The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-13

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Power ran away and against tree
near Covington Bros. stables. Mr..
Power was thrown out and the buggy
smashed. Mr.. Power was only slightly
injured.-F1orence Times, Feb. IA.
The Society for the Suppression of
Vice was not idle last year. Itsecured
l0l convictions, made 81 arrests, and
seized over As 900 pounds of bad books
and papers, and caused the destruc-
ton of an immense amount of vile
matter of various sorts. All this was
done at an expenditure of only SS,522.
78.
A>fnaneial journal of London ha.
made the alarming discovery thai
monarchy in Europe is i'm danger OF
dying out, owing to the increase of
lunacy in royal families. The news
paper says that more than twenty
princes and princesses have bee under
medical treatment for mental disease,
and the number displays tendency
attributed to close intermarriage.
BERLIN, March 1.-The Boersen
Zeitung says that the United States
has proposed to refer that portion of
the Samoan question concerning Ger
many and the United States alone to
arbitration. Germany is not averse to
this, but adheres to the opinion that
the conference to be continued in Ber-
lin should settle the questions involy-
ing Germany, Great Britain and the
United States.
The alleged letters of Mr.. Parnell
published by the London Times have
proved to be forg ries by the confession
of the forger, Piggott, who furnished
them to the Times. Piggott has COM
mitted suicide. The Times has apollo
gised for the publication. These letters
were the basis of its famous articles on
l"Parnellism and Crime" trying to
show that Parnell was in the conspira-
cy of the Irish dynamiters. 49,,
A correspondent of the London
Times says that the word "teetotal'
had its origin through suffering
temperance orator, who urged on his
hearers that nothing less than 'te-te-
te-total" abstinence would satisfy tenn
perance reformers. Some one at once
adopted "teetotal" as suitable word,
and 1t sprang into general use.
The expiration of Mr.. Cleveland's
term substantially completes the first
century of the Government of the
United States under the Constitution.
Though Washington was not inaugu-
rated until April 80, 1889, the regular
Presidential term has since begun and
ended on the 4th of March, and Mr..
Harrison will be the first President of
our second century, -
Last Friday morning (Feb. 81 at II
o'clock the Court House commission
held meeting.
The NEE ting was held for the express
purpose of ratifying the action of the
Commissioners in selecting a site for
the court house and Jail for this coun-
ty. . eel.
Without any preliminary business
1.-THE selection of the lot Of Lewis Cohen
on Irby street at cost of $500 was rat
Iified.-Florence Times.
Over 1000 Cinnamon in New York
City alone support two temples to JOSS,
says Allen Forman in the american
Magazine for November, and there is
already considerable Mohammedan
colony established in and about Green.
wich Avenue. During the year end
ing June 80, 1888, ,587 of the most
degraded of the scum of Italy-people
in the densest ignorance and almost
without the vestige of a religion -land-
ed on our shores, most of them to re-
main in New York City. =
MONTREAL, March 9.-There seems
to be no doubt of the existence of a
'boodlers' bribery fund" in this city
for the purpose of attempting to defeat
the bill introduced into Parliament by
Prof. Weldon, which provides for the
extradition of criminals to the United
States. The exposure of the scheme,
however, has only given an impetus
to, the general opinion throughout the
Dominion, and in Montreal particu-
Iarly, that something should be done
to get rid of Uncle Sam's thieves. Ex-
pressions of indignation are heard on
all sides that the boodlers and thieves
should have had the temerity to at
tempt to pollute Parliament with their
methods.
The wells in the Buck Swamp coun-
try have of late been perfect curiosi-
ty. The water in several of them ap-
pears to be in q state of strong and
continued ebullition. A humming and
Kissing sound similar to the noise
about a swarm of bees and escaping
steam or gas is distinctly heard. In
some instances the noise, it is said, cap
be. heard some yards away from the
mouth of the well. Clearly the COM
motion of the water is due to the es-
cape of some gas or compressed air, but
what is the direct cause of the peno-
mena is a mystery.-lfarion Is. C)
IndcT.
On February 10, the House of Rep
resentatives ut Washington concurred
in the Senate resolution to print
third edition of $4,000 copies of the
hearing OH the Sunday Rest Bill,
making $4,000 in all. An official in
the Government Printing House says
that this is the largest number that
Congress has printed of any document
except those relating to agriculture,
Exceeding even the most popular labor
documents by twelve thousand. This
| is due to the awakened public inter-
est in this question which has result
ed not only in more petitioning, but
also in more letters to Senators and
Congressman on this subject than on
any other during the present session.
Danger Ahead to Common Schools.
+ The Star mentioned that bill had