The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-09-08

pircs next winter, and the merchant!
next year will be cautious how they cred
it man, without security, who is fool
ish enough to buy corn so high whet
he can raise oats so cheaply. If tn
farmer is out of money now and has NJ
oats he ought to 90 immediately to hi
merchant for the seed.
SALE..We propose to sell variou
notes and accounts Oh Sale Day In NO
vember, due the Press and Banuer fo
subscription, and deemed worthless ant
doubtful. We withhold the names fo
little while as some Of the parties ma!
not desire to have their names publish
ed.
"THosE who have tears to shed mo.
now prepare to shed them," as we In
tend in a little while to erase the name.
of d few more dclinquents. We dislike
to stop mans paper for non-paymen
but we much more regret the necessity
of putting an account in the hands OF
trial justice.
MIR, MARSHALL DEBRUHL left ou
town on Thursday last to take atpositiol
in the store of Messrs. w. d. Love q
Co., of Columbia. Mr.. DeBruhl is ON
of our best young men and will III
doubt be all acquisition to the clcrlca
force of the firm that have given hin
employment.
LORD bless us! don't the life insu'
rance agents thrive and multiply abou
us? Two more have been in town dur
ing the past week, DIR. Woodruff ant
Mr. Dawson. They are active men ant
good takers and. will no doubt fine
neighbor inclined to invest their hare
earnings in that way.
GOOD NEws.-We are pleased to learr
that the Baptists of this place have
made arrangements to get sufficient
money TO finish their handsome church
in the village. MIR. Pratt is untiring ir
his efforts in the interests of the demon
ination to which he is devOting his Ia
bOrs.
THE last KcoaUce Courier announces
that our friend Mr.. D. A. Smith has
purchased one-third interest in thai
paper. We know Mr.. Smith we'll anC
can vouch for him as being "a good man
and true" We extend our best wishe:
to all parties.
THE .Fyberton Gazette says, "B. F
West was arrested last week in the coun'
ty for horse-steali n.y." The same paper
also says: ave understand there is also
a charge against West in White
of burglary III the night"
WOULD the planter not think the
merchant or printer crazy who would
give five or ten per cent. a month fol
money, and yet farmers do the same
thing, when they could prevent it by
sowing oats.
MIR. ROSENBERG will leave for the
Northern markets OH Friday neXtto buy
goods to fill the store recently occupied
by Messrs. Wardlaw & Edwards. He
will give bargains for the cash when be
gets back.
AS the crops begin to open and oul
people are supposed to have little
money, they will have plenty of solici-
tations to invest it "where the woodbine
twineth." Our people had better invest
in real estate or pay old debts.
MR.. ROBERT SMITH, of Sharp, Smith
& Co., of Donalds, has gone North tc
buy goods for the winter trade. Mr.
James Agncw, of the firm Of Agnew l.
Muttison, has also taken the same
Northern tour.
THE farmers of Union County seem
to be in a prosperous condition. phey
have not thrown away a half million
dollars on life insurance as our people
have done.
MIR. J. +. G.. DCPRE, our excellent
School Commissioner, has cut off his
long beard 1t has changed his appear
ance 80 much that even impecunious
school teachers don't know him.
ANOTHER VICrIM.-We learn that
Hymcn's arrows have struck another
young heart in Abbeville. A bridal
vail and an orange wreath are being
No joke.
Mr.. A. NJ. ERWIN, Of the Centre OF
Gravity, gladdened our sanctum OH
Monday last. He will soon 10 to the
city by the sea to lay in a good stock of
goods.
MISSES MARSHALL and Smith have
returned from Greenville after spend
ing month in the mountain city.
They made conquests while there.
BY the reports of life insurance COM
panies they claim to pay back to the
insured, as a whole, only about twenty
five per cent. of what they receive.
a.. e.;, A. 1o,, u ,y;o,
who has just returned from Moore's
business College at Atlanta, would like
TO ret n lob at a reasonable salary. For
consult him.
the town If Snartanlury decided in
favor of n dry ticket. In Abbeville we
believe there is an effort in the same di.
rection.
New cotton is beginning to come in,
and the merchants are either gone or
are making arrangements to 60 to get
new goods, Mr., Quarles left on Mon
day.