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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-08-19
Due West Items

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Mr.. Fl. NJ. Johnson, a stirring clti-
izcn of Duo West, was in our Office
on last Saturday. lilo says that he
has the contract for furnishing the
people of Due West with fine beeffor
the next year. He thinks that it will
be necessary t. distribute a tough old
fellow once in q while to his custo,
mcrs thatthey may the more readily
appreciate tho fine qtality Of his
beef
Mr.. Thos. Crawford Of Due West,
drives the finest horse and buggy in
that neighborhood. lie is generally
accompanied by the prctticst young
ladies of the ncighborhood. We
learn that he says he is not a marry
ing man, though circumstances seem
to point tho other way.
ATriend from Duo West, always
brings, he says, bottle of water with
him when he comes to the village.
The water there must be very good,
or ours very bad, in his estimation.
Perhaps he mikes the Due West wa
ter before leaving home.
DR.. Miller Of Due West, is prosper.
i ing in the world. He cures all his
patients, and whilst his charges are
light, he waits for his pay until his
customers can sell their cotton. Hc
is u good physician.
McGhee and brother are relling a
great many goods, and it will be
their own fault if they don't get rich.
They are entorprising merchants.
The Phoenix Hotel is doing a good
business, and its proprietor, our old
friend Mr.. A. C. Hawthorn, is pros
pcring. He deserves all his good for
tune.
The matrimonial market Of the
town is always good. Some of our
Abbevillo friends might make q note
Of this.
It is vacation time and the town is
duller than usual. Professors and
students arc rusticating.
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"DoUBLE BACK ACTION. - Last
Wednesday on returning from the
barbecue at Widcman's, we wero the
feeble Instrument of rescuing The Ju'
nior Of the Press aud Banner from a
fearful fate A ferocioAs dog at Nc.
Clanc's went for him and he went for
the gate. By almost .supcrhuman
excrtions, we saved his bc:."er."
So writes the editor of. the Medium
but had our readers seen him and
McClanc's bull dog running for the
gate, they would have concluded, and
very justly too, that his concern
for the Juniors beaver was an after
thought.
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Proposed Scientific School.

An association Of gentlemen mas
been formed at Iendletoh, who pro
pose to establish Scientific Schoo
at Fort Hill, aud publish IN address
in which they commend the enter
prise to the support of the people O
the State. They set forth at length
the advantages of such an institution
in the dcvelopemcnt Of u higher
grade of intellectual culture, ane
urge the excellence of the proposed
site at Fort Hill, which was SO long
the home of Carroll 'a's greatest
statesman, and for which his son-in
lew, the Hon. Il. J. Clemson has made
q liberal donation-a site "comprising
some of the finest land on the Scne
ca River, and at the foot Of the Blue
Ridge mountains, combining great
beauty of situation, with exceptional
healthf1lness of cltm:tte. dts sltua
ted in q section of the State cheap
and abundant, exempt from many Of
the disadvantages which might affect
such an institution elsewhere, and is
in o short distance of two great
trunk railroads the Blue Ridge road
connecting the up-cotntiy with
Charleston and Columbia, and the
Air Line road passing within a mile
and connecting New York and New
Orleans" They state that they have
received assurances of aid from other
quarters, both able and willing to
render liberal assistance. We trust
that the suggestion already made, as
to tho appropriation of the funds
which have been raised for tho cree
ton of a Calhoun monument, may be
carried into effect. and the endow'
mcnt of q noble institution of learn.
ing be secured, which bearing
the honored name of Calhoun, shall
constitute the most durable monu.
ment of his famc.
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A Costly TOBACCO LIcENsE.-Our
townsmen, Messrs. J. B. and W. j.
Rogers, some time since paid five
dollars for a tobacco license, and neg
lccted to get it put up in a conspicu'
ous part of their store, and when the
"Revenne man" came round they
could not find it. II cost them about
seventy-three dollars, besides lawyers
fees, to straighten their account with
the Revenue Department. There are
so many officials who make their liv-
ing by prosecuting just such cases.
that our merchants cannot be too
cautious in a rigid compliance with
the law.
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TERMS. Two Dollars q yesr, in ad'
vance, or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents,
1t the end Of the year.
No subscriptions taken for shorter
dme than six months.
Transient advertisements arc Charged
sr at the rate or ONE DOLLAR per lnch
race for the first insertion, and ftF1i
: .ENrs for each subsequentinsertion.
a liberal deduction from the above
eates is male to persons advertising by
;he quarter or by the year. ,
GT. All obituary notices and tributes
Of respect are charged for at the usual
rates OF advertising.
JOB PRESS.
We are now provided with an excel,
lent lob Press, and fine assortment '0f
Job Type, snd are prepared to execute
superior work. Orders are respectfully
solicited.
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RITuALIsM IN TIE ENGLISH CHURCH
would seem to be effectuaIly killed,
by the Public Worship Bill, which
lately passed both houses of Parlia.
ment, by large majorities. The Pre-
mler Disracli made an able argument
in its favor, and secured an easy tri;
umph over his great opponent, Mr.
Gladstone. Tho success of the meas
urc shows the conservative character
of the English mind, and its opposi,
ton to tho introduction Of Romisll
rites into the English Church. Dis.
raeli we'll said, that whilst he had q
proper respect for the ceremonies Of
the Roman Catholics, he objected to
their practice by clergymen of the
Church of England who, upon enter
ing into that Church, had made O
solemn compact TO oppose and resist
them. The effect of the measure will
be to weed out those Romish rites and
ceremonies which symbolic doctrines
which Protestant Christendom re-
CARDS as erroneous, and perhaps tc
cast out of the fold of the English
Church, men who have nothing ir
common with her teachings, and who
are sincere aud honest enough to give
up their places rather than renounce
their convictions.
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A DEFENCE OF MODERN SPIRITUAL
ISM, by Alfred Russell Wallace, is
the title Of an interesting article in
the August number of tho Eclectic
Magazine, and taken from the En-
glish Fortnightly Review, in which
the writer, an eminent scientific man.
presents the strong facts and argu-
ments which made n convert IF him
self to the truth Of the doctrines which
he here discusses. He argues that all
the attacks which have been made
upon spiritualism have originated
from limited experience and partial
view Of the facts presented, and that
q wider experience and more thor
ough sitting of the evidence have
invariably overcome the scepticism OF
the most scientific men, who have
been forced to yield assent to the
evidence Of their senses, under cir.
cumstances which admitted neither OF
trickery nor illusion. Such phenome.
ma as the beating of drums, the play.
ing Of musical instruments, tho wri.
ting of letters, the reading of scaled
communications in languages too
unknown to the medium,-the altcra.
ton Of the weight of bodies, lumi.
nous appearances of various kinds
phantom forms and faces and various
mental phcnomcna-all brought about
without any apparent human or visi.
bic agency-have been tested so Va.
riously and repeatedly, that eminent
scientific men have been convinced Of
their truth. The article will repay
perusal, and perhaps will lead the
reader to the conclusion of tho poet:
'''rhere are more things in heaven and
earth, Horati0,
Than IRE dreamt Of in your phil0so-
ply"
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REaULATIoSs FOR TEE FosT-OFFIck
AT ARBEyrLLE.-The Office is'open fol
the general delivery Of letters and sale
of postage stamps from $50 a. M. to
p. M.
Money Orders furnished from $50 A.
NJ. to 500 p. NJ.
Greenville and Columbia Railroad
Mail closes at $3.50 A. NJ.
Washington, Ga, MaAcloses on Wed
nesday at $50 A. NJ.
Elbert, Ga, Mail, via Heardmont,
closes on Thursday at $3.50 A.: NJ.
Antreville Mail, via Temple OF
Health, closes on Thursday at $50 A: NJ.
Elbert, Ga., Mail, via Lowndesville,
closes, ,on Friday at $50 A. NJ.
III. w. LAWSON, P. NJ.
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CITATION
The State Of South Carolina,
ARREVJL,EE (tOTINTY

ABBEVILLE CO UNITY.
Ry Charles w. Guffin, Esquire, Probate
Judge.
WHEREAS, Mrs Amanda Johnson made
suit to me to grant her Letters of Ad-
ministration of the Estate and effects of
Sugar Johnson, late of Abbeville
County, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and admon-
ish all and singular the kindred and
creditors of the said Sugar johnson,
deceased, that they be and appear before
me in the Court of Probate, to be held at
Abbeville c. H., S. c., OH September I'd
next, after publication hereof, at II
o'clock in the forenoon, to shew cause,
if any they have, why the said Admin
istration should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, this
seventeenth day Of August in the
Cyear of our Lord one thousand eight
Z ahundred and sevcnty-four and in the
Sninety.ninth year of American In.
!: dependence.
Published on the 10Th and 2Gth day oi
August in the Ab5cuulc Press and Ban.
ner and OH the Court House door for the
time required by law.
CHAS w. GUFFIN,
Judge of Probate.
August 19, 1874, 16-tf*
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-08-19

ra- Tho August returns of the
Agricultural Department show an
improvement in the prospects of the
cotton crop. The State average is as
follows: Virginia, % per cent. of. an
average crop; North Carolina, 1O2
South Carolina, 81; Georgia, "a
Florida, 1O2 Alabama, 90; Mississ
ippi, 80; Louisiana, So; Texas, los
Tennessee, SO.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-08-19

A TAX-UNIoN MEETING. - We are
requested to state that q Tax. Union
meeting will be held at Liberty, on
tho goth inst, at which addresses will
expected from Gen. MCGOWAN and
Col. Cothran, of Abbeville, and VIM.
Gary, Esq, of Edgefcld. We have
received an invitation to be present,
and will take pleasure in attending, if
convenient.
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NO. Mr.. Jacob Miller is bcnevo
lent man. A poor man applied to
him the other day for the job of dig.
ging him a well. On the faith of his
promise, Mr. NJ. let him have a COW
for pay in advance. Tho well is still
needed, and rs Mr.. NJ. has few more
COWS, perhaps he Gun get tho work
done.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-08-19

In THE BEECuER-TILToN SCANDAL
Beechcr has made his statement be-
fore the Committee which covers two
closely printed pages in the New
York HeroM. Opinions seems to be
unanimous among newspaper mon.
that it is very damaging to Tilton
and Moulton, but opinions differ as to
whether it presents a full rindication
of Beecher. The final issue will like
ly be made in the Courts.
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THE Cry FOR REFORM. - Most of
the Republican leaders are making
loud protcstations in behalf of reform,
end declare themselves in favor of
good men for Office. Such is ths bur-
den of the speeches of those who
have lately harangued US. Reform is
now tie popular card.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-08-19

n@- Major Alfred Wardlaw, q
prominent merchant Of Charleston, is
now on visit to friends and relatives
at his old homo in Abbcvillc. The
Major is worthy representative of
our town, and we'll sustains the repu-
tation Of his native place in tho city
of his adoption.
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p| AS Treasurer Cardozo has
appealed 20 the Supreme Court of the
United States, in the matter of the
certificates Of indebtedness, and q
great many months will elapse before
it can be reached, it will doubtless
dcvolve upon the Legislature to settle
the matter.
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A FIDDLER WANTED.-At the bar.
bccue at Winestock's on Friday last,
u number desired to engage in the
dance, but the music was lacking
They sent off some three miles to get
fiddle, but when it came it was
found to have no strings. So there
was no music. A band Of whistlers
should have organized.
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THE FORCE OF ;ExAMpLE.-The
second nine Of the Abbeville Colored
Base Ball Club met tho second nine
of the Cokesbury Colored Club on
Friday last, and whilst playing the
third inning had q dispute which
broke up the game. Our colorcd
friends seem to emulate even ou1
failings.
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Call for County Convention
,.is HEADQUARTERS
OF THE UNION REPUBLICAN, PARTY
Is Or ABBEyILLE COUNTY, J
/ A hbayilla OH g. C.

Ii OF ABBEVlLLE COUNTY,
+ Abbeville @. H., s.. c.,
,.~-r., Aug. Is, 1874. !
HbURsUANT to authority vested in
"A me, Ind by order of the State Ex-
ecutive Committee, Convention of the
Union Republican Party of Abbeville
County is hereby called to meet at Alb
beville Court House on THURSDAY.
Sd Day of September next.
at 12 o'clock NJ, then and there to elect
Five Delegates to represent this County
in the State and the Third Congression-
al. District Conventions to be held in
Columbia on the 9Th day. of September.
BY order of the Chairman of the State
Executive Committee, the primary
meetings will be held by Townships,
instead of by Precincts as heretofore:
The Republican voters of the several
Townships will therefore meet ON
Tuesday, list September,
AT IL O'Clock NJ, at the following
places, 10 elect Delegates to the County
Convention, which will be composed Of
One Hundred Delegates, apportioned
among the several Townships as fol-
lOws.
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A GRANGE was organized at Dr.
Mabry's last week, with a member.
ship of twenty-scven gentlemen and
ten ladies. They will elect officers
this week. Our friend John T. Lyon,
is one of the most active of its mem.
bers. t
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DWELLINGS CLosED.-The dwell
ings of Mcssrs. II. G. Perrin and T.
P. Quarles arc both closed, while Gen.
MCGOWAN and Edward Noble, Esq,
are the only representatives here Of
their famifes-
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Strayed.

A BAY MARE MULE, medium
n size; few white hairs on eacl,
has o wild appearance
to be six or seven years old
passed through the village on the 9Th
A liberal reward will be
paid for tho recovery Of said mule.
Address the subscriber at Cold Spring
P. O., Edge6eld County, s. 9.
J. 81. BUSSEY.
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% Can anybody tell why it is
that somebody doesn't boil beans with
Nicholsofi's fence rails which are ly-
ing loose about the public square2
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m- Chess and Backgammon are
popular games here now. Some of
our merchants and clerks play we'll
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s@- A picnic is to cemeg goff at
Thomas saw mill on next Thursday.
A good timo is expected.
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Tuesday, list September,

The several Precinct Chairmen will
call the meetings herein ordered at the
time and places specified. The follow.
ing persons arc hereby appointed to fill
Vacancies: Mr.. George Scott, Due West;
Mr.. Miless Williams, Smithville; Mr..
Aleck Bowie, Magnolia. Any other va
cancy that exists will be filled as soon
as reported.
H. H. ELLISON,
County Chairman.
Aug, 10. 1874, is. Ct
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kg- Mr.. J. L. Nicholson, the fcncc
man, was herc last week.
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sherif Sale.
Samuel Jordan
vs..
Executrix.

DY virtue of two Executions to me
ID directed, I will sell at Abbeville
Court House, on Salcday in Sep
tember next, within, the legal hours,
Two Tracts of Land, to wit:
Tract No, 4,
containing
$50 Acres, more orleSs,
and bounded by Tands Of Clatworth
land, Samuel Link, John Wilson
and others.
Tract No. 2,
containing
$50 Acres, more or less,
bounded by lands of W. q. Neal
William MCaslan, and others. Lev
led on rs the property Of Nancy ken-
nedy, ExecNtrix Of the Estate OF
Isaac Kennedy, ut tho suit of Samuel
Jordan.
Terms Cash:
L. P. GUFFIN,
80 s.SA: G.
Sheriff's s Office,
Aug. &, 1874. lift
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August 10, 1874, 1896
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27
If Henry Ward Beeoher was no

- If Henry Ward Beecher was not
an eminent Minister of the Gospel, all
the efforts of Tilton aud those who
have undertaken to ruin him, in any
thing that they have been able to pro
duce against him, would be regarded
a farce, and would be regarded as
pack of SANDERS, resorted to for the
mean purpose of trying to ruin him /;
but, as he is an eminent Minister of a
Christian Church, every SANDER against
him is caught up and reiterated with a
hvpocritical horror and affected sancti-
ty by class OF persons who are not
remarkable in their own characters for
more Christian purity than is required
by the saints, and there is nothing in
the world that a certain class of i'm
mOralists and anti Christians would
desire more than to have Beechel
branded as guilty, not only of i'm
proprieties, but of criminal conduct
and disgraced, though he might be as
pure as the angels at the right hand o.
the throne of God. 1t will be time
enough to condemn Mr.. Beecher as 8
criminal when he has been proven to
be so, by positive, reliable proof, and
not until then.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27

Beecher the Victim of Conspiracy.
The Rev. Lyman Abbott, editor OF
the Christian Weekly, processes him
self, says the Cincinnati Gazette, sat
isfied with Mr.. Beecher's defense, and
says he has all along believed him the
victim of conspiracy, though he did
not deem it best to say SO until now.
He adds:
We have been personally familiar
with Mr.. Beecher and Mr.. IiIton Tor
wears, and somewhat associated IN lit
erary labor with both. Eight years
ago we became convinced that Mr.. Til
ton was seeking to pull Mr.. Beecher
down, because his own idiosyncratic
egotism could suffer no superior In
common with other friends of Mr.
Beecher, we endeavored to persuade
him that Mr.. Tilton was q dangerous,
because a treacherous, friend. We
were personally cognizant of the in
fluences which Mr.. Tilton employed
to sever Mr.. Beecher's connection
with the Independent, that he might
himself stand without a rival in its
| COAuAAl45s w 2 hLOH oOuStAluS Va LlAC
circumstances which led to Mr.. Til
toms final separation from that paper
on account of views that were lax and
practices that were loose. We shared
| the impatience of all Mr.. Beechers 8
best friends, at the irrational charity
which continued to pardon sins which
showed an inherent corruption of ma
ture, and to hope for reform of one
whose only conscience was his appro-
batiVeness. To those who have through
all these years known even a little of
this secret history, its full disclosures
are less incredible than they will be to
the general public. 1t is, perhaps, for
this reason not a single member of
Plymouth Church has wavered in his
faith, or felt his attachment for Mr..
| Beecher loosen. Now, that all is dis
closed, it is not difficult to trace the
elements of this conspiracy. Mr.. Til
ton engaged in it, spurred on by. a
morbid vanity, an angry jealously, q
defeated and CALLING ambition. His
business associate joined in it because
capital was invested in the Golden
Age, and Mr.. Tilton's failure would be
the loss Of money as we'll as of pres
tige. Mr.. Tilton's associates IN the
free love school joined in it in shad
owy hope of securing for their shame
full philosophy and more shameful
practices, the seeming saction of Mr.
Beecher's name and influence And
finally, Mr.. Beecher, always too care
less of his own name and example
left all in the hands of others, who's
fidelity and wisdom he universally
trusted, or interposed from time t.
time, with words which would have
been wise had he been dealing will
honest people, but which afforded t.
those by whom he was surrounded al
the means for shis destruction whicl
they ever possessed.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-08-27

Mr.. Beecher having now made his
statement, the press throughout the
country, has given its opinion, which
settles the matter, of coarse. We
should have had a little more respect
for it, especially in the West, if it had,
during all the long weeks of the trial,
maintained q firm and undaunted posi-
ton either for or against the SANDER
ed Divine, instead of twisting first on
one side and then the other, according
to the evidence. The general opinion
now is that Mr.. Beecher is not guilty
of the crime charged, but guilty, never
theless, of great wickedness in allow
ing himself to be blackmailed by two
blacklegs-Tilton and Moulton. We
will acknowledge this, with restric-
tions. 1t was not weakness of char
0cter that bade H. w. Beecher bow
submissively to the Vaccinations of
these two designing villains. 1t was
the weakness of goodness, instead.
If our readers will look back a few
centuries, they will read of a character
who suffered even greater indignities.
Upon his brow was placed a crown of
thorns. He was spit upon, and re
viled, but he answered not his perse-
cutors. He did, in the garden Of Geth
semane, ask that the bitter cup might
pass from his lips, but his defamers
knew it not. Then why should one
who acknowledges himself an humble
follower of a master who set him this
wonderful example, and who com
manded him, if smitten upon one
cheek, to turn the other also, do other
than bow submissively to the machina-
tons of the evilminded. But, taken
from a more practical standpoint, Mr..
Beecher did nothing more tnan right
in striving to hush up the affair with
| his surplus of money. A man of his
intellect knew, as has been proven to-
| day, that a SANDER, of which he was
really innocent, through a chain of cir.
cumstances, might do him, not only
harm in the end, but injure society ir
retrievably. Had he been a lawyer
physician, or, in fact, anything but {
minister, he might have resisted, anG
done the proper thing; as it was, he
acted wise man. But the acqnisi
tiveness of Tilton, and the craftiness o
Moulton, overreached the mark, and
the SANDER became common property
But good has come of it-enough per
chance, to over-value the evil. Free
love has to-day received a death blow
in this Fcountry. Unmasked, it ha
been seen in all its horrid deformity
and those who have served to shOI
the result of its teachings have beeI
exposed, while the one they hoped t.
entrammel has escaped scott free. AM
Mr.. Beecher is to-day q still greater
nobler christian man in the eyes of al
unpreiudiced Amenican citizens, tha
ever before Columbus Gazette.