The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-05-06

caused considerable excitement for 8
while and liked to have resulted in g
clash between the two Seconds, as
StyIy, Posey's Second, was disposed
to regard it as Intentional, and pre-
arranged with the LomaX party, with
the hope that it would unnerve Posey
In little while, however, the mat
ter was amicably adjusted and the
two men took their positions. Prompt
ly upon the comamnd being given
they each brought down their weap-
on, and Posey being the quicker of
the two, fired first, his ball striking
Lomax on the wrist, completely shat
tering it, which ever afterwards rem
dered the right hand of little use to
him.
It was fortunate for LomaX that he
was struck where he was, as the
range of the ball was on a direct line
with his heart.
The only living witness Of the duel,
that know of, is Mr.. H. T. Tusten, OF
| this place.
Of course the result of this duel did
not tend to allay the bitterness of the
feeling in the community against Po-
sey, but rather to intensity it, but the
warfare was confined to published ar
ii Nes in the Banner against Posey, Of
the most acrimonious character, to
which he invariably replied in the
same strain in the Press.
This was kept up for some consid-
erable time when, on an occasion
when Posey was absent in the city Of
New York where he had gone to get
some material for his printing office,
Sellick published an exceptionally
bitter editorial article in the Banner
about him. 80.
At that time Sellick was afflicted
with mania q portu, intact was pref
ty far gone from the effects Of it, and
died suddenly a few days after writ
ing the article noted.
I remember we'll an editorial in the
Press by Posey the next day after his
return home, in reference to the at
tack made upon him by Sellick dur
ing his absence. In it he said, "On
reading this venomous attack made
upon me in my absence which I did
in the city of New York, resolved
to return home as fast as steam could
bring me determined to seek person
al satisfaction of my traducer, but on
my reaching home I found mine ad-
versary dead"
Posey remained in Abbeville not
a great while longer when he sold his
paper to a man by the name Of Puck
ett, and removed to Mobile, Alabama.
The last I ever heard Of him was
that he raised a company for service
in the Gill war, composed largely OF
the roughest elements to be found In
a seaport town, such as Mobile was at
that time; that before they had ac-
tually entered the service he and four
or five of his men had a shooting
scrape in which he killed one or two
of them and was himself badly
wounded.
The Press, after passing through
several hands was finally bought by
Messrs. Hugh Wilson and w. A. Lee,
who later on bought the Banner, and
the two papers were combined under
the name Of The Press and Banner,
and as such has been. known ever
since.
AS this installment concludes my
"reminiscences, I desire to extend my
thanks to those of your readers who
have expressed to me the pleasure
which they have derived from read
ing what I have written of incidents
of a more or less amusing character
which occurred in the dim past, and
also the expressed hope that I might
continue the same indefinitely; this I
would not hesitate to do, as I have
an abundance Of material not yet
touched upon, but while no doubt
there are great many who have en-
joyed reading these "reminiscences,
there are in all probability a good
many who would much prefer reading
an account of what Ty Cobb is doing
on the diamond, a basket ball game
between Antreville and Abbeville or
a sensational murder trial; I there
fore suspect that I had better stop
least 1 weary some of this latter class.
While this is the final installment
Of my "reminiscences, it, in all proba-
bility, will be my last appearance as
newspaper contributor, for inspite
of my efforts to dispel the idea, l can
not lose sight of the fact that the
sands of life in my case, are run
ming distressingly low.
Not to have been a professional
newspaper man, have written for
publication at sundry times and on a
variety of subjects, good deal. While
I am aware that some things that I
have written have for the time being
at least, given offence to some, I am