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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
THE LABOR WORLD.

AMERICANS dislike hot mill work.
STRIKES continue throughout Europe.
SHIp-BUILDING in Scotland is retrograd.
ing.
NEW YORK grave diggers have struck for
fewer hours.
THERE is a lack of skilled dressmakers in
this country.
A STRIKE of brewery employees is imminent
in New York.
1T is estimated that there are 25, 900 work
men on strike in Germany.
OF the 10000 cotton operatives in New
England, "a, GOO are aliens.
A WORKING day in the factories in Ger
many is about twelve hours.
The regular street sweepers in Paris num-
ber 260O men and 600 women.
IT is computed that since April 1 fifty-hve
strikes have been broken in Austria.
ANDREW CARNEGIE's hotel for working.
men near Pittsburg is to cost $500, 600.
MORE than 2O0O Italian worknen were en-
plo7ed on the Forth bridge in Scotland.
The agitation among the workingmen OF
Hungary is assuming colossal proportions.
THE wage-workers in and about Cleveland,
Ohio, have S33, 600, 900 in the twelve savings
banks in that city.
EXTRAORDINARY precautions were taken
throughout Europe to guard against out
breaks on May Day.
THE working girls convention in New
York decided that all their clubs should be
made self sustaining.
For the first time in the history Of the Pal
ace Hotel, San Francisco, white have re-
placed the colored servants.
rosTMAsTER-GENERAL WANAMAKER con-
siders the proposal to make eight consecutive
hours labor days work for postoffice
clerks, etc., impracticable, and estimates
that the cost of doing this would be g, 3Is.-
727 q year.
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returned to the Treasury the money that has
been paid them on that account.

returned to the Treasury the money that has
been paid them on that account.
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE NAVY RAM
SAY issued orders for the squadron of evolu-
ton, last reported at Malta, to procesi to
Brazil for duty on the South Atlantic Sta
ton, and for Rear Admiral Gillis. now in
command of that station, to proceed home
on the flagship Richmond.
THE President made the following nomina-
tions: John S. Durham colorei), of Penn
sylvania, to be United States Consul at San
Domingo; David E. Bryant United States
District Judge for the Eastern District OF
Texas: Henry l.. Whiting, Of New York,
member of the Mississippi River Commission.
THE United States Supreme Court denied
the application for writ OF haosas corpus
demned to be electrocuted in the penitentiary
at Auburn, N. Y.
A DELEGATION of colorsd men from
Mississippi, headed by ex-senator Bruce and
Auditor Lynch, had an interview with the
President in regard to the best method OF re-
lieving the sufferers by the floods in that
State.
THE United States torpedo boat Cushing
arrived at the Washington Navy Yard, hav-
ing made the run from New York in twenty
eight and one-half hours aperformance that
beats all previous records for that trip.
MRS. JEANETTE NJ. THURBER, of New
York city, announces that she is about to
organize national conservatory of music in
Washington City, and to found memorial
music hall.
The Senate and House adjourned at once
TO attend the funeral of Senator Beck. Plain
and simple exercises were held in the Senate
Chamber, and the body was then taken to
Kentucky for burial.
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A TEXAS CYCLONE.
a Number Of People Killed and Many
Houses Demolished.


Houses Demolished.
A destructive cyclone visited Fall Creek,
in tho eastern part of Hood County, Texas
At the home of Lee Rhodes his large family
and number of visitors, about twenty per-
sons in all, were gathered. The wind blew a
granary against q chimney, which fell on the
roof crushing it in and coming down upon
the occupants Of the room, majority OF
whom were women and children.
Miss Della Carmichael, aged seventeen, was
instantly killed, as were Mary Carmichael,
aoed ten, an the little baby of Mr.. Gibbs.
Mrs. Rhodes and her twelve-year-old
daughter (Nora) were fatally hurt. Mrs.
Gibbs and her ten-year-old daughter (lillle)
were seriously injured. Other children i'll the
house We're bruised.
Many houses were blown down at Fall
CreaE and the occupants injured, some OF
them fatally.
AT the house on Robinson's ranch are the
bodies Of three of doc" Grifiin's children
and his sister.
The house of A. F. johnson was All over
crowded hospital. The patients included D
C. Mccoy, who was badly bruised about the
body ard legs His wife is in the same con-
diti0n. Lying by her side was their baby
girl, with q broken skull. The child could
hardly live.
DR.. w. January anl his wife were there
badly injured. In the next room was the
body of their four-year-old boy
Twenty-one houses were demolished anu
the occupants more or less injured. the tor,
nado was half mile wide and demolished
everything in its path:
doc" Griffin and his wi fe were carried to
the residence of John Block. They were so
badly injured that their recovery was
doubtful.
The little hamlet of Acton, Texas, on the
limo of Parker and Hood Counties, was blown
away by a tornado. Four persons were
killed and sevcn seriously wounded. Anum-
Der of houses were blown down in that
vicinity
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TEMPERANCE.
BRWAREi

Beware, my boy, Of the tempter's snare,
Beware Of his trodden way!
From the lowest den to the palace fair,
Too oftyou will trace his footsteps there,
Where he hides in secret lair,
On thy precious life to prey.
Beware my boy, beware.
Beware my boy, of the tempter's snare,
Beware Of his willy ways!
Like silken web for the foolish fly
He weaves thee net; never venture nigh,
Lest you would wreck in its meshes lie
A wreck of your youthful days,
Beware, my boy, beware
Beware, my boy, Of the tempter's snare,
Beware Of the sparkling bowl!
From its depths cometh forth bitter re-
frain,
From innocent blood Of its millions slain,
While the fire Of hell seizes heart and brain,
And mocks o'er the ruined soul.
Seware, my boy, beware!
IS. Minerva Boyce, IN Yankee Blade.
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CATTLE PRIVILEGES.

It has often been remarked that half the
care bestowed on the sanitary welfare Of our
domestic cattle would suffice to regenerat9
the human race, but savage nations at least
are now and then permitted to share such
privileges Of their dumb fellow-creatures.
A recent writer on the chronological curlosl-
ties of Northern Asia informs US that near.
" all the Siberian nations eat species Of
toadstool, called by them muk-a-mur, which
in small doses produces all the effects Of alco-
holic liquor. Its habitual use skaters the
nervous system, and it's sale to the natives
by traders is made penal offence by the
Russian Government" Yet that same Gov
ernment derives yearly revenue OF liz, wv
600 rubles from the sale of nerye-shattering
alcoholic liquors to its civilized subjects.
Those liquors, to be sure, are sold under high
" attractive names, and the scope Of pater-
nal legislation must be limited to muk-a-mur
and cattle-food.-The Voice.
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DROUGHT IN CUBA.

Sugar Plantations Sufering-Pas
lures and Woods Destroyed by Fire.
The drought continues throughout Cuba
Lately strong winds have been blowing
Many fires continue to be reported not only
on canefelds but also on cattle breeding pas
lures and farms and even in the woods. The
mortality among the cattle is daily increas'
ing. 1t may be said that there is nota single
plantation on the island that has not suffered
more or less from fire. In many localities the
ponds and brooks have completely dried up,
and the water in the rivers has fallen con.
siderably. The damage to buildings and ma
chinery caused by the recent explosion on the
Harmonic estate is so great that it will be
impossible to resume grinding this year.
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TIE RIGHT KIND OF TRAINING.

Elizabeth Harrison, Principal Of the
Chicago Kindergarten Training School, in
Question from kindergarten Standpoint"
relates the following suggestive incident:
II know of the kindergarten-trained FIVE
year-old son Of q millionaire who refused
spiced pickles when they were passed to him
at the table. why, my son. said his
father, do you not want some pickle? 1t Is
very NICE No. replied the boy, I don't
see any use in eating spiced pickle. 1t don't
help to make me strong; my teacher says 1t
DON'T If this kind of training can be
carried out, such boy will grow into the
saw. no. I see no use in that. 1t will not
help to make me stronger or better man."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
THE SUPREME ISSUE.

The supreme issue is: The drink traffic Is
an unaualified crime and must Ee suppressed.
The rum power is the block in the wheel Of
all wholesome political progress: The forces
of honest labor. safe homes and sound gov
ernment must unite. The enemies of rum,
monopoly, and corruption are in solid pha-
Ianx, standing by each other. The rum power
is the king power. When it falls its allies
fall The supreme issue is: The drink traffic
is an unqualified curse and must be sup
pressed. .-Connecticu Home.
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THE SALOON AND BOYS.

Some one has said that saloons can no more
be run without boys than saw mills without
logs. Lately in Chicago "a school teacher
noticed a knot of boys counting the number
of holes in some cards. He called one Of
them up and insisted on knowing what it
meant and the boy told him that saloon
keeper, who had his saloon near the school,
had given them those cards, and every time
they took drink he punched thenl-one hole
for beer two for straight drinks, and three
for mixed drinks-and each month he gave
prizes. The boy who had the most holes
punched in his card got revolver, the sec
ond life Of Jesse James, and the third
meerschaum pipe"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-05-21
RIDlLED BY BULLETS.
A Condemned Murderer, Who Had
Been Respited, Lynched.

beeh heSpiteu, hyhCileu.
Will Leaphart, young colored man con-
victed of criminally assaulting Hiss Rose
Cannon, white girl of sixteen, and SEN
fenced to be hanged on April II, but who OBJ
tanned a respite, was lynched during the
night at Lexington, S. c.
A witness of the occurrence says that the
men went directly to the Jail, after securing
the keys. unlocked the main door and entered
door after door until Leapharts cell was
reached. This they could not open with the
keys. Leaphart watched the mob, and,
realizing that he would be killed, seized
long iron rod and awaited the attack.
AS the lynchers shot through the grating
of his cell, he fought like a maniac, wound
ing one of the party. Some five hundred
shots were poured into the cell, and the man
was literally riddled with bullets, which
were picked up afterward in the room by
handfuls.
Leaphart had been respited to allow time
for motion for a new trial on the grounds
OF ofafter-discovered evidence deemed sufficient
by Judge Wallace.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

RUSSELL SAGE is seventy-fve years old.
ADEL1NA PATTI was forty-sevep on April 9.
CHAuNcEY DEPEw is ffty-six years ofage.
PRINCE BISMARCK is preparing his me-
moirs.
THOMAS A. EDISON smokes almost inces-
sanity.
BEN BUTLER is reputed to be worth
S., 0O,00O.
Mr.. GLADSTONE says he will cut down no
more trees.
CRIsPI. the Prime Minister Of Italy, is
seventy years of age.
EMPEROR WILLIAM will 60 to Sweden
about the middle Of July.
THE Prince Of Wales recently appeared in
ayellow vest and green gloves.
ACTING GOVERNOR TAGGART, Of New
Hampshire, is not yet thirty-two years OF
age.
GEORGE W. CHnDs has raised $50, 900 for
the family of the late Congressman Ran
dali.
BUFFALO BILL complains that each daily
mail brings him several proposals of mar
riage.
THE Pope is so ascetic in his mode of living
that he is said to spend less than Sl0oo
year on his immediate wants.
Miss MILDRED LEE, daughter Of the late
General Robert E. Lee is great favorlte IN
the best circles Of Washington.
GENERAL MALONE has recently purchased
20. 900 acres of coal lands for a northern syn
dicate in southwestern Virginia.
CHANCELLOR BoGGs, of the Georgia State
University, is said to be the youngest man IN
the United States occupying such position.
JAY GOULD has lately taken a great deal
of exercise in walking and marked inn
movement in his health is attributed to the
practice.
JAMES WHITCoMB RILEY's poems bring
him sos to $50 each. In the early days Of his
verse-making he was glad to get tenth or
these sums for his poems.
THE Maharsiah OF Mysore is an enthusias-
tic and accomplished violinist, and has
formed a string band Of sixty players, to
give open.air concertsa at Mysore.
DR. C. T. PARKEs, q Chicago physician,
has received a fee of s25, 900 for less than a
months attendance on a patient who was
afflicted with cancer in the face.
JOHN OGDEN ARMOUR, prospective heir to
the millions Of Philip D. Armour, is about
twenty-six years old and good-looking,a CLUB
man, always carefully dressed and Is rated at
over million of his own.
BONANZA MAcKEY is disposing OF his
various mining properties on the Paclilc
slope that are said to be worth about Sio.-
OOO. 900 and expects henceforth to make MS
permanent residence in New York.
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEFoTE, the British
Minister at Washington, is an expert with
the foils and with the short sword. he IS
considered one of the finest-looking diplo-
,uats ever stationed at Washington.
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THE HOT WATER CURE,

A German who confesses that he "took not
less than nine drinks of mtoxicants day for
many years." strongly recommends the hot
water cure, and says: II have taken a great
deal of the so-called drink cure but 1t is
very expensive and the system soon Graves it
like drink, but the hot water afford entire
relief, if taken at once in the morning."
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Washington.

IN the Supreme Court of the United States,
on motion of former AttorneyGeneralG Gar
land, ex-President Grover Cleveland, OF New
York city, was admitted to practice.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has decided again
to pass the summer at Deer Park MI. The
President says he will go there just as soon
as Congress sha adjourn.
THE President approved the act providing
for the establishment of a temporary gov
ernment in the Territory of Oklahoma.
THE public debt statement shows reduc-
ton of s., 636, 90l in the debt for April.
SEVERAL members of the House of Repre-
sentatives who argued against appropriatin5
money to reimburse themselves for the salar-
les stolen from them by Cashier Silcott, have
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MURDERER AND SUICIDE,
Abel Bergerson Poisons His Two
Children and Himself.

News has been received Of the suicide at
Spraugueville, N. Y, of Abel Bergerson,
who first poisoned his two young children
with rat poison and then took the stuff HIM
self.
Bergerson belonged to Eboulements, in the
Province of Quebec, Canada, and was
accompanied to the United States by
French Canadian girl known in Eboule-
ments as Lucie. 1t was her desertion that
apparently induced the commission of the
crime, for he left letter, in which he said:
II have nothing now to live for. My
more trouble than have"
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WALT WHITMAN, the poet, has been made
almost helpless by paralysis His physical
condition is so weak that his physicians have
insisted that he shall not talk with any one
fol- more than u few words at time. ae
is moor but not neglected, as his friends in
Philadelphia constantly supply his wants.
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THE New York Hebrew Orphan Asylum,
which is declared to be the best in the United
States, contains $50 inmates of which 327 are
boys and 22S girls. The total receipts for the
year were Sl66, 1913, and the expenses sloS.-
Boo, The expenditures for the year ending
April, 1891, are placed at Sl1S,00
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A VILLAGE DESTROYED.

The Entire Business Portion OF Gll-
boa, N. Y, Burned.
A fire broke out in the Arcade, large
wooden building in Gilboa N. Y, AMI
quickly spread to adjoining buildings,
which were soon enveloped in 1anos.
There being no means of extinguish-
ing fire, the whole village was at the mercy
of the flames The entire business portion OF
the town was destroyed, twenty-five build
ings in ALL Not store was left in the town.
ana most of the stocks were destroyed. The
loss is estimated ut from $3.50, 0Jo to Sl75, 600.
There is only light insurance, estimated al
about $50, 900.
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A GRAvE-D1GeER at Berlin, Germany, ma:
been sentenced to one months imprisonment
for cutting the hair from the heads of corpses
and selling the same to dealers.
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THE arrests for the past year in New York
city reached 81, 200, and of these q, 1874 were
for into1ication, $3.50 for disorderlye con- On
duct, 90 for gambling, for murder, lsS toI sor
attempted suicide, q for kidnapping ana o''
for insanity.
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THE old John Brown Fort at Harper's
Ferry, Va, is to be moved to Chicago.
company will remove this old structure to
Chicago, and have it on exhibition at the
Worlds Fair
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IT is announced from the flooded districts
bf the South that the appropriation oy Con-
eress will prevent any actual suffering.
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The little town OF Pankow, near Germany.
is preparing for an event which promises t.
make her name famous. From July to 10
at least 10000 German marksmen will as.
semble there to celebrate the tenth national
German shooting festival by competing for
SlOO, OUO worth Of prizes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-27
-8achelors, Night Robes.

One of the most effective is of white
silk, with tiny mauve dots on it. 1t
reaches to the ground and is beautifully
h3lnstitched the collar is a broad one
CIT in sailor fashion and thrown back
far enough to expose theneck very well.
The sleeves are full and have deep cuffs,
and on the left side is a pocket in which
is stuck d white silk handkerchief with
a monogram in mauve on it. The cuffs
are of mauve silk caught with white
sleeve links. and the collar is also of the
colOred silk. A soft white silk tie is
knotted in front in sailor fashion. The
haberdasher announces that this is per-
fumed so thoroughly with violet that
even two or three visits to the cleaners
will not dispel the odor. 4 more femi
nine looking robe de mutt is of pale rose
silk, with its collar and cuffs edged with
lace, and a cravat of lawn and lace, such
as the gentlemen Of the court of Louis
Quatorze wore. The height of folly, or
harmony, as you may choose to call it,
was reached by a-a--a something-I
should hate to call it a man-who
mourned deeply, in a material sense, for
an uncle who left him pile cf money.
His sleeping robes were Of white silk,
with cuffs, collar and pocket of black
Grape, while a black bordered handker-
chief was the other adjunct. New York
Letter in Philadelphia Times.
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4 Lesson from the Baby.

Man. as he comes into the world, pre-
sents a condition it would be well for
him to follow in all his after life. The
sweetest minstrel ever sent out of para
disc cannot sing newborn child to
sleep on an empty stomach. We have
known reckless nurses to give the little
ones a dose Of paregoric or soothing
syrup in place of its cup of milk, when
it was too much trouble to get the latter,
but this is the one alternative. The
little stomach of the sleeping child, as it
becomes gradually empty, folds on it
self in plaits; two of these make it rest
less; three will open Its eyes, but by care
full soothing these may be closed again;
four plaits and the charm is broken;
there is no more sleep in that household
until that child has been fed. 1t seems
to us so strange that with this example
before their eyes full grown men are so
slow to learn the lesson.-American An
alvSt.
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Authors and Poor Writing.

I wonder if authors have any idea Of
the decided advantage it is to manu-
script to have it clearly written or by the
typewriter? Again and again have 1 had
manuscript lying on my table for a
month or two, putting of its reading
from day to day because of the poor
writing. If authors had any conception
of the value of clean manuscript to edi-
tors, they would be far more careful how
they send their wares to the editorial
Office than they are.
Take this manuscript, for example; the
authors name is guarantee that there is
something good in it. Yet, look at that
chirography. l dread taking it up. 1t is
positive torture. dm patient with her,
because 1 feel a personal interest in her
literary welfare. Yet know of two posi-
tive instances where her manuscripts
have been returned by editors who ac-
Enowledged to me afterward that they
had not read them. Now, that woman
is infiioting injury upon herself. l tell
you, there is nothing which makes me
more prejudiced against manuscript
than illegible writing.-Interview in New
York Commercial Advertiser.
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DelicaCY of Pianos.

The other day l saw piano that had
been returned from a city nearly 800
miles away because something ratified
in it." and the dealer, who had spent
three days in trying to find the cause Of
the ditficulty-fnally attributing it to
defect in the sounding board-returned
it. Now there was nothing wrong about
the sounding board, and the piano was
in good condition, but had been hurried
" shipped, and 4 screw in the swing
desk attachment was not firmly imbed-
ded. This caused the rattle.
Now it is just this kind of a trivial
oversight that causes more than 30 per
cent. of the trouble known as rafting.
l remember about two months ago in a
place in Baltimore an upright piano had
TO be taken back and taken apart and
day spent over it to stop such disturb
ance, which was caused by nothing more
than small piece Of shaving about
quarter Of an inch long that got in under
the pressure bar. It could not be seen
and TO find it cost lot OF money.-Ausi.
cal Courier.