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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-08
South and West.

NINE steamboat hands were scalded to
death while asleep in the cabin by the eS-
plosion of a steam pipe on the towboat
Canary at West Point, KY.
HICKS CARMICHAEL was hanged at Knox
vile, Tenn, for the murder of Deputy Sheriff
Shipe.
GENERAL THOMAS L. Young, Ex-Governor
of Ohio, and member of the Forty-sixth
and Forty-seventh Congresses, died recently
at Cincinnati
C. j. BUCHANAN, of Kentucky, and w.
Brewer were drowned in the Platte River, at
Bellewood, Neb., while bathing.
THE Kansas Prohibition State Convention
has nominated for Governor the Rev. j. D..
Botkin, and also put in the field full State
ticket.
Cross AND WHITE, the Raleigh, On. C.)
bank officers who fled to Canada with the
funds of their institution, have been tried and
convicted. Cross was sentenced to seven
years imprisonment and White to five years.
SABINA VITUALLA, young Italian girl,
fatally cut her throat in Youngstown, ONO,
at the house of the mother of Giovanni Man.
gino, who was soon to become her husband.
R. w. HENRY,'a prominent politician of
Hopkinsville, KY, committed suicide by
shooting himself three times in the breast
Four men were killed by a boiler explosion
in q coal mine Mt Zion, KY.
JOSEPH MASON, treasurer Of Redding,
(Cal) mining company, committed suicide
by blowing himself into atoms with nifty
pounds OF giant powder.
A SEVERE storm struck Sandusky, Ohio, a
few days ago. The wind b.ew gale, and
rain and hail fell in torrents Trees were up.
rooted, corn and other crops were damaged,
while fruit was literally stripped from the
trees. The damage is estimated at SlOO, ,0O0
CHARLES SooNs and William Berry, of
Little Rock, Ark, went to the cellar of a
friend to get some wine. There were two
kegs, one containing wine end arsenic for fly
poison and the other pure wjne They drank
freely from the wrong keg and died within
an hour.
GENERAL WILLIAM G. WICKHAM, Vice
President and Receiver of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, and distinguished Confed-
crate General, died suddenly in his Office at
Richmond, Va, from heart disease.
THE ninety-second birthday of Cleveland,
Ohio, was celebrated by the unveiling of a
bronze statue nine feet high of General Moses
Cleaveland, of Connecticut, the surveyor Of
the Western Reserve, and the founder of the
place which bears his name.
A. LUND, his brother and four friends were
drowned while fishing near San Pedro, Cal
FIRE destroyed the coal mining town Of
Roslyn, Washington Territory, rendering the
entire population of 1870 homeless. Nothing
was saved. The loss is $500, 900.
THE six-story shoe factory of Krippendorf,
Dittman & Co., Cincinnati, has been burned;
loss, $4,000.
WIscoNs1N's Labor party has been in ses-
sion at Oshkosh, and DIR. William Powell, of
La Crosse, better known by his title Of
"White Beaver" formerly an Indian scout,
was nominated for Governor.
A DIFFICULTY occurred between Aaron
and David Cunningham. brothers, of Lam
caster County, South Carolina, in which
Aaron was shot dead by David. The latter
had been drinking and was trying to shoot a
neighbor's dog, when Aaron interfered.
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UNITED STATES MINT.
Interesting Figures From the Di-
rector's Annual Report.

Interesting Figures From the Di-
rector's Annual Report.
The Director of the United States Mint al
Washington has submitted to Congress re-.
port on the production Of precious metals in
the United States during the calendar year
1887.
The product Of gold amounted to 1896, 500
fine ounces, of the value of s33, 3,0OO000. The
product Of silver amounted to 1,2C9, $40 fine
ounces, of commercial value about $40, 49,
600, and Of the coming value of S53,357. .0OO.
The gold product fell off about $4,000, 900
from that of the preceding year. The product
of silver increased about s., 10000, coming
value, over that of the preceding year. The
principal gold product was in California, and
the principal silver product in Montana and
Colorado.
The value of the gold deposited at the mints
was $S4, ,667, 7l2, of which S32, Al COZ was of
domestic production, and S3J, ,092, 05l con-
sisted Of foreign gold bullion and coin i'm
ported into the United States. Tie deposits
and purchases of silver at the mints
Nearly all Of the silver bullion imported was
from Mexico, and nearly all of the silver coin
consisted in Mexican dollars Silver ores
were also imported, principally from Mexico,
of the value OF 81, 242, ,135.
There was gain in gold to the United
States imports over exports of S35, Cyl ,297,
and loss Of silver by exports Of 81, 159, ,6S7-
q net gain to this country Of bullion and coin
Of S2S,511, $50. The coinage of the mints
during the calendar year was liz, ,95l, ,4SS
pieces of the value Of ST., 3379.l5 In aldi-
tion to the coinage bars Of gold and silver
were manufactured of the value of SG5, ,33S,-
sos.
An inquiry as e the value of the gold and
silver used in the Industrial arts of the Uni
ted States during the year 1887 shows a con-
sumption Of gold of s1l .672, ,G06, and of sill
yer, S5,24l ,99S; total S16,914.604. Including
the melting down Of United States gold coin,
the Director estimates the value of the gold
used in the United States in the industrial
arts during 1887 at about Sl4, ,GOO,O OO), and of
silver, $3.50, 900. This is an increase over the
consumption Of prior years. The amount of
silver purchased for the silver dollar coinage
was 2,797,279 fine ounces, costing So, ,22I,-
257, the average cost to the Government be-
ing S0.976S per ounce fine.
The coinage Of the world during the calen-
dar year 1887 was S124, ,99S, ,797 in gold and
S133. .5O2, ,066 in silver. The reported consump-
tion of gold in thelindustrial arts in the world
for 1886 was SAC, ,0JO, 600 in gold and 81, ,OO0,-
900 in silver. The production of gold and
silver in the world in 1856 was S9S, 7GI, ,255 in
gold and s126, 457, 500 in silver.
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RUNNING AMUCK.
Ike Lambert, an Alabama Despe-
RADIO, Wanton1y Kills Three Men.

Ike Lambert, a well-known white man,
after several weeks of heavy drink
ing, reached conclusion to kill
number of people in Mount
Pleasant neighborhood, Monroe County,
Ala He made out list of those he mad
condemned to death, and arming him
self with a Winchester rifle, a shot
gun, and three revolvers started out
on horseback. He was crazy drunk,
but able to move. Near Dixie he met
a colored man, William jackson, in the road,
and without word shot him dead in his
tracks. The first residence he came to was that
of r. D. Hest!e, wealthy citizen. Call
ing Mr. Hestle, the lat er came out in b 8
shirt sleeves and said: How are you, lkeT'
For reply Lambert said: "My business
here to-day is to kill you" With that
he fired his Winchester, shooting Mr..
Hestle through the heart. Pursuing his
way, he met a colored man, named
Casey in the road and killed him with shot
from his pistol. Pursuit was now organized
BY the people, and in half an hour they found
the murderer lying asleep in tine roadway;
having fallen from his horse. The guns and
pistols were lying by his side He was put
in Jail at Monroeville.
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TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Sad Consequences of a Tennessee
Desperado's Drunken Frenzy.

Sad Consequences of a Tennessee
Desperado's Drunken Frenzy.
A Tennessee desperate named John Gray
son, with his uncle and two other compan-
ions, had been riding rough shod over the
town of Abingdon, Va. Grayson. after firing
his pistol in the air on Main street, then lev
eled it in his drunken frenzy at one o: his as
sociates. A Apeaceable citizen, named Trigg,
observing the danger of the latter, laid his
hand on Grayson's shoulder and begged him
not to shoot.
Grayson turned savagely on Trigg, at the
same time placing the muzzle of his pistol
against Trigg's shoulder and firing: Trigg
staggered and fell, fatally injured, dragging
Grayson off his horse. The infuriated assas..
sin then turned and fed. A large crowd
who had assembled upon hearing the re-
peated shouts pursued the ruffian with cries
Of "Stop him. "Catch him." Hang him!''
He fired another shot, and when captured
was found to have bullet in his left side.
Trigg was carried to his home bleeding and
apparently dead His aged mother was SO
shocked at the sight that she died the same
night Grayson expired the following morn
ipn
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A Freight Train and a Material
Train Collide in Virginia.

One Of the most fearful wrecks in the his
tory of the Norfolk and Western Railroad
happened the other morning about
eight miles west of Lynchburg, Va:
Investigation into the details showed
that a freight train leaving Lync!burg
city about O'clock P. NJ collided with ma
teral train near Forest Depot while moving
at the rate of forty miles
per hour. Both trains were completely
wrecked Engineer Henry, native Of
Philadelphia. and Harris, of Lynchhurg,
were instantly killed; also Fireman Darnley,
of Philadelphia. and seven colored men,
attaches of the respective trains. Fireman
Mays, of Lynchhurg was fatally injured.
Only the conductors escaped, and they were
slightly bruised The wreck was attributed
to the failure of the material tram con-
ductor to obey the instructions Of the train
despatcher.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-08
A COOL PATRICIDE.

William Rudolph Travels Long
Distance to Murder His Father.
William Rudolph, a man Of thirty, shot
and killed his father in the town of Shawnee,
ILL.,, in a quarrel Of which his mother
was the subject. The old people did not
live happily together and two years ago
there was separation. Young Rudolph,
his mother was being abused by his father,
and came all the way to settle the matter,
which he did effectually. After the tragedy
he settled the funeral expenses and gave him.
self up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-08
WnShinPtOn.

THE Senate has confirmed Hugh W. Weir,
of Pennsylvania, to be Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Idaho; Elliott Sandford,
of New York, Chief Justice OF Utah, and Eds
mond Mallet, of New York, to be Indian In
spector
The New York Seventy-irst Regiment
celebrated the twenty y-seventh anniversary O.!
Bull Run on the battle field, and then visited
Washington, where it was reviewed by Presi-
dent Cleveland.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-08

ACTIVE steps are to be taken by the Iowa
State Board Of Health to prevent lmmlsra
tion Of persons tainted with leprosy. Our
Consul at Christiania, Norway, has been
notified that if any more victims Of the dis
ease come from the district Of Stavanger
they will be sent back
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-08

= CHARLES SEIHE, of Morris Cove,
Tenn, had the good fortune three
years ago to save the daughter of
New-York banker from drowning. The
banker died lately, and by his will left
$4,000 for the Tennessean.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-08
THERE are 8, 10Y cities and towns in

THERE are 3,107 cities and towns in
the United States that possess theaters
or halls for theatrical uses. The num-
ber of such theaters in the United
States is 4,O23. Their seating capacity
accommodates 3,164,OOO spectators.
That is about one person in every
twenty of the population. The amount
of money paid by the people in support
of their dramatic entertainments aver
ages not less than 81, 900 per week:
AS q theatrical season covers at least
thirty weeks, we may take it for grant
ed that more than $2OO,OOO,OOO are
paid yearly by the American people for
their intellectual entertainment.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-08

TIE Brewers Organization Of the Units0|
States has 698 members. The total quantity
of beer made last year was %, 400, ,5S5 barreie1
or one barrel for every three peopb In 0e|
country,
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, has plague Of fish flies
SOME Florida coast people are talking OF
turtle cannery.
THERE are 1877 dividend paying gold and
silver mines in this country.
AIMING claim on Douglass Island, Alaska,
has just been sold for s2,5Oo,0oO.
DIR. A.Y.P. GARNErT, ex-Surgeon General
Of the Confederate army, is dead.
CArERP1LLARs are doing great harm in
Maine towns on the upper Penobscot.
TWENTY-FIVE bushels to the acre is about
The average Of Kansas wheat this year.
1R2Rovo WALLIS, Senior Admiral Of
Great Britain, has just completed his Tooth
year.
GENERAL SHERIDAN's cottage, at Nonquit,
Is one Of the prettiest on the Massachusetts
coast.
Apv1cEs from Havana, Cuba, state that
murder and pillage are running riot thr ough-
out the island.
THOMAS PERFECT while eating dinner at
mouthful Of potatoes.
A FRENCH weather prophet has been sent
to Jail for six months for predicting cold
July and loss Of crops
THE annual copper production of the world
is 275. .000 tons and the French syndicate Is
said to control 215, 900 tons of it.
NEAR 100000 parcels Of vegetables we're
shipped from Charleston, s: c., to New York
City between April 1 and June /.
THE Metropolitan Cattle Market, London,
is the largest Of its kind, covering three and
one-half acres and costing S1,00O,OOO.
DAVID ASHLEY, of Plattsville, Neb., has
Just died of hydrophobia from the bite OF q
rapid dog received twelve years ago.
ANALINE, placed in some lemonade by
Young Robert Chenault, caused the death OF
James George aged seven, at Lexington,
KY.
GLASGOW, Scotland, having taken in vari-
ous OUTLYING suburbs, is now the second city
in Great Britain, with population OF
T30, 900.
ACRES and acres of melons in Georgia
rotted on the ground on account or the Ina.
bility of several railroads there to transport
the crop.
Ex-Governor HoUSER, of Helena, Mon.
tana, SAYS this year the Territory vii! pro.
duce gold, silver, and copper to the value OF
$40, 100000.
AT Chicago the mercury recently dropped
from eighty six degrees to sixty-four in five
minutes, and seersuckers were quickly e1'
changed for oyercoats.
CROP reports from all parts Of the country
indicate recent favorable conditions and the
promising state OF all sorts OF crops, Nortn
and South, East and West
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In the course of the excavations now
going on at the Acropolis in Athens, a
stone block, bearing an inscription OF
great interest to arch@ologists, has been
discovered imbedded in comparatively
modern wall. It relates to the expend-
itures made in erecting the ancient
temple known as the Erectheion. 1t
gives details as to the first plans and
divisions of the edifce, indicating its
eastern and western gables, and also
helps to explain certain Typographical
questions in relation to another still
more ancient Greek temple, the re-
mains of which were discovered two
years ago, and which was itself de-
stroyed by the Persians under Aerxes'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-08

SOME of the Navajo scouts used by the
government in chasing Geronimo are reported
to be robbing and numbering thirty miles
east of Gallup, New Mexico.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-19
There's Danger in the Telephone.
1Chicago Tribune, Dayton, o., Special.

[Chicago Tribune, Dayton, o., Special. ]
Gilbert Burrows, treasurer of the
Grand operahouse III this city, and
formerly of Havlin's theatre, Cincin-
natl, was the victim to-day Of an cleo
trical shock over u telephone wire that
nearly proved fatal. He was about to
answer ring from the instrument and
took hold of the phone, when, with a
sharp cry Of pain he staggered back
ward, and, despite his struggles, he
could not let go of the phone and was
held within its electrical embrace until
his cries brought assistance and the
'phone attachment was broken from its
fastening. Burrows fell to the floor IN
an insensible condition as the result OF
reaction from the nervous shock. He
is still under the care Of physicians and
is Frustrated. He remembers that when
he approached the instrument blush
glow of flame appeared about the metal
on the telephone. Investigation by the
superintendent of telephones showed
that the telephone wire was crossed
with the large incandescent light wires
which are constantly charged.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-19
Perfect Sight Preservers.
Pom 0na Hill N urseries.
POMONA NJ. c,

Two and a half miles west OF Green's
boro, n. G.. The main line of the R. &
D. r. R. passes through the grounds and
within 10G feet OF the office. Salem
trains make regular stops twice daily
each way. Those interested in Fruit
and Fruit growing are cordially invited
to inspect this the largest nursery in the
State and one among she largest i'll the
South.
The proprietor has for many years
visited the leading Nurseries North and
West, and correSponded with those Of
foreign countries. gathering every fruit
that was calculated to suit the South,
both native and foreign. The reputa-
ton of Pomona Hill Nurseries is such
that many agents going ont from Green's
boro, representing other nurseries, try
to leave the impression that they are
representing these nurseries. Why do
thev do it? Let the public answer.
l have in stock growing (and can show
visitors the same) the largest and best
stock of trees. &C., ever shown or seen
in anytwo nurseries in North Carolina,
consisting of apple, peach, pear, cherry
plutu, grape, japanese persimm on, ia
panese plum, aprcots, nectariene, Rus
sian apricot, mulberry, ounces. Small
fruits Strawberry, raspberry, currants,
pecans, English walnutS, rhubarb, as
paragus, evergreenS, shade trees, roses,
&c.
Give your order to my authorized
agent or order direct from the nursery.
I i
catalogues free to applicants.
Address,
J. VAN. LINDLEY,
POMONA,
Guiford County, n. G.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-19
The Pension Comm issionc1s not Limited
by the Appropriation of $4,000.
Especial to the News and Courier.

Especial to the News and Courier.]
COLUMBIA, April 1l.-An interest
ing question has just arisen in regard
to the pension appropriation, and it
shows that the pension bill is not alto
gether waterproof.
The attorney general vas in the city
yesterday, and the pension board sub
mitted to him the question whether,
after the appropriation of $4,000 is ex-
hausted, the pension board should con-
tinue to receive and pass on pension ap-
plications.
The attorney generals opinion was
that the board should continue to pass
upon the pension applications, APPROX
ing and rejecting as they are doing
now, and render their decision to the
comptroller general. Now the question
which arises is whether after the ap-
preparation is exhausted the comptroll-
er general shall continue to issue his
warrants for pension money? The APP
preparation for pensions is not made IN
the Pension Act, and this Act does not
instruct the comptroller general to draw
his warrant for only $4,000. The at
torney general has not rendered de-
cision upon this point.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-19
AN ACT

~ -
TO ALLOW UNIMPROyED LANDS WHICH
HAVE NOT BEEN on THE TAX BOOKS
SINCE 1875 TO BE LISTED WITHOUT
PENALTY.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Sen
ate and House of Representatives of the
State of South Carolina, now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by
the authority of the same: That in all
cases where unimproved land which
has not been on the tax books since the
fiscal year commencing November lst,
1875, and which are not on the for
feited list, shall at any time before the
1st day of October, 1883, be returned to
the County Auditor for taxation, the
said Auditor be, and he is hereby, in
structed to assess the same and to enter
it upon the tax duplicate of the fiscal
wear commencing November lst, 1887;
with the simple taxes of that year.
SEC. 3. That all such lands as may he
returned to the Auditor for taxation
between the first day Of October, 1888,
and the first day Of October, 1889, shall
be assessed and charged with the SIM
pie taxes of the two fiscal years COM
mencing respectively on the first day
of November, 1887, and the first day OF
November, 1888.
SEC. 8. That as soon as practicable
after the passage of this Act, the
Comptroller-G General is directed to fur
nish copy of the same to each Auditor
in the State, and the Auditors are re-
quired to publish the same in each OF
their county papers once week for
three months during the year 1883, and
for the same period Of time during
the wear 1889; and the cost of sucn pub
lication shall be paid by the County
Treasurer, upon the order of the County
Commissioners, out of the ordinary
county tax last collected.
Approved December l9, 1887.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-19
Raise Your Own Bacon.
TAbbeville Medium.

Meat is about as necessary to sup
port life as bread. This is particularly
the case with farm labcrers. 1t is
strange then that so little attention is
given to raising meat supply by our
farmers. They do not seem to give the
matter thought, but still depend upon
foreign markets. Consequently they
are at the mercy Of spectators. They
can make no accurate calculations as to
what may be necessary for their annual
support. The amount may be more or
less as corners are made in the pork
markets.
The way to remedy this evil is for
united effort to be made by the farmers
to stock our country with good hogs.
The full demand could not be met in
one or two years but in a very short
time there could be 4 revolution IN the
meat question. Ifone good hog to each
family could be raised this year the peo-
pie would be relieved quite perceptibly.
In two wears the change for the better
would be more marked. The supply
raised here would diminish the demand
for foreign meat and consequently the
price of all bacon would be reduced.
Good bacon can be produced here for
seven cents per pound. We have now
to pay ter cents per pound for western
bacon. Here would be a save Of $50 on
each 500, or $500 on each $1,000. The
money thus saved could be devoted to
improving our farms. Besides our people
woulG ALWAYS be sure Of the kind OF ba-
con on their tables This in itself should
be an inducement to try the experiment
of hog raising at home.
We doubt if there was bacon enough
raised in the county last year to feed
the population for one week. For
farming people this is an ineNcusable
state of affairs. 1t is unreasonable anu
arainst common sense. The system
should not be allowed to continue day
longer. Thousands upon thousands OF
dollars arc sent TO the northwest every
wear which might just rs we'll be kept
at home and circulated among our own
people. No people can sustain them
selves if they persist in such folly. We
submit to the common sense of every
man in this section that our views are
correct. 1t won't do to disregard them
because weare classed among 'newspa-
per farmers. The question is a serious
and an important one. Now is the time
for 4 change Of plan. Even the poorest
farmer can raise one or two good hogs.
Let the experiment be tried.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-04-19
Rank Which Did Not Count.
From the st. James Gazette.

Oftuft hunting, in the modern sense
of the word, there was none. The no
bleman had special places in chapel,
but this made no difference. We were
all boys together in a genuine anu
honest English way. When we came
back at the beginning Of one half there
appeared at my DANES a smart boy
dressed in light blue jacket, faced with
velvet, white trousers and walstcoat,
with Il turned-down collar and frills. l
spotted him and at op e put the ques-
ton: ''What's your name?" and "who's
your father" He replied, II am Charles
Stuart Vance, Viscount Seaham, and
my father is the marquis of Londonder-
ry." Upon receipt of this information
kicked him three times once for Vance
once for Seaham and once for London
derry.