The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-12-02
McCoRM1cK's MANGANESE MINE.
MANY Visitors in Town..The cad.
vance"...R. 8. G. and the "RcCOr.
der".-New Post Office BOxes.:.The
Presiding Elder Oh the Grand
Rouuds...Other Matters.

MCCORMICK. S. c., Nov. 80, 1885.
Mr.. Speights, our champion cotton buyer,
left for his home In Greenvilfe, $; o., TUESDAY
his s%ojourn here. We hope tosee him soon.
On Thanksgiving day Thursday all, or
most of our merchants closed their stores, and
quite q number rode up to Troy on a pleasure
MI. VIM. Byrd. of the firm Of VIM. Byrd e.
Co., Charleston, was In toYn last Thursday,
and sold the Manganese Mining Company q
Mrs. 8. NJ. Moore left for Aiken today, TO be
present at the golden wedding of Mr.. j. G:
SteidInah. Mrs. Moore Is an old citizen OF
Aiken, and will doubtless have a very pleas
ant Th v'S sa SmnmS n Ta %isHY k ifIH r is at Dor.
deaux. the first station on the new road.
Mr.. James Harmon is In the lead as q cotton
buyer since Mr.. Speights left.
Hill. Edgeield county, were in Town Friday.
Mr.. Yeldel has many friends around Meteor
mick, and they are always glad to see him.
There IS quite q competition between Bob
Drummers say Uncle Billy won stand. He
makes two bargains, one to himself and the
other to the customer. How Is this Uncle
Billy?
box cars for the first time In many weeks. 1t
looked strange to see clear across the street.
Mr.. James Harmon's new house is about
completed: 1t Is prettily located and is q very
Major Dorm moved into his new. store last
week. He is having 1t painted on the outside.
A calico ball will be given soon at the hall.
A pleasant time Is expected.
a half interest of the Adrdnce is offered for
sale. Now is the time for q good investment.
What has become Of the Carolina, Cnmber.
land Gap and Chicago Railroad? Ia 1t dead ?
We read Z. s. G's letter last week written to
ed himself of all the charges
Capt. r. j. Robinson closed his school last
Friday for the winter. The Captain Is q very
successful teacher, and we predict that the
tain will be president. How nice this will be.
Mr.. w. N. Mercier, of Augusta, Ca. spent
last Sunday IN Mr.: MERCER Is en- ronte
when lie did not stop at Mccormick.
The Rev. w. D. Kirkland was in W. and
preached two excellent sermons, at II O'Clock
a. n. and 7 p. m.
Our new post office case arrived last week
and Is up ready for boxes to be rented. We
think, as the office is In a store, and the post
master is frequently busy when persons call
window on the outside. In this way, any one
with a box can get his mail at any time,
night or day. We merely suggest this as q
much better mode than the present one.
Rain and dull times is all the go In town.
Late on Monday evening Capt. Rich of the
construction train kindly rendered us an in
~vitatiOn to accompany him as far as the track
was iaycQ on lne SaunIlDan valley 1talITOaQ.
At 3 o'clock, we were all in n box car safely,
but not comfortably seated: There were eight
or ten OF us. The road bed is splendid MS far
as it has been completed. We were much sur
prised to find a new road In such a nice condl-
lion. II is true that the road is very crooked,
but the master engineer Mr.. Radcliffe, made
the turns most successfully. We arrived at
the river about AS O'Clock (or rather in n few
hundred yards of the bridgc.) Some weeks
ago l wrote you that the iron bridge would be
finished last week, but the temporary bridge
is still there and trains are daily passing over
to be put up by the LIST January, 1886, that is
the iron works will be done. so that trains
can cross. We had the pleasure Of meeting
at the new bridge Or. and Mrs. Gilbert and
Miss Sallie. their beautiful daughter The
Doctor Is very sanguine Of a nice town near
his residence. 1t is a very pretty location and
will doubtless De a large place. However, we
wish that Bordeaux may be q rival Of Charles
ton. On account of considerable freight, we
were late in getting home. but we found the
old lady in u pleasant humor and was rather
sorry that we did not have q small wreck.
We don't know Mr.. Editor. what she meant,
but we think she thought that a good chance
might be offered to escape II hymenial band.