The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-09-01
Wednesday, September l, 1875
ON TIE WING.
The Juniors Visit to Union and
Glenn Springs.


certainly without any PrslllsdI lii;
tention of intlicting so ldiigs q letter 1atl'
on the many readers of the Itresssaaett
Banner. Much more might hasebeen
said, but we fear that some of our
friends may regret that we liaye5saMid M so
much. .ssa.. :
On the train that morning there were
several ladies, and consequently
ALARGE SHIPMENT oEs CHILDREN.
Among the mothers Swere Mrs. G. '.
Hammond, Mrs. George Syfan, Mrs. W.
Fl. Hammond and others. Mr.. and
Mrs G. V. Fl. were going on visit to
Mr.. Rutledgc's, near SpartanburS; Mrs.
S. was going to the mountains.
Taking the train at Hodges Depot.
we made pleasant lady acquaintance,
who, however, soon got Off at Green
wood. Here Judge Tarrant, the popular
president of Wier's Shoals Cotton Fac
tory Company, got aboard for Ninety
Six. Among Others at that place await
ing the arrival of the train was DR..
Stuart, whose heart and face grow
Younger with the return OF each sue
ceeding year. Two O'Clock Of that day
found us
AT ALSTON,
where we remained all night. Ihc
Messrs. Elkin are warm hearted, oUll-
ging people, who do all in their power
for the accommodation and comfort or
their guests. We had the pleasure or
looking over field of their famous *.
X. corn, and were astonishcd at the pro-
ductiveness of the crop, and were re-
minded of Mr.. +. w. II. Nance's luck at
Due West. in making thirty cars from
one hill. The ears were not OF the larS-
est kind, but they were quite numerous
Mr.. Elkins thinks he will make fifty or
sixty bushels of corn to the acre, while
there is no estimating the number OF
pumpkins or the amount OF beans that
will be gathered from the same field
At Q o'clock next morning we got
aboard the train and moved towards
Spartanburg, but stopped
AT UNION COURT HOUSE,
and were soon beneath the roof of the
-'Kentucky House." kept 10y Mr.. J. b.
Dunn, who did what he could to make
our stay a pleasant one. After getting
dinner, we hunted up the Office OF anoid
friend, Mr.. R. NJ. Stokes, editor of the
Union Times, from whom we received Il
hearty greeting. The Times is good
paper, and Tot wholly unknown to our
readers, rs our frequent allusions to that
journal have made them more or less
acquainted with ut least the name. We
afterwards presented o,lrsclf at the Office
OF Messrs. Wallace & Mckissick, lcad-
ing lawyers at Union, and had the
pleasure OF meeting Col. McllisSick-
Col. Wallace being absent. Here we
were also met by Mr.. Johnson, Il prom
ising young lawyer, who, We learn, en-
poets to f0Im Il partnership with some OF
the legal gentlemen of our town, ana
identify himself with Us. We should
indeed be pleased to have 80 nice gen
tleman come among us. Mag. Stccu-
man, a prominent member OF the bar
here, was also among the many pleasant
acquaintanccs we formed while in town.
At night we accepted al Invitation to
TEA WITH. MR.. STOKES.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stokes are in Il rcmarka-
bly, good state of preservation, and still
have warm young hearts, that are happy
in being the parents of three grown
SONS, who are exemplary young men,
with good business quailticatlonS ana
fine prospects Of excellent success in
life. The oldest. Robert, is in Charlotte,
the second, Archie, is connected with
one of the best houses in town, while
Samuel Is the sprghtlY local editor OF the
Times. Miss Laura we did not have
the pleasure of seeing, as she was on u
visit to friends in Charlotte. The Two
older brothers we had met before, when
they sat ut the table OH high chairs, bit
the young lady was not in the family
nineteen years ago.
THE TOWN OF UNION
is not as large q place is Abbcviilc, but
there are here some new business
houses that will compare favorahly
with any in our town. Union, it will
be remembered, 4 few years ago suffered
severely by fire, hut IN the end this
burning was an advantage both to the
prOperty-holderS and to the general ap-
pearance of the town. With only two
exceptions, and our friend Stokes was
one of the uniortunates, the property
holders were well insured against loss
by fire, and the sites Of the old buildings
are now being replaced by elegant new
structures of modern architecture.
, THE NEW HOTEL
Is now completed, and ore of the Jesse cs
is in New York buying furniture prepar-
atory to opening the house for the winter
business. The hotel is owned by a stock
company, and cost twenty thousand dol
lars. Messrs. Wallace d Thomson have
y
dred dollars year. The store and bank
on the ground floor. have each been
rented for four hundred and fifty dollars
q year. .-...
- 49, THE INSURANCE
on this large building with bank, store.
and the offices, and twenty sleeping
cent, while uarters per
cent. will secure q policy in non-board
com paHies. Insurance in this town is 4
little different in price from the, regua-
tions at Abbeville. The owners of iso-
lated buildings here pay from one to
one-and-a-half per cent. In Abbeville
we believe tile owners of the dctach-
ed residences pay one per cent. In
Union lit seems that dwellings and
store houses are charged very nearly the
same. When We inquired why the ho-
tel was charged but little more than iSo-
lated buildings, it was claimed that there
were so many persons in the building
and so much passing that even if Il fire
should break out it would likely be DIS
covered in time to save it. There is one
risk here, wooden building, upon
which the owners pay four or five per
cent.
In Union we had some very pleasant
acquaintances which were formed
At THE CHARLOTTE CENTENNIAL,
some of whom we had the pleasure OF
meeting, but there were others who
were absent, having good time in the
mountains. On Friday afternoon VIC
attended the
ICE CREAM ENTERTAINMENT.
for the benefit Of the Methodist church,
and had the pleasure Of making the ac
qHatntance Of seMeof those fair creatures
lwho give a susceptible bachelor the pal
Jpitation of the heart. On Saturday and
Sunday we