The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-07-26
Pyles's Picked Paragraphs.
SOUTH CAROLINA.

Lancaster ia trying prohibition under the
dispensary law and 30 lar mas IL SUCCESS.
Her motto Ia "no barrooms."
Mr. A. B. Gonzalez, q somnambullst, OF ron
Pom, 3. c., fell TO the pavement from the third
door OF q hotel at Tybee few days ago with.
out recei wing serious damage.
Three dispensaries have been opened in Col.
Florence will soon have % or 80 new brick
stores covering the burned portions OF the
city. :, ,,,on =.
free trip TO the Worlds Fair sometime In
The twenty third annual session Of thu
State Dental Association Will meet IN Column
TT The members of the State Press Association
were Hospitality entertained last week by the
citizens OF Columbia.
We have recently learned OF tne success oi
Mr. John w. Fooshe son OF Mr.. w. u. ana
Mrs. Alta C. Fooshe, Of Nipety.Six, and u
nephew of Mr.. J. G. Klugh. OF Abbeville. MIR.
Fooshe, 1t will be remembered, IS on Oh tne
two young men who were 50 badly injured
by a premature discharge OF cannon II 20
lumb bia several years ago during the Davis
obseQuies.
After serving an apprenticeship Of four
shops shops at at coIumbia. s. G., he went TO Kansas
City, Missouri, where he secured work In
railroad shops. He has since been several
times promoted and now holds one OF the
most rernunerative positions In the shops.
His close attention to business and exempla.
ry babits have won for him many valuable
friends.
Temporary injunctiens eloslnE ,U. the Green m D,
ed by judges Norton and Aldrich.
The election of Rev. DR.. Ellison CApers az
assistant bishop OF the Episcopal church OF
South Carolina has been approved by the
House OF Bishops.
UNITED STATES.
The cotton crop in Texas is poor owing 10
worms and dry weather:
The rates to the Worlds Fair over the Wes.
| ern and Atlantic railroad have been greatly
reduced when solid ticket for ten Is pur-
chased.
The estimated cost OF the Columbia Exposi.
lion up TO the time 1t closes is s29,OOO,0OU
The Worlds total amount OF life insurance
| is Sl2, ,000. .00O 700.
A book machine in New York turns out
| 5 900 novels In an hour.
Col. Charles G. !Joues, Jr,, historian, OF
Augusta, Ga, died on the 10Th.
Mr.. Crisp, OF Georgia. will likely be re-elect-
ed speaker OF the House when Congress con.
venes In August.
Augusta. Ga. uses 90 tons of Ice per day.
street car was run into in Chicago on the
18th instant. killing four persons and serious
The Coored Catholic Congress will con-
vene In Chicago on Sept. 4th.
hundred-and.f ny. thousand dollar memorial
church erected at Roxbury, N. Y.
Charles EiseInan, OF Atlanta, Ga, while out
cunning on the l4th inst, acoiden tally shot
himself through the head and died almost
instantly.
Prom inent silver men Of California adopted
resolutions on the l4th inst, favoring the re-
storation OF silver to the position occupied as
money metal previous TO the demonetiza
A duel at sandersville. Ga, on the 18th In
staut, between two prominent young men
resulted In the death OF each.
Nine Indians OF the Choctaw Nation have
4th Of August.
WORLD.
| Paris has twelve more dailies than London
New York. Philadelphia and Boston combin
ed.
Delegates representing 24S,OOO coalminers In
various parts Of the country met In Birming
| ham, England, on the 10Th, to consider tn {
per cent, the cut TO 60 into effect July Bth.
A tornado In Italy on the 18th. killed many
people and injured hupdreds of others.
| A fire in London on the 18th, destroyed up
wards OF seven millisaa dollars worth OF pro
perty.
high precipice, killing six persons and seri
ously wounding thirty others.
| A revolt has broken out again In Nicarau
qua, and the president OF the republic and
his minister OF foreign affairs are held pris
oners at Leon.
General Arias, governor general OF Cuba
died on the 18th inst, OF tyPhus malaria.
tence at Tabasco, Mexico, on the 18th inst.
when the prisoner drew d pistol and shot the
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