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

Service in the Good Fight Of Faith
...One Preacher and Six Young La
dies -. Tie Difference Between
Granting Licelise In Due West and
AbbeyiIlc Raises the Question rs
to Whose OK il GOred---The EVIL
which BcfeIl a County that voted
B0nds with s'COnditiOns' Attach
ed.
DUE WEST, Nov. Q; 1885.
The Rev. DR.. Boyce will deliver q lecture
this "Wednesday evening in the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian church. We are not
advised as to his s%rhject: -
we understand that Miss Eliza Calhoun, OF
this county has become an inmate or the
tablished in Washington, D. G., by MIR. w. w.
Corcoran, the noted philanthropist, for the
benefit of elderly Southern ladies. a..
We doubt if the people of any town IN the
country were favored with better sermons
last Sabbath tina those delivered in the AS
sociate Reformed Presbyterian church at this
place. In the forenoon the Rev. ". l.. fresS'
" discoursed very an,y on dm tDoe af,crnoo 20 the the
Rev. ". NJ. Grier, d. D., favored us with an
earnest and most eloquent sermon, NANNY
directed t. the young people. we nave most
of the big guns" Of all the denominations,
and give it rs our humble opinion that no
church in the country has ADLER opponents OF
the word Of God thai these two g~eiitlemen:
We see it stated in the Medtum Ina 81 :iW
worth Of whiskcy was sold in AbbeV1lle the
day Coles circus exhibited. If this be true
and we have no reason to doubt it-how 90
YOU account for the fact that no one was Kill
ed on that occasion
We should call it now the Dutch Gap
Railroad.
We notice that the meeting Of the DIRECTORS
the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chica-
90 Railroad he'd in Aiken last week adjourn
ed without action. Perhaps the action or
dirty Ditch down there was all.sufh-
Gent.
The Rev. ". F. Pearson has six young lady
b 'arders.. All ~ofsthese are members OF Pres
families, attracted here by the EXCEL
lent educational facilities afforded by the Fe-
Last saturday the Foreign Missionary So
ciety put three Squads of young ladies IN me
field 70 solicit subscriptions to the .oraceiet
of creation" trying 10 dodge these fair beg
but they were all "rdn to cover and
made to diSgorge. They got your correspond
emf for his last nickel, and as a consequence
the next three weeks. The begging teams
were Miss Jennie Grler and Miss Julia Ken
nedy Miss Mary Miller and Miss Jennie Ed
wards Miss Elite Prcssly and Miss Maggie
Lowry. Their joint collections amounted to
about $50, which, added to previous subscrip-
swells the amount realized from the
donated by Il lady to the Society to
The meeting of the Foreign Missionary So
ciety last Thursday evening was we'll attend
ed, Professor J. McC. T0dd delivered an in
teresting address on Missions and Mission
Wots, a copy of which was requested for pub
DR.. Gricr has issued a circular. asking con.
tributiouS to aid in improving the Campus OF
Er<kine College. The grounds Of this old
seat of learning are capable of Z high state OF
Improvement. and it Is hoped that the friends
the institution will respond. promptly and
literally to the Doctors Call. 1t is estimated
that $500 will be sufficient to put the Campus
of the College in the condition In which 1t
be and in which all friends OF the In
stitution should desire to see it..
Why should not the State be allowed a
change of venue in cases where, In the face OF
positive evidence Of guilt, IT becomes patent
that a conviction mi be had. 1t strikes
us that a change in the law granting the State
this privilege In such cases would subserve
the ends OF justice.
We were glad to see the Press and .Banncr
and the Medium properly reply to the intoftr-
G." We have seen nothing to equal 1t since
the days of Know NOthingism. 1t was u graz
direct insult to every German and de-
Scendant Of u German IN the State, n we
are surprised that the g1ntlcmanly proprle-
tors of the Messenger found Il place for it in
their columns.
1t seems that the "Aiken Dutch" notwith-
standing the hideous picture OF them pre-
u Us NY ~. , W. al ltto y = . NC"
have sense enough to attend to their
own business and allow other people to do the
When the railroad election Was held
in Due West we didn't see any Of these dirty
Dutchmen" up here endeavOring TO Instruct
our people how to vote or n question of taxa
ton which affected the people Of this W
alone.
Does "prohibition prohibit" in the prohib!.
ton State Of Maine? Let us place the Hon.
NeM Dow, of that State, the great apostle Of
upon the witness stand and hear
his testimony. He says: "ln The large cities
the liquor sentiment Is strong and
the parties engage In open competition
for the rum vote. the law is practically a dead
In other words, you cannot enforce Il
law against the seltilnents OF the people.
upon Mr.. Dow words. tie Uni
ted Presbyterian says: "Tnis appears to be
a Statement OF the case for all places
prohibition is tried upon a large scale,
The evil thing in it Is that free liquor, and
hence unmeasured debanch, is the result in
the communities Where the law is jnopera-
All this attests the truth of the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher's noted aphorism-"Ab:
solute prohibition Is an absolute impossible
ity."
Now that Tammany has again saved New
York to the Democracy, we Shall expect So
called Democratic papers TO "let up" for a
while at least. in their abuse of that time-hon-
ored organization. Tainmany Is not compOs-
Democratic ticket only when they are allowed
to dictate the nomination, but of hard-iisted
Democrats, who stand by the party through
evil as we'll as through good report, and roll
the Democratic ticket through. II Democrats
every where were as true to their party as
always has been ana always Will
be. we would have no fears for the future.
That article in last weeks Messenger signed
ar. S. G." etferveSces and fairly Overtlows
with that spirit of true Christian charity (?)
which should characterize all that Is said and
lone by an humble follower Of the meek and
lowly NaZarenc.
Here is n paragraph from q religious paper
which we commend to parents generally !:
Speaking generally, American girls need
more repression h is given them. They
are notkept properly under restraint; At an
when in many other countries they are
little children they are thrust into
society and made to feel capable Of Judging
for themselves. 1t is an awful risk that such
imprudences are committed. II parents take
these risks they must expect to bear the con-
But 1t is Sorrowful to see so many
youth in whom The promise Is SO bright sac
riEced to conditions that ought to be different
and that can be different II society will only
to make them So.'
In your reply to our query whether one
must favor prohibition In order to be consid-
cred a friend of temperance yon PROFOUND to
the sale of wllskey in Due West. is it not
right to prevent it in Abscville p 70 this we
no; not necessarily right. We pre-
that the liquor traffic Is suppressed in
Due West because the people OF the town so
desired and SO expressed themselvesi but
that IS no REASON why such traffic should be
in other towns whose people do
not desire aud have not asked for the sup
preston. In such matters the people of Due
West have no right to dictate what shall o.
shall not be lone by the people of Abbeyille.
and rice rersu. Each community should be
allowed to regulate its own affairs. No ob.
lection can be urged to a local option law,
provided the voting territories are confined
10 proper limits. We would not favor q law,
however. which permitted a man living TWEEN
ty miles distant from Abbeyllle, n who Wis.