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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
DETROIT RIVER is to be tunneled.

DETROIT RIVER Is TO De CunneleQ.
Boston wants geological garden.
DAMASCUS, Syria, is to have street cars
THE population of India is now 260, ,0o0,-
0OU.
THE White Caps are extending their opera
tions
FRANCE has advised the Pope to leave
IN the South there are 16, 900 colored school
teachers.
A REVIVAL of the tulip mania is threatened
in Holland
PHILADELPHIA is stirred up about badly
built houses.
THE Ohio cabbage trust has come to a
disastrous end.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, has been given q
clean bill Of health at last.
OVER 100, 900 feet of pine lumber have
been sold in st. Louis this season.
The new Texas Sc, ,OOo, 900 Capitol has been
accepted by the receiving board.
PRAIRIE chickens have appeared in Kansas
in almost unprecedented numbers.
The English Derby winner, Ormonde, has
been sold to an American for $s5, 600.
EXTENSIVE preparations are being made
to meet the threatened famine in India.
DAKOTA has an acreage sufficient 20 make
eighteen States Of the size Of Massachusetts,
KEELY, the motor man. doesn't own one
penny's worth OF stock in his alleged inven-
tion.
IT is said that there will be great suffering
in the southwestern counties Of Kansas this
year.
THE clergy Of the Church of England of
all grades, from archbishop to curates, num-
ber %, 600.
THE roller skating craze is now at its
height in Washington Territory, Oregon and
Manitoba.
AN order for steel rails has been placed at
$50 ton, the lowest price ever reached in
this country.
THE United States has 6ss street railways:
Europe, 2a1; Germany, Al; Great Britain and
Ireland. 1T.
A NEW iron bridge at Bridgeport, Conn.,,
was tested by marching twelve large ele-
plants over it.
Ar the recent exhibition of goats at Trums,
mails were shown.
GAINESVILLE, Fla, Is the only city having
yellow fever which was not profered aid
from outside sources
KAISER WILLIAM has renewed his grand
fathers order that none of the imperial SER
wants shall wear a mustache
THE State of New York is the second
barley producing State in the country, and
the largest producer OF hops.
THE experiment of rice cultivation has
been successfully tried in California. There
are large tracts of land there adapted to this
grain.
Miss FANNIE KEELING. formerly a servant
in the Slawtey House at Chippewa Falls, Wis,
has fallen heir to an estate in South America
valued at 50, 100000.
CLARK OARS, q convict in the Ohio Peni-
tentiary, at Columbus, who tried to escape.
was knocked off his three story hiding place
by q stream of water, turned on at the orders
Of the warden, and killed.
Major General Oliver O.. Howard, who
succeeds Major. General Schofield as Com
mander of the Atlantic Division, United
States Army, has formally assumed COM
mand at Governors Island, New York.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02
SECRET SERVICE BUREAU.
Report of the Treasury's Chief
Counterfeit Detector.

John S. Bell, Chief of the Secret Service
Division of the United States Treasury De-
partment, has prepared report of the oper-
ations of that service during the fiscal year.
The total number of arrests was iOI,
the majority Of which were for
counterfeting or passing counterfeit
coin. Of those arrested, lag were convicted
or pleaded guilty, l65 were discharged, and
ninety-six cases are yet undetermined. The
fines imposed aggregated S2.,i9l, and sem
tences aggregated 2d7 years. Over 1000 dies
and plates were captured. Only two new
eomnPtsrfeit e1u notes appeared during the year.
Figures are given which show that the ma
tiyes of Italy continue to occupy the fore
front of foreign born people as counterfeiters
IN this country. Out OF the l3i foreigners
sixty.seven were Italians, just fifty per cent.
The representative value of counterfeit
money Captured during the year was ~ H.
522 Of which over 2,0OO, ,0oO were limitations
and fac-similes Of notes. -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02
Snufh md West.


UNITED STATES Custom House officers
captured $50, 900 worth of opium which was
shipped from Vancouver, British Columbia,
and landed ut Port Huron, Mich, from
small schooner.
THE American Federation of Labor. which
has been in session at st. Louis, has adj
iourned after re-electing Samuel Gompers
President. 1t was decided to institute gen.
eral eight hour movement in January, lSJ0
Boston will be the next place of meeting.
THE body of little Irene, youngest child of
Dick Halves, whose arrest and protectlon
caused the tragedy at Birmingham, Ala,
has been found in the lake at that place
weighted down with railroad iron. Hawes
showed no emotion when informed that the
body had been discovered
CHGEF-JUsTICE CHARLES E. BOYLE, Of
Washington Territory, died Of pneumonia at
Seattle.
THE day set for the abolishment of all re-
strictions against entering Jacksonville,
Fla, has passed. The return of those who
left there in the early stages Of the yellow
fever epidemic has been signalized by big
demonstration The refugees returned by
train, boat and private conveyances and
afoot.
DURING the races at st. Londry, La, a
family feud which has existed for several
years between the Higginbothams broke out.
As result of the fight two of the partici-
pants were instantly killed and one, who was
mortally wounded died in few hours. Four
others, including an elderly woman, were
wounded.
A WIRE cable used at the Plymouth mines,
Jackson, Cal, broke throwing two men
named Millman and Pritchard to the bottom
of the shaft, killing them instantly.
DIrHTHER1A and smallpox are raging at
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
CHAIRMAN QUAY, of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, has been consulting with
President elect Harrison at Indianapolis con-
cerning the inauguration ceremonies.
The striking miners of tue Texas Pacific
Railroad, in Erath County, Texas, have be-
come riotous.
TWELVE stores and number OF other
buildings ut Iron Mountain, Mich, were
burned. Loss, 100000.
FIRE ut Manchester Kan, destroyed the
school building, leading business houses and
postoffice.
THE Augusta Ga-) National Exposition
has closed after a successful run Of forty.five
days. Over 100000 people have visited the
Exposition.
AN oyster schooner was upset in the James
River, Va, and the captain ard cook were
drowned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02
FOREIGN,

MR.. JOHN HENNIKER HEAToN, member OF
the English Parliament, will visit the United
States, and enlenvor to have bill submitted
to Congress providing for the adoption of his
scheme of universal penny postage.
Two boys, aged eleven and fifteen years
resnectively, sons of Mr.. Herbert, store
keeper at Ferry Point, Canada, have been
drowned.
THE committee appointed by the French
Chamber of Deputies to consider the bill
postponing the payment of the Panama
measure, thus destroying the last hopes of
those who thought the company might be
tided over the crisis.
TERRIBLE storms ragged for three days in
the Department of the Pyrenees- Orientales,
France, flooding villages and causing wrecks
and much loss of life.
THE steamer Jasper, from Workington to
Glasgow, foundered Off the English coast
near Wigtown. Eleven of her crew were
drowned.
A FRENCH man of-war is going to Panama
to protect French interests in case OF dis
order
FIGHTING between the British and Arabs
at Suakim goes OH briskly, the heavy guns
getting to work and destroying the Arab re.
doubts, the shells bursting in and around
them There wns great slaughter, and de-
serter reports that the havoc made among
the dervishes who crowded about the
trenches was terrible.
THREE men, named johnson, Oaks and
Dickey, were drowned while crossing to the
American side Of the st. Lawrence River
near Iroquois, Canada.
THE Haytian war vessels Dessalines Tous-
saint Louverture and two small gunboats
onened bombartment upon Cape Haytian,
which is the stronghold OF General Hvppolite
and his army of insurgents. They fired fifty
shots at the town, which diu little damage.
Then the foreign Consuls and the business
men of the town raised flag of truce so rs
to allow the enon-combatants to escape to n
place of safety. An armistice was granted.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02
AN ELEPHANT EXECUTED.
Chief, a Noted ManSlayer, Stran-
glcd in Philadelphia.

The winter quarters of Forepaughs circus
in Philadelphia have been the scene of an ex.
ecution not ordered by the courts. Chief,
the big elephant, was condemned to die. He
had become entirely unmanageable, and it
was found difficult to keep the great, strong
brute chained up. He tried to kill his keeper
the previous day, and it was decreed that he
should be destroyed.
At three o'clock in the afternoon the moose
was placed around his neck. 1t was made
in the middle of a piece of rope half an inch
thick and ten yards long. 1t was ticklish
thing to get the moose on the elephants neck,
but It was finally pulled over his trunk and
placed close behind his ears. Then Basil and
Bismarck, two powerful elephants, were
attached to the ends of the rope.
At Young Adam Forepaughs command
the two elephant executioners were prodded
and the line was drawn tight around Chief s
throat. Another signal was given and the
elephants applied all their power. Chief
tottered and fell, and was dead in twenty
seconds. ,
Chief was an Asiatical elephant, ten and a
half feet nigh and weighing 10000 pounds:
His body was hauled to the University OF
Pennsylvania, where the hide will be stuffed
and the skeleton set up for the university
museum.
During his career Chief had killed eleven
men.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02

terest of the Empress Eugenie in this great
enterprise, and it was largely through her
patronage that he was enabled to carry it to
q successful conclusion.
The Suez Canal passes through a low,
sandy plain. and is about 100 miles long.
By constant dredging an average depth of
twenty six feet of water is maintained, and
ships pass in and out at either end with
out the hindrance of locks. The business Of
the Canal has steadily increased. In 1855,
no less than 1924 vessels passed through it,
the gross receipts were sl2, ,OO9 900; the share
holders were paid dividend of II. 0S per cent.
after the sinking fund had been provided
for, and the tonnage of steam and sailing
vessels that passed through amounted to
s gN1 d1 I tons
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02
FERDINAND DE- LESSEPS.
The Noted Engineers Active
Career Practically Ended.
His Suez Canal a Success---His
Panama Canal a Failure.

With the resignation of NJ. Ferdinand de
Lesseps and the other officers of the moribund
Panama Canal Company, new era, says
the New York Tribune, must begin in the
work of securing interoceanic transit for
ships through the American Isthmus Prac-
tically, too, the active career Of NJ. de Les
seps comes to an end-a career long and act
i've beyond ordinary mortal compass and full
of such picturesqueness as is seldom to be OBJ
served outside the pages of romantic fiction.
At his great age, it is not reasonably to be
expected that he will become the promoter of
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02
THE WHITE CAPS.
Secrets of the Order in Ohio Known
Compelled to Disband.

Governor Foraker, Of Ohio, says that
detective has been among the White Caps
since the first report of their midnight whip
pings of obnoxious neighbors in that State,
and that the names Of all members and the
secrets of the order had been secured,
with such other evidence as would
bring any offender to justice. He says that
none of the members had been summoned to
his office, but that several Of them had come
voluntarily, being frightened by the posi-
bilty Of prosecution, and the result Of their
visit was that the organization had been
permanently abandoned and the members
had consented to quit their line of conduct.
The Governor said that the White Caps
were a regular organized secret body, but
that they had no connection with the organi-
zation Of White Caps in Indiana They were
divided into lodges, and the entire order was
under general officer known as Colonel"
There were nine lodges in Ohio, with men,
bership of about 1000, among whom were
many of the best citizens Of the communities
in which they were organized.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02
AN EXTRA SESSION.
Warrington Relieves that General
Harrison Will Call One i'll April.


Washington special says that the remark
that General Harrison is reported to have
made to some Brooklyn gentlemen to the ef-
feet that Congress might he in session after
March !, confirms the opinion thatthe Presi-
dcnt-elect thinks it is wise to call al extra
session. Tire Senate will OF course be con-
yeneI in extra session after March to act
upon the new appointments
There is little doubt in Washington now
that one of General Harrisons first acts will
be to call the new Congress into extra ses-
sion, and probably to meet early in April.
Harrison entered the Senate with the extra
session that followed Garfield's inauguration,
and he was then OF the opinion that the
President was saved no wear and tear be-
cause the House was not in session. On the
been to GarlielIs advantage in some respects
if the House as well as the Senate had been
sitting.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02
SOCIALIST SCHOOLS.
A Chicago Plan for Making Child
Converts to the Theory.

A Chicago Plan for Making Cn1i0
Converts to the Theory.
"Der Freisinnige Schulverein" the Free
Thinking School Society has been organized
in Chicago at meeting of Anarchists and
Socialists. Its object for the present Is
the establishment Of secular schools on
Sunday in Chicago. Discarding the Bible
as unfit to be put into the hands Of
children, it proposes to teach as substitues
history, science, and socialism. The move
ment is part Of tho most important work
now in progress among the Socialists Of the
country. Similar organizations are perfect
ing in New York, Milwaukee and other.
points, and are ostensibly the outcoms of q
resolution passed at the last annual meeting
of the Northwestern Turner Bund.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02

TIE night before election Charles F. Hen
derson, veterinary surgeon Of Taylorvile,
Ill.,, tortured fifty horses by infections sui.
phuric acid and croton oil. The animals be-
longed to Changers who were attending a
political meeting. He has just been sentenced
to the Penitentiary for thirty years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02

SEVERAL carloads of Colorado cabbage
have been contracted to 20 to Galveston,
Texas. One carload of these cabbaces will
go thence to South America. They will be
Tor the use Of the army. Cabbage is likely
20 become quite an article of commerce in
tho years to come "
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02

THE real name of 'Black Bart" the Cali.
fornia highwayman, is Charles Z. Boles, and
he was once re pectable member Of society
in Decatur, Ill. He has an estimable wife
and three bright children in Oregon, III.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02
THE PANAMA CANAL,

The idea of cutting through the Cordil-
leras, and providing q waterway from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, at Darien, originated
with the Spanish conquerors, but their
plans lay, for 200 years buried in
The speculations of modern science revived
the idea, and when NJ. de Lesseps assembled
his famous Congress in the Low Countries in
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-02

As the result of the strained relations pe
tween Russia and Persia, the Russian Aot
bassador to Teheran has been recalled.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-06-26

About sixty-fya Of these angels
fifty women and fifteen men-now
live in the mansion with their lead,
er. This state of affairs aroused
suspicion, and several Chicago gem
tIenea, whose families bad been
broken UP by the conversion Of
their wives and daughters, sent
female member of Chicago Meth
edist church to investigate the
matter. She WAS to enter the
mansion, ingratiate herself in the
pretenders favor, aud if pc ssible
discover grounds for criminal
prosecution. The woman went
and was converted, returning to
Chicago a jealous believer.
The pretonder has taken re,
markable hed upon a people Of
apparent intelligence among them
several ministers. 4 former cons
gyegational minister, who is an
allumnus Of Yale and Andover, is
pastor OF the Chicago branch, and
the leading spirit in Kansas City.
is daughter of a Presbyterian
mister. The members are very
Jealous and bold in proselyting,
going into homes, prayer meetings
and ministers meetings where they
watch their opportunity to rise up
and announce the second coming
Of Christ. In one case they had to
be elected from a meetingby force,
This recalls the beginning of
mormonism which had its birth in
the same region. In some respects
5chHeintulth seems to he the supa,
rior Of Joseph Smith, aud his fol-,
lowers more under his Influence.
Such a spectacle in thi: age Of
schools shows that education does
not relieve the mind of ianlticism.
This sect grew up in a region Of
schools, and counts among It's adj
herents many persons Of apparent
intelligence. So far no charge Of
immoral conduct has been lodged
against them, and the angels" in
Schweinfurlh's "heaven," so far
as the word know, have done
nothing to prove that they are
imps. About the only thing that
seems to do justice to the case is
the remark OF Puck in the Mid,
summer Nights Dream, "What
fools these m09tals be. Atlantu
! Coastitlttion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-06-26
VOL. VINO. 6.
TRUTH.

TT 81 ems strangs that anyone Vii con-
tinue to suffer from the effect of ma
laria, blood poison, soreness of the liyeg
and kidneys, rheumatism, etc., when there
is a cure within the reach Of all. 1t has
never failed to give complete satisfaction,
curing safely, surely and quickly eveEY
symptom Of ii health resulting from state
Of blood inpurity. From its use pimples
and sores rapidly get well, aches and pains
subside, weakness, stiff joints, swollen
limbs, dyspepsia, want Of appetite all dis
appear. 1t is called Botanic Blood Balm,
made in Atlanta, Ca, and has long been
the favorite remedy of the South. 1t is
perfectly safe blood remedy and general
tonic, and much quicker in its action than
medicine usually administered by physi
clans, for while nearly the same ingre-
dents might be prescribed, It hardly possh
bic the same ingredients in the strength
and same quantity qOo7fld be used and
herein is the superiority OF Is. B. B. over
all blood medicines in the world, as is EVIL
denced by the remarkable testimony given
by those who have been cured even when
all other treatment Utterly failed. Read tbs
following;
HAwKINsvILLE, Ga, Feb. 26, 1887.
fT1HIS is to certify that my wife has been
in bad health for eight years. Aftef,
i trying five doctors and six or seven
WEAKNESS dlitfTfnt P az EN-.
ties of your B. B. B. has cured her.
AXES w. LANCASTER.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1889-06-26
THE cLD way TIE BEST.

The report that about $4,000
fioggings were admiuist, red to the
children in the Boston public
schools, last year, has excited gen.
ergl attention AID much adverse
criticism. The News does not
syn!yathise with that class which
would Danish the rod OF cor ecsion
from the, schools of the land, even
though it is led by no less a dis
tinguished person than Herbert
Spencer. We belieye in the old
way, not that we are impervious
to good innovations, nor do I'VE adj
here to the notion that the old way
is the best simply because it is ans
tique, for we allow that no time or
authority can sanction a wrong,
bat we advocate the discipline of
former years because it gives the
best results.
Ever since the days when Dick
ems first exposed the abuses of the
schools of England, public sensi-
tiveness to fiogging in school has
been growing until it has run to
seed in sickly sentimentality.
The truth is, Squeers is a product
which these days are incapable of
producing, and the public fear of
it had rs well be opce and forever
allayed.
School children OF to dby can
scarcely realize the change that
has undergone the methods of
pedagogues since their fathers were
brought up under the prevailing
opinion, Spare the rod and spoil
the child" The pedagogues ways
of to- day are ways OF pleasantness,
aud all of his paths are paths OF
peace, when compared to those of
generation back. Coercion used
to be the law of the school room,
and the most eminent teachers rose
to that high eminence they occu-
pied in the esteem Of parents, not
by merit alone, but by tie force
of muscular application. The
schools were graded in The good
Old ante-bellum days with refer
erence to the strength Of arm and
alacrity of its use in teachers.
And those schools in which the
"big boys were entered, were adj.
vertised by the number of refrac-
tory students conquered. I hief
among the schools OF this charac
ter was that presided over by DR..
{. P. Becnsn, the kingSwhipper
of Georgia school teachers. Little
less distinguished in this line was
his successor, Mr.. w. j. North
ern, with Mr.. j. Il. Grassland a
close second.
1t must not be supposed that
, the oid~time instructors were harsh
and developed no lovable traits.
for though in the discharge Of
their duties under IA realizing
sense OF their responsibility to par
ents, children and society. they
seemed cold, yet their hearts were
as warm as summer sunshine, and
the closest friendships sprun up
between teacher and pupils.
! The. News regrets to sec Web>
ster' old blue back spelling book
growing into disuse, for with it
has passed away the wholesome
influence of the fable of the boy
IN the apple tree. The fable i
iull OF wise instructions, for if NOR,
Al pursuasion can have no effect a
more repressive or stimulating
agent should be employed.
The children of this generation
are wiser than Solomon, but they
had best so slow, 70. in public
schools the restraint OF moral per,
suasion are as weak as ropes Of
sand when thrown around som,
characters. Albany Netrs.