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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-17
FROM THE SOUTH SEAS.
Fearful Slaughter for Possession OF
the Marquesa Group.

News received from the South Seas shows
that there was savage fighting on the Mar
quesa Group before the natives allowed the
French to hoist their flag and take possession
of the islands. Two hundred French marines
and several thousand natives were killed
The natives retired into the mountains
where it was difficult to dislodge them. Much
indignation is expressed in Tahiti over the
seizure of Easter Island by Chile, which pro
poses to establish there a penal colony. THIS
is the island famous for its grand stone stat
ues standing on huge pedestals. The seizure
was made by Captain Toro, OF the Chilean
cruiser Angamos.
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The fugitive President of Hayti,
Gen. Louis E. F. Salomon. is six feet
four inches high, weighs 800 pounds,
and is perfectly proportioned. He is
of pure African blood, and his skin is
almost jet black, while his hair is
white with age. He is finely educated,
and is noted for his charm of mannet
and brilliancy of conversation.
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PAPER is now manufactured from
sea weed, according to o process re-
Gently invented in Japan. The article
made in this way is said to be so strong
as to be almost untearable, is suficient
" transparent to admit of its being
used as window glass, and takes all
colors about equally well. i,
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Foreign.

CALVERT BROTHERS, wooien factors OF
Halifax, England, have failed for Sl,000,0O0.
The firm bought on credit and sold for cash
1T q sacrifice. John Calvert has absconded.
HUNDREDS of lives have been lost by floods
in Spain.
ANOTHER horrible murder of a woman has
occurred at GotheShead, England, similar tt
the four preceding brutal murders of women
in tie White Chapel district of London.
The publication of Emperor Frederick's
diary has caused a great sensation through
out Germany.
FIVE promineE. merchants of Brockville,
Canada, were drowned at that place by the
sinking Of sailing yacht in midchannel.
SEVENTEEN peasants were sentenced to be
hanged in Russia for the killing of three
policemen.
TERED in the San Justo Cemetery Madrid,
Spain. The funeral was attended by the sons
OF the deceased and a few friends.
A EUNUCH in the Sultan's palace at Con-
stantinople was hanged for killing comrade
The chief eunuch and eight other eunuchs
have been exiled for having neglected their
duties.
JOSEPH BARBERIE son of Hon. j. G..
Barberie, George Edward, and Lawrence
McHugh, an orphan lad. were drowned Off
Dalhousie, New Brunswick, by the upsetting
Of their boat.
A CONFLICT arose between German resi-
dents and coast tribes at Bagomoyo, Zanzi-
bar, Africa. The German Admiral landed
with force from the Leipsic to assist the
Germans, and killed $50 men without suffer-
ing single casualty.
A FoRcE under Colonel Graham has totally
defeated the insurgent Thibetans Mt Jelopha
Pass, capturing their camp. -Four hundred
Thihetans were killed or wounded. Colonel
Bromhee lost his right arm and nine Sepoys
were wounded. Colonel Graham is advanc-
ing into Thibetan territory.
THE most malignant type of typhoid fever
is prevalent at Kingston, Canada. One hun
dred and forty persons are reported to be
prostrated with the disease.
THREE small boys were playing "killing
pigs" at Cowbay, Nova Scotia. A six-year-
old son of Mrs. Anderson, who keeps the vii
lage hotel, was bound hand and foot by his
two little companions, who then cut his
throat with an old rusty knife, from the ef'
facts Of which he died.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-17
naotructiye Prairie Fires In Oak
Rebels ReDulSed.

The rebels made an attack upon the water
fort at Suakim. They were repu!sed with
severe loss by the heavy artillery fire of the
British. One British gunner was killed. The
gunboats continued firing into the rebel
camp Deserters report that there is much
sickness in the camp. Cholera has brokeD
out in Khartoum.
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ROBERT MONTGOMERY, VINO was re-
Gently adjudged insane at Washington,
imagined that he had just returned
from a trip to the planet Venus, where
he established telephone commun1ca-
ton with the earth. While on his trip
he saw Clay, Calhoun, Webster, and
other famous men.
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IN HER OWN TRAP.
A Treachcrous Wife Meets q just
Punishment For Her Crtme:~

Punishment For Her Crtme~
Jacques Boivin, of Lake Temiscamingue
in Canada, complained Of feeling unwell.
His wife suggested dose Of epson salts, but
instead prepared a doze of strychnine. The
husband was suspicious of the mixture and re-
fused to take 1t. To satisfy his scrup.es the
woman took spoonful herself. This induced
the husband to take the full dose. But the
woman evidently miscalculated the strength
of the poison, thinking that spoonful would
not hurt her. Wh,n neighbor called ned
day be fourd both dead. q.
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SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate Proceedings.

1S0TH DAY.-The conference report on the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was agreed
to. "A bill regulating the presentation Of
bills and joint resolutions to the President OF
the United States, after brief discussion,
was referred. Mr.. Edmunds presented a
and placing dishonored star on the field Of
blue. >. The House bill to create a Depart
ment Of Agriculture was passed without the
Weather Bureau section. :. Mr.. Chandler
introduced bill to pay $50 to the Congo
Emigration Company for each colored man
who desires to emigrate to any free State OF
Africa.
lslsr DAY.-The General Deficiency Ap-
preparation bill was passed. Among the
pay to the widow of the late Chief Justice
Waite the balance Of his years salary.
A bill was passed appropriating $4,000
for the completion Of the monument COM
memorating the surrender of Burgoyne at
Saratoga, n. "A bill was introduced to
prohibit the immigration of Chinese laborers
MFR. Call introduced bill directing the
President to appoint Commission Of seven
physicians of the different schools Of medi-
cine as far as practicable who shall observe
and view and make report of all the facts
on the yellow fever in Jacksonville so far as
practicable.
1S2D DAY.-Mr. Edmunds introduced a
resolution to bring out the special CORE
spondence relating to the Chinese Restric-
tion bill -. The Senate went into Executive
session to discuss the condition Of the Chinese
treaty and the relations OF the two Govern
ments. Mr.. Sherman's resolution for an in
quiry into the state of the relations between
the United States and Great Britain and
Canada was taken up, and Mr.. Morgan dis
cussed it. {. The joint resolution to continue
the provisions of existing law providing for
the expenditures of the Government up to
and including October 10 was passed 80. All
the private pension bills on the calendar, ia
in number, were passed in forty-five minutes,
including the bill granting a pension to the
widow Of General Sheridan.
lS3D DAY-Mr. Daniels continued the de-
bate on the Presidents message. 80. The Sen
ate passed the bill approving the new line Of
demarcation between the waters Of Rhode
Island and Connecticut
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-17
NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.

WORK will soon commence ON the Wind
Lake, Wis, canal. The canal will restore
500 900 worth Of valuable land in Racine
county, or $1,000 scres. 1t will be thirteen
miles long.
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CHARLES A. PERCY made successful
trip through the whirlpool rapids at Niagara
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House PROCEEDINGS.

219TH DAY-ln the House Mr.. Morrow
offered resolution providing for the imme-
diate Transmission to the President Of en-
rolled bills. .. The conference report on the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was agreed
to. but no decision was reached on the Con-
gressional Library Building feature. A fur
ther conference was ordered. "A resolution
extending appropriations for certain Govern
ment bureaus till October Is was passed..
Mr.. Grain again called up his resolution to
suppress trusts, and the measure was dis
cussed but no action taken.
220TH DAY.-Tho House passed the bills for
a commission to attend the Geodetic Con-
ference at Brussels, and also to encourage en-
listment in the navy. The joint resolution
to provide for an international commission
to determine Mexican boundary questions
was passed q. The bill to regulate the course
at the Naval Academy was considered, and
an amendment providing that after March
j, 1859, the minimum age for the admission
of a cadet to the academy shall be sixteen
years, and the maximum twenty-one years,
was adopted.
221sT DAY.-The House passed, without de-
bate, bill forfeiting all the lands granted to
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company by
the Act of July ,, 1864, except such as are
adjacent to and coterminous with road con-
structed prior to July 4, 1879, with the right
of way through the remainder OF the route.
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OVER 726, ,OO0 acres were devoted to pea
raising this year in the Province of Ontario,
Canada. The average yield was sixteen
bushels to the acre, L, La, ,3333 bushels in all
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-17
HeadlonS 10 Death.

A thrilling and appalling spectacle was
witnessed in connection with a balloon as
cension at the Ottawa lCanada) Industrial
Exhibition. About o'clock in the afternoon
balloon which was in process OF imitation
was surrounded by number Of young men.
Suddenly a cry Of horror was raised as it
broke from its moorings and shot into
the air carrying with it q young man
named Thomas Wensley, who had been care
lessly holding on by small rope attached to
the balloon. Higher and higher he sped in
his fatal fight. simply ciingin- by his hands
and suspended in full view Of thousands OF
spectators, his aged father being one of the
number, but fortunately unaware that his
only son was the object Of his gaze.
When about one thousand feet from the
ground he made a desperate struggle as
though endeavoring to retain his grasp, but
the effort was vain and poor Wensley fell
headlong to the earth. It was noticed that
when be had descended apparently about
hundred feet his body turned and contorted
as if in dying struggle, after which his de-
scent was like that of lifeless mass.
The grief stricken father is almost wild
with frenzy. He cannot be restrained from
walking the streets as he gives vent to his
feelings over the result Of the dreadful spec
tacle which he witnessed with apparent COM
pos1re. Wensley was about twenty-three
years Of age.
Killed Himself on His Wedding Day.
Three hours before the time set for the
wedding of William b. Van Derwort, a son
of ex.Judge Van Derwort, Of Chaumont, St
Lawrence County, N. Y. to Miss frankie
G. Matteson, Of Sandy Creek, ne sent
bullet from a revolver through
his heart and expired Instantly.
The tragedy has caused profound sensation
in the little village Of Sandy Creek. where it
was enacted. The deceased was only twenty
two wears Of age. college graduate and
law student in his fathers Office in Chau-
mont.
Van Derwort had contracted debt at
Sareents store in the village and on the we'd
ding morning Sargent asked for his pay say
ing that he would 60 and get the money, Van
Derwort started out OF town on Iooe. An 1al, S':
Ger started after him and came up to hlm
in a piece of wood, but before he could make
an arrest the young man drew revolver
and shot himself through the heart Miss
Matteson, when she heard what her intended
husband had done, was Frustrated anu al
most driven insane.
Destructive Prairie Fires In Dakota.
One of the most destructive prairie fires
that ever visited Dakota has just occurred.
All of the western part OF Lamoure
county and much of tho southern
and western part Of Stutsman county, were
burned over. Instances of where ire ran
faster than horses and wagon are narrated
Many farmers will lose everything and mucn
distress will be experienced. The fire was
eytinguished in some places, but was still
raging fiercely ir many directions. Passen-
gers on the James River Valley train say the
5rairie from Lamoure to within few miles
Of Jamestown, fifty miles, was all ablaze.
They could see the burning barns, dwellings
and eraiu-stacks from the car windows.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-07
GRAINS OF GOLD.

a weak mind is ambitious of envy, a
strong one of respect.
Why do we discover faults so much
more readily that projections?
Patience is the support of weakness;
impatience is the ruin of strength.
We fancy we suffer from ingratitude,
while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Only those faults which we encounter
in ourselves are insufferable to us in 9TH
erS.
The friendships of the world are oft
cOnfederates in vice, or leagues of pleas
ure.
Success has a great tendency to con-
ceal and throw veil over the evil deeds
of men.
The hearers of a sermon ought to leave
the church prepared to do as well as to
believe.
Envy is like a fly that passes all a
body's soundest parts and dwells upon
the sores.
If there be crime of deeper dye than
all the guilty train of human vices, it is
ingratitude.
A pedant holds more to instruct us
with what he knows, than of what we
are ignorant.
Had we not faults of our own we
should take less pleasure in observing
those of others.
Success is full of promise till men get
it; and then it is last years nest, from
which the bird has flown.
We can offer up much in the large,
but to make sacrifices in little things is
what we are seldom equal to,
Ingratitude is, of all crimes, what in
ourselves we account the most venial, in
others the most objectionable.
If we did but know how little some
enjoy of the great things they possess,
there would not be much envy in the
world.
There are MANY who talk on from ig-
norance rather than from knowledge,
and who find the former an inexhauSti-
BILE fund Of conversation.
There is one single fact, which one
may oppose to all the wit and argument
of infdelity, namely, that no man ever
repented of being Christian on his
death-bed.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-07
BLAINE TO WHITELAW REID.

ABSOLUTE AND UNEQUIVOCAL IN TERMS
| WILL NOT ACCEPT A NOMINATION..
PARIS, May II, 1888.
Whitelaw Reid, Esq, Editor New York Tribune.
My DEAR SIR: Since my return to
Paris from Southern Italy on the Sth in
stant, l have learned (whatI ] did not be-
fore believe) that my name may yet be
presented to the National Convention as
a candidate for the Presidential nOmina-
ton of the Republican party. A single
phrase of my letter of January 25 from
Florence (Which was decisive of every
thing had the personal power to decide)
has been treated by many of my most
valued friends lis not absolutely cOnclu-
sive in ultimate and possible cOntingen-
cies On the other hand, friends equally
devoted and diSinterested have construed
my letter (as it should be cOnStrued) to
be an unconditional Withholding of my
name from the National Convention
They have in consequence given their
support to eminent gentlemen who are
candidates for the Chicago nomination
some of whom would not, L am sure,
have consented to assume that position
if had desired to represent the party in
the Presidential contest of 1888. If l
should now, by speech or by silence, by
commission or omission, permit my name
in any event to come before the COnven-
tion, should incur the reprOach of be-
ing unCantlfd With those who have al
WAYS been candid with me. | speak,
therefore, because [ am not willing to re-
main in a doubtful attitude. l am not
willing to be the cause of misleading
single man among the millions who have
given me their suffrage and their conf
dence. am not willing that even one
of my faithful supporters in the past
should think me capable of paltering in
a double sense with my words. ASSum-
ing that the Presidential nomination
could by any possible chance be offered
to me, l could not accept without leaY-
ing in the minds of thousands of these
men the impression that 1 had not been
free from indirection, and therefore l
could not accept it at all. The misrep
resentations of malice have no weight,
but the just displeaSure of friends | could
not patiently endure,
Republican victory, the prospects of
which grow brighter every day, can be
imperilled only by lack of unity in cOun-
ell or by acrimonious contest over men.
The Issue of Protection is intellectually
stronger and greater than any man, for
it concerns the prosperity of the present
and of generations yet to come. Were
it possible for every voter of the Repub
lie to see for himself the condition and
recompense of labor in Europe, the party
of Free Trade in the United States would
not receive the support of one wage
worker between the two oceans. 1t may
not be directly in our power as philan-
thropists to elevate the European laborer,
but it will be lasting stigma upon our
craftsmanship if we permit the American
lab0rer to he forced down to the Europe
an level And in the end the rewards of
labor everywhere will be advanced if we
steadily refuse to lower the standard at
home.
Yours, very sincerely,
JAMES G.. BLAINE.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-07
CLEVELAND'S POLICY.

Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer.
In short, the President withheld the
patronage until he got everybody hun
gry, and then he only conferred it upon
such dogs as would bark for him. Those
who became renegade to their old pa
irons, like Samuel J. Randall got a
piece of meat or bone in reality or in
expectancy, and they behaved like ca
mines at ones door, where acquiescence
gets meat and indifference or individu-
ality gets cold water and hunger. Who
could ever have supposed that a Presi-
dent of the United States would veto a
mans public building in the town which
is the center of his district in order to
punish him for having declined to ac-
cept the Presidents revenue PROPOSE
tiOns? This, however, has been done.
The immense veto power conferred by
the Constitution merely for the purpose
of correcting erroneous legislation has
been used to deprive municipality of
it's postofllce and court buildings in or
der that the people may see that this
President is an austere man who pun
lshes those who differ from him.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-07
4 HISTORIC SPOT.
WHERE THE BELL FIRST SOUNDED IN
TIE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.

WHERE THE BELL FIRST SOUNDED IN
TIE NORTHWEST TERRITORY.
From New Philadelphia, o., a CORE
spondent thus writes to the Columbus
Times:
The Indian settlement of Schoenbrunn,
about two miles South of New Philadel
phia, is point of historic interest. 1t
is only spring and large elm tree
near to a plain, an unpretending mOnu
ment that marks the spot where a noble
Christian missionary sacrificed his life
in civilizing the dusky tribe that then
inhabited that part of the country.
In 1873 there was a celebration to
commemorate the one hundredth ami
verSary of the Schoenbrunn settlement,
and on that occasion the owner of the
land decided it to the Union Bible Society,
on the condition that the spring and
large elm be fenced around. a COM
mittee was appointed consisting of some
very influential citizens and procured
memorial stone, with proper Inscriptions,
and placed it at the spring, there to point
out to those who come at the end of the
next hundred years, where SchOenbrunn
or "Fine SPRING" as it was called by the
Indians, may be found.
David Zeisberger was a very pious
German, and had established a mission
on the Allegheny sometime previous to
coming to Tuscaraws Valley. He had
there made some very deep and lasting
impressions on several noted chiefs.
When coming to SchOerbrunn he put up
a chapel in which to hold services, and
which was the means of bringing many
of the red men to believe in the Chris
tian religion. Many relictS Of Indian
pottery are found on or near the spot,
and numerous arrow-heads and other
remains of warfare are constantly be-
ing unearthed.
The history of civilization presents no
code of government for man more per-
feet or sublime than portion of those
articles adopted at Schoenbrunn. Only
one mile below the spring, Zeisberger's
bones lie mixed with the clods Of the
valley-his companions and converts
have all passed away-and nothing re-
iudlilS W Hltlh tIlC opoO NiiClO OiAO MOI
bell sounded in the Northwest Territory,
save the old spring and the old tree
which was there with Zeisberger and
which now bends with age over the wa
ter oOzing out of the bank in copiOus
tears of sorrow, but unfit to drink.
The mad locomotive rushes by in gi-
gantic strides, and with deafening
screams, as though man, its mas
ter, was angered at thethOught thlt
he has been for a century expand
ing the human mind since Zeisberger
and his followers came there, and
yet with all his efforts and all his knOwl-
edge he can produce no better code of
law for human government than the
one enunciated by Zeisberger with the
Bible as his guide.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-07
Brlntu1tt Chronicle.
THURSDAY, JUNE :, 1888.
THE letter Of Mr.. Blaine, printed else

THE letter Of Mr. Blaine, printed else
where, clears the political atmosphere,
and is like the arrival of a fresh division
upon the field of battle. 1t is splendid
utterance, and Will reflect upon its author
more lasting fame than would Presi-
Dental nomination.
Now the decks are cleared. Let the
of the party when gath
cred at Chicago deliberate coolly, inter
change opinions candidly, and, with the
best light obtainable, act for the highest
interests of the party, without reference
to supposed claims of individuals or sec
tions, each individual delegate putting
behind him personal preferences, and a
ticket can be made that will be success
full, and a majority chosen to the House
of Representatives
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-07

No PRESIDENT has ever manifested
such BoSsism as has Mr.. Cleveland. He
evidently thinks the people chose him to
be the great National Boss. He bosses
his party conventions and undertakes to
boss the representatives of the people in
Congress. The veto power conferred by
the Constitution does not contemplate
clothing the President with legislative
powers; yet, the many vetOes of small
pension bills and bills for the erection of
public buildings is practically an assump-
ton of legislative powers, and is not in
harmony with the genius of our institu-
tiOnS,
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-07

THE address of President Rees, of the
Board of Education, at the school COM
mencement Thursday evening, was hap
PLY conceived, and was listened to with
pleasurable interest by the large assem-
blage present. The reforms indicated
meet the hearty approval O.. the people,
and if carried out faithfully will result
in great benefit to the schools. The un-
considerable ext0rtion5 of school book
publishers received attention, and people
are assured that active measures will be
taken to relieve them of all unnecessary
expense in the line of books.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-07

THE construction and maintenance of
good streets and roads costs money, and
piles of it, too. Daily thOughtless men
needlessly do them great harm in towns
where they are not protected by ordi-
nance A wagon driven down hill with
wheels dead-lOcked will do street more
damage than will the passage of fifty
wagons with wheels turning. This is
done daily in st. Clairsville, and in most
cases there is no necessity for it. Indeed,
it is not an uncommon occurrence to see
an empty wagon, with two good horses
in front of it, dead-locked, grinding and
plOwing up the streets.