The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-07-30
LONG CANES PLACE IN THE PICTURE.
Haisiates-..The q Wealth
er...And All Sorts Of Paragraphs
About The Good People.

Long CANE, s. c., Jaly 81, 1899.
II Is dry and dusty.
Farmers are needing rain.
Tie political pot is boiling rapidly and new
material Is put into IL every few days,
Miss Ernie Morrison has been very sick for
the last few days
Mr.. David W. Kelar. one of Long Canes
sons, Is employed by Mr.. G a. DougIass as
book. keeper.
Mr.. e. V. Hammond breaches at the Rock
Spring school house every fifth Sunday.
To-day Is the coolest and most pleasant day
that we have had this Summer.
Miss Marie McIlwaine Is visiting relatives
at Green wood this week.
The watermelon crop is short owing to the
dry weather, so this leaves the market oren
ior the Georgia watermelon.
Mr.. j. ID. Miller was out threshing grain q
few days this week. The wheat crop is turn
ing out poorly. Wheat Is no longer paying
Miss Lena Keller, eldest daughter Of Dr.J
w. Keller, is spending the week at Abbeville
with her uncle, Mr., g. \. Douglass.
Ira Cannon caught a blue catfish last week
in Collins mill pond that weighed eleven
pounds.
There will be barbecue at Rapley Shoals
next Saturday. The candidates, no doubt,
will receive special invitation.
Mr.. James Evans, from Smlthville, has been
visiting his father law, Mr.. b: II. Eakin.
and while there took In the barbecue at the
Central school house last Saturday.
The man who Is always frettiug and blam-
rs The man who thinks the world owes him a
living
spoken OF us q suitable man for School Com
missioner: If he should consent to enter The
race and be elected he would be an attentive
and competent officer.
Mr.. Hugh Wilson. editor Of the Press and
Banner, attended the picnic ut Central school
house in Long Cane township last Saturday
The people were glad to have him and hope
he will visit them again.
Rocks weighing more than a pound have
been found lying on the track of the railroad
between the eighth and ninth mile posts.
The railroad authorities would do we'll to in
vestigate this matter. as it is OF frequent oc-
currence, and punish the guilty party, as this
is source of great danger.
Mr.. r. E. Cox will enter the race for County
Commissioner. He Is native Of Long Cane,
and will no doubt make good run for man
so young.
The Abbeville train is much more comforta-
eand has neater appearance since the two
new coaches have been put on. Competition
will compel the railroad company to make
improvements all along the line. The road
bed Is now in better condition than 1t has
been in many years.
Politics is creating greater stir among the
people this year than since the heated cam.
blacks, but now comes the tug of war when
the whites fall In the death grappe with each
other. If the whites insist on fighting each
other, at an unguarded moment the negro
Upland corn has suffered considerably from
the drought, and 1t Is feared that the cotton
crop will be short If the seasons are not more
favorable. Some farmers console themselves
by thinking that the price of cotton will BE-
higher If the crop should be light, but cotton
Is beginning to be cultivated in more coun.
tries than the Southern States. Egypt and In,
dia. Short crops in this and few other States
would hardly effect the market.
How dependent Is one man upon another
No man could live IL he should cut himself
OFF from his fellows. A real Robinson Crusoe
would have died. Even corn growing by 1t.
self, some distance from other corn, Will not
fill out. but the grain will be scattered over
the cob; so man, like the simple ear of corn
needs the presence OF his fellows to make him
A little son of Mr.. J. w. Rykard, the Edison
Of AbbeYille, says, at rains on the just and
the unjust" but 1t rains on the Just in the
Summer and OH the unjust In the Winter,
Mr.. Thomas Robertson is the only man In
the neighborhood who has peaches enough
for himself and to spare. His apples look
tempting from the road, but distance lends
enchantment." They are probably sour and
not sweet anyway.
neighbors went to Collins Mill on Long Cane
last week and caught one hundred pounds OF
fish, besides capturing two candidates, who
entertained the crowd for few hours.
Candidates are coming out thick and fast.
The picnic and barbecue at Miss Eppie Han
nah's school house last Saturday was most
delightful affair. Many expressed themselves
as highly delighted with the excellent dinner
and orderly conduct OF the large crowd. In
the afternoon q few candidates made short
speeches, but not necessary to speak OF this
as the speeches were reported by the editor
of the Press and Banner, who was present.
Mr.. r. B. Haddon and his brother, Mr.. Da.
vid Haddon, made l25 bales Of cotton and
nearly one thousand bushels OF corn on Long
Cane last year with only seven plows. Such
farming pays, but 1t Is due to the good land
and close attention these young men give to
their work. If the seasons are favorable their
crop will be larger this year than last.
SEMINOLE,