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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-12

There are between $4,000 and 10000
Chinese in San Francisco, the exact
number being probably nearer the
former than the latter number. They
occupy the centre of the town, and though
some few are scattered about in all direc-
tions, ten blocks is the maximum they
hold. From the exterior there is little
to distinguish their houses from those OF
white men, save that their stores have
white signs with red hieroglyphics
hung out, and on the walls of the alley
ways are their red placards with black
letters. The theatres and the restaur-
ants are the only places which from
their exterior attract attention. They
are often plentifully decorated with bril-,
liant coloring, gliding and bright-hued
lanterns. Once year the houses,
stores, temples and theatres of China
town are thrown open to the public, and
the celebration of the Chinese New Year
is the only occasion on which an insight
into their mode of living among them
selves can be obtained. Just prior to
this festival all Chinatown is subjected
to scrubbing, cleaning and painting, SO
that the whole is on view when it is
ut its best.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-12

The three substances which enter into
the composition of an electric lamp are
glass, platinum wire and bamboo or
paper. Glass bulbs are readily prepared
by the usual methods of glass blowing,
but the preparation of the bamboo is a
delicate piece of work. In the best lamps,
the little horseshoe is made of bamboo;
and this material has proved its superb
ority to its rival, paper, in several ways.
The bamboo comes from Japan in bundles
of slips foot in length. japanese bam-
boo is of finer quality than the Chinese.
1t is first split up into little square strips.
Girls round these off by running them
through dies until they look like little
brown straws. These are put in cruel
bles with graphite, and submitted to a
white heat for several hours. This car
bonizes them thoroughly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-12
A PRISON REVOLT.
Convicts in Possession, but Subdued
After q Bloody Battle.

Convicts in Possession, but Subdued
After Bloody Battle.
Almost startling revolt took place at St
Vincent de Paul Provincial Penitentiary,
about fifteen miles from Montreal, the other
afternoon. The contest lasted for nearly two
hours, and resulted in the killing Of one con-
vict and wounding of sixteen other persons,
some of them fatally, including the warden
of the institution. g@a.
In this penitentiary were confined about 8
thousand prisoners, comprising the most
desperate characters in Canada. The work
of the different gangs was in progress as
usual, when suddenly convict stood up IN
the open yard and held up one hand. 1t was
a preconcerted signal, for in an
instant each gang which had
been expecting the movement leaped
upon their unsuspecting guard and quickly
overpowered him. They took his arms from
him and tied him up. Fifteen or sixteen men
were thus disposed of, and then the conylcts
were in possession Of the interior of the jail
They were also armed with the guards re-
diately had Chief Warden Laviolette pris-
soner, he, too, being overpowered. and tied.
The convicts then armed themselves with
crowbars and other implements and moved
toward the walls to break down the gates.
There were eight or nine men on the walls
armed with E::aes, and these few ordered the
criminals back to their cells. The desperate
convicts continued to advance, holding up
Chief Warden Leviolette in front Of them as
a target The other wardens, bound hand
and foot, were also used in the same way:
your duty" shouted Chief Warden Lavio-
lette. :,
Seeing that the men hesitated, he reiterated
his command. fearless Of the armed rutfians
about him, Then commenceda a fusilade, and
the bullets whistled back and forth between
the revolving convicts and the guards for some
time. At last the convicts determined to carry
Convict Viau, French Canadian, led the
storming party, covered by his fellow con;
yicts, who peppered away with the captured
revolvers. He had almost gained the para
net when a guard fired point blank at him
and he fell to the ground, where he lay as II
shot, but was really only badly scared and
shocked by his fall.
Convict Corriveau then sprang up the lad
der, to fall dead the next instant with bull
let through his heart; Revolyers we're OF no
use against rifles, and the death of Corrlveau
dampened the ardor of the convicts, yet still
they fought on.
The guards on the wall stood to their
posts, and only one of them-Private Chart
rand-was hit. He received a bullet in his
leg.
men could see him bleeding to death-his
jaw shattered, ball through his groin, an
other through the body, and q
fourth through his arm. The guards
,o;ol,od ofr their man with Sllch celer-
ttv that Convict Holton was weltering
in his blood, Convict Monday shot through
both arms and Convict Norman wounded
badly in two places. and eight or ten others
were wounded Then the convicts threw
away their arms and rushed for cover to
their cells They were promptly locked In
and the guards were once more in possession.
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INCONSISTENCIES WORK.
A Marshal Attacked-Two Men
Killed-FOur HIOrtally Wounded.

"A MarSNal ACC1CKcu-I"O "Ch
Killed-FOur MOrtally Wounded.
A dispatch from Manchester, Tenn, gives
details of bloody tragedy enacted there
shortly after midnight the other morning, in
which United States Deputy Marshal Webb
Purdon, and moonshiner named Clark
were killed and three other moonshiners
fatally wounded.
Purdon had accompanied Deputy Marshal
Hughes on q raid on the illicit distillerieS or
Grundy county, Tenn, and captured and de-
stroyed several stills. Between II and
o'clock in the morning. fifteen
moonshiners rode into Manchester
and determined to have Purdon'
life. Seven broke into his house and
the balance surrounded it. Purdon met them
as they entered with cooked revolver, and
terrible battle then ensued. Two moon,
sinners fell to the floor mortally wounded and
the gang retreated, but they succeeded IN
fatally wOunding Purdon.
Disabled as he was, Purdon discharged MS
doubled barrelled shotgun into the retreatlnS
gang and two more fell nortally wounded.
Purdon then fell dead beside the body OF one
of his victims. The gang carried off three OF
their wounded companions. A large posse
was sent in pursuit of them.
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It seems quite certain, says the Boston
Cuztirator, that one of the three bills
which have been introduced in Congress
this session, aiming to control the manu-
facture and sale of fraudulent butter,
will pass. No measure has so large 9
backing of the people. These bills are
popular everywhere except among a
few firms that are making immense for
tunes in the manufacture of bogus butter
compounds, to the injury and destruc'
tion of the interests of 100000 farm
ers. With tax of ten cents per pound,
imitation butter will then cost about the
same as the genuine article.
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A REVIVALBT LYNCHED. I.
The Quick Work of 400 Armed
Men in Missouri.
Forcibly Taken from Jail and
Hanged to a Tree.

Rev. George Graham, revivalist well
known in the West, has been forcibly taken
from the jail at Springfield, Mo-, where he
was incarcerated for wife murder, and
lynched. Particulars of the affair are given
in Springfield dispatches, as follows:
A mob Of 400 armed men surrounded the
county Jail at 1:S0 o'clock this morning and
began parleying with the sheriff for the sur,
render Of George E. Graham, the evangelist
and wife murderer. The sheriff would not
comply with their demands, but they soon
battered in the doors and secured the
prisoner. AT o'clock the men, with Graham
In their midst, started out Of town and in
less than an hour after the attack was made
on the jail the prisoner was hanging to treS
in the city limits. Graham went to his death
coolly and died apparently without any
struggle. The mob dispersed in all directions,
A notice Of warning to other eyil-doers,
pinned to the body.
The preliminary examin alton Of Mrs Mol
10y and Cora Lee, the revivalists, charged
jointly with George E. Graham with the
murder Of Sarah, his wife, has recently been
concluded. Graham had previously made g
confession in which he admitted the murder
Of his wife, but alleged that be first wounded
her accidentally in s,utfle, and then killed
her because he was afraid that she would
prosecute him for the assault and for bigamy
in marrying Cora Lee. y!
The evidence submitted at the examination
showed that Graham and Mrs. Moloy and
Cora Lee lived together for five years. They
conducted scores Of revivals during that
period, and in Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas
made thousands Of converts. Mrs. Molloy
owns a fine farm near Springfield, which
the revivalists have made their head
quarters In his confession Graham
said that his wife, whom he had met
in st. Louis with their children, followed
him to Springfield against his wish; that she
then insisted on accompanying him to the
farm, and that when he demonstrated with
her on the road they had a scuf1e, in which
he accidentally cut her in the neck
The State proved that on the night that
Graham and bis wife arrived at Springfield
Cora Lee left the farm early in the evening
in buggy; that Graham and two women,
one of whom was closely yelled, took refresh
ments at restaurant here. and that MIS-
Graham did not die Of knife wounds, but was
killed by shots from revolver 1t is held
that Cora Lee met the couple at the !
depot that Mrs. Graham had been
coaxed to this place by her husband,
and that she was murdered on the highway
at night by Graham and Cora, who then
threw her body into an old well on the MOI
10y farm. The next morning they drove
down to the depot and got the two children,
who had been there all night, in ignorance
of the fate Of their mother. '-s .E
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The payroll of Barnum's circus is
$1,000 per day, and when wet weather
strikes it there is music not down on the
photographic programmes. Last year
when Mr.. Hutchinson had occasion to
make business affidavit, he swore that
in 1885 the money taken by the circus
amounted to s1,O3s,ooo. The highest
daily receipts were $4,000, during a
Boston engagement, when, in a week,
they took in $74, 900; in week at Phil
adelphia, SS1, 900; in ten days at Chi
cago, $4,000.
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! It is estimated by insurance companies
that in the United States last year
dwelling-houscs were burned at the rate
of one every hour, with an average loss
of s1,soe. Barns and stables, fifty pe'
week. Country stores, three per day,
with loss of $4,000 per week. Ten
hotels burn weekly, with loss per year
of 81, 100000. Every other day lumber
yard goes up in smoke, each represent
ing $780, 900. Forty-four cotton factories,
the loss in each case being $2S, 900;
forty-three woolen mills, $4,000 each;
forty-two chemical works at $27, 1000
each were destroyed by fire last year.
Forty-two boot and shoe factories were
consumed, theloss being $4,000 each.
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LATER NEWS.

A Boston supplier Of builders material
states that 81, ,OO0,O 900 Of capital about to be
invested for building purposes in that city
and vicinity has been withdrawn on account
of the strikes.
A POOL of the glassware manufacturers Of
This country has been arranged, and hereaf-
ter the price Of the smallest piece Of glass
ware sold will be fixed by the association
which controls forty-three furnaces with
laily output Of about 1000 tons Of glass
ware.
ADDITIONAL nominations by the Presl-
lent r. g. Jones, Of New Mexico, to be
Consul of thu United States at chihuahua;
Samuel H. Keedy, Of West Virginia, to be
Consul of the Unitel States at Rheims; E.
L. Bryan, Of California, to be Consul of the
United States ct Lyons.
| SENATOR SHERMAN delivered an address
! 1t the NJ ,5ropolitan NJ. E. Church, Washing
ION, on the 9th, in commemoration Of Gen
,ral Grants sixty fourth birthday.
A LARGE band of armed Mexicans the
other night raided the town of Collins, Texas,
and held it for numberof hours while they
searched for Deputy Shorif P. NJ. Coy,
who recently captured Martinez and Car
lena, two noted Mexican outlaws, who were
murdered while in the constable's custody.
Two brothers namei Owens and the wife
and child of ranchman have been killed in
Pima county, Arizona,. by marauding
Apaches
MANY coal miners in the vicinity Of Elk
Garden, w. Va, have been without work for
more than a year, and hundreds of families
are in a starving condition An appeal for
help has been issued.
A LARGE meeting Of Grand Army mem
bers and others was held in the Assembly
Chamber at Albany, N. Y, on the 29th, to
express disapproval Of the reappearance OF
Mr.. Jefferson Davis ''as an attempt to revive
the war feelings of the past" Speaker
Hustled presided and resolutions of condem-
nation were passed. General Henry A.
Barnum and others made speeches denounc'
ing the addresses Of Mr.. Davis on the 2Sth
at Montgomery, Ala.
FIVE of the striking New York horse car
drivers have been arrested on the charge of
rioting.
A BAND of forty Indians attacked two
ranches near Pantano, Arizona, and killed
eight persons.
UNITED STATES troops and thirty Mexican
troops at last accounts were in active pur-
suit of the hostile Apaches in the South
west.
Mr.. CHANG YEN HooN the new Chinese
Minister, has presented his credentials to the
President.
Mr. WHITELAw RIED testified before the
House Pan Electric Telephone COMMITTEES Of
Investigation on the 20th concerning the
manner in which the newspapers obtained
their information of the facts in the case.
THE Senate Committee on Agriculture has
given long hearing to representatives of
the dairy interests who ask for the passage
of Senator Miller's bill for the relief Of the
farmers from the unfair and oppressive COM
petition of imitation butter manufacturers.
WILKINsoN's mills at Beeston, England,
together with many adjoining houses, have
been destroyed by fire. The loss is $780,.
UO0.
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THIRTY FEET LONG.

Successful Cast of an Immense Gun
at Boston.
A ''big gun" recently cast at the South
Boston Iron Company's works was the other
day taken out of the moulding pit, where ii
had lain for about three weeks. The
casting, so far as could be ascer
tanned, is a complete success The
gun, in its present rough state, is thirty
nine feet long. When finished its length
will be thirty feet, and its largest diameter
fifty-four inches. This is the last of three
6fty-four ton breech-loading rihcd can
non, ordered by the government for
experimental use. All of these guns
in their finished state are of the
same size and weight and will throw the
same projectile. but they differ somewhat in
construction. The one just taken out of the
pit will be completed next fall. The work
is superintended by representative of the
Iron Company and by three government ord
nance officers
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS-
Senate Sessions.

EIGHTY-sIxTH DAY.-Mr. Washington c.
Whitthorne, appointed by the Governor of
Tennessee to be United States Senator from
that State to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Senator jackson, was sworn in,
1.-The Interstate Commerce bill was taken
up, and Mr.. Van Wyck addressed the Senate
on it. He said that the through rates from
the West now nearly amounted to confisca-
tion. If the industries were only required
to pay fair dividends on the real cost Of
railroads the nation would be prosperous.
Mr.. Stanford opposed the bill. He argued
that the regulating of the carrier or deter
mining the price he should receive for his
services could have no relation to determin-
ing the commerce between States. -. The
Postoffice Appropriation bill was reported.
EIGHTY-sEvENTH DAY.-The report Of the
Investigating Committee Of the Ohio Legis-
lature in the case of alleged fraud in the
election of Senator Payne was submitted by
Mr.. Sherman. After a detailed statement
Of the case, Mr.: Payne moved to commit
it To The Committee on Privileges and Elec-
lions, together with the minority report, and
trusted it would receive early attention and
action. .. On motion Of Mr.. Morrill, the bill
providing for an extension Of the Executive
Mansion was passed. It appropriates $780,
000 for the purpose. .. After the passage Of
numerous bridge bills across Western rivers,
the Interstate commerce DILL was resumed
without action.
E1GHTY-E1GHTH DAY.-The Senate laid
aside the Interstate Commerce bill and
took up the Postofice Appropriation
bill. Some debate arose on the amend
ment proposed by the Senate Committee
appropriating SS0O,O00 for carrying South
and Central America, Chinese, and Austria
lian mails, and authorizing the Postmaster
General to make contracts for five years with
American steamships at rate not to exceed
for each outward trip 81 per nautical mile of
distance by the most direct and feasible course
between terminal points. Mr.. Plumb ex-
planned that the amendment was intended as
a step toward doing for American commerce
with foreign countries what we had done for
internal commerce in the facilities of mail
communication. At the close Of the debate
the Senate went into executive session.
E1GHTY-NINTH DAY.-On tho Postonlce
Appropriation bill, Mr.. Beck contended
that be was in favor of the House rule
against new legislation on Appropriation
bills, and hen'e opposed the sSO0,0O0 amend
ment for steamships. Mr.. Hale spoke
for the subsidy. England had ex.
pended $164 ,00O, 700 on ships and hada COM
merce to show for it. The South American
markets could only be reached in this
way. The minority report Of the Select
Committee on Woman Suffrage on the joint
resolution granting the right Of suffrage to
women, was presented.
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Among the emigrants who recently
landed at Castle Garden, New York,
were two blind Swedes, on their way to
Carver, MIMI, where they are to sing in
a Lutheran church. John Bergerson and
Johanna johnson are their names. Each
is twenty-five years old, and both are
said to have excellent voices. The man
is also an accomplished organist. Sven
Svenberg, who came here thirty years
ago, and served as a soldier during the
war, recently went home on visit.
While in Sweden he met the blind peo-
pie and wrote about them to the pastor Of
his church at Carver. The latter prom
ised to do all he could for the pair, al
singers we're in great demand in that par'
of Minnesota. They will help to support
themselves by basket-making and worsted
rrorl
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South and West.

A TROUBLESOME strike of switchmen or
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail
road at Chicago has been settled.
|" AN immense crevasse has occurred in the
Mississippi levee near Helena, Ark, and 5000
acres under cultivation were flooded.
TIE St. Louis Grand Jury has indicted
nine members of the Bakers Union on the
charge of boycotting
OFFICIAL figures just published show the
mineral output for Colorado in 1885 to have
been as follows: Gold, $4,000 900; silver,
S13, 800 600; copper, S700, 1000; lead, S3,361, )
600; total, S22,561 900.
The Richmond (Va.) local election, Just
held, was struggle between the Prohibition
lists and nti-Prohibitionists. The latter, or
''wet ticket" won by large majority over
the "dry ticket" The colored vote was
almost unanimous for anti-Prohibition.
HA1LsroNEs big as hen eggs fell during a
tornado at Killeen, Texas. Two houses
were destroyed and child fatally hurt.
A TRAIN on the Missouri Pacific railroad
was ditched near Wyandotte, Kansas, the,
other night. Spikes were pulled out Of the
ties and angle plates taken off the rails. The
fireman and brakeman were instantly killed,
and engineer severely injured. Vice-Presi-
dent Hoxie offered reward of 50, 500 for the
In Las Vegas, N. NJ, the overhowing of
the Rio Gallonas from heavy rains has
destroyed many buildings, including the
postoffice, railroad buildings and extensive
oil and lumber works.
"MEMoRIAL DAY" was celebrated this
year with unusual ceremonies at Montgom-
cry, Ala, orations being delivered by Jeifer-
son Davis, General Gordon and other promi
nent ex-Confederates. From Montgomery
Messrs. Davis and Gordon went to Atlanta
and took part in the unveiling of statue to
the late Senator Benjamin Hill.
A NUMBER Of large Milwaukee wis., fur
niture factories have closed because the en-
ployes demanded that the hours of labor be
reduced to eight day, at the old wages.
THE Secretary of the Illinois State Board
of Health says the danger from Asiatic
cholera this year is greater than ever.
COUNTY TREASURER HoLL1NGswoRTH is
in Jail at Vincennes, Ind, for embezzling
about $50, 900.
A TABLE just issued shows the Southern
States have III savings banks, with capital
Of slU, 72S, 900 and more than 500, 600, 600 in
deposits
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A recent study of comparative height,

A recent study of comparative height
and weights among different classes OF
population in Great Britain shows that
the criminal class average no less than
forty-fve pounds in weight and four and
a half inches in height less than their an
tagonists, the metropolitan police. Com
pared with the general population, too,
this class is seen to be eighteen pounds
in weight and two inches in stature below
the average, standing on about the same
plane in physical endowment as lunatics.
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United States Senator Stanford, of

United States Senator Stanford, OF
California, says that he came very near
beings newspaper man instead OF a mil
ionaire-and most persons will agree
that the one is somewhat different from
the other. He wanted to start local
paper at Fort Washington, Wis, where
he then lived, and organized company.
The money being raised, he set out for
Milwaukee to buy the outfit. After a
forty-mile ride in a wagon he learned
that what he wanted could not be had
west of Pennsylvansa, and so he gave
ND the newspaper project.
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The Reason Why.

She has no mass of golden hair
No wondrous piles of money,
I cannot say that she is fair,
Nor that her temper's sunny.
An yet call her "sweet" and "dove;"
am in truth devoted.
I swear she is my only love-
My ardor's oft been noted.
WHY do seek her ev'rywheres
Why ever have sought her?
Her father is a millionaire,
Aud she's an only daughter.
He is not comely to the sight,
He has no great position;
He cannot like Dickens write.
Nor can he paint like Titan.
I do not like him very we'll
His presence oft distresSes.
Why do I not this to him tell.
And spurn all his addresses?
In youth spurned too many men,
For whom I've since been signing,
I've not the choice that had then,
And Time, alas, is flying.
--RamJler.
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Thirty-two men and 140 women arc
busy in the annex of the Agricultural
Department building, Washington, sup
plying the Congressional demand for
seed. Six thousand paper packages OF
vegetable seed, 500 of -four seed, 300 Of
tobacco, 20 quarts of sorghum, 20 OF
corn, 50 of grass, 2s quarts of sugar beet
and 80 quarts of cotton seed is the allow
ance of each Senator and Representa-