The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-11-30
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Every minister who has had even FIVE
years Of experience knows that 1t is no
earthly use for him to try to convert q
woman who has to wear her last years hat
to church.
- Alexander Rice, aged fifty.six, mar.
ried O atwelve-year-old girl at Fort Smith,
Ark. The citizens on the following night
took Rice to the woods, gave him 100
lashes, and then they forced him to leave
town.
= Jerry Simpson can now add to his
other disqualifcations the distinction
of being about the worst prophet In
the land. He was 139, 900 votes out Of the
way when he loudly predicted that the
Peoples party would poll 159, 900 votes In
Ohio.
- Governor Tillman has been invited
to address the National Congress- which
meets at Denver, COL, on the 18th, to dis
cuss at length the resources and minerals
Of the different States. Owing to press-
ing business he has been compelled to de-,
cline.
- The London Spectator has recently
shown that in England the tendency Of
population to the cities Is irresistible, that
the young men and women are deserting
the agricultural regions, and that farmers
are unable to get the laborers needed for
cultivating the soil.
War has been declared between the
American Cotton Oil Trust and the inde-
pendent mills In Tennessee, eastern Ar
kansas and north central Mississippi, and
price Of cotton seed which will put many
dollars into the pockets Of the farmers,
while 1t will reduce the profits Of the
crushers and refners almost down to Q
minimum.
"A dispatch from Birmingham says
political kissing Is being developed as an
art in the present Alabama campaign.
Governor Jones spoke at Blue Greek
wards, and kissed the boss miners wife
once Next night Captain Kolb, his opp0-
nent for the nomination for Governor,
spoke at the same place, led the dance Of.
forwards, and kissed the boss miners
wife twice. It Is said the boss miner,
himself, Is getting very tired.
There was corn shucking at Ger.
tain farmers house In Elbert County,
Ga, on q recent Wednesday night, In
which several women participated, carry
| ing their babies. When Il was over the
mothers departed, taking with them what
they thought to. be their babies. But two
of the mothers discovered next morning
they had made mistake, each one tax.
ing the others baby. For awhile It
seemed there would be trouble In the
two households, but an exchange was a.
nally effected, and the two mothers are
now happy.
- Mr.. E. G.. Sutton, Of Kansas City,
committed suicide the other night under
circumstances well calculated to moder.
ate the grief Of bis family and friends.
Mr.. Sutton wrote note In which he said
| that 1t would be Of no use to ask ques-
tions. He had tried this life and was will
| ing to try the next. He left the lottery
tickets in his pocket 10 his daughter and
wished everybody good luck. "Some
people," he wrote, "may think am full.
/ AMI have just eaten q hearty supper"
Then he stuck cigar in his mouth and
blew out his brains.
- At the recent annual meeting Of the
State Agricultural Society Of Georgia, In
formal resolution unanimously adopted,
recommended and urged upon every far
mer Of that State the setting aside Of
from five to ten acres of land around the
homestead, said acreage to be known as
'The Wife's Farm" to be devoted ex-
clusively to the culture, on the intensive
plan, of grain, grasses, vegetables, poul-
try, pigs, ETC., and that an hour or two
each morning shall be devoted by the
farm" The idea Of the society was to
make each farmer self sustaining and In
dependent.
= He wanted the ordinary to revoke
his marriage. He came in town three
weeks after he had been married and
hunted up Ordinary Hargrove. In his
affable way Judge Hargrove asked him
what he could do for him. "Well, jedge,
I cum to see you about them there things
you gin me to marry. The devil hisself
couldn't live with that woman, an !
want you to take these things back and
let me quit her." Judge Hargrove in.
formed him that he must appeal to the
Courts, that he was powerless in the mat
ter. The fellow seemed surprised and
worried that the Ordinary could give him
license to marry and then couldn't take
them back and set him free.-Tennd
(Ga.) Progress.
At Ledro, 8. D., there Is specimen
of the man-fish, which was found In the
| wind caves of the Bad Lands In the State
ofsouth Dakota. The animal is petriaed,
and is In 8 perfect state Of preservation.
The head OF the creature is exactly Of the
same shape as that of the human Uranium,
only 1t is much smaller. The eyes, nose,
ears and forehead, In fact every portion
of the head, resembles that of mans.
The neck is slender and the shoulders
uniform, and the entire anatomy appears
the same as that Of the human body. The
arms are perfect, as are also the hands,
with the exception of the nails, which
have more the appearance Of q canine's
nail. Then the ribs and spinal column
are perfectly formed, making the upper
part of the body as nearly like the form Of
q mans as is possible. Below the ribs the
body resembles fish.
In Russian-Turkestan on the right
bank of the Amou Daria, in some rocky
| hills near the Bokharan town Of Karki,
a number of large caves have been ex-
plored, which were found to lead 10 an
underground town built apparently be-
fore the Christian era. Efigies and in
scriptions have been found, and also de-
signs upon gold and silver money which
lead to the beliefthat the town dates back
to some two centuries before the birth Of
| Christ Thera ara a number of str6et8