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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13
Petrifed Man.

Our Australian cousins have gotta novel
sensation in the form of petrified man,
and it is clear that they place great store
by the new acquisition. The remains Of
a. person long deceased, would not, as a
rule, fetch any very eztravagant sum IN
the market; but it is evident that this
particular specimen of the genus homo
possesses an exceptionally high value IN
the ewes of his Australian discoverers. A
man who has been literally turned to
stone-a real human being, not mere
carved or sculptured statue, whose body
and limbs, nevertheless consist IN every
part of solid rock-nay not be entitled
to be called man of the stone age, yet
he is a curiosity of sufficient interest to
make the fortune of any Snowman who
may get possession o: him. Hence it is
that the first public appearance OF the
stone man is in the. law courts OF the
capital of New South Wales. This petrl-
fed fellow creature begun to find work
for the lawyers from the moment Of his
discovery. Meanwhile ne has been ex-
hibited to the public by two showmen,
who were accused of being in unlawful
possession of this fossilized specimen OF
prehistoric man. The case has at length
been settled in favor of the defendants,
who will, therefore, be able to continue
their exhibition, which is understood to
be as good as a gold mine to the lucky
showmcn. No doubt the ''petrltled man
will eventually turn up in London, and
perhaps Mr.. Barnum may make up MS
mind to add this latest anthropolog1cal
curiosity to the attractions OF the new
museum now on its way to London
L0udOn Standard.
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ATE TWO MEN.
A Revolving Tale Of Cannibalism a

A Revolving Tale Of Cannibalism at
~ sags. sxags.s,HlSE' Sea.
Carl Graves, fireman, and Ludwig Loder,
caman, two survivors Of the crew Of the
tcamship Earnmoor, who have reached Bal
tilnore, tell story, horrible in its details, Of
the way they sustained life by cannibalisn
for days. Loder said:
1.-THE only food we had for the first fifteen
days in the boat was flying fish and few
raw small seabirds divided among eleven
men. On the sixteenth day out William Da.
vis, q seaman, caught me by the throat and
made dash at my head with a knife. He
cut me on the right cheek, the scar from
which still remains as you will see.
''He was told to attack me by August
Plagge, fireman, When Davis began to cut
me some of my companions caught him, but
others shouted: Kill him! kill him! We want
something to eat-we are starvingp 1t seems
that Plagge, Davis and others in one end OF
the boat had decided that 1 should die, as,
being pretty fet looked inviting. Plagge
was placed on watch that night, bat he was
missing next morning. No one saw him &C
overheard.
'On the seventeenth day William Robin.
son lay down to sleep When they tried to
call him they found him dead. 1t was deter
mined to eat his flesh, and William Wright,
the cook, was ordered to carve the body"
Loder continuing, told how the flesh of thu
dead seamen was partaken of by the rest o:
the crew. and how Third Engineer Hunt, who
died two days after Robinson's death, was
also cut up for food.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

The round house and machine and repair
shops of the Pittsburg and Castle Shannon
Railway, at Castle Shannon, Penn, have
been burned
THE Worlds Fair subscription books were
opened in New York city and $3.50 900 was
subscribed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, the New
York Central and the Wagner Palace Car
Company.
JESSIE TRUITT and Maggie Camack, ages
respectively twenty-five and twenty-five
years of South Chester borough, Penn,
were run over by railroad train and killed
MAMIE. the three-year-old daughter of
Henry Matthews, of Orange, N. j., was
burned to death by her clothing catching
fire from the stove.
THE Protestant Episcopal General Conven-
tion, at New York city adjourned after taking .s
action on the race problem and passing the
proportionete representation question on to
the convention OF 1892.
THREE THOUSAND delegates attended the
Christian Endeavor Union Of Connecticut, at
New Haven.
FIRE destroyed much of the business por-
tion of Port Leyden, N. Y, entailing loss
of S115,000.
The National Association of Collegiate
Ai9Rn1 \! Y! began its annual session at Buffalo,
JOSEPH S. BoNNEY, aged sixtytwo years,
a well-known inventor, who for thirty years
had lived in Lawrence, Mass, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the heart.
THE Rev Dr. Talmage preached his fare
well sermon at the Academy of Music,
Brooklyn, before setting out for the Holy
Land.
Boston held its centennial of Washing
tons visit to that city in 1889 and inaugura-
ted movement to restore the grave of Mary
Washington.
The principal portion of the town of Ston-
oboro, Penn, has been destroyed by fire.
The loss is s150,0O0
A FAST freight train jumped the track at
Railway, N. j. Three men received fatal
injuries.
CALEB DINsMoRE, of Ciaremont, n. H.,
aged fifteen, committed suicide by placing
the muzzle of a gun to one of his eyes and
firing the gun with cane.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Remember impertinence isn't wit, any
more than insolence is brilliancy.
If young men will not believe in them.
selves, no man or woman can believe in
them.
If you haven't the moral courage to
laugh at sneerers, then you are another
of natures mistakes.
If you learn that people say spiteful,
wicked things about you, and untruthful
things at that, be silent.
Don't talk about what you are ''go.
ing" to do; then, if you fail to accom-
plish it, nobody will know.
Do not be afraid to 60 near your enc.
my. The nearer you get to a kicking
horse the less damage will result to your
person.
Treat ell men and women considerably
and you will be surprised at the divi-
dends that will come to you daily and
yearly.
The man who does generous act and
lets the world into the secret shows the
world peach after rubbing the bloom
from it.
Cultivate a cheerful frame of mind and
the mind will mold the face and the
tongue and the voice into something ir.
resistible.
If you do good piece of work in fl
nance, journalism, politics, art, music,
or literature, do not spoil it By volunta-
rily speaking of it complacently; and, on
the other hand, do not speak of it dis
paragingly.
As there are mountebanks for the
natural body, so are there mountebanks
for the polite body; men that perhaps
have been lucky in two or three expert
ments, but want the grounds of science,
and therefore cannot hold out.
No man is a communist after he has
property of his own. Those people who
want things divided even, have nothing
to divide. The anarchists who would
blow the world up with dynamite, would
have first to steal the dynamite.
A person using word possessing two
meanings, can dodge either, as circum'
stances occur; but word can only have
one true meaning, and therefore words
are given two meanings, to give false
hood the appearance of being the truth.
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LATER NEWS.

THE Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, accompan.
led by his wife and daughter, left for the
Holy Land on the steamship City of Paris.
The steamer will carry him to Liverpool;
after short stay there, the reverend gentle
man will take steamer up the Medlterra-
mean.
THE steamers Cleopatra and Crystal Wave
we're sunk in a collision off the Delaware
Capes.
The Indiana State Board of Health has re.
ceived information that hog cholera is preVa-
lent in the northern and northwestern coun-
ties of the State.
ONE of the large boilers of the Bellair blast
furnaces at Beleir, Ohio, exploded with ter
rible force, cracking two other boilers in the
main battery and wrecking the boiler-room.
The damage to the mill and adjoining prop
erty is s2OOCOO No one was injured.
REAR ADMIRAL WALKER was entertained
at dinner by his friends in Washington; and
Admiral Franklin, in the same city, gave a
dinner to the delegates to the Maritime Con-
! ference.
THE annual report of Brigader-General
Nelson A Miles, commanding the Division
of the Pacific, has been received at the War
Department.. He recommends appropria-
tions of s3OOOO,o0O for sites, plants and guns
SECRETARY BLAINE has acquitted Consul
Lewis of the particular charge made against
him by Ramon Azogue, interpreter at the
Tangier Consulate, of withholding money due
the latter.
THE London Missionary Society has re-
ceived news of the massacre by natives of
Rev. Mr.. Savage and number of native
teachers, and the crew of the society's vessel,
the Mary, in New Guinea.
IT has been announced that Mr.. Balfour,
the Irish Secretary, would introduce in Par
lament G bill providing for a large system Of
land purchase.
The railway system on the island of Ja-
maica has been sold by the Colonial Govern
ment to syndicate of American capitalists.
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IRISH Nationalists met in Dublin and or.
ganised the Tenants Defence League.

IRISH NationallStS met IN DuDtin ana OF.
ganised the Tenants Defence League.
PRESIDENT BARR1LLos, of Guatemala, has
ordered the execution Of seven insurrectlon-
ary leaders who were taken prisoners in the
district of the Republic, where revolution
is now in progress.
THE German police have notified Count
Dillon, the French political exile, to quit
Dieuze: otherwise they will arrest him and
expel him from Germany.
THE cotton crop of Egypt promises to ex-
ceed last years in quantity. The average
quality will probably be similar.
The Cunard steamer Cephalonia, which
sailed from Liverpool for Boston, had to put
into Holyhead on account Of an explosion on
board, by which the second engineer and
four firemen were seriously injured.
PRINCE FRANCIS HATZFELDT has been
married to Miss Clara Huntington, daughter
If C. P. Huntington, the American railroad d
inagnate, in the Brompton Oratory at Lon
! don by Bishop Emmans.
In a railway accident near Agra, in India,
fifteen persons were killed and forty injured
THE British ship Bolan, from Calcutta for
Liverpool. hes foundered at sea. Thirty
three lives were lost.
THE General Transatlantic Line steamer
Vile de Brest burst her boiler in Tunis Bay.
Five persons were killed by the explosion.
FIVE THOUSAND miners employed in the col
leries in Barinage, Belgium, went on strike.
HERR GoscHE professor Of literature in
the University of Halle, Germany, has COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat with
razor.
PRESIDENT BARILLIAS, of Guatemala, IS
reported to have killed twenty-fo OF the
leaders of the recent revolution In that
State. They are said to have been supplied
With arms from Mexico and New York.
THE balance of the profit on the receipts
of the Paris Exhibition, amounting to about
sS1O, 900, is to be divided between the State
and the city Of Paris.
SIR HENRY PARKEs, Premier of New South
Wales, in speech at Sidney proposed
federation of all the Australian colonies.
PRINCESS SOPHIE of Prussia and the
Crown Prince of Greece were married at
Athens.
ACAyAD1AN Government organ has an
nounced that proclamation of the Weldon
Extradition Act is deferred until the Unlted
States Senate takes action on new British
Extradition Treaty.
THE United States ship Mohican, wnlch ar
rived at Honolulu from Callao, received or
ders to proceed to Samoa to reinforce the
Adams which is there now.
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a gilt spade. The top of the iron part of the
spade, as well as the handle, was covered
with blue plush Among the ministers who
bot. the Rev. DR.. Ingersoll, the Rev. John
D. Wells, and the Rev. DR.. Terhune. DR.:
Talmage made an address, i'll the course of
which he said: o..
"We put our church here because it is as
near as we can get to the centre OF our con,
gregation. We were central when we planted
our former church where it was, but Brook
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13

O.n Lust 60 to the coautfy to mo
people who are constantly enough IN
the midst Of the sights and sounds Of
the opening year to take cognizance oi
he order Of that grand procession,
with March blowing his trumpet at
the head of it, and April following
with her green Aar, and the rest COM
inc in their turn, till February brings
nm the rear with its white banner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

WALT WHITMAN, the poet, is reduced to a
wheel chair.
PRINCE BISMARCK has been ordered to take
. physical and mental rest.
Mas. FRANK LESLIE wears black leather
boots with tips and laces Of silver.
PRESIDENT CARNoT Of France, is making
arrangements for visit to Algeria.
LORD TENNYsoN is hard at work on new
$1,000 poem for one of the English maya
zines.
b THE King Of Bavaria receives an income
of 100000 a year from the profits of a
brewery.
LAFcADIo HEARN, the brilliant New Or
leans writer, has Greek mother and Brit
ish father
TIE new crown being made for the En-
press of Germany will contain 1900 diamonds
and eleven large pearls
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have real estate
investments in New York city which pay
her handsome income.
THE mother of Bayard Taylor recently
celebrated her eightietn birthday. She lives
at Kennett Square, Penn.
SIR FREDERICK YOUNG, the English scien
tist, at the age Of seventy, has just finished q
trip of 16, 600 miles through Africa.
A MARBLE statue of the Princess of Wales,
by French sculptor, is to be executed for
erection at Copenhagen, Denmark.
TIE efforts which are making to induce
Oliver Wendell Holmes to write an auto
biography are not likely to meet with sue
cess.
HISTORIAN BANCROFT says that he feels as
well as he did sixty years ago. Horseback
riding, he asserts, is the best elixir Of
youth.
SECRETARY BALFoUR, ''the best hated
man in England" is forty-one years old
and does not look like strong man either
mentally or physically.
The Sultan of Turkey has lost great deal
of flesh of late and begins to look like an
old man. His physicians have ordered him
to drink plenty of wine.
GENERAL STUART VAN VL1ET is the old
est General of the retired list in the United
States Army. He is seventy-four years
old and served fifty-two years.
WILLIAM O'BR1EN, the Irish patriot. is
a slim, weakly built, consumptive-looking
man of four and thirty, with palid intel
lectual face and fair chin-beard.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS is a determined
looking, concentrated-mannered, polished
spoken man, with & clean-shaven upper lip
and iren gray side whisker Of the proverbial
English barrister. He is six and sixty less
Tour months.
ACTING REAR-ADNIRALJ JOHN G.. G.WALKER,
who has just been ordered to command the
Squadron of Evolutions. with the new cruiser
Chicago as his flagship, is a man of striking
appearance. He is about six feet in height,
with broad shoulders and erect FORM and
wears long side whiskers.
BRET HARTE, who has a great social as
well as literary popularity in England, is now
a handsome, ruddy, white-haired man, and
owes his popularity in measure to his mas
terry of Western slang; and that eloquence of
uneducsted, humoristic slang
DR.. TALMAGE is tall, acrobatic-
manered man Of lanky build, with palid
face framed in well-trimmed side-wniskers.
He sermopizes after delightfully."- original
fashion, and though his utterance is tri6e
disjointed, he is an excellent preacher. He
is also seven and fifty, and he is getting bald
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13
A FEUD ENDS IN A BATTLE.
Two Men Killed and Several Wound
cd in Iowa.


A feud of twenty years duration has been
settled near New Hampton, Iowa, by gen.
eral battle in which two men were killed and
several others wounded. Thomas Doud, his
two sons, Peter McKenna and number OF
other farmers met at the farm of Albert Smith
to assist him in barn raising. A feud has e1.
isted for twenty years between the Doud
and McKenna families who occupy. adj
Joining farms. All the neighbors have
taken sides one way or the other, and the
mon who met were armed to the teeth and
prepared for any emergency which might
arise. They worked together quietly until 8
o'clock in tho afternoon, when dispute
arose. Hot words passed, when without
moments warning Thomas Doud drew his re
volvcr and fired at McKenna, who was stand
ing ten feet away. McKenna was hit in the
forehead, and the top Of Lis head was blown
off. As he fell man named MulTihll,,
friend of McKenna's, shot Doud through the
lungs.
Then the battle became general, A posse
of officers was sent out from New Hampton,
and Douds two sons and Mulvihil wcre
brought into the town and locked up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13

LONDON has eighty one hospitals and
fifty dispeasar;es supported by volun-
tary contributions. Last Eear l,o3S'-
coo outside patients we.s Treated at
the dispensa,ies and oat-service de-
partment of the hospitals. One in
every four of the inhabitants of Lon
don receives gratuitous MEDICAL traat'
ment vixen i'll.
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RAILROAD COLLISION.
Three Persons Killed and Four In.
.jured.

Norfoll, and Western east bound passenger
train No. 2. which left Roanoke, Va, fifteen
minutes late was run into by west bound
freight train east OF Bufordsville, wreckinG
the freight engine and five cars and the pas
seneer engine, baggage, mail and express
cars. Thousands of dollars worth of canned
goods were scattered in every direction.
Three men were killed and four injured.
The collision was caused by the freight men
mlstaking the figure 20 o'clock for 40
On their order. They should have side
tracked their train at the station east OF Blu
lords
A colored man who was returning from
other and sigraicd them. The passenger
train had nearly stopped, but the freight
dashed into it ut the rate of thirty miles an
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13
BIG CAPTURE OF TRAMPS.
Thirty Sent to Jail in Twenty-four
Hours

In twertr-fGur hours officers arrested
ahc;... unirty traalps between Reading and
Lebanon, Penn, and they were all sent to
iails III those two cities and Harrisburg. For
months past the Lebanon Valley has been
ovcrrun with tramps, and many crimes have
been committed. houses and stores have been
burglarized. highway robheries committed.
women inSulted and abused and houses and
barns burned. Stolen goods in large quanti-
ties were found i'll possession OF the prison
ers, some of which have been identified by
merchants as their property. Evidence is
being gathered which is expected to send
some Of them to prison for lorg terms.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13
DANGEROUS DYNAMITE.

One Person Killed, Five Injured and
Many Houses Destroyed.
A workman named Chartrand, employed
with number of others in making drain
on Panthalion street. Montreal, lighted
fire in forge close to several primed dyna-
mite cartridges which were being used by
the contractors who had charge of the work
for blasting purposes. The cartridges ex,
ploded, instantly killing Chartrand, aged
twenty-one, seriously injuring five other per
sons, and badly damaging many houses IN
the neighborhood. The wounded are MRS.
Philippe Leblanc, and Mrs. A. Bilodian.
Chartrand leaves widow and two children.
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lyn moved on and moved up and moved
out.n
Treasurer John Wood said it would be one
of the largest and most imposing churches in
the world. The regular seating capacity would
be more than 5000, and by throwing open the
Sunday-school rooms there would be accom-
mediation for 1000 more. The insurance com,
panies affected by the late fire have settled
with the trustees for s115,000, which will
about pay for the ground for the new build
ing.
The building that was burned down was
dedicated February %. 1874, and was known
as the largest Protestant church in America.
Since then other large churches have been
erected, but now it is very probable that the
new church will be the largest and most
beautiful in the country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13

TIE new United States cruiser, which VIII
ha constructed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
will be limited in cost to 81, 100000 Before any
work is done in the ship proper model VIII
be made on the scale of q quarter of an inch 70
the foot. This model will be 1919 feet long ana
peyfect in every detail. From it the schcu'
rIsr of tha r:,atarials will! hs mads.
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Foreign.

THE special commission to inquire into the
charges made by the London Times against
Charles Parnell and other members of the
Irish National Party in Parliament has re-
sumed its session in London.
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THERE is c. village in Tippecanoe
County, Ind, that rejoices in the name
ofB. This is the shortest name IN the
United States, and, of course, ss short
as any in the wo-l. ..
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THE Bank of Russia has just discovered
tnat the new bills of 25 rubles put into circti-
lation only a shcrt time ago have already
been forged in very perfect way. Only eX-
perts of the Bank of Russia are able to dis
tinguisb the forged bills from the genuine.
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JAPANESE papers bring the story. that five
schoolboys hiding in coffins to fool their
teacher, in the province of Kiangan, were
suffocated. A sixth, left as q sentinel, was
then whipped to death by the teacher.
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WITH A GILT SPADE.

DR.. Talmage Breaks Ground for the
New Tabernacle.
The ceremony of breaking ground for the
new Tabernacle, to be erected in Clinton and
Greene avenues, in Brooklyn, attracted a
large number of spectators. The exercises
consisted of singing, prayer, reading the
Scriptures, and addresses. DR.. Talmage pre-
sided, and also turned over the first sod with
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-06-20

THE situation is in the hands Of the
Republicans. The scare among the
German Republicans has passed away,
and thew now favor the license system
adyoeated by the Republicans. IL took
them a little time TO believe that the
Renublican idea of q license law and
regulation was not leading up to prohl.
hilton and they now understand that
when they combat the idea of high
license they are playing into the hands
Of the prohibitlonists'-L LCommerclal
Gazette.
The above is a clean cut bid for the
saloon vote this Fall, by the leading
Republican paper of Ohio. They have
jumped squarely on the Democratic
party's plan of license, and will make a
most ablect appeal to the liquor sellers
to come up and be brothers and fellow
travellers to eternity. That Is, they will
do this, in all the cities; but in the
rural districts they will rail at sin, In
iect the bltterest inyectIves into the
bowels OF the rum power and WOO anu
coddle The prohibitIoniata,