfeffer dashed up and pulled
him away by the head Meanwhile Force
had gathered in the ball, but Umpire Con-
nelly gave Kelly run.
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A Scene in London.

Leander Richardson in his book on
'sThe Dark City," as he calls London,
describes this scene in the British me.
tropolis:
Zone night I was going with coun
tryman of mine through one of the streets
leading out OF Leicester Square. A burly
fellow was engaged in the Legitimate
English pastime of thrashing his wife,
when the eye of my friend fell upon the
scene. He then took the brawny Briton
by the throat and threw him nearly across
the street. The bruised and battered
wife skunk away, and the husband came
back foaming with rage. A crowd soon
gathered, and il lookel as though there
would be carnage. The mob urged the
fellow to avenge the insult of the for
eigner who had interfered in his consti-
tutional right to beat his spouse. The
man clustered for few moments, hesi-
tated and stood irresolute. A bystander
said: why don't you 1T i'm, Bilt?'. The
man replied, hclp.e sly: 4 would, only
he's an American, and he'd it me when
Pm down Then he actually began to
cry. The crowd looked rather threaten
ing, and my friend picked up q heavy
stone. you bet wouldp he exclaimed; {;
I'D kill you deader than herringr I
honestly think that it was one of the
funniest pictures I ever saw. There was
not man in the crowd who could not
have lulverized both of US, single
handel, and if we had been their wives
they would probably have done it. But
and that Americans are supposed to come
of family who kill, cleared the way for
us. To tell the truth, we were pretty
glad of it.n
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A PITCHED BATTLE
Three Brothers Killed by Three
Fence Builders.
A Dispute Over Land in Texas
Leads to Bloodshed.

Three brothers-Lewis, Elmer and Jemts
Ia, Texas in a. fight resembling a pitched
battle, in which shotguns loaded with buck
shot and six-shooters were the weapons. Neal
Butcher, manager for the Clay County
Lard and Cattle Company, ono Of the
biggest livestock concerns of the
West, had employed Sterling Dawson'
Doc. Thompson and Jack Doutbitt to fence a
tract of land with wire. The ownership of
the land was matter of dispute between
the Smith brothers and the company; and
the brothers hal warned Butcher not to pro-
ceed with the work of fencing it, Butcher
obeyed orders and put Thompson, Dout-
bitt and Dawson to work, but when the
latter received threats of violence from the
Smiths, they stopped and reported to Butcher.
Under instructions from him the men re-
sumed the work of fencing, and Doutbitt
sent word to Lewis Smith that if be came
within 300 feet Of the fencing gang there
would be trouble. The Smiths resumed their
threats and the Doutbitt crowd went on with
their work, and beside their tools had trusty
slN-shooters. They seemed to have made
safe estimate Of tn, determination Of their
enemies. The latter rode in a wagon to
within 100 feet Of where the Douthitt crowd
were at work.
The signal for the battle was the raising Of
a shotgun from the wagon bed by one of the
Smiths. The Doutbitt crowd drew their
weapons and fired. Shots passed in quick sue
cession, uutil the Smiths were stretched out
on the ground, two dead and one dying,
while their team bolted off in run to the
Smith farmhouse near by
Mrs. Smith, the mother OF the young men,
when she heard the shooting ran toward tho
place. which was about quarter of mile
from the house. Half way she met the team
running home. She stopped them and
drove back rapidly to the spot where
the boys were lying. James and Elmer
were both dead, but Lewis was still alive
He told her that Doutbitt had shot both Of.
his brothers: and that Sterling Dawson had
shot him. The Doutbitt crowd surrendered
to the Sheriff and are now in custody.
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The practicability of providing at small

The practicability of providing at small
expense reservoirs sufficient for storing
enormous quantities of water for irriga-
ton during the summer is shown by
recent enterprise in Nevada. BY the con-
struction of dam across narrow can
yon in Elko county reservoir two thou
sand acres in extent has been made which,
when filled to a depth of but thirteen
feet, contains $500, 100000 gallons OF
water. Twenty-eight miles of irrigating
bitches have been made and enough water
stored to supply twenty-six thousand
acres with all that can possibly be util-
lied. This serves to show that there are
many localities where the construction OF
storage reservoirs is perfectly feasible ct a
small outlay, and that in this lies in
large measure the final solution of the
water difficulty.