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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1884-05-14

williamson Hotel burnt. Eess, 100000
Name:of the paper changed from Lndepend'
enl Preas to AbbertNe Press.
Married, Vim. A.: Shiilito, Maria G. Gates.
Death, Nancy Vance. wife OF John Vance.
VIC. Moore ind c. F. Quaife dissolved
partnership.
! The Coronaca State Guerds..Names o
b Company.
We Q portion OF the citizens Of Abbevfls Oh
having uualterpbly determined to stand o. Eaiil
S.,nth Carolina, aud u defend her eau,r 1t she
whenever called up"n by her eonstttnh d antn
Do therefore organize OIL scIvrs into . voidnI -
corps Of infantry under the nsme and style Of God
nnscA Stale Gusrds :" GeNrer Conner. Captain; Jand
shauklin, tamuel Wilson. George Pnuklin. Will
White, Franklin Bowie. John Bowman. s"nior. Bel
LDvslsss, Naihrn Smith, John Bowman, junior, Wnl
D. Marry. John Logan, George Wrtheszil: 91xEsb
isss, Joarph e. D. Wrthersll. Thmnas B Gar Ds,a
W. McCsnt., John ". MeKrllrs. Edward LspEoe}
ssuiu-l Le.ke. T. Csin. Ahs,lom Smith, John \
Stone, John Irwin, David Anderson, Nichols MSrri
~ether. Madison Bailey. Vim. Buchanan, Jaud
Buchanan, Francis A. Buchanan. james Cochran, ~
drew C,bb, Robert Z. Buehan %, James K. bakr, !
Bake, smith Bnman. >ainnel Crnuiupost, E0be|
SIN Oh, Stanley Crews, william Milford. ysrnss 6Hi'
James A. Jay. Alexander Jones, 9sllstin Your,
Fphraim Drunmond. Jsmes L AndrrSon, John
w-a'herall, joel smith. John Matthew'S, John |
Coirm IN, samuel G. Crawford. senior, =. Cnnn4
Stephen v a.son. Charles smith. g. E: Trsut!en.
4 Saunders, James Smith, Peter Watson. VILLA
Wrtherall. VIM. n. ssddlsr, j. B. Calvert Willis
/ Lindsay, Thomas Mabry. Thomas Smith, L. z. Rat1
Rukert W. Will. John w. C,nnOy,
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es by J. Z. Bell, 7. c. Bradley. r. 6. Brice. J. I.
Grier, W. NJ. Grier. O. p. Hawthorn. W. W.
Lindsay, W. R. McClelland, J. Il. Murphy, J.
L. Orr, J: II: Smith. W; G. VIM. Annual nd.
Dedication philomathean Hall. Orators,
W w. East. J. G. Maxwell. ~
ner Stone j. ]. Bo!ner presided. Addresses
by J. F. Lee, D. Mcneil Turner. David Wits,
Thomas McBryde. W. X. Hrmphill.
Brownlee, II. 8. Cason. james Young, y. n
Prince. sr., G. B. CinkTcnles, Pleasant Fergu'
son, J. X Black. w. L. Prince, G. W. Hucka'
A Good Thing to Do With Old Sum
ner's Vile Speeches..
Public Meeting Greenwood-James Gillian
chairman: ]. T, Parks, secretary ]. H.. 10
gan introduced resolutions which were adopt
ed. calling for every copy OF sumr er's speech
make q bonfire, which should be lighted by
negroes, on the anniversary OF Sumner Gnu
Ing.
Married. Harry ReagIn, Martha Ann CLARK
Francis Logan, Mary T.. Verell; Thomas N
Pnlhill. Josephine Hawthorn.
Died. Edwin Holbrook McDowall.
NJ. Erwin announces that he has put n new
wheat mill ut Smiths old mill on Salnda:
1N-uS At-lolhi y. NV WYNN . "
n storm In his barn near Stoney Point
Lightning struck the building killing him.
J.. L.. Orr predicts the eleeiion Of Lincoln.
Letter from J. F. Marshal.
Col NJ. w. Gary orders an election tn 81
held In the Abheville Squadron to All vacan
cy oc"asioned by 70, ignation Maj GET. a. NJ
Smith.
Candidates Required to Espouse thu
Cause OF Secession.
August 2i-Public meeting ut Greenwood
J. II. Tarrant, chairman ; j T. Purks. secreta
rs. Res luiions were unanimously passet
demanding OF candidates to The Iexislathri
that they espousc the cause OF Secession ir
event OF the election OF O Republican candi
dn!e, and that they abolish TINT Glars OF soci
ETY. known ns tree negroes by removal or 9th
erwise.
Letter ". W. Boycc.
Married, Francis A.. L. Nobiett, Sarah Jan
Nc Allster.
August 81 -Death OF Mrs. E. f. Pressly.
8. MCGOWAN. Thomas Thomson, W. c. Da
Wis answer Greenwood Undergraduates.
September Flown Council. I%ntendant. D
F. Jones; Wardens, J. 8. Cothran, 1T. Moore
John Enright, Edward Westhcld.
Death, james 8. Bowie NJ Aiken.
J. Foster Marshall. J. N. Cochran, w. ]. L.
max, H.. H. Harper answer Greenwood inter
%rOgalories.
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Ordinance OF Secession.
An Ordinance to DISSOLVE the Union 6ed
State of South Carolina and The ~
Un,ted .cith her. under the Coas1aoa
the Consultation Of United Sdtes
We, the people OF the State Of sol
linn, IN Convention nssem6ieI, oo
and ordain, and il Is hereby declared
dnined. that this ordinance adopted q
Convention, on the twenty-third day
In the year Of our Lord one THOUSAND
hundred and eiphty.eight, whereby
stitution OF the United States OF AmeI
ratified /: and, also, all. acts and part
OF the General Assembly OF this Stat1
ing amendments OF the said COnsttiu1
hereby repealed, und that the Union
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Charles Henry Allen. drugri>t.
Warren Allen.
BILE ynrd.
Godfrey Bowers, carpenter.
s. Henry Beard. surgeon dentist.
Baker. plastercr.
William w. Bclcier.
W. r. Branch. Mt school.
r. E. Bowie. law student.
]. Gamble Bnsk,n, lawyer and magistrate.
George Buchanan. clerk for VIM. Hughey.
A. Brus:el. merchant.
w. r. Buchanan. cabinet work man.
Thomas Browning, harness maker.
George W. Brown, carpenter.
D. s. Benson. physician.
10 Bcrgin, carpenter,
Ecclcs Cuthhert. plasterer.
f. cobb, proprietor Marshall House.
william Chan,plain. bricklaycr.
Jack Champlain. h~ricklaycr.
F. Cownover, builder and contractor.
Matthew Cochran. deputy Sheriff.
James D Chalmers. dealer In marble.
T. B. Crews. printer and editor A6beUiNe
Banner.
J. e. Calhoun. lawyer and magistrate.
James H. Cobb, merchant.
John Coumbe. plas'erer and hricklnyer.
Charles Cox, manufacturer OF busgics, wag.
ons. &c.
Thomas NJ. Christian. dealer In shoes.
TiIos. r. Cochran. ex-SherlR.
is. COthran. lawyer.
w. Norwood CnIhnnn
james Cobb. sllversmith.
John A. Calhoun, farmer.
A.. p. Cobb.
Bunyan Crawford, livery stable business.
ID.
Charles Dcndy, owner of lanyard and farm.
er.
J. D. DAILY. architect.
Stephen C. DcRruhl, lawyer.
W. G. Davis, lawyer and editor Of the Ban
ner.
n. Jefferson Davis, farmer.
Z.
John G. Edwards. merchant.
John Enriglit, ginwright.
A. w. Edwards, clerk ut Aliens store.
T..
o. J. Harrington. tailor.
James w Fowler, clerk at Weir & Lythgoc't
store.
Wnddy Fowler, clerk ut Weir & Lythgoe's
store.
r. A. Fair, lawyer.
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The Charleston Hotel-K eepers Raise
the Price OF Board to $500 n Day,
and Keep the Crowd Away.

The National Democratic Convention IL ir
session. The hotel keepers OF the city pre-
pared for twenty thousand guests. an
doubled the price Of board. Result, fftcer
hundred visitors. 49,
The WILLIAMSON Springs Hotel open. Car
accommodate $40 guests. II. T. Tusten, mana
Died, Mrs. F. F.. H. Witherspoon:
MAY 1.-The National Democratic Conven
ton adopts resolutions, which cnnses the With
drawnl OF y majority OF TIE delrSales Hon
Alaimma. Louisiana, Texas and .Arkansns.
Nj. Morris, OF Illinois, will urge In tnngres,
the TRP.seiRtMent Of J.; L. H. C MIs. OF SUN ss3ii
ernor Wood. Of Illinois, commissioners TO ne
gotiate The purchase Of the woman posses
siOns.
May festival mt Cnkcsbury.
May lis. II. Hodges VIII collect axes.
HOrse ran OF ut Cnkesbury, dashed hugg!
against tree. killed q three year old child .
NJ. Steans.
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The Southern Medical Students Get
Their Backs Up.

Secerdins Students-6S medical students
from the University OF Pennsylvania. 30 fror
jefferson Me :Ical College. and IA from Ne"
York Medical College. .
Magistrates Abheville Disadvantages G
Calhoun and John q Bnskins, Ahb"rile; W
A. Giles, LowndpsviIle; n. w. Hawthorne
nue West: Sterling f. Grnydon. t'okeshury
John r. Tarrnnt. Greenwonl:. Walter g.
Keller. williams Trewit, David Mclain, JaS
McCps'an. Leroy J. Johnson. Samuel ZONES
]. Williams Black, VIM. Clinksrnics, GhhrieI
NJ, Mnttison, ASA Bowie, W. W. Higgins. nn
vid Keller, ". b.. Merriwe'hcr, Jonathan =
com n~fssioncrs Public Bnildings-S Nc
Cowan, Il. P. Hughes. James N. Perrin, Isaac
Branch, John 4. Calhoun, Fl. A. Jones.
Observation-Disclosures. NJ. Armstrong. VI,
F. n. p; NJ. G. ZcIclcr, K.;C. N. Pelot,
N. Strouss. T.; J. w. Cochran, Secteihry; 3
2. Herndon., C; HI ?. ". conner. X; ~ 4 :
n. Black, I'd "; N. Sims. 81 "; A. Cobb
Sentinel.
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Married, James ". JOhnson; SalIIe F. Jones'
April 13-Easter Observation-Disclosures Thorn
No ,Jack and John 4. Calhoun ttce W. II.
PARKER, declined election. Vestry.-J. F. Mar
shall, 4. MCGOWAN. E: Noble, w: 4. Lee
james e. Calhoun, ". II. Parker, Joseph F.
Lee. Acadia.
Mrs, Small q dvertises millinery.
Married, BENJAMIN l.. Reynolds, Francis j
NJ. Lites: James W. Fowler. Celia Chalmers
April 21-F. w. Davis Is crushed and Killed
! between the cars at Greenwood.
Caleb Burton was killed by the falling OF q
burning tree.
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Due West Comm - Corner
stone OF the Female College.

Due West commencement. Annual sermon
by Rev. DR.. Furmun. W. T.. Hudgens, alumni
orator. Society diplomas conferred Ivy II. l..
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The Legislature Calls . Conventis
or the People OF the STATE.

The Legislature OF South Carolina e,Iled
Convention OF the people on the 18th Of .
ccnber, lS,O, "lor the purpose or taxing IN
sition OF the Stnte In the Federatc Union. {
itablished By the Constitution OF the Unit
States. and the measures which Will be nee
sary and proper for providing agntnst 5,
Commonwealth o South CaroIinu shalt sun
no detri meht-"
Married, Theodore Kennedy. Isabel
Brooks, William B. Talbot, Susan A. Hintd
Patriotic Ressluaons, which ws'
Endorsed by W. e. Earle, and 0t
a.. snutfh CnrolinA StQdeAta.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

ass4Ga Chs body placed within The funef
al ceremonies are never complete until
the succeeding chief has captured q
town or fought b battle in which blood
has been shed. Whenever a great sor
cerer, or a person Of more than ordinary
distinction, departs this life, his body Is
allowed to decompose before burial. It
is covered with aromatic substances and
placed on q bamboo platform in the sun,
where it is left for several days. The
decomposition produces q putrefying
liquid which is caught in earthen vessels
placed under she platform. This hor
rible liquid is then divided among those
present. Each receives the liquid in
his hand and quickly rubs it 81 over his
body. After this revolving performance
the body is wrapped in q kind ct cloth
and buried with various ceremonies.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

az once there would come 4 Hood ofnec-
tar from some unlocked for source. Ia
cool wet spring and summer will pro-
duce no honey, although the bloom
may be abundant, and vet may be just
the condition suitable to produce many
honey-yielding fall flowers. During
the last autumn, a Ian ge amount of sur
plus honey was gathered from the diff
ferent varieties of smartweed (polygu-
NOM. This honey was beautifully
white, and of a fine minty flavor. These
plants flourish on overlands and damp
lands generally, although they are
found abundantly in this locality grow
ing in %cornields, and whore early pota.
toes have been raised. Sweet corr is
growing in favor as a honey plant. A
sweet syrup is secreted in the axis Of
the leaves, near the stock, and bees
gather pollen from the tassel. 1t is sur
prising that farmers will go to town
and buy miserable glucose syrup, when
a heaven-born sweet syrup can be had
at their door, not for the asking but fol
the taking.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22
FIRM, FIELD IND u ffiikRfSibF.


The population of this country is soon
TO become very much denser in the old
er sections, and there viii have to be a
dividing up Of the larger farms, or the
plan of tenant farming more largely
practiced. Tenant help in Ohio is in
greater demand each year, and our larg-
er farmers now provide comfortable
houses and gardens, and men with fam
lilies are now the principal hired help.
There is a reliability about such help
that pays in more ways than one. Ten
ant farming should also be more largely
encouraged, and it carries with it more
responsibility upon the part of the ten
ant; for the better he does, the larger
his income, and there is indication of
better farming, and even culture that is
very gratifying. A large farmer near
by practices a plan of tenant farming as
an investment for his surplus money,
buying a large farm a often as every
other year. He will purchase a large
farm and put upon it the best tenant
he can select from the large number
from which he can always choose.
The farm is stocked, buildings put into
thorough repair, and the tenant put
into possession, an equal division being
made of all incomes. Al certain pro-
gramme of work is made part of the
contract, and certain repairs made, the
owner to furnish material, the tenant to
do the labor. The result is favorable;
the one has secured a fair income for the
money invested, the other has made a
good living and a better return than he
could possibly have made from day
wages. Instead of forcing the surplus
families of a township to go West it
provides homes and incomes here, and
usually retains a useful and industrious
class of citizens; while it actually
doubles the former productive capacity
ofthe neutrality-suspicious. Country
Gentleman.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

From the American Poultry Yard
There is nothing worse for domestic
animals than to scare them half to
death. Fright uses up the vital forces
more than work, more than the growth
Of flesh or fat, more tsan anything else,
unless it is persistent starvation.
We have had two men working for
as, with teams, on the same farm at the
same time. One would take his horses
from the stable when they had been
refreshed by q few days rest, and were
feeling well, and because they were
feeling pretty risky while they were
being harnessed up, and the off horse
did not keep the furrow well at the
first send-off, would get out Of patience
and yell at his team till finally they
would break into a trot, when he would
throw the pillow to the full depth into
the first hummuck he could find, bring
the team to a full stop, and by this
time they would be well in q father"
and quivering with excitement. After
he had yelled for q few minutes, and
the horses had become fully frightened,
they had used up strength enough to
move the pillow for an hour.
The other man knew better. When
he observed, while "hitching up" that
h ehorses' heads were carried high, and
that they were feeling first rate, he
would say 10 himself: There Is a
good head of steam on to-day, and /
shall be able to get a good days work
out Of these fellows if I save it all to
be used to the best advantage" There
fore he would speak in as quiet a tone
as possible, would move gently about,
and aim to get his team afeld without
the risk Of and rumpus NJ excitement,
and would bear with q few Irregular
ties, such as getting out Of the furrow
and pulling by fits and starts q few
times. The consequence would be
that when they were warmed up to
their work, they would move on
smoothly and at the same time quickly,
and at the end of an hour there would
be a row Of nice fresh burrows to show
as an equivalent for the steam the
other man had used MP in mere Fret
and fume and worry and passion.
AS il is with large animals, so it Is
true Of fowls, il You at all times exc
else kindness toward them, they will
doubly repay youAfor all your care and
kind attention.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

We have often heard people say, II
mean to have Some bees, and / meant
to have had them long before this. "
Yet these persons live year after year
without them, while their fruit bloom
is poorly fertilized, and the nectar se-
creted in the fora Of their fields and
hedges Is left to waste it's sweetness.
Bees seem especially designed, ID ths
economy Of nature, to gather mp the
remnants that nothing be lost. This
Was forcibly Illustrated the past season,
BIZ the reports coming in from different
parts Of the country OF the large yields
Of honey gathered from wheat stubble.
When the wheat was cut, before the
straw WAS fully ripened, q sweet Juice
oozed ont Of the straw where il was cut;
ri some instances the juice was SO plenS
6ful that q clear drop Of juice ran out
Of every stubble, aud some hlled the
upper joints aud ran down the stubble.
IT III D very rare season indeed
that bees cannot secure enough
honey from some source to sup
port thouselves. We have many times
been Respondent, thinking that W.
would get no surplus and have to feed
our bees their winter stores, when, All
-| M.t
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22
smaller gouare q sampler canvas 8

smaller square Of sampler canvas npon
it in tho center. On this work In the
ordinary cross stitch any pattern that
a be done in one color or in different
shades Of q color. A dragon or griffin,
or a heron worked in gold hloselle is
very SNOWY, and a ryIarge menos gram
in scarlet or light blue is pretty. When
the embroidery is finished draw out the
threads Of canvas ind press the lace,
and, Unnecessary, sponge it lightly on
the back with white mucilage to restore
the stitfening which may have come
out in working upon il. Edge with a
s~callop buttoIhoIed with silk the same
color as the center, OF border it with a
darned net edge with the pattern run
In colored silk.
There are many kinds of daisy tides,
but the simplest are made by winding
for each daisy, some white wool over
three 6ngers-a little experimenting
will soon show how much to use, and
tying it tightly in the middle with linen
thread, cutting both ends and pulling
them out and lattening them. A little
combed- ont ttaft of yellow worsted has
to be made and sewed on for the flower
center. The daisies are sewed upon
narrow tape in rows, and joined togeth-
er in u square, diamond, or circular
form
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

There are lively times now at sword
fishing off No Mans Land and Block
Island, says the Hartford Times. This,
however, is not a sport in which a 0
ice can take part. Great experience
and skill are required. Your true
swordfshman can't afford to have his
luck spoiled by the ~bungiing antics of
ambitious and over confident amateurs.
Everything must proceed just right.
The swordfish, a huge fellow, does not
show himself, like a porpoise, by jump
ing out Of the water, nor by "blowing"
Ikea whale. He goes, however, near
the surface, and to q sharp and educated
eye he shows one sharp-pointed fin
something like a shark's-just breaking
the surface of the water. 1t is a very
inconspicuous object, and would be ov-
erlooked by any but an experienced eye.
But the lookout who is stationed aloft on
the mast will see ii at an incredible dis
lance sometimes. Then the vessel is
turned that way, the harpooner goes out
on the bowsprit, and, firmly grasping
his weapon, silently waits the moment
of fate. When, with a lightning-like
movement, he throws that iron, it is
most likely TO penetrate deeply, If not
fatally, into the monsters vitals.
Then. when the wounded fish goes
rushing GO, the line, all fast to a cask
that cannot be sunk, is thrown over
board, cask and all, and the vessel goes
of for q fresh victim, knowing that the
boating cask can be followed and the
tired swordfsh pulled in, and, If neces-
sary, lanced to desth at any hour. 1t
is said forty or fifty of these fish are
brought into Newport everyday. They
measure In some parts of the world,
from ten to sixteen feet in length, bat
on the New England coast they seldom
exceed seven or eight feet (not measur-
ing the sword), and weigh from 800 to
500 pounds. This sword, q curious bony
extension Of the upper jaw, is three or
four feet long, and is a very formidable
weapon. With it the fish successfully
attacks the largest whales, and even
thrusts ii through several thicknesses Of
plank in q ships bottom. A swordfsh
last summer attacked a man who was
bathing in the Gulf of California, and
came very near killing him before he
could get ashore, where he fell, wounded
and bleeding. Vessels from the Vine
yard Sound bring these fish to New
London by the cargo. The flesh is solid
like old mess pork, and excellent when
fried, but rather dry. But 1T is the
sport and excitement Of capturing the
fish that make swordfshing the most
captivating Of all fishing, though it is
actually participated in by comparative.
" few but trained hands,
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

Cholera has made periodical twelve
year visits to our country. The last
epidemic was in 1873. Thus we have
something to fear for next year if not
for this. The Philadelphia Medical
News says OF its appearance In 1878:
ssCholera visited the United States be-
fore it appeared in Paris. Then there
were many sources Of infection-~it was
first brought to New Orleans by d Bre-
men barqne, and developed In the case
of q man employed in unloading her
cargo Ca native of Pensacola who went
to New Orleans for employment. But
the larger number Of cases were import
ed directly through New York City on
non-infected vessels, but the disease was
nett daegeIleped until the personal eHfssctts
Of the victims had been unpacked| at
their destination, This was shown ii
the three distinct outbreaks at widely
remote parts fthe United States, where
the effects Of emigrants from Holland,
Sweden and RUSSIA were unpacked+at
Carthage, O., Grow River Mimi, aud
Yankton, OAK, where, within thirty
six hours thereafter, the d1st cases Of
the disease appeared"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

Take . square Of firmly woven net.
not TOO large meshed, and haste .