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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-13
IUKA'S INKLINGS.
Pictures Reflected by Flash Lights
All Sorts Of Items.
Iuka, S. c., Jan. 4th, lS9'

Iuka, >. C., Jan. Atm, 1897.
Nearly every family In this neighborhoOd
enjoyed q turkey dinner during Christmas
Just ffty.one persons took part In the
Christmas dinner given by Mr.. and Mrs. j.
MIR. George steife and sister. Miss Iva, OF
Bradley, spent New Years night at the home
OF Mr.. Parker Atkins.
The young folks had quite pleasant time
Christmas week, had party nearly every
fhe turk ey shooting at Sa-Ak wound up in
q fight, but nobody was seriously hurt.
mas week Mr.. J. V. Anderson and his brother
fox hunters did not find an opportunity oil
getting up race.
LagripPe is quite prevalent tin IN this vicinity.
Vile attended the marriage of MIR. John Dar'
rah and Miss Lizzie Cobb, which took place
at Greenwood last Wednesday.
Mr.. ]. V. Anderson Is the boss turkey hunt
er Of this section. Last year he killed seven,
six of which we're fine goblers.
Miss jamie Lou Hutchison, the popular and
efficient teacher of the Brierwood School, re-
sumed work Monday, alter giving two weeks
holiday.
The new post Office here Is quite a conven-
iepce to the people Of this community. No
than Mr.. James T. Anderson who is always
at his post OF duty and spares no pains 10 &C.
comm odate his patrons.
Mr.. Arch Langley and MISS BESSIE Hinton,
PLY united In marriage Christmas eve at the
residence of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
v. r. Hinton, Rev. w. B. Wharton officiating
Mr.. n. o. Pyles was In the neighborhood
last week visiting among his old friends.
DR.. Barrett is doing fine practice In this
community.
Mr.. Aiken Stacy is visiting relatives In
Greenville.
Mr.. Walter Codie is one among the best
track men on the A. & K. railroad.
Mr.. Robert Nckels and family, OF Laurens,
we're on visit TO their parents Christmas
week.
Mr.. John Rykard moved to his farm near
Phoenix last Tuesday. He is good man and
will be much missed from this neghborhood.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Allen Nickels have
moved TO the Bert Riley place near Green
wood.
Mr.. Olin Rykard has o position as fireman
on the shifting engine at Greenwood.
Rev. George Davis and family recently
spent week with his mother, Mrs. Rykard
at Sal-Ak.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-13

below named
Goth February except such days
would respectfully white man in The County to
employees Auditors appointments
they fail meet him there to send them to
Abbevie within the time above named
recently adopted State within the
capable earning Confederate Sol
die owe years of age, is liable for poll tax.
you sign for another take
returned therein named at its value
Remember have credits and return only small ac
thereof you lay yourself Assessing Board
before the Auditor We wish only fair and honest
appointments below mentioned either in
deputy yourself trip Abbevie so
penalty.
The appointments arr follows:
Geenwood-Monday Tuesday, January 18th and 18th.
arrival Tuesday, the l2t to the arrival
up Thursday, 14th
Coronaca-Fnday, January 18th.
Verdery-Saurday, January 6h
January 10th and until the arrival of
Wednesday, January 20h
Lowndesvile- Thursday Friday January 2st and 22nd
BdTuday Wednesday, January Goth and 27h from the arrival
o. Tuesday,
Troy-Thursday Friday, January osth and Goth.
for departure of Anderson train.
Bordeaux-Tuesday, February End.
Wellington "Wednesday, February 3rd.
Carmel-Thursday and Friday, February 4h and 5h
Monday February and till the arrival OF Tuesday,
February 9th.
Donalds-Wednesday Thursday February
West-Friday Saturday. February 18th and 18TH
Antrevile, at McAdams' store-Januay 18th and l6h
Cedar Sprngs-January 16h at Hunters store.
Long Cane-January A.
View-January 16th at Cnkscales store
will the entire County for the
following
dates Monday Tuesday, January 18th and 18th.
Tax payers the following Instructions
than township, don't fail
returns giving number of in each.
the Auditor where detected
your order verify correction
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-13
Restaurant.

T would announce to my friends and cusfo-
i mers that have moved my RESTAU-
RANT to Cothran's Block, on Washington
Street. where I will he glad ro serve the pub.
ic with an good meals AZ the provisions OF
the market will afford. II
Oct. l. 1895, ems.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-13

Fire! Fire! at R. G.. Wilson & Co.'s store,
and they ere selling their entire stock OF sta
some Of which is very slightly DAM
aged, at cost. Call on them at once, or you
will miss bargain.
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w. w. Bradley, Auditor,
Speeds Locals.

Speeds Locals.
Try Johnson's chill and fever tonic. NO
cure no pay. At Speeds.
Our line of soap and toilet articles Is COM
p'''~' p. B Speed.
The very latest novelties in millinery at
Haddon's.
Blankets! Blankets! To suit al classes at
Haddon's.
Carpets. rugs, lace curtains and tapestry al
Haddon's
Don't fail to try Speeds talcum powder for
general toilet use. Price only l5c.
We are headquarters for fine toilet soap.
hair brushes. flesh brushes, clothes brushes
tooth brushes. &C. 1n fact everything IN tne
line of toilet ARTICLES p. B. Speed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-13

Route of the famous "Atlanta Special" between
New York, Washington, Norfolk and Atlanta, New
Orleans Southwest. Also the rs. A. Express
Schedule In effect April 5th, 1896.
SOUTHBOUND. No. 403. No. Al.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-01-13

Ourspiritual blessings are far more
important than anything else and If we
use them right we will surely express
our gratitude for them.
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Amos b. Morse Locals.

Cottolene is q fine shortening. l have it in
20 10. pals in tierces.
A first class axe at 10 cents and the best
handles for 10 cents that you ever saw, also old
steel axes extra good.
new lot of bagging and ties just in.
Quaker oats, rolled oats, rolled wheat and
self raising buck heat very fine.
The biggest stock of brooms and loves
ices in lie city.
Wheat barley, oats, rye and clover seed,
now Is the time to SOW.
beautiful line of plaide outings, blankets
&c. Red twllled flannel wide and good
weight only l2R.
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J. r. BLAKE. Jr., Agent,
Abbeville, S. C.
J. FULLER LYON, Pres.
Abbeville, S. C.
BOARD DIRECTORS.

Abbeviile, S. c.. Feb. Is, 1885,
Mr.. ]. r. Blake, Jr., Treas. +. M. F. a. A. G.
Dear Sir-Please accept our thanks for check
of $500 TO cover recent loss of our dwellings BY
fire. For cheapness and safely we cheerfully
commend the Farmers Mutual Fire Assocla.
tion of Abbeville County to all who desire In.
surance on their property.
EDWARD ROCHE.
e. w. ASHLEY.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
PEACHES WITHOUT DOWN.
Remarkable Result OF a Maryland
Horticulturist's Experimenting.
Baltimore American.)

Mr.. William 2. Winter, a retired car
penter, who lives at No. S26 North Carey
street, has entered heart and soul into
the wizard business, with remarkable re
suits. In a coy little yard back of Mr..
Winters home grows a peach tree that
has produced annual crops of luscious
fruit for a number Of years. Two years
ago Mr.. Winter grew weary of the con
ventiOnal covering of the peaches in his
limited orchard, and determined at least
in producing a. crop which is just now
without nap or down.
He began a series Of experiments, and
that year produced a peach clothed in
the ordinary raiment of the banana; but,
not satisfied with the result of his start
ling assault on nature, he has succeeded
in producing a crop, which is just now
ripe, that looks for all the world like a
tree full of apples. The skin of the fruit
is perfectly smooth and of a dark red
hue, shading gradually into a yellow that
Mr.. Winter claims is a remnant of the
banana skin.
Next year." said he, Il will have an
orange skin on them
The method employed by Mr.. Winter
to produce these startling results is a
profound secret, and he is preparing to
copyright the scheme. G~rapevines, as
well as peach trees, tremble before the
skill of the eX-carpenter, and among the
curious things that thrive in the rear of
, North Carey street is a vine of this
sort that bears at this time ripe grapes
as sweet as honey and unusually large,
half-ripe grapes, blossoms and buds,
which Mr.. Winter expects to ripen by
Christmas.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
STOCKS Y BONDS

New York, Oct. 2.-The marked
strength in stocks, which developed n
the late trading yesterday was resumed
this morning in full force and contin-
ued with only one momentary pause
from the opening until the close of the
short session. The buying was eager
and the covering of short contracts put
out during the two weeks reaction in the
the market appeared to be urgent. There
was every indication that the reaction
had run its course and the agents en-
ployed by the leaders of the former bull
campaign were buyers on a large scale.
The stocks that have shown the sharp
est declines recently We're foremost in
the recovery. Prices Of Americans were
advanced in London before the opening
here and arbitrage brokers bought for
London account The stocks which were
favorites in the London buying We're
those that have recently suffered most
severely from liquidation of foreign
holdings, rejecting a marked change IN
foreign sentiment.
an additional fall in the rate of ster-
ling exchange Of Is for demand bills to
1912. made it evident that additional
gold imports cannot be long delayed
and b bly, helped the market, though
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
RUSkIN.
Christmas

Painter in words, on whose Respondent
page,
Caught from the palette of the seven
hued bow,
The colors of our English Turner glow,
Silver of silent stars, the storms red
rage,
The spray of mountain streams, rocks
gray with age,
Gold of Athena. white of Alpine snow
Cool green of forests, blue of lakes be
low,
And sunset-crimsoned skies-O seer
and sage,
Crowned with wild olive, fine of sense
and sight,
In thy prophetic voice, through work,
trade. strife,
The stores cry out: by truth the ma
tons live,
And by injustice die. Be thy weights
right,
Thy measures true. These be the
lamps that give
The way of beauty and the path of
life"
r. r. BOWKER. in the Century,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05

wILMISGTOs. \ C.. October z-Sptrts
turpentine trim Al So all receipt 81 cas- Is
roslL firm : raIu-o fl.IU xoJu strained
81 Is: receipts 3 3 barrels.
Crude turpentIne st-afy. hard S.3J soft
SD virgin ala. receipts - barrels.
Tar firm at SIS. receipts 10 barrels.
LHARLE-TOs, ). - Get. 2-IurBertne
hosln nrm. sales -: A. B, sl05; C, sos:
3. $40; z, lilo. F. sll5. G.. sl2J, II. $50. l.
sl.40, K. sI40, VI, sl.45. y, s1.75. window glass
$40. water white So
SAVANNAH. ga Oct. 2.-Spirits turpen-
tine hrm al 81 sales So. receipts -6s
RosiD firm sales % 3. receipts 3,1t9. A. B..
C. 81 p: u. xI.3O. E. S.30 r, s. p u, s.. 30: H,
s1.40, |, SLAB; X. $40, VI. sl.6!. Y, $50; wiD-
dow glass y %; water white $3.50.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05

declined FIVE cents and Of corn nearly
2 cents for the week.
Turning from speculative markets to
productive industry, the change in tone
is striking. All industries are pushed
to increase working force with occasion
al rise in rate Of wages, by the growing
demand. This is largely for replenish-
ment Of stocks, but dispatches show that
retail rad at nearly all Northern points
continues to expand and dealers well
know that increase of working force
and Of wages ensures a larger distribu-
ton Of goods. Anxious appeals for
speedy deliveries disclose more rapid
distribution already than had been ex-
pected. In textile manufactures the
works are nindered from taking as lib
eral orders as they might by doubts
about future prices, though having
enough to do for some time. The ad-
vance IN cotton goods has been checked
by the decline in material, but in wooden
goods the advance in prices has been
small compared with the rise in wool.
which helped by stronger prices at Lon
don sales The dealings, mainly specu-
latlVe, have amounted to &c, sol 100
pounds in four weeks, 4S,572,2OO being
domestic, but recent sales of very large
lots suggest that profit taking may have
begun.
Slower to gain, because less affected
by replenishment of dealers stocks than
other industries, the iron manufacture
has been pushed to further expansion by
growing demand for finished products.
which has caused a little further advance
in prices, while pig iron is also higher
70 cents for Bessemer at Pittsburg
with purchases of 5000 tons by one con
Germ. and as much higher for anthra
cite No. /, at the East, with No. 2 ad
vanced by the association to 5000, anC
Southern No. 2 no longer offered below
So at Birmingham. The average advance
in all iron and steel prices, 90 per cen
from the lowest point, is still restricted
by the addition Of many furnaces and 9th
er works to those in operation.
Failures for the week have been 80
in the United States against 299 las
year and 81 in Canada against 46 las
year.
WEEKLY BANK CLEARINGS.
New York, Oct. 1.-The total banI
clearings in the United States for thu
week were $1,21S,225,9 S1; per cent. in
crease 81. Exclusive of New York
$460,427 300; per cent. increase 17.9.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
NEW YORK MONEY MARX EI.

nominally 2aa3 per cent: last loan per
cent, closed at : per cent. Prime mer-
can't e paper 4S@5 per cent, Sterling ex
mango weak, with actuai business IN
oankers bi > at 4 So IA 81 for demand, anG
t 81 (a4.82a for sixty days. Posted rates 4.o5a
D. 81 and SIS % 81 Commercial bills 81. Sill
yer certificates 53Aa51A. bar silver 55s.
Mexican dollars a.. Government bond,
firm. State bonds quiet. Railroad bonds
strong.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
IDEAL

"My ideal of prosperity" said the
statesman. IS so high that 7 feel con
fdent that it will never be attained
"That is too bad" said the %sympathet-
ic listener. "NVhat is your idea"
"That every man shall be so busy
that he won't have time to seek office"
Enquirer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05

Chicago, Ills. Oct. 2-The bears ran
the wheat market today IN spite Of the
help the bulls received from the Drought.
Paris was u"naccouutably very weak
and this encouraged the selling when
resulted in a decline Of ;. IL X ceuts III
December. Corn was firm and al.
vanced X 10 L cent Oats were uu-
changed at the close and provisions -.
cents lower 10 % 10 ) cents lower.
HICaaD. O.t 4
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
WANT TO BUY LAND.

The following persons, residing in 9th
er States, wish to buy farming lands in
North Carolina: A. n. Daywitt, Frank
fort, Ind, (any kind; L. p. Clausen,
Hamilton, Ohio. Qand suitable for cat
tic r~4i~ing); G. A. Dean, Springfield. VT,
Cauv kind; John W. Hughes. 1903 Ad-
AIMS street, Toledo, Ohio, (stock and
general farming); T. J.. Humphrey,
Mansfield, Ohio, fruit g%rowing); L. A.
Weiss, CircleviIIe, Ohio, (grain and grass
groWiug); Dir. S, Z. Campbell, 1907
broadway, Bay City, Mich, Cor gener-
al farming, in a healthy locality(; Geo.
T. Ncict, 461 Main street, Norfolk, Va,
Cpoulrry and g%ardening); \. s. Jackson,
Do New Jersey avenue, \. w, Wash
@iugtou, d. G; Jas. T. Campan, Reading,
Mich, amy kind: John w. Woodruff,
Sonlorton, Pa, Suitable for a colony;
T. L. Simon, Youngstown, Ohio, (any
kind; DR.. T. L. Avery. Hustburg, Tenn,
\, y. Braden, 928 w. Eighth street,
Canton, Ohio; Frank w. Smyth, Fox
boro, Mass; Anthony Baumann, Scran-
ton. Pa.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
NEW YOh
Nsw yoRR Get. 2.-Futaros opened
Su0t cotton closed easy; Uiddling uplandl
( mic ding gulf ca; sates 10 0a.es.
l.INTRPDOL

LIVERPOOL. Oct. 2.-l:00 ?. M.-Spot COT
on, dull, prices lower; american middling
fair 4 81 d; good middling 5 / -l6d; AmerI-
can middling 3 l5 I'D; low mIddIlng 3ll I'D
good ordinary 3 8 l6d; ordinary SD.
sSales OF the day were + 0UO bales. of which
800 were for speculation ana export, an6
included $500 American; receipts 1900 ta2es,
all An erican.
utures opened quiet, with a moderate
demand and closed barely steady.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
ALL THE STORIES, ROSY
PRICES OF AMERICANS AID
VANCED IN LONDON.
EXCHANGE FALLS: GOLD TO COME IN
The Net Decline for the Week Nearly Wiped
Out by the Days. Adyances--Bear Ran
the Wheat Market Cotton
Lower if Anything.

New York, Oct. 2.-The cotton mar
ket opened quiet and l TO 3 points low
er, cables being disappointing and re
ceipts fair, considering the quarantine.
The market was exceptionally narrow,
the most active month working within
a range Of only ? points. The Chronicle
made a rather bullish report for the
week as to the weather and crop con.
d%itions, but the local contingent who had
the situation all to themselves today
kept prices down. There were few sell
ers, however, as it is feared the shor
interest is already considerable. The
market closed steady with prices finally
unchanged to 3 points net lower.
Liverpool, Oct. "A recount of tn,
stock Of cotton here shows an increase
of 26,4OS bales in the total amount anC
an increase of 1858 in American. Tn,
recount also shows decreases Of 81
bales in Brazilian, 800 in Egyptian anC
4,3OS in SuratS.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
N EW ORLEANS.
oTHER,OTTON mAHRE EFT,

Galveston, steady, G. g, 3 4 bales
Norfolk. oul Ok, 5.z&2 pales
Baltimore. nominal, 6B,- ba} es
Boston. quiet, oH, IL bales
Wilm.Agtun. firm q. } 641 bales
Philadelphia, quiet, = bales.
Savannah, easy. \ 9,43 bales.
Ne" Orleans. quiet, 3, 4,O-4 baI.s.
Mobile. nothing doing, 81, 1870 bales,
Memphis. steady, 8, 3.z16 bales
An.usta. quiet. steady. s l l6. 2,473 bales.
Charleston. quiet. d IL is, III bales.
Cincinnati steady, On. 3l4 bales
Louisville, quiz t. ok, bales.
st. Louis. quiet, 8 lilo. $40 bales.
uouston, steady, 6t, Il 29t bales.
New YorK. easy, OK, sos bales.
RALEIGH COTTON MARK 4.
RALEIGH. N. G.. October 2
New cotton 81. Receipts 255 bales.
RALEIGH PRODUCE MARKET.
rood spring chickens. ..-.......,. l2aGi7h
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
e & CO.'S REVIEW.

New York, Oct. 1.-R. u. DUN and
Company's Weekly Review Of Trade
Will say in it's issue tomorrow:
The failures during the third quarter
Of 1897, obtained yesterday by telegraph,
were 1908, with liabilities of SOS, 1868
PSI. of which % were in banking for
81. :3S7.O 69. Commercial failures2,S14,
With liabilities of $685. 1872, averag-
ing only $500 each, lower than in any
other quarter for tw%enty-three years.
The amount of defaulted liabilities is
the smallest in any quarter for five years.
and in fifteen years only six quarters
have shown smaller liabilities. Manu-
featuring failures 651, with liabilities of
SO ,19t, averaging but S14,4S7 each,
and trading 2,164 with liabilities efS12,-
500. O65, average but $5,927 each, both
smaller in average of liabilities than in
any previous year, of which classlhed
records exist.
The volume Of legitimate business con-
times a little larger han in the same
month of 1892, for which the great in
crease of pa per cent at New York for
the week might be supposed due to specu-
lative activity, in spite Of the establish
ment and growth of the Stock Elk
change Clearing House, yet payments
through the principal clearing houses out
side of New York exceeded those of 1892
by So per cent for the week. and 20
per cent for September. New York
makes settlements for a large part of the
country and the daily average, including
this city. was in September $2O6, 1854. OOO
against $134.S59 900 last year, $133,-
10000 in 1894, 1922, 133, 900 in 1898,
and $176,327, 600 in 1892, so that the
gain over the same month the best of
years is 40 per cent.
TheS evidences of reviving prosperity
are the more important because prices
Tor most manufactured products have
advanced but moderately and are much
below the level of 1892, while specula-
i've markets are all declining with curl
Gus unanimity, as if the large crops,
which make grain and cotton weak,
would not assure increased business in
always and warrant better prices for
stocks.
Speculation in wheat and cotton has
been set back by bright crop prospects.
The wheat estimates of 100000
bushels, about 100000, 900 bushels more
than would be required for food and
seed, leaving the smallest stocks for six
Years without replenishment, was fol-
lowed by decrease in foreign buying and
caused weakness. Yet Western receipts
j bushels. against p, 094. 044 for the same
/ weeks last year and Atlantic exports,
nour included, are 16,325,11S bushels
= against S,176,364 last year. while Paci-
nc shipments are also heavy, and corn
exports continue over 10 per cent more
-oan last year. The price of wheat has
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
This Years Fair

IS going 10 be n hummer DO cafnIaign IL in
terfe G With it. Good crops and good health.
Everybody should come 10 the Fair. zee the
great displays, enjoy the week = festivities,
state.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05
DRY GOODS.

New York, Oct. 2.-The dry goods
market closed without feature locally.
There is no strengthening of the mar
ket for cotton goods and print cloths
have slumped materially. Wooden goods
maintain their position undisturbed by
the general trend of the market, al
though it is doubtful whether in some
divisions, such as dress goods, dealers
will be able TO secure the expected ad-
'~vances for spring goods. Staple cottons
remain in quiet request without change
in any line. Prints are fairly well main
tanned at current rates. Print cloths arc
reported quiet at %, the sale yesterday
afternoon at Fail River at that figure
having decidedly weakening influence.
HEW YOhM
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1897-10-05

Flour easy heat. No : sar,4. sjA so.
3 spring sda5- No. : REQ, a3s. corn >o.
: 27ha27A Oats, n p, s. No Whine
o b 2l>a2&; No whl* IS - 4l4
.ye, No. a, Barley NJ nomiua No.
: + o b 29t 0; Ne f O u 2-a5 aR -aad,
No. /. s4a96. Pr1m anras -eca E2tZt
Mess pork per bbI. - a~,Io Isra pyr Iul
los S4.JU. Short rib Side .aa-ft f8sJd52a
Dry salted shoulders h#y.at 5s5< snort
o b. 5saA !" key, dig
tillers' finished goods Der .a1or ii -.