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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-18
The Early Days of Central Park.
rGe0- Fphart 7. ViaIa

] first drew up the plans for Central
park in 1856. My report was printed in
full in several newspapers, taking whole
page. William Cullen Bryant, in an
editorial article, praised my scheme, but
declared that l would never live to see it
carried out When the driveways of the
park were thrown open to the public in
1862, there were no public conveyances to
that part of the city. The lot now occu-
pied by the Fifth Avenue hotel was used
as circus ground and tombstone yard
adorned the spot upon which the Abe
marie and Hoffman houses now stand
There were no buildings in Broadway
above Union square
1t was about the year 1856 that the
Lenoxes and Astors abandoned Second
avenue which was at that time the fash
ionable quarter of the city, for Fifth
avenue. Everybody was laughing at the
absurdity of the movement. 1t wasn't
long, however, before nearly all the high
toned families had left their establishments
in the old, for the more spacious buildings
in the new, fashionable quarter Many
people living down town hardly ever
heard of Central park until several years
after it had been opened. The great
breathing place of the city is now com
pleted with a few changes according to
the plans which l drew up thirty years
ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
Washington.

THE International Maritime Conference at
Washington has completed its organization
and entered upon its deliberations.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed Oliver
c. Bosnyshell, of Pennsylvania, to be Super
intendent of the Mint of the United States
at Philadelphia, and Richard E. Sloan, Of
Arizona, to be Associate Justice Of the Su-
preme Court of Arizona.
The Simpson drytlock at the Norfolk Navy
Yard, which was recently opened, has been
formally accepted by Commodore White,
Chief of the Bureau of Docks and Yards The
dock cost the Government 1896, ,737.
COMMODORE RAMSEY has been appointed
Chief of the Bureau of Navigation.
THE State Department has transmitted to
Portugal President Harrison's expression Of
coincidence over the death of the King OF
Portugal.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is already busy at
work on his Forthcoming Message.
THE President has appointed Oscar F.
Williams. of New York, to be Consul Of the
United States at Havre France.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER, Of the Census
Bureau, has appointed Charles H. Cooley, of
Michigan, a special agent of the bureau for
the collection of railway statistics.
IT is announced at the State Department
that the Venezuelan claims commission is
now ready to consider at once all claims pre-
sented.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
A Wonderful Dinner.

One of the most marvellous dinners Of
modern times was served in Antwerp
few days ago to company OF men who
90 about the world buying up animals fol
menageries. There had been a sale oi
the surplus stock of the famous Antwerp
geological gardens during the day, ano
buyers from all parts of the world were
there. In the evening the Anvers Zoolog'
ical Association gave a banquet to the
most prominent persons present. The
menu was indeed curious one. Dainty
omelets were made from ostrich eggs
Rare fish from waters in the tropics were
brought thousands of miles for this spe.
cial occasion. The guests were served
with Indian antelope tillet; with ham cut
from the Russian bear; with Lady Am
herst pheasants; with a delicious young
tspir, roasted to crisp; with tongue OF
the the South American bison, served With
spinach; with lima outlets and broad
beans. The King of Holland sent tine
boar from his forest, which was served IN
the fashion of an OK at a good old Amerl-
can barbecue. This altogether remarka-
able repast covered twenty courses, and
it took six hours to serve it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
A Curious Story Of Mistaken Identity

From Chicago comes one of the most
curious stories of mistaken identity
known to the annals of crime. In April,
1887, Michael O'Brien, policeman, was
murdered. Timothy O'Grady was con-
yicted of the crime and sentenced to the
penitentiary for seventeen years for man:
slaughter. At the trial O'Grady refused
to enter a plea of self-defense, which his
friends urged him to make, but stoutly
declared he was unjustly accused, though
the circumstantial evidence was conclu.
sive that he was the person who killed
the officer. A few days ago, however,
John J. Scanlan, the leader of the
ssMollie Mott" gang, confessed that il
was he and not O'Grady who killed
O'Brien. 1t seems that Scanlan had q
Quarrel with O'Brien and was seeking to
murder him. Just as he was skulkinS
behind corner to shoot the officer he
saw him engaged in row with O'Grady,
and he seized the opportunity to kill his
victim under circumstances that threw
all the blame on the man with whom he
was fighting. At the trial it was shown
that the fatal bullet did not match the
revolver which O'Grady carried, but the
iurv ignored this fact, which now proves
TO be very material. O'Grady will now
he pardoned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
Foreign.

THE Russian gunboat Nasr-ed-din-Shah
mas sunk at Batoum, in the Black Sea. The
crew were drowned.
GENERAL HIPPoLYTE has been unani-
mously elected President of Hayti.
A SERIOUS outbreak. of smallpox on the
island of Pelee, in Lake Erie, is reported.
The widest excitement exists there.
THE Emperor and Empress of Germany
started from Berlin on their trip to Athens
to attend the marriage of Princess Sophie
and the Crown Prince Of Greece.
THE fisheries have altogether failed at Es-
quimaux Point. on the Labrador coast, and
over hundred families are starving. The
local government authorities will send suffi-
cient food to relieve their immediate wants.
The Empress of Austria, while passing
through Riva on the Lago di Guarda, was
hissed by the inhabitants, who are ell Irri-
dentists. The Italian Government has made
official apology for the insult.
The Italian Government has refused to re-
ceive Washan Effendi, whom the Porte
wished to appoint as Turkish Ambassador to
Italy.
THE Hawaiian Cabinet declares that it
wants trade reciprocity with the United
States but not annexation.
THE King Of Portugal is dead. The eldest
son, the Duke Of Braganza, succeeds to the
throne.
THE Bazar Du Centre. at LIE Mans. France,
has been destroyed by fire. The proprietor
and three assistants were burned to death.
WHILE Prince William Of Wurtemberg
was driving to church at Ludswigsburg he
was fired at by man named Kaiber, who,
upon being arrested, exclaimed: 1T is high
time WurtembeEg had q Catholic King.n,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

81
THREE lads, each about eighteen years OF
age, were run over by locomotive at Hud-
son, N. Y, and were all killed.
BY the breaking of a scaffold at Bethlehem,
Penn, two men were killed and three severe
ly injured.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN AMOS J. CUMMINGS has
been nominated by the Tammany Hall Con-
vention of the Ninth Congressional District,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Congressman S. $. Cox.
A CoNSTRUcTIoN-TRAIN, loaded with 200
laborerS, jumped the track near Confluence,
Penn, and two men were killed, and many
injured.
BENJAMIN T. BABBITT, the well-known
soap manufacturer, died few days since in
New York at the age of eighty years. He
left large fortune.
THE Finance Committee of the Worlds
Fair at New York city, adopted subscrip-
ton form for the s., 000 600 guarantee fund
and ordered 1000 subscription books printed.
THE American Public Health Association
began its annual session in Brooklyn.
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER has been elected
President of the San Miguel Gold Placer
Mining Company, of Colorado.
The Protestant Episcopal General Conven-
ton, at New York city, decided to make the
communion service part of the marriage SER
vice, but rejected it for funerals.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
GENERAL HARTRANFT.
Death Of q Noted Pennsylvania
Sketch of His Career.

Death Of q Noted Pennsylvanian-
Sketch of His Career.
General John F. Hartranft, Ex-Governor
of Pennsylvania, died few days ago at his
home in Norristown.
A short time since the General was brought
to his bed by severe attack Of pneumonia.
This would have yielded to the efforts of the
physicians had not uremea developed as
result of an unsuspected arrangement of the
organs which had existed for long time.
John Frederick Hartranft was born in
New Hanover, Montgomery County, Penn,
on December 16, $780, He graduated al
Union College in 1858, and after studying
law for few years was admitted to the Bar
in 1852 At the outbreak Of the Civil War he
raised the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment
and commanded it during its enlistment. Hs
then organized the Fifty-frst Pennsylvania
Regiment, and was commissioned its Colonel
July 81, 1861, and accompanied General
Burnside in his expedition through North
Carolina He led the charge that carried
the stone bridge at Antietam and commanded
his regiment at Fredericksburg. He fought
in many other important battles, and was
breveted Major General in August, 1884. He
was elected Auditor General of Pennsylvania
in October, 1865, was reelected in 1868 and in
1928 was Governor of Pennsylvania. At
the close of his second term he removed to
Philadelphia, where he was appointed Post
master in June 1879, and Collector of the
Port in 1880. He was also Major General
commanding the National Guard of the Stats
Of Pennsylvania.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
cons WORK AND MANS WORK.

Mans work in beautifying the earth is
yery different from Gods work. Gods Work
is seen in majestic peaks which pierce the
sky, in foaming waterfalls, IN painless Tor
ests in tangled bushwocds, in rich valleys,
in ever-changing outlines Of earth and
heaven. Mans work appears in prim foot
paths, in monotonously trimmed hedges ana
IN beds of flowers set out with mathematical
exactness which suggests neat diagram In
Euclid. We never tire Of Gods work in
beautifying the world; there is newness OF
surprise in it which never fails. We 40
grow weary of the dead levels the marc,
straight lines, the mechanical balance OF
circles, triangles and parauelograma INTO
which man improves" coos woIh. Ls.
And when we turn to the biple
and see that here also appears
the tangled order # Gods &c atin3M;hSe'SSf1 in3;cS SSef1
the utmost reach of the human mlnd-we
recognize that the beauty of Gods work IN
the Book is like the beauty OF Gods WoTk IN
the world and are thankful that, al lease
within the covers Of Holy Scripture, man
cannot introduce the prim order OF oea9
system. Humanity speaking. the Bible woulq
not have been so new or so living pooK 9o-
day. if it had not been written in the order
of q logical treatise. beginning with an e1-
act definition Of God, and ending WITH
minutely precise exposition OF eschatology.
God gave the Bible, as he gave the Worlo, IN
that apparently disorderly order wherein
appear the truest beauty and the deepesg
unity. God left to no man the work OF
making trim fower-beds AMI equally ulm
systems of theology.-S. s. Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
SLAUGHTER OF SEAL.
Over 100000 Killed This Year by
POachers.

Charles j. Golf, United States Treasury
Agent in charge Of the Seal Islands, who has
returned from Alaska, says: "Unless
effective measures are at once taken by the
Government to stop illegal sealing operations
III Behring Sea, the seal will be totally ex-
tinct within five or six years l don't think
that more than so, 600 seal can be taken on
Seal Islands next year. The Alaska CONNER
cial Company had difficulty in getting 1OO,:.
900 seal skins this summer, and were obliged
to kill many inferior animals. There were
thirty illegal sailing vessels, British and
American, in Behring Sea this year, and they
took 40, 600 seal skins to Victoria.
''They kill six seal in the water where they
get the carcass of one Sothey have killed
over 200, 900 illegally this year. half males and
half females, the latter being equal TO two
animals. The popular idea that the seal are
increasing is wrong"
The United States cruiser Thetis has re-
turned to Sitka, Alaska, after an extraordi-
nary cruise in which she completely clrcled
around Alaska, past Point Barrow to the
Mackenzie Rivers mouth in the Artic Ocean.
A feet of whaling vessels went with the
Thetis. Ice caught the war ship near Point
Barrow and she narrowly escaped being
wrecked. Only two exploring vessels have
ever got to the Mackenzie and no Govern
ment vessel ever was that far before.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
A HORRIBLE CONFESSION.
An EIeven-year-old Boy Who Killed
His Father and Mother.

His Father and Mother.
The Grand Jury at Dubuque, Iowa, has
returned an indictment against Wesley FL
kins, the 11-year-old boy who murdered his
parents in July last. There was no evidence
against him, excepting his own statement in
writing over his signature, which IS as fol-
lows:
II was sleeping in the barn, and wanted
to get away from home. I had run away
from home a number Of times, but they
brought me back. L thought would kill
them, SO went up to the house just
before sunrise on the morning Of
July 16, and went softly into the
house to see if my parents were asleep. I
noeked into their bedroom, and saw that they
We're fast asleep. I then went out to tho
road in front of the house, to see if anybody
was coming, and, finding the coast clear, l
went to the corn crib and got the club, which
was part of fail, and then went into the
house softly, and put the club in my bedroom
and set it down.
II then took up my fathers rife, which
was always hung upin my room loaded, and
stepped out of my bedroom to fathers and,
his door being open, I put the gun to his face
club, knowing that would not have time to
load the gun. got the club and when got
back to the door mother was upon the floor
and STOPPING over. thought she was look
ing at father, who lay on the front side Of
the bed. I struck her on the head, and she
Strengthened up and fell backward on the
bed and over father. then got up on the bed
and struck her great many times on the
head, until l thought she was dead.
Then heard father make noise in his
throat and struck him two blows on the
head that smashed the skull. I then took
the baby and hitched up the horse and started
for grandpa's. Nobody helped me in any
way, nor told me to kill them. I did it all
alone"
The boy is an intelligent little fellow,
weighing only seventy-three pounds, and is
very fragile in appearance.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
The people of God act as if the fields n

The people of God act as if the fields no
SO fully open to missionary labors would AZ
WAYS be open, but this is not the case: II
not occupied by Christian missionaries tney
are apt to be pre-occuped by other forces
which are som, times even more difficult to
encounter than the original heathenlsm OF
the people. Commerce, with the lmmora-
ity of merchants who come uDdar. tls>genS
eral name Christian, is q terrible hlndrance
to missionary labors, if it goes into hea,
then country before the people have learned
the nature Of missionary work. In western
Africa TODAY the race is between rum ana
religion. Where rlm has gone first, real re-
lirion has had hard work to make headway.
Moreover. if Protestants delay, the repre-
sentatives of corrupt Christianity
are always ready to enter IN
and make the people nominal con-
verts, who are harder to be won to Christ
than real heather. The American Board
started mission to Umzila's kingdom N
southeastern Africa in 1881, but through
various causes it was not fully begun. Last
year two missionaries arrived at the caplta!
TO begin the work, but the Portuguese had
got there ahead of them, and they were sent
away with these words from tie king; Iel
those who sent you, your feet have delayed
too long. Had you been the first here 10
mourn the death Of my father, yours would
be the place now occupied by the Purtugese.
They came first to mourn the death OF my
father. They are my teachers and the teach
ers of my people. cannot manage two sets
If teachers at one and the same time.-Bdp-
tist MiSSionurH
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
SUNDAY SCHOOL STATISTICS.

The latest table of statistics for Sunday
schools in the United States shows that there
are in all 1O1, ,s24 Sunday schools, with 8, 345,
43l scholars and l, 100, 104 teachers making
a total 9,445,535 in the Sunday schools Of
the country. Pennsylvania continues to be-
the banner state in the number Of schools
S,729-though New York has more scholars.
Pennsylvania has 964, 500; New York, 979,-
AIS Among the states Louis
lana seems to stand at the
foot. It has only 522 schools and 81 26l!
scholars. The little state Of Rhode Island
exceed, in its scholars by about II, 000. Of
the cities, Philadelphia is in the lead, with
comes next with 800 schools and 172 600
scholars. Brooklyn, the city Of churches
has 263 schools and 9zO33 scholars easily
holding the third place. ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
LATER NEWS.

PETER BARANowsKI has been hanged at
Pottsville, Penn, for the brutal murder of
two women.
Snow fell in many parts of the Middle
States few days ago.
THE American Antiquarian Society met at
Worcester, Mass.
The Episcopal House of Deputies, after two
secret sessions on the subject at New York
city, postponed marriage and divorce legisla-
tion to another convention.
NEARLY 200 Cinnamon left New York city
for China the other afternoon to return no
more Many Of them are going home to
join the National army, others to work on
the new railroads of China, instead of wash
ing shirts in this country.
THE first furnace of the immense steel
works of the Pennsylvania Steel Company
at Sparrow Point, Nd, has been put in ope-
ration.
AN important convention Of wheat grow
ers of the Mississippi Valley opened at st.
Louis, Mo-, in response to call by the
Farmers Federation.
GOVERNOR FORAKER of Ohio, who has
been seriously i'll, has gradually improved
until his condition is now favorable to rapid
recovery.
The large Touring mill of the L. c. Porter
Milling Company, at Winona, Mimi, has
been destroyed by fire. The loss is approx
mated at $15O,00O.
The Baptist Union has presented a me-
mortal to Lord Salisbury, in which the Gov
ernment is implored to use the moral influ-
ence of England to suppress the atrocities by
the Turks upon Christians which arereported
from Crete.
THE Prince and Princess of Wales upon
their arrival at Athens were met at the rail-
way station by King George of Greece and
the Czarewitch of Russia, and were given an
enthusiastic reception by the populace.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
DRINKING A FARM,

NY homeless friend with the chromatic
nose, while you are stirring up. the sugar IN
q ten-cent glass Of gin, let me give you fact
to wash down with it. You say you have
longed for years for the free independent
life of the farmer, but have never been able
to get enough money together to- buy q
farm. But this Is just where you are mis-
taken: For several years you have BEEN
drinking good imp: Owed farm at the rate
of 100 square feet at gulp.. II you doubt
this statement figure it out for yourself. An;
acre Of land contains 4s 500 M square s,s feet T.
Sc per acre, you will see that it brings
the land to just one mill per square foot,
one cent for ten square feet. Now pour
down the fiery dose and imagine You are
swallowing q strawberry patch. Call IN
five Of your friends and have them help you
gulp down 500 foot garden. Get on pro-
fonged spree some day, and see how long
time it requires to swallow pasture large
enough to feed q cow. Put down that glass
of gin; there's dirt in it-100 square feet OF
good. rich dirt worth s4356 per acre.-Boo
Btrdette, .s"'h h.ss5.l
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-06
THE LABOR W0RLD.

The Pittsburg, Penn, maltsters have asked
for shorter hours.
Two assemblies of the K. of L. have been
formed in Ireland.
ST. LOUIS musicians average about $770 a
year, or SASS a week.
THERE are nearly so, 600 carpet workers Of
both sexes in Philadelphia.
SIXTEEN HUNDRED men are working at the
Chester, Penn, shipyards.
THERE will soon be national organization
of the tile layers Of the United States.
The pantaloon makers of Boston, Mass,
have started union with seventy members.
AN advance of fifty cents a day has been
given to the plasterers at Connellsvllle,
Penn.
The workiagmen in Chicago have SUBJ
scribed to $500, 900 worth Of the Worlds Fair
stock.
The Chinese tailors in Hong Kong are
fighting against the introduction OF sewing
machines.
THE eight-hour system is satisfactorily
working in the British colony Of Victoria,
Australia.
The recent dock strike in London has, ac-
cording to John Burns, the leader, been the
means of raising wages in at least 2OO trades
there.
THE second annual convention of the Jour-
neymen BARRIERS international Union OF
America will be held in Detroit, Mich, De-
cembec Sd.
AT the request Of the tailoresses of Boston.
the labor organizations OF that city wln
adopt label which is to be placed on union
made clothing.
In the newly drafted Constitution for the
State of Wyoming it is provided that EIGHT
hours shall constitute a days work in all
mines and on all State and municipal
works."
THE new locomotive works of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at Altoona, Penn, are to have
capacity of 500 engines year, and are so
constructed that their manufacture can be
increased up to 1900
FIFTY miners were lately killed by an e1-
plosion IN the ironstone pit of the Maurice
Wood Colliery, Scotland. Subscriptions are
being raised all over the country for their
widows and families.
COOPERATIVE stores are gaining ground in
England and workingmen seem everywhere
anxious to buy stock in them. Cooperative
hat stores are fourishing in all the large
cities and have proved great success.
IN order to replace the field laborers who
have emierated to Mexico and South America
a company has been formed in Havana,
Cuba. to make contracts with a number of
workmen in Spain to bring them to Cuba
with their families.
WoRK1NGMEN in Paris are agitating for the
eight-hour movement A letter to that effect
has been sent to the headquarters Of the
American Federation of Labor in New York
city. The movement is the outcome of the
visit of American workingmen in Paris.
A NEW YORK unionist, who is in Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic, writes to New
York saving that it is not hard to get work
there He says, however, that it would be
foolish for any mechanic to 60 there expect
ing to get an easy job or to become rich.
Carpenters get from s. to $3.50; bricklayers,
from s. to S., and bakers from $1.75 to 1926.