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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
THANKSGIVING DAY.
President Harrison's Proclamation
Appointing 1t for November 27.

President Harrison's Proclamation
Appointing 1t for November 27.
The President issued proclamation desig
mating Thursday, November 81, as day of
thanksgiving. The proclamation is as fol.
lows:
BY the grace and favor Of Almighty God
the peopls Of this Nation have been led to
the closing days of the passing year, which
has been full Of the blessings Of peace and the
comforts of plenty. Bountiful compensation
has come to US for the work Of our minds
and Of our handsin every department of hu-
man industry.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States Of America,
do hereby appoint Thursday, the 9th day of
the present month Of November, to be OBJ
served as day of prayer and thanksgiving;
and do invite the people upon that day to
cease from their labors, to meet in their &C.
customed houses Of worship, and to join
in rendering gratitude aud praise to
our benefcent Creator for the rich
blessings He has granted to US as Nation,
and invoking the continuance Of His pro-
lection and grace for the future. commend
to my fellow-citizens tho privilege of re-
Numbering the poor, tha homeless and the
sorrowful Let us endeavor to merit the
promised recompense Of charity and the
gracious acceptance of our praise.
In testimony whereof, have, ,hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal Of the United
States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
eighth Gay of November, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety, and Of tho independence of tho
United States the one hundred and fifteenth
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
By the President:
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
pRArGur FROM A DEEP WE'LL.

''I remember going into the country on
one particular occasion for my vacation. At
the farm where I lodged there was an old
well, working with sweep-that Is, big
beam working on pivot, with n bucket at
one end, which was so suspended that the
bucket end could be dropped into the well,
which was about sixty feet deep. I got hold
Of the beam and swung it round till the bucket
touched the water, and got good drink,
Just then the old farmer came out; he bad
seen me at the well. 7 have no doubt that
is fair enough water he said, 'but you do
not know how to get right good drink
and coming over he seized the beam and
sent the bucket down into the water about
twenty feet, and got draught taken from
the very heart of the living rock.
81 had thought the water I had drawn
myself all that could be desired, but when I
tasted the other thought had never drunk
real water until then. I have often thought
that young converts do not get deep enough
spiritual draughts. One touch of the hem OF
Christ's garment, faith as grain of must
ard seed will save you, but if, dear friends,
you wish to know Christ in his inexhaustlble
fullness you must drink deep of the living
water which lie SO freely gives."-Rev. Geo.
F. PentecOst.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
DESPERATE DUEL.
Three Men Killed and Others
Wounded in Kentucky.

The election day duel in Estill County,
Ky, turns out to have been one Of the most
desperate encounters ever witnessed in Ken
lucky.
A man from Irvine, KY, tells the follow.
ing story of the duel: The principals were
DR.. P. A. Lilly, prominent young physl'
clan of the town, son Of Judge Il. Clay
Yilly. on the one side, and John Wilson,
Commissioner Of Common Schools in Estill,
on the other. Lilly was a Republican and
Wilson q Democrat. Lilly brought upa
colored man to the polls to vote him. VIII
son challenged him.
The Judges Of the election sustained the
challenge and the vote was rejected. This
fired up Lilly, and hot words ensued, result
ing in the drawing Of pistols by both men,:
Lilly got his pistol out readily, but VIII
sons hung in his hip pocket and was accl-
dentally discharged before he could get
it out. In the meantime he received
two bullets, both lodging near the
medisteiy fatal, and the combat continued.
Wilson got his weapon free at last and fired
two shots, one Of which struck Lilly near the
heart. About this time Wilson's brother in
terfered and succeeded in wrestling Lilly
weapon from his hand. Nothing daunted
him. however, and almost il the throes OF
death Lilly drew his knife and made several
stabs at his enemy. ,,
Both fell to the ground, but the terrible
duel was not over. With the last OF his fast.
ebbing strength Wilson raised up and fired
the last load in his pistol at Grant Lilly, a
brother of DR.. Lilly, who had appeared on
the scene, inficting dangerous, If not fatal
wound, and then crawled over to where his
antagonist had fallen and buried the ham
mer Of his pistol in his head. Lilly died in e
few minutes, while Wilson fingered until
the next day at noon.
In addition to the parties already noticed
as having been shot three outsiders were
wounded, but were not seriously hurt. Al
together the affair was the most desperate
that ever occurred in Estill County.
Grant Lilly is also dead. All the parties
to the difficulty were prominent men in Es-
till County. Judge Lilly has gained a
national reputation for trying the mountain
desperadoas of Kentucky.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
SUGGESTIONS FOR MOTHERS.

have been much impressed while reading
the "reminiscences of Lamartine's childhood
with the natural way in which his mother
taught her children to pray to God and to
think of him.
When she went in the morning to take
them from their beds and assist them to
dress, she would tell them about the good
God who had given them sweet sleep, and
who made tho sun they saw shining, the
birds they heard singing, the grass they saw
growing, and who had given them kind
parents to prepare their food; then she
would appeal even thus early to their heart
and conscience to know if they ought not
to thank him for these gifts and ask him
to make them good children. So that 1t
became the most natural thing In the world
for them to kneel beside her AMI offer q
morning prayer.
At mig ght she would not walt until drowsi.
ness had benumbed their faculties or their
plays were absorbing them, but Immediately
after supper she would call in tile servant
and read short selections from Scripture, eX-
planning them, and following with prayer.
AS soon as any Of the children became old
enough, she would teach them to lead the
devotions.
She always said grace before and after
meals. II she walked With them In the
country and they came upon any beautiful
bit of scenery, cataract, a bed Of flowers.
she would lead their hearts up from nature
to natures God. Nor did she neglect the
principal part Of their religious training.
For she took them with her to the bedsides
of the sick and made them her almoners Of
bounty 10 the poor.
At twilight she would quietly leave them
to their play and retire for secret prayer.
Out of doors she had a chosen spot under
some fruit trees-the most sheltered spot In
the garden-and this became a sacred place
to her children. They never entered it in their
sports, knowing it was where their mother
communed with God; and when she re-
turned to them with smiling countenance,
they felt that she had left behind her the
burdens of the day and was at peace.
Happy the children who had such moth
er.-fNew York Observer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
FALL CROPS.
The Government Statistician,s
November Averages.
The Largest Cotton Yield Ever
Recorded.

The November returns to the Department
of Agriculture Of rates Of yield per acre
make the average for corn 1919 bushels; pota-
toes, SIS bushels; buckwheat, AS bushels;
hay, 1.20 tons; tobacco, 71s pounds. The
corn crop makes the smallest yield reported,
excepting only that of 1881, which was 1876
bushels. That Of 1887 was 201 bushels. 1t
is So DER cent. of the average Of the last
ten years, period which included four un-
usually poor years, and only 73 per cent. of
last years crop. The indications Of recent re-
turns lave been so uniform that the estimate
for permanent record will not be likely to
change this figure unless by a fraction. The de-
cline of the last decade is not due to loss
of fertility, but to .unfavorable meteorologi-
alinhuences. The highest rates are in New
England as usual. New York averages 25.3
bushels; Pennsylvania, 275: Ohio, 20. Z; Michi-
gan, 26.7; Indiana, 24.3; Illinois 25; Iowa,
2O3. The principal decline is in the corn
surplus States.
The average rate of yield Of potatoes is SIS
bushels. The condition Of the crop in Octo.
ber was lower than any reported previous
crop, except in 1887, being 61.7, against 61.5,
when the rate of yield was 56.9 bushels per
acre. It imports scarcity and warrants high
prices. The low rates Of yield of principal
States are as follows: New York, 62 bushels;
Pennsylvania, g.; Michigan, 5S; Ohio, 46;
Indiana, 81; Illinois, 30; Iowa, 4S; Missouri,
SO; Kansas, 2S; Nebraska, 81; Minnesota, 6S;
Maine 95; New Hampshire, 80, and Ver-
mont, 95.
The yields of the hay crop are large as a
rule throughout the country. The cane
sugar crop will be large one, and sugar
boo%c boy 5opn u,a1l ,uaaf of fha Missouri
indicating probably rapid development of
the sugar industry.
The cotton returns for November are
county estimates of yield per acre. The con.
soidation. considering areas with rates of
yield, with correction only Of ob"ious
errors, makes the average yield 1877
pounds of lint per acre. 1t
Is about the same as the yield
Of last year, and better than the returns of
yield last November, which were exceeded
by the results of the final investigation.
Much will depend on the weather Of Novem-
Der and December, not only in perfecting
growth, but in saving the crop. If the season
remains favorable, and the views of the corre-
spondents prove conservative, the result may
be slightly larger than is here anticipated.
The estimated yields by States are as follows:
Virginia, 1873 pounds; North Carolina, 1872;
South Carolina, IT'S; Georgia. 1855; Florida,
los; Alabama, 100; Mississippi, 200; Louis
lana, 23s; Texas, 1876; Arkansas, 225; Ten
nesse, 1911.
The Government cotton crop report was
received at the Cotton Exchange in New
York City and caused some excitement in
the market. 1t was the largest crop on
record being abont s, 900, 900 bales, or about
700, 900 more than last year. The marHet de-
clined from twelve to sixteen points and
closed in a nervous condition.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
AKENTUCKY TOWN BURNED
The Most Important Buildings OF
Owensboro i'm Ruins.

Ovensboro, KY, was visited by the most
destructive fire in, her history. AT A. NJ.
the fire had destroyed property to the amount
OF S250, 900. At that time it was believed
thai at least five persons had met their
death under falling walls, while others
were seriously injured in jumping, from
burning buildings. The fire originated in a
pantry in the basement OF the Budd
House which was ti!lei with guests. The
flames had gained considerable headway be-
fore they were discovered. The guests
were awakened and some ran out into the
streets in their night-clothing while many,
crazed by fear, jumped from the windows
of the hotel. Among these were two women
and child, all of whom were badly injured.
William Fl. Hahn jumpad froma third story
window Of the Budd House, fell on his back,
and was fatally hurt. Charles Lei
beck, a travelling salesman from Phlla-
deaphia, and Charles Bareford, of
New Albany, were badly burned. A bish
wind was blowing at the time the fire origi-
mated, and after the hotel had been swept
away the flames reached the Bank Of Com
merce, next door, and that with the buildings
occupied by Marks & Dregan, grocers, and
Quicksert & Co., merchant tailors, was soon
in ashes The building occupied by the
Owensboro Messenger and several other
houses were destroyed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
Foreign.

1
Ar the close of the celebration of a Bud
dhist festival recently in the province Of SEE
Chuen, China, number OF organized moos
the buildings and looting their contents.
| Twenty native converts to Christianity were
| killed during the disturbances and their
bodies thrown into the Yang-tse-Kiang
River.
LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CoLERIDGE, while
presiding over the Court of the Quesns
| Bench Division, London, England, was strlck'
en- with paralysis.
| THANKSGIVING DAY was observed IN
| Canada by special services held in all the
I Protestant churches of the country.
i DIR. ROBERT LUc1Us BALLHAysEN, Prus
sian Minister Of Agriculture, Domains and
Forests, has resigned.
J THE establishment of the British ,protec'
torate over Zanzibar has been formally pro-
claimed.
THE Bank of England discount rate was
advanced from five to six per cent. IL caused
panic.
CHANCELLOR Won CAPRIv1, of Germany,
had an interview with Prime Minister Crispi,
at Rome. Italy, and afterward was enter
tanned at dinner by King dumoert.
THE shoe manufacturers at Erfurt, Ger
many, have declared lockout In consequence
| of dispute arising from the dismissal OF a
workman. Three thousand men are thrown
out of employment
Iris said that many cures have resulted IN
Germany from Professor Koch's remedy
for consumption; nothing is yet known OF
the nature Of the process.
DESPITE the order issued by the Govern
ment prohibiting the emigration OF peasants
and Polish Hebrews to Brazil, 300, 600 have
left Russia for that country in the last tnree
months.
PART of the roof of a house in course OF
erection in Prague, Austria, collapsed, de
molishing scaffold upon which numner OF
| six injured ones were e1trlcated from tne
| ruins.
FIVE HUNDRED armed Armenians concen
trated at Mador. Russian Territory, and
made a raid on several Kurdish villages
killing five persons
John NoLIN and Peter Pand were capsized
in a dory while attending travis, of New
| Foundland Fishing Banks, and drowned.
ELECTION riots are reported to have oc-
Cured at Rosario. Argentine Repuol c.
'rroops were called out and several persons
killed.
snain. was was burned. Loss, 5000, 900. Ten
thousand persons were rendered idle by the
| confagration.
THE temperance of influenza is being re-
| ported on all sides in Germany, and semi
nary in Nagold. near Stuttgart, has been
closed in consequence of an epidemic of this
complaint, which has been raging there.
A ,FERRYBoAT capsized in the River
Waag, near Bisztritz Austria, and ifty-fve
peasants were drowned. The boat was
overcrowded with men. wagons and horses.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
LATER NEWS.

The North River Bank, of New York City,
closed its doors, owing to the Wall street
panic, and there were two unimportant fail
ures announced at the Stock Exchange; Wall
street was easier,
MAYOR GRANTS application for copy OF
the census returns Of New York City was
granted by the Census Bureau at Washing
ton.
THOMAS WADswoRTl John Whalen and
William Hastings were drowned in lpswlch
Bay Mass, a few days ago. They were OF
a party of six men who had gone out on
sporting trip Oh the schooner Carrie F.
Two old maids, Mary and Anne Meyers,
who lived with an imbecile sister, Mrs
North, at Hartford, Conn, were found dead.
They had evidently been dead for several
days as the bodies were somewhat deconl-
posed. The cause Of death was old age
sELBY JONES, who committed suicide at
Kansas City, Mo-. few days ago, was re-
sponsible for the shortage of si00,000 in the
defunct firm of Hall G. Willis.
JUDGE r. P. SANDERS, Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, died at
his home in Fort Smith few days ago.
THE annual report of General Greely, Chief
Signal Officer of the United States, shows
that of the weather forecasts made during
the year ended June 30th last, eighty-two per
cent. were successful.
THE marriage of Captain William P. Hall
and Mrs. Therese Blackburn Stewart, ,daugh-
ter Of Senator Blackburn, was celebrated at
St. Johns Protestant Episcopal Church IN
Washington City.
PosrMAsTER-GENERAL WANAAAKER has
sent a letter to City Postmaster Sherwood
directing the reinstatement of Mrs Margaret
s. Watkins, the delivery clerk at the post
Office who was temporarily suspended Tor
telling Senator Quay's son that his fathers
mail went to the Dead Letter Office now.
GENERALS V. BENET, Chief of the
Bureau Of Ordnance, has submitted his an
nual report to the Secretary of War, From
the report it appears that the bureau has ex-
pended during the last fiscal year 81, ,2S9,s s2o
leaving credit in the Treasury on June oo'
1890, Of So, 994, 4S4.
QUEEN EMMA has been appointed Regent
to govern the kingdom of Holland during
tie illness Of King William.
The Emperor Of Germany opened the
Prussian Diet with speech from the throne.
He said Prussia had strengthened her rela-
tions with foreign States during the past
year, and he looked forward confidently to
continued peace.
A REVOLUTION is now in progress In the
capital of Honduras. The President OF that
Renublic has been driven from the city, but
is now collecting force of troops, and Is eS-
pected to make fight for the recapture OF
the Government.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
WALL STREET PANIC.
A FURRY in Stocks and the Suspen
sion of Three Firms.

A FURRY in Stocks and the SuSpen-
sion of Three Firms.
The growing scarcity of money at tho
financial center, New York City, eliminated
in the inability Of three banks to make good
their debit balances at the Clearing House
in the morning.
1t was day of wild excitement in Stock
Exchange and financial circles. Decker,
Howell & Co., c. c. Whitney & Co., and
David Richmond suspended, the first
named with liabilities of $4,000, 900.
The Bank Of North America, the North
River Bank and the Mechanics and Traders
Bank were unable to make good their
balances at the Clearing House and the
associated banks had to come to their relief
and advance s1,3O0,0O0 Clearing House
certificates will be issued and bank panic
prevented.
It was also announced that the firm of
Narr & Friend, at Philadelphia, one of ths
members of which belongs to the New York
Stock Exchange, had failed, and the failure
Of John T. Walker, Son Ss Co., merchants
and importers, ut No. 81 Pine street, New
York City, was also made public, but their
suspension was only Indirectly connected
with the tight money market i'll Wall street.
This monetary stringency is due to two
cauSes-frSt, the exigencies OF London,
brought about by over-speculation in almost
every part of the world in general, but in
tho Argentine Republic in particular; and
secondly, to the almost unprecedented &C.
tivity Of trade in this country, which has
drawn funds away from the Eastern centres.
The present disturbance is a repetition Of
the two preceding ones. In the great de-
preston OF 1878 the first to go were the
Northern Pacific stocks, which were then
contro.ed by Jay Gould, who went down i'll
the wreck. The Northern Pacific stocks led
on the decline Of 1884, and buried in their
ruins Henry Willard, who was the master
spiritin them.
Ths action of the Clearing House in voting
to issue loan certificates to the Bank of North
America and all other banks connected with
it that might require assistance, went far
toward relieving the panicky feeling in the
market
Some idea of the great loss sustained in
Wall street is afforded when it is said that
twenty-three stocks showed, up to the time
of the panic, total shrinkage in value since
November of about $780, 600, 900.
The associated banks Of New York City
have available assets of sos, 900, 600. Against
this it was voted to issue Clearing House cor
ti1cates in such volume as the situation
might suggest or require. ....- +,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
NOVEL TRAIN ROBBERY.
A Sneak Thief Opens Safes and Gets
Away With $4,000.

n Sneak In1e1 opens SaieS anu Uets
Away With $4,000.
Two night trains on the Georgia Railroad,
one leaving Atlanta for Augusta, at 11:5O
o'clock, and the other leaving Augusta for
Atlanta at the same hour, were robbed on
recent night. The Southern Express Com
pany takes no way packages, and the mes
sengers sleep on cots in the express car. Ihe
train leaving Augusta was robbed OF about
$40.
Messenger Ficklen is a heavy loser, tel
epram from Atlanta saying that his pack
ages amounted to $4,000 Ficklen says he
must have been robbed between Conyers,
which is about thirty miles from Atlanta,
and Oconee bridge, about eighty miles from
Atlanta He was asleep on cot IN his car,
and the robber must have entered the door
next to the engine Ficklen's key. was in
his vest pocket, which hung on the wall
One package could not be got into the safe
and lay alongside. In the morning when
Fick!cn reached Augusta his key was miss
ing. After two hours search, failing to
discover it, his safe was broken open, and it
was then discovered that he was robbed.
Roth robberies were evidently the work of
the same man, who probably knew the run
of the road. The trains were not stopped,
the robber mounting them at station quiet
", and doing his work and getting OIL after
ward
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-26
FATAL FIRE.

Four Persons Burned to Death at
Denver, Col.
!. Fire started in the rear Of M. j. Todd's
livery yard in Denver, COL, and notwith-
standing the efforts of the fire department
the flames had spread nearly all over the
ward before the water could be turned on.
The flames quickly passed to the st. Elmo
Hotel, Meyers Liquor Company and
O'Leary's drug stora while number OF
dwellings just across the alley went up IN the
flames.
The tlremen made every endeavor to keep
the fire from jumping across Lamarie street,
where there were number Of large business
blocks. The entire block between Ninth and
Tenth streets and Laramie and Market
streets was a seething mass but the fire is
now under control unless strong wind
comes up.
One unknown man was burned to death m
the hotel, and bis charred remains now lie at
the Coroners.
Another man and two children were
caught in the same building and burned to
death.
The cause of the fire is not known. The
loss will probably be over 500, 900.