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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
THE PENSION OFFICE.
Facts and Figures From the
Commissioners Report.
Green B. Raum Succeeds Corporal
Tanner as Head of the Bureau.

The annual report for the fiscal year 1888
SO of the Commissioner of Pensions shows
that at the close of the year there were 4s9,-
729 pensioners. There were added to ths
rolls during the year the names of 81,
Cpl new pensioners, and the names OF
1854 whose pensions have been previously
dropped were restored, making an aggregate
of 53,675 pensioners added during the year.
There were dropped from the rolls for various
crease to the rolls of 81, 16S names.
at the close of the year is shown to have
been sl3l.1S The amount paid for pensions
during the year was sSS, ,275, 1928. The total
amount disbursed by the agents for all pur-
poses was $50, 131, ,96s.44. Amount paid as
fees to attorneys, s., 1863, ,5S3.f.
In the aggregate 1,24S, LAG pension claims
have been filed since 1861, and in the same pc
riod 7S9, 12l have been allowed. The amount
disbursed on account Of pensions since 1861
has been 81, ,052, ,21S, 413.17. The issue Of GER
tificates during the year shows grand total
of 145,29S. Of this number 81, 1921 were
original certificates. At the close of the year
there were pending and unallowed 479, 900
claims for all classes.
Commissioner Tanner recommends that
Congress be asked to amend the act of June 6,
1874 so as to extend the benefit of allpension
laws, as to rates, to all pensioners whose pen
sions have been granted by special acts passed
subsequent to said date, and that pensions be
granted to the widows of soldiers who died
from causes originating in the service prior
to March 4, 1861.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
Story of a Violin.

A gentleman living in Richmond, Va,
owns violin which is associated with
the early history of Virginia. 1t is one
of four violins connected with the early
history of that section of the country.
tits marked, "Nicolaus Amati fecit,
Cremona, 1851" This violin was
brought to this country by Robert Boil
linz, the husband of Jane Rolfe, the
granddaughter of Pocahontas, who was
the daughter of the mighty Indian King
Powhatan, of Virginia. The violin is
of superior tone, volume and finish, and
has been used by many prominent per-
formers during the past century.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
RELIGIOUS READING.
OMISSION.

Ohl6SlONs
It isn't the thing you do, dear,
It is the thing you leave undoue q
Which gives you bit Of heartache
At the setting Of the sun;
The tender word forgotten.
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, dear.
Are your haunting ghosts tonight.
The stone you might have lifted
Out of the brothers way;
The bit Of hearthstone counsel
You hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone
That you had no timeor thought for
With trouble enough Of your own.
These little acts Of kindness. >.
So easily out Of mind,
These chances to be angels
Which even mortals find
They come in night and silence
Each child's reproacaful wrath,
When hope is faint and tagging,
And a blight has dropped on faith
For life is all too short, dear,
And sorrow is all too great
To suffer our slow compassion
That tarries until too late:
And it's not the thing you do, dear,
It's the thing you leave undone
Which gives you the bitter heartachs
At the setting Of the sun.
-Margorst E. Sangster.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
General Green B. Raum Made Com.
missioner of Pensions.

missioner Oh fenSlOTS.
The President has appointed General Green
3. Raunl, Of Illinois, to be Commissioner of
Pensions.
General Raum was born in Golconda, ILL.,,
December 8, 1920 He received common
school education, studied law and was ad-
mitted to the Bar in 1853. In 1856 he re-
moved with his family to Kansas. He re-
turned in the following year to Illinois and
settled at Harrisburg. At the opening Of
the Civil War he made his first speech while
attending court at Metropolis III. Subse-
quently he entered the army as Mayor Of the
Fifty-sxth Illinois Regiment, and was made
BTigadier-General of Volunteers on the
18th of February, 1865, which COM
mission he resigned on May &.
In 1866 he obtained charter for the Cairo
and Vincennes Railroad Company, aided in
securing its construction and became its first
President. He was then elected to Congress-
and served from 4th March, 1867, till Sd
March, 1860. In 1876 he was President of
the Illinois Convention, and in the same
year he was a delegate to the National Con-
vention in Cincinnati. He was appointed
Commissioner of Internal Revenue August 2,
1876 and retained the Office till May 81, 1885,
During this period he collected $3.50, 000, 600
and disbursed $50, 600, 900 without loss. He
wrote ''reports" of his bureau for seven sue
cessive years. He is also the author Of 1.-THE
Existing Conflict Between Republican Gov
ernment and Southern Oligarchy." He is at
present practicing law in Washington, D. c.,
and is prominent member of the e. A. 4.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
A PRACTICAL RELIGION.

We want religion that softens the step
and tunes the voice to melody, and checks
the impatient exclamation and harsh re-
buke, religion that Is polite, deferential to
superiors, courteous to Interiors, and consid-
crate to friends; a religion that goes into
the family and keeps the husband from be-
ing cross when the dinnor is late, and keeps
the wife from fretting Shen the husband
tracks the newly washed floor. with his
muddy boots and makes the husband mind
full of the scrapar and door mat; keeps the
mother patient when the baby is fretful
and amuses the children as well as instructs
them; cares for the servants besides paying
them promptly; projects the honeymoon In
to the harvest-moon, and makes the happy
home like the Eastern fig-tree, bearing on its
bosom at once the blossoms and the glory OF
unripened fruit We want religion that
shall interpose between the ruts and gullies
and rocks Of the highway Of life and the
sensitive souls that are travelling over them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
SWEPT BY A TIDAL WAVE.
Eight Hundred Lives Lost on the
Japanese Coast.

A tidal wave has occurred in Japan in
which nearly 800 persons lost their lives and
about 1000 houses were washed away. At
Okudo all the houses, twenty-three in num-
ber, were washed away, and out of ninety
inhabitants fifty-four lost their lives. AT
Jitsuroku forty houses were washed away,
and about fifty out of the population of $50
were killed. At Ikuta-Mura l20 houses were
washed away, about twenty broken up and
about forty Of the inhabitants killed. ht
Yoshida-Mura $50 out of the $50 houses were
washed away, and 62S of the population of
$3.50 were killed. At Toba-Mura, containing
2sO houses and population of 113o, ten
houses were broken up and ten persons per-
ished.
In addition to those already enumerated,
800 bodies have been found, and there are
vet 2sO persons missing. The Emperor and
the Empress have sent $500 and $500, re-
spectivefy, for the relief of the sufferers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

IT is said that Buffalo Bill will take his
"Wild West" show from Paris to st. Peters,
burg.
SARAH BERNHARDT is reported to have
made an immense hit with "Theodora" in
Paris.
MIR. AND Mrs. KENDALL, the English art
ists are doing well at the Fifth Avenue inca
tire in New York.
MAGGIE MITCHELL made her first appear
ance in New York city the present season In
her new play, entitled cray"
P. T. BARNuM and his circus have gone to
England for the winter. They will be back
in New York probably next April.
H. B. FARN1E, whose name as an adapter
of comic opera is as well known in this coun-
try as in England, died recently in Paris.
DIR. NANSEN, the distinguished explorer OF
Greenland, will visit this country next spring
for the purpose of delivering lectures. bis
young bride will accompany him.
EDWARD GREG, the composer whose works
arc Just now so popular among musicians, IS
a native of Bergen, Norway. He was born
in 1s43 and is accordingly 46 years old.
MAX ALvARY, who was such a pronounced
fayorite at the Metropolitan Opera House IN
New York city last season, has made great
hit at Carlsruhe in the role of Siegfried.
ROBERT J. BURDETTE, tho humorist, who
has been acting as pastor of the Lower
Merton Baptist Church, near Phlladelpha,
during the summer, has started on his lectur-
ing tour.
DIR. HANS Won BULow will be heard in
New York city next spring. The emlnenS
pianist has been engaged for series OF
twenty concerts in the principal cities, be-
ginning March20.
IT is said that there are at least 2o,OoO
actors in England, OF whom only about one,
half make a comfortable hVlng. II Enslauu
has 5000 actors who deserve to make COM
Portable living on account of their hlstrlonlc
capacity. she is at least twice as lucky as the
United States.
CHRISTINE NILSSON, the famous prima
donna. owns quite an amount OF railroad
property in South America. Some OF it does
not nav. Recently Judgment was recorded
in her favor in the Washington City Court
for Sl75. 1t was for interest due on bonds OF
the Bogota City Railroad.
MEssRs. GILBERT AND SULLIVAN have
sent the synopsis of a new opera to Rudolph
Aronson, the New York operatlc manager.
It is of much lighter texture than 1.-The
Yoeman of the Guard" and the scene is
Venetian. RehearSals were begun on the
opera at Savoy Theatre, London, with locked
doors.
THE resources lavished upon the revival OF
1.-THE Dead Heart" at the London Lyceum
contrast markedly with the pecuniary value
of the piece as originally assessed BY its first
proprietor, BENJAMIN Webster. Two hun
dred and fifty dollars was al that Watts
Phillips received in the first place for the
copyright, though he was afterward pre-
sented with $500 as an honorarium.
THE Cars presence at Berlin was not
sl,ar zad h1 enthugasp. While the court
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
INCREDIBLE BRUTALITY.
Fiends Torture Baby Before Its
Mothers Eyes.

tIenuS torture q BaDy BelOre ltS
Mothers Eyes.
A crime has taken place in Tallapoosa
County, Ala, that has rarely been surpassed
in its horrible details. 1t seems that while
Albert Smith and his three oldest children
had gone some miles to church, five colored
men approached the house and asked Mrs.
Smith to give them something to eat. On be
ing refused they went into the house, and
learning that there was no one home but Mrs.
Smith and her babe forced her into the yard
and began ransacking the house. After up
propriating all they could find in the way Of
money and valuables, they set fire to the
house and added horror to the terrible scene
by forcing the distracted woman to witness
the most brutal Of fiendish deeds-the toss
ing of her little baby in the air and letting it
fall back almost on the point of sharp knives
which they hel under it. The brutes finally
needed the frantic woman's entreaties and
went away, leaving her with nothing to greet
the return Of her horror-stricken husband
and children but her half dead babe and
smouldering heap Of Goals where was, only a
few hours before, their home. People for
miles around have been searching the coun-
try for the villains, and three of them have
hoop
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
A HEROIC FARMERS BOY.
He Saves q Woman's Life and Loses
His Own in q Railroad Collision.

He Saves a Woman's Life and Loses
His Own in q Railroad Collision.
Details of a collision at Noiin, KY,
when the Bowling Green accommodation
train was run into by the fast mail from the
South on the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road, give the following incident -.
Vandyke Heyser, the eighteen-year-o!d
boy who was injured in the wreck, died in
the afternoon. He was a farmers boy, and
was coming to Louisville to get employment.
When the mail train made its appearance,
and all on the other train began to fee, Hey
ser rose and ran toward the coach
door. He was almost out on the platform,
and in second more he would have been
safe, when frightened woman reached his
side nearly fainting with terror. She would
have fallen had not he seen her condition and
given her his assistance. Supporting her
with one arm, he stepped to one side and
helped her to pass him, gently forcing her
out to the platform. Before he could fol-
low her, the mail train crushed into the ac-
commodation. The heroic boy was caught
in the ruins and fatally injured.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JAY GOULD has been offered $50, 600 to write
his memoirs.
SENATOR SHERMAN, of Ohio, reads no book
until it is year old.
EMPRESS FREDERICK, Of Germany, will
spend the winter in Italy.
SENATOR CHANDLER, of New Hampshire, is
regaining his health at Carlsbad.
PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD has decided
to form Bible class in Washington.
SETH Low, ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, has been
elected President Of Columbia College.
GOVERNOR B1aas, of Delaware, realized
large profits on his peach crop this year.
IT is announced that King Leopold, of Bel
gium, contemplates trip to the Congo, in
Africa.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has been chopping down
many trees at Hawarden of late, with all hid
old vigor.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says New York
city cannot secure the worlds fair without
his assistance.
TUEY GwoK Y1NG, the new Chinese Minis;
ter to this country, is good-looking man
about fifty years Of age.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, Of Germany, spend
most of his leasure time studying politicass
geography or talking about war.
V1CE-PREs1DENT MORTON is one of the inl
corporators of an extensive coal-mining
company now formed to work in West Vir1
ginia. ;
Mrs. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT was
earning a small salary as school teacher
down in Tennesse when she wrote her first
stories.
AMANDA NJ. DOUGLAS, the writer, has
written two novels year for the past sixteen
years. Her pen has supported family Oh
four persons.
WILLIAM WALDORF AsToR is man of
strong literary and artistic tastes, and If ht!
had not been milionaires son no would
probably have been an artist
CLAUS SPREcKELs, the sugar manufac.
turer, has removed most of his persona! prop
erty from San Francisco, and will make his
home henceforth at Philadelphia, Penn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
SWEPT BY A TIDAL WAVE.
Eight Hundred Lives Lost on the
Japanese Coast.

Eight Hundred Lives Lost on the
Japanese Coast.
A tidal wave has occurred in Japan in
which nearly 800 persons lost their lives and
about 1000 houses were washed away. At
Olrdo all the houses, twenty-three in num-
Der, were washed away, and out of ninety
inhabitants fifty-four lost their lives. At
Jitsuroku forty houses were washed away,
and about fifty out of the population of 25O
were killed At Ikuta- Mura 10 houses were
washed away, about twenty broken up, and
about forty of the inhabitants killed. At
Yoshida-Mura $50 out Of the ESQ houses were
washed away, and 62S of the population of
$3.50 werc killed. At Toba- -Mura,. containing
22O houses and a population Of ll3O, ten
houses were broken up and ten persons per-
ished.
In addition to those already enumerated,
369 bodies have been found, and there are
vet 2S0 persons missing. The Emperor and
the Empress have sent $500 and $500, re
spectiveiy. for the relief of the sufferers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06

IN one neighbor6ood in Dakota recently
there were only two lucifer matches to go
around among twelve families, and persons
were detailed to build fires and keep them
alive night and day until supply could be
had.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
TIE Afghan Ameer's method of ven

TEE Afghan Ameer's method OF ven
gearce on his rebel prisoners is pretty
highly developed. One batch, num-
bering three hundred, were Put to
death three a day. One of the trio
was always hanged, dressed in yellow
and green, another was dressed IN
black and blown from gun, and tue
third was dressed in red and cut DIP
with a sword.
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with q sword

KALAKAuA, King OF the Sandwich
Islands, is writing another book. Its
subject has not been announced, but 9
ROYALTY on it Is assurad.
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THE Cars presence at Berlin was not
characterized BY enthusiasm, whhe me court
dinner is said to have been dismal affair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-15
4 MUNICIPAL MoNSTRoSITY.

Several public spirited citizens, representing
a very general sentiment, are endeavoring 10
procure an amendment TO tho law under which
it Is proposed to erect in the City Hall Park a
huge and unsightly building for municipal pur-
poses. Several of the departments need new
accommodations, and under cover Of this neceS-
sity various outrageous plans for Selling
large part Of the free space around the City
Hall have been devised. The most objection
able Of these was the project, unaccountably
approved by Mayor Hewitt which proposed to
attach couple Of grotesque wings to that ex-
cellent building. This design was promptly
laughed out of existence, yet it has been sue
ceeded by another which, though far less ridic-
ulous, is bad enough to demand immediate con-
domination, but which, in spite of all its de-
fects, is practically certain to be carried into
execution unless the Legislature interferes.
The gentlemen who have consented to repre-
sent the opposition to this scheme have wisely
concluded to arouse no unnecessary resent
ments by strenuous attack in the last days OF
the session. They merely propose an amend
ment poStponing the operation Of the act for
year from the lst Of June. We suppose their
hope, if not their conviction, is that within the
year pubic OplUlOH Will dSotfG AuSCIL oO uHhhS-
takably as to compel satisfactory modiica-
ton OF the offensive design which is now being
worked out.
The Commissioners in control OF the work
have issued specifications to which THE TRIB-
UNE has already offered conclusive objections
They call for huge and nondescript pile OF
masonry which would extend from Chambers
St to the front line of the City Hall, and from
the Park Row sidewalk almost TO the north end
Of that building, I'D which would cause one
of our few thoroughly good examples of sound
taste in architecture to look like the kitchen
wing of a New England farmhouse. From all
points east of the Park this long and lofty
structure would either shut out the City Hall
completely or make it ridiculous, while from
every part Of the Park itself it would hide the
Bridge and obstruct the approaches to ii. Tho
Commissioners seem to have given some con-
sideration TO this last defect for they propose
to pierce the new building midway by narrow
arcade, which would be of some value no doubt,
though entirely inadequate.
As we have said already several times, II
would not be impossible to erect east Of the
City Hall municipal building equal to all re-
quirements, and at the same time modest and
simple in outline, which would neither be an
eyeSore in itself nor IN offence TO it's surround
ings. If no other site were available, We might
reconcile ourselves to such structure, but IL is
certainly not yet proved that the city could not
find another place to build on. not less acces
sible and from every other point Of view far
better. The Legislature is about 10 adjourn,
but there is still time enough left to postpone
this business until next year. The depart
ments need more room, but'not so badly as to
make an immediate step in the wrong direction
imperative.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-15

cut down to q moderate figure il the duty were
removed, the demand for removal Of the duty
Ia likely to be at least as strong as that OF West
ern farmers for reduction Of rates on railroads
because a few Of the roads were enormously
nro6table. The advocates Of railway regula-
ton did not stop to consider whether 1t would
he we'll to bankrupt the many weaker roads.
Il NAV be doubted whether public opinion will
refrain from attacking copper ring out OF con-
sideration for the weaker producers.
There will in all probability be revision Of
the tariff next winter. The party In power,
being anxious to defend all industries that need
and merit defence, will for that very reason be
more strongly pressed to cut of duties where
no defence appears to be needed. or where 1t
seems to be not deserved. Combinations OF
SPECTATORS to corner the markets OF the world
are not highly popular, and will not appear to
members Of Congress to merit particularly IA
yorable consideration. Under such circum-
stances the demand for o removal OF all duties
on copper ore, pig and bars, will be difficult to
resist II IL safe to say that. had the Mills bill
proposed no change more unpopular or unob-
jectionable than that, Its public support
would have been incomparably greater. In
the light of these facts the copper producers
may wisely think twice, and more than twice,
before they enter into any new bargain to con-
troll tho markets and extort money from con-
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will send it back with instructions that ii be
made more specific. There seems to be need
of a little greater particularly on some points.
At all events, Marshal Jones showed an extraor-
binary appreciation Of the state Of things likely
TO exist in Oklahoma when the Presidents
proclamation took effect. According to his &C.
count, he appointed the enormous number OF
nineteen deputies to preserve the peace in the
new territory, not counting eight specials"
mostly conductors, appointed at the instance
of the Atchison Railroad Company. Mr.. Jones
" believes that some of his deputies may have
yielded to the temptation to seize land for them
selves. He gives no details, however. full
and complete account ci the action OF the
United States officials in Oklahoma is in order
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-15
--Munsey's weekly.
THE DRAMA--MUSIC.

JED PROUTY" AT THE UNION SQUARE,
Many managers evidently believe that there Is
craving on the part Of the theatre going public for
plays dealing with New.Engisnd life, and tho nnsn-
cal success achieved BY The Old Homestead The
County Fair" and The Midnight Bell" would GER
talnly seem TO afford reasonable ground for that be-
lief. Whether not Jed Prouty,' tho latest play
Of this class produced at the Union Square Theatre
on Monday, viii DO fortunate as It's predecessors
only time tell, critical judgment is Of no value
seeking to determine the fate OF such pieces They
are, of sblest managers recently said, moo
plays, but entertainments. A quaint character or
two, generally, It must DO admitted, fairly true to
life, a few less humorous incidents and
rustic setting seem be all that is absolutely neoes-
say 20 their construction, and the minor details can
be filled in according tho pleasure or ability Of the
authors
Jed Prouty" deals with scenes and characters In
Buoksport, Me-, and tho title part ia q careful though
OCCASIONALLY nfgfIy-ssIop>a study OF cd hsci
keeper Of kindly nature but quaint habits and rough
exterior. Except for an occasional tendency TO ove<'
act Richard Golden plays this charae ter well and with
considerable effect The supporting cast Is rs rude,
good, the most efficient members being Charles Bow
ser and James E. Dean. Miss lillian Chantore's per-
Torrance would be improved II she actef more with
her associates and less at her audience Miss Dora
Wiley, the wife Of Mr. Golden. sings IN the third
act. William Gill and Richard Golden arc announced
~ tho authors of jed Prouty.'