The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-25


gia capitalists, has secured the ex-
elusive right for the Southern States
of the Tompkins's process for reduc-
ing vegetable fibers to paper flock, with
the intention of establishing mills in
all cotton States, and applying the
process to the reduction to paper of
cotton stalks and seed hulls, now prac-
tically worthless. The promoters Of
the enterprise claim that they can
make good news paper at two cents per
pound, and that the establishing of
their mills will be as important an
event in the economical history of the
South as the establishing of cotton
seed oil mills.
1t is said that the President Of Har-
ward College has refused to grant the
use of Sandars Theater to the Harvard
Total Abstinence League for an address
by Miss Frances E. Willard. Ar
rangements for the meeting were near
ly completed. Rev. Phillips Brooks
has consented to preside, and Miss
Emma Thusby had offered to sing for
the students. President Eliot objects
to having body of Harvard men
ask women to address them, and
thinks it mistake that Mrs. Liver
more was invited by them to speak in
SaEdars Tneater some years ago.
The Pope characterizes the British
and Foreign and American Bible So
cieties as "moral pests" Yet there
are more murders in the district of
which Naples is the center than in all
England put together in any one year.
But Popes, cardinals and priests never
learn anything from facts. They are
bombproof, triple-plated with egotism
and riveted by ignorance. ~
The Augusta, Ca, Exposition will
open on the 10th of October, and close
on the 18th of November. The spec
ial days are az follows: South Carolina
day, October oath; Georgia day, Oc-
tober 26th; Florida day, October 3Oth :.
North Carolina day, November 9Th !;
Alabama day, November 18th; Ten
nessee day, October 25th.
Last Sabbath being the last one of
the series of meetings by Rev. Mr..
Yatman, T remained in the city.
Heard Pastor Richardson, II q. M,
Washington Street-where number
applied for church membership.
Heard that four Joined pastor Dar-
gan at Marion Street. ..-
At night heard Bro. Yatman's fare
we'll sermon to house full of men at
the Baptist Church. The earnest talk
of the devoted preacher greatly ex-
hausted his strength because of cold
and hoarseness from which he was
suffering. Monday he was too sick to
leave his room.. -.. r
Mr.. Chace introduced q bill in the
Senate on Monday, April %, signed by
257 physicians, So pastors of churches,
and 554 superintendents, officers and
teachers of the public schools of the
District of Columbia, asking legisla-
ton to prohibit the sale of cigars and
! lcigarettes or tobacco to boys under 18
years of age. The petitioners had in
vestigated the matter with great care
and believed the evil to be very great
and serious. :. 10y.
Two things which impressed me
most favorably about Prospect church
and people were omitted in last weeks
sketch. The thorough cleanliness of
the inside of the church and the good
SINGING on the women's side of the
house were the two things, and they
seemed to 60 together so melodiously,
and that without an organ.
Rev. J. G. Bissell, who was placed
on the superannuated list at the last
session of the South Carolina Confer
ence on account of ill health, called In :
our office last Monday and said he ex-
pected to return in a few days to his
family at Blenheim, S. G. Brother
Bissell is looking as we'll as have ever
seen him. He reports his health to be
very fine.
And now we have new State, South
Dakota, admitted as such April 19.
1888. The portion Of the former Terri
tory not within the State of South
Dakota is to continue as a Territory
under the name of North Dakota,
with Bismarck as it's capital.
An extensive working-man's house
in st. Louis was burned on the night
of April 10. Many of the inmates
were burned to death, and, says the
dispatch, "there were many narrow
escapes especially as good many Of
them were in drunken stupor."
Cashier Hopkins, assistant cashier
of the wrecked Fidelity National
Bank of Cincinnati was placed in the
Ohio penitentiary April 10 to serve out
sentence of seven years and ten
months. 1t is said he can hardly live
year.
Charleston Presbytery met in the
First Presbyterian church at Colum-
hia, S. c., April 4, 1888. Rev. Thos.
p. Burgess was chosen Moderator.
Sixteen ministers and sixteen ruling
elders were in attendance.
News from Grand Lake, Ark, says
the levee gave way April 16, one mile
South, and the water is pouring
through a gap of 200 feet with a great
rush. A crevasse is reported near Eu-
nice, Ark.
During the Revival Meeting of Rev.
Mr.. Yatman, Mr.. o. B. Riley (Orange-
burg County, and Revs. J. s. Beasley,
S. P. H. ElWell aud B. B. Grier made
pleasant calls in the NEIGHBoR Office.
The Metropolitan Club House. cor
ner Seventeenth and II. Streets,