The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-10-07

nA- A few days ago we had the pleas
lure Of meeting Mr.. James NJ. LatimeI
syr., a prominent farmer of the Lowndes
willie section, He is strong believer il
eenriching farming lands, aud thinks
indispensable to successful farming, ou
he thinks the only profitable way o
improving lands is by the home-mad'
fertilizers. For several years since tn
war, he used the best guano ever I'M tn
market, and one year used five 1lnndret
dollars worth, and has never been abl'
to see that he was benefited in the leas
by its application. He now works ir
the old way of enriching his lands from
his stables and lot, aud the result i:
most satisfactory. He has one patch 0
1.-TWO and half acres, which in 1872 ane
lS73 made each year five bales Of cotton
two bales to the acre. This year
owing to the drought, he thinks that he
will not get more than six thousan,
pounds of seed cotton from the same
&snd. For years his wheat farm has
tbeen one of the most productive in the
community in which he lives, and he
thinks the good yield is the result O.
using the homemade fertilizers. Mr.
Latimer thinks our country cannot
prosper as long as thousands of tho
planters money Is thrown aWsy in the
purchase of worthless commercial fer
lilizers. a..
THE SiEcrURE ON ENGLISH POETRY
According to previous announcement
the Rev. T.. II. Miles delivered his
-.Lecture on English Poetry" to an
attentive and appreciative audience on
FRIDAY evening last. The lecture occu'
pied an horr and fifteen minutes i'll the
delivery, and was listened to with
snarked interest to the close. 1t pre-.
sented an attractive review of the history
of the "divine ART" from Chaucer to
Tennyson, and was embellished
throughout with sparkling gems from
The rich treasure-house of English
literature. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Mil
ton, Dryden, Cowper, GoldsNaith, Gray
Byron and Tennyson by turns were laid
under contribution, and their best pas
sages were given with fine rhetorical
effect; with the sparkling eye and sym
,1athizins voice which manifested high
appreciation and enthusiastic love
The address was an. admirable effort,
sand could not fail to awaken a respCn'
sive echo in the audience.
THE ABBEyILLE FAIR.-We publish
in another column, lists of the commit
tees appointed to make awards Of pre-
miums at the approaching Fair, as wei
as programme Of exercises, and the reg
alations to be observed on the occasion
.Ehe committees have been selected from
the best people Of the county, and theil
intelligence aud character afford a guar.
antee that proper discritnin will be
exercised, and the utmost fairness eX'
hibited in awarding the premiums. The
programme of exercises presents its usu
al attractions, and will doubtles draw
out large crowd. In addition to tht
exhibition by day, all attractive enter
tainment will be furnished on one of tht
nights, {Thursday) by the young people
in the way of charades &C., which vii
add much to the general enjoyment
We trust to see fine display and active
competition, in all the departments, ant
n jealous cooperation on the part of tn
public to make the Fair great success
We expect to see large crowd.
sT We had the pleasure of meetin,
John T. Miller, Esq, on Monday last
who had been in attendance upon tn
laying of the corner stene of the Pied
mont Manufacturing Company's build
ing in Greenyilie, on the Saturday pre-
vi0us. A Lodge Of Master Masens wa
opened mt the residence of Col. Ham
NETT, the President of the Company
and formed 3 procession, moving dow
to the site of the factory, and laid tn
corner stone with the formalities Of IL,
Masonic order. Considerable interc:
was manifested in the enterprise, an
we have no doubt that the building wi
be q pride and honor to the public spir
and enterprise of the citizens Of Greer
willie. 1t will be second in importanc
to none in the State.
E@. Mr.. G. w. Bowen, sterlin
citizen of the upper section of the Coul
ty, has been lately on a visit to relative
in Arkansas and Mississippi. He n
ports short crops of cotton and grail
and returns better pleased than ever wit
his home in Abbeville. His relative
he says, would be glad to get back,
they could do so without sacritic,
His advice to his friends is, to stick
the old homestead. He saw no place
the West he liked as we'll as Abbevill
Don't go West,
Ha. The man who fed his hogs Q
strychnine to keep thieves from KILN
and eating them, hasn't got any no:
now. He had as little practice in giviI
physic as Confederate army su
geon, and gave too much. He h,
since then gone into the soap bushes
and has been able to furnish all the sos
grease he wanted without patronizir
his neighbors. A man never knoy
what a day may bring forth. We su
pose, two weeks ago, that Mr.. WI
Purdy. of the Cedar Springs neighbo
bood, had no idea of going into any SUI
business.
sA- A Charleston firm has recent
had two big boards put up near 0
square with his advertisement paint
on it. When a man wants to see VIII
is OH them. he can get to do so by wal
ing hundred and fifty yards. AS t
boards now stand, they have their bac
to the business portion of the town
merely out of modesty, we presum
That's the way they should be put l
they will do the least harm in that wa
oo yary fau will avar fp5 out w n ot iS