The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31


A movement looking to the building OF q
hotel here this summer on the joint stock
plan is assuming shape.
DR.. Wilwee was down here last week IN lhe
interest of the Greenwood Building ana Loan
The General Assembly Of the Southern
Presbyterian Church meets in Augusta In
May.
guard of the Salvation Army.
The Augusta Chronicle is out with the first
snake story of the season. This effort OF the
editor orbans ls not nractcs cGry
Dr.. Talmage's sermon in last weeks Press
and Banner Is one of the very, best efforts OF
that accomplished word-painter.
Troy crawls into its hole about dusk each
evening and remains there until about nine
o'clock the next morning. stranger coin-
ing into town after dark would think that he
had wandered into frst;cass a vs. gtaveyaTGI "a
on railroad, but never, until last Thursaay
did we know OF the fuel on tender catching
fire and having to be dumped OIL This nap
The colored Presbyterian church, WHICH was
wrecked by cyclone last summer, will soon
be in better shape than ever:
Of the 1888 arrests reported by the marsnat .1s a.
Poi tand, in the Prohibition State OF Maine,
1920 were for crimes directly resulting. from IL
aunr. This looks as If Prohibition does not
Mr.. Glenn YouDgblood. who for the past two
wears has been clerking for Captain T. j..
Youngblood, will leave us shortly and go lnto
business for himself at Mt. Carmel or WOOD
rutfs, Mr. Youngblood Is young man OF ex-
cellent character and good business qualitica-
tions, and we can safely commend him TO the
good graces of the people of whatever com-
munity he may decide to locate among,
an church next Sunday will be conducted by
the Rev, w. T. Mathews OF Greenwood.
building In rear of Mr.. Ben Chiles' resi-
dence, occupied by his colored cook, was De.
stroye ed by fire last Thursday forenoon. As
the wind was blowing almost gale at the
time. It was miracle that the dwellings OF
Mr.. Chiles and the Rev. smart were not also
The Eiberton, Ca, Gazette says that a daily
hack line will be established between that
place and Enright's on the Savannah Valley
railroad. ~ ~,
Hall county, Ga, in which Is located tl,,he the
Prohibition for two or three years, gives 5'l
majority against 1t.
Now at this day comes Kentucky, the ho bot IT.
bed Of free trade and the homeEas;nry ,"r;T wag
bill because 1t puts hemp on the free isl II II
hemp was used as freely In Kentucky as II
ought to be, the people of that state "ould
not object to It's going on the free list.
ter is required to receive mutilated currency,
punched coins, &C., in exchange for stamps or
in payment of postage. This Is o mistake.
Postu,asters may receive such currency or
compelling them to do SO. A postmaster IL ls
not even Obliged to make change; they 90
this a. q matter of courtesy. I'll,
Alfred Sigler, the c0lored man who Was gill
ed on the Savannah Valley railroad on Mon
day of last week, resided In this place, where
he had a wife and six children. He left here
the morning of the accident in perfect health,
and a few hours afterwards waSa corpse III
The Cumberland Gap railroad meeting held
In Greenwood last week adjourned until me
18th of May. When the 18th Of May comes
the meeting will probably adjourn until the
18th Of August, and when the lStn OF Ia, hHsuse hs
18th of next year. We made the prediction IN
YOUR columns some months ago that this road
would be built about the same time that t9e
Churches was erected. We still stand by that
The Psalm Singer, speaking OF Prohibition
In Troy, says: THE barrooms have lallen
down and the glasses I were 5aReh ana anG sn
the kegs and the barrels" This Is true IN re-
gard to the glasses and the TASKS and the bot,
Ties and the "demijacks;" but If our reverend
friend of the Psalm Singer Will keep his ese
there Is quite respectable minority OF tne
kegs here yet, and that they are taken, 10
August. pretty regularly and filled Win deof'
Sc ahs ssSis'ss g,yss tRs good
base ball club learns that 1t can't play pall,
the next best thing to do Is to hire q arm and
20 10 raising cotton. Twelve luSty Dase-oal..
fsts can run an eight-mule farm and raise one
hundred and twenty bales Of cotton.
our school girls have military company
and baseball nine. The former VIII come
ont on dress parade some time during tne
summer and the latter will perhaps tackle
the nine to which their brothers and sweet
We notice that an individual by. the name OF
TreyilIick is perampulating through the
South and making speeches IN favor o1 the
organization known as the knisnts ol o~Ic Lazy,
When Tom Crittenden was before the people
of Missouri as the regular Denocratic candl'
date for governor, this fellow Trevillick was
one of the orators imported by the Green:
hackers to stump the Slate In opposltion 70
the Democracy. He Is Il rank communist and
a fraud on general principles, and should not
be countenance by Democrats anywhere, -
Some DAYS ago an Edgefield farmer by the
name of Miner brought to town what hao or.
ignally been q small roll Of greenbacks, out
Which had been "chawed almost into pulp
by a colt. The bills were IN llttle coIIoL
sack and safely slowed away In side pocket
in Mr.. Miners coat. The coat was taken on
and thrown upon fence, the sack 1eil out,
and Mr.. Colt attempted TO MAKE i,eat "a "a ~ q
fragments we told Mr.. Miner that the unlIeu
STATES Treasurer would redeem every doilar
of It, drafted letter for him 10 that oiiG'ai, .,
and instructed him to enclose the sack ana lts
contents in registered letter and forwaro
the same to Washington. He did so, and IN
lust one week from the day the letter @ was
postcd here he received check on the Sud
Treasury in New York for S35, when IS oollaI
for dollar. Notwithstanding Unc,e sam II
very kind to his numerous nephe"s anu
nieces, but few of us appreciate him as highly
aS we should.