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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
A PLAGUE OF LOCUsTS.
Morocco and Algeria Invaded ny
Myriads OF These Insects.

After months Of anxious uncertainty
there remains no room for doubt that Mo.
rocco and Algeria will again be visited by
plague of locusts. The warning first came
from Mogador in November last, whence the
insects were then advancing IN untold my
riads. A spell of cold weather checked the
advance for a time, but they have now ar
rived on the coast at Casablanca, where they
literally carpet the ground. They have even
invaded the city o., Morocco, climbing over
the walls and infesting the houses. Famine
is certain to follow their ravages, and in Mo-
rocco the wretched people will be permitted
to die like dogs, as they were twelve years
ago when thousands perished. Algeria can
scarcely escape, for Arabs who have arrived
at Figuig from a village in the Sahara say
that they rode on swift dromedaries for
more than sixty miles through swarms of
locusts. The authorities are bestirring them.
selves, but the latest and most scientific
measures have hitherto failed to check the
awful invasion, and this year efforts will in
the end have to be concentrated upon the
saving Of lives during the famine which
must result from the universal destruction
of crops and every green thing which the 10
Gust, ''el djerada, the scourge Of the Most
High" finds on his way.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
LATER NEWS.

TEE United States steam tug NINA mas
been aoated and towed alongside the Galenn
ot Vineyard Haven, Mass.
TaE Connecticut House of Representatives
adjourned to November.
THE bill appronriating $4,000 for repre-
sentation at the Worlds Fair was passed by
the New Hampshire Legislature.
CHRISTIAN MoNTAG, Of Savannah, ILL.,,
drew out 10000 pounds Of fish the other day
at O single haul of his net from the Missls-
sippi River, the catch being the largest ever
made in that section.
JUDGE PAUL A. WE'LL committed suicide
with revolver at West Bend, Wis. He had
been a sufferer from Ia grippe He was
about sixty years Of age.
JOHN MAITLAND MACDONALD. cousin OF
Sir John Macdonald, the Canadian Premier
and one of the most remarkable characters
in this country, died at Fort Smith, ARK
He was geoIogist, minsralogist, mining e1-
pert and speculator. He squandere1 three
or four fortunes in England, Australia and
this country.
JOHN HENRY MARTIN. the stepson of Sena-
tor Vance, who while drunk broke into tho
White House, has been let of with fine
Of s25.
The correspondence between Baron Fava
and Secretary Blaine relative to the recall
of the Italian Mini,ter by King Humbert
was made public.
THE elections just held in Chilli have re.
suited in a complete triumph for the liberals.
1t is reported that tho situation in which tho
insurgents at Iquique find themselves is
most desperate one.
PRINCE BISMARCK was seventy-si1 years
old few days ago; thousands Of visitors
greeted him, and hs received 5000 congratu-
latory messages.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

{ Ex-SPEAKER REED has gone to Europe.
SESAToRELEcT PEFEER, of Kansas wears
no necktie.
THE Czarwitch of Russia will not visit the
United States:
THEODORE THOMAS will be offered the
position Of Musica. Director at the Worlds
Fair.
DIR. NANsEN, Of Christiania, is about to
|;make another attempt to find the North
Pole.
THE King Of Italy has granted to Princess
'.Clothilde the pension Of her husband, Prince
Napoleon.
THE late Prince Napoleon was dull, incap-
'Plon-Plon," which means one who fears
lead.
EDWIN BOOTH, the tragedian, declares
that he will never write a book. He Is
said to have refused s25,OO0 and heavy
royalty.
KAISER WILHELM, of Germany, has writ
ten biography Of his grandfather, 260
copies only Of which will be printed for cir
'culation among royalty.
SENAToR-ELEcT PALMER once worked for
twenty-five cents day on an Illinois farm,
and afterwards learned the trade of cooper.
He paid his own way through college,
GENERAL JOHN C. LEE, Lieutenant-Gov-
,srnor Of Ohio under General R. B. Hayes,
and one Of the most prominent lawyers in
that State, died recently, aged sixty-three.
SENATOR SANDERS, Of Montana, says that
It Is inconvenient for him to sleep in sleep
tng-car, for the reason that he is too long for
the berths. His feet stick out at the end of
the berth, to his great discomfort.
CHARLES FELTON,, the new California
@ -, H. L.
native Of Erie County. He is sixty-nine
years old. He went West in 40 and though
poor then he is a millionaire several times
now.
DANIEL n. WELLS counselor Of the
.twelye apostles, general in the Nauvoo Le-
giOn and an old-time leader and trusted Off
cial Of the Mormon Church, died in Salt
Lake City, Utah, few days ago of pleuro
pneumonia.
The late Senator Hearst, Of California,
was forty-nine years old When the Comstock
silver mines were discovered. In six months
after he reached the Comstock lode he had
made $500, 600 and from that date till his
death his wealth went on multiplying.
WHEN ex-Empress Eugene left the rail-
way carriage in the Paris station, on the oc-
caaon Of her recent visit to the French capi-
tai, she was almost lifted out, and did not
need the walking STICKS she usually car
,ries. She was attired in plain black dress.
Her hair has become white, and enhances the
faded beauty Of her face. Her smile is pa
thetic, and every line in her countenancs
bears the impress Of sorrow.
THOMAS A. EDISON was at Schenectady.
n. Y, the other day, where the Edison
Works are located, and after examining an
electric torpedo boat, dined at the hotel. As
an evidence Of how deeply absorbed he be-
comes at times in his thoughts, it is said he
GOT up from the dinner table, and in passing
out OF the dining room commenced to sing
1'Sweet Violets" much to the amusement Of
the waiter girls and hotel guests.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
THEsOUTH'S1DEVEL
New Enterprises Started During the
Last Three Months.


The Chattanooga Tenn.) Trddesman's re-
port Of new industries established in the
Southern States during the first three months
Of 1891 shows a total Of s5S against s37 in
the corresponding period of 1890 and 612 in
the corresponding period Of 1889. During
the three months there were established in
the Southern States agricultural implement
works, 6 barrel factories, Ii boot and shoe
factories Ia comparatively new industry in
the South, only having been established in
the first quarter Of 1889, breweries, l
bridge works. 2 car works, 10 canning fac
tories, 45 cotton and wooden mills (which Is
somewhat below the number established In
the corresponding quarter OF ls0O-but the
distribution is general-Georgia leading with
II, South Carolina 8, Texas Z, and nearly every
other Southern State being represented), So
large development and improvement compa-
nies organized, Texas leading with 12and Ala
bama with 10; 81 electric light companies or
ganized, 90 -four and grist mills, AZ foundry
and machine shops, against 43 in 1890 and As
in 1889 Te1as leading with 10, Virginia 9,
and the balance being equally distributed),
9 blast furnaces organized, against % in the
corresponding period Of 1890 and II in 1889,
gas works organized, IS ice manufacturing
plants So mining and quarrying companies
incorporated, 4 nail works, oil mills,
against 81 in the corresponding period Of
1890 potteries, rolling mill company. So
street railway lines incorporated, 70 tanner
les, 80 water works chartered, 14l wood
working plants, and 70 miscellaneous indus
tries.
The phosphate excitement in the South Is
SUCH that thirty-two new companies were
organized during the quarter, nineteen OF
which were formed in Florida. The extra
ordinary activity in railroad building In the
South is evidenced by the fact that during
the three months ninety-three new railroad
companies were incorporated, thirteen IN
Virginia, thirteen in North Carolina, twelve
in Georgia, ten in Alabama, seven each In
West Virginia, Texas and South Carolina,
eleven in Tennessee and the balance IN other
States. The Iradesman adds that the pres
ent indications point to continued activity In
the Southern States In all industrial
branches.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
SucCegs in journalism.

Genius in literature and journalism
is the faculty of doing things much
quicker and better than the ma
iority can do them; and is not thing
that is easy to kill by obstruction or
that can be prevented from making it.
self knoan. It is the rarest of human
gifts AMI it is not worth while for any.
body to imagine that he has not it. 1t
will always prove itself to others, and it
i, just as well for its possessor to remain
unconscious. For the young man OF
talent and industry, but not of genius,
who desires to make his way in the
newspaper business, we recommend
study, intelligence, moral integrity,
great accuracy in the statement OF facts
and Of principles. economy in living,
always paying your debts, frst-rate
health and power of work equal to q
steam engines. With these he will get
along, though he may never draw the
greatest prize ir the list of professional
success. The newspaper business is
just like any other. Those who sue
ceed in it are fewer than those who do
not-Nep York Sum- -
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
WORDS OF WIjDOM.
True honor despises evasions.

True honor despises evasfons.
Beware of the man who has no petty
vices.
Dig, SOW and reap; but the harvest Is
Deaths.
Money made by chance will 90 with
certainty.
Waste of money and time usually go
hand in hand.
Friendship at the highest height Is
stronger than love.
Be quick. You can use minute but
once-make the most of it.
To make close connections with eter-
nifty Death has to be run On time.
Life is long course of mutual educa-
ton which ends but with the grave.
The first snow fake of winter, how
signifcant--and the first white hair!
Lying is the basis of all evil. After
one year of absolute truth crime would
disappear.
Some people spend their vacations in
worrying over the business they left be-
hind them.
Justice is little short sighted, per-
haps, but it frequently has an eye to the
main chance.
You just bring couple of little quar-
rels into your family and they'll breed
like sparrows.
It is so easy to fancy ones self right
that self. condemnation is about as scarce
as dodo's eggs.
Doubt is brain fog, and it sometimes
takes all the rays of the sun of expert
ence to disperse it.
Every incomplete work is monument
to human folly. Whatever is worth be-
ginning is worth completing.
God sets the stars in the windows Of
the night to cheer the belated world as
it rolls through the darkness.
She was regal, she was naughty, she
was highborn. and distinguished; and,
like the rest of us, she was clay.
Grief is not to be measured by the tears
shed, nor does the'loudest mourners al
ways deserve the largest bequest.
The happiest man is he who, being
above the trouble which money brings,
has his hands the fullest of work.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
IOreiQn.


COUNT ARTHUR KEssELsrApT and Count.
ess Anne Fries were caught in storm in
pleasure boat of Albazia, Austria, and were
drowned. The youthful Count Fries was
saved.
A MERCHANT has been murdered by a
Malta assassin at Kufstein, in the Tyrol Of
Switzerland.
M. BALTcHEFF, Bulgarian Minister OF
Finances, was assassinated while walking
with Premier Stambuloff, in Sofia.
The Cork Qreland Court House caught
fire while the Tipperary riot trial was going
on, and was destroyed. Many ancient and
valuable records were burned.
CAMILLE ToNBEAU, of East Templeton,
and Alfred Bradley, foreman, Of Prescott,
were killed by slide of rock in phosphate
mine near Ottawa, Canada.
The will of the late Prince Napoleon was
opened at Rome. Italy. It was found that
he left everything he possessed to his son,
Prince Louis.
SERGEANT MEYER, of the Reserves, has
been sentenced to fifteen years Imprison-
ment for melting men to Socialism and to
disobedience of the orders Of the German
Emperor during the maneuvres near Berlin.
SEVERE fighting at Sligo, Ireland, between
the two factions Of Irishmen was prevented
only by the constant interference Of the
police. DR.. Tanner. Member Of Parliament
was assaulted by a mob at Ballina and was
knocked down and dragged considerable
distance.
THERE was heavy snowfall in Great Brit
ain and France.
A RIOT occurred at Moven, Argentine Re-
public, during the recent elections. Two
hundred voters attacked the police and gen.
eral firing ensued, which lasted two hours.
The killed and wounded number twenty.
AMUr1NY occurred on the Chilisn man-of
war Pilcomayo while lying in the harbor of
Buenos Ayres. The mutiny Is supposed to
have been instigated by Chilian residents of
that city. Three sailors were killed and nina
were wounded.
BY the wreck Of the missionary schooner
Chapman on the west coast Of Tahiti, the
crew, numbering sixteen, were drowned.
INFLUENZA is again raging In Berlin,
Germany. Many deaths from the disease
are reported.
Two HUNDRED Bengalese troops and eighty
Goorkhas were shot to death by hostile tribes
in pass in India.
EARL GRANVILLE, who had been Ill for
several weeks, died on recent afternoon In
London, England. Lord Rosebery succeeds
to tho leadership of the Liberals in the House
of Lords. Granville George Leveson- Cover,
second Earl Granville, was born on May II,
1915.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States,

CHARLES ARBUcKLE, the millionaire coffes
merchant died few days ago in Brooklyn,
N. Y, in his fifty ninth year.
A WRECK occurred on the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad, two miles from Ash
land, Penn, b. which three men were killed
and several injured.
THE commercial hotel and boarding house
of r. Henry, at Austin, Penn, were de-
stroyed by fire. Three lives were lost.
Lizzie McGarisk, q servant; Jack McGarty,
boarder, and an unknown man. The ori-
gin Of the fire is unknown.
THE stranded United States warship Ga
lena was loated and toUed from Gay Head
to Vineyard Haven, Mas.
ERAsrUs B. STIcKNEY, Of Lansingburgh,
N. Y, dropped dead of heart disease at the
age Of ninety-one years. His death 80 af-
fected the mind Of his only daughter that it
became unbalanced. and the next afternoon
she dropped dead of heart disease.
The biggest snow storm of the season
swept over Pennsylvania few days ago, de-
laying railroad traffic and rendering country
roads impossible. The fall was heaviest at
Pittsburg, Reading, Harrisburg and Lam
caster.
REv. DR. HOWARD CROSBY. the distin-
guisned Presbyterian divine, died OF pneu-
monia in New York City, aged sixty-fiVe.
CLAUS SPaEcKELs has effected truce
with the Sugar Trust and will abandon his
Philadelphia refinery.
ABOUT 5000 school children are sick in New
York City with either grip or measles
GENERAL CHARLES A. JOHNSON, re-
tired army officer who served in the Mexl-
can and Civil Wars committed suicide at
New Haven, Conn, by shooting himself. he
was sixty-five years OF age, and a descend
ant Of John Quincy Adams
THE coke strikers in the Connellsville(Pern
region became riotous and destroyed much
property Of the companies The mob made
= raid on the Jimtown plant OF the Frlck
Company, putting to fight the non-union
laborers A dynamite bomb was exploded
at Leisenring. The Leith works were also
raided and the plant gutted.
The Grand Jury in New York City in.
iicted the Directors of the New York and
New Haven Railroad on charges Of mis-
demeanor in violating the New York laws
against heating cars with stoves. The in
dicted men are: Charles P. Clark, President,
New York; E. NJ. Reed, Vice-President,
New York; Wilson G. Hunt New Haven;
E. Il. Trowbridge. New Haven; W. D.
Bishop, Sr., Bridgeport; Henry e. Robinson,
Hartford; Joseph Park, New York; Henry
S. Lee, Springfield; Nathaniel Wheeler,
Bridgeport; Chauncey NJ. Depew, New York;
William Rockefeller, New York: Leverett
Brainerd, Hartford.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
Para fine From Peat.

A new industry that is hourishing in
Brazi! is the distillation of psraffine from
a peculiar kind of peat, which is found
in great beds. This peat is rich in
paraffine, and the distilled product IS
used in the manufacture of candles.
Some of the beds have been worked to
great depth, but there is no evidence OF
the exhaustion of the supply. -PhaI'a-
delphM Record. =
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
GEN. SHERMAN'S DESIGN.

The Simple Monument He Selected to
Mark His Grave in st. Louis.
Work has begun on the monument which
was designed by General W. T. Sherman
himself to mark his grave in Calvary Gene
terry, st. Louis. The monument is being
made by the New England Monument Com
pany.
A few weeks before his death General
Sherman called on Mr.. Garfield, Of the
Monument Company, and expressed his
views as to proper monument to mark bis
grave. A drawing was prepared, and after
It was somewhat modified. according to sug-
gestions made by the General, he accepted it,
saying he would place it among his papers
and leave request for his executors to carry
out the design. Shortly after the Generals
death his son, the Rev. P. T. Sherman, ar
ranged with Mr.. Garfield to prepare the
monument.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22
& FREIGHT TRAINS PLUNGE

Thirty-Nine Cars Piled on Top Of q
LOcomotive-Three Men Killed.
While a freight train on the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad was ascending the
grade from Locust Summit Station ON a re-
cent night the locomotive jumped the track
near Barry Station, Penn, and rolled down
freight cars. Engineer Andrew Walker and
Fireman John Oches, also Frank Myers,
passenger engineer, who was riding to his
home at Tamaqua, were instantly killed.
Conductor William E. Hoffna and Brake
man Lewis Cockert and Jacob Yenancer
were injured, the former fatally. The cause
Of the wreck Is attributed to the spreading
Of the rails.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22

THE contract for erecting monument to
che "Unlnown Dead Of the great aood,
whose bodiez rest in the Grandv'ew Gene
terry, at Johnstown, Penn, has just been
awarded. The base is to be twelve feet high,
and the granite shaft will rise twenty-one
feet. six inches. 1t will be surmounted
by three figures representing Faith, Hope
and Charity. The monument is to cost $500
and is to be completed by May 81, 1892.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22

manufacturers to put up in packages their
scraps, cuttings, clippings, ETC., and attach
thereto stamps and place the same on the
market as manufactured tobacco should be
discontinued.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22

g TIE Chilean Government has bought,
through its agents in Hamburg, several fast
steamers which will be fully equipped as
cruisers to operate against the insurgents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-04-22

THE census Of the United Kingdom, az
sording to the estimate OF the Registrar'
General gives population Of 49, 1000.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-01
MIR. sPINKs LEAVES.
A Fine Exhibition of Billiards Last Even
ing.

A Fine Exhibition of Billiards Last Even
ing.
There was a large audience at Marks pal
ace billiard hall last evening to witness a
series of two games between Mr.. W. A.
Spinks, champion of the Pacific coast, and
f. j. Edwards, OF. this city. and Jack Thorn
son, amateur champion of the coast. The
occasion was also of a complimentary ma
ture to Mr.. Spinks, as his engagement with,
Mr.. Marks closed last evening. Many
friends of the contestants were present and
surrounded the table in a line of chairs. At
nine o'clock Mr.. Spinks appeared with his
cue in hand, ready to begin the game when
Mr.. Edwards stepped to the table and in a
neat speech presented q beautiful gold
| headed cane to MI. Spinks from his Hell
ena friends. The champion was embar-
raised for a moment. as the presentation
was a complete surprise to him. He recov-
cred himself, however, and thanked his
friends in a happy little speech. The game
| with Mr.. Edwards was a three ball balk line
game and resulted in favor of Mr.. Spinks
by a score of 800 to 35, Mr.. spinks under
taking to make 800 to Mr.. Edwards 200.
The last game between MIR. Spinka
and Mr.. Thomson was balk
%lattsr's l2b. The game was closed before
the ecore az agreed was completed. Mr..
| Spinks scored lis to Mr.. Thomson's rs.
| Afterwards the champion gave a fine exhib-
ition of fancy shots. He will leave to-day
for Great Falls to give an exhibition a1d
will afterward give exhibitions in Spokane,
| Seattle and Tacoma. His many friends in
Helena wish him much success. He has
done more to arouse popular interest in the
game than any billiard expert ever In the
city and his friends learn Of his departure
with much regret.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-01
ROSH- HAsHANAH.
How tho Hebrew Now Year Will DO Oh
served In Helena.

How tho Hebrew New Year Will 10 OBJ
served in Helena.
Tho new year begins to- morrow At night
fall md will be observed BY ths Hebrews OF
Helena from that time until Saturday even
ing. During this time the business houses
will DO closed. According to the Hebrew
calendar the day marks the opening of the
year E652. Services will be held Mt Temple
EMANUEL At 6:s0 p. m. Friday and 10 a.
m. Saturday. The explanation Of the cele-
bration, which u In tho nature OF q feast
day. and the re1hOss for itg observance are
given by Rabbi Sohulmnn;
Lsviticus Oh. xii verses "a and % reads:
I'm tho seventh month, OF tho frst day OF
mortal OF blowing the t%rumpets,,a holy
convocation. Ys shall do no ssrvile work
OH this day"
elites throughout tho world will celebrato
this holy day next Friday. commencing At
6.3O p. M. and ending Saturday Mt 6:So p:
m. The day is known under three distinct
/. Rosh Hashanah, New Year-It being
the anniversary OF tho creation OF the uni
verse (5, 652 years. and also tho first day or
tho seventh month, ''lishri," commencing
from the month Of Nissan. m WHOM
month tho Israelites went forth from
2. Iom Basikoraun, the day Of Memoir
ial-Beoause this day is appointed for most
serious reflection az to our conduct toward
God and man and for self.revlsw OF our 40
tions during the past year and to amend az
to m shortcomings and transgressions.
3. Tom Terrnoh. the day OF blowing the
Shofsr or trumpst.-To awaken US to the
reality Of sincere performances OF the du-
ties which belong to the season IN order TO
prepare for the day Of atonement, the ap-
proaoh Of which it announces.