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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-12-29
BOLD TRAIN ROBBERS.
Three Men Capture a Train ir
Broad Daylight.

Three Men Capture Train In
Broad Daylight.
In broad daylight few days since the
mail and express train on the Fort Worth
and Denver Railroad, stopped at water
tank just north Of Bellevue station,
seventy-fve miles north Of Fort
Worth. A few minutes before the
train arrived three men had ridden up to
house two hundred yards from the tank,
tied their horses and ordered dinner. They
walked leisurely toward the tank, and about
that time the train pulled in. One Of the
robbers with drawn pistol ordered Engineer
Ayers and his fireman and o. G. Miller, an
other engineer who was riding in the cab, to
allight, which they did He then marched
them some thirty feet from the train and
went through them taking all the valuables
they had While this was going on the other
men went through ths train. One of the
passengers, who was looking out OF the win
dow AMI saw the operation with the train
men, divining the situation, went into the
forward cars and exclaimed:
"Put away your money and valuables; we
will be robbed" At once the passengers
se,reted all they could and awaited results.
In the Snoklng-car were nye united StaIeS
soldiers tnegroe9 belonging to the Twenty
fourth Infantry, under command of Cap
tain Connors in charge Of two deserters who
were being taken to Leevenworth from Fort
Sill. When it was seen that the soldiers were
going to fight, several passenger went to
Connors and begged him to submit tamely,
saving the women and children were
greatly alarmed and that all the valuables
were hidden away. Connors reluctantly con-
sented to do as re 1uested. By this time the
two men had reached the soldiers, and cover
ing them with revolvers, demanded their
pistols, which the soldiers surrendered.
Many of the passengers secreted their
money in various ways, giving most OF it
with their diamondsl to- several ladies
aboard. About $4,000 in money and
s4. .OCO worth Of diamonds and other
valuables were left by the robbers
in their haste to get through the
train, and because they did not search
the ladies. They were evidently novices in
the business, and went away with the paltry
sum of $l05, three gold watches, ten silver
watches, five revolvers and one gold ring.
The robbers left the train at the rear OF the
sleeper, mounted horses standing near by
and rode raj idly away.
The train was then hurried on to Bellevue,
where kilograms we're sent to Superintendent
Frost, at Fort Worth, who Immediately Sc
piled, offering $3.50 reward for each robber
In less than an hour five posses Of officers
and citizens were in pursuit.
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CROP REPORTS

Advance in Corn and Oats, and De.
cline in Wheat, Rye and Barley.
The following crop report has been issued
by the Department of Agriculture: The
December returns of average farm prices
by counties show material reduction
as compared with values of the crop Of
1885 in wheat, rye and barley. Corn had
made an advance nearly equivalent to the
percentage of reduction in quantity, and
oats, in sympathy with corn rather than
with the small grains used for human food,
average slightly higher value than last
year.
The farm value of corn was 33c. per busbel
in December of last year. It is now &c., 1c.
higher than the crop Of 1884. The average
for the previous five years was A. &c, and for
the ten years prior to 1880 it was AZ. &c. The
prices in the surplus States are: Ohio, 35c !:
Indiana, &c.; Illinois, 3lc.; Iowa, Soc. Mis-
souri,, 3lc.; Kansas, 2Tc., and Nebraska, 20c.
This is an increase over last year of cent
in Nebraska, 8 in Kansas, Illinois. Indiana
and Ohio and 6 in Iowa and Missouri. The
average is Sc in New York, AZ in Pennsyl-
van;a and 45 in Virginia-two cents lower in
each than last year. Prices in the cotton
higher than last year-South Carolina co,
Georgia TO, Alabama 5S, Mississippi SO,
Louisiana IS, Arkansas 40, Texas GO, an in
crease of II cents, due to the disastrous
drought.
The average December price of wheat is
GO cents, a reduction of cents from the aver
age value of the last crop, and AZ cents above
the price in 1854. The average in New York
is 81 cents, 12 cents lower than last year, and
in Pennsylvania IS cents, 13 cents lower.
The reduction is still greater in sew
eral Western States The average of
Ohio is "A cents, Michigan %, Indi-
ana 20, Illinois 50, Wisconsin 6s, Minnesota,
ii, iowa 20, Missouri 63, Kansas So, Ne
braska Al, Dakota So. There is little decline
in the Southern States, in some Of which
prices are higher than last year. The aver
age in California is 73 cents.
The average value of oats is 300 cents
against 2S.5 last December. Rye averages
So. l against $40 last year; barley So cents,
last year 56.3; buckwheat 54.4, a reduction
Of Is cents per bushel; potatoes 4G cents, one
cent higher than in December of last year.
The value Of hay averages nearly IS per ton.
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The Four Seasons.
OLEOMARGARINEn
Figures Showing the Operation o,
the New Tax Law. :.

Figures Showing the Operation OF
the New Tax Law.
The Secretary of the Treasury has trans.
mitted to the Senate q report prepared by
Mr.. Miller, Commissioner Of Internal Reye-
nue., in answer to Senator Ingalls's resolution.
calling for information about the operation.
Of the Oleomargarins law.
By this report rtitappears that since Novem-
ber1, the date at which the law wentinto oper-.
alton, spscial taxes provided for therein have
been assessed on thirty-four manufacturers
and on 2, AS retail dealers. The number OF
pounds Of o,eonargarine assessed at two
cents per pound was 4, ,430, ia. The principal
collections were in the First Illinois district,
where 2,613, ,10J pounds were taxed. The
other districts where the collections were:
above the average were as follows: Colo
RADIO, 101. .951 pounds: Kansas; 27s, ,55l pounds;
Third Massachusetts,, Isl, 1894 pounds; First
New New. York ls ss pounds SSds Sseomd isIsnd ss nsw
3!6 pounds. - 80. ,
OF the manufar turing establishments ten,
are in the First Illinois district, five in Kan
sas, three in Second New York, three IN.
Thirteenth Ohio, and five in Rhode Island.
None Of the other districts contains more
than two factories The wholesale dea, a,ers-
are confined principally to the following dis
tricts: First Illinois, Third Massachusetts
First Michigan, Rhode Island and Louisiana
There are not more than four wholesale dea--
ers in any one of the other districts. 20.
"In the retail business the First Illinois
district heads the list with 416 dealers; the,
Third Massachusetts, is next with s34;; the
Twenty-second Pennsylvania, 1Sl;: Rhode
Island, III; First PENNSYLVANIA, Isl; Fifth.
New Jersey, 81; Connect cut. 81; Twenty
third Pennsylvania, 81; Third New York, sIi
First Ohio, IS: Kansas, 72; First New York
65; Eighteenth Ohio, 81; Colorado, 49, In.
the remaining districts the number OF retail
dealers range from one to thirty-one..
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"Whatever the Spanish Government
may neglect to do in the line of national
development, it is evidently determined, I"
says the New York Observer, 'not to fall
behind the age any farther in respect to
the organization of its navy. The Spanish
Cortes has just voted o grant Of s45, ,OC0,-
900 for the purchase and equipment of
new war vessels, and has authorized the
construction of number of fast cruisers
and torpedo boats. AS Spain has num-
ber of foreign dependencies, like Cuba
and the Philippines, to look after, beside
q number of more or less jealous neigh
bors, she may, perhaps, be justified in
incurring this great expense. 1t will
need something more, however, than
fast cruisers and torpedo boats to bring
Spain up to the rank of first-class no.
tion.n
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The weather signals adopted for gel

The weather signals adopted for gen.
eral use of the United States Signal Ser
vice on and after march 1, 1887, are de-
scribed by Chief Officer Hazen's circu-
lar as follows: "With view of secur-
ing uniform system Of signals. it is
recommended that flags now in use be
replaced by those herein described, as
the former become worn out or unse--
viceable. The flags described are four
in number, No. 1, white square flag
indicating clear or fair weather; No. 2, a
blue square flag, indicating rain or snow
No. 8, triangular black flag, indicating
temperature-when above No. or 2, it
indicates warmer weather, when below
No. or 2, it indicates colder weather
when it is not displayed stationary tenn
perature may be expected; No. 4 is the
present cold-wave black flag, with which
No. 3 willnever be displayed.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MARK TwA1Nis now said to be worth some
thing like million and half.
MICHAEL DAv1TT declares that Ireland
will have home rule within three years.
THE widow Of General Hancock has de-.
cided to make her home in Washington.
The Empress Of China has reigned twenty
years, and will resign next February IN Ia
vor of her son.
DR.. DOUGLASS. who lost his health In car
ng for General Grant, has gone South from
New York to spend the winter. s,-, =
SECRETARY LAMAR now makes his home
at Washington with his married son. His.
daughter will make her entrance into society
on New Years day. .,:c,.....s.s
SALEM A. WALES, prominent caricatur.
ist, died in a New York restaurant few
days ago from the effects Of an overdose OF
bromide Of potassium. =
GOVERNOR ROBINSON, Of Massachusetts,,
the Troy Times facetiously observes, will 60
down Hill very rapidly between now and
next spring. He has joined a toboggan club.
Mr.. HENRY N. STANLEY, the African e1.
plorer, recently arrived in this country, has
been warmly received in literary and scien-
tif1c circles, and his lectures are In all cases
attended Dy large audiences ......
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LATER NEWS.

A TIGHT money market and other. causes
precipitated small panic in Wall street.
The "bulls," who have been in the ascenden-
cy many months, were routed by the bears"
and many investors lost heavily.
The Charleston Is. c. Relief Committee
having in charge the distribution of the funds
received for the earthquake sufferers reports
that the total subscriptions amount to $780,.
600, leaving loss to the city of $780, 900,
including the losses by the cyclone Of Au
gust, 1885.
A SPLIT is reported in the English Cabinet
on the policy of Coercion toward Ireland.
NJ: N DRoz. now Vice-President, has been
elected President of Switzerland for 1887,
AMI NJ. F. w. Hartenstein, the present Min
lister of War; has been elected Vice-President.
MEASLES are spreading to an alarming ex-
tent in New York City.
Two sisters of Henry Hughes, who died
recently in Calcutta, India, have been left
Sl.50O,000 each. They reside in Erie Penn.
MARSHALL P. WILDER, one of the fore
most horticulturists and pomologists in the
country, President of the American Pomo-
logical Society, died a few days since in
Roxbury, Mass, aged eighty-eight years. 1t
is said that Mr.. Wilder did moro than any
other man to build up the agricultural and
horticultural interests Of the country.
THERE are eight candidates in Tennessee
for the coming vacancy in the United States
Senate.
THE people Of Southern Dakota want that
portion Of the big Territory admitted to the
Union as a "Sovereign State" and are talk
lug action accordingly.
The Ohio Supreme Court has just rendered
decision sustaining the constitutionality Of
the Dow Liquor Tax law in all its features
FRIENDS of General Hancock's widow have
raised funds sufficient to purchase for her
house in Washington, where she will hereaf-
ter make her home.
A FAREWELL dinner has been given Rep
resentatiye Abram S. Hewitt by his col
leagues of the New York delegation in Con-
gress. Mr. Hewitt's retirement from Con-
gress is made necessary by his assuming
the office of Mayor Of New York on Jan. I.
ary l.
A BODY of British troops pursued force
of 500 insurgent Dacoits in Burnah. killed
200 and took many prissners
SWITZERLAND, too, is about to largely in
crease its war material in anticipation OF Che
impending European conflict.
TwENTY-oNE persons have been sentenced
to imprisonments varying from three months
to seven years for participating in the riots
in Belfast, Ireland, last summer.
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WHOLESALE EVICTIONS.

Some Features of the Agitation in
Ireland.
A Dublin dispatch gives the following in
teresting account of the latest features of the
struggle that is going on between the Irish
landlords and their tenantry:
Wholesale evictions are threatened on the
Stackpoole and We.trop estates in Kilkee,
County Clare. The tenants are preparing to
resist.
Judge Boyd, Receiver of the Land Court
OF Dublin, has announced that he will treat
the Irish Land Leagues recently commenced
court" the Judge declares, twill know how
to deal with tenants who pay their rents to
trustees instead of to the landlords or legal
agents, and it will also know how to deal
with the trustees who take the money"
Nine young men have Teen arrested at
Castle Island for raiiing Tubbermoing
House for arms.
Two men armed with pitchfork handles
and revolyers assaulted a man named Cahill,
q herdsman, of Limerick. Cahill seized one
of his assailants, whereupon the other fired q
shot at him. but without effect. No arrests
have been made.
Sir Croker Darlington, after refusing to
re luce the ents of the tenants on his Murroe
estate, has granted an abatement Of 10 per
cent. from the injudicial rents and Of 10 per
cent. from the judicial rents, which the ten
ants have accepted.
Mr.. Sexton, speaking at Dublin, advised
his hearers to abstain from violence if their
demands for abatements from rents were re-
fused. He declared that the tenants were
simply unable to Iay the rents exacted by
the landlords. In concluding his speech Mr.
Sexton said: "Separation or otherwise, Ire
land must have liberty"
The Protestant Home Rulers at a meet
ing adopted res ,lution in favor of fire:
speech. open-air meetings, and fair play tt
said that Lord Randolph Churchill had nc
faith in tho Conservatives, yet he had not
the courage to leave them, believing it bet
ter Ito reign in hell than to serve in heaven" "
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'Enquirer" puts this problem to the
Boston Journal:
Mr.. A. had heifer calf given him. AT
the age of two years she had calf and con-
tinued to have heifer calf every year after
this; and each calf became the mother Of a
heifer calf at the age of two years and had
one each year after. When the first calf was
twenty years old how many COWS and calves
were there, provided there had been no
deaths among thems
The answers received have varied
widely. One little miss figured out 155
as the total sum. "Enquirer's own
figures were 17,711, while another man
said 2s,317. The majority united upon
1O,046. A similar question was pro.
pounded in the Maine Farmers Almanac
q few years ago, the difference being that
each supposititious COW had two heifel
calves. 1t was then decided that the
number of cows at the end Of twenty
years would be 699.o51.
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South and West.

OSCAR A. SIMoNs, President of the First
National Bank, Fort Wayne, Ind, killed
himself with pistol shot while suffering
from nervous prostration.
TWELVE leaders of a gang of Missouri
REGULATORS" who have been running Doug
lass and Tauey Counties with lawles; indif-
ference to the rights of citizens have been
indicted by the United States Grand Jury
and taken to prison at Springfield. Mem
bers of the band are charged with ten muir
ders and many other outrages,
A FIRE in st. Louis destroyed half block
of business houses, causing total loss OF
S75O,OUO. Three employees were killed, and
two badly injured
DURING the past year fifty-seven vessels
have been lost on the Great Lakes. The loss
of life aggregates l3Spersons and the pe2unl-
ary damage, including value Of vessels and
freight, is estimated at Sl,500,00l
TIE National Trades Union Convention at
Columbus, Ohio, elected Samuel GomperS,
an avowed enemy of the Knights of Labor,
to the PreSid ancy of the newly formed Amer
lean Federation of Labor. After adopting a
constitution the Federation adjourned to
meet in Baltimore on the second Tues lay in
December, 1887.
EMILY BROWN, middle-agei resident Of
Baltimore, was murdered by two colored
SSNJ
to medical college for disiecting purposes
The two men confessed, and implicated the
assistant ianitor of the medical college.
CHARLES Brown and his wife were dane
ing together at Manistee. Mich, when the
husband fell dead from heart disease. They
had been married two hours.
EX-GOVERNOR CHARLES NJ. CRosswELL
died the other day in Adrian, Mich. He was
born at Newburgh N. Y, in 1925, and in
1876 was elect d Governor of Michigan, being
reelected in 1878.
ILLINOIS Knights Of Labor are trying to
mine and sell coal, but the railroads refuse
to carry their production
CHARLES A. LOGAN, a convict in the JEFF
ferson Mo- Peuitentiary, has been pardoned
by Governor Marlnaduke for bravery III saw
ing keepers life at the risk of his own.
ONE man was instantly killed and eight
dangerously injured by the explosion of
the three boilers attached to a sawmill at
Evansville, Ind.
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eWhere are your tickets, gcnts2

eNThere are your tickets, gents2'
asked the doorkeeper of St. Louis
theatre to line of ..men who confronted
him in "Indian file." cts all right"
shouted man at the tail end Of the line.
'rve got the tickets. There's twelve Of
US with me. Count 'em as they 60 in. "
''ln you go, gents" said the doorkeeper,
and he Tailed. of. eleven, who immedi-
ately mixed with the crowd within. The
doorkeeper turned to look for the holder
of the tickets, but he had disappeared,
and eleven men saw the performance safe
from Identification in the tremendous
throng of people. ..
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PLEURO-PNEUMONIA,
National Aid Invoked to Stamp Out
the Cattle ScOurGe.

National Aid Invoked to Stamp Out
the Cattle ScOurge.
The Committee of the Consolidated Cattle
Growers Association Of the United States,
appointed to prepare and present to Congress
bill for the extirpation of conta-
gious pleGro-pneumonia and like dis
easos among cattle, have been in con-
ference at Washington, with Members Of
Congress and government officials. They
have perfected bill, the leading features Of
which propose the appointment, by the Pres
ident of commission of three, to be men of
executive ability, whose functions and pay
are to be suspended by the President when
ever the public safety will permit and re-
stored whenever he deems necessary; the
conferral on the Commission of ample powers
to discover, quarantine. appraise, slaughter,
and pay for diseased and exposed cattle and
to establish rules and regulations therefor, to
have the force of law when approved by the
President; the imposition of penalties for OBJ
struction of officers or concealment of dis
ease, AMI the power to employ the best
veterinary skill to be found, with other
needed assistants and to make necessary ex-
penditures The bill calls for the appropria.
lion Of Sl,000,00J.
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A small room in the New York City
Hall, used to store documents in,i prob
ably the scene of more marriage ceremo-
MES than any other room in the country.
Hardly day passes that one or more
marriages do not take place there. The
persons married are Italians and others,
with wedding outfits of the simplest
kind, who pay fees ranging from 10
cents to o dollar. The Alderman who
performs the ceremony charges nothing
for his services, but the fees 60 to the
person who looks after and ''works up"
this line of business.
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Mr.. Jarvis, the United States Minister
to Brazil, says regarding the cholera, now
prevailing in Buenos Ayrcs and the Ar
gentine republic, that there is little dan
ger of its 81 reading northward, even as
far as Brazil. Uruguay lies between the
infected regions and the great South
American Empire, and a very efficient
quarantine is maintained by both the
Lruguayan and the Brazilian Govern
m,nts at the ports and islands. The
disease was introduced, it is thought, by
Italian immigrants, who have been pour
ing into Buenos Ayres in great numbers
recently.
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The editor of the Adrocate, a jour nal
published in Washington in the interest
of the colored race, has collected infor'
nation in regard to the wealth of the
most prosperous negroes in the States Of
Union, and the showing is really aston
ishing. In South Carolina, for instance,
the property owned by negros Is estima-
ted as worth slo,OCO,ooO. In Georgia
negroes pay taxes on an assessment OF
more than SO, 900, 900, and other States
show equally remarkable statistics.
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Washington.

Hon. ABRAHAM DowDNEY Congressman
from New York City District, died sud
denly of apoplexy at his home in the Me.
tropiis on the 10th. He was born in Ireland
in 1910.
The National Legislation Committee OF
the Knights of Labor have had consulta.
ton in Washington with Senator Blair
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor, with regard to the attitude
to be taken by the Knights toward the Blair
Education bill This bill provides for the dis.
tribution of large sum by the Government
for the purposes Of public education. The
Knights Committee will recommend the bill
to the General Executive Board.
A LARGE number of nominations made by
thu President after the adjournment of Con-
gress last summer have been sent to the SEN
ate.
A BILL has been introduced in Congress by
Senator C,lllom to increase wages Of en-
ployes in the Government Printing Office.
TIE Consular and Diplomatic Appropria'
tion Bill, as completed by the House Com
mittee, makes total appropriation OF Sl,'
671,905.
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EcIIpses for 1857.

There will be four Ecipses this year-two OF the
Sun and two Of the Moon. 5'5z
The drsr Ia o Partial Eclipse Of the Moon, Fcbru-
AIRY s.h sos o'clock in the morning, visible In the
United States as partial eclipse, and also In the
Pacific Ocean and Asia. -
The second Is an Annalar Eclipse OF the Sun,
February 22d, ESQ o'clock IN the afternoon; inyts-
ib:e in the United States; visible In South Paci6c
Ocean and western coast OF South America - s,3ss
The third is Partial Eclipse Of the Moon, August
3d. at 1852 clock In the afternoon; invisible In the
United States; visible in Western Asia and East
Europe. .. 'i5EEesssE5i.
18th, 11:6 o'clock in the evening, and Is invisible
in the United States. The eclipse will be total at
Berlin in Germany, Konigsberg, feddo In Japan,
and Rico de Gro in the Pacific Ocean.