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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1872-01-30

This company withdrew its agency from the State
of Illinois about two years ago and ITS losses
in Chicago on risks taken ST the New York office
will not exceed si2j,OOO. The company subscrbes
$4,000 fer the sufferers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-08-07
REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS.

Republican Conventions were held on
Friday last in the various precincts OF
the County, for the purpose of electing
delegates to the County Convention to
be held in Abbeville on Friday, the 10th
inst. The following delegates were
elected:
AbbcviUe.-J. Hollinshead, Henry 81
lison, Evcridge Cain, Henry Titus, Abb
Titus, Tom Jones.
Whitc HM.-Iverson Reynolds, J. H.
Turner, John Tolbert, Elias Tolbert,
VIM. Prcssly, Barry Williams,
Cultoau's MiNs.-L. p. Griffin, Chas.
Logan, VIM. Wier, Amos Johnson, ).
e. Mcknight, Alfred Burton.
LoUndesvMe.-Henry Hunter, Oliver
McCalla, Rob. Cobbs, Henry Calhoun,
ESQUIRE Hardness, Ahram Brown.
Douglass' lW.-Henderson Bowen
Phillip Grant, Geo. Hawthorn.
Ninety-Sir-Dr. Limbecker.
Grecnuood-J. r. Tarrant, Wash.
Roe.
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RULES FOR GETTING OUT OF BED
DR.. Hall says: 1t is a great and mis-
chicvous mistake for persons, old or
young-cspecialIy children and teoble
or scdcntary persons-to bounce out
Of bed the moment they wake up; all
our instincts shrink from it, and
ierccly kick against it. Fifteen or
twenty minutes spent in gradually
waking up, after the eyes are opened,
and in turning over and stretching
the limbs, do as much good as sound
sleep, because these operations set
the blood in motion by degrees, tend
ing to equa!ize the circulation; tor'
during sleep, the blood tends to stag,
nation, the heart beats feebly and
slow; and to shock the system by
bouncing up in an Instant and send
ing the blood in overwhelming guam
titles to the heart, causing it to as
sumo q gallop, when tho instant
before it was in creep, is the great
ct absurdity. This instantaneous
bouncing out Of the bed as soon as
tho eyes are open will be followed by
wearincss long before noon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-08-07

md magnificent institution OF the
world in which is garnered up all
The eternal hopes of the most civilized
and enlightened portion Of mankind'
A Hebrew peasant, born in humble
life, with poor fishermen as followers:
without power, political, OF ecclcsias-
tical, preached new religion, whose
doctrines were in opposition to the
hierarchy, in opposition to paganism,
in opposition to the indulgence Of the
darling passions of men, and was him.
self fcrucifed as an impostor; which new
religion rcvolutionized the world! Ful-
filing the promise made to Adam al
ter the fall, and expressed in the rapt,
prophetic, and cxultant pecan OF the
great sacred epic:
''At his birth, O star,
Unseen before in heaven, pr0claimS him
come. Q
And guides the eastern sages, who en-
quire
His place, to offer incense, myrrh,
and gold.
His place of birth a solemn angel tells
10 simple shepherds, keeping watch by
night.
They gladly hit.ler haste, and BY q
choir
Of squadroned angels hear his carol
sung.
A virgin is his mother; but his sire,
The power of the Most H!gh. lie shaii
ascend
The throne hereditary, and bound His
empire
With earth's wide bounds, His glory
with the heavens"
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I. K. oISitI1jII l., SllSi
WM. J. DELPHI, Sec'y.

LAY OUT WIDE STREETs.-The i'm
mensc expense that Boston, New
York, and our own city, are under
taking to widen and straighten out
their streets, and the beautiful ap
pearance presented by the later built
cities Of the West, with their broad,
straight avenues, furnish incontro-
vertible arguments and daily remind
ers Of the wisdom of laying out new
streets, and making improvements
with an eye to future convenience,
advantage and appearance. It is an
incubus felt in all large communities
that there are so many men Of no
breadth of view who are incapable Of
looking beyond the immediate pres
ent. This disposition, we are glad to
see, is dying out in Baltimore, and is
being replaced by a very liberal and
broad one, sometimes bordering on
the extravagant. On every side 0
our city are springing into life bcaut-f
full suburban towns, nearly all laid
out, SO far as practicable, in conformi-
ty with the city streets as extended,
and on o scale of liberality that must
eventually prove attractive and profit,
able. Broad avenues extending to
these Improvements, and ranging
from eighty to hundred f'et wide
are being laid off aud graded, and
many more arc projected. Some are
the result of single individual enter
prise and capital, while most all Of
them arc from private subscription
with very little or no aid from the
County Baltimore Sun.
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Sermon by the Rev. W. L. Pressly.

We had the pleasure of hearing on
Sunday last in the church at Due West
one of the most excellent sermons that
we have listened to for long time by
the pastor the Rev. VIM. l.. Pressly,
from II Corinthians, V: 7-"For we
walk by faith, not by sight" 1t was at
least an hour III length, and very elabo-
rate and exhaustive i'll its analysis, CO.
gent in reasoning, compact and Welghty
in thought, polished in style, and deliv-
cred in an earnest and impressive man
ncr. The preachers is quite young man,
the son of DR.. f. Il. Pressly, the first
President of Erskine, has only recently
been called to the church at Due West,
and promises career of honor to MINI
self and of usefulness to the Church.
In a brief synopsis it is impossible to
give an idea of so elaborate discourse,
and we shall not attempt it. In his first
division of the subject we may say how
ever. that he justified the self-sacritice
of tile Christian profession, which is in
volved in the idea of "taking up ones
cross" by the great love which was
first manifested in the death of the Sa-
viour-and in his second division, upon
the ordinary principles Of worldly wis
dom.-the subordination of an inferior
TO q higher good-of the temporary and
transient, to the spiritual and eternal.
lie Disseminated very clearly between
the character of tie respective objects of
faith and sight-and showed incontro-
vertably that whilst the first are alone
worthy the undivided love and supreme
devotion of rational and immortal ma
lures, they are truly rs real and sub
stantial, and sustained by evidence as
clear aud incontestible as the objects OF
sense. 1t was the duty Of the Christian
to subordinate, and if need be to sacri-
flee, the one to the other,
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Proceedings Of the Corporators' Meeting.

GREENWOOD, S. c., Aug. l, 1872.
AT q meeting of the Corporators of the
Greenwood and Augusta Railroad, held
this day, Gen. P. II, Bradley was called
to the Chair, and VIM. I. Delph re-
quested to act as Secretary.
The Chairman stated the first business
in order was the selection of q suitable
place to hold the next meeting, and the
time of holding it.. On motion of DIR.
j. y. Neal, it was decided to hold the
next meeting at Chiles' Cross Roads, on
the 18th inst, and at the Dorm Mines on
the 29th inst. On motion of Maj. G..
Wright, q Committee was appointed to
arrange a programme for the meeting at
Chiles' Cross Roads, and to engage
speakers for the occasion, consisting OF
DR.. J. D. Neal, Chairman, Capt. j. w.
Perrin, w. Z. CothraA, John G. Chiles,
John Il. Bradley, Theo. Jay. Edward
Watson, j. S. Sibert, Leonard Lyon, DIR.
J. l.. Presley, and Maj. j. l.. White.
On motion of Maj. Wright, it was de
cided to admit all persons, irrespective
of color, as Stockholders of the Green
wood and Augusta Railroad. 1t was
earnestly requested that all persons in
terested in this enterprise should take
stock in it, and use their influence to get
others to do so. During the meeting
there were many cheering interchanges
of views among the Corporators.
The meeting instructed the Secretary
to request the publication Of these pro-
ceedings by the Augusta and Abbeville
papers.
WM. +. DELPHI, Sec'y.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-08-07
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION.

Though the returns from North Caro-
lima are yet defective, yet enough is
known to establish the fact of Il great
Conservative victory-a victory the
more glorious that it has been achieved
over great obstacles, and the more CRATE
ful that it was to some extent uneXpect-
ed.
The Importance of the victory was
not undervalucd by either party; and
each marshailcd its full strength and
best resources. On the one hand the
Administration sent to the field Will
son, and Boutwell,, and Fred Douglass,
and the best Of their associates; pressed
forward the army of oilice-holders, Law
ished money without stint, menaceh the
people with the terrors of the lNu kluX
law, and put into operation the whole
machinery Of party trickcry and party
corruption. But all to no opurpose. The
Conservatives lave made q good fight
and have deserved their glorious victo-
~. sSchurZ, and DoOlittlc, and Tipton,
and Walker, IN the large towns, and
Vance and Ransom and others, in every
village and hamlet, have pleaded the
cause Of peace and reconciliation, OF
personal liberty, and local self-govcrn-
ment-and brains have carried the dny
over money-the cause Of equal rights
over power and patronage. The Con-
servatives fought under the disadvan-
tage of running straight-out Democrats,
nominated before the new alliance was
consummated, and hence their triumph
is the more cheering.
1t may seem premature to judge from
one election of the results Of the Presi-
Dental campaign, but defeat of Grant
in North Carolina seems to have been
generally regarded by friend and foe
as most disastrous tohis prospects eve
rywhere. It'is one of the signs of the
swelling, onward course Of popular ell.
thusiasn in beMlf Of the nominees OF
the Cincinnati Convention, and will &c
very far to influence the results which
it fOreshadows. A defeat in North Car
oiina will do much to dispirit and dis
organize the ranks Of The Administra-
ton
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-08-07
CROPS IN THE NEiGHBORH0OD OF
THE TEMPLE OF HEALTH.
TEMPLE OF HEALTH, S. c.,
August lst, 1872.

Editor AJbcrHVc Press and Banner:
Seeing reports For your paper from
different parts of the State, concern
ing the crops, thought it would not
be out of the way to say word or
two about the crops Of this section.
Corn and cotton are looking very
we'll indeed. I think tho cotton will
soon open, and then what a flcccy
view we will have.
Tho good people Of this ncighbor:
hood believe in planting plenty Of the
staff of lifc," and l think they will
in the end, not be sorry for their
attention to such things.
Watcrmclons arc coming on slow y
but sureiy They arc considerably
behind, perhaps, from tho dry spells
about the time they most needed
rain. Peaches and apples arc ripe
and the owners are expecting to have
good many gallons of cider off the
latter.
I will close for this time. You
should visit Temple Of Health neigh
borhood, and if you do, l am pretty
sure you will form q favorable opin
ion. FARMER.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-08-07
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION.

WASHINGTON, August 4.-Notbing,
either through private or regular
channels, comes to change the proba-
BILE success of the Conservatives in
North Carolina.
AS far as heard from dispatch
states that Caldwell, Republican, has
gained about twenty-five hundred
votes over the Democratic vote IN
1870.
At midnight, Saturday, sixty-threc
Counties show a Republican gain Of
$50 over the vote Of 1870. A later
dispatch states that seventy-one Coun-
ties give Caldwell Republican gain
of 2,737 votes over the votes Of 1870,
leaving 2,269 to be overcome by Re
publicans in the remaining twenty
one Counties.
New York, August "A Raleigh
special to the Herald last night says
returns from North Carolina come in
slowly, and are SO confused and con.
flicting as to increase the general
doubt and uncertainty as to the actual
result. Democrats assert that thcir
candidate is elected by fifteen hundred
to two thousand majority, and Re
publcans claim about the same ma
iority for their candidate.
RALEIGH, August 4.-Oficial and
partial returns have been received
from seventy-fvc Counties, which re-
duce the Shipp majority to some two
thousand; the remaining seventeen
Counties are mostly small, and will
not materially change these figures.
The Republicans concede the State
by from fifteen hundred to twenty-five
hundred majority.
There is still intense interest felt in
the result, as the Democrats are slow
to believe in u victory until the fact
is established. Tho rejoicing in the
State will be great as soon as the
positive returns will exhibit the cleo
ton of the Democratic ticket.
CHARLOTTE, N. G., August 81 z.
M.-Forty.six Counties have been
heard from, which include the Radi-
Gals strongest Counties. The returns
show Conservative gain on Ships
vote of GOO in excess Of the Radical
gain. The West still to hear from
which will give large Conservative
maiorities.
The Democrats fred 100 guns in
the City Hall Park, this noon, in
honor of tho victory in North Caro-,
lima. The firing party carried ban,
ncr with the words: "North Carolina
pronounccs IL favor Of reconciliation,
union and peace"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-08-07

Editor Abbcuile Press and Banner:
With pleasure I furnish you the
following extract from the Minutes
of Cokesbury District Conference, re-
Gently held in Abbevillo.
T. s. Moorman submitted the fol
lowing:
Resolved, That this District Confer
ence feels called upon by a profound
sense of Christian duty to protest
against the widespread and ruinous
regard of the Sabbath day prac
ticed by tho public authorities and
private citizens of our country.
Resolyed, That an earnest appeal is
hereby made to all classes Of our
pcop'c, and especially to our public
authorities, controllers of railroads
and other public and corporate bodies
to correct this great and growing evil
so dishonoring to God and injurious
to man.
These resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted, and the Secretary directed
to farnish copies of them to the Ab
bovillc papers, Christian Neigd1or ant
S. C. Aduocate, and respectfully re
quest their publication.
Rev. A. J. Ccmthcr presented the
following:
Reso1vetl, That the thanks Of this
Conference are due, and arc hereby
rendered to the citizens Of AbbeviI!e
for thcir cordial and elegant ho:pi
tality extended it.
Rcsolred, That we duly appreciate
the courtesy shown us by the brethren
of the Presbyterian Church, and Of the
African Church.
Resolved, That the thanks Of this
Conference arc due, and are hereby
rendered TO the Railroad Company
Tor passing our Delegates to and from
the Conference for one fare.
These resolutions were unanimous
ly adopted, and the Secretary direct
ed to furnish copies Of them to the
Abbeville papers, and respectfully re-
quest their publication.
J. WASH BOYD,
Asst Sec'y of G. D. G.
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SALE DAY iTEMs.-Owing to the in
clement weather on Monday, the crowd
was unusually small, and, owing to the
same cause we suppose, it was during
the afternoon, more than usually noisy
A heavy rain seems to be nearly always
attended by q flow Of spirits:
The town lot Of Dr.. Isaac Branch, de-
ceased, comprising his late residence,
was sold by the Sheriff, under Judgment
for Il 900; w. II. Branch being the pur'
chaser.
Also the following property of James
r. Horton, under judgment-a horse, fol
s63. so, wagon Sl1.25, watch $3.50.
The McLaren land, near the town,
consisting of % acres, was purchased by
J. J. Cunningham at $3.50.
The B. O'Connor's lot, near the Court
House, WAS bid in at $500.
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Wednesday, August Z, 1879.

TEnMs.-Three dollars year, in ad
Eance.
No subscriptions taken for q shorter
time than six months.
Transient advertisements are charged
for at the rate or ONE DOLLAR per inch
space for the first insertion, and FIFTY
CENTS for each subsequent insertion.
A liberal deduction from the above
rates is made to persons advertising by
the quarter or by the year.
E% All obituary notices and tributes
of respect are charged for at the usual
rates of advertising.
Our Agents in Charleston.
The advertising agency of Messrs.
WALKER, EVANS & COGSWEL
represented by ROSWELL L. LOGAN,
ESQ, is the only authorized agency for
this peper in Charleston. ,... ..
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THE DISTRICT CONFERENCE. = 4he
Quarterly District Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
which closed it's session here OH Sunday
last, was especially remarkable for the
Iargeness of the attendance, and the in
teresting character Of the proceedings
During the meeting, instructive ser
mons were preached by the Revs. Mood,
Cauthen, Murray, Martin, Oliver and
others, andimpressive discourses on Tenn
perance and to the Sunday Schools, de-
livered by Prof. Carlisle, of Wofford.
On Sunday, the pulpits of both the
Presbyterian and Methodist Churches
were filled by members of the Confer
cnce. On Sunday night, the communion
was administered in the Methodist
Church.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-08-07
MEETING OF THE BIBLE SOCIETY

The Forty-ninth Anniversary of the
Abbeville Bible Society, was celebrated
in the Methodist Church on Wednesday
last, and the occasion was signalized by
the delivery of sermon and address,
both of moro than usual ability and in
tercst.
The sermon was by the Rev. James L..
Martin, of the Presbyterian Church
here. and was truly an eloquent and inn
pressive discourse, arraying in bold re-
lief the arguments in behalf Of revealed
religion, and dissecting in detail, and
exposing the false claims of the Protean
forms of modern infdelity. We listen
ed especially with much interest to his
clear clucidation Of the unity of truth
natural and revealed, and the harmony
of science and religion.
The Address of Gen. MCGOWAN we
take pleasure in presenting to our read
ers and enabling it to herald its own
claims to their attentive perusal and
hearty appreciation. 1t did honor to the
occasion, and to its author, in its elabor-
ateness, it's comprehensiveness, and its
research its tone Of calm philosophy
and earnest enquiry after truth; its i'm
partial estimate Of the claims of IL
val systems; and its sage conclusions
drawn from wide field of observation.
Rev. +. r. Miles was elected one OF
the Presidents, in the place of the
Rev. w. P. DuBose, who has removed,
and Mr.. J. +. G.. DuPre, Librarian, vice
Dr.. l. Branch, deceased.
The Board of Directors were directed
to make arrangements for celebrating
the next, being the Fiftieth Anniversa-
ry, and to select the Speakers for the oc-
casion.
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RAMON Monday we had very gen.
eral rains throughout the District.

Day Bishop Howe has made the fol-
lowing appointments for Abbeville:
Friday, August 80, Mrs. Brooks Chap
ell at Ninety-Six.
September /, fourteenth Sunday after
Trinity, Church ut Abbeville.
Wednesday, September 4, Churches
at Wellington and Edgefeld.
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CURE FOR FELoN.-On tho first ap
pcaance, steam it we'll BY means OF a
gourd handle, or horn, with 1our
red corn-cobs, about two minutes
after which apply poultice of sassa-
fras bark. which should be previously
made. Two or three smokings Will
prove sufficient TO scatter or drive II
away.
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An INGENIOUS apparatus has been

An ingenious apparatus has been
invented by q French physician by
which the heart is made to register
photographica:ly its own pulsatlons:
Such, it is said, is the popularity of
the apparatus, in its adaptation to
different uses, that it may be modified
50 us to register tho variations of the
respiration, the irregular action of
coughing, and similar physiological
and pathological! phenomcua.
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Beau Brummel had a friend, cler'
eyman, who sometimes dined with
him. Brummel used to say that you
could always tell whether there was
going to be champagne by the way
the clergyman asked the blessing.
IF the glasses indicated only claret or
sherry, he would say, "For what we
arc about to receive" &C., but if they
betokcncd champagne, he would shut
his eyes and commence with "Boun-
tiful Jehovah"
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TIE AURORA BOREALIs.-On Satur'
day night we had beautiful and bril-
liant exhibition Of that most magnificent
of celestial displays-the Aurora Bore
alis-bright corruscations Of fsilvery light,
assuming by turns all the prismatIc
hues, and throwing upon the Northern
sky all the splcndors of the orient dawn
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Greenwood and Augusta Road Liberal
Subscription from Greenwood.

GREENWOOD, S. c., Aug. 6, 1872.
Editor 16beriWc Press und Banner:
I thought it would he matter OF pub
lie interest to state to you that the sub
scription TO the capital stock of the
Greenwood and Augusta Railroad Com
pany at this place, to dale, is $4,000,
besides large amount Of real estate
Everybody will subscribe.
Yours truly, W. *. BLAAh.
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PERsoNAI..-We bad the pleasure, on
Yesterday, of receiving a call from Mr.
J. w. McColloch, the agent of the CO.
Iumbia Curolinidn, who visits our town
in the interests of that most excellent
journal. Mr.. McColloch has many
friends and relatives here, and we wish
him abundant success.
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gJosh Billings says: There iz one
thing about a hen that looks like wis, $,
dom: they don't kaeklo much until
after they have laid their egg. Some
pholks arc alwus q Dragging and a
kackling what they arc going tcw 40
beforehand.