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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-02

1t is an ancient belief that when n maid
'eS cupid In her dreams he will In some
measure assume the outward appearance OF
The man whom she will wed. Whether this
be true or not we cannot say, but We do know
lhls. that all the maids In this section should
see lheprelty line of millinery displayed by
K. NJ. Haddon Co., at AbbevllIe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-02

Any one wanting apples in any quantity
by the dozen, peck, or bnshel. should call on
Amos b. Morse. have n bIg stock of "klngs
Il Baldwins aud am selling them cheap.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-02
Charleston and Western Carolina r. R
Augusta and AsheviIle Short Line.

Close connections at Greenwood for oil points on
s. A. L.. aud &. & G. Railways, and at Spartanburg
with Southern Railway.
For any information relative to tickets rates. SEIZED.
ule, etc, address
WI. CRAIG. Gen. Pass. Agent Augusta, Go
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-02

Pure Mountain huckwheat and different
brands and size packages OF prepared buck
wheat at l0c, l5c, aud % cents. Fine syrups
TO eat the cakes with. Amos h, Morse
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-12-02
Tax Collectors Notice.
.-..y- --O-
His Office to be Open from Thurs.
day, October 18th Until Thurs
day, December 3lSt.
The Rate of State, County, School
and Special Tax, Including One
Dollar Poll Tax. One Dollar
Communication Road Tax.
Other Information 10 be Had by
Writing to the Treasurer.

TN ACCORDANCE WITH AN ACT TO
L raise supplies for the fiscal year COM
mencing November !, 1895. notice is hereby
given that the office OF County Treasurer OF
Abbevile County will be open for the collec-
tion Of taxes for said fiscal year from Thurs
day, October 18th until Thursday, December
3lst. without penalty.
Rates per cent. OF taxation are as follows:
state TaX;;....:.:..;r ~ mills.
Ordinary County Tax..".... ~ "
ScnOOl............ y
Total............ "......lOi4
In addition to the above q special tax will
be collected for school purposes, as follows:
Town OF Gree wood............... , mills.
Mt. GARNER el............................"..
McCormlck................"..... .........
Town of Abbevlle:
Retiring Railroad Bonds and
paying Interest on same. mills.
Special School, retiring bonds
and paying interest on same mills.
Townships of Cokesbury and Ninety-Six
For deiraying expense of Rail-
r9ad Bond Suiti: oI;": liz mills;
male citizens between the age OF q and ID
years. except such as are exempt by law, will
be collected.
a Communication road tax of One Dollar will
be collected the same time as other taxes,
from all male citizens between the age of Is
ahd 81 years, except such as are exempted by
law. Unless said tax is paid by first January,
1877. four days work upon the public high
ways will be required under contractor.
Taxes are payable only in gold and silver
coin. United States currency, National Bank
notes, and Coupons OF State Bonds, which be.
come payable during the year 1896. -
The law having been repealed requiring
TreaSurer's to visit certain sections OF the
county for tie collection OF taxes. all taxes
hereafter will be collected at The office of the
Treasurer.
Parties desiring information by mail in re-
gard to their taxes Will please state the loca-
tion Of their property. and include postage
for reply. and those paying taxes by check
must include the charge for collection.
J. Il. BLAKE, JR.,
Oct. = 1896. Treasurer.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
NOTES.


 The schedule will SBe for 120 games, sixty games at home.and sixty games abroad.
 Manager Ellis has signed the Roth fuss brothers of Newark for his team. They have played on the Newark semi professional team for several seasons and are considered strong and valua- ble players.
 The ground privilnEes at Elm. City park have been awafded to Sam Beatty and Doc" Bishop.
 The dispute over . Third Baselnan Boyle and Outfieler Killarky, both of whom signed contracts with the Steers and Patterson, has been set tied. Both players were fined $50 each and Boyle was awarded to New Haven, while Killarky goes to Patterson.
 Billy Quinn, Jerry Williams, Charley Jones and Herman Docseher have made application to become. umpres in the At lantic league.
 The Jersey City team will be conn posed mostly of the surplus players of the New York team, with Arthur IT. wins brother John to handle them and play first base.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17

clamored for warlike king. Three elements have, however, refused 10 unite with the politicians on such a policy, the business interests, colleges and churches. Business men see that even talk of such policy means millions of dollars of depreciation in securities The politicians would have us believe that action, however foolish, is better than wise criticism. They have thrown down an issue Let US take it up and fight it through. Let us demand an answer as to whether every little question be- tween nations shall be appealed to forts and fleets, or to reason and justice. Let us appeal to the common sense of the plain people until court of arbitration is established between England and America as an example to the world. Let us make it impossible for politicians to plunge two peaceful nations into war. A movement will be put on foot this week combining business interests, col leges and churches to exert an influence towards establishing such court. In this movement I urge the active eo-op- eration of this Christian audience. If anything should be characteristic of Christian people it should be that they be found i'm the forefront of every popu- lar movement for the prosperity of na- tions and the stability of peace.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
Phosphate Rock in Pennsylvania

Washington, Feb 15.-The United States Geological Survey has received samples of the phosphate rock recently found near Reeds Gap, Juniata. county, Pa. Analyses show from F to 50 per cent phosphoric acid. The highest is found in modules somewhat resembling the cofprolitic forms found in South Carolina. Professor Ihiseng of the State college, Pennsylvania, has visited the To- cality and made over 150 analyses with varying results. Much more prospect ing will be done in the spring, and it is said that if the beds prove large it will be a matter of great importance to the fertilizer factories in New York, Phila- delphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
EillanCraI.
The Marlset Was Quiet Again With Few
 Noteworthy Deyelopments

The NJ arlset Was Quiet Again With Few
 Noteworthy Developments.
 New York, Feb 15-The stock market to-day was quiet and without note- worthy development. Tn general it opened heavy and closed firm again. Manhattan Elevated broke again on it's unfavorahle quarterly report. It will be noticed, however, that the company's s actual gross receipts make no very bad comparison.
 As for the changes in the treasury gold reserve. it is perhaps pardonable that Wall street observers should have been utterly confused, since the Wash ington dispatches have mixed the mat ter up with remarkable success. But if treasury officers at Washington are not able to count totals and reckon offsets, they will do better to refrain from offer ing information until the p. m. official tabulations have been made. Their forenoon. estimates of gold on hand,
 duly telegraphed to Wall street, have fallen every day this week about ten millions short of actual facts. The same thing happened again this morning. It is this official stupidity which has given Wall street it's daily chill over the fail- ure of the loan. The truth is that the $73, ,029,721 gold balance, reported by the proper authorities yesterday afternoon, covered according to the usual practice of treasury bulletins, the returns down only to Wednesday afternoon.
 Since then, excluding to-days consid- erable payments, there has been deliv- cred to the treasury in New York alone,
 upwards of ,$11, GOO gold, against less than $3,000, GOO withdrawals on redemp- tion of legal tenders. At the opening of this mornings business therefore, the treasury's actual gold reserve must
 have reached at least S1,000, 000 There
 have been, moreover, other deposits at Boston, Philadelphia and elsewhere. Ii the Morgan syndicate pays up the full
 amount due on it's bond subscription without waiting for further arrivals of European steamers, the reserve as re. ported next Tuesday afternoon ought | to reach something not far from ninety millions It may be added that the sud- den cessation of the demand for gold in | London probably means that the syndi- | cate has been able to get the requisite gold here in New York; possibly from
 the supplies accumulated by unsuccess- | full bidders. 4T. | Following are the closing prices re.
 ported by Prince & Whitely. bankers and brokers, 46 Broadway, New York and 15 Center street, New Haven:
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
Girl Students in a Rush.

Delaware O., Feb. 15.-At chapel last
 night the juniors of Wesleyan college wore straw hats decorated with their
 class colors in place of the mortarboards
 stolen from them by the seniors. The
 moment the services were over the
 seniors tried to tear off the juniors
 headgear. The younger men defended themselves with hickory clubs deco
 rated with the class colors. and fought their way to Monnett hall. A crowd of 5000 persons gathered to watch the fight, and they tore down the fence
 about Monnett hall.
 On the steps of the hall stood the senior girls waving their colors The junior girls charged on them, and seiz- ing one, tore her clothing. A policeman
 was assaulted and another kept off the crowd with a revolver. There are near l ly 200 ruined suits of clothes and scores of broken heads as evidence of the | fight.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
St. John's Catholic Fair.

The St, John Catholic fair in Smiths hall was largely attended Saturday night. The voting stood as follows: For fayorite pool player of St. Johns club, Thomas Ruth, 61; William Spencer, 51; William Calvin, A; Daniel Flynn, S1; William Cahill, 20; Thomas Madden, 14; Bernard Fahy, Il, The most popular player in local societies: Flynn, fl; J. Farrell. 85: F. Maroney, 21; T. Coffee 36; T, Leary. 30,
 On this evening there will be vocal solos by Henry Janiesewicz, P. McCar- i thy, Joseph Brennan and others To, morrow evening will be the last night ! of the fair.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17

gives some fifty or sixty stereopticon views of the most thrilling incidents of his thirty-four balloon voyages, most of which were made with his old asso- ciate, Professor Washington H. Donald son, lost in Lake Michigan in 1875. If his success with the Odd Fellows is anything like that which greeted him at Warner hall last month, when he appeared before the Y. M. c. A. and the Governors Foot Guard, the capac- ity of Polar Star hall will be fully test ed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
W. c. T. U.

At the w. c. T. U. rooms on Grand avenue, Fair Haven, yesterday after street gave an excellent address on the history of temperance law, especially in the state of Connecticut. The sub- jeet is too large for one-half hours ad- dress, and it is hoped that the judge will again favor us with a continuation of the subject at do distant day.
 Mrs. J. c. Richardson rendered the solo "One Sweetly Solemn Thought in a most acceptable manner. There was a full house and an appreciatiye audi ence.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
Two New Houses.

Plans are being made by Architects built at the corner of Sherman and Edgewood avenues for George E. Som- CTS. One will be a one-family residence for MT. Sonlers, the details of which have not yet been fully decided upon
 The other will be a two-family house, 25x62 feet, containing six rooms on each floor and four in the attic; to be finished in ash and to contain all mod ern Improvements, including two hot water heaters, wash trays, plate glass windows in front, slate roof and wired for electric gas lighting. The plans for the latter house are about completed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
HIS HAT FOUND.
Wearing Apparel of a Missing Milford Man
 Found

Wearing Apparel of a Missing Milford Man
 Found.
 Milford Conn, Feb. 16.-A fisherman found hat and red handkerchief in the harbor this morning which are believ- ed to have been the property of James Burns, who has been missing from his home here for over two weeks.
 He disappeared 1nysteriously last week Thursday night and no clue to his whereabouts was obtained until this morning.
 His friends say that the hat resen1- b1es one owned by him when he disap- peared. He always carried a handker- chief like the one found this morning. < It is supposed he jumped or fell off the bridge on the harbor front and that his body has been carried out into the sound.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
Thanks From the Queen,

London, Feb. 16-A message from the queen to the nation was issued this evening. In it her majesty expresses her thanks for the sympathy extended to her on the occasion of the death of her son-in-law, Prince Henry of Bat tenberg, and says: '"This new sorrow is overwhelming. I lose a dear, loved and helpful son, whose presence was like bright sunbeam in my home, and my daughter loses noble and devoted husband. to whom she was united by the closest affection"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
K. 0. J. Masquerade.

The K. o. J. society will hold a mas nesday evening. About seventy-five couples are expected to be present. The committee of arrangements is as fol- lows: A. c. Bernstein, s. Gompertz, s. Weiss. N. J. Rosenberg, E. B. Besser, J. A. Loeb, Jacob Jacobs and Max Lang rock
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
BASEBALL IN THIS CITY
THE MEETING OF THE ATLANTIC
 LEAGUE.
Applications From Many Cities-But it
 will be a Six Club League.

Applications From Many Cities-But it
 Wilt be Six Club League.
 The meeting of the Atlantic league was held at the Fifth avenue hotel in New York on Saturday afternoon. The following delegates were present: Ar thur Irwin, Jersey City; Deacon Ellis, Newark; Ted Sullivan, New Haven; Billy Barnie, Hartford; MT. Wright Pat
 terson and Denny Long, Wilmington, Del.
 Many applications were received from cities desiring to join the league, but after long debate 1t was decided to retain a siX-club league, thus throwing down the applicants from Albany, Meri- den and Waterbury. That this action of the magnates was 8 wise move there remains no doubt, as it is better to have a league of clubs from six good and well-paying cities than to have 1t com posed of eight clubs and have two of them, so weak that Inside of a month they would be ill a shaky condition. AL bany used to be a good baseball city, but from poor management during the | last few years she has been flat fail- ure in this line. Meriden has never | been able to support a first class ball | team and even it's semi-professional | teams have failed to draw paying crowds except on some holidays, while | Waterbury has always been dead to the l National game comparatively speaking, and with every league in which she ever became a member she was about the | first city to throw up her franchise. | The league, as now composed and with such managerial talent as John Irwin, Ratsy Wright, Billy. Barnie, Deacon El- | lis, Denny Long and our own '"Ted'' l Sullivan, should prove bowling suc- cess and every member should close the season with balance on the right side | of his books; another feature which greatly strengthens the prospects for success is the fact that in four of the
 cities in the league, Hartford, New
 Haven, Newark and Wilmington, the 1 representative teams are owned and
 controlled by the men who are man.
 aging them, thus doing away with the l detrimental dictations of directors
 which have been the ruin of clubs in many good cities. One more important factor in the leagues success is the
 fact that the travelling expenses of each
 team for the season will amount to less
 than $400 and the longest jump between
 any two cities will be S25 miles-Wil- mington to Hartford-and three of the cities Newark, Jersey City and Pater- son, are only about twenty miles apart
 With all these favorable conditions there seems to be no possible failure for
 the league during the season of 1896
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
POLAR sTAR LODGE.

Polar Star lodge No. T, I. o. 0. F., of Fair Haven, has inaugurated a series
 of entertainments, the first to take place Monday evening, March ?. Il is the lodges purpose to bring out attrac- tions that will enable it to pay off the indebtedness upon its new building at an opening date For>the opening night Captain D. s. Thomas gives his illus trated balloon lecture, Eighty Min utes iu the Heavens. .Ae- The captain
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
Contract Awarded.

The contract for the o. A. Dorman company's new building on Chapel street has been awarded to J. N. Leon- ard & Co, mason work, and David H. Clark, carpenter work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
nixidend PaHable Tn-dax.

Hartford, Feb. 15.-The semi-annual dividend of the Hartford Electric Light company is payable tomorrow It amounts to 3 per cent. on the capital stock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-18
SKETCHES BY JOHANNA. THE APE ARTIST
sidering her youth, but when ono remem-
bers her sex the surprise ceases.

sidering her youth, but when ono remem-
bers her sex the surprise ceases.
''Did you ever take lessons?''
mot lesson, and l dash these things
off in very few minutes. I think sim
Pie outline sketch by master hand has
moro meaning in it than picture worked
up in detail, don't youP''
do and admitted it.
"But," she went on, trimming her
nails with her eraser, "they take much
more thought. 1 never toudh the paper
until I've considered the whole subject.
Then l sail in and make things hum
what artists do you admire the most?"
Living or dead?'' she asked, raising
her eyebrows, and at the same time fur
lively scratching her back with the pencil.
Living L replied
ooh, think it would not be polite or
professional to criticise for publication any
of my fellow artists or make any invidious
comparisons. At the Salmungundi club,
to which 1 belong, it is considered grossly
bad form to utter anything in the nature
of comment in the hearing of a newspaper
man.
what do you think, inquired, ''of
the Aubrey Beardsley movement?''
81 like it,, she answered, with a de-
oided nod of her head Il like it very
much. There is a freedom about it that
is very agreeable, especially, may add,
agreeable to one who can't draw and
doesn't like to be constrained by tradi-
tional methods. I've dabbled little in
the poster line myself. 1 made several
very good ones, but the photographers
spoiled them.'
"Do you intend to pursue art for live
hhood?''
THAT is just as Mr.. Bailey, my guard
ian, decides. Here is page of sketches
made in his Office. This is Tody HaInil-
ton; that one is Mr.. Starr, and here is
Lou Cook. think Mr.. Bailey's is the
best, don't you? I may go on the stage
and do lightning sketching, or may be-
come a cartoonist. My real ambition, how
ever, is to be a critic and take Montagu
Marks place on his art paper"
I told her something of the trials and
tribulations of the cartoonisb's life, and
think steered her off from that idea be-
fore left, my mind filed with wonder
0nc admiration and my pockets filled with
samples of heJ art work, which 1 had
traded for some of my own Sketches
Walter McDougan in New York World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-18
JOHANNA, THE APE ARTIST
She Tells CErtOonist McDougall Her Life
Story and Makes Clever Sketches.

She Tells CsrtOonist McDougal Her Life
Story and Makes Clever Sketches.
Immediately upon reading in the papers
that Johanna, the big ape at the Central
park zoo, had created stir in scientific
and art circles by drawing pictures I
jumped into a cab and drove up there to
interview her
A careful study of Gamers simian die
tionary and grammar well as constant
me for this task. The published speci-
mems of Johanna's work differed SO widely
that feared it was but newspaper yarn,
as We say in Glen Ridge, but the sight of
Johanna really handling pencil gave
wrench-a monkey wrench-to my suspi-
cion.
She was certainly drawing a picture-a
portrait of Mr.. Bailey, her owner, who
also owns a whole circus full of monkeys,
copying 1t from a colored print.
She worked freely, with a mastery of
technique that was marvellous, bringing
out the tones, the chiaroscuro, the i'm
paste and the atmosphere nnarvelousIy
well. The touch of genius is apparent in
her handling of the half tints and solids
so necessary in producing a correct por-
trait. In delineating Mr.. Bailey's whis-
kers she used a method that was as broad
and plastic as Chases or Sargent's, which
led me to suspect that she had been re-
ceiving private instruction from one of
these artists.
1 asked her in Gamers whistle cIuck
information when she had discovered her
latent talent
ooh, I've always had it!'' she answered.
cts gift. When was mere child,
I used to draw on tree trunks, fiat stones
and everything that permitted. 1 was al
ways making funny pictures of my COM
rades, and 1 was once expelled from CO.
coanut opening bee for depicting the pres
ident of our tribe in a humorous attitude
What is your favorite subject?'' in
quired.
myself? like to sit before mirror
and depict my own features and attitudes
It's grown to be a confirmed habit. I
have portfolio of sketches of myself
looked over her picture gallery with
much interest. 1t revealed a knowledge
of her best points that is surprising, con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-18
Her Little Ruse.

sage physicians who make profound
study of pathological symptoms ought
always to make due allowance for feni-
nine tricks and man ners. In the progress
of prolonged typhoid fever case in
which the patient was clever young
woman local doctor expressed himself
as satisfied with the gradual improve
ment of the patient with the exception
that her tongue did not resume the clear
pink hue of healthy youth. The other
morning, however, the daily inspection
of that member as gracefully protruded
by the maiden pleased the medical man
very much.
"Ah,'' said he, rubbing his hands to-
gether in a gratified manner, "your
tongue is looking much better, Miss
Biddy. You will soon be all right. -
After the doctor had gone the mother
remarked: "Well, Biddy, you certainly
are better. Your tongue looks so i'm
proved.
90 Yes'm - said the fair hoax, with a
weary sigh. 81 got tired hearing the
doctor talk about it, SO just before he
came scrubbed it well with my tooth
brush. louisville Courier Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-18

''The Woman's club is going to discuss
parliamentary law tomorrow evening,
BiIliger, - remarked Mrs. McSwat, land I
don't think I shall go. 1 don't take any
interest in it. -
Parliamentary law, Lobelia,'' said Mr..
McSwat magisterially, sis something you
can't know too much about. You ought
to familiarize yourself thoroughly with
it's usages. A clear understanding of par
liamontary law he went on, warming
with his subject, would be useful in all
the relations of life. If 1 were asked to
name one thing, Lobelia, that is calculat-
ed to add self reliance to character, assist
in solving the problems that arise from
day to day and make the burden of life
less
''Now, what is the use of your going on
like that, BilIiger?' interrupted Mrs. Mo
Swat. "What good would it do me to
study parliamentary law, I'd like to
know?'
You would learn not to talk when you
are not in order,' replied Bil1iger, bury
ing himself in his newspaper again.
And Mrs. McSwat went out to the
kitchen and talked in a loud and expostu-
latory tone of voice to Bridget for the next
Is minutes. Chicago Tribune.