The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-01

AS o result of the renewed effort to
start the defunct Charleston cotton
factory OF new basis, declaration
was yesterday filed with the Secretary
of State for the incorporation of a new
company to carry on the manufactur-
ing business now suspended. The
corporators are Messrs. Arthur
Barnwell, VIM. K. Ryan. VIM. M.
Bird, G. Irwin Walker and A. T.
Smythe. The capital stock is placed
at $3.50, 900, divided into $500, shares
of the par value of 500 each, forty per
cent to be payable at once in cash,
the balance on the order Of the board
of directors. A commission has been
ssued.-Register, Jan. 20.
-"What We SOW, that shall ye also
reap." If we sow good seed, we may
confidently expect good results; hence,
it behooves every man and woman to
carefully consider where the best seed
may be obtained. Seed that Is war
ranted pure, fresh, and raised on his
own farm, is what the veteran seed
grower, James J. H. Gregory, of Mar
blehead, Mass, offers the public, and
his well-known integrity makes his
warranty valuable one. Send for his
1883 catalogue.
The Legislature of Illinois has passed
a law, and Governor Oglesby has sign
ed it, making it punishable offense
to furnish minors under sixteen years
of age with tobacco in any of its forms.
That is good law, hygenically and
morally, which ought to be enacted in
every State. In this law Illinois fol-
lows the example Of Germany.
The National Democratic committee
meets at Washington, D. c., February
%, to fix the time and place Of holding
the National Democratic Convention.
New York, Boston, Cincinnati, st:
Louis, Chicago and San Francisco will
send delegations urging the claims Of
the respective cities as the place for
holding the convention.
A correspondent Of the Chesterfield
advertiser says that while in Cheraw
recently he was shown a bale Of pine
straw prepared for the purpose of max
Ing mattresses which is said to be far
superior to cotton for the purpose; and
another advantage claimed over Gotten
is that bed bugs will not stay near one
of these mattresses.
The Methodist Advance, of Colds
boro, N. c., which for some time has
been conducted by Revs. Bobbit and
Robey, of North Carolina Conference,
has been sold to L. A. Potter, Esq,
and will now have the distinction of
being the only Methodist paper edited
by layman.
A clock has been invented, and Is
coming into use in Europe, which Is
warranted by its manufacturers to run
for five years without winding or reg.
ulation. The Belgian Government
placed one in a railway station in 1881.
sealed with the government seal, and
it has kept perfect time ever since.
Gov. Seay, of Alabama, is in receipt
of q letter from DR.. P. s. Riddelee, q
prominent citizen of Dakota, in which
he states that the terrible loss of life to
both man and beast, in consequence OF
the recent blizzard has determined
son, January 8, for Arkansas.
Two hundred negrows left Ander-
many Dakota farmers to seek Southern
homes. In one section forty farmers
have indicated their purpose to 60
South.
Rev. J. c.. G.. Newton. now stationed
at Warrenton, Va, has been accepted
as q missionary to Japan. He Is the
sort of man wanted for the foreign
work a man who is wanted at home.
Because a wife does not speak out
against some of your habits Is no PROOF
that they do not make her unhappy.
The man who idly lives on what his
father earned and stored up, occupies
the same relation to society as does
pauper
The fortieth anniversary OF the wo-
man suffrage movement will be cele-
hrated in Washington by all inter-na-
tional council March 25 to April in
elusive.
Governor Hill, of New York, does
not believe in Friday hangings. He
sentenced q murderer to be hanged OIL
Monday.
A hailstone with a nucleus Of gyp-
sum, probably sucked up in water
spout, fell in a recent shower IN -
France.
In five centuries France had 326
years of war for ia of peace and in
the wars were fought 1s4 bloody bat
ties.
A great printing and binding estah-
lishment of Springfield, Ill.,, was
burned January %.
Last week the Northwest suffered
from one of the severest storms ever
witnessed in that section. It Ia sup
posed that fully three thousand lives
were lost.