The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-09
FROM NINETY-sIX.
A New Barque OH the Tempestuous
Sea Of JOurnnlism.--What he has
Seen and Heard About the Fresh.
ct and Other Matters.

NINETY-SIX, s. u, May II, 1886.
Editor Press and Banner:
Pardon my presumption, but realizing the
fact that the commodities required in your
business is the requirement of all the infor-
nation pertaining to the different localities
in which your valuable paper circulates.
which conceive to be quito extensive from
the many correspondents and nScful informa-
tion TO be CLEANED from its columns, accept
this for what 1T Is worth. Occupying the po-
sition of a stranger to You rs do, with moth
ing 10 recommend me, except perhaps my
good looks" just consider thatI have raised
my hat and made my best bow TO you In the
compliments of the day, with long list Of
good wishes for your future success.
Being aware Of the fact that newspaper
men are invariably endowed with a spirit of
class OF men, undertake to assert that you
are not an exception to the general rule. As
Stunning that such is the case, will now pro-
ceed TO unfurl myself. as it were, and launch
upon mind untutored in this respect.
Should you commit my maiden effort to the
seclusion of a waste basket, SO mote it be. the
world will move along "all the samce."
am from the manor born, a native South
Caroinian, and endowed with common old
field education, which acquired to q limited
extent before the late unpleasantness. there
fore, should receive the rebuke that doubt
less my assumption merits, just pass my i'm
pcrfections by and let me rip.
In the first place there is nothing particular
mind, left for me to communicate, afLer" East
End" surveys the field and cleans up the track
so to speak. Allow me to congratulate you
for having reporter In this part of the moral
vineyard of such excellent qualifications and
whose general make up renders him at once
worthy of the name.
business has assumed that comatose state
which nothing can revive until the neecy sta
pie max eS It's appearance in the fall. nothing
sooner will infuse new life into the present
condition of affairs. Your worthy reporter
blandly remarks, don't forget the stock Fair
tenanccs Of our merchants with anticipations
of at least one day of excitement in the broad
eXpansc of "ny time from now until Sep
man, Maj. Hale, whose varied stock of anec-
dotcS are never exhausted and whose inimlcal
tact Of relating them always calls forth pcals
Of hearty laughter, our inland city, that is to
be- in the near future, where the whistle of
the Narrow Gauge and the Standard Gauge
will soon be blended together might be term
cd deserted village since the disastrous
freShet that we have recently experienced.
Among the many incidents that occurred
during the high water is one related by one Of
old Ab5evillc's distinguished sons and life
long dispenser OF the staff of lite, no other
than Maj. Heard, who lives on Wilson's creek.
and thinking perhaps that the rising genera
ton might be enlightened to the extent of
building the bridge above high water mark,
| thought it would not be anIiSS to let the
many readers Of your valuable paper become
acouaint ted with the facts as related by him.
| He says that during perhaps q period of some
| forty years he has lived and llshed on Wilson's
Creek aud that the bridge, near where lie lives
was built long years ago, as was supposed far
above high water mark, that IL has stood the
rack ct of the floods Of all these years intact,
until tho last disastrous frcshet uplifted II and
carried 1t triumphantly and lodged it in the
| tops of the trees whose ovCrhanging branches
have rendered il n pleasant retreat, during the
summers Of bygonc years to many weary
traveller and says it is now suspended in the
branches of these trees and approachable on
| ~ by means Of Il long ladder. Young Alncri-
cn govern yourselves accordingly and don't
forget the high water mark of 1856.
| Among other freaks of the late frcshet /
heard one gentleman remark that 1T was tho
only instance on record where lands were
washed up hill.
The damage to the county and especially to
the farmers cannot be estimated at this time.
The farmers have gone to work with that in
domitable pluck and energy that forms one of
the characteristics of our Nincty-SiX farmers,
that will bring peace and plenty TO any land
| If strictly adhered TO.
| Politics in our community are Mt n low .cbb,
and seem to be totally ignored in the every
day topics OF" discussion, but Idaresay 1T won't
! be long before the "many friends" will be an.
Inouncing themselves for political honorS, and
saying their little speeches, &c.
| We have undoubtedly the finest location for
! O thriving town that is to be found anywhere
along the line of The Columbia and GrecnvIlc
Railroad. We have excellent church and
school facilities and our Narrow Gauge Rail-