The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-18

= -COnierence, uleu OF pleulliollia III AZ
lanta, Georgia, Jan. l3, after illness
of ten days.
Thirty.six "wet" counties of Geor-
gia have one convict to every $50 peo-
Pile. One hundred and one "dry"
counties in the same State have one
convict to every 1929 people.
The Louisiana Lottery Company
has instituted legal proceedings to
have the. Anti-Lottery law declared
unconstitutional and void. This case
will 60 to the United States Supreme
Court.
They have prohibited the manufae-
ture of oleomargarne in Russia. The
article will be allowed for sale only in
exceptional cases, and then it will
have to be kept in vessels painted a
certain color, so that everybody will
know it.
The Roman Catholics in Wisconsin
have plunged deep into politics. Bish-
op Katzer to the people of ST. Mary's
Church, in Green Bay, declared that
he PERSONALLY and officially, us bish-
op of the diocese, should consider any
one who did not vote for the repeal OF
the law (the Bennett School Law n
traitor to the Catholic Church"
H William E. Jackson, of Augusta,
Ga, has perfected, mechanical appli-
ances for making bagging from the
bare cotton stalks. About $2,000,000 a
: year will thus go into the pockets OF
+ farmers for stalks which are now be-
s,o nj vol fhn Gollc nj
pense.
Why there is so much distress in
England is in part explained by such
cases as that of the Duke of Bedford,
lust deceased. He owned lis acres in
the heart of London ON which there
are 10000 buildings, all of which paid
him ground-rent. His estates in
twelve other counties amounted to
: 1O0, 900 acres, and his rent-roll amount
ed to 81 ,000,0 900 per year. And he was
one of the meanest of landlords
New York Advocate.
A household journal tells how to get
nd of the plague of rats. "Catch one
of them, dress him up in scarlet, and
slet him loose" and he will frighten
all his friends away. Very simple
and there may be one woman in l50,
600, ,000, 900, 900 or so who would thus
attire rat rather than have few ro-
dents in the house, but it is doubt
full.
2. Shoes would probably be cheaper
under the operations of the new tariff
fit did not increase the duty on arti-
5cles used in the manufacture of shoes,
such as shoe nails, shoe pegs, shoe
wire, shoe thread, shoe lining, shoe
hammers, shoe avis. ). shoe knives, all
machinery used in the manufacture
of shoes, and last, but not least, shoe
lasts.
1: An attempt to proclaim republic in
Portugal resulted disastrously for
those concerned. Three regiments Of
infantry in Oporto revolted, seized the
Z City Hall and declared q republic. A
body of troops was ordered to the
spot and promptly arrived with bat
terry of artillery. The hall was bonn
barded, taken by storm, and the re-
public came to an end in an hour and
half. The insurgents surrendered,
their leaders will doubtless be shot.
It is said that stammerers rarely, if
ever, show any impediments to speech
when speaking in whispers. On this
fact g. new method of treatment has
been advocated, which is as follows:
In the first ten days speaking is pro-
hibited. This will allow rest to the
voice, and constitutes the preliminary
state of treatment. During the next
ten days speaking is permissible in the
H.. or,,,f nd I'm fha nf
$the next fifteen days the ordinary con-
zyersational tone may he gradually en-
ployed.
Mr.. Gladstone, who may he regard
ed as the friend of humanity at large.
delivered lately an address on The
Higher Education of Woman, and
said: II believe that anything
which attempts or affects to alter the
fundamental relation which the AL
mighty Himself has established and
the designs which He has marked out
lin our constitutions and capacities to
draw woman out of her own sphere,
and to expect her either to exchange
1t for the sphere of man or to act in
both with efficiency-that scheme
: that involves changes of that kind, for
my own part, / contemplate neither
with approval nor with sanguine eX-
pectation of happy results"
There is a good deal of feeling in
government circles over the Delinquent
Zcy OF the Civil Service Commission.
It is said that campaign funds are be-
ing collected from the clerks in nearly
all the departments, that the civil SER
3 vice law is being openly violated ev-
cry day, and without attracting the at
tention Of the men whose duty it is to
sobserye and report such infractions.
At a meeting of the Ohio Association,
"a body composed of Ohio clerks in the
government service, speech was
! made by brother Of Congressman
Earosvenor, of Ohio. MIR. GrosveIor
said he had no sympathy for Republi-
cans in office who had not enough in
terest in the battles Of their party TO
help furnish the sinews of war. He
declared that department clerks who
expected to protect themselves behind
Ia fimsy civil service law would find
ont their mistake, and then declared
that political contribution would not
he bad sort of all investment as Il
sort of accident insurance policy.
These remarks were supplemented by
|others from Mr.. Childs, acting super
lintendent of the census. during the
|abseuce of Mr.. Porter. 1t is stated
THAT he mentioned five per cent: of the
EsaIary as the amount he thought
would be proper to contribute, but was
kind enough to say that three per
6cent. would be acceptable where the