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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-17
MANCHEsTER'S SHIP CANAL
The World Invited to Send Its Fleets
Through 1t.

The Manchester EnglanO Ship Canal has
been opened to general traffic, and Man
chester becomes port OF entry. The
weather was fine, the sun shining brightly;
and the banks were lined at many places by
thousands Of spectators anxious to witness
the passage Of cean-going vessels to Man
chester. Fifty thousand tickets had been is.
sued, and these admitted the shareholders
and their friends and others to points OF van
tage near Manchester.
The procession started at an early houi
from Warrington, on the Mersey, sixteen
miles east Of Liverpool. At the head OF the
pro cession was the steamer Norseman, carry
ing the directors. She was followed by other
steamers bearing tho members OF the Corpo-
rations of Manchester and Stafford. A mum
ber of sea-going vessels, decorated with tags
and bunting, Joined these steamers at the
Modewheel Locks.
The crowds along the banks OF the canal
numbered over 100, 900 persons. There were
twenty-five cargo-laden vessels IN the pro-
cession. Some OF them were from the lead.
ing British ports, while others were from
Mediterranean ports, Holland and Norway.
The first cotton cargoes consigned direct
to Manchester from the Southern States are
expected to arrive on the steamers Ohio and
yeranco from New Orleans and Glenisle and
Finshury from Galveston.
Everything worked we'll and the vessels
were locked through the canal with consid-
erable rapldity. The first six vessels OF the
feet occupied three hours in making the
passage to Salford Dock, place that has
now three and half miles OF quays. ALI
the swing bridges over the canal worked ad-
mirably.
The trading vessels. when they reached
their destination, were berthed as speedily
as possible, and were at once boarded by
customs officers. The work OF unloading
was then begun, dockers from Liverpool,
Glasgow, Newcastle and other ports having
been engaged.
The route OF the procession was about
fourteen miles long. Probably 100000 per-
sons visited some part Of the canal during
The day.
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Washington.

SUPERVISING ARCHITECT O'RoURKK has
made his report on work done on Federal
public buildings.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and his party re-
turned to Washington from their duck shoot
ing trip.
Two HUNDRED AND SIXTY "schoolmarms"
from Brooklyn, New York and adjacent
towns did the sights Of the capital during
the Holidays.
TIE Presidents New Years reception was
attended by 5000 people. Receptions were
given Cabinet officials and ball by Ambassa-
dor Pauncefote. Two harmless cranks were
arrested at the White House just before the
reception.
THE Chilean Government has notified
Secretary OF State Gresham that 1t cannot
accept the proposition Of the United States
for an extension OF the existence OF the
United States and Chilean Claims Com
mission, now In session.
COLONEL J. HAMPTON HoaE, OF Virginia,
United States Counsel to Annoy, China, has
been dropped from the consular service, as q
result Of an investigation OF the charges
against his integrity.
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Foreign.

THE Brazilian Foreign Minister stated that
Peixoto's forces had won victory at Nicthe-
roy and another in Rio Grande du Sui.
PRIME MINISTER GLADSTONE practically
tells the unemployed of Great Britain that
Government Is not charity.
4 HEAVY storm swept over Port Philip Bay,
Australia doing considerable damage to
shipping. The steamer Alert was wrecked
at Jubilee Point and thirteen OF her crew and
two passengers were drowned.
FIFTEEN persons were drowned during q
fog in Amsterdam, Holland, and in the
Zuyder Zee.
CAPTAIN PICKING has cut Off the shore
leave OF the sailors OF the American feet at
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, as precaution against
yellow fever.
A THOUSAND deaths from cholera have oc-
Cured at Teneriffe, one OF the Canary
Islands, since the beginning OF the outbreak.
DURING charity carnival at Mini Nov
gorod, Russia, on the Volga River the ice
broke, and a large number OF people fell
into the river. Twenty-eight persons were
drowned.
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John A. Gratwold is a humble farmer living
near Mlddletown, Ohio. In 1853 stranger
applied at the house OF Gratwold's father for
food and lodging. He gave his name as Frey
and said he had been exiled from Germany
for a political offense.
He was given work and sent with John to
the forests, where for whole winter they
lived In q hut and chopped wood. Frey was
a joyial, good-natured fellow, and he and
young Gratwold became very intimate. Frey
claimed to belong to wealthy Swiss family
and to have been student in Germany,
where his political affiliations caused his
banishment.
In the winter OF 1860 Frey went to Illinois,
and the next year enlisted in the army. His
military career was quite brilliant, and he
soon became Major. He was captured at
Gettysburg and confined in Libby Prison,
where, after q few months, he was con-
demned to death as retaliation for the sem
tence pronounced upon Captain Gordon, a
Confederate prisoner, BY the Union authort-
ties. Captain W. Y. Stewart, another Con-
federate officer, was held ss a hostage for
hethreatened execution OF Frey and the
sentence was never carried out.
Frey was paroled at Aikens Landing, Va,
In January, 1855. he was broken down and
seemed to oe on the verge OF death, and he
decided to return to his native land to die.
He recovered, however, In the bracing air OF
Bsrne, and In few years became prominent
in politics. In 1882 he was sent 10 this coun-
try as Switzerlands representative, but re-
signed in 1857, His success in the political
arena .hen became a matter OF universal
comment. He was Secretary of War, and
held other offices, and ut the recent election
was chosen President OF the little Republic.
Tor many years the Gratwolds. in whose
hearts he had always held u place, lost sight
of their employe and friend. He had never
forgotten them, however, and few days
ago John received letter from N. Frey, re-
calling early scenes and telling Of the sue.
cess that crowned his now declining years.
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THE MID-NLNTER FAIR
CALIFORNIA; BIG EXPOSE.
TION INFORMALLY OPENED.

Thousands Visit the Magic City In Col
den Gate Park, San Francisco
The Formal Exercises Deferred
Unveilinga Memorial of Sir Fran
els Drake-Various Attractions.
The California Mid-winter Fair has been
Informally opened to the public in Golden
Cato Park, San Francisco. A memorial in
honor of the landing of Sir Francis Drake on
the Pacific Coast was unveiled In Golden
Gate Park.
Owing to the rainy weather and the delay
In arrival Of exhibits, mostly foreign, from
Chicago, the formal opening of the EXPO.
sition was not made. The band was IL. u.
tendance, and many Of the features wess In
full blast. The buildings are in G5ideu
Gate Park.
There are five main structure, the Admin.
istration, Manufactures and Liberal Arts,
Agricultural and Horticultural, Fine Arts,
and Mechanic Arts buildings, all Of which are
grouped around parallelogram In the centre
Of which is an electric tower over $50 feet In
height, several Rrtistically arranged foun.
rains, statuary, and q wealth OF palms,
aowers and shrubs. This Is known as the
Grand Court. Many buildings surrounding
the court and scattered IN every direction
over 160 acres are special buildings
erected by the different States, counties,
and concessions for their exhib.
building is the largest on the grounds. Its
dimensions are 462 by 297 feet. This build
Ing Is Moorish In design, with all the pictur-
ss9ue effects to which that style OF architec-
ture readily lends itself.
The most striking architectural feature Is
the Horticultural and Agricultural building.
It Is in the Spanish mission style. The dome
ls 100 feet IN diameter by 100 feet In height
and around this dome on the outside is roof
garden. The extreme Dimensions Of the main
building and annex are 400 feet in length by
LOO feet In width. The structure contains
the greatest display Of the products of the
soil Of California ever brought together.
The Fine Arts building is to be q per-
nanent structure, and 1t Is constructed OF
brick and iron.
The confessional features are numerous
and interesting. There is modest coun-
terpart of the Ferris wheel in the Firth
wheel, which Is 1875 feet In height. There
are Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, Eskimo,
Canadian and German villages, an
ostrich farm, Colorado gold
bara aquarium containing dozen sea lions,
; reproduction of old Cairo, Turkish
theatre, Moorish mirror maze, reproduc-
lion of Anne Hathaway's cottage, and last,
but by no means least, q 49 mining camp.
This camp occupies space $50 feet long and
$50 feet wide.
In the centre is O street, lined on each
side with old-time shanties, which do
service as newspaper offices, saloons,
hotels, theatres and gambling houses,
as in the days of yore, representing a
typical mining town. Mackay's, Perkinss
were when the millionaire miners de-
serted them. The camp promises to be one
OF the most interesting spots on the Expost-
ton grounds, rs 1t Is the intention to faith
fully represent the days of 40 by mock
dusls, trials, lynchings, and other episodes
OF those stirring times.
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soAPsups AS A FERTILIZER.

Soapsuds are valuable as fertl-
izer, both for the potash or soda Of
the soap and the matter which is
washed from the skin or clothing. The
skin wears quite fast, and the soap dis
solves the exfoliated scales from it, as
we'll as some other animal matter of a
nitrogenous character. This soon de-
composes and evolves ammonia, as
anyone may discover by the odor of
the waste of the washtubs if it is kept
few days in the warm weather. Am
monia is one of the most valuable of
oil fertilizers. If this waste of the
household is gathered in any convent
ent receptacle and deodorized by
means of plaster added to it, or by
the addition of some sulphate of iron
dissolved in it, it will make the best
liquid fertilizer for flowers.
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with instructions to the jury, lengthy, but
explicit, providing for every contingency or
doubt which might arise in the minds OF
those who were Prendergasts judges.
The jury retired at 1.25 o'clock. Prender-
CAST sat sullen and silent. After while he
was taken back to his cell in the Jail, and the
tension which had kept the men and women
subdusd was relaxed.
The Harrison family was represented by
Preston Harrison, son of the murdered man.
Suddenly, at 2.28 o'clock, in the midst oi
general conversation and laughter, came a
bailiffs voice calling, stake seats now, gen.
tlemen."
Every eve was turned toward the door and
the buzz OF conversation died away. Judge
Brentano led the way, followed by the jury
and bailiffs. The Sheriff's deputies who had
gone to the Jail to bring IN the prisoner re-
turned with him. Walking with guards In
front OF him and guards behind him,
Prendergast advanced slowly to his seat.
Jail Clerk Ben Price, who accompanied the
assassin. urged him to ''brace up and keep
your mouthshut."
Prendergast obeyed the latter injunction
only. His bravado had fed and he came be-
tore the court and the jury cringlng and
afraid. He dropped into his seat against
the wall aud guards stood over him. His
lips hung apart. a pallor spread over his
face and no stared vacantly IN front OF nlm-
The silence was broken by the voice of Judge
Brentano saying:
"Have you agreed upon verdict, gentle
MANI
"We have, your Honor" replied Foreman
Sutter, handing the document to the Judge,
who gave it to the Clerk. That officer opened
it in the midst of breathless suspense and
read:
"We, the jury, find the defendant, Patrick
Eugene Prendergast, guilty OF murder in the
manner and form as charged in the indict.
ment, and We lix his punishment at death. y
When the Clerk uttered the word "death'
Prendergast made the Catholic sign over his
breast with his right hand. Not word es-
capped his lips.
After the jury had been polled and Prem
dergast had been removed. Attorney Wade
entered the formal motion for a new trial.
Then the crowd quietly dispersed.
Preston Harrison went to Mr.. Trude and
thanked him earnestly for his able services
and personal interest in meeting out justice
to the murderer of his father. His remarks
were free from exultant feeling. He believed
that Justice only had been done.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-17
BEST GRAIN FEED FOR HORSES.

The best grain feed for mature
horses is about two-thirds corn and
one-third oats in winter, and two
thirds oats with one-third corn in the
summer. This is at ordinary work.
When not at work the ration may be
lessened, the corn being cut down more
than the oats, unless the animal isvery
thin in flesh. For rapid fattening
warm mashes of corn meal and wheat
bran may be given while idle, but it
should be changed to hard grain some
days before beginning work. Clover
hay is more fattening than timothy.
Oats are the grain for horses that must
be driven fast or far, and for growing
colts. .,.. ....
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-17
GREEN MANURIEG.

The practice of green manuring OF
plowing under green crops to improve
the soil is as old as the hills. The old
Greeks and Romans fertilized their
lands in this fashion, and it was prob
ably done by the Egyptians and Asyri-
ans before them. .
Red clover is the crop generally pre-
ferred. On dry, poor and sandy soil,
however, where clover fails, foreigners
use spurry, which is called the "clover
of sandy soils" If sown early, it is
said to produce three crops in one sea-
son.
Sainfoin, which belongs to the legu-
minous order of plants, is largely used
abroad, but the trials made of it in
this country have not been generally
successful. This also applies to white
lupine, which is generally regarded in
the south of Europe as the best OF all
plants for green manuring. Cow peas
seem to be the best American crop for
renovating worn-out soils, particularly
if they are light and porous.
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TIE New York Legislature at Albany met
and organized by the election Of George R.
Malby as Speaker Of the Assembly and
Charles T. Saxton rs President pro tenn OF
the Senate, the Governors message was
read in both Houses.
Mrs. ANNIE HAcKETrs lodgins-house at
Buffalo, n. Y, burned. There were no fire.
escapes. Two persons are dead and five may
die
Ex-CoNGREssMAS ORLANDO B. POTTER was
stricken with apople1y on the street in New
York City and died at the Democratic Club a
few minutes afterward.
The total loss by the burning OF the Globe
Theatre, Boston, Mass, was $3.50, 900. The
Hanlons lose $4,000. John Stetson says he
will at once rebuild.
oUARRYMAN at Roxbury, Mass. let fifteen
pounds Of dynamite fall. The explosion
killed three men, injured others: and dam.
aged nearby buildings.
RIVALRY between the towns of Frazier and
Dayton, in Iowa. led to fight, In which
Marshal Larson, of Dayton, was killed and
many men injured.
A FREIGHT train crashed into the rear OF
another freight ten miles east Of Lawrence,
Kan. The caboose, passenger coach, car.
load of lumber and carload Of hogs were
burned. Four men were killed, five hurt.
A TWO Dor cent. tax upon individual In.
comes of over $4,000 and upon corporate In
comes was agreed upon BY Democratic mem
bers Of Ways and Means, with increased tax
on bonded whisky and an extension of the
bonding period, tax on playing cards and
an increased tax on cigarettes.
SEVERAL more anti-tax riots occurred In
Sicily, in which eight persons were killed
and many wounded by the troops public
buildings in two towns were set on fire by
mobs.
WAE operations between Nicaragua and
Honduras have commenced
Ara conference OF the heads OF the mu-
nicipal departments, New York City, 1t was
decided to provide work for the poor by
carrying on public improvements.
TIE Republican State Convention at Har.
rIsburg, Penn, nominated Galusha A. Grow
for Congressman-at-Lar from Pennsyl-
vania, and adopted resolutions denouncing
the Wilson Tariff bill and the Presidents
Hawaiian policy.
A FIRE in Toledo, Ohio, destroyed property
valued at $3.50, 900.
A ROBBERS den has been discovered under
the Agricultural Building at the Worlds
Fair, Chicago.
BURGLARS blew open warranted burg
lar-proof' safe in the vaults OF the Franklin
Grove Bank. ILL.,. and destroyed $4,000 OF
the banks money. leaving but $4,000 az
booty.
The Commissioners appointed by the Sec.
retary of the Interior to negotiate with the
Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians in Wyoming
for the cession Of a portion OF their lands to
the Government have made report in which
they state that they could not reach fair
agreement with the Indians and consequent
ly dropped the negotiations.
GEORGE W. SAVAGE, United States Consul
at Dundee, Scotland, is dead. He was born
at West Point, N. Y, in 1915.
INCREASING alarm is felt by the italian
Cabinet over the troubles in Sicily; 10000
troops are already in the island, and an.
other section of the reserves has been called
out; five people were killed in an anti-tax
riot
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STATE OF IOWA WINS.
The Charter and Three Millions Of
Property Of a Railway Forfeited.

In the Supreme Court Of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, Judge MCGEE handed down his de.
cision In the case Of the State OF Iowa against
the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and
Bridge Company OF Iowa, and the Omaha
and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Com
pany OF Nebraska. The suit was brought sew.
erai months ago to have the charter Of the
Iowa corporation forfeited, and oust the Ne
bruska corporation from the use OF the
streets OF Council Bluffs for its motor line.
In anticipation Of the decision the court
room was we'll filled.
The decision was very long, but closed
with the announcement that the companys
charter was forfeited to the State with It's
three millions of property, including the
Missouri River bridge. The attorneys for the
defendants requested the privilege OF filing
a supersedeas bond to suspend the judgment
pending ON appeal to the Supreme Court,
where the case will 90.
The Court said that the question whether
the case was OF such nature that super
sedeas bond could be allowed was one on
which he wished to hear the attorneys be.
fore finally entering judgment. He would
suspend the entering OF judgment until such
hearing should have been had. The an
nouncement of the decision called forth
burst OF applause.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-01-17
BE LIBERAL WITH THE cows.

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There is no foolishness worse than
that of being stingy with cows. It is
an attempt to get something out OF
nothing, which never has and never
can be done. Cows that are fat will,
if they are good mixers, gradually
lose their surplus fat, which will go
into the milk pail. But, aside from
this, every ounce of either fat or al
bumen in the milk that a cow furnishes
must come through the food she eats.
G. P. Goodrich, in Hoard's Dsiryman,
relates the following incident, showing
how short-sighted farmers may be:
'There was q man on q farm near my,
place; he had the farm four or five
years. He was paid $400 a year to
run the farm by the owner. The
owner asked me- to talk to him about
taking good care Of the cows, feeding,
etc. I talked to him about feeding,
watering, cleaning and taking care OF
them, and he did frst-rase with the
COWS. Now this man thought that be-
cause there was so much money made
keeping cows that he would run In
debt for the farm, so he bought it.
He had some good cows, but do you
suppose he kept on feeding the way
he had been? No, indeed. I asked
him what he got from these cows, and
he tells me that $24 was all he got per.
cow, and he says, 4 wish I was not 30
poor, SO I could feed. : tell him he
will always be poor if,he doesn't feed.
I tell him to run in debt and get some
feed, or else kill his cows and be done
with it. t."-American Cultiyator.
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BIG FAIR FOR ATLANTA,
Cotton and Sub-Tropical Exposition
to be Held There.

Atthe meeting Of 200 Of the most promin-
ent business men o. Atlanta, Ca. it was
unanimously decided to begin a: once on
the Cotton States and Sub-TropicaI Expo
sition, which will be ready for opening in
about one year. The meeting was the most
representative ever held IN Atlanta, and the
citizens pledged themselves for any amount
necessary to make tSe Exposition the most
complete ever undertaken by the South.
The Exposition will cover and display not
only the resources Of the South, but will
have special reference 70 Mexico, Cuba, ia
maica and the Bahama Islands. with all of
which close trade relations are expected on
the readjustment OF the tariff. Permanent
organization was ordered effected, and the
movement put on a practical basis at once.
The Exposition will be held on the grounds
OF the Piedmont Park, in the suburbs OF At
lanta.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
HENRY GEORGE Is on a lecture tour.

HENRY GEORGE Is on lecture tour.
SENATOR DAVID B. HILL Is fifty years old.
The King of Italy eats only onemeala day.
SENATOR VOORHEES, is an Ohio man, aged
siXty-six years.
QUEEN VICTORIA has military guard OF
fifty men and three officers.
THIRTEEN nephews and nieces Of the late
General Lilly, who was unmarried. Ii1ll have
his 80, ZOO, 900 estate divided among item.
IT is said Of Judge Francis Marion Cox, OF
Macon County, Missouri, who died recently,
that he cared for and educated eighteen
orphans.
JOHN HILL, OF Derby, England, is thought
to be the Oldest living Odd Fellow. He Is
nearly ninety-one years old and was initiated
in the order in 1928.
GeAND DUKE ERNEST OF Hesse Is to marry
Princess Victoria, eldest daughter of tee
Duke Of Edinburgh, In April. Botn are
grandchildren Of Queen Victorin and first
cousins.
VICTORIA ScRoELoHER, who started the
anti-slayery movement which led to the en-
reimbursement of the Africans In the French
colonies, has just died In Paris, aged eighty
eight years.
LAWRENCE GRoNLUND, of Washington, the
Socialist writer, is going to lecture in Kan
sas. He thinks the field is ripe for the Or
ganization OF new political party, the corner
stone ofwhich will be Socialism.
The class OF 1927 In the Yale Medical
School has become extinct by the death OF
Dr. Henry Bronson. DR.. William Woodruff,
class of 1926, and DR.. Nelson Isham, class OF
1928, are the Oldest living graduates OF the
school.
Miss ALICE FLETCHER. the ethEologist, re-
ceived 58 day from the Government as a
special agent OF the Indian bureau while
making the allotment OF lands for Indian
tribes. This is the highest salary Uncle Sam
has ever paid any OF his daughters.
GENERAL JOSE NJ. HERNANDEZ, who re-
sided recently in New York, but who Is a
revolutionist, patriot and o candidate for
the Presidency Of Venezuela. has been prom
inent in half dozen revolutions. He has
seen the inside of more prisons than any
other distinguished man in South America.
UNITED STATES SENAroR-ELEcr THOMAS D.
MARTIN, Of Virginia, never smoked or drank
intoxicating liquors. He Is forty-six years
old, short, thick set. and doesn't look unlike
Thomas B. Reed. He Is an able lawyer, and
Is in the employ Of the legal department OF
the Chesapeake AMI Ohio Railroad Com
panr.
WITHIN the large house In Washington oc-
cupied by Archbishop Satolli there Is not a
woman to be seen. All the servants are
men, speaking Italian, and only his inter-
prefer talks English. Satolli has but one
fad, and that is fondness for birds. In al
most every room Of the house there is
cage Of birds, and the whole residence
seems like q mammoth aviary.