The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-17
VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.
Gossip. Fact and Comment Oh the Al
fairs ~ they Appear ut Due West.

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Mr.. Z. &. ELLIS was acting clerk In one o
our stores last week.
Mr. J. H. Bonner made an excellent Assis
; tant Postmaster during the absence Oh tht
p Postmaster the past week.
IT is said that ~ good deal OF money chanSct
hands here last week.
Mr. Jno. II. Chiles. Jr., accepted our invita-
tiOn and returned one day last week. Ills SIS
ter, Miss Josie, accompanied him home;
Our young friend Quincy CaSon ncridental
ly shot negro hoy in tn, leg last Friday, al
Dr. Geo. Jones, of Anderson, spent Il few
days with relatives AMI friends about here
since our last, and did some dental Work also
, Mr. .Jno. W. Ellis returned from his second
"commcrcal" trip rather unexpectedly. y
sick horse was the cause.
The visitors to the State Fair came home
we'll pleased with what they say and hctru.
lantern on our StI Gets. We suppose IL Is u
take place Of the street lamps.
| Allow us to recommend to the care ana
keeping Of our Lowndcsvllle iriena Mr. Jonh
ID. donald. who has recently l"cated the'e.
There's nothing mean about John.
! We have been shown some nice specimens
of iron ore picked up on farm below Don
| maids. We will tell you more about II later
| Miss jamie BaruOrc has returned rom New
berry, and spent Il night In town Last week.
! We regret that we cannot say her nearing was
improved. The physician who treated her
case has been Very successful but hers was a
case of long sta uding, nineteen years.
We have had Il little rain, accompanied
| with high WlnuS. NOW lel every tIlc WV, ntt'
n dumb brute SOW some rye at once. This
valuable cereal Is coming into favor again,
and dcsprvedly so. II will grow where bar
Icy will not, but is the better Of some fertl'
liZcr. Try il.
II is such an unusual thing to see a home
made wagon that we cannot refrain from
saving that MesSrS. Siton y Moore are hnlsh-
ing mp splendid one for Mr. ii. i. AcGcc:
We have material and men to make more oi
them and our people should patronizc home
manufactures. w
get the position in the poStmnstcrs t,onven'
| lion that we nominated him for, but the con.
| fdencc Of the convention was made more
manifest by elrcting him Secretary and
Treasurer and clecting him TO represent tne
convention at the National Convention of
PoSimaslcrs to be held neXtJunc In Chicago
and also in choosing him as the representa-
tive of the convention on the NATIONAL Exc.
cutivc Committee.
The season for shot suppcrs' has come
again. and we may expect to hear the tramp
of the darlicy at ali times of the night as thcy
20 to aud fro from these places "1 marry
and gIcc One was held ut the colored Meih-
odist church last Thursday night TO raise
money for repairing the building
| Some pcuplearc never satisfied, ana never
| is this truer than with rcgar,l To rain. Al
| though il has been about eight weeks since
we had II SEASON" and no small graf II In the
ground, we have hcara some say they nan
hoped it would stay dry week OF SO longer
! that they might get ont the cotton.
| one of our "bOyS,' not having lhe lcar ol
man in his heart, was induced to 20 INTO u
turnip patch a few nights since. About INC
time he had secured us many as nc wished: Il
signal was given 10y one of his ''fricndS,' pis'
tOI ShOtoS rang out on the air, shouts OF MUIR
der were heard, and onr'boy" WAS fright
out of at least one months progress In his
The work ON the store house at Martins
| Mills is progressing. Mr.. Geo. Bell has the
contract. A..
YOUR once vivnciOus correspondent, A.. j. -,
now of NrWbcrry, Is prospecting IN his new
home and has made many friends there lie
is said To be the resident corrcspnhdcht Oh tne
| NrlcS and CbHricr from NeWbcrry.
| TO the two young persons in your town VINO
are about to enter upon the real and actual
duties Of life by the lime your paper reaches
tend our best wishes for their happiness and
! prosncrily, here and hereafter. May their
| life he one continual day Of bliss.
Rev. T. B. Stewart preachcI an rTcc!len'
! sermon in the Associate Reformed Prcsby-
| tcrinn church sabbath morning.
| Rev. DR.. Gricr has kindly conscntel 10 oc.
cupy the pulpit in the BAPTIST church next
Sunday week, In the afternoon. Inc PaS.n'
| tisi convention in tho city Of Columhia
| MI Jmo. II. Wren has returned from Ander-
son, and will soon build another room 10
! iIoi. Todd's house, and do some woTk on Dr.
| AIillcrS premises.
Dr. Iaihan's house caught fire last Satnr
! day and the inmates were coEsidcr;lby
frightened. The fire was put out IN II Sholt
while, before much dalnagc was done;
| The two year old infant OF Rcv. J.
| VI. Todd died last Friday evening from Group.
The little one had never known molhGr :
loving care, she having departed thlS lie
when it WAS but Il few weeks Old. lhc SYM
pathicS OF the entire community 90 ont 10
! the hcrcavCd father.
| Surely the millennium is rear ut hand.
! We Judge so from reading the :ollnwing: ~
correspondent OF one of our church papers
| saws That in the Synod of Kansas there are no
aristOcrats. no ID. Dis, no dulles, ana oilIS one
'Stovcpivc hat All are plain, blunt men, IN
| living sympathy with Kansas ami Kan sans.
| The EuphemanS are having their llll
painted, and other needed repairs made. Mr.
! ibZan Bell is doing the work.
/ Rev. ". l.. PrcSSly, ID. d., assisted l,ev: MT.
| bradley, at Troy, last Saturday ana sabbath.
| lie is one Of the most evangelical preachers
| OF our country.
| Mrs. ]. G. Baird, of Lexington county, Is
spending Il white with her mother. Mrs. H.. Nj.
! Johnson. Prof Bnirt is principal OF line
school in that country.
| Mr. NJ. B. Gricr has taken charge OF flour
iShins school in the Empire State, noar Gov
| ingtun. lie Is the youngest son OF the laic
| Dr.. r. G. Gricr lie graduated recently at
lirSlline. and has taken on" years course III
| the Johns Hopkins University. Virginia.
| Mrs. Eliza Davis, of Georgia, after an ao-
scnce OF twelve years. Is visiting relatives
here. Her husband. Rev. Samuel /. DHyiS,
once taught school and preached at Lowndes
| willie, 'fD de war"
Mr.. \. II. Ham,lton of Rome, Ga. an eX,
student of Ersliinc Co lcgr Is expected To call
hv Due Wert this morning. He has many
| friends here who will be glad to welcome him
back. He with Mr.. w. I. Lowry of this place
will leave tomorrow, Tuesday, for l.owrieS-
willie, ). G., where they go to attend the nup'
tails Of Mr.. John w. Lowry OF that place.
Mr.. Lowry is also an eN-Studcnt Oh Erskine