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COOK'S IMPERIAL EXTRA DRY
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A FULL line of DRESS and APRON
"a GINGHAAls. all grades at lowest prices,
AT AMOS B. SLAYMAKER'S,
TARLY JUNE PEAS and HONEY DROP
u CORN for sale by ]. c. M1LBURN.
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TXTRA QUALITY GREEN and BLACK
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A GREAT BARGAIN IN TOWELS
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A GENT FOR LEAS' BLENDED PATENT
N PROCESS FLOUR
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22

A Crowded Small Boat Capsized on
South Beach, N. Y.


A strong northeast wind was whipping tho
waters of the lower bay into heavy seas and
driving rain storm was beating down when
twenty-one workmen, employed on Hoffman
and Swinburne Islands, in New York Bay,
finished their afternoons work and set out
to sail the distance between the Islands and
South Beach.
Their boat was a ships yawl, capable OF
holding with safety perhaps half the number
that crowded into her. For half the dis
tance to Staten Island the boat scudded be-
fore the wind Then the pintle Of the rud-
der slipped from the gudseon and the craft,
steered by unskilful hands. became unman-
a2eable In the high wind. Her sail was
lowered and the men tried to row to shore,
using an oar as rudder. But the boat
drifted about until she turned broadslde to
sea and wind. In a second she filled, and,
rolling over, spilled the twenty-one men IN
the water Nine Of them were drowned be-
fore the boats which put out from shore
could rsach the spot. The other twelve were
taken ashore safely.
The workmen were some Of those VINO
have been employed since July II on
Syinburne and Hoffman Islands repairing
the hospitals and putting in new steam
pipes and new injecting apparatus. They
have been in the habit OF returning to Staten
Island and going from there to their homes.
The list OF the drowned is
John Crosby, 5 Beach street, New York
Charles Druid. Brooklyn Thomas Hoey,
New York; Edward Kenny, New York :;
james Malloy, New York; Benjamin Nc
Guire, New York albert Norman, Tompkins-
vile; Charles Smith, Washington street,
Brooklyn; Leonard Wanser, AmltyVllIe,
Long Island.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
Many Miles In a Canoe.

Warburton Pike, tho English explorer, has
just arrived at Nanaimo, British Columbia,
from the interior of Alaska, having made
journey of over 1000 miles in small canoe.
He left Victoria, British Columbia. year
ago last July, for Fort Wrangel, and thence
proceeded to Stikeen River in cauos
through the Cassair country and followed
the Dease River as far rs the junction with
the Laird tributary OF the Mackenzie River.
There he spent the winter hunting big game.
Late in the winter Pike started out with
dog sled for Francis Lake, which he crossed,
and thence made the portage to the PellY
Lakes. getting into country never before
explored by white man.
Spring had set in by the time the Pelly
Lakes were reached. and crossing there Pike
followed the Pelly River to its source. On
his return he followed the Pelly River to
Lewis River which be followed 10 the
Yukon. He then began continuous jou--
ney Of $500 miles, which lasted for TWO
months. He left the Yukon River near the
coast and made portage to kuskoquln
River and thence made his way around the
coast to Fort Alexander, the trip having
lasted thirteen months.
During the whole time he met with no ac-
cident He used the same canoe all through.
1t weighs only one hundred pounds and is
seventeen feet long. Mr.. Pike formed u very
poor opinion OF the interior OF Alaska. He
says it is absolutely worthless, except for
hunting. Game OF sill kinds Is abundant.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

B1osDrN is still performing OF the tight
rope in London.
Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA. OF Spain. celebrated
recently her sixty-seyenth birthday.
TIE income Of Henry Labouchere from
London Truth is estimated at $50, 600 year.
PRESIDENT CARSoT, OF France, has finally
decided to become candidate Tor re-elec-
ton.
SENATOR GALLISGER, OF New Hampshire,
has the baldest and smoothest head III the
Senate.
Mrs. GRANT, widow OF the General, has
determined to make her future home In
Washington.
The Empress of Russia's physician when
in attendance upon his imperial patient re-
ceives fee Of $3.50 day.
THE Rev. L. M. Wise. d. D.. OF Cincinnati,
has Just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
OF his ordination rs a rabbi.
CRAMp, the great shipbuilder. says that
he does not so abroad oftener because an
ocean voyage prostrates him with seasick-
ness.
WH1LE he was in India the Austrian Arch
duke Franz Ferdinand, shot $500 head OF
game-including five elephants and twenty
tigers.
COLONEL r. s. LANIER, rather oil the late
Sidney Lanier, the poet, died few days
since at Macon, Ga. He WAS lawyer and
eminent in his profession.
PRESIDENT WOODRUFF, of the Mormon
Church, though eighty-two years old, man
aged to get about the Chicago Fair as we'll
as most OF the younger visitors.
CHARLOTTE M. JoSGE. the English novelist,
is seventy years old. OUT OF the profits she
has derived from her thirty novels she has
given 10 600 to charitable societies.
The Sultan OF Turkey is a monomaniac on
the subject of carriages. He has been stead
i!y engaged in making collection OF such
vehicles for the past twenty years and now
has nearly 500 Of all makes and kinds.
PRINCESS MAUD, Of Wales, who is more
like her father than any other OF the Prince
of Wales's children. inherits the paternal love
of humor. She Is an inveterate punster as
we'll, and she and her father make merry
pair when they. are in joking mood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
TO RESUME COINAGE.
Orders Sent to the Mints by Secre-
tary Carlisle.

Important action has been taken by the
Treasury Department in regard to silver.
Orders were sent to the superintendent OF
the United States Mints at San Francisco
and New Orleans to resume the coinage, sus-
pended some time ago, Of standard silver
dollars. This action is taken under author
ity Of Section OF the Sherman law Of 1880.
1t is for the purpose OF utilizing the seigni-
oraSe that the coinage OF standard silver
dollars is resumed.
The expectation is that about l,60o,oOU
standard silver dollars can be coined ut once,
which will give the United States Treasury a
seigniorage of about S500,000. In other
words, the seignioraSe bears the proportion
OF one-third to the amount OF silver coined.
1t is the intention Of the Treasury Depart
ment rs the other mlnts become clear OF gold
coinage, to have them also coin silver and
thus increase the coinage from S3, 500 GOO to
$4,000. 900 per month.
This seigniorage is so much clear gain to
the United States Treasury, andifit could all
be PLACED to the credit OF the Government at
once it would increase the balance by $685.
900, 900. The amount OF silver subject to
coinage is 14O, 900. 900 ounces.
The silver bullion to be thus converted into
standard silver dollars is the silver pur-
chased under the Sherman act OF 1890, and
upon which the coin notes are issued.
The coinage Of the silver, however. will
not contract the currency. but will increase
money in circulation to the extent OF the
sei-niorage, and without further legislation
is the only means ofincreasing the per capita
circuatian to keep pace with the increase In
population.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
Rating in PennsYIYania.

The most romantic and entertaining
feature of the pine business came with
rafting. On the larger streams the
mills were built. Railroads had not
penetrated the region when white pine
was king of Western Pennsylvania, and
the lumber was all sent to market by
the creek and river. A raft was CONS
pactly built of boards containing from
20, 900 to SO, 900 feet, owing much to
the size of the stream to be navigated.
Then when the spring floods came
everybody, even to the village preacher
and doctor, went sdown the creek"
The RATS were fitted with great oars at
either end, the use of which enabled
the hands to keep the craft In the chan
mel. As these smaller pieces reached
the river they were grouped In fleets
and coupled together until feet, as
it reached Pittsburg, covered half an
acre of territory and foated nearly
half million of lumber. As they went
on down the Ohio to Cincinnati or
Louisville they were again coupled up
until the area of some of the large ones
fell little short of two acres, with
value of close to $3.50, 900.
In April and May the main stream
of the Allegheny presented an exhilar'
ating sight. From early dsybreak
until nightfal the stream ran full OF
RATS following closely behind one an
other. At night every eddy along the
valley was tied full of acres OF clean
white pine. And the cabins on the
RATS in which the crews were quartered
were miniature although exceedingly
ephemeral cities. When the great
drive reached Pittsburg the wharves
and landings Oh both sides were filled
with lumber in every available place
where raft could be tied. The con-
pestion reached as far up the river as
Plum Creek, ten miles or more from
''the point"-s bridge in the city
Philadelphia Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
THANKSGIVING.
President Cleveland's Proclamation
Appointing the Day.

President Cleveland's Proclamation
Appointing the Day.
The President issued his proclamation,
naming Thursday, November 80, as day oil
thanksgiving. The proclamation reads as
fellows:
"While the American people should every
day remember with praise and thanksgiving
the Divine goodness and mercy which have
followed them since their beginning as 4
Nation, it is fitting that one day IN each year
should be especially devoted to the conteln-
plation of tho blessing we have received
from the hand Of God and to the grateful
acknowledgment Of His loving kindness.
"Therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President
Of the United States, do hereby designate
and set apart Thursday, the 30th day OF the
present month OF November, as Il day OF
thanksgiving and praise. TO be kept and
observed by all the people of our land.
On that day let US forSeso our or
binary work and employments and as'
sembls in our usual places of worship,
where We may recall oil that God has done
for us, and where from grateful hearts our
united tribute Of praise and song may 7eaci
the throne OF grace. Let the raunioh OF
kindred and the social meeting OF friends
lend cheer and enjoyment to the day, and
let generous gifts OF charity for the RELIEF o!
the poor and needy prove the sincerity ot
or thanksgiving"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION.
A Feed Mill Boiler Blows Up With
Terrible Results.

Five men were killed and fifteen persons
were in, ,ared by the explosion Of boiler in
East Fourteenth street, near Avenue B, New
York City, a few afternoons ago. The boiler,
an upright, was in the basement OF the feed
mill at the stables of the Dry Dock, East
Broadway and Battery Railroad Company,
on the north side Of Fourteenth street.
The feed mill was demolished and a large
section OF the boiler was hurled across the
street, smashing in the wall OF a tenement on
the south side.
Two of the men who were killed were
blown out Of the feed mill clear across the
street. One of them died in the hallway Of
the tenement. 534 East Fourteenth street.
The other breathed his last on the sidewalk
buried in the ruins of the feed mill.
Most of the injured were employees OF tho
feed mill or stables, who were struck by fly
ing bricks or timbers. Several persons living
across the street also were injured.
Following is list of the dead James
Armstrong, engineer, twenty-eight years
old: leaves wife and one child.
John Gillespie. hostler. sixty-lye years
old; leaves wife and son.
years old, single. Samuel McMullen, grain
shoveler. thirty-seven years old, single. Pat
rick Quinn, carpenter, twenty-five years old,
single.
The engineer in charge Of the boiler. James
Armstrong. was buried beneath great mass
Of bricks end stones. broken beams and twist
cd machinery, and, therefore, the cause may
never be ascertained.
The explosion shook buildings for blocks
around. Almost simultaneously the front
wall of the feed mill fell outward. and the
roof cayed in, followed by the collapse ofth
side walls.
A largo section OF the boiler rose in the air
ani went sailing across the street. 1t tstruck
with great force the front Of the tenement
531 East Fourteenth street. crushing in the
wall at the second story and smashing the
fronts and windows Of Peters's grocery and
kuhrs saloon. on the ground floor.
The bodies Of many horses were taken out
and eight injured ones were shot. Fifteen in
ell were killed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
LATER NEWS.

AT New York the Yale College eleven de-
feated the New York Athletic Club at foot
bail by forty-two points to nothing Crescent
won from Wesleyan, and Princeton beat
Orange.
The steamers Albany and Philadelphia
collided in Lake Huron. Both went down
and twenty -four lives were lost.
The annual report ofSuperinten1ent Stump
OF the Bureau Of immigration shows that
during the last fiscal year 40, 793 immigrants
arrived in this CONT y. decrease of 141 ,O3l
over the previous year
AT Halifax. Nova Scotia, Richard Savage
killed his three-year-old son and fatally
wounded his wife end himself. Cause.
jealousy.
THE steamer Frazer WIS burned to-day
near Goose Island, on LAX. NipissinG. about
twenty-five mile west Of North Bay. Canada.
Eighteen lives were lost.
FraHT1Sa was r.sumel at Msiilla by the
Riffians, who advanced close to the tow:
and were only driven ba-E after fierce
struggle.
A rRAMc WHO assaulted 4 young woman
near Lambertvile, n. j.. was pursued. and
i,l,nped into the river and was drowned.
FRAyc:s H. WEEKs p!eaded guilty to ON
be.zlement in New YORK City and was SEN
fenced to ten years Imprisonment.
,Tys Russian ex;les who had escaped from
a penal colony in siberia were picked up ID
the Sea Of Gkho.sk by al American wnalS3
bark and taken to San francisco, Cal.
TIE Governmcpt's expenses since Novem'
bcr [ have exceeded in receipts b. nearly
81, 900 .OO0
The Matancic attacked British iosec ID
South Africa. AMI were repused: sixty u
their men being killed, Lo2cngula IS salu
to be between Two British coinmns.
MELLo again bom3arded Rio. In an e'-
fort to make decisive progress before the
new Brazilian War ships arrived from Ne"
York.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
Seeing bI ELECTRICITY.

We can write by electricity, can
send pictures and designs by the same
agency, and talk to our friends at
distance by means OF the electric wire.
When. the British Asso ociation visited
Newcastle, England, says the Chronicle
of that city, Professor Perry told his
auditors that seeing by electricity was
possibility Of the future, and he; had
shortly before drawn picture OF
scientific achievements which would
enable friends divided by, large conti-:
nents and oceans, not onlyto talk with!
each other, but to look upon their feas-.
lures. Even before that Professor
Bell was known to have been at work
in his laboratory endeavoring to solve
the problem, and though ten years.
have elapsed since the possibility Of
applying thewell known principles OF
light in the same way as the principles
Of sound have been applied as in the
telephone was first suggested, the pro-
fessor is s. II as hopeful OF success az
ever. There is no theoretical reason
why light may not be conducted in the
same way as sound, but Professor Bell
tells us that it Will be very much more
difficult to construct an apparatus fOsi
the purpose, owing to the immensely
greater rapidity with which the vibra1
tions of light take place when CONF
pared with the vibrations Of sound.
The difficulty, however, is merely one
of finding o diaphragm sufficiently sen-
sitive to receive these vibrations and
produce the corresponding electrical
vibrations, and it is encouraging toI
have it on the authority Of such Q mani
as Professor Bell that at least q dozen
men, eminent in science in various
parts of the world, are at present en-
gagged in endeavoring to find the solu-
tion of this problem. Professor Bell
himself, who hos never ceased to grap-
pie with the difficulty, candidly admits
that up to the present his labors have
been in vain, but he is full of hopeful-
ness as to the successful issue of his
own research, as well as that OF the
other scientists who have taken the
matter up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
A River Threatens a Town.

The erratic Missouri River s
threatening, and will most likely soon
accomplish, the complete destruction
Of the town of East Atchison, No. on
the opposite bank from Atchison, Kan.
The stream has been eating new
channel for several months, and dur
ing the past summer has washed away
over 800 acres of land. 1t is now with.
in an eight of q mile of East Atchison,
and the destruction of the little town,
With many thousands of dollars worth
of valuable property, is regarded as
inevitable, and the people are moving
away rs rapidly as possible.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
THE LABOR WORLD.
,ooKLYS has 344 union trainers.

BROOKLYN has 344 union trainers.
JAPAN employs 221, ,056 cotton spindles.
CHICAGO reports rs 900 skilled men idle.
OMAHA. Neb., has coiored BARRIERS union,
NEW YORK has over 800 labor organiza-
tions.
LAuNDRY hands will form National
union.
BaooK1Yx has Workingmen's Free
School.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, has 425 union car
penters. ~.
SACRAMENTO VALLEY, California, has Indian
hop pickers.
KNIT goods manufacture employs $4,000
New Yorkers:
JOLIET (Ill.) steel workers have had their
wages cut 39}]5 per cent.
The Fall Hiver Spinners' Union he's
donated $500 to idle members.
SCOTLAND has a bank operated by railroad
employees. 1t has 81, 75o, 900 on deposit.
BROTHERHOOD trainmen pay out s51. 600
per month in death and disability claims.
A PrTrsBuRG firm has paid all the wages
temporarily withheld during the strlngency
AMERICAN delegates may attend the con.
vention OF railroad workers in Paris next
yar-.
\ WOMAN walking delegate ordered a
Stride in q shoe factory at Mtddiesboro'
Mass. Lost.
COMPLAINT now comes from New Orleans,
La, that unemployed 'aboring men from the
far Vest are swarming into that city.
LOWELL ChIass.) clergymen will aid the un-
employed by selling coal at wholesale rates
and through other effective agencies.
SERVANTS in China receive from sixty cents
to dollar month wages and board. Car
penters, masons. bricklayers, etc., are glad to
get "a month and feed themselves.
WHEN iEe great shirt, collar and cuff in
dustries OF Troy, n. Y, are running full
tims they employ from Is, 900 to 10000 per-
sons, and the pay roll reaches "a, 800, ,OO0 per
year.
G1ILs in Louisville Ry.) laundry struck
rather than handle the linen OF the Louis
Vile and Nashville special cars, upon which
road a strike was on. The railroaders lost
their strike.
The Walters Benevolent Association OF
Boston was donated $500 at their thirtfeth
anniversary by their employers. The asso-
citation has disbursed $50,0O0 in sick and
death benefits.
AT New Castle, Penn, the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie Railroad, the Etna and Rosena
Furnaces and other establishments are dis
pensing with Italian laborers. No less than
800 Italians have left New Castle within the
past month for Italy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Right is might, but might is NOS
right.
The right kind of prayer never
stops.
When faith goes to market it always
takes basket. 4&z9;3s
A chronic grumbler can be set down
as person who loafs too much.
A child's first question is the first
round in the ladder OF knowledge. &
I: No man can live right for day who
does not realize that he is to live for-
ever.
We are never saved by knowing our
strength or lost by knowing our weak 4
ness. i
Too many people have an idea that
religion can De measured by the length
of the face. rs
The man who works the hardest foE
the least pay is the one who has tho
biggest fortune. s3
We need more of the kind of reform
that does not go o thousand milesfrom
home to begin work.
It viii not do any good to pray for
ten talents if you are not improving
your one talent. y I;
There is touch of flavor in the
garden truck that is only known to
the man who swings the hoe.
Before some men are willing to cast
their bread upon the water they want
to be sure that it is going to be mem
toned in the newspapers. Rams
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

SIxTY-THsEE men who have returned to
New York from the phosphate mines on the
island OF Navassa tell story OF cruelty and
privation.
A. BLAIsDELL. JR.. & Co., cotton and wool
dealers, OF Chicopee, Mass. have failed.
AT Philadelphia. in the presence Of 0,o00
spectators. Princeton won the football game
with the University Of Pennsylvania team by
4 score of4 to 0. At New York Harvard de-
feated Cornell 81 to 0.
COLONEL DANIEL LAMONT. Secretary OF
War, and Mrs. Lamont visited Gettysburg
(Penn.) battlefield. The Secretary was met
by the members of the United States Get
tysburg Battlefield Commission. The entire
day was spent in the inspection.