The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-23
FROM DUE WEST.
Many Readable Parasraphs--Life and
Love- mt the Athen of AbbeviIIe.
DUE WEST, Dec. 81, 1885.

Many Readable Parasraphs--Life and
Love ut the Athens Of AbbeviIIc.
DUE WEST, Dec. 81, 1885.
y merry Christmas and Il happy New Year
to the many readers Of the Press ana Banner.
The Baptist SUNDAY school will have II
Christmas tree on Friday evening Of this
week.
Miss Susie Calhoun will spend the Christ
mas vacation OF her school in Due West.
mt now 1t is said that q ministerial widow.
er not a thousand miles front here contcm-
plates committing mnirimony again.
The fascinating Miss Carrie Bradley, of
Troy, is visiting the family of her uncle, DR..
J, W. Wideman.
One of the weddings announced by us in
columns came off on schedule time, and
we Il no reason to anticipate 4 stay OIL
proceedings in the other.
This interesting item is from the Chicago
Lrdgcr: 'rrhc man who can keen heaven In
his heart while lie has the other place in his
STOMACH is the opel sort Of a Christian To
tie to-
After tomorrow evening Due West can
boast Of iiaving within its corporate limits
two brnnd-new brides. Of the number of
prospective ones deponent saith not.
Miss Julia Kennedy will take the place in
the Faculty of the Fenitle College vacated by
Miss Mary II. Miller; who this morning obli-
gated herself to love; honor and obey"
Among the neateSt wedding cards we recol-
lcct ever to have seen arc those announcing
Vic llttlSs iil GU ."it
G., of Mr.. W. +. Iourts and Miss Eunice Bell,
Il graduate OF the Due West Female College.
Has Abbevilie any male citizens who are
neither Generals, Colonies, Majors nor Cap;
taipS. It:wOuld be ref eshilg to hear of them
81 Oxen of occasionally rs "Misler."
Mrs: Harriet Bcccher Stoves celebrate work
'Urclc TOMS Cabin has been Translated IL
to the following languages: French, Grrlnan
Portuguese, Spanish, Russian Swedish
In II few days the year 1855, with Its joys
and its sorrows, Its hops and its fears, it's
and lis dissnppointmcnts, will have
murdered with the things that were.
And it is sad to reflect that many of its COL
opportunities have been uniimproved and
many OF its pressing duties unperformed.
We are all nearly one year older; are We one
those of us who are permitted to live so order
our steps that at the close of 1856 we shall
have lever regrets than at the termination Of
Ihe year v hich is about to wing its everlasting
flight into the regions OF the past.
1t is charged against woman thai she can-
not keep II secret. Your correspondent has
the falsitv Of this charge In
instance at least. a young lady friend of
ours Was entrusted with the secret Of the date
Of Miss Mary Millers marriage, and all
;he cxpedicnts that we could invent to
extract it from her were ~unavailing. She
&c pit the secret like a little man"
Does prohibition prohibit? Not much, If we
IRE to believe the TESTIMONY of the Hon. L. NJ.
4 Senator of the Prohibition State OF
iowa, who says that the number of olen Sa.
IONS in that state Is larger now than when
he prDhihitory law went into effect, about
years ago. 1t is proper to aid here that
Mr.. sutton is q pronounced anti-liquor man
)ut he is satisfied that the law Is u failure,
md that high license IS the only satisfactory
Of the liquor problem.
Here is the speech male by Mr.. Morrison
,c Illinois in the Democratic caucus when he
DIR. M!ibHrn; the blind preacher, In
domination for chaplain of the National
House OF Representatives.: 81 nominate Il
nan for chaplain who loves God, hates the
c ticket, knowing the Northern Methodis,s
IS / do. I ask that tt n menlbe of that Church
Who has voted the pcnocaaiic ticket in that
State for twenty-five years deserve well Of IL
hat Mr.. Milburn received the. nomination
md that he is now chaplain Of that Demo
ratio House"
The Columbia Record, abiding the "latc nm
senator Hampton, says among other things
hat the former gentleman Was the lattcr's
hoice for Vice President. Mr.. Bayard was
1lamptOn's choice for President at
cincinnati in 1850 and again atUhicago in 1851,
Notwithstanding tie fact that the convention
sent him to the latter city was over
lmingly for Cleveland. And Senator
%1aEipton voted for Mr.. Bayard even aiter 1t
,ccame evident that Mr.. Cleveland would BE
Perhaps that is the reason why
Carolina has Jared no better at the
lands of the President in the way Of appoint
nrnts TO office.
At nine o clock this morning the cccre-
nony which united the loving hearts of Mr..
Vary II; Miller, third daughter OF DR.: j. +.
MILLER OF this place, was performed hy the
Rev. W. l.. PreS>ly of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church. and the "harpy couple"
S~terpOtyped phlase) took the ten O'Clock train
or the homie of the groom.
"Ieaf bv lrnf the roses fall
Drop by drop the springs run dry;
One by one, beyond recall"
Due West girls marry and skip ont
sThe above may not be very good poetry,
mt it is the truth all the SANG. Face
lousncss aside, the writer holds Mrs.
}igham in very high regard and sincerely
trusts thai the new duties she has assumed
nay rest lightly upon her.
4 married gentleman acquaintance of ours,
Who was quite sick requested his wife to make
lround for the mcrcu:ial drug his wife came
lpon Il box of blistcring ointment, and look
upon the opportunity. rs a good one to
rel on her "woleer' hull, she had about con-
'luded to administer TO him q dose OF the
asst named cXhiliraling preparation: But
lpOn rejecting that he was insured in the
busted Mutual Endowment; and that she
would realize nothing. from. his death, she
him q little longer lease of life. Moral:
scrutinlnize closely medicine admin
stored at the hurds Of your wife, particularly
o II your life is insured In a company that
"suspcndcd payment"
TO the late Hon. B. Grantz Brown, the cam
lldate for Vice President on the Greeley
ickct, more than to any other nam; the Dem
,crltS Of Missouri owed the redemption Of
heir State from Radical rule. An original
Inion Democrat, Mr.. Brown rifed into the
republican ranks during the war; but In 1870,
when the State Convention Of that party
'pllt on the question of supporting a cons'i-
ntiOnul amendment abo!islllng the test oath,
&c went with the Liberal wing of his party
md was nominated by them for Governor in
opposition TOD. W. McClurg, the regular Re-
nominee. The Democrats RETAINED
rom making a nomination, and heartily sup
ported Mr.. Brown, at least those of them who
we're not DISTINGUISHED under tie infamous
Drake Constitution, }" so called from the fact
HAT 1t was drafted by Charles u. Drake;
whom Grant %alppointed Chief Justice Of the
n ;G"E. the Hl o G,atlns; s "a itIe OF Tli his ca mr. hroT I'm
0 the sentiment "Love is Stronger than
Hate This was adopted by the Liberals as
,ornly contested fight which cnsued. and
hey made the State ring with 1t from "ecnd
o eend.' TheIesult was that Mr.. Brown was
elected by about 5000 majority, the Demo-
rats ciecting at the am IL majority of the
legislature and sending to the United States
senate the gallant Federal General Frank 7:
5ldir, Jr. The adoption Of the consti; utiOnal
enfranchiscd from ~, QUO to $4,000
Democrats, and the State has been in the pos
Of that party ever since. Mr.. Brown
vas q kentuckian by birth, and Il man of
plendid abilities. During a portion of his
lie he wasquite diSsipatcd, but he quit drink
and during his latter years was an clo-
luent temperance advocate. Peace to his
islics.
The late convention Of Osborn lambs"
which assembled in Grcenville to examine in
o the affairs of the deiunct Mutual Endow-
nent Association is said to have been Il very
triking body. both intellectually and phys
cnlly, one of the members having been likcn-
unto the late q. Washington, the gentle
NON who coulln't toll n Ito ThrSni nDOrpntS