The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-05-25
Ninetv-Six News.
May Oath.

SAsh'
Rain, rain, rain and rain again, water
enough tor a private food, and consider
able the damage done. The farmer found
MS upland in the bottoms and his bot
toms floating gently down the creek or
river without ever saying farewell and
ne makes the discovery that his crop
has to be replanted. The county com
m~'ssloners toundo out that there is not
near money enough in the treasury to
rebuild all the bridges which became
victims of the fierce element. Still
build they must and in consequence feel
depressed and uneasy. The average
farmer counts on his fingers that
the taxes may be doubled and no one
else left but him to settle the bill. A
bad beginning this year after ~lotsing all
our grain crop by the severity of last
winter.
The upper and lower bridges over
wilson Creek are gone and DESTROYED.
we hear that Mr.. j. N. King has the
lower bridge in contract for rebuilding.
When n body travels he can tell n
gent many peculiar tales. Our friend
D.. IL. kinnrd our valuable furniture and
coffin dealer, travelled in good COM
psny to the river, the border stream of
county. Mr.. kinard is q great snort
knows all about it, but to watch the
fish and the boat ut the same time VIVA
too much. Either his mental or Ills
physical apparatus became unbal-
anccd. l don't know, he seems
not to know, therefore who should know
anyway he lost his balance and found
that the river was really deeper than he
had expected, colder too, but not as wet
perhaps And as the elements hate the
work of man, the t]reacherous waves
took away his best hat, his pride. We
hope Mr.. .Kinard did not damage the
water by conclusion as my friends liv-
ing there are very particular how their
stream is treated.
The last township battle for the A.
e.. IL w. narrow guagr railroad was
fought on Saturday last 22nd instant in
Cooper township, Edgeficld county. |
am glad to say the last ditch has been
taken. The majority for subscription to
the road was ninety-six. it was a hard
fought battle but the proverbial luck of
this little road did not fail US in this last
emergency. | feel safe in saving
that the road will be graded from
Cokesbury to Augusta by August 18th.
next.
IT you wish to see a real artist in the
art OF trimming and decorating hats, 90
to the emporium Of fashion Of Mrs.
Matte Osborne & Beacham on the pub
lie square.
Our already mentioned scientific me-
chanic, j. Nick johnson astonished US
again with his latest work. u machine
driven by electricity. Although this
motive power is not new and we'll
still we think it is the first seen
IN Abbeville county and may assert the
first ever made in South Carolina.
b machine is III operation in the show
window OF Mr.. Thomas Duckett our
learned watch and silvcrsmith. The
design OF the machine is original md
certainly astonished our scientific citi-
zens.
We heard more wise suggestions on
the streets about ''how to build a bridge
properly" since the destructive rain.
than We have heard all our life. Every
oody turned out, it seems n first rate
bridge builder. Only one remark We
heard is worth repeating bridge
building is o trade, As is house building. |
gin making &c, therefore only learned
bridge builders onght to be given the
We endorse the last sentence.
Nevertheless it looks to us as if any citi-
zen is qualified to build a bridge and
get II contract if he is the lowest
and able to give his bond. al
though he may not be able to state the
between n bridge and a churn
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