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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-23
Saving A Baby's Life.

An accident occurred in the family of
G. F. Marsh, the dealer in Japanese Gu
riosities at 625 Market street and men,
Der of the Pacific Coast Pigeon society,
which proved to him in most impress
i've manner the valuable services which
may sometimes be rendered by the car
rier pigeon, and probably explains some
of his enthusiasm in that direction.
His little baby boy was taken sud-
denly sick with most alarming symp.
toms of diptheria. The mother, watch
ing by the bedside of the little one, dis
patched q message tied on carrier
pigeon to her husband at his store on
Market street. In the note she wrote the
nature of the child's alarming illuess, and
made an earnest appeal for medicine to
save its life. The bird was started from
the home of the family near the Cliff,
five miles from Mr.. Martins Market street
store.
The bird flew swiftly to the store,
where Mr.. Marsh received it. He read
the message, called doctor, explained
the child's symptoms as his wifehad
detailed them in her message, and re-
ceived the proper medicine; then, tying
the little vial containing the precious
medicine to the tail of the pigeon, be lei
it 60.
The pigeon sped away through the air,
straight to the cliff. 1t made the dis
tance-fve miles-in ten minutes, q
distance which would have required the
doctor three quarters of an hour to cov'
er.
In twenty minutes from the time the
mothers message was sent to her hus-
band the baby was taking the medicine,
and thus its life was saved.
Naturally enough Mr.. Marsh is par
tial to pigeons, for he considers that he
owes his baby's lifel to one.-'San Fran
cisco Examiner.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-23
The Price Of Wheat.

81 am not speculator," said John W.
Bookwalter, the millionaire manufacturer
and political economist. in an interview
tonight, "but think that higher prices
for grain. both wheat and corn, are inev.
liable. I should not be surprised at all
tn see wheat sell as high as 81 so bushel
some time before the first of next Janua'
~. There are two reasons why l think
this advance in prices is unavoidable. In
the first place, we shall not have as much
wheat to export as many think We will.
The short crop of last year has stripped
this country bare of wheat and corn, and
1t will take large part of the new crop
before the markets of this country are
saturated and the cracks filled up. As the
farmers keep selling their grain at the
present prices their financial burdens will
become easier, and they will be in po-
sition to hold back a portion of their
crops to wait for higher prices, which are
sure to come. In the second place, there
is tremendous deficit in Europe. The
vast extent of this deficit cannot be
doubted when papers like the London
Times and Standard admit it,"
Mr.. Bookwalter thinks this country
saw the lowest price for grain in the last
half decade it will ever see. He is one Of
the greatest authorities on grain in the
country, and his opinion is of great value.
Special Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-23
To Tew Logs to Europe.

Charles II. Moore, of Galveston, spe
eial from that city says, proposes to un'
dertake the shipment of log raft from
Galveston TO London as an experiment
He has consulted some of the oldest sea
captains in America, men who unite in
the belief that the experiment will prove
successful.
Mr.. Moore believes that there is less
risk in shipping q log raft from Calves.
ton to London than from St. John to
New York. A raft from Galveston to
London would not encounter the severe
storms and seas incident from the coast
from the Bay of Fundy to New York,
Mr.. Moore proposes to have the raft
ready to start late in July next year.
Three months will be consumed in max.
ing the raft. 1t will consist of three sec.
tions firmly spiked together after the
fashion of q chamaran.
The raft will be constructed in Calves.
ton harbor, and towed across the ocean
by the steam tug "Storm King" and an
ocean tramp steamer of 8, 100 tons belong
ing to Leyland & Co., of Liverpool.
The raft is to consist of Texas yellow pine
and is intended for ship and house build.
ing. If the experiment proves failure
the loss will be about $4,000 if it
should prove successful, similar ship.
ments by rafs will be made every sum.
mer.-PhiIadep phid Bulletin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-23
The Fastest Long Trip.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 14.-The spe-
cial train sent over the New York Central
to make the fastest time between New
York and Buffalo whirled into the station
in this city at 1915 p. m. today. 1t was
made up of locomotive No. S76, with
Edward Chase as engineer, and bag.
gage and two drawing room cars. Seve-
raj officers of the road we're on board.
The train left New York at 7 o'clock and
made the run to this city, distance of
903 miles, in five hours and fifteen min
utes. The trip from Albany to Syracuse
was run in two hours and twenty minutes.
The Flyer now makes the trip in six
hours and fifty five minutes.
BUFFALO, Sept. 1.-THE special Flyer
over the New York Central from New
York arrived here at 2:54 p. M, making
the fastest trip on record. The distance,
1861 miles, was covered in 440 minutes,
including three stops which consumed
fourteen minutes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-23
Didn't Like the Country.

NEW YORK, September 5.-George B.
Parks, a mulstto belonging in Atlanta,
Ga, with his family, consisting of his
wife and seven children, arrived here to-.
day on the steamship Sorrento. He is
an intelligent man, q carpenter by trade
and tells an interesting story of the con-
dition of affairs in Liberis. On the 22nd
of last May, lured by promises, he sailed
with his family for that place. On land
ing at Monrovia he found the country in
q most primitive condition. The Amer
ican negroes who had already emigrated
there had assumed most tyrannical
rule over the natives. No part of the
ground was under cultivation. Parks
had been slave in the South, bvt be
says the condition of slavery in Liberia
is worse than that in Georgia before the
war. The children there offer them
selves for sale. Parks, because he would
not deal in human flesh, was ostracised
by the negroes from America. After
spending twenty. one days there he sailed
for Hamburg and then to this port. II
cost him $3.50 to bring his family back
to America. When he left Georgia he
had $1,250; he now has $50, which he
says will pay his way back to Atlanta.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-23

Among the richest citizens of the
Southern States to-day are several colored
men who began active life under most
adverse circumstances. Mr.. Sylvester, OF
Galveston, is said to possess real estate
and personal property valued.at more
than $350,000. His wife employs only
white servants. Milton Sterrett, of
Houston, is one of the most successful
men in that town. He owns fine house,
surrounded by beautiful grounds, which
are cared for by landscape gardener,
and several plantations in Texas. Dur
ing the civil war he was q waiter on the
boats running between Galveston and
Houston. His fortune, estimated at
$400 900, was made in, real estate specu-
lations. Senator G. N. Burton, of Fort
Bend County, Texas, was born slave.
He is now the enviable owner of the
plantation of his former master, and
three other farms in the most fertile parts
of his native State. He cares tenderly
of his mistress, who, like 80 many OF
her kind, has been reduced to poverty.
He cent the good woman back to her old
home in Virginia, where she has received
one hundred and fifty dollars month
from the man who was once her slave.
His success, he declares, is due to her
alone. Senator Burton ia good lawyer
and is popular with the members OF
both political parties. Henry Black, the
rsnchman of Tom Green and Pecos
counties, is also worth S5OO,0O0. Mrs
Harvey, the widow of a mulatto who
died few years ago, is one of the rich
est women in the State.
Happily the political campaign out
in Iowa, says the Boston Herald, is not
devoid of the element of humor. The
gentleman whom the Republicans nom
mated for Governor poses as farmer
and the wicked Democrats are having
some sport With him. They accuse him
of wearing $500 diamond pin in his
shirt front and of tilling his acres in q
plug hat. They likewise insinuate that
he wears French boots and creases his
trousers. The Pocahontas Sun SCOTS at
him because he doesn't know how to milk
a COW, and leading Democratic orator
proclaims that the only thing he ever
succeeded in raising successfully on his
farm was mortgage. Considering that
the election is three months of, this sort
of campaigning isn't so bad, in view of
the hot weather, as it might be.
North Carolins's commissioner of
agriculture states that there will be TWEEN.
ty.three fairs held in the State this year.
His satisfies also make fine showing for
cotton factories. There was just after
the war sixty mills in the State. lu 1880
they had increased to 1l6 and this year
there are 134 cotton mills in operation in
North Carolina.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-23

- Edward Van Schaick of West
Neck, Huntington, has been puzzled OF
late over the small quantity of milk
given by a we'll. bred Jersey COW. The
matter was explained the other day.
When walking through field he found
the COW nursing several young pigs.
The COW was unable to accommodate all
the young pigs at once, and it was the
squealing OF the disappointed ones
that attracted Mr.. Van Schaick to the
spot. Hereafter the COW and pigs will
pasture in different felds.-Nec York
Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-23

There is man in town who is 90
blamed honest he wouldn't beat an egg
His wife has to do her own chores, though;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-17
THE HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS.

A new problem in the building line is
presenting itself to Chicago in the regula-
ton of the height to which sky-scrapers
may 60 Heretofore Chicago's lofty build
ings have been her pride, and the attempt
of some ambitious rivals to overtOp her
have only evoked demonstrations that the
altitude to which the ambitious archi-
lecture of that city can go was regarded as
limited only by the imagination.
But sudden change has struck the
public mind. 1t has been discovered that
the indefinite increase of these towering
structures, shutting out light and air from
the deep raviaes known as streets and
packing one layer of population on top of
another may after all be injurious. At a
recent meeting of the real estate board on
the subject strong medical testimony de-
clared that the exclusion of sunlight and
the scant supply of ozone permitted to
reach the lower strata were favorable
to the generation of scrofula, con-
sumption, diphtheria and the aggrava-
ton of nervous diseases. The medical
experts recommended that no buildings
be allowed to a greater height than one
and half times the width of the street.
Others pointed out that the height of the
buildings already put up was equivalent to
putting 5000. 900 persons on a square mile
of ground, which, if anything should call
them all to the streets, would not give
each person one foot square on the side
walks. The real estate board came to the
conclusion that twice the width of the
street, with an absolute limit of 135 feet
high, was what it would recommend.
Resolutions have already been introduced
i'll Councils looking to various methods of
regulation; but all these considerations are
met by the crushing argument that prop
erty in the vicinity of these high buildings
is worth $4,000 foot. If the buildings
are limited to half the popular height the
ground will be worth only half as much.
A singular feature of this modern bust
ness architecture is that the towering
buildings are the distinguishing charac-
teristicS of the cities where the site seems
to establish the least natural necessity for
them. In Chicago and Minneapolis, where
there is room for the city to spread in al
most every direction, it might be thought
that they are needless. But with the
ability of elevators to move as fast
as cable cars people prefer to go up into
the air 200 feet rather than along the
street couple of squares Therefore
Chicago has beer piling one story on top
of another until this protest is produced.
Pittsburg, on the other hand, though
her business territory is limited by the
hills and rivers, has never in any case that
we recall exceeded the nine-story stage of
development. Still, as the time will
come when twelve or fifteen stories will
present their attractions to builders, it
may be well to lay to heart the discovery
which Chicago is making.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-17
The NrINGC CoLLIsION.

Inflated Mingo comes forward with
another railway disaster, costing two lives
and five injuries This is by no means so
wholesale a slaughter as some of the dis
asters which have given that otherwise
obscure point d gloomy fame; but it COM
prises features worthy of public atten-
ton.
First, it discloseS the fact thai at the
scene Of the disaster an alleged double
track is constructed SO that one track laps
over on the other 1t is clear that single
track would be safer thar this, as no train
could enter the switch without due no.
tice Then it was Immediately before a
block signal tower, where such a casualty
should have been impossible. The cir
cumstances surrounding the entire affair
indicate that remarkable negligence must
have caused it.
Finally, the loss of one life by the
burning of the wrecked cars indicates
that the voracioys ear stove must have
got in lis work as usual 1t seems nearly
time that this supererogatory destroyer of
human life was abolished
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-17
Hardships of Cabinet Life.

Spare Nom ents.
Among the hardships ofthe life ofa Cabi-
net Minister is the necessity which annually
arises for making a journey to Balmoral in
wintry weather in the capacity of Minister
in attendance on the Queen. 1t is not only
that the journey is long and the time of the
year often inclement. There are certain re-
strictions for visitors at Balmoral not entire
ly compensated for by the privilege of living
under the same roof as the Queen. One
thing. forbidden is smoking, and there are
some pretty stories about the devices to
which Ministers who love their cigar have
been put in order to enjoy their after break
fast or post-prandal weed. There are, how
ever, compensations, and the Duke of Rut-
land found one in March. He was appointed
to be the Minister in attendance upon the
Queen during her Easter holiday at Grasse.
Nothing could be more delightful than this.
The Duke got away from London at Il season
of the year when town had not begun to be
endurable, and reached the Riviera in its
spring prime. The Duchess accompanied
him, and all his travelling expenses were
paid by grateful nation. He had the ad-
ditional and accidental good fortune of find
ing that there was no room for him in the
hotel that had been hired at Grasse for the
accommodation of Her Majesty. Accord
ingly a villa was taken for him, where he en-
joyed much of the privacy of an ordinary
visitor to the Riviera at the country's ex-
pense.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-17
How Queen Victoria Travels.


An official of the Midland Railway recent
ly took me into the Queens carriage as it
stood in Pancras sta ation. The walls of the
saloon are of satin-wood highly polished
The customs are of white silk embroidered
in gold thread. A garter containing her
motto, "Honi soft qui NAL pense,'' sur
rounds her initials, "V. R." Her large chair
and it takes a large one, tools at the back
of the carriage and faces the engine. At
her hand is Il silver plate in which are cleo
trio bells, pressing which she can call all her
compartment Three other easy chairs are
table about six feet long and three feet
English. French. German and Ameri-
can periodicals. The carpet is
of velvet, and in good state of preserva-
ton, considering it has been in use Is years
The curtains at the windows and portiere
are hung on silver poles The door handles
are solid silver, and the whole saloon has
the appearance of solid luxury. The Queen
herself selected the furnishings which are
said to pattern after the white drawing
room al Windsor Castle. The whole saloon
with fittings Is said to have cost between
$4,000 and $1,000. At first sight the carriage
impressed me as being gaudy, but this idea
wore away in a few moments.
The railway oflicia! informed me that the
Queen paid about Is. 6. per mile for travel
ing. besides first-class fares for every one in
her party. As the official from whom re-
ceived nv information was in position to
know, this explodes other reports that the
Queen and her suite always travel free.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-17
THEIR NAMES IN PRINT.

Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE began Greek
at 70, and now at p she has just read the play
of Sophocles in the original.
DICKENS favorite daughter, Mamie, is
soon to contribute series of papers on her
father to one of the magazines.
EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER has been
made the Superintendent of the North
western University at Evanston.
REV. DIR. JENCKEs, of Indianapolis, has
20 proofs that the world will end in ten
years, and he gets SO of them from the Bible.
HER MAJESTY "LILY OF THE SKY, :"
Queen of the Sandwich Islands, is so years
Of age. She has an income of s15,OOO per
annum.
VICE PRESIDENT LEVI P. MORTON
comes down from his country place ut
Rhinebeck to his banking office in Nassau
street about once a week.
Mr.. STURGEON signed the abstinence
pledge in 1866. Unfermented wine has been
used at the communion service at the Metro
polttan Tablenacle for several years.
THE Duke of Portland has necktie for
every hour of the day. and he never wears
his gloves twice. His hosier's bill is about
$1,000 year. The Duke Of Fife spends about
the same amount.
1T is said that Queen Christina of Spain
has been struck with a spasm of reform and
is trying to remodel her household on a
palmer and more sober basis, cutting off
many e1travagauces.
n. A. PARKER, who is reported to be the
oldest living college graduate of the United
States, having left the University of Yer
mont in 1915, celebrated his Tooth birthday at
Fitzwilliam, N. H.. on Tuesday.
CHARLES GAYLoR, now critically i'll at
st. Vincent's Hospital, New York has pro-
duced 23S plays since 1s49, besides in his
earlier years doing great deal of theatrical
writing for Greeley and the elder Bennett,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-17
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS.
Will the Commission Favor the Exclusion
fLaboring People?

New York Herad.I
The reasons why the working classes Of
Europe are eager to settle in this country
are many and obvious. They feel about US
very much as we felt about California in
1S49. We were told that If we could once
work our passage to the Pacific coast We
should find huge chunks of gold as thick as
stones on a New Hampshire farm. Our
imagina tions became excited and we took
tremendous risks in order to get to the
Western Ell Dorado The European work
man hears the same stories, and they pro-
duce the same result. The dream of his life
is to save money enough to pay for a passage
across the Atlantic. In many cases they
bring with them nothing but their poverty,
and very soon become a burden on the pub
lie charity.
Such people are very undesirable. We
don't want men or women of that sort. At
present there isn't work enough to employ
the willing laborers who were born on our
soil. More than million men are always in
enforced idleness, searching in vain for
something to do and living on the
edge of hunger. 1t is therefore a very
serious question whether we ought not
to enact such restrictive measures as will
stop this tidal influx of foreigners who cut
down wages and literally take the food out
of our own citizens mouths. In our judg-
ment our duty is plain. We ought. in the
name of selfprotection, to make immigra-
strong hopes that the commission in it's
forthcoming report will emphasize the
necessity TOR that course on the part of
Congress.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-17
An Accommodating Hus band.
Newcastle News.l

NeWcdSlle news.
Last November a Newcastle man went to
America to endeavor to improve his posi-
tion in life. In January he was reported to
have been killed. He returned. however,
last week. to find that his wife had turn ed
over a new leaf in the marriage service, and
that another man occupied his seat in the
chimney corner. Did he go to work to
slaughter the false wife and new husband?
Not much. He walked in and said:
"Well, old gal, how is things?"
"Putty good, Bill, +" said the doubis-married
woman, not taken aback greatly.
(Which do you prefer-the old or the new
love?"
She hesitated for an instant,and then said:
Il don't like to hurt your feelings-but-
but"
"Oh, spit it out. Don't mind my feelings
or the other chaps 1 won't be angry If
you come down a little rough on my vanity.
Count on me being amlaDle. l won't cut up
rusty if you should go back on me-"
I'm glad you're so thoughtful, Bill and
acknowledge that do like my present hus-
band best: out if anything should happen to
him, l know nobody else would as soon
join fortunes with again as you"
'That's the way to talk FIJI now bid you
goodby, hoping that no accident will happen
to the other fellow, and that he will live
long to enjoy your delightful society. So,
good day"
And the husband Travelled off with his
knapsack on his back, whistling in CHEEKY,
clear tones. 1.-The Girl Lett Behind Me-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-17
THE INDIAN PROBLEM.
The Solution to Be Found in Education and
Segregation.


Segregation.
San Francisco Chronicle.l
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs in his
annual report, discusses at some length the
political status of the Indians and saws that
the time has come for declaration by Con-
gresS to the effect that hereafter
it will not recognize Indians as COM
petenG to make war: that they shall
be treated, not as belligerents, but as sub
jects, and that the time is at hand for the ex-
tension over the Indians of the protection
and privileges OF our courts. The definite
determination, he says, by the highest
authority of the political status of the In
dians is necessary as basis of wise legisla-
sion and to the satisfactory administration
Of Indian affairs.
There can be no well-founded dissent
from the views of the Commissioner. 1t has
long been seen to be a complete anomaly
that an Indian, a ward of the Government,
could go off the reservation, steal horse or
commit murder, enlist his tribe in his be-
half and thereupon cause state of war to
ensue. 1t would be quite as reasonable to
eoncede belligerent rights to the inmates of
of Indians who occupy what are known as
the tribal relations toward the United
States.
While the United States must continue to
keep watch and ward over the Indians and
to support them, it is by no means necessary
that the tribal formation should be main
tanned. In fact, it has been shown that to
divide Indian lands in severalty produces
much better results than to keep I'M
mense tracts i'll block for the joint
benefit of a tribe. The solution of the Indian
problem must be found in segregation and
education in refusing to concede belliger-
ent rights to tribes or septs and in trea ting
Indian malefactors just as other lawbreak-
ers are treated. This, and this only, will
bring the Indian to a realizing sense of his
real position and convince him of the neces-
sity of adopting the habits of civilization