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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-12-15
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE Philadelphia baseball nine have
returned from Havana quite Disguised with
their Cuban trip.
BASEBALL has been introduced into the
Pittsburg Insane Asylum for the physical
and mental improvement of the inmates.
NEARLY every club in the two leading as
sociations will have all the way from two to
dx or eight new players in their ranks.
The Philadelphia National League have
easily defeated the Athletics, Of the Amer1-
can Association, in the first game played at
Havana, Cuba.
THERE are two O'Rourkes, catchers; two
Baldwins, pitchers, and two Conways,
pitchers, in the League, and no two related
to each other.
NEWARK and Jersey City had to pay q
bonus Of $500 each for admittance to the
International League. They were admitted
without dissenting vote.
THE Pittsburg American Association Club
has been admitted to the National League.
A Cleveland club will take the place OF tho
Pittsburgs In the American Association.
DAVE ORR bags first honors in the Associa.
ton both at the bat and in fielding. He not
only leads the first basemen. but also every
PLAYER in the Association. His Is probably an
honor few ball players have ever achieved.
The Metropolitan team held the record in
numb,r Of games played during q season
until the year Just passed when the st. Louis
champions beat it The St Louis men played
in nearly It's games during the season just
passed, playing the first game on March u,
and the final one on October 81.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-12-15

A Boston man tells how few in Eng
land understand American English. 81
had not been in Liverpool an hour" he
says, "when I became convinced that I
had much to learn about the English Ian
guage. When I entered my hotel asked
the young woman who received me:
'What are your termss' and had Ispoken
Choctaw she could not have understood
me less. what do you charge day7' I
next ventured. Charged she replied,
vaguely, and I tried again. 'Ah! you
want the TARIFF she said at last, and sure
enough I did. Now, if had used the
word tariff in that sense in Boston it
would have been considered slang. I
tried in vain to get pair of suspenders,
as they would show me none but those
for stockings, but succeeded finally in
buying some braces might prolong
the list ad infnitum, but enough is shown
to warrant the publication of an English
American dictionary of synonyms for the
use of travellers"
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headed,

A drove of hundred hogs that wei
being driven through Allegheny, Penn,
became frightened and stampeded.
About q dozen ran into drug store
bleeding and covered with mud. Two
ladies who were waiting for prescriptions
screamed with fear. One of them sprang
on the counter and the other clambered
upon the soda fountain. After upsetting
every article of furniture in the store,
the fattest of the affrighted hogs tried
to get behind the prescription counter
and overturned the stove. The stove was
heated by natural gas, and when it was
upset the pipe was broken and a sheet
of flame shot up almost to the ceiling.
A disastrous confagration would have
been the result but for the prompt action
of the proprietor, who turned off the gas.
Two of the hogs were badly burned.
The owners of the swine were compelled
to carry them out.
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Professor Charles A. Ashburner, ge,

Professor Charles A. Ashburner, geol-
ogist in charge of the Pennsylvania Sur
vey, according to the Pittsburg Commer-
cial- Gaatte, is of the opinion that the
practical application of natural gas has
opened up new era in fuel economy,
and the development of heat and me-
chanical power. "There is no doubt in
my mind" says he, "but that the greatest
advance to be made in the practical arts
and sciences during the next two de-
cades is to result from practical consid'
Grafton of the question of the manufac-
ture and utilization of gaseous fuels and
the adaptation of plant and machinery to
the new fuel relations that I believe we
are bound for economy's sake to esta5
lish." AS to the probable duration of the
present gas supply in the Pittsburg
region, the Professor ventures the belief
that, although two.thirds of the product
has been going to waste, Every little
alarm should be entertained as to the ex.
haustiou of the gas sands Of Pennsyl-
vania AMI the prostration of the manu-
featuring interest, that become depen-
dent upon it's use."
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Foreign.

Four prominent Socialists have been SEN
fenced to variods terms Of imprisonment at
Leipsic, Germany, for fomenting riot.
THE British Government has ''proclaimei"
(prohibited) the Irish National Lecgue meet
ing callel to assemble at Sligo This action,
coupled with the prose ecution of John Dillon,
a leader of the Irish party, is causing the
most intense excitement throughout Ire
land.
TWENTY-FIVE sacks, containing mails from
England to Germany, Russia, Austria, and
the EaSt, while on train in Belgium, were
cut open and plundered of all the registered
letters. Among the stolen letters were lot
from America containing money and dla-
monds amounting to $2OO, 200.
HUNGARY is suffering from an epidemic
Of robberieS and murders.
INTENSE excitement prevails in Ireland on
account Of the expressed determination OF
the Tory government to rule the country
by coercion. A cable dispatch states that
"Mr. Gladstones prediction that the Tory
government of Ireland would be a govern
ment of coercion has come true" meet
ing of Nationalists near Sligo on the 18th
ult. was dispersed by the police,
TEE British troops in Burmah, In recent
encouuter with the forces Of Boshway, killed
l43 of his followers without losing soldier.
NINE youths have been sentenced to death
at Sidney, New South Wales, for assault!ng
= sixteen-year old servant gtrl.
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The object of National and State agri-
cultural departments and experiment
stations is the promotion of agriculture
BY such scientific investigation and care
full experiments as are impossible to the
average farmer, and require the skill of
professional chemists, botanists, ento-
moloyists, mlneralogists and other
specialists. At the experiment stations
analyses and field tests are made of COM
mercial fertilizers; tests are made of the
purity and terminating power of various
seeds offered for sale; of new varieties
of plants; of the leading methods in agg-
riculture; the solving of questions relat-
ing to the commercial uses of feeding
stuffs for animals is sought; farm pests,
both plant and insect, are identified and
remedies devised for them. In q word,
their purpose is to investigate the nu-
merous vexed questions and daily prob
lens that confront the farmer. These
departments and stations, owing their
existence to action of the Government,
are for the benefit of the people. If,
therefore, farmer wants fertilizer an
alyzed, mineral or sample of peculiar
soil examined, grass Or weed named,
an insect identified, or any similar infor-
nation, and does not wish to pay the
price of expert assistance, he has the
right to send his specimen and ask
information from the experiment station
of his State, if there be one; if not,
from the Department of Agriculture.
This is right, however, which in con-
sideration of the courtesy and patience
of the workers at these institutions,
should be exercised with moderation and
recollection of the many questions pro-
pounded for them to investigate. All
letters of inquiry should be directed to
tie Office, and not to the man in charge
of it; questions on different subjects
should not be asked in one letter if
speedy reply is desired, as they will be
referred from one department TO another
for answers.
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The Detroit Free Press sagely says OF
all engrossing subject: "Some scientific
men are asserting that it is the close hats
that men wear that causes badness to be
more prevalent in men than in women,
and in this they are about as near right
as they are in every other matter they
attempt to elucidate. After much in
vestigation and profound thought we
haze concluded that the true reason lies
in the fact that women wear their hail
long and men have theirs cut off. The
remedy, then, is plain. Let the hair grow
as long as possible. We have yet to see
the first long-haircd man who is bald
headed.
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MIND READING
A Wonderful Exhibition Given b.
MIR. Bishop in Boston.

A Wonderful Exhibition Given by
MIR. Bishop in Boston. :
In report of some exhibitions Of s'mind
readinen given in Boston the Transcript Of
that city says: - -
Mr., Bishop was removed to the ante-room,
and blindfolded, and in the meantime Mr..
Kennard gathered knife from gentleman
and reserved.se check and an opera glass
case from two ladies. These he tied up in a
white handkerchief and made round Of the
hall. stopping for moment to make the ID
ture ira e the more difficult. Then he pro-
Gee led to the upper balcony and deposited
the package in the hollow of the ba,e OF
Apolios statue in sight of all. MIR. Bishop
then announced that the experiment would
be made without any physical contact, in
order that the question Of :..muscle-read-
Ing" might be settled. Mr.. Kennard
placed his hand about five inches above that
of Mr.. Bishop, and almost instantly the lat
ter started rapidly down the hall, MIR. Ken
nard following as best he could. They passed
out at one of the side doors toward fremont
street, and in very short time appeared in
the rear of the second balcony. Here Mr..
Bishop paused before a young man, over
whom he asset his hands, and then, without
hesitation, pushed rapidly forward to the,
statue and brought out the package: The ar
ticlas were rapidly re-delivered, the only
hitch proceeding from Mr.. Kennard's uncer-
tainty as to the person from whom he took
the knife.
Mr. Bishop next repeated his feat Of read
ing the number on a concealed bank note
through the impression produced on him by
this co nmittee who hal committed it to men,
ory. It was an exceedingly difficult test,
Icing no less q figure than 1880, TBS. Mr..
Kenrard stated to the audience that he
thought it was due Mr.. Bishop to say that
nobody but himself had ever seen tho number
of that note till he had produced it in the
hall as it was fresh from the treasury.
The closing test was with Professor Lyon
of Harvard, who wrote upon the back Of the
blackboard a word a language unknown to
Mr.. Bishop and unseen by him. With III
finite labor Mr. Bishop, still with his eyes
bandaged, wrote upon the fare of the board,
in view Of the audience an almost exact re-
production of the characters, which was AS
syrian. This was the closing test. 1t is but
fair to say that Mr.. Bishop was successful In
every one of his atten. pts, with q single e3-
ception, eni that was due to the fact that his
directions were not complied with. Evident
ly the believers in muscle reading will have
to reverse their theory.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-12-15
LIFE SAVING SERVICE
Annual Report of the Superintend-
ent-A Years Record of Storms.

Annual Report of the Superfntend-
ent-A Years Record OF Storms
The report OF the General Superintendent
Of the Life Saving Service says that the num-
bar of disasters to documented vessels within
the field of station operations during the
year was 322 There were on board these
vessels 2,726 persons, of whom 1853 were
saved and twenty-seven lost The NUM-
ber Of shipwrecked persons who received
succor at the stations was s07, to whom q 600
days relief in the aggregate was afforded.
The estimated value Of the vessels involved
in the disasters was a 42S, $50, and that or
their cargoes $2,073, ,805, making the total
value of the property imperilled $6, ,502, LBS:
OF this amount 8, ,0z3, ,078 was saved and
81, ,0T lost The number Of vessels total
ly lost was 49,
were during the year 145 casualties to
smaller craft, such as sailboats, etc,
on which there were 34S persons, S46
of whom were saved and two lost.
The property involved in these in.
stances is estimated at Sill ,420, OF
which $gS, $50 was saved and S13, ITO lost. In
addition to persons saved from vessels there
were thirty-six Others rescued who had fallen
from wharves, piers, ETC., who would have
perished without the help OF the life. -.aving
crews
The number, violence and destructiveness
of the storms which occurred during the
year exceeded the record Of any previous
year since the general extension Of the
service to the sea and lake coasts. In
one storm there we're no less than
thirty shipwrecks within the scope Of the
operations Of the service, and in single
day, january, there were twenty-three.. The
service, however, did not fail to match its
previous record Of effectiveness In saving
life and property. The number Of casual.
ties was greater by twenty-eight than that
of anv former year, yet the loss Of life
Is fifteen less than the average, and
although the vessels and cargoes to-
tally lost were twenty more than in any for
mer year, the amount Of property lost was
only about s65, 600 greater than the average Of
the preceding years, while the amount saved
Is increased by nearly e, ,000, 900.
At the cl ,se Of the last fiscal year the Life
Saving establishment embraced 21l stations,
LIZ being on the Atlantic, thirty-eight on the
lakes, seven on the Pacific and one at Louis
vile, KY.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-12-15
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

A LOCAL manager in Western town de-
clined to book Lawrence Barrett at his
theatre because the tragedian did not carry
brass band.
PATHS favorite color Is red; Nine. Nils
sons is blue, while Henry Irving's Is Grim
son. They all match well with the old
gold of American dollars
WILL CARLETON, the author Of Farm
Ballads lectured last week in five different
States-Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts,.
RUDINsTE1N the great pianist, Is said to
have declined an offer Of 10000 marks for
100 concerts in this country recently made
to him by an American manager.
THF new play that Mr.. Boucicault has in
preparation will be brought out at the Hollis
Street Theatre, in Boston, where he is to
play for seven weeks during the winter.
ONE of the leading operate: sopranos in
Europe is Helen Theodorini, who is now the
prima donna of tho Lisbon Opera House
She seldom sings outside Of Spain a.d Portu'
gal
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND never lets anyone
know wh,n he is going to the theatre, but
orders his box shortly before the performance
begins and arrives at the theatre just as the
curtain rises.
NINE. MARcELLA SEMBRICH, the prima
donna, and Miss Nettie Carpenter, the young
American violiuist, arc meeting with enthu-
siastic receptions in their concert tour
through Germany.
ILLNESS of stage favorites is luxury that
costs a good deal. The losses entailed by
Edwin Booths recent illness are estimated
at $40. 900; that Of Mrs. Langtry at $1,000,
and that Of Rosina Vokes at 5000.
GAYARRE, the famous Spanish tenor, six
teen years ago received eighty cents al even
ing for singing in Madrid concert hall. He
recently make contract to sing fifty nights
in Italian opera, for which he will receive
S70,0JO
THE knowing ones say that there is no
longer any doubt that Barrett and Booth
will appear next season on the same stage
and in the same plays. Othello and Julius
Caesar are said to be productions in contem-
plation.
"J1M. THE PENMAN," in which Mr.. Palmer
has reintroduced his company Of actors to
New York, is considered the most brilliant
play of the malodramatic strain seen in this
country within the memory of the present
generation.
NINE, MINNIE HAUK had a remarkably
successful tour on the Pacific coast. She
gave twenty-five concerts, realizing SIS, 600,
and everywhere from British Columbia to
Minneapolis had large houses. She returns
to Europe in January. and in March begins
an oreratic engagement in Berlin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-12-15

Some idea of the value Of water in
Southern California may be gained from
the opening of the Gage Irrigating Canal,
near Riverside. Three years ago land
sold above Riverside for $5 an acre. 1t
was without water and was counted
valuable only for grazing. Mr.. Gage
made contract with large number of
owners of land to furnish them abundant
water at 500 per acre. Then he dug
IN eleven-mile canal, supplied with water
partly from Santa Ana River, but mainly
from artesian wells. Recently water was
turned into the canal, and land which
,old for S. now sells readily for $500 an
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-12-15

A rock which the Sioux Indians near
Fort Yates, Dakota, haze worshipcd for
generations as the petrifed form OF a
young squaw was formally unveiled the
other day and dedicated to peace and
plenty. Itappears that the white settlers
in the vicinity have long supposed that
this strange specimen of natures art
work exerted restraining influence on
the Indians, but of late the rock has been
removed from its original resting place,
and it was feared that with its removal
its charm had disappeared. So the sug-
gestion was made to Sitting Bull that
the statue BE- placed upon a permanent
pedestal and unveiled with appropriate
ceremonies: This pleased the chieftain,
and 5000 Indians assembled to take part
in the strange medley of Christian and
Pagan rites by which thelnveiling was
accompanied. Now the superstition Of
the whites is satisfied, and the scepticism
of the savagcs-the first sign of civiliza-
tion-is checked.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-12-15

Rutherford B. Hayes is now the only
living ex-President, and Hannibal Ham
lin and William A. Wheeler the only
living ex-Vice- Presidents. Fremont and
Blaine are the only living ex-Prcsidential
candidates of great parties, and Pendle-
ton, English and Logan the only living
Vice-Presid candidates. The ranks
of these prominent gentlemen have
thinned greatly by the death within
eighteen months of Grant, Mcclellan,
Hancock, Tilden, Seymour and Arthur.
A more noted group has hardly ever be-
fore passed off the stage of life so nearly
together.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-12-15
LATER NEWS.

HOWARD T. BLACKSTONE, discount clerk
in the Canal National Bank Of Portland,
Me-, fled with shortage of $4,000 in his
accounts, due to speculation.
NEW JERSEY assessors report the railroad
property in the State amounts to $!99, $50, ,3S.
The State tax CT SJ64, ,9o1 upon it defrays all
the State expenses.
PRESIDENT HEAD. Of the International
Range Association, has written letter to
President Cleveland, in which he says that
the time has come when the live stock men
Of the plains have a right to demand that
the Government shall take vigorous meas
ures to stop the spread of diseases among the
cattle in the West.
THE Chicago Knights of Labor have
adopted series of resolutions condemning the
sentence of death passed upon the Anarchists
as unjust.
PRESIDENTIAL Postmasters appointed:
Lillian c. Keyes, at Yonkers, N. Y; James
w. Verlander, at Huntington, W. Va; w.
D. F. Whitsitt, at Pleasant Hill, Mo-; N. w.
NOEL, at Cisco, Texas.
THE November public debt statement shows
decrease of s., OO5, 249.57 during the month.
Total cash in the Treasury. s4S9, ,O23, 74o.59.
A BAILIFF and his assistants were serving
writs of ejectment upon tenants on Lord
Dillons estate in Ireland when they were at
tackled and pe,ted with mud by 200 girls, and
compelled to retreat.
The Paris Municipal Council petitionsd
United States Minister McLane to intercede
with the Governor Of Illinois on behalf Of
the condemned Chicago Anarchists. MIR.
McLane forwarded the petition to Governor
Oglesby.
DURING heavy gale the schooner Ariadne
was driven ashore on Lake Ontario twenty
miles below Oswego, N. Y. Captain Mckay
was drowned sad two seamen were frozen to
death. The remainder of the crew were res
cued by members of life-saving station.
THR delegates sent by the States and Ter
ritories to devise plans for the celebration Of
the centennial anniversary of the prcmulga-
tion of the Federal Constitution, which will
occur in Sc. .;tember next, met the other day
in Philadelphia. A committee of thirteen
was appointed to provide for carrying out
programme, which will inclule military
and industrial display, oratious, ct.
L. B. FRANKEL & Co., of Virginia City,
Nev., the oldest mining stock firm in that
State, has failed, owing :915, 1000. The three
younger Frankel brothers, the active mem
bers of the firm, fled just before the failure
FOREST fire, have swept the entiro low re-
gion of South Carolina, causing immense
damage Many of the old plantation man
sions have been deStro. ed. There was an
almost unbroken line of fire along the North
eastern Railroad from Sumter to Charleston,
q distance of ninety miles. No rain of con-
sequence has fallen since last July.
THREE colorei meu in Jail at Benham,
Texas, on the charge of murder, were taken
out forci5ly by masked men AMI hangel to a
tree.
THIRTY mon were instantly killed by an
explosion in Durham England coal minc.
ADv1CEs from Hanoi, the capital Of Ton
quin, state that pirates at HaEoi surprised
the Frontier Commission and massacred two
interpreters and twelve soldiers.
IMMENSE CoAL-BEDS have been discovered
in British America.
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Washington.

GENERAL CLARK, clerk of the House, says
there will be fifteen Democratic majority
in the next House.
WILLIAM POPE, the negro convicted Of
assault and battery with thu intent to kill
General c. c. Augur at Washington, in Au-
gust last, has been sentenced to the Albany
penitentiary for three years.
IT is estimated at the Internal Revenue
Bureau that the revenue from tho tax on
oleomargarine, which went into effect on No.
vember !, will amount to about 100000 for
asst month.
The President has made the following ap-
pointments: Edward Cushing to be Collec-
tor of Customs for the district of Belfast,
Me. Joseph E. Moore to be Collector Of Gus
toms tOc the district of Marlborough, Me. :
Philip w. Downes to be General Appraiser
of merchandise for the port of Baltimore,
Md.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle Statel

MORE than 25Oo warrants for illegal vot-
ing have been issued in Massachusetts,.
ABAFFLINa malignant disease, diptheretic:
in appearance, carried off the four sons OF
Farmer James Champlin, Of Westfeld,
Penn. on four successive Thursdays in No
vember.
TIE great strike Of the tanners and cur
riers of Peabody and Salem, Mass, which
began on July ~ with demand that fifty
nine hours constitute weeks work, has been
officially ended, the various assemblies OF the
knights of Labor of the two places declaring
1t off.
WILLIAM KURTz, a lad Of eighteen,
ieaped from the Brooklyn Bridge into the
East River, and escaped comparatively un-
injured.
A FIRE on T. W. Aliens stock farm, East
Syracuse, N. Y, destroyed several barns
filed with grain and hay. Fifty-seyen head
Of fancy cattle were burned to death. Loss
0,001.
T,V. PowpERLY, General Master Work
of tho Knights Of Labor, has issued circular
calling upon all the members of the Order
II an assessment of twenty-five cents each,
to be known as special defence assess.
ment."
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According to Science, it would appear
that the "bogus butter issue" is not con-
fined to the United States. A similar
agitation is taking place in India, and
bill dealing with the adulteration OF
ghee, or clarified butter, introduced in
response to the urgent demands of the
native community, has recently been
passed by the Bengal Council.