The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-03-09
A WOMAN was recently put On her

hridi II rance IOr ner DaDy,
and at the preliminary examination she
confessed her crime. At the trial
medical evidence was heard, and the
doctor told the Judge that he did not
believe the woman was the culprit. The
finger marks were fresh on the victims
throat when he made the examination,
and the marks were singular. He ex-
amined the woman's hands, and found
her fingers long, slender and we'll
shaped, but the marks were of a short
fingered hand, stumpy and misshapen,
and n of the fingers, the first, was alb
normally short. On this the prisoner
burst into tears, said she was fond of the
child, and had not destroyed it, and
mentioned in her excitement the real
culprit. He was n man of a better class
of life, with whom she had lived as a
domestic servant. His arrest followed.
and the doctor pointed out that the
prisoners hands were formed as he had
described, and, moreover, that the first
finger was without a nail and almost de-
tcient of a joint. The jury convicted.
Mrs. FANNIE GARRISON WILLARD, the
wife of Henry Willard, was recently
asked by the Crown Princess of Germany
to take the part of IN English barmaid
at a fancy fair in which that lady was
deeply interested. The Princess and
Mrs. Willard are on intimate terms, and
the former meant to offer her friend q
compliment by the invitation, not know
ing that the daughter of William Lloyd
Garrison, like her father and brothers,
IS a total abstainer.' Mrs. Willard, al
though conscious that requests from the
royal family arc considered commands,
declined the intended honor. She ex-
pressed her cheerful willingness to aid
the fair, which was a charitable object,
but not in that way. The Princess, on
learning the American lady's feelings,
apologised. Total abstinence in Berlin.
or any part Of Germany, is 80 rare that
nobody is ever suspected of being its
advocate.
HOG cholera was carefully studied
last summer by several pork raisers in
Kansas, where the disease ragged part Of
the time. One of them resortcd to
''home treatment, -" rs hc called it, and
he says it succeeded in bringing every
member of his injected herd around all
right. The mode of treatment he thus
describes: A soon rs the animals
were taken sick I turned them out of
the pens and began to drive them to
warm up their blood. The first day I
drove them three miles and the second
day two miles, They would vomit
freely while being driven. After the
second day they showed signs of i'm
provement, which continued, and final
ly all the hogs recovered" An Abby
vile county IS. c. farmer, whose hogs
have never been attacked by the dis
ease, attributes their immunity to a
quart of turpentine slops which he gave
them weekly.
SOME interesting facts concerning the
relative vitality of males and females
are shown in the forty-sixth annual re-
port of the English Registrar General.
In each 1000 living persons there are
4S7 males and 513 females; but for
100 females 1O3.5 males were born. At
every age of life the death rate was
lower in the females, and the difference
is greater in early years. In both sexes
a diminished death rate is taking place.
This is more marked in females than in
males, at all ages. The improvement is
especially notable in women up to As,
and in men to 80. The mean expecta-
ton Of life of a male at birth Is Al. 35,
and of a female A. 90 years. The an
nual expectation of illness is, counted
by days, nearly the same in both sexes.
AND now comes a story about Mr..
Buck, the Kentucky man who was sent
to Peru as American Minister. One of
the naval officers on the west coast
writes home that he has been guilty Of
appearing at an official dinner in a bust
ness suit. The dinner was given in his
honor, and he was the only one of the
guests who did not appear in evening
dress. 1t was afterwards disclosed that
Mr.. Buck did not lave such q thing in
his wardrobe as a dress suit, and the
officer writes that he and others of the
Minister'S friends have since succeeded
in finding one for him, so that further
criticism will be avoided.
SIXTEEN penetentiary ~convicts en-
ployed in the mines at Cole Hill, in Ar
kansas, affected their escape. They
tunnellcd for q distance Of thirty-fve
feet. The work was commenced at the
time OF the strike, which occurred three
mel was completed without the officials
through the mines for the purpose of
finding the passage. but it proved un-
successful, the convicts having so efec-
tually closed it behind them that not a
trace of it is left. Two of the men
have been recaptured. Bloodhounds
and IL posse are in pursuit of the others.
ANNIE WATSON, once a noted charac-
ter among the dissolute women of Phila-
delphia, was buried in Wilmington,
Del, where she had lived in ~obscurity
for the past ten years. When she left
Philadelphia she was said to have been