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A Prnyer for Pe?cc. Give us I'eace In our time, 0 Lord. From the desolating sword, From the devastating flume,? Peace! Peacc! in Thy holy name! Those preachers of thy Word Are false to the trust conlerr'd, Who defile the temple gate With the heresies of hate. The eyes of the young men glow As the wild war trumpets blow, And the women shout and cry As they cozen them forth to die. There they go, the brave and strong. For the right that may be wrong, To feed the ravenous tomb With their beauty and their bloom. From the mountains to tbc sea Floats up, O Lord to Thee? To the fool8tool of thy throne? The long, low tremulous moan .? Of a childless multitude. Tender, and fair and good ; Of mothers forlorn, forlorn, Bereft of their early born. And of widows, forlorn as they, Whose hope, whose prop, whose stay Lie low In the hasty grave Of the uureturning brave. For the sake of the perishing realms Which dire passion overwhelms: For the sake of their outraged laws. And of Liberty's holy cause, Send us, oh! send us Peace! Let all guilty carnage cease. Oh, stay the avenging rodPeace ! Peace! O Lord, our God! jj- - ?Charles Mackay Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. v It is not knowledge, but love, that distinguishes saints from sinners. A man may be doing much who is successfully overcoming adverse influences. :? . 1 God is a shower to the heart burned up with griet; uou is a sun 10 me met deluged with tears. We often excuse our want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others, Might I but live in the fervent love of God, what matter is It in what coun try or what cottage, or what prison, J I've? If your theology does not make yoi loving, it has not Christianized you You cannot hate a man whom you art trying to bless. Every child of God can be sure thai he has the time, the strength and th? ability to do all the good that it is foi him to do in the plan of God. Charles Lambsaid of the water-cure: "It is neither new nor wonderful, foi it is as old as the deluge, which, in my opinion, killed more tbau it cured." Do all your banking in Heaven. Be really lovelier than you seem. Drop all sin, and every sinful thought as j'ou would red-hot coals ol fire. Most men call fretting a minor fault ?a foible and not a vice. But there i> uo vice, except it be in drunkenness, which can so utterly destroy .the peacc and happiness, of home. What are sciences but maps of universal laws? and the univesal laws but the channels of universal power? and the universal power but the outgoing of a universal mind? If one have met a temptation and conquered it he has a real pleasure, both because he has put down the evil that beset him and because he has proven that grace has been giveu him. When you are judging a friend whose actions puzzle you, but whose motives you cannot see, rememt er that "Charity thinketh no evil." It is a blessed thing habitually to put the best construction on the beheavior ot others. It is the self-absorption that carves t'ae wrinkles in the faoe and streaks the hair with gray. Kiudly thought and labor for others dependent and beloved?the living out of and not in the Dettv round of personal and individ ual "interest?keep heart and energies fresh. There is no sin worse tlmn hypocrisy. To claim that we are speaking in the name of the Lord, or that we believe the Lord particularly desires us to do when we are consciously actuated by a Kelftsh purpose, is to "take the name of the Lord iu vain and the Lord will - not hold such a man guiltless on any consideration. The following inscription, which was found ou the tombstone of one ol God's children, gives us the whole truth simply: I have sinned. I have repented. I have trusted. I have loved. I have rested. I shall rise. l snau reiyu. True prayer h?th no necessary commerce with the outward members of the body ; for it requires not the voice, but the mind?not the stretching of the hands, but the intention of the soul?not any outward shape or carriage of the body, but the inward beheaviour of the understanding. Can it then slacken thy worldly business and groans, which are most effectual kinds of prayer? Be pitiful, be courteous.?The roots of plants are hidden underground, so that themselves are not seen but they appear iu their branches, and flowers aud fruits, which argue there is a root and life in them ; thus the graces of the Spirit planted iu the soul, though themselves invisible, yet discover their being and life in the tract of a Christian's life, his words, and actions, and the frame of his carriage. 1 tAllsv AitnAirAtirtuo UMIIAV fllO lltH** Acinic aiiuujauuo UUUWJ VIIV uvuv least. In proportion as a man's work is of au elevated or refined nature? whether physical or mental?will socalled petty annoyances lose to him their pettiness, and become serious interferences. A cloud of midges will not interfere with the straightness of a plowman's furrow, but a single midge may prove a serious obstruction to an artist's progress in picturing the plowman's landscape. What we ought to do, or refrain from doing in the presence of another, depends not so much on our estimate of the intrinsic importance of the doing as upon the oocupation^and temperament of him who is to be affected by it.?S. S. Times. On the eve of my marriage I made three mental vows. They weie never to aggravate my husband, never to have a secret from him, nor by any selfish or thoughtless act of mine lead him one step toward bankruptcy. Fif teen years afterward I told liim of these vows, and although I have been a widow for ten years, I should blot this paper with my tears if I attempted to put in writing the love aud tenderness of his reply Judge.?"Now madam, don't object to this question. Tell the court your age." Miss Longout.--"r do not see that it is a competent evidence, your honor." Judge.?"Why not ?" Miss L.?"You see I do not know it of my own knowledge : It is merely what was told me." Judge.?-'True ; you need not answer."?American. i J.'.-l-C!? Married Lovers. It was a little country railroad station ; a wliite-baired okl mail and a woman almost as old drove up to the door in an antiquated buggy, to which was attached a horse long past its youth. Shabby as were the old nian,s turnout and garments, his bearing toward his aged wife was courtliness itself. "Don't try to git out o' the buggy until I hitch old Ned an' help ye," he said as he slowly climbed out. He stumbled backward and almost fell when helping the old lady out, so that she came to the ground rather heavily. "Didn't hurt ye, did it, ma?" he asked with tender solicitude; "I don't know what made me so clumsy an' keerless." Then he brushed the dirt from her dress with his red cotton handkerchief, and carefully righted the bonnet that had become awry during the ride to the station. "Now you set right here, ma, an' I'll see to things." lie said, as he led her to a seat in a shady corner of a room and made it comfortable with the shawls she carried. When he return eu nc ^iiiu "Don't feel anyskecry 'boutgoin' ofl alone, do ye, nia? I've wished a hun tired times I could go too. but you know we can't both leave home* at this tinio o' the year, an' J aint skeered but you'll git along all right. Aaron '11 meet you sure when you git i there, an' don't fail to have him drop . me a card right off, let tin' me know you're all right." Just before the train arrived he came 1 over to where I was sitting and asked me where I was "bound fer." "For M ," I replied. "Ye don't say," he said gleefully. . "Well, mebbe then ye would not mind , lookin' after my wife a little. She's sroiti' to M , too; called there suddent by the sickness of our daughter ' Harriet. She ain't never traveled alone none, and I feel real guilty lettin' her9tart alone now, but it ain't so we i can both o. I know it ain't but forty , mile, but I'll feel easier to know that * some one'll tell her when she gils there, an' help her off the train, mebbe. She can't see very well, and her 1 hearin' aint none too good." ; I gladly agreed to give the old lady necessary assistance, and the old gentleman was profuse in his thanks. I had taken "quite a load oft" his mind," he declared. He kissed his wife good-bye two or three times when the train came in, and stood on the station platform waving his red handkerchief as it moved away, while the old lady's handker[ chief fluttered from her window in loving response until the station was quite out of sight .?Selected. ' The pigmies were a nation of dwarfs, believed by the ancients to inhabit the ' interior of Africa. They were said to be about thirty inches in height, and to be engaged in constant warfare with their inveterate enemies, the cranes. Dr. Schweinfurth was the first to actu, ally see these peculiar people. They inhabit the country between latitude 2deg. and 1 deg. north. They call I themselves the Aklra nation. Schweinfurth measured a number of fullgrown men, none of whom exceeded i four feet ten inches in height. The explorer describes them as having disproportionately large heads, peculiarly shaped shoulders, and crooked shoul, der blades, with joints angular and projecting, and abdomens of enormous size. Their only symmetrica) pari istueir nanus, wincu are suupuiy and well-formed. The upper part of the skull is round, and the jaws are 1 square and projecting. The feet turn inward, and they walk with a peculiar waddling motion. Schweinfurth wanted to bring one of this curious race to Europe, but he died before reaching the sea-coast. A New York photographer prints a circular containing eight suggestions to sitters, and the following valuble advice to the ladies: "NVheu a lady sitting for a pictuie would compose her mouth to a bland and serene character, she should, just before entering the room, say 'bosom,' and keep the expression into which the mouth subsides until the desire effect in the cam?c* mri/lonf ff nn i lio Af Imf hoiwl she wishes to assume a distinguished and somewhat noble beiring, not sug, festive of sweetness, she should say 'brush,' the result of which is infallible. If she wishes to make her mouth look small, she must say 'flip,' but if the mouth be already too small, and needs enlarging she must say 'cabbage.' If she wishes to look mournful she must say 'kerchunk,' if resigned she must forcibly ejaculate 'scat.' Ladies when having their photographs taken may observe these rides with some advantage to their appearance." Not every soul can extend its influence right and left, but every soul can, extend its progress upward. "It's a small piece of ground," said a householder of his building-lot, "but I own all the way up," Old Thomas Fuller noted the custom of London builders in his day, "revenging themselves on the narrowness of their room with store of stories." "Excellent arithmetic!" he added, "from the root of one floor to multiply so" many chambers." And this prompted him to say, "Small are my means on earth. May I mount my soul the higher in heavenly mediations, relying on Divine Providence. Higher, my soul ! higher!" To every one of us our Father has left an inherii 41*.u.w. .... ......... lauut* Liiut iia^ iiu limit iij ua ujnwiiu reach. If we will enter into this inheritance, we can move upward indefinitely. Mrs. Severn gives us some amusing glimpses of Carlyle, who in his early days was wont to stay at the house of her great aunt, Mrs. Church, in Dumfriesshire. On one occasion while there he went to the little Cummertrees Church, where the then minister (as a joke sometimes called "Daft Davie Gillespie") was preaching a sermon oil "Youth and beauty being laid in the grave," when something amused Carlyle, and lie was seen to smile ; uj>on which the preacher stopped suddenly, looked with a frown at Carlyle, and said , "Mistake me not, young man?it is youth alone that you possess." This was told to the narrator by an olu cousin of hers who was sitting next Carlyle at the time. A good rule for the guidance of a girl through the yea re when she is the object of admiration aud llattery is to do nothing which she would not be willing to tell now to her mother and hereafter to her husband. Life may b? made tamer for her by observing that rule, but it will assuredly be more pure, womanly, and safe. When a man once gets in the habit of measuring merit by martyrdoms he discriminates less closely, and the best abused ?wan, for whatever causes,! seems nearest to sainthood. Nothing is narrowing, contradict-1 ing, and hardening, as always moving; in the same groove, with no thought , beyond what we immediately see and hear close around us. CPMPP?P??O?n?l?BM?E? 1) -n't Want To. BY OltACK II. DUFFIELD. "Tom," saiil ranuia, looking up from i her sewing, "run into the other room and bring me my thimble. It's on ; the window-sill." j Four-year-old Tom was sitting on ! the lloor tying the cat into a harness of grey tape, which matched her fur beautifully. "Don't want to," he replied, cheerfully attempting to pull poor kilty's ears through an impossible loop. Mamma said no more, and Tom stole one or two curious glances at her from under his curly dark lashes. Was it possible he was going to have his own way? It really seemed so. Usually ' mamma said something more, and it ended by Tom's doing?oh, so slowly land unwillingly !?what he was told to. Bat something was the matter with (hat beautiful gray harness; it wasn't ho pretty, after all, and it didn't tit rn the least. So Tom abandoned it, and hunted up his long lines that grandma made and fastened them to the rockingchair. Those lines acted very queerly. Tom couldn't understand it. "Oh de' me!" he said at last, despairingly. "Mamma, my lines issnagled ; please to unsnagled em for me,?won't you ?" Mamma's brow nrew into a little frown, and she said in a whining voice : "No, T don't want to." Tom looked at her very hard, and decided that she hadn't understood him, so he repeated his remark : "I said very must be fixed, mama; please to tix'em." "Don't mant to," she said again, this time with more of a whine than ever. "But you're the mother," Tom objected. "Don't want to," was all the answer he received; so very much puzzled, he caried them to Bridget. By ami by papa came home,n d met his small son in the hall. "See here, little fellow," he caalled cheerily, "take this paper to mamma. I'm in a hurry." Then Tom's pretty lips pouted, and "Don't want to" was what they said. A gleam of remembrance lighted papa's face, and he took the paper in himself. That was such a little thing that Tom forgot it, but papa didn't. After dinner the little boy was in his father's lap before the fire, and mamma heard him beg, as usual: "Please tell Tom a story, papa?a big one,' bout a bear." Papa's eyes twinkled, bnt lie drew down the comers of his mouth and said : I don't want to." Tom slid down to the lloor, and sat there in silence for a whole, long minute then he said; "An'when my lines was all snangled up, she said she din't want to, an' I fink fings is funny." Papa and mama looked at each other and smiled. After a little, just when Tom and the gray kitten were having such a good time on the rug, mama remembered, as Tom was afraid she would, and remarked : "I know a little boy who is very sleepy, and I know a lovely white bed to put him in. Ome, Tom." "Oh no!" said Tom briskly; "1 don't"? Then something occured to him, and he got up without another word, took the gray kitten in his arms, and he and mamma went upstairs. But the uray kitten objected, and dragged her sharp claws crossly down Tom's little ?? -%% TT.nnllv r?rirwl wlipn MHUIU <11111* UCUWiiT iiv vi*v?. ?v.. he was worsted in a contest with the gray kitten. This time lie looked up at mamma, and said slowly : "D'jou see her a-sayin' she diVt i to? Tom don't say it vat way." 'I'm not so sure, little boy," replied j mamma, as site took him in her arms; ''because, you know, when you pout land frown,ami say you don't want to I when mamma ask you to do something for her, then it hurts mamma just .iust as if you made long dreadJful scratches right on her heart." i "Oh de' me !" Tom said In dismay. "Tom won't do vat any more to yo' ! poor heart,?he don't want to !" JiloOHlflClll, -A'. J. A True Hero. Let me now give you an instance of wonderful heroism, rising to meet the demands of a sudden crisis. It was not an hour after dawn, yet the great wailing-rooin of the Central | E>rauon was inn. The soft morning air blew freshly [through the long line of cms and pulling engines. A faint hum comes from without. It was the great city awakening for the ilny. A Scotch collie, belonging to one of the emigrant groups, went from one to another wagging his tail aud looking up with mild and expressive eyes full of goodnatured friendly feeling. Children called to him, some students romped with him, the ladies patted his head, a poor negro in the corner shared his meal with him, aud then he seemed to unite all these different groups in a common tie of good feeling. While all this was goiug on, a woman was washing the windows of some empty cars drawn on to thesiding, singing as she rubbed the glass. While her back was turned her child, a little fellow about three years old ran to the door of the car and jumped down 011 the track. Upon this track the Eastern Express was comeuig. j-Mrcuwjr m ?ia jmm ?uo the babe ; a hush of horror fell upon the crowd. Every eye turned in the direction, and then a low sob of anguish went up from the paralyzed people. The dog, with head erect, and fixed eye, saw the danger, and with a bound and fierce hark darted towards the child. The baby, frightened, start ed back. The mother went on washing windows and singing, as the huge engine rushed up abreast of her car. There was a crunching noise a faint little cry of agony. Even strong men grew sick at the sound and turned away. When they looked again, the baby was toddling across the platform crowing and laughing, and the crushed ; J dead body ir dog lay on the track. "Passengers for Pittsburg, Chicago and i the West. Passengers for Baltimore, i I Richmond and the South," so the cry ! went on, and the surging crowd passed out, never to all to meet again in this! world. But the faces of men aiulji women were pale, and there were tears j in tlie eyes ol some. The poor negro < and tlie millionaire, tottering old men |: and frolicking boys, had been helped i< onward, upward, by the friendly, cheerful life aud heroic death of a! dumb dog, i Dare we assert that when the limp! j body, sacrificed to save the life of ,1 another, lay on the track, the heroic.' spirit that once animated it was I quenched into utter nothingness??!' j Kiev. F. M Todd, maumat, ]'?. It is estimated that there are 1,(100,-] 0(?0 blind persons living to-day. In1, Cairo, Egypt, where the proportion of blind persons to the number of inhahi-j tanls is greatest, there is one to every;! twenty residents. * ; ^ ^ Palmetto Line to Charleston. J Wc Invite your personal attention to the improve ( menu In Time unci Train Service between j; ANDERSON, LAURENS. GREENWOOD AND'. CHARLESTON, S. C. Scakdui.e Qoixo: Leave Anderson, 7 25 a ni 4 10 pm " Laurens '30am S 25 p in " Greenwood 6 42 a m 5 3;J j> m Arrive Charleston- C 20 pin 5 05 a ui Srnr.Kci.e Rf.tukning : Leave Chaileston b 30 a tn 10 SO p m Arrive Greenwood 7 42 am 11 35 a in " l/iureiis 50 p m 12 44 p in " Anderson 'J 10 p in 12 45 p oi Please bear in mind that this Is the ONLY LINE operating DOUBLE DAILY SCHEDULES between tin.' Points limned. Our I)#y Passenger Train reaches Charleston over three hours ahead of any other Line. The Night Passenger consists of superior coaches and sleeping cars,run through, between Augusta and Charleston, without change. Cordially vours, WM. J. CRAIG, ROBT. W. HUNT. Gen. I'ass. Agent. Trav. Pass. Agent. N otioe to Debtors and Creditors. ALI, parlies indebted to the estate of Capt. Charles Smith, deceased, will please make payment at once, and all parties having claims against.said estate will present them within the next thirty days to A. E. Norris, Aministrator C. T. A. Mule Colts Wanted. J I'l'f.Y TO 1>. If. HOWAIU), at home near White Hall, who will pay the liIjjthst price in cash. Nov. 20 The Abbeville Bakery. Till1; Abbeville Rakery is now making fine IIItlOADS of ivery kind. Cakes baked to order. Together with our Rakery we have a Fruit and Candy Store, where all goods in that line are kept, including Cigars and Tobacco. JL. W. SIGN & CO. Jan. 29,1S90. tf Lost. FROM our pen, two red spot'ed barrow hogs. Any one who will take Iheni up and give us information will be rewarded. These hogs were purchased of Rog? r Wis minis, ana win weign anoiu vm pomihh cmni. QlJAKLKS BURNS. "DtT J. W.ffiarshalir WILL resume the practice of MEDICINE at Abbeville Court House, from this date, and oilers his professional services to the village ami vicinity. Ollice and residence on Magazine Illll. Dec. 2T>, ISS'i. The State of South Carolina, county ok Abbeville, i'uodatb court. In the matter of theestaleof John Pratt, deceased.?Petition for Settlement and Discharge. MAKY PRATT, as Administratrix for said Estate having applied for settlement and discharge, It is Okdkreij, That Monday, I lie tenth day of March next be fixed for granting the relief prayed for. J. FULLER LYON, Judge i'robate Court. Feb. 12,189(1,4t DR. G. A. NEUFEER, Physician and Surgeon, abbeville, s. g. Medicine and surgery practiced in all their brandies. | Calls from the country promptly answered. ( Office over Lawson's store. Residence in rear of White Brothers. [Feb. ID, 1890, tf LIFE OF THE HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS. ]JY Mrs. Jefferson Davis. To be Sold by Subscription Only, THE prospectus aud complete outfit for canvassing will bo ready immediately. Agents Wishing Desirable Territory on tills great work will please address, as soou as possible, the publishers. BELFOKD COMPANY, 18-22 En*t lKtli .Street. New York. Feb. 10, WW, tf Notice. APPLICATION having been made tons to change the locution of a portion of the Due West road at, or near the eight mile post, this is to uotify all persons '-IN THKSETTLE.MKNT" through which said road passes, to Jllo with the Clerk of this Iioard any objections they may have to said change wltnin throe months of the date hereof, lty order of the IJourd of County Commissioners. J. F. C. DUPRE, Clerk. Feb. 12,1800, lm Ricjht.5 of P hopkrtv.?Docter Abernethy was once called into attend a man who had had a somewhat stormy altercation with liis better half, ami found tiie poor man with his face all bleeding, and marks with the points of her linger nails. The worthy doctor could not help remonstrating with the woman upon her conduct. "Madam," he said, "are you not ashamed of yourself, treating your husband like this -your husband who is the head of the house? the head of all? in fact, your head, madam ?" "Well, doctor," fiercely returned the virago, "and am 1 not at liberty to scratch my own head?" There are lost pieces of silver?aye, and of gold?which have long ago been missing from the Father's treasury, and are trampled under loot of man and beast alike?lives crowded so full of cruelty and penury and vice that, though they are God's children, they themselves do not even dream it. Hut if yon can find them in the mire, if you will wash them with your tears and burnish them back to brightness and beauty by your patient and loving < *?/\n f n i /I nn t f lin J rvi _ age of Him who made them, and the superscription of his iminoruil children. Light the candle of your love, then, and sweep diligently till you find them ?Jiishop Potter. What a boy is at fifteen, his mother has largely made him; what a man is ! at forty, his wife has largely made him. Whoever else may be ready to trust us, no one of us ought to trust him- , self. Others may be sure that we would never fail in fidelity to the ' right. We know that we are liable to ! fail at any time. He that thinketh he standelh is already tottering for a fall. 1 Duly the one who realizes his constant dansrer of pro\ing untrue has the possibility of a sure standing in the way ?f truth. ] Carry a pleasant or, at least a placid countenance around with you. There is nothing gained by going up and down the street with a sour, wrinkled, clouded visage. You appear to be aggravating your own misery ; possibly you are making yourself miserable without real cause. Here is a dead loss of both reputation and characteri us regarding yourself. Then, in your t relation to others, you are impairing|? your chaneis and your ability to be helpful and agreeable. Whoever thinks these matters unworthy of consideration has a very distorted view of life and duty. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. probate court. In the matter of the Estate of M. W. Nlclcles, Deceased.?Petition lor Settlement and Discharge. rl). COLEMAN, as Administrator for said Estate having applied for settlement and discharge, It is Ordered. That Friday, the 21st day of March next be fixed for granting the relief prayed for. J. FULLER LYON, Judge Probate Court. Feb. 17, 1S90, tf overseers" ~ TAKE NOTICE! v ryVERSEERS OF ROADS WILL CALL V/ uut bucii iiuiiuo in uuti, auu pi vvtuu iw put at. least THREE DAYS WORK on all roads under their charge. By order of County Commissioners. J. F. C. DUPRE, Clerk. Feb. 19, 1SOO, 2t The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE, prorate court. In the matter of the Estate of F. B. Robinson, defeased.?Petition for Settlement and Discharge. J I). NEEL, as Executor lor said estate having applied for settlement and discharge, It is Ordkkkd, that Thursday, the sixth doy of March next be fixed for granting the relief prayed for. J. FULLER LYON, Judge Probate Court. Feb. 5,1S90, .it THE BOARDS OF ASSESSORS. Will Tliej are, ail flat is Expected of Them. The Township Board of Assessors for the various townships in Abbeville County will hold their meetings between the 1st and 10th day of March. On the 20lh day of March the County Board of Equalization will meet at Abbeville, C. H. It is clearly the duty of the Boards of Equalization to canvass carefully each and every return of property made in their respective townships, in order that individual returns may be equalized as near as pos sibie, ana in every instance wnere a material change in the return of any individual is made, notice to taxpayer must be given in order that he may have the opportunity to appeal before tbe County Board which meets the 20th day of March. The following free holders are hereby appointed Boards for the various townships : Ninety-Six?J. D. Watson, J. N. Lipscomb, B. P. Pinson. Greenwood?C. A. C. Waller, J. W. Green, H. F. Fuller. Cokesbury?Dr. Willie T. Jones, W. R. Dunn, T. J. Ellis. Donaldsville?J. W. Mattison, E. B. Rasor, J. R. Latimer. Due West?M. B. Clinkseales, J. E. Todd, J. R. C. Dunn. Long Cane?Benj. Eakiu, A. F. Calvert, R. H. Cochrane. Smithville--W. A. Lomax, J. L. White, T. K. Langley. White Hall?D. W. Jay,T.J. Hearst J. M. Pruitt. Indian Hill?J. II. Chiles, R. J. Robinson, J. F. Wideman. Cedar Springs?Dr. J. L. Pressley, Jno. Lyon, J. E. Bradley. Abbeville?J. Allen Smith, Jno. G. Edwards. T. P. iMillford. Diamond Hill?Dr. J. II. Dell, J. 12. Wakelield, U. W. Millford. Lowndesville?I. H. McCulla, Mas.<alon Bell, Dr. B. A. Henry. Magnolia?Dr. Win. M. Taggart, B. A. Boyd, J. S. Norwood. Calhoun's Kills?Jno. H. Momtli,S. S. AIcBride, J. H. Latimer. Bordeaux?Dr. O. A. Tray lor, D. J. Ward law, W. T. Jennings. The various boards will meet and organize by electing a chairman anu notify this ottiee. A. W. JONES, Auditor A. C. THE MM Cotton Seed Oil -ANDmum n WOULD HEREBY inform the public that their OIL MILL AND FERTILIZER FACTORY are now in full and successful opera tiou, and that they are prepared to furnish COTTON SEED .HEAL, COTTON SEED HULLS, and their STANDARD FERTILIZER In unlimited quantities and at TRICES TIIAT DEFY CUM PETITION. They are desirous of introducing their Fertilizer (o the fanners of the county, and to [hat end are prepared to offer special inducements to casli purchasers, or to such as cun furnish acceptable or bankable paper. They would be pleased to have every farmer In the Bounty come and inspect the processor maulpulation of their Fertilizer, where he can see for himself tlie ingredients which enter Into its composition, and be satisfied that when he bujs a ton of the "Chickasaw High Grade Fertilizer MANUFACTURED BY THE ABBEVILLE L'OTTON SEED OIL AND FEIITILI/.EIt [ <)." he will get a pure, first-class, unadulterited article. R. E. HILL, Manager. Jan. 8,1st) i, tf " To The Public. r FIND that my increasing business as a Surveyor, demands a great part of my ime at Abbeville ('. H. I have opened nn iflict' over the store of Mr. .1. O. Edwards. iVtio has very kindly cniist-nted to transact my business left in his hands. JOHN S. MARTIN, Surveyor. Nov.'.Tth, l?. MlllUj WE are now prej trade our Celebrated F pfit. n-ra.de of iiiW GUANO, AEII These goods have g the past season, and vi the best of prices. C buying. Baker, Matthew II Cl January 8, 1890. The State of South Carolina, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. Probate Court.?Citation for Letters of Admi nlHt ration. By J. Fuller Lyon, Esq , .Judge Probate Court: \*7 HEIIEAS, P. C. PuPre Iiob matle suit to ft me, to Kraut him Letters of Administration of the Kstate and effects of E. J. Silks, lute ot Abbeville County, deceased. These are therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said E. J. Silks, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court ol Probate, to be lield at Abbeville C. H., on Saturday, the 22d day of February, 1890, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause If any they have, why the said Administration should uot be granted. Given under my hand and seal of the Court, this seventh day of February In the year [L.S.]of ourLord one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and in the 114th year of American independence. Published on tlie 12th day of February, ISiW, in the Press and Banner and on the Court House door for the time required by law. J. Fuller Lyon, Judge Probate Court. Feb. 12,1890,3t The State of South Carolina, ABBEVILLE COUNTY. Probate Court.?Citation for Letters of Administration. By J. Fuller Lyon, Esq,. Judge Probate Court: WHEREAS, R. A. McCaslan has made suit tome, to grant him Letters of Administration of the Eviute and effects of Mrs. E. E. Rogers late of Abbeville County, deceased. These are therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kindred aud creditors oi the said E. E. Rogers deceased, that they be and appear before me in the Court of Probate. to be held at Abbeville C. H.,on Saturday the8th of February 1890, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and seal of the Court, this 22nd day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety una in ine 111 year ui Aiuericau juiuependence. Published on the 29th day of January, 1890, in the Press and Banner and on the Court House door for the time required by law. J. FULLER LYON, Judge Probate Court. Nov. C, 1881), tf RETURNS TO Probate Court, ADMINISTRATORS, Executors, Guardians and others in charge of estates must make returns to this Court of the moneys received aud expended for 1889, before the first of March or be subjected to the peualy prescribed by law. J. FULLER LYON, Judge Probate Court. Jan. 8, 1800. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. k LL persons indebted to the Estate of thej HL late JAMES EDWAKD CALHOUN, will please make payment to \VM. P. CAL HOUN, ESQ., at his otllco at Abbeville Court House. And all persons to whom the said Estate is indebted must present their claims to him. PAT CALHOUN, Executor, JA?*S. Hi 1} VY IVU Uiuiiuuiii Jan. 8, ISiK), tf Notice to School Trustees. 'PII? scholastic year of JSSD-'JO, having com1 inenced with the (list of this month the trustees are hereby authorized to open the public schools of Abbeville county us soon as they may deem It best. K. G. AlcLEES, Nov. (J, 188!). School Coin DR. E, L. WILSON, ZMJEIW'TPJCSSTtf?,Office up stairs over It. W. Cannons store Aug. 2S, 18.SU. DR. S. G. THOMSON, Dental surgeon. Office up-stairs. Mcllwaine corner. Feb. 2o, 1889. tf PERRIN & COTHRAN, i^Lttornevs at L-aw, ABBEVILLE. S. C. Allen Long Staple. I HAVE for SALE 10-') UirSKKLS ALLEN I LONG STAPLE COTTON SEED. The linl from this lot of seed was sold tor 12J< cents, when the same entile of short staple cotton was selling for 914 cents. * R. \V\ CANNON. Jan. 29,1890, Dt WM. H. PAIIKER. W. C. McGOWAN* PARKER & McGOWAN ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS, AKBUVILLG, C. II., S. C. WILL practice also in the Circuit Courts oi the United States for South Carolina. Barber Shop. RICHARD OA NTT, Is now prepared to do all work in his department lu the best manner and ut reasonutile elmrjies. Monthly customers shaving, lniir cuttlim and shampooing $1 per month. Rasors honed and put u the best condition for 2.") cents each. Money to Loan. OX IMPROVED FARM LANDS IN SUMS of S5U0 and upwards, Loans repayable in small annual Instalments through u period of six years, thus enabling the but rower to pay oil'his indebtedness without exhausting his crop in any one year. Apply t?? l'KIUtl.V ?V ( OI HIi VV, Attorneys. ( Abbeville, S.C.J Ut.il. ISsll.iini. I IT WILL PAY YOU If you propose going West or North-west, to write to me. I represent tlie Short Line. , FRED D. BUSH, D. P. A., ' Atlanta, Ga. Oct 10, l?. Cin FERTILIZERS. wed to offer to the ERTILIZERS, HighD 11 MBIUI EM iven the best of results re are enabled to make all and see us before rs & Chambers,irM.lie, CEMIITOR'S SALE OF THE PERSONAL ESTATE OF Hi M GALEGDB, Deceased. ? ja n As directed by an order of the Probate Court for Abbeville County, I will sell at public sale at MILLWOOD, in Abbeville County, the late residence of the said JAMES EDWARD CALHOUN, Deceased, all of his personal estate, consisting of Horses, Mules, Hogs, Oxen, Milk Cows, Calves, Farming Implements, W agonal, and many other articles. The sale will commence on the 10H Day of MARCH, 1890, and continue from day to day ^ until every thing is sold. Terms of For further information apply to WM. P. CALHOUN, Esq., at Abbeville C. H. PAT CALHOUN, Executor, &c., J. E. Calhoun. Feb. 5, 1890, 5t The State of South Carolina. COUNTY OK AKBKVIIjLIK, - fkouate court. In the matter of tlio estate of C. V. Mars, daceased.?Petition for Settlement and Discharge. Pi L. McCELVEY, as Administrator fcr said estate having applied for settlement and discharge, It is Ordered, that Friday, the seventh day of March next be fixed for granting the relief prayed for. J. FULLER LYON, Judge Probate Court. Feb. 5,18U0,5t Master's Sale. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE, co cut ok common pleas. .f. Kvans Gordon, as Assignee. In Re A. J. Salinas <v Son against Klchey & Miller. DY virtue of an order of sale, made In the above stated ease, I will offer for sale at public outcry at Abbeville C. H., S. C., on SALEDAY IN MARCH, 1890, within the le- \ ^ gal hours of sale.tlie following described prop-ri v, 8ltuate Id mid .State and County, to wit: V ONE UOUHK AND LOT in the village of V Hodges, the properly of John M. Miller, the ^ i"? I nf thrpp small nareels. contain ing In aYl about Twenty-Two Acies, bounded by lands or J. A. Ellis, L. R. Dantz ler. and by the Columbia and Greenville Rail road; Also. ONE HOUSE AND LOT in the village of Hodges, the property of William R. Richey, containing One and One-llnlf Acres, more-or less, and bounded by lands of John M. Miller, and by I lie Columbia and Greenville Railroad; Also, ONE HOUSE AND LOT known as the ICoou Place, the property of Richey A Miller, containing Thirty-Seven Acres, more or less, and bounded by lauds of J. L. Anderson, Walter Anderson, and A. M. Agnew, und by the Columbia and Greenville Railroad. TERMS OF SALE?One-half cash, balance on a credit of twelve months with interest from day of sale, secured by bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the premises. Purchaser to pay for papers. J. C. KLUGH, Master. Feb. 10.1S30, ::i Get the Best. ( i.\R LOAD OF KENTUCKY MULES soon to arrive, and wiil bo sold low down for cash or on approved paper. \V A LLING FORD ?fc RUSSELL. Jan. 1,1SS!), tf tv;_ j JJiViueiiu iiutivc, AT u meetinjrof the HI rectors of the National ltunk of Abbeville, held this daj', a llvhieiiil or THHKK DOLLARS per share of , I lie capital stock whs declared, payable on and titer January 1st. ItKNJ. S. 1JARN WELL, Abbeville, Uec. 27,1S?U. Cashier. Notice. A AI.Ii accounts and notes for practice for Its? and 1S88 remaining unpaid alter the ." Hi oi Jiinuary, will bo placed in the hands >f lielJmhl & Uradley for collection. T. J. Mabry, L. T. Hill.