The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1875-09-15


Senator Newton Booth, of California
has delivered speech in which ht
shows his position in regard to eX-Con
federate officers in Congress :. But they
tell US great many rebel generals have
been elected to the next Congress
Why should they not be? When the
Government amnested them did i
mean to say, 1--WE restore your rights
but YOU shall never enjoy them 81
When they take their seats in Congress:
it will be with an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States. I de
not believe that the men who are will.
ing to die for their convictions will be
most ready to perjure themselves fol
place. Parties are but necessary evils
There are great moments in nations
| life when the times should rise above
them. Why may not the true spirit OF
the people have way? This is the Cen.
tennial year. Let it be "year Of jubi.
lee." Before us is grand outlook OF
history. Who shall estimate the power
and population of this country at the
close of the century now dawning If We
the people, are equal to the divine .0p'
portunity? Who knows what trials
may await us, what temptations may
beset? Let us challenge destiny as one
people. Let us have the only union
which can be permanent-a union Of
hearts. Lot the true feeling of the hour
and reconstruction will come-not by
legal enactment, not by force bills OF
writs of law, but in the hearts of the
people, like the dawning of day, like
the breath of morning, like the spirit oi
the Lord.
Book FARMING.-1t is nonsense tc
suppose that education and farming are
incompatible. Still multitude of mer
think that as sure as man Of liberal ed
ucation attempts to farm, so sure is he
to fail. He, thinks the multitude, will
spend his time in reading agricultural
books, and, sooner or later, fail. This
is a gratuitous assumption. The most
of the men who fail to accomplish any
thing, worth naming, as farmers, are
those who can neither read nor write
Some of this class of men make gooc
farmers, but their success Is by nc
means due to their ignorance. They
are men Of good observation, They
learn from others in every way wha
they can. The process is O long and te'
dious one' and no more successful than
| if they had learned to farm from books
What cost the book farmer only q few
cents and q few moments pleasant
reading, costs this class of for
mers many years Of toll and vexation
|-YorkviAc Enquirer.
The result of the Congressional elec-
tions in California makes certain the
election of Democratic President o.
the United States if the election should
20 to the House of Representatives
California, we believe, makes the nine
teenth State that has elected clear Dem
ocratic majority of Representatives, be-
sides there are two or three other States
whose delegations are equally divided OF
controlled by Independents. Mississip
pi, Connecticut and New Hamshire have
yet to elect congressman, and the Dem
ocrats have good prospects of carrying
each of them. .-C0lun,6ats Enqnirer
The item is interesting, but there is not
the remotest possibility of the election
going into the House. The Republicans
could not to-day carry four States fol
President, and by the time the election
comes off they will hardly be able tc
carry one.
THE PEABODY FUND.--Superintend
ent J. X. Jilson has opened cores
pondence with the agent of this funo
in the United States with a view to Sc
curing some of its benefits for the publ:
schools located in the various countie:
of this State The fund is distributed
with the greatest care, and its bequesi
are always directly proportioned to the
amount Contributed in any given locality
for educational purposes, this precau
ton having been found necessary tt
prevent its waste and misapplication
owing to some mismanagement, Soutl
Carolina has up this time derived lit
tie or no benefit from the generous gif
of the lamented Peabody, while Georgi.
and many other States have secured
their fnll respective quotas.
Clara Morris, Mrs. Harriot,) the ris-
ing genius among American actresses
has been enduring, In Paris, the terrible
treatment that Drown-Sequard gave tt
Charles Summer after the Preston
Brooks assault. Her health had beer
failing for months aud her later work OF
the stage, a1d journeying, when reall,
unfit to travel, through Great Britain, de
veloped spinal disease to a degree 81
alarming that the moXa was resorted to
burning the flesh along the sides of thu
spine heated to a white heat. Glars
bore it bravely, without a shrink o
groan, and the doctors said 1T was won
derful exhibit of nerve. If the disease
couldn't be arrested, her friends ant
the American stage would lose Glars
Morris in two years.
Columbia Market
The prices of vegetables, meats, q
Potatoes, Irish, per peck, 5Oc.; potatoes
sweet, per peck, 50c.; green corn, pc
dozen ears, 2Oc.; Guinea squash, pc
peck, 5Oc,; Cuba squash, apiece, lOc
green pepper, y PIX, 5Oc., okra, per bush
el, 50c.; snap beans, per peck, 25c.; to
matees, per quart, l5c.; butter beans
per quart, 15c.; onions, per quart, lOc'
crbbage, per head, 20 to 25c.; cucumb bers
per dozen, 2Oc.; turnips, per peck, Soc
Northern apples, per peck, 75c.; beet
per pound, 5 to l5c.; mdtton, per pound
| 10 to l2c.; shoat, per pound, 15c.; chick
ems, 20 to 30c.; eggs, per dozen, $50.
Mr.. S. Bobo, agent of the S. G. Man
ufacturing Company, in Spartan burg
S. c., has just completed sale of 3,0C
acres of the Rolling Mill property, in
cluding the shoal, mill site, &C., to 9Th
English Manufacturing Company.
This company will sub-divide the lam
into tracts of six acres each, and sell t
English and American settlers, men c
small capital, who are also to take stoc
in the company. Steps are already bt
ing taken to erect q lumber and say
mill and machine shops, preparatory t
building.
THE GOVERNOR ELECT OF CAL1FoH