The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-10-21
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IS The LQHTr27lSUltte dCTutu potatoeS tS-
semble turtles.
The GreenviUe Daily Ne,ps calls the
Hon. Wilson Cook, brother" Cook.
Wilson Cook, of Greenville, denies
sympathy with the Green movement.
The anderson Conservdtor does not ar
rive at this Office until Friday afternoon.
The Star says Marion County will go
for Greenby an oyerwhel ming majority
Quinn is feeding his prisoners on ham
Fand eggs, and everybody is trying TO
get into Jail.
The most serious charges ever made
against Beecher is that he was the hrst
man to offer o chrome to subscribers
NE regret to learn that child of Mr..
and Mrs. John Evans, aged two years
aid six months, died on Wednesday
last.
The Pickens Sentinel published on
Thursday, and the Union Times, pub
lished on Friday arrived here On Mon
day.
The real estate af Anderson county is
assessed at 81, ,797, ,27l, S94, ,54s less than
last year. Number of acres out OF towns,
455, ,154.
The editor of the LdarensriUe He,tttd
gives notice that he has bought Bible.
We always thought that he would turn
out pious.
On the 9th November, J. F: j.. Cald-
well, ESQ.,, of Newberry, Will denver q
lecture before the Reading CLUB ol
Laurens.
We are indebtcd to the courtesy of the
s Secretary of the Anderson Fair, for COM
plimentary tickets to the exhibition
next week.
In Darlington four of the nominees by
the Boilers Convention decline nomi'
nations, and publish their cards III the
.;sSo,ttherner. j.
London Hill said before the Conven-
tion met, that he would bolt if Gufhn
was nominated. We expect to hear 1t
thunder now. r-.'
Messrs. NIelchers Il Son have com
menced the publication Of the, Weekty
Zett,tAg In connection with their trl-
weekly Journal.
w. Henry Prescott, Esq, withdraws
his name from the Congressional can
vssss, aud now supports General mellow
an for Congress.
The Union Times gives an account of
q stfatal homicide,n which occurred in
that county last week. Are there any
other sort in Unien?
The election returns from all over the
State show that the next Georgia Legis-
lature will have Democratic majority
of over two hundred. .-.. .......
Our Young friend Mr.. James Lawson
saws there will be no post-office clerks
inheaven, unless the girls quit directing
their letters "cati-cornered."
Gen. +. w. Harrison has returned to
I the practice of the legal profession at
Anderson, and has taken Capt: Whit
field in partnership with him.
The anderson Conservdtor boasts po-
tatoes ten inches in circumference: His
turnips are twenty-four inches in cir
cnniference, and still growing.
Judge Mackey has decided that dogs
are PROPERTY, he having sentenced u
small colored boy, in Fairfield, to TWEEN.
tydays imprisohhicht for stealing One.
The printers in the Marion Observer
Office were sick last week and only half
sheet was issued. The editor has prom
ised that the printers shall not get sick
again.
THE ABBEvILLE FAIR.-A large and
beautiful Lot of premiums have arrived
for the competitors ut this exhibition
and may DO seen at the office OF the
Secretary, w. H. Parker, Esq.
The editor Of the associate Reformed
Presbyteridn apologies for giving one
advertiser two columns space ih his pa
per. 1t would take more than that to
make this editor apologize.
The editor Of the Keotoee Courier has
interviewed. the devil as to the indica-
tions of the advent Of tnild pigeons in
that neighboahood. His opinion Is,
that they are in search of acorns.
The ISu0ster Watchnan says: The
popular enthusiasm of the colored peo-
DIE of Sumter, in behalf of Judge Green
has scarcely been equaled by any mani
festation of that people since their
emancipation. ~.
Gov. Franklin J. Moses, Jr., has been
nominated for the House of Representa-
tfves by the straight wing of the Re-
publican party of Richland County,
upon the ticket which Col. c. III. Minort
heads as candidate for State Senator.
Mr.. r. C. Logan, for the past seven
teen years editor and proprietor of the
Kinqstree Star, has sold chat paper to
Mr.. Samuel C. Maurice. We part with
regret with Mr.. Logan, but give. a
hearty welcome to Mr.. Maurice into the
editorial fraternity.
We are glad to welcome back to our
office the Charleston Daily SIN, after a
short suspension. It Is a good paper
and should be supported literally: Mr..
+. Eugene Durbec gives up the business
management and Capt. James w. Nc
MILAN assumes that duty.
We have received the first number of
O very handsomely gotten up and we'll
conducted paper called the Oglethorpe
Echo, published at Crawford, Ga, by
IT. l.. Can't, Esq, editor and proprietor.
We gladly put the Echo OH our exchange
list, and wish il the great success it SO
much deserves.
The Keowee Courier thinks the frost
will not injure the cotton of that county
as the bolls are all grown, the late
blooms having shed as well as the leaves
some weeks ago. There can hardly be
found o blossom or young boil in any
field, while generally at this time Of
year in this county, the stalks are green
aud full Of young bolls and blossoms.
Col. T. J. Roberts, who is sixty-two
years old, picked PA pounds of cotton
one day last week, commencing at
otout nine O'clock in the morning The
Colonel Is now an Anderson man, but
is well known to many of our people; he
having removed from, this county sew
eral wears ago