The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-11-03
NEWS ITEMS.
wv wheat and barley.

Sow wheat ana Darley.
The population of Newberry county
is 1885.
It has been figured out that we are to
have twenty-siX snow storms this Win
ter.
The hog cholera is still raging in
some sections of the County.-Packens
Sentinel.
The Financial Chronicle estimates the
present crop of cotton at 3,S75,Oo0
against 1888, 900 bales of the present
year.
The Pickens Sentinel threatens to
erase the names of delinquents from
their books after the first of next Janu-
ary. Cut them off, neighbor.
THE negro men in many sections
have outraged white women, ana IN
nearly every instance the scoundrel has
been lynched, and left hanging toa tree.
Moody AND SANKEY, the revivalists,
have commenced their work in Brook
lvn. and have been addressing large
audiences. The leading divines of the
CITY are present ut the services.
HARDY SOLOMON, by his failure last
Summer, got the advantage of the
State TO the amount Of ninety thousand
dollars. A civil action has been instl-
tuted against him to recover the money.
An Aiken woman came very near
being compelled to pay SIX hundred
dollars for saying that her nelghbors
baby weighed eight pounds, when her
neighbor didn't have any baby at all
Aiken Tribune.
Ex-PosTMAsrER A. S. Richardson,
at Chester, is now in Iorkville jail 10
answer for some of his short conings to
Uncle Sam, at the next sitting OF the
United States Court in Columbla on the
.4th.-Clester Reporter.
THE Merchant and Farmer is respon-
sible for the following: 1--WE have
heard OF a skillful thief being able to
steal the sweetening out of ginger
cake without breaking the crust, but
never have we known till now, and
that by severe experience, that whole
rows of potatoes could he grabbed with
out breaking the bed"
THE anderson LatelHgencer urges the
importance to the people of that Coun-
tv. of reyiving the Blue Ridge Rail-
road enterprise. and calls for meeting
like tha: at Walhalla, to discuss the
prospects of success and the best means
of raising the funds necessary to COM
plete the road.
WE omitted to mention in our last
the death of the Hon. Henry &. Young,
q distinguished lawyer Of Laurens,
who died at the residence of his SON
in-law, w. D. Simpson, Esq, at an ad-
. vauced age. He once practiced in our
court and was well known to the people
.of Abbeville.
STEAM POWER PRINTING.-Pam.
phlets of all kinds are cheaply and expe-
,ditiously printed by Walker, Evans q
Gpgswell, Charleston, S. L. 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, &c, &c,
are executed in the pest style and with
greatest dispatch. u
LAwsoN's.-If there is better place
to buy q stove, or lamp. or TIN pan,
than at Lawsons, at Abbeville, We
have never found it. The goods are the
best, the prices are the lowest, and the
quiet, good humor of the salesman
makes one actually feel good while his
money Is being extracted from his pock--
ct. Try Lawson.-Associate REFORMED
Presbyterian. ..
We learn that a great deal of trade
which has hitherto gone to Anderson,
has found its way to the markets along
the Air Line Railroad in our County.
These merchants can make it to the
interest of the farmers to trade with
them. The freights OH goods and their
marketable prices are lower than else
where, and they can afford to give lar
ger prices for produce, &c.-kco'oce
Courier.
INJURIOUS TO THE EYEs.-It has
been ascertained that the habit o. look
Ing out of railroad cars while the Win
dows are open is exceedingly injurious
to the eyes, as the sharp draft of the air,
caused by rapid motions of the trains,
produces inflammation and affects the
outic nerve even fatally. Cases OF total
blindness have occurred lately, and
physicians are strongly advising the
travelling public to refrain from thls!
f1anonrouS DractlCe,