The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-07-21

s15f the FIVE members OF The board two
oiaro preachers--Rev. J. W. Burke
Rev. D. E. Butler.
: MONEY ORDER .OFF1cE.-Our very
excellent and obliging Postmaster, MIR
H. w. Lawson, furnishes US with tht
following notice of change of Fees fol
D.. Domestic Money Orders. BY Act O
Congress. approved March 9, 1873, the
: fees for Money Orders have been chang
= ed. SO that on and after the first day O.
!, July, the fees or. commissions Will be as
On order not It exceeding SIS SIS 10 70 cents
Over SIS and q :. " $50 %
,9E :" $50 " " $40 ~
-" &" $40 " $50 25
seuooL ExH1B1TtoS.-The eXhibi-
ton Of Miss DeVore's school came of
Tuesday evening before crowded house
: ME different pieces were all well rem
= dered by both pupils and teacher. Miss
; DeVore has won quite an eDviable rep.
utation as all educator, and this occasion
fully exhibited her efficiency in the &C
curacy and precision with which
everything was done. We think the
occasion Justly deserves moro eXten.
ded notice, but the pressure upon our
columns forbids. Everybody of whom
ve have heard expressed themselves as
, pleased, and that of itself is no little rec
omendation. -NeoO Era.
ANOTHER FRA1 CLERGYMAN.-Rev.
7 w. Hammer, .Jr., Presiding Elder OF
the Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Circuit, has
hen SUSPENDED by the Bishop of the
Methodist Church, from that minlste-
rial office until the next session Of the
Tennessee Annual Conference, for writ
ing all improper anonymous letter 70
; respectable young lady Of his parish.
He confessed. Hammer is siXty-tive
wears old, gray-headed, and was one OF
the most as we'll as the most eloquent iu
the Church. The matter creates great
:, deal of excitement throughout the State
irof Tennessee.
Nothing is more Lady like than the
use of fine note paper and neat lasn-
ionaole envelop. So think the efortunate
receivers OF such billet-doux. Ihe
sweetness of charming sentence IL rem
dered more delicious, if conveyed on d
delicate tinted sheet of Prizes Note Pa
per. It is bad taste in gentleman VIII.
ting to lady on inferior stationery. II
YOU wish to be posted on the latest nov
elists, the fashion in these matters, en-
close stamp to Walker, Evans d Cogs-
well, for one of their little fashion books
Gard Etiquette" or send an order for
recherche lot Of paper and envelopes OF
the latest style. Do not forget at the
same time to order monogram. L. r.
We would call the attention of our
readers to the advertisement of the
Brown Cotton Gin Co., in this issue,
who maxi a speciality Of Cotton Gins,
Self Feeders and Condensers, concern
ing which, Col. Thos. H. Carter OF South
Carolina, writes as follows: II have gin
ned thirty-five bales since received the
Feeder. would not be without it now
for one season for the price of 1t. ! can
at least gin one bale day moreiwlth the
Feeder than I can by hand feeding. l
have ginned SIG bales of cotton on the
sixty saw Brown Cotton Gin and am per-
fectly satisfied in every particular"
Rowcll's forthcoming Newspaper
Directory shows the failure OF one
thousand newspapers in this country
during the past year, the loss to pub
fishers, Subscribers and advertisers
amounting to over eight million dol
lars, tho kepubhc, of New York, alone
losing half Q million. Among those
who went into the newspaper business
and lost heavily thereby were z'a
merchants and adventures, 3l5
'' school teachers, 81 lawyers, 4
Blacksmiths, 3a plasterers, 10 farm
ers, 200 fanatics Of various classes af
flicted with literary learnings, loo
ambitious, but visionary young men
who drew upon their fathers, and
thus suddenly exhausted large mar
gins fthe paternal capital, and 6 lot
terry men.
The Palmetto Guard, of Charleston
were recently presented with the frs
confederate flag that was flung to tine
= Breeze of the late war. 1t was first rails
ed in New York, on one Of the Palmetto
b lines Of New York packets. The vesse
" was mobbed, but the colors were no.
walls of Fort Sumter after its surrendel
,, by Gen. Anderson. During tho war the
Interesting relic was carefully preserved
Time and exposure" says the Charles
ton NeaUs and Courier, "have dimmet
1CS luSITe, UuI tllC Z dIulctlo OllS
prize it the more, and have accorded t.
. 1t an honored place among their or
chives. The field of the flag Is white
and a red star in the upper corne
near the staff. When the Palmetto
Guard were enrolled for the war they
ceased to be State Troops, and the insig
mia of the flag was unsuited for Confed
erate soldiers. The flag will be takel
GOOD care of, and at the coming centen
nial of Fort Sullivan it may again b.
flung to the breeze"
The bishops of the Methodist Epis
copal church, South, have decided
that the sale Of intoxicating liquors
by the large or small quantity, consti
'tuIes violation Of the Methodist law
SIS found in the article of the genera
RULES requiring the avoidance OF evi
sofevery kind and tho doing ofno harm
Under ,thisrulIug, the Augasta dis
trict conference recently passed tn
following resolutions: -.
That the members of onr church ar
most earnestly eXborted 10 separat
t6emsslves from q traffic condemne,
by good morals, Methodist rules an
the Holy Scriptures : ','..
'-That our pastors are hereby calte'
upon to judiciously. yet firmly, enforc
the ruling of onr bishops as to the Ia,
of the church with respect to the sal
'of intoxicating liquors. - Atlnat
Daily CoistisutsoR.
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