The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-31

the most peculiar case that ever came
| under his notice.-Colunabia State Jan. II.
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- Hog and hominy threaten to knock
out hard times forever among southern
| farmers.
Over 3,OOO,OOO women in the United
States earn independent incomes.
- DIR. A. w. Reed, Baptist preacher
| Of Atlanta, committed suicide last week
by shooting. He was "a years old.
"A Virginia man recently paid $500
debt with one dollar. It was very rare
coin-in fact the dollar was as old as the
| debt.
Whites are not as we'll gifted in
| hearing as the colorod races. Neither can
| white animals hear 30 well as those Of
| other hues.
IS South Carolina raised 49, 900 soldiers
| for tho Confederate army, and &c, 1000 re-
serves, to fight at home-in all $1,000
| fighting men.
1t is estimated that SI4O,O 900 was
spent in railway travel in this country
last year. Who says that this is not a
progressive country?.
United States Senator-elect Thomas
| D. Martin, Of Virginia, never smoked,
v
record is silent on poker.
but vigorously laid on is what is needed
by certain men in Congress claiming to
represent the Democratic party.
= Prof. Dolbear says powerful search
light could project beam to Mars In four
| minutes hich could be seen and res
ponded to if they. have the apparatus that
we have. = - -
- The..civil war is progressing in
Brazil. They have bad several skir--
mishes lately. The government troops
| surgeDts. .-,.
An old negro, Ralph Steele, who has
lived in one family for ninety. y.eight years,
and had helped nurse and bury full four
generations Of that family, died In Eu-
taw, Ala, last week.
1t Is reported that five members Of
the Cartledge family, of Edgefeld, have
died from the grip during the past three
to those members left.
- Kentucky elected eight women as
county school uperintendents at the re-
cent election. One of them Is widow.
about As years old, and the mother Of
|
| under IL years of age.
| - Rev. E. A. Bolles, the oldest Luth-
eran minister in South Carolina, died in
| been in the ministry for fifty-tbree
years. Many persons will remember him
| as the agent of the American Bible So
ciety.
Thomas M. King, third Vice-presi-
| lnnf nf tho Ro1tisnnr onA Ohio Iinap M
| most invariably. when going over the
road, rides on the front of the locomotive.
After seating himself comfortably he
lights cigar and tells the engineer to
| "let her out"
An odd little astronomical fact in
| connection with the year that has just
closed, and one that has not been noticed
| perhaps by one person In each ten
thousand of the entire population of the
| country, is this: Two months Of the year,
January and April, each had two full
moons. July, 1890, was equally as we'll
provided for, but none Of the months of
1891 or 1892 exhibits this lunar peculiari-
ty.
Ex-senator Palmer, a very close
friend OF Ex-President Harrison, says
that Mr.. Harrison must not be consider
ed even by. his wsrmest friends as the
candidate of;his party for reelection as
President. He says that Mr.. Harrison
told him so Last summer and that what
he said then holds good to-day.
died, within week of each other, Jacob
Fike, aged SO. and his wife, aged 96 years.
Last March they celebrated their dia-
mond, or seventy-fifth wedding ami
versary. Mr.. Fike, who was Bavarian
by birth, had voted for every Democratic
candidate for President since Andrew
Jackson's first candidacy.
Zone deplorable result Of excessive
meat eating" says Mrs. Ernest Hart, in
the London Hospital, "is the ill-temper
which is said to be chronic complaint
in England. In less meat eating France
urbanitv is the rule. In fish and rice
eating Japan harsh words are unknown
and an exquisite .politeness prevails
even among the children who play to-
gether in the Streets"
Plains, Mo-, had keg of blasting pow
To test it he threw handful into the
fireplace. The explosion which followed
was terrific, all the powder having
ignited. Tho house was wrecked, and
eight persons injured. The doctors
think the injuries received by Collins
and his wife and four children will prove
fatal. Two Of the injured will get we'll.
.-Ofthe thirty-six women who, under |
the leadership Of Miss Annette Daisy, |
made run into the Cherokee strip when |
it was opened last Septem Der, twenty |
two have proved undaunted by the diff |
fculties oftheir undertaking and are busy
with no man 70 make or mar. They |
haul their own lumber and are prepared
to do their own blowing and planting.
They have three teams and appear in fit
condition to hold their own and carry
out their plucky plan.
"A Chicago dispatch Of Saturday
says: David w. Hart, of Dodge City,
Kan, railroad man, is busily engaged
in collecting the insurance on S5o, 900
foot that he lost under Chicago street
car wheel last summer. Mr.. Hart had
insured against the loss of leg in a long
list of companies and to the sum total of
$4,000 He is now reaping the benefit
of his foresight, some of the money hav-
ing already been paid with the indi-
cations in favor OF speedy collection of
it all.
Governor Stone in his message to
the Mississippi Legislature last week ap-
pealed for such action as will sssure
more speedy trial and punishment in cases
OF murder. "Human life is far too
cheap" he says, and he complains that
"the present miscarriage of justice in
trials for homicide is the source of evil,
breeding mob and lynch law and encour-
aging crime" Governor Stone has the
same complaints to make as to juries as
half the States in the Union-the per-
sistent and successful attempt of large
class of people who would make good
jurors to avoid jury duty.
- In the northwe stern part Of Colora-