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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-05
NEWsY GLEANINGs.

ST. LOUIS has Taxpayers League.
CHINESE are dsserting South Australia
ITALY will ship 209O anarchists to Africa.
ARTIFICIAL granite is made in California.
AUSTRALIAN Members of Parliament get "a
day.
CHICAGO is suffering an epidemic Of bicycle
thieyery.
BULL worms are destroying cotton In part,
of Texas.
In California the honey prospects for 1894
are not bright.
GREAT BRITAIN has declared neutrality In
the Korean war.
PENNSYLVANIA has 5000, ,O00, 900 invested In
iron and steel mills.
DISCOVERY OF rich gold mines near Mosca,
CAL, caused great stampede In the Vi
cinity.
DURING the last twelve m onths there have
been 456 fires In London caused by parafane
lamps.
SALT LAKE (Utah) dealers were fined CSC
for purchasing fish that were captured with
spear.
FRANCE and the Congo State have at last
Settled their quarrel. France gets another
slice OF territory.
FLIGHT OF Deputy County Auditor G. n.
Hinckley, OF Moscow, Idaho, reveals $685.
900 defalcation.
TIE total value of the mineral production
Of Canada In 1898 was S19, $50 900, quarter
of million less than that for 1892.
REMOVAL OF the battle flags Of Iowa from
the arsenal to the State capitol was madethe
occasion tor great demonstration.
JUDGE K1MpoRoUaH adjourned his court at
Cynthiana, KY, the other day in order to
allow the lawyers to attend the circus.
EIGHT aged men were pallbeaTers at the
funeral of Judge Hughes, OF Richmond,
Mo, Their combined ages amounted to 5V
years.
MAJoR CHARLES WORTH, OF the regular
army, will be court-nartialsd at Omaha,
Neb., for compelling private to labor on
Sunday.
TIE descendants OF David Crockett, who
re very numerous In several Southern
States, will hold reunion soon at Hum
boldt, Tenn.
TIE Methodist Episcopal Church has
$500, 900 members, owns over "a 900 churches
and 10, 900 parsonages, worth In the aggre-
gate $125, ZOO, 900.
CALHOUN COUNTY, Illinois; Is cut off from
the world, as the Mississippi and Illinois
Rivers are so low boats cannot reach IT,, and
II has no railroads.
THE use OF rails 100 feet long has passed
the experimental stage. Operating officials
unite in claiming they are q decided I'M
provement over the shorter SIZE.
FRAU SArrEzR, OF Stuttgart, who died re-
Gently, aged ninety years, was considered
the oldest vegetarian in Germany. She had
not tasted meat for forty-six years.
TRoMso; In Norway, has just celebrated its
1000th anniversary. In that time It has
grown from sixty people to 6O00!. The inhab-
fants are chiefly devoted to fishing.
AN English cuyio hunter who was anxious
to secure the carriage in which Carnot was
riding when GAserio stabbed him.. offered
the town. council Of Lyons 80, 900 for 1t, but
the offer was refused.
TEE biggest lead mine ever struck in Iowa
has been discovered by Jones, Goldthorpe
Co., In claim once abandoned on account
OF water. It contains cave. full CT lead ore,
yielding $4,000 pounds daily,
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LATER NEWS.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND left Buzzard's Bay,
Mass, for Washington.
THOMAS HARPER returned to his home near
Pittsburg, Penn, from ten days hunting
trip to find his wife dead and her body torn
! by her two starving babies.
A11x trotted of Washington Park, Chi.
cago, in 2.O5H, beating Nancy Hanks's
record Of 2.O6H.
henry DA1NaERFrELD, one OF the first
citizens of Alexandria, Va, and grandson
Of Reverdy Johnson, committed suicide.
MANY errors which will have costly results
have been discovered in the new Tariff BILL.
They make the bill, according to Treasury
officials, the worst drawn measure ever pre-
sented to the department. No ap-
preparation has been made for put.
ting into effect the income tax provisions
The Collectors of Internal Revenue can do
nothing, under these circumstances, In the
direction Of preparing to collect the tax.
WILLIAM CURNEw's house at st. Carls,
New Foundland, was destroyed by fire, and
three children of family named Rose,. liv.
Ing near Curnew, were burned to death.
TIE Japanese were driven successfully
from Ping-Yaug and Chung-Ho with heavy
loss each time.
By the swamping OF racing yacht at st.
John, New Brunswick, eight OF the crew OF
twelve were drowned.
THERE have been twenty-one cholera
deaths in the village Of NldzwedzeD, Fast
Prussia.
THE abd.cation OF King Alexander, of Ser.
via, in behalf Of his father, Milan, was said
TO be Imminent.
TIE Connecticut Prohibitionists, at New
Haven, unanimously nominated De VIII v.
Pond, OF Hartford, for Governor.
TEE Tennessee Republicans nominated e1-
Congressman Henry Clay Evans for Gov
ernor.
JoHN T. CALLAHAN was convicted at New
Orleans Of demanding and receiving brtbe
of $500 while member OF the City Council.
W. B. THOMPSON was taken from jail at
Kalmath Falls, Oregon, and lynched BY a
mob. Thompson was held in jail on asmall
charge, but had bad reputation.
THoMAsJ- MAJORS was nominated for Gov
ernor By the Nebraska Republicans.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND passed through
Jersey City on his way home from Gray
Gables. He arrired in Washington at $3.50
p. m.
JAPAN announces that ON June 80 the King
of Korea declared himself Independent, re-
nounced Chinese treaties, and then called on
Japan for help.
PRESIDENT PE11oTo placed Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. in the hands Of troops, but his friends
say a little rioting is the worst that can hap
pen.
TIE Prussian Government Is blocking the
Russian frontier against cholera
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-05
KILLED AT A CROSSING.
The Engine Whistle Frightened tho
Horses Into a Cattle Guard.

The north-bound train out Of Memphis on
the Raducah, Tennessee and Alabama read
crashed into n wagon bearing six people,
killing five, injuring another, killing ths
horses and scattering the vehicle In every d.
rection. The accident occurred near Hazel,
inst across the Tennessee line In Kentucky.
The killed are
Misses Jennie and Lille Ray, aged eight
cen and twenty, daughters OF J. T. Ray
their brother. Tobe, two other young ladies,
Misses Harmon.
Thomas Ray was injured. The Rays had
attended Baptist picnic, and were return
ing home Engineer Charles Ridder blew
his whistle when he saw the wagon ap-
proaching. This frightened the horses,
which ran upon the cattle guard, and could
not extricate themselves before the locomo-
tive reached them. The train was on down
grade, going forty miles an hour. ]. I. Ray
and his wife are the only members Of the
family lett alive.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-05
CORN A FAILURE.

One Railroad Abandons Overn Dozen
Stations Oh Its Lines.
The damage to the coru crop in parts
of Kansas and Nebraska ia so great that
the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad
has issued orders for the abandonment Of
over a dozen stations on its lines. The Off :ars
OF the road say the stations are not ahnu-
doned permanently, although there is little
probability of their being reopened until an
other crop is assured. The people aloa; the
line in the sections where the stations arr
closed depended almost entirely on the corn
crop, and now are leaving in great numbers,
and there is absolutely no business for the
railroads.
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WITHOUT HIS SIGNATURE.

The River and Harbor Appropriation
Bill Has Become a Law.
The River and Harbor bill. carrying $11,-
476, ,1sO. became a law without President
Cleveland's signature, the legal limit Of ten
days having expired within which he could
sign or veto 1t.
1t is the third time during Mr.. Clevelands
two terms that River and Harbor bill has
become a law without his approval the only
other bill OF this kind on which he acted hs
vetoed.
Fears were expressed up to late hour
that the present bill would be vetoed, as Mr..
Cleveland made it known to the River and
Harbor managers several months ago that
he did no. want the total Of the bill to exc
ceed $40, ,000,s00.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-05
CURIOUS FACTS.

A heavy dew is the precursor OF
rain.
A tax was levied on cats in Persia
until few years ago.
There is q graveyard of royal dogs
connected with Windsor Castle.
Hieroglyphic style Of writing was
probably in use 1000 years B. G.
In 1775 hailstones said to weigh
twenty ounces fell at Murcia, in Spain.
Many species of beetles have two
eyes on each side of the head, one su-
perior and one inferior.
At the close of the Napoleonic wars
the English field artillery was consid-
cred the finest in the world.
The first bakers who followed their
craft in Rome were slaves captured
during the expedition against Philip,
III B. G.
A Baltimore fruit grower claims to
have an apple tree, every apple OF
which is sweet on one side and sour on
the other.
During the early days of the Roman
Empire painter was hired by the Day
and valued according to the amount
of surface he could cover. @
The Greek statues of marble we're
generally painted in gorgeous colors,
and frequently covered with a protu-
sion Of tawdry ornaments.
A novel moving machine Is being
built for use on the Erie Canal, New
York. It is to run over the bottom OF
the canal bed and cut the long grass
which grows there.
San Francisco has man who earns
an existence by gathering old horse
shoe nails on the street. The nals'
being of the best steel, are useful TO
gunsmiths and bIacksmiths.
It is said that man at Hemlng's
Corners, Tenn.y shrinks once mpnth
from 1sO to 10 pounds, and remains
in that condition for week, after
which he regains his original weight
The translation of Quintus Curtius
bv Vaugelas occupied thirty years.
The translator rendered every SEN
tence five or ten different ways and
finally chose that which pleased him
best.
An astonishing feature of a brilliant;
Newport R: Iy reception was the
milking of q. gorgeously decorated. ;.
cow on the lawn: in full view OF the
assembled guests. The milk vas dis,
tributed in glasses by girls approprl'I
ately dressed. l
It is said that glacial action has IN
pJaces on the Union. Pacific hoad
moved the mountains down on the
narrow right of way along the Colam-
bia River, where the. cliff rises often
400 feet above the track. leaving now
hardly footing forthe track.
The will of the.late John J. Mcdil,
of Mexico, Mo. contains this clause:
II remember my son; Richard diii'
and his many filisl. acts with grati.
tude and affection,. but ] have not
heard of, or from'. him.. three years,
and don't know whether ne Is awe OF
dead"
The British Museum, las books
written on bricks, tiles, oyster shells
bones and flat stones, together with
manuscripts on. bark, on IVORY
leather, parchment. papyrus' ieaa'
iron. copper and wood. 1t has tnree
oonies Of the Bible written on the
leaves of the fan palm.
Among the large variety OF pros
which are to be found at the leianos
to, the south of New Zealand Is q
species of paroquet, which Is very
q single stick of bush of amy descrip-
ton, and the birds. build their nests
in the grass. They. are, not to be
found in any other part Of the world.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-05
UNCLE SAM PR0SRCUTES.
Proprietors Of tho Atha and Hing
worth Works Arrested.

The United States Government is pro.
ceeding against tie members Of the great
steel manufact uriag firm known as the Ben
jamin Atha and nlingworth Company, OF
Newark, N. j.
The charge Is conspiracy to defraud the
Government by furnishing castings for the
Navy Department that contained blowholes
which were plugged.
President John Illingworth and Secretary
Abram G. Delrman, of the big steel company,
were arrested and released on their own
recognizances int the sum of $1,000 for appear
ance before United States Commissioner
Romaine In Jersey City.
The charges are very similar to those
against the Carnegie Steel Company In the
manufacture Of armor plate, which were In
vestigated by q Congressional committee at
Plttsburg.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-05
EMPRESS OF THE SEAS.
The Campania Breaks the Westward
Record by Over Three Hours.

The Cunard steamer Campania Is queen OF
the seas. She came flying in by the Sandy
Hook (N. J.) LiShtship on her last trip, five
days, nine hours and twenty-nne minutes
out from Queenstown. She reached Quar-
antine before sunset with eight minutes to
spare, went up to her pier in New York
City and landed her passengers. She
broke the best previous record westward,
that OF the Lucania, by three hours and
eighteen minutes. The Campania is the
first steamer leaving Queensto on Sunday
that ever made such rapid trip across tho
Atlantic as 10 be able TO land her passengers
on Friday night in New York. 1t was Il re-
markable performance, and the Cunard
Line may we'll be proul OF It's steamer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-05
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

FREDERICK BERGMAN WAS murdered IN
his shanty in South Beach. N. Y. His
father-in-law, Thomas Burke, is accused oi
arranging q loaded shotgun by means ot
strings and pulleys so that it was discharged
into Burkes side when he was lured to en-
ter door.
BANK EXAMINER WILLIAM MILLER COM
mitted suicide at Altoona, Penn, after two
weeks labor on the accounts OF suspended
bank.
PRESIDENT OlkvltASp arrived safely at
Gray Gables, Br~vd's Bay, Mass.
The dynamite gun tests were continued
with satisfactory results at Sandy Hook, NJ.
The passage of the Tariff bill by the House
and the declaration Of the usual dividend on
Burlington and Quincy led to increased
activity at the Stock Exchange, New YORK
City. A material advance In prices ensued.
The banks gained Ss03,soo IN surplus re-
serve.
The clipper ship General Knox, OF
Thomaston, Me-, partly laden with oil, was
burned up at her DOCK New York City. Loss
about 100000.
THOMAS HEWITT, of Kearny, N. j., IN At
OF insanity, inflicted frlghtful knife wounds
upon his wife and the latter's brother, Fred.
erick Purcell. and plunged through win
dow and died OF fractured skull
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-05
HEAVY FLOODS.

Disastrous Rain Storms In Mexican
Mountains.
The recent heavy rains in the mountains
O, Mexico have caused one OF the most dam
aging overaows OF the Nassas River ever
known. Reports have reached Lerdo OF fifteen
deaths by drowning, and many families have
been made homeless by the waters washing
their houses away. Several OF the lrrlga,
tion dams we're washed out, and the cotton
end corn plantations are flooded, causing
many thousand dollnrs' worth OF damage to
the planters,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-09-05
THE LABOR WORLD.

LINN Mass has a "lsbor church."
GERMANY has 10, ,S49 union bricklayers.
LONDON has 49, 900 licensed cab drivers.
OAKLAND (Cal) newsboys have union.
LOUISVILLE has terpsichorean union.
IaoNwooD (Mich. miners lost their strike
BALTIMORE machinists talk Of cooperation.
WASHINGTON State Is importing colored
coal miners.
AMA1eAMArED carpenters have s364, 900 In
their treasury.
BnorEzaHooD carpenters meet at Indian
spohs September Z.
An aspen (Col.) man shot his employer
for not paying wages.
A UNION OF egg Gamblers, handlers and
testers vas organized.
Work Is difficult to be obtained In the
harness making industry.
LOUISVILLE BARRIERS will test the constitu.
tionalIty OF the Sunday closing law.
THE Mayor Of st. Louis welcomed the
fourth annual plumbers convention.
OHE OF the biggest firms employing Micht.
gan convicts has decided to abandon the
practice.
M1NooK Qll.) miners get seventy-lve cents
per ton tor summer and 82]1 cents for win.
Ter work.
P1rTsBuRa officials of the United Mine
Workers hint that another national coal
strike will be ordered.
OK the ruins Of the Swltchmen's Mutual
Ala Association members OF the Railway
Yardmen's Union are striving to build up q
national organization.
TEE packing house men OF Kansas City,
Mo-, are forming labor organization on
lines similar to those on which the American
Railway Union was formed.
Dr.. J. 8. HALDAsE, OF London, has in
vented an apparatus enabling a miner to live
from one to three hours In fire damp. It Is
steel case using compressed air.
gTRIK1Na street-car employees at Youngs-
town, Ohio, have secured hacks and are
carrying passengers on the streets covered
by the street cars at the latters rate of fare.
FIGURES compiled by railway officials show
that more than 1000 railroad employees who
quit work in Chicago during the recent
strike are still idle, their places having been
filed by new men, many OF whom were
brought from other cities.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY railway en-
ployes struck for higher wages on account
Of the great rise In temperature In the city of
Odessa. The Russian railways being con-
trOlleQ Dy tne otate, Ill tnaC was necessary 10
end the strike was for the City Governor to
call upon the police and drive the strikers
back to work.
AN agitation is progressing at present
among the furuiture-workers, cabinet
makers and carpenters, whose object is to
amalgamate all wood-workers OF this coun-
try into one international organization, to
comprise the United Brotherhood OF Carpen-
ters and Joiners, International Furniture
Workers Union, International Machine
Wood-Workers' Union and the National and
International Piano-Makers' Unions
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, POTATO CROP FAILING.
Some Advance In Price on Account OF
the Drought.

Some Advance IN ETlCe Ou ASCoohS ~
the Drought.
Recent reports from the Department OF
Agriculture at Washington show that there
has been very heavy decline In the potato
crop this season. For the month OF July
the estimated decline or depreciation in the
crop was eighteen per cent:
fact it Is the greatest ever recorded IN SIN
gle month. The chief cause OF this falling
Off is the prolonged and widespread drouSne
under which the country has suffered this
season.
On account CT this depreciation it Is prop
able that the price OF potatoes will be conSlu-
erably advanced. Already the scarcity mas
been felt, and wholesale dealers have raiseo
the price 70 81. 4 barrel.
This is Sl.25 more. or nearly double the
opening price for tho early native crop re-
port, which sold for $50 barrel. Those
who buy potatoes at retail must pay from ~
to S3. 80 q barrel for them
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TO MCPHERSON AND WALKER.
The Atlanta Veterans Of Both Sides
VIII Erect Joint Monument.


VIII Erect Joint Monument.
The Confederate Veterans Association
took the initiative at Atlanta, Ga, in the
erection of a joint monument to the memory
OF General Mcpherson, OF the Federal Army,
and General W. b. T. Walker, OF
the Confederate Army, who were killed
within few yards Of each other IN the
battle OF the 22d OF July, 1864. The Grand
Army Post Atlanta will join In the move
ment. The scheme is to raise 5000, ,OO0, one
half by each side,with which q heroic douole
equestrian statue will be erected upon the
spot where Mcpherson fell. General Walker
is to face the North, and is to be claspins
hands with General Mcpherson, whose lace
will be to the South.
The project has been under consideration
for several months, and correspondence al
ready held with Federals and Confederates
throughout the country gives promise OF
success. The Joint monument was suggested
by the tower to the memory OF Woln AMI
Montcalm In the Governors garden in Que
bee.
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TIE increase in Montana gold production
this year is no less than $S8l,73l, or T353
per cent. Receipts this year represent Il
total OF 43, SIG fine ounces OF gold, and the
increase S,46S fine ounces.
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THOUGH the California fruit carriers arc
running at their highest speed, they are un-
fruit. fruit and enormous shipments are Being
made to the East as well as to Europe.
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BoArMEy say that the water In Lake
George, New York, is the lowest known in
venrs. Rocks and shoals almost unheard OF
before now form impedlments to navigation.
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THE largest ropes IN tho world, 1t ls SAID,
are those being made by New Bedford
(Mass.) firm, to be used on the driving
wheel in the engine room OF the Chicago
Cable Railroad Company. There will be
twelve ropes, each measuring three inches
In diameter, eleven inches in circumference
and 1860 feet in length.
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CIV. whitley, JR., United States consu1
ut st. Etiene, France, says that throughout
France, the har vest outlook is very encour-
aging. The hay crop is very heavy and OF
fallen one-half. The cereal crop Is reported
vesy good.
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The long-contested Blythe estate at san
Francisco, which involved S3, 800, 900, has
been transferred to a public administrator
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Business Improving Everywhere
The country passed its financial crisis
early in July and improvement Is reportea
everywhere.