The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-03
LONG CANE ITEMS.
What the People Should DO-.-HerOic
Act OF q Little NegrO-..The Trains
...OduS and Ends.


I.oSG CANE. S. G.. Sept. l. 1890.
Mrs Nancy Keller has been sick Tor the last
Mr.J l.. Hill will carry his fine colt to tho
stock show to-day.
Miss Peggy Sharp who lives with Mr.. Doc
Bowie has been sick sometime.
II is strange hut true that all metallic veins
run East and Welt.
Scientists claim that the world is ten mil
lion years old.
over the election of the Hon. George john
some to Congress-
Miss Ida Niclllcs, Of Due West, has beer
visiting her cousin, Miss Ernie Morrison.
Farmers arc busy picking cotton. The lin
Is much shorter this year than last.
Road overSeerS should have as few dltche:
cut across the public roads rs possible.
Mr.. Thomas Robertson was the first OF his
IncighbOrS to commence gathering Inc neecS
Mr.. Thomas j. Lipscomb, Of Vcrdery, has
secured Mr. w. ID. LOmaXs place as travelling
salesman for Mcssrs. Thurber, Whyland Il Co.
OF New York.
The price of jutc bagging has fallen so mucl
that farmers are thinking seriously OF using
it this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Thomson. of Charles
ton, attended preaching at Upper Long Cane
on the 18th Sunday in August.
Mr.. e. V. Hammond preached to an atten
tive congregation ut the Rock Spring school
house yesterday.
The people throughout the country have
gone into the lightning rod business eXten
sively. II is money thrown away.
Abbeville being such noted place 1t Is lul
ly described in Chambers EncyclODue dta
The two newspapers are mentioned.
The rains that came last week vii do muct
good, as The land is IN Il nice condition fol
sowing oats.
Newberry will send a young man, twenty
two years old, TO the legislature this year. 49,,
| Every farmer should have blacksmith
shop. y great deal of money could be saved
TO say nothing of the convenience.
- OF Greenwood has made himself very
conspicuous by his abSenSe for the last 1e"
weeks. Hope he will soon be at his posi-
again.
The recent elections in this and other conn
| ties have proved that men must have ability
of their own, besides the power TO cling tt
| Tillman's coat tail and be pulled into OF
| flee.
september comes from the Latin word sep
tenn, Seven; 1t is the ninth month according
TO the reckoning now, though 1T still pre-
serves its original name.
Mr.. w. a. LomaX has completed Ill: gin
serve the public. He is also prepared t.
grind corn and saw for his ncighh0rS.
The AbUevii;e train nuw makes nve Trips
a day and lies over at Hodges every night ane
Sunday. The sharp competition that Is eN
pectei from the &. &. IL y. railroad Is causing
the extra accommodation.
a large dead oak tree stands within twenty
five feet of the rail road near TIE nine milt
wreck On the road some day.
Mr.. Charles y. Butts will make molasSes
enough to do hirr. Farmers should give
more Il tention To mOlGSSeS cane rs 1t seldom
fails to produce well and II saves many Il dol
lar.
Every farmer in Long Cane should subscribe
for the Press aud Banner. At heart, they
have no better friend than the editor. lie l.
always ready TO note their progress IN every
thing, and they should show their apprec!a
ton by subscribing for his paper.
There arc heroes even among negroes. A
negro child about two years old was playing
on the railroad near Dorrough's lnst Wcdnes
day and when the train was approaching
within one hundred yards OF the chlid Il little
negro hoy seeing the baby almost doomed
hoped on the track grabbed The chi ID and just
succeeded in saving himself by falling To ono
side when the train went rushing by al Tic
rate of twenty-five miles an hour.
What has been cultivated from the earliest
ages and was II chief crop in ancient Egypt
and Palestine. The oldest cotton propucing
country is India, in which empire the plant
has been grown and manufactured from time
immcmoral. The introductian Of the cotton
plant into United States is traced as far back
rs 1886. The first cotton mill built in this
country was in l79l. The native country oil
the cultivated ouiS is unknown although,
most probably 1t is Central Asia. DR.. Tai.
mage says grains Of corn similar to indian
corn have been found wrapped up with the
SEMINOLE.