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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
THE THREATENING PLAGUE
Fifty-one Deaths From Cholera at
LOrient, France.

The British Government has sent q circular
to the Postofice officials in Grast Britain
and Ireland notifying them that since
March %. there have bsen ffty-one deaths
from cholera in Z Orient In the Dspartmsnt
Of Morbihsu, France.
There Is now scarcely doubt that Rus.
sia Is again to suffer from the rayages ot
cholera. Concurrent with the setting "a o.
slightly warmer weather, tbs odicial re-
ports, incomplete as they are, show the 70.
cruiescence Of the disease In nearly all the
places In which 1t wrought such frighttnl
havoc last summer aud autumn.
Official returns have been mads public
showing that thers were sixty-ave cases o.
cholera AID nineteen deaths from the diseases
in the town OF Orel. the entrepot Of COM
mercs between north and south Russia.
With its trade with the various sections Or
the country Orel Is particularly liable 70
suffer from epidemic diseases, more par1cu-
larly cholera, and it is also point for ths
dissemination OF the disease.
In addition to the bad showing OF toe
above official figures It Is matter OF com
mon knowledge that the number OF cholera
cases and deaths from the scourge are Tar
more numerous In tbs Governments that
ara not included in the returns
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
WHISKY BURNED.

Nearly 10000 Barrels of Liquor Do.
stroyed In q Louisville Warehouse.
While four workmen were moving whisky
in warehouse of the Allen Bradley distillery
at Louisville. KY. barrel began to leak.
They set down their lanterns and while put.
ting tbs barrel on an upper tier it hurst.
The whisky spattered on the lanterns ana
at once c,ugSt fire. The men had barely
time to escape before other barrels began to
explode, anu in five minutes the warehouse
was in flames.
The whisky made tremendous blaze, AMI
the fumes were so Intense that many per-
sous were intoxicated. Nearly l2.00) bar
rels of whisky wers stored in the wars-
house, and it was only by tremendous exer-
tlons that the fire was confined to ons
building. The whisky has 2N or 80 own
ers. The loss is about So .0,0O.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
DEATH IN .THE SHAFT.
Ten Men Suffoeated by Smoke
in q ShamOkin Mine.
What Resulted From irving to
Fill a Lighted Lamp.

A miners lamp caused an explosion 10 tho
Nelson Shaft, shamokin, PENN, at seven
o'clock few mornings ago. Many miners
escaped, but ten were killed. Owing to tho
day being holiday, there were not as many
men at work as usual. The mine is operated
by Langdon & Co. The bodies have been
recovered.
The killed were: John Roble, james Bren-
nan, Michael Brennan, John Ryan, Fred
srick Ginter, John Burtt John Garry, Joseph
Borteax. Nicholas Dolton, Frank Shupis.
The fire started about twenty feet from
the bottom Of the slope, where there was an
olhouse used by the men TO change their
working clothes for others before leaving
The mines.
About $50 q. m. Hungarian was filing
bis lamp and 1t exploded, igniting the Oh
about IL. BE rushed from the oiihouse, and
the flames spread with rapidity. ~
Attempts were made to fight the fire, but
those who started to do 80 were compelled TO
dee for their lives. They succeeded In reach
ing the bottom of the shaft, and were hauled
to thu surface along With some belatei min.
ers, who owe their lives to the fact that they
did not 20 to work at the usual time.
The ten men who lost their lives were at
work nearly 100 feet above where thu fire
DIOk6 OQts 4nEOUkh Oh ta44 Woy A~hA sAAS
lower vein to the red ash vein tho smoke
poured, sufocating the unfortunates Like
rats in trap.
Almost the entire town gathered In the
vicinity of the burning mine. from the air
passages of which great volumes OF smoke
were Issuing The scenes were most distress.
ing. The wives and children Of the impris.
oned men uttered agonizing cries and i'm.
plored the men IN the crowd to rescue loved
ones. u
About midday rescuing party OF d1
brave men went down the shaft and entered
the burning vein. The smoke was 80 dense
that they were compelled to lie down on
their stoiuachs and keep wet sponges TO
their nostrils to avoid suRocation. When
they had proceeded q short distance they
came across the bodies OF two men locked In
each Others arms. They were the Brennan
brothers, James and Michael. -7si ].
Further on the bodies OF eight men we're
found, making ten dead In all. The bodies
were removed to the surface with much dn-
Hculty. They were tal;an to tho blacksmttns
shop, where most pathetic scenes were WE.
messed. Three OF the men were married ana
had large families. The Others we're young.
averaging less than TWENTY-FIVE years.
Only two mules werb gotten out alive.
Five were found with their necks resting
over each others bodies. How they got In
this position is q mystery. There we're al
together thirty dead mules in the mine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
GOOD COUNSEL.

Look within. Keep the internal fires burn
ing. Build the home affairs. Add to the
time in the closet. Heat and efficiency. DO
not so much depend upon external as inter-
mails. It is well to have combined effort; II
is well to have bands and straps cut; but 1t
Is of vast importance to have the inward liie
aelow with personal contact with the unseen
and eternal. Perhaps there is over-much
locking at outside measures, and too little
attention to the internal fires that feed the
outward movement. Build up home altar.
Drill in patient Bible study. Study, not only
the external movings Of holiness, bat the ilfe
fit in thy soul. Learn II possible hla all iIat
hurts thy soul. Learn. 80 far as possible,
the kind Of climate that best suits its life.
Seek continually the richer spiritual pastur,
age which best feeds thy souls wants. Ii
thou woudst be Of the highest service to eX-
ternal conquest of holiness, look Within
Highway Almanac.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
UR. TALMAaE has been preaching

DIR. TALMAGE has been preaching
about fishes, and is most enthusiastic
in his praise of a fish diet, on which
so many statesmen have grown great.
He thinks that if every working
American could eat few pounds of
fish daily his stock Of phosphorus
would be 80 huge that he would thrill
the world with his genius. The
Doctor is careful not to tell the pub
lie what particular kind of fish he
himself eats. 1t must be an unusu-
ally frisky one
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
RICH FORESTS BURNED.
Many TurpentIne Orchards De-
stroyed In North Caroltna.

Many Turpentine Orchards Do
stroyed In North Caroltna.
The greatest forest fires ever known in
Moore and Richmond Counties, North Caro-
lima, ragged few days ago, in the heart OF
the long leaf pine district. The trees had
lust been bored and thousands Of them were
destroyed. Many people owning turpentins
orchards are ruined.
One man lost 1000 acres Of trees. The fire
swept upon the town Of West End and
nearly wiped it ont. Thres large stores with
the entire stocks the postofics and several
dwellings were burned.
At least twelve turpentins distilleries and
scores of dwellings scattered throughout tue
woods were burned and the roadbed OF ths
Aberdeen and West Epd Railway was 20
badly injured that trains could not run.
Great quantities Of resin wers burned,
1000 barrels at West End alone.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
CONSIDER THE CHILDREN.

Have we no pity for the poor, miserable
children2 Is there no voice strong enough
to plead ''like angels trumpet-tongued,
against the deep damnation OF their taking
ofr'-of these children who. in the language
Of Southey, are not so much born into the
world as damned into the world; damned,
predestined, as it were, to live lives OF dis
ease and degradation, because Of the drink
in the midst Of which they are brought up,
and Of which they have the hereditary talnt
in their very veins?-Canon Farrar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19

at Anpis.on, Az Ala, pro 5ose a pnsnonenal
nj march for timex Il psaos, nothing less than thar!
to TO- cs7er the distance On foot from their
hons to ths Worlds FAIR grounds about
200 niles. T1ey expect to bs six or seven
weeks on the road and will go n heavy
marching order, each man carrying his arms
AMI knapsack. A wagon train In charge OF
tina Ouarter,naster will carry camp souIoa2e
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
RELIGIOUS READING.

A cHILp's PRAYER.
Night is over, heavenly Father,
would bend my knees and pray;
Help my weakness, guide me safely,
Watch and help me all the day;
Take away my love for sin,
Let Thy spirit rule within.
Night is over; some poor children
Have been homeless, sleepless, i'll;
God has let me rest so sweetly
In my chamber warm and still;
Lord, thank Thee for Thy love,
Raise my morning thoughts above.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19

THE people who reside on the Rue
Panama, street in Paris which re-
ceivcd that name several years ago,
want to have its name changed.
Many of them have good reason to
rue Panama.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
GAINING GROUND.

Terence V. Powderly, who as the official
head of the knights of Labor, has done much
to interest worIingmen in the temperance
reform, says:
Ten years ago the cause Of temperance
was not as respectable as 1t is to-day, he
cause there were not 80 many respectable
men and women advocating it. It has gained
ground, it is gaining ground, and all because
men and women who believe in it could not
be browbeaten or frightened. Neither the
Kissing of geese nor the throwing OF rotten
eggs has stopped or even delayed the march
OF temperance among the workers."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
A DEADLY BLAST.
II Hurled q Torrent of Water on tho
Miners Below.

Miners Below.
A disaster both appalling and singular,
which placed the lives OF forty meu in
iaopardy and in which three were killed AMI
ten more seriously Injured, occurred in the
L,urel Hill Mine, operated by Pariee
Brothers, on the outskirts Of Hazieton,
Penn, at 9:30 o'c.ock few MORNINGS since.
At about 9:25 David Wiliiams lit fuss
preparatory to firing lift No. .. Five min
utes later the expiosion occurred. lnnlE-
diateIy terrifying roar was heard AMI al
immense body OF water rusaei down breast
No. 10, filling it 70 rhs roo.
The men fled TO places OF safety, AMI later
all but three were rescued and DrouTnt 70
the surface. The three men who could not
be rescued were Thos. Hudson, John Irehl-
hath and Richard Williams. They were
drowned. II was thought that some OF
those rescued might die rom injuries sus-
tained in heing washed against the rocas
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19

JEwELER-~You don't need key
for that watch. Just turn the crown,
90, and it will CO." Farmer Field
aJust like durn caow, ain'tit? Give
her tail twist an she gifts up and
pits,,"-Jeweler's Weekly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
FIVE TRAMPS BURNED.
Caught In a Blazing Barn In Which
They Were Sleeping.

They Were sleeping.
barn on the old Voorhis estate at May
wood, near HackeusacS, N. j., wa' burned
a few mornings ago. The property was re-
Gently bought by G.. l. Jaeger, wealthy
paper manufactured. rv
While the fire was at its height Dir. Toplin
saw human face appear in one OF the win.
dows Of the barn and shouted an alarm.
Before the words were Que OF MS mouth
the namss burst from thu win1ow
and nothing more was seen OF tne iace:
charred body OF a man. The lower parts OF
the limbs and the facs were burned of.
Searcn was continued, and bs.ore IL
oc,ock the bodies OF tour other men were
found. In each case the bodies mad beeu in
cinerateo. I5 is supposed that they were
tramps.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19
ALL BUT FOUR DROWNED.
The Fate That Overt ook Twelve Cast
aways at Sea.

The mystery that surroun led the fate OF
Captain Drummond AMI iiftsan mea wh>
were in one of the two boats that escspsI
from the burning British ship King j. mes
was cleared up wnen thu steamer L,s Al.
geles arrived at Redondo, Cal. with tou:
Survivors, She picksd up the Captains
boat, which contained Captain Dru nnoni
and three men-sll who vera left out o. SIX
teen men.
The boat containing thess men was can
sz I'd Ave days ago in u storm 2O miles "ue
and all the men excspt foue We're swepe
away and drowned.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19

JACK PENDLEToN must have got
married." What makes you think
so?" "He has quit wearing creases
In his trousers. ."-Exchange.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19

Heine, tie infidel, said: "What book!
Vast and wide as the world. rooted in the
ADVISES of creation, and towering up behind
the blue secrets Of heaven. Sunrise and
sunset, promise and fuifllment, birth and
death, the whole drama Of humanity, all ID
this book
Prof. Huxley writes: II have been ser-
ously perplexed to how how the religious
feeling, which is the essential base OF con-
duct, can be kept up without the use OF the
Bible. The pagan moralists lack IRE ana
color. and even the noble Stole, Marcus
Aurelius, Is too high and refined for an or
dinary child. For three centuries this book
has been woven into the life OF all tnat Is
best and noble in English history.
at foibids the veriest hind, who never
left his village, to be ignorant Of the eX-
istence of other countries and other civiliza-
tions, aud OF great past stretching back 10
the farthest limits OF the Oldest nations Ill
the world. BY the study Of what other look
could children be so much humanized and
made to feel that each figure in that vast MS
torlcal procession fills, like themselves, out
a temporary, interspace in the interval De-
tween the two eternitics. and earns the Dless-
ings or the curses of all time, according tc
it's efforts to do good and hate evil. even as
they also are earning the payment for their
workm
Canon Farrar saws: "After all these thou
sands of years of the worlds existence, after
all the splendors of literature in all nations
and all ayes, there is no book that can super
sede it as an instrument for the education OF
the young. Alone of all the books it IS Cir
cu!ated in hundreds of millions OF copies In
every tongue. It's eclipse would be the re.
turn of chaos; its extinction the epltaph OF
history"
The empire of Caesar is gone; the leglons
of Rome are mouldering in the dust; the
avalanches that Napoleon hurled upon
Europe have melted away; the pride OF the
Pharaohs is fallen ;the pyramids they raised,
to be their tombs. are sinking everv day IN
the desert sands; Tyre is a.rock for bleaching
esbermens nets; Sidon has scarcely rock
behind, but toe Word Of God still survives.
All things that threatened to extin9uish 1t
have only aided it; and it proves every day
how transient is the noblest monument that
a man can build. God has spoken. Tradl-
ton has dug for it many grave; intnlera' &C
has lighted for it many a faEot; many
Judas has betrayed it with a kiss; many
Peter has denied it, with all oath; many
Demas has forsaken it, but the Word OF GOO
still endures.-[Dr. John Cummings
Wou,dst thou have thy flesh ooey thy
kt,. nl,,.t (,nFt
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19

Wou,dst thou have thy flesh ooey thy
spirit? Then lct thy spirit OBEY thy Coz.
Thou must be governed that thou naycst
govcrn.-lAugustine.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-04-19

You have noticed. suppose, in reading
tne story OF tha resurrection that almost
every account Of the Bible gives the idea that
the Characteristic Of that day will be great
SOUND. 90 not know that it will be very
LOUD, but know it will bs very penetrating.
In the mausoleum. where silence has reigned
thousand years. that voie, must psns-
trate. In the coral cave Of the deep that
voice must penetrate.
All along the sea route from New York to
Liverpool at every few miles where steam
or went down departed spirits coming back
lowering over the wave. There is where
the City of Boston perished. Found at last.
There Is where the President perished.
Steamer found at last. Thsre Is where the
Central America went down. Spirits
hovering-Aundreds OF spirits lowering,
waiting for the reunion Of body and soul.
Out on the prairie spirit lights There is
where a traveller died in the snow. Crash!
goes Westminster Abbey, aud the poets and
orators come forth; wonderful minZ ling OF
goo and bad. CRASH! go thu pyram ids OF
Egypt, and the monarchs coms for6h.
Wto can sketch tbs scenes supp ose that
one mo onens before that general rising there
will he an entire silence save as You hear the
grinding of wheel or clatter Of the hoofs
OF procession passing into the cemetery.
ShOhSO III GAL tuo CtfcS VI lue 6dEUu. SiouCS
on the side of the mountain. Silence down
in the valleys AMI far out in.o the sea.
Silence.
But In a moment. in the twinSling Of an
eye, as the archangeps trumpet comes psal-
Ing, rolling, crashing across mountain and
ocean, the earth will give one terrific shud-
der. and the graves Of the dead will heavs
like tn, waves Of the ssa, and Ostsnd and
Sebastopol and Chalons will stalk forth in
the lurid air, AMI the drowned will come up
and wiring out their wet locks above the bill.
low and all the land and all the sea become
one moving mass of life-al faces. all aass.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-14
DhNPffEE T0BfCC0 HdRKET.
Large offerings OF Common Stock, With
Weakened Prices.

DANVILLE. VA, May 1S.-Speclal.--
The leaf tobacco market has been active
this week, Notwithstanding the tlghtness
OF the money market. The offerings
were large enough. but in the main con-
ssting OF common and nondescript stocks.
Prices weakened I'm the early part Of
the week, and though they rallied some
what. did not recover by a great deal.
The weeks sales at auction amounted 10
something over a million pounds.
Jack Thompson (coloredD was arrested
here to-day on serious charge-that Of
having criminally assaulted Bette Banks
dale, nine-year-old cOlored child.
Thompson is in Jail. and will have a
hearing Monday morning.
Harvey Mitchell. the colored boatman,
who was several days ago drowned in
Dan river a few miles above the city.
was found to-day floating in the river
not far from where he fell out of the
boat.
A convention Of Democrats OF the
Chatham district was held at Chatham
to-day. and the following were nominated
for district offices: II. c. Allen, super
visor, Chiswell Dabney, T.. II. Jones, S.
ID. Walker. J.. G. Shields and S. w.
Lee. justices Of the peace: =. y. Moses,
S. G. Abbott and J. c. Taylor. constables;
Samuel 7. Abbott, oveTseer of the poor.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-14
ARE gUzZARD TURNS EYANGELIsT.
The No orious Ex-Outlaw Telling the Err
rors of His Ways to Warn Sinners.

Abe Buzzard, once the terror OF Lam
caster county, has seen the error OF his
former ways. and since his recent release
from the Eastern penitentiary has taken
TO missionary work with great ardor,
delivering three addresses in this city
Yesterday. when he spoke at the Cohock-
sink Presbyterian church. the Fairhill
Raptist church and the Wharton-street
Methodist church.
The famous eX-outlaw was found yes
terday afternoon in the Sunday school
room of the Fairhill church, and spoke
concerning his conversion and future
plans. lie appears in excellent health
and looks like prosperous farmer.
There is no pallor about his face that
would tell OF his long Imprisonment. lie
is slow and deliberate in speech, both
i'm public speaking and private CONVEX
saton, and seems 10 weigh every word
he says.
"Ny IMPRISONMENT" said he, twas
really one OF the best things that ever
happened to me in my life, as it made
me feel how helpless man really is. While
I'm prison the conviction came upon me
more and more that ] must throw myself
upon God. and abide by His will. All
cut one OF the links. My prison life was
what led 10 my conversion"
How did / come 10 take up lecturlng?
Wen. | had to. | felt IL TO be my duty
10 try aud convert others. | don't know
whether | shall devote myslf 10 mission
airy work entirely or work at n trade
People tell me ] will have a hard time to
get along as every one will look al me
as a jail-bird Well, 1 shall have TO
stand that. / put an advertisement in
one of the Reading papers some time
ago TO try 10 get work as a turner. the
trade | worked at I'm the penitentiary.
but got no answer. Then | received a let
ter from the Mannheim Baptist church in
Ephrata asking me 10 speak before them.
and about the same time a letter came
from the Rev. j. Francis Smith of Dau-
phin county, advising me 10 try mission
airy work Mr.. Smith is now acting as
my agent and arranging dates for me-
/ shall stay here until Wednesday. and
then go TO Lancaster, where / am TO
speak.
IL don't want TO go Into this work too
hard at first, as people will think l am
seeking for notoriety. Later on I may
associate several people with me and
start a regular mission"
In HIS public addresses so far BuZZard
has referred very little TO his past
career confining himself TO spiritual ex-
hortation, and speaking very briefly.
1t appears 10 be quite the custom at the
present for ex-conyicts TO so upon the
lecturing stage, and Buzzard was asked
what effect he thought these addresses
had upon the public mind.
II think they have great effect" said
he. '1n converting people. as a man who
can go down into his own life can reach
many whom a minister could not touch"
All three churches where Buzzard
spoke yesterday were crowded.-Phila-
delphia Times.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-05-14
INSTALLATION or CRY OFFICERS.
Ashevillo Visitors are Remaining This
Year Later Than Usual.

ASHEVILLE. n. c., May 13.-Special.-
The installation of the new city officials
next Monday will be attended with con-
siderable ceremony The Inauguration
will take place in the courtroom. The
mayors OF Ramoth, West Asheville, Vic
toria and Kenilworth have kindly con-
scented 10 lend their presence 10 the oc-
casion.
The picnic at Sulphur Springs for the
benefit OF the fire company was well at
tended. and resulted in raising about
$3.50, which will 90 a long way toward
paying the expenses Of the delegates 10
the State Convention in Wilmington.
The cotillon given at the Battery Park
Hotel last evening I'm honor OF Miss Inger-
soil, OF Ohio, was well attended and
greatly enjoyed. j. +. Rumbough led.
Refreshments were served at II o'clock,
after which the dancing was resumed,
and continued until the ''wee sma'
hours.
Internal revenue collections for this
district yesterday amounted 20 Szl5.Ia,
Congressman w. T. Crawford is In the
city.
Visitors 10 Asheville this year are re-
naming later than ever before. There are
a great many here now, and usually the
spring exodus depopulates the town OF its
visiting contingent from the North before
the LIST OF May