The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-07-07
Greenwood Gossip.

Red oats are.seiling at forty cents per BUSH
one watermelon in town last week.
Young chickens are in sharp demand at ID
cents.
turned well pleased with their visit. We
think some OF the boys returned to enjoy, OH
ly in %drcanland The ompaniOnship of the
pretty girls they had enjoyed in reality. 4.
The excursion train from Newberry, to
Grccnvilie on last Saturday was crowded.
The number who arrived In Grecnvillc Is cs.
timatcd at fifteen hundred. The train was
run BY MesSIs. Moore d Qunttlebauin OF
Nineiy-SiX. for the benefit OF the colored
folks. The net proceeds were about five hun
drcd dollars.
DR.. 4 Boozcr and lady left for Porter
Springs last Tuesday. The Doctor has been
has gone to the Springs for r~ecupcratlon.
Owing to the inclc1nency OF the weather
the ice cream festival III last Friday night,
was not as well patronizcd as It would have
been under more favorable circumstances
however, the ladies came out Il few dollars
ahead.
Mir. L. Shepherd. who, has the contract OF
carrying the mail from here u Laurens =. H.,
made his first trip last week.
~rcorgalizcG. W. X. Blake was elected prcsi-
ETY. will meet next Thursday night: Subject
for Observation-Disclosures the results OF tho
late War have been beneficial! to the south p
Observation-Disclosures, W. n Hardin, Al.
| ~ '-'N ~ W
Calhoun With such members as Rev. W, Z.
Power, Rev. III. G. smart and W. Is. Blake,
Esq, our SGclcty will certainly prove bench
ciai.
Dave Wood, one Of the colored emigrants
from this place to Alabama, writes hack, II
the Democrats want him to help carry the
coming election, to send him money enough
TO come back on.
our merchants did q pretty lively trade
Saturday. A large crowd of negroes were In
town.
for ClarkSXille Springs, as we reported last
week. He had to go rain or shine"
Some of our citizens will take 4 advantage OF
the low excursion rates to visit Rome.
Miss Julia White returned from Rome q
few lays ago on account OF the death OF her
grandmother, Mrs. Brooks. She had gone
there with the intention of spending thc.sum'
mcr.
Justices court here.
We had the pleasure OF attending the cen:
tennial celebration of the sunday Schoolsla st
Sunday. At half past ten o'clock the cHercis
es commenced with singing. by the choir
The superintendent then read as the first les
son, an appropriate Psalm, after which wa
prayer by the pastor, Rev: H.. {. smart. SH'
ence that there were three grand objects IN
view, in the celebration of the Sunday school
one Of which he would hold in reserve. Inc
first address was by the superintendent MI ~, :
and growth of the Sunday School,. together
with some of the difficulties experienced In
its early history. Mr.. James f: Watson, inc
young man who has gained such nOtoriety a.
u speaker, then, in n very eloquent address
gave a general criticism on the Sunday schoo
system. The pastor then told what was tht
third object of the m~ceting,-that OF recelHlnt
mid financially, to further the Sunday scloo
cause. lie reminded the people that they
} didn't have the opportunity of giving on sucf
an o~ccasian but once In a undred years
| Two little boys then waited on the congrrga
tIon with the hat. We think, from the tink
ling as the hats passed round the response Il
the pastors call was pretty general, The eX
erciscs being closed our party, by the hosPl
! tality of MeSsrs. +. c. Greene and g. L. HodS
es repaired to the Ninety-Six Hotel where {
palatable rcpast was spread. This hotel i
Kept by the Misses McCants, and we thlnk
from the way our boys enjoyed their dinner
they will bear us out in the assertion tina
this is in every way n first class eating house
After spendinga few pleasant hours IN III
city. We started on our journey home. ,o