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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-16
Apologies.

Everybody knows that window
panes will grow dingy; that dust will
accumulate; that the faces of little
children, like their clothes, have nat
ural affinity for dust; that all clothes
will wear out; that paint is sure to be
fnger-nlarked; that china will get
chipped and that it is simply impos-
sible to keep everything in perfect Or
der all the time. In spite of this, we
are continually apologizlng for omis-
sions, negligences and errors, which
cannot be avoided, and which would
not he noticed, perhaps, if attention
were not called to them by ill-timed
apologies.
1t is refreshing to 60 into the houses
of our friends and see things little
topsy-turvy, and be assured by what
we see that we are all mortal, and on
ly what is common has happened to
us that just when company comes
our hostess has nothing cooked that
children usually quiet and orderly,
when animated by the presence of visi-
tors, show off to the greatest possible
disadvantage, and thus that other peo-
pie have their trials as well as we ours,
and that the difference between these
and those are quite trivial. On the
other hand, it is really depressing to
come across woman who always, un-
der all circumstances and on all occa-
sions, is ready for company, on whose
ceilings spiders never hang their webs,
behind whose furniture dust never
hides, whose closets and drawers and
trunks, being thrown wide open at any
moment, reveal only orderly interiors.
Let the language be changed little
if such a woman could be found, it
would be discouraging to persons of or
dinary feelings. While she had been
polishing her silver, notching her
shelf-paper. tiuting her pillow-shams,
adjusting the position of easy chairs
and sofas, and brushing away the last
suggestion of dust from the mantel-
piece, possibly it might appear that she
had not had time to glance at the latest
discoveries in science, to enjoy the last
new poems in our magazines, to be-
come posted as to the latest, political
and social events here and abroad.
Should she apologize for this? By
no means. Let her be happy, if thus
it must be, with her perfect housekeep-
ing; and let her sisters, who love
something else better than painful do
mestic neatness, rejoice without envy
in that something better. 1t is much
the wiser and nobler way to pass these
for which apologies are usually made
in silence, and to lead, if possible, the
minds of visitors not toward, but away
from, those things which suggest apol-
ogies. The habitual apologist is inva-
riably weak in mind or body, and fire.
quently in both.
IN. Y Christian Advocate.)
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MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS Il
wish I could see you all and take each
one of you by your hand and tell you
how much I love you. Some of you
are quite little boys. I should like
to take you in my arms and kiss you,
and try to make you very happy
Now want you to promise me that
you will try to he good, and pleasant,
and peaceful in all places and forever.
The most Of you suppose would like
to become very great and famous men
and many of you no doubt expect to
be. Now I hope you will never wish
to be great like Alexander or Napoleon
or any other celebrated warrior, but I
hope you will try to be very great in
doing all the good you can. [ hope
each one of you will try to be the best
man that ever lived in the world; and
if you wish to be great in doing good
by making every body in the world as
good and happy as you can, you must
pray much to the Divine Man, the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace
to help you to be always good and al
ways full of peace, by giving you a
peaceful, and pure, and sweet temper
of mind, so that you will always de-
light to make every body you can good
and happy.
O, remember, remember, that it is fa1
more noble, in the sight of all truly
great and good men, and above all far
more pleasing to God our Savior, to be
the smallest and most unknown peace
maker, than to be the greatest and
most famous man of war that ever liv.
ed on earth.
May God bless you, dear boys, now
and forever, with the best of blessings
on earth and at last with a home in
heaven. j. II.
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A European savant says that life
may be indefinitely prolonged by regu'
larly drinking the juice of the lemon.
And another European savant, who
knows just as much-or as little-says
that the surest way to shorten life is to
drink lemon juice. Life would be a
very plain and simple problem if ii
were not for the advice of the wise
mon.
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Cournreous Editorials.

It is very easy to sit within the pre- =
cincts of an EDITORS sanctum aud
write editorials, all aglow with the
fire of an intense earnestness. Oh ''The
Preaching Demanded by the Time,'
IA Fearless Minister" etc. Such ed
itorials are indorsed and eulogized by
thousands but when the watchmen
sound the alarm, which they say ought
to be given, and fearlessly preach the
preaching God bids them, what is the
result in some churches "Onr
church," says one, "cannot stand that
style of dispensing the Word. IT Will
not draw. The young people do not
like it, and so and so will leave the
church." The next thing that comes
to pass is that q committee is sent tothe
seat of Conference to suggest to the
Bishop the reason why Brother "Speak
it out plainly" should not be returned
to the church where he has fearlessly
preached the Gospel. Then the preach
er is politely informed that there are
grave reasons why he should not be sent
back to continue his loving plainness
of speech another year--"the good OF
church demands his removal" II
seems that fearless preaching, after all,
will disrupt the Church and decrease
The membership. Indeed, the "com'
mittee" can prove that it has already
been considerably thinned, for the
number of members reported at the
very Conference whrere they asked fol
q change is fifty less than the number
reported lastyear. The Bishop himself
was struck by the great falling OIL
when the brother made his report, and
he did not seem to think that fearless
preaching is sometimes an enemy-at
least, temporarily-to numerical
strength. Brother Fearless has to
take back seat, and is showed under
by statistics.
Brother Fearless preached lovingly
and faithfully against the sins of the
times and the devotees of the theatre
and the participants in the german,
and the euchre party advocates WINGED,
became indignant, put on their war
paint and went for him with a deter
mination to let him know that he was
not the man for their pulpit-and they
succeeded in ousting him through the
aid of a sympathizing committee.
Oh, yes! these editorials and address
es on "Fearless Preaching are very
becoming, yea, beautiful but would
not little more fearlessness in some
other quarters help matters very
much? Let not u preacher be judged
merely by statistics they are often a
poor criterion of faithfulness. Though
statistics on the right and statistics on
the left of the appointing power, "vo]-
leyed and thundered," give Brother
Fearless little more time, and he will
come out all right with church made
stronger by depletion. Give him the
moral support that is needed ; let him
not be cashiered for faithfulness and
snubbed on account ofhis fearlessn ess.
When fearless preaching is at pre-
MUM, and not discount it will be q
blessed day for the Church and the
world. Truth is mighty, but she is
sometimes 1gnominiously worsted
when she encounters popularity.
Fearlessness is gloriously eulogized in
ink, but when put into practice it is
frequently satirized and sC;gmatized
and given the cold shoulder. -"-E." in
Richmond Christian Advocatc.
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The Difference.

4 think 1t very queer she said,
"And so does Jack, 49,.
That sunshine makes some things grow whlte
And some grow black"
II tried to bleach myself" she said. f
"And so did jack;
The sheets Won spread were white as snow,
But we-turned black"
n. r. Hudson, in april Wide AUdke.
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Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1889.
Now.

II You have n kind word. say 1t:
ThrObbing hearts soon sink 10 rest.
If you owe kindness, pay 1t;
LIES sun hurries to the west.
Can YOU do kind deed? Do 1t,
From despair Il soul to save;
Bless each day as yOu pass through ~,
Marching onward TO the grave.
If some grand thing for Tomorrow
You are dreaming. do il now;
From the future do not borrow;
Frost soon gathers on the brow.
Sneak thy word, perform Thy duty;
Night is coming deep with rest:
Stars will gleam in fadeleSS beauty,
Grasses whisper o'er thy breast.
Bays for deeds are few, my brother;
Then to-day fulfill thy VOW.
If YOU mean to help another.
Do not dream lido IL now.
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shell, and the am balances, and the cav
airy horses and the batteries, and the
exploded fortresses, and the broken
bones, and the digging of the grave
trenches, and the pensions for foul
years of mutual destruction.
Edmund Burke estimated that the
nations of this world had expended
thirty-five thousand million dollars ir
war; but he did his ciphering before
our great American and European
wars occurred. He never dreamed that
in this land, in the latter part of thi:
century, in four years, we should speno
in battle, three thousand million dol
lars. But what is all the waste O
treasure when compared with the
waste of human life? The story is ap
-palling beyond everything. In ont
battle under julius Caesar, four hun
dred thousand fell. Under Xerxes IL
one campaign five million were slain
Under Genghis Khan at Herat, ont
million six hundred thousand were
slain. At Nishar, one million sever
hundred and forty-seven thousand
were slain at the siege of Ostend, one
hundred and twenty thousand; al
Acre three hundred thousand; at the
siege of Troy, one million eight hun
dred and sixteen thousand fell. The
Tartar and African wars cost one hun
dred and eighty million lives; the
| wars against the Turks and the Sara
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-17
row.
Lynched.

LITTLE RICK, Ark. Dec. 17.-Io Nau.
melle township Saturday evening, Henry
Wright, farmer, was stopped by four
masked men who drew their pistols and de.
mauded his money or his life He made o
desperate Fight but was Knocked out of his
wagon. Sunday morning Wright was found
by neighbors who had gone in search for him
aad although fatally injured he rallied suf
Goiently to describe his sasaiIants. a vigi
lance oonuittee was at oace organized and
the murderers we're caught aud Iynched.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

Oae million dollars worth OF bulldogs
have been erected ia Bristol since last sep
TENDER.
Constable Michael W. Allen, of Norfolk
county, was shot and killed last night by q
man PANIED Forbes, whom the constable was
irving to arrest. Allen leaves large family.
A telegram received from Lewiston. Ida
bo, announces the critical illness Of Judge
John l.. Logan, q son-in law of Hon. and
Mrs. ] Randolph Tucker. Mis-. Tucker has
gone to his bedside.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad Com
PAW is hsyng five new frst.class freight
engines built at the Rogers Locomotive
Works. in Paterson, n. j. They are to be
completed on or about the 18TH of this
months.
Revenue officers seized the Peaks of OF.
Ter dietil!ery, near Cave Springs, Roanoke
county last Saturday, and arrested Store
keeper j. S Kasey, OF Bedford 1t is
charged that barrels having the stamp ofthe
storekeeper thereon we're filed with water.
During the darkness early Sunday morn
ing, as the schooner Sophia Godfrey, from
Redmond to New York, was passing New
port News, the cook, Charles Kaufman, was
lost overheard 1t is believed he committed
suicide, es he had threatened to drown him
self.
An effort is 10 be made to induce Mrs.
Jefferson Davis to permit the body OF her
husband 10 be buried in Richmond, and Il
meeting has been called of the officers of tbs
various commercial and business bodies
camps and other ci,jZ sns to take steps for
action on the matter.
A bill has been introduced 10 the State
Senate to incorporate the Southern Negro
Orphan Asylum, to be under the control
and management OF IA board Of trustees, coz
ssting of F. Nj. Whittle, A. M. Randolph,
Fi,zhugh Lee. Thomas ]. kirkpatrick, l..
NJ Bisckford, Rev. L. NJ. Carson and Others.
The asylum will be located about mile
from Lynchburg. add under the auspices Of
the Episcopal Church.
a northern business house has proposed
to the vestry OF ST. Paui's church, Rich
mond, 10 which Mr. Davis worshipped while
President of the Confederscy, TO place .
thousand dollar memorial window in the
church free of charge in honor Of Gen. Rob
ert E Lee and Mr.. Davis. TIE vestry did
not accept, they having decided to order the
windows from Munich and TO have them as
popular memorials. 1t is stated that lady
has offered to furnish the one to Lee, and
that il has been accepted.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-12-17

A MATRIMONIAL SENSATION "A sensa
ton has been created 10 Danvile, Va, by
the marriage of Mr.. NJ. H. Anderson, of At
lanta, Co., and Miss Mary r McCormic, CT
Danville. 1t was announced that Mr.. An
dsrson and Miss Mccormic were married.
Cards were out for the marrisga of Miss
McCormic to Mr. A B Carter, OF Richmond
lad. Extensive preparations were being
made for the wedding to morrow. MI.
Anderson and Miss McCormc had long
been lovers, but Mr.. Carter was the choice
of the parents. The young lady fnally sue
cumbed to parental il faence and agreed
to marry Carter to morrow, but on
Sunday Anderson suddenly appeared and
the upshot of the whole business is that be
and Miss McCormio were married at Z
O'Clock at night and left for Atlanta. Mr.
Car; or was expected yesterday to find him.
call 1nff
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Letter from Richmond.

| Correspondence of the ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. lG.-Mr. snd Mrs.
Davidson, of Fairfax, were among the visit
ors at the Capitol to-day. They are on their
way home from Florida, where they went
on bridal trip. Mrs Davidson Is daugh-
ter of the late Msor John II. Chichester, Of
Fairfax.
Among those who are asking the General
| Assembly to remove their political dsabli-
| ties are L. B Shield and Overton Howard,
of Richmond, and t Spicer Curlett, of Ian.
caster.
Delegate Dupuy, Of Prince Edward, who
offered the bill prohibiting the sale in the
| State of meats slaughtered more than a
hours, 10 catching it on all sides. The OBJ
jsct of the bill is to give q black eye to west
err meats, and the heaviest blow seemed to
be aimed at Mr.. Armc ur, OF Chicago, who has
been interfering to considerable extent
with the Virginia cattle market. This is not
Mr.. Dupuy's pet hobby. Ga the contrary,
he is, am informed, but carrying out the
wish expressed 10 a resolution adopted by
the Farmers Assembly.
The introduction OF bill to-day by Sena
tor Roberts to appropriate $4,000 for the
enlargement and improvement of the lunatic
asylum at Marion, in south west Virginia,
will suggest similar bills relating TO the other
lnnatic asylums. 1t Is a well known fact
there is not at present enough room at the
asylums for the accommodation of the in
sane, and that something will be doue dul-
ing this session OF the legislature to care for
the unfortunate lunatics who are kept Ia
Jail, not being able 10 gain admission to the
asyums. AS Senator Roberts is the fst in
IL n fnr vi
tion 1t may be that the asylum in the south
west will be enlarged to meet all the require
ments of the times.
Speaking of lunatic asylums brings to
mind the resolution introduced to day by
Senator Heaton, of Loudoun. requiring an
itemized account of all the expenditures at
all the asylums In the Slate. Mr.. Reaton
tried to get such resolution adopted at the
last session, but fall d. This time he sue.
oeeded, and the besds of departments of
State institutions will doubtless be little
more particular hereafter in making their
purchases. b. T. ".
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NEWS OF The DAY.

Friends OF Mr.. Gpwen think fear of pare
sis caused his suicide.
Assistant District Attorney Sbillingtor, OF
Washington, has resigned.
Work on the Nicaragua canal has been
suspended for the present.
Secretary Blaine has cabled the Pres.-
dents congratulations to Stanley.
The influenza, which ia raging throughout
Europe, has broken out in New York.
Dr.. Seth Pancoast noted homeopatbist,
died in New York yesterday aged sixty six
years.
The HOUSE democratic caucus to take ac-
ton on the Sicott defalcation was aban.
doned.
IL is estimated that there are now u 2l3,.
430 whites aud 7.270 .720 blacks ic the
southern States.
The new bridge extending PENNSYLVANIA
avenue, Washington, across the Eastern
Branch has been completed.
Five men were thrown from scaftJld OF
Benwood, ". Va.,y yesterday distance of eff
ty feet and seriously injured.
Ths Senate yesterday By vote of AZ tc
l9. adopted concurrent resolution to lake
u TtCGSS lEUm OSCcu4ucL 10 W SaEuh'J u
A ruling by Speaker Reed yesterday, it is
thought, may enable the republican MI Dr.
ity in the House to deal summariiy with
contested election cases.
a 16yesr old son of Henry Potts. OF
Woodstock, Md, yesterday accident
ally discharged shotgun, killing his young
sister and seriously wounding his mother.
The Easter hardware manufacturing com
pany OF Cincinnati will remove its plant to
F.. Payne, Ala. The company has capital
etock of $500 900 and will employ 700 hands.
An order has been issued by the provis
ioDal Government of Brazil compelling ell
the rubber houses in Para to pay to the
Government for the credit of the Compan-
MIA Mercantii-a small local company in
Para--twenty reis. or three-elghts of cent,
for every klogramme of rubber exported
Monopoles follow 10 the wake OF republi.
oanism.
A party of Polish workmen walking home
yesterday evening on the Delaware, Lacka'
wana and Western Railroad, near Wilkes
barre, were struck by passenger train com
ing around a curve. One of The party was
thrown aside aud esca ped with bad bruises,
three men were killed outright and were
horribly mongled, and another was 80 bad
iy Injured that he cannot recover.
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The Cronin Murderers.

When it was known yesterday that The
Jury in the Cronin murder case, in Chicago
had agreed upon verdict, precautions
wers taken that no one but representatives
of the press and counsel engaged in the
case should be given Abundance. As soon az
Judge Mcconnell took his seat upon the
bench, the five prisoners were ushered 10
from the Jail Lawyer John F. Brggs, with
deadly pallor on his face, headed the line.
| Behind him came Coughliu, with a smile
upon his face Ii was apparent to every
observer that he had nerved himself for the
ordeal. Next came OSuilvan, his jaws
compressed and the fogers of his right hand
! Juggling nerVou5ly at mis- moustacne. Mar.
| liu Burke, close behind him, had the same
look of stolid Indifference that be had worn
throughout the trial. kunZa, the last in
line, smiled aud waved his hands as he ell =
tered the room.
As soon 81 the prisoners bad taken their
sents three deputy sheriff. took up q posi-
ton behind zach chair and st the same mo-
ment about fifty officers formed barrcade
between the prisoners row and all means of
exit. The jury then filed into the room ant
the roll was called. 10 response to the
question OF the cerk OF the court as to
whether be and his colleagues bad agreed
on verdict, Foreman Carke answered
I'VE have" at the same time handing fold
ed paper to the clerk. In another moment
the voice of the clerk, clear aud distinct,
rang out on the air:
I'VE End the defendant, John f. Beegs,
not guilty as charged in the indictment"
There was a buzz in the court room while
the blood rushed to the face OF the prisoner,
and in second it was of q carmne hue,
and his entire frame shook like that of
man afflicted with The palsy. Again the
voice OF he clerk rang OUT
We fad the defendant, John K1p29,
guilty of mauslaugh!er, and fix Bis penalty
at three years in the penitentiary."
The little comedian simply smiled and
showed his teeth. To all appearances the
verdict at the moment suited him as we'll as
an acquital.
There WAS pause before the clerk re
sumed. The eyes of Coughin, Burke and
O'SullvaH were riveted Oh the reader,
while each man was making snperhuman
effort to control his feelings. For the
third time the clerk cleared his throat and
proceeded
1--WE find the prisoners, Daniel Cougniin,
Murtin Burke, and Patrick O'Suiiivau,
guilty Of murder, as charged in the indct.
ment, and fix their punishment at imprison-
ment in the peuitentiary for the term Of
their natural lives"
The suspense of the auditors found vent
in half Suppressed shout, and the de-
meanor of the three men passed unnoticed.
Over 1000 people were coRgregated on
the Outside Of the Jail, and ths verdict was
received with satisfaction by the large ma.
jority.
Attorney Forrest. in behalf of Coughlin,
Burke, O'Sullivan. and Kunza, immediate
~ made motion for new trial.
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By the new organization of the Senate

By the new organization of the Senate
committees, Mr.. Barbour is member OF tue
following committees: District oil umbia,
Education and Labor, Interstate Commerce,
Pensions. Potomac Flais, and Expenditures
in the Executive Departments; ard MT.
Daniel. of the committees on Public Build
ings and Grounds, Indian Affairs, Revision
of the Laws, and @ 1adro Centennial.
The Senate, in executive session yesier-
day, considered proposition to move the
u. Supreme Court and the offices Thereon
10 the Butler building, to which bulidln
shall also be moved the Judiciary Depart
ment.
ne Bureau to consoi1oate Inc ohioeo "
and gauger in the internal revenue service, anu
rbereby to make great saving IN the salary
account. .o.
cd his speech at the Davis memorial servlc's IN
Alexandria last Friday night made one mistake,
repnrtiug him as saying that monuments scarcely
survive over twenty gears, when the Wold he Ut
tered was centuries.
Col. Hatch member Of the House from Mis-
souri, who was the Confederate commissioner Tor
the exchange of prisoners during the war, IN rel
erence to the old republican SANDERS which nave
been revived by the death of Mr. Davis, respecting
the t eatment of federal prisoners in the South,
say that not only at Andersonville, bat before
the prisoners we're taken there from Belle Isle,
the inability of the Confederate government to
supply them with proper food and medicine was
officially reported to the u s. authorities, ara
that upon one occasion he sent letter 10 tho g
authorities asking them TO name their own
terms for the exchange of prisoners, and making q
plain statement of the suerings and privati ins to
which those prisoner, were subjected by reason OF
the straitened circumstances of the Confedera;y,
which was hardly able to take care Of its own
troops. To this letter, he says, he received no
RESPONSE The Confederate States, he says, were
always not only willing but extremely so iciious
for the exchange of prisoners, bat the United
States never wero.
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T. sPIcER CURLETT The House of Dele.
gates yesterday ordered to its engrossment
bill removing the political disabili les of
Mr.. II. Spicer Curlett, of Lancaster county,
acquired under the anti-dueliDg act. Speak
or b. II. Cardwell in explaining the bill
said that Mr. Curlett bad challenged an
other gentleman to>meet him 10 mortal
combat on the dueling field. On reaching
this SPOT selected for the COZ ict the duelisls
agreed to settle their differences by a fist
and skull contest, aud. said Mr. Card~ep,
mo blood was spilt." At thu time of the
occurrence Mr.. CurlettS was the Common.
wealth's attorney for Lancaster county.