The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-23
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Notes of Interest-Raad and Judge fol
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Notes of Interest-R ead and Judge fol
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The public schools nt this country have
3Gl 900 teachers aud l3.09J,Om pupils.
| a shoemaker er at Lynn. Mass. repairs fret
every eleventh pair of shoes left to he liked.
The outcome of courtsh!p nowadays II
largely the question OF Income.
Little girls ara won with dolls, big girl!
with dollars.
A trial Justice in Anderson has decided
that section % OF the dispensary act IL un
constitutional.
Congressman LatImer has appointed Mr.
w. F. Campbsll, OF Bolton, to be his private
secretary.
The managers Of the Worlds Fair are talk
ing about keeping open at least Il part OF Inc
exposition next year.
YOu can tell more abouta n mans character
by trading horses with him than you can by
hearing him talk In prayer-meeting.-Sum
ter Freeman.
The two largest trade concerns in the coun
try are the Standard OIL company and the
Armour Packing company,
Society IL composed OF two great classes
Those who have more dinner thhn appeiite
and those who have more appetite IMAM dln
ner.
The number OF patients at the State Luna
tic Asylum IL now 10, the largest NUMBER on
record at the Asyl at one time being 1o3.
Miss Blanche A. Wright, OF Lewiston, Me:
has been ordained pastor OF the Newport, N
". Universalist church.
Charles P. Barrett, q Spartanburg. lawyer
Is In Jail at that place charged with posta
frauds.
A Dangerous S. bill is now in circulation In
New York city, and may be floating even
near here. Lookout for IL bears the vigenette
OF General Grant.
Governor TIllman and family. with party
Su,, h VI ltnn nd
hnye gone To Chicago this week. and Will re-
main the balance Of the month.
Lily Langtry was the first woman to take
naturalization papers In the United States
and Mrs. Willer, who took the same step at
Baltimore last week, the second.
A new female college, under the PATRONAGE
and care of the Presby terrain church, has Just
been organized In Greenvilie and named the
Chicors College. Judge j. $. Cothran ~ presi-
dent OF the Company and Prnf -: +. Mckin'
non has been elected presidento OF the faculty.
The Secretary Of State has issued a commits
sion for a charter 10 the "E. r. Horton Mer.
camille Company" of Lowndesville. COrpo.
rators: !. H. McCalIa, j. w. Hardin, f. 9.
Clinkscales, Fl. A. Tennant, j. Minering, e.
R. Horton. The capital stock is S5.OOO
Seventeen years ago r. B. Carpenter was a
Circuit Judge In South Carolina. riding be-
hind Thousand dollar span OF horses: A
few years later he drove an ancient mule at
tached TO ramshack led buggy through the
StreetS OF COluIuolh. NoH ne ~ PieSioene w
the California State Senate. legal adviser OF
railroads and. their magnates, gathering In
legitimately S25 900 q year.
A Brooklyn church has appointed num-
ber Of yonng ladies ushers, and there is O
marked Increase in the attendance OF young
men.
The first monthly report Of the State dis
pensary has been made public. The State
com missioner purchased liquors, wine and
beer TO the amount of ss7,7s7.ls. and sold to
county dispeDsaries the amount OF SO to34.H.
The expense OF operating the State dispen-
sary the first month was S20,8l4B. This In
cludes something over four thou sand dollars
Incidental TO starting the business tnat Will
not be incurred again.
Congress Is made up OF 45 Democrats, 3S Re.
publicans, and Populists In the Senate, ana
In the House 2l8 Democrats, 13O Repu bl1cans
and Populists. These figures show that the
Democratic party has good working MAJOR
ity In both branches, and that II ls now re-
sponsiole for all legislation.
The Legislature OF Alabama has presented
to the vote OF the people OF the State con-
stitutional amendment providing that the
school taxes Of the white people shall be de.
voted TO the education of the white children,
and that the schools for the blacks shall re-
ceive for their support only the taxes paid by
the colored people. II is estimated that now
fully S5 per cent. of the money spent for the
colored schools comes out Of the pockets OF
the whites.
A. C. Fish, q prominent delegate to the re-
cent silver con ventlon at Chicago, says that
Ii the East persists in reducing the volume oi
money, q combined effort would be made by
the West aud South to wipe out the protec.
tive tariff and then pension every soldier
who served In either the Federal or Con fed
crate armies, their widows and orphans, and
10 enact law providing graduated Income
tax for that purpose.