The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-14
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pay taxes on S264, 1000, 900 worth Of prop
erty.
- Immense flocks of crows have ex-
terminated the grasshopper pest in parts of
California.
Montana claims to have sold already
this year 80, 900 head Of cattle at an aver
age net price Of $50.
= By recent legislative enactment
Georgia physicians who indulge in intox-
icants are disqualified from practice.
The covetous person lives as if the
world was made altogether for him, and
not he for the world; to take in every
thing and part with nothing.
The Savannah river is at very low
ebb. The season just passed has been re-
markablY dry. Better that way than
what it was in September, 1888.
- DR.. jacob, the specialist in diseases
of women and children, says that the
baby of to-day has much better chance
of life than the baby of fifty years ago.
"A dispatch from Montana. dated the
3rd inst, ssys: 1t has been showing and
drifting necessarily for the last forty-eight
hours. There are three feet of snow on
a level. Business is practically at stand
still.
The Arizona Territorial Legislature
at it's last session passed an Act exempt
ing all land used in the cultivation of
sugar beets, as we'll as the plant and ma
chinery employed in the manufacture of
domestic sugar, from taxation for ten
years.
The newest patent given to wo-
man has been for improvement in steam
boilers and furnaces. Another woman
has recently invented an appliance de-
signed for teaching the value of coins.
A third has patented new kind of horse
shoe.
AT Huntsville, Ala, Professor Renfo,
a white teacher in a colored normal In
stitute, attempted to chastise Ebenezer
Kahn, q colored pupil. Kahn seized
three-inch steel chisel and imbedded it
into Renfo's brain, killing him instantly.
Kahn is under arrest.
In Colleton case Judge Izlar has
decided that South Carolinian, married
in this State and divorced and remarked
in another State, cannot have the validity
of his second marriage recognized in
South Carolina if he returns to his home,
and that the children are illegitimate.
Tacoma, WASH, is after the democrat
ic convention, and has sent committee
east 10 present its claims. It offers to
transport the delegates free of charge on
four big palace-car trains starting from
Portland, New York, Washington and
Jacksonville, and pickingIup the delegates
as they sweep along the continent.
The burning of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad elevator, at Baltimore,
last Sunday, delayed the train carrying
the Baltimore baseball club, which had
an engagement to play at Wehawken n.
j., that afternoon. The train, however,
made up lost time, making the extraordi-
nary run of ninety-two miles in ninety
two minutes.
- One man who always uses both knife
and fork in carrying food to his mouth,
was asked one day by an acquaintance
why he did 30, replied: "Im busy
man. God has given me two hands.
Shall let one rest idle while the other
is working? No. Pm all for division of
labor. I eat my food In half the time,'
President Harrison thinks that Cuba
would be worth 800, 900, 900 to the United
States, and it is said that he is making
negotiations for its purchase. These ne
gotiations, so rumor has it are being con-
Quoted without Blaine's assistance. Is it
possible that President Harrison Is en-
deavoring to give the country the impress
sion that he has head of his own?
- Miss Gertrude Potter, of Chicago, is
building up quite reputation as ma
trimonial expert, having been married
three times, and not near 80, either. She
is beautiful and rich, and by means OF
divorce and an illegal marriage with
minor, romance with a newsboy, and
other sensations, she has made decided
hit, even in Chicago.
Spartanburg not only leads the whole
State in the manufacture of cotton, but
she can also claim the champion cotton
picker. Pierce Pool, a white boy living
near Campton, picked out 444pounds the
other day, when there was no dew or
dampness to increase the weight Of the
lint. This is record breaking year, but
that is record that will probably stand.
Erlenmeyer says that children born
of women addicted to the morphine habit
are practically morphine eaters from birth
During the first few days OF life, unless
morphine is given to them, they are very
apt to suffer collapse; and this condition
may end in death, the child being too
weak to withstand the violent symptoms
which are similar to those which follow
the sudden withdrawal Of the drug in
adult opium eaters.
eff the skies should rain silver, and
if silver dollars should be heaped up in
the valleys so that those who are making
such an ado about more money could Hll
their sacks and baskets, and could cart it
away with them, it would, under our un-
equal tariff system, soon find its way
back to the present custodians of the
wealth of the country, leaving the tax
ridden farmer as poor as ever."-Henry
Watterson.
Mrs. Alicia F. Henderson, of New
York has had fifteen husbands and she
is only forty-five years old. The fact of
her fifteenth matrimonial venture is re.
called by her recent sentence to a term of
three months. in jail for abusing Helen
Dennis, the daughter Of her fourteenth
husband. Her matrimonial record is q
remarkable one. Born in Havana, Of
Spanish parents. she was educated at
the majority of her husbands in this
country. All, except her present hus-