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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
"HIGHEST-PRICED HORSE.

The Trotter Arion Sold by Senator
Stanford for $15O,OOO
Arion, the greatest two.year old the world
has ever seen, has brought at San Francisco,
CAL, the highest price ever paid for trotting
horse-aesh. Axtell brought s1O5, 900. but J.
Malcolm Forbes, OF Boston, agreed to pay
Senator Leland Stanford $780, 900 for the
mighty son Of Electioneer. Two months
ago Arion made a record OF 2.10A at Stock
ton, Cal.
Ar1on is a bay colt, fifteen hands high and
was foaled March 13, 1889. His sire was the
llusirious Electioneer and his dam Nanette,
sister to Woodruff e. 1870.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
WHAT DRINK DOES.

The attention Of Agent Sweeny, OF the
Anti-Cruelty Society OF Pittsburg, waa
called one morning recently to a sad and dis
tressing case of poverty, cruelty and neglect.
A little tumbledown house located on Jones
avenue was occupied by two families and q
boarder. OF these there were Q man and
his wife and two little children, both girls
aged respectively four and six years The
others were q widow. her son and another
man. The oHlcers say that when they en-
tered the building such a sight Of misery
they never witnessed. The interior was
literally reexing with vermin and filth, while
the stencil was such that the officers were
sickeped. The neighbors state that the oc.T
cupants spend their whole time In drinking,
neglecting. abusing and starving the little
children, who we're compelled daily to goout
barefooted, bare-headed, in an almost en-
tirely nude condition, TO beg for sufficient
food to keep body and soul together. When
the mother and her babes were brought 10
the station house she was, with the excep.
ton Of an old and filthy calico wrapper, en-.
ttrely devoid Of clothing; the children were
even In a much sadder plight, the youngest
especially, being In q Sorely afflicted conr
,ditionI It's little back was one mass OF sorasl
and scabs, while from sheer neglect and
starvation its little body had dwincled down
to that OF a living skeleton. The younger
child Is In such a condition that IL cannot
possible live.
What a horrible state OF affairsi: end
still II is an everyday occurrence in our
large cties.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Of the new Mayors OF England thirty.
seven are total ab~stainers.
Chicago has now q college to educate
brewers in all branches Of their trade.
Chicago has 62O0 licensed saloons and over
5000 hat pay the United States internal
revenue AK.
In proportion to population exactly three
times as much spirits are drunk In Scotland
as in England.
In every community there Is a moderats
drinker whose real business Is to help tha
devil to make drunkards. ~.
A train load Of beer, consisting of112Q bar
rels, ~equaling 206. $50 glasses OF beer, started
recently from Milwaukee TO San Francisco.
A man in Maine is defending g suit
brought by q m who attributes Comes.
tic trouble to the cider he sold to her hus
band.
Mr.. and Mira W. Jennings Demcrest have
given away $50, 900 worth OF medals to the
young participants m the oratorical contests
held under the auspices OF w. G. I. q.
Grand temperance work Is being done In
the English Navy through the efforts OF Miss
Aeues Weston and others. On some ships
ten per cent OF the ships company are en-
rolled as total abstainers. Remembering
the sailors proverbial fondness for '.grog"
this is certainly encouraging.
In the London district, occupied by the
poorest Of the poor, there are eighty-one sa-
looms or public houses as they are called
there, to supply 1900 patrons-or one for
every 1s5 persons; More than ESQ goo a year
is spent in drink by these 1000 persons
whose poverty is Of the direst kind.
The Deer Park ~sanitarium, a private
asylum for inebristes, was opened in Tor.
onto, Canada, in November. Its founders
propose to surround a patient with Christian
influence, and send him out not only cured
Of his appetite for alcohol and other mar
cotics, but a thorough Christian man
As a temperance advocate Lady Henry
Somerset has recently been we'll described
by the Echo ian English paper in these
terms: 'Calm. cultured to her inger-tips,
remorselessly logical and gifted with a very
beautiful, yet stately, outward personality,
she holds the most critical audiences en-
thralled as soon as she starts to speak. But
there is something about her more than put
ward attraction, which one must, tor want
of a better term, call her spirituality"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27

IT is discouraging, in the face OF
the fact that over S,000,o 900 anti
tobacco tracts were distributed in this
country last year, to learn that three
factories alone turn out 10000 corn
cob pipes every day and are preparing
to enlarge their output rs per cent
In 1892. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27

THERE were 1903 miles Of new railway
constructed between January l, 1891, and
January l, 1892. which brings the total
mileage of the United States up to III, 100.
This is a decrease Of 1874 miles from last
years figures, and the smallest mileage built
during any year since 1885, during which
only 1881 miles Of track were Laid.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
SPLITTING FIRE AGAIN,

A Mexican VOICanO HurIS Stones q
Distance of -Four Miles.
The Volcano-de Fuego, known as Colima,
in the southern part Of Jalisco. Mexico, is
again active, Explosions occur frequently.
These have not occurred before during the
activity Of the volcano. Viewed from a dis.
lance at night the scene is grand one, but
those in the vicinity of the fiery mountain
have little regard for its beauty or its gran.
deur.
The explosions are of such force that large
stones have been hurled a distance Of four
miles. Ashes from the mountains have
fallen In the streets Of Colima and Zapotlan.
Persons living near the volcano are
frightened, and if the eruptions continue
there may be a panic among them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27

JOHN DIETEL, a fat man on exhibition at
Cincinnati, Ohio, died a few days ago of
Ia grippe. The big man was a native or
Baltimore, Md. He followed the trade OF
butchering. He weighed over 763 pounds,
md suffered severely during his illness.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
PROTECTING REFUGEES.
Minister Esan Escorts Three Chill
fan Rebels Aboard the Yorktown.

10A4
United States Minister Egan early a few
mornings z left the American Legation at
Santiago, Chill, escorting Juan and William
McKenna and Jose Carrera, three Of the
nine refugees who have been under his pro-
lection They took a train for Valparaiso,
and upon their arrival there went without
delay aboard the United. Statsscruiser YORK
town.
This action on Minister Egan's part, it Is
said. was taken with the tacit approval OF
the present Gillian Government !here
seemed to be do doubt that the rest OF the
refugees would leave the Legation unoer
similar conditions st an early date.
Public opinion relative to these three
refugees is that Chilli is well rid of them:
while President Montt and his Cabinet
would not grant them safe conduct nothing
was done to prevent their leaving the Ameri-
can Legation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
A BONFIRE OF BONDS.
Wealth a Dying Miser Tried to Burn
. Saved and Then Stolen.

: Saved and Then Stolen.
T A miser named Hilton, living near Frank.
lin, KY, found himself at deaths door some
months ago. He quarrelled with his wife.
md in order to keep his wife from enjoying
his estate he made a servant bring him q
nai-keg, which he placed on the fire.
Hilton's maiden sister rescued toe kes, IN
which she found So, ooo in bonds. She tooS
these home with her for sa~feSesping:
When Hilton died and an administrators
was appointed his sister ~sarrsndere1 tae
DaclaTe o. bonds, but was surprised to lind
hat all but SIT, 900 had been stolen:
City Marshal Stanford, OF FRANKLIN, cane
70 Nashville some weess ago, casheo some
coupons from the missing eonds, 4 was
arrested on a charge OF bringing sooien
property into the State.
Unknown persons have 70
H;Iton,s sdministrator 500, 900 in bonds. and
the case against Stanford will not Do
prosecuted.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
HICCOUGHED 10 A
The Strange Complaint That Killed a
Connecticut Man.

The long suffering Of Samuel William
Hodges, of No. Isl Warren street, Bridge
port, Conn, was ended by death a few nights
ago. For years he had been troubled with a
stomach ailment which induced long periods
Of ~hiccoughing. He tried all sorts Of
remedies with little avail. He seemed
to be better when. four days before his
death, he was seized with a At Of hiccough.
ing, which would yield to no treatment. He
died soon after he had stopped hiccoughing.
He was se~venty-seven years old and his con-
.stitution had been completely undermined
by this peculiar complaint.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27

on the parents bodies, and it is supposed
that while temporarily insane they took
poison and killed the little one.
The French Chamber Of Deputies at Paris
reelected NJ. Floquet az President of that
body.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
4 National Bank Closed.

The First National Bank of Muncy, Penn,
was closed by United States Bank Examiner
E. f.. D-ngler. On the latter's arrival the
vault could not be opened, and an expert
was cal ed in. The bank has not been doing
. prottable business for some time, and has
met with heavy losses in leaning money.
statement, and now there is a shortage of
$4,000. Captain +. NJ. Bowman is Presi-
dent: Baker Bowman, Cashier, and James
II. bowman and b. Landcake, Directors.
Many OF the stockholders are wealthy men.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
ALL THE FAMILY DEAD.

Four Adults and Two Children Sue
cumb to the Strip.
A German family consisting OF six mem
bers have been found dead in their isolated
dwelling near Reihweisen, in the Sudetic
Mountains, on the Bohemian frontier. Evil
dences existed that the four adult members
had died of influenza, having been unable to
secure medical attendance, and that the two
children persisted from starvation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
ALCOHOLIC INSANITY IN PARIS.

- Laa-HLas
At the police station the quietly disposed
are sorted out and separated from the violent
criminals. In the morning. the latter aret
brought up for examination by the chief
medical officer Of the Prefecture of Iolca,
who does his best to ascertain whether be-
has to do with lunatics or malefactor.. The
eminent man who has filed this post for
many years is DIR. Paul GARNER, and he II
was who Kindly consented TO suspend, In my!
favor, the rule which excludes from his gex-
aming.room all persons who are NOT mera-
bers ofthe stat. This small low ceilingedi
room has witnessed many dramas, fm. be-
tween its narrow walls are conducted nightly.
the m~alefactors who the Paris police have
caught In the meshes Of their net. They ~
ter, held bY each shoulder between two
warders. In their eyes one reads the terror
Of an animal caught In q trap, They are:
aware that here are the crossroads where
their fate Is to be decided; ON the right the
madhouse, on the left the convict prison.
And all, whether mad or only feigning mad
ness, take refuge i~nincoherent or outrageous
language, i n stupor or convulstons.
Closely o~bservant, taking notes, or draw
table. Sad indeed Is the conclusion arrived
at by Ids medical experience. His figures
prove that during the last sixteen years
1from 1875 to 1888 lunacy has increased In
Paris In proportion Of thirty per cent.
This increase Is due to the fact that two
morbid types, general paralysis and aico-
holic insanity. are spreading to anialarming
extent. The progress Of alcoholic insanity
has been SO rapid thatSthe evil Is n twice
as prevalent as it was fifteen years ago. AZ.
most q third of the ,unacy cases observed
at the Denot Infirmary are due TO this dis-
ease, and every day it declares itself more
violently and wfrha more marked homicidal
tendency. The accompAce Of two-thirds OF
the crimes committed, upon whom the GRIM
inals themselves throw the responsibility OF
their evil deeds, and whom the police never
succeed in discovering, exists. That ace
complete is alcohol It visits upon the child
the sins Of the father, and ~engenders IN the
following generation homicidal instincts.
During the last ten years the criminal type
has entered on a new phase. Before thai
date the assassin was generally a man IN
the vigor and strength OF his manhood; M
had tasted lifein all It's forms Such were
Tropmann, Prado, Eyraud, PranzinL Now.
adays it is the youthot barely twenty who
murders. Tho jurymen hesitate to condemn
him on account Of his youth, although They
are horrided at his cold-blooded ferocity, q
at the absence OF moral sense which he dis.
plays.-Fortnightly Review.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
A Circus Man Hanged.

Frederick Thomas Storey, aged forty,
formerly outdoor manager Of Cooks Cir
Gus, in Greenock, was hanged for the muir
der OF Elizabeth Stewart, the widow of a
circus performer. -,
On the night OF the crime he followed the
deceased, after the performances, and, hav-
ing caught hold of her, said: "Why do you
treat me like a dog"
On Mrs. Stewards attempting to escape,
Storey drew q knife and stabbed her in the
tleft breast. She died immediately.
When arrested, the following curious let
Ftar was found on the prisoner:
"DEAR JOHN: It is the last day I shall
i've. Think of me not carelessly; how much
Ihavc thought Of you and your interests!
A w,nan mas spoiled my prospects in life;
by the time you receive this she will be
dssa. Icannot help it; no doubt you will
thin: me very foolish"
Storey slept lightly that night, but dressed
himself with s%crupulous care, ate q hearty
Breakfast and died with perfect composure.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
Fatal Boiler Explosion.

The boiler in a pork-packing factory at
Bridgeport. near Morristown, Penn, e1-
plode!. The killed were: John Shaw, of
Conshohoc;:en, and JOIN Myers. The injured
are Benjamin Shaw, Thomas Hendren, Wal
Ter Whitman, Oliver Baker, engineer; VIII
liam Repwood, William Hillebrecht, Kurtz
Law. The injured were taken to Charity
HOSPITAL. where Hendren died.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
Two Children Burned to Death.

David Buckner and wife, who reside at
Smitntop, Mo-, locked their children in the
house when they left home to visit q neigh
Dor. During the absence the building was
destroyed by fire and a boy seven years old
and a girl five years old were burned to a
criSp.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
THE FIRST ROPE BROKE.

Then the Sheriff Had to Go to Town
For q New One.
William Mccoy was hanged at Homer
vile, Liberty County, Ca, for the murder
of John W. Bowie last September. At the
first attempt to hang Mccoy the rope broke,
and the Sheriff had to 60 into town for q
new. one. The second attempt was not made
mill an hour afterward, and was successful.
the hanging was private, and was witnesseI
only by the court officers and newspaper
men.
The record-union., 1892-04-26
THE REASON WHY.

The attempt has been made, with la.
bored effort, in the columns of the San
Francisco Bulletin, to explain why
Traffic Manager Leeds refuses to file g
complaint before the Railroad Commits.
sion. The reasons given are trivial, and
in the main are that it would involve de.
lay and litigation.
It is now altogether apparent that the
true reason why Mr.. Leeds does not wish
to make the complaint he has been SC
urgently invited to prefer, is because il
would reveal the fact that the Traffic AS
sociation does want such discrimination
in favor of San Francisco, as the interior
has charged is its real purpose.
The proposition has now gone beyond
that stage in which mere denial of this
charge will avail. 1t has reached the
point when all the presumptions must, in
the face of the facts, run against the yer.
ity of the disclaimer.
The record-union., 1892-04-26
SEISMIC REPORTS HERE AND IN
NEW YORK.

On the 18th inst, just seven days prior
to the slight seismic disturbances in this
State, earthquake shocks were felt, two
in number, covering thirty seconds OF
time, in the State of New York at Johns
town, Warrensburgh, Gloversville,
Utica, Kingsboro, Fort Plain, Western
Village, Alder Creek, Worthwhile, Holt,
Patent, Fonda, Cherry Valley and other
places in Montgomery and Otsego Coun-
ties. There were loud, rumbling noises
first, then heavy shocks, two minutes
apart. Dishes were ratified, type pied,
bottles shaken from shelves, pictures cast
from walls and furniture upset. People
rushed from their houses, plastering
cracked and fell and clocks were stopped;
the buildings rocked and vibrated, and
the earth's surface waved from south to
north, and, as one account has it, sit
seemed as if the buildings were coming
down"
But the Eastern press, though the shock
was as heavy as in most places in the dis
trict affected in California a week later,
did not illustrate its results, or double
lead the accounts printed, or put up fam
ing and sensational head lines, or treat
the matter as a terrible visitation or a
great horror. Indeed, the chief journals
of New York City printed the news
without more prominence than usual,
and some of them as if of less than usual
Importance. They did not work the
event up into sensational cram, or treat
it as one peculiar to New York and alto
gether out of the common. Which marks
the distinction between the ideas enter
tanned Of good journalism at the East and
by some exponents of enterprise in the
California metropolis.
The record-union., 1892-04-26

Chronicles antagonism to the law is the
massed boss element, which can be
counted upon to wage quiet but not the
less vigorous warfare against it. No bet
this fact, that the venal element in poll
tics does not like it. Whatever the enemy
desires is to be opposed, is a maxim as
wise in political activity as in warfare.
As to the Chronicles citation Of the
Green ease, that is little short Of idiotic.
1t is worse-the inference sought to be
drawn is false and dishonest, and the
| Chronicle knows it. For it knows that
no one has ever claimed for the new cleo
ton law that it would prevent the Office
| seeker from making damnable bargains.
1t was never claimed for the law and can
not be that it prevents candidates from
promising disposition of the spoils OF
Office, or from selling their souls to the
devil.
When prominent newspaper seeks to
create the impression that the ballot law
is check upon the bargain and sale OF
place, upon the contingency of the cleo
ton of a candidate, it descends to con-
temptible level of pettifogging. The
chief claim for the law is that it pro-
tects the voter, frees him from annoyance
and threatenings, enables him to cast his
ballot as he desires, even if that desire
has dishonest prompting and vicious
! motive.
The attempt to charge the Stinson-
Green case to the debit side of the new
law reveals the desperate straits of its
enemies. 1t ought to serve a good pur-
pose, however, and it will, since the
strength of any cause is augmented when
its enemies are driven to the resort OF
Misrepresentation, and to the setting up
of men of straw to knock over. Will
the Chronicle please oblige the friends OF
the reform ballot law by continuing in
its present course Of antagonism? 1t
cannot serve the right better than by
such pitiable assaults as that we quote to-
day.
The record-union., 1892-04-26

THE questio of the adoption or re-
lection of the new charter draws near to
its close. We have given it that dispas-
sionate examination, together with all
questions collateral to it, that such doc
ument deserves, and are convinced that
whoever does likewise will come out of
the analysis its friend for these reasons:
1t is economic; it separates and makes
independent the executive and Legislative g
arms of the city government, and yet
makes each a check upon the other. 1t
promises to put an end to, at least to les
sen. trading in the spoils of place. 1t re-
fleets the experience of the best order of
city governments that have had severe
trial. 1t brings the government nearer
to the people. 1t makes departmental
heads responsible to the executive and
legislative branches jointly. 1t makes
city employees dependent for the tenure
of their offices upon good behavior
and competency rather than upon
boss patronage and favor. 1t gives us a
Mayor with some authority and execu-
tive power to enforce duty doing. 1t
gives us a larger corps of officers for
police duty, better distributed and at no
greater cost. 1t leaves the Funded Debt
Commission where it finds it, and ena-
bles the people to confirm to it powers
it now Illegally exercises, but that are
essential to its usefulness. The more it is
studied the stronger and better it grows
in favor. To adopt it will be to better
conditions; to reject it will be deplorable
| action.
The record-union., 1892-04-26
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

DURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF THE
| Superior Court of Sacramento County.
dated April 18th, 1 S92, in the matter of the
estate of Chtherine Wallace, deceased the un.
dersigned, the Administrator of the estate OF
said deceased. will sell on THURSDAY the
10th day of May, 1889, at 10 O'Clock \. NJ, at
public auction to the highest ard best bidder
the following described real estate to-wit:
West half of lot number one ~, in the block
Ninth streets, in Sacramento City, County of
Sac amento, State ofCalifornia, and improve
ments thereon. The said sale Will take place
in front of the Courthouse door at Sew
enth and ] streets, in Sacramento City. Terms
of sale: Cash gold coin, ten per cent TO be paid
al time of sale, balance upon confirmation OF
sale by Superior Court. Deed at expense of
purchaser. JAMES II. WOODS
Administrator of the estate of Mary Cody
deceased.
tor. ap26-3w
The record-union., 1892-04-26
AssAILING THE LAW.
The San Francisco Chronicle saws


IT is evident that the chiefclaim made for the
new election law of California namely, that
II would throw insuperable obstacles in the
way or br1oing voters, is wholly untenabIe,
one Stinson, in Sacramento, has begun an
acton 10 unseat Green, member of the CITY
board OF trustees, on the ground that Green
bought his, StinSon's, vote with money and
promises and the votes of a large number of
Others, some of whom Stinson names and
some OF whom he does not know.
On the assumption that the case is well
founded, the Chronicle asks, "what adj
vantage does the new law present over
the old ?' 1t follows this up by the
declaration that the campaign against the
law is to be continued, and the people Sc
educated against it that the Legislature
will next winter repeal It.
This is frank statement. and gives the
friends Of the law full notice. Behind the
The record-union., 1892-04-26
THE SYNpTONS OF

he Oh MI lUMO COMPLAINT
Are bitter or bad taste in mouth, pain in the
PACK. sides or joints, often mistaken for rheu-
matlsm; sour stomach, loss of appetite, bowels
alternately costive and lax, headache; loss of
memory, with a painful sensation of having
Jailed to do something which ought to have
been done; debility, low spirits, thick yellow
appearance of the skin and eyes; dry cough
often mistaken for consumption
sometimes many of these symptoms attend
the disease, at Others very few; but the Liver.
the largest organ in the body, is generally the
seat OF the disease and if not regulated in
time great suffering, wretchedness and death
viii enSue.
The baltimore Episcopal Methodist:
Simmons Liver Regulator Is ac-
knowledged to have no equal as Liver
medicine, containing those Southern
roots and herbs which an all-wise Prov
idence has placed in countries where
Liver diseases prevail"