The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-05-05
SHAFTS AND BEACON LIGHTS ABOUT THE
INFANT CITY.
New Railroad Depot -. Passenger
Trains OH the Savannah Valley.--
The Farmers Convention 50. Lone.
~ Lover---Return Of Long Absent
SOn--.PersOnals aud Other Matters.

|
ly Lover.-.Return OF Long Absent
SOn-..Personals aud Other Matters.
MCCORMICK, Mgy3, 1856.
Mr.. =. r. Calhoun took in the Floral Fair
last week in Charleston.
car took a trip over the Savannah Valley
Railroad last Wednesday and returned OIL
Thursday. In Il lcw days afterwards Il pas
scnger coach was placed on the road and Is
muEing daily trips to and from Lowndesville.
The rate is three cents per mile and Is well
! patronZed.
Mr.. j. n. Whtten has his soda-watcr ap.
aratus in working order again, anu Is prepar-
ing for the hot weather by making large ice
box.
Mccormick Democratic Club sent seven del
cgates with the chairman 10 your town on
Monday to attend the County Democratic
meeting which was held on that day. The
following delegates were sent: MessrS. Jas.
Cothran, Jr. J. W. Peak, j: +: Smith. 6. W.:
Andrews, w. o. Sturkey. ~. y. TrayIor and
J. Robinson. They went uninstructed to
the convention by the club.
| y picnic is advertised to take place at
Searles' & Dallis' mill Oh the third saturday
in May.
| Several orour town will attend the military
,'d-ill at savannah, Ca. this week.
| Maj. J. NJ: Dorm left Monday for his noun
| tain place in North Georgia. The Major loves
| the mountains and we don't blame him In
the east especially in summer. but lie goes
up In the winter or fall. What do you think
of this ?
Tile change in the gauge on the Augusta
S,,artanburg roads has been advertised for
TIE first day Of June. This will be big day
10 the railroad circle all over the Southern
division.
in Augusta last week.
| Mrs Chamberlain, who has been quite sick
| for SOME time, is improving.
The recent showers Of rain did the grain
Uanara11v :. rrnnt 1oul
good. They are looking we'll up to this morn
ing (Monday)
The carpenters are busy on the new depot.
They will soon have it mp. Mr.. Miller, Of
be % feet long by 46 feet wide. 1T will have a
platform all around, and will not he Situated
on the main track. Some talk of platforms
being erected between each OF the interyen.
will be the very thing. The way the passell-
gers will have to get in the cars II these plat.
forms are not built will be dreadful, especial
ly for ladies. The railroad authorities should
look after this matter, though small II may
seem to them,
Tie bud and cut worms are exceedingly de.
structlve to small and large garden plants in
our town.
Maj Dorm says he will be gone all the sum.
mer te the mountains. the Major has q fine
hotel at Eluiay, Ga, right among, the noun.
tains. Mrs J. NJ. Dorm will have charge Of all
! his business here.
Mr.. r. D. Ives. late of Admission, Alabama,
and brother of Mrs A. a. Stuart and Mrs.
Jas. Cothran, Jr., is out on y visit to relatives
In Abbeville county. Mr.. Ives was reared in
this county and left here II years ago. None
of his sisters knew him when he came back.
| He is son Of Mr.. Friedrich Ives of this coun-
ty. An absence OF y years makes great
change In ones person.
| Mrs J. NJ. Dorm, of Dornville, was in tow n
on Monday looking well.
The Creighton council have ordered all the
Trayl0r elect ticket and supporters to work
the street on Thursday, or pay taxes. So
mote 1t he, II it will be,
There will be a debate between the older
boys of Capt Robinyons school next FRIDAY.
Subject: "Had the Colonista Right to Rebel ?"
The young men are looking forward to the
time win excitement. This will be their
Mrs. Withers, of Atlanta, Ga, passed
through town pnrou'e for Mt. Carmel where
her father, Mr.. w. II. Fits, resides.
| Mrs Mary Link, mother Of DR.. Link. died
at Mt CARMEL on, Saturday last. She was IS
years old Mt the time OF her death: and was
visiting her son-in-aw Mr. w. y. scott. Our
esteemed flienu Mr.. w. L. Link attended the
Mrs. Mary +. Smith returned home from a
week S visit to friends and relatives at Mt.
Carmel last Monday.
We heard a young man say on last Wcdnes-
day evening that Mt. Carmel was the most
lonesome place he;ever stopped 'at. His girl
was at Mccormick; I guess that was the rca.
son of such q day or two being put over. Sun
| Qay was one OF Tue uayS, LOO; Lnle tlccoulltS
| for it,
The editor Of the Nc,cs AMI Courier did not
seem to be much in favor Of the action of The
| Farmers Convention which metln Columbia
last week. He says: "The last resolution ar-
pears to he Superiluous. The Will of the
farmers of the State can he az effectively cX-
pressed In the Legislature as in the COnTcn.
| lion. When they have once agreed among
themselves as to what they think Is just and
right for themselves, nothing remains to bc
| done, as Mr.. Tillman has SO happily phraScd
it, but for them to go home and take it," or
90 to the General Assembly and take 1t. The
| ten resolutions cover Mr. TiIlman's whole
case. and the inference Is irresiStihlc that his
eleventh commandment was simply added
to break the obvious analogy between the
's!atc" of the modern Moses and the stone
tables of his illustriOns prototype" The
iNe,Us and COurier rs the leading journal In
the State of South Carolina should try to ell
courage the farmers in their conventions and
| enterprises. instead OF ridiculnG their ac-
tions. The farmcris certainly the backbone
Of our country.