The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-07-25

The immigration into the United
States for the fiscal year ending June
80, exceeded that of the previous year
by 10000 persons. More than $50, 900
people were received from foreign lands
and given homes and employment,
mostly in the thinly settled sections Of
the West and Northwest. This num-
ber has never been exceeded save In the
years 1881, 1882 and 1883, and the indf-
cations are that the rate of increase
will be continued throughout the COM
ing year. There is no sign of diminu-
ton in the flow.
Miss Mary McC Clellan, a graduate Of
the Nashville College for Young La
dies and a member of the faculty of
Whitworth Female College, has been
accepted" by the Woman's Board Of
Foreign Missions, and will sail for
China with DR.. Allen July 81 or Au-
gust II. !.
The Louisiana Baptist State Com
vention met in Evergreen July s.
There were about 125 delegates, among
them five or six women. By vote Of
forty-two to forty they were refused
admittance.
Melville w. Fuller was confirmed
by the Senate July 20, as Chief JUS
tiee of the United States by vote of
Al to 20.
For Cash great bargains in printing
material can be had by personal ap-
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T1AN NE1aHBoR, Columbia, 8. G.
The Mills Bill passed the House by
vote of 1872 to 149. Articles amount
ing to $4,000, 900 are placed on the free
list.
The (London) Christian says: 'eProb-
ably no event Of greater import to the
kingdom of God on earth has taken
place during this generation than the
great Missionary Conference which
has just concluded its sessions at Exeter
Hall. The ten days originally speci-
fled in the programme have been ex-
tended to thirteen and so far from the
proceedings being finished, their re-
suit has been to inaugurate a new de-
parture, based on deepened eonyic..
tions and enlarged purposes, to be car
ried out on indefinitely extending
lines.
Senator Blair, from the Committee
on Education, reported favorabK to
the Senate the proposed joint resolu-a
ton for submission to the States Of
Prohibition Amendendment to the
Federal Constitution. This joint reso-
lutien Is already on the calender of the
House.
DR.. G. M. Smith points out that
great cities are losing one of Natures
best gifts in the wasted sunbeams
which fall upon unused roofs. He
would convert the roofs into pleasure
and health parks, where pure air and
sunshine might be enjoyed.
1t is said that the Grand Lodge of
Masons of Mississippi has ordered that
no person be initiated or admitted to
membership who keeps saloon. The
mississippi Masons have a better idea
of what constitutes a good moral char
acter than do our law makers and law
executors.
In May, 1910 immigrants landed in
New York City. Altogether the ar
rivals for the first five months of the
wear were 1877, ,139, or over 2l.OOO more
than the number during the corre-
spending period of 1887.
One popularity of the Reformed
Presbyterian Church, or Covenant
ers," is that they refuse to exercise the
right OF the ballot because Christ is not
recognized in the Constitution Of the
United States.
The statement was made in the late
Pan-Presbyterian Council in London
that there are 1900, 900 communicates;
that 10000 have been gathered from
heathenism, and 500 ministers have
been sent to preach to the heather.
The late Emperor Frederick, of Ger
many, recently directed that hereafter,
in the service of the Lutheran Chuch,
he shall be prayed for, not in the old
from, as "His Imperial Majesty, the
Emperor Frederick" but as "Thy serv-
ant Frederick, the Emperor"
A dynamite bomb was exploded in
the courtyard at Nicholasville, KY, at
midnight Thursday night, which
shook the town and did considerable
damage to the courthouse.