The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-13
FROM NINETY.sK.
The Free Bridge Takes a Free Swim
Down the River...Success for the
Narrow Gauge Railroad -. Person.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Women ..-
lev Picklcs..-FrOzen Negroes.

NINELY.S1x, Jan. II, 1886.
Last week pressing business prevented me
from making my weekly contribution, aud
this week cannot promise much.
Our railroad election Is over and suhscrtp-
ton was carried by large majority. Now It.
only remains Tor Cokcsbury township to 40
her full duty and we will have railroad.
The anti-taX men were here In full force on
the day Of the election, but to no purpose.
some of onr Greenwood friends we've ais"
here. We treated them with as much kinddesS
and consideration as time would permit, and
trust that they went away satisfied with eV-
erything but the result of the count. We car
ried the election fairly and sqnarely by d de-
cided majority, first by white vote and sec
ond by d property vote; The voters VINO cast
their ballots for Subscription own two-thirds
if net thrce-fourths Of the property oh the Sa-
luda side. saying as much Tux as twenty
white nien who voted against subscription
We merely mention this, Mr.. Editor, In am
swer to many of the false charges made
against us. Our cause Is just one and We
have the votes and the money.
A cold wave at Nineiy.Stx.
Mr.. II. p. Galphin may be found with MT
]. A. Moore, where he will be glad to serve his
friends
MesSrs Miller e. McCaslan have moved in.
to The brick store on Cnmbrl ldge street former
ly occupied by Gulphin & Johnson. Mr.. Ad-
dlson Calhoun is still with then, and will be
glad to see his friends.
Mr.. r. q. Johnson and wife left last week
for Tampa, Florida, Mr.. Johnson will engage
In the commission buSlnCSS aC lllttG pluCc.
The Rev. Mr.. Witherspo0n, OF the Columbia
Theological Seminary. preached III the Pres
byte ian church last Sabbath.
All the apples and oranges are irozen, 10
say nothing Of The pickles and other perish
uble goods.
The Rev. Mr. Meadors has moved into the
parsonage. and preached at the Methodist
church last Snbbath.
Mr.. w. B. Merriwether who has been living
in Mississippi for the last year has returned
and says "old south Carolina is good enough
for him.
1t is reported that Emma Goodlng colored
woman living in the suburbs OF town, was
fearfully frozen on last Friday night.
The "Free Bridge" over Saluda River at
Watts Ferry has been swept away by recent
high waters. We also understand quite lot
OF cotton was washed away.
Mr. j. II. kice has moved his law office
and in the future may be found over DR.. Lin
becker's drug store.
We see the Greenwood Light makes some
serious charges against the manner IN which
the election was held at Ninety-SiX Oh the
md instant. "rhat citizens OF Greenwood
township were not permitted to vote although
they owned land in Ninety-Six township,
and that negroes were permitted to vote WHO
lived in Greenwood township and not few
Now those assertions were made upon IN
formation. and we would like TO know what
kind of information. The officers of this eiec-
tion arc higli-toned honorable men, and con-
Quoted said election according TO law, ana
any reflection upon them or that they did
Every person who presented himself and
took the prescribed oath was pcrmittcd to
vote and none others. NInety-SiX has suffered
from outside pressure long enough, and 1t is
that she should be permitted to attend to her
own affairs. EASI END.