The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1881-08-24
Rufus Hatch was interviewed on Satr

Rufus Hatch was interviewed on Satur-
day in relation TO recent large sales Of
corn made by him, and he admitted that
some Of his customers who had bought
corn at AZ tn 4S were realizing their prof
its while the price was up. AS TO the
future prospects of the grain market, he
says: "Wheat is already thirty cents a
bushel higher than it was thirty days
ago, and all interior warehouses arc filling
up, under q very light export demand, at
these increased prices. Dispatches from
Toledo say that the warehouses there
are full of grain, and that 500 unloaded
cars are now in that city with no storage
for their freight. Cars loaded with grain
are on every side track between Toledo
and Fort Wayne. The Chicago ware
houses will store IA, DOC 900 bushels of
grain. They are two-tbirds full to-day.
With the Chicago markets higher than
those in Liverpool and New York, how
long can they receive and store grain
without shipment? With q bank reserve
of less than So, 900, 600 in this city, how
long will it be before so melody must
pay for the grain nov in store and being
stored7 With every brakeman on every
train in the corn belt buying grain ut 2
per cent. margin, isn't it about time that
somebody found out what the * port de-
mand is likely to do In old times in Chi
cago we used to measure the size Of the
crops by what was paid for them. II the
price was high, the crops were large, and
vice versa ; for a small price lays three
crops away, and a big price brings one,
two and three crops out. Farmers are
slower but surer spectators than Wall
street operators. I believe II very much
higher prices i'll corn before another
crop; but there isn't money enough in
the New York banks to lock mp the en-
tire grain crop of this country for the
next sixty days without export demand"
While a rain cloud Was passing over
this city last Saturday, Miss Lucy Little,
daughter Of Rev. l.. M. Little, while
walking across the floor Of the dining
room, was struck on the right arm and
hand by lightning which caused her to
fail to the floor. She was. however, oon
ND and on her feetagain, complaining on
ly of a numbness or tingling sensation in
the stricken hand. Threedays after only
Of the fingers seemed to be affected.
Doubtless the entire hand will soo be in
its normal ate.-Chriatidn Ne1ghbor.
TIL Death us Part.
It'll Denth nc part"
80 speaks the heart,
When each to each repeats the words OF doom;
Thro' blessing and thro' curse,
Fol better and for worJe,
When will be one till that dread hour shall
come.
Life, with Its myriad grasp.
Our yearning souls shall clasp,
BY ceaseless love and still expectant wonder;
In bonds that shall endure,
Indiss0lubly sure.
TIL God IN death shall part our paths asunder.
Till Death us join,
o voice vet more divlnel
That to the broken heart breathes hope sub
lime;
Thro' lonely hours
And shattered powers
We still are one. despite Of change and time.
Death, with his healing hand, !
Shall once more knit the band
Which needs but that one link which none
may sever:
Till, thro' the Only Good, |
Heard, felt and understood, /
Our life In God shall make US one for ever.