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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12
Grief and shame Killed Him.

A special from Little Rock, Ark, announces
the death, under peculiar circumstances, of
Rev. Jesse Pratt, the oldest Baptist minister
in Arkansas. His son, j. R. Pratt, was on
trial for q penal otfense, and the father
EXPIRE sed the hope that he tthe father) would
die before the verdict was rendered. He ex-
pired five hours before the jury came in
sentencing the son to five years imprison-
mem the penitentiary. Grief and shame
killed him.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12
THE LABOR WORLD.

CIGAR-MAKERs are kept very busy.
:, GERMAN foundries employ 147,051 men.
ALL the grocers' bags are made by 1859
hands.
THERE are in the United States 2S, GOO loco
motives
The Krupp Gun Company employs some
5000 men.
ONE horse power equals the muscular Ia
Dor Of six men.
GERMAN locomotives do about twelve and
one-half years service.
WoRKMEN in the shipyards of Calais
France, have gone on strike.
A MILL at Lewiston, Me-, is making 150e
quilts and 12.00J towels week.
Two thousand cotton mill carders at Black.
burn, England, ore on strike.
THERE are very few old men among the
blowers in the green glass works.
The largest iron casting ever attempted in
America was recently made at Bethlehem,
Penn.
The LARGEST block of granite ever quarried
in this country was recently quarrled at au-
burn, Me.
THE smokestack Of the Allentown Penn.)
thread mill will be 22T feet high, the tallest in
the United States.
NOT improved workmanship but rapidity
is the distinguishing feature Of mechanical
arts and trades nowadays.
THE average yearly income of the working
woman of Boston is S26O.O7, and her average
expenses are reckoned at 61.3o.
In Poland the laborers work from in the
morning tlIl and 8 o'clock at night Women
are employed in all kinds Of hard work.
ONE man to day, with labor saving de-
vices, CON accomplish as much in day as
500 men could do in the same tins fifty years
ago.
TIE mechanical industries of the United
States are carried OH by steam and water
power, representing in round numbers 3,5Oo,-
900 horse power.
THERE is a sh emaker in Buffalo, N. Y,
who. working at his bench, has become q
wonderful lin yuis5 and bids falr one DAY 10
rival Eiihu Burritt
LYNN (Massl shoe manufacturers claim
that the or. .ce Of labor is 81 high in Lynn that
they will be forced to 20 to places where 1t Is
cheaper in order to obtain living profit
In Birmingham, England, at one book
binding esi ADJUSTMENT. machine has Just
been laid down which has displaced the LABOR
of two men and thirty youths OF both sexea
Two thousand men recently went out OF
the lunter mills at GravenhurSt, Canada,
for reduction Of hours from eleven to ten.
One year ago reduction was secured from
twelve to el ven.
THERE is SAL to be so strong a feeling
against the employment of old men in the
carpenter business that carpenters of fifty
yeais of age or more look forward to being
idle half the time.
THE trouble in the shipvards at Belfast.
Ireland, which has resu ted in the lockout OF
5000 shipwrshts, is tue to strike OF :U'
boiler ma ers When The strike vas an
nounced the employers decided to cose the
yards entlre.y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12

DEKRAN TAYLOR, a native OF Harpoot.
Turkey, has been employed In an iron manu-
factory at Troy, N. Y, for some time. He
has Just left America for Turkey TO obtain,
if he can, the consent Of the Sultan to the es-
tablishment Of iron wor at Harpoot.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12

In the Quitojotoa District, Arizona. fe"
days ago, the thermometers marked 10 de-
grees in the shade, and it was so not IN tne
mines there chat the drills had 70 oe nanaieo
with cunny sacks wrapped around them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12

A LUMBER Trust OF all the North western
interests has been form d, involving nearl'
Sl4, 900, ,uuO. Options have been .,bIatned on
all pine lands in minnesota and Wisconsin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12

Senator Blair, from the Committee on
Education, has reported lavorAnly to the
Senate the proposed joint resolution tor the
submission to the States of proh.oltion
emendment to the fedora, constitution.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12

In the Cathedral at Brussels Cardinal La
vigere recently announced that he would
form q committe to organize volunteer eX-
pedition to suppress the slave tra.ic IN A RI
ca. He estimated the cost at % W.0Ju, and
invited subscriptions to fluid to defray the
Axpeusaa.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12

ONLY eighty Of the 56D convicts received
last year in the Eastern PeniJenIia iary of, Penn
sYlvania had trades when brought there.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12
Foreign.

"A NIOLENT QuTTlCaHe S"epG over bahe
Balatony, in Hungary, and q boat contain.
ing number of reapers, with the fruits OF
their harvesting, was capsized and fifteen
persons were drowned.
CHOLERA broke out on the Portuguese
transport India viii bound to Mozambique,
and within forty y-eight hours there were
thirty eight cases among the crew and pas
sengers, twenty-four Of which proved fatal.
EIGHT hundred workmen have been
drowned by an inundation at Teng !Tcona,
China
SIR JOHN ROSE, formerly Minister of FL
nance for the Dominion OF Canada, is dead.
He fell dead while about to fire at stag on
his estate in Scotland.
RUSSIA has proposed. to the European
Powers to unite Rounania and Roumelia in
one nation under the English Duke OF
Cumberland as klny
SEVEN old wooden warehouses at Stein
warde, Germany, containing cotton, rice,
sugar and saltpetre. valued at 81 ,75O, 100, have
been destroyed by fire. Six persons perish"o
in he flames. Most Of the property was
insured in EngianL
BY the inuutlation Of the Miniano Prov
ince, in China, 500 houses were demolished
at Ibi Gamin, AMI l3O were hoated away.
Fifty people per:shed-
A CONFLICT took place between caribeeners
anil smupglers on the Bidassoa River, which
forms part OF the boundary between Fran g
and Spain. Two of The smu e er' were shot
dcad two were drowned, several were
wounded and ten were capturei.
The Canadian Minister of Justice, j. 5. d.
Thompson. has been created kn git or 81
Michael and st. George III recognition @ IL $
services on the Fishery commission. lie Will
now Oe Sir John Sparroy David Thompson
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12
South and West.

Tue State Convention Of Nebraska Re.
publicans was held at Lincoln, and General
John NJ. Thayer was nominated for Govern
or. A complete State ticket was placed in
the field.
NICOLA FEMMENETTA has been executed at
Buena Vista, COL, for the murder of Michael
Casey, at Granite, in March last
AN explosion totally destroyed the Giant
Powder Works at West Berkeley, CAL, and
killed three white men and three Cinnamon.
BLACK measles Of a most virulent type has
broken out on the rice plantations on the San
tee River, S. c. Fifty deaths have already
occurred and the disease has become epi-
demic.
JOHN CARTER and Horace Christler, farm
ers of Elmont, Kan, quarreled about a
cornplanter Carter drew q revolver, when
Christler knocked him down with hayfork.
Carter, rallying, knocked Christler down,
jumped on him, gouged out one eye, bit OF
his nose and one ear, and then thrust both
prongs OF the fork into his skull, killing him
instantly.
THE toiler in James w. Whites cotton
mill at Bremond, Texas, exploded, killing w.
l.. Wooten, fatally wounding his two sons,
John and Silas and seriously injuring four
Others The mill was demolished.
In political quarrel at Nashville, Ind,
and his brother Elam-
THE business portion OF Clinton, Ind, q
town of $500 inhabitants, has been destroyed
by fire.
WHILE O fiat car was being raised to the
track on the Michigan Central Railroad ut
East Saginaw, Mich, tue derrick fell over
into the crowd of sightseers. Two brothers
named Collier were instantly killed and
three Others were fatally injured
FOREST fires burned numerous houses in
Nadeau, Bolton and Mumford, Mich. A
family of seven persons was destroyed at
Mumford. Many farmers in that region
have lost their houses and crops.
CHARLES w. WALDRoN, one Of the own
ers and manager of the Waldron Bank OF
Hllsdale, Mich, has abSconded, taking with
him money and securities estimated at from
500, 200 to $500
A MOB took John Graves, a sxteen-year-
old colored boy from Jail at Brownstown,
Ark, and lynched him for an unprovoked
murder he had committed
BY reason Of fagnan's carelessness a
collision occurred at Krum, Iowa, in which
three railroad employees were killed and six
wounded.
IKE DUNCAN, colored, while in court at
Birmingham, Ala. being tried for an at
tempt to murder, dropped dead in the criml-
nails dock.
MRS. ELI CARTWRIGHT and her baby were
killed at Norfolk, Va, by the explosion Of a
kerosene lamp.
WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, Of Columbus,
Ohio, son of tho late John Miller, a pro-
minent citizen and banker, while showing a
revolver to one Of his children in front Of his
residence, accidentally discharged it, and the
ball struck his mother, standing few steps
away, and instantly killed her.
THE cholera is raging in Presque Isle
county, Mich, and nine persons died in one
day. There are no doctors in the vicinity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-09-12
Washington.

THE President has nominated Charles F.
Tcmpleton, of Dakota, to be Associate JUS
tice Of the Supreme Court of Dakota for the
Eighth District.
THE Postotfice Department has given no
tice that the free-delivery service will be es-
tablished at the following post offices October
J: Fmdlay, Ohio; Oneida, N. Y; Olean, N.
Y; Seneca Falls, N. Y. Port Jervis, N. Y;
West Troy, n. Y; Waco, Texas; Plaintield,
N j. Monmouth, Ill.,; Pittston, Penn.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and Colonel La
mont. accompanied by Internal-Revenue
Commissioner Miller, recently went on a
fishing excursion of two or three days in the
vicinity Of Clifton Forge, i'll the Blue Ridge
Mountains Of Virginia
THE report of the Secretary OF the Interior
shows that under the acts of Congress, 26,-
253, ,347 acres of railroad lands have been for
feited; 81 3 ., ,6UU acres railroad Indemnity
restored and g, S09. 772 acres restored under
illegal entries. The total acreage restored to
the public domain is 81, l5S,!n0 The Secre-
tary recommends that l4s, lI9. .52S acres in
addition be recovered.
THE President has approved the act for the
erection of a marine hospital at Evansville,
Ind the act to provide aid to State or Ter
ritorial homes for the support Of disabled
soldiers and sailors of the United States, and
the act authorizing an increase in pensions
for deafness.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01
4 Few Business Words.

For months the LEADER has done
very little "dunning' of its suhscri-
bers. because we appreciated the fact
that ready cash was scarce during the
dull summcrmOnths and tlat'the first
bale must always go for settling store
accounts and provision bills. But
here 1t is now the first of November,
and all the crop is about gathered and
much of it sold, and we think it time
to put in our plea for remembrance.
Paper bills and other accounts we in
cured while indulging our patrons
are now falling due and must he met.
Added to other expenses is Il libel
prosecution incurred because the pa
per has fearlessly spoken the truth III
the interest of the public welfare.
Under these circumstances we conf
IDENTITY call upon all who owe the pa
per to respond and settle their indebt-
edness. Within the next two months
we expect to need every dollar due us.
Please bear this in mind, friends, and
not only pay what you owe, but help
us by getting your neighhors to sub
scribe and extending our circula-
ton.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson ~.
county, Iowa, tells the following RENAL
able story, tine truth of which is co..,
ed for 10y tue residents of the town. =,
am ~ years old, have been troubled u,,,,.
kidney complaint and lameness for man.
years; could not dress myself wi,hon,
help. Now | am free from all pain onI
soreness, aud am able to do all INV a.-
housework' owe my thanks To FL,
trio Btters for having renewed IN,
youth, and having removed rnmn,c,n,,.
all disease and pain" ''N
Try u bottle. Only 80 cents at r =
Meade n Co.'s. -
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01
An Appreciated Endorsement.


The Endorsement last week of the
LEADER by the Fair River Association,
as a reform paper especially worthy
of the support of all good citizens, is
"a compliment not lightly esteemed by
us; not that the paper has not been
thus Endorsed before, but because it
shows ali abiding appreciation by the
good people of this and adjoining
counties OF the efforts we have made
and are still making in behalf of
moral and political reform. We APP
prcciate it all the more, too, because
it was entirely unsolicited and comes
from ii body of consecrated, intelli-
gent, patriotic christian men, repre-
senting constituency of twenty four
hundred earnest christian people
"the salt of the earth as truly now
as when the Savior thus distinguished
them in his memorable Sermon on the
Mount. With the preachers and the
noble christian men and women of the
land on its side, the LEADER can well
afford to look with unconcern upon
the curses, denunciations and boycots
of saloon advocates, scheming dema-
gogues, corrupt politicians and all
other agents of evil.
1t only remains for those who are
not taking the paper already to follow
the advice of the good brother who
spoke on the report, and give it their
material as well as moral support by
subscribing, and this we hope all will
do.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01

When Major Gibbs was telling his
colored dupes Saturday night of the in
debtedness and mal-administration of
Lowryism and charging it to the Dem
ocratic party, why didn't he also tell
them that he deserted his own party
years ago and took the stump with
that other carpet-bagger, DugaD, for
this same Lowry and what is more,
has been the fast friend of Lowryism
ever since? Why didn't he tell them
about the editorials he wrote in that
bogus and now defunct Democratic
sheet the jackson Advertiser, defend
ing Lowry and lauding his administra-
ton, while honest journals like the
LEADER were exposing its rottenness,
and calling upon the Democracy to
purge itself. Yes, why di.jl't the
Major explain these things to his
colored hearers? Why
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01
The Democratic Position on the
Tariff.

The ultra high turiff position of the
Republicans rs enunciated by the
Chicago platform protection for pro
tection's sakc-is in striking contrast
to the moderately protective views of
the Democratic party as enunciated in
their platform of 1884 and rc-atiirmed
in 1888, aud 80 clearly interpreted i'll
the last annual message to Congress
bv President Cleveland. The answer
to those who profess to believe
the Democratic party is an enemy
to proper protection to home
productions is to he found i'll
that message. Mr.. Cleveland
says:
"it is not proposed to entirely re-
lieve the country of this taxation. 1t
must I've extensively continued as the
source of the governments income,
and in adjustment of our tariff
the interests of American labor en-
gagged in manufacture should be care q.
fully considered as well as the preSer-
walton of our manufactures. 1t may be
called "prOtection" or by any other
name, but relief from the hardshIps
laws should be devised with especial
precaution against imperiling the ex-
istence of our manufacturing inter
eStS.
at is a condition which confronts
us, not theory. The relief from this
condition may improve on Il slight
reduction of the advantages which We
award our home production, but the
entire withdrawal of such advantages
should not be contemplated. The
question of free trade is absolutely
irrelevant, and the persistent claim
made i'll certain quarters that all eff
forts to relieve the people from unjust
aud unnecessary taxation are schemes
of so-called free traders, is miSchiev-
Gus and far removed from any cOnsid-
Grafton for public good.
"The simple and plain duty which
we owe the people is to reduce taxa
ton to the necessary expenses OF an
economical operation of the govern
mcnt and to restore to the business OF
the country the money which we hold
in the treasury through the provisions
of governmental powers. These things
can and should be done with safety
to all our industries, without danger
to the opportunity for remunerative
labor which our working men need,
and with benefit to them and all our
people by cheapening their means of
subsistence and increasing the meas
urcof their comforts"
The issue, then, between the parties
is narrowed down to that of high pro
tective duties, which are to build up
the wealth of the few at the expense
of the many, and moderate protcc-
ton. which insures benefit to the
manufacturer. and at the same time
reduces the cost of necessaries to the
home consumer.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01
The Test.

If the merchant was required by the
government to place on each article
offered for sale, the price of the article
and the tariff tax going to the govern
ment if an imported article, land to the
manufacturer, if produced in the Uni
ted States, the purchaser would then
know whether the tariff reached him
or not. What is the objection to turn
ing on the light in this way? The
public would be so completely and
effectively informed on the tariff
question, that such tidal wave of
reform in taxation would sweep over
the country that the Boston harbor
tea transaction would be as a cambria
needle to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
(Tenn.l NeUs- Gazette.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01

If any one thinks that the negroes
are not on the gui Uiue to vote the
Republican ticket, let him consider
these facts: When Kernagan and
Gibbs spoke at the Court House last
Saturday night, the Court room was
packed with negro auditors, who ap-
plauded to the echo every sentence
specially derogatory to Democracy.
On Monday evening notice was cir
culated about town, urging all Demo-
Ocrats, no reference being made to
color, to meet at the court house that
night for the purpose of hearing ad
dresses by local speakers, and effect
ing organization, and 10 and behold!
not a negro. showed his face. Demo-
Gratis of Lincoln, forewarncd is fore
armed.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01

The protection that merely protects
goods without protecting the labor
that makes the goods helps the CAPT
talists who makes goods to sell, and
Injuries the man who has labor to sell.
Competing foreign goods are kept out
of the market, and competing labor is
thereby doubly defrauded-frst, by a
wage rate forced down by imported
competition, and, secondly, by the
increased cost of goods advanced in
price by taxation. The game of pro-
lection is a game in which Labor
ploughs the field and plants the corn,
while Monopoly gathers the harvest.
PHILADELPHIA Record.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01

From a telegram received by the
Winona New Farmer last week, from
E. B. Warren, Secretary of the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance, announces
that the meeting of that body will
take place at Meridian, on December
5, 1888, instead of January IS, 1889,
as heretofore published This change
is made because there is no longer any
danger of yellow fever, which caused
the first pOstponement.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01
Consumption surely Cured

TO THE EDrTOE-Please inCorm ,on.
readers that have positive remedy for
tie above named disease BY its tiu.l.
use thousands of hopeless cases have ,,.,,
perm aucntly cured. | shall be Glad :"
send two bottles of my remedy FRyr w
any of your readers who have conxmrr
ton if they will send me their exnr,',
and pOstoftice address. Respectfully
I. A. SLOCUM, NJ. G.
Isl Peal St, New Yo,k
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01
The indianapolis Labor Signal

The indianapolis Labor Signal
say:
"If the burden now borne Indirect
ly by the people was assessed and
paid directly, it would cause a civil
war in less than a week. Suppose
that every time you made purchase
of anything Except farm prOductiOns)
tax gatherer should demand AZ per
cent additional, how long would you
stand it ~
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01

Any man who fails to give his vote
and influence for the Democratic
nominees in this important crisis,
need not expect to be admitted into
the primaries next year, or allowed
to assist in naming it's chosen stan
dard- bearers. This thing of running
with the Democratic hare and trailing
with the Republican hounds, has
played out.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01

"The highest recommendation for
Office under the Democratic regime OF
this State is to be known as an expert
ballot-box suffer-" was the outra-
geous SANDER heaped upon the white
people of mississippi last Saturday
by Henry Kernaghan. Democrats of
Lincoln, remember this, and resent it
next Tuesday by rebuking the Sian
dcrer with YOUR votes.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01

If any man is ruled out of Demo-
cratic meeting next year because no.
body knows for certain how he stood
or voted in this contest, he will have
only himself to blame. If you are a
Democrat, show your cOlors by hav-
ing your name placed on the Demo
cratic club roll and voting and work
ing for the Democratic nominees.
But if you are a Republican, be a
man aud show SOur Colors on that
side too.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-11-01
That New Orleans Excursion.

Don't forget Col. II. H. Hogg's ex-
cursion to New Orleans on Dee. 5th
prox. 1t viii pay every body who
cOntemplates a trip to the Crescent
City any time before the holidays, to
wait and go Dec. 5th, and if you
didn't intend to go to New Orleans it
will pay you any how, as this excur-
sion will be very cheap, and enable
you to buy your holiday goods in the
cheapest market in the world.