The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22

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congregation.
While the tendency of European gov
eminent is to a reduction of the army
and consequent reduction of cost, and
the we'll being of the masses, the senate
of the United States Is intent upon in
creaseng the cost of war preparation.
Senator Hawley's amendment to the
appropriation bill to expend SIS, 600, 900,
for steel guns was passed also $3.50,
OOo to start gun factory at Watervliet,
arsenal New York. ...
Geo. w. Childs long since forbade all
reference to Col. Ingersoll or even
mention of his name in the Ledger.
The Presbyterian Banner thinks that
if the other journals of the country,
secular and religious, had pursued a
similar policy the Colonel would have
disappeared from notice years ago.
We think SO too.
The colored people of Maryland are
to hold q State Fair at Baltimore the
first seven days of October, and more
than 500 applications for space have
already been applied for. The Amer
lean says the exhibition will be sur
prise to the public. The colored peo-
pie of Maryland have advanced more
substantially than their contempora-
ries of any other State. In Baltimore
alone they pay taxes on between two.
and three million dollars worth Of
property. ...
Professional base ball has had its day
in the smaller towns. Saltpeter wont
save it. People have become disguised
with it and are giving it the goby. No
good results are obtained from it and
those who financially back the players
are kept in constant hot water over the
factions of the dead beats to whom they
pay large salaries for doing nothing.
The edict has gone forth that profes-
Isional base ball will soon follow the
skating rink.
It has been rather favorate "fling"
at religion and religious training lately
to assert that large number of the
criminals found in the State prisons
!, lwere once Sabbath-school scholars.
We notice that Major McGlaughry,
warden of the State Penitentiary Of
Illinois, in a late address stamped
this assertion as false. He said that
), statements to this effect "are not at all
reliable, and probably very few GRIM
: inals have really been in the Sunday
scholls. ."-Prss6yterian.
; The expression "dark horse" now
in such general political use, first oc-
Cured in Lord Beaconssfield's young
Duke" Here is the paragraph
"The first favorite was never heard OF,
? the second favorite was never seen
after the distance post, all the ten-to-
ones were in the rear, and dark
horse which had never been thought
, of rushed past the grand stand in
|sweeping triumph" -
The w. M. s. of the Louisiana Con-
ference reports as follows; Number
of adult auxiliaries, 30; juvenile and
young peoples societies, II; total aux
. iliaries, AZ; adult members, S2l; ju-
, vrnile, 454; total membership, 1875;
subscribers to Woman's Missionary
Advocate, 1853; life members, &;
f scholarships, 1; increase over last year,
auxiliaries, II; members, 535.
Gov. Richardson has borrowed $780,
loco at per cent. from the Charleston
banks with which to pay pension
claims. The $5O,0OO appropriated by
the Legislature has Ill been paid out
since April 1st. At this rate it will
: take nearly one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars annually to pay the
lpension claims.-Florence Times.
; The Supreme Court of Justice IN
Spain has dismissed the appeal of two
Protestants sentenced to imprison-
ment for refusing to salute the host III
the public streets but has ordered to
trial certain Roman Catholics who
entered a Protestant chapel with their
hats on, and after insulting the pas
tor. threw the Bible on the floor and
trod upon it.
i A fresh instance of Papal infallibil-
ity is Just reported. Lasserre's trans
lation Of the Gospels into French was
emphatically approved by the Pope in
December, 1856. The very same Pope
in December, 1887, put this book in the
Inder Expuryatoria as one prescribed
to all the faithful. On which of these
two occasions was the Pope infallible
For the last seven months 2s,352
more migrants landed at Castle Gar
den than in the corresponding months
of last year. The July arrivals were
2s, 500, or 1,o46 more than in July,
1887.
GEN. JOHN BRATToN has with
drawn from the Congressional race in
the Second District, which leaves the
race between Maj. d. r. Duncan and
w. H. Perry.