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Minor Mention.

Ia
Queen Victoria is said to have twenty-five
state carriages.
A net cat bit the finger Of a little boy In
Jasper County, Missouri, and ne oleo ten
days later Of blood poisoning.
In Bombay, India, the HssRAa s carrying
of over 500 persons q weg -.
:Jerusalem's Garden, ofSs1lyeSthas eight
trees known to be 1000 yesxnldS
The Maxim gun has only pm barrel, you
II can discharge GOO shosSM ono minute.
A tragic elopenent o~cdur1s&Snear Mon,
cloya Mexico. Macedan1b. aSeo
49, before elouin1R NTH his sweet
hoort Attn N(ovas shtE H&56Swo OF her
brothers and two othetsekeH
Tn ber c,stle Patti ~ ESaphDnographic
apparatus, and into 415es3e4s 1requeItly
L., - har frIands ntA& 638t6Ece who have
monographs, that th3x IEAS feten TO ner
%melodious strains. M3xs&
r. s~onnonnced thak&24Es Hi abeth Har-
wood Key, the granQ3e&{55ss! OF rlanI-
Scott Key, has been App1lnLed TO d clefA.
ship in the DepartmSnt q: a fi az ~
Washington. She forf$eet3 nelu a clerAsnip
in the Pension Bureauc
fat woman In bloomexasRas whirling on
her wheel in a streetHnNk enS!nSton, Eng
land, when she was sasMNg adancins P %ss
belonging to an itinatAnk snowman; Lu7
animal dashed at hstSsAd Nfseked tne I pt.
cycle, but the injury ~ VIZ lady was not
serious. AsSSIf6sA .
A queer-looking IT, 3exaean aGg' d p &c.
of the late AlexanderHakxxqenn, sne nasi
clan, which for twsive3yeSy had aeon q,
Wehitestone, Long LlaAdsasnd was Sere;
m~oniously buried % e11&ay casket nneo
with purple hroadSlQ2b
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GOLD FROM ALASKA.
Treasure Ships Arrive From the Frozen
Klondyke Placers.

Gold dust from the Klondyke River dis
trict coming to this country Is measured
not by ounces nor pounds, but by tons. On
the steamer Excelsior that arrived in San
Francisco, CAL, on Wednesday was a ton Of
gold. The steamer Portland that arrived
Saturday at Seattle, Wash, from st.
Michael's Alaska. brought a ton and half Of
gold, owned by sixty-eight miners. who had
dug it out Of the ground. Klondyke is now
described az the richest gold location
ever discovered. It is situated on the
Klondyke River, not for from the Yukon, IN
British territory, about forty miles eastward
from the Alaskan boundary line. The
stories told by the miners, amply confirmed
by their heavy sacks Of gold, have pro.
yoked a great thinning excitement"
Throngs of people are preparing to leave
for the remote gold fields of the Yukon to
seek to repeat the fortune that has comes
to others. The miners estimate that the
Klondyke placers contain $50, 900 900 In
sight,,
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YOUNG TEN EYcK WINS.
An American Boy Captures the Diamond
SOULS at Henley, England.

An American Boy Captures the Diamond
sculls at Henley, England.
The sensation Of the Henley England)
regatta was caused by young E. q. Ten
Eyok, the American, who won the Diamond
Sculls, bis opponent In the finals being d.
T.. Blackstaffe, of England.
This is the first time on record that the
Diamond SOULS have gone to an American.
Unsuccessful attempts have been made to
win the trophy by>George Lee, Of Newark,
now a professional, and Charles Psotta, rep
resentfng Cornell University, who tried
several times.
Ten Eyck got away first, slightly In ad-
vance Of Blackstaffe, an advantage which
he never lost. Half way up Temple Island
be led by a quarter Of a length; at the
quarter by q full length, where Ten Eyck
;ried to take Blackstaffe's water, but was
driven out.
Ten Eyck, measuring his man now adopted
The tactics of keeping just O length ahead
al the time, and using nc more effort than
was necessary to do so.
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Cycling Notes.

High gears are enjoying great popularity
ut present.
Of bicycling namby-pambyism.
The letter carriers Of the City Of Mexico
are using bicycles in delivering mail.
The Mexican Central Railway has issued
orders that bicycles shall be carried free as
baggage.
The invisible brake, it is claimed Is to
be introduced by the leading maaufac-
turers when they place the 1898 model on
the market
It is estimated that from II, 900 to $4,000
persons employed in Washington City use
their wheels in going to and returning
from business.
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Labor World.

Seventeen cotton mills are in course Of
construction in North Carolina.
The Gould Coupler Company, Of Depew,
N. Y, notified the moulders and core
makers of q cut in wages ranging from fifty
to thirty-seven cents a day. The reduction
Is but temporary, the officials say.
The appeal case Of the employees Of con-
tractors at the Government Chickamauga
Park, Tennessee, has been decided In favor
of the employed. This decision practically
o~verthrows the system whereby employers
have compelled employees to rent and live
in company houses, or to employ and have
the pay stopped in the office for tho com.
pany doctor.
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Use and Abuse of Alcohol.

G. E. Pellew, OF Columbia University,
gave a lecture on "Alcohol and Alcoholic
Beverages in the Museum of Natural His
tory, New York City, recently. He dis
cussed the General and Special Properties
OF Alcohol" He first talked about the the
DRY that alcohol Is a food, and admitted
that 1t Is such when taken 10 quantities
below a certain limit, beyond which it be-
comes q poison. ,
The notion that alcohol produces warmth,
he declared, is utterly wrong. This was
discovered first in Arctic explorations. For
fifty years the explorers have left the In
gredient behind entirely, and have also left.
behind those addicted to Its use. It drives
the blood to the surface, and while 1t thus.
difuses' warmth through the skin and
makes one comfortable for a short time,
soon the temperature of the body is two de-
grees below the normal.
eff you wish to endure the cold" he said,
take something to keep the blood inside.
Food will do this. So will coffee"
In describing the effect of whisky on the
brain DR.. Pellew said: :
"The blood Is driven through the brain
more rapidly and produces exhilaration.
That's why men use it. Ifthey would stop
when the point Of simple exhilsration Is
reached, 1t would not be so bad, but when
wv L1oSA ID sohOA IL SouSo POAcSas ta1
quantity which may be described as too
much differs with individuals, and must be
determined each one for himself. But the
dividing line between alcohol safe and
alcohol poisonous for every one is the point
where exhflaration Is succeeded by slug
gishness. It differs in individuals, in races
and in the same persons under different
circumstances"
q places great stress upon the fact that
alcohol becomes a poison very quickly. ,
ut Is the most destructive Of all poisons,n
he declared. cit destroys ones life, intel
lect, character, and the happiness Of others
Coffee and tobacco destroy only those wh1
use them. Alcohol emphasizes mans weak!
nesses. II he has a faint Of the brutal IN
him, his brutal disposition Is aggravated
by its use. II he has passions Of any kind
they are aroused by its overuse.
"Opium isn't as bad as rum for this rea-
son The Chinaman got it right when he
said, IT me dlink lum me go home and kick
wife; II me eat opium me go home and wife
kick me-"
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A FATAL HEART BLOW.

A Friendly Boxing Match Ends in the
Death of One of the Principals.
At Columbia, La, Carey Townsend and
Elisha Wilmington met in o friendly boxing
match for the amusement Of their friends.
Wilmington, who is the smaller Of the two,
iealt Townsend q heavy blow over the
region Of the heart and he dropped to the
ground dead. The Coroner made an exam
nation and decided that death was due to
paralysis OF the heart, produced by the
slow received. Wilmington is now in jail
awaiting the action Of the Grand Jury.
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lays, "takes to politics like 9 duck to

lays, "takes to politics like g duck to
water"
Miss Ferguson Is slender and fair, but
seemingly young to hold such a RESPONSE
Die position. The deputy is far from the
accepted idea Of q hard-shooting Western
peace officer, but then her duties will not
be onerous or dangerous, the principal
ones being the serving Of papers and no
ii1cation of jurors.
Miss Ferguson was born in Provo and
has lived in Utah all her life, receiving her
education in the public schools and the
university of the State. She has lived in
Salt Lake City since the year after her
birth, and is very popular among the
7oung people In the City Of the Saints.
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Prominent People.

Mrs. Tesa Clawson Wells, the wife OF the
Governor of Utah, is dead.
Ex-Queen Llliuokalani insists that she
owns $50, 900 acres Of "crown lands" in
Hawaii.
Senator Quay, Of Pennsylvania, an
nounced that he would BIO a candidate Tor
reelection to the United States Senate.
Joseph Benson Foraker, Of Ohio. is the
only Member Of the United States Senate
who was graduated from Cornell Univer-
sity.
Ex-President Harrison has been invited
to attend the centennial celebration OF
Franklintown, Ohio, a town his grand
father often made his headquarters during
the War OF 1912.
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SHOT BY A POSSE.

Daniels Attempted to Assault His Employ
er's Wife and Was Pursued For a Week.
"Jim" Daniels, q colored farm, laborer,
entered the room of Mrs. John Baker, tho
wife Of his employer, near Goodwater, Ala,
a week ago and attempted to assault her.
The woman's screams brought herhusband
from an adjoining room and the mtscreant
fed. Baker organized a posse who searched
with dogs for Daniels, chasing him forty
miles. He was pursued so close by the
dogs that he was forced to climb a tree.
When the posse arrived he prayed from the
top of the tree for mercy, but In response
got twenty bullets from as many guns and
fell to the ground dead.
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A FIEND lYNcHED.

His Victim Wa q Woman, Whom BE Set
on Fire.
Major Terrell, colored, assaulted Mrs
Martin Thomas, q white woman living in
the country, five miles from Elba, Ala.
She was alone in the house with her six
~1nonths-old baby. After the assault the
m was struck in the head and thrown
On the bed beside her sleeping infant.
.Fagots Of pine wood were then piled upon
.aer and set on fire.
The flames attracted some passers-by and
they rescued the woman in time to get her
dying statement. The baby was roasted.
Terrell was arrested, and was being given
a preliminary trial, when a mob broke up
the court and took him out and hanged
him
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Dying, He Refused to Touch Liquor.

An exchange tells a touching story of the
last hours of Colonel James Mulligan, the
gallant Irish-American soldier, which illus
trates the wonderful devotion to principle
that characterized him in all the acts OF his
life. He was an uncompromising teeto-
taller, and remained so to the last. Dying
OF three CHASTITY wounds, the woman at
whose house he lay pro:fered, as a cordial,
brandy she had saved from raiding SOL
diers. he declined the offer, saying, with
q calm and gentle smile upon his death
believed face: Madam, in all my life I
have never touched a drop of liquor. Now
that I am to die I think it too late to be-
rin~."-Sacred Heart Review.
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The National Game.

Boston is again baseball mad.
Pfeffer has declined offers from Louis
Yille and Kansas City.
In Nichols, Boston has the most consis-
tent pitcher in the League.
Pitcher Killen, Of Pittsburg, has been
fined 800 by his club for sulking.
Umpire Hurst claims that IN umpire's lot
grows more miserable every year.
Corbett, of Baltimore, is doing as good
work as any pitcher in the League.
Hofrer, OF Baltimore, no longer appears
able to pitch a full game effectively.
The Boston players do not think that
Rusie, Of New York, has recovered his
speed.
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Beer Versus whisky.

The Scientific American says that excess
We beer-drinking is even more brutalizing
than whisky. The most dangerous class Of
rufflans In our large cities are beer-drinkers.
the very lowest form Of inebriety, closely
allied to criminal insanity, follows from
b~eer-drinking. A beer-drinker may be the
picture OF health, he may weigh three or
four hundred pounds, but in reality he is
most incapable Of resisting disease. Com
pared with inebriates who use whisky, he Is
more ineurable, more generally diseased.
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The Fastest American Vessel.

The new United States torpedo-boat Du-
pont, built by the Herreshoffs, started from
Bristol, R. l., on her official speed trial, but
through an accident the trial was called of.
The boat, however, on a six-mile run de-
veloped the remarkable estimated speed OF
BIT knots-the fastest made by any craft
in American waters.
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Wheelman Killed In the Dark.

Stephen II. Bartlett, a fireman, OF Mel
rose, Mass, was killed by q fall from his
bicycle while riding on the NahanE Road.
Bartlett was going at a good pace along q
lark stretch in the road, when he ran into a
who also was riding a bicycle, He
was thrown heavily to the ground, and he
died in the ambulance. The woman escaped
without q scratch.
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The Transmississippi Congress.

The Transmississippi Congress at Salt
Lake City, Utah, adopted resolutions as
follows: Favoring the annexation Of Ha.
waii; favoring the construction OF the
Nicaragua Canal; recommending recogni-
ton Of Cuba as a nation; providing for a
National Board Of Arbitration, and for fos-
tering the sugar beet industry.
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Gold Discovery in Pennsylvania.

Rich gold finds have been made at what is
known as the English settlement" near
TItusville, Penn. A few weeks ago E. Stein
metz, a mining expert from Denver, came
to the region under contract with local cap
italists to make an inspection OF the field.
AS result of his labors, collaborating quartz
of workable value has been found IN large
quantities.
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TENNEssEE's NEW SENATOR.

Thomas B. Turley Appointed to Succeed
the Late Isham G. Harris.
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, has ap-
pointed Thomas B. Turley, OF Memphis,
United States Senator to succeed the late
Senator Harris.
In the fall Of 1895 Bourke Cochran went
to Memphis and made q powerful speech
in behalf Of the gold standard to an audi,
ence Of 1000 people. T. B. Turley replied
to him, and his reply made his reputation.
Mr.. Turley was born in Memphis IN ls45.
He enlisted in the Confederate Army at the
age OF sixteen and fought through the war
as a private in the 154th Tennessee. he
has never held ON Office. He Is o lawyer.
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Mystery of a Governess.

Selma Larsen, a young Swedish COVER
ness employed at Staatsburg, N. Y, started
for New York City to visit a married sister:
Miss Larsen was apparently In the best OF
health and spirits. En- route she lost her
reason, and at Fishkill she was taken from
the train to q hospital. Her reason re-
turned. but IN illness, the cause OF which IS
not publicly known, seized her, and she
died within t~wenty-four hours.
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Peace Conference Adjourned.

The Ambassadors attending the Peace
Conference in Constantinople refused to
accept the new frontier scheme presented
by Tew1k Pasga, They adjourned the con-
terence until the Pasha should bring a
written acceptance by his Government OF
the Thessaly boundary as traced by the
military attaches.
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Against Department Stores.

Mayor Harrison, OF Chicago, signed th>
anti-department store ordinances recently
passed by the Council. They prohibit the
sale Of meats, groceries, or liquors in the
same establishment where dry goods are
sold without a special license. After they
have been published ten days the ordinances
will become effective.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
Beer In the Navy.

Beer scored another great victory on
board the famous United States warship,
the Indiana, last Wednesday evening,
While the officers Of the ship were distribu-
ting the regular daily rations Of beer, a sea-
man who was already drunk became en-
ragged and plunged his bayonet into the
back Of an officer, killing him instantly.
At 6.10 p. m. 1t is the custom on board the
warship Indiana for q signal to be given
when the ships crew slime up" On the for
ward deck and a supply Of government
liquors is distributed among them. During
the afternoon Of the fatal day, Philip Car
ter, a seaman, was of on a leave Of absence
for a few hours-long enought to get beastly
drunk. He was, however, back promptly
at "beer" time, ready for a fresh supply Of
government liquor. There was q drunken
wrangle over the amount which he was to
receive. Thomas A. Kenny, the master-at-
arms Of the ship, who also seems to have
been the ships bartender, refused to give
him his usual supply.
There was a disturbance over the matter,
and a half-hour later the drunken Carter
slipt up behind Officer Kenny and plunged
q bayonet into his back up to the hilt
Kenny died instantly, and Carter was placed,
in irons-all the result Of a drunken row
over rations of beer supplied by the gov
ernment.-The Voice.
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Died After Saving q Life.

James Hogan, the keeper Of q refresh
ment stand at Idlewild Park, Paterson, N.
J.. was seized with q hemorrhage on the
bank OF tho Passaic River after rescuing q
small boy from drowning. He died within
q few moments.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
Insects Bite Was Fatal.

Christian Ruiz, Of Lower Mount Bethel,
PENN, died in the Easton Hospital from the
effects Of an Insects bite. Ruiz, who was a
wealthy farmer, was stung on one of his
hands several weeks ago. he paid no at
tention to the bite until a few days since,
when he went to the hospital, suffering
from blood poisoning.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
EMANUEL RICH KILLS HIMSELF.
rhe Wealthy Atlanta Dry Goods Mer-
chant Commits Suicide.

rhe Wealthy Atlanta Dry Goods Mer'
chant Commits Suicide.
Emanuel Rich, the wealthy retail mer-
,ant Of Atlanta, Ga, has committed suicide.
For some time he had been suffering from
nervous dyspepsia, His illness gradually
developed into q case Of m%elancholia. he
went into the bathroom Of his residence and
stabbed himself in the throat with a fruit
knife.
Death was not immediate, and he stabbed
The chest and throat, finally dying through
loss of blood. A count reveals the presence
Of thirty-three wounds. Mr.. Rich was
probably the best known and most repre-
sentative dry goods man Of the South. He
caves a widow and four children.
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Boy Saves Three Lives,

Grafton Coffin, the sixteen-year"old son
If Graham B. Coffin, rescued three children
Who were, on the point Of drowning in
Browns Lake, Wisconsin. Some women and
children were bathing, and the children
Did raft. Three Of the children Slipped of,
Ind began to founder in deep water, un"
able either to swim or to touch bottom.
Young Coffin jumped into the water and
succeeded in bringing all the little ones
,afely to land.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-08-04
KENTUcKY's .UNWRITTEN LAW.

Judge Falconer Orders h Discharge OF a
Man Technically a Murderer.
City Judge Gray Falconer, at Lexington,
Ky, acquitted Jacob 8. Harris, who killed
his wife's paramour, Thomas b. Merritt,
Pension Attorney, in Gratz Park. Judge
..Falconer held that although Harris was
technically guilty Of murder under
ghe Kentucky statutes, under the unwritten
law, which gives a man the right to pro-
rect his home, to the extent Of taking hu.
man life If necessary, Harris had a right
10 shoot and kill the despoiler Of his home.
The court room was packed, and the de.
,.fsion vas greeted with thunderous ap.
CLAUSE. Harris's brother and stepfather
embraced him and Harris wept with Joy.
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PROSPECTS IN THE SENATE.
Mr.. Jones Says the Democrats VIII Wan'
Considerable Time For Debate.

Mr.. Jones says the Dem0crnrS VIII WIFI
Considerable Time For Debate.
WASHINGTON, D. C. (SpeciaD.-Speaking
ofthe prospect Of an early vote in the Senate
on the conference report on the Tariff Bill,
Senator Jones, Of Arkansas, said: with
cotton, cotton bagging, bags for grain,
Chinese mating and burlaps taken of the
free list and placed on the dutiable list,
many Democratic Senators will desire to
question and the lumber question, will take
several days. Then, too, a motion to re-
commit the bill may be made, n the de-
bate on it may consume some time. !
should say that two or three days would
not be sufficient for the Senate after the
bill Is reported. Nobody can tell how much
time will be consumed"
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Miners Riotous Wives.

Forty-two Of the wives and daughters OF
the striking coal miners at Gallitzin, Penn,
we're placed under arrest on the charges OF
rioting and disturbing the peace. The
women nave been particularly active since
the strikers places were filled with foreign
lnhorpra
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Killed by Lightning in Bier Own Home
Mrs. Horace Noble, q prominent woman
ofErie, Penn, was instantly killed at Gills
Park, near Erie, by lightning. She was SIT
ting in the parlor with some companlols
when the house was struck, klulns nef a.,
most instantly. None Of the others were
burf
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THOUSANDS OF EMPTYFREIcHT CARS
Ready to Garry the Big Wheat Crop Of
the Middle West.

Long trains Of empty freight cars have
rolled out Of Kansas City, Mo-, for two
weeks and dropped off In twos, threes and
ayes on side tracks along the lines Of the
railroads in Missouri, Iowa, KansaB,
Nebraska and Oklahoma. These cars, of
which there are thousands, will be filled
with new '97 wheat within four or five
weeks. A tremendous grain rush Is e1-
pected, and the best Of management by
railroad officials will be needed to prevent
a huge grain blockade or a g%rain-car
famine. Conservative estimates OF crop
statisticians place the yield Of wheat for
this year In Kansas alone at 10000, 900
bushels.
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MARYLAND PEACH CROP DAMAGED.
Ravases of the CurculIo Reduce the Yield
to q Quarter of Last Years.

Boston and New York draw largely On
tho D elaware and Maryland Peninsula for
their supply Of peaches. From n hun
dred thousand to two. hundred thousand
baskets are shipped to these cities every
season from the tidewater counties Of Mary
land. Agents Of the Pennsylvania Road
have just completed their estimates OF the
crop, and report that the yield will not be
more than one-fourth of that of last sum-
mer. The June crop in the orchards was
unusu ally heavy, but the failure Is largely
caused by the ravages Of the curculio, an
Insect that infests nearly every orchard In
this great peach-growing country. The
same insect has done considerable damage
IN the Delaware and New Jersey orchards.