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n?Jd: % ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1872. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. VOLUME XX?NO. 2& BY W. A. New Store! New Goods! J. S. MARSE, Cothran & Wilson's Xcw Range, A.bbeville, S. C., "C7"WTOULD respectfully call the at T V tention of the public to his new And varied stock of DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, HATS AND CAPS, Boots and Shoes. A fall line of GROCERIES BACON; tARD, FLOUR, SALT\ MOLASSES, SYRUP, RICE, CANDIES, iua WJi ii ui\ J, vjrirjjh&rj, RAISINSi SCW/tf, etc. 5/0 J.VZ? ^ PM COFFEES, HYSON and GREEN TEAS, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Segars, &c. TaWe Cutlery ani Met Mm, Powder, Lead, Shot, Caps, CRACKERS, Lemon, Soda, Ginger Snaps, Soda Biscuit. BUCKETS, TUBS, SEIVES, Brushes, Blacking. . CANNED GOODS, Tomatoes, Pine AppTes, Fresh Peach es, Oysters, Sardines, and many other articles, All of which will be sold low for caah. Call soon and examine for yourselves. .T S TOT A ft ST! Oct. 9, 1872, 26, tf BAGGING, ROPE AND TIBS, For Sale Low at New Store of J. S. MAHSE. Oct- 9, 1872, 2G, tf A8 just returned from the North with a handsome assortment of Fall & Winter Millinery, oonslsting of Patterns, BONNETS and HATS, IMPORTED BOWS and TIES. Also BLACK LACE FITCHEWS, something entirely new, FEATHERS ami FLOWERS, in great variety. In fact everything in our line is beautiful and attractive. "NVe invite the Ladies of Abbeville and surrounding Districts to give us a call at our Show Rooms over the Citizens Sa vings' Bank, Abbeville, S. C. We give special attention to orders and guarantee satisfaction in prices and styles. Thanking our friends and customers for their liberal support last season, hope to merit the same this Season. MRS. E. W. CAIN & MRS. M. M. WHITE. Oct. 1,1872, 25-tf Carbolic Acid Disinfectant, (Carbolate of Lime.) THE most valuable of all disinfec tants known?preventive of con tagious and miasmatic diseases. Will "cause all kinds of vermin to leave the premises. Vni* colli Ktr JL \JJL tXWV J" LEE & PARKER. Bept. 10,1872, 22-tf TO THE PUBLIC. HAVING surpassed our expectatiou in sales of SHOES, GROCER- j and CONFECTIONERIES, we! have been induced to enlarge our busi-; ness, and will be prepared to furnish; every thing usually Kept in our line. j Thankful to the public for the patro nage heretofore extended, we hope by strict attention to business and honora ble dealings with all to merit a continu ance of the same. . Yours, respectfully, J. B. & W. J. ROGERS. Sept. 18,1872, 23?tf notice of FINAL SETTLEMENT. SUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that a FINAL SETTLEMENT be made at Abbeville C. H., oil WEDNESDAY, the 4th DECEMBER next, of the assigned property of B. E. Gibert, which has come into my hands as Administrator of Wm. M. Rogers, dec'd, Assignee. ... ROBT. McCRAVEN, Administrator. Sept. 2,1872, 21-tf Die West -Female Cofleie!! SEND US YOUR DAUGHTERS. The next Session opens OCTOBER 7th. Only the very best teachers are employed. Boarding, including wash ing and fuel, and Tuition 1 year $184.50 Over 100 pupils are present annually. Send for a Catalogue. J. I. BONNER, President. Sepl 1872, 21-tf MOULDINGS. " MTALNUT and Gilt Mouldings, just wf received, all sizes. Picture frames of any size can be put up at short notice, at J. D. CHALMERS & CO.'S. July $1,1872,10-4 WILL BE HO. 2 GRA* Are prepared to show to their friends a Staple Dry Ms, Hats, Sloes ail Also a Select Stoc In the Dry Goods Line will be found, CALICOES, BL.EACI nonu v cm] TICKI1 OSXABURGS, and many other th In the Grocery ' BACON, FLOUR, MOLASSES, NEW ORLEANS SYRUI MACKEREL, RIC POWDER AND SHOT, and everythir Also a complete Lot of C ORANGES; LEMONS, JELLIES, BR. SARDINES, CRACKERS, SHE] both French and Common. We have on hands BAGGING and T Come one! Come all!! we think we Sept. 18, 1372, 53-tf A VALUABLE TEACT OF LALB ^ 4 ? THE subscriber offers for sale hi plantation near ABBEVILL1 (J. H., pajt of it within the corporal limits of the town. It contains 350 ACRES, and Senty-five acres of which is G00I BOTTOM LAND. On it is a comforta ble Dwelling House, Gin House and al necessary outbuildings. Also, the VINEYARD, known a Mouteviuo, containing Seven Acres of Scuppernong Grapes, in full bearing, with a stone house, eel lar, and necessary appliances for ma kiug wines. The place will be dividec into lots to suit purchasers. R. E. Bowie. August 28, 1872, 20-tf NOTICE. THE undersigned has associated with him in the Fire Insurance business, JOPJL S. PERRIN, P"sq., un der the name and style of 1)UPRE PERRIX. We represent a Capital of Four Mil lions Dollars, and arc prepared to issu< all kinds of Policies. Apply to J. F. C. DuPre, at No. 5 Weite'B Block, or to Joel fc>. Perrin Esq., Law Range. J. F. C. DuPRE. July 8,1872, 12, tf Just thiuk of it, a man 30 years ole by paying $17.55 yearly can eccur* 82,000 worth of Insurance in th< ' Universal." Greenville & Columbia R. R CHANGE OF SCEDULE. On and after Thursday, September tin 5th, 1872, the Passenger trains on thii Road will be run as follows, daily, Sun days excepted: GOING WEST, OR UP. Leave Columbia 7:15 a.m " Alston 9:05 a.m " Newberry 10:40 a.m 14 Cokeabury 2:00 p.m " Bel ton 3:50 p.m Arrive Greenville 5:30 p.m GOING EAST, OK DOWN. Leave Greenville 7:30 a.m 44 Belton 9:30 a.m 44 Cokesbury 11:15 a.m 44 Abbeville 9:15 a.m 44 Newberry 2:30 p.m 44 Alston 4:20 p.m Arrive Columbia 6:00 p.m Connect at Alston with trains or the Spartanqurg and Union Railroad connecting at Columbia, 8. C., with Night Trains on the South Caroline Railroad, upand down ; also with Trains going North and South on Charlotte Columbia and Augusta Railroad, and Wilmington, Columbia and August* Railroad. ABBEVILLE BRANCH. Train leaves Abbeville at 9.15 A.. M. connecting with Down Train Iron Greenville. Leaves Cokesbury at 2.1i P. M., connecting with Up Train fron Columbia. Accommodation Train Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Leaves Cokesbury at 11.15 A. M.., or or the arrival of tne Down Train fron Greenville. Leaves Abbeville at ] o'clock P. M., connecting with U] Train from Columbia. ANDERSON BRANCH & BLUE RIDGE DIV'li -DOWN. Leave Wallialla .-.... 5:45 a.m " Perryville 6:25 a.m " Pendleton 7:10 a.m " Anderson 8:10 a.m Arrive Tipltnn 9.00 a.m UP. Arrive Walhalla. Leave Belton 44 Anderson. 44 Pendleton 44 Perryville. 3:50 p.m 4:50 p.m 5:50 p.m 6:35 p.m 7:15 p.m Accommodation Train between Bel ton and Anderson on Tuesdays, Thurs days and Saturdays. Leave Belton a 9.50 A. M., or on arrival of Down Trail from Greenville. Leave Anderson a 2.00 P. M., connecting with Up Trai; from Columbia. Jabez Norton, Gen'l Ticket Ageni Goldsmith. & Kind. FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS COLUMBIA, S. C Manufacturers of steam Er gines of all sizes; Horse poweri Circular and Muley Saw Mills, Grit and Sugar Cane Mills, Flour Mills, Oj namental, House and Store Front! Iron Railings, Agricultural Implementi etc. Brass and Iron Castings of a kinds made to order on short notice, an on the most reasonable terms. Als< manufacturers of Cotton Presses. Sept. 10,1872, 22?6m What husband or father 40 ycai od who cannot spare 824.35 yearl; to seoure & Life Policy for $1,000 ? THOS. DODAMEAD, Gen'l Superintendent M. GOLDSMITH. P. KINI (PHCENIX IKON WORKS,) J. ROGERS ! FOUND AT ilTE RANGE. select Stock of Fall Goods, consisting loots, Crockery, Groceries & Prom k of Confectioneries. IED AND RTINGS, COTTON PLAIDS, VGS, KERSEYS, JEANS AN ings too numerous to mention. Line will be found, ?. SUGAR. LARD, RIO and JAVA COFFEE, :E, SOAP, CANDLES, STARCH, SOD ig in the Grocery line. onfectioneries, consisting of BANANAS, COCOA NOT ANDY PEACES, OYSTEI ST CAKES, CANDIES, 'IES, which we will sell low. can suit jtou. PAY YOUR DEBT AND SAVE TFOUBLE AND COST Jonx KNOX would inform 1; friends who are indebted to hii S either by note or account, to pay a once, as he is obliged to close his o business. lie will buy Cotton from them at pay the highest price for it, MOE j than than they can get anywhe else. Tho claims against such, wl 1 refuse to do so, will be placed in tl hands of bis Attorney for collectio s which will enlarge the sum of the debts. Therefore fail not to con r and pay, AT LAWSON"S OL STAND, where you also can buy tl best Whiskey, i Tobacco by the Wholesale, AND SEGARS, * , JOHN KNOX. J Sept. 25, 1872, 24?tf and patrons in South Carolina, thi we are now prepared to open tl FALL TRADE with an avera] Stock of 1,000 BMs. of Flow STRICTLY GRADED AND GTJA: ANTEED TO GIYE SATIS FA < T10N. We will always sell at tl lowest market price. In additi( wo will have on hand at all time AMPLE STOCK OF GRAIN ar other,producc, and also be prepan to fill orders fer all lines of GROCEj IES, LIQUORS, &c. Thanking the public for the liber patronage heretofore bestowed ar soliciting a continuance of tho sam we are Yours, truly, F. E. Stevens & Co, 299 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, G/ Aug. 14, 1872, 18--3ru Notice! < A LL persons whose Watches lia' ra been left with me for repairs, pr 1 vious to the first of August, 1872, a requested to call for them, and if n done so by the ; 1st Monday in Jfovembei } will be sold for repairs. Sale positiv ^ All norcnnu in<lnKtorl ut*Q r?nnnctnH ?*" liiuvvbvu (*iu i v\juvgi>vu ' settle. No work from this date will I delivered until paid for. None need aj 1 or expect it. \ H. T. Tusten. Sept. 25, 1872, 24-3m NOTICE. WE the Trustees of the Tpper Loi Cane Church, propose to sell fif five acres of land, adjoining and belon ing to the church. The land has be< surveyed and laid off in five lota, co taining from 8 to 13 acres. The lai will be offered for sale at public outc on Saleeday in November next, if n , disposed of before. Terms Cash. JAMES A. REID, Chairman Board of Trustees. 'I Sept. 22, 1872, 24-6t* Last Notice. 1? MUST close up ray old businei All persons indebted to me p: t. vious to 1st January, 1872, will fi: k it to their advantage to pay np 1 ~ the 15th November, as after th time longer indulgence WILL NC be givon. I, M. C. TAGGAET. Sept. 25, 1872, 24-tf ' fteb Cloocr 8ui si it l'- Orchard Grass Seed, also >"! B L TJ E STONE just received, by y Lee & Parker. Sept. 18,1872, 23-tf LOOK NOT UPON THE WINE. BY ANN M. ANDERSON. Look not upon the wine when it red, when it giveth his color to the ci when it moveth itself aright. At the last it bitcth like a serpent, a r.4.1* lU D?/ SLiugctii niveau auucu?guiuuiuii, iu xxix; 31, 32. O Sire, thy locks are frosted white, Thy limbs 'neath age are bending? Touch not thy lips, though foamii high, The draught the cup is lending, A bitter deep of poisoned dyes, Lies where the red drops shine, Let it not stain thy winter's wane? "Look not upon the wine." Son, is thy brow with promise high, Is hope thy young cheeks flushing In bright perspective, yet before Fame's harvest, ricnly blushing? Shall youth's sweet glow, to redne turn? . Heaven's impress fair resign? The adder spring, with venom sting?? "Look not upon the wine." He, who has proud ambition's all, Into thy keeping given, And she, whose loving hopes of thee, Take anchor but in heaven? Sball sorrow strew the silver hairs? That fading temples line? Hope's clierished light, go down night? "Look not upon the wine." Thou, who hast clasped the tremblir band, Beside the blushing altar, And sealed the troth, but death Cf break? - The love that should not falter," The lily and the roses, 'neath . . Time's withering suns, must pine? Let no grosser flame, the spoiler claim "Look not upon the wine." Man, God himself, thy prototype, Jyen now, the lofty bearing Is stricken with the drunkard's curse The foul red brand is wearing. O, by the love of one?a love That like a clinging vine, Though rude storm sweep, its clat would keep? "Look not upon the wine." Once she was fair?but formed for love Like lilies in a shower, The laughing cheek now droops wii tears? Thus with thy cherished flower!? < And little arms around thee thrown, As loving tendrils twine? Should the serpent's bite, life's sweetne blight? "O look not on the wine!" A voice not lost midst rushing years, Comes with its holy pleading? "My child, 0 shun the maddening cup! And arttiiou still unheeding7 By Him, who erst the spirit made Forever fair to shine, Go cleanse thy soul from the damniE bowl? "Look not upon the wine." i For e'en the heavens within His sight Are not of purest seeming? His angels are with folly charged, In their resplendent gleaming, Then how shall man, with breath in pure, Impugn God's holy shrine?? Heaven cannot claim a drunkard name? "0 look not on the wine." MILL! MORES LETTER. I'm Aunt Gunter. Job Guntcr i my husband. Wo keep the Ancho Port post office and a store, and se groceries and garden sass, calitt shoes and medicines, like other folk in our line when anybody asks fo 'em. When a ship comes in, and the sai ors como homo to their wives an mothers, trade grows brisk. Th housekeepers do their best, and th raisins, and dried currant?, and eggi and buttor go off finely, and its wort while to lay in ribbons for the girli and smoking tobacco and long pipe for the men. Jack and his wages make old Ar chorPort brisk for a while, but a last he sails away, and all the womc seem to ask for will bo letters?lei ters, letters, when they have a righ to expect them, and wliyi the; haven't, all the pame. It's "Please Aunty Guntcr, loo iL.? I :r i1, uvur ilium, iuiu duu 11 ljliciu iii cij one for me;" and it's "Please, Unci Guntor, it might have got mixed u and overlooked somehowoften an often?God help the poor souls!?a ter Jack lies at the bottom of the scs and nothing will ever reach them bu the news of his shipwrock. Bu plenty of letters come aftor all, an sometimes we had to read them fo the folks, Job and 1 and so we got t know something of their lives. Milly More could read and writ herself, but still I always know wbe she bad a letter from Will Masset. knew it by the hadwriting, and know it by her blushes, and by tha happy loot in her race. When h came home, she bought ribbons an bits of lace by the apronful; and know whore the packages of cand that he.bought were to go. And used to keop Job from fishing dow in Pullman's crock of afternoons, bi canse I knew that was whero Mill nd and Will lfked to walk. Courtin time comes but once in a lifo-tim aud I always like to see it prosper. At last ho sailed away, secon mate of the Golden Dove; and whe he came back from that voyage the were to be married. It was a sad day when that shi sailed. Mrs. Captain Kawdon an her girls were crying on the shor bb. Twenty women from tho Port an re- five from the Hill wore there to sc her set sail. It was a grim, gray day, and tl voyage was to bo a long one. It was under our old sycamore th* Will took Milly to his breast. "Don't fret, darlingI" he sai< "I'll come back safe and sound, couldn't drown now; I've too muc to live for." Poor boy I in spite of that, the GoL en Dove went down in mid-seas, ar only three men reached Anchor Po to tell how Captain Rawdon, and tl rest were lost, at dead of night in most woful storm. Captain Kincuid brought the nev up to Mrs. Bawdon. Ho stopped i our store to toll about it. A nice o man. A bachelor still, at fifty-eigh and as handsome, with his white ha and red cheeks, as a picture. 1 That was twelve months ago, tl night I went into the store to sorl some things out, as I always did Sat urday nights. Through the week Job used to get everything mixed up ?letters in my tea-boxes, candles in ine leiter-nox, eggs wnere tuey oughtn't to be, and all the placee askew. It was a warm autumn night, and Captain Kincaid's vessel was in port, and he had plenty of custom. Job served the people while I tidied up. I found half the last mail in a sugar box, and clothes pins in the coffee canister, and I just dumped them out. "Gather up your letters, Job," said I. "What possesses you, old man ?" And he laughed and piled 'em up And I made avow to myself that I'd keep the sugar-box full after that, bo that he shouldn't use it for ;he mail; I had twenty-four pounds of sugar known as "coffee-crushed," because it ed was prepared especially to use iu coffee. That was the finest sugar Anchor Hill folks often bought, though I had a little cut and powder ed by me, in case Mrs. Rawdon, or Mrs. Dr. Speer, or the minister's Udy should send in ; and 1 took the pa per up and tilted it over the japan in ned box, pouring it in a nice smooth stream, when who should come run ning into the shop but Milly More. She was not dressed carefully, and *8 her eyes were red with crying. She asked for some tea, and while in Job was weighing it out she whisper ed to me: ' Oh I Aunty Gunter, have you looked to-day ? Isn't there a letter O TIT! 11 O TT- L. 1 J ? Ji J* _ irum ui r ue uaiu qu uuuiun i< uie. I don't feel as if ho could. Mightn't he write, after all ? Do look." "My Pet," says I, "it's a year ago _ that Golden Dove went down. It isn't likely. And he don't let those live that want to always. It isn't likely, dear, hot I'll look." *P I took tho letters in my hand one by one. Many of them would make hearts glad before the shutters were _ up that night; but none for Milly! It couldn't be expected, of course. ;h I told her so; but I took her into my little back, parlor, and made her sit down. I talked as good as I could to her; Bs but what good does talking do? "Oh, Aunty," says she, I know it seems as 11 1 was a iooi , out 1 want ed ap hopeing this morning. I don't believe ho is gone. I can't, I can't." !" "When baby died?the only one we over had?thought X should never believe it," said I. "But I had Job; and you haveyouur mother and sis ter, Milly." At that she burst into tears, and put her head down on my knee. "I must tell you." said she. "They want mo to marry Captain Kincald. He's courting mo. He fell in love a- with mo the night ho brought the rfews to Mrs. Captaiu Rawdon ; I was , there sewing, and I heard it all. Oh, how cruel to fall in love with a poor girl at such a time I Aud he asks mo to be his wife. And mother and Fanny shall always have a homo, he says. And you know how poor we are. And how can I, how can I, is when my heart is in the sea with t Willie?" 11 "Captain Kincaid!" I said, and I ), couldn't say any more; she took my 8 breath away. She was a nice, pretty r girl; but the Captain was rich, ele gant, and stylish. An old family he 1- came of, too. It was an honor for d Milly More. e "Not just yet," said I. after a whilo. " Perhaps you'll feel better. He's old, I know, but lie's a splendid man." "Yon too!" said she. "You tool Nobody understands. It isn't as if I had made up mind, like all tbe rest. Will will always be a living man to my mind. I don't think any one ever loved but me. Nobody understands ? nobody." I kissed her, and coaxed her, and said no word about her changing her mind ; but for all that I kept thinking of it in a kind of maze. "Captain 'Kincaid 1 such a gentle man as that! Old as he was, could he fail to see the honor ?" But when I told Job, says he "Jerusalem! a young, protty girl like Milly! Why don't ho go after somo widder or an oldish gal? Milly is too young for him. Poor Will! Whasapity! They just suit ed each other." I couldn't help it, though. Mrs. Captain Kincaid would have things that Milly Moro could never dream of; silk dresses and velvet cloaks, jewelry and stuffed chairs in her best rooms, a silver ice-pitcher if she chose, like Ers. Captain Eawdon. She might have a carriage, too, and a pair of ponies. And I liked Milly, and wouldn't have envied her luck one bit; and I didn't wonder at Mrs. More and Fanny. Once having given me her confi dence, Milly didn't stop ; and Mrs. More came over to talk about it too, until at last I fairly up and sided with the old lady. "Milly," 6ays I, "Will is gone, and you aren't his widow, to wear weeds all your life?not that many do, if they can help it, seems to me?and Captain Kincaid is as good a man as can be, and you'll be happy with him. and you'll be happy with him. You can't help loving him as much as there's any need to love." After that she stopped talking much to me. She used to give me strango looks though. I knew all about it. I knew that her heart was in the sea; but Will was gone, and why should she refuse what Provi dence offered ? The captain staid at the port three | months and at last we worried her her into promising to be his wife?old Mrs More, Fanny and I. She just give up at last. "It don't matter^much after all," she said. "I must be going out of my mind, fori can never stop watch ing and hoping. I shall die soon whether I marry or not." After that she never spoke of Will, and Mrs. Moro told me sho was en gaged ; and she wore a diamond ring upon hor finger. And the day before the ship sailed she was to mar ry Capt. Kincaid, so that she might i go to Europe with him. A year and throe months since the : Golden Dove went down. Well, no i one can tell what changes a little I while can bring. I nsed to hope that I hadn't much hand in it after all, i when I thought it over and remcra bored poor Will, and how he took her in his arms under the sycamoro. * But then, you see, Mrs. More's sight had failed, so you see she couldn't do fine sewing, and Fanny vyubu b ui iuuuu uuuuuub except 10 look at. It was a hard life that lay before Milly. It was good for her to marry Captain Kincaid, and have rest and comfort wasn't it ? "To-morrow is the wedding," said I to Job, '-It's going to be in church. Miss Salsbary is finishing my silver gray poplin. It sets splendid. We'll have Ben Barne's in to keep store, and go, won't we ? You'll like to see Milly off, won't you ?" "I wish it was Will Masset," says Job. ; "Poor Will I" says 1, and I went on tidying, though it was a Friday. I , should be so busy next day. I got out my big paper of sugar, and I got * down my japanned sugar-box, never empty yet since that .day I filled it up. And then Job, sorting the let- ( ters, looks up at me. , "Never begrudged you anything so much as that box," says he. "Best ' thing I ever put the mail into. This ' mere wooden thing with a slide is a i pesky bother." "Law me," says I, "if I'd knowed ( you wanted it, you should have had !t T iL!-1 1__J __1__ ii>, x uiuu t1inijk you naa any pian in it. Jest stick 'era anywhere, I thought you would. I'll empty the , box; I've got one that'll do. And I'm glad you spoke belore I filled it ap." f So with that I spread a big paper on the counter, and emptied out ibe sugar. It had packed a little, and came out in a sort of cake. There it laid, white and shiny, and on top of it, . whiter and shinier, laid a letter?a 1 letter with a shipmark upon it, and 1 this supersciption: < "Miss Milly More, Anchor Port, < Maine, United States of America " ' Three months ago?poor ptopid!? I had emptied my best coffee crashed in upon it, and there it was. Three months ago she had come down to me and asked for a letter, and I'd have given more money than there was in the till, to have dared to tear that letter open on tho spot and read it, though I knew the hand was Will Massett's. "This can't wait," says I. "No," says Job, "it can't, with that wedding coming off to-morrow." Then I stopped and thought, let it lie until it is callcd for, ane she'll bo Mrs. Captain Kincaid, with her silks und her velvets, and her fine house, and her carriage, all tue same. This comes from a shipwrecked 1 sailor, poorer now than when he went away. "Perhaps I'd better wait until the wedding is over, Job," said I. And ray old man came across the room and put his arm about my waist. "Nancy," says he, "you and I was young folks once. I used to think something was better than money and the doings *$hen. Aud though we old folks may ge? a little bard? though to be up in the. world seems so much, and all that old sweetness so silly, why, it will como back 6ome timee. You remember how he kissed her under the sycamore; and?Nan cy we couldn't wait until after the wedding, either of us." , I put ray arms about Job's neck, and I kissed him ; and then I got ray sunbonnet and ran over to- Mrs. More's. Captain Kincaid was there. I ] stood at the door with my letter be- 1 hind my back. . ... "Won't you walk in ?" said Mrs. More. "I?I haven't time," said I. "It's only an errand. It's a little singular. Milly, there's a?a?" "My letter I my letter!"' cried Mil ly. "It has come at last ?" How fihe kuew it, Heaven knows. She hadn't bad a glympse of it. It was the old sailor's story: a ship wreck, a deserted island, wretched months spent in hoping for succor, and a sail at last. He wouid be home in three months. "Three months 1" said Milly. "Oh, . how can 1 wait." And then says 1: ''Milly, forgive a poor old stupid goose. That letter has been lying under my best coffee crushed three months and a day. And there's a vessel in the offing now." So it was Will, after all; and Job and I went to the wedding with hap nv hearts. And no need tODitv Cant. V ** , i V A Jiincaid cither, for he married Fanny More before tho year was over. 1 1 ' + Tee Home of Alexander Ham ilton.?Tho last number of Jppleton's Journal contains a representation of the homestead?Hamilton Grange?of Alexander Hamilton. Washington's Secretary of the Treasury, from whose high sense of honor, and intel lectual grasp tho occupants of the position have dwindled down to a Boutwcll. One fact is worth noting in the career of Hamilton. In the history of the country the same pro pably will never bo said of any of any of his successors. When he left tho Treasury, in 1755, he was a poor man, and immediately rcsumod tho practice of his profession as a man of livelihood. Said Talleyrand to a friend, after meering Hamilton at this time, "I have beheld onej of the world. I have seen a man who has made tho fortunes of a nation labor ing all night to support his family One of tho remarkable features of Hamilton Grange is a grove of thir teen stately gum trees on tho lawn in front of the mansion, which wore planted by Genex*al Hamilton, in rep sentation of tho thirtoon original Statos of the Union. All of these trees are still standing, and are guar ded with as zealous care by tho de scendants of Hamilton as thoy were by him in his lifotime. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. Hall op P. L. S. op Wopfohd College, Spartanburg, S. C., v October 11th, 1872, j "Whereas, it has pleased Almighty ( God to take from us by death JOHN EMOKY BEAHD, who was' for two years an earnest, zealous, and efficient member of this Society, punctual in J the discharge of his duties, and un- ' exceptional in his deportment. i Therefore. 1 Kesocvea, xnat we nave neara or the death of John Emory Beard with sincere regret, and with feelings of submission to Divine Providence, hereby express onr sense of the loss which this Society has sustained in the removal by death of an intelli gent and useful member, who gave good promise for his future. Resolved, That we hereby tender our warmest sympathy to his bereav ed family in this sad affliction, which we share in common with them. Rested, That a copy of this pre amble and these resolutions be sent to his family; thafca, cdpy be sent to the Abbeville Press and Bonner for pub linofmn'* an/1 fKuf a Via itWMKivu ; ttUU tuuv U I t7 UU DjJiVWU ^ in the minute book of this Society, i By order of PrestOn Liferary So ciety. \ illLLIARD F. CHEIETZBURG, :; President. Jno. L. Harper, ' Secretary. rHE COUNTY FAIR?AND' THE LAUi WITH inili Uitt f . ' IJ Editor Abbeville Press and Banner: ii I have read many things recently * n your paper concerning your Fair, 1 which are great inducements to indir f riduals to be present on that occasions Sreely is to bo there ; Col. Aiken is c North buying blooded stock; the va- ^ rious productions of our soil are to be ' ^exhibition; the genius of ourcoun- s ;ry is to be hold up to the public' c ;aze; all to be aubmilted to compe- c .ent judgoe and premiums presented ,* lo ;the most succcssful. These things * ndeed are all interesting, and well i calculated to draw a la*ge number of c people together. But I must ac- 1 inowieage mat I was never induced to bo present until recently. In look ing over your last issue, I see that a: sertain lady of this County has pur chased 733 yards' of goods, all of which is to be put into one dress, and /hat mammoth drc6s to be "worn at -he Fair. My mind is now fixed; [ am determined to be present, I am mxious, yea excited. Can it be that ve have a lady in our midst grown ,o such an enormous size that it re tires that amount of goods to make i comfortable fit, or has the style so jhanged that it requires that amount .0 cut the pattern for ordinary ladies? if so, I am gono up, having three cmales to clothe. I am anxious for urther information, and solicit an in. roduction to that lady at the Fair, )rovided she wont fight. Yours, as ever, at BORDEAUX. Newspapers,?Thoir value is by >o means appreciated, but the rapid !iL U * 1. ly witu wiiiuu ptsupie uio wuhiug u|j o their necessity and usefulness is me of the significant signs of the imes. Few families are now con ent with a single newspaper. The hirst for knowledge is not easily sa iated, and books, though useful?yea, ibsolutely necessary in their place, ail to meet the demands of youth or ige. The village newspaper iseager y sought and its contents as eagerly levoured. Then comes the demand or the county news. Next to the po itical come the literary and then the icientitic journals. Lastly, and above ill, come the moral and religious ournals. The variety is demanded o satisfy the cravings of the active nind. Newspapers are also valuable to naterial prosperity. They advertise he village, county or locality. They ipead before the readers a map on vbich may be traced character, de ign, progroes. If a stranger calls at i hotel, he first inquires for a village lewspaper ; if a friend comes from a listance, the very next thing after a amily greeting, he inquires for a Milage or county newspaper, and you eel discomfited if you aro unable to ind a late copy, and confounded if ;ou aro compelled to say you do" not ako it. The newspaper is just as iccessary to fit a man for his true >osition"m Iih3 as tooa or raiment, show us a ragged, barefoot boy rath ir than an ignorant one. Ilis head vill cover his feet in after-life if ho is veil supplied with newspapers. Show is the child that is eager for nows mpers. He will make the man of nark in alter life if you gratify that lesire for knowledge. Other things >eing equal it is a rule that never ails. Give the childron newspapors. The Ameeioan Stock Journal for October, contains a number of well vritten articles of great interest to he farmer and stock raiser. Jlluatra ,ed with engravings of Model Stable, short.Horn Cow, Berkshire ' Hog, Parcheron Horse, Feed Steamers, Wild Animals, Fowls, Pigeons, Birds,; fee. Every Family should send for a1 s too specimen copy, or $1.00 for 1873 t ind got 3 numbers of this year free, iddress, N. P. Boyor & Co., Parkes ourg, Chostor oounty, Pa. Rinqwoem -Remedy.?Paint it with iodine a few times aud it will it will s entirely destroy every vestige of it. 't . ? . . . . : .f. . Hints to Wives. An article on "Women's Men," in the Saturday Review, contains these hints. Nothing surprises men more than the odd ignorance of! women concerning them; and half tbe an il appiness of married life, at least in England, springs from that ignorance. They, cannot be made. to understand the difference between a man's nature and rcoiiirflmAnfn onH a ? ? WW MUU VUViA V.Tftl ) M1U Lhey condemn all that they cannot understand. In those few rational homes where men's sports and gath* , jrings, undisturbed by the presence petticoats, are not made occasions for Suspicion or remonstrance, the : stock of love and happiness with svhich married life began is more like ;he widow's cruse than elsewhera; jut unfortunately for both husbands md wives, these homes are' rare; : vhilo they are common where a gam? >f billiards in the evening is occasion or tears'and pouting, and; deadly >ffense is't'aken at club dinners 0* a veek's shooting. The copseqopnce of vhich is deceit or dissension; and ; lometimes both. The woman's ideal man has none of hese erratic tendencies. His business' lone, he comes home with the docili y of a well bred pointer sent to heel; md finds energy enough after his1 iard day's work for a variety of petit* > oins which'make him more pvecioos : n her eyes than all the tact, tho emper, the judgmebt, the uprightness le nas manuestea in his dealings wita he outside -world. And the (Tomes*? icity which she claims from her hue iand she demands from lior 'son. jatcbkeys are her abomination, and' he "gaa left burning,", is as a beacon ight on the way of destruction;. She: ias the'profoundeat suspicion 9fall he men whom her boy cans fals " riends. She never knows into what * nfschief they may lead him, , bet she 9 Bure it is mischief if they keep lim away from his home in the efeft- 1 ng. 'She would prescribe the sam? ^ ociat restraints afad moral regimea , " or her son asr for her daughter, a?d f ho thinks the 'energies of masculine ' tature require no wider field and no poser reign, tint tnongn soft jiKeati' I hose1 tame, and tendermen whom she : : an tie up close to her apron 6tringf wd; lovingly imprison in tfie1 narrow tom'ain of borne, she succumbs with-1 >ut a straggle to the square jawed >mte of the Rochester type, the man eho dominates her by the mere force f superior strength, and she is not ' oo severe'tm Dun Juan^if, Only ahe , r an flatter herself that she is .the host oved find th,e last. That these aire the men' most liked; '{ >y. women, is shown both by tbeirr;<^.< < >wp covels avd by daily observation; . , irici it seems to us that among Jhe ' nanv subjects for extended study of ate proposted for women* a 'better ao*> [uaintance with men'sminds, a higher ?;,.r egard for ho .nobler kind of man, ,nd the ability to accept love as only >ne of many qa lities and not always- > be strongest or the most praise- ..;y rorthv of his imnnlses. would not be ntof place. 4 Tiie Bankrupt Law.?Mr. Claw on, one of the registers in bankrupt y for this State," gives the following oints in regard to the Bankrupt Act : As doubts hare have been express d as to the extend of the relief af orded by the Bankrupt Act of 1857, nd the 6everal amendments thereto, deem it proper to make the follow ing statement: The amendment to the Act, approv d loth June, 1872, allows to the ankrupt ail the property exempted y the laws of each State of force ia 871, in addition to the $500 worth f property allowed under the origi ol Act. . ' This gives to each bankrupt in this Hate $2,000 worth of property,, to rit: 61,000 worth of real estate and ,000 worth of personal estate. Af- ' er tho bankrupt has been discharged, his becomcp his absolute, estate, to ispose of as he chooses, either by ale, gift, devise or otherewise. It is not necessary, as has been apposed, that the estate of the per on applying shall pay fifty per cent, f all bis debts; but if the estate ?hich comes to the hands of the &8* ignee is sufficient to pay fifty per cnt of bis individual debts, contract d since 1st January, exclusive of tho ebts contracted before that time, he j entitled to a full discbarge from all is debts. If it is not sufficient, still, o is discharged Irom all individual ebts contracted before that time, nd from all his seourity debts, 'hether contracted before or after bat time, leaving nothing to be paid ut his individual debts contracted ftcr 1st January, 1869. He Will Sweab.?A story is -told f two prominent ministers of Hew ort, tho favorite .New England sum ler resort, which is too good to be n __ tv . m _/ i.1 _ >3t. Jiiov. x/r. j.., 01 xne. annitarian ongressional church, and JRev. M. B, f the Unitarian, being on tho best jrme, were one day invited to dine t the house of a mutual friend, Mr, I., for some reason, failed to oomo, od some one at the table took occa en to remark upon his excellent ualities. ''Yes." suid the doctor, ''he's very fine man, but isn't it a pitv he rill swear?" Br. B. swear I What o you mean ?" was the general ex lamation from all sides. "Mr, B, is very fine man," persisted the Doc 3r, "but I am sorry to say he some imos swears." Being pressed for an xplanation, he finally yielded, ometime before the two had been utfishing together, and as the Doc* ir stood on one rock, he heard some onversation between Mr. B. and a sherman, who were a little distance rom one another. The fisherman aid, "I've got a d good bite," "So ave I," answered Mr. B." "You ee," persisted the Dootor, ''that bough Mr. B. is a very fine man, he rill swear." An editor says his ancestors have een in tho habit of living a hundred ears. His opponents responded by aying that "that was before the ia roduotion of capital punishment." -- ----- -