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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-08
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle State4

JOHN GORDON committed suicide in New
York by jumping through heavy plate
glass, lacerating his body fearfully and fall
ing forty feet to the sidewalk.
JAMES MARTIN, an inmate of the Soldiers
and Sailors Home at Erie, Penn. was frozen
to death while on leave OF absence.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL WATTS, Of Boston, one
Of tho heaviest shipowners in the United
states, has in the past few weeks lost three
tine ships in rapid succession. The value OF
each ship was not less than S1OO,000.
DANIEL DR1ScoLL was hanged in the New
York Tombs prison On Monday for the muir
der OF a young woman named Beezie Garrity.
The boiler Of the tug Zouave exploded in
New York Harbor and scalded four men, one
fatally.
FIFTY members Of Peter Cooper Post, G.
A. R.. were arrested in New York City for
marching in the streets with the body of
comrade.
SMALLPOX is epidemic at Brooklyn, N. Y,
the hospital containing thirty patients and
the average each day being ten new cases.
The striking Reading miners have Pc
t!tioned the Legislature to seize the mines by
right OF eminent domain" and operate them
for the best interests Of all.
WILLIAM DEMPSEY, Brooklyn printer,
dropped dead during q prize fight with
''Swipes the Newsboy," at Fort Hamilton,
NY
JOHN F. KELLY has succeeded John G..
Gopsill as Postmaster at Jersey City, NJ
FIRE at Philadelphia destroyed the milli-
merry establishments of Marks Brothers and
Adolph Heller, causing loss of 81, ,0O0,00l
AT Baskerville, N. Y, two passenger
coaches were derailed and rolled down an
embankment, fatally injuring four persons.
In many parts of New England and thu
Middle States the weather has been the cold
est experienced in years, the thermometer reg
lstering all the way from ten to thirty degrees
below zero.
PRESIDENT CoRBIy, OF the Reading Road,
and the striking unions have issued state
ments defining their position. Each side re-
fused to yield.
THE doors Of the First National Bank, Of
Auburn, N. Y, were closed on Monday,
pending an examination of its affairs. Cash
Ter Charles OBrien and the bookkeeper, Elmer
E. Moore, had fled, and there were runnors of
a heavy deficit caused by lending funds on
insufficient security.
WILLIAM w. LAWSON, prominent politi-
clan Of Buffalo, N. Y, fell OF q ladder and
was killed
EDWARD CoFFEY died from self-inlicted
wounds while confined at Pittsburg, Penn,
for murder.
CHARLES G. GARRISON Is appointed to
succeed the late Joel Parker on the New jersey
Supreme Court bench.
GEORGE W. KNooR, wealthy miser OF
Philadelphia, Penn, died of starvation.
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HELPING THEMSELVES.
Farmers Capturing Goal Trains to
Obtain Fuel.

News of attacks made OH the coal cars OF
the Union Pacific Road by settlers along tbs
limo in the western pIrt of Nebraska who at
suffering for want of fuel have been re-
ceivrd at the companys hea liluarters III
Omaha. Th. terrible cold " ath"r anu
the snow blockade have cau-e1 fuel
faunine, and tie farmers have heoa Obliged
10 burn coal, hay, fences, outhou', and III
some instances household furniture to keep
from freeing.
A freight train consisting OF several cars
or coil wos stop,ed by u hundred armed
men at Cob ID. and all the coal was
thrown upon the ground. At Sheldon
a coal train was boarded and tho coal thr own
off in tn, sam, IN inner Similar attacks on
coal trains are reported from Gibbon and
Kearnpy
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Two celebrated bandits who lourshed
in the carly days of ilentucay once lived
in stone house on the bunKso. the Cum.
b.rlaud. rear Dycusbury, and there has
since !;een a tra'l,tioI that they buried
n great store of gold and silver near tho
h. use In late years many people hara
searched in vain for the dden treasv2e.
Int number of men in Cri,tenton .o-lslt3
have nnw organized the nselves for
systematic search for the buried coin.
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Two TRAGEDIES.
One On the Land, the Other
On the Sea.
Miners Die By Fredamp---starva-
ton in a Lifeboat.

A frigbtfully fatal explosion has occurred
in No. 5 pit Of the Wellington collieries, Vic
toria, British Columbia, by which upward of
fifty lives were lost.
An eye witness states that he was about
one hundred yards from the pit when he
heard report like that of a large cannon,
and there instantly shot far into the air dense
mass of black smoke and dust, which con-
verted the snow.covered ground into an
inky deposit When this subsidized q portion
of the fan house had besn destroyed, as we'll
as the wood work in the shaft. Manager
Dryden Immediately proceeded to repairing
the fan house, which was Quit kly accom-
plished. and the fan started again.
The shaft timbers were destroyed so that
cages could not be used, but pulleys and
ropes were Immediately prepared for the
work of rescue. The first man to come out
of the pit had climbed by means of the cage
wire cable through the shattered timbers to
within one hundred feet OF the top. A rope
was then lowered to him. and he reached the
surface in an exhausted condition.
A second miner was also enabled to get out
by this perilous method, but third, when
fifty feet from the top, loosed his hold, and
fell to certain death at the bottom Of the
shaft. Two men were then lowered az a
search party, and they returned, stating that
nothing could be heard but calls from be-
low.
Fortunately the mine had not fired, so dan
ger from this source was averted. A tenn
porary cage was made and lowered tn a con-
siderable depth, the miners climbing to it by
means Of ladders, so that at | o'clock of
the 1G0 men in the mine had been rescued.
One white man, Robert Williams. the un-
fortunate who fell, was taken out dead. The
explosion took place in the last level, and
in this twenty-five white miners and
number Of Chinese were imprisoned.
Fears that they were all killed were verified
later, for at five o'clock all the white men
were carried to the surface dead, anil the
work Of taking out the Chinese was begun.
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Foreign.

REAR ADMIRAL LOUIS HUTTON FERs-
TURME, of the British navy, suicided at Fal-
mouth, England.
A POWDER magazine exploded at Amby
China killing 2n Chinamen.
COMMANDAET BRASSEUR, French veteran
Of the Franco PruSsian war, is dead
A CENTENARY celebration was held in Lon
don in honor Of Lord Byron the poet.
BIG BEAR, the accomplice of Ri l, the
Canadian rebel, and the chief who led the
Frog Lake massacre, is dead.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN presented President
Cleveland's GIFT to the Pope, who sroie in
complimentary terms of American lnstitu-
tionS
A DISASTROUS fire in the business centre Of
! Montreal. Can, destroyed pro:erty valued
at 500. 900. Several tirem II Vera froNn
: It II, aud the water froza quickly after bo-
ing thrown from the hose that it was nInos.
impo siblr to check the flames
THERE is u deficit OF S:,JOOJO in the Mani
tOha Treasury.
LOUISE MICHEL, the notorious French
Commun st. was fired u"In and wountle'l
twice VIII le speaking atau Anarchist meeting
in Havre Her assailant was arrcstHi
JOHN BRIGHT has written letter de-
; nouncing Gladstone and his htter-day
mcthO18.
HAVANA, Cuba, is in a state Of turmoil,
owing to the incompetency and tyranny OF
Captain-G General Marin and his officials. On
Sunday there were twelve murders, one sui
eide, eight highway robbsrias, and four
stabbing ARRAYS in Havana and CardenaS
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AN EnSlish,nan visited the tower Of the
Cathedral at Cordova with gYpSy gui ie.
Two shots were heard, and the Englishm'n
came down with blood on bis clothes. The
dead bo ty of the gypsy was found at the top
OF the tower, and the Englishman was ar
rested; but the story that he was attacked by
the guide and shot him in sesf defense was ao-
Septed and he was released.
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OLD LADY, am sorry to hear lit
tie boy use such shocking language.
Do YOU know what becomes OF lite
bows who swear2" Urchin-"Yos IN.
Dey gifts to be hoss car drivers. "-Tid-
Bus.
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate PROCEEDINGS.

9th DAY.-The Attorney General re-
sponded to the Senate resolution inquIrlng
into the employment of Assistant District
Attorney Westbrook, to the effect that he
had no information on the subject. The
WesternUnion Telegraph Company presented
through Mr.. Beck protest against the res,
tai Telegraph bill. -. Mr. Hoar presented
the resolution from the Massachusetts
Peace Movement Meeting. Referred to Com
mittee on Foreign Relations. The resolu-
tion was adopted calling for close investl-
CATION of the jackson Miss election -. Bills
reported: For the admission Of the State OF
Dakota and the organization of Lincoln Ier-
ritory: the Melbourne Exposition bill was
reported and passed; Mr.. Chandler asked for
information from the Secretary o. the Navy
concerning certain contracts and changes Id
construction of war vessels. %. Various PEN
sion bills were introduced.
18th DAY.-The President sent report con.
cerning the management Of Industrial Homes
in Utah, which was referred to Committee on
Territories =. Mr.. Vest presented petition
from the contractor for the new library
on the structure . Mr.. voorhees, introduced
a bill for the admission of the State OF
Montana. After much discussion the Pres.
ident's Pacific Railway Message was referred
to committee Of seven by vote of "a to 15.
26TH DAY.-A resolution was adopted pay
ing Mr.. Lncas, who co ltested the seat OF Mr..
Faulkner, 1000 for expenses. Mr.: Jones
reported resolution asking committee to
inquire whether Washington street railways
were paying just taxes. Mr.; Quay had
passed resolution requesting information
from the President as to the payment OF
awards between the United States and
Venezuela. Mr.. Evarts introduced petit
tion for an International copyright law.
Mr.. Chambers resolution calling for an in
yestication of contracts and changes in orig
inal plans for construction in the Navy Do
partment was passed. The Urgent Def.
cheney Appropriation bill.was passed.
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LOUISA EVANS, OF Fleming urg, Ken
ncky, six years old, was uied Oh n writ OF
unacy AMI ordered to tho Lexington Insane
Asylum. the "ase is remarkable because Oh
the youth OF the patient She IS very violent.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Nutriment in Rice.


Touching the nutritious value Of Va
rious foods variously cooked, it may be
we'll just now to point out that ono
pound of rice, prepared for the table
gives eighty eight per cent. of nutriment
and, consequently, relatively proper
tional ability to labor compared with
other articles of food. A pound Of beef
contains only twenty-five per cent OF
nutriment; yet countless numbers strain
point daily to purchase beef, when
they could get q pound of rice for
one-third of the amount; the. rice,
moreover, having three times as much
nutriment as the pound of beef, making
practical difference of 800 per cent.
There is, also, the additional fact to be
considered that boiled rice is digested
in about an hour, roast beef, on the con-
trary, requiring three hours and half.
There is meaning, after all, in the fact
that two-ffths of the hlman family live
on T &C. Mutton is five per cent. more nu.
tritious than beef, plums four per cent.
and grapes two per cent Goldfish yields
only twenty-one per cent. of nutriment.
Contrary to popular ideas, apples yield
three per cent. more nutriment than
milk.-New York Heud. ~
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Washington

A REeEPTIoN and banquet was given to
Commander in Chief Rea uy the g. A. R at
Washington.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is said to be strong
ly in favor of holding the next Democratic
National Convention in New York City, and
it is reported that a ma. .ority Of the Demo
cratic National Committee are Of the same
view.
THE postoffico officials have decided to
change the color OF the four-cent stamp, with
General Grants head on it, from green to
bright verriiiion.
SPEAKER CARLISLE said he would walk
out of the House rather than submit to the
reopening Of the Thoebe-Carlisle election
contest
THE Senate in secret session ratified a
commercial treaty with Guatemala
TIE President has nom mated Marshall
Mcdonald o. the District Of Columbia to be
Commissioner Of Fish and Fisheries; John
w. Ross to be Postmaster at Washington,
and John Blair Hoye to be United States
Attorney for the District Of Columbia.
A SKATING party consisting Of Count
Greggor, Of the Russian Legation, DIR. Dick
son, of the Navy, Richard Peters, and three
ladies, all prominent Washington society
people, fell through the ice on the Potomac
and were with difficulty rescued from drown
ing by the Navy Yard Patrol
VIscouSr DAs NoeUIRRAs,t the Portuguese
Minister a. Washington, Is dead
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House PROCEEDINGS.

22D DAY.-On motion OF MIR. Payson bill
was passed providing that letters patent and
copyrights may, by direction Of the Secretary
of the Interior, be signed by one OF tie assist
ant secretaries .. Mr.. Durham presented the
memorial of the National Board of Trade, in
session at Washington. in favor Of adequate
appropriations for the improvement of navi-
gable rivers and harbors. Referred.
23D DAY-Mr. Crisp, Of Ga, called up
the contested election case Of Thoebe against
Carlisle, the question being to consider the
resolution of the Election Committee con-
firming Mr.. Carlisles title. A vote being
taken. no quorum was found present, SO
motion to adjourn prevailed
oath DAY.-The resolution confirming the
majority report in the Thoebe- Carlisle cleo
ton case was passed by vote of l64 to IT,.
The following bills wcro introduced: Mr..
Oates, to refund the bonded debt at 21@ per
cent I; Mr.. Townshend, to pension teamsters Of
the Mexican War, aud to tax salt used for cur
ing pork; Mr.. Lawlor, to appropriate SlO1.000
for statues of Generals Logan and Shields; Mr..
Newton, making eligible to the army any
Confederate soldier; Mr.. Enloe, to punish
dealing in agricultural product futures; Mr..
Durham, .appropriating Si5oUoo to build an
air ship for passengers; Mr. Butler, to pro-
vide for the sending to any veteran who may
desire it copy of tho Congressional Record
free of charge. -. A resolution was intro
duced urging the speedy settlement Of the
Fisheries question.
18th DAY-Mr. Richardson reported reso-
luton, asking the Public Printer why he had
discharged men when the necessary work
was greatly in arrears. and il he had given
preference in employment to honorably dis
charged soldiers. The following bills were
introduced: Appropriating $4,000 to re-
pair the ship Hartford; for the erec-
tion of a signal service building at Wash
ington; to reward Esquimaux for acts
of humanity to shipwrecked seamen
The advisability OF maintaining the Fort
Brown Military Reservation, Texas. was
discussed and a resolution was passed re-
auesting more information. "A bill was in
troduced dscontinuing revenue districts
where receipts do not equal expenses. "A
bill was placed on the calendar making bills
of lading conclusive evidence in some cases:
26TH DAY.-Mr. Randall introduced bill
to appoint Board of Engineers to decide
whether it was expedient to remove Smiths
Island and Windmill Island from Delaware
River in the interest of commerce. MIR.
Morrow presented bill to reward the Japa-
nese who extended humane Treatment to the
crew Of the wrecked bark Cashmere. :. Mr..
Henderson reported bill to amend the In
ternal Revenue laws so that the court, in its
discretion, can impose the maximum penalty
for the slightest offense. and the warrant OF
arrest is returnable in the county Of arrest
Mr.. Belmont introduced bill to readrnit
free of duty exhibits sent to the Paris Expo
sition in 1880. Mr. Lander sought informa-
tion whether S348,6il, ,l0J in United States
notes existed in 1878.
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CONGRESS has passed bill creating the
Office OF Commissioner of Fisheries, with
salary Of S5,FN. This Office was tille'l for
years by the late Spencer F. Baird, who did
the work gratuitouslv. The bill requires
that the Commissioner shall have practi-
cal acquaintance with our fish and fisheries
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A GANG of Iowa counterfeiters are makinc
'ast-iron dollars. They are heavily plated
with silver, stand the test Of acid, are gOhi
weight, and are detected Oh = by the ring.
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THE assessed valuation OF New York Citys
sol estate tnis year IS 81 ,%O5, ,3O, l33, an In
rease Of nearly $53, ,Uuo, ,UO0 over Last year.
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Too Much Meat.

Most people eat too much meat. Nat,ire
has 80 bountifully supplied this country
with animal food, that our people appear
to have come to the conclusion that it Is
an essential duty on their part to mako
daily consumption of large quantities Of
it. While some animal food is needful,
it is great mistake to suppose that it Is
required three times day, or really
oftener than once every twenty-four
hours. European laborers rarely get meat
more than once or twice week, and yet
they are as a general thing robust and
strong, and capable Of enduring hard
ships under which our great meat eaters
would surely sink. '. .g.s-'..
A writer says: 1.-THE heavy work Of
the world is not done by men who eat
meat. The Russian soldiers, who built
such wonderful roads and carried Q
weight of armor and luggage that would
crush the average farmland, lived on
coarse brown bread and sou wine. They
were temperate in diet and regular in
exercise. The Spanish peasant works sA
day and dances half the night, and yet
earns only his black bread, onion and
watermelon. The Smyrna porter eats
only little fruit and some olives, and
yet. he walks off with his load of 100
pounds. The coolie fed on riceS moro
active and can endure moe titan the
negro fed on meat."-P"ihsdelphia Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1888-11-29
The Power of the Imagination.

Ne learn from the New Orleans Picayune that Dr. Durand, wishing to test tine practical effect of mind disease, gave a hundred patients a dose of sweeiened water. Fifteen minutes after, entering apparently in great excitement, Le announced that he had by mistake given pow erful emetic, and preparations must be made accordingly Eighty out of the hundred patients became thoroughly i'll, and exhibited the usual result of an emetic. Twenty were unaffected. The curious part of 1t is that, with very few excep- tinns, the eighty "emetieized2 sub jects were men, while the strong minded few who were not to be caught with chaff were women.- Scientific American
The St. Johns herald., 1888-11-29
Proposed fer the Wr0ng Girl.

The following story is told in the newly published Random Rocol- lections Of Courts and Society,"" of Baron de Bourgoing: q am ex- tremc!y distrait," he said, and my marriage was the result of my ab- sence of mind. When I was a young man I fell in love with a charming girl l used to meet at balls and parties. I found that she re- ciprocated my sentiments, and ob- tained her permission to speak to her father. The next morning 1 called on him, was shown into his study. and presented myself as a suitor for his daughters hand. The olI gentleman seemed surprised at first, but when 1 had assured him of the sincerity and stability of my affections, and accepting me as his son-in-law sent for his daughter. AS the door opened I ran to greet my fancee-it was another young lady-your mother, my child," he continued, suavely smiling at allle. de Bourgoing. T had abstractedly come to the wrong house, pressed my suit with the wrong father, and been given to the wrong wife; but of course I could not retract or put upon the young person the indig- nifty of refusing her. She did not live long," he added, with great sin cerity. "Pray take some more wine. "-London Life.
The St. Johns herald., 1888-11-29
Dressed Heat in New York City.

It is notorious fact that there is any quantity of diseased meat wholly unfit for human consump- ton sold in this city. There are a number of interruptions butchers recently settled in Harlem who make it a practice to deal in this unwholesome stuff. We ourselves are cognizant of the fact that one of these people bought carloads ol this meat-meat wholly unfit for a human being to eat-and took 1t to their shops to sell at any price it would bring. In these dealings only the poor aad the ignorant suffer those who, allurcd by the appear once of the meat and its low price, think that they are obtaining good meat at low prices.
 Those who engage in this ques- tionable course are not butchers, but men who, tempted by this offer of the producers of this diseased meat to make Q fortune speedily, rush into the business with no care for the disease anddeatl they spread about them so long as they make money out of the business.
 In asking who is 10 blame for such a state of affairs in this lead ing and, claimed to be, best govern ed city in the country, one natu- rally thinks at first of the board of health. It is, no doubt, that they should inspect ali meat which comes to the city, and then visit regularly all the shops and markets in which meat is sold in order to see that as soon as tie meat becomes unfit fol human food it is put out of the way. But this they do rot do. Any ol these interruptions dealers from all over the country knowing this, and knowing also that there is such a demand here for meat that almost anything will find g le if not pre- vented by the authorities, flood this market with all the old diseased stuff they cannot sell anywhere else.
 The board of health are fully aware of this state of affairs, but say they are powcrless to remedy it for want of sufficient numbers ot men to enforce the law. More in spect"rs are needed, therefore, and the authorities should appoint them torthwiih.-Butchers Advocate.
The St. Johns herald., 1888-11-29
Cutie as Strange as Fiction.

What story of real treasure island is that which the Japan Weekly Mail reports. Two million sterling in doubIoons, with no end of jewels, and plate, cached some where in the Pacific by piratical English lieutenant, who cut out the brig containing the treasure and slowed away his booty in a safe place or an unnamed island of the Narainne group. The pirates quar- feled the lieutenant two officers, and cabin boy fired the ship and fled, in a ships boat. One of the officers was murdered before reach ing land. The cabin boy was clap ped into prison as a pirate. The lieutenant and the surviving officers chartered a schooner and went off for the treasure. The officer tipped the lieutenant overheard and they, being threatened with punishment unless he revealed the place of the treasure, the solitary survivor filled his pockets with lead and iron and dropped into the sea, leaving as the only clue a handful of his hair, plucked out in an effort to save him from drowning, and chart of the unnamed, unknown treasure island, The Spanish au- thorities hold the chart, the island holds the treasure and an effort to discover 1t made by an English cap- tain, who believes he has clue to the secret, has just had a mysterious termination. The captain on land- ing to look for the treasure was de- serted by his men, who carried off the ship. The whole story looks like a variant on Mir. Stevenson's story by some Japanese journalist of genius. But it may be true for all that, and ifso, we shall not have long towait before hearing of a fresh expedition.