The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-05-02
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four million dollars Of silver in Gil la
ton.
Mr.. J. r. w. Johnston has peer ap.
pointed postmaster at Walhalla in place
of A. Bryce, Jr.
THE boys at Spartanburg aave formed
a base ball club, which furnishes locals
for the papers OF hat town.
It il estimated that ten million dollars
of fractional currency has been lost-a
clear gain to the government.
The rarest treasure that can be pos
seSscd in life: tho value of which is ines
Unable, is a friend in adversely.
Mrs. Mahala Thompson died at the res
idence of her son, Col. r. A. Thompson,
near Walhalla, on the 10th instant.
Tanned squirrel skins, for the purpose
of making telephones, are in great de-
mand in this place.-Pickens Sentinel.
Rev. J.. II. BrySon, late Pastor of the
PRESBYTERIAN church in Columbia, will
20 to Europe during the present month.
The Pickcns Sentinel thinks the hang
ing of four or five of the Lowndesville
prisoners would be sufficient to satisfy
the demands of Justice.
The State of Delaware has just passed a
lawimaking it u penal otfense for any rail-
way engineer to abandon his engine upon
the track in case of a strike.
The National Bank of Anderson has
had none of it's stock n the market for
about four years un Il this week, when
eight shares were sold at Sl25 per share.
If you wish to buy a good pair Of shoe,
that will tit we'll and wear, at q low price
call OH Cunningham IL TempletDn, who
have q handsome stock of these 6 Gods on
hand.
Mrs. Stoncwall Jackson is to write a
series of papers, for the Philadelphia
Times, upon her husbands domestic life.
She is to receive hundred dollars q
column.
One hundred men are employed m the
work of the new Enterprise factory at
Augusta, and it is expected that the facto-
nv will he III operation some m in Au-
gust next.
We hope that the white people of South
Carolina and Louisiana will not quarrel
among themselves and thereby imperil
the freedom they have so dearly won.-
Chronicle and Sentinel.
The Pendleton factory is to be sold al
Anderson on the I'D day OF May at pub
lie cutlery. 1t is a very fine piece of prop
erty, advantagcously situated, and we'll
SuppilcQ with nlacnlnerS.
A colored child about two years old fell
in all old we'll hear the market house in
Anderson ON Wednesday, and was saved
from drowning by some rocks OH n
side, upon which it lodged.
A Radical organ gets off statistics thus:
"At q low estimate the tender youths OF
South Carolina carry around II million
dollars worth of pistols. Enough money
to build four cotton factories"
The only way to distinguish between a
hat and bonnet, worn by ladies, is that
one is worn over the ear and the other on
the nape Of the neck, but for the life of US
/ we can t tell which is which.-herShdw
Guzete.
The politicians of the Morton and Red
path stripe are so mad ut Hayes, that they
are beginning to advise the colorcd popu-
la,ion of the South to vote with the Dem
Gratis. They could not possibly givethcm
better advice.
Many WORKOUT and waste lands are
being prepared for cultivation with the
aid OF fertilizers. Old citizens attest the
fact that greater efforts have never been
made by the farmers and planters.-Ler-
ington Dispatch.
The tranquility and content among the
colorel people III South Carolina act like
~.il and NORWOOD upon the sialwar;
Republicans AT the East and West. The
lie has been practically given TO the whole
Reconstruction in.lny.
A Baltimore editor says it's wearying
t, the patent soul Of the most dcvaut
Christian to sit in Church behind a w0-
man with IL spring bondet or the sum-
nit Of a lurre. Of hair like the lower OF
Lebanon that looks towards Damascus.
House BHEAKINa.-While Mr.. Thos.
5. McCutchen, near Manville, in this
co lnty, was attending church on SUNDAY
last, a thief forced an entrance into hi
house and carried off an o o.
money and clothing.-,Snmter WatchmaH.
KILLED IN THE Acr.-It is rumorer
upon the streets that a negro man by the
name of George Sadlcr, who until recent
ly lived in this county, was shot and Kill
ed in Chester county while III the act o:
stealing bacon from q gcntleman's smoke
house.-L0acdStcr Ledger.
AS might be expected, the citizens o.
Lowndesville, the immediate community
in which the murder was committed.
are unanimously opposed to any Interior
ence with the execution of the sentence
of the murderers of Mr.. Allen.-Grecn-
cilie Enterprise and Mountainecr.
DROWNED HEEsELF.-We learn that q
colored woman named Nancy Belk.
drowned herself on Thursday last in one
of The creeks in the Northern section oi
this County. The reason assigned, Wa
the inhuinan treatment Of her husband
Lancaster Ledger.
The train on the Sparlanjurg and Ash
Vile Railroad now runs over about Thu.
teen miles of the road, and the work goes
Dravely II. So far as completed the loau
is exceedingly smooth, and, being con-
>truc.ed of the very best material, will
he one of the finest roads in the State
S~partan6u;y Herald.
The Georgia Grange says: "The oat
crop was not so seriously damaged by the
cold as was at first thought; there will be
an average crop made; and, with the
more than average L of corn produced
It year, the farmers will be able TO
reach this years crop without having 70
buy Western corn"
The ve;n;e school miss at this season
OF the yea, when all nature is robbed in
beauty and vernal sweetness, when the
feaiheIed >in=sters singeth and the bum
ble-bce bumbIeth, finds no trouble in
finding a suitable subject for her compo-
sition. Gentle Spring.
We omitted to mention in our last issue
5he falling Of a shower Of locusts or grass
hoppers in our midst. Quantities of them
could be seen on the ground, and large
numbers beat their legs off by flying
against the Court House and other build
ings.-Anderson Journal.
OUt CoUNClL.-Our Town Council are
go;n; s.eat:I.v ahead improving The
iowa IN erecting new lamps, trimming
suade Trees, whjtewashing, repairing the
public bridges and wells, and
masking other necessary improvements.
May tUey not weat.v, nor ruu out Of cash
in 40 doinS.-Lag. elsuitle He1uld.
The Republican papers of the Nor:h
constantly remind Wade Hampton that
their eyes are fixed upon him. They
had bettec fix their eyes on home affairs.
1t is this perpetual minding of other peo-
pies affairs that has brought the country
10 the very verge Of destruction. Wade
Hampton can "Loie his own skillet -
and does not need prying eyes and i'm
pertinent outside interference.
Let our farmers remember that in ta>e
war prove general in Europe cotton will
ba worth ahOnt five cGnta nayf fall aud