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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
A Profitable Hole.

An old farmer in the Granite State ono
Sunday morning started to wind up his
great silver watch, and found that tho
Key was filed with dirt. Being unable
o dig the latter out with Il pin the farmer
drilled hole in the key, and with a
single breath blew all the dust out. Then
he sat down to think, and within month
had patented that hole. To-day in Le-
Lanon, N. H., there is a large factory
running by electric power wherein are
manufactured daily thousands and thou
sands of watch-keys Of every possible
size, shape and design. Each one of
these keys contains the hole which has
been patented by the farmer. The latter
rs already made fortune.-Nes YorI
I'm.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
RECIPES.

Baked Custard-Two tablespoonfuls O.
-four beaten with two eggs; one pint O.
milk and sugar to sweeten; flavor with
nutmeg and bake.
Jumbles-One cup of sugar, one cup
of butter, one-half cup sour cream, one
egg, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved
in hot water, one-half of apound OF desic
Gated cocoanut, flour to roll.
Corn Gems-Stir one pint of boiling
milk in one pint of corn meal, add hall
cup or less, according to the taste, ot
sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, and lei
cool, add three eggs and bake in gem
pans.
Hinged Potatoes-Peel some large
sized potatoes, then cut them round and
round as an apple is pared; fry in clean,
sweet lard like fritters until brown, drail'
on sieve, sprinkle fine salt over them
and serve.
Pudding Sauce-One cup of sugar.
butter Sle size of an egg, one egg; bea'
the butter and sugar to a cream, add thu
egg; set on top of boiling tea kettle, o.
some vessel of hot water, and stir until it
is like cream.
Cheese Scallop-Soak one cup Of dry
breadcrumbs in fresh milk; beat into ii
three eggs, and add one tablespoon OF
butter and half pound of grated cheese
stew upon the top sifted breadcrumbs
and bake in the oven delicate brown.
Apple Tapioca Pudding-Soak over
night one cup of tapioca in six cups Of
water. Next morning add one cup o.
sugar, one egg, and beat we'll together.
Then pare, core and chop five, six OF
more apples and stir with the tapioca in
pudding dish and bake slowly.
Boiled Salmon-A piece of salmon four
pounds in weight should suffice for eight
persons. Put it to boil in spiced acidu
lated water, cover and keep it simmering
for thirty-fve minutes. Then take the
fish from the water, skin it, remove the
bones, mask with little cardinal sauce.
and send it to the table. The sauce
should be separately served.
Chicken Puree-Pick into small bits.
cold roast or boiled chicken; salt and
pepper. Boil the bones and skin in
enough water to cover; strain and return
to the fire. When it boils, stir in for
each cupful of the stock small teaspoon
-four rubbed in one teaspoon butter; add
little celery salt, and stir in the meat.
Serve with small triangles of bread pre-
viously fried crisp in very hot lard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
COLDS AND HOW TO CURE THEM.

Everyone is more or less susceptible to
cold, and now that the cold season has
come the utmost precaution should be
exercised beforehand to prevent colds,
instead of taking numerous doses of
medicine afterward to cure them. To
relieve colds or hoarseness CRATE horse
1dish in a cup of vinegar, let steep
awhile and add honey or crushed rock
candy to sweeten; or, pour hot water
over pine tar, cover and let cool, or drink
warm with lemon juice and sugar. For
singers and speakers this last is excel
lent. Persons troubled with rheumatism
will be relieved by rubbing briskly with
olive oil, OF olive oil in which is dis
solved salt and potash in equal qantities.
The parts most sensitive to cold are the
chest and back which should be covered
with flannel. Many men when wearing
overcoats, either through disregard for
health or negligence, leave the fronts un-
fastened. and expose the chest to the
cold, which penetrates to the rack and
lodges there and is afterward felt in ex-
cruciating backaches. The same way
with some women.-Detroit Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

Governor shoup, of Idaho, reports
that the population of his Territory is
1877, gain of 81, 1877 since 1880;
that in the past year the assessed val
uation of property has increased So, ,000,-
600, and the production of gold, silver,
lead, and copper ss,OOO,0 900; tina 6OO,-
600 acres of land are under cultivation,
and that the total railroad mileage is
SSS.73 miles.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
Preserving Fruit in Sand.

The Italians have a method of preserv-
ing fruit IN sand, alternate layers of fruit
and sand being put down. Oranges are fire.
quently kept for months by this process.
The fruit is cut, not torn, from the tree.
similar method has been adopted by a
grower of oranges in South Africa, and
the fruit comes out of the "silo" in fine
condition at q time when oranges are
scarce and yield good prices. Sweet
potatoes may be preserved in the same
manner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
A New Kind of Insurnnce

Has b en- put in operation by the manufactur-
Medical Discovery" and "Favorite Prescrip-
tion' are sold by druggists under the manu-.
facturers'. positive guarantee. Either benefit
or complete cure is thus attained, or money
paid for these medicines is returned. The Ger.
tifcate Of guarantee given IN connection with
sale of these medicines is equivalent to policy
of insurance. The Golden Medical Discov-
cry" cures all humors and blood taints. from
eases, scrofulous sores and swellings. The
"Favorite Prescription" cures a ] those de-
rangem :nts and weaknesses PECULIAR to wo-
men.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
A Few Pointers,

The recent statistics of the number Of deaths
show that the large majority die with con-
sumption. This disease may commence with
an apparently harmless cough which can be
cured instantly by Kemp's Balsam for the
Throat and Lung, which is guaranteed to cure
and relieve all cases. Price SOC. and ST. Trial
size free. For sale by all druggists.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

John Garnett, a British sailor, died in
the Seattle hospital recently. He told
his attendants that there was cache on
Apple Island, lying between Vancouver
Island and the mainland, that contained
$3.50, 900 in gold dust that came from
Fraser River. He had no map to give
the exact location, but the island is :;
small one.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
BEDS.

The care of beds may seem a very sim
pie thing, and doubtless every woman
thinks she knows all about it; but in
this many are mistaken. 1t is by no
means sufficient to hastily spread up a
bed, and be content if it looks smooth
an6 neat. Once week at least the mat
tress and bedding should be removed
from the bedstead, and it busted and
thoroughly cleaned. The mattress
should be uncovered and aired every
morning. When ready to put in order.
the undersheet should be spread any
folded under at the top and bottom, thei
at the sides. If a wide hem is put al
the top of the sheet, you can Away
sleep with the upper part at your head
Spread the upper sheet so as to leaE'
sufficient room to turn down, lay il
smooth and straight, when the blanket
and comforts may be put on and folde'
under at the foot. The outside sprea,
should be put on evenly, and the uppe
sheet turned down over all. Then th'
pillows, we'll beaten, should be laid on
A bed thus cared for will be pleasant
and comfortable to sleep in, and health
full rest will be likely to come to the occu
paut.--Courier-Jouraas
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and Completely derange the whole sys-
tenn when entering it through the mucous sur
faces. Such articles should never be used ex-
cept on prescriptions fro n reputable phys!-
the good you can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. }.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., contains no mer-
curry, aud is taken internally, and acts direct
ly uron the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure
you get the genuine. 1t is taken internally
and made in Toledo, Ohio, by +. j. Cheney &
Co.
g Sold by Druggists. price 75c. per bottle.
P. T. BARNUM was born in 1910. He bro 1ght
Jenny Lind to this country in 1849.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

About 2300 miles of main for carry
ng natural gas have now been laid in
this country, and the total capital in
vested in the business exceeds $50, ,0OO,-
600.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

The American Economic Association
has received a sum of money to be
awarded as prizes for the best essays on
the subject of women wage earners.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

Mediocrity al,oags copies superiority. Dob.
bins's Electric Soap, first made in 1865, hos
been initiated more than any soap made. Ask
your grocer for Dobbins's Electric Soap, all
other Electrics, Electricity, Magnetics, etc.
are limitations.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

Don't hawk, hawk. and blow. blow, disgust
ing everybody, but use DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
Beware OF Ointments for Caturrh This
Contain Mercury,

THERE are 210 cooperative building and loal
associations IN the State Of New Jersey.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers.
Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant
crops Best fruit, grain, grass and stock coun-
try in the world. Full Information free. Ad-
dress Oregon Im'igrat'n Board. Portland, Ore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES refuses to write
any more poetry.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04

PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD is anxious to
resume newspaper work.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22
Telegraphic BreYities.

The tariff reform picnic held at Plat.sburg, Mo
yesterday was great success. Fally 2. 900 per-
Sons were in attendance.
Bud Renaud was to-day found guilty at Purvis
Miss, OF participating in prize fight and SEN
fenced to pay $500 fine.
A fire which broke out in the yard of tho Col
fax Lumber Company, at Colfax, ILL.,. last night
caused loss of $75, 0O0.
While hunting near Eldora, Ia, yesterday L.
F. Wsner, prominent banker, was accidentally
shot and killed by his son George, aged 23 years.
Proposals for constructing five steel cruisers for
the Government were opened to-day but all the
bids we're rejected as they exceeded the amount
Of the appropriation
President Harrison to-day held reception st
Indianapolis, and subsequently attended the cere-
monies of laying the corner stone Of the soldiers
monument in that city.
By an explosion of fire damp in the No. 2 col
liery Of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. at
Scranton, Pa this morning, five men were seri-
ously, if not fatally buried.
telegram was sent this morning from the
War Department to General Crook, commanding
the division of the Missouri, at Chicago, directing
him to take such precautionary steps as may be
deemed proper to prevent trouble between the
Indians and whites in western Colorado.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22

LOUIS KossUTH Louis Kossutb, the
Hungarian patriot, is now in his SSth year.
and is in the best of health and the enjoy.
menL of ali his mental powers. He lives in
the suburbs OF Turn, Italy, in picturesque
villa, surrounded By handsome gardens,
which he planted himself and which he Gull
tivates with the greatest care. Kossuth is
devoted 10 tie study of botany. but being
too old 10 study i. in The Alps, his favorite
botsnizing ground, he 6uds his pleasure in
the plants at bis door, of which be has over
four thousand varieties. Madame Rutkay,
the sister Of the patriot, Ia with him. For
number of years she made her home at
Scotch Plains, New jersey. where she had
for near neighbor and friend DR.. Abram
Coles. q writer of scholarly and refined re-
ligious verse.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22

fuses to recognize the Federal right 10 in.
tertere, Nagle will be promptly re urned 10
Stockton Jail and will be tried there. The
sentiment here in regard to his action ia
still divided, but in the country, Judging
from editorial opinions, three fourths of the
people beIisge he showed great esgerns.s
10 kill Terry. There is no way OF proving
or dsproyng Porter Ashes statement tina,
Judge Heydenfsldt, Of San Francisco, re.
ceiVed letter from Field Offering bis sun.
port to Terry If Terry would agrse to SUI.
port him for the Presidency Field deuounces
Ashes statement as malignant lie, nut Hey.
denfeldt refuses TO say word Mrs Terry
reached here last night and is expected to
be present. in court t:-day when Naple's
case comes Up. The State Supreme Court
yesterday denied rehearIng in the Sharon
Terry case of its last decision in which
Judge Snllivsn's judgement was reversed,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22
The Republican Convention.

The republican convention to nominate q
State ticket met ia Norfolk to-day. Gen.
Mahoue reached the city yesterday and was
most enthusiastically greeted. When asked
what would be the character Of the meet
Jog, he said "This convention will really be
convention of the people. There was
never before given fteer opportunity for
the masses to chooso their delegates as 10
this case. With the formation of the con-
yention, and the selection of delegates, and
suggestion o.! candidates have had really
nothing to do, and whatever may be the
outcome must be taken as the deliberate
and unbiased judgment ofthe party. There
have been no states formed 30 far | know OF,
and whoever shall compose the ticket will
be in .esponse to the untrammeled opinion
of tho partyn In regard to the question,
what do the people of the State desire re.
gardcg the finances ofths Commonwealth %
he ssid 1.-THE people desire more econom-
ica administration of their affairs, one
which shall not cost them $500 900 more an.
nually than the republican party when in
power coat them. The people who value
the integrity OF public credit nre diegusted
with the treatment Of that question by the
democratic managers which, while it made
no substantial progress in the settlement OF
the debt, added million or more of dollars
annually to the Indebtedness of the State,
and would eeem to revel in system ofvex-
aliou5 suits against our own ctizens, Hher
ever they have undertaken tn pay their
dues TO the Common wealth, SO lcge!'2 they
have right to dc, IN the Commonwealth
own obligations The iuai and Conclusive
settlement of this important question ls De-
lieved by the more thoughtfuI ofour people,
and especially those representing tts varied
business interests, to be ofparamount conse'
quence."
In reference 10 the democratic platforn
adopted at Richmond last week be said
That is very funny thing" said be-.
at suits me as we'll as if it had been made
by some old woman. 1t is really very funny
when YOU compare its declarations with the
history of that party" Az to the so called
Washington compromise or treaiy OF peace,
ne said the entire republican party OF V,r-
pinia. with enc or two exceptions, bad &C.
eepted that settlement 10 gooi faith. Those
who did not so accept it had DO wish for q
settlement of their troubles. Among these,
he said. was the go called chairman of the
Norfolk committee. He did not call any
names, but of course Indicated General Gro
ner, aud was bitter on the seceders. DE
said they don't amount to much. but he re-
pretted for the sake of harmony that they
did not come into line OF the debt issue
he said it would be leading matter in the
campaign, and he would proclaim it from
every cross roads and corner In the common
wealth. s.
About Eve o'clock in the afternoon Gen.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22

SENATOR HAMPTON says the tendency OF
popular feeling in rhe South is more toward
low tariff than to protection, aud especially
in the mining ano manufacturing districts,
for the reason, as he Gays, that:
"The interests of thu States of Virginia,
Tennessee and Alabpma particularly are
advanced by low duti-.. They can produce
iron and coal much cneaper than they can
be produced in ths east. The protection
only assists the eastern manufacturers to
keep up this rivalry. Without the protec.
ton the rivalry would be greatly lessened.
The less protection the more capital will go
to develope the Industries of he South"
The Senator is certainly right in this, no
matter how wrong ne ,naV oe iu some OF his
other recent utterances on public questions.
We're it not fnr lis pro eciiVe tsr'fi, which
enables northern manufac n:ers to carry on
business even though handicapped by seri-
Gus natural disadvantages, the South, by
reason of her superior natural advantages,
would socn become the great workshop
CT thu American Union.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22
Fight With Outlaws.

LITTLE Rock. AK. Aug. % -Naws has
been received from Maysvilie OF battle
between two outlaws named Hall aud Ma.
son. and three officers who were trying to
arrest them Hall and Mason, who have
been selling whjsk ay 20 thu Indians. were
surrounded on the outskirts of the iowa by
three deputy marsbals aud fight eusued.
Meson's horse waa shot under him and T. Is
claimed he wa3 fatally wound /. Both
outlaws, however, escaped. The otficars
were unhurt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22
The Condemned Murderers

New YORK, Aug. % The quartet OF
murderers now confined in the Tombs await
Ing execution to morrow, will take fare we'll
leave of their friends this afternoon. The
day aud two priests will give them religious
consolation during the night. At S o'clock
tomorrow morning mass will be celebrated
10 the chapel of the female prison. They
will all die in the Catholic faith. The mass
will consume one hour and after it is over
the men will return to their cage for break
fast. Three quarters of sn hour later the
execution will take place
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22
Indestructible Leather.

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 22.-It is reported
that one of the professors of the Bsrkely
University has made discovery that will
revoutionize the leather industry. The
claim ia made that experiments have de-
termined that certain combinations of fat
and oils with sulphur compounds when
used for tanning have the efi4ct of render.
able as to render it almost indestructible;
Boots and shoes manufactured of leather
thus prepared will last five times as long as
those DoH on the market with no addition
a. cost.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Hon. Ran. Tucker is about sgain at his
home 10 Lexington.
The postcflce at Dnwping, Warren coun.
to Front Royal,
Vim. Wiley, son oil alss. Wiley, was acct.
deuts.ss drowned st R-stnvlie yesterday
while bathing in tbs Potomac
Rev. James Henderson Smith, sos OF
General F. q Smith, Of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute, is dangerously i'll.
The frst srDusl meeting of the ShenaD-
doah Driving Park Association began yester.
dag at Berryville. II was very euccessful
meeting,
Mr.. Samuel George, worthy citizen of
Loudoun county, died last Sunday morning,
at his home near Lovettesviie, in the 10Th
year Of his sge.
Rev L P. Walters. Of Morpanton. N. O.,
has accepted csll to ST.. Stephens Episco-
pal church Cu'peper, and enters upon his
duty the 18Th of September.
At Ashland. last night, Miss Auna Daven
port Blackwell. daughter of the late John
D. Blackwell. D. D, was married to Mr..
Peter Booker Mosby, a cotton planter of
Somervilie, Tenn.
It Ia understood that the Richmond post
master will be appointed soon after the
Norfolk convention adjourns. Judge
Thomas Atkins is prominently spoken of
as compromise candidate.
The Peabody Normal School, lie Winches-
ter. was addresses 'erday by John L.
Buchanan, 8 ate superintendent OF public
instruction. Three hundred AMI twenty
teachers are now enrolled. The examina
tion will be neid tomorrow and closing e1
ercises tomorrow night.
A fight In which knives. razo:s, and pis-
tolls were used occurred at negro picnic
at Mine Ruo, near Fredericksburg, yester.
day. Several men aud women were se.-
ously wounded The fight was sbou, TWO
negro women who bad been insuied by two
drunken negroes. O1e of the combatsnts is
in critical condition, and, it is feared, will
not live.
A. D. Colvio, farmer near Catletts, on
Wednesday Of last week went to Nokesvile
with SONS sheep. On his return be felt
badly and sat down to rest, telling his little
grandson to go on, that he would follow 10
short while The little boy reached home
and hours afterwards Mr.. Colvin had net
come. 40 some one was sent after him aud he
was found dead on the spot where be had
sat down to rest, presumably from apo
plexy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22

The WASHINGTON Post. republican,. says
thousands of Virginia e1-Curf.dsrat' know
that they may safely follow General Ma
hone, "whcse every effort sincs the War has
ieeu 10 restore he wastes Of that tremen-
deus struggle, sud wto has never forfeited
their confidence" OF course tbcrs is no
telling what ex-Copfederates, more than
any ether solt o. people may do, but peculiar
indeed must be- the reasoning OF any ex-
Confederate who, ia view uf Gsnerai Ma
homes course in respsc; of the Norfolk aud
Western Railroad a,.d the Virginia State
debt, imagines that the Generate every eff
fort since the war has been to restore the
wastes thereof, or who, remembering the
fact that General Malone, by voting with
the republicans 10 the U. s. senete,prevent-
ed the repeal of the statute prohibiting e1-
Confederates from holding commissions 10
the u. s. army. really believes the General
bas never forfeited his confidence.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22

GoFF Nor TO BE GovERNoR.--The legis-
stive committee. or he electoral commits
sioD, as 1t is usual, called, which hes been
the contested election case heteeen Judge
Fleming, democratic candidate. ard GeDer
al Golf. republican candidate for Governor
Of West Virginia, will probably get through
with its abors by The isst OF next week.
TIE committee have ent about three
weeks going over the DISPOSITIONS taken in
sixteen cNunties, and the result is net
gain for Judge Fleming of Que hundred and
seventeen votes, which wipes out Goff's for
ty.two, which he ha st the last report, and
places Judge Fleming seventy FIVE ahead
with Mercer and Mcdowell counties to be
examined
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-22

PRESIDENT HARRISON, 10 ,epi;ias TO sn
address In Cincinpst yes s:;iay, snid : ~
appreciate the fact ,ha [ see i,sfors ms not
only representatives in haa;nsss. but lcysl
supporters of our greet rsiou u No INST.
ter where Mr. Harrison sui,u; speak within
the limits of The United States, be would
gee before him ".oysI supporters of our
great nation" and the implication in the
remark referred to that he you'd not, in
some PARIS of the ccuntrs, is utterly un-
worthy OF lhe Preside,: OF sfea on:Ion.