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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27
South and West.

KLEINHAUs g. SIMoSsoN's mammoth
clothing house in Louisville, KY, was des-
troyed by fire, causing loss Of s4S6,000.
EMANUEL GAsKINs, colored, has been
banged at Camden, S. c., for murder.
WABASH, NEB., has been almost totally
wiped out by fire Thieves started the fire
to conceal their depredations.
MRS C. A. HANSON and her brother-in-
law, Jacob Hanson. Of Brunswick, Mimi.
were killed by William Noting, neighbor
with whom Hanson had been drinking.
WILLIAM GEssSER, a glassmaker. mur-
dered his wife, who refused to live with him,
and then committed suicide at Fostoria,
Ohio.
MRS. THOMAS LOVE- of Fredericksburg,
Va, was accidentally killed by her husband
while he was cleaning revolver. He was
arrested.
The excitement over the gold fields Of
Lower California has somewhat SubSided.
A wholesale firm Of San Francisco has re-
ceived a telegram from their foreman, who
has Just returned from the mining district,
which says: "Tell everybody to investigate.
The mines are SELL"
THE Chicago division of the Wabash Rail-
road was sold for S. 500, 900 to the purchas.
ing committee at Springfield, Ill
THE Indianapolis Legislature adjourned
sine die.
A BOILER, thirty feet long, in the forging
department of the Cleveland (Ohio, Rolling
Mills, exploded killing James Barr and
Thomas Dorsey and injuring eleven others.
The North Carolina Legislature, which
adjourned the other day, made provision for
more fully pensioning Confederate veterans
and needy widows of Confederates, tax Of
three cents on each hundred dollars worth
Of property and nine cents on the poll being
levied for the purpose.
JOHN A. CAMPBELL, ex-Justice Of the Su-
preme Court Of the United States and As
sistant Confederate Secretary Of War, died
a few days ago at his home in Baltimore,
aged seventy -eight years. His death was
the end of long ILLNESS resulting from old
age.
AT Des Moines, Iowa, the women voters
elected all their candidates for school direc-
tors by large majorities over those of the
political parties.
THE Supreme Court of West Virginia has
decided in the Goff- Wilson Gubernatorial
mandamus case that Governor Wilson is
entitled to hold over until such time as the
contest between Fleming and Golf shall have
been settled.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27
THE MONITOR INVENTOR.
Death of John Ericsson at a Ripe
Old Age in New York.

Death of John Ericsson at a Ripe
Old Age in New York.
John Ericsson, inventor, engineer and
builder Of the celebrated iron clad Monitor,
died the other day in New York in his eighty
sixth year. His end was absolutely painless.
John Ericsson was born July 81, 1903, in
Wermland, Sweden. His father was an iron
master, and his mother mine owners
daughter. At the age Of ten John coll
structed q miniature saw mill and pumping
machine, tho merits Of which attracted the
attention of Count Platen, then chief
that time the boy made rapid strides in
scientific development. When twelve
years old he entered the Swedish
naval forces as cadet of mechanical engi-
neers. At seventeen he was an ensign, and
at twenty-five he was a Lieutenant. After
constructing a flame engine of ten-horse
power he went to London to produce it. He
NOTED Captain in recognition Of his great
merit. He has not returned to his native
country since. His countrymen, however,
erected in 1867, huge granite monument,
built by unpaid labor, in acknowledgment Of
his eminent scientific services.
During his residence in England Captain
Ericsson invented about forty machines of
various kinds. He won many prizes, and bis
achievements created the greatest surprise
among the scientists Of the day.
In 1889 Ericsson came to the United States
where his fame had already preceded him.
His first great work here was to build the
Princeton. the first naval vessel that ever
carried her machinery below the water line
and beyond the reach Of hostile shot. 1t
changed the whole system of naval architec-
ture. But his next device was even greater.
1t was in the form Of turret ship, the plans
CT which were offered to Napoleon III. in
1854. 1t was upon those plans with improve
ments) that the celebrated iron clad Monitor
was constructed in 1861. Her performance
elected the admiration Of the whole civilized
world. Six others were constructed upon the
same type, and Russia. Sweden, Norway and
Turkey adopted the American turret system.
After the close of the war Ericsson devoted
his genius to devising plan for destroying
the great naval structures his energy had
built up. This invention he proposed to call
the Destroyer. through thu agency of which
species of submarine warfare was to have
been developed. Its practicability has not
yet been finally demonstrated.
The sun motor was his latest idea, its prill-
ciple being the utilization Of solar heat
through mechanical agency. Upon this in
vention hs was engaged when taken sick.
This does not represent by any means the
whole work upon which be was engaged.
Dozens of other inventions, to describe which
would fill many volumes, have employed his
time.
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Foreign.

THE British man-os-war Sultan has been
wrecked on the Island of Comino in the
Mediterranean. The captain and crew were
saved.
A PASSENGER train on the Transcaspian
Railway, in Russia, was thrown from the
track in q tunnel, owing to the removal of
rails by train wreckers The result of the
derailment was frightful, the killed and in
jured numbering fifty.
KING MENELEH, Of Shoa. has formally de-
clared war against King John, of Abysslnia.
THE greatest flood that has been known in
the west of England for O generation has
just prevailed.
A FEARFUL storm ragged in the south of
Russia for three days. Railway traffic in
Austria was stopped
The British and American consulates at
Chin-Kiang, treaty port of China, were
sacked by riotous natives.
EMPEROR DoNCi KAHN, Of Amman, has
been assassinated Bien Lanha, son of Due
Due, ten years old. was proclaimed Emperor
by the French resident, and the next day
was crowned.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have protested
against Balfour's treatment of O'Brlen, the
Irish agtator.
A CABLE dispatch from Aquaimina, West
of the American whaling bark Sea Fork, an
officer and servant were killed, and five Of
the crew burned by the explosion of whal-
bomb gun.
THE Queen has approved the appointment
of Sir Julian Pauncefote Us British Minister
to Washington.
AT a by.elect:on in tho West Riding Of
Yorkshire, England: Earl Compton, Glad
stonan, was elected to Parliament with an
increased liberal majority.
PRIVATE letters received at Berlin from
Zanzibar say that Stanley is marching
rapidly toward the east coast of Africa.
THE steamer Remus, which had a Spanish
military expedition on board, has been lost.
Tile vessel was wrecked OF the Philippine
Islands, Forty-two persons wore drowned
and l27 were saved.
Mr. HENRY CAMPBELL. Member of Parlia-
mcnt, the private secretary of Mr.. Parnell,
has brought suit for libel against the London
Times.
TIE Chicago and All America baseball
teams, now making a tour Of the world,
played on Remington Oval, London. The
grounds were crowded and the reception was
enthusiastic. The Prince Of Wales received
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27
A White Girl Weds n Sioux.

Miss Gertrude Britton, a seanistrcss at
the Yankton Agency, in Dakota, was
recently married to Wellington, full
blood.d Sioux Indian. The ceremony
was performed by the Few. Joseph T.
Cook, an Episcopal minister at the
agency. ,...,
young lady, of pleasing appearance.
THE Indian is said to be poor and re-
pulsive. Every possible effort was made
bv the 40 oent to dissuade the unfortunate
Young woman from her rash step. She
is at present living with Wellington in a
log hut near Greenwood Commercial
4drertisr. =
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BUILDING APPROPRIATIONS.
The Fiftieth Congress Provides s TO-.
100000 for Public Structures.

During the Fiftieth Congress nearly s1o,-
600, 900 were appropriated for public build.
ings. The appropriations for like purposes by
the Congresses Immediately preceding the
Fiftieth ranged from sG,OOl,0O0 to &c..
100000. The public building, bills intro
duced in the House alone during
the first session of the Fiftieth
Congress proposed appropriations ag-
gregating $i2,64l,0 600, and the COMMITTEES
on Public Buildings gave its sane.
ton to bills carrying appropriations
ranging from s5o,OOO up to several
millions, and aggregating SIS, ia, oO0.
Houses of Congress during tho first session,
while during the second session the aggregate
appropriation for public buildings was ABOUT
SS.000.000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27
Third DAVIS Nominations.

The President on this day sent the follow
ing nominations to the Senate:
Eugene Schuyler, Of New York, to be As
sistant Secretary Of State, vice George L.
Rives, resigned.
Walker Walker Blaine, Of Maine, to be Examiner
OF Claims for the Department Of State, vice
Francis Wharton, deceased.
Cyrus Bussey, Of New York city, to be As.
sistant Secretary Of the Interior, vice David
- L. Hawkins, resigned.
The Senate durinr the day confirmed the
following nominations:
IA, G Msiiette to be Governor of Dakota,
L. B. Richardson to be Secretary of Dakota,
Cornelius II. Hanford to be Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court of the Territory of Wash
ington, George W. Irwin to be Marshal of
the United States for Montana.
Smiley n. Chambers to be United States
Attorney for the District Of Indiana.
George S. Batcheller to be Assistant Sec
retary Of the Treasury.
Albert G.. Porter, of Indiana, to be Min
lister to Italy; John A. Enander to be Min
lister to Denmark.
Walter Blaine, of Maine, to be Examiner
OF Claims in the State Department.
The confirmation of Walter Blaine was
out of the usual order and made by unani-
nous consent.
Eugene Schuyler, who has been appointed
Assistant Secretary of State, is about forty
ssven years of age. He is generally we'll
known as an author and diplomat, and in
the last mentioned. career he has filled almost
every grade in the service. In 1861 he began
his connection with the State Department as
Consul at Moscow, and in 1859 he was
Consul at Revel. In 1870 he was made
Secretary Of Legation at st. Petersburg.
In 1876 Re occupied similar post at Con-
stantinople. Two years later he was ap-
pointed Consul at Birmingham, and in 1879
he was Consul General at Rome. He was
then appointed Diplomatic Agent and Consul
General to Roumania, and became Minister
Resident when the mission was established.
Since 1882 he has been travelling in Europe.
His contributions to literature include edi-
torial work on Websters Dictionary, "Ameri-
can Diplomacy" and the "Life of Peter the
Great"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27

the teams in the pavilion. He shook hands
with them and complimented them upon
their excellent playing. The Chicagos won
by q score Of to 4.
JAMES HARRIS & Co.'s rolling mill at st.
Johns, New Brunswick, the largest In Can
ada, has been burned. The loss is 100000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27
INAUGURATION FATALITIES.
Nine Deaths in Washington Due to
Exposure on March 18th.

Exposure on March 4th.
During the first week after the Inaugural
tion nine deaths occurred in Washington
city that were directly attributable to that
event. This is merely the local record, and
is necessarily only partial one. It does not
include the mortality among the G0), ,000
visitors or the cases of sickness which have
fatal tendencies, but have not yet culmi-
mated.
Washington is apt to show its bleak side to
visitors. 1t was very cold day when the
monument was completed, and many suf-
fered afGerward from the effects of the ex-
pos,lre. So also the unveiling of the statue
to General Thomas occurred on a very raw
day. General G. S. A. Davis caught fatal
cold on that occasion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27

The Methodist Episcopal Church now has
2,154, ,237 communicates against 2,093, $50
last year. indicating a net gain in 1883 of
over 60, 900. The value Of church property.
including parsonages, has reached the enor-
nous sum Of S97, SAG, ,515-an increase for the
year Of about 81 1926, ,01O.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27

TIE whole number of hogs packed in Gin
cinnati for tho winter season, from Novem-
Der !, 1883, to March !, 1889, was SOJ,Os2.
The preceding year the number was 30, ,59S,
showing decrease for the year Of ;0j head.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27

A PEASANT in Ekutsk. Siberia, recently
found gold in a trap pit. The discovery
caused much excitement, and the peasants
are digging everywhere.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27

ELEVEN armored vessels are now in courss
of construction by the United States, five Of
which will be completed this year and the
others in 1890 and 1891
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27

THE United States pays 100000 q year
for its weather service, Great Britain $50, 900,
Germany $56,00o. Russia $55, ,0OO, Austria
$4,000, Switzerland S60O0 France $4,000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27

The horse. power developed in the recent
trial Of the g:,nboat Yorktown exceeded by
400 that required by the contract-3OOO. This
will give the contractors bonus of S4O,OOO.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27

FORTY railroads have u.en ojccted since
January J, and all appearances indicate that
1O, 900 miles of road will be built this year.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-08-31
BRITISH INVESTMENTS.
Why John Bulls Surplus Capital Is Com
ing to the United States.

Why John Bulls Surplus Capital Is Com
ing to the United States.
The amount of money which has
within the last year or two come into
this country from England in the way
of investment is simply prodigious.
In few instances, such as the English
purchases of breweries, the opera
tons have been carried on in a
manner that has attracted public at
tention; but we should say that this
was the exception, and that in the vast
majority of cases the investments made
have been personal ones and have
been made without attracting atten-
ton except in the immediate locality.
For long time past both English cap
ital and Englishmen have gone to the
West, che one to find investments in
improved agricultural properties or in
cattle ranches and the other TO enter
into American life as farmers, cattle
raisers and sometimes in mercantile
pursuits. But of late the set of the
tide seems to have been southwark,
and, according to recent reports,
English capital and Englishmen
are to be found, one in large
amounts and the other in considerable
numbers, in Southwestern Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama. and in
other parts of that great central Sec
ton of our Southern country, which, if
climate, accessibility and natural re-
sources count for any thing, is destined
to be the manufacturing center of the
United States, this being only another
form of saying the future workshop
of the world. These foreign investors
have been drawn to this section by the
inducements held out, and by the many
opportunities of obtaining there larger
returns upon investments than can be
hoped for in the Old World. Since the
conversion of the English three per
cents under the national-debt CONVEX
sion act of 1888, those who were hold
ers of consols have been compelled to
content themselves with only "a
per cent, and as in many instances
their incomes and outgoes have
been fixed quantities, this has
implied the necessity of foregoing ac-
customed methods of life. Such in
vestors have been compelled to look
elsewhere for revenue-bearing invest
ments, and have found in the United
States industrial fields for the employ
ment of their money that they could
not find elsewhere. More than this,
there is a growing belief in England
that the United States is destined to be
the great country of the future; that
army-ridden Europe is INDUCING in
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-08-31
A Legend for Tea-Drinkers.

There is a curious old Japanese le-
gend which processes to account for the
origin of the tea plant Somewhere
about the year 519 A. D., a certain
Buddhist priest of great sanctity paid
a visit to the Celestial empire, and, in
order to devote himself entirely to the
service of God, he solemnly vowed up
on one occasion that he would not go
to sleep for the remainder of his earth
ly life, but spend his time in perpetual
meditation. Years rolled by, until at
last one sultry day, nature asserted
herself, and the poor devotee of Budd-
ha fell fast asleep. So great was his
remorse when he awoke that, in order
to preclude the possibility of a repeti-
ton of slumber, he there and then cut off
both his eyelashes and flung them on
the ground. Passing by the spot next
day, great was his establishment at be-
holding each eyelash metamOrphOsed
into a shrub and exhibiting 1.-The form
of an eyelid bordered with lashes. and
possessing the gift of hindering sleep"
From these two shrubs, concludes the
legend, sprang the tea plant. -Gentle-
mans Magazine,
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-08-31
HOW TO COOK MEATS.
ROasts Cooked in Ovens a DelusiOn and
Snare.

Roasts Cooked in Ovens a De1usion and
Snare.
Baked meat is all abOminatiOn. So
called 'roast" meat cooked in ovens is
a delusion and snare.
Roast meat is roast meat, and in Or
der to roast you must have an open
fire, before which your joint is placed
in such manner that the air circulates
freely around it.
The reason why it is Objectionable
to cook meat by baking it in an oven
unless it be big bakers Oven-is that
it is difficult, if not impossible, to keep
an ordinary oven in cooking-stove
clean and well ventilated. The sides,
roof and floor of the oven get bespat-
tered with particles of fat and spots of
gravy during the baking process, and
these particles become charred, and
thus fill the oven with ammonia and
with foul atmosphere of empyreu-
matte oils, by which terrible word the
chemists indicate the unwholesome
vapors generated through the action
of fire.
In the process of roasting before an
open fire, these empyreumatic odors
are indeed generated, whereas they are
imprisoned in the oven, and there
penetrate the meat, destroy its flavor,
and render it more or less insipid.
Meat, however, may be baked in
pies, because in this case its surface,
being protected by the crust, can not
be charred and impregnated with the
foul empyreumatic oils. Meat baked
in a pie-crust amounts in reality to a
stewing operation, the paste forming,
as it were, a stewpan with its lid.
Frequent basting is essential to sue
cessful roasting. Otherwise. the CO.
agulated surface of the meat would
crovass during the operation and al
low an escape Of the juice. The melt
ed fat poured over the meat penetrates
into every crack, and by means of the
higher temperature of the fat, the sur
face of the meat is maintained in an
impervious state. Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-08-31
A Grnat Railroad.

Not long ago Mr.. George Fl. Daniels, the
general passenger agent of the New York
Central & Hudson River Railroad, IN ex-
tending an invitation to foreigners to visit
this country, directed their attention to
the fact that the Unfted States of
America is the greatest country on
earth, peopled with sixty million OF the
most civilized and enterprising people on
the globe; that the New York Central
Railroad Is the greatest railroad on
world; that it started from the largest city
on the continent, passed through the rich
est and most prosperous region, touching
the largest cities in the interior; is the
great trunk line and direct route to that
great cataract, Niagara Falls, and that in
all respects 1t reveals more of the resources
and riches of America in less time, with
more safety and under more luxurious con-
ditiOnS than any other route There
is much in the above not only for
foreigners, who want to see this country
under favorable conditions, but for our own
restless and moving people. The New
York Central & Hudson River Railroad is
the outgroWth of a luxurious and prosper
Gus civilization and one of it's greatest en-
cheering triumphs. As is well known it
is the only line from the west to New York
that lands its passengers in that city
without ferrying them across the North
River. Its spacious and magnificent
station in the heart of the city has
been for years not only the pride of
New York, but a lasting monument to the
foresighted hberality and enterprise of that
great organizer and founder of the New
York Central & Hudson River Railroad sys-
TEN, Commodore Vanderbilt. The limited
trains of this line are the finest in the
world, and its general accommodations for
the travelling public are only known and APP
preciated by that large portion of it who
have been over the line and enjoyed them.
Detroit Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-08-31
What a Porterhouse Steak Is.

Very few people who sit down to a
good breakfast of 'porterhouse" steak
could tell, were they asked, what part
of a bullock this choice tidbit is cut
from. The ''porterhouse' is that por-
ton of the beef either side of the spine
beginning where the ribs end and ex-
tending along to where the hip bone
begins. The tenderloin should form a
part of the porterhouse. This is mar
row strip of succulent and tender flesh
extending along and protecting the in
ner sides of the spinal column. It's
high price is due to its choice quality,
and the fact that even in the largest
bullocks there are not above ten to
twelve pounds of tenderloins. The
term 'porterhouse" is of English
derivation, and it has no equi valent in
either the German or French language,
while tenderloin, on the other hand,
is known among the Germans as 'lum-
meln and "fillet," by which latter name
it is also known among the French.
The term 'porterhouse' probably
originated from the eating-house5 and
inns of England, also known as porter
and ale houses. A customary order
was: Give me a porter and steak"
and in time the name 'porterhouse"
probably was applied to the choice
pieces of steak as distinguished from
the more ordinary kinds.-Notes aud
Queries.