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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
MONEY IN CIRCULATION.
An Increase Of $1,000 per Capita IN
Thirty Years.

A statement has been prepared at the
United States Treasury Department in
Washington in regard to the amounts OF
money in circulation on the first Of July OF
the years 1860, 1865. 1885, 1899 and 1891, from
which it appears that the assertion that
there has been since the war a great reduc-
ton Of the amount Of money in circulation
is without foundation. The statement is as
follows:
All the statements furnished are made upon
precisely the So ne basis. the amount OF each
kind OF money in the Treasury and the
remainder is given as the amount in c!rcula-
tion. There is nothing omitted from
there except minor coins tnickels and
pennies) and they are left out OF
all the reports because OF the difficulty in
estimating the amount Of them in use. As
the amount at the present time Is certainly
greater than in the earlier years, their omis.
sion will not be unfavorably criticised by
those who contend that there is now
scarcity OF money.
The amount OF money in circulation in
1850 was about s435, 600, 600, and tde amount
per capita was $l3.S5. In 1865 there were
s723, 100000 in circulation, and the per
capita amount was s20.s2 Twenty years
100000, and the per capita was S23.'
02; while on January l, 1884, toe
amount was nearly sl,5a9 600, 900, with
s24. 10 as the per capita allowance, the high.
est in the history Of the United States.
Owing to the shipments Of gold to foreign
countries there has been a decline since
January l, 1891, not only in the per capita
amount but in the total circulation. On
August l, not withstanding the outflow OF
gold, the total amount was about 81, 5OO, OOO,-
600, and the amount per capita was s23.37.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
Pens and RazOrs Don't Get "Tired."

"Having been in the gold pen bust
ness I know whereof speak" remarked
Hon. J. O'Neill, "and when I say that
the story going the rounds to the effect
that gold pens get tired, and must have
rest is a glimmering talsehood. I make
the assertion advisedly. As the yarn
goes, bank clerk was overheard to re.
mark that his favorite gold pen must
have months rest, and when chaffed
about it, replied that ne kept two dozen
gold pens for the reason that be could
not get satisfactory work out of the pens
unless he gave them certain amount OF
rest. The same story is applied to razors
by BARRIERS, but the statement that
razor gets tired has long since been
shown to be rank nonsense. If gold
pen is properly cared for it will last
long time. Otherwise it will become
worthless very quickly. Once it gets
tired, however, it will remain 'tire1'-
that is, it will be worthless for all time
to come. ."-St. Louis Siar-Sayings.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Learn to explain thy doctrine by thy
life.
Death breaks the lantern, but cannot
put out the candle.
Language was given that we might
say pleasant things to each other.
Reason is that ingenuity of the mind
with which men justify their preju-
dices.
Purchasing luxuries and skimpiug on
necessities and comforts is Lot wise
economy.
The excuse of every man who does not
mind his own business is that he is try
ing to do good.
Economy, rightly understood, is not
refusing TO spend money; it is spending
money judiciously.
1t is about as hard to fad q man who
will not help you spend money as it is
to find q man who will help you te
earn it.
No state can be more destitute than
tnat Oh q person, "uo, "he1 'io "9'o
OF sense forsake him, has no pleasures OF
the mind.
1t is the bounty of nature that we live,
but of philosophy, that we live we'll;
which is, in truth, greater benefit than
life itself.
1t is with narrow-souled people as with
narrow-necked bottles; the less they
have in them, the more noise they make
in pouring it out.
Incidence is delightful but distress.
ing state; we must be doing something
to be happy. Action is no less neces.
sary than thought to the instructive ten.
denotes of the human frame.
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BOSTON mas q peQuIeTS uniOl.
P1rTsBURG reporters have union.
BERLIN girl-waiters have organized.
LONDON employs 500, 900 factory hands.
LONDONDERRY, Ireland, has 700 <. Of L
INDIANAPOLIS workingwomen are organic.
ing.
LOCOMOTIVE firemen will build Sl50, ,OO0
hall.
ILLINOIS miners averaged ST.. Is day last
year.
AN international woodworkers' union is
proposed.
NEW YORK furriers who work overtime
| are fined S25.
The weaving trade Of Saxony is suffering
from depression.
THE plush-makers cooperative shop at
| New York failed.
AMAss meeting of the unemployed was
held in New York.
AUsrRAL1As Labor party elected twenty.
six men to Parliament
WOMEN in California canneries get from
sl.l6 to Sl.9O per week.
SAN FRANCISCO seamen kick against the
competition of japanese.
Two railroad conductors in Illinois were
| fined for instituting strike.
TWENTY EIGHT unions compose the New
York Hebrew Trades Union.
The diamond cutters Of New York earn an
average salary Of $50 week.
New York organized workingwomen
marched to picnic in body.
The women Of Italy who work olive oil
presses get twenty cents day.
Cooprps will hold National Cony yention
at Indianapolis on September 14th.
TRADE is extremely dull for carpenters
and joiners throughout this country.
INDIANAPOLIS laundry girls are inducing
employers to pay for work after P. N.
THE street car railways in Chicago have
decided to employ women as conductors
TIE New York Housesmiths' Union hus
1000 members-only 125 non union men in
town.
MISS SARAH SHEA is the manager Of the
<. of L. cooperative shirt factory Of New
York.
FRANCE has prohibited the working OF
railroad dremen and engineers over twelve
hours day.
The farmers in New England are offering
$25 per month and board for laborers, and
cannot secure them.
For carrying marble blocks on their heads
from the quarries Italian women receive
twenty-five cents per day. They are now on
strike to get three cents more.
For producing twenty thousand slate
pencils the State Of Meininger, Germany,
pays about S3. A family OF about seven
persons has to work an entire week to ac-
complish the task. The slate quarries are
property of the State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

EX-SENATOR THURMAN's health is failing
fast.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, q getting
stout.
SENATOR BR1cE, Of Ohio, is sight seeing
In London.
JUSTICE FIELD is the scholar OF the Su-
preme bench.
EMILE ZoLA, the French novelist, is ris-
ing one-and-fifty.
CHIEF JUSTICE LUCAS, Of West Virginia,
is only four feet high.
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, is about to make q
pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
SENATOR CAMERON, of Pennsylvania, Is
reported to be worth S6, 600, 600.
DON PEDRO, ex-Emperor Of Brazil Is said
to be much broken in body and spirit.
QUEEN VICTORIA has conferred the order
of the garter upon the Princs of Naples.
THE Duke of Edinburgh is the most pen.
uriouS member of the British royal family.
EDWIN BOOTH, the tragedian, is said to ae
dying from the effects Of over-indulgenco in
tobacco.
IT is said that stenographers pronounce
Bishop Phillips Brooks the fastest speaker
in the world.
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS is sufferer from
heart disease and has made preparations for
q sudden death.
GLADSTONE has a fondness for having
Longfellow read aloud to him, now that he
can't read Homer.
PARNELL has been deserted by all but
few insignificant followers, but he declares
himself still in the field.
JOHN BELL, who was an intimate friend
OF Sir Walter Scott, died at Melrose. Scot
land, the other day, aged ninety-two years.
ROBERT BONNER has been such a lover Of
speedy trotters that he has spent more than
1900, 900 in gratifying his tastes in that di-
rection.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has invested
$50 900 Of his surplus cash in block at the
corner of Pennsylvania and Georgia streets,
indianapolis
LIE CARoN, the notorious spy whose career
was brought to an abrupt ending by ParnelPs
suit against the London Times, Is dying Of
mortal disease.
Ex-SEcRErARY BAYARD, OF Delaware, IS
growing deshy as he advances in years, and
bis fine height is now balanced by fair
breadth Of body.
THE youngest member Of the next Ma
tionol House of Representatives will be Bal.
ley Of Texas. He is not yet thirty years OF
age, and is all orator o. unusual quality.
The Countess Lewenhaupt, Secretary
BaYard's daughter. who was lately widowed
under the most distressing circumstances,
is spending the summer in Sweden with the
family Of her husband.
ENSIGN DASHSELL, who has charge Of the
important naval ordnance-proving station
at Indian Head, on the Potomac, receives
the muniicsnt sum of $1,000 year from the
Government For this salary he furnishes
expert knowledge on the subjects of naviga-
ton. naval ordnance, civil engineering,
architecture, electricity, machinery and in.
ventions.
COMMODORE RAMSEY, who succeeded Ad.
miral John Walker as Chief of the Bureau
OF Navigation. is a picturesque figure in the
Navy Department. He looks more like a
popular New York preacher than naval
officer. He is one of the best sailors of the
navy, however, and is man of fine ply.
siaue, TALL straight as all Indian, with close
cropped silvery hair and trim little gray
niustache.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
INDIA HUNGRY.

Famine Extending In Two Distrlcts
of the Madras Presidency.
There has been no rainfall in the Chingle.
nut and North Arcot districts in the Presi.
dency Of Madras, India, and all hopes OF
averting famine have been abandoned. :
The heat is unprecedented. The standing
Grain and other crops have succumbed to
the long drought and all are withered and
burned.
reported. ,.,,,
are dying in large numbers everywhere LII
the districts.
It is not only the poorer classes OF the
population that are suffering. Many natives
Of the high castles are making application TO
the authorities for relief to keep themselves
and their families from starvation. Il
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
DROWNING ACCIDENTS.
Six Persons Perish at Boston and
-Four in Wisconsin.

-Four in Wisconsin.
At Boston, Mass, a drowning accident
happened in the harbor, off what Is known
as Cow Pasture, by which six lives were
lost. The accident was due entirely to lack
Of knowledge on the part of those who
handled the yacht, and the carelessness
on the part Of the occupants. Nine per-
sons started out for q sail during the
afternoon in small yacht. and
had proceeded short distance
when she capslzed, and all We're thrown into
the water Only three of the party were
saved. Those drowned are John Burke and
two of his children, aged eleven and fourteen
wears; Annie and Thomas Carmody, ages
eleven and thirteen years, and Thaddeus
Marthorn, aged thlrty-fve years.
Four young people, children OF prominent
Milwaukee business men, were drowned at
Lake Pewaukee, Wis. They were out in
small sailboat with three other young
people. A squall struck the boat, capszins
it. 1t was heavily ballasted and sank
almost Immediately, leaving the seven peo-.
pie struggling in the water. The names OF
the drowned are Albert and Emma Bartil,
Martha Kindling and Clara Siegler, their
ages ranging from fifteen to twenty years.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
FATAL TORNADO.

Circus Tent Blown D0wn-Threc
Killed and Fifty Injured.
A tornado swept over AshIauI, Wis, an
the town of Washburne, just across the bay
from there, doing an immense amount of
damage.
A. Washburne the tent of Willians's circus
was blown down, three people being killed
and about fifty injured, many of them
fatally.
About one hundred houses were de-
nolished at Washburne, but the only casual
ties were those at the circus grounds.
In Ashland about fifty houses were blown
down, many OF them the best business build
ings.
Ali Of the shipping in the As land harbor
suffered severely, much Of it being destroyed
altogether
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
Good Waterproof Blacking.

A good waterproof blacking is COM
posed of the following ingredients: two
ounces of beeswax, two ounces Of tallow,
two ounces of spermaceti, one tablespoon
full of lampblack. Mix all we'll together
and stir we'll. Apply warm with brush
and when cold polish like ordinary black
ing. Broken ends of candles will do for
the spcrmaceti.- ti.-Neu York Tribune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
RUSSIA'S GRAIN FAMINE.
Restriction and Possible Prohibl.
tion of the Export Of Corn.

The grave situation created by the failure
of the crops in Russia is causing the greatest
apprehension in all circles. A st. Peters
burg paper declares that tho local admins
trations will be unable to make provision for
the inhabitants of the distressed provinces by
drawing upon the surplus Of other provinces
il spectators are allowed to export corn or II
the artificial rise in the price of corn IS not
checked. The paper demands that the Gov.
ernment Immediately place heavy export
duty on rye. The Financial Messenger de-
clares that it will be almost impossible for
Russia to export corn this year.
II is officially announced that the Govern
ment has not as yet contemplated issuing q
decree totally prohibiting the export Oh
grain from Russia, but the partial failure
of the crops demands that provision % maoe
for the people living in the distressed PROV
inces, and consequently the export of grain
from those provinces will be restricted by
the authorities.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
Length Of Soldiers Steps.

Among the continental armies the Ger
man soldiers have the longest legs, judg-
ing by the length of step, which is eighty
centimeters. The step of the French,
Austrian, Belgian and Swedish soldiery
averages seventy-dve centimeters, while
that Of the Russian soldiers rarely ex,
ceeds sixty.uine. .....
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
FOUR LYNCHED.

Inccndiaries Shot to Death in Henry
County, Alabama.
News has just been received of aquadrupls
tynching in Henry County. Ala. Ona recent
day the residence of William Davis, promi-
nent farmer, was burned and the family mar
rowly escaped with their lives. On Sunday
Ella Williams tcolored) was arrested and con,
fessed to saturating the house with oil ami
settinr fire to it out of revenge. Her con-
fession implicated William Williams, Willis
Lowe and Eliza Lowe (all co.orei). They
were arrested, anu while tine officers were
taking them to Jail at Abbeville mob over
powered the officers; and shos the prisoners
to death. Their bodies were thrown into
the river nearby.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
BOILED HIM ALIVE.
How the Shah of Persia Punished q
Thicving Tax Gatherer.

How the Shah of Persia Punished q
Thicving Tax Gathercr.
Advices from Teheran, Persia, bring a
queer report to the effect that the Shah,
having become much enraged against Abb
iullah Khan, the Governor of Mazender-
aun, condemned that ruler to the terrible
death OF being boiled alive. The charge
against the unfortunate Governor waS
That he had embezzled taxes dts
10 the Shah's treasury. Tho
truth, it is alleged, is that Abdullah had not
embezzled any more than he was In the
habit of doing, but that, owing to poor har-
vest and the poverty of the peasantry, he
lid not keep the usual amount for the Shah.
The Shah, with a view Of striking terror
into other thievins governors, ordered that
Abdullnh should be boiled alive, but grac.
iously declared also, that the water should
be boiling hot at the time Of the fatal dip, so
IS to finish him as quickly as possible.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
A RATTLESNAKE'S VICTIM.

Horrible Death of Man Bitten by q
Reptile In New Jersey.
William P. Elliott, of Branchville, N. j.,
died the other day from the effects of rat
tesnake bite, which he received week be-
fore. Elliott was picking berries when be
suddenly heard the warning rattle, and. the
snake, four feet long, sprang at him from
fangs again and again in his arm.
Instead of sucking the poison from the
wound at once, Elliott tarried to kill the rep
tile. By the time he got home his arm was
terribly inflamed and swollen. After lin
gerng in great agony for week he died,
{. ough every known medical aid to save hum
was administered.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
AN EARTHQUAKES WORK
Wonderful Typographical Change:
in the Extreme Southwest.

in the Extreme Southwest.
Persons from the region Of Sonora, on the
Colorado River, report wonderful change
in the topography and appearance
OF the country. Many old Ian lmalSs
are obliterated, prominent natural ob.
jects are wiped off the face Of the earth, and
new ores created in unexpected places. The
dana ,e done is principally to stocHtaen, who
have lost many head OF cattle. The Cocopah
Indians are heavy losers The small stream
four miles north OF Lsrio, which,
prior to the recent earthquake, was
readily forded, has become impasS'
able owing To It's depth. 1t is now nee
essary tn cross the water course SIX ,nleS
bacS fro n the CDlora TO. The tocopal ~
dams now pre- ct another earthquake lia3
to 0cc IL soon. Thav say natural signs III
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
DRIVEN TO SUICIDE.

Indignant Women WIth FItcHfVFks
Make q Libertine Jump to Death.
A fellow named Boehme notorious for his
libertinism, recently assaulted in Weissen'
sels, Germany, girl who had rejected his
advances. The women of the village as
sembled, carrying pitchforks and scythes.
and surrounding the guilty man, drove him
to the brink of well, into which he jumped
and was drowned. 1t was given out that
Boehme had committed suicide through
shame, and there Is no likelihood that hi
tormeptors will be prosecuted.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26

THAT oz-alderman in New York who
claims his salary for the nine months
during which he was in Canada hiding
from Justice, would be polished brass
monument to society if he were only pol
ished and ornamental.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26

WHAT do you think of DR.. Holm.s
idea that fish diet gives q MIN many
ashy characteristics II think the
statement little indefinite. He does
,ot stat, whether the man becomes =
.hsrk or . sucker"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-08-26
THE LABOR WORLD.

yosroN has peddlers' union.
P1TTsBURG reporters have union.
BERLIN girl-waiters have organized.
LONDON employs 50O.o 900 factory hands.
LONDONDERRY, Ireland, has 700 (. of L
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-09-17
RAILROADS.

THE st. Paul directors have declared the
regular semi-annual dividend of 81 per cent
on the preferred stock, payable Oct. 7.
THE lines in the Western Passenger As
sociation have refused to join with the lines
in the Central Pacific Association in max
ing reduced rates for "home visitors ex-
cursions' to points in Michigan, Indiana
and Ohio, Sept. 22.
The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul road for the first week of Sep
tember amounted to $780, TAG. against 1891,
366 for the corresponding week of 1890, an
increase of $8938O. The Milwaukee &
Northern earned during the same week
$36, 159, an increase as compared with the
corresponding period last year of So, 1876.
THE state board of tax commissioners for
Indiana has concluded the assessment OF
railroad property. The board has doubled
the assessment on all the roads, and in a
few cases that of last year has been trebled.
The total assessment of railroad property
last year was $780, 700, 600, and this year will
reach and may exceed $160, 100000. e
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-09-17

A WHOLE family in Paris, numbering six
members, committed suicide. The father
and mother showed the way by hanging
themselves, and the Others who we're adult
children, initiated their parents.
THE English board of trade returns for
August rs compared with those for the cor
responding month last year show that inn
ports increased FL ,42O, 900 and that exports
decreased 92, $50, 600.
A Moscow correspondent commenting
on the demands that come from all quarters
for measures to relieve distress is greater
and more widespread than was first sup
posed, and that the worst is still to come.
THE Italian government has sent an ur-
gent order for so, 600 rifles to the Ternoy
factory and has instructed Gen. Rictotti,
formerly minister of war, to minutely in
spect the forts in the AL pine district
THE Paris police are searching the houses
ofseveral of the promoters of the Panama
Canal company, with q view of obtaining
further evidence in the investigation being
made into the affairs of that organization.
THE government of Italy has telegraphed
to the Italian ambassador at Constantine
pie to cordially support England in the
Dardanelles question. The official press OF
Rome urges England to closely watch Rus
sia in the East.
A LONDON dispatch from Mombassa, in
British East Africa, announces that the
British East African company's steamship
Kenia has navigated the river Tanta q dis
tance of 300 miles from the coast, and thus
opened to trade fertile and populous dis
trict, which has upto the present been sup
posed to be practically closed to commerce.
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GEN E RAIL

DAVENPORT, Iowa, celebrated Ito third
annual river carnival with great success.
VILLA MARIA convent and academy at
Frontenac is dedicated.
I. MEREDITH, of Monticello, ILL.,, has been
tapped 27S times for dropsy and 1914
pounds of water drawn from his body.
THB board of lady managers of the
worlds fair will send agents abroad to work
in the interest of the women's department.
THE jurors in the famous Davis will case
at Butte, Montana, disagree, standing seven
to five in favor of the contestants.
ITALo-AMERICANs have called a meeting
at Washington, Dec. T. to discuss and take
action looking to the promotion of the fair
by urging Italy to accept the invitation ex-
tended by the United States.
THE annual convention of the National
Electrical association of the United States
has opened in Montreal. Nearly 300 del.
egates are in attendance including prom
inent electricians from all parts Of the
United States and Canada.
ROBERT REED, who has returned TO San
Francisco from Chignik bay, Alaska, SAYS
that reports of trouble with natives at that
point are without foundation. Work al
the canneries went along without inter.
ruption during the season.
LEON. V. STEPHENS, receiver of the Third
National Bank of st. Louis, has brought
suits against the directors of the bank to
recover $343, 337.97, money alleged to have
been loaned by the bank in violation oil
statutes and which could not be collected
by the receiver.
In an Iowa railway case, Judge Ney OF
Dubuque holds that a contract made with
an Ohio oil company by Iowa men is OF
interstate character, and railroads cannot
be made to conform to state regulations in
the matter of switching charges for trans.
ferring oil from one point to another with
in the state.
The ladies of New Orleans are moving to
secure the release of Mrs. Florence Nav.
brick from Working prison, England,
where she is confined for life, convicted OF
having poisoned her husband. Gail Ham
ilton's recent articles, showing that there
should have been different course taken
than the one adopted toward the unfortu-
nate woman, have brought the case once
more to public notice. The ladies will pre-
sent petition, numerously signed, to the
queen, whom they will ask to right the in
justice done to Mrs. Maybrick.