The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1848-01-05
NUMBER a..
10 The Stockholders of the Grcenyille g. Columbia
RAIL ROAD.

| Nv CoHliu'tEc VIII De ScCuTcu: ana lHc rOun
ultimately buiIdcd. My continuance, for
doy, as President, depends upon this
" hencvcr the work is ordered 10 stop, I
shall cease to be the head of this great en-
tcrprisc [ have already more to do than
ought TO. have. Nothing ever induced nv
acceptance Of the Presidency of your Road,
artthout moncy and arithom price, but the
| hope that by so doing, | might contribute
something to the good of my country
Nothing induced me to remain after tie TO-
caiio~ fkhe Roah at NcvJcwy, but the fact
manifested to my own mind, and that of all
lny friends; that my retirement must greatly
r"tard, and possibly prevent the building of
the Road. Under these circumstances, and
after receiving the assurance that the work
should 20 on, have consented to remain
aud on Inc acorh aciU go Sixteen miles east
oIthc Broad River, will be put under con-
tract us soon rs the survey of location is
| completed. The whole line of the Road
vii: be put under contract to be graded as
! soon 81 the surveys of location be completed,
4 thr &ochhoidercs mW take The contracts
]'hcy arc entitled by the charter to work
o"t halt ii their stock on the Road 1t is
| hoped that even small stockholders will ar
rauge themselves iuto companies so as 10
! ta;r sections, and thus have the benefit in
tended by tho charter. The whole subscrip-
| ton, rs it now stands, and available to rs.
will not exceed six hundred thousand dol
| lars. This IS not one-third of the cost of
| the enterprise Still with that sum, if
| stockholders will take the contracts, we
| can Grade the entire Road, and complete
| thirty or forty miles. This done, we can
mortgage the Road, and finish as much
more. When this is doing, can it be that
our tcllow-citiZcns Of Charleston, Columbia,
RichIand, Fairfield, Ncwbcrry, AbbeviIIe,
l.aurcns, Anderson, Pickens, and last and
aoi least, GreeMriNc, will stand by and not
help more, much more than they have done?
Let every man come TO the rescue, do as I
have douc, sacrifice precious predictions OH
the altar OF the common good, and then we
can build the, Road, whether the Legislature
trjW or cM not heip as ? Let as help oursclvcs.
! JOHN BELTON O'NEAL,
President Of the G.. g. c.. r. &.
Columbia, Dec. 20, 1917.
a NEW Methodist Church was recently
dedicated at Watcrtown, Massachusetts.
The vanc which surmounts the spire of the
Church was presented by the Unitarian
Society, and is an interesting historical
re ic, being the identical one which graced
the spIre Of the building in which the first
Continental Congress was held.
TIE whole Of the Presidents Message,
containing abont 1000 words, was tele-
graphcd TO Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville
and Finccnncs, Indiana.
LONG NosEs.-A Boston editor, alluding
to the long noses Of Julius Caesar, the Duke
Of Wellington, John Tyler, and other dig
nitarics, says that he recently saw nose
that beat them all. 1t was thin and straight,
snubbcd at the end, and all of a foot long.
In concluding, however; it occurs to him
that it may be as well to state that it be-
| longcd 10 pair Of bellows"
FROM the 9th to the 10th Of November,
inclusive, there have been g,zetted in
England l6 bankrupts and 62 insolvents,
and in Scotland so bankrupts.
TIE President, in his Message, says,
during the last year twenty millions OF dol
lar; have been yecoincd at the mint
There is great operation.
The census of New Orleans, just CON-
pletcd: gives the total population of the city
ut 70,00S, a decrease of 10000 since last
year, and $4,000 since 1910. The Delta
thinks there is gross mistake somewhere.
The receipts of the American Board of
Foreign Mission in October, amounted to
S26,793 l3, and for the two preceding
months S32,SS2 10.
4 CELEBRATED physician in France has
discovered that Vinegar, taken in largo
doses two or three wine glasses every hour,
is a certain cure for the hydrophobia.
PRooF OF MARRrAGE-Before the revis.
ing barrister, the other day, witness being
: asked how how he knew that a man and
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