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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-21
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

TURKEY refuses to occupy Bulgaria
SOCIALISTS rioted in the streets Of Ant
Rerp.
THERE are not more than 10000 Quaker.
| n America
TwENrY-E1eHT counties of Michigan have
voted for Prohibition.
WARLIKE activity is noticed in the British
Admiralty Department.
ITALY is talking of bringing home her
soldiers from Abyssinia
RUSSIA has had bad luck with her best
ronclad 1t must be rebuilt.
THERE are thirty-seven Japanese students
In the University Of Michigan.
KANSAS CITY bids fair to become the rae
ing centre Of the boundless West.
THE Israel Putnam monument at Brook
iyn, Conn, is to be dedicated on June IA.
NINETY thousand Italian emigrants have
THERE are seven American defaulters,
bank-wreckers and murderers in Buenos
| Ayres.
THE Government of Santo Domingo has
rranted concessions to American railroad
contractors.
THE sarcophagus containing the body Of
Alexander the Great has been discovered at
Saida, Turkey.
FIFTY thousand bags of beans have arrived
ut New York from Mediterranean ports dur
ng the last two months
OVER $4,000 worth Of potatoes vert
shipped from Halifax to the United States
during the last quarter of 1887.
SPAIN is to have an international Exhibition
In 1883. 1t is to be held in Barcelona, and ID
TO be open from April to September.
JOHNNY BEALL, the thirteen -year-old mnr.
derer of his mother, of Columbus, Ohio, hai
been sentenced to life Imprisonment.
were reprints of English works, were pub
lished in the United States last year.
CHARLES PoMERoY, who started from New
York to Havana in an open boat last fall, has
been washed up on the Florida coast, o
corpse.
The Grant Monument Committee of New
York has on deposit $l26, l62. 80. The con
tributions of the last year aggregated abou,
$4,000.
ToLBERT ROLLINS, crazy citizen of Perry
County, Ark, filed his mouth with powder
and placed lighted match to it. He was
fatally injured.
A SYNDICATE of French engineers has con
tracted to stop the breach in the Hoang-Ho
River. whose overflow caused the great disas
ter short time ago.
THERE are now stored along the Hudson
River about 8, ESQ, 900 tons of ice, while from
the lakes of the vicinity nearly 10000 tons
more have been cut
COLLECTOR MAGoNE's investigation Of
nnium frauds at the Port Of New York ha.
70 far revealed fraudulent e1portatiom
amounting to 81 100000.
JOHN F. CHASE, a Maine war veteran who
received forty y.eight wounds and wears e
glass eve, has invented an aerial war ship fol
dropping dynamite on the beds Of tbs
enemy.
A VAN containing oil Paintings valued al
sl5O,OOo, was lately buried on the Edgewar
Road IN London. oneof the pictures owned
by nooleman, was w5rth $50, ,U0l. How th'
bre occurred Is q nysStry.
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RAGING FLAMES.
A Disastrous Fire in the Heart os
New York City.

A Disastrous Fire in the Heart oa
New York City.
For the third time within month the
ominous signal known as the "Three Skies"
has been sounded in New York City, bring
ing into service nearly one-half Of the COM
panies composing the fighting force Of
tbe he'd department This has never before
occurred in the twenty.three year,
of the departments existence. Ihs
Are which called for this remarkable
massng Of forces broke out about 1880
o'clock In the immense structure at Lexington
avenue and Forty-second street, known as the
POTTER & Stymus Building. This was sub.
stantial structure Of brick, six stories
high. This is now a mass OF ruins.
From there the flames spread to the adjoin,,
ing property, and before the fremen could
arrest their progress six tenement houses, an
acre of small buildings and a factory em
blowing 1,40O hands were completely de-
stroyed. The Vanderbilt Hotel and nine
other buildings were greatly injured
Measured BY cold figures twenty-five fam
ilies. embracing lis souls, were turned out is
the world without any Of their effects lete,
the furniture Of eight others was damaged
and broken by water and removal, and over
q. 500, 600 worth of buildings and stock were
DESTROYED before the flames would acknowl'
,dgs tie supremacy Of the fremen-
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THE LABOR WORLD.

CHICAGO is to have an elevated railroad.
THERE are L, ,4GS ovens in the Connellsville
PENN coke region.
BEssEMER's steel patents have brought him
s35, 1856, 900 in royalties.
The eight hour movement is asserting IT,
self strongly on the Pacific coast.
IT is reported that Lynn, Mass, has up
ward Of forty Chinese laundries.
CARNEGIE's steel works, in Pittsburg, have
shut down, and the men are discharged.
COAL forty-three inches thick has been dls,
covered at lie Roy, Kansas, at depth OF Seo
teet.
IT has been stated on good authority that
It will require upward Of q 900 cars to trans
port the orange crop of California.
AT Irwin, Penn, company has been
organized to manufacture hardware mover
lies, lawn mowers and other machinery.
The Etna Iron Works at Pittsburg have
closed down indefinitely, the puddlers and
laborers, 500 in number, refusing to 60 70
work.
THE sewer pipe manufacturers of the
United States met in New York and stated
that owing to fall in prices trust Will De
formed.
S1NcLA1RvILLE, Chautauqua County, N
Y, has a gas we'll 1000 feet deep flowing
1,000,0 feet Of natural gas every twenty
four hours.
ABOUT $15,OOO,OO worth of tile has been
laid in Illinois, and the tile, if placed in
continuous line, would reach around the
globe three times.
The Brakemen's Journal says that the
reason so many brakemen are injured on
some roads in coupling cars is that brakemen
are cheaper than bumpers.
THE Italian bootblack at the Produce E1'
change, New York, pays $500 year for hi:
stand privilege. He employs nine men and
derives q neat income after paying e1'
penses.
LlTHoGRAPHERS will be pleased to know
that lithographic stone is found in Dallas,
Texas, fully equal to the stone imported from
Europe. 1t costs from $40 to $50 for stone
3Ox40.
The Pacific Coast Federated Trades As
sembly has sent its president, w. A. Bush
NELL on to Congress to demand the passage
of Congressman Mitchells anti-C Chinese ex'
clusion act.
THE Bankers Monthly states that p d:
Armour G. Co. did q business in 1887 footing
up $50, 900, 600. This, it says, is probably the
largest business done by any one commercial
house on the globe.
JOHN SEMPLE, Jr., as umpire in the Pitts.
burg tube works arbitration, has decided that
there schould be no reduction OF wages. 1hls
decision will settle the wages OF about I'VE
thousand men engaged in wrought iron pipe
making
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DEPENDENT SOLDIERS.
Interesting Figures Furnished Bv
the, Pension Bureau.

Pension Commissioner Black has sent to
Chairman Matson Of the House Invalid Pen
sion Committee a report furnished to the
Pension Office by its agents concerning
the number of the disabled and dependent
Union soldiers in the different States. He
has in this way learned, as nearly perhaps
as possible, exactly the number of such
soldiers and their dependent relatives. The
report is so complete as to cover all but SO
counties in all the States. The grand totals
of Union soldiers supported in Government
and private charitable institutions was in
October, 1887, 36,953. Of this number Is, 1872
were in soldiers homes, while 21 sol were in
State and county institutions or supported
by charitable aid in towns The report by
States is interesting as showing in which
States the number of veterans dependent
upon aims is largest Massachusetts, leads
the list. which is as follows:
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KILLED BY WOLVES.
A Farmer and His Son Eaten by
Rayenous Animals in Dakota.

A horrible story comes from Poplar Grove,
a small town thirty miles southeast of Fort
lotion, Dakota. A farmer sent his son out
to clear a path to hay stack several rods
away. He had been shoveling snow for half
an hour when his cries were heard in the
house.
The old man seized his shotgun and rushed
out in time to see his boy surrounded by u
pack of wolves. which were killing him.
After firing both barrels without effect, he
clubbed his gun and made most desperate
effort to defend himself. But he was power
less against the wolves. From the windows
of the house his agonized wife and children
witnessed the onesided fight. The resistance
did not last long, and then for. an hour tho
wolves feasted upon their victims:
The woman dared not leave the house, and
remained there until neighbors came.
Crushed bones, fleshless, and clothing torn to
shreds alone showed where the battle had
taken place. That part of the Territory is
sparsely settled, and the people, thoroughly
terrorized by the occurrence, have armed
themselves.
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Foreign.

THE French schooner Fleur de Lamer has
sunk off Cayenne, Guiana. and sixty pas
sengers have been drowned.
AT Havana, Cuba, an inhuman mother
chopped Off the heads of two of her children
with hatchet and held two others in q tub
of water till they drowned, and then cut
them up.
THE Bishop of Cork, Ireland, has permitted
the body of the late Stephen j. Meany, the
Irlsh-American patriot, to be placed In the
Cathedral there on the condition that there be
no political demonstration.
Two villages in Switzerland have been to-
tally destroyed by avalanches. Five people
were killed.
THE bodies of over two hundred victims Of
the recent avalanches in the Italian Alps
have been recovered.
The members Of the Roumanian Cabinet
have resigned.
AvALANcHEs in the Trentino Valley, Italy
have killed twenty persons.
Two Mexican villages were attacked by
daring gang Of bandits At the village of
Lleva nine men and one girl were killed, and
at Picacho seven were murdered. The rob-
bers sacked the post Office and principal
stores and then fled.
THE house of John DAILY. near Cayugaa,
Canada, burned, and his wife and two chill
Gren perished in the flames.
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South and West.

The new and incompetent men who have
taken the places of striking c., B. & Q. en-
gineers destroyed seven engines.
SEVEN hundred conductors and brakemen
on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad in New
Mexico have struck against a reduction in
wages and business on the system is entirely
suspended.
THE venerable banker, Valentine Winters,
of Dayton. Ohio, has distributed half
million dollars among six children and the
heirs of two Others. In 1882 he gave them
four hundred thousand.
LAKE SUPERIOR region has just been
visited by the worst gale and snow storm Of
the season, and the railroads were entirely
blockaded during its continuance.
THE Sutter Hotel at Sutter Creek, Cal
took fire and from there the flames spread
and destroyed the entire town. The place
had population of $500.
ALBERT WEST, (colored) confined in the
Workhouse at Indianapolis, Ind, attacked a
prison official, crushing his head with a stone,
when the guard shot West, killing him
instantly.
NEWTON, Kan, was visited by tornado,
which killed W. J. Lacy, fatally wounded
two ladies and destroyed nine houses, valued
at $4,000.
E. A. MCLEOD, Postmaster at Palmyra,
NO., WHOSE dCcOuHCS WeTe recently IOuIlu W
be $TC0 short, committed suicide by hanging
himself to chandelier in the Circuit Court
room.
FIRE in the heart Of the business section of
Milwaukee, Wis, destroyed property to the
value of $500, 900.
CHARLES DUNCAN killed his employer,
Milt Hawks, at Parkersburg, W. Va, and
the indignant neighbors lynched him.
THREE men were killed at Walkerville,
Montana, by reason of the cable breaking
with which they were being lowered into a
mine shaft.
GEORGE WATTS, striking engineer, tres
passed on the property of the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Railroad at Brookfield,
ILL.,, while endeavoring to persuade a fellow
workman not to take out an engine, and a
Deputy Sheriff named Bostwick shot him
dead.
The village of Deep Creek, Va, has been
totally destroyed by fire.
MEASLES in a malignant form is rapidly
wiping out the bands of Nez Perces Indians
on their reservation.
A TORNADO in Grand Cotean Parish, La.
destroyed number Of houses uprooted trees
and killed one child.
A COLLISION occurred on the Cincinnati
Southern Road near Pine Knot, KY, result.
ing in the death of one man and fatal
injuries to five more.
A PREMATURE explosion of dynamite in
the Cleveland Mine at Ishpeming, Mich,
killed five miners.
PULLMAN CONDUCTOR TowNE was attacked
at New Buffalo, Dakota, in his car by two
masked men, who robbed him of large
amount of valuables, and, leaving him un-
conscious, escaped.
SIX tons of dynamite exploded at Rich
mond, Ind, killing David Hampton, serious.
ly injuring woman a quarter of a mile
away, and shaking the earth within radius
of fifty miles.
REV. J. A. AsBrRY. a prominent Method
Ind, while conducting funeral service.
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WAR THE SOUDAN.

Several Hundred Rebels Killed In
an Attack on the British. D
Notwithstanding the comparative quiet
that has prevailed in the Soudan Of late, the
situation has been strained and numerous con-
licts have occurred between the British and
their swarthy foes, eliminating Sunday IN
a desperate and well planned effort by Q
large force Of Egyptian rebels under conn
mand Of Osman Digma, to capture Suahm.
After four hours hard fighting the rebels
retired. leaving several hundred killed and
wounded on the field. On the British hde
Colonel Tap and five Egyptians were killed
and fourteen wounded. The British gum
boats Dolphin and Albacore assisted the
garrison, and poured deadly fire on the re-
treating rebels.
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Washington.

The President has approved the bill au-
thorizing the purchase OF additional ground
for the Custom-house at Newark, N. J.
THE Senate Committee on Education and
Labor has made a favorable report on the
bill extending the provisions Of the Eight
Hour law to letter carriers.
UNITED STATES TREASURER says that the
aggregate loss on all the issues Of Govern
ment notes by destruction up to January 81,
1888, was not less than IS, 100000.
THE United States pension Office has
granted the first pension claim ever awarded
O Chinese. All Lin, landsman aboard OF
coast, was injured in the leg by the bursting
Of gun fred in a salute. All Lin's pension
is $S per month.
THE subcommittee of Congress that was
appointed to examine the Worthington-Post
contested election case, from Illinois, has de-
cided in favor Of Post, the sitting Congress
man.
The President has sent the following nom
nations to the Senate:-John R. Read OF
Pennsylvania to be United States Attorney
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
George G. Sill of Connecticut to be United
States Attorney for the District of Connecti-
cut. Alex. B. Cooper of Delaware to be.
United States Attorney for the District OF
Delaware; John Lee Logan Of New York to
be the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of Idaho; Charles c. Jones of Nebr aska to
be Register Of the Land Office at Neliegh,
Neb. Rev. J. F. Dolphin of Minnesota to be
Post Chaplain; George F. Hollis of Massa-
chusetts to be United States Consul at Cape
town.
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: Moses j. Liddell Of Louisiana
to be Associated Justice of the Supreme
Court of Montana: Charles H. Harrington to
be Postmaster at Essex, Conn. George Cush
ing to be Postmaster at Higham, Mass; A.
W. Doremus to be Postmaster at Boonton, N.
j.; E. F. Pedrick to be Collector of Customs
for the district of Marblehead, Mass; T. II.
Kelly to be Assistant Collector OF Customs
at Jersey City.
The Senate has so amended the rules of
procedure that by majority vote treaties and
the discussions thereon may be made public.
The President has sent the following
nominations to the Senate: James NJ. Corbet
to be Register of the Land Office at Grand
Forks, Dakota; Jabez c. Steele, to be Re-
ceiver of Public Moneys at Huntsville, Ala.
Edwin Eells, to be Agent for the Indians OF
the Puyallupa Agency (consolidated in
Washington Territory.
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How Bismarck's speech went over the
world ia shown by the number Of kilograms
sent out upon the day and evening of its de-.
livery. No fewer than 1918 press kilograms,
comprising 1914, ,298 words about it, were sent
from Berlin to 826 different places in Ger
many and abroad. Tie forwarding OF these
kilograms was effected by 2S5 officials on 22l
instruments
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-21
TOBACCO AND WHISKY.
The Ways and Means Committee
Internal Revenue Reductions.

A Washington dispatch says that the in
ternal revenue reductions have been agreed
on by the Democrats of the Ways and Means
Committee and are to be considered
with the Tariff bill. They effect q
total reduction of about s24, 100000
or s25,0OO.0O0 The tobacco tax, except on
cigars and cigarettes, is repealed, reducing
revenue about s19,0y0,000. Licenses abol-
tshed will make q further reduction OF be-
tween "a, ,000, 600 and IS, 00O, 600.
There is no reduction on spirits Of any kind
The manufacturers Of fruit hrandies are al
lowed to place their product in bonded ware
houses and tale warehouse receipts for the
same time as the whisky distillers now have.
Eoms extreme penalties have been lessened
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CHARLES CRocKER, President Of the Pro-
montory Cattle Company Of Utah, has con-
summated deal by which his company se-
cures 10000 head of stock cattle, to be
turned upon their immense ranch OF over
1000 acres near Salt Lake
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Grand Total. tal........................ .36,953

soldiers homes are pensioners, so that they
would not have to be provided for under a
dependent pension bill. Very few of the in
mates of aims houses are pensioners. Chair
man Matson will probably give study to the
elaborate reports sent to him by Commits
sioner Black, and give an estimate OF the
cost of the Dependent Pension bill, If it
is passed.
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SENATOR palmer, of Michigan, recently
sent an emissary to Asia to purchase Arabian
horses The emissary has just written home
from Jerusalem that his mission is failure,
as the Sultan has rec .ntly issued tirmar
prohibiting further expectations of Arabian
horses.
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Ar Economy, Penn, the twenty:eight old
mon and women survivors Of the Harmony
Society, celebrated the ,eighty-thMTd M ami.
versary of their establshment' 1ney o"u
nroperty- worth SIS, 100000.
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CHARLES POWERS, the Williamsburg
IN. " schoolboy who, it is said, went crazy
from being beaten by his teacher, has died OF
..a;naI snaninoitis and has rt diaAas~
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LESS argument and more work Will
make any person better of.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-19
WEAK BACK

Not one man in FIVE can boast of
a strong back. There are many in>
discretions producing this complaint,
and il may be relieved by b. b. b +,
as witness the following:
BALTMoRE, May %, 1857.
For fises years ! have been suffer
ing with weak back from result Of
an injury received, attended by
rheumatism. l had to give up my
regular business and take the posi-
ton Of night Waterman ! have de-
rived great relief and benefit by
using Botanic Blood Balm" and
have regained my strength sufficiently
10 resume my regular work. ] think
Botanic Blood Balm has given me
permanent r, lief. am now able to
perform work that have not had
strength to do Tor I've years, and
cheerfully indorse B. b. B., which
has proven to be the only medicine
that would give me relief.
OLIVER SzcoR,
iil4 streeper St, Baltimore, Md
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I,nn,s Trade REVIEW.

NV YONG. Sept. i4.-R. g. Dunn
N Cos weekly Revier Of Trade will
say: The week has been one OF
further Improvement In bnsiness, not
withslanding acme disturbances In
sp.culatiye markets. The passing Of
die dividend BY the 81. Paul caused
4 fall IN stocks, and the government
crop report fan 10 wheat, while the
e.por. trade, though improving, con.
tinues email. Bat the volume Of
Legitimate business Il large and In
creasing. and there is improvement
In the productive industries. The an
nual colt N statement just published,
shows that last years crop was 4 l7,.
7O7 bales, though the bufesu and
the cotton exchange estimated 1900.
600. Tie new crop has promised e
be large. bat effect Of recent heayJ
rains cannos yet be fully maturcd
The con mon statement also shows
that Tho consumption 10 manufacture
has been per cent. larger than -
the previous year, with considerably
increase In spindlcs at the South.
The financial disturbance occurs n
yea, though the rate 81 interest ha
loer rapidly advanced; The Trcasur
purchase over IS 100000 more bond
on Thursday, and paid out for Oh
week Oh 900 900 more than Il ha
taken IN, but il Il an unwelcome fac
that ihe failures for two weeks hay
been 3sl in the Uni:ed States again
81 last year.
Business failures during the la
seven DAYS numbers United S:at'
100; Canada, %; total. 2i7, ~ OF ,in
22l last week, and 1888 for the COZ
responding week Of last rear.
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Electric Bitters.

This remedy Is becoming 50 vel
known and 30 popular rs 70 need TO
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song Of
praise.--A purer medicine does not
exist and it is guaranteed 10 do all
that Is claimed. Electric Biitcrs will
cure all diseases Of the liver and kid.
news. will remove pimples, boils, salt
rheum and other affections caused by
impure blood.-Will drive malaria
from the system and prevent as well
A. cure all malarial fsyers. --For cure
Of headache.
For sale By II. Blaeknall, Druggis
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Our Ticket.


The Farmers Of the country have
been for long time clammering for
a Farmer Legislature. We think
they will have il now. From what
we can gather so far, the farmers
throughout the State have pretty
generally in the field a farmers ticket
for the Legislature. In Orange We
have two, Harvey Hughes for the
Senate aud Thomas NJ. Cheek for the
House, TWO good farmers and good
men, and good Democrats. If any
Democratic farmer in Orange turns
his back upon these men, We will be
compelled to advise him, or them to
Quit farming and 90 more fully into
the business Of uncons itutional
grumb.ing and fault finding. Our
practice has always been TO 60 the
whole ticket whether We like them
all or not, provided they are simon
pure Democrats. We believe that
the opinion Of so Democrats selected
from the different sections OF the
county, constituting our county con-
yentions, is more 10 be relied npor
than ours.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla, September 3.
Twelve new cases up TO noon and
three deaths: Josie Rogers, m em-
ployee Of the Singer Sewing Machine
Co; o. J. Latte, clerk Of the National
Bank Of Jacksonville, and Alfred
Morgan. The Board Of Health Is in
Star Chamber meeting daily from ii
before noon TO 2 afternoon. and no
one can get q word from il. Dr. Leon
ard is very III, and Their are seven at
Sand Hill,