The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, July 05, 1876, Image 3

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The Press and Banner. ABBEVILLE, S, C. Wednesday, July 5, 1876. PRIMARY EJ^pCTIOSS, The Only Method of Ascertaining the True Sentiment of the People, Ou Monday last tno ADDevijje County Club adopted the plan of Pri mary Elections which has worked so well in other localities, as we under stand it, candidates will be announced for the yarious offices before the Pri mary Elections occur, and every mem ber of each club will cast his vote for the man of his choice, After all have voted the votes will be counted and a statement of the votes received br each candidate will be forwarded to the County Convention wbere^ the addition will be made, and the Nom inating Convention will put in nomi nation the candidate having the high est number of votes. For instance, if two thousand votes are cast at the Pri mary Elections, and there are two can didates, if one receives eleven hun dred votes and the other receives nine hundred votes, the man receiving the highest'dumber of votes is to oe put in nomination as the candidate of the party. By this means even,' man has the privilege of expressing bis own wish es, and the delegates to the Nominat ing Convention have only to count the aggregate votes cast for each candidate and declare for the candidate having: tho highest vote. The Nominatingj Convention have no more discretion in the natter than managers have of general elections.. They liave no choice except to declare who the peo ple want for their candidate. This method", in our opinion, is the j only true plan to get the real se.nti-! ment of the people, and it is a pluu to which none could reasonably object, j It is a matter of impossibility" for any; .one hundred men of the County to | make nominations for the people! which would be as satisfactory as by this plan, which gives every man the right to east his own vote for whom he clu>oses. This shuts oft' all possibility ^ i? -is OI iavorxilBlll UV Ciiqiltrs, UIIU IS suit: to work well. Remember, that every man's vote is to be counted at the meeting of the Nominating Conven tion, and Secretaries of the various clubs should make a careful registry of every vote cast, as the Primary Elections are really the election, and < a single vote may turn the scale. ( Clubs do not vote as a club, but each club will send a full registry of all the votes. Stopping the Mail?an Outrage. We learn that the mail rider on his return from Washington, Ga., last; Thursday was stopped about seven i miles this side of that town and hisj horse seized by Mr. E. M. Whitehead and some other party from the same place, for a stable "bill due by the| contractor Mr. W. H. Taggart. The parties drew their pistols and directed the mail rider to take off the j mail-bags, when they took possession} of the horse. They are probably not^ iiware that they have committed a high offence against the U. S. law, and punishable by a tine of a liun-j dred dollars 'for each offence. The' debt due was only some or $20 j $:?(>, and if they pay the fine,! which the law provides, they will be taught to make use of lawful means to collect their debt. Kven the State law protects the) members of the Legislature from suit; whilst attending to their duties, and I exempts witnesses in criminal cases,! and persons in the military service j from arrest, and it would be a lament-1 able condition of affairs if the public mails of the country could be stopped, and their contents thrown with im munity into some way side ditch. It is "a grievance not to be tolerated,' and against its occurrence the law has made ample provision. Mr. Taggart has had "the Washing ton and one of theElberton routes dur incr the nast vear. and we learn has! carried the irmil with unusual efficien cy and regularity. r3 *?* ~ v Desecrntiug the Temple. On Monday evening between nine and ten o'clock there seemed to bei quite a disorderly crowd in Trial Jus tice Bruce's office, and the amount of cursing done was not at all agree able to the ears of the families! unfortunate enough to live any! ways near the Judge's office. After j the cursing bad continued for some time,'the noise that followed seemed to indicate that there was a social wool pulling going on. At the con elusion of which the lights were put out and the party, including the Judge, adjourned to the public square where more of the language, improper for re lined ears, was continued for some minutes, but it simmered down before the parties dispersed. 1 his we heard nnd saw from the balcony of our of fice. In well regulated society some of these offenders would have been put in Ihe guard house. Democratic Meeting on Sale Day. There was a full representation from the Democratic clubs at the County meeting on fcjale Day, and much en thusiasm and a very hopeful feeling prevailed. Col. C'othran made a rous ing speech as to the duties of each member iu the present crisis, and the necessity of united and determined action tor the protection of person and property. The clubs are compos ed ot the best material of the County, and are fully alive to the necessities of the hour. They will likely give a good report of themselves when the time for action comes. Disorderly Conduct on the Fublic Square on Sunday. For several weeks the Public Square lias been infested on Sunday by crowds of idle blacks, who meet to discuss politics, and by their loud talk ing and laughing disturb the quiet of the day, and give annoyance to decent church-going people. If the blacks choose to discuss politics let them se lect some private place and conduct themselves quietly. We have a town council and a town marshal 1 whose duty it is to see that quiet is preserv ed nml frhnf. ?nhf>r npjtppnhlp nifizffns arc not disturbed. Mr. Lewis Truit, of Long Cane, got into a difficulty with a negro man on bis place on Sunday last. Bricks bats were first used by both parties ] and finally Mr. Truit brought his shot gun into use. The darkey came to town and Dr. Templeton picked the shot out of his hand. Trial Justice Bruce took legal steps for redress and bound Truit over to Court in the sum of three hundred dollars. The negro aud Truit, we" learn, are friendly, Kiuce thejoccurrence, an dMr. Truit has offered to settle damages but we hear the officer of the law thought best to carry it to Court. The people of this county are now at fever heat on politics. Every man, white and black, it seems, is confident of the success of his party. There is in this county not more than two doz en white traitors to their race, all of whom expect to be rewarded for their treachery by election to some office, but it seems that the negroes are not disposed to trust men who are not true to their own kindred. They have Kamt rrvAlarl Innrr nnnnir)) K\f tliia nlutu "KU IVU1V.U l"U5 VUV/Ugll KJ l ? u V.MOU of men, and the negroes are beginniug to have sense enough to see it. They will act wisely if they let all such peo ple alone. The people would much prefer to see a respectable negro in of fice than a trifling white man. Labor Reform Association.? We are glad to see the Labor Reform movement meeting with favor in this county. Labor associations will do much good if they do not attempt too much. The principle is right, and is in commou practice in all countries except ours. We say organize such association every where. They have resulted in good elsewhere and will be sure to have good effect in Abbeville. Hee notice of such organization at Lima's Cross Roada. Our townsman Mr. W. Rosenberg, is now 011 the Centennial grounds amiil the grand scenes of that place. S1 He sends us the following card of|n greeting: Ckxtenmal Exposition, \ Machinery Hall, June aoth, 1876. / Press and Banner : Standing in the grand hall and amid a world of machinery, &c. I am highly pleased and think of you. Please preserve this as a "Centennial i memento." Yours truly, W. ROSENBERG. | Suicide in* a Well.?"We learn I that Mr. John Clay, the son of Mr. W. A. Clay, of Calhoun's Mills in this county, committed suicide bv jump ing into a well seventy-five feet deep in Elberton, Ga., a few days since. He sported for some time before mak ing the |fatal leap, by throwing rocks down, and attempting to ascertain the depth of the well by the time of fall ing. ^ Last of all he gave a personal test oy casting nimseu uown. ?e have heard no explanation of the mo tive which prompted the act. His body was brought back to Mt. Carmel and buried on Tuesday following. Dr, H. D. Wilson, Dentist.?The advertisement of this popular dentist has been inadvertently omitted from our paper for three weeks past and we trust that he has received 110 damage thereby. The public may rest assured that whether they see the advertise ment or not the Doctor is nevertheless always at his post prepared to do the best work at short notice and to give full satisfaction to all comers. We commend him to the patronage of our friends. Fink Cotton.?On last Saturday we saw at Cade's lower mill a fine three acree field of Cheatham cotton, which we suppose could not be sur passed by any in the county. The cotton has been in bloom for two weeks, and many of the plants had good sized bolls. Like all Cheatham it is loaded with fruit, with spreading branches, which will meet iu the rows in a few weeks. Ix some towns in North Carolina we lesaru that the merchant buy dried blackberries for the Northern markets, aud make the business profitable to both the merchant and the blackberry picker. Why have iiot some of our enterprising merchants engaged in the business, and thus given employ ment, for a season, to the thousands of idlers in this County ? It is said that several years ago a young man was in his splendid new buggy with his lady-love* driving his fine horse to church. When they crossed the creek he knew his horse would want water but waa so much almorhod with the obiect of his adora tion that lie unbuckled the crupper of tlie harness instead of the check line. That young man is now rated among the bachelors. We had the pleasure on Monday afternoon of greeting our young friend Mr. M. P. DeBruhl, who has been re cently admitted to the Bar in Colum bia, and designs practicing his profes sion in Abbeville. Mr. DeBruhl is a young man of tine talents and attain ments, and we wish him a successful career in his old home. Radical Intolerance. ? "We learn that the County Radicals are bringing considerable pressure to bear upon the Clerk and County Treasurer, to force them to discharge their clerks, the Messrs. J. Y. and A. W. Jones. This looks like carrying matters with a high hand. uuit incna. Apu neignoor, 14. n. 'Hemphill, Esd^of the Medium, pre sided at the debate of one of the Lit erary Societies of WofTord College, during the recent Commencement, and delivered au address to the youth ful contestants, which has been high ly commended by our Spartanburg exchanges. Miss Fannie Truitt, a handsome and accomplished young lady from Mobile, Ala., passed through town on her way to the Due West Commeuce luent, on yesterday evening. Miss Tftitt has been stopping with rela tives on Long Cane for the past week or two. Cadet J. F. Brooks returned from the -Yorkvillo military school last week. He stands well iu his class tna went wiui ms company 10 uie Fort Moultrie Centeunial. Yorkvillo King's Mountain Colleges are popular with the Abbeville boys. Religion and Politics.?The blacks are mixing religion and poli tics pretty freely at their church meet ings. If they are not a little more careful, the arch enemy Satan will outflank them and carry their works by storm. We hear many statements to the efFect that if it had not been for the abundant oat crops of this County that great numbers of planters would have been unable to feed their stock during the plow season, and the los& of their entire crops would have been the result. It ie the unanimous opinion of the intelligent planters of this County that the oats crop was the salvation of the planting interests this season. wise men win taKe neea ana sow early of reel oats and barley. A young -gentleman from the Bor deaux neighborhood is seeking a wife. He wants a wife with six bee gums. Any lady possessing the necessary "sweetness" is sure of au excellent husband, if she desires him. There is now more suffering here for the want of something to eat than was ever known in Abbeville County. This is true not only in the vicinity of the village but also in various portions of the County. A Good Investment.?Our towns man, Mr. J. F. C. DuPre, last Fall sowed thirty-five bushels of oats, and for every bushel thus invested, he has realized twenty?making in all a total of 70l bushels. "Who Pays the Tax.?There are one hundred and forty unsatisfied tax executions against defaulters in Cal houn's Mills township, and only five of which are against white persons. Mr. J. N. Belcher's favorite wa termeloifcvines are dead. Mr. W. P. Calhoutft choicest "rattlesnakes" have given up the ghost, and the mourners go about the streets. v Homicide.?Allen Barksdale, of Anderson, had a diiliculty with a ten ant, Mrs. Gray, when he cut her se verely with a knife; in retaliation, she killed hnn with au axe. Mr. Jas. McCravev, one of the hardest working men and one of the most successful cotton-growers in the County, left cotton blooms at our of fice last week. The Charlotte and Yorkville cadets were the only companies that stood the fatiguing march without losing a man, from heat, at the Moultrie Cen tennial. Mr. Reuben Smith, of the Flat woods drives the finest buggy in Ab beville County. The young ladies may look out for^him. He means business. Planters who sell their oatsat fifty cents or under are sacrificing their graiu. It is worth more than this price to feed to stock. Every planter who has oat straw, should save it in a house, where it will be kept dry. It is more valuable than fodder for feeding. Mr. E. Edwards made barley at the rate of ninety-two bushels to the acre. He is a Granger auil a good farmer. There was a heavy washing rain in the Bold lirauch country last {Sunday, which did considerable damage to crops. The Junjpr is now more convinced than ever, that no good farmer can af ford to neglect to sow red oats. Iso farmer doing business on a sol vent basis will neglect to sow red oats this fall. Mr. W. N. Calhoun's vegetable garden has been robbed of Irish pota toes. Planters should buy their seed oata.now while the price is low. Commence to sow oats in August. Support of Tcachcrs. The teachers of the black schools ueceded in calling together quite a umber of their ebony brethren in the lourt House on Saturday last. The ?ac.hers it seems were indignant that lie whites did not levy a higher tax :ian two mills for their support and >r the education of their patrons hildren. The colored brethren work 3 up considerable feeling because the hites were not willing to pay more >r the education of our future states jen. One man was particularly anx >us to let it be known that he was fraid of nobody. He was as brave as ulius Crcsar. New Mail Route.?On to-day a ew mail route from Calhoun's Mills ) Dorn's Mine, by way of Bold ranch and Wideman's post oftiees, as opened to-day?John W. Stucky, F Bishopsville, being the contractor? [r. J. T. Horton, of our County, be ig the sub-coutractor. This mail ill leave Calhoun's Mills immediate rafter the arrival of the mail from .bbeville, delivering the Abbeville apers at Bold Branch, Wideman's, uu uorn's uoiu Aime tne same (lay f publication. As this line runs iroiigh the linest section of the Coun r the Abbeville papers shall expect ^ profit by the arrangement. Should lere be no"postmaster at any of these [Ticos one should be at once appoint i. Mr. M. A. Blakk, of Greenwood, illed at our office on yesterday. He sports Greenwood as alive on the its question ; that over 5,090 bushels ' oats were raised within the ineorpo ite limits ' ( the village, aud (3,000 ushels of all kinds of grain, indu ing wheat, rye and barley. Hereto ire, the people of Greenwood planted ieir patches in cotton, but this year ,'ery patch was sown down in oats, id after the cutting of their grain icy planted theni in corn and peas, Inch are now growing finely. This >eaks well for the enterprising people " Greenwood. A Sacred Relic.?Capt. Angus mith, the well known diver, has in is possession a reiic ot uie past ound which said memories cluster, upt. Smith waa a member of the iramitte appointed to receive the re ams of Calhoun at Wilmington and cured the United States flag that as used to cover the catafalque, liis flap: is well preserved though over /entv-five years has passed since its ie. He threw it to the breeze from s house on Sullivan's Island near e point, on the 23th ultimo. Tite Oats Crop.?No price has as >t been established for oats at Abhe Ile, though speculators are ofTer g forty cents, and a few transactions tvebeen made, at figures as high as "ty cents a bushel. Planters are gen allv anticipating a rise and are hold-; g "for higher prices. A Newberry ftder has offered to supply our people itli an indefinite amount at sixty tifa n liiielifl snfkfMl nnrl <lelivf?r<?d i the cars. The Bapttst Church.?Mr. .Tas. ijrpart, jr., lias been engaged during epast^veekin putting in tlie new ats of the Baptist church. They are atly constructed of walnut and pine, id will add to the eommodiousness id beauty of the interior. When mpleted the church will be one of e most commodious in town. Prc-Nrc at Bordeaux.?Wo re rn our thanks for an invitation to tend a pie-nic at Bordeaux, on the Friday of July (14 inst.) and trust may be in our power to attend, irdeaux is famous in petting up en rtainments of this character, and we ive no doubt that she will sustain r reputation at the comiug pic-nic. MESSRS. HUNTER and MTlOOJe pno ?raphers, have gone from here to inety-Six, where they expect to open 1?icture gallery. They pave pood sfaction at Abbeville, and we trust at they may have good luck at their w location. [ndiana Grand Lodge of Masons a reinstated the clause of regula rs against Masons using or selling irituous liquors, and hns forbidnen bordinale lodges to receive intoj^j 2inbership those addicted to their' e. Trial Justice Harmon of Bor aux was in town last week arrang ? the matter of the warrant against i constable Newby, for shooting a isoner, It seems that there was no :>uud for the arrest of the constable d the case will be settled. Baptism.?1The ordinance of bap m was administered iu the Presby rian chuch by the ltev. J. L. Mar j, on Sunday last, to the infant clil en of Messrs. T. P. Quales, A. B. ardlaw and Jas. A. Bowie. About six months ago every other i an you met announced his lirm de mination to go to tho Centennial. m Jt of wl pi th of a < tli )w, if.you want to sec a man who is Ally going, you will have to step jund lively for several hours. th Our talented young friend, Mas Jas. 8. Periin of the Yorkville ilitary school returned on Tuesday ;t to spend his vacation at home. A tachment from the school were pres t at the Fort Moultrie Centennial, km Mk. Julius DuPke, the eldest Ron our townsman, Mr. J. F. C. DuPre, iurned home on Thursday last. He a promising member of the Senior iss of Woftbrd College, aud will aduate next year. Mb. M. A. Blake invested some are change very profitably to him if on Monday in tbe office of the ess and Banner. He will read the :est news from that paper hereaf r. An infant daughter of Mr. Nelson .ssard, of our town, died on Wednes y morning last, after a short illness, d was buried on the following day the Cemetery of Trinity church. ou K t<j< co wl wc A. young man leased the front gate one of our citizens one evening re ntly. What he said to her while ming on that gate will probably ver be known. [others may continue to wall, ind slap the juvenile and make him toot; t all this will not avail Vhcn the small boy craves green fruit. The Neivberry Herald complains of g feunel in the streets. We have th fennel and thistles in our streets d nobody seems to mind them. riiK public road for several miles is side of Island Ford, on Little ver is in excellent condition?better an at any time since the war. The people of Greenwood are alive the necessity of the Democratic Libs, and are working hard for the ccess of the party. Greenville is one hundred years old. i 1776 Mr. Kichard Paris, the first ttlpr Inpfttpfl ninl jrfivn hlM line to Paris mouuiain. For the first time in the history of bbeville, our people now have oats r shipment. Heretofore we had to ly oats. Revs. Wiohtmax anil Clarke, of bbeville, were in attendance at the 'offord College Commencement last eek. The wheat crop of Greenwood was sry much damaged by rust, but the d oats escaped untouched. Since Maine lias adopted the anti tnging law, murders occur at the te of one a month. The infant child of Mr. Dock Jones, Mt. Carinel, died 011 Friday laft and as buried on Saturday. Get your turnip ground in readiness, lie season for planting is fast ap oacbiug. Auousteans don't go "up the out" any more. They "go up the mal." Prepake to sow barley in Septem ;r. It will pay largely on good Jand. Mr. A. Bequest has tbe mail con act from here to Centreville. The thistle crop in Abbeville is not fected with the rust. (John for ttte Hungry. ? ~V< uarn from the liaiiroad. officials tha orn will be shipped to Abbeville frou ireenville to-day, which is the firsi hipment of the kind since the heavj ains. Those needing corn may now ome with a certainty of securing th< esired grain. This railroad accideni houId teach us a lesson as to the ne essityofraisingourown grain. Theoai ropcame in this year in a good time, >r without it wo do not know what rould have become of our furmert luring the past six weeks. We learn that our former citizen, Ir. Benjamin Crawford, of the Mon key neighborhood, one dify last reek, in protecting his wife against lie assault* of a brute in the shape ol man, stabbed and killed the offend ig person, at their residence neat 'endleton. It is said that the man lapped Mrs. C., when her husband ushed upon him with a knife, killing iim instantly. Adjutant-General Purvis, who ook so' active a part for the Reformers :i the last election, is now here with is sword, we nresume or^anizins the iilitia. * it is "likely that tlie Kacls link the military necessary to secure leir election. It is reported that a hite man in town lias ordered a irge quantity of fixed ammunition >r the militia company at this place. Treasurer Tolbert made a good leech to the negroes on Saturday, ut it was poorly received. The va ous ebony speakers wero down on im "like a thousand of brick." hey seem willing to listen to nothing hich looks to reason or to a fairness f feeling. A General jollification among the arkevs was had at Calhoun's Mills on esterday. Nothing of special interest distin uiished the Glorious Fourth in this >wu from any other day. From Bold Braiich. It is reported that Mr. Dora Jay us three hundred dollars worth of *y labor liired to work out his crop. Mr. J. S. Bkitt shocked some of is wheat on the top of stumps, wo ippose, lie did it not haviug room on )C ground. Mr. J. A. WiDEMAN Is swamped in te grass; says it can't be helped, for 2 has to lose so much time in getting ie Centennial soap ready. Mr. P. H. McCaslan says, a far icr who has sprouted wheat and a assy crop to work with, has no time i hunt a wife. Messrs. A'. B. C. Lindsay and A. . McCaslan have been waging war itli Gen. Green for three weeks, and om all report's, they will have to sur nder to the enemy, if they are not ion reinforccd. Mr. J^S. Britt will supply bis iends with hay next fall, at grange ices; some of his friends think he ill have to throw out some of his op. From the looks of Mr. W. H. jott's crop on the road, he has not ten seining on dry and this year, ,ys he is bound to have a wife next 11. Mr. Dora Jay want3 to rent out renty acres of cotton?tvill take one ile for rent; this is poor farming for a >od granger. Mr. W. P. Kennedy has consoled r. Iiritt in his troubles by promising ni pea seed next year. Harry Pressly works two days every week in his shop?this is clec ni year. Mr. W. H. Scott rode thirteen iles last Saturday evening to get me one to go with him two miles. It as not hard to guess where that was at his horse is getting very thin. Mk. R. A. McCaslan will make a ilure in melons this year at least e prospect looks bad on the road. Gilbert Wideman has had his ife bound over to keep the peace and e returned the compliment by hav g served him the same way ; they are it members of Zion church. The crops arc very promising in is neighborhood?whore they have en worked. A GRANGER. romiscuous Dots by Granger Sam. Lebanon Grauge had an interesting eeting on the fourth Saturday of me, bachelor John, or as Pritchard, ijownucsviue, cans nini, lue long liiskercd representative of Lebanon, esiding. The day was awful hot, about 90? in e shade. An essay on the best mode, so rotating garden crops as- to have constant supply of vegetables during e year was read by mks. sr. A. KING. was the best paper on the subject I A*e ever had the pleasure of reading hearing. Mrs. King is an able and complished writer. Those wishing have a constant supply of vegetn e:h during the year can do so if they .ve the brains and energy to carry t the plan she advocated. Mrs. ing gave the men a sharp and meri i rebuke by telling them of their nstant grumbling about hard times Lien they neglected the garden which >uld save a large amount of corn d bacon; that a large number of rmers did not condescend to give e garden a thought, but depended on their better halves to have it PK. J. W. THOMAS id an essay on the amount of land the mule. The Doctor is a plain, inted and logical writer. He in ain terms gave those who plant 30 35 acies to the mule to understand at they were wrong. He told them at where they over-planted the}* ver had time to read the newspapers; ver had time to talk, teach and fon e their children, and were generally 5 fatigued to give their wives a pleas t talk, in a word, there was neither easure or money in farming in this [inner. At one o'clock the dinner was an tunced sis ready. Grange dinners :ed no description,!they are always e best the country affords. I did liat I always do at a grange dinner lid my share of talking and eating. Lebanon is considered the most lurishing grange in the county; it is been styled the "Prince of Oran It numbers about 73 members. iliew of any grange in the unty, ?and they attend regularly. ie of the prettiest'ladies of the ange remarked, she did not know hattheyoung ladies would do if it is not for the grange. It certainly the best social organization ever tablished among the farming classes Abbeville County. The negroes throughout the county e working steadier than at any time nee emancipation, not that they are itting smarter, but because it is work, arve or steal. The Harmon afliiir ive them to understand that murder id robbery would not do. The en rrotin milliner ill wlil'Mi flio Flua est bovs traced those who entered gnew & Bonner's store, showed them ainly that the white people of iis county intended putting down ealing, if they have to follow them to adjoining counties. Tjie politicians of South Carolina^ e dead broke; all the money that) ts been made so easy for the last ten : ;ars has been spent just as easy as it! us made. "Ill gotten gains are lickly spent," retribution will surely ime. "The mills of the gods grind owly but they grind exceeding line." A correspondent of the Charleston ->urnal of Commerce suggests the foi wing as suitable persons to receive ie nominations of the State Demo atic Convention for the offices of )uth Carolina: General M. C. liut r, of Edgefield, for Governor: Gen al John A. Wagener, of Charleston, r Lieutenant-Governor; General >linson Hagood, of Barnwell, for' imptroller-General; Colonel B. W. all, of Laurens, for Attorney-Gener ; Colonel James N. Lipscomb, of ewberry, for Treasurer; Colonel D. ryatt Aiken, of Abbeville, for Secre ry of State ; Genoral E. B. C. Cash, ' Darlington, for Adjutant and In >ector-Generl. t Robert B. Ilamiljpn. REMINISCENCES OF ABBEVILLE BY AN EX-ABBEVILLIAN OF OVER FORTY YEARS. This name will fall like a voice heard when not expected, without i j knowing from whence it came and wither it goeth, but probably a few I old citizens of IS34-10, may call to mind a tall young raau full six feet and two inches high, well formed and probably as fine a specimen of physi cal development as Abbevile ever pro duced, with a tout cvsenblc indicating courage and equality to the position of j ^ !i Mfi'.-slml nf Fmnco. and whose tiow-L er unci genius were equal to his looks. s , He was ft groat unknown and undo- ] velopcd?a son of Capt. Alexander j Hamilton who long lived and died on , the high hill one mile -north-east of i i the town, and who died in the winter j of 1835-G, highly honored and respect- j ed, and who in his time had filled the t office of Sherifl* and represented the c District in the letfislaturejone or more (j times. Robert Burns was his full a , name, and so chosen by his father, of fl Scotch extract, in honor of country t and "nature's poet, and the name sake j was not without a spark of the ethe- c real tire within himself, lie was t the pet of a large and perhaps v the handsomest family ever raised in (] Abbeville, the pride and hope of his father. Alpheus liaker who fitted and n primed him for college told me he had the power had he willed it, or had it s so been willed, to have climed the hill ' of fame and planted his banner on its ? highest peak." lie was in Yalo Col- t lege between 1830-34, and by inheri- c tancean anti-Nulifier, his father be- c ing a leader of that ring at home; but lie found so much hostility to South ' Carolina find Calhoun, that himself {. snd another from another section of j the Btate, took up the cudgels in de- c bate, and which ended in actual cud- .. pels a regular encounter in- which [ Kouth Carolina more than maintained t herself against heavy odds. For this r they were expelled, or commanded to ^ make coucessions not suitable to them v and they came home. He commrnc- r ed reading law, but soon fell in love [ with a milliner's beautiful girl, and t wanted to marry her, which was so shocking to the family pride and .so likely to cause the death of his father t that he yielded and sought refuge in "the bowl" first, and then absence af- ^ terwards, to break the spell. His fa- rj tlier gave him several hundred dol- j lars and he took passage westward in y the stage coach in the Spring of 1884, ' liko3 the mariner upon an unknown t and untried sea without chart or com pass. He belonged to a family whoso temperament rendered stimulants mail- v dening, and upon taking an amount j. Mi n # nmnlrl liuvro tirrwl n^iwl "linnni. ness'' to many, it was nothing short r of madness to thefn. Tlio first point t lie linked at was Milled^eville, CJa., (J where two drinks required the officials and posse comitatus to catch him, and 0 for which he had to pay. Ho then t went to Savannah, where three drinks ^ required the police and military, for a he was resistful and dangerous and t strong and sinewy as a lion?ami it cost ^ him again. He then took passage to New York, and on arriving there was a the guest of Capt. Daniel IJaker of the marines then in post. Baker was an v Abbeville man to this extent, had liv- c ed there several years and married one ^ of the Miss 'McLarens, and was a spe- ? cial friend of the Haniiltons. Robert ? irr\t nn ? unruo in Voi? Vnrlr n.tt<I mis bww ? W,/. vv ... v.. * --"J ed a thunderstorm among the policc upsetting them like nine-pins and wounding 0113 or two badly, and mak ing good his retreat to tho vessel, he seized a cutlass and placed himself in the hatch-way or gang-way, or else where, ready to kill one or two of the first adventurers. Baker coming in found the position war-like and sta tionary and plead "crazy" for his friend, which iuduced them to retire after placing sentinels on land, with a promise to inquire (into that next morning. During the night Baker in a life boat got him into a vessel ready to sail to Gibralter, and the next morning found him un der sail for that port. Arriving there he remained a while and then sailed in an English vessel for China, where he remained several months. He then sailed to the Island of St. Helena, where he spent a month visiting|evi*ry day and musing over the grave of Napolcan, whom he worshipped, in spned with the devotion of a Mussal man at Mecca. He wrote in verse 1 uii iiiiw uvci uivi ^iavu euuiv uuco in linos on ami to the fallen conquerer (one so titled I think) which were equal according to my judgment of poetry, (poor then and but little better now)*to Jiurne's best. I had access to them once, with many other pieces of his on miscellaneous subjects. They were destroyed by lire in a building more than twenty years ago. At St. Helena his money gave out and he worked his passage on vessels back to New York, where he borrowed money and reached Charleston on his way home, but there learning of the death of his father in part of grief at the absence or loss of his son, he changed his mind. Not a word or line had reached his family after he uni!r>f} from TCpw Vnrlr oji^f.wsird Hlld that was learned from Capt. Baker. His aptitude enabled him to become efficient on a vessel, instead of re turning he engaged on a vessel for Rio Janeiro. He remained there a long time and at sea between small ports and made and spent all he made, .when a war broke out between Peru and Chili and he entered on a vessel as midshipman but I forget which side he to took. The vessel to which he belonged, a man of war, having an chored in sight of one of like kind of the enemy, he selected a body of eigh teen men with whom he boarded the eneiru' at night and after a struggle as gallant and hazardous as the exploit of Decatur in the harbor of Tripoli, cap tured her. For thw he received on land a Brigadier General's commis sion, but was soon taken prisoner and released soon by peace being made, He came back to Abbeville in 1839 af ter five years absence, read law and was perhaps admitted to practice. He claimed to be free from former habits, and proposed a marriage joyous to kin relatives, but not so to hers, by reason of doubts of the stability and sound ness of his reform. The marriage was consummated and the fears of the lat ter were soon realized by his return to stimulants and madness. He died in' 1840 the victim of circumstances or himself; and light should be the tread on his ashes by men of genius, for he was one of them. If you will stroll down to the old block-house or where it used to stand and going down parallel with the large branch below its union with the spring branch, you will find on two rocks a boar's head and a lions paw, chiseled on granite by him in 1831 with a razor blade and mallet, (I sup pose negro and carpetbag domination and " reconstruction" with the snirit of inconoclasm from which you f^ave suffered, have left these untouched,) and then turning to the stream and following a short distance you will find chiseled by the same artist and poet on the smooth surface of a rock overhanging a water fall?I venture it is still there, though pehnps moss-cov ered -what may inspire your courage and console you in calamity: Freedom like this parting rill Wlica opposed is prouder still. * * * A book has been published at Berlin entitled "The Fan Language," which gives the usual sentences in the vocab ulary of love and friendship, with ap propiate directions as to their expres sion by means of the fan, such as "You have won my love"?the right hand points with closed fan towards the heart. "When may I see you?" ?touch the right eye with the closed fan. "I would like to be ever near you"?fan the per son in question with the open fan. "Be quiet; we are watched"?hold ^he closed fan over the mouth. "Bare 1 hope to win your love?"?unfold the lan wide with a quick movement. "Bo not be so cold ?"?move the clos ed fan backward and forward with the right hand. "Bo not be so jealous"? rest the closed fan against tiie brow of the right eyebrow. Pretty nonsense this for simpletons. m LA BO It REFORM. KIKUJiKli J J I. t Editor Tress and Banner: c<] 1 would be trespassing on thn cour- Ik ;esy a ii J space of the J'rem and 1'Jan- tli jcr"to attempt to set forth it its col- tli uiiiis the claims and advantages of j (h he Labor Keform organization, with led lie minuteness of detail that the I uovement demands and deserves. A lynoptical presentation of the subject 11 brief articles is, for the most part, ill that we can ask. But no intelli gent farmer who carefully reads the :onstii.ution of any of the Labor lle brm Associations can fail to perceive he benefits of the system, especially hose of most importance. Among ither things he will see a well regula ed, practicable labor system, the*os racism of the vagrant and the expul ion from the community of the vicious y criminal. Isot the least of its bene its is the moral elevation of the negro; /) even so; don't blink, Mr. Editor.) Jnable to violate his contract by leav nc his emnlover without just cause. le will become settled, contented ami inder reasonable control. The certifi :ato of discharge will undoubtedly be listasteful to him, at first. The idle itid vicious, especially, will regard it is an attempt to abridge their consti utional freedom. But the honest and ndustrious negro \yiJl soon learn to steem a certificate of discharge that, o him, is evidence of good character vhen.ver he may present it. It is illy such laborers that are wanted, ind in a short tiiuo, no others will be ,ble to find a lurking place among us. These fruits are the legitimate re ults of the system worked by a live >eople. But it need not be supposed hat simply tho moral, or any other (levation of the negro was a sulll lient consideration to induce employ es to unite for the public good. Why hould we sacriliee our time and our >ersonal interests for their especial icnelit? Have they merited our avor, esteem or protection ? Oil the lolitical leaders whoso incendiary cachings have resulted most disas roualy for the whites. They commit nurdera and other outrages; they >urn our dwellings and gin houses in 'iudietive spite ; they break inlo and >lunderour smoke-houses and cribs; hey steal and kill our hogs and cows; hey steal our grain from the fields, iur corn from the stalk and our cotton .uywhere they can get It after it ma ures, and scores of other oiFences gainst society and law, and yet for be most part-go unwhipped of justice, i'he milk of (black) human kindness s too dilute in the Southern white nan's breast for him to institute an irganization especially for their bene its. The plain truth need not be dis used. The negro must sympathize, tleast, politically with those from vhom he derives bis support, ho must lecoine law-abiding, and endeavor to levate his moral standard so that his nisdemcanors, felonies and pccula ions will be reduced to the minimum, >r, be must leave the country. We rr* ilnfni'minftrl f Itrnnrfh Hin t?n 1 peration of the Labor Reform system o purify the County by purging it of he vagrant and the lawless. To make . point right here. Is it not evident, hercfore, that the curtailing of Coun y Court expenses in this way alone rill operate to the reduction of taxes, ,ud consequently the saving of thou unds of dollars to our people. Has lot every other plan failed because it ould not reach and unite the people? 'he farmers as a class are a laboring icople and are nor. easily induced to acrifice their time and money so as to nake them efficient affiliates with lurely political clubs. It.is notorious bat tney do not attend club meetings n any numbers, But when they liinlc they can hear the jingie of dol irs and cents economized in several uija i iijv; vi|;uJiunHi .uiiuvsi tel'orm Associations, tlicy will turn tit cn mam:? united and single?pur osed as oue man. BERTH AM. OSCILA.TINC POLITICIANS. 'he Necessity for*Fixed aad Estab lished Principles. Editor Press and Banner : If you will allow me space in your aper, 1 will present some thoughts Digested by the following remark : You arc nearly as bad as A, he has ot the money and won't pay his ebls but you haven't." Tho person ius addressed is a penitentiary bird, ml has not been long out of that lace for stealing. I think he was ardoned by that most clement Gover or, F. J. Moses, jr.; he is one of those ersons who can violate each one of le Ten Commandments ami then link he has done no wrong; his reath is foul with the vilest oaths; i a word, he is the very dreg of the immunity. ?Such is the character of ie person who is said to be nearly as id as A. A is a white man, one of lose politicians, who is first on one de and then on the other, then he ies to get on both sides at once. His >inious alV|chameleon like,assuming ie hue and color o*f the objects ound him. When he is withaDem rat he is one of the strongest disci les of the Jellersonian school; when itli a llepublican, Least Butler can Dt equal his vituperations agftiust ie Democrats; when he i3 witli an onest man lie is honest; when with dishonest, one he is as bad as the lest member of the South Carolina gislature. These are the n?tural uits of unsettled principle. "When lis man started out in life, ho never eamt that his character would ever } summed up in these few words, iui ue l? neariy ^uuu us wiu vncnt snitentiary convict. The conclusion ' this, is, that we should have settled id established principles, and ad jie to themSvith unswerving liJcli , that the pleadings of love, the . aruings of friendship and the treateniugs of enmitysbould alike be )werless to move our steady souls 0111 their adhesion to them. Bhould ; like the nobI? Kossuth, who, when idly persued by the Cossacks, fled to ic Hultan of Turkey for protection, ho ottered him wealth, power ami ilitary command, if he would give ? his religious principles, and accept iose of Mahomet. The heroic Kos itli, knowing to refuse was death, in gnantly replied, "Welcome if need 5 the axe or the gibbet; but cursed j the tongue that dare make me so .famous a proposal." T. M. G. Abbeville, S. C., June 30, '70. rganizatiou of a Young Mens* Dcin? ocrntic Club. ditor Press and Banner : The young men of Abbeville organ ed a Democratic club in the Court ouse on Monday evening, the 3d ist., with 55 members upon the roll, he following oflicers were elected: President?Eugene 35. Gary. Vice-Presldeut?S. 0. Cason. Secretary?J. Y. Jones. Treasurer?T. P. Cothran. Executive Committee?O. T. Cal juii, T. M. Galphin, L. C. Ligon, J. . Moore and E. M. Osborne. The following gentlemen were elect l delegaj.es to the County club: T. !. Galph'in, J. Y. Jones, S. C. Cason, C. Moore, O. T. Calhoun and E. M. sborne. There being no further business he re the meeting, the following young en were called upon and made elo ient speeches 011 the political situa 011: J. Y. Jones, O. T. Calhoun, S. . Cason, T. M. Galphin, IS. P. Cal )un, E. Noble, II. P. H. McEJrone, . M. Hi 11 mid H. ]). "Wilson. ',|0] Tho meeting had all the fire of Ab- r a ;villo in it. They do not talk or can intimidation, hut they intend to j \jrr^ ) all in their power to seu that thejbou liite race is once more represented in lr halls of legislation. Resolution is nnipotent. ItEFOHMEH. No Compromise wn'jr Rascali r.?The attention of Governor hnmbcrlain having been callcd to the atements in Northern newspapers of reconciliation between himself and snator Patterson, he authorizes the ill contradiction, in every particular, f nil such statements. Governor hamberlain says that no terms of (conciliation have been offered to, or, Y, and that he would regard any set ementof existing difficulties, in the epublican party of this State, which icriHced, or compromised in any de ree, the cause of reform or good go.\ nment as worst than utter defeat.? kn'H (Old Cuurricr. Strychniuc in Whiskey. This subject has agitated the' people Camden for Home lime past and the j litor of the Gazette and Dr. Baruch ive been discussing the mattter in e Gazette. The editor believes that c ere may be strychnine in whiskey, ^ e dont state that his belief is found- 4 I on experience) while Dr. B. takes e other side of the questson. The F alter was finally referred to Dr. ^ ichols, editor of the Uoslon Journal c Chemiatry. Below we give the cor- i: spondence as it may interest some ^ our readers. Whether there is rychnine or not in whiskey we be ;e tliat there has been something us- { that has resulted seriously in Abbe- s He county: f CaiiiIiks, S. C'., May 10, 18TG. J. . John /v. Xickuls:?Dear Sir.?Ah a constant A uler of your valuable Journal, 1 have come consider myself as a member of your large v I appreciative family of readers and admir- a < . To this sentiment you will bo good ou^h to ascribe my intrusion ?ipon your Ill.'lDJU 11 nil?, ii u?> jiciu unuruuun ukj i n il upon the latter, I would beg you to {jive! > information upon the following points: si. l>othe manufacturers a<lil strychnine the fermenting vats in the lmuuifaetureof ilskey for the purpose of obtaining more irlt, or forany oilier purpose? d. Would sheh Htryehnine, If so added, icrge from th.> fermenting and distilling jeess in a form to be recognized by the usu tests? d. Ifas it over been demonstrated by ac il analysis that whiskey contains strych iic? ?> tn. Do you bollcva that strychnine can be md in any whlskqg? appeal to you us >T chemist ot eminence teciaiiyin matters of applied scleuce, and mid thank yon for your opinion on the ?ve points, at your earliest convenience. Jellcvo me, with highest esteem, yours re Bctfuijy. 8. BAUOH. Orrir Doctor.?In reply T desire to say. that ver in a single InstAnco have I found the ghtest trace of strychnine in whiskey. I not believe It ever has been used, for the licle does not admit of such sophistication, i possible advantage could be derived from use by the distiller, and its presence, ow i to the intei^e bitter, would destroy the le of his liquors. In my Judgment It la a . Igur notion to suppose it Is ever employed / distillers In tlieir processes. It Is possible It ty In-used In mult liquors to Increase tlie - iter, but I doubt, if It has to much extent. " lave never in t he examination of hundreds , specimens, found a trace. I Very Truly Yours, J AS. It. NICHOLS. Joston, May lGth, 1870. ' A Munificent Donation. < Tlic Richmond Dispatch gives the Mowing account of a munificent do- f ition of a gentleman of Rochester \ ew York, through professor Henry \ . Ward of that city: r "This gift is a fully appointed cabi- t .f r\f flw* nn f n rnl ooSnn nno {n/llnHtiilV r \j\jl mc ineralogy, geology and zoology, to made compleate by Mr. Ward at a st of twenty-eight tuousand dollars. This collection is expected to be one the most finely appointed of its nd in any of the higher educational stitutions of our country. To this ft, splendid in itself, the donor :S added n building at a cost twenty-two thousand dollars, to ind in a prominent position on the uiversity grounds, in full view of onticello. The building and cabinet 11 both be completed before the com encemept day, Juno 29th, 1877. lis liberal benefactor of our noble Diversity wili not permit his name be made known in connection with is magnificent gift. The graceful ss of this act of a good man in one 2tion promoting the higher culture another section or our common untry, must be applauded by every le patriot. The gift is tho more " aceful andappropiate in that it car- r\ is out the plan of Mr. Jettersou, eshadowed in his letters, of round ly such a cabiuet in connection with 2 o University. A most" noble Cen juial gift st is." I The Bridge Tax. rhe three mills tax levied and col- 0 :tcd each year to defray the ordina- e expenses of the Country, would not ^ )lace the bridges washed away by e recent freshet. One-half the bridg- E the Country can be dispensed a th and good fords, which cost noth- ? - I. . 1 - X _ AU.t. can ue inuutj 10 nine men piuv;t;?. 'er the Saluda River, we believe, ere has been no less than six bridges pt up, at a heavy expencfi, by this d Greenville Counties. Two will swer every purpose, of the six, and they have all, with the exception of e, perhaps, been washed away?we, account of the financial embaraas jnt of the County, and straitened cumstances of our citizens, appeal tho County Commissioners, and ask em not to consent to the rebuilding d continuation of but two of the tuber.?These will answer every rpose of our people at this time, and til wc arc in better circumstances i shall oppose the rebuilding of any >re than half tho bridges now wash away.?Fit-kens Sentinel. School Ukx. V public meeting was held in the urt House last Saturday, to deter no whether this School district uId levy a local school tax. Upon uld be levied this year. Wbile ed ition is highly important, we be ve tbo determination of the meet ; was wise. The^'people generally i poor, and the prospect for a heavy ite ami county tax has become a tainty. When to this we add i great lossed sustained by the far rs in the destruction of crops and er property by the late Preset, it uld be exceedingly unwise to vol tarily impose a burden, even for a >d purpose, which might necessi i the sacrifice of their property. fha nrnaonf c/>1innl 1 ft W in tllP 3iU^i3| LIIW I> | ... ?..v nion of many, is not adopted to uring good teachers and well con jtcd schools.?Kcoivcc Courier. Totice.?"Fort Moultrie Centenni" is the expressive title of a Jiro ire, handsomely illustrated and of isiderable literary merit, which' we ;e received in advance, from the jlishers, Messrs. Walker, Evaus & ;swel 1. 'art 1., which is in hand, is an ac mt of the doings at Fort Moultrie, ie28th, 1776. Many new and in 2sting features of this struggle are ught out which gives peculiar.value ,he publication. Thp engraving of per Restoring the Flag is a repro ition of Lieutze^s famous painting, lch was destroyed iu 1861. A itch whs saved by an amateur, from ich the engraving was made. is, or the splendid engraving or t elegant gentleman and gallant dier, uen'l Moultrie, is alone worth > entire price of the book. There a large number of other interest ; and new engravings of quaint old ngs. 'art IT, we look forward to with at interest, ns it will be an illustra aecount of the Grand Centennial ebration. Each part sells for 25 its per copy. Fine edition, 35 (ients cop3T, and will be sent per mail, itage prepaid, on receipt of price, the publishers, Walker, Evans & jswell, Charleson, S. C. HOTEL ARRIVALS. IER'S TTOTEL.?W M Crookshnnks, P H alson, At Inn tit; W H J5edopli, ChiitUinoo JI A Mason. Richmond; K C "WillJainx, rleston, (> W Miller, Anderson; W T Mil rvnnlr A (' tTnu'thnrn TImo *t; Malcoin Krwin, Krwln's Mills: G M tlson, Donaldsvllloj H S Stecfcr, C 11 nobis' "White Hall; Wilson Wutklns, An iv Pierce, Cnpt F (.'owan, Joseph S Brltt, I M "Wldeman. W M McConlan, John A rah, David Morrah, Long Cane; Dr A I' Ion Greenwood; Gil Bcekman, Charles ; A II Moutelth, Columbia; Miss Jauie f)ii, 8 C Cason, City. LSTON HOUSE.?R P Davis, Abbeville; n W. McCalla, Oakvllle; JT Miller, Llt lUver, Gen P II Bradley, ltradleys Mills; Conner, Cokesbury; William C Cooke, ricla; Miss Fannie Trewitt, Mobile; Mr Trewitt, Wiileman'sP U: R \V Winn, Kobi Winn. Chaple; J C Carlisle riulesvllle; Miss A B Baakln, Monterey CONSIGNEES. XPRESM.?L I> Bowie, Mattle Drennan. i S McGowan, Mrs SMctJowan, J II Knox, ) Bruce, McGowan & Parker, ltev E R ps, .1 T Campbell, J Kurtz, L L Perrln, OP .'U. HEIGHT.?T Baker, John Douglass, C B o, O II MeConnell, II II Thompson i Co., ,V Sprouse, Parker & Perrrin, II W Law , and Co. Strayed or Stolen ROM my pasture ncnr Calhoun's Mills, on MONDAY, l!)th inst., mv rel horso with lij^lit mane and. tail, id in the loft eye, sprung in tho foro . Any information of tlie horso will thankfully received. J. T. IITLBITRN. ulhoun's Mills, .Tunc 'J(?, 1*70. iUAltKKT lCCFUltTH. CORftKCTJiD BY Jaruwcll & Co., Cotton Brokers and Dealers in General Merchandise. FACTORY GOODS. IFIsh 'otton Yarns..S1.15al.30 Mackerel ....81.75a2.o0 >HuuburgK 12ft IS Cod, per lb.. 10a 13 rt Shirting 10a 12| White " 10a 18 -4 Sheeting.... 12a 15 Salt, per sack 2.00a2.25 PROVISIONS. Tobacco, 'lour, per 1V..S 4ft 5l Chewing,.... 75al.00 'orn, per bu... 90tJ.lK)l Smoking,... UOal.OO leal, " 1.10ttl.20 AMMUNITION. IriHt, per lb... 3%a GlPowderperlb 40a 50 'efts, " looal.25|Shot, " 12a 15 >nls, " ..... 1.00 Lead, " 10a 12 tacon, Hides... 13a 15;Caps, per box loa 40 Kh'drs. 11a 12 LIQUORS. Hams. 18a 20 Corn whlskey$2.00a3.00 .ard lsa 20 French br'dy. 5.00a7.00 rUh Potatoes. 1.75a3.00iHolland gin.. 5.00a8.00 weet " ... 75al.00| Anieri'n gin.. 3.00aU.00 Iggs 1.5a UOlB'rbon wh's'y 3.00a4.00 lliiekens ate, 251 Wines 3.00su>.00 'urlicys 1.00al.50 HARDWARE. Gutter 20a 25 Iron, Swedes. 8a 10 UROCERIES. | " English 7a 10 iuuiir, erush\J$ 15a 16 Nails 5a 8 " A 12a 15iCotton cards.. 50a 60 R 12a lo Horse shoes... 10 " {' 12a 15| " " nails 85 ' Brown ion 121 LEATHER. ollee, Rio 25a 33 Hemlock 8 30a 35 " I^iKU'aa 2*i 33 Sole leather... 40a 80 Juv? 37? n?iUp'r leather- C0u 75j ,eft 1.00nl.50|Har'ss " 40a 6.5 lyrup, cano... 75iil.0o:Cair skins S.oonfl.no Classes, s. h. 40u 451 Kip skins...... 4'.S0agM .'nnttles, sp'm Jita 50] Dry hides to lo " uiTiii't a la 251 Green hldex... 5a 6 ihpose 2i)a 2rA BAGGING, Ac. )ii1oiih, per bu iOolBagtfng, pyd ioa 18 Itarcli 12a 15iTles ;a 8 'allow 10a 12 Rope, cotton.. 40a 50 lice, per lb 10a 12lRope, >pti*a... 2f> VmiRvir-LK, July 4 ,?Cotton 10@10* LIVERPOOL, July 3.-12 M.-Cotton flat ind Irregular?middling uplands 8; mld lling Orleans 0% : sales 0,000; AI'UUSTA, July 3.?Cotton dull and de nand moderate?middling 10%u 21; net re :elpts 12. DEMOCRATIC. rllE members of the Calhoun Demo cratic Club are earnestly requested o meet at Calhoun's Mills on next Sat irdiiyat 10 o'clock A. M. By order ol he President. J u ly, 3, 187(1-11 , rflE Democrats of Magnolia township will meet at Smith's Cross lloads at 0 o'clock on Saturday morning next. rhe Scholastic Year TK7"AS fixed by the "Board" from ff 1st January to 30th June, and rom 1st August to 30th October, and vas so advertised. The public schools vill therefore be closed during tht nontl\ of July. No public school will >e opened the" first of August, with tut further orders from tlm office, trustees and teachers will please take iotice. J. F. C. DuPRE, Co. School Comm'r. June 30, 1870, It FINAL DISCHARGE. ' ^TOTICEis hereby given that James H. Wideinun, Trustee of the Estate if Mrs. Martha A. Owen, deceased, ha* ipplied to Thos. B. Millford, Judge ol >robato, in and fo:r the County of Abbe ille, for a final discharge as Trustee a> foresaid. It is Ordered, That the Fifth day if September A. D. 1876, bo fixed for learingof Petition, and a final settlement if said estate. J. C. WOSMANSKY, /lerk Court Probate, Abbevillo County. Office of Probate Judgo,) July 3, 1870, 4t. J Lhe State of South Carolina, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. 5robatc Court--Citation for Letter? of AdmlnUCn. Jy THOS. B. MILLFORD, Esquire, Probate Judge. WHEREAS, Peter MeKellar has nade suit to me, to grant him Letters f Administration of the Estate and fleets of Miss Mary McKellar, late ol Abbeville County, deceased. These are therefore to cite and ad nonish all and singular the kindred nd creditors of the said Miss Mary JcKellar. that they be and appear, tefore me, in the Court of Probate, to ie held at Abbeville C. H., on Thurs lay, the 15th day of July, after puli ation hereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore toon, to show cause, if any they have vhy the said administration should tot be granted. Jiven under my hand and seal, this irst day of July, in the year of our liord one thousaud eight hundred and eventy-six and in the one hundredth ear of American Independence. Published on the 5th day of July, S7G, in the Press'and, liannei , and n the Court House door for the time equired by law. THOS. B. MILLFORD, Judge of Probate. July 5,1870, 2t GREAT REDUCTION. [N SILK PARASOLS and SUN I'M L BRELLAS, at tho ?Mi'uuiuin ur l Asniun. Juno 28, 1876. 776, The Great Centennial. 1876. Parties desiring Information as to eat routes to the CENTENNIAL, or > any of the summer Resorts or to uy other point ill the country, should iuresa B. "VV. WRENN, eneral Tassenger Agent Kenneshaw oute. Atlanta, Ga. $20 Reward. ' OST, Strayed or Stolen in the vicini -J ty of Abbeville C. H., from George 1 obertson (colored.) on Sunday night, the ith June, a small Day horse mule, about iree years old, branded on the left hip ith two II'ii. When last seen had on a , McClelland saddle. The above reward l ill bo paid for the mulo if deliveren to A. B. C. LINDSAY, Five milos East of Calhoun's Mills. 1 June 28th, 1878. i WALLER & MERCHA J ItJJUl^ ? TV/ A RE now offering to the public in t % full lino of alKhe G001I9 general] THEIR SI have been selected with great c READY-MADf L FINE STOCK OF A good aas Groceries, Hardware, Cro i which the attention of purchasers is WALLER >. 18. 1878. 45-tf ETJII] Lmmoniated Bone Sap MANUFACTUI LTLANTIC AND VIEGI :>lublc Phosphate Acid, 10 percent.; ! rganic Matter, 30 per cent.; Yielding pr>T? NE TON, CASH, PAYABLE AP NE TON, " " NO NE TON, payable Nov. 1st, in middll For sale by Feb. 9, 187G 4-ftf Dr. H. D. 1 DENT A.BBEVI1 OFFICE OVER TH Sept. 8, L'U-U' [Tie State of Mb Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. In the Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of Lovett Green Johnson, dec'd. FINAL DISCHARGE. WTOTICE is hereby given that J. J. Johnson, Administrator of the Imitate of Lovett Green Johnson, late of Abbeville County, deceased, will on the 20th day of July. 1876, apply to Thos. B. Milfford, Judge of Probate for Abbeville County, for a final dis charge As Administrator of the said estate. All parties having claims against the estate of said Lovett Green John son, deceased, will present them, duly attested. before the' Probate Judcre aforesaid, on or before the 20th day of July next, or be barred. ( By order of the Probate Judge. J. C. WOSMAPSKY, Clerk Court of Probate, JL. CL Office of the Probate Judge,^ June 7th, 1876, 4t ?J Mrs. H. M. White 'OULD a?k the attention of herdady friunds to an entire .new Stock of Hats, Flowers, &c., just in to-day, per express. Also will sell you an improved Rem ington Sewing Machine on terms and at prices to suit the times. Mrs. M, M, White. May 1,1876, if OVERSEERS'NOTICE. . THE Road Overseer*' of the county will, inform the County Commia doners without delay what sign boards ire necessary to post the roada in thoir respective sections. BOBT. JONIS,. C. B. C. & A. C. May 3,1870, 4-tf Final Discharge. Notice Is hereby given that Masai Ion Bell, Executor of tho Estato of R. N. Groves deceased, has applied to Thom as B. Miiford Judge of Probate, 'in and for the County of Abbeville, for a final discharge as Executor. It is ordered, That the Fifteenth day of July, A. D 187d, be fixed for hearing of Petition, and a final settlement of raid Estato. J. C. Wosmansky, Clerk Court Probate, Abbeville County. Office of Probate Judge. 1 May 8,1870 J DE. JOHN S. THOMPSON, TMTivrmTCim UmN IJujJ, ' Offers bis professional services to the oiU izetls of Abbeville and- Hie surrounding country. Office?Over Citizens' Saving* Bank, V BBEVILLE, 8. C. I > , , M. OOLDS5CITH. P. KIND. Goldsmith & Kind, Founders And Machinists (PIKENIX IRON WORKS), COLUMBIA, 8. C. Manufacturers or steam Jkngiues or all sizes: Horse powers, Circular and Muley Saw Mills, Gnat and Sugar Cane Mills, Flour Mills, Ornamental House and Store Fronts, Iron Railings, Agricultural Im plements, etc. Brass ana Iron .Castings of all kinds made to order on short notioe, and on the most reasonable teriqs. Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses. THE ALSTON HOUS^ 1878. The misses cater still keep "the AL8TON HOUSE" open for both permanent and transient Boarders. Thankful for past patron age, they hope, by renewed energy and application to business, to merit a good share of patronage. Jan. 5,1876 49-tf Notice Bridge Builders. WILL lot repairs on bridge over Long Cane at McKitrick's Mill oa the 3d Thursday of July, (20th,) next, at 12 o'clock. ROBERT JONES, C. B. C. C. A. C. Juno 27, 1870. Thresher and Fan FOB SALE BY BABNWELL & CO. May 31,1876, tf To Arrive. LIGHT PRINTS, Bleached Home spuns, Linen Fans, Rufflings, Mil linery, Lace and Silk Scarfe, Veilings, &c., this week at the EMPORIUM OF FASHION. May 24,1876. ST. NICHOLAS CLOCK. CALL at DuPRE'S office and see the best "time-piece" for the money in the State. * myl8-3t BROTHER, NTS AT OD, S. C.f heir new and handsome buildinb,* y needed in thiscommunity. [ OCK OF are, and unusually attractive. 2 CLOTHING. SOOTS AND SHOES. orfcment >o( ckery^ and Glassware. i Invited. & BROTHER. er Phosphate of Lime, tED BY THE NIA FERTI1IZING CO. rnsoluble Phosphate Aci<I, 5 per cent.; Ammonia, 3} percent. ^a RIL 1st, $ 47 50 V. 1st, 5o 00 ing cotton at 15 cents per lb GOO? veil ?to Co. WILSON, 1ST, L.L.E, S. O. E POST OFFICE. A