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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-11-10
THE FENCE QUESTION.
The Present System an Eyil'.A Rem
edy Suggested.

Editor Press and Banner:
I see YOU are on the fence, or rather on
the fence question. Permit me to say a
few words to your readers on that SUBJ
ject. . -
First. If I had the eloquence Of a
Calhoun, a Clay, ora Webster, and could
ascend the top Of Little Mountain, and
make every man in Abbeville 'ounty
hear me, | do believe | could convince
them that our present system Is not the
system, and not the road to success
The time has come; there must be a
change i'm some way. Do the farmers
expect To make and gather crop With
out fences.
Second. Your readers will ask what
do we propose. Simply pass law re-
curing all cattle, stock, &C., to b. Kept
under good and secure fences, requiring
no fence around the crop under cultlva-
ton. The advantages we will not now
attempt to set forth; every ln.elllgent
mind can think, see, reason and calcu-
late for itself.
Third. | would here say that there are
now some sixteen petitions before the
citizens of Abbeville County in favor
of this thing. If they are sufficiently
signed they, with others, will be sent to
your next Legislature, with an Act pre-
barred. and if the land owners of Able
Vile County will go to wor k in earnest,
this thing can be accomplished. very
we'll know many objections can be raised
against the whole plan, but no objections
that are valid can be urged. We asked
the citizens of Newberry, Laurens,
Greenvlle, Spartanburg, Anderson,
Oconee, in fact all the upper Counties,
to unite with US in this great project,
but have had no response. IL they Will
not cooperate with US, we must try 1t
alone. Remember, too, that no County
in the State is better prepared than ours
to test this matter, with Savannah on
one side and Saluda Oh the other.
do not think there is man i'll the
Couuty-I mean one engaged in agrl-
cultural pursuits-that has not seen
in the last two years dozens OF poor
cows, oxen, mules, &c, tied with their
heads to their feet, hobbling over the
country to Craze on the road sides, cor
ners of fences, &c. How many fences
do YOU sec through the country that arc
not made up with pine poles and brush
and how often do you see worthless
hogs and other stock on your own OF
neighbours crop that will destroy more
in one day than they are worth?
Farmers of Abbeville, these things
should be corrected. If you can find q
better plan-all right; If not; accept
ours and 20 to work to accomplish the
object.
do not promise to write or attemp,
to write any more on this subject, as
am not directly interested in the matter
rs lave neither land nor fence.
PROGRESS.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-11-10
THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.

On Tuesday, the I'd inst, elections
were held in eleven States of the Union
and the results are by no means salts
factory to the Democracy. With tho
exception of Mississippi, which has
been rescued from Radical rule, thu
States which were Republican at the
last election remain Republican, anc
States which then gave Democratic ma
iorities have either gone Republican, OF
have elected the Democratic ticket bJ
decreased majorties.
In New York, Tilden's majority Of
SO, 900 in 1874 is reduced to some six Of
seven thousand votes.
In the great State of Pennsylvania
on which the Democrats counted sc
largely, the Democratic majority of foul
thousand at the last election has beer
overcome, and the State goes for the Re
publcans by majority of many thou
saudS.
Massachusetts,, which gave last year a
Democratic majority of seven thousand
now goes Republican, defea ting Gov
CASTOR, the Democratic candidate fol
reelection.
Maryland, which gave Democratic
majority of 10000 in 1873, is supposed
to have gone Democratic by reduced
msjorities. .,,
Minnesota remains Republican, with
no material change in the situation.
/ Wisconsin, which in 1873 elected s
Democratic Reform ticket by l5,OO(
majority, now elects the Republican
ticket.
In Mississippi, there is a gleam o
light. Returns frOms all parts OF tht
State indicate an overwhelming Con.
scrvativc victory. They have carried
every doubtful County, and have de-
cidcd majority in the House and Senate
Lamar, Singleton, Hooker and Moreey
are elected to Congress. The Republi'
cans concede the State to the Demo
Gratis. The returns indicate that tho
Democrats carry the State by 10, GOO ma
iority. They have decided majorities
lin both Houses, and elect 1 Congress
men. and, perhaps, the entire Congress
sional delegation.
New Jersey, which gavea Democratic
majority of 1900 in 1874, now elects
Republican Legislature.
Virginia, which was Democratic ii
1873, is Democratic still with no mate
rial changes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-11-10
The CharlCstrn Coroner.

Judge Reed, in u recent charge to tn
Charleston Grand Jury, dcnounccs tn
extortionate charges of the County Cor
oner, and the general abuse in the ad
ministration Of the otticc-states tha
inQuests are held without legal warrant
and that where formerly the income o
the office was only $500, it now amount
to from S., 900 to lO,000-and that tn
conduct of the office is disgraceful il
the extreme. The Judge is proving
himself terror to evil-doers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-11-10

THE News and Courier calls upon the
Acknowledgement to commence pro-
ceedings against Hardy Solomon, late
President of the South Carolina Bank
and Trust Company, under the late or
der Of Judge Carpenter, to recover the
$780, alleged to have been paid out
for the retirement of stock and legis'
lative expenses, which Treasurer Car:
dozo charges have been falsely entered
upon the books of the Bank, and were
not expended as alleged. Cardozc
ought to know. Let the ball be set i'll
m0tion-and investigation be had.
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STEAM POWER PRIHTING.--Pam.
phlets of ali Kinds are chcaply and expe-
ditiously printed by Walker, Evans 4
Cogswell, Charleston, s., {. Their
presses are in full blast on this class OF
work, but still their faculties are so great
that there is always room for more work.
Proceedings Of meetings, Conventions
College Commencements, Briefs DC, &c
are executed in the pest style and with
greatest dispatch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-11-10
The Late Earthquake.

The shock of the late earthquake was
very generally felt throughout this and
adjoining States, the concusslon being
much more severe at some points than
ut others.
In Columbia there was ONLY q slight
shock, and WAS accompanied ty deep
rumbling sound not unlike that ecca-
stoned by the passage of heavily ioatt-
ed omnibus over a rongh pavement. IT
was likencd again to the rolling SOUND
made by slowly moving train Of cars:
! 1t is little strange that the motion ana
sound, which are said to have been
quite perceptible, should have been no.
ticed by so few persons.
In Augusta, Ga, the shock was so
great as to throw pcnstaffs, rulers, &c:,
Off their racks in his office, and to agi-
tate the houses to such an extent as to
drive the alarmed inhabitants, to the
number of several hundred, in the I'M
diate vicinity, into the streels for safety.
In Washington, Ga, at 9:45 O'Clock,
there were two severe shocks OF earth
quake, which continued for about forty
five seconds. The second shock follow
ed almost Immediately on the first. Ii
came from q direction little west OF
south. There was a rumbling sound
with a moving motion, which shook
the earth and made houses trenlble,
causing some alarm among the people.
In Athens, Ga, distinct and very
severe shock of earthquake was felt at
10 o'clock. Every one was alarmed and
the citizens were thoroughly reused. Al
Union Point, the shock is reported even
more severe than at this place. The
shock lasted ten seconds.
| A brilliant meteor Is said to have been
seen in the south -east, about the time OF
the shock, and some would trace some
connection between the two. But we
suppose that it was most likely bonot-
fde earthquake, which most commonly
lis felt in volcanic regions, and which is
the result of volcanic action.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
By L. J. Wilson, Auctioneer.
w. c. Courtney & Co.
against Execution.
A. p. Connor.

By virtue of an Execution to me .di
rected, in the above stated case, I will
sell to the highest bidder, at Public
Auction, within the legal hours of sale
at Abbeville Court House, on Monday
the sixth dayof December, AID. 1875
the following described property, tc
wit: All that tract or parcel of land,
situate, lying and being on Long Cane
Creek; waters OF Savannah River, in
the County Of Abbeville, South Carroll
na, and known as the ''...'
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The School Book Commission.

Mr.. J. D. Robertson, who was charged
with having entered into corrupt nego
tiations with certain publishers, for the
purposc of introducing their books into
the public schools, publishes a letter III
the Charleston Nc1Cs and Courier, III
which he enters into an elaborate expla
nation of his action in the premises, ano
attributes the charges made against him
to the disappointment OF publishers a.
lie have very little interest in the per,
sonal feature of the controversy, bul
very much in preventing the change OF
text books, which the Commission have
been deferred from carrying out by the
outspoken denunciatioh OF the STATE
The Legislature, which will likely take
some Wise action on the subject-ol
rather non-action in the premises.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-11-10
SHERIFF'S SALE.
By L. J. WILSON, Auctioneer.
Hattie Swilling
against Order in
.Joseph Charles, VIM. Partition.
McFall, and others.

BY virtue of an order of the Probate
Court of Abbeville County, to me direc.
ted, in the above stated case, will sell
to the highest bidder at Public Auction
within the legal hours Of sale, at Able
Vile Court House, on Monday, the
sixth day of December, A. d. 1875, the
following described property, to wit :
All that tract or parcel of land, situate,
lying and being in the County of Able
Vile, South Carolina, and known as the
SWILLING'S ESTATE.
The land will be sold in two tracts,
Plats of which will be exhibited OH the
day of sale.
TERMS:
On one and two years credit with in
terest from day Of sale with 10 per cent
interest per annum, except the costs of
the proceedings which must be paid in
CASH. The purchaser to give bond and
two or more good sureties, and mort
gage on the premises, and pay for all
necessary papers and recording of
mortgages. Terms to be complied with
the Probate Judge of Abbeville County.
L. P. GUFFIN,
Sheriff Abbeville County.
Sheriff's Office, .Abbeville,
Nov. g. 1875, 31-4t
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r.. J. JENNINGS. - The attention of
our planters is called to the card of this
gentleman, who offers his services Tor
ihe sale and storage Of cotton in Angus
ia, Ga. He will attend TO all business
entrusted to him, on reasonable terms,
and give to it his best attention. We
commend him to the patronage of our
friends, and trust that they will give
him trial.
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Final Discharge.

NOTICE is hereby given that N. NJ.
IN Burkhalter, Administrator of
the Estate of Henry Beard, deceased
has applied to Thos. B. Milford, Judge
of Probate, in and for the County of
Abbevilie, for final discharge as Ad-
ministrator as aforesaid.
1t is Ordered, That the third day Of
December, A. d. 1875, be fixed for
hearing of Petition, and final settle
ment Of said Estate. u.
J. G. WOSN1ANSKY, !
G. G. P, Abbeville County,.
Office of Probate judge, i-...'. = "
Nov. l, 1875, 3O-4t* { "
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sherif's Sale.
L. J. Wilson, Auctioneer.

.@.-.'-2 Thomas B. milford, '' -
Judge of Probate, and Successor to
Wm. Hill, Ordinary, ...
..>'' - 80 against .
p. L. Guillebeau, William Tennant,
anu D. M. Rogers.
Execution. #.
BY virtue of an Execution to me di-
recte1, in the above stated case, I will
sell to the highest bidder. at Public
Auction, within the legal hours of sale,
at Abbeville Court House, on Monday,
the sixth day of December, A. D. 1875.
the following described property, to
wit: All that tract or parcel of land,
situate, lying and being on waters of
Savannah River. in the County of Alb
beville, South Carolina, aud known as
the Tenant Place, and containing
200 Acres,
more or less, and bounded by lands of
B. Gilbert, John Calhoun, and others,
Levied on as the property of William.
Tcnnant, at the suit of T. B. Milford,
Judge of Probate. &C., to satisfy the
aforesaid Execution and costs.
Terms Cash.
L. P. GUFFIN,
Sheriff Abbeville County.
Sherifr's Office, Abbeville,
Nov. Sth, 1875, 31-4t
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
Clean OUt the Cellar.

WHO that thinks of the first of May
day but associates with it, in his mind,
house, cleaning? AS "cleanliness is next
to godliness," so is a pure atmosphere
next to healthfulness. AS we purify and
garnish the walls of our houses, to add
to our lives new pleasures from the
bright reflections from these surround
ings, so don't ignore the cellar, lest it
send up its noxious gases to destroy the
health of the occupants. The cellar is
generally the most neglected part of the
premises, while it should be the most
carefully looked after and kept scrupu-
lousy free from all putrefying substances,
mold or fungus growths.
All vegetables should be assorted, or,
better still, removed from the cellar, IN
the spring, especially if it is to be used
for the dairy, as milk and butter are ex-
tremely sensitive to the presence of any
musty odors, and their flavor will be ut
terly destroyed amid such surroundings.
when the noxious gases will be unde-
tected in any other way. Every movable
board should be thoroughly scrubbed,
aired and dried before being returned. If
this be done, with a good coat of white
wash upon the walls and sufficient venti-
lation, many undesirable results may be
! avoided
If vegetables are allowed to remain in
the cellar, they should be placed above
all dampness in as even a temperature
and in as cool place as possible, there
by preserving their nutritive and keeping
qualities as long as may be desired
Western Rurdl.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27

protect my crops from my own hoppers
if the owners of adjoining lands would
destroy theirs. 1t is very easy matter
to capture them, and this is the way to
do it: Select dry day, find where the
hoppers are thickest, get them between
you and the wind, dig hole two feet
across and eighteen inches deep, set up
boards edgewise, one foot wide and six
teen feet long, or as long as you can get
them, extending them from the corners
of the hole on each side of the hoppeTs,
like the wings of a quailnet, and drive
with the wind, and when you get them
in the hole throw dirt on them and cover
them up, tramping it down firmly.
"On last Saturday, on the grounds of
Mr.. Oliver Shrader, near Oskaloosa, with
the assistance of few friends, we gath
cred half bushel of the young hoppers
in one hour and placed it on exhibition
at the Postoffice in Oskaloosa, and then
drove into holes and buried nearly a
barrel of the pests, clearing his grounds
pretty well.
ty would turn out each afternoon and
fight grasshoppers in two weeks from
to-day there would not be enough left in
the country to do any damage. They
will not drive in the morning, but from
ten o'clock till night you can drive them
like quails, provided you drive with the
wind and do not try to drive too far at a
time-ffteen or twenty feet is far enough
from the wings to commence driving. The
wings can be kept in position by stakes
driven in the ground on each side of
them. If you take two or three or even
a dozen friends and 60 where the hop
pers are plenty and try this plan of driV-
ing into holes and burying them you will
be able to explain many things about the
matter that [ have not space or time to
say in this communication, but will say
that anybody can drive them into their
graves and cover them up if they viii
only try"
The Kansas City Journal Of Commerce
gives plan nearly similar to the above,
adopted by the farmers of Oxford town
ship, Johnson County, to destroy grass
hoppers or SO diminish their numbers as
to reduce their ravages Several expert
ments show that by ditching and driving
the grasshoppers into the bitches they
can then strew straw over them and
burn them or cover them up and thus
destroy myriads of them. One farmer,
Mr. Riley with the assistance of his
wife and children, last week destroyed
over two bushels of them in this way in
a day and a half. Thursday night "a
public meeting was held, at which the
subject was discussed and the methods
employed and their relative success
stated, and the meeting resulted in a de-
termination of the farmers of that town
ship to cooperate generally in the ditch
ing method.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
Wire and Cut-Werms.

A correspondent Of the Li0e Stock
Journal gives the following preventive Of
the ravages Of these insects in corn
fields: Soak the seed in copperas water
twenty-four hours before planting, keep
ing the water little warm, say seventy
dogs. Fair. One pound of copperas in
three gallons of water to one bushel of
seed He tested it last year, and not a
hill was touched. The copperas turns
the seed black, -but does not lnjure the
germinative properties. Another pre-
ventive is the following:
Soak your seed one night in tub of
equal proportions of I've made from ashes
and common urine, with fair portion of
blue stone dissolved therein. Pour off
the liquid through a basket into a tub, to
preserve for use again. Then, while the
corn is wet, take a irst-class article of
plaster, and mix and stir till each and
every grain is thickly and thoroughly
coated with the plaster, so as to cover the
entire surface of the grains. Then plant
as usual, being careful not to break or
rub off the coating. 1t is said to be, by
those who have tested it, complete pre-
ventive against those annoyers to all
farmers
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
How to Obtain Eggs.

Do NOT be all the time dosing and doc
chance to act on her own account. When
fowls have fresh, tender grass run
they require no other vegetable food.
Give scraps from the table, but give
them as they are, with no extra season
ing. Pound clam and oyster shells until
they are in chunks a little larger than a
kernel of corn and keep them constantly
supplied with this very necessary article
at all seasons of the year. Let them have
places of loose fresh earth to scratch and
wallow in.
have no patience whatever with the
great, awkward, lazy Asiatics that move
as if it were misery to stir; ungainly,
overgrown bipeds, that eat through your
meal-bin to little profit. We have a
flock of brown Leghorns that will lay
regularly on little else than grass. They
are the smallest feeders and the greatest
layers / ever saw. Good, sweet, fresh
grass is the one thing needful for fowls,
and supplies their digestive organs with
all the lime or iron they stand IL need of.
When fowls are healthy and have clean
grass runs they will not eat grain or
) meal in the morning, but prefer good
race over the Knolls in the damp past
ures in search Of insects, and will look
for a substantial lunch of corn or meal
about eleven o'clock, and good hearty
supper at night Study into the habits,
nature and requirements of your fiocks,
you who banker so after fresh eggs, and
my word for it you will have an interest
inc book ever open before you; and do
not wait until the very moment you
want eggs before looking up your fowls,
but have an eye to the business six
months ahead.
Do not tarry until the spring of the
year when the fever" is prone to rage
high, but exercise forethought and Sc
cure your birds a season beforehand
then if you exercise the necessary care
you will need no written recipe to make
hens lay, nor treatises on diseases Of
fowls, but will be master of the situation
yourself The birds themselves will
teach you their needs if you are an apt
scholar-COr. Country Gentleman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27

ST ANTED ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, to canvass for
w our great Centennial Book. oC0rthy the Spe-
ciQI notice of experienced agents For particulars ad
dress the publisher 3. B. RUSSELL, Boston, Mass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

CARBoLIc ACID very highly diluted is
good to restore house plants.
SUET CAKE.-One pound of suet
chopped fine, one pound of currants or
raisins Chop the raisins Take three
quarts of wheat flour Mix all together.
Use little salt. Mix with cold water to
a stiff dough Roll thin and bake. Eat
with butter.
THE following is good cure for scurvy
legs among fowl: Take sulphur, two
ounces; charcoal, pulverized, one-fourth
ounce; train oil, enough to form paste
Apply with the hand by rubbing well IN
Allow it to remain for three days; then
wash off in mild weather with good soap
suds and repeat the dressing as often as
it is necessary.
To DESTROY CABBAGE FLEAs.-Finely-
powdered dry-slaked lime is effective.
SCOT is a good remedy So is fine bone
.dour moistened with a solution Of car
bonic acid and then dried. By persisting
in the use of either of these remedies the
pests may be kept at bay.
FRIED CUCUMBERs.- the cucum-
Der well when washing; slice length
wise: lay the slices on a cloth or drainer;
sprinkle with salt and leave for half
hour. Then, having some butter or lard
polling hot, dip III -four your slices and
FRY until brown The butter must be
kept to the boiling heat all the time. To
be eaten as soon as possible after taken
from the fire.
MIXED PICKLEs.-These do not consist
of cucumbers alone, but of beans, radish
pods, martynias, caulifowers and young
corn when very small, each gathered and
stored away in time, to which small
portion of alum has been added. The GU
cumbers are used after they are grown and
have become yellow Pare, slice length
wise and cut in any fancy shape, sprinkle
with salt and very little alum-say
teaspoonful to pint of salt. Let stand
twenty-four hours; then, having fresh
ened the other articles, place all together
j n jar; pour on hot vinegar; let stand
one week; then drain this off and add
fresh vinegar, mustard seed, celery seed
and pepper.
LETTUCE is capable Of many changes
as to preparation for the table. An eX
cellent dish may be prepared as follows:
First, have nice heads of lettuce, tender
and crisp; wash and cut into shreds, or,
if preferred, into quarters; have ready
some cream to which a small bit of but
ter and some salt and pepper have been
added; heat this to the boiling point and
pour over tine lettuce, covering for a few
moments. This is almost a dish of green
peas, which comes in long before we can
have these favorites of the table.
To Color RED For one pound of
goods take one ounce of pulverized coch-
meal, one ounce of cream of tartar, two
ounces tincture of tin. Soak the cOch-
meal twenty minutes in one quart of
warm water; have ready in a boiler
enough soft water to cover your goods
nicely, let it come to boil, stir in the
i. cream of tartar and tincture, then the
cochineal and put in your goods. Let
them scald thirty minutes or until dark
enough Rinse in clear, warm water and
dry in the sun.