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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-04-02
Fancy Goods.

Latest STYLES in Veilings and Nets, Hair Ornament
and several novelties in this line Of goods
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SHOES ! SHOES !

Clement & Balls Shoe is the best. have dozen makes and
show you large stock for ladies' hSses and C1dn P n n nave
have 6no Northern miner who understands the art OF MIL
ney and will come about giving Paris Hat in point OF
style and finish as you would get in Paris
Mail orders attended short notice. Dresses cut and made
to order and work guaranteed Will be glad to SEND samples 10 any
address.
Thanking the Ladies for past vo and feeling can do better
for them this season than ever BEFORE ask continuance Of the same
Very Respectfully,
WIN. e. BELL.
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P A r a S O L s.

bought my Parasos direct from the factory and SELECTED my own
handles will show you something and novel in Summer Pa
ao have the best thing out in ten-rlbbed goods that Will
wear for years.
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CLOVES.

Ihave full line of Black and Cred Dress Ks Black and Col
ored ndresed Kids Black Cream and Coore Silks Black and Cor
ored e Thread Gloves All the coo in Ladies and Misses Mltts
HANDKERCHEFS White and Cored bodered from the cheap
5c goods to fine Soc article Boys Silk Ties in all shades
GRAPE LISSE.
We have been for this line Of goods for years. and we
have everything new and stylish this season.
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have all the best Makes such Thompsons Glove Fitting Dr.
Warmers HEALTH Balls HEALTH Balls Kobo nvaled Best YET &C.
have also added Thomons Ventng Corset Try one them
for comfort and you will wear no other
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
MACHINERY CRASHED INTO THE WATER
Both OF the Engines Of the Steamer
City of Paris Disabled
And the Vessel Leaking Fast With
Her Powerful Pumps Broken.
Passengers Nearly Panic. c.strlcken as
the ship Drifted About.

QUEENSTOWN, March 30.-The Inman line
steamer City Of Paris, towed by the steamer
Aldersgate, arrived at Queenstown at o'clock
this morning. The accident by which the
City Of Paris was disabled occurred Tues
day, when at $50 p. m, while the steamer
was going at full speed, the starboard en-
gine suddenly collapsed. The low pressure
cylinder broke. smashing the injection water
pipe connection and bursting the iron bulk
head dividing the port and starboard en-
gines. A portion Of the machinery smashed
through the steamers double bottom, and
the water poured through the hole into the
engine rooms, compelling the engineers and
fremen to rush to the deck for safety. The
second engineer, at the peril Of his life,
managed to shut off steam, saving the ma
chinery from total demolition, which would
have happened had the engines continued
working. He escapedlunhurt. The passen-
gers were much excited, but the captain and
officers assured them there was no danger
The life-boats were cleared In readiness for
use, and the pumps kept working. The
steamer drifted helplessly until the 10Th.
when the captain sent Chief Officer Passon
and six men in a. life-boat to get into the
track OF steamers Of other lines. The boat
met the Adriatic, which declined TO take the
City Of Paris In tow. The Aldersgate soon
hove In sight, and offered to tow the City OF
Paris. The offer was accepted. The Al
dersgate Is small steamer. and unable TO
tow over four or five miles an hOHr. Prog
ress was slow until Saturday, when the.Ohio
when Fastnet was sighted. Two tugs were
sent out later. The water kept increasing
in spite of the work OF the pumps. The ac-
cident occurred ZIG miles west Of Fastnet.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
STOLE MONEY FOR FUN.
More About the Costly Lark OF TWO
Fast Chicago Boys.

LISBON FALLS, March 29.-Special Police
Officer Duke of the Chicago police force ar
rived here tonight bearing papers signed by
the governors of Illinois and Maine, for the
extradition of William FL. Sullivan and Har-
ry Parker. two young men who are wanted
in Chicago for embezzling $500 from their
employers. These two young men both be-
long to good families in Chicago, and were
employed as clerks in the Office of the Santa
Fe railroad elevators in that city. They
were always found trustworthy until last
week, when Sullivan, who have been trusted
with between $400 and $500 to pay off the
men employed at the elevators, decided to
skip with the money, and young Parker
agreed to him. They made Maine their OBJ
jective point as they had young lady friends
in this state that they wanted to see. Young
Parker, who is II years old, last summer vis-
tied Lake Maranoceok. where he met Miss
Blanche Underwood of Lisbon Falls. Miss
Underwood had friend named George
Small in the town of Bowdoin that young
Parker met while in Maine. A correspon-
an and Sullivan, Parker's chum and present
companion in guilt. The boys kept up cor
respondence with the girls, and when they
took the money they at once made tracks for
Maine to see their lady loyes. Sullivan went
to Bowdoin to see Miss Small, and Parker
came to Lisbon Falls to meet Miss Under
wood. An Associated Press dispatch from
Chicago, stating that the young men intend
ed to get married here, is not correct, for the
young men stated emphatically this morn
ing that such was not their intention, and
that they came here for sport only. They
look on the matter as a lark, and take their
arrest very easily. Sullivan is only 16 years
old, but it was he who took the money. Par
ker is simply an accomplice Both are bright
locking young fellows, and the last that one
would think of aSSOciatiuU with amhp1ylp-
ment. There was found on Sullivan S182, all
that was left of the amount stolen. The
officer will start for Chicago with his two
prisoners by the first train Monday.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
READY TO DESERT THE SHIP.
A Hole In Her Bottom and the Steam
Pumps Broken.

QUEENSTOWN, March 30.-The getting OF
authentic and detailed information Is attend
ed with difficulty, owing TO the reticence Of
the company's officials. 1t appears when the
crew went to work to clear the ship OF water
they found only the hand pumps available,
the gear OF the steam pumps having been de-
stroyed. Recourse was had to buckets, with
the external application Of heavy sails and
blankets to the damaged portion Of the ves-
sci. The struggle against the inroads Of the
sea was successfully maintained. Calm
weather and smooth sea materially assisted
the efforts Of the crew. The general opinion
is that II the steamer had experienced twelve
hours Of stormy weather, she would ineyita-
bly, have foundered. In readiness for such
an emergency the boats were cleared and
every preparation made TO leave the ship at
a moments notice. Among the passengers,
It Is said that there was never anything in
the nature Of panic, although doubtless
great deal OF alarm existed when, after Ion
drifting, no assistance appeared. The waite
In the hold Is still increasing, and four Of the
water-tight compartments filed yesterday.
The divers discovered the damage to be so
great as to preclude the possibility Of towing
the ship safely to Liverpool. She will be
beached and temporarily repaired. 1t the
damage Is not as bad as 1t seems, she will be
taken to Liverpool at the first favorable op-
pOrtunity,
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
IN THE HOUSE.
The Canteen, High Collars and the
Temperance Question.

Temperance Question.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-The house
went into committee of the whole. Mr..
Allen Of Michigan, in the chair, on the army
appropriation bill. Mr.. Morse of Massa-
chusetts attacked the provision allowing the
sale Of liquors at the canteens at military
stations denouncing it as an outrage against
the temperance and Christian people of TIE
country.
Mr. Morse offered an amendment provide
ing that no alcoholic liquors shall be sold 20
enlisted men in any canteen.
Mr.. Boutelle of Maine, advocated the
adoption of the amendment and criticised
the provision of the bill relative to canteens
as provision to legislate intemperance into
the army.
Mr.. Morse said that he believed in the can
teen. He believed in the reading room,
library and gymnasium. His only objection
to the bill was the beer clause, and if the bill
was passed without his amendment protest
would come up from the Christian men and
women OF the country which would shake
the Capitol.
Mr.. Spinola read from the the national Re-
publican platform in favor of legislation to
promote temperance and sObIiety. The Re-
publicans, he said, had been in absolute
possession of the Capitol, yet they had es-
tablished canteen for the sale of rum right
In the basement
Mr.. Struble of Iowa, interjected to declare
that the Republicans were only continuing
the precedent established by the Democrats.
Mr.. Spinola, continuing, said that the gen.
tleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Morse),
whom he loved had referred to his collar
Now, that collar was immaculate in its
whiteness and purity, and ifit were three
times as wide as it was it would not be high
enough. to cover the gentleman's ears.
[Great laughter].
Mr.. Morse's amendment was adopted-62
to 45-many Democrats who are opposed to
the proposition voting for it in order that
there may be a yea and nay vote in the
House.
Pending further action the committee rose.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
TWELVE PEOPLE PERIsHED.
Five Men Arrested Accused of Setting
a Recent Boston Fire.

BOSTON, March 29-Upon warrants pro-
cured by Fire Marshal Whitcomb, special
officers of station 1, this afternoon, arrested
julius Smith, Morris Reubens, Able Ber-
gin and Edgar Smith, charged with arson in
firing the building on North street, where 12
persons lost their lives by fire on Saturday
night some two months ago. Julius Smith,
who is charged with setting the fire. is said
te have an interest in the clothing store
where the fire started and to have held an
insurance of 5000 on stock which was not
worth over $50. Reubens was dealer in
second hand clothing who condu cted his
business in the store He is charged with
being an accessory after the fact. Abbe
Bergin is charged with assisting in setting
the fire and being an accessory before the
fact Edgar Smith is held as an accessory
after the fact The evidence secured by the
officers tends to show that soon after mid
night on the night of the fire, persons living
near saw lighted lamp without chimney
in the store. A moment later the curtain
was in flames and men were seen running
from the store The proprietor claims there
were no men in the store after IL o'clock
The arrest of the four men was soon follow
ed by that of Benjamin Savage, charged
with being an accessory before and after the
fact.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
the ROAD PAID DUTIES
AND Soma OF Its Own Officials
Pocketed the Money.

CALAIS, March 29.-Charges of smuggling
have recently been made against the Lake
Shore railroad of New Brunswick by the
dominion authorities. During the past year,
1t is charged. all the imported materials used
on the above named road have paid no duty.
The goods said to have been smuggled con.
slst OF rolling stock, wire fencing, hardware,
oils used for fabrication and other purposes,
amounting in all to many thousands of dol
lars. All the suspected articles now avail
able have been seized by the special agent of
the Dominion government, John ID. Bon
ness, large quantity of which is now
stored in the customs warehouse in ST.
Stephens.
Mr. Bonness says that large amount of
this work has been carried on by certain sub
ordinates in charge of the road. who at the
end OF each month rendered vouchers for
goods purchased and duties paid at the head
office OF the road, but these Vouchers. as far
as the duties were concerned, were found to
be forged, and they had smuggled the goods
and collected the duties of the road although
they had never been paid. Mr. Bonness saws
three parties. including an official who has
suddenly departed for the West
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
PEOPLE pERCHED IN THE TREE TOPS
With Twenty Feet of Water Between
Them and the Ground.
Cattle Which Survived the Flood
Slowly Dying of Starvation.
Signal Service officer Predicts That
Worse Is Yet to Come.

ST. LOUIS, March 3O-J. j. HOGAN. of the
Memphis Commercial, arrived today direct
from the flooded district along the Mississip-
pi river. He has just completed tour of
the devastated region, and says the situation
is alarming In his opinion the fl ood has
not reached the highest notch. Laconia Cir
Gle, in sDespatch county, Ark, comprises
about 10000 acres, and is inundated to
depth of from five to twenty feet. The in
habitants, numbering between 10000 and
$4,000 people, whites and negroes, women
and children, are perched on the housetops
and in the trees. Live stock not already
drowned is maintaining a precarious exist
ence with their wretehed owners, in some
instances on the roofs of residences and
elsewhere on improvised platforms of wreck
age. Starvation is telling on the cattle, and
human victims arc in scarcely less deplora-
BILE condition as to food. The entire Missis-
sippi delta country, reaching from Vicksburg
west to Shreveport and down to New Orleans
seems doomed to destruction. Mr.. Hogan
reports all the people in a wide district flee
ing for their lives.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Forty Thousand In the Strikers
Ranks In Catalonia.

MoNTLUooN, France, March 3O.-The col
liers of st. Eloi have struch for an
edvance Of wages. The men lin other COL
lieries threaten to strike and the greatest
excitement prevails.
BARCELONA, March 3O.-The,strike move
ment is spreading. Throughout Catalonia
10000 men have quit work. and it is expected
that many more will soon ioin the strikers
Fears are entertained that all the factories
in Catalonia Will be compelled to close their
doors. There Is a strong anarchist element
among the workingmen.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31

the capital Of the Department of Vosges.
Documents were found on his person show
ing that there exists an organized system of
espionage of the French forts and camps
along the Franco German frontier.
An army balloon, containing two officers
and private collapsed over the forest of
Schrimm, Germany. The private was killed
and one Of the officers had both of his legs
broken.
Ten thousand London shoemakers have
struck to, compel the masters to do away
done outside the factories.
Sir Richard Cartwright in a speech at
Ottawa declared that Canada was not in
rleasing in population according to natural
increase and attributed the condition to the
evil of overtaxation.
1t is said that the Newfoundland govern
ment will decline to recognize Canadian
fishing licenses to American vessels.
The Portuguese elections sustained the
government. Serpa Pinto was elected as a
minority candidate in Lisbon.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
NO. OF val. per
Snindles SnindIe
Mills

The valuation of the Bates and York Mills,
as will be seen, is very much greater than the
others. This is because they manufacture
colored goods, which require most costly ma
chinery.
A similar compilation of the 43 woolen
mills in the State shows the total number of
the sets to be 277; total valuation $2,075 $685.
The average value per set is given by Mr..
Hall as $7,493. Ten years ago the valuation
was 81, 1,262000, and the average per set $5l2
Only one mill is returned as abandoned, that
at Gardiner.
The Ice Crop.
BANGOR, March 29.-As near as can be as
certained, the Ice crop on the Penobscot
fields will amount to 962, 800 tons. These fig
ures are, if anything, too small, as the cut
on some small streams and ponds is not in
cluded.
BATH, March 29.-The barge Independent,
owned by Morse & Co., sails from here to-
morrow morning for Baltimore with 400 tons
Of ice, the largest load shipped from the Ken
nebee. The cargo was cut at Lake Marano-
cook, and some of the blocks on board are %
inches thick. The ocean tug G. W. Morse
will tow the barge to Baltimore. The draft
OF the Independent, with such large cargo,
is only % feet inches.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
EicHJY-oNE WERE SAVED.
British Steamer Gulf of Alden Lost
In the PacIfic..

VALPARAISO, March SO-Altelegram from
Ancud announces the loss of the British
steamer Gulf Of Alden on the 18th inst, in
47' lsouth latitude. The disaster occurred
opposite Tres Monies, 100 miles from the
coast Forty OF the crew and Al passengers
were saved in four boats. News Of the
wreck was given by 16 Of the survivors. who
have arrived at Quollan. NJ further partic-
ulars have been learned.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
CALAMITY IMMINENT.
A Big Storm Wave May Rush Down
the Mississippi.

New YORK, March 29-As long ago as
last Monday, Sergeant Dunn of the signal
service station, in the Equitable building
predicted the very state of affairs which now
exists in the lower Mississippi. He said
then that the danger was not at an end when
the water ceased rising, but that merely the
continued pressure of the floods on the le-
wees would cause them to give way. Yester-
day Sergeant Dunn reviewed the situation,
and expressed the belief that there was i'm
mlnent danger of frightful calamity along
the lower Mississippi, and that it was the
duty Of the department to warn the inhabi-
tants of their danger. The calamity, he be-
neved, was imminent, even without the aid
OF the floods to be expected, as the conse-
quence OF the storm that has just ceased rag
Dut that those floods rendered it now almost
a certainty.
The danger in Louisiana, he said, was not
due to a further rise of the waters only, but
also TO the weakening of the levees from the
repeated soakings which they have had late
ly. The storm will make life in Louisiana a
very precarious condition.
Ihe lower waters of the river would be
enormously increased during the next ten
days, he said, by the fresh floods from the
MISS missouri ~. river, entering at St. Charles, and
from the Ohio, entering at Cairo. This alone,
with the river now tits highest mark, would
insure an inundation that would make it i'm
possible for those living on the lowlands to
escape unless they started at once. But
when the great additional mass of water
with which the storm has heaped the foun
tain channels of the Mississippi itself gets
down to increase this flood, then will follow,
he thinks, the greatest calamity that this
country has known. The fact that, although
several huge crevasses have been broken in
the levees below Vicksburg, the height of
the river at at Vicksburg and Cairo remains
the same, makes Sergeant Dunn believe that
the channel of the river below is choked
with the deposits of the first flood so as to
practically form dam. This will back up
the water to a frightful extent when the
great flood wave comes down, and will al
most certainly cause it to sweep over the le-
wees and carry them away. When the levees
at Helena, some of the strongest on the
river, have been swept away within two
days under no unexpected pressure, what, he
asks. will he the restlt Of tho cnrnine of tho
storm wave upon those that remain. Two
weeks ago the signal office warned the peo-
pie In these districts that they were in dan
ger. Now, he says, they should be warned
to prepare for the worst.
Sergeant Dunn was stationed for six or
seven years at New Orleans, and he made
careful study of the river problem during all
that time.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31

The policies of the UNION MU-
TUAL LIFE INSURANCE COM
PANY afford absolute protection,
and In liberality are unsurpassed
by those OF any other Company.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
messenper,s Notice.

Office of the Sheriff Of Cumberland County. State
of Maine, Cumberland IS. March "a, AID. 1890.
NHIS is to give notice. that on the twenty.fourth
Il day Of March. A. ID. 1890, Warrant in
Insolvency was issued out of the Court of Insol.
yency for said County of Cumberland, against the
estate of
LEON W. sTOCKBRIDGE,
OF Portland, adjudged to be an insolvent debtor,
on petition of said debtor, Leon w. Stockbridge,
which petition was filed on the twenty-fourth day
Of March, A. D., 1890, TO which date interest on
claims is to be computed.
That the payment of any debts to or by said
Debtor, and the transfer and delivery of any
property by him are forbidden by law
That meeting of the Creditors of said Debtor
to prove their debts and choose one or more
aSsignees of his estate will be held at Court OF
Insolvency to be holden at Probate Court Room,
in said Portland, on the seventh day of April, A. ID.
1890, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon.
Given under my hand the date first above writ
ten. III. X. SARGENT,
Deputy Sheriff, as Messenger of the Court Of In
solvency for said County of Cumberland.
mar25&ap1
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
BREAKS GROWING WIDER.
The Rivers Still Rushing Through
Their Broken Barriers.

GREENvILLE, March 3O.-1he damage the
flood will do to plantations, stock, fences,
houses and stores is beyond calculation. Be-
sides this it is getting late in the season and
the waters will only recede with the fall of
the river. Crops will all be late, and in many
places it may not be possible to plant at all.
An attempt to close the breaks in the levees
is of no avail. The ends of some of the
broken levees may be secured to prevent the
crevasses from enlarging. but work on the
Ofutt break fully demonstrated the fact that
it is next to impossible. with such volume
OF water rushing through, at the present
stage of the river. The latest from the
Easton break states that it is now GOO feet
Wide and increasing. RAPIDLY. The break at
Huntington, which is 600 feet wide, is hourly
growing wider and threatens to become an
immense break. The break at Skepwith is
now between 600 and 700 feet wide, and rap
IDLY increasing. The liver at Greenville has
fallen three inches caused by the breaks
above. The levee between Luna and Co
lumbus landings. Ark, broke at 4 o'clock
thursday morning. No particulars could be
learned.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31

than the estimates which included no pro-
vision for increase of the navy. The total
appropriation Is $459.013 more than the ap-
preparation for the current year. The most
interesting features Of the bill are those re-
lating to new construction, and under this
head the committee has made provision for
four new vessels. While this is a smaller
number than was expected, the committee
in its reported will call attention to the fact
that the vessels authorized to be built are of
a class far beyond anything our naval archi-
tects haveyet undertaken In size, efficiency
and cost.
The bill provides for the construction of
three seagoing coast line-of-battle ships of
about $500 tons, designed to carry the heav-
lest armor and most powerful ordnance, and
to cost not more than $4,00O,0OO each. The
committee has also provided for one armored
cruiser of about 1900 tons displacement, not
to exceed in cost S2,750,0O0. The bill appro-
PIRATES for the Portsmouth, n: H., navy
yard, SIP, ABS, including $4,000 to replace
the shops DESTROYED by fire.
The Portland daily press., 1890-03-31
Realized SI2.OOO

WATERBURY, Conn.,, March 3O.-Writs
were sworn out for the arrest of Patrick
Carroll, the West Main stree. grocer, who
disappeared few days ago, after cheating
Bridgeport and Waterbury, 1t now tran,
spires that Carroll has been engaged in mass
ing bogus checks and other fraudulent trans
actions. The penalty is states prison. He
realized $4,000.