The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-09-30
NEWS ITEMS.

I'ne n hUO.crhUC " HtJ ID W w iSSo'AiSN
under Brownlow.
The Duke of Edinburg has been con-
yerted to the Roman Catholic faith.
There are ten counties of this State
garrisoned by United States troops.
Robert Smalls, cotored, has been
nominated for Congress from the oth
District.
s. Hurry Spencer. colorcd, died on the
9Th inst, in Buckingham county, Va,
mt the age. OF III years.
Old John Robinson's circus is to be IN
Greenville October 18th, and at wal
haIla on the 18th.
Four thousand "citiZens" assembled
in Darlington on Saturday last to hear
/; ID. III. chamberlain and others speak.
@ Col. S. C.. Faulkner, Of Little Rock,
author of the famous "Arkansas Tray
eller," died on the 4th Aug, aged Il.
The late Baron Anselm Rothschild
! left 500. 600, 900. BY his express desire
his funeral was celebrated without any
polnp.
There are seventy pupils in the Geor-
gia State Deaf and Dumb Asylum. The
appropriation by the State Is Sl3,ooo.
A new mail route is advertised from
Franklin, n. C., to Walhalla, via Fill
jay, Sugar Fork, Blue Ridge and Horse
Cove.
We had the pleasure of visit last
week from John r. Cochran, ESQ, a
prominent and useful member OF the
Legislature from Anderson.
Mr.. Samuel NJ. Orr, who has been re-
siding for some months past in Spring.
field, ILL.,, returned on last Monday
. Anderson CoRscrUat0r.
The GtreenviHe Republican has been
designated as the official newspaper of
Pfckens County, in place OF the PtcHc"s
Sentinel.
George w. Stewart died in Omaha re-
gently. His life was insured for So, 900.
The companies are dissatisfied and will
exhume the body.
i This is harvest time with the rice, and
the yield bids fair to be very large.
THE cotton crop in the upper section Of
this county is reported in good order
Georgetown Planet.
The merchants of New Orleans expect
to handle large cotton crop this fall,
and to handle more money than they
know what to do with.
Now come the cool autumnal days,
the saddest of the year; the annual
debts must all be paid, and the cotton
picked with care.
The Kansas Legislature met in
extra session to provide means for
citizens made destitute by the rayages Of
grass-hoppers.
The health of Columbia is excellent.
"A few cases of dipthcria among chill
dren isall that is complained of, and
those are of mild type.
Sweet milk is now so plentiful in Co
lumb;a that it is selling at five cents a
quart. If milk is so cheap in Columbia,
WHY should il be so dear in Abbeville,
The Darlington ,Sonaherncr makes
generous and just remarks this week
on political ostracism. Would that all
of our people entertained the same
views.
There is at Abbeville Court House
valuable estray mule, supposed to be-
long to some one in adjoining county.
Won't the county papers copy this for
the benefit of their subscribers.
We learn that rattlesnake was killed
n few days since, four miles below Cam
den, near Town Creek, which was as
large as a mans leg, and had twenty
five rattles.-- Camden Journal.
There is comparatively speaking, lit
tle sickness about town. This is good
news. considering the fact that this is
the sickliest season of the year.-Ddr-
lngton Southerner.
IT. w. CAN'T, Of the North-Edst Gcor-
oiae, withdraws from the editorial de-
partment of that paper, and Capt. II.
III. Carlton assumes the duties hereto
fore performed by Mr.. CAN'T.
Friend, if thou forgettest to pay thy
printer the dues thou owcst for thy Press
md Banner, then thou wilt beware Of
thy postal card, reminding thee Of the
matter,
New goods are coming into town in
abundance, and both merchants and
clerks are kept busy opening and assort-
ing them. Farmers, bring in your cot
ton.
Experiments recently made in Eng
land indicate that wagons are most east
|y drawn, on all kinds of roads, when
the fore and hind wheels are of the same
size, and when the pole lies lower than
the axle,
Lieutenant Fred. Grant, son Of the
President, and at present memter OIL
J.ieutenant-General Sherdan's staff, isl
to be married Oil the Goth Of October
next 70 Miss Ida Honore, daughter off
II. II. Honore, of Chicago.
The Marion Star is reserved. Under
the head of Greene VS.. Chamberlain, it
SAYS: s'In view of the present confusion
and uncertainty, we deem an expression
of opinion premature. We shall see
what we shall see."
Although complains have been made
during the season, first from one cause
and then another, that the cotton crops
were partial failure still we are graft
fled. to State that the prospects for this
county are full crop williamsburg
The great cattle plague, the Texas
tick, has made its appearance in south
east Pennsylvania. In Montgomery
county the insects have appeared in
large numbers, and over 100 head of cat
tie have died in the county within a
fortnight.
Barnum, the great Snowman, who is
sixty-four years old, and has been a
widowcr a year, has just married in
New York, Miss Fish, an English
lady of twenty-siX. This wonderful
Snowman is rich and lives in style on
Fifth Avenue.
Rev. H. NJ. Mood declines to enter
into controversy with the correspond
cnt of the Pr0gresstcc Age on the
ground that the correspondent writes
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