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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22


able he may be, is always handicapped
by the necessary uncertainty Of bis
tenure. His receivership may last for
years. but may terminate at any time.
No contract that he can make is bind
ing beyond the term of his receiver
ship.
"This Is felt particularly In negotia-
tions for the opening of Port Royal
and the conduct Of the railroad. The
uncertainty as to the result Of the lit
igatiop, and whether or not the domi-
nation of the Central railroad will be
restored ;and the bottling up process OF
Port Royal again put into effect rem.
ders persons unwilling to enter into
contracts involving any length Of time
or any expenditure of money. If 1t
was today an established fact that the
railroad would be free of the Central
railroad and the port would be Kept
open an Independent and competitive
point, / am satisfied that arrangements
could be made in addition to those al
ready entered into which would place
the success of the enterprise beyond
any possible peradventure.
at can be readily seen from the
facts already stated that in the ordi-
nary curse there is before Us long
tedious and expensive litigation. 1t Is
manifest that the Central railroad In.
tends in every possible way to resist
the demand of the State, and if posi-.
BILE to prevent it; that every legal re-
source will be exhausted to delay, tire
out and finally defeat 1t.
The question for the consideration
of the General Assembly Is whether
the State Is willing to subjec itself 20
q process OF this character from cor
po1ation of its own creation, but now
dominated and its policy controlled en-
tirely by a foreiga corporation OF
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22

tuR Guo ca pcuoo VI UlcpSIbs OUJu duu
Brown, assistant counsel.
Prosecutions have been commenced
in the criminal courts against the fol-
lowing parties for violations of the
dispensary law: Vincent Chico. (2l,
F. Koopman (2), Fred Mollenhauer, q.
w. Auspach, j. F. Mckay, J. j. Con-
way, G. F. Helms, Leo Bull winkle, J.
D. Kennady. w. Heskin, II. Hemme (2)
H. Hemme, JI;.I. Notte, Joe Jenkins,
W. D. Hackeman, L. F. Murphy,
Bagby & Spear, w. j. Bowen, G. J. G.
Becker, Charles Passarelli, A. Ruby,
James E. Edgerton, agent Clyde Steam
ship Line a L. G.. Pinckney, agent
Southern Express Company (0, D. 81.
Chamberlain, receiver, all OF Charles.
ton; and II. W. Bellinger, B. D. Selling
George Lohbor, j. G. Linsteddt and G.,
M. Pitcher, of Berkeley.
Criminal and civil prosecutions have
been entered against John O'Donnell,
of Anderson, and David Morris, of Sum.
ter. for violations of the dispensary
law.
Lastly comes the rice beer cases
from this city against J. q. H. TroeRer
W. E. Byrd (2), Ben David, Jerome
Fagan, Thomas Pagan, j. NJ. livery
Heinz Jacobs. In Speaking of the test
case inithese cases the Attorney General
says:
"This was a prosecution at October
term for violation of the dispensary
actin selling intoxicating liquors by the
drink in the city of Columbia. The
defendant had sold the liquors at hi!
place which had been run as q bar and
saloon before the 1st day OF July. Mo
tions for a nolle pros, and demurrer
we're interspersed by the defendant
upon tie ground Of the alleged uncon
stitutionality of the act under which
the prosecutions were brought and tht
defective drawing of the indici.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-11-22
A B I'D Robb ery,

CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. l5.-John A.
Drake, treasurer of the Indiana, Illi.
nois and Iowa Railroad Company, was
sandbagged and robbed Of $4,000 In
the Office Of the company on the ninth
floor of the Rookery building at z
o,otooy fo.dou nroko had tho monev
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13
Who Goes rirs;?

have been consulted by my charm
ing hostess of this week as to the order
of precedence to be followed at informal
dinners in this country. find all New
port somewhat stirred up over this ques-
ton. The presence of royalty and the
establishment of the Pauncefotes there
have led to various complications in 9TH
er households. l gave the rules for Eng
lish precedence in former paper, and
it is needless to repeat that royalty al
ways goes first. AS for the rest, | will
simply quote remark heard last sum
mer, which amused me greatly and is
more than ever to the point. Lady B.
asked clever New York man how the
question was determined in America
She wanted to know in what order peo-
pie We're sent to dinner. In the order
of cash" was the rerly.--Vogue.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13
READ BLE ITEMS.

The custom at the funeral of a war
rior of leading his riderless horse be-
fore the bier S of medieval origin. In
the old days & horse so led became the
property of the church
The first appearance of peanuts in
mercantile history was a consignment
of ten bags sent from Virginia to New
York for sale in 1874. In 1892 the
product was . 600, 900 bushels.
1t was New York woman who said
upon being put upon a low diet by
her physician, that so far as she had
gone it seemed that everything she
liked was either wicked, EXPENSIVE or
unwholesome.
A peculiar result of lightning was
noticed near nijon. in France, after a
severe thun lie storm A bolt struck a
small pond just oltside of the city, and
it was dis severed that the electric
shock had killed all the fish in the
pond, about one thousand in number
Sandersville, Ga has an electrified
well on lot belonging to Colonel j.
n. Gilmore The curb was struck by
lightning and carried down into the
well sending a cloud of steam above
the sarface. Since then those who
have dipped a finger in the well have
found it higAy charged with cleo
tricity.
Brain surgeons of to-day are begin
ming to unders, and such occurances as
that which turned Barnett Grimsley,
a farmers boy, into the ablest Bap-
tjst preacher in Virginia Young
Grimsley, when sixteen, was cutting
wood with a companion, when the
other fellows AK few OF the handle,
struck him on the head aad cracked
his skull The accident. instead of
hurting him in any way, seemed to
give his brain more room to grow, and
he became known in later yea rs as
Grimsley the eloquent.
Henry A. Hazen says that the con-
struction of tight balloons must be the
first step toward proper exploration
of the air. 1t is hardly probable he
says, that a balloon has been con-
structed in this country which will
not leak twenty-five per cent OF its
gas in twenty four hours. On the
other hand, balloon has been built
in France of gold-beater's skin which
has leaked less than one-half of one
per cent in twenty-four hours. In
other words, ii the former balloon
could just keep afloat two days the
latter would not give out for 100 days.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13
School of Naval ArcIi;eeture.

We have received from tie Massachu-
sets Institution Of Technology an an
nouncement of the establishment ut
the institute OF "A course of instruction
in naval architecture. It's four years
course. 1t ai1as 70 provide a thorough
training in ne theory aul methods of
designing aad Building ships, and its
graduates receive the degree of bachelor
of science. 1t is an optional branch of
the mechanical engineering course.
There ere to he lectures twice a week
during tho third and fourth years. and
students Gva required to make the calcu-
lations and draw the construction de-
scrihel in the lectures. Engineering
Record
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13
GRAINS o. HISTORY.

An observatory IS approaching com
pletion on Mont Blame at an altitude
of Is, Isl feet above the level of the
Mediterranean.
A new loud talking telephone has
been invented in England. The re-
ceiving instrument is said to speak
loud enough to be heard all over the
room.
The tenth census shows that 23,OlO =
900 inhabitants of the United States
are supported b. agriculture, H.
by commerce.
The harvests in Ireland this year
are fully month earlier than any be-
fore recorded, and the most abundant
that country has been blessed with
for twenty-five years
Ordinary soda of commerce has
been successfully used in France as a
substitute for salt water in mixing
cement or mortar during cold wea Their.
The results have been very satisfac-
tory.
The Japanese eat more fish than
any other people in the world. With
them meat eating is a foreign innova-
ton, confined to the rich, or rather to
those rich people who prefer it to the
national diet
SLucca Della Robbia was the inven-
tor of q method OF hardening terra
Gotta, the secret of which died with
him His famous groups were all ex-
ecuted in terra Gotta, which he made
Sas hard as stone.
In the fifteenth century the first
glass mirrors were made in Germany
by olowpipe and were convex. The
first mandatory of glass mirrors for
sale was established in Venice early in
the sixteenth century.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13
NOVEL MANUFACTURES.

Washable wal papers are new.
An ordinary piano contains a mile of
wire string.
The soldering IF glass and porcelain
with metals is a novel French process.
An Englishman has patented sub
marine gas stove for heating water in
hath tubs.
Two hand-emb 'oidered screens in the
japanese exhibit in the Fine Arts
building at the worlds fair are valued
at SIS, 900 and $40, 900 each.
A tiny prayer and hymn book and
bible printed on Indian paper has just
been issued by Eyre * Spottiswoode.
The size is only 34 By "a by Z
inches.
A st. Louis woman has lately per-
fected an invention for making sweet
potato flour. The process includes
peeling the potato and drying the peel
as food for live stock, drying and
grinding the potato into three grades
of flour, and also slicing it into Sara
toga chips.
The Infanta Eulala's spun-glass
ureSSr OF Wnlcn an American manu-
featuring company made her present
while she was the nations guest, has
aroused great curiosity among the
ladies of the Spanish court, who very
properly regarded it as something
very remarkable in the way of
feminine attire.
The horses hat, which last year
human horse owner in Bordeaux
provided for his horse, is now becom-
ing great article of trade in France.
1t is made of straw and covers the
eyes and forehead of the horse, while
openings are left for the ears. A
sponge is kept in the inside of the hat
and this is moistened from time to
time with vinegar, so as to keep the
horses head refreshingly cool.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13
8 Go d Reason for Living.
she lives 10 lovt aud loves TO live,
She loves to live because she lives to love -

'Sle lives 70 TOv' aud loves 10 live,
She loves to live because she lives TO love -
Mary think It is u sin to be sick; being So one
cannot hestow their affections on others as the
Creator intende : being 50, it is a Guy to clre
yourself Most women, these days, need an in-
N-ratiug t. ic. Worn-oHt teachers, shop
girls dressmak, milliners, aud tho sc subject
to tfe ONE llho-. have found boor in DR.,
Pierces faNorite ~, scrip ion It is soothing
aud 81 'n-htcnins ner'iae inducl ~ refresh nc
sleep, r, iievcs dependency and restores TO full
use all The hIpc.itcs nd affections Of ones ma
ture. IL is 70 d, by druggist, under guarantee
from lis max rs thai II viii, in every case, give
satisf elton, On p &C 81 0O) will be promptly re-
funded.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

The Welsh in the United States
claim that they are in number as
many as their countrymen in Wales,
and they also claim that one of their
ancestors forestalled Columbus il
the discovery of America by 272
years. They base their assertions
on historical traditions and the man
uscripts Of old Welsh bards on the
one hand, and on the prevalence of
Welsh in many of the languages of
the Indians, both of South and North
America, on the other.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

had been confined to Her bed Tor almost
two years and was now almost bed
fast. The doctor sail she had Con-
sumption complicated with Heart
Disease and Liver Trouble, and we
were about discouraged.
l then heard of Your remedy and told my
wife about il,
She decided to try it, and before she had
taken half n bottle she felt better When
she had taken two bottles she was gaining
fast, and before the third bottle was fin
ishcd she completely recovered her health,
Rnd has been well woman ever since, and
her cure j. IL wonder to all.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

The deplorable condition of the
10000 farmers on the cyclone-swept
islands off the Carolina coast should
appeal to the generosity of the peo-
pie Of the enUire country. 1t is said
that from 1900 to 1000 persons in
stead of 700 as at first reported, per-
ished in the terrible storm that re-
Gently struck the islands near Beau
fort and Port Royal, and all the sur
viving inhabitants are on the verge
Of starvation.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

THERE appears to be no doubt that
there has been genuine Asiatic
cholera in Jersey City, scientific in
7estigation having shown beyond
question that four persons have died
in the city hospital there of the
disease. The remarkable thing
about these cases is that absolutely
no connection has been traced be-
tween the victims and any infected
ship or port. 1t is gratifying to
know that the authorities are taking
every precaution to stamp out the
disease where it has been found, and
It is to be hoped that they will sue
coed 1t is late in the season for a
cholera visitation in this country.
but it is not necessarily too late.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

EMPEROR WILLIAM stated in mis-
address at Metz that by the help of
God and the German sword Alsace-
Lorrain should remain German pro-
vince, which again calls 20 mind the
fact that the kaiser's abiding faith
in the connection between the Al
mighty and the German sword is
more admirable than convincing
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

PIRATE omnibuses are causing con-
sternation among the bus riders of
London. The pirates look just like
the regular omnibuses. A passenger
goes in, expecting to pay fare of
twopence or threepence, and cannot
get out until he has paid a shilling.
There is apparently no legal redress
for the passengers, because the pirates
carry inside a sign reading, "a
shilling any distance"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

GEORGE GOULD resembles his late
lamented papa in his Discrimination
to pay taxes. The probating Of the
elder Gould's will gave the assessors
a good idea of the amount of property
owned by the estate and they have
been pressing for the payment of the
taxes. Young Gould declares that
he will go into another country, or
into another state if necessary, to
avoid paying them.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

An Oakland man has sued for the
rings that went with his heart and
failed to come back when the blighted
heart was returned. This is not ex-
actly gallant, but times are hard,
and the business-like aspect of the
action is apparent. Besides, when
the gentle touch OF time shall have
caressed the blight off the heart in
question the rings will be handy to
have.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

The British government is wrest-
ling with a problem which seems to
give it more trouble than the home
rule issue-the ACCESSIBILITY of abol-
ishing the Office of master of the
buckhounds. Sir William Vernon
Harcourt gravely confessed to the
commons that the government had
been unable to arrive at conclusion
on the Overpowering question.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

The demand for currency is bring
ing out fractional scrip, government
and other. issued during the war,
which have for years been in collec-
tions or have been forgotten. The
city of Albany last week redeemed
$50 of this scrip issued in 1868, at
the time when postage stamps were
used for change. The Albany scrip
was found in the strong box of an old
Albanian recently deceased.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

The danger of cholera has re-
turned, but our long respite has de-
prived it of most OF its terrors. If
the pestilence had begun its career
early in the spring, as seemed proba-
bic last winter, our situation would
have been serious. As it is we shall
probably be able to keep it from
making any serious Roadway in this
country.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13
Rock Island
At the Harper House,
FRIDAY, OCT. 9th.
Returning every month during the
year, to remain a day.

Or. Rea has been injected with the largest
diagnosing ard treating diseases snd defo-ma-
ties He will give $50 for any case he cannot tell
the disease, and where locatei in five minutes
He Will return to Rock Island every month TO re-
main one day.
Treats ali durable medical and surgical dis.
eases acute and chronic catarrh, diseases of the
eve, ear and nose, tn oat AM lungs, d. spepsia
Bright's disease, di3 betes. kidneys, liver blad-
der, chronic female and sexual diseases. Epiep-
sy.or fits cnredl positive guarantee!
Young aud ntddIe-Iged nen
Suffering from spermatorrhoea and impotency as
the rtsult of self abuse in youth excess in ma
ture years, and other causes, producing some of
the fonowl!g effects, emissions, blotches de-
bility, nervousness, dizziness confusion of ideas
aversion of society, defective memory and sexual
exhaustion, which unit the victims for business
or marriage, are permanently cured BY remedies
not injurious.
Blood and skin ryiseases.
Syphilis and complications, as sore throat,
falling Of the hair, pain in the bones, etc, are
perfectly eradicated without using mercury or
other Injurious drugs Gonorrhoea. gleet. s.ric-
lures and all urinary and kidney troubles speedi-
1y cured by trea tment that has never failed. He
undertakes no tHcurabIe cases, but cures thous-
ands given up to die. Remember the date and
come early, as his rooms are always crowded
wherever he stops.
CONSULTATION FREE.
Correspondence solicited and confidential
Address DR.. ID. d. REs, 222 Paulina Street
Chicago.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

THE Youngest Judge in this coun-
try is said to be Henry W. Scott, as
sociate justice of the supreme court
of Oklahoma. He is % years old.
At the age of % he was register of
the land Office at Larned, Kan. He
has written several legal works.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

Some time aftcrthiS
] was taken sick
and my trouble was
pronounced DyS-
pepsia by n physi-
clan who relieved me
some, but did not cure
me. My wife d.
viSed mo to try
S a gw a. 1 did so
and was cured.
Soon after that | was
attacked with the
Grippe and could not
get rid of it. Every
time | had a cold | wn :
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13
HONEST PRAISE.
Kickapoo Indian Sagwa Does
Good Work in Maine.
Earnest Endorsement of KickapOo REM
edies from the Extreme North Eastern
Section of the United States. Merit
Alone Could Have Made These Rene
dies so Widely known and Universally
Endorsed by the People.
MONTICELLO, Aroostook Co, Me.
oct. 10, 1892.

| wish to tell you
what your great med
icinc Kickapoo In
dian Sagwa, has
done for me and my
family.
My wife was very
sick and had been
failing for a long time,
and her old family
physician said she
could not live.
We tried another
doctor, and he told
the same story, said
She could not live
thrcp months. She
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13

compIeteiyus up. At my wife'ssug-
gestion tried Kickapoo indian Sag
wa again, and after using less than two
bottles considered myself entirely we'll
ana have remained well ever since. l think
l can say that SagsNa is the best
remedy that family can have.
In case of Colds there is nothing bet
ter that know of than taking Il good dose
before going to bed, and my wife says she
would not think of keeping house without
n bottle of Kickapoo Indian Sagwa. She
says it saved her life with the help of
Providence, and l can say that under the
hand of Almighty God owe my life
to the wonderful medicine of all medicines,
the great gift of nature, kickapoo In
dian Sagwa, and all the world should know
of its intrinsic worth. It's value as a family
remedy is beyond comparison.
JOHN s. WHITE.
Kickapoo Indian Sagwa,
ute by tie Indians from roots, bdrkS and
Rerbs Of their oicn gathering and curing, is o.
taindbte o. dny druggist.
ST per Bottle, Six Bottles for SIS.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-13
DR.. D. D. REA,
Surgeon and Specialist

Who has created such sensation in and around
Chicago by curing diseases that almost bsf1led
the II edical fraternity of the untry, and by the
request OF many friends and patient, he has de
ciued to visit
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-05
nc wanted protectiou.

The prisoner at the bar was prisoner
not SO much possibly because no had
knocked o man down on the highway
and robbed him as that he had been
caught in the act by the police and
brought there. In any event he was
there, and the policeman in the unro-
mantle manner of policemen had mar.
rated the circumstances.
'sYou hear what the officer says" said
the court sternly. HE states that you
knocked the man down and robbed him.
What have you to say?"
"Nothing, your honor, as to that part"
responded the prisoner, 'but want b
deny emphatically certain aspersions he
has cast on my character, your honor"
Indeed? And what are they, pray9~
inquired the court sarcastically.
s'Why, your homer, he said he believed
came from Chicago and had been rum
ming feed factory on the Worlds fair
grounds. hope, your honor, that am
still entitled to protection against cal
umny."
The court, having been at the Worlds
fair opening week, made the officer apol-
ogize at nnce.--Datroit Free Press.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-05

Gov. Tillman's liquor monopoly
scheme seems to have encountered seri-
Gus obstacles at the very start. The
druggists and the saloon keepers are al
ready defying the law, and furnishing
the ardent under the innocent names of
cologne. vinegar and cholera mixture.
Furthermore such serious threats have
been made against the governor that he
has deemed it advisable to surround the
executive mansion with guards.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-05

According to telegraphic reports re-
ceiyed by the New York World from va
rious portions of the country, the phe-
nomenal wheat crop of several years past
will not be equalled or even approached
this season. The corn yield promises to
be enormous; oats, barley, rye and SINH
lar grains will be plentiful; the hay crop
is universally above the average, and the
fruit crop is generally poor and in many
instances will prove total failure. 1.-THE
general condition of the agricultural
section" says the summary of the re-
ports in conclusion, sis excellent. the
outlook promising and the farmers cheer
full and hopeful"
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-05

day until the mass is perfectly dry, when
it will be ready for use. 1t can be put
into pretty rose jars.
Rose-bead necklaces and bracelets are
bothy pretty and fragrant, and make very
acceptable gifts. For these a goodly
quantity of leaves are pounded in q NOR
tar to a perfect pulp, and then shaped
into round balls of the size desired for
the beads. A large pin or needle is passed
through the centre of each one, and left
there while the beads are put in the sun
to dry. They will turn quite black when
ready for use, and haze delicious fra
GRANGE. The pins are then taken out
and the beads strung on wire, silk or
ribbon cord.-[ Harpers Young People.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-05

The Colorado town of Creole appears
to have developed some very large head
ed statesmen. At mass meeting there
the other night it was resolved that here
after the country should have alPresident
and House of Representatives from the
West and President and House of Rep
resentatives from the East with single
Senate and a national President at Wash
ington. What the benefit of such an ar
rangement would be was not pointed
out -