The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-03


The cornerstone of the University
Of the Methodist Episcopal church
was laid with imposing ceremonies al
Salt Lake August II. The Rev. Sam.
Small, of Atlanta, has been chosen
president of this new institution,
which is expected to do great work
in breaking down the power of Nor
mondom.
The first legal execution with elec-
tricity rs the agent of death took
place in the Auburn Prison, New
York, on the morning Of the fifth
Opinion, even among the experts, is
divided as to the success Of the terri
ble experiment, and the newspapers
generally pronounce it failure.
A Postmaster in far Western State
has been relieved from the duties of
his office because he charged five cents
each for two-cents stamps, alleging
that "freights are so high the govern
ment can't sell them for less and make
any money."-Er
Great Britain Will IN 1890 pay annu-
ally for army and navy pensions, $780,
900, 900; France, SlS2,000, 900: Germa-
ny, S114,0OO,O0O; Russia, $l23, ,00O,0 900.
The United States will pay 2lO,oM,-
600 at least; perhaps more.
The official list Of the drowned in
the Johnstown disaster has ut last
been given to the world. The number
Of these whose names are known
amounts to Zip. Leaving out Of COLI
sideration the missing and the uni
Identified, the list of known victims en-
titles this disaster to be considered one
Of the greatest of modern times.
The police of st. Petersburg has sent
notice to all the saloon keepers III the
neighhorhood of factories that they
will he heavily fined if they continue
selling spirituous drinks to laborers on
trust, or begui!e them in any other
way.
RICHMOND, VA, July oS.-The Rev.
DR.. Theodorick Pryor, D. D., father of
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, died at bis
home in Nottaway County last night,
aged SG years. He was the Oldest
member Of the East Hanover Presby-
terry, and probably the oldest Presbyte-
rian minister in Virginia.
In the future, in all Government
documents and official publications III
Canada, such words as flavor, labor,
honor, etc., must be spelt with the
''u,n according to the English usage,
as favour, labour, honour, and not as
hitherto after the American style.
A citizen of Edinburgh has made a
donation Of almost ninety thousand
pounds to wage warfare against prop
erty, and against the use of opium and
intoxicating liquor and tobacco. The
money, conveyed to five trustees, "is
for advancing the cause of total absti-
nence ut home and abroad and for
arousing the people Of Scotland, Eng
land and Ireland, or of the whole
United Kingdom, or of other lands, to
q sense of the dangerous, pernicious
and evil influences and operations Of
the Church of Rome.n
The wealth of the United States Is
not1icially estimated at S7l 800, 900, an
increase in ten years of u per cent.
England's S wealth was placed at S50,-
000, 600, 900 in 1885, but divided among
Il amaller population than that Of the
United States while the value of
Frances property is put at SSG, 900, ,00o,-
600. Taxes in England average so
per capita, and in the United States
$3.50.
st. Louis AdrocGic Rev. G.. F..
Reid, of China, has returned, broken
down in health, but hopes to be we'll
in few months. He is to be at his
home in Florence, Boone county, Ky.
Somewhat more than eight years
ago the great French engineer, De
Lesseps, whose successful construction
of the Suez Canal had given him Il
Just and worldwide fame, undertook
to accomplish similar work on the
Isthmus Of Panama, and thus to bring
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans tC-
gether. He estimated that it would
take 10, ,0O0. 600 Of dollars to finish the
task, and that it would also require
five years Of time. Two years ago the
work. rs suspended for lack of funds.
More than 100, ,0OO, GO0 of dollars had al
ready been put into the enterprise; ;
ard yet il was scarcely half finished.
The collapse WAS due to many causes.
4 number of the abIc$t servants of the
Company early sickcned
and died. Their places were taken too
often by dishonest SPECTATORS whose
sole object was plunder. \ system OF
thievcry prevailed in every T.
After reading all the de-
tails, one is not surprised that the !
money gave out before the end was
even in sight.
Mr.. Joseph Bel was ali admirable
sketchcr, fertile in suggestion, and
quick at taking hints and notes, but ]
somehow he always managed To lrr-
tate Stanley by what may be called
his excessive verbosity, and the mis-
chicvous delight he always took in
endcavoring TO land Stanley on the
horns of some dilemma. FnE example
he got him to describe The method of
.clting Il donkey across Il deep river.
explained to him how the
porter led the donkey into the stream,
holding the bride and keeping the
donkcy's head (Which was alone viSi-
blc) out of the water, with one hand,
and swimming vigorously with the
other hand. YES" said Eril "did
the porter carry Il rifle ?" "Of course"
said Stanley. YES" said Bell "and :
in which hand did he carry the rifle,
seeing that one hand is already en- .
rapcd in guiding and hplpinT the don