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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-12
LIFB-SAVING SERVICE.
The Past Years Work in Say.
ing Vessels and Crews.
A Summary Of the Help Rendered
by the Station Crews.

The following is an abstract of the report
of the General Superintendent of the Life
Saving Service:
"The number of disasters to documented
vessels within the scope of station operation.
during the year was All. There were on
hoard these vessels 25j3 persons, Of whom
only 12 wero lost. The number of ship
wrecked persons who received succor at the
stations was 745, to whom 1893 days relief,
in the aggregate. was afforded The esti-
mated value of the vessels involved in the
disasters was s5,924, $50, and that of their
cargoes s3,G31, 1856 making the total value Of
amount 81, T1G, 405 was saved and 81, IT'S $50
was lost The number of vessels totally lost
was II.
THE extent Of the assistance rendered in
saving vessels and cargoes was greater than
ever before, 4!2 vessels having been worked
off when stranded, repaired when damaged
piloted out of dangerous places, and SINH
larly assisted by the station crews. There
were beside 229 instances where vessels. ruiz
ming into danger of stranding, were warned
off by the signal signs of tho patrol,
most Of them thus being saved from partial
or total loss The expense Of maintaining
the service during the year was S92S, ,2l3 The
General Superintendent states that the fore
going results of the years operations are the
best yet obtained since the general extension
of the servit to the seq and lake coasts. The
number of lives lost in proportion to the
numbers Of persons on board the vessels in
volved is less than ever before, being only
one outof every 2S2. In the saving OF prop
erty, the exhibit is also very gratifying,
showing more than IS saved for every dollar
expended.
1.-THE following table gives q summary Of
the statistics of the service from the intro
duction of the present system in 1871 to the
close of the fiscal year. The statement below
includes the loss Of 1S3 lives at the wrecks of
the Huron and Metropolis, which loss, the re-
port says, was really not chargeable to the
service:
Number Of disasters. 1896; value of prop
erty involved, SIS, 3J2, ,999; value of property
saved, SOS, 297, ,G5?; value of property lost
$40 005, ,G47; number of persons involved, &c.
Ala: number of lives lost, SOL; number Of
persons succored at stations, G116: number of
days succor afforded, ii, l05. The General
Superintendent strongly recommends an in
crease IN the compensation OF the surfmen,
whose hardships and labors, he declares, are
worthy of Better remuneration than they
now receive. He also advocates the passage
Of the bill reported to the House of Repre-
sentatives by the Committee on Pensions at
the last session of Congress, granting PEN
sions to the officers and enlisted men of the
service, who are subjected to imminent
peril, and to their widows and minor chill
dren ~
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CLOSELY KNIT FAMILIES,
Four Broth hers Marry Four Sisters
nj Huntsville. Ky.

Four Brothers Marry Four Sisters
at Louisville, Ky.
At four o'clock u few afternoons ago thu
Rev. Mr.. Zimmerman. of st. Johns Church
Louisville, KY, performed the marriage
ceremony for George Rothenberger and Miss
Lou W;eglieb The young couple live about
ten miles out on the ShelbyvilIe road and the
farms of their parents are adj djoning.
Mr.. Wieglieb and Mr.. Rothenbcrger, Sr..
came to this country manv years ago ano
settled near each o!her. They were alway:
on the best terms. and two years ago wher
the eldest son of Mr.. Rotbcnberger
askel for the hand of one OF
the seven handsome Miss Wirg'iehs
the parents of both were delighted tins
Rev. Mr.. Zimmerman was called upon tn
marry them and thcro was fcaSting and re.
iocin.. n few months passo | and another
uf the IONS of Mr. Rnthenherger married an
other OF tho Miss WiegIiehs. Hardly had
the remnants of this wedding fe1st lecn
cleared away before the til rd son of Mr..
Rothenbarger married the third daughter of
Mr.. Wieglieb. Then there was only one SOL
left unmarried-this was Gcorge-anl now
he has proposed to the fourth daughter and
they were married.
Mr.. Wieglieb has three pretty daughters
left, but the Rothenb2rger family has given
out and they will have to look elsewhere 1or
husbands.
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Tattooinr ConYicts for Identification.

sThe latest fad in prison manage
ment," said prison Official, us tat
tooing. 1t is ready means OF ldenti-
ficat!on, and is bound to become popular
in prison management. My idea Is 70
tattoo convict every time he is i'm;
prisoned, and then we'll have his record
as clear as the moon at midnight. Let
each penal institution adopt different
mark or monogram and the problem .. 81
identifying convlcts will be solved. IL
is the implest and best system yet pro-
posed. TO some persons it may seem as
harsh as branding, but it isn't. Tattoo;
ing isn't painful, and the marks could
be put on the convict's back, arms OF Of
legs, and would not embarrass reformed
convicts. Tattooing is now followed IN
several penal institutions abroad, and !
understand that it is to be introduced
in the State prison at .oliet, III. IL
might be a good thing to try in the Erie
County Penitcnt ary.- Eqyalo Express.
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INTERNAL REVENUE.
Amo.nts Collected and Expenses o.
Running That Service.


Running That Service.
The annual report of the Commissioner o.
Internal Revenue shows receipts amounting
to Sl24.32 ,47a:2, and taxes Of 81, ,9i8,2S3o
The expenses of revenue agents were S7,3S@,
IA
There were 10Tt violations Of the law re-
ported, resulting in the arrest OF Isl persons
and the con!is cation of property valued al
$20, 0,n36,54'. During the year 4U' stills were
destroyed, ST. Iersons arrested and one Oil
Ger Iii led and another wounded. The com
missioner recommends the enactment of
law TO reimburse agents for the loss OF prop
erLv during the prosecution OF their business
There wee SS5, !j.IS % received from cases
COMPROMISED during the year. The force EN-.
ployed comprises Is: men i'll the ticl |, 94I col.
tectors and deputies. ISL clerks, ~ messengers
and l.,19 gau"ers and st"rekeerers Addi
tional employees are reGuc-tcl owing to the
Growth of tie business There are 2SS4 fruit
Stills registered, nearly all of which are in
operation.
distileries in operation on September was
lao, 7tjl gallons There were IL. ,303 bush
OILS of grain used in distiilerirs during the
vear q decrease of 1850, GOO bushels from the
The commits ioner oppos s the reduction OF
tho tny on fruit Lrandy as it would seriously
cnt into the sac of whisky, on which tax
of ninety cents per gal on is levied. There
are over 3OJJ registered fruit distl ieries ana
from ali sections come complaints from
whisky distillerS Of competition from this
source.
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Foreign.
Foreign.
THE Turkish budget shows deficit of ST.

THE Turkish budget shows deficit of ST.
100000.
TIE Cabinet Ministers Of Mexico have
handed in their designations that President
Dinz may have full liberty to appoint new
Cabinet for the new term.
ADvICES from Samoa say that Mataafa's
followers attacked a stronghold held by al
herents Of Tamasese at stna, ana succeeded
in capturing the outposts after two days
fighting. Hundreds of the combatants were
xii ed.
COPENHAGEN was brilliantly Illuminated
in honor Of the Princess Of Wales. VINO,
with her daughters, departed for England
after paying visit to her father, the
King of Denmark.
NEWS has been received of the laundering
of seven icebound sailing vessels in the Sea or
AZov. The crews of the ill-fated boats
managed to reach Taganrog. Russia, after
we're suffering. They were all frost bitten.
HEnR WOW LEvETzow conservative has
been elected President Of the German Relch.
stag by a vote of 27l out of total Of 2Sl
ballots recorded.
A SERIOUS revolution has broken out in
Venezuela General Creaspo. supported oy
General Sergio Cnmarco, has LAM in the
East with en- army of five thousand men.
II. HERTENsTEIN, President of Switzerland,
has had his right LEG amputatef. The opera
tion was necessary because Of disease OF the
arteries.
NICARAGUA has accepted the United States
Governments invitation to ioin tine pronosed
co"fororre of American Republics on Octo-
Der ., 1889.
MACK1E & Co.'S steamer Newburgh. OF
Ieith. Scotland, while on a voyage from
Grnn9emouth to Aarhuus, with coal, foun-
dered i'm the North Sea. Sixteen persons
were drowned and one was rescued and landed
in Norway.
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How to Broil Beefsteak.

The points of excellence in weH-cooked
meat are fine flavor, juiciness and nutri-
tive quality; the best of meat can be
spoiled during the cooking when the eff
feet of heat is not understood, or the OBJ
iect of certain methods of cookery intel
iigently followed. The purpose Of all
cookery is to prepare food to yield its
nutritive properties during the process
of digestion. The first question is: In
what form can its digestion be most per
fectly accomplished! Frying as 1t is fre-
ouently done covers the surface Of meat
with an excess of fat, and also deprives
it of some of its most valuable juices.
Roasting proper retains these by sur
rounding the meat with crisp surface
of intense flavor that is not obtainable
by any other method of cookery. Bak-
ing, if properly done, gives brown sur
face, more or less crisp, according to the
hest of the oven aud the amount OF steam
generated, and the juices are preserved.
Broiling when we'll done retains the
flavor and juice of the meat, and gives
a surface less hard and crisp than roast
ing, equally favorable in flavor, and more
digestible. The free circulation OF ar
about the meat and the application OF in
tense heat preserves all the flavor and
nutrment, while the rapidity with which
it is cooked favors its perfect digestion.
To broil perfectly, have a clear hot
fire; either a red bed of wood embers,
glowing mass of coal, or hot mass OF
charcoal which has cea,ed to burn with
flame; there is an admirable device tor
broiling with Illuminating gas, by COM
bining enough atmospheric air with the
gas to produce blue iiame intensely hot,
and free from smoke, under which the
meat is bro!led; the temperature OF TINS
fame EQUALS if it does not exceed that
of the hottest bed of burning Goals.
Aftor the meat is trimmed free from
excessive bone and fat-both being re-
served for soup and drippings-put 1t in
q gridiron and expose 1t to the hottest
fire available; brown it as quickly as
possible, first upon one side and then on
the OTHER, being careful to avoid punct-
uring the meat so that the juice escapes;
when both sides are brown, cook 1t to
the desired degree without burning or
smoking it; this can be done by taking
little care, holding the meat near or
far from the fire, according to the heat.
Have ready hot platter upon when 10
Law the steak, season it p4latabiy with
salt. pepper and butter, and serve it at
once. With a hot fire an in h-thlck
steak will broil medium rare in about
twenty minutes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-12
REJOICING IN FLORIDA,
Frost All Over the State and Yellow
Fever Dying Out.

A Jacksonville dispatch says that there was
heavy white frost there, completely cover
ing the roofs, lawns and pavements. There
was great rejoicing thereat, and the people
talked of nothing else Business revived
perceptibly. Ice formed in at least q dozen
places about the ci y.
The Board Of Health Committee of the
auxiliary association and Doctor Peters held
q conference relative to giving immedi-
ate attention to such preliminary work and
necessary precautions as shall open up the
usual channels of business throughout the
State at the earliest moment. Steps were
taken to remove all embargo On travel.
kilograms from many portions Of the in
terror OF the State reported heavy frosts and
in some cases the formation of ice.
1t is perfectly safe for people to travel now
in any part of Florida Railroad trains have
resumed their customary winter schedule.
Disnfection began at Jacksonville. and will
take at least twenty days Hunters i'm
mense mill furnace will I've used for burning
infected bedding and Smiths laundry for the
the dlsinfecton of clothes, etc.
The official bulletin gave only two new
cases and no deaths. Total cases. 46T7; total
deaths 40S
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Washington

THE Sioux Indian Commission has for
warded its report to Secretary Villas
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Harrison and
Morton inauguration Fund now amount to
So7.2lO. Only $4,000 in cash is needed. Tho
balance of the expenses will be paid from the
sale OF tickets, etc. The expenses of the last
Inauguration were S46,OOO, OF which only
onehalf was subscribed.
Hon. PERRY BELMONT, the newly appointed
Minister to Spain, has called at the Depart
menu of State at Washington, taken the
oath of Office and received his credentials and
preliminary instructions
THE United States Post Office Department
is considering q plan Of establishing letter
boxes on lines of street cars which pass near
post Offices in cities. In such cases collectors
would meet the cars at points nearest to the
post office and transfer the mails
ACCORDING to the report of the Washing
ton Bureau Of Statistics the number Of
vessels of all classes built in the United
States for the year ending June 50, 1888. was
lOl4, with total tonnage of 2lS,0S tons.
THE summary statement of the imports
and exports of the United States, made up
at the Washington Bureau of Statistics,
shows that the total value of exports for 1888
was $445, 5,355,2:6, and Of imports OF mer-
chandise S544.51l, ,G34
e. j. VICKERY, Superintendent of the
Third Division of the railway mail service,
with headquarters in Washington, has re-
signed at the Request Of the postal au hori-
ties, and will be succeeded by Eugene Car
rington, the SLperintef dent Of Mails at Bal
timore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-12
A DARING AERONAUT.
He Drnps with a Parachute into
a River and is Drowned.

He DrnDs with a Parachute into
a River and is Drowned.
A balloon ascension and parachute leap
Mt the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition,
Columbus, Ohio, by the famous aeronaut
Professor F. H Vandergrift. was billed TO
take place at p. NJ. a few days since.
An immense concourse Of over d.
600 people had assembled to witness the
leap However, a stiff gale was blowing at
the time, and Nandergrft approached the
directors and stated he was apprehenslVe.
The directors told him a right, and the an
nouncement was made to the throns by
Superintendent Gottheus, who said the aero
nalt would make the leap at r. NJ. II the WIND
settled. The crowdswere greatly disapponte I.
At O'Clock the wind had not settls q. nut tho
daring balluonist determined to make the
ascent at all hazards When ready the cords
were cut and the balloon assembled, with
Vanderbilt hanging from the trape'e OF
the parachute He performed several
feats going up. Loud cheers rent the air,
but when the balloon had reached q dis
tance of about half mile 1t ourst
clear from top TO bottom. The aeronaut
cnt loose the parachute immediately, and the
parachute flew open and just escaped the
balloon falling upon HIM. The gallant fel-
low managed the parachute in the gale with
great cleVerneSs and bravery. it TOOK q
sonthwesterly direction, with rapid down
ward course, and fell into the Chnttaiooche
River about a quarter of a mile from the
park. ;.,, +-ro man
went to his assistance. Fanu'lE'hC on
TANGLED in the trapeze, swan up the river
bravely on his back for short issuance TO
meet the boat. When the boat reached HIM
he caught hold of the stern and endeavored
to climb in. The parachute was still hang-
ing to him.
The end of the boat went under. The men
got scared and pulled away, and Vandegrifts
hold slipped, anl after short strugg g he
sank. His partner, .. J. Brady, divei after
tie body several times without success.
Florida orange growers are looking to
Europe as o market for their early fruit.
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Delicious Pancakes.

Pancakes made from the following re-
cipe are delicious: Beat up three eggs
in quart of milk, make it up into a
batter with flour, little salt, spoonful
of ground ginger and little grated
lemon peel; let it be of fine thickness
and perfectly smooth. Clean your fry
ing pan thoroughly, and put into it q
good lump of dripping; when it is hot
pour in a cupful of batter and let it run
all over of an equal thickness; shake the
pan frequently that the batter may not
stick, and when you think it is done on
one side, toss it over, if you cannot turn
it with cake turner; and when both
sides are of nice light brown, lay it on
q dish before the fire, strew sugar over it,
and do the rest in the same manner.
They should be eaten Immediately or
they will become heavy. If you have
no maple syrup, caramel sauce is very
nice to serve with them. .-BrooklyH Citi-
zen. -
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZEl.
Eastern and Middle States.

CLEvELAND'S official plurality in Connectl'
cut is 1876. The Prohibition vote is 4234.
GERTRUDE L1MEsoN, aged thirty, of Great
Darlington, Mass. was found dead IN ner
room at her boarding place under clrcum'
stances that indicate suicide.
Mrs. JAMES Fl. WHEATON, OF North
Adams, Mass, was beaten to death by her
husband.
Ten large iron mills at Pittsburg, Penn,
have closed down on account Of the bursting
of one Of the principal gas supply mains.
Ten thousand men nre Idle.
GEORGE TuCKS, q Pittsburg PENN drug
clerk. gave Christian l. rezop, child a dose
of ammonia for lime water. The child died
Immediately in convulsions.
JAMES e. BEDELL. who obtained s294 600
by forgery while acting as real estate clerk
the New York law firm of Shipman, Bar.
low, Larocque s; Choate, has been sentenced
by Recorder Smythe, in tho Court OF Gen.
eral Sessions to twenty-five years and four
months imprisonment He was lmmedlately
taken to Sing Sing Penitentiary.
THREE men were killed and three more
fatally injured at Thompson's Mills, N. Y,
by an explosion of dynamite through the
recklcssness Of one Of the number.
THE United States steel cruiser Boston has
arrived at New YORK from Hayti with yel-
low fever on board. -Four Seamen dled 1rom
its effects while on the voyage from Port-au-
Prince and we're buried at sea. There were
three others Ill with the disease. but such
precautions had been taken that its further
spread was impossible.
MRS ROBERT OWEN, of Poultney, VT,
recently gave birth to four children, two
boys and two girls They are all alive and
look healthy and robust.
HEAVY storm Of wind, hail and snow
swept over all the Eastern and Middle States,
endangering travel by land and sea. At
New York telegraph wires were blown
down and shipping in the harbor greatly
damaged. The wind blew gale, and the
coast from Delaware to Maine was strewn
with wrecks of ships, schooners and canal
boats. There was much suffering among the
poor in the large cities of the East. The
snow caused a blockade in Boston. Naviga-
tion on the Hudson River and New York
State canals was suspended.
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South and West.

FOLLOWING are the official returns of the
vote of Virginia: Cleveland, l5l ,977; Harri-
son, $50, 42S; Clevelands plurality, 1885.
HENRY JAMES, colored, and his wife,
of Livingston, Ala, went to church supper
leaving their children locked up in the house.
Upon their return they found the house in
ashes and the children burned to crisp.
B. F. VANDERGRIFT made an ascent in q
balloon from the Exposition grounds at Co.
lumbus, Ga, in the presence of 1000 people.
When the balloon reached a height of about
80 q feet it burst, and the performer fell tC
the ground and was killed.
LEVI MEEKER, his wife and eightyear-old
daughter we 9 crushed to death at railroad
crossing near Wellington, Kan.
THE State Bank of Valparaiso, Neb., has
closed its doors and deposltors are looking
for the managers-L. Scoviile and G. A.
Crafts-with shotguns Liabilities, s2Oo, 900.
OYSTER pirates, while unlawfully dredg.
ing in the Chesapeake, were attacked by
Maryland's gunboat and one man was fatally
wounded. Later the pirates attacked and
captured the gunboat, sending her crew on
shore.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PoWDERLY,
of the Knights of Labor, has been reelected
and his friends chosen to fill the!other Offices in
the order by the General Assembly at Indian
apolis His salary was fixed at S5OOO pei
annum
TIE central plant of the Jenney Electric
Light Company, at Fort Wayne, Ind, wa
totally destroyed by fire, causing loss oil
over $300,0OO
AT joint caucus of Democratic Senators
and REPRESENTATIVES of the Alabama Legis.
lature United States Senator John T. Nor.
gan was nominated by reclamation to be hi,
own successor from the 9TH Of March next
This is his third nomination.
A FIRE broke out in drug store at POGO
moke, Md, an extended right and left, III
the absence N a fire department. until the
greater portion Of the village had been de.
stroyed The greater portion of the 250G
inhabitants are homeless and have lost all
their possessions. The aggregate loss is
figured at S253, 600.
GEORGE MILL1KEN has been hanged at
Shawneetown, ILL.,, for the murder OF his
wife last fall
ADAM BERKEs. Of SARDINIA, Ohio, who was
whipped by the White Caps, has become o
raving maniac in consequence Of the brutal
caStigation.
A FIRE that started in a dentists Office at
Eureka Springs, Ark, destroyed the greater
part of the business portion of the town. The
loss is S2o0,0O0.
HARRY GILBERT, wealthy ranchman
living west Of Wichita, Kan, has committed
suicide by drowning. He had just returned
from his bridal tour. He leaves an estate
worth half q million.
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A Switchback Aerial Railway.

An amiabie Frent b inventor named NJ.
julie, limbs is, it appears, quite sangulne
about his new melhol OF aerial locomo-
ton by means Of boats worked on
something like he ''switchbacE railway"
system. These marvellous crafts are, 1t
is said, to transport people from Paris to
St. Petersburg in eight hours, unless the
aeronaut's invention is maNing game OF
him. NJ. limbs is worEing at his Won
derful invention in the Rue de Traktlr,
Paris, of the Avenue ictor Hugo, but
people will have TO wait a little pelole
they can put any trust in his promises on
such unprecedented velocity OF locomo'
ton.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Cold Food.

Cold food, says the Boston Journal Of
Health, is more easily kept on sensitive
stomach than hot; so in cases where it is
rejected in the ordinary warm or hot
form, it had better be tried as nearly
frozen as may be taken. In many.fevers
this would be decided advantage. Milk
may be administered in frozen state,
often with positive advantage. The
Sanitary Era adds, from frequent iI-
stances, that ice cream suits admirably
some conditions where hardly any other
food is acceptable. ri
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LEOPOLD RoTHscHILD, the great London
banker, has offered an income OF $40 week
for life to the man who gives lntormation
which will lead to the arrest and conviction
Of the Whitechapel fend.
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THERE are indications pf another small
.oox epidemic in New ork, and vaccination
and revacc nation are urged unon the com
rnunity by the State Board OF Health.
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THE total eclipse of the sun January 1,
attracting interest in scientific circles, and
preparations are being made to make careful
observations The totality in the United
States will be continued to the northwest, ,and
will be longest continued in California