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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
PHILADELPHIA has 629 churches.

PHILADELPHIA has 629 churches.
TEXAS has $500 miles Of railroad.
KANSAS is developing extensive salt
fields
Hot winds have damaged the Kansas
crops.
CONGRESS has appropriated se,202, $40 for
big guns.
THE German Emperor was hissed at
Copenhagen.
YELLOW FEVER has appeared in the in
terror Of Cuba.
CABLE rates have advanced to twenty five
cents per word.
IRELANp's butter export to England is 49,
060, 600 pounds per year.
THE Hebrews in New York city have dou-
bled in number since 1850.
WITHIN seven years over 1000 national
banks have been established.
Ex-Governor PORTER declines to be q
candidate in Indiana this fall.
OVER $4,000, 900 was paid out during the
month OF July for pensions.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER does not propose
TO take the oath Of office until October.
A CROMWELL Comm picking firm will
salt down 4, 500, 900 cucumbers this year.
A NEW oil pipe line from Lima, Ohio, to
South Chicago, 2o6 miles long, has just been
competed.
THE Connecticut Democratic State Con-
~ention has been called to meet at Hartford,
September 5.
ELEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND dozens IS the
estimated output Of canned peaches for Bal
timore this season.
The Gar has given farewell audience to
Mr. Lothrop, who has just resigned the
American mission to Russia
= A HINDosTANEE merchant has come to
New York with five clerks to open shop for
the sale of Hindostanee goods.
THE production Of anthracite coal to date
is l9, Cos SS3 tons, against 1883, lG1 tons tbs
corresponding psriod last year.
A GOLD mine near Sitka, Alaska, is said to
=, he the greatest producer in the world. The
monthly output is worth $3.50
THERE were 9O,621 paupers, besides luna
tics and vagrants, in the ), Sl5, wv inhabitants
of London in the first week OF July.
UNITED STATES CoNsULs in Italy have
formed q society to encourage commercial
relations between the two countries
CHICAGO is overrun with myriads OF sand
fies which extinguished the electric lights
and greatly annoyed patrons OF hotels.
IT is said that more than 1000 catte have
been stolen during the last three months by
stuplanders" in the Bald Knob region OF Mis-
souri,.
RUST has auoeared ON the wheat in Ne
braska, and fields that lately promised phe.
nomena yield, IT is now thought, WILL no'
oe,nS q nal. c.op. -----
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22
Feeling and Faith,

There are two classes of Christians; those
who live chiefly by emotion, and those who
live live chiefly Py s The first class nSs who
that move by the outward impulse of winds
operating upon sails; they are often in a
dead aim, often out of their course, and
sometimes driven back; and it is only when
the winds are fair and powerful, that they
move onward with rapidity. The other class,
those who live chiefly by faith, remind one
Of the magnificent steamers which cross the
Atlantic, which are moved by an interior
and permanent principle, and which, setting
at defiance all ordinary obstacles, advance
steadily and swiftly to their destination,
through calm and storm, through cloud and
sunshine.-lDr. Upham.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22
DOWN AN EMBANKMENT.
A Fatal Accident on an Indiana
Railway.

A passenger train on the Fairland and
Franklin railroad met with frightful
accident near Morgantown, Ind. The mail
and baggage cars and passenger coac h were
thrown down a steep embankment, and
twenty one persons were injured, ten OF them
fatally.
The train was running at its usual rate OF
speed when the accident occurred. The To-
comotive had passed broken rail, but the
engineer did not notice it. When the bag
gage car struck the defect it jumped from
the track, dragging after it the mail car and
one passenger coach. The three cars were
plunged down an embankment Of fifty -four
feet.
The passengers were hurled violently out OF
their seats. The car furniture was wrenched
from its fastenings and thrown about.
striking several of the passengers and pin
ming them to the floor of the car. The coach
turned over three or four times in its de
scent. Not passenger in the car escaped
injury.
There were no facilities for caring for the
wounded, as the accident occurred in a
sparsely settled location where te,egraphic
and other facilities are very meager.
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TEMPERANCE.
The Child's Pleading.
Father, leave, oh leave off drinking,

Father, leave, Oh leave on drinking,
Sign the temperance pledge to day,
For our home is now so cherries
While you at the dram shop stay.
We remember when twas happy
When your coming made us glad,
But now We fear to hear your footsteps
When the drink has made you mad.
Father, dearest father, listen
To the pleadings Of your child,
Do not spend your time and money
With the drunken and the wild;
Think Of mother and us children,
How we weep and mourn for you,
Do not drink again, dear father,
Sign the pledge, oh father, do!
Then when at eve you come home weary
We will greet you with sweet smiles,
For you then will be quite sober.
Free from drink, that now beguiles;
Shouts of joy, instead Of weeping,
Shall salute you every night,
And our merry voices ringing
Make your heart feel gla,l and light.
Geo. W. Cook, il Butte Are for Temper
ance.
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The lunatic asylum at Auckland is go
crowded that "the single rooms resemble
fowl-houses in all respects but the roosts,
and this overcrowding is due to the excessive
usa Of alcohol. It Is shown that more than
ffty persons are driven mad by drink In
Ns1 Rnsland every year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22

The increase of population in Australia
last year was only three and one-half per
cent, which is by no means a. large as
England would like to sec it. The
total population is 3,548,7s5.
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Inc Iunatlc asylum az AUCKLAND Is 80
crowded that 'the single rooms resemble
lighthouses in all respects but the roosts, !"
and this overcrowding is due to the excessive
usa of alcohol. 1t is shown that more than
fifty persons are driven mad By drink In
New Zealand every year.
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Adulterated Liquors.

According to the British consul at La Ro'
chelle. since the failure Of the vineyards
from from 'pbyllo1era, an imitation Of claret is
made there by stepping raisins and currants
in water and mixing the compound with
cheap Spanish wine. In other districts Of
France q spurious brandy is made from a
mixture Of beef root and cheap German
spirit, This, having been sent to port OF
eIportation in its true charater, Is remarked
and sent abroad as cognac.-New York COM
rnerciu Advertiser.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22

biographies that have come forth since the
art Of printing was invented, and challenge
you to show me triumphant death of q
man who rejected the Scriptures or rejected
avenue. On the one put the death beds Of
those who believed in an entire Bible On
the other side Of that avenue put the
death beds Of those who rejected part
OF the Bible, or rejected all Of
the Bible. Now, take my arm and let US
pass through this dividing avenue. Look off
upon the right side. Here are the deathbeds
tory through our Lord Jesus Christi"
"Free gracel" 'Glory, glory!" II am
sweeping through the gates washed in the
blood of the Gambf" 1.-THE chariots are
coming!" II mount, Ay!" "Wings, wings!"
They are coming for mel" "Peace, be
stillT' Alfred Cookman's death-bed, Richard
Ceci's death bed, Commodore Foote'S death
bed. Your fathers death-bed, your mothers
d-ath-bed, your sisters death-bed, your
childs death-bed. Ten thousand radiant,
songful death-beds Of those who believed an
entire Biole.
Now, take my arm and let US 60 through
that avenue and look off upon the other
side. No smile of hope. No shout of triumph.
No face supernaturally illumined. Those
who reject any part of the Bible
never die we'll. No beckoning for
angels to come. No listening 1or tne CO.
lestial escort. Without any exception they
90 out of the world because they are pushed
out; while on the other hand the
list Of those who believed in an entire
Bible and gone out of the world in
triumph is a list so long it seems intermina-
able. Oh, is not that splendid influence, this
orthodoxy, which makes that which must
otherwise be the most dreadful hour Of life
the last hour-positively paradisaical!
Young men, old men, middle-aged men,
take sides in this contest between orthodoxy
and heterodoxy. "Ask for the old paths,
walk therein, and ye shall find rest
tor your, souls" But you follow
this crusade against any part Of the
Bible-frst Of all you will give up Genesis,
! which Is as true as Matthew; then you
; will give up all the historical poets Of the
Bible; then after while you will give
up the miracles; then you will find it
convenient to give up the Ten Command
ments; and then after while you will wake
up in fountainleeA rockies. Eeslsss desert
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-11

The collection of theatrical auto
graphs in the book is very large. On
the last page appears this. from the
queen of song:
Home, sweet home-there is no place
like home Craig of-Nor CASTLE
"Adelina Patti NicOlini.
EST. Louis, March Is, 49,"
1t is written in very small but eX-
cellent hand, and there is huge -four
iSh after the name winding up in a line
beneath it.
In large hand of very heavy black
letters, which must have been made
with a quill or stub pen, the dead
actress and beauty, Adelaide Nelson
wrote:
81 like this place and willingly
would waste my time in it.
ADELAIDE NELSON.
''St. Louis, March, 1880"
The writing is bold and expressive Of
great force of character. 1t was done a
short time before the death of the great
actress, and Mr.. Armstrong has been
offered and has refused $40 for the en-
try.
The same quotation, distorted some,
is written by Edward Solomon, cele-
Orated as the composer of 'Billee lay
lor," and husband Of Lillian Russell. He
writes under the date of December 8,
1885
p" I dislike this place and will never
again (willingly) waste my time in it,
(After Shakspeare.)
EDWARD SOLOMON"
AT that time he and the fair Lillian
were still! living together, and her auto
graph appears under the same date.
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HEATHEN AND HUSBAND.

Ger the men of Ethiopia she would pour her
cornucopia,
And shower wealth and plenty on the people
Send down jeliy-cake and candies to the In
dams of the Andes,
And cargo of plum-pudding to the men OF
HindOOstan;
And she said she loved EN- so,
Bushman, Finn and Eskimo.
If she had the wings of eagles to their succor
she would fly,
Loaded down with jam and jelly,
Succotash and yermicelli.
Prunes, pomegranates, plums and pudding,
peaches, plneappleS and pie.
She would fly with speedy succor to the ma
tives of Molucca
With whole loads of quail and salmon, and
with tons of fricassee,
And give cake in fullest measure
To the men of Australasia
And all the Archipelagoes that dot the
Southern Sea;
And the Anthropophagi,
All their lives deprived of pie,
She would satiate and satisfy with custard,
cream and mince;
And those miserable Australians
And the BOrriOboOr ighalians.
She would gorge with choicest jelly, rasp-
berry, currant. grape and ounce.
But, like old wartime hard tackers, her poor
husband lived or crackers
Bought at wholesale from a baker, eaten
from the mantel-shelf:
If the men from Madagascar
And the natives of Alaska
Had enough to safe their hunger, let him
look out for himself.
And his coat had but one tail,
And he used single nail
To fasten up his ''gallus" when he went out
to his work;
And she used to spend his money
To buy sugar plums aud honey
For the Terra del Fuegian and the TurcomaE
and Turk.
IS. W. Foss in Yankee Blade.
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Ingersoll, the infidel, writes in large,
bold hand:
San infidel is one who believes in
mental liberty. r. G. lNGERsoLL.
inlay %, 1881"
Theodore Tilton also appears in the
book. He writes a bold, clear and
handsome hand.
Tom Ochiltree, the Texas eX-congress-
man and celebrated American story
teller, contributes page filled with the
familiar quotation from Scott, COM
mencing, 'sBreathes there a man with
soul so dead" etc.
James A. Beaver, of Pennsylvania,
signs himself in very large and rather
marked style of chirography.
George Francis Trains contributions
are strikingly characteristic. Diagonally
across one page he writes with blue
lead pencil in large, heavy letters:
'.PaSS bearer-the steward-to all my
lectures for 200 years.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN"
On the opposite page he writes, also
diagonally:
If you would long life attain,
Live as do, on fruit and grain,
One daily meal lin sun and air.
And run "Laclede House" on the square.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN,
On palace train all over continent.
The first two lines of the verse are
written with blue pencil and the other
two with a red pencil, and signature
and what follows with blue pencil
again.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-11

with the skull humping after him.
He kept on clear down and out of the
front door, across the street, through
the house on the opposite side, across
the yard, and over the back fence. till
he fell ON heap of ashes in the alley,
where he lay saying charms and spells
to keep off the influence of the
youdoo. The bones were taken to
the Cottage Grove avenue sta
ton without making any inquiries,
and the coroner was notified. Later in
the day bOarder in the house, d. c..
Jones, who is student at the Chicago
Medical college, called at the station.
please" said Mr.. Jones, in soft
pOSt-mortem voice, "give me my tibia."
"Your which," exclaimed Lieut..
Stark.
my tibia and my sternum, likewise
my Os frontis."
what are you talking about"
''My bones. The bones which YOU
rude men took from my house this
MORN"
"Oh, you mean the stiff"
81 mean my unarticulated skeleton"
responded Mr., Jones, in mild, bed
chamber tones. And he explained how
he had purchased the bones at the
county hospital, and had put them on
the roof to dry. Their presence had
been disclosed to the police by fellow
student, who wanted TO frighten the
colOred man.
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jefferson Davis signature displays
some of the iIfrmities of age. The let
tiers are irregular i'll size and there are
marks of tremor III the hand. Both
words are joined together and the sig
nature is made in violet ink. The hand
is quite small and rather light.
james G. Blaine writes his name in a
bold running hand with all the sections
of it joined together. The writing is
rather heavy and the s'l'' after the ''B"
looks like q small "r" Beneeth the
name is long sweep Of the pen crossed
in the center with two downward
strokes.
Very large letters are used by Benja-
min +. Butler in signing his name, and
his bread views are visible in the
Mass written under the'name. He
gives no particular city signing him
self from the entire state.
Free trader William Il. Morrison
gives his name IL: q large flowing hand.
The two RS in the middle OF the last
name were rot made plain enough to
suit him, and he wrote them III over
the first attempt.
Judge Stanley Matthews, of the
United States supreme court, has
small AMI rather pretty signature.
Henry Ward Bcccher, the dead clergy
man, placed his name in the book under
date May "A, 1851. 1t is written in a
large, round hard, and the three sec
tions of the name are Joined together.
On the opposite page from him Bob
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Erson, but closer view enables one to
read it more properly.

The dead comedian, E. Southern, wrote,
''Yours always,
''E. A. SOTHERN."
And beneath it his old friend Billy
Florence added:
"'Birds of feather
'W. j. FLORENCE"
John Mccullough and Thomas w.
Keene also have their autographs in the
book.
Joe Jefferson writes over his sigma
ture Rip Van Wrinkles old toast, MAY
you live long and prosper" while
above the name of j. K. Emmett are
the words rs das sO?'
Under date of April Z. 1881, the I'M
fortunate playwright, BARLEY Campbell,
wrote:
Better live in the hearts of those
who know you well than to have the
fame of the greatest heroes of antiquity
"'Your hearts desire be with you, ~
writes Minnie Madden.
Among the other autographs in the
book are those of Aimee, Emma Abbott,
Emma c. Thursby, Ludwig Barnay,
the German actor, Annie Louise Cary,
Kate Claxton, J. Ii. Haverly, Mckee
Rankin, Maggie Mitchell, Brignoli, the
tenor. Georgia Cayvan, Mary S. Scott
Siddons. Mrs. Florence, Denman Thomp-
son. eX-Gov. Louis A. Witt, of Louis
lana, Paul Boyton, the swimmer, Alfred
Townsend Gath, James B. Eads, the
dead engineer, Lucille M. Adams and
Charles S. Stratton Gen. Tom Thumb)
and wife.
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p e,I6X<1Aa

On the next page appears the sigma
ture of Will :. Hayes, river reporter of
the Louisville Courier-Journal. who is
known to fame as the writer of ballads.
He writes a free, flowing hand, orna-
mented to a degree with tiourisheS.
The signature which follows is strik-
ingly characteristic of the man. 1t is
that of j. ID. Williams, ex-governor of
Indiana, who is known throughout the
country as Blue Jeans Williams. The
signature would be picked out among a
thousand as that of plain Well-to-do
granger. TheIe are no frillS OF -four
ishes about it, and there is no beauty in
any of the lines, but it is as plain as it
could possibly be made and there is no
mistalIing that it is intended for j. ID.
Williams. BY no hook or crook could
anything else be made of it. And
withal there is an air Of independence
about it, and as you gaze upon the
name it seems to say:
81 may not be much of an ink singer,
but | can pay my way through the
world, and if you don't like my style
move on"
Turning over the leaf, one comes to
the autograph of still more distin-
guished son OF the Hoosier state. 1t is
the signature of the late vice president
of the United States, Thomas A. Hen
bricks. 1t is written in a very legible
heavily shaded. Nothing appears but
his name and the date, April 2, 1880.
Further on under date of March 90,
1881, is the signature of eX-President
u. S. Grant. 1t is an exact fac-simile
of his signature to be found on bills
and elsewhere. There is the u COM
mencing at the place where the line
would be if the paper were ruled and
Suddenly stopping on the last stroke,
so that it might be taken for u, an
N or an NJ. There is the cut short at
the bottom also, giving it the appear
ance of an inverted V, the peculiar G
and the characteristic cross of the t.
On the same page, beneath the sigma
ture Of Gen. Grant, appears the name
of Schuyler ColfaX, who was elected
vice president on the same ticket with
the deceased soldier. 1t was written
nearly two years later. however, bear
ing date January 9, 1888. 1t is written
in free, flowing hand.
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, who,
like Gen Grant, is now numbered
among the dead, signs himself on the
next page. 1t is small, fancy hand,
with the marked characteristics of a
studied signature. 1t is a pretty hand,
too, and was placed in the book Oct. 8,
1882.
On one. page of the book is the auto
graph: ''W. T. Sherman. General. st.
Louis, Mo-. April ), 1880" The oppo-
site page contains the entry: up. II.
Sheridan, Lieut.. General, March %,
1885," Both are written in clear, free,
legible hands. the letters of Gen. Sher-
idan being somewhat larger than those
of his retired superior officer.
The names of Gen. Grants son, Lieut..
Col Fred ID. Grant, and of Col. Joseph
c. Audcnried. appear Oh the next page
to that containing Gen. Sheridan's sig
nature, and directly opposite the page
bearing the signatures of Gen. Grant
and SchuXlar COlfaX.
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NOT THIS SEASON.
Why He Wanted a Job Whole
Year Ahead of the Season.

Detroit Free Press
When the woman of the house an
swered the vigorous pull at the bell she
found a man with snow shovel stand
ing on the steps.
"Well," she quered in establishment.
"Have the snow cleaned Off, ma'am"'
he pleasantly replied.
''Snow? We haven't had fake for
three weeks"
EXACTLY, ma'am."
s'Then what are you doing here?"
"Come to engage the job, ma'am, for
next winter. Spring is here, summer
will soon be gone, and winter will be at
hand. I'll clean off your walk and make
a nice job of it for 2 shillings.''
''What? Are you asking for a job for
a whole year ahead?" she inquired.
Certainly, ma am, and in order to Sc
cure my services you had better make a
small payment down-a nickel OF two.
You will receive due credit ON my
ledger, and the sum will be taken out
of the first job"
She ran back to let the dog out of the
kitchen, and when she returned the
man had disappeared.
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Qoon,e to let ads. in the GLOBE are seen by
sioo'''S the most people.
TUNE NOISY.

Intolerable playing on the piano may
truthfully be said to be tune noisy
Maple Leaf.
A girl that can play the piano and in
sists on playing should be made to stop.
+Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
What peaceful life that old man of
eighty-six years out in Illinois who
never heard piano must have had
Boston Post.
'.What would civilization be-" asks
DR.. Holmes, without a piano." Some
thing lovely, doctor. Ask us harder
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
An electrical piano has been invented
BY New York man. as if the present
form of the instrument were not shock
ing enough.-Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-
graph.
"a rooster that strums on the piano
is exciting the people of Salem, H."
There is one thing to be said in favor of
such piano player. The rooster goes
to bed at NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
A Massachusetts musician advertises
that he teaches the piano." If he will
teach pianos not to let people play on
them so much we will sign a blank
check for him and he can fill in the
amOunt.-Tid-BitS
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TO A LAWYER.

If lawyer you are, and a single you float
To the wild winds that hover about it,
VIII your first year of practice
Produce you much wealth.
million of ducats and enviable health?
May be it will, but doubt it.
If your fees are non est and your clients are
few,
Cor. indeed there's no question about it)
VIII your landlord, whose fat purse
Contains your last cent
''Stand you Off; with a smile for the coming
months rent!
May be he will, but / doubt it.
If you're married, my friend--a loving wife
Out the very ideal scoutit,)
When she asks for seaiskin along i'll the
fall,
Will you say, ''Yes. love-" and atthe furrier's
calls
May be you will, but Idoubt it.
If by chance case comes and it you pre-
pare,
And then to the jury You spout it,
When the verdict comes IN,
s'For the plaintiff one cent"
Will YOU smile and look happy-yolr money
you've spent:
May be you will, but doubt it.
If at last you are stranded. q silver" would
have,
VII! you to the whole world go and
shout il?
If a client comes in with dollar Or two,
When he goes, who will have il, the client or
you:
May be he will, but doubt it.