The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-06-16

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an able and industrious colony of rooters had
been settled, but the ball game didn't come
of.
The game was scheduled to start at4 o'clock,
which being translated to wedding and base.
ball language means 5. One Abbeville man
was late and the Greenwood boys wanted the
original package-would have no other.
Then 1t was discovered that His NIbs from
city, which would require the Abbeville boys
to be annihilated iu about half an hour,
whereas they figured on prolonglng the agony
long enough TO give their guests al appetite
for the supper they proposed to set up.
Meanwhile the Greenwood conviction be-
came fixed on the five o'clock train, and like
the celebrated Arab Of the desert, esch player
shouldered his bat and stole silently away.
MELANGE.
Last Saturday was the dullest OF the year.
The Inevitable horse doctor, the universal
spectacle man and a few other court week
specialists were In town last week.
Old Soils summer campaign Ia IN.
Nearly every horse In town Is engaged to 60
to Due West to-day.
The boys are getting up a good BASEBALL team.
CoLoRED RIOT.
Reports of a row among the negroes at sa
lem church, a few miles below town, on Sun
day are heard, but nothing delnit can be
learned. 1t seems that two or three people
were pretty badly hurt.
A GOOD ARTICLE.
Readers of the Press end Banner who care
TO read a graphic article on the Nashville Ex-
position, and incidentally q sketch of the re.
cent editorial excursion, will find 1t In the
supplement TO this weeks issue. Mr.. August
Kohn, the writer, is generally considered the
best reporter In South Carolina. Not many
people have greater facility In getting at facts
and handling English than has this valued
member OF the News and Courier staff.
BOND GIVEN.
Asbury and Ed. in whose case a mistrIal
was made last week. have beed admitted to
bail In the sum of $3.50 each, according to ju'
dicial order.
Messrs. Ed. Kiser and VIII DuPre are sure.
for Ed.
THE FRANZ
The ~presentment of the Grand Jury, which
Is published In this issue Of the Press and
Banner, Ia a vigorous and interesting docu.
ment. There Is considerable business In IT..
This presentment is worth careful reading.
The tribute paid the various county officers
Is a high one. The grand jury made 9 careful
investigation and their COMMUNICATION is
well-founded.
A PROUD POPULATION.
The G%reenville News, In a breezy article on
Of the State, describes AbbeviIle thus:
"rhe Abbeville people are prouder Of their
town than any other people In South Carolina
An Abbeville man thinks it ia better to have
been; born in Abbeville than with a title back
ed up by a fortune"
NJ
On Monday the thermometer ranged near a
hundred; One outdoors, under a shade tree,
Mr.. R. G. Bernau left a thermometer In
front OF his store Sunday. When the sun
shoue directly on 1t, the needle went 10 l2O
and the thermometer bursted.
The city papers are reporting deaths from
heat. 1t is Intensely hot In Atlanta.
JUDGE WATTS.
Judge Richard Cater Watts made O good
impression on the people at the recent term
OF court. He Is evidently an able, faithful
having made for himself an enviable career
in spite Of early disadvantages and numerous
difficulties. is In itself a great recommends
ton.
cHARLEsToN's CRITIC.
The sublime selfsatisfaction of Charleston
will probably be disturbed by the new after
what the name implies. Its editor, Mir. Jas.
II. Moore has not many equals as a critic of
everything in sight, things suspected, dark
generally. During his connection with the
Sun he frequently stirred up The animals.
DULL AND DRY DOCKET.
Municipal court is camping a while in the
wilderness. The Mayor has been lighting
the clerk riding a bicycle, the reporter hunt
ing something else to report, and the sinners
have apparently sInned no more. A blank
page on the docket book will be devoLed to
this dear departed court week.
One OF our visitors attempted to Introduce
Smith & NELSON'S latest work on perfoIation.
He only succeeded In perlorating q gooc-sized
hole in the midnight air and penetrating with
the sound thereof q policeman's ear. Three
sober, saddened and shaky young men at
tended the Mayors court in the morning and
left $40.
Sallie Norwood q risky member OF the fes.
tive witness tribe who wore q yellow basque
and q sooty complexion held the boards for
a brief season. She was witnessed against by
the celebrated Mary Francis Allen, also OF
witness fame previously. The clerk collected
CUTTING AT ~coKEsBURY.
Last Saturday at COX esbury Jess Keys, col
ored, stabbed bis father-in-law, Tom ReedeI
and left the section. Reeder was seriously
cut. The row was about q mule. Magistrate
Moore sent q constable out after Keys, bul
has not yet been located.
C%oKEsBURY CONFERENCE SCHOOL.
The Conference School at Cokesbury hal
been provided with a fine faculty for the com
Ing year: rev. j. ID. Iame WAS Ie-electeo
Rector. The other teachers are: Ralph d
Epps, Mathematics, Sciences, German
French Miss s. s. DuPre. Music, vocal and
instrumental; Miss Alice Hughes, History
Elementary department.
Mr.. Epps is a Citadel graduate. Miss DuPrt
comes from the Boston and New York con
servaties, and Miss Hughes from the State
colleges.
S. p. G. A.
Much has been said In the Press and Banner
abont the foundation of society for the pre-
vention Of cruelty to animals. or course
anything which would decrease the ill.treat
ment OF horses would be q boon. But as to s