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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-01-26
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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-01-26

S. r. JEssEE, Recorder.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-01-26
Death off. o. C. Lamar.

JUSTICE L. G. c. Lamar, died at Macon,
Ga, on the 23rd inst. Brights disease,
with agina pectors, was the direct cause
of his death.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-01-26

B II il,cost very little to lluiid log barns
for the toiaeco crop. They are usually,
built from sixteen 10 twenty feet square.
These should lie built about twenty feet
in The body md covered will shingles or
boards. Large logs may be used until the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
Great Fun in Kansas.

The Kansas newspapers ore having
sort of harvest festival. 1t has gone
so far up to date:
When Alliance orators talk about
Kansas starving to death, every indi-
vidual potato winks its eye-State Jour-
nal.
And every stalk eff corn pricks up its
ears.-Wichita Eagle.
And every cabbage mods its head
Lawrence Journal.
And every beet gets red in the face
Clay Centre Times.
And every squash crooks its neck
Clyde Argus.
And every onion grows stronger
Clifton Review.
And every fruit tree groans under
its load.-Minneapolis Commercial.
And every field of wheat is shocked,
LeavenwOrth Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
THU TITLES WARRANTED.

| THO TITLES WARRANTED.
or all of which we are the sole owners and
upon which there is no subsisting lien OF any
kind whatsoever.
Together with all and singular the rights.
members, hereditaments, and appurtenances
| to the said premises belonging or In any wise
incident or appuTtaining.
To have and 10 hold all, and singular, the
said premises and rights before mentioned
unto the said Seaboard Il Roanoke Railway
Company and the Raleigh & CASTOR Railway
Company, Lessees of the Georgia, Carolina 4
Northern Railway, their successors and as
signs forever.
And We do hereby bind ourselves, our heirs,
forever defend, all and singular the premises
and rights. unto the said Seaboard Roam
oke Railway Company and the Raleigh &
CASTOR Railway Company, LesseeS, as afore-
said, of the Georgia, Carolina & Northern
Railway, and their SUCCESSORS and assigns,
against us and our heirs, executors and ad-
ministrators, and. every person lawfully
claiming or TO claim the same or any part
thereof.
SEALS AND SIGNATURES OF THE GRANToRs.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set
our hands and seals this 25th day OF April,
A. D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Ninety Three QS93), and In the One Hundred
and Seventeenth Year Of American Inde-
pendence.
Interlination with pen on page one, and
and corrections made before execution.
]. S. Cothran, Il. s.
4. G. Cothran, a.. 81
Signed sealed and delivered in presence Of
W. c. MCGOWAN.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
How a Sundsy.SchOOl Scheme Came


to Grief.
The Sunday school needed money,
and Mr.. Smith, the superintendent,
had new way of getting it.
He proposed giving each boy half a
dollar. At the end of the month the
principal, together with what it earn.
ed, was to be returned to him.
The scheme was good, but it didn't
work quite as Mr.. Smith had antici'
pated.
The fourth Sunday found the super.
intendent ready to audit the profit
and loss accounts, and he commenced
with Jonnie's class.
"How have you done, Johnnie?"
"My half dollar has earned another
one" said Johnnie, with the air of one
having an option on a halo.
"Good," said the superintendent;
"not only is Jonnie good boy in help.
ing the school, but he shows business
talent. Doubling ones money in q
single mouth requires no common
talent. Who can tell but we may
have a budding Wanamaker among
us? Johnnie, you have done we'll"
"And now, Thomas, how much has
your half dollar earned?"
"Lost it," said Thomas.
"What, not only failed to earn any
thing, but actually lOst?" said MIR.
Smith. "How was that?"
"l matched with Johnnie" was the
reply, "and he won" ."---Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
Giving n Bad Dose SktIluIIy,

Heat your spoon in hot water, sqeeze
into it few dops of orange juice, then
pour on the oil and add few more
drops of orange juice, if you wish to
administer dose of oil to little pa
tient skilfully and pleasantly. II
would perhaps be just as we'll if no hint
that medicine of any kind is disagree,
able were made in the presence OF
small folks, who often get their pre-.
judices against it from the fuss and
erimsce made by their elders who
have to swallow dose. Many moth
ers must, I think, plead guilty to hold
ing the medicine man and his mix
lures over the little ones as a means OF
punishment when all else fails. In
some families the policeman, in some
the doctor is bugaboo, ready tt
pounce upon all kinds of infantine OBJ
stinancy.-New York Post.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
TROY'S LOVERS.
All Sorts of Paragraphs About the
City and Her People.

Troy, S. c.. June %, 1893
The farmers are having q fine season to
fight Gen. Green.
Mr.. Archie Titles horse ran away with
him Saturday, throwing him from his cart,
no serious damage done.
No preaching in town Sunday, this Is some
thing that does not happen often.
Miss Eunice Todd, of Due West, is visiting
Miss Kate Neel.
Miss Alice Mcdaniel, OF Chester. is visit.
Ing Miss Onie Kennedy.
Last Tuesday Troy and Mccormick crossed
bats at this place, at four o'clock the game
commenced, MIR. J. H. Chles, jr., umpire,
both sides did their best At the request OF
the Captain Of Mccormick nine the game was
called at the ifth inning. the score stood Is 10
O. Our club still wears the blue ribbon. We
understand Augusta under the name OF
Woodlawn has challenged our club.
Miss Sophie Youngblood, of Winter Seat, is
quite sick.
Miss Carrie Robinson is visiting her uucle
Mr.. j. G. Davis.
DR.. Latham, of Due West, will fill the A.. r.
P, pulpit next Sunday.
Mrs. Ella Jay, of Bradley, is visiting
friends and relatives In town.
Mr.. Walter Parnell after pleasant stay
among trends and relatives, returned to his
home In Hampton, last Tuesday, he made
many friends while among us.
The fashion Is now, when you are engaged
the young lady must sit and read to her low
er. Nick.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28

The Face Bath.-There are many
girls who retire at night thoroughly
tired, and forgetting, therefore. to
wash their faces just before seeking
their pillows for the much needed
slumber. This is a great mistake both
on account of health and beauty. Not
only does any particle of dust on the
face have time to create havoc before
morning, but if cosmetics have been
used, it is disastrous neglect; the
poisons or chemicals eat into the skin,
and destroys its smoothness as we'll as
whiteness, and have q clear entrance
through the pores into the system
BY using plentiful supply of warm
water on the face before resting, much
damage to the skin is saved, and much
good towards its preservation is accom-
plished.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
REMUNERATION OF DOVER.
The State Of South Carolina

The State Of South Carolina,
County OF Abbevile.
/, w. C. MCGOWAN, do hereby certify unto
all whom it may concern, that Mrs. Emma G.
Cothran, the wife Of the within named J. s.
Cothran, did this day appear before me, and
being privately and separately examined by
me, did declare that she does freely, volunta'
rily, and without any compulsion, dread. OF
fear Of any person or persons whomsoeyer
renounce, release. and forever relinquish
unto the within named Seaboard & Roanoke
Railway Company and the Raleigh & CASTOR
Railway Company, Lessees OF the Georgia
Carolina & Northern Railway Company and
their successors and assigns, all her interest
and estate, and also all her right and claim OF
Dover. Of, In or to, all and singular the prem
ises within mentioned and released.
day of April, Ammo Domini Eighteen Hun.
dred and Ninety Three.
w. c. MCGOWAN, N. P. S. G.
E. C. Cothran, UI.S.)
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28

There are no times in life when op-
portunity, the chance to be and to do,
gathers SO richly about the soul as when
it has to suffer. Then everything de-
pends upon whether the man turns tC
the lower or the higher helps. :.
If he turns to God, the hour of suffer.
ing is the turning hour of his life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
The State OF North Carolina,

The State OF North Carolina,
County of Wake.
Personally came G. E. Hunter, who being
duly sworn. SAYS that he saw the Within
named w. w. Nass. as Secretary Of the Ra-
leigh and CASTOR Railroad Company, sign,
seal and az his official act and deed deliver
the above written instrument, and that he,
with j. n. Anderson, witnessed the due exc.
cutiOn thereof. q. E. Hunter.
day OF June, 1898 Jno. w. Thompson,
Clerk OF the Court OF Wake county, N. c.
Witness the hands of S. G. Thomson, as In
tendant, and James Chalmers as Secretary
and Treasurer, Of the Town Council of Abbe-
Vile. S. e., and the official seal thereof, this
II June, lSg3. s. G. Thomson, L.S)
Intendant.
James Chalmers. ST.
Secretary and Treasurer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28

, The State Of Virginia,
City OF Portsmouth, to wit:
Personally came j. M. Perkins, who being
duly sworn, says that he saw the above
named VIM w. Chamberlaine, as Secretary
Of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Com
pany. sign, seal and Ms his official act and
deed, deliver the within written covenant
and agreement for the purposes therein writ
ten, and that he, with o D. Ball, Jr., witness
ed the due execution thereof
]. M. Perkins.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3lst
day Of May, 1893.
C. T. Phillips.
Clerk of the Court of Hastings for the City
of Portsmouth,.
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Don't feel it beneath your dignity to
give child the reason for refusal, II
practicable so to do; if it is not, your
former conduct should have inspired
such confidence toward you that he
will cheerfully sub nit though he does
not understand your motives.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
PROOF OF EXECUTION.

South Carolina, [ GO
Abbeville County,. '''
Personally appeared before me l. w. Perrin
]. S. Cothran and Emma G.. Cothran, sign,
seal, and as their act and deed, deliver the
Within written Deed and that he with w. C..
MCGOWAN witnessed the execution thereof.
l.. w. Perrin.
Sworn to before me this 18th day Of April,
1893. w. c. McGowan.
N. P. s. G.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28

After they had sung the chorus the eleven
repeated that touching poem by Father Ryan
"Furl that Banner" during which Miss Lath-
an slowly and sadly furled the old battle flag.
Zeigier and Miss Elm "a Lumpkin, one wear
ing red sash, another a white one, another a
blue one, each spangled with stars, and took
and sang tho Red, White and Blue" while
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
The State of Maryland,

City OF BALTIMORE, 70 WIZ
Personally came Walter S. Ball, VINO Geing
daIy sWSr1, says that he saw the above
named &. C. Hoffman, President Of the Sea-
hoard and Roanoke Railroad Company. and
r. C.. Holman. President OF the Raleigh ana
Castor Railroad Company, sign, seal, and as
Glis official act and deed deliver the within
written covenant and agreement for the pur-
ooses therein written, and that he, with Em-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
Broken Measures.

Broken Measures.
(Sarah X. Bolton.)
Life Is full OF broken measures,
Objects unattained;
sorrows lntertwined with pleasures,
Losses Of our custliest treasures.
Ere the heights be gained.
Every soul has aspirations
Still unsatisfed,
Memories that wake vibration
or the heart In quick pnisation,
AT the gifts denied.
We are better for the longing,
Stronger for the pain:
Souls ut ease arr nature wrongns--.
Through the narrowed soul comes thronging
Seeds, IN sun and rain
Broken measures, find completeness
In the perfect whole;
Life Is but q day in feetness-.-
Richer In all strength and sweetness
Grows the striving sonl.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28

all times upon the said Tusten Place and also
for the purpose of clearing any distractions
which may prevent the free flow Of the water
In said Branch at any point above the loca-
tion of the said engine house.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28

met Brown, witnessed the execution thereof.
w. s. Ball.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th
day Of May. 1893. Phi. H. Hoffman,
missioner for South Carolina in Mary
land, residing In Baltimore city.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-06-28
CONVEYANCE OF REAL ESTATE.

j. g. COthran and Emma g. Cothran
to The Seaboard e. Roanoke Rail-
way Company, and The Raleigh &
CASTOR Railway company, Lessees
OF the c., G. e. n. Railway.
State Of South Carolina, GO
County Of Abbeville, 90
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
PEcULIARITIEs OF GREEK ART.
Sculptors Made Male and Female Fea-
 lures Different.

Sculptors Made Male and Female Fea-
 lures Different.
 Archaologists have observed that in Greek statues the male eye is strongly arched, while the female eye has a rather hattened surface; and referring to accounts by the older anatomists who have affirmed such difference to exist they have seen in this fresh proof of the exact observation of nature by the ancient Greeks. The rule, according to London Nature, is not without exceptions, for the cornea in the Zeus of Otricoi has quite flat form.
 Herr Greet recently set himself to in- quire whether such sexual difference actually exists, and from individual measurment of the radius of the cornea in the horizontal meridian he gets an average of 7.S3 nm. for men and TSP mm. for women (Donders gives 7.S58 and 7.799), so the difference is so small as to be imperceptible to the naked eye. Measurement of other dimensions gave but minute differences also. The author concludes that the Greeks (from artistic motives) did not in this case follow nature.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
LIKE A HUMAN HAND.

The Singular Growth of 8 Tree Which
 Had Once Been Blighted.
 Up on the east side of North Seventh street, about midway between Poplar street and Girard avenue, Philadelphia, stands a strikingly curious tree, which recently attracted the attention of an Inquirer man. It stands just in front of stable yard, and the employees of the place say that dozens of people come to them every week and make re- marks or ask questions about the strange growth. From the thickness of the growth at the base the tree is probably about forty years old, but it's branches and foliage are new and fresh, and look as though they were but the growth of year or two. The trunk runs straight from the ground to a height of fifteen feet. Above this, for a short distance, is thick, globular mass of foliage, the leaves appearing to grow directly out of the wood. Above this growth run up three thick stalks or stumps six or eight feet high, also covered with a dense, close mass of foliage. When the tree is viewed from the north side it presents a startling resemblance to a giant human hand protruding from the earth. The three big stumps at the top represent the three middle fingers, and upon either side of these can eas fly be seen config- urations of the surr ounding foliage which correspond to the little finger and thumb. The explanation of the phenomenon is curious one. The tree was once full grown and vigorous, but was attacked by blight or some other disease, and the dead trunk was pruned down to it's present proportions, where upon the present new growth devel- oped.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
BOTHERED RY kAsaARoos.

Australian SGuattcrs Gradually ExterTni-
 hating sile Hungry, Long-Leaping Pest.
 The kangaroo plague has always been a great nuisance to the Australian squatters, for on an average these animals consume as much grass as sheep. It is stated by Science Gossip that on a sheep run of sixty thousand to eighty thousand acres ten thousand kangaroos were killed annually for six consecutive years and yet their num- Der remained very formidable in the locality. In the colony of South Aus tralia hundreds of thousands of kanga- roos are slaughtered annually for their skins and the bonus offered by the au- thorities The number of these marsu- pials in New South Wales in 1889 was es- timated to be over four million, and yet about five hundred thousand kangaroos and six hundred and fifty thousand wallables were destroyed in the col ony in that year. 4 bonus of sixteen cents for each Kangaroo killed IS of- fered in Australia, hence the colonlsts are gradually exterminating these na- tive animals. Over half million skins are annually shipped to England and a large number to North America to be converted into leather. The macropidB include several kinds of kangaroos and wallables. The progress of settlement in Australia has driven these animals from the more densely populated parts of the Australian con- tinent, but in the country and unset tied districts they are still numerous enough to cause very considerable damage to the natural grasses. So serious has been the injury thus wrought that the colonial governments and runholders pay a small sum per head for the destruction of the kan garoos.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
SPOILED BY A CORPSE.
How a French Peasant Failed to Enjoy
 the Carnival. --+


 Mardi Gras was spent in woeful fash ion by peasant who had come up from village near Melum to Paris for a day to witness carnival merrymaking on the boulevard, says the London Telegraph. He was lunching in wine shop and recruiting his strength with a view to a whole afternoon of sight seeing, when a workman entered the the restaurant where he was seated and asked to be conducted to hos pital, as he had suddenly been taken i'll.
 At the landlords suggestion the peasant generously offered the sick man place in the cab he had hired, with the intention of seeing the fete as thoroughly and comfortably as pos sible. His errand of mercy would, he thought, take him at most half an hour, but during the journey the workman became worse and died. At the hospital the unlucl1y peasant was kept waiting an hour, and finally told that it was impossible to take in corpse. He drove off with his lu- gubrious charge to the nearest police station. Here he again met with re- fusal, and was dispatched off to the police commissariat of the Belleville quarter.
 It was six o'clock before the unfor- tunate countryman could get rid of his melancholy burden, and he had then just time enough left to get to his train at the Lyons railway station. He had not as much as caught glimpse of the maGl1s and confetti he had come all the way from his native village to see
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
Paper Made of Iron.

A queer specimen of American iron work was exhibited at the great expo sition of 1851. Immediately lively discussion ensued among American and British manufacturers as to how their iron could be rolled. The Gillett rolled sheets, the average thickness Of which was only the 1S-100 part of an inch! The wonderful fneness of this work may be more rapidly understood when the reader is informed that 1900 sheets of the thinnest tissue paper, pressed, measure fraction over an inch. These sheets were strong and tenacious and could be written upon with a pen, but were porous when held before strong light.
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
orlein of the Word ..Restaurant."

A French paper, in discussing the word restaurant" now part of the language of every country, gives the following history of its origin: "A landlord, bearing the appropriate name of Boulanger, whose house was in the Rue des Preeheurs, Paris, in order to draw patrons decided to keep bouillon, boiled eggs, roasted chickens and other edibles ready at all hours of the day, rather than at only three cer- tain periods. He announced this plan on great shield above his door, bear ing the following inscription: 'Venite ad me omnes qui stomacho labor atis, ct ego tres taurabo vos.' The an nouncement excited talk, the passers- by laughed and entered the house to restore themselves. The inn became famous and other Partisan landlords began to initiate the inventive Boulanger by calling their inns rest aurants' and themselves 'restau- rateurs.'"
The St. Johns herald., 1893-08-17
SHE CAPTURED THE COURT.
A Woman Traveller Who Can Take Care
 of Herself.

A Woman Traveller Who Can Take Care
 of Herself.
 ''There are several lady travellers on the road, but most of them are rather agents than travellers writes a com mercial traveller to the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
 ''One of the brightest among them that I have met was pleasant little body who was taking orders for books, though, as she frequently explained, she was no book agent, because she only sold to the trade and in quantities. That might be, but she always had spare copy to accommodate anyone who might be struck with it's beauties.
 fI met her in small Illinois town, where the local judiciary wrestled hard to collect a license from every one who came within a hundred miles of being an agent or peddler, and my fair comrade got herself arrested for selling a single copy of her book for six dollars cash to a man who was mean enough to give her away. felt sorry for her, and made up my mind that after supper I would either square the court or bail her out.
 But my services as advocate or di- verter of justice from the proper chan nels were not needed, for at supper time she appeared more radiant than ever. I asked her how she got along with the police judge or justice of the peace.
 "'Oh,' she replied, he is just the incest old man I ever saw in my life. He bought the only copy had left, and asked the constable who arrested me if he thought he had good sense to drag lady before him like that for nothing
 ''I often wonder what kind of argu- ment the lady used, for the old judge had reputation for cussedness which it was hard to equal. But one thing is certain, and that is the average woman traveller can take good care of herself without much outside assistance"