The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-08-08

Lights and Fuel per II II
Books, .-"...."...". ~
College and Society Fees, per year, (avcr-
aSr,) about. .
A~cgrcgating, per year, less than."..".Sl75
We lave so often urged our people to
educate their SONS, and so frequently re-
ferrcd to the superior advantages OF this
institution that VIC are at q loss for some
thing new to say in favor of an lnstitu-
ton which is the pride of the county.
Send your son to this college, If for only
enc wear. Education elcvatcs n man IN
the social scale and is Of more lasting and
real pleasure than all the wealth you
could bestow on him. An ambitions
Young man, no matter how poor, can OBJ
tain an education at Erskinc, if he only
| makes the effort.
NEW CAVALRY CoMrANY.---A new
cavalry company Of thirty-siX men was
+ organized at Lebanon last Saturday with
the following officers:
w. w. SPR0CSE, Captain.
JOHN \. DEvLlN, First Lieutenant.
JOHN a. BROOKS. Second Lieutenant.
SAMUEL. EVANS, Third Lieutenant.
JAMES S. GlHE.:T, Orderly Sergeant.
JupsoN j. ROGERS, Second Sergeant.
GEorGE WILSON, Third Sergeant.
WILLIAM MILLER, Fourth Sergeant.
WILLIAM WARDLAw, Ensign.
LEWIS HAMEY, First Corporal.
SAMUEL WARDLAw, Second Corporal.
a. J.. WooDuURsT, Third Corporal.
JAMES GILLIAN, ir., Fourth Corporal.
ONE OF tho best fifty acre fields of cot
ton in -Abboville county belongs to
Mcssrs. hrchry Kennedy and W.. IL.
DanSby, on Mr.. John a. Derlin's whit"
Lick pllcc. They have worked hard this
..,. ,.l 1l,.;. nrNrtc yrn1nJs0 tn hp
crowned with great success in both corn
and cotton. They will likely make
! 20 bales Of cotton and tlrCc hundred
bushels of corn. and do not W on the
crops exceeding one hundred dollars.
THIS is good work. for two young men,
which shows that white men can make
money at farming when they try. II we
had more such young men our ountrN
! would blossom Us the rose.
Observation-Disclosures is raging about
Cokesbury. Among the deaths "carc
sorry to learn that the Rev. Manning
Brown lost with it his oldest daughter,
aged about twelve years ana that MI.
Cunadv i ue% citizen OF the place has lost
an infant; MIR. Scybt's Gaughthcr agcd
twelve or fourteen years ha. also dicd
f; with this dread disease, and III many
othor families the children arc suffering
lID.u INC S:llt!c CduSC. w t|Ae*S4 ONf
sy:upatuicS TO the afflicted.
RuBBERY.---Mr. Benz. franklin, OF
COkCSUury, WIS aroused from ms SUM
| bcrS by the fierce barking VI MS logs last
Thursday night, and upon gong 10 the
lot found his crib door Open. thieves
were in the acI Of helping themselves, but
upon the approach OF Mr.. franklin took
70 their heels leaving him their hamper
baskets partly filled with corn. Tic crit
, had becn opened by d false key
! Miss KATE WIER returned from BAL
,inaorc last saturday where she had been
Tor several weeks under medical treat
usut. We are pleased to state that she
is much improved III hcaltn,. ana prolLil-
SEES to be cn!lIely restored to hcatln. we
congratulate nor and her friends. MIS-.
Wipr, vino accompanied her uauSnter, AZ
50 returned On SATURDAY.
IT may he of interest TO the commo
darkcy 10 know that L large number OF
NEGROES Welt - Liberia from LUuis!hlits
soon atlor the war. The White people
paid transportation back for any VINO dld
not Gle the Iirst six months after they
went out.
CAPT. JAMES PRATT says that every
man who has worked about Due West
| HIS IL Scoo Slop, AZ a. w Aei'y =
wardrd for his labor in an abundance OF
bread, while he will not be lacking for
the 1ieecy staple. All crops arc excellent
Mr.. JOHN b. HARRISON, representing
tho well known firm of L. j. McGrudcr,
& Co., Of Baltimore, was in the village
last week. lie was a guest OF The Central
Hotel. The proprietor OF the Central ull-
derstands how to make his house con!
ro-I>ll> 1,,nrtnr, Gov ..ny ~ m n,.f.i1l travail
OrS.
Mr.. J. a. WIER, seems not to he Of
fcctcd materially By the reduction OF the
salary OF his office. He has bought IN cl-
| eGant hat for the summer season. Salary,
or no salary, tho Central will supply his
needed revenue.
THE finest and the most delicious
peaches thut We have seen this year grew
in town on the lot Of Il friend Mr.. i.
Z. Quarles. Mrs. @. will please accept
our thanks for Il kind remembrance.
Mr.. THOMAS p. QUARLEs is kept bu-
Sy these times, waiting on his numerous
customers who flock to his store for good
bargains in whatever they want. His
goods arc always exactly as they arc
represented.
WE HAVE received a very excellent
SOilfllltiltNsttioll ~ "lsSIlCllt ~ilblo
the fence law, but owing to tho late hour
ut which it was received and sickness
among our printers, VIC are unable to
+ publish it this week, and mex week will
LC too latc.
TILE total amount Of taxes collected last
} year by the Radicals in this county, was
one hundred and twenty-thrce thousand
dollars. The present years tax levied by
the hampton government will not exceed
iifty-four thousand dollors. This is re-
form in the right direction.
THERE will he 4 temperance Pic Mic
near Mount Carmel on Saturday. VIC
understand that speeches will be made
by Messrs, T. NJ. Galphin, II. G. Scuddy
and others.
WE. had the pleasure of greeting in oui
Office III Monday last, MIR. Robert "
iIaddon OF Due West. He always has
good crops, and is a great advocate Of tho
no fence law.
THE Butler Rifles of Hodges will have
q gala time to-day. They propose having
A celebration and Pic Mic at which speech
es will be made by General M. c. Butler
Col. Cothran and Judge T. IL. Cooke.
THIS is the sicklicst season Of the year
Have your premises thoroughly cleans
ed. A few rotting Irish potatoes, or
quantity of rotting cabbage is almos
sure to make typhoid fever.
), PIANO and organ manufacturers who
desire US to do q great deal Of udvcriis
ing for the privilege OF buying IL o
! their worthless machines, would saw
postage by not sending their circulars t
this office.
MR.. TENANT CALHOUN, Of Lowrdcs
vile, was IN town Friday, making graft
OH the Treaurrr for oi!olts i'll teaching III
young idea how to shoot.