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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
DEATH OF DR.. SLOAN.
The End OF q Long Useful Lifc-He
Served His People In the Pulpit
for Nearly Fifty Years.

After q long illness the Rev. H: Thorn pson
Sloan, D. D., died yesterday at his home in
this county, at an advanced age, beloved and
respected BY all who knew him.
During nearly the whole Of his ministerial
life he served Cedar Spring and Long Cane
conyregations in this county, and 1t was only
within very recent period that he ceased TO
labor with them.
DIR. Sloan not only has an irreproachable
character, but his life and teachings were
such as to command the love and confidence
of all people, OF every class and condition.
While he was tenacious for the righ and con-
tended stenuously for the exactlons or all the
tenets Of his Christian faith, yet he was toler-
ent and charitable toward those who saw the
lie BIT from a different standpoint or who In
the ir own life, lacked something of coming
up to the requirements Is OF the highest stand
ard, OF the Christians life. In sert Ice TO the
Farther, he recognized the brotherhood OF
mankind aud ever sought to bring all men
within the old Of the Christian faith.
While he enlisted IN the Masters cause
under the banner of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church, he was Christian In
the broad and true sense OF the word, and
from his youth up he lived blameless life
and devoted servant OF his Redeemer.
He was remarkable for his stability OF char.
acter and steadfastness of friendship and de-
votion. II be ever missed attending Com
mencement at Due West in the fifty years Of
its existence, we have never heard OF 1t, and
he was for possibly forty years, one of the
trustees of that institution.
He will be buried to-day, and then we will
know him no more OF him, except as his
works do live after him.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
TROY'S TEA CUPS.
Many Marriages Recorded-Death of
DR.. Sloan-The Burning OF Major
DOrn's Barn, Btc.

Many Marriages kecOf0eO-DeRun Ol
DR.. sIoan-The Burning OF Major
DOrn's Barn, Btc.
Troy, 8. c.. Feb. l2 1894.
Mr.. J. NJ. Childs, OF Pelzer, was IN town last
week. He Is ow a merchant at Pe'zer.
The Baptists of this place have secured Rev
II. G. Burton as their pastor. ~,
Married Oh the lst Of February, Mr.. j: M
spence to Miss Fannie Langley, by the Rev
Mrs. r NJ. Gailaher, BY the Rev. H. c. Burton,
little Nora, daughter Of Mr.. j. c. Davis, il
better, and is with friends In town.
Up to the 1st day of January. 5000 bales OF
On Saturday, the 18th Of February. at 10: SC
O'Clock, there will be several addresses made
In behalf Of the Alliance by j: T: Robertson
J. r. Blake, Jr., Capt. J. B. Holloway, ]. s.
ley. The public are invited.
Eddy Brothers show Is advertised for this
place on Saturday 17th.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Wardlaw and Miss Lilly Morrah,
7th. by Rev. r. F. Bradley.
Miss Ellen Morrah, OF Wideman ans, is visiting
her sister, Mrs. w. H. Ken nedy..
We would call the attention OF our County
Commissioners to Pattersons bridge, as 1t Is
Mrs. @. 7. Bonner, of Due West, is visiting
her father, DR.. ]. D. Neel.
Mrs. T. P. Thomson is among relatives IN
There is constantly cry in town for houses,
and the demand cannot be supplied
The sacrament of the Lords Supper was
admin istered in the A. r. p. church last Sun.
WashIngton's birthday will be celebrated
by our school on the 22nd Of February, We
learn 1t is to be for the school alone.
The little girls OF our town had candy
pulling last Saturday. There were sixteen
little Jewels present.
Rev. q. G. Burton will preach In the Baptist
church next Sunday.
Mrs. Murry Drennon, after spending some
time with her daughter In Georgia. has re.
turned home.
Uncle Isaac Caldwell has bought two fine
mules. Look out for q big cotton crop.
At this writing DR.. H. T.. Soan Is no better.
He died on Tuesday, Feb. lS. and will be bur-
led on Wednesday.
There Is some talk of Abbeville, Edgefeld
and Troy building the Cumberland Gap Raj.
road. II every man along this road would
grade his length, the road would soon have
rolling stock on 1t. Now this looks like lit
tie to do for rail road-just to grade six feet
We hope how soon this road will be running.
On fast Sunday morning at daylight the
barn, of Major Dorm OF this vicinity. tog ether
with six head OF horses, $50 bushels OF corn
about four tons OF hay and about 800 bundles
of fodder was burned. The damages are es'
timated at about fifteen hundred dollars
The barn, we learn was insured for four hun.
dred dollars. 1t is thought to be incendary
but no clue to the parties as to yet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
TOWN TOPICS.
Interesting Summary OF What is Go
..'.. ing ON in Abbevflle.


Mrs. Thomas Morton Of Edgefield visi
tns Mss her sGas is
Mr., Visanskas family.
Mr. Cloud of the g., c. n. was over las,
week getting Information OF the water courses
in the vicinity OF the railroad Inc Seaooa9 ,h "a
nral RESOURCES Of the country through which
A. Iasst,s. Abbeyille will make good show.
ing. We have as fine water power as there is
Miss Dean, who has been visiting here, lefl
for her home few days ago. A hearty well
come always awaits her.
Mr. y. g, Perrin. formerly with Haddon q
Ir. Bailey is getting up "Pinafore" for the
benefit OF the school library. IL VII! come on
in Auril. and promises to be treat for Ao.
bevifle. as the best voices In the town have
% Our enierprislng citizens, Messrs; Rosen,
berr and Visapska contemplate building
CITY hall or opera house on the Dendy corner.
Mrs. Lewis Parker OF Greenviiie Is spena-
Lovers Of flowers can be supplied with the
beautiful chrysanthemums that nave taKen
premiums IN Sy orders 81 Sent
in Nav. the time TO set them out in the open
ground. Prices very moderate.
Mr., Henry Hill has set out an acre OF CAP.
baees in Fort Pickens. He bought early
Mrs. Fannie Allen is having q five room
cottage erected near the Cothran branch. 1t
is to be completed In three weeks from tne
time IL was begun.
Mrs. Cheves HASKELL was shopping In town
Mr.. Frank DuPre has returned from a
weeks visit to Atlanta.
Several Of our young men attended pleas
ant dance In Greenwood last Friday night.
Some of them 20 very often. There must De
q sweet attraction. /.
Col. b. T. Wardlaw has been visiting In
Mrs. Dr. Hawss of Eloerton, Ga, Is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. w. A. Lee.
Miss Stella Douglass, from Columbia, is al
home visiting her parents.
Professor Bailey has moved Into Mr.. klugh
new house on Wardlaw street.
Mr.. Game, engineer on the e., z. q n
railroad, and brother of our townsman, Dr.
Game, has bought from Mr.. Klugh the cottage
recently occupied BY Prof. Bailey.
Mr.. John A. Harris Is with White Bros.
Rev. Mr.. Pearson, the great evangelist, has
been invited to come TO Abbeville.
A large amount OF additional machinery
will be put in the railroad shops next week.
Mr.. Weymer and family occupy the cot
taRe in DR.. Marshalrs yard.
Miss Meta Lythgoe has returned from AL
ken,
Capt. M. L. Bonham has been In town for
several days.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
THE WAY CLEMSON DOES.
Most of the Country Editors Give
Their Papers to the Big Institu.
tiOn-..The Difference Between
Taking Papers and "Gettiug"
Papers.

IHe1f FAperb 10 the Dig 1nStlLu'
tion-..The Difference Between
Taking" Papers and "Getting''
Papers.
The Press and Banner Is In receipt Of the
following note ON q postal card, and explains
itself as far as we understand It, We copy
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Clemson College, Feb. 10, 1894.
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VILE boys know would like TO see II. Read
ing Room takes no co. papers but gets most
OF Them.
With best wishes to you
lam, Yours truly,
w. F. Moncreiff.
We will comply with the request TO disc on.
tinue his paper. have no fault TO find
with Professor Moncreiff for ordering II
stopped, and we have no fault to find with
the rich country editors who can afford 10
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But we cannot afford to give away ours
II costs Us time and money to print the
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If the Reading Room at Clemson College
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
The Saloons.

Some Of the advocates of the license system
who oppose the dispensary talk very freely
about the number of dispensaries now In ex'
istence In this State-sixty-leaving the In
ference that the dispensary was as bad Of
worse than the licen Sc system. Under the
license system we had one thousand bal
rooms, which gave employment to, 1t is esti
mated some five thousand men. The saloons
were kept open after dark, and in greater
or less number Of instances furnished a
place for gambling, and lounging places for
loafers. while they gave resorts which evil
persons might frequent for the purpose OF
taking advantage Of drunken victims Ct
drink.
II there were thousand dispensarles In.
stead OF sixty, the dispensary would still be
much better than the barroom.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
Interesting Interviews.

We present this week an interesting paper
from Hon. r. E. Hill on the dispensary and
kindred subjects. and one from Treasurer
Blake on Alliance work and the political out
look.
We sought Hon. F. B. Gary to get an ex-
preston from him, but failed to find him.
Hon. J. T. Robertson halfway promised to
give rs talk next week on politics. Trial
Justice Cox has promised to discuss the Coun.
ty Government law.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
Card of Thanks.
.or Press and Banner:

Editor Press and Banner:
Please allow me q small space. in your
paper, TO return my sincere thanks to the
eood people Of Greenwood and surrounding
country, for their liberal aid to me when my
barn and stables were burned, and two mules
consumed in the fire. Friends had you not
come 70 my help, would have been unable
make crop this year. but with the help you
have 80 willingly given me, am once more
in q position 10 support my family. God
bless every one OF you, and may none OF you
ever be called upon TO suffer what did.
Yours truly,
r. B. Hinton.
Greenwood 8. c., Feb. 10th, 1894.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
The Next Campaign.

From present appearances it seems that
the opponents of Tillman are going to organ.
lie q warfare. not against him, but against
the dispensary.
Between the license system and the dispen-
sary there will be new alignment of polit-
ical factions.
Nine out OF ten OF the prohibitionists as
between the bars and the dispensaries, will
favor the dispensaries.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14

Principe smokes free, fine flavor, mellow
white ashes, wind up Win compiete anS
aoreeable finale. Three dollars hundred, 8
oor Ss cents. Harrison & Game.
ioi - Druggists.
Give us q chance when wanting either
stoves or tinware. A3bevtlle supply 20.
Promptness and pollteness is somethlng, g,5o 70
Drne store and we guarantee you get both.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
Poultry and Pigeon Show.

Hodges, s. e., February IL, 1898.
The anciers Of Abbeville county and ada
cent country, are anxious to get Poultry
and Pigeon show at Abbeville some time next
There Is no more available place In the up
country than Abbeville for such show.
There are some of the finest birds In the
South here In our midst.
Anderson and Greenville have had success.
full shows-successful In various way. why
not surpass either OF their shows ~ Aooe-
ANY person interested may confer with DR..
E. G, Connor, Cokesbury, 8. Z. Fancier.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
The Recent Killings.

While there Is no way to prove the suppo-
sition, yet it is fair to suppose that with liq.
uor saloons open at night, having the privi.
lege Of selling liquor under cover of night
that there would have been many more nom.
icides than have occurred in enforcing the
dispensary law. And under the license sys-
tenn better men may have been slain.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14
Didn't Go.

Judge Benet received notice yesterday that
the Court at Georgetown will adjourn today.
He.will, therefore. not be required st George
town, but he will open court at Kingstree,
Williamsburg County, next Monday morn
ing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14

". P.-Southland Veterinary Powder 81
the latest and best spring medicine for stock.
Prepared only by Harrison & Game.
Try barrel OF our "Pond Lilly" flour at 81
per barrel. Abbeville Supply Co. .
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14

The Press and Banner congratulates the
Greenvilie News on its escape from destruc-
tion by fire last Sunday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14

Editor j. A. Harmon Of the Mccormick
News made pleasant call at the Press and
Banner Office yesterday evening.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-02-14

Fresh cltron, raison, nuts and currents at
the Supply Co.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-12
STARTLING STORY.
Sensational Rumor That Minister Willis L
Concealed on the Corwin.

Sensational Rumor That Minister Willis Is
Concealed on the Corwiu.
SAN Francisco, Jan. S.-A story has
gained currency that fmong those on
board the Corwin is Minister Willis,
who had been given his passports by the
provisional government of Hawaii, and
took the earliest opportunity to leave
the scene of his fasco as diplomat.
This story, like that afioat that the
Corwin had prisoners on board, has
but a circumstantial foundation.
Whether or not he is aboard, it is a
fact that the captain of the Corwin,
acting under orders received from
Washington before sailing for Homo
lulu, will hold no communication with
this shore until after the arrival
of the mail steamer next Tuesday.
The reason for an order of that kind
is not obvious to the laymen, and
among naval officers is regarded more
as bit of official tape of the reddest
kind rather than necessity for the
successful carrying out of any particu-
lar kind. A number of attempts were
made by influential men to get permis-
sion to board the Corwin, but were
made without success.
HEARD IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-There is wild
rumor here which cannot be traced to
any reliable source that Min ster Willsi
is aboard the Corwin and that he was
given his passports by the provisional
government of Hawaii. The rumor is
received with no credence and the state
department officials characterize it as
fabri cation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-12
ClippincA

The Inventive Age tells how much
can be gotten out of bar of steel cost
ing 81. Put it through a needle fact
ory and it will produce $3.50 worth Of
needles The proprietor OF cutlery
mandatory will take it and produce
IS, $50 worth of knife blades. A watch
maker will take it and produce $3.50
worth of balance springs; thus bar of
steel costing 81 and put into watches
will give $40, 900.
Miss Mary Crosby, a poor seamstress
living at Springfield, Ill, has won a
suit which entities her to land in North
Carolina worth SO. 600.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-12
THE SOUTH.

KENTUCKY democrats nominated Hon.
William Lindsay for United States SEN
ator. He had no opponent in the field.
W. II. HOMER, financial secretary
of Switchmen's And lodge at Little
Rock, Ark, has left home, taking the
lodges funds with him.
ATTORNEY GENERAL CLARK, of Arkan-
sas, filed suit against three of the
trustees of the Arkansas insane asy-
lum to recover the amount of the short
age of S. II. Buchanan.
ALTHOUGH the headquarters of the
Louisiana state lottery at New Orleans
are closed, there is manifested deter
mination to continue the lottery busi-
ness in that city.
SENATOR FAULKNER was married to
Miss Whiting at Hampton, Va, on the
Sd
TIE trial of Rev. DR.. Howard at Jack
son, Tenn, which lasted twenty-nine
DAYS, ended in verdict of guilty. He
was charged with using the mails to
defraud the people.
WHILE worlmen were engaged in
undermining a wall of the old Windsor
hotel at Chattanooga, Tenn, it fell and
buried eight in the debris The mason
ry was $50 feet long by thirty y-eight
feet high and four bricks thick. yet
none were killed
JAMES NJ. BOWLING. late cashier of
the New Orleans mint, has been ac-
quilted of the charge of robbing the
mint vaults of S25,000
A TRAIN of loaded coal cars broke
loose while being drawn up the in
cline trestle at Monongah, w. Va, and
returning into slope No. = at a terrific
speed, crushed three men badly and
Fillmore Anderson and Robert Ritter
fatally.
JUST before daybreak fire, starting
in the business district at Hot Springs,
Ark, destroyed half a block of stores,
with loss of s75, ,OO0 For time fully
81, 900, 900 worth of property was threat
ened.
THE A. L. Mason steamboat. former
ly of Kansas City, was lost recently in
the Mississippi below Memphis BY
striking a snag. Capt Keith was bad
ly injured
UNITED STATES SENATOR WILLIAM
LINDSAY was renominated by accla
nation by the joint democratic legisla-
tive caucus at Frankfort. Ky.
Miss STELLA ROBBINS, the widely
known woman aeronaut, met with a
probably fatal accident at San Antonio.
Tex. A downward current of wind
caused the accident.
THE Riverside steel works at Wheel
ing, W. Va, which have been shut
down for some tine, have resumed, Civ
ing employment to about LOCO men.
R. f. Rust, ID. D., wealthy citizen
of Cincinnati, was badly hurt at Amer
icus, Tenn, by falling ten feet down an
elevator shaft.
THREE men made an unsuccessful at
tempt to hold up train ON the Missis-
sippi Valley near Vickburg. Miss re-
Gently. They became frighteEea and
fed before accomplishing their work.
PoCAHoNTAs, Ark, has been gutted
by fire. Loss, $50. 200.
CONTRACTS have been let for the con-
struction of the Dallas & Southwestern
railroad to Palestine, Tex, from Dal-
las. Tex, a distance of 100 miles. The
road will ultimately connect with the
Southern Pacific at Beaumont
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-12
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

EX-SECRETARY FOSTER Will prODdDly
be unable to settle with his creditors
on the basis of so cents on the dollar.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY REYNOLDS, of
the interior, has made an Important
decision in the pension case of James
E. Harrison. Harrison's pension is re-
vol1ed because, as alleged, it was shown
that he incurred his wound while not
in pursuit of duty, but on pleasure
bent
The secretary of state and the Brit
ish ambassador are pursuing negotia-
tions for an agreement upon regula-
tions to police Behring sea. 1t is
important that these regulations should
be agreed upon before the opening of
the sealing season.
SENATOR TELLER, of Colorado. says
he is in favor of the admission of Utah,
Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma to
statehood.
THERE is opposition to the proposed
income tax in certain quarters, but it
is likely to GO through the house as a
feature of the tariff bill The senate
may, however, substitute a duty on
sugar for the income tax
ARRANGEMENTS will be made for en-
Pertaining 100000 visitors at the ma
tional encampment, Knights of
Pythias, to be held in Washington in
midsummer.
The pension Office has decided, in
view of the act of congress of Decem-
Der %, 1898, it no longer has a right to
withhold the pension of Judge Long,
of Michigan, and has directed he again
be placed on the pension rolls
THE first state dinner was given to
the cabinet by the president and Mrs
Cleveland at the White house on the
4th.
THE senate is being flooded with
printed petitions from cigar manu-
facturers throughout the country ask
ing for a uniform rate of duty of So
cents on unstemmed leaf tobacco.
REPRESENTATIVE De ARMoND, of Mis-
souri,, introduced a bill proposing the
removal of the capital to the Missis-
sippi valley.
The net gold reserve of the treasury
has been invaded to the extent of S23,-
300, 600 in round numbers, and is now
$40, SCI, ,633
THE house committee on banking and
currency decided recently to report
the bill of the representative from
South Carolina, Mr. Brawlev, which
RENTS all taxes on circulating notes
issued by private or state banks from
August to October 13, 1898.
THE wife of Senator Cocllrell died at
Washington on the 9th. She was born
at Richmond, Mo, March 90, 1916.