The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-11-04
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This is a great year for girl babies
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania
has just had daughter added to the ex-
ecutive household.
1t is estimated that the big oil-well
recently struck near Pittsburgh, is pro-
ducing 10, 900 barrels day. It's daily pro.
duct is worth 81, 500.
A woman runs a locomotive on tho
Cairo and Kanawha Valley Railroad in
West Virginia and makes the schedule
time notwithstanding the impulse she
must have to hold up her train at every
crossing.
Bob Smith, son of Captain John T.
Smith, who liyes two miles northeast ol
Bowden, Ga, picked FOL pounds of cot
ton, beginning at good daylight, quitting
at sun down, stopped at noon thirty-five
minutes. He was timed ono hour and
picked ninety pounds.
Twenty years ago the Sth of this
month, fire in Chicago burned over 2, 1OC
acres, destroying II ,45O buildings valued,
with their contents at 100000, 900 and rem
der Gs, 500 people homeless. The insurance
companies were liable for S0G, ,533, ,72I in
damages, of which about one-half was
paid and fifty-scven companies failed in
consequence.
"A French company has been form
ed to insure the farmers crops against loss
by frosts. Pretty much every conceiva-
bic risk is now insured except the risk a
politician runs in his scramble for Office.
Here is a fine field for some enterpristng
capitalist. Just think of the business such
a company could do in South Carolina
about election times
Levi M. Bates, who fell from boat
and was drowned at Bristol, VT, on Tues
day, was one of the best insured men of
this country. He had S65, 900 accident in
surance and $94 900 life insurance that now
is due to his family. The insurance COM
panies say that his death is one of the
hardest on them that has occurred for a
long time.
- Bishop Turner, of the African Meth
odist Church, has sailed for the mission
fields of his Church in Western Africa.
Just before sailing he said: "I am still
agitating the African colonization plan
and for line of steamers to carry the
colored people from this country back to
Africa. 1t is tho hope of our people and
their chance to make great and ipdepen-
dent nation"
A drunken man at Wilmington, DEL,
was struck by railroad train, his left
arm cut off, his upper jaw broken, and
several teeth knocked out, and, though
he wandered about for two hours AFTER
ward, he knew nothing of his mishap un-
til a friend told him of it. This leads an
exchange to declare that, after all, there is
no drug like old whiskey for deadening
pain during surgical operations.
Superintendent Walter Steel, of the
has solved an important commercial
problem by discovering how to amalga-
mate aluminium and steel so as to manu-
facture edge tools as sharp as the Damas-
Gene blade of early history. The process
of merging the aluminium with the iron,
the latter Of which can't be worked under
the intense heat required to melt the form
er, is secret.
- Mrs. Martha Floyd, of Spring Place,
Ga, mention of whose age has been made,
is a peculiar old lady. She is now ono
hundred years old, never saw steam en-
gine in her life, does not believe in the
existence of a supreme being and will
not go near a church, is the widow of a
soldier of 1912, draws pension and has
several hundred dellars hid away or bu-
ried in the ground and will not toll any
one where it is. She lives alone and will
not have a nurse to attend her-is truly a
curiosity.
A seveu-months old child Of Pro-
fessor Cyril L'Africain, of Hampstead, l..
l., has been asleep for $50 hours continu-
ously. The child was taken sick with a
whooping cough some twelve days ago.
Last Thursday night the attendants i'm
agined that the child was improving from
the fact that the child went to sleep, but
when the parents went to rouse the child
their efforts were unsuccessful. Nour-
ishment has been given to the child at
stated intervals, which it retains, and ap-
pears to be growing stronger. Occasion
ally sigh is heard and a slight move
ment of q foot or arms are the only signs
of life.
- For pure meanness the following is
without parallel in our towns history
On last Sunday night while William Tur-
ner and his son were away from home,
leaving his wife and little ones as he
thought secure, after midnight some one
on mischief intent bursted tho sash out
ofthe windows of the dwelling and fright
ened the inmates almost to death, and not
content with this put quart bottle OF
powder under the house and made an
effort which, however, was not successful,
10 DlOW up Ile uOuSe, MIS- Iuiuoi py
her cries, succeeded in awakening Ter
neighbors, who came to her rescue, and
the raiding parties left. No arrests have
been made, as the guilty parties are un-
known and left no clue by which they
can be traced IYestRlhiS!cr Banner.
- A barber who keeps shop in Lam
beth recently pertormeda rash tut clever
feat. The shop was full of customers,
and one ofthem was undergoing the opor-
alton of shaving, when it was noticed that
the barber had his eyes closed, though he
still kept passing the razor over the face
of his visitor. After some time, and when
tbs operation was finished, what was tho
surprise Of those in the shop to hear the
barber exclaim, "Oh, no not yet;'' at the
same time opening his eyes. 1t then be-
came evident that he was fast asleep and
had shaved a man while in that con-
dition. He explained that he had beon
up the two previous nights, and that
would account for his sleepiness, but that
practice in shaving had SO grown upon
him that he was even ablo to perform his
duty while asleep.
Evangelist d. l.. Moody, in sermon
delivered in Chicago on Sunday, sharply
criticises those who have o craving for
titles. Among othor things lie said {: