The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30

A new spirit of enterprise has taken
possession of the Southern people. The
material resources which they possess
in great abundance have hitherto been
neglected or only imperfectly develop
ed. They, have cotton, but have always
depended OH the people of the North
or foreign lands to manufacture it into
fabrics. They have coal and iron, but
until recently have made comparative
ly little use of them. All at once
thriving industries have sprung into
existence, and the North begins to find
in the South the most lively competi-
tor. Within three years "seventy-siX
iron futnances, fifty-two implement
factories, and about three hundred
machine-shops and founderies" have
been set to work. In the manufacture
of steel rails, locomotives, and other
railroad equipments, glass, furniture,
and carriages, the South has made as
tonishing progress. Realizing their
advantages and facilities, the Southern
people are cordially inviting Northern
capital to come in and assist in devol-
ing their resources. These are good
y
rejoice in this prosperity, and hope that
it will contribute something toward
establishing more friendly relations
between these two great sections of the
country. ~. Y Christian Adoocdte.
Henry Plummer Cheatham will be
the only negro in the Fifty-first Con-
gress. He is smart mulatto. a grad
uate of Shaw University, and teach
er by profession. He will represent
the Second District in North Carolina.
He IS thirty years old.
The Pacific Ocean covers all area Of
Il million square miles the Atlantic,
80 million square miles the Indian,
2S million square miles; the Antar-
tic 81; and the Arctic, Al million
square miles.
A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature of New York State, provi-
ding for another bridge across the
East River, to be built by private
capital. The men interested in the
movement are confident that bridge
similar to the one now in existence
could be built for less than that one,
the cost ofsteel having been materially
lessened since the erection of the pres
ent bridge, and the experience of engi-
neers has increased.
Edison, the inventor, says the yell
low-fever germ is carried by q parasite
that crawls on the ground, One Of
the bases of this assertion is the noti-
ceable fact that q line of pavement has
been noticed to stop it. He recon-
mends gasoline to kill the parasite.
The physicians, many of them, scoft'
at this but as Mr.. Edison has brought
to light many mysterious results that
have been scotfcd at, there may be a
possibility, through him, of reaching
the true cause. Very little time and
means has science yet employed in
seeking this terrible destroyer.
The Universal Peace Union of
which Alfred. H. Love is president,
and Frances. Z. Willard one OF the
vice presidents, is making its influence
felt throughout the world. President
Diaz, of Mexico, has endorsed its OBJ
ject. NJ. Herm. Molkeubocr, at Boun,
issues monthly appeal in three Ian
guages for the adoption, by schools,
OF text books upon the subjects of
peace and arbitration, while the
Young men of Mines, France, have
formed "The Association Of the
Young Friends of Peace" as an offset
to the allurements of military life.
Congrt ssman James n. Burns, Rep
resentatile from Missouri, was last
week stricken with paralysis on the
floor of the House, and died shortly
after.
New York State has S60,000,000 in
vested i'm prisons, aSylums, hospitals,
and aImshousGs. Liquor created the
need for most Of this expenditure:
In his message to the North Caroli-
M Legislature, now iH session, Cover
nor Scales says that the controverted
boundary line that lies between the
county Of Mecllenburg, (N. c. and
Sonth Carolina, remains unatGusted.
The coldrst wavo of the season
PASSED over the Northwest January II.
Nechc, Dakota, reports II degrees be-
low zero that morning; ut Morris,
Ninn., it was 80 degrees Grand
Forks, Dakota, % degrees.
Some of the richest men IN England
owe all their wealth to beer. And
some Of the poorest men owe all their
poverty to beer.