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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-21

Don't prumble about bad shoes for children
r a. the5 wear the Little Giant school shoes.
Every pair guaranteed. P. Rosenberg & Co.
N' IT,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-21
Forty 40 Acres,

more or less, and bounded on the north BY
lands of John Dorm, ST., and E. A. Dorm, on
the east by lands OF E. A. Dorm, on the west
by lands OF Wingard and James Butler, ON
the south by lands Of Wingard.
Also that lot or parcel Of land In Edgeheld
County, near Modoc, containing
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-21
Three 8 Acres,

more or less, and bounded by lands OF George
D. Tillman, said land being on Big Stevens
Creek and upon which there Is good mill
site.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash. Purchaser to
pay for papers.
J. C. KLUGH,
Master.
October z, 1891, At.
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Twenty 600 Acres,

more or less, bounded by lands of A. M
Aiken, n. Wyatt Aiken, Mrs. r. G. Jones, ant
others, being the tract OF land conveyed b!
Howard L. Odiorre to Eva 8. Maloney.
TERMS OF SALE-Strictly cash. Pur
chaser to pay for papers.
j. Z. KLUGH.
Master.
October 7, 1891, At.
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THURSDAY
OCTOBER 18TH, 1891.
Taxes can be paid until December
18th, without penalty.
Rate per ceutum of taxation is as
follows:
State purposes Al mills.
School 2
Ordinary county tax 8 -"
Total 81
In addition to the above special tax
in towns of Greenwood and Ninety.
Six for schools, 2 mills.
Poll tax 81 per capita on all male cit
liens between the age of 81 and 80
years, except such as are exempted by
law.
In order to accommodate tax payers,
have arranged the following schedule
of appointments /:
Taxpayers will please take due no.
tice thereof, as the Office at the Court
House will of necessity be closed on
those days.
Lowndesville, November 8, from l
o'clock D. m. till o'clock D. m. next
day.
Mt. Carmel, Thursday, November
5th.
Wellington, forenoon of November
| 9th.
Bordeaux, afternoon of November
9Th.
Mccormick, Saturday, November
7th.
Troy, Monday, November 9th.
Bradley, forenoon November 10th.
Verdery, afternoon November 10th.
Coronaca, afternoon November 18th.
Ninety-Six, November 18th till ar
rival of up passenger train.
Greenwood, Friday, November 18th.
Abbeville Court House, Saturday
and Monday, November 7th and 9th.
Due West, afternoon of November
10th, and forenoon of November 18th
Donalds, afternoon, November 18th
and forenoon November 18th.
Hodges, afternoon, November 18th.
The remainder of the time the office
will be kept open at Abbeville Court
House for the reception Of taxes.
Parties desiring information by mail
in regard to their taxes will please in.
clude postage tor reply-aud those pay.
ing their taxes by check, should not
fail to include exchange.
J. R. BLAKE, JR.,
Treasurer.
Sept. 80, If
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Masters Sale.
The State of South Carolina,
COUNTY OF ABBEvILLE. @
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
~, ,r r,-.. .-,;n,x ann,a II oharord al al


COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
w. NJ. Connor against Annie +. Sherard ct al.
Foreclosure.
DY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE
made in the above stated case, I will OTTER for
sale ct public outcry at Abbeville q. H.. g. @.
on SALE DAY IN NOVEMBER, 1897, With
in the legal hours Of sale, the following de- {
scrlbed property, situate In said State ana
County, to wit: All that tract or parcel OF
land, containing
Two Hundred and Eighty.
Five 1851 Acres, I
more or less, bounded by lands OF Estate OF
). w. Calhoun, by Wilson creek, by lands OF
D. L. Boozer and T. c. Turner.
Also, that lot or parcel Of land, with dwell
ing house In the town OF Ninety-six, contain
| ing
Three [31 Acres.
more or less, and bounded by lands'of John
A. Moore, DR.. G. F. E. Wenck and c. d G.. r.
r.
TERMS OF sALE-One-half cash, balan Q
on a credit Of twelve months. with intere
from day Of sale, secured by bond Of the pm
chaser and mortgage Of the premises. Pnr
chaser to pay for papers,
| &c. KLUGH, Master.
Oct. Z, 1891. At
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I'm ACCORDANCE WITH THE
Il act to raise supplies for the fiscal
year commencing November lat, 1890,
notice is hereby given that the Treas
urer's Office of Abbeville County will
be open for the collection of taxes on
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-21
Eighty.Eight 1881 Acres,

more or less. bounded by lands of the estate
of A. T. Whiteman and NJ. Goodwin de-
ceased, Long Cane Creek and the Dover tract
Also, the remainder in the Dover tract.
containing
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-21

more or less, and bounded by Dover tract,
Car tract and J. NJ. Trewitt.
Also that tract or parcel OF land known as
tract No. 4, the Brick House tract, contain
ing
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-21
One Hundred and Forty
40] Acres,

more or less. bounded by lands Of Charlie
Young on the north, on the east by lands re-
Gently conveyed to W. A. Pressly by Mary I.
Carlile, on the south by lands Of W. g. Wat
son and estate OF James T. Allen, and on the
west by lands OF Mrs. Oliver formerly owne ed
by Mary E. Oliver, and divided from w. A.
Pressly's land by Ross Creek. The lands
mentioned as belonging to W. A. Pressly are
now owned by Samuel Wright.
TERMS OF SALE-One half cash, the bal
ance on a credit Of twelve months with inter-
est from day Of sale secured by bond Of pur-
chaser, and mortgage Of premises. with leave
to purchaser to pay all cash. Purchaser to
pay for papers
]. C. KLUGH,
Master.
October Z, 1891, At.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-21
Forty-Seven [47] Acres,

more or less being the southwestern portion
of the home place being on the Augusta road.
Also, all Of that Goodwin tract containing
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October z, 1891, At.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
Anthracite Coal for Centuries.

Thirty years ago fears were entertained
by men engaged in the mining of
anthracite coal that the supply would be
exhausted iii this region around about
Pittston, Penn, before the close of the
present century. The northern boundary
o. the coal field was fixed short dis
lance above Carbondale, aud the So
| called experts were confident that coal
would not be found in paying quantities
! outside OF this line When it was
rumorcd that coal had been found in
Suscquchanna County, these old-tirlers
laughed at the reports and the men who
bought aud held for years land now con.
sidcred valuable were classcd among the
visionary spectators of the age. Time
has proven that the men who outlined
the coal measures in the Lackawanna
Valley made great errors in calculating
coursts and distances. Instead of ex-
hausting the supply in thirty years, the
sight, in the upper end of the valley,
more anthracite coal than has been mined
since the first opening was made. Recent
developments at Forest City have sur
prised the coalmen of the region and now
it is known that the work OF mining has
only begun in that region. The immense
tracts that the Elk Hill Coal Company is
now making preparations to develop were
passed by for years us worthless. Close
upon the news that operations were to be
commenced by the Elk Hill Coal Company
comes the announcement that the North
west Coal Company, which owns large
tracts i'll upper Lackawanna, has met
with unexpected good fortune i'll pro-
specting. Underlying the veins which
the company is now working a new vein
has been discovered which is authenti-
ca!ly reported as Icing fourteen feet in
thickness. -N:aaelphia LNdqer.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
Florida Shell IIeans.

In several quarters the shell heaps of
Florida are so symmetrical in form that
the idea prevails that they were built
there by the Spaniards at an early dav
Tor defensive or offensive purposes The
only evidence that seems ut I'LL strong
for this theory is found on the shores of
Lake Worth. Mr.. Allen Hcyscr, pro-
prietor OF Oak Lawn Hotel, found n ten
to twelve pound cannon ball inbelded
| In the debris on the back or inside of
the supposed fort. If this ball hal be en-
found IN front or imbed,lcd in the front
| side 1T might be said to have been fired
IRON the water into the heap, but when
found unused behind the fort it NAV well
cause consideration.
These heaps are multitulnous, and
it Is not unfair 10 say that if they Joined
together, on Indian River alone, thew
would cover distance OF tea miles.
Many of them are SO low and well COW
cred with scrub palmctoes that thcir
presence is not detected unless they arc
near to the water, when their base is
looscned by the waves and their structure
exposed. They are nearly all composed
OF nothing but the shells Of the common.
oysters Of Florida
These mounds, apparently rising from
the waters edge, when on thc shore and
washed out at their bases by the waves,
arc sometimes twenty feet high, and one
that ! measured was quite twenty three
feet tall. This mound, the most perfect
i'll its purity OF clean oyster shells and
freeness from dirt, is opposite to the
pelicans island below st. Sebastian
River. 1t is over four hundred feet
long and from thirty to sixty feet deep,
back from the water. 1t has large pal
ncttos growing upon it, some of which
must be nearly a hundred years old. a
house is perchcd on its highest point,
twenty feet or so back from the edge OF
the nearly vertical yet crumbling cliff,
and the proprietor has had to put up
signs to prevent the curious from under
mining the rafting, unstable pile and
thereby cndangcring his house. Sevc@ll
palmettos have succumbcd 70 gravity and
settled Ill WHY positions to the waters
edge
In several mounds skeletons have been
discovered, thus proving comparatively
recent occupancy; but this does NOT
prove that the mounds were made fol
burial purposes, for perhaps the tribes
selected the sites because OF their c!cva.
ton and dryncss.
From several OF these tumuli beads
were taken, which were always found
on top. The beads were of glass in NO
instance, but were of hard substance.
resembling stone,l bur quite light
Natures Realm.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
Queer Bit of Literary History

There is Il rich man in New York with
a queer bit of literary history. Years ago
me was very poor. He wrote stories and
no publisher would take them. Finally
he received a legacy of 5000. He had a
crippled sister to support. aud he incor-
porated her with himself into a publish
ing company. Then he printed his re-
jected stories. They paid expenses, and
ne wrote story of newsboy life ana
published it, and since then has written
and published eighty books. They are
common stories, cheaply printed, but
they sell by thousands. He owns block
OF houses in Brooklyn and supports his
invalid sister in luxury. He has worked
hard, but he has achieved success, and
what pleascs him most is the fact that he
has shown other publishers how badly
mistaken they were in their judgment Of
his books.-1tlemta Constitution.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14

The New York Commercial Bulletin is
correct in its opinion, states the San
Francisco Chronicle, that Americans are
becoming every year more partial to a
large mixture OF fruit in their diet. The
national pic Is rapidly being Displaced.
Its stronghold is still in New England.
but throughout the great West it has
lost its hold and fruit is now rs common
at dessert on the tables of the wealthy
and the middle classes as il is on those of
rich Europeans. All this favors Cali
fornia growers, for the increased
demand assures our horticulturists good
prices and stimulates the planting OF
those varieties in which California has
no rival. In prunes, apricots, nectarines,
table grapes and raisins we have the call
and 1t is these fruits which should be
given the preference.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
i Knowing Mule.

A farmer OF Williamsbridgc, on the
northern outskirts of New York City,
plows his land with horse and a mule
harnesscd together. The mule has n
hairless, stubbed tail, dropping ear,
and Il dead eye. But what he lacks in
personal appearance he richly makes up
in sagacity. The other morning, shortly
after dawn, the farmer found that both
horse and male had been stolen out of
the stable during the night. After break
fast time the mule limpcd home, travel
ing Tor the most part on three legs. One
OF the rear fctloc&s was badly sprainei,
and his lips were ilecked with blood as
though lac had been trying to chew some
thing too tough for ordidary masticating
powers. Almost at the same hour Il
sorry-looking man with $40 bill in his
pocket, was arrested as suspicious per
son by the Carmansvillc police. He
WAS covered with cuts and bruises, which
he accounted for by saying that he had
been knocked down by runaway horse,
crushed by the wheels Of the wagon be-
hind it, and manglcd by dog that was
pursuing the turnout The farmer sus-
poets that the man was in contact with
both ends of his mule, and that the
twenty dollars is the result of cheap
horse Chicayo Times.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
Vitality of Seeds.

Whether seeds can or cannot preserve
their vitality for heightened periods de-
Ponds rs much or more on external than
inherent conditions; and it is more and
more tendency CT scientific belief, that
under some conditions seed which would
lose ITS vital power in Il year or two, NAV,
under other conditions, continue vital for
an indefinite period 1t is still mooted
question whether the "mummy seeds"
which people who travel in Egypt bring
home with them, have really been in ex-
istencc for couple of thousand years,
or are the skillful work OF impostors
which abound in the classic land as well
ns in our own. 1t is said that so skill
fully is the imposition practiced that the
mummy wheat can be made to roll out OF.
mummy wrappings even before your eyes.
But undoubted facts are accommodating,
showing long life in unexpected in
stances. Under ice sheets, plants as
well as seeds, will live for years A re-
markable instance occurs, in connection
with species ofcyprcss, native of Cali
fornia. Coulter, a collector in California,
had his hcrbarium in the Glasnevin Gar
dens, hear Dublin, and twenty one years
after Il seed was taken from dried speci.
men which produced the living plant. -!
Ne:o York independent
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
Frozen SiIDeria.

AT Yakutsk, Siberia, man started to
dig well in 1928. He worked on il
three years aud gave it up, iuding the
ground still frozen at depth of thirty
feet The Russian Academy of Science
took up the work aud sunk the well 10 :,
depth o! $50 feet without gctti..,
through the froscn ground BY taking the
temperature At different points the scien-
lists have concluded that the ground is
frozen to depth of 5000 feet. After
hsurin@ on the subject for over Il quarter
oi century, geo!osists have come to the
conclusion that the great frozen valley
OF the Lena River was deposited, frozen
lu.t as 1t Is to-day, during the great
$rlnding'up era OF the glacial cpoc.l.
hisht hundred and ciShty-;wo fee; of
the iiozen soil might well s,ugrcr III.
scient'ilc investigator, for it violates all
the preconceiyed ideas of the condition
I'LL" temperature of the interior OF the
earth.-!san Francisco Erua.tqey.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14

M. IL. Allen, Secretary of the British
Anti-Slavery Society, has written 1. letter
to the press i'll which he says that the
slave trade Is still practiced on a very
large scale in Morocco. He has received
Information that in February last 1000
slaves, among whom were 1000 women
ana girls, were sold in the markets of
Fee ana Mcquincz, and that on accom-.
OF the large supply of slaves from the
Soudan tho price had fallen one-half
Purchasers offered only $50 for good
looking young women vino last year
brought twice that sum. Many of the
Slaves had succumbed TO the terrible
suifcrings of the march across the
desert
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14

| bunch the following year. The greatest
trouble of farmers Is to keep the farms
clear of sprouts. They shoot up from
the roots Of the tree for radius of ten
feet and grow like weeds.
As the fruit is cut from the trees it is
placed on the backs of little pack don
Keys and transported in this way TO tee
coast One donkey can carry IRON three
to SIX punches, according to the size of
the bunches and the distance from the
coast. In the season at Baracoa there
are more than three thousand donkeys
That stretch along in line for miles
ptodding toward the coast with their
loads Of bananas.
The fruit from jamaica is considered
by dealers to be the largest, best and
most saiable. This is said to be owing
to the fac; that the fruit is allowed to re-
main longer on the trees and is more
iuiiy maiurcd than froua any other sec
ton.
Onc firm has just planted grove of
l,300,0O trees ut Gioarl. Saml, near
Baracoa, which will be bearing fruit in
another year.
Tine cost TO the farmer OF raising the
iru!t is estimated at twenty-five cents
tree, and he calculates on realizing ten
per cent. profit. The frui; is sold in the
market 1T from scventy-!iyc cents to ST
bunch wholesale.
The principal mlrkets for bananas are
New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Savannah, Galveston aud
Tampa, Fla. From these points the fruit
Is circulated over the country. -Nee
YORK IrrnIn
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14

through the marshes, the contrast is strik-
ing. Before her stretch green tausles Of
saw-grass and aquatic plants, with the
Drown water pouring IN spumy torrent
over the head Of the canal. A few ma4sh-
BIRDS rise from the Iuaking Dogs and
h"t'er oil III alarm at the strange intru-
der. Otherwise, the wilderness is uu-
broken 10y signs Of life. In the rear,
where the dredgc has cleared watery
path, the canal banks are firm, rushcs
and ~atcr-lilies lie Drowned and dead in
the sunshine, green edible grass sprouts
spontaneously, and herds of cattle Craze
III placid contentmcnt. On one side is
desolation. on the other endless promise.
1t is the story of the peninsula, the diff
terence between the old and tue new
Acto York Tribune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
HnYaii's Active Volcano.

News comes from Honolulu that the
volcano is exceptionally active. Fiery
fountains of liquid lava are playing to II
great height. The area of the great
breakdown which engulfcd IIale-mau-
mau, Dana Lake, New Lake, fourteen or
fifteen blow holes and the bluffs sur
rounding the pits was described by Pro-
fessor Brigham Us 5000 feet, by $500
feet. forming a pit with an estimated
depth Of 800 feet, the sides being per-
pcndicu:ar. Three weeks after the col
lapse the lava began to reappear, and it
rose in the pit about 100 feet, virtually
forming lake OF liquid lava $50 to 300
feet in diameter. The level of this lake
is now reported to be rising and falling
as much as forty to fifty fee. within au
hour, most splendid sight. -Ne,o York
COmbierciM A0ce,tisel..
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
LONG AGO,

once know all the birds that came
And nested in our orchard trees,
For every flower had name
: My friends were woodchucks, toads nnt
bees:
i knew where thrived in yonder glen
What plants would sooth II Stone bruised
Oh. was very learned then,
But that was very long ago.
knew the spot upon the hill
Where chcckerberrics could DO found,
knew the rushes near the mill
Where pickercl lay that weighed II pound
knew the wood-the very tree
Where lived the poaching, saucy crow,
And all the woods and crows knew INC
But that was very long ago.
And pinng for the JOYS of youth
tread the old familiar spot
Only to learn this solemn truth:
II have forgotten, n:n forgot.
let heres this younsster at my kneo
Knows all the things used to know:
To think once was wise ~ ha-
But that was very long ago.
know it's folly to complain
OF whatsocr the fates decree.
Vet, were not wishes all in vain.
toll you what my wish should be:
I'd wish TO be IL boy again,
Back with the friends used To know.
For was, oh, so happy then
But TINT WAS very long ago.
-EuJcnc Field. in ne Chicago Ne,cs.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
Murder rs Natter OF Courso

a European traveller, who was visitihf
the court OF the Imam of Muscat not long
ago, relates the following: II had heard
that no ruler of MIuscat for the last hum
dred years had died Il natural death, and
was Interested, when in our conversation,
the Imam himself introduced the matter
OF this extraordinary fatality among the
sovereigns of his country" is it true, :"
| ventared to ask, '';hat no Imam for a
hundred years has died in his bcd9"
Certainly not, said he, with perfectly
grave face; ''let me sce-four of them
have died in bed" "And they were not
assassinated, thcn?' ''Weil,n lie said,
"it is true that they were found under
the mattress instead OF on top of it, but
they nnquestionably died in bed" They
had been smothered by their heirs APP
parent. .i9g9naMt
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14
Tie LARGEST t;as.J,oIder

A London gas company is having
erected an immense gas-hoider, said to
be the largest in the world. Some idea
tf the magnitude OF the structure may
be obtained when il is stated that it will
have & capacity of 200, 900 feet OF
gas; that it will be 800 feet in diameter,
with III altitude OF $50 feet when ut its
full height; that its total weight will be
2220 tons, of which 1919 tons will be OF
wrought iron, sixty tons of cast iron and
80 tons OF steel; and TIA. it will re-
quirc 1903 tons OF coal to Ill! it with gas.
For the reception Of tha gigantic gaso-
meter a concrete tank 303 feet iii diameter
and thir,y-one feet six inch deep has
been made, at cost Of SIS 600. The
cos; OF the holder alone-thc manu-
facthTc, erection and completon-wiIl
be S205, 975. &
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14

1t is an old saying among doctors, de-
clares the NeO York Recorder, that more
than half the ailments they are called ON
to cure are purify imaginary, aud that of
hydrophobia cases only about one in ten
is genuine. The probabilities, therefore,
are always greatly in favor Of the sup
position that person who thinks he is
suffering from rabies is the victim of
nothing more dangerous than his own
fears. The doctor who treated the young
man who died up in the Annexed Dis
trict after being bitten by policcman's
dog is consequently very apt to be right
when he says the lads imagination and
not the wound killed him. Everybody
knows what tricks the imagination can
play. Properly stimulated, it will en-.
able people to see what does not exist
TACT known to judges who deal with
human evidence, rs well as to imposters.
who, In the role of mind readers or spirit
mediums, prey on human Weaknesses
In darkened room, with mystery Turk
ing in the corners and under the tables
it can perceive visitors from the otbe,
world, and even transport its posscssor
into distant lands.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14

The He6rc0 Journal publishes long
list of Jewish institutions in New York
City. The list includes thirty places of
worship, twenty charitable institutions.
eight benefit societies, and seven clubs
and libraries. According to the Ik6re,c
Jo"rnal, 1873, 900 Russian Jews have
come to New York City, number
which, it says, is equal to the rest of the
jewish population there BY these est.
mates, adds the New York .Sun, there
must be about 800, 900 Jews in the city;
but perhaps the estimates arc too hirh.