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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-04
Sorry He Went.

Mr.. John A. Brooks, and his family. left the
home OF his birth last Monday. TO occupy .
house near Miledgeville. Georgia. His old
friends and neighborS regret to loss so good a
family, but extend to him and his family, the
best of wishes for future health, happiness
and prosperity.
, 1889-07-10
The great caIamityin PENN
syIvania.
lFrom the 8pectator Of 8 Lnne.]

We suppose, though it is not a
matter 10 be dogmatic about, that it
is a certain similarity in their physi-
cal conditions which reproduces in
North Americ" that quality Of i'm.
m~Oderateness which is the "note" or
special popularity of Asia. Some
things On the Western Continent are,
IL is true, on "a much smaller scale,
especially The mountains and the ex-
tent and density of the population.
"The Rockies" though they rise well
ihto the air and cover an enormous
area-900.0OO square miles in all
are 10000 teet lower than the Hima-
, 1889-07-10
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.

new 1Ork, jury OCn.-En0 contest III
the West division of Fife has resulted in
the electiOniof Mr.. Burrell, the GladstOnian
candidate, by 1861 votes against 1851 for
his opponent.
It has been arran ged that the Worlds
Sunday School convention shall next meet
III America.
A large fire has occurred in London on
the River front destroying a large amount
Of property. The loss is estimated at
$4,000 sterling.
The Daily News expresses an opinion
that the Governments of England and
the United States should come to an
agreement in order To avert % collision
IN the Bphring Sea.
The. British Crop reports are favorable.
The Paris semi Unofficial papers deny that
there iH1any lissensi0n in the Cabinet.
The Chamber Of Deputies has passed the
Budget. The, Right refused to vote, and
showed no desire for Government reform
or retrenchment.
The Miners of st. Etienne are on strike.
No disturbance has occurred.
Plymouth, July 6th.-The RMS. "Nile"
from the West Indies arrived here at 8
y. m. to-day.
New York, July Shit is stated that
the Indictment against the BOulangiSts
advises the arraignment of General
BOulanger, Count Dillon, and M. ROchefOrt
before the high court of justice for con-
spring against the safety of the State.
The Committee of the French Senate
has approved the Bill for the reliet of the
Panama Canal Company.
In the Chamber of Deputies Admiral
KrAntz, Minister of Marine, demanded an
extra credit of sixty millions Of francs for
the Navy, thretteniug to resign if the
money be not voted.
London news states that the Jockey
Club has accepted the resignation of Sir
Il, Orgr Cllrtwynd.
McNaiR a. Gill and Cox. two Home Rule
Members of Parliament have been arrested
in LOld0n..
A despatch from Cairo reports that en-
counters have Occnrred between the Egyp.
tian troops under Colo 81 W0dehOuse and
the De:vishts, with very disastrous results
IL the later,.
New York; July 9th.-M. Goblet, in the
course ut "a speech at Lille, declared that
B"ulaDgiSm would nor endanger the Re-
public, and that 1t was only necessary to
pursue a progressive policy i'll order to
destroy the movement.
1t is reported that the Emperor William
has narrowly escaped being killed by a
piece OF falling glacier i'll Norway.
london news states that the American
~litenicn are drilling with Martini Henry
Rides in Older TO take pant in the VIM
blrdOn matches.
he ST. James Gazette, in order to avert
scandals, has paid the claim for breach of
contract 70 Mr.. Greenwood, the former
editor OF the paper.
Further advices from Cairo state that
Colonel Wodehouse finds himself not
*trOng enough for another attack on the
DprvisheS, but he is following them in
steamers, and advises the collection of a
strong force at AsSouan to cooperate with
him. H.. .
Santiago de. Cuba, 9th.-Advices have
reached here reporting the loss on AYES
Island, of the American steamship "Mars",
bound from New York to Laguayra with
cargo for Curacao. The Captain and 5
men remained on board % men reached
Curacoa, in ,boa:sEafter "a hours rowing.
The cargo vas completely lost. but, all
hands saved.
, 1889-07-10

q "O"-'oASO CNOH III OUE own
microscopic Europe.," They are,
for the most part, less than half the
height of Snowdon or Ben Nevis.
The population of the Union, rapid
~ though il increases, is still only a
fraction of that of China or Bengal
and there is probably no rural dis.
trict on the Western Continent where
the people are nenrly as thick on the
ground as they are almost every
where along the three thousand miles
between Bombay and Canton. In
vastness OF areas, however, in the
breadth of the mountain ranges in
the volume and speed of the rivers,
in the excessive variety Of climate,
ranging from Arctic cold 10 unbeara-
BILE heat, in the huge extent of their
forests, and in their liability TO ire
sistible windstOrms, the two contin-
ents approach n another, and exer-
else on their inhabitants something of
the same effect. The American, be-
ing ar increased Aryan, does not, it
is true, quail before the forces of Ma
ture as does the AsiatIc, or resign
himself 10 submission before the de-
cree of a blind Fate but he betrays
something of The ASIat.c admiration
Tor mere bignFss, and owes, we Sus-
pect, something of bis careleSsness
in Plecauti"n to an underlying sense
thar if Nature chooses to break her
ordinary limits, nothing he can do
will arrest or modify her action. 1t
Is quite right to say that bridges
should he carefully built, but what are
neil 10 do with a liver which once
perhaps in "a century mny rise thirty
six tert ia nm hour or how are they
TO prevent fires that may lay waste a
city or a forest, when the sun has
de"lcca'ed the very trees till they are
lntiammabIe as touchW God, and has
made.Ol the grass of The prairie a
magazine of potential fameq In
the awful calamity of May 3lst in
the Valley of COnemaugh, the grea-
test calamity, we believe, which has
suddenly fallen ON white men since
the earthquake of Lisbon destroyed
thirty thousand persons, the ultimate
cause was clearly a climatic. condi-
lion wholly beyond human control.
The dam of the great reservoir
above Johnstown, a tank holding
millions of 'ons of water, was con:
structed by human hands, and may
hive been in an. unsound condition
the evidence teIegraphed on that
point looks very bad indeed-but the
reason why it broke was a fall of
rain on the A~lleghanies, wholly be-
yond calculation or arrest, a fall
which swelled every river of the
region till the water could not pass
under the bridges, and which proba-
bly, far exceeded in aggregate volume
the contents of the reservoir. The
mass of water imprisoned in that
receptacle rose and rose with the
new accessions from the clouds and
from the mountains, till it's weight
was uncomfortable, and, when the ma
sorry of the great dam, seven hun
dred feet in length and a hundred
feet high, was stdriven omen like n
, 1889-07-10

were swept away like logs, their in
mates screaming within them. An
eyewitness writes of The richer quar-
ter of JOhnstowm that it has become
a piece of waste ground :-''There
is nothing 10 indicate that it had ever
been anything else han what it is
as clear of debris and wrpckagp rs
though there had never been a build
ing on it. In reality it was the CEN
traI and busiest part of JohmstOwn.
Buildings, both dwellings, aud stores,
covered it 'hickly. Its streets were
paved, and its sidewalks were of
substantial stone. 1t had a,reet-car
lines, gas and electric lights, and all
the other Improvements of a subStan-
tial city of fifteen thousand or tweu-
ty thousand inhabitants. The iron
bridges which spanned the streams
and the buildings We're of a sub
stantial character. Not a brick re-
mains, not a stone, nor a stick of tim
Der. In all this territory there are o
even mounds to show where the
wreckage might be covered with
a layer of mud. They are gone
every building, every street, every
sidewalk, pavement, street railways
everything eISethat covered the sur-
face of the earth has vanished as utter,
ly as though it had never hoen there.
The ground is swept clean ~ though
some mighty Scraper had been dragged
e it again aud again. Not even
the lines of the streets can be remote
Iy traced. 81 have visited JOhnstown
a dozen times a year for a long
time, said ~ business man to, dav,
1 knew it thoroughly, but | haven't
the least idea now what part of it this
is. l Can't even tell The direction the
streets used to rum. As the stream
was moving at twenty miles an hour,
the very beasts could o aud did not
escape flight for amy human being
at assistance from u hillock was i'm
possible md we greatly fear the
official estimate of The dead is far
within the truth. aud that even the
private estimate Of the Adimtant-
General of Pennsylvania, fifteen thou
sand, may be considerably exceeded.
1t is certain that the slaughter Of
labourers throughout the valley has
been so great that the dead cannot
get buried, and hat in fear Of a pes
thence, sprend not 80 much by the
stencil of the corpSeS as by their
effect on drinking-water. The Cover
nor of the State has ordered a regi.
ment of militia TO assist in the pain
full task. To add TO The horror of the
tragedy, a considerable proportion
of those destroyed, perhaps n sixth,
were not drowned or struck sense :
less, but burned alive, hlhdre5ds Of
wooden shanties having been welded
by the stream into a huge raft, sixty
acres 10 area, which stopped against
one of the bridges, unIucklly too welt
built Z give way, and, catching fire
burned on steadily for hours, under
the eyes Of powerI5ss spectators.
Amidst. such a scene, the drstruc-
ton of property seems moi to mater ; .
but a fine of eight millions sterling
1ovio1 hv Nature IN q ,Oo,o.oa ~
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Caucer

is form of blood poison which is not
understood by the medical profession
as to its real nature and character,
but it is evident hereditary in its ma
ture, 1t may accidentally develop
itself without any predisposition ol
or evidence OF such existing poisonI
The knife or caustic salves have here
tofore been the so.called remedies for
it, but all honest practitioners viii
tell you that this treatment fails to
cure, and only hastens fatal results
Thousands OF cases of epithefioma
(skin) cancers, and a great many cases
OF scirrhus cancers, have been entirely
cured by the use of Swifts Specific,
1t forces the poison out through the
cancer itself, and the pores oftithe
skin. "rbe
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-05-30

From Bristol to Knoxville, along
the railroad line, as we know by recent
observation, as well rs from every por-
tion OF this and neighboring counties
from which we have Information, the
wheat crop is more promising than
for many years. The frosts thnngh-
out East Tennessee week before last
did not wilt the stalks, but what effect
they may have upon the quality OF the
kerne. can not yet be told. Corn is
thin in stand and backward, ewing 4,
the two weeks drouth now upon us.
The fruit yield, Of every saricty, will
be the largest in many years. MIR.
ristown Gazette.
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The South Victorious.

Verify the day of the South's tri-
umph is at hand. peace hath her
victories no less removed than war.
Henry b. Pierce, secretary OF State for
Massachusetts, declares that the
Southern iron fields must become the
world seat Of that industry, and that
the next twenty-five years will wit.
ness development there surprising
alike belief and history. The Thorn
as Iron Company of Pennsylvania
have reduced theprice of pig iron to
the lowest point reached since the
panic of 1873. William H. Ainey,
president Of the Lehigh Iron Compa-
ny Of Allentown, Pa, says that, abe
cause of Southern competition" the
alternatives were to sell at the reduced
prices or not TO sell at all. at seems
TO be the general feeling OF the fur
nacemen here" says Mr.. Ainey, "that
they must hold their markets and
meet Southern competition now, oil
abandon the fight for good" Twenty
five years ago the South was buried
beneath the smoke OF many battles
disastrous to her arms to-day she
wins greater victory and the rising
smoke Of ten thousand furnaces and
factories announces her triumph
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Carriers.

ED. CoMET:--
The tan bark season is now upon us
and ballast rock, are our principle ar
ticles OF traffic.
There came near being a serious &C.
cident one mile east OF here on the
railroad, last Friday evening the 18th.
Mr.. N. G. Wagner and sister, Mary Ni
VaughtSville, johnson county, and
Mr.. James Stout, OF Mouth of Doe,
had driven over to HENDRIX Greek in
hack, where Mr.. Wagner was mar.
ried to Miss Mary Whaley. The bri.
dal party were all III the hack return.
ing home, when a mile above this
point, where the railroad and the
county road are very close together,
with no chance of turning out, train
came dashing suddenly around a
curve, and the horses not being used
to seeing cars became very much
frightened and became unmanageAble
and upset the hack and completely
wrecked it before any of the crowd
could get out But fortunately none
OF them We're hurt. The hack had tc
be hauled here for repairs, and the
party took the train around for hons
via johnson City and Hampton.
T. T. Reese has taken a position al
stenographer with the passenger
of the Mobile and Birmingham, r
R., at Selma, Ala.
There are about 76 acres in water
melons in and around our place will
a good stand of the first planting.
d. N. r.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-05-30

Mr.. George Parsons Lathrop is not
like some authors who put their best
work into their best work into their
best work into their novels. He has
never written anything better than
his short stories, and Messrs. Cassell
4 Company are fortunate in offering
the first collected volume of these to
the public. Two Sides Of a Story" is
the title OF the volume whose contents
are made up of his more notable con.
tributions to Harpers, The Century
and the Atlantic Monthly. Who ever
has read his stories in the magazine
will be delighted to get them in per
manent and handsome form, and theil
collected appearance will raise up. {
new equally admiring audience.
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All competent authorities, promi.
nent among them being F. F. Roberts
NJ. D., Professor of Chemical Medicine
at University College Hospital, Lon
don, Eng, say "Bright's disease has
no marked symptoms OF its own, but
takes the symptoms OF other (so,called
diseases" II you have headache,
fckle appetite, failure of eyesight,
tube casts in urine, gradual loss ol
flesh and dropsical swelling, extreme
wakefulness, distressing nervousness
do not neglect such symptoms, or you
will eventually have Bright's disease
Take Warmers Safe Cure, the only
recognized specific for this disease.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-05-30

Postmaster-G General Wanamaker has
distributed $21S,7S5,39 among the
5000 employees in his immense Phila-
delphia establishment during the past
two years. This was their share Of
the profits over and above their sala-
ries. Profit sharing is a very good
thing no doubt, but it is to be hoped
the Postmaster General will not carry
the idea into the national Govern
ment. What fat thing it would be
to distribute among emoployes the
immense profits the Government
makes out Of the people on the neces.
saries OF life.
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An Unhappy Home.

81 wish my wife would get well or
something" said husband who had
been sorely tried with an.invalid wife.
1t seems heartless speech, but who
can tell the discomiorts OF home
where the wife is always sick. Poor
food, crying children! No wonder
the man grows desperate. But if he
would get DR.. Pierce's favorite Pres.
criptiop for the wife, he would find
that the sunshine would return to his
home. "Favorite Prescription is a
positive cure for the most complicated
and obstinate cases of leuc hea, ex.
cessive flowing, painful menstruation
unnatural suppressions, prolapsus OF
falling of the womb, weak back, "fe.
male weakness" anteversion, retrov.
ersion, bearing down" sensations
chronic congestion, Inflammation and
liberation OF the womb, Inflammation
pain and tenderness in ovaries, nc.
companied with "internal heat"
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whsA Baby was sick, We gave her CassOssA.
when sAswaS 4 UAild, sas ssIsd for casSosla,
Whoa mo Assaaas Mias. ne chung 70 cAs,OrGA.
wAsa HAs had chudrsa. ~ sAvs them CAstoris

I. +. Kits, OF Granger county, re.
ports thatseveral weeks age { hunting
party in Granger discovered q won.
derful waterfall. Though not very
large in volume, it is said to exceed
Niagara in beauty. The place is on
Sycamore creek, near the Clinch
mountain. The stream spreads out
to widthe of three hundred feet al
the brink and the water glides, over
the rocky.edge spreading out into d
thfa sdeea aais ii laiis i distance OF ont
hundred and fifty feet to the bottom
Of the precipiss directly underneath.
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President HARRISON is quoted as say
ing that he wants nothing but his ow =
good opinion. He has evidently con-
trived to obtain it.
1t is announced that q means of
phenomenally rapid transit for par
GELS has been devised. An overhead
rail, double.hanged wheel and car
with an electric moter constitute the
apparatus. The speed secured is al
most incredible, and its owners look
forward 10 a revolution of the mail
carrying and express business. Edi-
son is credited with having said it is
the greatest conception since the tel
egraph.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-05-30

Ex-Goy John @. Brown OF Teunes-
see, president Of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company, thinks
the Southern iron manufacturers have
nothing to fear from threatened war
against them by . combination Of
Nsrthern and Eastern furnaces. The
sOuths he says. can stand such . war.
fare for the simple reason that the
South can make iron considerably
cheaper than the North. A cut o
$3.50 a ton entails : heavy loaI
on the Northern iron max
ers but still leaves : markiA Of profit
for the Southern mills. tits easy {,
see that the latter are mastsra Of sh
situation.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-05-30

The Chickasaw Guards desire the
prilege of building an armory on the.
Bluff south OF the Custom House. II
the Legislative Cou lcil will consent
the Guards promise to erect an ar.
mory at a cost OF not less than $75, 600
to make off the grouds surrounding, a
park open to the public at all hours Of
the day or night, to equip it with seats
and to adorn it by terracing, by cree
ting a fountain, by planting flowers
and otherwise beautifying it.-Mem
phis Appeal.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1889-05-30

The death OF Allen Thorndyke Rice
removes man Of varied abilities, and
one who has accomplished much,
though comparatively young. Mr..
Rice was born in Boston in June, 1858
and would therefore have been thirty
six years old had he survived another
month. He was educated at Oxford,
England, and intended for the bar.
On his return to America, after his
graduation in 1875, he attended Col.
umbia law school, New York City.
He seems to have tired OF the legal
profession early, for in 1876 he bought
the North American Review, the old.
est of our magazines, and since that
time he has devoted his time and en-
ergies to literature and the publishing
business, In. 1894, wk;.s On - yis;t q
Europe, mir. Rice bought CONTROL
ing interest in lie Matin, a morning
newspaper OF Paris, which owned a
the time. His ventures have pros
lpered under his guidance, returnin,
him large income. He has taken
lively interest in historical researcl
and general literature. and was
writer of clear and strong style. H
was wealthy outside OF his bushes
investments, bachelor, and spent hi
time in sumptuous apartments
Fifth avenue hotel in winter and {
Tuxedo par in summer. His mo-
ambitious literary work was "Remil
iscenees OF Abraham Lincoln"
I, was appointed United States minist
to Russia in the latter part of Marc
, and was on the point of sailing for
: Petersburg when he was seized by Il
. attack of quincy that proved fatal.
: Chattanooga Times.
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The Tennessee State Board of
Health sounds timely note of warn
ing in its Bulletin Of the 10Th inst
1t urges upon the health authorities
OF the towns and cities OF the State
the prime necessity for adopting
snch sanitary measurers as will pre-
vent the introduction and spread OF
epidemic disease during the approach.
ling hot weater The publication is
not Of the alarmist order by any
means, but it tells some plain truths
that should be needed in time
Memphis Avalanche.
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The Esraers CNMyentien.

Chattanooga, May, 23.--The East
Tennessee Farmers Convention adj
journed on the night of ther22nd inst
1t was a grand success in every par.
ticular, The attendance was large
and composed OF intelligent and en-
terprising farmers. The essays and
discussions were spirited and to the
point. DR.. Dabney's lecture was just
like himself, pregnant with hard sense
and practical thoughts and sugges.
lions. Prot. Plumb was equal to the
occasion and Prof. Scribner was az
home in the discussion Of the grasses.
The treatment OF the convention on
the part OF Chattanooga was royal.
Never were the farmers OF East Ten
nessee treated more cordially. They
received ever attention yesterday and
were banqueted on Lookout. Il was
a magnificent affair and the farmers
were delighted. The writer could moi
! attend.
II The next convention will be held al
) Chattanooga and the same officers
. were reelected.
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A Famous Battle. Ground.

On the banks Of Tippecanoe, a
small stream which enters the Wabash
River in Indiana, was fought the ter.
rife battle Of Tippecanoe.
In this great struggle Of frontier
times, the allied western Indians un.
der the chiaftanship Of Elkwataws,
the prophet" weredeieated in Novem-
Der, 1911, by the Americans under the
command OF Gen. William H. Har-
rison.
Itwas a desperate, hard fought bat
tie, and much depended upon the re.
suit.
Had the Indians been successful, all
barriers of defense for the early settlers
would have been oVerthrown and the
deadly tomahawk would have been
active in tho rapid determination OF
the remaining pioneers. On the 9th.
er hand the fortunate termination of
the contest put an end 10 further at
tempts at open warfare among the In
dianS. The rich territory, so long
over-run by hostile savages, was
thrown open for settlement, which
rapidly occurred as soon as the
news of the great victory became
widespread.
Naturaliygreat praise was rendered
to the success and intrepid bravery
OF Gen. Harrison and he was honored
in many ways. He afterwards served
as Commander OF the Army Of the
Northwest, and when Indiana was ad.
mitted to Statehood, be was selected
to represent the state in the United
States Senate. In 1910 he was elected
President and his unfortunate demise
occurred shortly after being inaugura.
ted.
| The forty.second anniversary Of the
Battle Of Tippecanoe found the gal.
liant grandson of "Old Tip" leading
his forces toa great political victory
which resulted in the selection of Gen
Ben. Harrison as President of the
United States.
The Harrisons have been a hardy
race ofmen, sprung from old log cabin
stock, which is sufficient guarantee o.
its genuineness wherever found. Re
alizing the truth OF this, great effor
has been made TO re.discover some o
the secrets contained in the old lof
cabin stock Of useful articles, and al
the result, the famous Old Log Cabir
sarsaparilla, universally regarded Al
the best Spring tonic and blooC
cleanser has been found. Not satisfet
with theworld wide esteem which i
held for Warmers Safe Cure, the onl!
cure for kidney diseases, the proprie
tor is willing to do all that is possibl,
to establish Warmers Log Cabin Sar
ssparilla as foremost among household
articles on account Of its purity ant
effectiveness.
After all, each individual has, at al
! tines the great battle Of life or deatl
to fight, and for security attention
must necessarily be given to the bes
weapons which science can offer hu
manity In the great contest.