The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-11-03
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
Letter of Mr. James II. Cunningham
In Which he Speaks of Old People
aud Old Times.

CHAPEL HILL, Miss. October %. 1887.
MY DEAR FkIEND:-This is a lovely day. l
TO the one you wrote In the Press and Bauner
in reply to one wrote you sometime ago.
THE PRESS AND BAN ER A WELCOME GUEST
Let me assure you my friend that the Press
and Banner is q welcome visitor 10 me and
other members of my family. All look for.
ward TO its arrival on Saturday with great
deal OF pleasure, and when IT falls to arrive we
are disappointed. It is read by me and the
families Of Arthur and Joe Lddell. and is
slso r. ad with interest by Mrs. Fannie Dor
rob. whose fat her was Col. Joe Dickson. OF Abb
bevilIe district. There are other ex-Aobevill.
ians to whom 1 often give copy-il are glad
10 get 1t.
gard to It's artistic appearance. I know of no
paper more handsomely gotton up.
ithink you said something about being in
debted TO young McIlwain who has been gone
from your Office sometime and had just re-
tunnel. Now is this little Willie, son Of H. p.
McIl vain, whom I remember when little
boy.
WHAT IS CoHEN's PAY?-MERCHANT's OF
FORMER DAYS.
much do you pay Cohen for his example in
advertising 30 extravagantly? l mean with
regard to space. I have been asked by read
ers ySur what t6s space Se
10 answer The question. or course this Is
source Of revenue to yon. Even the old staid
firm Of Captain L. w. White seems 10 De ia.
king on new life. ?. Rosenberg 4 Co.. w. j.
Smith & Sons, and many others seem 10 be
anxious In striving TO vie with each other as
to who can make the most attractive show.
Ing IN the ooangs Ss soGe
during the years 1877. rs. 40 and 80. Then
there we're only few stores In Abbeville.
Ar. II. and W. A. Wardlaw, where the bank
hs,lll ltter cfn nnIo nlh m
H Hill on the @ upper i end Of Whites BLOCK. John
White, on Whites corner, Wier Lythgoe,
and Wier & Miller, afterwards, opposite side
ofstreet, near court house. postoftice, by John
Washington street, and j. A. and A. Lavords,
on corner now Of Cothran's block, and some
smaller places OF business also moi mentioned.
remember ether noted places. Sias Apder'
ton street. Great improvements have been
made since 1857 and 1850 inclusive.
THE D1sPENsARY.
The dispensary from all can learn is a great
improvement on the old grogshop princi pie,
which was detestable to ali right thinking
people. But friend Wilson while the dispen :
sary may make liquor drinking more orderly.
thinking nor mine. would Danish the sale
ofliquor from the country III had the power.
THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS.
IL B SAID tnat pr0hl0ltl0n does not pr0hl b II.
therefore 1t Is obliged to be failure, Let me
ask II the law against murder prohibits; If the
law against theft prohibits; II the law against
gambling prohibits; II the law against adult
ary prohibits! they certainly do not. but fall
these restraints were removed and every I'M
moraI1man allowed to follow the bent oil his
tnclinations, what do you imagine would be
the consequences?
THIRSTY MIssIss1PPIANs.
1 do not understand why local option is OBJ
1ectlonable tDSouth Carolina. In this county,
Hinds, there is not q licensed grocery. 1t is
very rare thing TO see man in the country
or in the village, under the influence OF liquor.
/ have 1t from friend recently from South
Carolina, that there is more drinking in Abb
bevtlle than In this county. We have been
free from the annoyance for more than ten
years. Not long since onr county voted no
license, by considerable majority. heard
but the man who was supposed 10 be- the Of
fender, shot and killed negro man and ran
of have not heard from him since. Ru.
NOR only said he was the guilty party.
think we have onl ly about half dozen coun.
ties In Mississippi where license is gran ted
and may the time soon arrive when license
will not be voted in q single county In the
State Of Mississippi, which believe is COM
posed OF some seventy-hve.
THEDAY OF SMALL MEN.
favored from distant standpoint the elec-
tion Of McLaur1n as Senator. Does II not seem
to you that IL has got to be very easy matter
for man OF ordinary caliber to think that he
Is fully competent to 60 TO Congress- l like
to see young men from the plow handles