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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-10-13

The American Cultirator philosoph-
ically remarks: "N1odern civilization,
which furnishes so many aids to our
natural facilities, makes us pay the pen
atty By diminishing their vigor. The
electric light enables US to turn night
into day, but it is terribly trying to the
eye-sight. The telephone and the loud
noises of large cities dull the sense OF
hearing, so that deafness is becoming
more common. The sedentary life, which
appears to be the inevitable concomitant
of the highest scholarship. is detrimental
to physical and manly vigor. Of all
classes none have received more advan-
tage with fewer drawbacks than resi-
dents of the country. Much of the severe
toll which formerly made the farmer s
life burden has been made unnecessary
by abcr-saving machinery. The greater
healthfulness of country life remains, and
with it are opportunities for intellectual
improvement that fifty or eighty years
ago were confined almost entirely to
cities
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FROM DEATH TO LIFE.
a Remarkable Case of Resuscitation
in Chicago.

a Remarkable Case of fResuscitation
in Chicago.
A Chicago paper publishes a case Of re-
markable resuscitation from supposed death
of young married woman named Mrs.
Fraser, the daughter of Mr.. T. H. Ste
vens, who with his family came tc
Chicago from New York some three
years ago. On July so last Mrs.
Fraser gave birth to child, and in August,
after several days' illness, she was pro-
nounced dead bv one of her attending
physicians DR.. Mark H. LockerSteen, who
was also attending Mrs Fraser, says:
II did everything l could think Of to re-
store resuscitation without elect. Ten MIN
utes must have elapsed, though at that time
was not in a position to watch the passage
of time. Then it suddenly struck nc that l
would like to try hypodermic injection of
q solution of nitro glyc~rine. l took up
ten drops Of it and let the corpse have
the full benefit of it The first minute
there was not a nulsation, but just gasp,
that was all. l lacked at my watch aud
there were four su"h easpS distributed over
the first sixty seconds, but there was no life
In the second miuut, there were six reSpirn-
tions and slight heart pulse could he heard,
but no pulse could be fe.t In the third min
ute there were eighteen reSpirationS, and
the pulse became distinctly perccptible ut
the wrist. In the fourth minute it was $50
and upward, 50 that it could not be
counted; her face flushed. her eyes began to
roll in their sockets all the muscles relaxed
from the extreme stiffness of death. all tn,
contrartions of the limbs gradually relaXe,l,
speculation came back to her eyes and she
became conscious, and soon after was finally
restored to life.
Her father, mother, brother and husband
stood around her bed, and all hal given he"
up for dead.
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A Doctors Queer Experience.

Doctors meet with some queer ex-
periences, sure enough, and a great many
of them could, if they would, tell us true
and uncanny tales of the tragedies of
life and death among their clients. zone
day last July" said West Side physi-
clan, "when the hot weather was play
ing havoc among the younger children
of our city, was called to see Mrs. -,
on Schiller street. She was i'll herself,
and also had in bed with her a very sick
child about year and half old. re-
mained with her three hours. During
the lat hour 1 was there, there occurred
a double event, the like of which I have
heard of, but never before witnessed.
simultaneously with the death of one
child in his mothers arms another came
into the world to take its place and give
solace to the sorrowing heart. Chicago
MrIM
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Out near the Nevada line some twenty.
five years ago, so the story runs, a won
derfully rich mine was discovered. Its
finders died, and only the news of their
rich luck came to the cars of the outside
world. Time and.again other adventur.
ers tried to find the long-lost spot oi
treasure. Several weeks ago a fresh
party of wealth seekers left Los Angeles
to hunt for the golden glory of the Pa
cifc slope. Through the Cajon pass,
over the Mo;ave desert, around the foot
of the Amargosa Mountains they jour.
ncyed through Death Valley. The Au-
gust sun was at its hottest, and the for
tune seekers experienced every torment
conceivable. On every side they saw the
skulls and bones of those who had gone
before them on similar errands. East OF
the Amargosa Mountains they lost their
bearings. Their water barrels shrank
and fell apart, and their thirst was un-
quenched day after day. They dug for
water, but it was salt and made both
horses aud men sick. At last they
reached the mountains and wearily be-
gan prospecting. No success came until,
after many days, they shoveled out some
gravel that abounded in coarse gold
chunks worth from 81 to s.. Then they
knew they had found the long-lost treas
ure ground which Goulder had found
twenty five years before. They staked
their claim, gathered specimens of gold
bearing rock, silver, silver ore. galena
and copper. At last a weary journey
was made back to Los Angeles, 200
miles away. There full equipment was
made ready to return to the famous mine
and wrest from nature that which has
cost so many lives and many years.
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EXPIATING his CRIME.
Frank Humphries Hanged in Geor.
gia for a Double Murder.

Frank Humphries Hanged in Geor.
gia for a Double Murder.
Frank Humphries, the double murderer,
was hanged at Milledgeville, Ga, a few days
since in tine presence of large crowd He
confessed his guilt to the Sheriff. The vic
Tins of Humphries were his sister-in-law
Miss Carrie Raines, and his niece, Miss Ella
Humphries. While walking through the
woods with the ladies he assaulted and killed
them, afterward claiming the deed had been
done by four unknown men.
Franks story, rs first told, palsied the
people with rage Women shuddered as they
heard it, and men shouldered their shot
guns and sought the scene of the crime.
When later it was given out that the
story was untrue, that Frank him
self was the murderer, and that he was al
ready in jail charged with the crime, the
feelings of the people became indescribable.
Without any formal arrangement 1t was un-
derstood that all should gather near the
jail at midnight, when an attempt should
be made to mete out popular vengeance to
the criminal. The Sheriff, however, had
been warned. The crowd found that Frank
was confined in Bibb county jail So des-
perate we're the people that many Of them
were in favor of following the criminal to
Macon, where they trusted to be reinforced
A party did assemble at Haddock's station,
where the Macon-bound train was boarded
and searched, but without effect.
Franks life in Bibb county Jail was marked
by an utter insensibility to his surroundings
He seemed to be incapable Of serious thought
and passed the days without concern or re-
pentance.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

NINE pupils in the Allegan, Mich-) public
schools are married women.
HUNDREDS of baby alligators are sold as
ladies' pets in New York yearly.
THERE are twenty-one murderders in the
United States Jail at Fort Smith, Ark. await
ing trial
CALIFORNIA fruits have taken the place
Of Southern fruits in the markets Of Rich
mond, Va.
TIE estate left by the late Miss Henrietta
Lenox, of New York City, is estimated at
some $40, 100000.
OF the 1877 counties in Georgia, los have
absolute prohibition and twelve others have
partial prohibition.
REPORTS from Louisiana indicate that the
sugar yield Of that State will fall about tf-
teen per cent. below that Of 1885,
EVERY day at one o'clock $500, ,OOO, ,oaO sit
down to lunch in an upper room in the West
ern Union Building, in New York.
IT will cost S., 900 and take 5000 books of
gold leaf to gild the great dome at Notre
Dame University, Indiana The work is go
ing on now.
The principal contributors to the London
fund for tho Charleston sufferers are the
Rothschilds and Barings Each house con-
tributes $3.50.
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An interesting calculation has been
made by New York paper, showing
how the steady and rapid payment of the
public debt incurred in the civil war,
combined with the reduction Of the in
terest rate and the increase of the popu-
lation of the country, has affected the
debt burden bourne by our people Per
capita. In 1865 the debt amounted to
$7s.25 per capita. Last year it amounted
to only $24.14. In 1865 the per capita
portion of the annual interest charge was
$4.29. Last year it was but eighty-thrce
cents. The ratio of the principal is now
but two-thirds what it then was; that of
the annual interest is but little more
than one-ffth.
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This is the season of the year when the
tales of tough old men begin their
rounds. Connecticut boasts that Colonel
George L. Perkins, of Norwich, who be.
gan his Goth year Ia t August, has been
treasurer of the Norwich and Worcester
Railroad Company from the beginning,
and is not-as might be inferred from
his great age-merely a fgurehead, but
is the active manager Of its finances to-
day, and is the source of knowledge to
which the stockholders refer for in.
formation concerning the property from
the time of its charter to the present. he
walks half mile to his Office every week
day morning, opens all his letters and
dictates or writes replies, remains there
till noon, devoting all the time to bust
ness, when he takes a carriage to his
house and spends the rest OF the day IN
reading and attending to matters OF home
life. Through some oversight it is not
stated whether or not Colonel Perkins
uses whisky and tobacco.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

ALBoN5 the operatic star, now weighs
nearly 400 pounds.
MILE. RHEA is acting in New England to
large and fashionable audiences.
LORD BEAcoNSFIELD wrote comedy that
Is to be produced ut a London theatre.
NINE. JANAUscHEE is going to say good
by to America on May l, 1857, at the Boston
Park Theatre.
THERE will be more "Uncle Toms Cabin"
companies on the road in the course Of few
months than ever before.
Miss MARIE WAINWRIGHT played Portia
in street dress in Milwaukee recently. She
lost the baggage containing her costumes.
A VENETIAN composer has turned out the
opera of "John Huss, )" and shows among other
fine scenic effects the burning OF HusS at the
stake.
A RECENT report says that Mime. Gerster
will never be able to sing IN opera again.
Her long illness has seriously impaired her
voice.
MARIE ROSE, the singer, has just nursed
her husband, Colonel Henry Mapleson, the
opcratic manager, through serious illness
at Vichy.
Mrs. CHANFRAU has purchased play by
Deshler Welsh, which is founded on the
story Of the lives Of Napoleon and the EN-
press Josephine.
JOACHIM, the famous violinist, requires all
pupils applying to him for instruction to be
over sixteen years of age and they must pass
a severe examination.
1T is said that Miss Maud Banks, daughter
Of General Banks, is very we'll satisfied with
her professional success thus far. and is con-
fdent of winning future laurels.
NJ GouNoD, the composer, has been giving
some monster concerts at San Sebastian, the
Brighton of Spain. The concerts took place
in the bull ring, which will seat some 12,C0J
persons
MRS. MoNr1ETH, Brooklyn singer, has
been engaged to sing the principal soprano
part in the Christmas performance Of the
''Messiah," by the Handel and Hadyn So
ciety of Boston.
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The statisticians of England cipher out
that life in that country has somewhat
increased in duration during the last gen.
Grafton, and the sanitarians attribute the
gain to the better care which has been
taken of the public health since what is
called sanitary science has become sub
ject of special study. But DR.. Thomas
s. sozinskey, of Philadelphia, writes an
elaborate paper in the Medical and Surgi-
cal Reporter to express his doubt as to
the theory that the average length of
human life is increasing, and presents
an array of figures of the mortality in
England and the United States to sustain
his view. lie shows by authentic figures
that life is longest in Ireland, whose peo-
pie, DR.. Sozinskey says, are supposed to
be singularly oblivious to sanitary sci
ence. The influences working against
the race he holds to be the artificial mode
of existence in civilized countries.
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Commercial Agent Smith, of Mayenc'

Commercial Agent Smith, of Mayence,
Germany, in q report to the Secretary of
State says: "The new American method
of drying fruit, which gives such salts
factory results, especially in apples, is
susceptible OF being developed into an
important industry. Nowadays in this
neighborhood, and suppose the same is
true of all Germany, if you want dried
apples the American fruit is usually first
offered you, while long string of adjcc-
tives are thrown off at you in praise of it..
These apples are to be met with almost
everywhere, and are preferred to all
Others on account of the excellence with
which they are dried, and for their
cheapness."
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

THE New York Prohibition State Com
mittee met at Albany and nominated Judge
w. j. Groo for the Court Of Appeals.
THE Eastern coal-carrying railroads have
raised the price Of coal.
A TRAIN struck wagon containing Mr..
Benjamin Gardiner, his wife and young
lady, residents of Poguenoc, Conn. Mrs.
Gardiner and the young lady were almost
instantly killed, and Mr.. Gardiner sustained
probably fatal injuries.
FOUR colored and two white convicts un-
derwent the punishment of the whipping
post, at Newcastle, Del, IN the presence Of
POO people.
COLONEL CHARLES H. GREENE, founder
and for many years editor Of the Boston Post,
died few days since in that cisy. He was
born in Boscowen, N. H., in 1904.
The Connecticut Democratic State Con-
vention at New Haven resulted in the nomi-
nation Of State Senator E. s. Cleveland for
Governor by acclamation. The rest Of the
ticket was also nominated by acclamation,
and a platform adopted which endorses
Cleveland's administration and fayors q Ii
cense law.
AFTER an exciting contest between rival
factions Robert S. Green was nominated for
Governor by the New Jersey Democrats at
their State Convention in Trenton. The
platform indorses President Cleveland and
Governor Abbett's administrations.
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The Philadelphia mint is now prepared

The Philadelphia mint is now prepared
to meet the large demand for one and five
cent pieces. The demand for minor
soin is almost unprecedented, and is
equally great in the West, South and
North. A natural tendency of business
depression is to reduce the demand for
small coin, and the fractional and minor
coin finds its way to the Treasury. AS
business revives and small transactions
increase in numberthe demand increases.
In this case the one and five cent pieces
in the Treasury are being cleaned and
reissucd as rapidly as possible by the
Philadelphia Mint under a small appro'
priation for that purpose, and dimes are
being coined under an appropriation fol
the recoinage of obsolete or uncurrert
coin in the Treasury.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE New Yorks and Chicagos have each
made GOO base hits.
DETROIT heads the clubs in batting and
New Yorks in fielding.
ONE.ARNED DAILY is again in trouble and
was released by the Milwaukee team for in
| subordination. He is now in St PAUL
WHILE the Eastern League clubs have
been falling off in their playing, the Associ-
| alton clubs in that section have been picking
up.
THE Chicagos won every game ct home
with the Eastern clubs the last trip. A re-
markable achievement. equaled only b. the
st Louis Browns last season.
EVERY National League, American Asso-
citation, Eastern League, International
League and Southern League Club has been
shut out one or more times this season.
THE New Yorks will probably have four
batteries next season, as well as several extra
men in the field. They dout intend to break
down at the end Of next season II they can
help it
THE salaries to be paid to Washington
"Big Fiven next year, according to the Hart
ford Post, are: Mack, s., 500; Kreig, $1,000;
Gilmore. $50; Schock, 81. $50, and Henry,
Sl,SC0. Hayes is receiving s4OO per month.
THERE is every probability that Anson, OF
the Chicagos, will maintain his lead in bat
ting to the end OF the season. Ii ne ooeS,
he will have the remarkable record OF hav-
ing been the leader three years in the ten
that has elapsed since the League was Or
ganized.
ACCORDING to the record Of the League
players up to a recent date the best batting
would be as follows: Buffinton, Of Boston,
pitcher: Dealy, of Boston, catcher; Anson.
Of Chicago, first base: Dunlap, Of Detroit,
second base; White, Of Detroit, third base;
Glasscock, Of St Louis, short stop; b. Rich,
ardson, of Detroit, right field; Hines, Of
Washington, centre field, and Kelly, OF
Chicago, right field.
ROGER CoNNoR, first baseman Of the New
Yorks, has at last achieved the task he bad
set himself for three years past, Of knocking
ball over the twenty-foot high right Held
fence Of the Polo Grounds. He landed it in
lot across 1l2th street, $50 feet from the
home plate This is the first tine the feat
has ever been accomplished and it may not
be repeated for years. 1t was undoubtedly
the longest hit ever made in New York. It
was made off Radbourn, the Boston's pitcher.
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Some of our readers may be interested
to know that "The Swans Song" fa-
NOUS and genuine Stradivarius violin,
which dates from the year 1877, has just
been sold in Paris for the sum of Is, 100
francs. Stradivarius was forty-three
wears old when he made this much-cov-
eted prize. 1t belonged to a man we'll
known in the musical world, the late NJ.
de Sainte-Senoch, whose three other vio-
Iins by the same maker also fetched fab
ulous prices.
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SENT TO THE BOTTOM.

Fatal Collision Between Two Ves-
sells on Newfoundland.
The details of collision the other morn-
ing off tho Newfoundland coast, involving
the destruction of the British schooner Mary
Ann and the loss of four or five lives, are thus
given by an eye witness:
The schooner Somerset, of Twillingats,
Captain Philip Rideout, left st. Johns
about o'clock A. NJ. bound home with
provisions and winter supplies. A
light breeze was blowing at the
time about west by north. The Somerset
shaped her course northeast when she got
outside the NarrowS and of course. was run
ming down the shore nearly free. The mair-
sail was down when the vessel got some
distance out, and all the crew were aft set
ting it when the collision occurred. The
crew were first startled by q cry of
"Port your helm !" but before anything
could be done they ran into an upcoming
vessel with q tremendous shock. She struck
the craft abaft the .main chains en- the port
side, and cut her right down to the waters
edge. Tho craft was the Mary Ann, Captain
tion bay, bound to st. Johns with load of
dry fish. Her masts went by the board and
the doomed schooner went down in ten nlin-
utcs.
During that time fierce scramble for life
took place, and out Of twenty-three men and
one woman on board the Mary Ann twenty
got OH safely on board the Somerset OF
these. two men-Gregory Layman and
Charles Milley-wero wounded by the fall
ing inaSts. the latter slightly, the former
probably fatally. The four unfortunattss
who went down with the craft wers
in the cabin at the time Of tine accident
and were prevented from coming Oh deck by
the falling mast and "a Is, which covered the
companion why. The ill-fated schooner
went down, stern foremost, amid the shrieks
of the drowned mingled with the wailing OF
the rescued. The Somerset was at once
headed back for St Johns, where she a.
rived an hour after the accident. The names
Of the drowned persons are:
Charles Weeks, aged So years. leaving Il
wife and five children; Nicholas Milley, aged
so, leaving a wife and four children; Lean.
der Millcy, aged II. unmarried. leaving 0
Lelrtlden father: Sarah Fahey, aged 40.
Her husband was in the lost craft also, and
made every effort to save her life, but could
not uc,eed.
The rescued are all more or less related to
the ill-lated four.
All the men say that the collision wal
purely accidental, but that neither Of tht
two vessels had light up at the time.
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Foreign.

THREE men and one woman were drowned
by collision between two schooners in SG.
Johns Bay, Newfoundland.
LIGHTNING struck and set fire to the 1tal-
ian bark Nicola while she was being laden
with benzine at Fiume, Italy. Eight men
perished in the flames
AN explosion of coal damp in mine ct
Scholke, Germany, resulted in the death of
forty-five men and injuries to sixteen nora.
Eight Of the injured are in precarious
condition.
THE British Parliament has been prorogued
until November II.
SHARP earthquake shocks have been felt
at Constantinople and Smyrna, Turkey.
KING OrTo. of Bavaria, successor Of the
mad King Ludwig, who recently committed
suicide by drowning, is about as crazy ss
bis brother. He refuses warm food, but de-
YOURS great quantities Of cold yictuals, and
insists upon remaining in solitude
The chances of q war in the East are again
looming up, and Turkey is to strengthen its
military force by equipping 6o,OJO Kurdish
horsemen.
Two thousand families in Ireland are now
under notice of eviction by the landlords.
FATAL cases Of Asatio cholera ut, still re-
ported daily from Italy and Austria Hun
gary.
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They even catch fish by machinery out
West. A late traveller on the Pacific
coast writes: "On the Columbia River
found very discouraging state of af.
fairs. The fishermen had lost confidence
somewhat, though they had had two OF
three good days. Even in fishing I saw
where machinery was supplanting the
labor of men. One machine I saw
caught eighteen tons, or $500 barrels OF
fish in twelve hours, and the only labor
needed was not in catching the fish, but
in carting them away"
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A correspondent says that Ireland ha.

A correspondent says that Ireland ha.
more than twice as many policemen as
England, in proportion to her popula'
tion, and nearly three times as many as
Scotland. 1t costs 1900, 900 every year
to keep the peace in Ireland, as against
81, 700, ,0OOin Scotland, and 1900, OoO
in England. The Irish police, as rule,
are very tall men. They wear helmets
and clothes of olive green, and arc armed
with rifles, short swords and clubs.
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WHILE AT PLAY.

Three Children in Alabama Killed
by u Sattlesnake.
Three children of one family, ranging from
two to six years, went out on Sunday after
noon to play, near Andalusia, Ala A large
pine tree had been blown down and they
were playing around in the hole made by the
roots Of the tree. The evening passed and at
night the children were missed. The parents
instituted search, and soon found them lying
near the roots of the fallen tree. The two
younger ones were dead and the eldest was
in dying condition. Upon investigation it
was found that the children had all been Bit
ten by rattlesnake which had made its den
under the roots of the tree. Their bodies
were terribly swollen, and looked as if they
had been bitten in several places. The eldest
child died during the night, and the three
were buried together.