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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
The Gold in n Gold Dollar.

Director Leach of the Mint thus
writes to the Philadelphia North
american 1.-THE amount of pure sill
yer in the standard silver dollar has
not been changed since we first began
coming. The quantity of pure gold to
was 24.75 grains, the ratio in coinage
being Is to 1. BY the Act of June 2s,
1884, the pure gold was reduced from
24.75 to 1920 grains to the dollar, the
ratio between gold and silver in coin,
age being l to l6.OO2.7 BY the Act of
January IS, 1887, the tineness of the
gold coins was increased about three
fourths of one thousandth by chang
ing from the standard of .S99225 to
800, which increased the pure gold in
a dollar from 1920 to 1922 grains, at
which it has remained up to the pres
ent time. The ratio between the two
metals in coinage was fixed by this
Act at l to 1888, at which it still re
MAINS"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
Military Drill I'm Schools.

To the Editor of the Transcript /:
Nothing was more to the point in Mrs.
Laura Ormiston Chants admirable adj
dress at Park Street Church, Sunday
evening, than what she said of the
military drill" of our school boys.
Horace Mann, William Lloyd CARR.
son, Charles Sumner and others OF
Massachusetts most honorable citizens,
denounced it, as do hosts of our men
and women to-day in private. 1t is re-
tanned simply and almost wholly by
the love of parade and show. Atthe
late convention of those interested in
physical culture in November last at
Huntington Hall, no one, save the
drill master in the Boston school, had
one word in commendation of the sys-
tenn, while Professor Sargent of the
Cambridge gymnasium for Harvard
students is decided in his opinion that
it is physically injurious to the lads
under eighteen years of age. Certain
ly on moral grounds it is not to be en-
couraged. SCHooLMAsTER.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
Rows and Tobacco.

An investigation into the matter has
shown that almost so per cent. of the
boys in the Minneapolis schools smoke
tobacco, and that the majority of the
smokers are to be found among the
boys belonging to the poorer classes.
AS was to he expected, the boys that
smoke are the worst students. No boy
can use tobacco and be anything but
dull and stupid. The growing person
cannot use tobacco without paying the
penalty in arrested physical and NEIL
tai development. TO many adults, to-
bacco in any form is poison. To the
person that has not attained his
growth, the effect of tobacco is always
Injurious, and all the more dangerous
because of its insidous effects.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

Superintendent Porter, Of the Cen
sus Bureau, states that the population
of the United States is 81 100000. The
complete official returns will all be in
within thirty days. The population OF
the United States by the census of 1880
was 5O,l55, ,7S3. The population of St.
Louis is estimated by the local super
visor at little over $4,000, though
the city journals are unanimous in de-
claring this far beneath the true figure,
which they put as high as 475,OOO.
Great dissatisfaction exists in most of
the larger cities with the manner in
which the census has been taken,
while in the South the assertion is
made that the colored population has
been Systematically overlooked, that
the representation in Congress may
thereby he reduced. The announce
ment is made that the Minneapolis
parties engaged Ill an attempt at fraud
on the census will he vigorously prose.
cuted in the United States Courts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

A dangerous two dollar counterfeit
bill is in wide circulation. The fol-
lowing may enable persons to protect
themselves. New York City is beliey-
ed to be the headquarters of the coun-
terfeiters
The bill is an imitation of the two
dollar silver certificate. 1t purports to
be of Department series 1856, check
letter B, 1868. The Hancock portrait
is poorly executed, and the color of the
seal is bright brick red instead of the
dark red of the genuine bill. 1t may
also be detected by the fact that the
"i" in "Register" is not dotted, nor is
the ct" in Estates" crossed.
BY noting these characteristics
tradesmen may save themselves from
loss.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
The Universal Peace Congress open
ed in London July IA.


Rev. p. F. w. Stamey, North Carolina Con-
ference. died at High Point, n. c., July 3, 1880.
Rev. 4. NJ. Jones, d. D.. Greensboro, N. c.,
died June 80, 1890, aged II.
Gen. Clinton Il. Fisk, u prominent Method
lst, and all ardent prOhibitionist, died in New
York City, July 10, 1890, aged 81.
Gen. John c. Fremont, New York City,
died July II, 1880.
Mr. and Mrs. W. ]. Rogers, Darlington. S.
c., have been called TO bury their baby daugh-
ter Oneate. She died June Is. 1890, aged IL
months and days. "Of such is the Kingdom
of Cod"
Prof. Samuel Black, aeronaut, Beardstown
ILL.,, fell from balloon four hundred feet In
the air and was killed.
Mr. Will kenney, son of Mr.. Robert Ken.
ney, Edgeiield county, died in Augusta, Ga.
July 6, 1890, aged y.
Mrs Georgia Hulse Mcleod, well known fol
her literary ability and activity in the tenn
ance cause. died recently in Baltimore.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
War Taxes.

The Rev. J. Bramley, preaching on
Christmas Day on "Peace and War;"
said in Europe to-day, among profess
edly civilized and godly people, there
were over seventeen millions of train
ed warriors. The European peoples
were directly taxed to maintain armies
and navies to the tune of Gl55, 900, 900
a year, the present national debts OF
Europe (war debts, really, being "a,
500. 900, 900. In the twenty-five years
ending with 1880, there were killed in
battle, or died of wounds aud disease
from wars of civilized nations, 2,l8S,-
600 persons. 1t was an ascertained fact
that 10000 skeletons of Russian and
Turkish soldiers were shipped to Eng
land in 1881 as bones and bone-dust fol
manure !-Christidn World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
A Curious Coincidence.

READING, July II hope that
God will paralyze me if took that SIC
gold piece" SO swore Detective Will
liam Y. Lyons, of this city, on the wit
ness stand several weeks ago. Lyons
was on trial charged with taking Sl(
from a poor widow so that ne would
withdraw the charge he had made
against Eer SOD. Lyons was acquitted
To-day he appeared on the street his
power of speech entirely paralyzed
He was not able to articulate and he
was even unable to talk in whisper
in order to make himself understood
philadelphia Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

In the recent smash up-collision-
on the Port Royal and Western Caro-
lima railroad among those who were
seriously injured was Express Messen-
ger Badger Bowen, son of John H.
Bowen of Laurens and nephew of j.
J. Crosswell, Agentat Columbia of the
Southern Express Company. Itseems
a wonder that Mr.. Bowen was not kill
ed. Though seriously injured it is
hoped that he may survive and get
well.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
Losses In the Civil War.

Investigations recently made in the
| War Department at Washington show
that the late Civil War was relatively
| the most sanguinary on record.
Though the Union and Confederate re-
turns are not altogether exact, the War
Office is able to give close approx
mate estimate of the killed, wounded,
and missing in the Union forces. Ac-
cording to the statistics, 297, 1925 Union
soldiers lie buried in the various ma
tional cemeteries. Including losses OF
which no account can be taken, the
war cost the North 100000 lives, or
more than one in nine of all those who
entered the service. The two opposing
armies met in over 1000 skirmishes and
battles. In 148 of these conflicts the
loss on the Union side was upwards of
500 men, and in at least ten battles
more than 10000 men were reported
lost on each side. The combined loss
es of the Union and Confederate forces
in killed, wounded and missing in the
following engagements were: Shiloh,
"a, 600; Antietam, $4,000; Stone River,
81, 900; Charlottesville, 2S,0OO; Get
tysburg, $4,000; Chickamauga, $4,000
McClellan's peninsula campaign, 50,
900; Grants peninsula campaign, $780,
600 and Sherman's campaign, 125, 900.
Waterloo was one of the most desper-
ate and bloody fields chronicled in Eu-
ropean history, yet Wellington's cas-
ualties were less than II per cent,
while, during the Civil War, the loss
at Murfreesborough, Atlanta, Chicka-
mauga, Gettysburg, and other places,
frequently reached and sometimes eX-
ceeded 40 per cent, and the average of
killed and wounded on one side or the
other was 80 per cent. If the figures
of the Confederate losses could be ac-
curately ascertained, the total deaths
in the late war would probably surpass
10000
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

The damage by fire in Brunswick,
Ga, July l3, is estimated at 100000.
The same day fire in Philadelphia
destroyed property to the amount of
100000. The same day cyclore
struck st. Paul, Minn., and caused
great loss of life in its course which
was about three miles and a half long.
About dark the same day steamboat,
"Sea Wing" carrying $50 or 200 per-
sons on Lake Pepper was caught in
the cyclone and turned bottom up
ward, in the water. What number of
the passengers We're saved is not given.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

The school teachers of Spain are an
from poverty. A teacher at Velez-
Malaga literally starved to death,
though the community owed him
$500.
And Spain is not the only place
where school teachers and others work
for nothing. Right here III America,
South Carolina, Columbia, honest
tradesmen and shop keepers are swim
died out of their goods by people who
"can't pay" rather who wont pay
and yet who dress well, keep a fine ta'
BILE, ride about and are altogether con,
sidered as quite fine ladies and gentle,
men, if we may judge by the defer
ence shown to them by "the world al
large" Some tradesmen are snobbish
however, and had rather have on theil
books certain names as debtors, and tC
remain as debtors, than to get the
ready money of common people,
In this case honors are even. On the
other hand shop-keepers are usually
ready to favor all who ask it, hoping
and very justly, to receive something
in return. How often is he disap
pointed, and how hard to be crushed
to the wall while his debtors enjoy his
own possessions.
This question of dishonesty in mon
ey matters deserves attention. People
who live off the credulity and faith o
trus!ful tradesmen are in no way diff
ferent in morals from the poor wretch
that is sent to the penitentiary fol
stealing his neighbours pig or sheep
yet the first may walk the streets with
proud head, receiving the ready bow
of "the world" while the latter is th'
unhappy object of that sane worlds
scorn. Honesty.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

Fargo, North Dakota, is reported as
wiped out by a storm, also that Moore
head, Minn., is damaged. Railroad
men who reached st. Paul from that
vicinity, July 7, say that terrific
storm prevailed and that several trains
were blown from the tracks. All
wires to Fargo arc down and west of
Fargo miles of wires and poles are
PROSTATE. 1t is said several were kill
ed and many wounded.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

The public debt has decreased $50,
100000 since the first of sixth month.
The total decrease for the fiscal year
which ended on the 30th ult. is SS7,
100000, against Sll4,0O0,OOO the pre-,
vious fiscal year.
That is all honest business man who
declined to sell a lady washpot be-
cause, as he supposed, by some means
or other, one leg had got broken off OF
every one he had. He would not de
fraud lady by selling her pot with
only three legs. He was new in that
| line of business. Pittsbuyg Gazette.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
Louisiana on the Block

Over the veto of the Governor the
house of representatives passed the
lottery bill 6S to 81. What specta-
Gle! legislature selling the State to
an organized gang of swindlers with
two Confederate generals-Beauregard
and Early-in command.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
THE POLITICAL FEATURE.
Some Of the Candidates Present their
Claims for Onice--.Mr. A. +. Call
vert. as Chairman. Introduces the
Sneakers.

Speakers.
Mr.. A. F. Calvert, q leading citizen of the
community in which he lives, was called up
on to preside as Chairman Of the meeting.
In appropriate and fitting words he intro
duced each speaker in a most pleasant man.
ner, and made each think that he was a spe.
clal tiivorite with the Chairman.
Speech Of Col. J. Il. Robertson.
COLI r. Robertson, candidate for the House
of Representatives.. was first introduced,
when he said:
Ladies' and Gentlemen 1t is said that his
tory repeats itself, and that the habits and
customs of a people live long after they have
passed away. And so IL Is with this people.
You have assembled 10 day In this social
gathering, as II neighborhoOd, to cultivate the
friendly relations that have always existed
among this people, and II affords me pleasure
to be with you. i love to cultivate kindly re-
latOnS myself, because of the pleasure deriv'
cd theretrom, hut l come before you also tC
shake hands with you, and to solicit your fa
yorS at the ballot box.
| In the days that are past, this community
was proverbial for hospitality and generosity
Some of the most pleasant days of my life
were spent in This nci@hbOrho0d. ! knew tho
older members of the community, but many
| of you have grown up since | have beer
much with you. AS q consequence | nm
stranger to some of you. But always feel a
home in this section.
WITH ALL ITS EVILS IT IS WELL TO HAVE
THE CAMPAIGN.
! So much has been said and written In thi
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

A combination of wind, rain, thun.
der and lightning,-storm-cyclone-
swept over portions of Michigan, In
diana and New York, July s, destroy
ing much property in its course. Over
10 persons are reported killed.
The result of race riot in Fayette
county, Ga, July 10, was four negroes
and one white were killed; seven
white and six colored wounded.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

According to the Bradford PENN
Star "some one has learned that one
who gets large salary for preaching
the gospel, say from 5000 to S25, 200
year, is an eminent divine, while ne
who receives from $4,000 to S., 600 is
merely a divine. Anything under
So 900 and above 81 900 makes the re-
cipient clergyman, and the great
army who labor for less than 81 600 a
year are just preachers"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

Three hundred and twenty-nine
dwellings and the life of seven persons
Wassill Jervo, Russia, were destroyed
by fire July II. The fire was started
by spark from the pipe of drunken
laborer who himself was burned to
death.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

In the lottery battle in Louisiana we
see nothing said Of Generals Early and
Beauregard in command of the lottery
forces. Can it be that these veterans
in the "Lost Cause" have deserted
their accomplices in lottery swindling
and robbery? Hardly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
AFTER DINNER.

Speeches by Candidates-..Dancc by
the Young People -. Doc BOwie's
Good Heart-..A. +. Calvert Good
Chairman.
After dinner the speakers entertained the
people for time. Then the young people as
sembled in the school house for dance,
where pretty women and handsome men as
sembled In numbers.
The day was a most pleasant one, and Mr..
Doc Bowie showed that he had good heart,
and Mr.. A. +. Calvert won the plaudits Of
candidates and speakers for The very agreea-
BILE manner in which he presided over the
meeting, and gave in turn choice taffy to
each.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

ALBANY, GA, July 4.--The first
bale of new cotton has been received
here from colored tenants on a planta,
tion in Baker county, Ga.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

A fire that was reported as spreading
rapidly in Dallas: Texas, July IA, may
entail, it is said, loss of Sl,O00,000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

Henry M. Stanley was married to
Miss Dorothy Tenant in Westminster
Abbey Saturday, July II.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

Three stores and printing office ut
Gaffney, 5. c., were destroyed by fire,
July 8, night.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

Pope Leo XIII is reported as dan
gerously ill.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
Speech OF Senator Hemphill, Candi
date for Reelection.

Gen. II. r. Hcmphill said:
The gentlemen who have ust addresses
YOU have covered the ground pretty much,
nnd rs this Is Il reading public the audience Is
familiar with what is transpirinS IN the pollt-
ical world. l.,
There Is as much watchfulncss required In
preserving the fruits OF the victory OF ~ as
there was determination in securing That trl-
umph The Farmers Movement have put lor-
ward Ben I'illman to lead the great Relorm
hosts. At first there was talk about lis irreS-
ulariiy. There was nothing in the idea. NO
rule Is prescribed for those who seek olllGc.
No particular method Is recognized. The
Four Hundred have adopted the same plan;
They have an Executive Committee anu
mean to keep this movement down.
TIE LEADING PAPER AND TIE SPLIT.
The leading paper of the State speaks of q
spill in the party. IF there is, twill be the OF.
ticeholdcrs and not the eighty per cent: OF
farmers, who will bolt. They have held office
for fourteen years and 1t is very hard for them
to go back to work. 1t Is astonishing howeV-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

campaign, that It Is hard indeed to find
starting point. We have canvassed the state
since the 10th Of June, and the campaign mas
not been one that has taught much, except
crmination and recrimination. had hoped
for different sort of q campaign, but even
with its evils, think 1t Is we'll TO have cam.
the people.
The Objectionable features OF this campaign
will he eliminated in the next, so that we Will
have the benefits without the evils, that have
been forced upon us by those who oppose u.s.
The crimination and recrlmination In this
campaign has kept the people from receiving
the Information which they should have re.
ceived. and which will be assured In the fu'
ture,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23

er with what persistence they want to hold on
to their places.
1t Is said that State Treasurer out West
was always demanding an INVESTIGATION OF
his books. At last he went out OF office and
his successor came in. There was shortage
OF SS23 900 and the man who was SO anxious to
be Investigated is now undergoing punish
ment.
The "main question" now is Tillman. His
election Is an assured fact and we must give
him a Legislature that will stand by him
through thick and thin. There Is q place OF
influence now open for "eleventh hour" con-
vert.
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T be,Iave a man elected to the important Of
flee Of County Commissioner should be one OF
undoubted practical judgment; one VINO can
not be led Off the track OF reform and econo-
NV by his influential friends. tis important
that the County Commissioners should nave
some knowledge of finances as they virtually
levy the county tax, in that they make rec, rec
concentrations to the Legislature as 10 the
amount required for county purposes.
believe should be 9peIratea caT
ries ON his business, 1. e. as cheap as possible,
without detriment to the government.
I believe In erecting good, stout, suostantia
bridges, If they do cost a little more than the
ramshackling vibrating kind that span p,s
number of our streams to-day. 1t is sound
economy 10 procure the very best article IN
every thing, and 1t Is especially true OF
bridges. ,,,
The manner in which q man conducts MS
own business should be taken Into consioehra.t era.
ton In electing him to office. A man ihat
cannot manage his own business successfully
the somnys 5usineSs Tane rece,v
ed for every dollar expended, and Will see
that the road law is enforced to the letter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-23
Mr.. r. Z. Hill said

nv action In the matter of the Investigation
of our county offices, than for the gratihca.
lion of any desire for legislative honors, UT
political preferment on my part.
You all know what bitter feeling was en-
tertaned toward me at that time, ana Wnicn
wrankles in the bosoms or some uptll tnis
day on account of my report OF that ih'es'i'
You also know, or at least do, that that
feeling reached the highest degree ot lnten-
sity at Abbeville Court House, prompting
sidered it an unpardonnble sin in any one
who would dare to make puollc ahylnIng
which might tend TO reflect upon the gooo
name and character OF one OF tne seiece
was discharging sworn duty or not, whlch
it was thought might be humiliatlng 10 me.
/ was tantalized by being told to my lace
that had rendered myself the most unpopu-
lar man in Ahbeville county. and some even
went so far as to offer TO bet me that !
couldn't get 25O votes for any Office that
might run for.
These assertions being so confidently made,
began to think that possibly they rnlSht oe
true or at least that 1t might be true that a
majority OF the people Of Abbeville county
Idisapproved Of my course, ,o s,,,r,v
Feeling conscious that | had done Simply
what conceived to be my duty,-what sup
posed l was employed to do,.to MAKE IN hn
honest and an impartial Investigation OF tnc
several county offices, and report tne lacIs as
found them. / was anxious TO test the ma ~.
Ter and know for certain whether or not tue
people Of Abbeville county would enoorse u
man in the performance OF a work In the IN.
tcrcst of that people work which was no.
Of his own seeking, but which was enl9infsd
upon him by the hiGmesit rG therco9 aIen9f''s u I'll"
For that purpose, and | might say for that
purpose alone, was induced to make the
race. F.,
The result was such as to place me unaer SC .
Great an obligation TO the good people OF Ao-
6eviile county as that feel shall never be
II / had fully made up my mind, II the result
should turn out anything like those whose
ilI.wjll had incurred seemed so sanguine or
to sell out what little had, leave the State
and seek home among strangers.
While the duties of Legislator were not a,
all to my lik Ing, and while 1t resulted IN I'M; my
having 10 give up the chief business upon
which | had to rely for a support for myself
and family, still would have served out my
time had Ii not been for the fact that we or