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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-03-18

Buy the best seed Irish potatoes in town
from \. NJ. Hill Sons.
Our seed potatoes are grown in Aroostock
county, Maine, from selected stock and will
give best results A. M. Hill & Sons.
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Comparative Statement.
SHIPMENTS OF COTTON FROM ABBEvILLE.
For the convenience OF the reader We give
the total shipments for the years and months
as indicated below:
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Wednesday, March 1S, 1896.
Notice.

There will be meeting this afternoon at
5o'clock, In the Council Chamber of all citi-
Zens interested In water works for the town.
Many Of our people are enth husiastic and have
plan BY which first class water works can
be secured. Let everybody come out and
push the enterprise. R. M. Hill,
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Water Works.

Mr.. LeDowe is expected to be in Abbevile
today TO confer with our people on the subject
of water works. He is represented to be
thoroughly reliable in every way, and there
is no question as 10 the need of water.
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A Nice Dinner.

A number of the people OF Abbeville circuit
met at the parsonage last Saturday and gave
the pastor and his family a most elegant din
ner. This token of concern and esteem Is
very much appreciated on the part of the re-
cipients OF IT,
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COTTON SHIPMENTS.
The Way the Staple Is Making ior the
Markets.

SHIPMENT BY IT,, c. q y.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
MISSING FROM HIS HOME.
New Jersey Wine Merchant Mysteri'
ousIy Disappeared.

Riverton, n. j., Oct 30.-Joseph Sieg-
fried. a saloonkeeper and wine merchant.
of Riverside. u few miles from this place,
has been missing from his home since
Tuesday morning last. Siegfried, in ad-
dition to his wine and liquor business,
operates small farm.
1t is reported that on Monday evening
Mrs. Siegrried reminded her husband Of
interest money and taxes that would soon
be due, and that he worried over the diff
ficulty in meeting these accounts, owing
to an Improbable season on his farm.
When the family arose on Tuesday
morning they were surprised TO ma
that Mr.. Siegfried was not i'll the houSa.
A hasty search followed, and failing TO
find him, the neighbors were notified.
A searching party was organized, and the
nearby creek was dragged. AS yet there
is no clew TO the missing mans where
abouts.
Siegfried is fifty-six years Of age. with
dark complexion and about six feet tall.
As near as can be learned. he wore gray
coat and pantaloons, slippers and bicycle
cap.
A reward of $50 has been offered for
his recovery, either dead or alive. He
has a wife and eleven children.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
APPROACH OF HALLOWEEN
Lads and LaSSieS Will Observe II
Tomorrow Night.
Spirits May Be Evoked From the
Deep and Spooks Will
Walk Abroad.

Halloween Will be observed tomorrow
night.
There is no time in the year upon which
the popular Imagination has stamped a
more peculiar character than All HaIlow's
Eve.
49, The leading idea respecting it is that it
is the time OF all others when supernatural
influences prevail. 1t is the night set apart
Tor a universal walking abroad of spirits
Divlnatlon is then believed 10 attain its
highest power, and the gift of calling
spirits from the vast. deep" becomes
available to ALL
In the fITeSIde customs Of TINS night the
world over there is marked uniformity
Nuts and apples are everywhere in demand
10 such an extent that the ght is often
known in England as Nutcrack night TIE
nuts are not only cracked and eaten, sut
usec 10 foretell the issue OF love affairs
Ihere is the custom, for inst a.ce. of putting
nut named after a lover upon the stove or
CRATE. If ii cracks or jumps the lover will
prove unfaithful; if it begins TO blaze or
burn, he has true regard for the person
making the trial.
The most popular sport with apples on
Halloween is TO float a lot of them IN a tu,,
OF water and let the children duck their
heads INTO the water and try to catch th,.
apples with their mouths.
Robert Burns describes Scotch Ceremony
cdueu ne lnrcc DiSncS, or LuggieS." One
dish is filled with clean water. another with
dirty water and a third is left empty. They
are ranged on the hearth, and one by one
those making the trial are led up to then,
blindfolded. III one dips his finger into the
clean water, he is to marry a maiden :if into
the dirty water. widow IF into the empty
Dish, he will he bachelor. As each person
takes his turn the position of the dishes is
changed.
Or i more weird character 18th celebrated
spell or eating an apple before looking
glass, With the purpose of discovering the
lnquirer's future husband who, it is be-
leved. will npeepingoverher shoulder.
Another rite of similar purpose is to wet a
shirt sleeve, hang it up before n fire to dry.
and lie in bed watching it until midnight.
when the apparition OF the individuals
future partner will come in and turn the
sleeve.
Small boys in large cities are uniniagina-
tive in these days. and to them Halloween
appeals not by its spells and spirits, but by its
association with mischievous pranks, such as
ringing door-bells. putting "tick-tacks" upon
front windows. and indulging in other tricks
of like torment.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
DleSS lop ;7S, oui'' Garner & Go.
Cor 9TH and III sts. NV.
EARNINGS OF GENTRY.
Former Owners OF the PAGER Are
wrangIing Over the Winnings.

Lexington, KY, Oct. 3O.-A suit for
S25 900 in the circuit court here has
been filed against j F Scott, OF this county,
and A. Van Wagencn and j. E. Bathgate,
of Newark, n. j. The plaintiff is l.. B
Holt. Graham, n. c.. who, up to last year,
was partner with Scott in the ownership
of John X. Gentry aud several other val
uable harness horses.
In his petition Holt contends that
Scott failed to turn in the proper amount
OF the winnings OF John R. Gentry and
The other horses. He makes the New
Jersey gentlemen parties TO the suit, be-
cause Bathgate is said to be backing
Scott in the purchase of a valuable Blue
Grass farm near this city. and the trot-
ting horses with which it is stocked, and
Van wagcnen is named as a defendant
because he recently took a mortgage on
Scotts farm and horses for S29 900.
The case is complicated, and is expected
aso make sensation in turf circles before
settled.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
the reign OF Pisces aud of Others with the

the reign OF Pisces and OF others with the
constellation OF the same name.
The southernmost of the two tishes Is
marked by five small stars forming penta-
gon, and easily enough TO be seen IN a
moonless night, while the other ohels llsht
below Antlromcda. Both Fishes are CON
nected by band of small stars, forming
a node, which is marked by Alpha fisciun,
or FL Riska. the brightest star In the "hole
constellation, though only OF the thru mag
nitude-
Looking toward the northeast we at once
recognize the magnificent star Capelia, the
ever remarkable astefism OF the fIelar-s
and the brilliant star Alaebaran in Taurus
Betw cen Capella and Aldebaran llefF
red star will at once be recognized as the
plauet Mars. which, like Venus, will act
for some time To come in the capacity OF an
evening star CyEness and Aguila are
ha stening toward the horizon, while boo,eS,
with Arcturus. Corona Borealis, ophinehus
and Sagittarius have set. The whole celes-
tial panorama is assuming that aspect whlch
we are accustomed to contemplate ana 10
enjoy i'll the nights of winter
The evening times., 1896-10-30
WORK OF MISSIONARIES.
General Executive Committee
Foreign Society In Session.

Rochester, N Y, Oct. 30.-The Twenty
seventh annual convention of the general
executive committee Of the Women's For
eign Missionary Society OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church met in this city yes
tertiay morning and was called to order by
Mrs H. b. Skidmore, secretary of the New
York branch. The interest and enthusiasm;
shown by the memb bers point to the success
of the meeting.
Prominently included in the list OF repre-
sentatives are Bishop yartzell. the newly
appointed bishop OF Africa; Mr.. and Mrs.
W. H. Lacy, of Foo Chow; Miss Carrie
Jewell and Miss Laura White, OF Central
China; Dr. Rachel Benn, of Tien Tsin;
DR.. and Mrs. Robert Hoskins. from Bareil
ly, returning after thirty years spent in
India and many other places.
Home reports were m1de by hrs. Alters
man OF the New England branch. Mrs. Skill
more of the New York branch, Mrs. kecne
of the Philadelphia branch, and Mrs. Ste
vens of Baltimore. They all showed q dc
ciied increase in membership, funds ana
the general gccd of the society.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
HE RISES TO EXPLAIN,
Emperor William Writes to Emperor
Francis Joseph.

Budapest, oct. 30.-The PeSther Lloyd
is authority for the statement that En-
peror william has written letter to
Emperor Francis Joseph relative to the
Hamburger NachriChtens' recent article,
which was inspired by Prince Bismarck,
showing that for six years, from 1884 to
1880, a secret alliance existed between
Germany and Russia. to the prejudice of
Austria, one of the contra citing nations of
the Triple Alliance, of which Germany and
Italy were the others.
The proposition for the formation of the
triple alliance was made in 1882, and
adopted in 1883, but it was not until
March, 1887, that the alliance was for
mally signed. According To the Nachrich-
tens revelations the secret Russu-German
treaty provided that in certain contin-
gencies Austria would not have the benefit
of German support, as was provided for by
the triple alliance, a statement that has
widespread comment on the Bis
MARKHAM methods in Austro-Hungarian
and other political circles.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
NEALE IN FEMININE ATTIRE.
Dressed as Woman to Visit Rela-
tives Near Gaithersburg,

George Nealc, the young colored man
who was arrested at Gathersburg as
suspect in the Buxton murder case, was in
Washington today. When asked about
the published statement that he had been
seen III Gaithersburg and vicinity attired
In female garb. Neale did not deny it.
He sand certain white men In that place
had ordered him away after his release from
jail by the coroner's jury, and threatened
that II be returned they would kill him.
my relatives live just OUTSIDE OF Gaiefl-
burg, said N"alc. and II is only nat
ural that should want to see them. They
are all have in the world, and cannot
see what harm results from me visiting
them occasionally
One bf Ncale's friends said the black
dress, bonnet and veil he wore to Gath
ersburg were loaned him by colored
widow In East Washington.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
FOUL OFF JENNINGS BAT.
1t Struck n Woman and She Sue.
the Baltimore CIub.

Baltimore, Md, Oct. 3O.-There Is a
possibility that one Of HuGhey Jennings
foul flies will cost the Baltimore Baseball
Club and Exhibition Company 5000 incoin
of the realm.
Caroline B. Newman is much interested
In inshoots and base hits and never misses
a first-class exhibition of this sort On
September % last, she had place in the
grand stand when the Phillies pla ayed here
From her vantage point she sought to ell
Joy the game in peace and security This,
at least, is the story her lawyer tells in
hiS petition to the court.
She was no more than fairly interested
in the proceedings when a wicked fly from
Hughey Jennings mighty bat invaded the
grand stand, and, coming in contact with
Mrs. Newman, did her, She says, violent
injury. She takes the ground that the com
pany is responsible for the safety of its
patrons, and asks $4,000 for her injury.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
Fortunate Princeton student.

Princeton, n. J., Oct 3o.-The stinnecke
scholar ship. which is the largest and
most important prize that Princeton Uni
versity offers TO her students, has been
awarded to Richard Webster, 90, Of Islip,
N Y This scholarship is assigned only
once in three years to that member of the
sophomore class who shall pass the best
examination in given subjects in the de-
partrncnt OF classics. The prize pays $500
yearly to its holder during the last three
years OF his college course, and the compe-
titIon for 1t is always very strong.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
Policeman Kills q Burglar.

Johnstown, Pa, Oct 30.-A burglar.
whose identity could not be established,
was discovered robbing the residence of
Otto HcrtzinGer, on Railroad street, last
night, and after attempting to kill Mr..
Bertzinser made his escape from the
house Policeman James Kelly gave chase
and overlook the man in dark alley.
The burglar fired two shots at the officer,
but before he could fire a third time he
fell, with bullet in his brain
The evening times., 1896-10-30

-Four worlds bicycle records We're brok on
yesterday at Cumberland PARK Nashville
John s johnson. paced by n sextuplet AMI
quad, covered the one third mile record OF
30 % seconds, made by Riser, making the
time 81 4-5. H
and Staver, broke the unpaced one-balf
mile record Of SO 2-5 seconds, making the
distance in 51 1-5 seconds.
johnson made another attempt at the
one half mile record yesterday and made IN
"a rs seconds reducing the worlds rec
ord 2-5 second s. i'.- 3.,.-
Phillips triplet team, Phillips, Meyers
and Brady breke the tIiplet record for ore.
half mile OF SO flat, making the distance
in As . 3 seconds. D. T1f 'f 10"
The evening times., 1896-10-30
CURRENT CYCLING GOSSIP
L. A. w. Has a Harrisburg Alder
man Arrested.
Charged With EXtOrtfng Illegal
Fines-Ten-Mile Amateur Paced
Record Has Been Lowered.

The League OF American Wheeimen has
just scored an important victory over IN
officious alderman who has mace consid-
able trouble for cyclers in and around Har
risburg.
At the instance of this alderman, whose
name is John S. Machamer, wheelmen
have Seen arrested on trivial complaints
and fined various amounts. The division
officials instructed AnsOn p. Dare. HEM
ber OF the State board, To employ counsel
and make complaint against the offending
official.
The consequence is that the alderman n has
been arrested and placed under bail for
court on the charge OF extorting illegal
fines.
1t is claimed that there arc no ordinances
covering the charges which We're made by
the alderman, and that in no cases were
any hearings granted, and 1t was further
SHOWN that, in many cases, he had fined
the arrested parties in lump sums in ex-
cess of the amount permitted by statute.
Ii has also been claimed that fines have
been imposed of which no returns have ever
been made TO the city treasurer. The
division officials propose fighting the mat
ter to u finish.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
DUTY ON Race Horses

The Treasury Department has decided
in a customs appeal case that horses i'm
ported FOR racing purposes are ditiable If
not exported from the United States within
six months after tbeir arrival here.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
FOUR BUNc0ERs CAUGHT
Tried to Swindle a Baltimore: n
Out of $4,000.
FOOT RACE GAME THE TRICK

Letter in Possession Of One OF the
Prisoners Which Was Shown to
the Merchant Pretending That
Some One Could Be Plucked to the
Tune of Two Hundred Thousand.
The evening times., 1896-10-30

American amateur records from eleven TO
twenty six miles, both inclusive, and breaks
every Canadian amateur record from three
To twenty six miles, both inclusive. David
son was paced by four tandems.
The evening times., 1896-10-30

As the meeting of the National Assembly
of the L. A. W. will be held at Albany
during the same week as the National
Cycle Show in New York. many members
of the former will doubtless stop over to
see the big exhibition.
The evening times., 1896-10-30

Bicyclst John Davidson yesterday rode
26 miles, l, ,599 yards in one hour on the
quarter mile track ON Hanlan's Point. To-
ront o, Ontario. This time lowers all
The evening times., 1896-10-30

Dame Fortune watches pretty closely
over the racing men, but now and len some
OF them get into the hospital. but they are
no "squealers," preferring to suffer rather
than give away some man whom the V know
was guilty OF fouling. This practice must be
stopped. Means must be devised whereby
it can be obliterated entirely. The Racing
Board has big undertaking on it's hands.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
STOLL'S 1870" 7TH ST.

HaT Washington
knows that StoW is
selling MEMS regu-
lar fire dollar Shoes
Patent LeatherS-
X II SSSa TanS -
Enamel Leather
Boz Calf and Calf
at S2.9S. The other
half ought too.
The evening times., 1896-10-30

W. G. Douglass, late of the University Of
PENNSYLVANIA bicycle team, at Point Breeze.
yesterday lowered the American amateur
paced record for ten miles from 22:3 81 3-5 to
22:l3. He incidentally broke the record for
eight and nine miles also. The ccnditions
apart from brisk breeze from the south
west, were ideal for record breaking, and
the schedule which Douglass had set was
adhered TO closely and without the slightest
difficulty.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
SATELLITES OF URANUS.

supposing now that the inclination Of the
equatorial plane of Uranus was originally
very near a right angle, it / S quite possible
and even probable that certain causes car
ried the inclination beyond the right angle,
so that instead of saying that the satellites
OF Uranus partake or retrograde motion
in plane inclined So degrees 10 the ecliptic,
it would be more proper to say that they
move in direct manner in plane inclined
9S degrees to tile ccliptic. This is So evi-
dent that the reader will comprehend ii
in an instant
A certain scholar has said that we do not
require absolute affirmation or negation
even in universal propositions, as long as
the exception be singular or rare, it is
sufficient for our purpose. 1t has also been
said what to a shallow mind might soynd
absurd, that exceptions, instead of contra
dieting the rule, confirm it.
betw cen 8 and 10 O'Clock
in the evenings of November we see Androm-
eda, the two circumpolar considerations
CasSopcia and Cepheus and the Zodiacal CON
stellation Pisces on tie hi eridian or near it.
AsAndromeda, Cassiopeia, Cepheus and Per
seus are connected in Grecian III ythology, So
are the consultations bearing their names
near together in the sky.
Cepheus was the father, CaSsiopeia the
mother and Perseus the deliverer of An
dromeda. The northeast corner OF the
Great Square of Pegasus is Alpha An
dromedac or Alpheraty, and it makes the
head of the lady, while Beta or Miraoh
make her waist and Gamma or Almaach
her left foot. These three rather bright
second magnitude stars extend in a north
easterly direction. Just a little broken at
Beta. Extending the line that connects
Beta with Gamma by its own length il
will point out Alpha Persei. the brightest
star in that constellation. IL instead
of producing the line marked by Beta and
Gamma IN Andromeda we bend it somewhat
toward the east we come to Beta Perse,
a most remarkable variable star. This
star, which is also called Aleol with
Betaand Gamm a andth Square of Pegasus
form a figure resembling in its contour the
Dpper in the Great Bear.
The evening times., 1896-10-30
THE FIRST IN ORDER.

The constellation Pisces is not distin
guished by the brightness of its con
stituent stars, but by the fact that as a
natural consequence of the procession OF
the equinoyes it is now the first in
order of the twelve consultations of the
zodiac. whereas 2,200 years ago it was
the last. The reader must not confound
The evening times., 1896-10-30
BICYCLES.

Ladies find pri=
Vate dre sSing
rooms and every
comfort and COn=
VenienCe at the
Columbia Bicycle
Academy, 22d and
p Streets. Music
every evening.
Expert instruc=
ton.
The evening times., 1896-10-30

Judging from the way in which bicycle
manufacturers have seized upon the chain
less bicycle idea in its improved form. that
style of machine is to be prominent figure
next season. 1t is said that nearly every
prominent firm is now experimenting with
the device and that at least three of these
have decided to place them on the market
at the opening OF the season.
The evening times., 1896-10-30

A wheelman who desires to establish or
break a bicycle record, and to have the
performance recognized, must conform with
Certainruleslaid do wntogovern such affairs.
No matter how strongly 'cycler may
assert that he has broken this or that
record, and no matter how genuine may
have been the performance, the record,
though it be 4 world beater, will not be
allowed unless it is made under certain con
ditionS.
These conditions are simply the rules
laid down for cycling by bodies for the wei
fare and TO preserve tn c honesty Ofthc sport
In racing, all track events come under the
jurisdiction of the League of American
Wheelmen. Here the league authority
ceases. Road racing it does not recognize
But there is another body, the Century
Cycling Club OF America, which looks after
the records of cyclists on the road. \
performance on the road which is not
recognized by the Century Road Club is 10
record at ALL In each State there are
branches of the national body, Which look
after road records in that particular 10
cality.
The evening times., 1896-10-30

The League of American Wheelmen's rae
ing board has not openly declared itself
against female bicycle races, but the stamp
of its disapproval is set, and although appa-
rently doing nothing, the eagle eyes of the
members are constantly on the lookout for
infringements by race meet promoters,
where the interests of the l.. A W. are at
stake. The league discountenances racing
among women, as it should, and any promot-
ers WHIT clash with this ruling are aptto feel
the keen edge of Chairman Gideon AK
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NOTICE. OF IRusIEE.s SALE.

NOTICE Il uEEGHY GIVEN TuAT N
~ accordance win and under The power
anu authnny rfanteh b. that csit.in deed %
Nust made august hth, hg9 70 the under
fiEned trustee sHocuttd by Henry A. Monlty
ana julia =. NoOiey, NJ wife, and recorded 90
thu sra day OF July, ilA ~ Hohk "a ," ~
mortgages. pace lls 20 alrt IN the on a. % ITO
County Recorder 81 sat Lake County. Itah,
whifh notice IL hereby referred 10 aud maze
part ~ this notcH, The undofsiguud uuatfo
VIII oner for salu aud sell 90 the hisheft bidder
for rash ~ The front door Of the salt Lake
County Court House, tozNtti fhe south trent
enuauce uf tho CITY hnd County Handing IN
ralt LAgo CITY, Utah, on The An day Of Octo.
Der, lsll. Al u O'Clock nooH on That day all the
real estate hereiuafior described. or 20
much thereof Ne may DO necessary 10
pay and discharge the indebisdntss secured
by SAID uuat deed aud the amount of
all taxes or assessments on srid premises pAid
~ accordance with said Trust heed bY the
holder ~ sad indehfoducah. and Interest Hnd
reasonable attorneys tees aud compensation
oi sAli Trustee, aud costs " THIS aouce and
The saio will BE- made Al the request 81 the
holder OF SAID Indebtedness ana because Of
default IN payment Oi said Indebtedness Al
tho matufiy thereof SAID real estate HboVo
referred 90 10 situated IN talt Lake County
ttah, Anr bounded ana described ~ follows
to.wit' Al % lot -Four Cn, hioek forty an
llQ, fiat 80" of sai Lake uity survey
JOHN NJ CANNON, Trustee.
hAhtow ftHqusos, Attorney for Trustee.