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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Our Public

We publish from a Virginia paper a most
excellent article on this subject. which we
most heartily commend to our people. There
IS reason and common sense In 1t. When Alb.
bevine county has c%onvicts, is there any rea-
son why she should not have their labor in
opening and repairing our wagon roads? We
think not. By enacting q law similar to the
one suggested for Virginia, our Legislators
would do a public service for which the peo-
pie should ever feel grateful.
Abbeville is suffering now more from the
bad roads leading to o w than from any 9TH
er one thing, and if we do not pay some at
tention to this matter we may expect a still
greater loss. Naturally, Abbeville should Of
fer superior advantages TO q much greater
Aumber of people than is offered by any other
town in the county, and we hope to sec our
people take an interest in opening needed
new roads and IN re-Surveying and laying-oft
in ancw the bad places Of the old roads. The
road from Abbeville to White Hall Is almost
impossible with a wagon which is half load
ed, while it is a drag to get between these
places with a buggy. All this could be
changed, If the road was re.surveyed and
changed. The town Of Nerdery has done al
most notbA Rg to open roads. and to-day much
trade goes to Greenwood because of the lack
OF sufficient and passable roads. These are
not isolated cases. Very few Of the roads
leading to Abbeville arc as good as they might
easily be made. The Indians, when they
opened their paths thought it necessary to
pass over the highest peaks Of every hill, and
it seems to us that our grandfathers partook
of the same mistake. a little attention to
our public roads would be Of great advantage
to US, and 10 the farmer. The saving in
broken vehicles, and the increased loads
which they could haul would help them won.
lerfuliy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
The Election I'm Aiken.

The election which came off in Aiken on
22d ultimo, was adverse to the c., G. & c. Il.
II. While we think that every we'll wisher OF
tina town may extend hearty congratulation
for its lucky escape from so dire q calamity as
a five per cent. tax, yet we do not see in 1t
anything to elevate or deprcss the citizens Of
those corporations which have already voted
away the peoples money for the alleged road.
We think the prospect of getting the Cumber-
land Gap road is just as good to-day as it ever
has been, or would have been, even If Aiken
had contributed $4,000. The engineers OF the
road estimate the cost of building it at seven
teen million dollars. The experience of the
past, and the history of other railroads that
have been built across the mountains, 60 to
prove that engineers estimates Of cost of con-
struction are,Generally about one-half of the
necessary actual expenditure before the work
has been completed. Forty-fre thousand
dollars then, is a small sum when compared
to thirty-five million dollars-the amount Of
the probable actual cost. The refusal Of the
people of Aiken to subscribe their money to
the road need not necessarily be a discour-
aging fact.
We think we have expressed the opinion in
tueSc COiuLlils, llidG Xix lodO JUN Ao'Si 70
built, though we have feared and do still fear,
that we will, under some pressure or another,
have our voted bonds to pay. In the first
place, we do not believe that our 'conditions'
have any binding force of law, and the pre-
nonition forces itself upon US, that our bonds
are here to stay, and that they will be as a
nightmare on our commercial vitality, and as
an incubus TO our personal prosperity until
the great majority of us shall have passed
over the River. We feel neither elated nor
cast Town because Aiken in her superior Wis
dom has averted this calamity. The fact re.
mains that we have voted away our own
bonds, and we must therefore become q slave
to the great myth, unless perchance its stock
holders in the plenitude Of their grace, shall
relievn US from the burden of a bondage
which shall bear US down in our age, and OPP
press our children in their youth and their
manhood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
The Citadel.

A young friend who is now in the Charles
ton Citadel, under date of October 9th, writes
to us as follows:
1.-THE academy is In a flourlshing condition.
We have q fourth class of about ~thirty-tive.
It is one of the best classes that has entered
since the opening, and from all that l can
learn Abheville will rank high, or rather her
representative will. The cadets. are all de-
lighted with the new superintende mt. He is
lust the kind of q man to rule a lot of boys
like these. and will, I think, have the acade-
my in a finer condition than it has been in
since its re.opening, that is if the legislature
does not close down on us this Fall. -Four
other States are now represented, Florida,
Georgia. Louisiana and California. Our first
graduating class, if nothing prevents, will go
out In July and we expect a large fourth class
next year."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
The Greenwood Li-ht.

We nave received several copies OF the
Greenwood Light, a new paper published at
Greenwood. We wish the paper we'll. We
have no jcalousies, and shall take occasion In
the future to copy into these columns any
such article as we may need and have room
for. The Light may rest assured that we will
not do anything to retard its progress, and we
hope that it may not do as so many others
have done: conclude that its road to success
lies in abuse Of the Press and Banner. The
Press and Banner has wcathered many a
storm, and as it may have been shaken at the
top, it has invariably taken firmer root in the
hearts of the people. 1t would be pleasant for
the Press and Banner to live in unity and
friendship with our young neighbor, whom
we shall endeavor to give nc just cause for
complaint of US.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
NrxErY-s1x. 8. c.. Nov.2[Es5.

Nt,~C 31o4At 49, ~
The Press and Banner came last week IN is
new form. We must confess we like the ''oid
its edftor may be realized, and that ere long
we will be able to read it twice u week instead
of once. ,,
Wen, the Ferguson trial is over, and till
next February we will have u rest. Our poo
pie need rest.
Mr.. f. Y. Sheppard received first premium
on Ills NOrmanS at Newberry Fair, as follows:
Dillon 8 years old, two aged mares. one year
old stallion, and two sucking colts; Mr. r, ..
miums. First on Holstein bulk and several
on grades and sheep. QuHe a humber Of hss
horses aud cattle WIN tie taken from the VIZ
cinity Of Nlpeiy.StX TO the STATE Fair.
The Rev. Mr.. Carter preached two fine ser
mons in the Baptist church on last SabCath
morning and evening. We are glad to state
that he will remain here another year. It Is
now in order for Messrs. Elwell and KILLER to
reconsider. "
We hope the small contribution Of this
week added to that sent lust week. VIII IN.
swer for the present. EAST END.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
More New County.

TIE Mccormick Advance is agitating the
new county question. OF course the people
have no idea Of consenting to q division of
the county, but even If a new county were
desirable and possible, the town of Troy
would bear off the prize. 1t is more central
ly located, and in every way more advan-
tageously situated for the accommodation OF
the people. Mccormick is almost on the
bank of the Savannah, and therefore could
not be of as much benefit to the people as II
the proposed Court House were located at
Troy. Let Mccormick shake the tree, Troy
will gather the fruit-it any falls.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
The Edgcfield Advertiser.

Mr.. James T. Bacon, one of the oldest and
best beloved editors in South Carolina has
laid down the editorial pen Of the EdgeJfcld
Advertiser, after having been identified with
that paper for twenty-five years. We regret
his retirement and hope that he may at an
early day resume the work for which he was
so we'll fitted, and which he performed with
credit to the editorial fraternity. He was al
ways on the side Of right, and always wrote
the promptings of an honest conviction with
fearlessness, with al eye single to the public
welfare. We wish him good health and good
spirits, the best things this side the River.
May the old advertiser live forever and con-
tinue to grow in public favor all the time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
MIR. G~allOway's Letter.

Mr.. r. S. Galloway, who went to Aiken q
day or two before the election, we presume, to
lend his personal influence and oratorical
power, in carrying the election for the Rail
road, writes a most remarkable account Of
that trip to the A5beraue Messenger, much OF
which we reproduce in these columns. His
intolerance towards the opponents of the rail
road tax is not, We think, entirely unlike the
conduct of some of the railroad men In some
other places. In all Of the town of Aiken. IT
seems that Mr.. Galloway met but one gentle
man who was opposed to the road-Senator
Henderson-and for that opposition he as
sumed to "twit him." In the first place, much
stress is laid upon the Information received at
q negro barber shop. In the next place, the
most serious im%putatious are laid at the door
of Colonel Drayton. In the next place, ne
finds Gov. Hagood, Senator Calltson OF Edge
field. Major Lewis Jones and other gentle
men, who were deeply interested in getting
Aiken's tax, and who may have adopted the
following resolutions:
Resolved, LIST. That the earth Is the LORD s, ano
the fullness thereof.
ReSolred, ID. That we are the Lords.
In the next place, a furious TRADE, OR
general principles, is made against the dirty;
low Dutch element" and he bemoans the fact
that they control the own which their ener
Nv and business tact had built, and which in
their wisdom and their sagacity, they refused
to allow others to tear down. $4,000 worth
OF insurance withdrawn a from railroad vot
err" Did anybody ever hear of such intoler'
ance anywhere else, or even Of q proposition
to boycota man who did not vote for the tax
Where did the opponents of the railroad tax
learn their methods? Paris Simpkins, the
negro Radical politician, who, in the days
that are gone, tormented the respectable peo'
pie of Edgctield as no other man ever did,
passes as a gentleman, or at least without re-
Duke while Mr.. Haun, q respectable cit
iZen, who has by his public spirit, his indus
try, economy, and constant application to
business, dore more to build up the town
than any other man in 1t, is denounced be-
You'd measure, because he is not willing to d.
vide his earnings with an alien railroad cor
poration, who rant to build a railroad with
other peoples money.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Clubbing.
We are constantly in receipt of propositions

We are constantly IN receIpto1 propOsttlohs
like this:
1--WE should be pleased to have you offer The --
with your paper, and for that purpose will find ynnr
have subscribers in arrears find this method Il good
one for inducing their subscribers to pay their arrear-
ages and t" make advance payments BY giving pub
LEFTY to the fact that you will supply your own paper
and The - ut q material reduction from the reg
price, you will secure new subscribers, and arrear-
ages from old ones"
We think the country press work to their
own hurt when they club with other papers
in order to induce subscribers to pay up. The
better way to gain subscribers is to improve
the local paper, and make it a necessity in
the household Of other families. Country pa
pers that choose to become agents for North
ern publications are running their w bust
ness,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04

The Camden Journal takes issue with us on
the polygamy-diyorce question, maintaining
that divorce in some Instances is desirable.
could with more h equal force advo-
cate q plurality of wives. We cannot sec how
q South Carolinian can advocate divorce laws
when he reads of the abuse of them in other
States, and when he remembers the pride of
South Carolina in the fact that we have no
such demOrallZing laws as will permit man
to have more than one living wife, whether
she be al home or not. a wife under her
husbands roof is in n better place than then
driven from homo. even If her husbands
home be shared by another wife. The good
old rule of one wife is best now and forever.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Decidedly Cool.

The GOODNESS Of the aiken Journal and Re-
picw in deprecating The ill-feeling which the
recent act of the zealou friends of the
c., G.. G. & c. r. r. have stirred up in that
town is truly refreshing. 1t seems, from the
Journal and Reric", that 1t IS a great pity that
he and others could not be allowed to tax the
people for a railroad which they did not want
and which they did not need.
The people of Aiken have a right to be In
dignant. These inoffensive citizens who did
not choose to ''stand and deliver" at the com
mand of an alleged railroad builder, must be
spoken Of as public enemies. Selah.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Attack OH the Press.

During the recent trial of Ferguson, charged
with murder, the counsel for the defense
consumed much time in the abuse OF the
press, which had been allotted to them for
the defense of their client. Their attacks
will not hurt the press, and If they thought
best to ignore the law and the evidence In be-
halc of their client to let out a little petty
spite at ~unoffending editors, they may rest
assured of one fact, that the newspapers are
pretty sure to get even, sooner or later, with
any man who attacks them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04

WAS 1t in good taste for the Rock Hill Her.
ala to publish the many i'll things of he o-
who came so near being suffocated with
gas at the Charlotte Hotel? The matters OF
that paper spoke are matters which do
not interest the public, and Is so offensive TO
the reader, that she and her sins should have
been covered with a mantle OF charity and al.
lowed to pass in silence. Why uncover and
expose to the gaze of the public the degrading
facts?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
A Wronsss to the Post Office Depart
p,>n,,t

The editor of the La,uensriNc Herald, being ap.
piled to by q merchant to send out q half sheet a1vcr-
tisemsnt printed ut another office. refused to do this
because it was unlawful. For his own satisfaction he
forwarded n copy of the advertisement to Washing
ton and received In response from James NJ. Mari act
ing Assistant postmaster general stating that in the
opinion of the department. the publication was o
poster and could not he mailed rs . supplement. The
penalty for violating the postal law in o matter OF
this sort is q fine of not less than one hundred dollars.
Carolina Spartan.
Yet, in disregard of the law, some Of our es-
teemed brethren are continually doing this
very thing of sending out handbills marked
"supplement." The postmaster who permits
it should be dismissed from the service.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04

Our friend at Due West asks us If 1T is nee
essary for Il man to be Il prolibitionist to he q
friend of temperance. We cannot answer that
positively, but VIC believe that Il
great majority of the real friends Of temper
ance arc prohibitionists. If it is right to pre-
vent the sale of whisky In Due West, is 1t not
right TO prevent il in Abbcvillc?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Don't Give n Mortgage.

We would again urge upon our people the
necessity Of keeping the homestead free of
mortgages. y mortgage deprivcs the head Of
a family Of the right to claim the homestead
exemption. even if it did not no farm can
stand Il debt against it which bears ten per
cent interest.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
The Weekly killing in Lancaster.

A white boy in Lancaster ~playfully snapped
an empty pistol at a.negro. The empty pis-
tol, as usual in such cases, discharged its load,
sending the ball through a vital part of the
body of the negro. The coroner's jury rem.
dered q verdict of 'Justiflable homicide"
That case seems to take the cake for getting
an early "self-dcfense."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04

Our Ninety.Six correspondent expresses
the wish that We may Print the Press and
Banner twice u week. Captain w. d. Mars,
of Caihoun's Mills, expressed the same senti-
ment on Monday last. We have long wanted
to print the Press and Banner twice or thrice
a week, but have been afraid to undertake
the work.. We may yet do so.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Right Now.

The Columbia Register, after condcmning the
Prcss and Banner and other papers for pro-
testing against lawlesspess in South Carolina
now rightfully assumes to speak out in favor
of law and order, and the enforcement of the
law.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
AbbcyilIe Alterations.

fNeus and Courier ReSi0eI1 Co7Tespo"dc"IT
ABDEvILLE, October 27.--In reporting Mr..
F. Il. Gary's speech in the Meas and C0u11ar'
Yesterday, it is made to appear. that, while
sppa king OF the accused and his family, he
(Mr. Cary wept. l intended to say that Yer
guson Wept. n.de
him say that in "petH mai the limbs are MOI
still. There are general commissions OF ne
tody,' &c. He requests me TO stare
,nnT w. P. e..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
One OF the Largest i'll the State.
Church Record.

CNNfCN IIFFOfU.
The Press ant Hammer, which is already one
OF the largest papers in the State, is to he Still
further enlarged. Mr.. Wilson is one OF the
most cntcrprising newspaper men in South
Carolina. He richly deserves the SUCCESS
which has already crowned his labors.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04

HAVING published at length the assaults
the press of the State by the distinguished
counsel for Ferguson it is only Justice TO
our brethren that we reproduce their reply to
these gentlemen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04

TT Won want q nice hat don't fail to ser tho
new goods Just received. II. NJ. Haddon u
TO. 1F7'
Ladies' handmade shoes, solid lcather
throughout, every pair warranted, just re-
ceived. Il. NJ. Haddon t. co. 11-4.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04

WE wish the Seneca Free Press would print
its editorials in q manner SO that we might
distinguish them FIX N extracts.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
A Credit to South Carolina Journal
ism.

Columbia Correspondent augusta Chronicle.
The .AbbcriHc Press and banner is published
this week as an eight page paper. 1t IS Il
splendid edition and is q credit to South Car
olina Journalism. II deserves q generous pat
ronage and will no doubt receive 1t.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
The State of South Carolina,

COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE,
IN THE COURT.
DR. !. D. NEEL, as Administrator OF the
Estate of Patrick Gibson. deceased, has
anplicd for settlement and discharge,
1t is ordered: that Saturday, the ON day o!
December next, be fixed for the settlement
''io ], FULLER LYON,
Judge Probate Court.
Nav A 1909 }f
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
Correction.

II was tho prisoner, and not Colonel Gary.
who shed tears, during Colonel Gary's speech
in defense Of Ferguson.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-11-04
TAX NOTICE.

In ACCORDANCE WITH THE ACT
to raise supplies for the fiscal year COM
.encing November Isst 1884, approved
December 24th, 1881 notice is hereby Civ
that the T~reasuser's Office of Abbeville
will be open for tile collection Of
taxes !.
OCTOBER / 1886,
and will be open except the days in the
schedule Of appointments made below in
this notice.
The rate per centum Of taxes is as fol-
lows:
State purposes 5! mills.
County NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3 =
Roads and bridges,.-...... IL
Schools,
Totat~--...--..-..---..12 mills.
Poll tax s.0B:.
I'm all cases where the May installment
has not been paid, a penalty Of S per
centum upon said installment will be-
added.
Taxes are payable n The following
kinds of funds and no other: Gold anG
Silver Coin, United States Currency, Ma
tforral Bank Notes, and Coupons which
shall become payable during the year
1885, on the consolidated bonds Of this,
State, known as "Brown Bonds,' and on
the bonds of this State known as "Def-
cheney Eonds,'' Jury certificates and the:
per diem Of State witnesses in the Circuit
Courts will be received for County taxes,
not including School taxes.
Parties liable to Poll Tax, and falling
or refusing to pay the same, will be pro-
ceeded against as for o misdemeanor and
upon conviction ~shall be fined NOT more
than Ten Dollars, besides costs, or by i'm
%prisonment in the County Jail not ex-
ceeding thirty days"
All taxes remaining unpaid "on the
3Oth day Of November. 1885, the County
Treasurer will proceed to collect the same:
by distress or otherwise az now prescrib-
ed by law, together with the penalty Of
fifteen per centum on the amount so de-
inquentr and if the amount Of such de-
linqnent taxes'and penalties shall not be-
paid on or before the 18th day of Deem
Der, 1855, then the same shall be treated
as delinquent taxes on such real and per-
sonal property, and shall be collected by
sale of such real and personal property
according to law"
In order to further the collection Of the
taxes and to accommodate the taxpayers
as far as I am able, I have arranged the
following schedule Of appointment and
req nest the taxpayers will take due no.
tice thereof, as the Office at the Court
House will necessarily he closed on those
days.
verdery, Tuesday, October 9th.
Bradley, Wednesday, October 9TH.
Troy, Thursday, October 9Th.
Mccormick, Friday, October 9th.
Greenwood, Saturday, October 10th.
Ninety-Six, Monday, October 18th from
arrival of down train until departure OF
up train Tuesday, October 18th.
Hodges, Wednesday, October 18th.
Donalds, Thursday, October 18th.
Due West, Friday, October 10Th.
The remainder of the time ( will be in
the office at the Court House.
Taxpayers in Lowndesville, Magnolia,
Calhoun and Bordeaux townships, will
take notice that the Savannah Valley
Railroad tax will be collected at the same
time and subject to the same penalties as
the State and County taxes.
All information as to taxes will be
cheerfully given by mail or otherwise,
but I will not pay postage.