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? * ' J g; L_ !1 I" I '""II ' asses " 1 ---1. ' "? "T I I g The Abbeville Press and Banner.! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1844|jj Gala event of all \ * 300 All Feature Acts, 1,005 Woude Sights, 12 Mammoth Water Proof Te The Giant Show of the World ; $3,500 Actually invested to Perpetuate Its Gi deur, $3,600,000; Its Marvelous Menag Embracing Every Captive Beast Km to Exist ; Its Multitude of Features, E One a Show Alone. Under the Largest Tents Ever Construct; The GREATEST Zoological Collec Only Pair Educated Alaska Seals and Sea Lie exhibited, and Marvelously Trained \ The Gra: Absolutely Eclipsing any Pageant 1 No Dostoonement on account of weat SPECIAL E: I LOWNDESVILLE LETTER. Fact ?History ? Romance ? Broken Skulls?Other .natter*. Lowndesville, 8. C., Sept. 80,1895. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Price, from Dear Abbe vllle, came op leant Hundny evenint; anc stayed with the family of Mr. K. L. Moore head till Monday evening. Last Suuday, Juet as Mr. J. T. Latimer'i family alighted irom the carriage after get ting home from church, the horse that tbej had been driving took fright, ran olf, anc damaged the carriage. Mitts Mela Allen left Monday evening fo: Greenville, where she goes lo attend the fe male college. Mrs. Tom Hill, of Anderson, Is with be mother's family, Mrs. J. M. Latimer's. UAHKtl AM) A KOCK. Last Sunday, two darkles on Mr. B. Berr; Allen's place, bad sort of a rock content, it which one of Ibe beligerents, by coming toi mddenly In contact wilb a stone thrown bi the other, bHd (us the doctors say) his superlo orbital rledge fractured. In common lan guage, the bone over the eye was broken. TIIE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The dry, hot weather, which wo have hat for some time, has continued to date with i slight change yesterday and the day before, i little cooler, with a light rain yesterday which has caused the cotton to fall off it quantity. Many of our planters do Dot expec to make more than half a crop, aud that wltl indusiry they can have all of their crop gathered before the first ot November. STORY OK A CANNON" BALI.. Dr.A.J.Speer owns a Revolutionary relit in the shape of a cannon bail, and as there 1 u bltot his ory connected with it. 1 will men lion It. It was ploughed up in 185:5 by a dark ev. near the Junction of Savaun >h and Rock: UivArn onil ku- ? - u/ Liiin iu us |ire?eui own er. During the above-mentioned war, i block bouse wan built at Cberokee Ford 01 ' Savannah River, and a fort whk built a lev miles above on Rocky River, called Fort In dependence. Tbe blockbonae was roannet \ R I NEA A ATT a \ i 5 ChM's 35 Cts., and t ^ %%\%%%%%% ^ Have just ad f stock a nice line 3 Art Pot 4 as Vases and Fai : ; ear at CP 4 tion in the World, Presenting for the fir of Giant White Nile ?ns, Performing Kangaroos, Trained Elf v iia ana jrnnesiicuiea Animais 01 an a ad, Gorge 2ver Seen in the Public Streets, take* pi ber. Two Complete Performances Dail, KCURSIONS Will be Rati by a force of anout eignt hundred men undei Col. Pickens. A force of several hundred to rles (under Col. Plck^n*) had been for som< i time devastating ihe country above. For i while Col. Pickens had heard nothing frorr C<>1. Brown. He accordingly took about ha I of the force at Ihe block houwe, and went ou ? to see if he could tlud out what had becom< I of Ihe tory force. While be was away Col . Brown t^et fire to and burned Fort Independ ence, and suddenly appeared before the block s bouse and demanded its surrender. Majoi . Anderson, who h id been left In command o l?? Dlnnlr LI amco Hut?lnrv / V?l IM/tbono uhvaiiOC had, but a short time before from some cause sent his Only cannon across Savannah Ill\ei r into Georgia. He asked lor two hours to re , ply. then hastily sent for his catiDon. got i back, and bis reply a I tbe eud of the tw< r hours was a sbot from the cannon. The bat tie then began in earnest. The tories, re pulsed with considerate loss, retreated int< Georgia, and were pursued by Col. Pickens who had returned to the Block House. The: f were overtaken and completely routed. Thii 1 ball isooe of those used in the tight at tb< 5 Block House. f r WIDOWERS AND THEIR MYSTERIOUS ME AN DERINGS. Iq the near past a widower or two has beer going about hero in a quiet way, as if thej j were trying to effect au alliance, offensivi and deienslve, with one o! our fair ladies We may, as has been remarked, have one 01 two men that we might, under certain condl tions, spare; but none of our good ladles Speaking ol widowers brings to mlndacer tain circumstance of not long ago. Five o our good ladles (three ol tne town aod tw< from the country) were together in this place and among other subjects discussed was tba widowers in most, of its phases; as to thel: klud attention in picking up fallen handker c chiefs, scissors, &c. And what a change then s was after they bad landed the fish for whlcl they had been angling. They, of course, hac much fun, and then it was remembered tha ? each one of them had married one of the verj - class to whom they had been giving "Hal ? Columbia." Accidents will happen. l Mr. J. B. Franks came in Saturday from At r lanta to spend a day or two with his family. Mr. rt. Li. Smith and Mr. Huckabee arrlvec i here Saturday from the mountains, ? tb< Ku. D ft LINES ! GOODS A; Solid I Gold rpwards, j SILVI T I 1 yv /> ded to my ? VVLi of I ^ terv, 7-~ < ^ i icy Plates, j &RGEST /v/i> ' - st time in this Country the 3 Blood-Sweating H >phants, Lordly Lions, Leopards, Stately escriptions. Truly the only great and 1< ious Stree ace at 10 o'clock a. m.. on FRIDAY, OC y. Afternoon at 2. Evening at 8. Doo on All Lines at Greatly 1 _ r latter to remain, the former to return to his . mountain home In a few days. j Yesterday helm; the fifth Sunday In the ^ month. Rev. E. \V. Mason preached a sermon , specially to the children in the Methodist f ehnrch. t There was considerable frost this morning > on the Iron bridge near here. Troupe. \ ABOUT PAYING DEBTS, , Importance of .Making Early Settle* ineiitH?Pay Small Account** First. t The Increased price of cotton will enable a > large number of people to pay their bills Id - full, and to have something left to spend In - the purchase ol such goods as may answer a J demand or please a fancy. , Iu paying debts a good rule in to pay the ? small debts first. As a man would drown s with his nose an inch under water as quick s as if be were miles deep in the bosom of the ocean, so a small debt may worry a man as much as a larger one. The small debt Is genr erally owing to some poor or needy person who will be more persistent and make more annoyance than a creditor to whom a thousand dollars is due. The man with a claim for a large amount is more apt to be lenient ; than the man with a little claim. The lien or debt for advances on the crop should be paid first. Then commence paying other debts, beginning with the smallest. In this way you will be relieved of the greatest number ot creditors who may be clamorous lor their money. For Instance, pay your subscription to the Press and tianuer. It will take only a small amount of money, and ' then you can sleep with the consciousness that you owe the editor nothing, and are reading your own paper. Try this plan and ~ 860 now UiUUU uctlci > uu will 1 ^ ^ ^ y When there is dust on the Bible i there ia war in the heart against the Rermon on the Mount. ? 1 Fresh lot cottolene In to-day. All sizes. Aba beville Supply Co. ^%W%,VWVW1 lERNA LARG S RBPRB :r plated g f spoons, gu a 3eiits Wet. |g rJi m OF WA.TC kuuuuui ni VA1 3 ENORMOUS A! i UNITED 0| ^ Indisputably The World's Largest a Quarter of a (Jentury ; Noted for Its S ? Menagerie, More Animals, More Hora I Beyond all Compe jemiiLLi, 11 SELLS BROTHERS' G1 K 3 Biggest Circuses, 3 Separate Ric M 4 an T _ 11.. /1U TI />r.A u.. < t 8rt.i iisiei) ouuy v*iu>viia, neuucu uy u. 1,000 PEC ippopo tami / Flocks Ostriches, the first ever publicly igitimate exhibition of its kind on earth it Parade. TOBER 18. It is over a mile in length rs open one hour earlier. deduced Rates. ; COLORED PEOPLE ADMITTED. The Abbeville Colored Congregation Received Into Membership With the South Carolina Synod. Under appointment ol the South Carolina Presbytery, a commission consisting of J. O. Lindsay. D. D.. J. L. Wilson, L>. D., and L. W. Perrln, Esq., Installed Rev. E. W. Williams pastor of the Third Presbyterian church of lhe city of Abbeville, S. C., at 4.30 p. m. Sunday. Rev. Lindsay preached the sermon and propounded the constitutional questions, and the Rev. Wilson charged the pastor and the prople. Afterwards the memoers of his flocU came forward and gave the right hand of fellowship to their pastor. This is Interesting as being the extabllshmentofthe first pastorate over the first colored church as a part of the Presbyterian Syn<>d <>t South Carolina and Is an additional step by the white Presbv terlans of the South eru Church to assist tneir coiorea nretnren 10 organlzean Independent Presbyterian church of their own in the South. "As a Tale Thnt is Told." Christian Neighbor. The days of our years are threescore and ten; and il by reason of strength tney be fourscore years, yet is their strength, labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut oil, and we fly away.?Psa. xc:10. September 23,1819) September 23.18H5 f,0 >ear6So teach us to number <>ur days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.?Psa. ' xc:12. Though our outward man perish, yel tbe Inward man is renewed day by day.?II Cor. i?t. in i No soul can preserve the bloom and delicacy of its existencewiihout lonely musings and silent prayer,/aud the greatness of this necessity ia/fi proportion to the greatness of the soul. U, TI rER STOCK! i nu 1 , A 1HTSS EVER %/%%A 5*& '. $&-i}%Z&72^c.i.:-? I*.' .<> First 5 Ijl. 9UK G SHOW I nd Most Comple Arenic and Zoological Enterpi lagnitude, Magnificence and Merit, Now Increi ?st More Artists, More Features, a Greater Num trison Now the Biggest and Best, 1 ?Honestly-Advertised, Honestly Presented, 1 ii mm i 8EATEST SHOW ON EARTH COMI igs, All JNew Superlative Sensations, o (Jontinei le Famous Southern Favorite, JOHNNY LOW )PLiE> 3QO 3E : ^EHOST^IilAPLES^jApil^ ^ I ^ ^ARL^Q.EVEM TONS7 FifteI^ "I^DIS'OFFER OFONE HONDKEDThousano PI TROY'S TOPICS. . Mr. . home i A Sfully Afflicted Household?Other Ine. mm ? MISS Matters. several Troy, S. C.. Sept. 30.1895. M":. Quite a sudden change in the weather and ..,' some say frost was Keen on the creeks. ,~'?8 , j Dr. G. W. Pressly from Charlotte Is down SlbiertJ 'visiting kinsioik, and "other folk" in our Mrs. Isaac Kellar from near Hodsea is with her sister, Mr?. Harah Walker, near here. Miss Myrtls Smart who has for the last year been lu New York with her brother, Mr. H. i . _ M C. Smart, returned homn last Friday. A ljl1 Mr. T. O. Tagtjart from Savannah, Ga., is * spending a few days here with bis mother. T. . Rev. T.W.Sloan paid us a "pop call" one . *?? * day last week. lmv? ? Rev. G. H. Burton and family leave this jj?y, no place for McCorinlc this week to take charge : JvJ ,?'; of the hotel there. "They have the best wish-1 ~Jf f es of all. ' I nJ.,? 0 Rev. J. R Edwards, formerly of Due Wont, but now a missionary in Mexico, and who is! stationed at Rio Verde, gave a most interest-1 } "? log talk last uig >t in the A. R. P. church, tell- j ??J? ^ ing of his work there. His whole heart seems j y In his work, and he says he feels ureatly en- !j '7., couraged. He h >b a warm place In the hearts | ? ?,? ! of this people who pray earnestly that be!,):', may have many souls for his hire in hl8 'lra^?"{ adopted home. j a tj>? Miss Nannie Kellar a bright and promising1 '?8 "b > vouncr ludv. aired sixteen. died at the msis home of ber mother near here last Friday. j Jor?|iUD She had been sick pnly a few days. She had 1JIJ l. J congestive fever, and In the most malignant j a, form. She was burled here In our cemetery, I in?" and It seems trouble never comes single hand-; * "'e?J ed. This morning at 8 o'clock a younger sis- tena 10 ter, Miss Ida, died of the same fever. She too will be burled here by ber sis er. They were members of the Methodist church here, and Thei their bright cheerful faces will be missed In ontfv>P{ the Habbatb school They were lovely Id life, !,, and In d?ath Dot long divided. This doubly au 11IU afflicted mother and family have the heartfelt, that W sympathy o' this eDtlre community. Truly tPu?u death Is no respecter of persons. J , s Mrs. T. M McCaslan Is in Laurens on a visit and ga to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joel McDanlel. tw w ww ww -IE JE boti OR] MONK i i si \ ? sterling silv] ft*' 75 thimble o, H W 25 Cents. H SEEN IN THE ippearance in 1( the B , DFTHI rit^e ; Its Fame liests S- curely ased iu P]very Way Except in ber of Acts and Better Ones 1 Without a Rival, Bleu truthful, Moral aud Instructr miriiiiTiiTfl ( IIII, I NG OK ITS OWN SF] nt Menageries, 50 Mammoth ( 'LOW. lorses ? 3LLARS (S MADE FOR THEftoj i I. S.Jay, of Greenwood, is here ? igbter, Mrs. O. G Prentiss. J. W. Mulllnax spent yesterday returning to Monroe, Ga., Ibis mi T. Jennings, of Modoo, is spend days bere with MIms Lncreila Lyoi Bell Bonner, of Dne West, is in tc >r sister, Mrs. Dr. I,. N Kennedy. Fannie Jay Is In McCormlck with Mrs. Dr. J. P. RoblnaoD. Nlc ^ BUSINESS LEAG0K ? ^ tie Job to Which They are ] ineNted to Give Attention. ea&ue has been organized, the offli ir quarters, one member remarked >w wliat has become of It? Well. Joes not know, but here Is one tb ;ueought to attend to. Abbeville Branch of the South id certainly Is not run now to the sol the business people In Abbevl iln from Greenville used Io come uch earlier and people from1"!! onalds anil other stations could co ) their trading, bffve a few honrs tl uid return the same day, hut w The officers of the road remarked t is fallen off one-third sincere chai > writer is sure the business men rade by this arrangement. and on t that the trains should be run as d the league has the power to do t writer's opinion, as many of Its na? ? business men patronizing the roai Titer hopes the league will soon hi Ing and show t hat it has life and members of this kind. A Membe -e is no true glory apart fr< tig. The world has never L stration of glory to compare w hich was given ou the day wh of Nazareth bowed His he ve up the ghoat. WEL rora frii r RBFl i Solid Gold ER #l.o 5S, ; Scissors in large one Guai S COUNTj ) years of ig Show of the World, i> fj' EWORLD on a Triumphant Success, Covering almost* M price of Admission"; Larger Tents, Larger Phan Ever Seen in This Country. iish, or False Promise. win is,?, SCIAL RAILWAY TRAINS. J J&gea, Gala Hippdrome Races, An Army of md Ponies. I / /'m L' Seating Capacity, 12,000. 30 Gentle- '/& p man Ushers. Advance Tickets for Sale | A. M. HILL & SONS' STORE, On Day of Exhibition. , .. gj >< Friday, October 18. -i Circus Parties can secure Tickets in ad- \ 'k ^ vance. Admission 50 cents. OnlyOhil- ^ | dren under 9 years, 25 Cents. <Uh CHURCH WEDDING TO-DAY. M At 12 Miss Wilson and 8fr. Dearlnff "j ,log are to be Harrl?l In the Eplnco >wd pal iDurcn. '' E3 hpr Miss Mary Wlllson and Mr. A. L. Bearing , u will be married at 12 m. In the Epi*> a copal church. No cards are out. The publio is cordially invited. | Dae Went Stock Fair. \ The Due West Live Stock and F*lr AssoclaRe tlon will hold its first fair on Wednesday, October 16ih. Everybody Invited to exhibit horses, cattle, VJJ its sheep, hogs, poultry or anything else Id this ? to- line. No fee lor entering stock and no admls- . -i the sion lee to the grounds. ing A diiving and bicycle track Is being pat ia order. Oood order will be had. Moslo by a em gnod brass band. A large crowd and a good ad- time expected. He. > T. L. Haddon, President. In H. E. tfonuer, Seoretary. me ~ " Let none stand back as if their sins haJ were too great to be forgiven, or their J nice cause too bad to be cured. jesu* is an \ Advocate who never lost a cause, a he- Physician who never lost a patient. It is bard to find a man who will ^ i. preach the same gospel on a salary of. *\e five thousand a year that he did on five btfudred. Look upon the success ard sweet- ^ ness of thy duties as very much deia,j pendind upon the keeping of thy heart closely with all diligence. en During the last four years 29,000 perad sons in France have putan end to their own livts. > *" y . * JiR. 1 DBS! i| JNDED. 11 With \ I Genuine 4 Diamonds. ? ?0 to $150.00. i s ^%%%%%%%%%% J and Pocket Kniyes, t 1 variety, and every 5 L'anteed. i RY t | A i % .