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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
FATAL FIRE DAMP.
Three Successive Explosions in
q Pennsylvania Coal Mine.
Two Miners Killed Outright and
Twelve More Injured,

A series of explosions took place shortly
after noon few days since, in the Union
dale mine, at Dunbar, Penn, by which two
men were killed and twelve others received
injuries which will probably prove fatal in
at least three cases The cause of the ex-
plosion was fire damp. There were
twenty-three men in the pit, nine
Of whom escaped uninjured. The
first explosion occurred at 1890 in the after
lowed by two others in quick succession. The
first explosion caused the death of the two
men and injured three. The others ran to-
ward the mouth Of the pit, but before they
reached it the other explosions occurred:
There was an upheaval of earth, coal
dust, and other debris. The lights
were blown out, the dust blinded the men,
cut off all escape. The pit was on fire and a
horrible death awaited the imprisoned
miners. Nine of them, who had been work
ing in another entry, managed to make their
way out before the mouth OF the pit
was choked up. The force Of the shock caused
by the explosion can be imagined, as it caused
the men in Morrell, Calvin and Wheeler, the
panic stricken to the top, imagining that
the pits were being lifted heavenward.
The ground rolled and quaked so. that
many men fell down and three OF four in the
Morren mine, which connects with the
Uniondale, were violently, thrown
against the walls and seriously injured.
Everybody rushed toward the Uniondale
mine Columbus Shay, of the Mahoning
works, and James Henderson, of the
Calvin mine, headed a rescuing party,
and went to work with picks and shovels to
force an enterance to their ll-fated COM
panions. In few minutes an opening was
made, and several persons rushed forward to
enter the mine, but were repelled by volume
of fame. It took several minutes for the
smoke and fire to clear away, and the
rescuers were compelled to wait.
The means of the injured were
pitiable indeed. They were lying in every
direction buried under masses of debris.
Several of them were horribly burned. Their
sufferings were terrible. Twelve of them
were found seriously injured and two others
were dead, mangled almost into an unrecog-
nizable mass.
The men killed outright were: John Will
liams, rackman, aged forty five years, mar
ried; he leaves a wife and four children.
Joseph Cope, miner, aged fifty years; he
leaves a widow and nine children.
The three injured fatally were Joseph Cope,
Jr., aged fifteen; Cal Martin, aged nineteen.
and William Startling (colored). Several Of
the other injured men will be manned for
life
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
DEATH OF A SENATOR.
General Miller, of California, Dies
After Prolonged Illness.

General Miller; of California, Dies
After a Prolonged Illness.
United States Senator John F. Miller, Of
California, died in Washington on the Sth,
after prolonged illness. Mr.. Miller was
born in Indiana in 1881, his parents being
Virginians. He was fitted for college in Chica-
20, but did not enter. He began the study
of law in 1S49 and graduated at the New
York State Law school in 1852. He began
practice in South Bend but soon went to
California, where he remained three
years, returning to South Bend In
1860 he was State senator, but resigned
to enter the army as colonel of the
Twenty ninth Indiana volunteers, and was
soon placed in command of brigade serving
under Generals Sherman. Buell., Rosecrans
and Thomas, and receiving severe wounds in
the battles of Stone river md Liberty Gap.
Promoted to igad:er-yenelal, in the battle
of Nashville he commanded the left division
ofS,000 men. and was brcveted a nlaJor-Sener-
al for conspicuous bravery At the close OF the
war a high commission i'll the regular army
was offered him, but he declined it and re-
turned to California, where he was collector
of the port of San Francisco four years, de-
clining reappointment. He was elected to
the United States Senate as Republican, to
succeed Newton Booth, an Anti -Monopollst,
and took his seat March i. 1851. His term
of service would have expired on March 5,
1887.
Senator Miller leaves fortune estimated
at from 100000 to sG,OOo, 900, made since
1866 in connection with the Alaska seal hunt
ing and fur business.
The death of Senator Miller reduces the
Republican majority in the Senate from
eight to six, as his successor, to be appointed
by Governor Stoneman, will be Democrat
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
Oil On q Stormy Sea.

Captain Karlowa, of the steamer Bo-
hemia, says in a letter to the New York
Herald: On the 25th, at A. NJ, heavy
gale blowing from the northwest and the
ship settling down very hard, our fore
stay broke, and we were obliged, to avoid
the swamping of the ship, to stop the en-
gine and let her drive toward the sea.
The ship, being deeply laden, did not
drive as fast as was wanted for the
athwart sea, to break herself in the drift
water. ard we got several breakers over
the ship. TO avoid this I tried the use
of oil, and ordered six small bags, con-
tanning each about one and half pounds
of linseed oil. to be hung on the weather
side, into the water.
h The effect was astonishing, for we did
not get any more water on deck. Hav-
ing got up a preventer stay, after four
hours work, we brought the ships head
to the sea again (north), engine now
going once more.
The storm increased in violence and
at P. NJ, it blew with hurricane like
force from north by east, a terrible cross
sea from west-northwest, northwest,
northeast at the time and washing con-
stantly over deck from the different
sides, ship working tremendously. Doors
of steering house were battered in, cabin
skylight demolished, two boats demolish-
ed, one officer and one man severely
bruised. resolved therefor to give the
oil another trial.
Ordered six oil bags to be hung again
overheard on the starboard side, two
closets on the same side were as we'll pro-
vided with oil, allowing the same to es-
cape into the water, then stopped the
engine. She was falling off Immediately
to the west by north, and athwart the
sea, often considered as the most danger
Gus position vessel may be in. The
effect, like the nj ght before, was even
more astonishing now. The tremendous
waves coming now mostly broadside on
to the ship, looking as if they would
! swallow the vessel, broke as if by charm
as soon as they reached the oily barrier,
sometimes only few feet from the ships
side, slipped through under the vessel to
the other side, and, curiously enough,
continued their furious racing to the lee
ward as if there had not been such an OBJ
stacle like big vessel in their way at all,
the combs of the waves appearing imme-
diatcly on the lee side again as if only
suppressed, not destroyed.
The vessel was lying now quite snug
in the trough of the sea; sometimes she
was heeling hard over when large wave
slipped underneath her to the other side,
but no water, only sometimes little
spray came on deck. The ship was lying
in this way from 2 p. NJ. to 6 A. NJ. next
day. The crew were able to do the nee
essary work on deck, which, without the
use of oil, could not have been done
without danger to their limbs or even
lives. Altogether we used about 13O
pounds of oil in twenty-five hours, or
! about six pounds per hour.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
What the Indians Cost.

Outside of Alaska we have $50, 900 In
dians, and every buck, squaw and pap
poose, be he, she or it full blood, or half
breed, possess on the average 500 acres,
and yet the government feeds the last one
of them-a few in the Indian Territory
alone excepted-at large annual cx-
pense. Last year it cost Sc, 800, 900 to
feed and blanket the noble red man.
Three years ago we expended upon these
people nearly double that sum. But as
it is simpossib!c to say how much clung to
the fingers of the Indian agents Il per
capita calculation would be only approxi-
mate. Since 1916 we have expended
1926, 900, 900 in taking care of the Indi-
ans, and probably as much more in vari-
Gus efforts to subdue or exterminate the
pesky creatures. s.-Atla'ata Constitution.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

We cannot renew youth, but we can prevent
gray hair by using Halls Hair Renewer.
Ayers Pills are never-failing remedy for
headaches, caused by disordered stomach.
MORE pop corn is raised around Blooming
ton, ILL.,, than anywhere else in America.
United States Senator and Mrs. Palmer
have no children. They have great
liking fer the little son Of the gardener
at their Michigan home, and the boy
spends six months of every year with
them, surrounded by every luxury, and
then returns contentedly to the simple
WAYS of a workmans home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM are de-
picted in engravings as demons tearing at
the human form, but they could be more
truthfully described by showing a dis
ordered stomach Of clogged bloodvessels.
VINEGAR B1TTERs afford certain relief
and eventual cure for both by acting
upon the internal system. It dispels all
pain demons instanter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
The thawing breeze that follows the
blizzard is known in the Northwest as a
"chinOok."

Hon. James Harlan, ex-Vice- -Chancel-
lor, Louisville, Ky, says he uses St.
Jacobs Oil, that it is most extraordinary
and absolute cure for rheumatism, and
kindred ailments, and that every family
should have it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

For thirty years DR.. G. Fawcett has
been physician of the Union Protestant
Infrmary, Baltimore, Md, and his pub
lished opinion is that he has used Red
Star Cough Cure most effectively in cur
ing obstinate coughs and in treating con-
sumption. Price, 25 cents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

The invention of the type writer dates
as far ba,k as 1714, when one Henry
Mill obtained in England patent for a
device that "writes in printed characters,
one at time and one after another" but
it is YVES not until 1867 that it was i'm
proved so as to work satisfactorily.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

For impure blood the best medicine known, SEQ.
Wills SARsAPAR1LA Oh BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP,
may be implicitly relied on when everything else
falls Take It in the spring time especially for the
impure secretions Of the blood incidental to that
season Of the year, and take It at all times for Cancer
scrofua, Liver Complaints, Weakness, Bos, ,Tumors,
swellings Skin Diseases, Malaria, and the thousand
Ills that come from impure blood. To insure q
cheerful disposition take ScovILLs BLOOD LIVER
SYRUP, which will restore the mind to its natural
equilibrium.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

Mothers Smiles nre the Sunlight of Home.
There would be fewer clouds and brighter
tied, suffering woman realized what a boon
DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription"' is for all
weaknesses and maladies TO which her sex is
liable. No lady who gives this, wonderful
remedy trial will be disappointed by the re-
suit. 1t not only acts promptly upon all func-
tional arrangements, but by its rare nervine
ard tonic properties strengthens and repairs
the whole feminine system. Price reduced to
one dollar. BY druggists.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

w.. F. Parker, of Magnolia, Colum-
bia county, Miss, has invented combi-
nation cotton planter and plow which
bids fair to revolutionize the cotton
planting and plowing in this country
at no distant day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

Florida, "The Land Of Flowers,o
is paradise for the invalid, and the "Foun-
tain of Youth" was once thought to be hid in
one of its forest glades. 1t is now the haven of
many consumptives, who find benefit in her
genial warmth and fragrant flowers. The con-
sumptive invalid need not necessarily. go go far
from home and friends to get relief. For il
not in the last stages Of the diseage, DR.. r. v.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will re-
store to perfect health. For all chronic throat,
bronchial and lung diseases it Is most relia-
III P1y1
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

In Stuttgart, Germany, the tricycle. has
been adopted by the government for the
postal service.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

To err is human, but you make no mistake If
you use DR.. Jones' Red Clover Tonic for dys-
pepsia, costiveness, bad breath, piles, pimples,
ague and malaria. poor appetite, low spirits, or
diseases Of the kidneys, stomach and liver. soc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

The Boston directory contains 1900
Sullivans, 1000 Murphys and 700 Nc
Carthys.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
It outrivals all-Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remed!

THERE are 314 members of the present British
house Of commons in favor Of woman suffrage,
while only 104 are known to be opposed to it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

Get Lyons Patent Heel Stiffeners applied to
your new boots and shoes before you wear
them out
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
Is Your Blood Pures

The best cough medicine is Piso's Cure for
CONSUMPTION. Sold everywhere. 25c.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

SIR ANDREW WALKER, one of the newly
created English baronets, owns over 1OO public
houses in London.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sellit. 25c.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

The best Ankle Boot and Collar Pads are
made Of zinc and leather. Try them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

How TO CURE A CoLD.-I'll cure any cough
you ever heard Of and with one of the simplest
remedies you ever saw; that remedy is Al,
lens Lung Balsam. 1t contains no opium, and
their children for Group with perfect safety.
prina 05c 5Qc md 81 ner hottie. at DrupRiStS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

A Century of progress has not produced a
remedy equal to Ely's Cream Balm for Catarrh,
Cold in the Head and Hay Fever. It is not a
liquid or snuff, but is perfectly safe and easily
applied with the finger. 1t gives immediate
At druggists. 60 cents by mail. Ely Bros,
Owego, n. Y.
"A God-send is Ely's Cream Balm write
Mrs. NJ. A. Jackson. of Portsmouth, n. H., on
May %, 1882. I had catarrh for three years!
had tried nearly all remedies but to no purpose;
bleed quite freely and thought the sores in it
would never heal. Your Balm has cured me:
This preparation Is not q liquid or q snuff, and
is easily applied. Price so cents.
Ely's Cream Balm is the most effective, con-
yenient and agreeable catarrh remedy ever
used, and have tried them all-C. B. Cook,
Henning, Lauderdale, Co., Tenn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24
Florida, "The Land of Flowers,"

BISHOP GREEN of Mississippi the oldest
American bishop, is still active in the harness
at the age of eightY.seYen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

Better late than never" but better never
DR.. Bigelow's Positive Cure at once, which
cures all throat and lung troubles speedily
and thoroughly. Pleasant for children. so
and 41
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

preparation of beef containing its entire nutrt-
tfo,is properties. It contains blood-making
force Generating and life-sustaining properties;
Invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and oil forms Of general debility;
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswen, Hazard q
Co.. Proprietors New York. Sold by druggists.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-24

GROUND (hog) exists for the belief that in
certain kinds Of Weather all signs fail.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-07-29
GHOST STORY.

The boss ghost story of the season
comes from New York. Mrs. Han
nah Sauer was very 7dnkfnd to her
step daughter, who was dying of con-
sumption. Just before dissolution
she raised herself up before her STEP
mother, saying she would be reveng-
ed even If she had to come hack to
earth after death. Soon afterward
the step-daughter died. The body of
the dead girl was dressed in white
and laid in n coffin in the front room.
The day before the funeral the step
mother visited the room in which
the coffin lay, and looking at the cof-
fin was surprised to see that it was
empty. She turned her head to look
around the room, but she was sud-
denly seized from behind and pushed
out of the room. She ran to the
nelghborsand told of her strange ad-
venture in the room, but when del
egstion of them visited the room they
found the girl lying in her coffin as
peacefully as when she was placed
there by the:undertaker. Since then
Mrs. Sauer has been many times as
aapltea by the ghast Of the dead ,wo-
man. She gets hurled out Of her
chair and knocked generally. The
house in which the woman died has
come to be known as haunted
house. Strange sights and noises,
shrieks and hollow hooking laughs
disturb the peace and nobody will
stay about the place. The step
daughters ghost is making things
lively.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-07-29
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS.

The man whose ha ha reaches
from one end of the street to theoth-
er may be the same fellow who scdld.
ed his wife and spanked tho baby be-
fore he got his breakfast, but his
laughter is only the crackle Of thorns
under the pot The man who spread
his laughter through his life, before
breakfast, when he misses the train,
when his wife goes visiting and he
has to eat cold supper, the man
who can laugh when he finds but
ton off his shirt, when the furnace
fire goes out in the night and both Of
the twins get down with the measles
ut the same time, he's the fellow
that's needed. He never tells his
neighbor to have faith; somehow he
puts faith into him. He delivers no
homilies; the sight of his beaming
face, the sound of his happy voice
and the sight of his blessed daily life
carry conviction thai words have no
power to give. The blues flee before
him as the fog before the west wind !;
he comes into his own home like a
flood Of sunshine over meadow of
blooming buttercups, and his wife
and childrenblossom in Aia presence
like June roses. His home is redo
lent with sympathy and love. The
neighbOrhood is far better for his life
and somebody will learn of him that
laughter is far better than tears. The
world needs this mani why are there
80 few Of them? Can he be created
Can he be evolved? Why is he not
in every house, turning rain into
shine and winter into summer all
round the year, until life is a perpet-
ual season of Joy?
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-07-29
DON'T.

Don't snub boy because he wears
shabby clothes. When Edison, the
inventor Of the telephone, first enter
ed Boston, he wore pair of yellow
linen breaches in the depth of win
ter.
Don't snub a boy because of the ig-
nOrance of his parents. Shakespeare,
the worlds poet, was the son of a
man who was unable TO write his
own name,
Don't snub boy who chooses a
humble trade. The author of the
Pilgrims Progress was a tinker.
Don't snub boy because of physi-
cal disability Milton was blind.
Don't snuh d boy because of dull
ness in his lessons. Hogart, the ceE-
ebrated painter and engraver, was
dull at his books.
Don't snub boy because he slut
tiers. Demosthenes, the greatest ora
ter Of Greece. ogeroame a harsh and
stammering voice.
Don't snub anyone. Not alone
because some day they may outstrip
you far in the race of life, but be-
cause it IS neither kind, nor right,
nor christian.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-07-29

IT is stated on what appears to be
good authority that vast quantities of
vile compounds are being sold in the
country as pure California wines. 1t
is said that there are several large
establishments in New York alone
devoted to the manufacture of bogus
vines. These wines are sold as low
as 30 cents a gallon, with a liberal
discount for cash. The wine is said
to be made OF stale grapes and raj
sins, together with sugar, water,
acids and other ingredients that are
cheap and plentiful in all large cit
les. All brands are initiated and the
cost to the manufacturers is said to
be from 10 to II cents per gallon
These wines, like imitation beer and
doctored WHISTLES, are objected tc
not only because they are the means
Of defrauding those who purchase
them, because they are unWholesome
and therefore injurious. 1t is strange
that while the laws Of every State
and of the general government re
strict and regulate tho Legitimate
manufacture of beer and liquors
very little effort has been made any
where to protect the people agains
the RpafiOas articles
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-07-29

= People sometimes wish they were
kings or rulers, but statistical his
torian figures out that of the 2,549
monarchs who have ruled seventy
four different nations, three hundred
were overthrow, sixty-four forced
to abdicate, twenty-eight suicided,
tWenty-three went mad, one hundred
were slain in battle, one hundred
and twenty were taken captive by
their foes, twenty-five were tortured
to death, one hundred and fifty were
assasinated and one hundred and
eight were executed. "Uneasy lies
the head that wears a crown"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-07-29

The lofty wooden spires of the
churches in Nation, ILL.,, have been
pierced in hund'ed of places by
woodpeckers locking for food or for
places for nests. The holes in the
Methodist church steeple became so
unsightly that man was employed
to shoot the birds. Then bees took
up their abode within, and their hon
ey drips from the holes and smears
the steeple. The Congregational
church steeple is well filled with hon
ey, and so are stoeples in neighbor-
ing towns. Six awarms Offices were
seen to quit the spire of Paxton
church in one day.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1886-07-29
HOW TO BUILD UP A TOWN.

The following sensible receipt fol
building up town is from the Birm.
ingham, Ala, Age. It's wise sugges-
tons may be read with profit by those
that are not croakersor nlisanthropes
but who really wish to see their town
great and prosperous. We hope ev-
cry citizen will read, study and prac-
tice its counsels:
"llere lisa good receipt for building
up a town and keeping it in a flour
ishing condition: Grit, Push, Snap,
Vim, Churches, Colleges, Morality,
Enterprise, Harmony, Advertising,
Cordiality, Cheap property, Healthy
location, Good country tributary,
Talk about it, Speak we'll about it,
Help to improve, Advertise in and
read the town paper, Patronize its
merchants. Faith exhibited by good
works, Honest competition in bust
ness, Welcome railroads, Welcome
macadamized streets with plenty of
shade trees, Make things look bright
and attractive, Help all public enter
prises, Elect good men to office,
Speak well of its public spirited, en-
terprising citizens, and be one of them
yourself. Remember that evey dol
lar invested in permanent improve
ments is that much on interest. AL
ways cheer on the men who go in for
improvements"