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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
SEVEN BOYS KILLED.
They Made a Bonfire Of Cartridges
With Terrible Results.

A number Of boys were playing in the field
near Henmerstein, Prussia, formerly used
for military maneuvres, when they found
some cartridges and thrust them into bon
fire to hear them explode. The cartridges
proved more powerful than the boys ex-
pected. A frightful series of explosions oc-
CURED, and seven of the boys were so badly
injured by the flying fragments that they
died sooa afterward.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
Active officers Who Draw Pensions.

The Pension Office has furnished the Senate
with a list Of those officers Of the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps who are drawing
pensions in addition to their regular salaries
as officers on the active or retired
list. There are 1913 Of these gentle
men. most Of whom are retired from active
duty. None Of them receive less than $4,000
a year, and many of them are drawing be-
tween $4,000 and $1,000. The IS month they
have been receiving because they partici-
pated In the Mexican war.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
Killing Horses to Put Out q Fire.

a widespread and DESTRUCTIVE prairie hre
tavaged hundreds Of thousands Of acres
tlong the Little Missouri River a
lew days ago, about forty miles
Eom the main line Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad The great range of the 81. T. Cattle
Company was swept clear. The fire was put
but by means of horses which were killed for
1he purpose of using them as drags to e1tin-
tulsh the flames. The horses were split up
Ehe back and then the. carcasses were
dragged over the country by long ropes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
Lives Lost by a Cellars Collapse.

The cellar of brewery in Stoetteritz,
;Sa1ony, in which number of men were at
work eoaP5sd ees eypg saTsa wers Killed and
therest were severely injured.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
Five Austrian Villages Flooded.

The river Rhine has overhowed its banks
and inundated Varadberg, Austria. In that
district the villages of Albach, Hohenems,
Hoech, Lustenau and Fuessach have been
flooded, and number Of bridges have been
swept away. Many lives are reported lost.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
Eighty Miners Killed.

An explosion occurred in mine at Bory-
sslav, in Galicia, Austria. Eighty miners
lost their lives by sutfocaiion.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
News Among the Various De-
partments at Washington.
The San Francisco is the New
Navy's Fastest Ship.

The Secretary Of the Navy received o
telegram from Commodore Irwin, President
of the Trial Board, saying that the trial Of
the cruiser San Francisco, of Santa Barbara,
CAL, was completed, and that her mean
speed was 10 7-10 knots per hour, subject to
slight correction. This speed, which will
entitle her builders to premium of S1O0, 900,
Is isslightly in excess Of the rate made by the
Philadelphia.
The report comments upon the trial in tho
most favorable manner, and the average
speed maintained during the four hours run
was 19 and 7-10 knots, which is about one
tenth Of O knot in excess Of the recent record
Of the Philadelphia. This figure was
sent subject to correction, as there are still
some calculations to be made based on tidal
and current observations, which it Is ex-
pected. will give the San Francisco a still
higher rate Of speed and possibly an average
rate Of 1917 knots.
The board also states that the maximum
rate Of speed attained by the cruiser was
twenty and six one-hundreth knots and TINT
this rate was made during the last ten knots
Of the run, and after the engines already
had been under forced draft for over
four hours. Twenty and six one-hundreth
knots is equal to twenty-three land miles.
The horsepower developed by the engines
during the run will not be definitely known
for some time but calculations made so far
indicate that the average will not exceed
$500. Experts claim that this shows an
easy model, and that wave resistance will
be less than the Charleston, Nauiwakan, Bal
timore, Reiva, Regente, Orlando or Philadel-
phia. As the San Francisco was built en-.
tirely on plans prepared by the Navy De-
partment, 1t is regarded that these facts speak
well for the work of the department.,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
The Presidents Change of Base.

President Harrison returned to Washing
ton from Cape May, N. J. He travelled alone
from Philadelphia In President Robsrts's
private car. According to his present plans
Mr. Harrison will remain at Cres-
son, Penn, until October l. There
will bs direct telegraphic communi-
cation with the White House and Con.
gress. Executive business will be conducted
as it was done from Deer Park last summer.
The President vii be only eight hours away
by mail and he will come to the capital him
self. when it is necessary. Mrs. Harrison
and the remainder Of the family left their
Cape May cottage and went direct to Cres-
eOn,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
Governor Wolf1ey Resigns.

President Harrison has informed Cover
nor Wolhey, Of Arizona, that he does not
consider him the right man for Governor Of
that Territory, and Governor Wolaey
has rendered his resignation. One Of
the causes assigned is said to be Governor
WolAey's severe criticism of Major Powell
and his work in the reclamation and irriga-
ton Of arid lands. It is said he notoriously
criticised Major Powell and the policy Of the
Interior Department with frank freedom and
this Is the reason for his losing his official
head.
Governor Wolfey would neither affirm nor
deny the reports in regard to his rumored
removal. He remarked that in his criti-
cism Of Major Powell he understood 1t was
held that he had reflected on the Interior
Secretary Noble was more explicit. "Gov,
ernor Wolley has resigned" he said, 'tand
bis resignation has been accepted. The
President has came to the conclusion that
he is not the right man in the right
place. That he Is In word, not ca
pable Of graphing with the compli-
cations which confront Governor Of Art'
zona. There are many conflicting interests
In that Territory which require shful hand
ling, and Governor Wolfey has signally
failed to harmonic them. There are no re-
Elections whatever on Governor Wolfey as
man or ON official"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-17
Sickness in the China Squadron.

The Navy Department Is informed Of the
disposition Of vessels on the Asatic station
as follows: Omaha at Yokohama, Mono
cacy at Shanghai under repair, Swatara at
Chemuipo, Corea and Alliance at Yoko-
hama
Lieutenant Rodman, Of the Navy Depart
ment has received private letter from an
officer on the Alliance, dated Yokohama,
Japan, saying that the officers and men Of
that vessel were denied their liberty and not
allowed to go ashore. because of the preya-
lence Of cholera at Yokohama. He says also
that Mrs. Smith, wife Of Surgeon Howard
Smith, died on the steamer between Hong
Kong and Kobe, and that the Doctor him.
SELF Is In bad health. Lieutenants Norris and
Constant, Ensign Diefenbach and Lieuten.
ant Turner, Of the Marine Corps, were Ill, but
are now conTalescing.
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Bible Significance of Stones.

The Jews, it will be possibly remem
bered by many, had tradition thai
when, on the day of atonement, the
high priest asked of the Almighty for
giveness for the sins of the whole ma.
! ton, if they were forgiven, the stones
in the Trim and Thummim shone most
brightly; if the contrary, they became
black. The breast plate of the high
priest contained twelve stones, each
one of which represented the tribes of
Israel.
Coming down to a later time, there
were certain stones which symbolized
the twelve apostles. Peter is represent
ed by the jasper or garnet, Andrew by
the sapphire, James by the chalcedony,
John by the emerald, Philip by the sar-
donyx, Bartholomew by the comedian,
Matthew by the chrysolite, Thomas by
the beryl, .Thaddeus by the chryso-
prase, James the lesser by the topaz,
Simeon by the iacinth and Matthias by
the amethyst. 1t is scarcely probable
that these humble men of Galilee, fol-
lowers of the meek Nazarene, knew of
the existence of this symbolism, but it
shows in what valued estimation they
were held by those who had been led by
their teachings.
1t is not to be wondered at, since
these stones were used by divine au-
thority to beautify and adorn the Office
of the high priesthood, that something
of their virtue should be held to belong
to the holy men who taught such beau
tiful truths to humanity.-SaIly Joy
White.
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WORK THE CoNv1crs ON THE ROAD

1T would pay everywhere to con
struct the best micadamized roads,
says the New York journal of Com
merce, ''and the work should be un.
dertaken by the state where long
thoroughfares are required. We
have often suggested that it need
cost very little if the convicts and
criminals who cannot be given their
liberty because of their unrestrained
depravity were employed at the task.
This would effect a double object.
1t would build splendid roads at
small cost throughout the length
and breadth of the land, and it
would tend to restrain crime. It is
little hardship to the burglar or
highwaymen to keep him in prison
where he is well-fed and clothed, and
better cared for on the whole than
the average of honest laborers who
support themselves"
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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

According to the reapportionment
bill introduced by Mr.. Dunnell, the
house of representatives elected in
1892 will consist of 354 members.
This is an increase of twenty-four.
One member is given for 100000
population. On this basis the dis
tribution is made to the states. The
electoral vote in 1892 must change
to correspond.
Mr.. Dunnell is chairman of the
committee which will report the
electoral bill at the next session of
congress. This fact tends to give
considerable Importance to his plan.
If this basis of one member of con-
gress for 100000 people is adopted
the electoral college to be chosen in
November 1892, will number 442.
The successful candidate for the
presidency will have to receive at
least 222 votes. The electoral votes
of the states as they will be if the
Dunnel basis is adopted are given
below. The classification as Demo-
cratic and Republican is based sim
ply on the way the states went in
1855:
Republican states-Electeral vote
II, 1900.
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BRUTAL RUSSIANS

Barkentine Catherine Sudden has
arrived at Port Townsend from ST.
IBERIA. Her commander, Capt. John
Thomas, has sent to San Francisco
a description of the Russian exile
system as witnessed by him. He
describes the brutal scene which he
witnessed on Laghalien Island, a
famous Russian exile prison. A
party of exiles of all ages, heavily
manacled, were being taken to the
island. A few old men whose
strength gave out fell from exhaus-
ton. The brutal driver acting I'M
der the orders from his superior,
shot the unfortunate men and re-
moved their chains. No mercy or
discrimination was shown. Wives
saw their husbands killed before
their eyes; mothers saw their daugh-
tiers outraged and insulted. The
exiles were driven like cattle, a heavy
whip being used to urge them on.
The prison cells were filthy and the
treatment barbarous.
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THE RIVERS AND HARRoRs ELL,

The conference report on the
rivers and harbors bill has beer
adopted and it now goes to the
President for his approval. 1t is
thought in Washington that he will
approve it, but he has his own pecu-
liar views about river improvement
and may veto the bill because some
of its provisions does not meet with
his favor.
THERE'S this satisfaction, however,
that should he intervene with veto,
there is time enough for Congress to
take up the bill and pass it. This
fact is likely to have deterrent eff
feet on him and secure his sigma
ture.
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why tho Dreamers Fall.

Utopists and communists are set al
work by the belief that equal justice Is
the natural law of the world, and that
nothing keeps us out of it but the bar
rier of artificial arrangements set up by
the power and in the interest of a
class. Break down that barrier by revo-
lutionary legislation and the kingdom
of equal justice, they think, will come.
Would that it were so! Who would be
so selfish and soignorant of the deepest
source of happiness as not to vote for
the change, whatever his wealth or bis
place on the social coach might be1
Unhappily, neither equal justice nor
perfection of any kind is the law of the
world, as the world is at present toward
whatever goal we may be moving.
Health, strength, beauty, intellect,
offspring, length of days are distributed
with no more regard for justice than
are the powers of making and saving
wealth. One man is born in an age Of
barbarism, another in an age of civil
ization. No justice can be done to the
myriads who have suffered and died.
Equal justice is far indeed from being
the law of the animal kingdom. Why
is one animal the beast of prey, another
the yictiIn2 Why does an elephant live
for two centuries and an ephemeral in
sect for a few hours2 If you come to
that, why should one sentient creature
be a worm and another a mana In
earth and skies, in the whole universe,
so far as our ken reaches, imperfection
reigns
The man who in Looking Back
ward" wakes from magnetic slumber
to find the lots of all men made lust
and equal might almost as well have
awakened to find all human frames
made perfect, disease and accident ban.
ished, the animals all in state like
that of Eden, the Arctic regions bear
ing harvests and Sahara moistened With
fertilizing rain, the moon provided with
an atmosphere, and the solar system,
which at present is so full of gaps and
wrecks, symmetrically completed. So
ciety, like the frame of the individual
man, is an imperfect organism. Youmay
help and modify its growth, but you
rannot transform it by revolutionary
violence, and if you try to do this the
result will only be laceration. Profess
sOr Goodwin Smith in Forum
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99g99Ss.
A Present To Our Subscribers.

1t is with pleasure that we an
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Vegetable Intelligence.

An illustration of apparent inteIli-
gence in plants is the behavior of the
Egyptian lotus in this climate. In the
warmer countries, where it is at home,
the roots of the lotus spread IateraIly
close to the surface. In this country
the plant learned, after a single years
experience of New Jersey winter, to
prepare for this freezing season by aban-
doning its surface lateral roots in early
autumn and sending out crop of roots
lower down-so far down that they
were below the reach of frost. In this
sHy the plant kept up its life continu-
ously over winter, and when spring re-
turned the deep level roots were aban-
doned in their turn and the surface
roots once more sent out.
Then there are certain minute plants.
some of them quite microscopic, which
grow in wayside pools, and which
move continually in whorls or spirals,
without any moving influence in the
water. In the myriad forms of this mi
mute life the erudition of the pro-
foundest men of science is required to
determine whether they are animal or
vegetable in their nature. And then
who knows whether the scientists are
quite rightl The moral of the whole
matter is that life In the two forms is
identical. But what have you said
when you have said that2 Does the
fact of the identity prove that there is
spirit in matter, or that animal, human
intelligence is merely a phase of mat
teri You pay the money of your edu-
cation and take your choice of the two
horns of the dilemma-Boston Tran
script.
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Democratic states-Electoral vote

The most significant deduction to
be drawn from these figures is that
New York ceases to be the pivotal
state. The th1rty-six votes trans
ferred to the Democratic column of
1888 gives only 209. That is thir-
teen less than the number necessary
to elect Indiana and New York
added to the Democratic column
carry the presidency with two cleo
toral votes to spare.
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DALLAS will convey visitors to the
fair grounds by means of electricity
and after they are in the grounds
they will enjoy seeing the sights
from an electric railway, which is
being constructed inside of the fair
grounds inclosure. There was not a
single electric road in operation in
Dallas during the fair last year and
now her entire street railway system
is to be operated by the subtle fluid.
Verify Dallas is a driving, pushing
city, and the fair has contributed a
large per cent to the citys prosper
ity.
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.nh Wa Tlirstn.

A little girl Of seven or eight yeaA,
electrified the congregation in one Of
our large churches Sunday morning by
coOlly walking up the pulpit stairs just
before the services began and drinking
the water which had been placed there
by the sexton for the minister. Spring
Geld Homestead.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-25

RAILROADS. are not such heartless
creatures after all. Take, for in
stance, the action of the Santa Fe
toward the poverty-stricken farmers
of Oklahoma, whose entire crop was
a failure this year. The Santa Fe
has offered to supply them with
$4,000 worth of seed wheat and
wait until the crop is harvested for
their money. Could anything be
more humane, more liberal?
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FIVE hundred of the persons who
paid fifty cents fare on the New
Haven road in order to reach the
Westchester track from New York
City when that course was first
opened are now sueing the railroad
for $50 each. They claim that the
fare paid by them was excessive.
they having been charged fourteen
cents above the legal rate. Several
persons have brought individual
suits and recovered $50 in each
case.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-25

TEXAS republicans in state conven-
ton refused to indorse the Fraud
and Force election bill. 1t only de-
manded fair elections and specifically
approved the Australian ballot sys-
TEN. Even those whom it pretended
will specially be the benefciaries of
this Infamous measure find scant
virtue in it. The Fraud and Force
bill has no friend outside the Hoar-
Reed-Lodge gang at Washington
and their subservient followers.
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A FATAL wreck occurred on the
through Kansas City express TWEEN
ty-seYen miles west of st. Louis in
which one passenger was killed, ff-
teen injured, four fatally.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-25

The Republicans in Washington
dined Speaker Reed upon his re-
turn to the capital recently. If he
lost any flesh over election work
they propose to replace it and make
the sash fit again.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-25

In all probability the Force bill
would have passed the senate, had
not the shoe pinched other feet be-
sides those of the south.
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The news comes that the train
robbers, Burrows and Bunch. are
surrounded near Mississippi City by
detectives. Up to date the detec-
tiyes have succeeded in eyading cap
ture by the train robbers.
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A NApA (CAI.) paper tells of a
clergyman who has grated into a
pecan tree on his place different
varieties of stone fruit, until now he
gathers from it almonds, plums and
three kinds of peaches.
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SUPPLEMENT.

The Corpus Christi Caller is to
have new dress which it will don
on the occasion of its illustrated
trade edition Oct. the LIST.
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In 1874 the Republican party went
to the country on a record of profit
gacy and a force bill, and they were
beaten out of sight. They are 60
ing to the country with the same re-
cord in 1890. 1t is the same coun-
try and we anticipate confidently the
same results.
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SOME people are born with an I'M
happy disposition and some cult
vate one. Some are never happy ex.
cept when they stir up strife and
make everybody around them miser.
able. Some are so constituted that
they are always thinking that every,
body else is trying to wrong them,
and abuse all the rest of the world
for being mean. Such characters
are themost miserable of all creatures
on earth: their own hearts are living
mirrors in which they are continually
seeing the reflection OF their own
evil images and imagining that it is
somebody else. ~
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The present store of silver in the
United States Treasury is 900 tons
"a trife of $50 carloads. What
loot this might prove for foreign
feet the next time hostile guns
should be brought to bear on the
national Capitol
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ONE point, says Bradstreet, in
which the Tariff bill as it stands at
present will almost surely be
changed is that fixing October 1 as
the date on which the bill will go
into effect, and providing that
goods in bond deposited prior to
August must be withdrawn before
November l or come under the pro-
visions of the new law. Strong pro-
tests against the retention of these
dates have been received from New
York, the reason given for the pro-
tests being that the locking up in
the Treasury of the money re-
quired to take out the large amount
of goods now in bond would create
a demand for funds which it would
be difficult, if not impossible, to
meet, and that financial distress and
business failures would result.
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The Senate has voted to put bind.
ing Irvine on the free list, for the re-
lief of the farmers of the Republican
States in the Northwest, and at the
same time it refused to put iute
bagging on the free list for the re-
lief of the farmers in the Democratic
States of the South. This tariff bill
is for politics only.