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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
ssThe music of the future" says

''The music of the FUTURE" says a
composer of comic operas, twill be a
blending of German and Italian, not one,
but both. Harmony is what the public
demands. We have not at present any
distinctive American music or school of
music. The only school we have are the
minstrel melodies, the great composer of
which was Stephen Foster. These melo-
dies embrace the 'Suwanee River odd
Folks at Home,' Gentle Annie,' and
other well-known tunes. Beyond these
we have developed no separate music.
Our music, like our race, must be COM
posite."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
SUNSET IN THE Foo

The cold gray fog Of the winter day
Held sea and land In thraIl;
Silent the vessels at anchor lay;
/ A spell was over an.
The narrow lines Of each vessel bound
The limit Of their sphere;
Beyond wao naught but q world Of sound
, A world Of doubt and fear.
From the yards the sails b~edraggled hung
: Bordered by drops Of dew;
Feathery mists, from the halyards flung,
: Like ghostly pennons flew;
While the mast-head pierced the misty grsya
And vanished at the spars,
The ratlines seen but step away
We're narrow prison bars.
But sudden a golden glamour stole.
As through tiny sean;
It spread till the glory lit the whole,
And lightened beam to beam.
No shadow fell from the ray Of light;
The wind and sea were still;
Twas then that the red sun sank from sight
Behind the distant hill.
We saw it not as.the golden ray
Gave place to tints Of rose;
And the mists, no longer cold and gray,
About US seemed to close.
They closer grew as the rose.ight died,
The mists took on their frown,
And the gloom that came from either side !.
Told that the sun was down. 3
-FIauel Scott Mines, in Harpers WeekEN
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

In consideration of the serious in
roads which are being made on the
timber of this country by the use of
wooden props in mines, it is satisfactory
to note, that a patent has been taken out
for a method of making steel rails into
pit props and supports for collieries,
mines, tunnels, bridges, etc. The rails
are cut at their ends and suitably framed
together. In point of cost it is said that
this mode of propping compares favor
ably with bricking and other systems.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
CURIOUS FACTS.
There are ro snakes in Bermuda.

AhSA u LIN ohohSS AN
Almanacs were complied 100 years be.
fore the Christian era.
The finest diamond cutting in the
world is done in Boston.
San Francisco school boys struck till
q teacher was reinstated.
Statistics prove that only one man in
a million lives to be 1OS years old.
The value of the japanese coin called
the yen is about eighty-three cents.
A hooking bird died the other day
at Independence, Kan, which was thir.
teen years and six months old.
,Forty-eight inmates Of the insane
asylum on Blackwell's Island, New York,
are rehearsing q farce which they will
soon produce.
Del Pardo, Mexico, has a Frenchman
with three arms and six toes on each foot.
he is a shoemaker by trade, and seemf
happy and contented.
The really long-named society is to bt
found in Germany. 1t is the German
Society of Volunteer Doctors and Nursel
for Care of the Wounded in War.
The marble ledge on Crandall Creek,
Cooke County, Montana, is declared to
be ssover 1900 feet wide, one mile long,
and of a known depth of 800 feet"
The Nevada Legislature having refused
to appropriate money for the travelling
expenses of the district judges, n Of
them has bought a bicycle on which to
make his magisterial circuit.
An official letter from the Eastern
Lunatic Asylum of Virginia to the Gov.
eminent of that State says that one Of
the inmates has been there for thirty-four
years, and is one hundred and nine years
old.
1t is said that SO close was the physical
resemblance between the late D. S. Tay.
lor and his uncle, Zachary Taylor, that
the statue surmounting the ex-President's
monument in Kentucky was modelled
after the nephew.
The first water-mill ever built was
erected on the River Tiber, at Rome, A.
D., so. Windmills were in original use
in the twelfth century. Tide-mills were
operated in Venice about 170s. Saw
mills are said to have been in use at
Ausberg, Germany, about 1882.
A native of Borneo stole a hammock
belonging to an English missionary, and
his chief sentenced him to eat the plum
der or lose his head. He was given
seven days in which to ticket his palate
with the outfit, and accomplished the
feat. He is now cheap honest"
An Egyptian scythe recently untarthed
is exhibited among the antiquities in the
private museum Of Flinders Petrie in
London. The shaft of the instrument is
wood, supporting a row of flint saws,
which are securely cemented into it.
This discovery will set at rest the specu-
lations which have been made as to how
the crops of the land were gathered in
the flint and early copper age.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
Fuel Famine.

The bounty of nature, originally Law
ished on the coastlands of the Mediter-
ranean, did not include the blessing of
extensive coal deposits. In the course OF
the recent p~henomenally severe winter
that deficiency was sorely felt in many
inland districts of Spain and Italy, but
especially on the Island of Corsica. The
countrymen OF Napoleon are as thrifty as
Scotch farmers; they lay up food sup
plies for years in advance and have even
contrived to obviate the danger of over
population by disccuraging early mar
riages; but they have been unable to
prevent the destruction of their highland
forests, and arc almost rcsourceless in
protecting themselves from frosts which
repeatedly seemed to have e2ualled the
efforts of a full grown Western blizzard.
-NeU York Voice.
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Newspapers flourish in all Spanish
American countries. Mexico and Central
America are full of them, and it is the
same way in South America. Uruguay
has more newspapers in proportion to its
population than any country on the globe.
The city of Montevideo has moro daily
papers than London, and three times as
many as New York. Buenos Ayres has
fourteen or fifteen dailies, q large num-
Der of weeklies and several monthly maya
zines of high literary character.
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The Chinese who are now in Canada

The Chinese who are now in Canada,
and who desire to get back to their ma
tive country, are working a shrewd game
on the United States Government, by
which they get free transportation to
China. They get themselves struggled
into the United States, reveals the New
Orleans Delta, and then have some one to
cause them to be arrested for coming
into the country contrary to the Chinese
Exclusion act. Of course the charge is
proven, and they are sent back, under
provisions of the act, to China. They
thus beat the Government out of a free
passage home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

"Keep an eye on Africa" exclaims the
Atlanta Constitution. "There some of the
greatest battles and problems of the next
century will be fought and solved.
England and France may clash there
with a result far different from the meet
ing between Gives and Dupleixin India.
France and Germany, too, will some day
cross swords on the Dark Continent. In
this age of steam and electricity it will
not take long to build up powerful white
colonies in Africa"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

1.-THE Jewish labor organizations OF
this city," observes the New York Sun,
(which have an enormous membership
and represent many trades, are the most
compact bodies of the kind in this
country. The officers are powerful and
enforce the rules with vigor. The
members are easily subjected to discip-
line, respect authority, and watch the
proceedings closely. There is but little
wrangling in them. Nearly all of them
have been organized within the past few
years."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

It is estimated that there are always
80. 900 Americans in Italy, and that there
are now about ten times as many Italians
in this country. Nearly all the Ameri-
cans in Italy are we'll of, and nearly all
the Italians who come to this country
are in poverty. In most cases the Ameri-
cans who go to Italy spend a few weeks
or months there, while the Italians who
come to the United States expect to stay
here. The Americans in Italy spend
their money; the Italians in the United
States earn money.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
IF WE COULD KNOW,

Whittier do our footsteps tendi
More and more we yarn to know,
As life's shadows longer grow,
And the evening hours descend,
And before Us lies the end.
When the door shall open wide
And behind US softly close,
What to our expectant eyes
Will the future life disclose?
Shall we see a morning break,
Fair and fragrant and serene,
Seeming like the blessed dream
Of some unforgotten eve.
Shall we walk in gladness on,
Under smiling skies of blue,
Through an ever-deepeni;Ig dawn,
Into wide fields, fresh and new,
Meeting those who came before,
Knowing each familiar look
And each we'll remembered tone,
Though SO many years had flown,
Since each others hands we took,
Saying farewells DER and DER.
Shall we talk of earthly days,
Speaking low, with bated breath,
OF the awful mystery
Of our human life, and death;
Shall we wonder to recall,
How our hearts were prone to fear.
How we scarcely dared to hope,
In any heaven, so fair, SO near?
All! if we could only know,
AS the shadows deeper grow,
. Whittier our swift footsteps tend,
As they surely near the end!
S. Mason, in Boston Court
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

There is a corner in diamonds, accord.
ing to a New York Press writer, who
says: Diamonds are plentiful in New
York, but their price continues high.
If a Maiden lane diamond dealer of my
acquaintance is any authority, they must
come down in price. This is what he
said to me. 81. have the best of informa-
ton that o syndicate of Englishmen,
backed by the Rothschilds, holds in Lon
don at the present time $4,000, 600
carats of diamonds in the rough. Their
holdings may reach 20, 600, 900 carats.
At SIS a carat on the lowest estimate of
what they possess, their diamonds are
worth $500, 000, 900. If dressed they
would be worth at the very least five
times that much. But imagine what
would happen if these diamonds should
all be precipitated on the market at
once. 1t is to the interest of the syndicate,
of course, to keep up the price. But if
diamonds continue to be found in such
quantities as for the past two or three
years in Africa, Australia and South
America, there is no chance for them to
realize on their stock except by taking
their chances on a falling market. l
have even heard of diamonds being
found in Lapland, but my experience has
demonstrated that no diamonds of any
value ever come from a cold country.
They seem to have been planted in the
10. regions almost exclusively"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

One of the passengers on board of the
steamship Fulda, which arrived at New
York the other day, was a famous Great
Dane dog, who has heretofore rejoiced
in the name "Sander," but who will
hereafter be known as Imperator. His
new owner is W. E. Hagans, a we'll
known dog fancier of Chicago. As soon
as Mr.. Hagans learned that this dog
was the tallest one living, he knew that
nature had intended it for Chicago and
paid the big price demanded with cheer
full alacrity. The animal is said to come
nearer meeting the requirements of the
perfect standard than any others of the
breed. He has taken plenty of first
prizes in his native land, at Stuttgart,
Nuremberg, and other places, but his
most notable success was at the Interna-
tional Show held last Msv at Berlin.
There, although he had $50 German
mastifs as competitors, he carried of
four first prizes. His height is some
thing over t~hirty-6vc inches at the
shoulder. In color he is a golden fawn
with q black neck. He is now three
years old. 1t could not be learned what
was paid for the animal, the owner
merely saying that it was the largest
price ever paid in America for a German
mastiff. Russian dog fanciers tried to
get him, but, of course, stood no chance
when Chicago entered the lists.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
Went Before Stanley.

It is not generally known that Stanley
was not the man first selected by James
Gordon Bennett to find Livingstone.
When the idea of a Herald search expe-
dition occurred to Mr.. Bennett he cast
about for an available man and picked
out a Scotchman named Mcpherson or
Mckenzie, or something of that kind.
This gentleman set out for the East
Coast of Africa, got as far as Zanzibar
and mysteriously disappeared. What
became of him is a profound mystery to
This day.-DeroM Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
State Bed of q King.

The state bed of Sobieski, the King of
Poland, was "made of Smyrna gold braid,
embroidered in t%urquoises with verses
from the Koran. Its supports were Of
silver gilt, beautifully chased and pro-
fusely set with enameled and jeweled
medallions. 1t had been taken from the
Turkish camp before Vienna, and the
standard of Mohammed had stood under
it. - Chicago Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18
Bore Three NameSin Twelve Hours.

At Springfield, Ohio, Lizzie Ryder,
sweet sixteen, loved Barton Tavenner.
Being under age, she was adopted by MIR.
Osborn, with whom she had lived from
babyhood, and her name was changed to
Osborn. In the evening she became Mrs.
Tavenner-bearing three distinct family
names in twelve hOurs.-Neu York W.T.
cess,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

Georgia, according to the reports OF
its newspapers, is rapidly growing in
population and wealth. New enter
prises are ~springing up on every hand,
modern ideas prevail, and its citizens
generally are eager to improve their
condition.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

There are two natural gas companies
at Portland, Indiana, and among the
rules jointly adopted was n allowing
no patron who had dropped from one
line to attach to the other. This gave
great dissatisfaction to customers, and a
test case was sprung in the Circuit Court,
which has resulted in a ruling against the
defendant company.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

Buffalo, N. Y, has a new city charter.
On this subject the Boston Transcript
remarks: settles are generally finding
out the necessity of simplifying NUM-
cipal administration as much as posi-.
HE.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

The railroads own 211, 600, 600 acres
of land, which is in area larger than six
States the size of Iowa. Since 1861 no
less than 1s1, 00O, 900 acres of land have
been given to the railroads.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

England is becoming more and more
Americanized every day, AYERS Auasey's
Weekly. 1t appears that on the printed
blanks that are to be used for the
British census, the words 'labor" and
elaborer" are spelled without the USE
less "u" to which Englishmen have
hitherto chung with such touching
Gdalitu
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

Members of the German aristocracy

Members of the German arlstocracy
have no longer a monopoly of bigh places
in the German army. The movement
against it began in 1865; AID since that
time q regular weeding-out process has
been carried on, until now there are
in the army of Prussia nearly as many
officers from the middle classes as from
tho nohilitv
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

The cost of warships is as follows per
ton, England, $151.25; France, $780,.
25; Russia, $436.25; The price per in.
dicsted horsepower is England, $751;;
France, $3.50, and the United States,
S23h so.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-18

MI. Gladstone's idea of requests is
thus set forth: "What is wrestled from
me by the grip of death I can in no
sense be said to give"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-15
HUGH DAVIDSON.
His Remains Laid at Rest Mt
Mountain View.

The funeral Of Hugh Davidson, who died
quite suddenly at Haywards on. Wednesday,
was held yesterday afternoon in the First
Presbyterian Church. DIR. Robert Mackenzie
officiating. Tile services were of the SIM
plest nature in accord nee with the wishes
and tastes of the deceased. The pulpit
platform was solidly banked with choice
and beautiful floral offerings among which
were the following:
large vacant chair made OF the choicest
flowers with the monogram ''H D." from his
old friends IN the White House; elegant large
double wreath OF La Frame and while rOsebuds
from Raphael Well & Co.; st. Andrews cross
In heather, from Mr. aud Mrs. P,-ier ThOmp. on /;
pillow OF choice blossoms, fr"fi Alexander
Marquis: nlllowand chrysantheml as, from Mt.
and Mrs. Russell; pillow with monogram n.
D." from Joseph Austin; bunch of pIuk and
white heather. from MIR. and Mrs. ReBuie, white
ehrysanthemums from the Lelan family; sheaf
of roses and ripe wheat. from Miss Jennie lib
bills; wreath. from MIR. Wilcox; bunch OF
heather and laureStiDa, from Mr., and Mrs
George Davidson; floral piece from Mr.. and
Mrs. James Dunn; La France roses, from w. r.
Eaton.
The remains were inferred in the family
plat in Mountain View Cemetery, and a
large delegation of friends accompanied
them to their last resting place in Piedmont.
The follOwlng-named gentlemen acted as
pail bearers: Raphael Well, Alexande r
Hamilton, w. Fairweather, Samuel Irving,
Peter THOMPSON, Thomas Ross, James
Dunno, Joseph Austin, Thomas a. Henshel-
wood and Captain Ewart.
Mr.. Davidson was native of Amman,
Scotland, arrived here in 1860. and had re-
sided ever sinceS with the exception of two
visits to his native AnnaudaIe. He was a
brother Of John w. Davidson, the founder
OF the dry-goods house known as the White
House. with which the deceased was also
very closely connected. For several months
he bad BEN in delicate health, and tempo
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-11-15
FOR THE CONVENTIONS.
The Delegates viii Start for
Washington Tonight.

The Finance Committee Of the movement
to have the National Conventions. one or
both. in this city. held another meeting in
Parlor Of the Palace Hotel last night and
completed arrangements preliminary TO
sending the delegates to Washington. That
delegation will consist of John c. Quinn Of
the Internal Revenue Office. A. G. Booth
and C. o. Alexander. Joseph d. Redding.
r p. Hammond and James Y. Coleman in
formed the committee that it would be i'm
possible for them to 90.
The committee decided BY resolution to
pay the travelling expenses to and from the
convention, provided it is secured for this
city, of the forty members. clerks, attaches.
etc, of the National Committee and their
expenses while here; also the round trip
fares of $50 each of all the delegates To the
convention, which it is estimated will be
about 500 in number.
Mess s. Quinn, Booth and Alexander will
start for Washington tonight, and, upon
made members of the Executive Committee
as TO give them all the standing possible
before the national committees.
In addition to this, as suggested by Evan
S. pil5bury, the Congressional delegation
from the Pacific Coast in Washington was
made honorary members OF the committee,
and will be requested TO exert every ounce
of influence at command in aid OF the one
great object. Congressman NcKenna has
CONSENTED 10 present San Franchises offer
TO the national committees
Reports FROM the canvassing committees
showed that S43, 600 had been assured, and
beyond a doubt the remainder of the de-
sired $4,000 would be in hand in another
0ay or 40
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DEATH AFTER
HIDING DISHONOR.
Miss Senger's Sad Demise at the
Christian Home.
She Prepared Her Dying Declaration Impli-
eating a Physician and Another Man,
but 1t Is Locked in Vault.

The remains OF young woman, who died
In an effort to save her good name. repose
on a slab at the Morgue. Her dying state
ment duplicating two men in the act that
caused death is locked up in bank vault
and will not be accessible until tomorrow
morning, and San Rafael stationer rests IN
der the suspicion OF having indirectly
caused the trouble and sad demise.
These are the brief circumstances of a
case that Coroner Garwood and the de-
tectives are investigating and the probable
tiles are that one or two men will ultimately
be arrested on a charge of murder.
AT 5:45 o'clock on Friday evening Miss
Lawrie A. Senger died at the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association Home at 1921
O'Farrell street, and the body was turned
over to undertakers and conveyed to an es-
adjustment on Sacramento street. Upon
examining the body the undertakes sus-
pected that death had been produced through
criminal malpractice and for that season
turned over the remains TO the Coroner.
AT the M0rgue Police Surgeon Williams
made an autopsy and discovered that sep
tecemia, following malpractice. was the
cause of death The condition of the body
showed that the operation had been per-
formed ten days or two weeks before death.
RECENTLY CAME FROM ILLINOIS.
Miss Senger was aged 81 years, a compos-
itor, and recently came here from Harvard,
Ill where her brother and other relatives
still live. Five months ago she went to the
home, where she was given room by her.
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PERSONAL NOTES,

Samuel Rucker, Mayor of San Jose, is in
town.
C. K. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee is
in town.
Frank Coombs. Speaker of the Assembly,
is at the Grand.
Marcus Pulaski, who is building rail-
road In Fresno County. is at the Palace.
y. b. Whitaker, a sheep-raiser of Stock
ton, is in this city. He is at the Grand.
j. 2. Gordon, editor of the French news
paper of Los Angeles. La Progress. is at the
Palace.
Ex-Governor Eli Murray of Utah, now
one of the owners OF the San Diego Union, is
at the Palace.
E. r. Dodge, District Attorney of Lassen
County, and proprietor OF the Lassen Ad-
yorate. is In this city.
Ex-Governor R. B. Bullock of Georgia,
Government Commissioner of the Union
Pacific Railroad, is in this city.
Z. B. Mckay has gone on an extended
trip TO Boston. New York and Washington,
in the interests Of Australia and World S
Fair traffic.
Thomas Muir, general manager of the
Ireadwell gold mine, Douglas Island
Alaska, arrived by the steamer Mexico and
VIII remain hare par: OF the winter.
Ii. w. BYingtOn, formerly of Santa Rosa,
now Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Northern District of California, with head
quarters at Sacramento. is paying a brief
visit TO this city.
Among the recent arrivals at the Cali
fornia is Count Carlo Gutti of Rome. The
Count is the descendant of one of the oldest
families of the Italian nobility, and has
been making an extended trip through the
United States.
DIR. Thomas Won Tinzelmann, for some
years surgeon on one of the British war
ships at the North China Station, is at the
Palace. He has returned from two years'
furlough, which he spent in visiting his old
homo in Germany