The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-18
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There are eighty-two national ceme-
teries in America, in which 32S, 10 SOL
diers are buried.
On April 9th the word telegram was
just forty years old. 1t was asintroduced
into the language by the Albany Jour
nal in a formal article New York
Press.
Orange cultivation in Georgia has
developed into business of eNtraordl-
nary magnitude. There are now To-
900 groves covering 10, 600 acres of land
that are valued at S25, 600, 900.
1t is an impressive fact that more
than sixty per cent, of the European
Immigrants travel on tickets purchas-
ed for them by relatives in America.
Some men are so religious that they
will strike out for prayer meeting and
leave their wives to carry in stove wood
to cook for company.
Pittsburg is very rapidly resuming
its former reputation for smoke and
SCOT, and the day does not seem to be
very far distant when it must recog-
nize the old familiar title, Smoky
City," Natural gas is given out.
The Anglo-Scotia mills and lace fac
tories, near Nottingham, England,
were destroyed by fire. A II the valua-
BILE machinery was ruined. Loss,
S5O0,000.
Statistics show that 10000 people are
killed by whiskey where one is killed
by a mad dog. What of it? Shoot
the mad dog and license the sale OF
the whiskey.
A newly-formed Zulu church has
the following regulation: "No mem
ber shall be permitted to drink the
white mans grog or native, beer or
touch it with his lips"
Ward McAll;stcr favored the readers
of New York Sunday paper with an
article OH "HOw to Get Into Society"
If society is what he has described 1t
to be, one would think more popular
article would be ono telling how to get
out.
The Casiquiare, a connecting river
between OrinocO and Rio Negro rivers,
runs six months in one direction, and
then turns and runs six months in the
opposite direction. The country is so
level that rise or fall of the Orinoco
governs the course of that river, which
flows portion of the year into the
Amazon, and at other times in an Op-
posite direction.
The Rev. Mr.. Francis, pastor Of the
American church at st. Petersburg,
passed through Berlin last week on
route for London. He is worn out by
his eXertions in behalf of the famine
suffers. He says that smallpox and
typhus fever are making fearful raw
ages in Russia, and that unless string
ent precautions are taken, those dis.
eases will spread to Western Europe.
VIM. Astor died April 90 in Paris
The cause was heart failure. Next to
his nephew, William Waldorf Astor
and probably Jay Gould, William
Astor was the richest American cit.
izen of America. His wealth twas re-
Gently estimated at between 500, 0,000,0Ol
and S6O,0OO,OOO, the greater part OF
whichis invested in New York real es
tate.
The public debt statement issued on
Monday shows cash balance of Sl29,.
100000, decrease of nearly $4,000,00t
since April l. The increase in en-
penditures was principally on account
of pensions and interest on bonds.
The public debt, less cash in treasury,
is therefore nearly S4,000,G00 greater
than it was on April l.
Will Help Good Li,erature.--The
business community will doubtless be
glad to hear that a movement is on
foot to revive the issue of fractional
paper currency by the government. OF
late the lack of fractional paper cur
rency has grown to the proportions of
an evil. 1t is especially a hardship
to persons in rural districts who habit
ually remit small sums for purchases
by mail. Neither postage stamps nor
postal notes fill the want, both have to
be first purchased by the sender and
then converted into currency by the
receiver, often at a great inconven-
inece.-- Chicago News.