The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-07-19

| Doth thclivcly candidate
| His little ticket circulate,
| And folks acquaintance cultivate
| Each passing day and place;
| Shake hands with every man he meets
At home, abroad, in fields or streets,
| And mix his words with honcSed s"ce1s
| To help him in the race.
THE Junior last year sowed by
proxy PSI bushels oats, harvested ,04'
bushels: sowed Is bushels barley, har
vested l95 bushels; sowed Is bushel:
wheat. harvested 60 bushels. Thi:
was raised on the valuable lands in tine
Elatwoods. Cattle running on tlt
land did much to reduce the crop.
Cows kept in a dirty stable canno
he expected to give pure clean milk
The COW that breathes impure air mus
impa1t that impurity to the mix
The milk from COW so conhheo
without the greatest care, is not ut al
desirable.
Mrs. W. r. WHITE will visit rela
tives at Lowndesville on the first o
August and after remaining there iol
A month, she will go to the Centennla
and thence to the Northern market!
TO purchase Fall and Winter hats, bon
nets, &c.
Our old friend, Mr.. w. A. Latimer
passed through Abbeville seSera
DAYS ago on his return IRON
Lowndesville to Augusta, Ca, whefe
he has been in business since the wal
as factor and commission merchant.
THIEVES PREPARING TO -ABLUTE.:-
Rev...W. r. Buchanan had the mis-
fortune to lose several gallons OF SOAP
! on last Tuesday night. \ search war
rant was issued by Trial Justice Gray
don, but failed to find the thief.
DIR, THOMPSON and Mr.. w. e. Nc
Gowan. of Abbeville, are Oft for the
Centennial. DR.. Bonner, MIR: ri. r.
Bonner. Misses CARRIER and Rooney,
of Due West, and Miss Bonner, OF
Indiana, we learn, are also Oh their
way to see the sights.
THERE are now about ,239 white
men in Abbeville County who would
be willing to accept office, alld tine
number of sable gentlemen Whc
would be willing to do the same thing
are beyond number.
THE man who fails to SOW oats ana
barley need not expect to make money
next wear on his farm. Sow oats and
barley and save giving fifty per cent.
for u credit of four or five months on
your supplies.
Mr.. GEORGE T.. BURDETT violated
his contract with Mr.. Robert Hutchl-
son. at Lowndesville. Trial Justice
Beckham furnished him lodging at
the Cutfin House for thirty days.
Miss ALICE BAsKIN, one of the
most attractive and accomplished
Young ladies of the Monterey neigh
bOrhood, has been spending some tlme
at the Aston House.
Mr.. R.B. CADE has the finest wheat
in his section of the county. He Will
offer for sale large quantity of the
best seed wheat this Fall. 1t will pay
to buy from him.
REV. MIR. MARTIN will be absent
from his church filling PresbyteriaI
appointments at Cokesbury next Sun
day, and at Rocky River on the s'un'
day following.
PUGIL1sTIC.-Two white women
from the Antreville section were be-
fore Trial Justice Bruce last week fol
pugilistic exercise. Compromised.
CHARLIE JONES, who escaped from
our Jail last week, is a regular sharper
He knew more about breaking pad
locks than all the men in town.
UNTIL the final reckoning wber
all secrets are made known, the mum
Der of men in Abbeville County who
want office, will never be known.
DIR. J. A. STUART, of Ninety-Six
made twenty-five hundred and nifty
bushels of small grain this year. III
beat the Junior, two to one.
JEFF FULLER, o colored man living
near Cokesbury, says he is happ.
man-having nothing to eat, nothing
to wear and nothing to do.
ARMIsrEAD WILLIAMS borrowed
) few oats from the field of Pete
Vening. Williams is now guest o
the County for thirty days.
DoS'T neglect to SOW large turnil
patch. The cost is almost nothing
and the crop is invaluable to feed botl
man and beast.
REV. MIR. BROADUs from Ninety
Six will preach in the Baptist churci
every night this week. The publ
are invited.
OUR very excellent postmaster, Mr.
n. w, Lawson, will start OIL a North
ern tour next Monday week.
THE meeting of the negroes in til
Court House was held with door
closed OH Friday last.
MISS IDA ALLEN, after an absenc
of nearly a year in Georgia, returne
to her mothers last week.
THERE will be an inspection Of arm
of the Abbeville Rifle Club to-morro'
afternoon.
THE colored band have rented
room on Magazine Hill in which t
practice.
i AN unusual amount Of courting
going Oh in this community just no"
MR.. J. ALLEN SMITH, we learn
will keep house at the Moore house.
IT won't do to put too much depend
ence in crockery ware. Twill break
WE believe that a good farmer cal
raise red oats for fifteen centsa bushel
Sow down some of your stubbl
ground in turnips. 1t will pay.
DYsPEPTICs should abandon the us
of coffee, and drink good milk.
THE cultivation of flowers has
refining influence.
THE family fly again sits down witt
the family to dinner.
/ BEETs are not good for milch COWS