The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-26

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nous.
The influenza continues to prevail
in various parts of the country, and IL
is said 10 be worse in Old Mexico than
anywhere else in North America.
There they are dying by hundreds.
About fourteen hundred bales of cot
ton were burned at Pelzer on March
-. The cotton belonged to the Pelzer
Manufacturing company and was full
ly insured. The loss was about S75,-
OG0.
DR.. w. A. Galloway, a prominent
citizen of Jackson, Miss, and broth
er of Bishop Galloway, died recently
in that city.
Rev. w. T.. Towson, the new mis-
sionary to Japan, sent out by Bishop
Wilson with the New Orleans Chris
H0n AdUocate fund, has reached Ioko-
hama, Japan.
DR.. Tigert, Professor of Mental and
Moral Science in Vanderbilt UNIVERSE
ty will preach the Commencement
Sermon in Wotlord College in June.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi
has confirmed the verdict Of the lower
court sentencing Jake Kilrain to two
months imprisonment and a $500 fine.
Thursday Of last week the United
States Congress, bya strict party vote,
unseated Mr.. Pendleton, Democrat, of
West Virginia, and seated his cOntes-
tant, Mr.. Atkinson, Republican.
General Butler has a thorough fa-
miIiarity with the Bible, and it Is
said very few public men are able to
quote from it as freely and as accurate
ly as he does.
A curious feature of the artificial
teeth industry is the variety Of color
required for different countries. Can
ada, for instance, demands teeth of
snowy whiteness. South America
those of a yellow color, and China on
ly black teeth.
The acuteness of taste, and
and hearing in criminals has been
found by Italian observers to be below
The average. Signor Gradenigo eX-
plains the inferiority by unhygienic
living and vicious habits.
II is said that out Of 10000 Hebrews
in New York City not one is the keep
cr of liquor saloon.
We ought to establish in the United
States school of department for pub
lie men. And the first motto should
hang up over the door would be
"Don't sit Oh your spine !"-Hute
TIel0.
Take pair of shoes that has become
stiff and uncomfortable by constant
wear in the rain and apply q coat of
vasrline, rubbing it well with cloth,
and in short time the leather becomes
rs soft and pliable as when it is taken
from the shelves of the shoe dealer.
Rev. Sam Jones, in his sermon at
Tyler last Sunday, is reported as hay
ing said: "Talk about my being vul-
gar. / would lay down my life for the
virtue Of the pure women of the land,
but the round dances are more vulgar
than anything / ever said in sermon
in my life" The Banner and the
Rev. Samuel don't generally agree,
but they do with reference to the round
dance. There is no wonder that the
round dance should be coarse and vul-
gar, when it is considered that it origi-
mated in the bawdy houses of Paris
Brcnhum Banner.
The Christian Register, Boston, says
of the negro question, "In discussing
this question, the North need not
arrogate to itself any superior virtue.
Instead of sending the negroes to At
rica, our Southern brethren might try
the experiment of moving them to the
North. No sin of violence and blood
shed against the negro in the South
have exceeded the atrocity OF those
enacted in New York City twenty-five
years ago. Great advance has been
made in the North since that time.
Political rights and educational advan-
tagcs are accorded to the negro; but
social distinctions have not been brok-
en- down."
In Sing Sing there are fifteen-hun-
men. Female crimi-
nails arc not sent to that prison.
There are among them about one hun
drrd men who have in the past been
connected with Protestant churches as
members. There are at least fifty men
who have confessed their sinfulness,
and have profcssed to find Gods favor,
and, SO far us the chaplain can discov-
or, alc leading exemplary lives in the
prison-not, we should suppose, an
easy thing to do. There are many 9TH
crs who in conversation with him show
that they arc not unimprcssible by
truth.
OF all those MISUNDERSTANDING
teen men, .fhy.fcc per cent. are nonli-
inally ROnlup (uthOtics, and .t0rtyJfce
per cent. nominally Irotestdnts. OF
The whole number, ninety per cent.
went to Sunday-school when boys.
NinCy per cent. 1Oc1,t to Suntldy-schOot! i
God help the supelintendents and
teachers to consider this God help
those parents who have thrown off pa
rental instruction upon the Sunday
school to consider it!-NeaU York
Christian AorOcate.