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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08
RELIGIOUS READING.
AFTER A NIGHT OF WEEPING.

AFTER NIGHT OF WEEPING.
When the long night of weariness and pain
Is full of bitter thoughts, and doubts that
Do we not long to hear some holy strain
That far-otf angels sing?
When every golden deed tie heart hath
Is darkened by the fear of FILLING powers,
And all DER life seems like the barren land,
Unblessed by sun or showers;
When every word that loving lips have said
Sounds, to the morbid fancy, falsely sweet:
And every truth that we have heard or read
Seems poor and incomplete;
When the one thing whereon our hopes are
Is still withheld, although we pray and
weep,
Until we murmir, "Can the Lord forget?
Or doth the Master sleep"
When the old sin that we had nearly
crushed,
Arrayed in all its fearful might, appears,
And yearning voices that we thought were
hushed
Call from departed years;
Then like an evening wind that, unper.
CeNeuy
Beareth an odor from the roses breast
Comes the remembrance: ave which have
believed
Do enter into rest"
And our eyes close, and all the phantom
throng
OF doubts and troubles vanish into air;
And the one face that we have loved so long
Smiles on us calm and fair;
The face that In our darkest hour Is bright,
The tranquil trow that never wears q
frown,
Steadfast eyes, that never lose their light
Beneath the thorny crown.
So at His word the clouds are all withdrawn,
The small, sharp pains of life are soothed
away;
After the night Of weeping comes the dawn,
And then His perfect day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08
A WORLDS FAIR SITE.
Chicago Offers Washington Park to
the Commissioners.

Washington Park, the garden spot of ali
Chicago, has been rendered to the National
Commissioners as site for the Columbian
Exposition. Tho Commissioners were dis
satisfied with the dual site, and brought
such pressure to bear upon the local author
tiles that the tender OF Washington Park
was finally made. The park is about six
miles from tho heart of the city and its area
is ample. Although not on the lake shores
it has an outlet to the lake which will be
utilized.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08
A HERO'S WIFE DESTITUTE.
General Fremont's Widow Ill and
Without O Dollar.

Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow OF the
late General John C. Fremont, is quite i'll at
her residence on Twenty-third street in Los
Angeles Cal. To reporter who called at
her residence to inquire concerning Mrs:
Fremont's condition, her daughter stated
that the family were in very Strengthened
circumstances: that there was not a dollar in
the house, and that they We're on the verge
Of actual starvation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08

THE original Brazenose knocker has
been restored to its lightful building
When the Oxford scholars migrated to
Stamford, in 1884, because of feud in
tho university, they took the knockes
with them, and since then it has been
IN the house where they settled. The
other day the house was bought by
Brazenoso College, and the historic
knocker was taken of and home. IL
was nodded some time in the twelfth
century. 1t represented a lions face
with o ring through the mouth. =
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08
NEVADA'S GOVERNOR DEAD,

The Chief Executive of the Centen
nial State Succumbs to Fever.
Charles Clark Stevenson, Governor of Ne
vada, died Of typhoid fever at bis home in
Carson few days ago. His atten ling physi
clan entertained little hope of his recovery
for the past ten days Flags over Government
and State buildings were put at half mast,
and the capital was draped in mourning,
and the body was taken to Oakland, CAL, for
interment. Governor Stevenson was sixty
four years of age. ard was born in Ontario
County, N. Y. Lieutenant-G Governor II. G..
Davis died little over year ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08
A BULLETS TWO VICTIMS.
"A Texas Girl Accidently Kills Hcl
:. Brother and Sister.

During James Lejeaham's absence from
home, at Mcrrivale, Texas his little son wa
found ID the yard playing with his father
Winchester rife. an older daughter at
! tempted to take the weapon from the bo!
and the gun was accidentally discharge
with fatal effect. The ball entered the boy
mouth and passed through his brain, killing
him instantly. The screaming and distractec
Girl hurried into the house for assistance, ant
On entering the door fell over the prostrat;'
body of her sister. The ball, after its worl
of death in the yard, passed through th
weather boarding Of the house and KILLED th'
second member Of the family. The ball tool
effect in the rear part Of the girPs head sn'
was found lodged In her mouth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08
Brakeman Killed.

Two Santa Fe freight trains collided near
La Plata, Mo. Brakeman Cells was instant
ly killed, and one Of the engineers and his
fireman were dangerously injured. Both
engines were demolished and four cars were
thrown in the ditch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08
SLAVE TRADING.
Over 10, 900 South Sea Islanders Sold
Into Servitude.

Late advices from the South Sea Islands
tell startling story Of the treatment Of
Island savages. Whole islands in the Solo
mon group in the New Hebrides and in other
sections of Polynesia have been depopulated
Transport natives to the plantations of New
Caledonia and the Fiji Islands.
II Scarcely a vessel arrives from Australia
that does not bring news Of tho massacre OF
some white trader or skipper by natives who
have been gradually driven into desperation
by the treatment they have received from
the whites. Thirty or more vessels, are en-
gagged in the nefarious traffic and no less
than 10 900 native savages have been carried
of into slavery.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08
SpANIARDS MASSACRED.
Thirty-two Men Butchercd by Natives
in the Caroline Islands.

O.S. Owens, merchant of Manila, who
arrived at San Francisco, Cal, recently on
the steamship Gaelic, states that on August
10 a terrible massacre occurred in the town
of Ponape, in the Caroline Islands.
The Spanish soldiers who were building
fortress at the side Of the town lefta number
of rifles in the fort. The natives overpo",,
cred the guard. seized the rifles and attacked
the town. Thirty-two Spaniards We're
killed. FSeveral Spanish men-of-war have
been sent from Manila to quen the d1stur.
hauca
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08

The corn crop having proved a failure:
the Kansas farmers are preparing their land
for wheat, and the acreage Of that grain will
be very large next season.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-08
MURDER, THEN SUICIDE.
Frederick Geahm Shoots His Wife
and browns Himself

Frederick Geahm killed his wife Theresa
at Louisville, KY, and then committed sui
eide. They had trouble over money and she
sued for divorce. He went to the warehouse
where she worked and shot her twice, killing
her almost instantly. He then ran out upon
the street, trying, as he ran, to shoot him.
self. Failing in this, he jumped into the canal
ard vas drowned.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-01-03

Russia combined, valued at several hundred
million dollars. There are over seven hun
dred factor les within the city limits, giving
employment to between two hundred tn Ou-
sand and three hundred thousand men and
women, so that nearly On6-hRf the entire
population are engaged in mechanical In
lustry There are over one hundred silk,
cotton and wooden mills, and as many more
establishments for the production and
manufacture Of wearing apparel 1t has
.lsc a large iron industry, together with a
largely varied line of other fabricatiOns in
metal, wood, and earth.
Next comes the BielgOrod. or White
Town, so called from the fact that the Tar
tars compelled the Russians proper to re-
city. for 200 years. This has, therefore, be-
come the favored residence quarter. and
here the finest houses may be found. Then
there IS the hhlUalgOrOd, or chinese town.
which surrounds the Kremlin, and is still
nclosed within immense walls, that have
stood for several centuries. 1t is curious
that the name Chinese Town" should so
persistently attach itself to a section Of the
city in which no Chinese are living, nor
have ever lived. but il is explained by the
fact that the wall which inciOseS it was
built by the MOngOls during their Occupa-
ton, and the word Khitai means Cathay.
Through gate in this wall half the pop
ulatiOn passes each daV. 1t is, like London
bridge the most convenient GhOrOughtaF9
between the residence and manufacturing
portions of the city and the mercantile or
shopping centers. Beside the gate is a Gu
EIOuS Olu cuuEc1i' Will d lou OL lowers OheI
look like inverted pineapples, having a
rough surface, and painted in the most con-
spicuOus variety of cOlOrs. This is the chap
ell of Iverskaya ChesOvnia. the Iberian ma
donna, an icon brought from Mount AthOs
hundreds of years ago, and the patron saint
and the palladium Of Moscow. The image is
supposed to have miraculous power and is
appealed to in times of distress, sickness,
and death.
The Gar always visits the chapel when
h IS in Moscow and never leaves without
a generous gift to its Golfers. The virgin
keeps a carriage and four horses in which
the image is carried to houses about the
city, to comfort the sick and the dying. for
a large fee. If a man is building a house. the
icon can be obtained to sanctify it by the
payment of a sum of money to the priests,
and is taken in the carriage to the place,
when some mummery is gone through
with 1t is also taken to weddings,
and to women in confinement, and is al
ways willing to lend her aid and give its
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has TO live there month before he can ees
the hang OF the place.
The servants and porteEs are dressed in
the Russian costume with long black
surtouCss high top boots, and turbans of
astrachen tur with peacock feathers in
them to indicate their respective ranks.
The restaurant is a very large room. or
series Of large rooms. where q thousand
people can be fed at table. and they
seemed to be continually crowded with all
sorts and conditions Of men and women.
The central room. under q dome, has q
large fountain and pond of water in the
center. which every morning is filed with
live nsh from the market. il you want d
fish Tor breakfast or dinner, you sit down
at one OF the tables indicate your wish to
the White-rObed waiter, and then accom-
pany him to the fountain. He takes a hand
net dips it into the water, fetches Up a
cluster Of fish Of different kinds and sizes,
and takes from the lot whichever you inGi-
cate. The FISH is then carried to the kitch-
en- on a silver tray, and ten or fifteen min
utes later is served hot and sayory before
you.
Beyond the Slavinsky bazar is the Cos
6nnOi DVOr, OF Strangers Market, a coIiec-
ton Of shops for retail trading, There are
several. all like the Palais ROYAL Of Paris.
small booths or stores, twenty feet square.
at which are sold everything the people
care to purchase. in small lots, and as is
the case in Paris, everything in stock is
kept in the window. If you do not see what
you want from the sidewalk, there IS no
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blessings on all occasions for the payment
of a price. The case in which the image IS
kept is richly decorated with jewels, and 1t
is said that many years ago a princess VINO
was enViOus of the largest OF the virgin 8
diamonds, seized it with her teeth when
she was pretending to kiss the frame and
carried the Jewel aWaV in her mouth. she
was detected, however, ana sent 70 siberia
for life. Under the shadow OF this chapel
the tourist enters the principal shopping
street, which is crowded all day and most
Of the night with thrODgs Of people, repre-
senting almost every nation under the sun
The shouts of the drOsIy drivers and the
rattle of the wheels over the cobbIe-sUone
pavement almost deafen you, and they are
assisted in making the place D6Qlam Dy
hundreds Of fruit and toy vendors VINO
shout the merits OF their wares IN sTento-
rian tones.
This street is lined with the best shops,
cafes, and hotels, chief OF which IS the Sla-
Whisky bazar5 not shop, as the name
would fmnly, but hotel, famous all over
FurOpe. It Is very large, capable OF accom-
mOdating ], 900 people, and Its restaurant Is
the resCrt~of al the merchants OF the city
at noon time and during the evening, Tor
food and drinks.
You enter under a porte eochere. TO a
vide hall where a respondent concierge
or porter. grsets you in almost any Ian
Puage under the sun, and from long eZper-
ience he is enabled to determine Dy your
looks which ton ue to use. he can speak
not only the European languages-Ens{l isn'
French, German. and 1Canau-DuG turkish
Greek, Armenian Arabic HindCosCanees
and ] do not know but ChneSes Japanese
Sjamese, and many others. 1t IS the proud
boast Of this polygIotic Fellow that no guest
has ever arrived at the hotel during the
twenty-five or thirty years he has been
employed there. whom he could not ADDRESS
ia the language Of the country he came
from
The office. or bureau. as they call it, Of
this remarkable hotel, looks ike the count
ing house Of e large mercantile establish
ment in New York or Chicago Tor behind
glass partitions are a dozen or fifteen CLERKS
and book keepers, all busy from morning
{ u night. but what they are dong no one
knows. Ali bills are rendered every morn
ing. You pay one man for your room ana
another for your meals, while the system
of accounts is so complicated that a man
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claimed, ever commits a burglary or picks
a pocket. He will not enter an unoccUpied
house for purposes of robbery, and the
rooms of guests at hotels and lodging
houses are seldom robbed, but if you lay
your purse down for a moment you are
likely never to sec it again. or if your over
coat or any article is lett in a carriage you
need make no inquiries. 1t is gone beyond
recovery The banks are never robbed, nor
the tiils in the shops. nor the tables Of the
money changers; but if you set your um-
breIIa down, or your shawl is carelessiy
dropped, or any other OF your possessions
are left in public places and not carefully
guarded, they are considered public prop
erty, and belong to him who seizes them
first. Strangers are followed about the
city by men and boys, and often women, to
prey upon their carelessness or ignorance
of these customs.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-01-03
Christmas Thoughts.

Christmas is upon US. It is the festi-
val of the home and the season when the
hearts of the fathers are turned to the
children and the feet of the children
turn back to the homes whence they went
out. Little ones hail it's coming with
eXuberant gladness, and older people en-
ter into it's festivities with subdUed pleas
ure, in which memories of home behind
and hopes of the home ahead are strange
ly mingled with present joys. What a
time it is for cuItiVating domestic atfec-
tiOns and invigOrating the virtues which
root themselves in these loves! Whence
came our Christian homes? They are
not found in pagan lands - dwelling
places are there, but not homes. Nor
are they found in lands where Christian
influences are feeble and Christian insti-
tutions are formaI-there are lodgings
and eating houses. The idea of home
comes from him who, though homeless
upon the earth, hath set he solitary in
families-from him of whom the whole
family in heaven and earth are named.
Accordingly, at this season our doors
should be wide open to his coming in,
and nothing else admitted which would
shut him out. He knows how to enter in
a festive occasion, and sympathiZes with
human Joy as really as with human sOr-
row. His presence at our feasts will not
diminish their gladness, but eXalt their
satisfaction. And now, while msFriment
relgns in all our homes. let US invite him
in to sup with US. Let the children play
with the babe of Bethlehem among them,
while the angels of Bethlehem sing over
them. Let the youthful keep company
with the earnest, obedient boy Of Naza-
reth. Let them who come into the Christ
mas season out of life's busy cares come
apart with him to rest awhile and be fed
by his hand
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sign, being impressively simple, Of the
purest Greek architecture, and built Of
white marble, all the material being Inn
ported from Italy. The interior is grand
and beautiful. being finished in the FaEa
Siberian stones malachlt6, lapiS iaZuu.
jasper. and pOrphyrY. The entire 10Or is
of jasper, while the ceilings and walls are
covered with pictures in mosaic or dis
temper.
1t was at first proposed to erect this
temple on Sparrow Hills, and was to be the
largest and finest building in the world,
200 feet high. 200 feet higher than the Wash
ingtOn monument, and to stand upon the
spot where Napoleon first had a view of the
city. Work was commenced upon ii. and
100000 rOubles was spent, but the Empe-
rCr suspected jObbery, and had an investi-
cation, which resulted in the Punishment
of the architect, the contractors. and all
most every one who had been engaged on
the work, to Siberia. and the confscatiOn OF
their property which was SOLD for the BEN
eft of the building fund. This was fol-
lowed by a change of location and a mOdi-
1catiOn Of the plans.
The statistics that are given OF the cost
Of construction are amazing. The building
covers $4,000 square feet of ground. and the
top OF the cross that surmounts the dome
is $40 feet from the ground, or twelve feet
lower than the crown OF the goddess Of
liberty at the top OF the Capitol at Wash
The central dome. like ali other such
structures in Russia, is gilded, and $500, 600
worth OF bullion was used to do the work.
The gold leaf is laid upon copper. There
are four copper cupolass and the cost OF
gliding them was $3.50, 600. The amount OF
gold bullion used in she interior, for the
mosaics, and the decoration of the ikonOstas
or altar was ST., 100000 All the vessels used
by the priests in celebrating mass are Of
solid gold and exquisite workmanship. The
jasper in the floor and the walls cost very
nearly as much. while it is said that the
malachite and lapis laZuh used could not
be replaced for any money, having come
from the Government Quarrie5 OF Siberia.
and cost over half a century of labor to
take them from the quarries to Moscow in
the rough state.
The value of this material does not enter
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use In entering the door; you must pass
along till you find it.
About half the merchants seem to be en-
gag ed in the sale of machinery and imple-
ments for devotion. There is nearly a
mile of shops where nothing but icons are
exposed for sale, with the lamps that al
ways burn below them in the houses. The
people all cheat and lie, but they are al
ways gOod-natursd about it, and when de-
tected in a falsehOOd blush as innocentlY
as il they had never done such thing be-
fore in their lives. They are very quick Of
perception, too. If you can manage to con
vey one-fOurth Of an idea TO them, they
will furnish the other three-ffOurths from
intuition instantly.
Alth Ough stealing and swindling is the
habit Of the people, there are certain things
that are sacred from it. No Russian it is
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Most of these goods find their way to the
Thieves Market, which is maintained in
Moscow as in Petersburg, in even larger
proportions. for the people Of Petersburg
are said to be the more honest. Every
been stolen, but. as in Petersburg. the pro-
prietCrs of the shops are expected to keep
the articles for redemption by the own
er for thirty days. The stock Of goods
comprise every conceivable article except
food. The Thievrs' Market is kept in what
is kaoWn as the Hair Park, where, years
ago, the BARRIERS had their stands, and the
people, who never shave, used to resort to
have their hair cut
The FoundIings' Home in Moscow is al
moot as large as the similar institution in
Petersburg and the dimensions Of the
building may be judged by the fact that it
has 1928 windows. The fOundlings are
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noE5 forward and the little window through
which the serpent had crept in. could
hear the Ophidian's long BODY. moving
slowly, and judged that it's head was
coming toward me.
/ would have given almost any. price for
a light just thenl A hOrrid odor filed
the airi Outside, Sackett and Luth were
shouting to me to come ashore; but for
the life OF me 1 burst not stir now, nor
answer thens lest the serpent might strike
at the sound Of my dice. I wondered
whether snakes could see in the dark!
Suddenly heard its jaws snap again,
on the port side OF the engine-the very
place where L had supposed its tail was!
and making frenzied jump, dash out
forward and landed in the mud and
water.
Are you bitten? Luth cried out.
He and Sackett then assisted me up the
bank.
The reptile still continued to crawl
around inside our deck house, and, after
listening to its movements for a while,
we determined to kindte a fire and secure
little light on this dark and scaly sub
ject. The gaUchOs were afraid to 90 out
far to collect freWOOd, lest, as they said
the mate of the serpent might be in the
vicinity. Enough was gathered up, how
ever, to kindIe considerable bonfire, by
the light of which We approached our
little steamer again, and finally boarded
her, gun IN hand, in search of the snake:
"A portion of its notified bod was
then espied lying diagonaIIy aero s the
deck, just in front of the engine boiler.
By way of stirring up the creature, Liuth
hred load OF heavy shot into it, at
which it squirmed slightly and craWIed
slowly for few feet, but soon came to g
standstill again.
He's about done for said Sackett;
and taking one of the pike poles, which
had also a hook with the pike, he went
forward and struck 1t into the reptiles
hard, shining carcass. Again it Writhed
a little; then all three of us took hold of
the ole and thus were able to haul it
out
at appeared that our first shots had
fairly riddled its neck and head-Otber-
wise we might have had much more trou-
bic IN dispOsing OF the brute; for 1t was
truly an ugly reptile to encounter. The
thickest portion of it's body was almost
as large as tho thigh of an adult man; and
may compare its fattened head to a
good sized water pitcher of three quarts
capacity. 1t was nearly twenty -four feet
long.
at was what the gauchos called a sucu-
riaba, or water boa, and it is said to be
nocturnal in it's habits. I suppose that
it had swung itself down upon the launch
from the large nut-trees on the bank.
"Our deck had been most shOckingIy
defled with its blood; but the blood was
much more easily removed than was the
peculiar, disgusting odor which seemed
to emanate from its carcass, and for a
long time resisted the action of our chic
rides.
After that nights adventure, We took
the precaution to afiX a net of tarred line
to the outside of our open window lights. =
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A Dog Guards the Railway Crossing

A Dog Guards the Railway Crossing.
Passing along West Fourth street,
the other day, while the gates were
being lowered at the railroad crossing
I saw an English setter rush in and
take his stand by the track. When
the gate was down he rose on his
launches and, resting his front paws
against the gate, he stood in that posi-
ton until the train had passed. Turn
ing his head he saw the last car 60 by
when he dropped on all fOurs and
slowly walked away. I was told that
1t was his custom whenever he saw the
gate being lowered to rush In and
guard the crossing, and that he would.
allow no one to get beneath the gate.
until the train had gone past. Why
he does 1t I don't know, but ne made
very noticeable and pretty picture IS
ne stood there, guarding the gate
Boston AdUertjSer.