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What we Ought to do.


The next wear will be a hard one. All
! crops are short. There was a small sup
ply of wheat and oats harvested last
spring in this section and the corn crop
! will not carry thc county beyond the first
of March if it was all equally distributed
and economically used. The cotton crop
will be light, and unless the price should
advance, there will not be much left at
ter guanc and provision bills arc paid.
The dry sections of the country will not
be able to pay these bills in the fall. Now
! these facts face the farmers Of this colln-
ty. The question Of questions is "What
are YOU going to do about it?
In the first place, debts contracted for
making the crop should be attended to,
for \ prompt and manly settlement oil
these claims will insure credit for the
next year. fie who attempts to wigglc
out of the payments of these bills, be-
cause the year has been dry, will not be
in a good condition to get credit again.
If YOU are positively unable to pay these
! debts. then 90 TO your creditor and make
a full statement of your condition, and
! he and you may devise SONG satisfactory
plan which will tide you over the hard
times.
This difficulty icing settled you must
70 to work vigorously and save all the
hay and fodder you possibly can. Ma,
nure your land well and SOW wheat and
oats. 1t is better to manure n acre well
than to waste seed over three or four
acres of poor land. 1t requires less seed
and less time to harvest, and the yield Is
greater. Sow oats literally. a rich lot
in barley will give early horse food. The
red rust-prOof oats will do to feed on the
middle OF May, if you SOW before tho
first of October. 1t is not too latc to SOW
turnips, and a good salad patch is the
poor mans friend in the spring OF the
year. Put your wits TO work and devise
| plaus of economy in small matters, and
deal honestly aud fairly towares both
your creditors and debtors and the dry
year will not hunt you much. Above al
things do not NOPE around and complain
If you have done your full duty this yeal
an / if you deal honestly and fairly will
your creditors, you have no one to blame
You cannot blaine yourself nor the nan
who sold supplies on time. You dare
not grumble ut the want of rain, tor thai
is foolish, if not wicked. Then mee'
these hard times chcertully. Do not lose
a single days work berause it is dry,
| Max: the best preparation for a full and
varied crop next year that you ever
made in your life, and twelve months
fion to-day will find you wiser and
happier man, if not a richer one.
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The President and His Doctors.

A great many unkind remarks have
been INDUCED in with reference to the
treatment which the President has re-
ceivcd at the hands of the Doctors.
These criticisms we believe to be UNI
just, and ungenerous. Wcare Of opin-
ion that no man living a honestly
say that he believes that the physi-
clans in attendance have doue less
than they could, and no man in
America will claim to surpaSs these
men in surgical and medical skill. Ia
stand at q great distance and talk learn
eddy toa newspapcrreporlcr as to what
should be done, is quite different from
producing the desired results. We be-
lieve it little short of a miracle that
the President is alive to-day, and fee
sure if his case had been trusted tc
some Of the large number of physi'
clans who have criticised the treat
ment which he has received, that he
would have been in his grave long ago,
Perhaps these surgeons made the mis-
take of saying anything at all, and
thus making themselves a target fol
every jackenape who may have read
medicine, or has been licensed to
physic the unfortunate.
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A Storm That Has Not Been Equaled
Since 1874.

The high wind which began to blow on
Friday kept rising during Friday night,
and on Saturday morning had increased
to a gale, blowing at Il velocity Of forty
eight miles an hour. 1t continued 10
blow ali day, the greatest velocity reach
ed being at 2 P. NJ, when it Was iifty-iour
| miles ali hour.
In the eastern and southern parts Of the
! city many wharvcs were damaged /; the
section east of East Bay between Laurcns
and Calhoun streets, including some doz-
en- squares, was submerged to the depth
of several feet, the Battery vas also sub
merged, the water running along South
Bay in a stream. The made lands in the
southwestern portion of the city were al
80 under water. Roofs and window
blinds were blown of, and trees, fences
and gates blown down in various parts oil
the city. The shipping in the harbor be-
ing warned of the storm, rode it out in
safety. Communication with Mt. Pleas.
ant and Sullivan's Island was cut off,
and the telegraph wires were so damage
that it was necessary to take the dispatch
es at Summervillo and bring them to the
city by rail. a colorcd sailor, of the
sloop Claudia. was drowned just off the
picr at Benefits Mill.--Ncws and C0u-
ricf.
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The Poultry Yard.

Tho Moulting Season Is now at hand,
and it is a critical and trying time with
the adult fowls. Fowls during this great
strain of casting off the old plumage and
getting new are in q weak and debili-
tated state, and need especial II extra
attention. In majority Of cases, at this
season Of the year, farmers are too prone
to conclude that the fowls can take care OF
themselves-gct their own living. This
is true, however, only under especially
favorable circumstances, where the fowls
are permitted to enjoyan unlimited range,
which should necessarily include n wheat
stubble, or where they can scratch over
the straw and chalf from the %threshing.
Even when a flock may be thus favorably
situated, it is mistaken economy no to
feed them. If fowls are fed regularly,
during moulting, morning and evening,
they get through the strain OF moulting
much sooner are less susceptible to dis
ease, begin their laying again much SOON
er, and are able to commence the winter
with hearty, vigorous constitutions--ln
fact, a flock properly cared for during
July and August "show their Keeping
for n year afterwards. The morning feed
at this time should consist of good sweet
corn meal and wheat barn or middlings
tho latter pr0ferable-scalded with boil
ing water, and about twice Il week add n
.teaspoonful Of flax seed meal TO each
quart of tho mixed food. Keep clean,
pure, fresh water where the fowls can
have access to it, and replenislr their
drinking vessels several times during the
day. II you have not got nice shady re-
treats for them, you must provide them,
for hons, like humans, enjoy a MONDAY
siesta in the Standardization Farmer.
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wed February II, 1878.
The Atlantic and French Broad Valley
Railroad.

Tomorrow q mass meeting of The
citizens of Edgetield county will as
semble at Gilgal Church, to advance
the interests of the proposed Railroad
from Edgetield Court House to Trick
en-. With this line completed the
Atlantic, and French Broad Railroad
will be in communication with the
South Carolina Railroad, and we will
then be some forty miles ncarcr to
Charleston than we are at present
The road will be Of inestimable value
to all the people along the line, and
this boon is within our reach, if we
only show a desire TO have it. If we
do 4 little, we can now get mate
rial all from abroad, but if this oppor-
tunity is lost the chance may never
again he afforded. The Importance
of the line need not now be urged to a
people who are so fully aware Of their
best interests. Abbevilie is fully alive
to the work, has subscribed literally,
and will send 4 large delegation "a
the Edgefeld meeting tomorrow.
Among those whom we have heard OF
rs going, we recollect the names o:
Captain J. W. Perrin, Captain NJ. J..
Bonham, f. G. Graydon, Esq, Col
onel E. B. Gary, Judge Lyon, Mr.:
T. C. Seal, and representatives from
each Of the Abbeville newspapers.
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An important Railroad Movement.

Says the Edgefeld Advertisers: We
have graded a small fragment of railroad
from Edgefield to Aikcn-and that not
quite fnishcd-and here already are two
great corporations grasping out after us,
the Savannah Valley Railroad and the
! Atlantic and French Broad Railroad.
Can there be clearer proof than this of the
value Of a little energy and enterprise 2
On Thursday last Il town was visited
by Capt. Bradley, President Of the French
Broad and Atlantic Railroad, his enSin-
Ger, Capt. McFall, and the Hon. James
Callison, our State Senator. A railroad
meeting was held in the Court House,
Capt. Bradley's object being to bring be-
fore the people the importance Of connect.
ing the Edgefield, Trenton and Aiken
Railroad with the French Broad and At
lantic Railroad at Troy, formerly called
Trickem, or the Augusta and Greenwood
Road (Which is five miles above Dorn's
nine.) After hearing from Captain Brad
ley, Capt. McFall, Mr.. C%allison, Mr.. A. .
Norris, Mr.. G. l.. Woodward, and others,
q survey was ordered to be made over this
route, to be run over the most direct way
from this place to Troy at once. Money
to make the survey was raised in an
hours time, and it was determined to
hold a large meeting of the citizens of
Pickens,' Moss, Blocker, Talbert and
Hibler townships, at Gilgal Baptist
Church, on the LIST day of September, to
hear speakers and consider the question
Of taxation. This road will run from
Troy by Abbevilie Court Honse to Due
West, thence to Bolton, thence to Will
liamston, thence to Easley, thence to
Pickens Cour House, thence through
Eastatoe Gap, thence to Brevard, in North
Carolina, thence down the French Broad
River to Asheville, where it will intersect
the Western North Carolina Railroad.
Our people are very sanguine of the
success Of this road, and are willing to do
all in their power to have the road con-
structcd. 1t will pass through the best
farming lands in our county, crossing
Hard Labor Creek, near Winter Seat.
A large number Of convicts are now at
work upon the Road in Pickens county,
and considerable stretch is already graded.
President Bradley spoke with the utmost
confidence and decision upon the subject,
and said that il the country through
which the road was to pass, would not
give the money to build it, Northern and
Western capitalists would !; and that the
road, one way or the other, was absolute
ly certain to be BULL. And if we give the
money ourselves, tonIold will be the adj
vantages we will derive.
A man who has lived in West Ten
nessec torty-tive years says that many
people in that section, who are old as he
is. "never saw a spoonful of guano in
their lives---they don't use it, but har-
row in peas after each crop OF wheat
for fertilizing purposes.
Hugh Wilson, Of the AJ6eUitte Press
and Banner, gave us a pleasant call on
Thursday. We consider the Press ana
Buuucy. as one Of our most valuable eX
changes, and Mr.. Wilson as one of the
model editors Of tho South.---Grcc7DiNt
NcU South.
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The Tenure Of Ofice-Shall we EStab.
lish q DeSpOtism

When there is nothing else to write
about or talk about the tenure Of office
furnishes a never ending theme of
discussion. A number Of our friends
would have all State and County Off
GERS elected for four years, except the
Judges, and they would have these
officers elected for life or during good
behavior. We see no use of changing
the old established usages in refer
ence to the election Of State and Coun-
ty offices, and prefer to let Il Con-
stitution alone. In the matter of elect
ing Judges we see no force in the ar
gument favoring a change from four
years to life time. If the incumbent
has been acceptable and is more com
petent than anybody else, he will be
reelected every four gears during life,
and knowing that his career will be
passed upon every four years, he will
be more likely to keep pace with the
demands of'the age. If he does not
do so, he will be permitted to stand
aside and give place toa more accept
able man at the next election. Give
n man Office for life and he is indepen-
dent Of the feelings and wishes of the
people from whom he derives his pow
er. To elect a man to office for life,
is an approach to the establishment Of
"A a%ristocracy which must be repulsive
to our Republican principles. IF the
Judge is to hold Office for life. why
not make his son his successor, and
thus establish all aristocratic govern
ment at once? We want nc officer in
q Republican government who is not
responsible to the people. If an off,
Ger is not responsible to the people, he
is entirely above them, and may in
suit them or trample on their rights
at will.
If these learned Judges are conscious
of faithfully discharging their duties,
why should they object to the people
setting their seal Of approval upon
their acts every four years?
If it Is better to have the Circuit
Judges continued in office for life,
whether they are fit for the office or
not, why make the exception in the
case of the Probate Judge who fills an
office equally as important as that OF
Circuit Judse7 The Probate Judge
now holds his Office for two years, I'M
Jess reelected, but his more fortunate
brother on the Circuit Bench, it is
commended, should be elected for life.
80 contend that a man should fill the
efficeof Judge for life, whether accept
able or not to his constituents, Is moth
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The Srmnathy If the Queen.

WAs1tISGToN, August27.---The follow.
ing correspondence by cable is furnished
from the State department.
LONDON, August 27---Blaine, Secretary,
Washington 1 have just received from
her Majesty the Queer, at Balmoral, tel
egram in these words: II am most deep
" ,.rieved ut thu sad news Of the last lie"
days and would wish my deep sympa.
thy to be conveyed to Mrs. Garfield
LOWELL, Minister.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WAsHINdTON
August 27---Lowell, Minister, London
l have submitted to Mrs. Garfield youi
telegram conveying the kindly message
from her Majesty the Queen. Mrs: Gar
field is constantly by her husbands bed
side, and does not give up all hope of his
recovery. Her request is that You will
return TO the Queen her most sincere
thanks, and express her heartfelt appre'
citation for the constant interest and ten
der sympathy shown by her Majesty
towards the President and his family in
their deep grief and most painful sus'
pense. BLAINE, Secretary.
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M%endicinal Qualities Of Eiuttermilk.

For a sutnmer beverage there can be
! nothing moro healthy and STRENGTHENING
than buttermilk. It is excellent for q
weak or delicate stomach, land far better
a. a dinner drink than coffee, tea or wa
ter, and, unlike them, does not retard,
but rather aids digestion.
A celebrated physician once said that
if every n knew the value Of butter
milk as a drink, it would DO more freely
partaken Of by persons who drink 80 en-
cessively of other beverages; and iurth-
err compared IFS effects upon the system
to the cleaning out of q cook stove that
has been cloggcd up with ashes that has
>i!tcd through, filling up every creVlce
and crack, saying that the human sys,,
tenn is like the stove, and c~ullects and
gathers refuse matter that can in no way
J be externlinated from the system so cf-
Iectually ~ by drinking buttermilk. 1t
is also 4 specific remedy for indigestion,
soothcs and Quiets the nerves, and IS very
somnolcnt to those who are troubled
with sleeplessness.
There is something strange in the fact
those who are fond Of buttermilk never
tire Of singing its praises, while those
not fond of it never weary Of wondering
how some people can drink it. So far as
is possible, people should overcome their
aversion to it, and learn to drink it for
hcaIth's sake. One gentleman of our
acquaintance is so extremely fond of it
that VIC knew him one time to drink
aboug three classes, then SGT his glass
down with a thud eNclaiming earnestly
rs he smackod his lips, "rl,at's food ana
raimeut botll.' Willie another butter
milk enthusiast made the statement once
that where the liver has became lifelcss
for torpidity and inaction, and is too dead
to perform it's functions, buttcrmilk will
cause a new one to grow in. Whatever
exaggerated statements may have been
made concerning buttermilk, its medical
properties cannot be overrated. and II
should be more freely used by those who
can get it. Every one who values good
health should drink buttermilk every
day in warm weather, and let tea, coffee
and water alone.
For the benefit of those who are not nj
ready aware of it, I may add, that in the
churning the first process of digestion is
gone through making it II of the ca
sicst and quickest things to digest.
1t makes gastric juice and contains
properties that readily assilnilatc will
it, with little or no wear upon the diges'
tive organs.
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Abbeyille Teachers Association

The Abbeville County Teachers Asso
citation will hold it's Annual Session a
Duo West on the Sth and 9th of Septcm
Dor.
A full attendance Of teachers and
friends of education is earnestly reques'
ted. Arrangements will be made to en-
tertain all visitors, and they should al
once inform Prof. VIM. Hood, chairman
Ct reception committee, Of their purpose
TO attend the Association.
The following is the programme OF pro-
ceedings.
THURSDAY Sth SEPTEMBER.
Observation-Disclosures meeting, II
o'clock.
Presidents annual Address, by Rev,
W. NJ. Glier, D, D.
AHerno6n.-Papor on Local Taxation
for Schools" by NJ. j.. Bonham, Jr., O.
Abbeville. Followed 10y discussion.
Paper OH "School Rewards and Punish
ments'' by Prof. F.. III. Aull, Newberry
College. Followed by discussion.
FRIDAY 9th SEPTEMBER.
Business meeting 10 o'clock.
Paper on "Modern improvements ir
School Teaching by D.. B. Johnson
Principal Of Abbeville High School
Followed by discussion.
Paper en- "Diligent Tcachers:--The on
" m:,4ns of Progressiveness in Ednca'
ton = by Prof. j. H.. Miller, of Erskint
College. Followed by discussion.
Hon. Hugh 8. Thompson, State Supre'
intendent Of Education, will also deliver
an address to the Association, either or
Thursday or Friday, and Miss 1. D.
Martin, of Columbia High School for
Girls will read a paper; subject "a
Sketch"
". NJ. GRIER, President.
W. C. BENET, Chairman Executive
Committee.
August 10th, st.
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Friendship.

The disgusting familiarity displayed b,
some people of shallow brains is yer.
trying to one who is not accustomed t
the ways Of the "Heathcn Cliinee.'
these people could ever learn that faInil
iarity breeds contempt and that contemr
very soon leads to disruption Of friend
ship, there would possibly lie less ever
lasting familiarity.
1.-THE man that halls you Tom or Jack.
And proves by humping on your back
His SENSE Of our great merit.
Is such u friend that one had need
BE very.much his friend indeed
70 pardon or to bear it,"
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UNLOCKED FOR GOOD NEWS.
The Last Terrible Relapse Regarded as
the Turning Point in the Case-The
Public Receive the Cheerful An.
nouncemeut with Due Allowance for
tl,a Circumstances.
Sc,vS and Courier.

thC
Meas and CoWrier.l
WASHINGTON, August 29--The situa-
ton tonight might be summed up in a
sentence, that the President is 4 triile bet
ter than this time last night. The par
ticular symptoms which so to make up
his slight improvement are necessarily
so inlinitcSimal that it is maniicstly i'm
possible to accurately describe thcm. 1t
is amply for the many to simply know
that all indications are pronounced favor
able, and that some progress, however
little, has been made in the last twenty
four hours in the right direction.
From all interviews with his physicians
the President is planting himself more
firmly on the upward road. Having
reached the bottom of the well he was
compelled either to rise or die, and he has
happily chosen the more agreeable alter
native of getting up again.
With oneeXcepti0n his physicians eX-
press the professional belief that he is
going to get well. The name Of the cx-
ceptional doctor is not given, but the
mere fact is stated by Dr.. Bliss. They
all agree, however, that the Improvement
is marked and quite satisfactory as far as
it goes. The public interest has greatly
fallen off here. There has been very lit
tie demonstration compared with former
days and nothing like the recurrence of
the exciting scenSc of last week. This
evening about two score were in waiting
at the gates of the Executive mansion
when the evening bulletin vas posted on
the big tree. about half as many as greeted
its appearance last night. This apparent
falling OFT in public is due to the fact that
the condition of the President is general
" Enoyvp uov hp,orp tho n Giriol rpnOrtS
are promulgated. The doctors are gen
orally talkalire ut present, for the cws
is of that pleasant kind which is good to
tell and is pleasant to listen TO. Then the
bulletins are quickly printed, and deliv-
cred and posted at different points
throughout The city within twenty MIN
utes after they are issued. The public
solicitudc for the Presidents future can
scarcely be measured by the outward cv-
idence of satisfaction at his escape from
immediate danger.
1t is still feared that the present inn
proycment is but temporary. The lesson
of the previous ups and downs of the
case has not been lost on sensible and con-
scrvativc people. They know it is not
improbable that there may be other re-
lapses as dangerous as this from which
the President has recently come through.
Tic President himself appears t" be
thinking of the same thing when he says
with a pathos Which will go to every
heart II wonder how many stations I
have to stop at But Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof" is the motto
at the White House, where no other opin-
ion is tolerated than that which practical
ly places the President out Of our danger.
Just now everything appears to be going
swimminrlv.
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"Hybrid" C0tt0n-Plantcrs Beware

A gentleman recently returned from
Western Louisiana, where he had been
on matters connected with the Census,
Informs us Of a fratid Of which the plan
ters in that locality have been made the
victims. a man was offering the seed
of "Worm-Proor Hybrid Cotton" claim
ing that the seed was from a "hybrid" be-
tween the Cotton plant and "a weed which
no worm or bug would touch" AS our
friend is a competent botanist, he was
able to put some awkward questions to
the man with the "hybrid" seeds who,
not liking the situation, left the town.
The seed were sold for 80 cents each, or
50 per dozen seeds, and the vendor claim
ed to HAYES sold $4,000 worth Of them last
spring in Western louisiana. Swindlcrs
in seeds, like comets, have erratic orbits,
and it is not at all likely that the ely
brid Cotton" mun will be heard Of again
in Louisiana, but our friends in other
cotton-growing States shonld be on their
guard against him. He will he quite like
ly to turn up ut some Of the fairs this au-
tumn. and also To make his "hOuse to
house" visits during the winter. 1t is n
well-knOwn fact that Cotton or any other
! plant will not "hybridize' with any plant
not Of the same family. As nome of the
family to which Cotton belongs arc
known to he poisonous, it is safe to set
down this remarkable ''hybrid' rs Il poor
fraud.-Amcrican Agricutturist.