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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
"A NODEL FAEM-GATE.

My fatherspcnt one whole summer
on farm-gate which was a model Of
its kind. Two Of them would have
taken up;a small farm. It was one Of
the most perfect things to climb over
that you ever saw. It would give en-
ployment to two men to open it. A
small engine would work it easily. I
suggested to the old gentleman an i'm
provement by placing the boards wider
apart, soft would he handler to crawl
through. He suggested an improve
mcnt in my manners with shingle.
It was nearly as good as pair Of slip
bars. 1t was so hard to open that I
always went to one side and climbed
the fence. He finally remodleddit and
fixed it so he could drive through it
without getting out by letting the
tongue of the wagon strike it and
knockit down, but he had to get out
when through and set it up again. He
aftcrward remodelcd it into stove
wood. ~. ~~t., 49,.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
"A HIGH OLD PASSENGER CONDUCTOR.

A few days ago freight conductor
on one of the railroads went to the
Superintendent and said he thought
he ought to be advanced, having served
on the freight for several years. The
Superintendent agreed with him, and
told him that the change should be
made the very next week. And it was
made. The Superintendent o day or two
after took a seat in the rear end OF one
of the coaches to see how the new
conductor would take to business,
and pretty soon the official danced in
to the door, cap on his ear, sleeves
pushed up, and O half-acre smile on
his face.
"Get out your pasteboards !" he
shouted, "I'm the high mucky muck
that runs this train," and then, turn
ing right and left, he continued:
"Risht bowors this way-play lively
pass or order up how's trumps
with you-slide you right into Chica-
go-hurry UP thcre-trump this ace
what kind Of hand do you hold
old man."
There was something novel and ex.
hilaratinS in his style, but yet tho
superintendent called the conductor
up stairs the next day and told him
that he was the best man in America
to run q freight train, and that he
should have to promote him buck
wards. He was too talented for q pas
senger conductor Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
OLD SUPEKSTlTIONS.

Old beliefs and superstitions die
hard in England. It is not so very
long ago since an ignorant Yorkshire
yokel would offer up, along with his
ordinary prayer, the following petit
ton: "From witches and wizards,
and long-tailed buzzards, and creeping
things that run in hedgc-bottoms, good
Lord deliver u.s." A Coroner's jury have
returned verdict Of wilful murder
against one Haywood, a laborer, Of
Little Compton, South Warwiclshirc
who, a few days ago, attacked an old
woman, aged eighty, named Ann Ten
nant, and stuck two-pronged fork
into her, because, as he told the Court,
she "was the propcrest witch I ever
knowed." He contided to the Cor.
oner that "there were sixteen more in
the parish who should be done away
with" land that there were also good
many villagers quite as influential and
intelligent us himself who shared his
somewhat uncompromising opinions
on the subject.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
Party DiScIplIne.

The Journal Of Commerce gives the
following wholesome advice to the
the Democrats of the State:
1.-THE Democrats of South Carolina
have vet to learn the essential import
ance of standing faithfully in party
lines, each man giving up his personal
views and preferences for the common
good, and moving cheerfully and with
all his might in the direction marked
out by the party authorities. Inde-
pendence and personal obstinacy will
not do. The voters Of this State are
now widely divided. The Democrats
have q struggle before them, vita! IN
its consequences and worthy the best
efforts of every one. It is, therefore,
to be expected that every man calling
himself Democrat will be ready to
obey orders from the headquarters Of
the Convention when it meets, and
from the officers selected to command
and direct the tactics of the campaign.
The great cause in which we are en-
gagged requires, that deserters and mu--
tineers should be sternly condemned
and firmly punished-at least they be
publicly drummed out of camp, and
but into the confinementof coventry.
We trust the occasion will never arise.
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The Journal Of Commerce and Col.
Rhctt.

Col. r. Barnwell Rhett, jr., once
the able and brilliant editor ofthe
Charleston Mercauy has assumed the
control of the Journal of Commerce,
with Mr.. James r.. Trueheart as asso-
ciate editor, and with this accession of
editorial strength we may congratu-
late the paper upon the prospect of
increased prosperity, and the people
of the State upon the opportunity of
perusing the daily utterances of one
of the ablest and most earnest advo-
Gates of Southern rights.
In his salutatory Col. Rhett says.
"For eleven weary years the stricken
State of South Carolina has been a
prey to the foul blood of the harpies
who, under the egis of victorious Rad
icalism, fiocked here to feast upon her
yitals. In no long time the substance
of the people will be entirely devour-
ed. Their civilization-moral and So
cial eXistence-will be infected with
the rottenness of death. It is, there
fore, necessary to drive these creatures
from their opportunities of destruc-
ton, to wrest the State from their
deadly clutches and to establish a
helpful rule of the people Of the State.
With these ends in view, our care
will be the future. Issues of the day
gone by are fought. We have rever-
emily buried our dead, and propose to
"march forward from the past" to
meet the emergencies of the living
present. Yet, in doing so, we do not
purpose to close our eyes to all land
marks. For, the conceits of Temporal
ry expediency do not supply the
place Of abiding principles. Nor may
we safely depart from those cardinal
rules of party management which
alone lead to substantial victory. The
country is engaged in great contest
that will be desperately waged. In
the result South Carolina is profound
ly interested. She is expected to take
her position and do her part. We
deem it indispensable that the DEM
ocrats of the State should be thorough
ly organized and to ensnre q vigor-
Gus campaign, leaders must come to
the front who will command the con-
fidence and enthusiastic support of
the people"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI.

: In the Spring OF 1874. Mr.. John P.
Doremus, q photograph artist, con-
cluded 70 carry out an idea which he
had long since conceived, of deyoting
q few years Of his life to the prose-
cution Of work illustrative of the
grand and varied scenery through
which the Father OF Waters" flows
from Its headwaters to the Gulf. At
ter making all his arrangements for
departure west, Mr.. Doromus started
out for Minnesota, and on the Goth of
July in that year, found himself at
Minneapolis, standing on the deck OF
his own boat, called in token of his
enterprise the Success, and so fitted
up as to combine all the requirements
Of q dwelling, pleasure boat, and pho
tograph gallery. Upon this commo-
dious craft he started out upon his
long Journey for the fair South, float
ing down ON the smooth current of the
river, stopping first at the romantic
Minnehaha Creek, then at Fort Shel-
ling and Mendoza. the Oldest settlo-
ment in. the State, next at st. Paul, and
finally at Prescott, at the confluence
Of the st. Croix, up which river, with
its picturesque Dalles, the tiny craft
was turned to Osceola. Here winter
overlook our wandering artist, and,
fastening up his boat he came East,
returning in the Spring, to find that
the Success had frozen fast to the river
bottom. Nothing daunted he, by the
Gid Of friends tN,t her an reDajr and
again in April started on his South
ward journey. Regaining the Missis-
sippi, he stopped in turn at Diamond
Bluff and Red Wing,and then emerged
upon the broad, mirror-like waters
Of Lake Pepin. Here storm over
took him, and very near made On end
of the Success, but the'boat survived it,
reached Maiden Rock, Wis, in safety,
thence passed out of Lake Pepin at its
Southern Extremity, and in October
reached Minneiska, where Winter
again compelled it and its commander
to stop. Next season Mr. Doremus
hopes to get as far South as Dubuque,
or Davenport, Iowa, calculating that
the entire trip to New Orleans will
consumed period of about five years.
point Of Interest on the river
thus far ne has taken fine series Of
views. which when complete and
brought together in descriptive book
will make a standard work on the Mis-
sissippi, and be al honor to the artist
who conctibuted it to the literature Of
the country. ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12

How Gov. TILDEN RECEIVED HIS
NoMINATIoN.-Wheu the short de-
spatch was received, the Governor,
speaking to several friends in q tone
scarcely above a whisper, said: II
can tell you what has been done.
This nomination was not made by the
pie who made it. They want reform.
They have wanted it a long while,
and, in looking about, they have be-
come convinced that it is to be found
here pointing at himself.) They want
it; that is what they are after. They
are sick of the corruptions and NAL
administration Of their affairs. They
want change, and one for Tie better
ii thorough reformation. You will
find there will be Il larger German
vote pollcd next fall than ever, and it
will nc largely cast for the Democratic
ticket. l know that
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
THE WOUNDED PALMETTC.


BS hcN. SC.iJtIiIi. S"ht""s''
Just by the Eastern angle Of That Fort.
Now liking ont its hnndrrdth year OF glory,
Old Moultric Fashioned '!n.1 tae sh!i,ing
sands.
Invinc:bIy renowned in wars dread story;
Just BY tho angle-aS YOU pass his grave.
The Patriot Srninu.': ~ d.untl"SS pride:
Who-lo$t the flowers and ff"V"'ill o! ms
LaLu-
Looked out upon thc deep, AMI pinned. and
u!cd.
Right here. where late Supporting rarnnNrts
stood,
Buttressed the Fort, and bristlcd year by
Keeping beyond approach that grand old
Holding against all fleets this Pay 50 fair;
There is q grove Of Palms. about n score,
The sparse survivors of Il forest band
Ere ruthless war, or careless Peace destroy
ed
That filled the barron reaches of this strand,
What storms have ragged around them! food
Dread Equinoxes, hurting Oceans power,
'Gainst tho frail, Sivery girdle OF the Slnd
IT'LL foamlng bilows swept the Island Ger,
What other Tempests, darker, wilder stiil
Around these rustlihg Palms their rage
have spent; ,.,,
Hurricanes OF Battle, cloudins Heaven from
While boltcd thunders air and earth have
rent.
Yet proof against all storms, the Palms have
stood,
Stately memorials of n century!
THOR rivcn comrades fallen, Yet they s'ah"'
God guard them for q long posterity;
Eut at that Eastern Angle Of the Fort
Twas Sumters guns that raked Inc IiaSlloh
Thai AnriI Jav-n wounded Palm-trcc stands,
Torn woll-nigh to the death, it still lives on.
us rustling leaves hold yet their dark bright
green,
The battle-scathe hath brought it no decay;
It's splendid crest amid it's fellows raised,
1t bravely holds and waits better day.
o state! that wears the Palm upon thy
Shield
Thy History-thy Duty, here read:
Thr wounds OF Virtue are not unto death!
The Brave, the Paticnt!-thesc arc Great in
deed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12

Souri, CARuLIANA An PRINCETON.
The commencement exercises at
Princeton College, New Jersey, held
on the 2etll ullimo, were largely at
tended. The senior class covered
themselves with honors, and South
Carolina was ally REPRESENTED, as will
he seen from the following statement
of the graduates and promotions of
that class. There were 120 in the
class, and Clarence Cunningham, Of
Abbeville, S. c., took q fellowship; /;
Leighton Finley, of Aiken, S. c., and
D. b. Melton, of Columbia, S. c., took
a high rank in the graduating num-
ber.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
Terrible Defeat Of our Army by the
Indians.

Telegraphic dispatches announce
the entire annihilation of five compa-
nies under the command of Gen. Gus
ter. on the Little Horn River by the
Indians, the whole loss amounting to
Is officers and 800 men. The Indian
encampment numbered between 2,CO0
and 1900 warriors, and were attacked
on one side by the five companies un-
der Custer, and in the rear by seven
companies under Col. Reno. Clusters
command lost every officer and man,
and Reno escaped by falling back on
Gen. Gibbcn, who commanded the
reserve.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
ABBEV geUNTH: 3;

ABBEV FeUNTY: r.
Probate Court CitatsonyM Letters of Adminisfn.
BY THOS. B. MILFORD, Esquire,
Probate Judge,
WHEREAS, Peter McKellar has
made suit to me, to grant him Letters
of Administration of the Estate and
effects of Miss Mary McKellar, late of
Abbeville County, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad-
monish all and singular the kindred
and creditors of the said Miss Mary
McKellar, that they be and appear,
before me, in the Court of Probate, to
be held at Abbeville G. H., on Thurs
day, the 18th day of July, after publi-
cation hereof, at II o'clock in the fore
noon, to show cause, if any they have
why the said administration should
not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal, this
first day of July, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six and in the one hundredth
year of American Independence.
Published on the 5th day of July,
1876, in the Press and Banner, and
on the Court House door for the time
required by law
THOS. R. MILFORD,
Judge of Probate.
July 5, 1876, ct
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12

The last European temple in which
public worship was, paid to the old
diyinities is said to have been that OF
Apollo at Monte Cusano, which re-
manned open until its destruction by
Benedict In 529.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
Dissolution.

Y,HE copartnersh;p heretofore existing
Il between the undersigned. under the
firm name Of DuPrc. Gambrcll IL Coz, has
been dissolved by mutual consent.
J. +. G.. DUPRE.
JOHN M. GAMBRELL.
Nav 70 lS7G-tf
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White Lawns,

A MOTHER lot of these handsome
"A goods, plain and striped, from
Is CTS. to IS cts., just received, at the
EMPORIUM OF FASHION.
June IA, 1876, If
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Thus closed one of the most pleasant
and successful exhibitions of the Col
lege,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12

rbsre Ia q story OF an amateur hun
.sr in ths Rocky Mountains who fol-
,oved a grizzly bear for four days,
and then abandoned the pursuit, al,
jeedpe MS reason that, :"that the trail
was urltius 100 fresh"
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TiIden.

NeW York San: It is as refOrmer,
and because he is refOrmer, that Mr..
Tilden is selected to lead the Opposi-
ton in this Centennial year. Profess
sions and promises of reform are easy,
and when they are uttered merely in
behalf of q party, and for purposes OF
all election, they are almost always
wanting but this candidate has been
tried in the fire and not found want
inc. A man Of philosophic cast OF
mind, more thoughtful about princi-
Piles and truths of political doctrine
than about partisan success and the
applications of party patronage, ne be-
came conspicuous on The stage OF po-
litical affairs, not as an enemy OF pup
lie plumber in the abstract, or as the
assailant of thieves and robbers be-
longing to the other party merely, but
as having laid his hand upon the
thieves and robbers of his own party,
scourging them from their seats or
power, and bringing them before the
courts, where they have been tried,
found guilty, and sentenced to the
penitentiary.
HCnQrlCkSs
Governor Hendricks is O man of
medium height and symmetrical form.
lie is erect, active and vigorous. His
face is manly and handsome. The
features are large and expressive, and
while there is soft, good-humored eX-
preston in the large blue eye and in
the mouth and dimpled chin. the
brow, forehead and full, heavy jaw
show wisdom and resolution. His
complexion is forid, and his hair and
side whskers are yet untouched with
gray. He looks like one who has liv-
cd a happy life, encountered no great
sorrows and yielded to no great vices.
Though he has for years been taught
to regard the Presidency as within his
grasp, his ambition has been rather a
sort of rational longing for the honor
than an insaciable thirst for power.
His disposition is as sunny as his
complexion, and in social life lie is a
great favorite. TO acquaintances he
is aflable and easy, to close friends
warm and lovable, to political partl-
sans courteous, but cautious. He
would rather conciliate an enemy than
oblige an ally. His habits are such
that he found $1,000 year ample for
his expenditures during his senatorial
term at Washington. IIe had always
trusted to doing the work which he
had in hand we'll as the highest rec
ommendation in the long run before
the people, and the many honors
which have come to him seem to have
been conquered without great effort.
Governor Hendricks belongs to the
Protestant Episcopal Church.
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PARASOLS,

TN SILKS, GINGHAMS AND COT
i TON, ali prices and colors, cheaper
than ever offered. nj the
EMPORIUM OF FASHION.
May ,, 1876.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
1000 POTS. :.
Choice Green and Hot-House
Plants, @r..-

|NoNsIsT1NG in part Of Single and
" Double Geraniums, Single and
Double Fuchsias, Red and White Bego-
MAS, Heliotropes, Century plants, Nigh.
Blooming Cereus, Cactuses, Ice, Air and
Wax plants, Vines, Sedum and Basket
plants. Japonicas, Pine Apple, Bananas,
and fifty other varieties OF plants.
Mosses &c grown from seeds and plants
Obtained from the most celebrated Flor
lists in the United States. Plants ten inch
es to two feet high in four inch and six
inch pots, Is cents to 25 cents each. Lar
ger plants and pots in proportion. De-
liyered free on board the cars.
- ~ J,F, C, DUPRE.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12
CURIOUS FREAK OF A DOG.

A Radnorshire lady, who was mar
ricd in March, and came to reside in
Yorkshire, England, recently paid q
visit to her father, who, before she
was married, had kept two or three
sheep-dogs, Of which she was very
fond. Since then he has retired frolD
business, and disposed Of all but one
dog. This one met the lady with de.
monstrations Of great delight upon
her arrival at her fathers house, and
that night, the dog went distance OF
seven miles to farmhouse where ono
OF the other dogs had been sent, (the
latter was blind, but kept as being an
old favorite.) In the morning when
the lady went to the door she not only
saw the dog which had given her such
O glad reception the day previously.
but also the old blind one, which had
evidently been brought by the other
dog to welcome her. When the
second night came the old blind one
was taken back to it's homo by the
same dog, which afterWard returned,
having travelled a distance Of twenty
eight miles to give pleasure to the old
blind one, =, ~: II snsaA,ssss.s.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12

Massachusetts has furnished four
speakers-Theodore Sedgwick,, of the
Sixth Congress; Jos. B. Varnum, of
the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses; ;
Robert G. Winthrop, of the Thirtieth
Congress and N. P. Banks, Of the Thir-
ty-fourth Congress. The other Now
England Speakers have been Jona-
than Trumbull, Of Connecticut, OF the
Second Congress, and James G. Blaine
OF the Forty-irst. Forty-sccond, and
'Forty-third Congresses. Mcssrs. Banks
and Blaine are mclnbcrs-elect Of tho
present Cnn5rcSs.
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CURIOSITIES OF LIFE.

Lay your finger on your pulse, and
know that every stroke some immor-
tai passes to his Maker: some fellow
being crosses the river Of death; and,
IL We think Of it, we may we'll wonder
that it should be so long before our
turn comes, Half OF all who live die
before seventeen. Only one person in
ten thousand lives to be one hundred
ycars old. and but one in a hundred
reaches sixty. The married live longer
than the single. There is one soldier
to every eight persons, and out Of
everv thousand born only ninety-five
weddings take place: II you take q
thousand persons who have reached
seventy years, there are Of clersymen'
three; soldiers, thirty-two:' lawyers,
twenty-ninc; professors, twenty-seVen;
doctors, twenty-four.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-12

CoaI ashes .lare q wonderful vital
izing effect upon pear trees, especially
thosc S growing In fight soil Our ashes
trecg 10 liberal quantities, and those
thus treated have outgrown anything
cIae, In tho orchard. Some that were
sycn sickly, and apparently ready to
vivd 10 their hold on life, have been re-
Stored 10 perfect health by this remedy.
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To enable this to be done, the
combined resources of the RAIL-
WAY LINES SOUTH OF
NORFOLK, together with those
of the BALTIMORE STEAM
PACKET COMPANY and the
OLD DOMINION STEAM
SHIP COMPANY will be en-
ployed and the individual tourist,
the social party of ten, twenty or
more, or the civic or military Or
ganization of 100 to 300, can
each be cared for in a manner
that will satisfy their desires.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1876-08-15

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Suli ba6en bic S6ulidweifern su Sinflal
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Gin 500 6oIioietten itartes Manuicript bcs
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Dem Sabre 1927 batirt uno entbdIt einen
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tir6 CUR fatboli9en Stride s%uriifsefebrt lit.