The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-26
Church Days and Cycles Of Time.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

MACKEREL arc very SCdreo 0nio JeoA' -
HENRY GEORGE is lecturing in London
MISSOURI has little debt Of ST., ,0Oo, ,0Oo
THERE are 5O63 indians in the State OF New
York.
MARY1ANps oyster navy costs over. $50, !
600 q year.
THE cost of collecting the Tenth Census
was "a, $3.50.
THERE were 227 suicides for loves sake 10
Paris last year.
The only fve-masted schooner In the worid
sails from Oregon.
The crows have cost the farmers Of: Malne
500, ,000 the past year.
MINNEAPOLIS spent Sl4O, T6S In ceoaf
block paving this year.
SACKvILLE VESTS successor will not peI
appointed before March t.
The population of Germany, according "a
the last census, is $780, TO4.
KANSAS has for the first time chosen coil
ored man to the Legislature.
SOUTHERN California is rapidly becoming
great baan-growing district
THE price of shares in the Panama Cana1
Company has gone down to 81. ..
EXCESSIVE gum chewing caused the death
of a young girl at Newton, Conn
UNUSUALLY large quantities Of American,
apples are being shipped to England
The orange crop of Florida will allow terl
oranges for every person in the country.
TEXAS has the largest number OF co.ored
men in her Legislature OF any State In tn9
| Union. j
TIE peanut crop of this year IS estimated
| at 2, co., OU bushels, against j,TSo,oOo Dusnei1
last year.
THE total annual consumption Of raisins IL
| the United States amounts TO aoout oo,oVo,l
O0O pounds.
THE effort to create a new Ministry OF
Agriculture in England IS PROVOKING mucij
opposition
THE importation Of saccharine and SUBJ
stances containing it is forbidden In francj
and Algeria
SECRETARY WHITNEY has appointed
hoard to select a site for naVy-yard on snl
northwest coast.
HAY is slightly above an average crop q
weld There is O tendency TO increase q
area in the South.
EMPEROR FREDERICK's original diary
found to be in possession OF Queen 'iceoriaj
who has copyright on 1t. -
| THERE has been a recent rise in pr1ce aVe4
ooing about twelve per cent. on the principe
bniling materials in Eng aud
THE average yield of buckwheet Is al
nroximateIy twelve bushels per acre, anu tnf
CROP nearly eleven million bushels
AT Hopkinsville, Ky, III colored conveI1
,vara recently baptized IN mill pond oy tf|
| Rev, John Williams in one hour anu
| minutes
CALIFORNIA farmer, believing that ca /
will exterminate squirrels and gopher
purchased large number aud set them
| liberty on his land
THE we'll of w. R. Tuten, near Jaspe}
F.n., was dry all summer. but the otner aal
he heard pecnliar rumbting noises az St
bottom of the well, which is over 1orty re-
deem in solid clay, and then a stream
water about the size OF q mans arm Snl
across the bottom and disappeared. 500
after this streams of air began to pour out J
o. iaast dozen different holes near the bo
tom. each column of air making olnere1
Sound as it rushed forth. There was mus
In the well until about three feet OF watt
accumulated, and now the water Is In co
| tinual boil.
| F1Fry.sEvES years ago Isaac Bassett VI
appointed page in the United States Senat
| He is in the employ Of the Senate to day,
term of service having been unbroken-
| The Grand Un ted Order Of Odd Fellow
America, ut their annual session In NastF
lille, Tenn, elected officers and agreed
| .neet next ot Atlanta, Ga