The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-03

bers well the day when the postmaster
carried all the mail In his hat. The
first private letter box was made Out
of boot, with part of the leg cut off
In those:days, less than fifty years ago
it cost twenty-five cents to send a let
tor from New York to Chicago.
Evangelical Christendom speaking
of the Lambeth Conference of thu
Church of England and those in com
munion with it, says: "Ifhalf the zeal
shown to fraternize with the corrup
Churches of the East had been directed
to the far more crying need of home
reunion, there would have been more
practical results from the Lambeth
Conference of 1885,"
Some of the French Canadian papers
are making war upon Anglicisms. 1t
seems that English words are creeping
into the French language. The Quebec
papers find in this process of corrup-
ton danger to their nationality.
Until the year 1890 the following law
was in force in England: "Whosoever
shall entice into bonds of matrimopy
any male subject of her Majesty by
means of rouge, white paint, Spanish
cotton, steel corsets, crinoline, high
heeled shoes or false hips, shall be
prosecuted for witchcraft, and the
marriage declared null and void"
The penitentiaries of the United
States are reported to have nearly co.
600 inmates, 5000 of whom are women.
The records of the license court of
Philadelphia shows that nine-tenths
of those applying for license are OF
foreign birth.
The very house in which Tom Paine
wrote '"The Age of Reason" is now
the property of good Methodist class
leader.
The press on which "The Age OF
Reason" was printed is now in Geneva,
and is used for nothing but to print
Bibles.
A man does harm to others by his
actions, to himself by his thoughts.
The Columbia Conference reports
thirty-seven local preachers and 1852
members.
Bolivia, which has a population
of 2, 900, 900, is without single Pro-
testant missionary.
The receipts of the M. E. Church fol
last year of missionory work were up
ward of 81, 100000.
Mr.. Van Buren used to be quoted as
having said, Republics are migrate
full" but the charge cannot lie against
the Republic of the United States
when nearly one-third of the annual
expenditures are paid in pensions.
Bishop Fallows, of the reformed
Episcopal Church, is credited with
saying: "The time has come for the
setting apart of woman forthe work OF
the gospel ministry"
In point of population the sexes are
about equal in the United States; but
in Church-membership two-thirds are
females, and of 10000 penitentiary in
mates $1,000 are men.
At Lucknow, India, where so many
were murdered during the Sepoy re-
bellion thirty years ago, two thousand
children, nearly all of Hindu or Mo-
hammedan parentage, recently march
ed in a Sabbath School procession.
The queen of Sweden has been
ordered by her doctors to get up early
make her own bed, take care OF her
own room, work in the garden, and
take long walks. Under this regimen
her health is visibly improving.
Rev. R. II. Allen, l.. u. d., or the
Florida Conference, was drowned re-
Gently while out fishing with his
granddaughter.
Miss Annie Aston, of Ashveille, N.
c., has prepared tract, entitled
"What to Do, and How to Do It," for
the Juvenile societies of the Holston
Conference.
The Supreme Court of Washington
Territory has declared the Woman
Suffrage Law unconstitutional. 1t
says the word, "citizen," means male
citizen.
The Omaha World say that a High
Church rector in New York has con-
cIuded to abandon the confessional, as
nobody comes to it except fine women
Just returned from Europe, and he
cannot waste three hours a day III lis
tening to smuggling stories any longer.
There are now eight mission ves-
sells cruising in the North Sea, each a
combination of church, chapel, tenn
perance hall and dispensatory.