The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
BOUGHT HIS MuLEs III THE WRONG PLACE

Easy 10 See Tint Abbcvillc il Wet.
Esih Legislators do More than they
Were Asked to do :..-IEOn. &. 4. G.
Waller is Solid-..EaOn. j. y. King
and Erimstona-Rabbits Please ss.c
Children. Etc.
DUE WEST, s. g.. March 10, 1880.
Ground thoroughly frozen Saturday morn
Ing.
People complain of oats being killed by the
fly.
Mai Thompson was in Due West last week.
The operation in Atlanta was successful.
McSsrs. \. u. and Patton Kennedy bought
four fine mules ut Anderson last week.
Mr.. w. L. Widcman handles fine Jersey cat,
lie and sells butter in Augusta, Ga., ut good
figure.
in Brooklyn painted: Mr.. VIM. Moore Is do
ing the job. The Judges castle will be an adj
dilion TO that part of town.
Mr.. II. y. Aiken, Of Atlanta, Ga, Is in Due
lcgc, and also working up branch associa-
ton of the Southern Building and Loan AsSo-
citation. Mr.. Aiken was once n pupil OF Ers-
kline College, and is good man.
One could easily have told that Abbcville
county was wet county from the drunken
ness visible on our streets here last Monday
evening. We have been told that the license
petition at the last Legislature simply asked
for n vote on the question in the town OF Abb
bevIln, and that our worthy legislators not
satisfied with "cating their own word, as
proclaimed on the stump went beyond what
The petition asked. Is this true?
DIR. W. NJ. Grier has been nominated for
Governor by some Of the papers Wouldn't
IT. bc really rcirt shing To have such man III
"Ina,,gural balls" ct i'll omnc gc's,ts he cleared
out, and - pure simple State government bG
erected. However, Brother linwkins n:ea
not worry about DR.. Grier turning his tcle'
Mr. Alex. Norris Of CokcSbury, was in town
last week working up his Ltfe1 insurance Com
pany. MIR. Norris represents one OF the best
companies.
Hon. c. \. c. Walters letter, while making
good his own position, seems 10 have knock
ell the bottom out OF the affidavit business
that was trying 70 corner on boom. Capt.
Kings letter smells of birthstone. He seems
to have "a chip on his shoulder
DR.. WidCmun attended the Doctors convcn-
tion which met at Nlnety-SiX last week. He
Is one OF the moving spirits OF this organi%a-
tion and one Of the best Doctors in the coun.
-Four men were seen trying to break iit''
MeSSrS. Ellis Bros store last week. They wrr,
trying To break through window shutter.
The noise awakened some OF tho nci&h0oT>.
On their approach the burglars ran.
Rev. J. T.. Galloway, Of York, lille, spent n
few days in town IHSi wc"!l. he came 0fcr To
take home his littlr daughter Annie, who has
been siayin& with friends here.
We heard Il good lady say recently she did
wish To meet the editor of the Press and Ban
Hcr so she could thank him for his fearless
stand on prohibition. II !he good wnmcn OF
this county could vote they would not DC long
Stamping out the whisky business. They are
the ones that suffer. However We think there
will be plenty of votes to carry out Rev. Car
terS proposition at the next election.
The Complaints about Irregularities Of the
mails continue. Brothers Harrison AID VAN
namHkcr arc we'll "blrsscl' men these days.
We get and have learned to expect ihcsc conl-
plants with each mail. On Saturday Of last
week we got three that day.
1t has often been matter OF wonder 10 US
how the editor Of the Press and BGnrer got s"
much work done. We have found out 1t is
| by laying Off his coat, rolling up his sleeves,
going right ahead and seeing that others fol-
| low. WeSrcnt night there recently when :,
part Of his force was down with the grip. The
editor wrote editorials, dashed off headings To
articles, made corrections, SGT tyrr, made up
| thc forms Of his paper, watched lis Kerosene
engine ana ran or The mailing list. Worked
all night and til ten and Il liaif o'clock next
morning. Brother Wilson is II full team.
We heard n man say on our streets last week
| that the Carolina and Cumberland Gap WAS
"coming ccrtain.' Just before that we hail
met Mr.. Robert lladdon, he looked so pleased
we were wondering what was the matter.
Coming mp to the post office Il man WAS read
ling from the .Ncms and C0tuicr about "Oid
lTumbling coming
The little ones at the house Of the writer
ere thrown into ccstacics of delight last Sat
urday, when box sent from the household
of our good friend, Mr.. John Leiih, living {.
few miles from Hodges, WAS opened and two
beautiful rabbits taken out-one white as cot
ton and tho other black and white. The chill
drcn could hardly contain themselves. They
desire TO return many thanks for the nice
present
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