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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1844
THE DYING YEAR.
Mj door stands open wide tonight
In token of a parting guest,
Who twelve months since, with keen delight.
I welcomed to my homely nest.
He stands there now, wan, wasted, old,
His race quite ran, his mission o'er,
And when the midnight hoar is tolled,
We part, to meet on earth no more.
Be came to me in merry guise,
With hopes and promises not few.
Ah, who could look within those eyes
And deem that they were all untrue!
But expectations all have fled.
The promises are broken, too,
The hopes lie withered, crushed and dead?
Not one of all but proved untrue.
And there he stands, decrepit, wan,
Who came to me a merry elf,
A few sands more he will be gone,
And with him gone part of myself.
Bo cdkne and go the passing years
That bear us to the silent sea,
But bright with simles or dim with tears.
They come in love, dear Lord, from thee.
?Christian Work.
A -KTTOOTVfl! AP PflMA
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*
"Yon may talk as much as yon
v.^?-~>p]ease," said Muriel Vane, nodding her
early bead, "but I'm going to receive
' company in the parlor on New Year's
day. Why shouldn't I? Every other girl
does."
"It's a sinful, wicked waste of time,"
said Mrs. Vane, "when the quilting is
so behindhand and there's such a deal
of sewing to be done."
"But life isn't all for work," pleaded
Muriel. "And Mr. Olifton is coming
all the way from the city in his sleigh
to see me. Ob, mother, please let me
have a loaf of homemade cake and some
red apples and real cream for the coffee!
Just for this once 1 It's only one day
in tho year. Do, mother I"
"Stuff and nonsense I" said Mrs.
Vane, who was one of those aggravating
, (Women who make up their miuds ou
the least possible grounds and then
pnae meniHBivea uu auucimg ku wou
word. "I've said no, and I mean no.
When I was a young girl I wasn't setting
my cap at every fellow that came
along." '
"Mother," cried Muriel, in an agony
of wounded pride, "do you mean to say
that I do such a thing?"
"Ton think' a deal too much of the
beans anyway," said old Mrs. Vane,
screwing up her thin hps. "And I'm
going to break up that sort of thing.
See if I don't!"
It was with difficulty that Muriel
Vane, naturally a high tempered girl,
checked the indignant retort that rose
to her lipa Surely, surely, it was not
right that she, a girl of 18, who was
earning her own living by teaching in
the district echool, should be treated
like a child of 8; that her tyrannical
old mother should place no confidence
whatever ill her sense of right and delicacy.
Up to this time she had rendered
the tribute of an unwilling obedience
to Mrs. Vane's behests, and now she
felt that the moment for just rebellion
had oome. She felt that she could not
live any longer in this cramped, niggardly
sort of Way, with the very lamps
of sugar for her tea meted one to her,
one by one, and the pippin apples for
her lnnoh dealt sparingly forth, as if
each one were molded in gold Mrs.
Vane took her lamp away at 9 o'clock
every night. She dictated to poor Muriel
as to the very color of her dresses
and the number of yards which she
might purchase for them; in fact, the
girl scarcely dared to think for herself.
Gould she live thus always? she asked
herself. Was it right that she should?
"At ail events, motner," saia mariel,
speaking in a low, determined
tone, "I shall reoeivja my friends on
New Year's day 1 It is my privilege,
' and I claim it!"
, "Humph 1" -was the contemptuous rejoinder,
bnt there was a world of meaning
in it.'
So Muriel retrimmed her one black
silk dress and bought a new ribbon sash
and baked a great, golden New Year's
cake filled with plnms and stndded all
through with translucent bars of citron
and herself bargained with the grocer
for two pounds of real Java coffee with
as little adulteration of Rio, Maracaibo
and chicory as he could bring himself
to ooncoct
"I can use the china that my grandmother
Vane left me in her will,"
thought MurieL "That, at1 least, is
mine, although mother would never alnnwinlr
if I"
1UT? UiO IV uu^/hva a v
She w j busy decorating the "walls of
the little parlor with laurel leaves and
long, dark green trails of prince's pine
on New Year's eve. when her mother
came into the room.
"Muriel," said she, "I want to send
some dressed chickens and a peck of
those golden pippins to your Annt Dora
at the lighthouse. JenkinB' boy is ready
with the boat, but he's such a limb that
I don't, for the life of me, dare to trust
him with the apples and the bag of
hickory nuts. I want you to go and ask
Aunt Dora for the pattern of the new
bedquilt?the'Philadelphia pavement,'
you know."
"Very well, mother," said Muriel in
the old submissive way. "But isn't it
rather later"
"Pshaw l" said Mra. Vane. "Why,
the srm is an hour high yet. Ton'11 be
back long before dark if Jenkins' boy is
spry with the oars."
Aunt Dora, Mrs. Vane's only sister,
was a worthy scion of the family treetall,
masculine and hard featured. She
had always taken the entire charge of
White Reefs lighthouse, even although
the official appointment was conferred
upon her husband, and when one da;
that public servant departed this life,
things went on precisely the same. Muriel
was not fond of her Aunt Dora, and
her Aunt Dora regarded her as a "poor,
chicken hearted creature?Vane all
over." But Muriel did feel sorry for the
Irmoltr nM wnrnun on/1 nhfl thnnffhfc that
even a pair of fowls and a few apples?
this unwonted manifestation of sisterly
feeling?were worth carrying to White
Beefs. So she made haste to don hei
Wadded cloak and little for edged hood,
and to draw on the scarlet woolen mittens,
which she herself had knitted during
those long, dreary winter evenings
when she and her mother sat in silence
opposite each other, for Mrs. Vane never
invited any company, and gave her
neighbors but scant welcome when they
came of their own accord.
"Jenkins' boy" was ready with the
boat, a small, ferret eyed youngster,
with an intensely freckled face and a
furtive, eidewifie glance, which Muriel
always distrusted; and as they glided
out over the water, already dyed with
the orange reflection of sunset, in the
direction or wmte iteers jigmnouse,
Muriel leaned her chin in her hands
and thought of llr. Clifton.
What would her mother say if she
knew it all?that Paul Clifton loved her
?that he was comiDg to ask for her at
the maternal hands the veiy next day.
"It will be of no nse," she thonght
sadly. "Mother will say no. She desires
me to marry Squire Sedley, who
is bald and deaf and twice my age, and
who only wants me because his housekeeper
has 6truck for higher wages and
he thinks a wife would be better economy.
But we can wait, Paul and I. We
will wait."
And then they ran up alongside the
tall, spectral cylinder of the lighthouse,
for the tide was high and landing was
comparatively easy, and Muriel sprang
i lightly out of the boat, looking up at
the fiery eye in the lantern abova
"Give me the bag and the basket,
Tommy, "said she. "Steady with the
boat now! I'll be back in one minute."
So the orange glow had burned down
into a deep red radiance, and the dusk
shadows off the New Year's eve were
creeping over all the glassy surface of
the sea.
Aunt Dora was at home. In fact,
Aunt Dora never was anywhere else.
Her own society, little as other people
cared for it, was all sufficient for herself.
"Oh, it's you, is it?" said Aunt Dora,
as unconcerned as if she lived on dry
land and was in the habit of seeing
company every hour in the day. She
was darning stockings by her own especial
little, lamp, and the teapot already
simmered on the hob for her tea. "Anything
the matter? Because I couldn't
leave the light if it was ever so"? '
"No, nothing is the matter," said
Muriel. "I have brought you a note
from my mother. Something about the
pattern of a bedquilt, I believe. And
some chickens and apples and a bag of
fresh hickory nuts."
Aunt Dora read the note once, twioe,
three times over. Then she regarded
Muriel in a sinister fashion from under
her thick, black brows, while the girl
played unoonaoiously with the cat.
"Humph 1" said she. "Yes, I'll go
and get the pattern 1"
She was gone some time?half an
hour, at least, as it seemed to Muriel,
and when she came back, the girl start*
ed up. .
"It is nearly dark," she said. "I
must make haste home."
"Well you needn't be in such a flurry"
said Aunt Dora, with a grim
chupkle. "I've sent the pattern by Tommy
Jenkins. He's half way to shore by
this time." / (
Muriel uttered a little shriek.
"And how am I to get home?" she
cried.
"You ain't to get home at all," said
Annt Dora. "Yon're to stay and spend
tha.New learwitn ma xnarswnac
your mother said in her note."
"But I shall not 1" exclaimed Muriel,
stamping her foot vehemently. "I must
go borne 1 I expect company tomorrow."
"Sit down and be easy?do!" said
Aunt Dora. "Must is for the king. I'd
like to know how on earth you're to get
home, with only one boat at the steps,
and that padlocked tigbt, with the key
edtig at the bottom of my pooket!"
And Aunt Dora laughed a bard, dissonant
laugh that was like the croak of
a raven.
For a moment Muriel gazed wildly
around like a newly caged bird, then
she burst into tears and sobs.
"It is all a stratagem of mother's!"
she cried, wringing her hands. "I
might have known it! I might have
known it!"
And that night at the White Reefs
lighthouse, with the melancholy sea
lapping the foot of the tower and the
wind whistling aroond the steady glow
of the beacon, was the dreariest that
Muriel ever spent in her life.
*"You ain't good company tonight,"
said Aunt Dora, glancing at her niece
ever and anon between the stitches of
her darning.
"Because you have deceived mel"
cried Muriel. "You and mother 1"
"Humph 1" said Aunt Dora. "It's all
for your own good. You'll thank ns one
of these days. Girls oughtn't to have
their own way."
But Muriel only wept on and refused
to be comforted.
She went down to the foot of the
tower, the next day, and sat there, her
cloak wrapped about her shoulders, listlessly
gazing out on the sparkling floor
of the deep.
"Is that a boat coming?" she asked
herself. "With one man in it? Is it
coming here, I wonder?"
Nearer and nearer came the boat,
rocking lightly on the surface of the
waves, and presently Muriel started up,
with a cry of joy.
**tqo Pan! Pliff/kn araxnnflP folfl
A'Ui AV YTMD * MM* vi4*vwu #
band to her, as he came ever nearer and
nearer.
"A happy New Year, sweet Muriel!"
he called ont, as the boat touched the
stone steps. "I am the enchanted knight
some to rescue you from the prison tow
er!"
"How did you koow I was here?"
said Muriel, with sparkling eyes and
TfilvGfcv ohpplcR dved with crimson.
"Your mother was entirely noncommittal,"
said Clifton gayly. "I conld
i learn nothing whatsoever from her exi
cept that you were well and were not
receiving company. But I was fortunate
' enough to meet Tommy Jenkins, who,
i for the consideration of a silver quarter,
' ianominiocslv turned state's evidence.
Mid here I am, my sweetheurt! Will
pou come with me?"
"Of coarse I will," said Muriel,
springing lightly into the boat "But
where?" B0]
"Tobe married,"said Mr. Paul Clifton.
"It is high tiine that this system
of tyranny was broken np. My little
Muriel must be mine and mine alone D1'
henceforward. Do you not agree with
me?" * , T
And Muriel answered: Cbl
"Yes." 8'al
Aunt Dora got to the window just in
time to shriek an ineffectual summons geJt
to the pair in the fast receding boat. plu
"It's no use,"said Aunt Dora, draw- eit|
ing a long breath. "When a girl is in Bict
love, she'is neither to hold nor to bind.
I've done tne Desc 1 coma, jxuuuutuie i w
can't blame me 1" [rep
Two hours later Muriel walked iiato Mil
the old brown roofed bouse on the share,
leaning on Paul Clifton's arm.
"Mother," said she to the amazed 2
Mra Vane, who folly believed that ahe o
was "dreeing her weird" in the solitary 0
lighthouse tower, "I am married! And
this is my husband. Will you forgive
us, please? For I am 60 very, very happy
today that I do not want a living
soul to be at variance with me!"
And so Muriel signed her declaration 8of
independence, and became Paul Clifton's
wife upon this glorious sunshiny
New Year's day. And Mrs. Vane and
Aunt Dora were compelled to confess
themselves outwitted and to accept
their defeat with as good" grace as possible.
**
"Fate is fate," said Aunt Dora grimly.
"And I wash my hands of the whole
concern," said Mis. Vane.
But Paul and Muriel were serenely
happy. And what mattered aught else! '
?New York Ledger.
Begging Bread and Checfe.
Scotch children of the poorer class in mu
small .towns' etiU beg on New Year's
eve from door to door at tho houses of g.
-wealthier families for a dole of oat
bread, calling out "Hogamanay" or
some of tbe local rhymes which are given
in Chambers' "Popular Rhymes of
Sootland," such as:
Hogamanay,
Trollolay,
Give us of your white, bread
And none of your gray I > '
Tfcey also beg for cheese, which they
call "nog-moDey," and Brand's "Popular
Antiquities" gives tlds begging
rhyme used by Scotch children:
Get up, gude wife, and binno irweir;
Deal cakes and cheese while ye are here,
For the time will come when ye'll be dead
And neither need your cheese nor breed.
As the children on these forays are *
swathed in great sheets formed into a
deep bag or pouoh to carry the oatcake
they form quite a mumming and fan- '
tastio appearance on the by streets and
lanes.?Independent
<*
New Year'* In 1780.
New Year's day, 1790, "was one of fl*
special interest to those who delight in
traoing facts concerning this method of
celebration. President Washington,Jthen
in the first year of his first term, lived,
at the Franklin House, in Cherry street,
New York.
The city was then a little Dutch town,
of cobblestones and gardens, containing 10
abont 1,400 honses and 20,000 people,
most of whom1 were tradesmen and mechanics
of very limited means.
The president had lived among 4hem
several months, bnt most of them had htold
aloof through the awe inspired by
h^ygreat character and his high office.
B& this New Year's day a great number
;^them put on their beet cocked hats, d
theii ; ^nday wigs and all their best (eai
clothe .Nd called upon the president.?
Philadelphia ^imes. j $
dot
Some Good and Bad Omen*. bill
To meet a red haired person on first in t
getting up indicates a dull day in bnsi- ^
ness, and if such a one cross your door doD
on New Year's day you will have an me<
unlucky year. While making a trade, if
a cross eyed person looks at you, fit in- bop
dicates that the bargain will be unproflt- gr|j
able. To hear a cricket chirp is good tan
luck, and it is always a welcome sound
under the hearthstone of the farmer's bro
house.?Exchange.
oar
- ? ? aeg
a new j&pocu. r?
As the sun completes bis annual rev- curt
olution through the heavens by touching "be
the southern solstice, and then com- Tl
mences his return to northern latitudes qq&e
man is compelled to recognize a new A
epoch in his own career and is reminded
to pause a moment for earnest reflection Ti
in order to gather wisdom from vtinish- ^
ed months and to forecast the signs of Sur
the future.?Christian Work.
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Japan's Common Birthday.
The first of the year is really a sort of cov
double festival in Japan, for the Japanese,
like the Chinese, reckon their age dis<
from that date. A child born 24 hours
before New Year's day is called 1 year taci
old on that day, so that it is the birthday
of all the Japanese people.---New I
York Advertiser. ^
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Love and Charity. Bac
If you can make love and charity in elm
your heart chord with the last song the
choir sinRB New Year's day, you oan
make up your mind that you are a pretty
good matt after all?Kearney Journal.
B
A Song of the Season. nlB
I love no rost bat a nut browne toste
And a crab layde in the fyre; II
A little bread shall do me stead? ZPl,
Much breade I not desyre. f
No froste nor snow, no winde, I trow?,
Can hurt mee if I wolde. fPl
I am so wrapt and throwly lap!
Of jolly good ale and olde.
Back and syde go bare, go bare;
Both foote and hand, go oolde;
But belly God send thee good ale though* In
Whether it be new or olde.
With sober cheerfulness the gran dam eyes
Her offspring round her, all in health and *
peace,
And, thankful that she's eparod to see this day ola
Return once more, breathe I low a sacred Pro
prayer &
That God would abed a blessing on thai* heads.
flsliiptojj.
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BOILS! BOILS! MLS!
BE SYE8, BORE THKOAT, SORB FEETMALARIA
EVERT WHERE.
d Any Hartal Han Every See Sucl
a Plaee for Sores and Bolls T
be Sargeon of the Citadel Academy c
irleston makes the following In terestlni
lement as to the sores, bolls and malar]
t exists Id tbe Citadel Academy. Can bet
argument be brought aicalnstan la
ntlon which no nearly approaches a hoi
il or postbouse ? Tbe Institution sbouli
ier be abolished or transferred from ?
cly a place aa its present location.
Citadel, Jane 16th, 1896.
. Coward, Soperlnteodenu
Ir: I have the honor to submit t;be annua
ort of tbe health of the Soath Carollni
Itary Academy for tbe term beginning Is
ober, IBM, to Jane 15tb, 1896:
Tbe total numbor of names on the sick re
port for tbe seislon, as a bo re, la 44
rbe oases for each month are as follows
:
ctober, 18M, cases 5
I these, tbe principal diseases were:
Fevers, malarial and caUrrhomalarlal
31
Sore eyes. 5
miBUcnauDUUB t ?oco, uuuIWI, wviif
bronchitis, soi-e feet, nearalgla,
bruises, sprain's. etc. 15
M
November, 1895, cases St
Principal diseases were:
Fevers, malarial and cattarrhomalarlal
8
Diarrhoea ..... 5
Sore eyes ?... 8
Miscellaneous cases, asthma,
rheumatism, etc...._ 14
, ~80
December, 1894, cases a
Principal diseases:
Malarial and catarrbo^malarial
fevers - 11
Diarrhoea - 4
Bolls ?
Miscellaneous cases, as above..... 13
~~88
January, 1896, as above 7!
Principal diseases:
Bolls 31
Sore throat _ 6
Sore feet... 9
Sore eye* *... 4
Orchitis ? l
icellaneous, etc 41
~73
Febnary, 1885, case* 61
Principal diseases:
Malarial and catarrho-malarlal
fever 8
Grippe .. 7
Boltt - . 9
Sore feet 9
Bore eyes .. 2
Rheumatism , a
MlBoellaneoas, etc 19
1 ~66
Marcb, 1895. case* tu
Principal disease*:
Malarial and catarrho-malarlal
fevers 1 14
Bore feel.....? 9 ,
Bolls 5
Catarrha 4
SoreUaraat.... 4
Rhearnrtlsm......... 2
Bronchitis 2
Miscellaneous 96
~06
April, 1885, oases 0<
Principal diseases^
Grippe ... 21
Malarial and catarrho-malarlal
fevers......... 8
Sore feet. 8
Sore tbroat.... ./...L.~ 8
Sore eyes I 1
Bolls fi
Mlsoe HaneoaB 9
May, 1895. cases 121
Principal diseases:
Grippe '80
Malarial and eatarrbo-malarlal
fever ... 24
Sore eyes... 18
Bolls..! ...; 10
Dlarrhcea 15.
Rheumatism _ 1
Varioocele : 2
Miscellaneous, etc 90
*120
Jnne. ]895, eases .... II
Prlnolpal diseases:
Malarial and eatarrbo-malarlal
fevero'... 6
Sore foot 4
Boils 2
Mamps.... _ 1
ConvaUloas 1
Mlsoetliftneons, etc 8
16
Farloaijbs granted daring tbe
session., 2(
lseases; Asthma2, bronchitis 1, aboessei
and groin) 2.Ingrowing noil 1. malarial
3r threatening typold 4, debility from
)pe 8, convnlslonsl, balanitis 1.
oar additional furloughs were granted on
ie tbe 14th, the cadetfi not being able to die
y on tbe encampment: Hydrocele 1, de
ty from feVer 2, sore feet 1.
beg to call yonr attention to some point!
be above report. I have made a tabulated
?ment of the prevailing diseases by tb<
th In order to show tbe amount of work
a In thn TJ?iiartmnnf. I had the
llcinee compounded In the Institution by
assistant, as far as was pratlcal, so as tc
on the expense at tbe apothecary's and
ie to reduce the expenses in thla line to a
iter extent tbe next session.
be number of cases of malarial, and ca bo-malarial
fevers occurred principally
ang tbe recruits, who came to the acadmy
>regnated with latent malaria. This wai
ught out by the variable winter and inatLlon
on the part of the cadets to hygienic
is. Many of these cases occurred und reoc
Bd in tbe same cadets, thus swelling the
regate of cosai. %
be same happened with other diseases, coring
and reoouurring in the same cadets;
be Bickness this time was mostly among
recrulls, who were being oilmatlEed.
bis accounts for U?e number of Ihrlougba
led during tbe seasion and tbe large
nber of csaes reported.
larger numbor of eye cases occurred this
lion tban usu al. Some of these and some
cases were treated at my private offloe.
tie eye cases aire due principally to the kind
amps furnished by the institution and the
3le88oesH of cadets in not reporting to tb<
fl rot offoninH ThMlA lomnH
ht to be abaci loaed and the student's lamp
Btituted instead.
wo very serious cases were treated In the
ipllal, one of typhoid fever of prolonged
at!on uid one of convulsions. Both re
ered.
e case of momps appeared spontaneously
r the end of the term, bat, fortunately. tb<
sase dM not spread among the corps. Tbli
) was promptly isolated.
i the three laiit cases the private room atled
io the Hospital was a necessity, and
ves the wisdom of having it ready ioi
h emergencies.
wish to comraend the uniform good con
it and attention to duty of the two at
lees of the Hospital. Mr. Bratliiford (axel),
undergraduate. Hospital Steward, itnd
let Rawlins. Hospital Orderly, have botto
:barged their dutirs with fidelity and offl
icy, and havo rendered me good servloo.
Respectfully submitted,
Francis L. Parker, M. D.,
Surgeon 8. C. M. A.
Fresh Oysters.
ruoe's restaurant will from thin date tar
b (resb oysters at all hoars.
_/
' you want a watch that keepn time 01
ir old one repaired in first oiaaa style, ga tc
j. Bern&u, the Jeweler.
ie State of South Carolina,
COUNl'Y OF ABBEVILLE.
fhobate court.
the matter of tbe Estate of M. Richard
sod, Deceased.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
LL pursons Indebted to said ertate mns
settle with out delay, and thoue boldlnt
Ims against the estate must prosent then
iperly attested to
CC RRIE M. RICHARDSON.
Lonterey, 8. D. Executrix.
Tl .
Backet Store Locals.
A beautiful assortment of toy animals at
Racket Store.
The red flag over Racket Store Indicates a
war on blgh prloes, and'you should spend
- yonr money with tbe man tbat Is lighting
that great monster.
Look ont for tbe big red flag when yon drive
In town. Yon will find tbe Racket Store
i right under It.
When yon are In tbe city be snre to see tbat
line of dolls and toys at tbe Racket Stote be,f
fore yon go bome.
, Little colored candles and holders will be
* found at Raoket Store for Obrlstmas trees.
A beautiful line of tea sets st Racket Store
' from 0o set np to 76a They are simply beaui*
ties.
i- Building blockB with alphabet at Racket
1 8tore for 8c set.
0 Buy your little boy a box of tools at Racket
Store. Prloe 26c.
W, I
jLae n&c&et nujru i? uuucr me uig rcu img.
You mast go over to tbe Backet Store and
, see that lloe of bisque dolls. It la tbe pret1
tlest lot ever brought to this olty.
\ The wonder at the Racket Store la how can
you aell your dolls bo cheap.
k That 11.25 Bisque doll at tbe 'Backet Store is
5 a perfect beauty and quite a number of them
have been sold already.
Tbe big red flag over Coleman's Backet
1 Store means war on hlgb prices.
Go.to Backet Store and see tbat line of
dolls. x j i
Ask to see the toys at the Backet Store.
Ton will And an endless amount of toys at
the Backet Store.
Get some little toy at tbe~Baoket Store for
yoar children. Tbe smile on tbelr little faces
5 Is worth four times the value of tbe toy.
HADDON's" LOCALS, ;
New winter millinery at Haddons.
New dress goods at Haddons.
9 Carpets from 2Sct yard np at Haddons.
Corsets from 2Got np.
Thompsons glove fitting corsets white and
black at Haddons.
B. G. corsets all numbers at Haddons. j
Qnr 60c corset the best at the price at Hadi
dona.
> "i
Ladles fine shoes greatly reduced In price at
Haddons.
i. . . i
. Biderdcrwn flannels reduced aUHaddonsi
IfjoB want a flue shoe at reduced price <*11 1
at Haddons,
1/ you wish a practical Christmas present
. examine oar line. Ohenllle portlers, chenille
3 table covers, Ingrain carpets, table linens,
window shades, bed quilts, lace curtains, Ac*,
atHaddons. < (
The best kid glove* for *1 at Haddons.' i
Black dress silks at Haddons. 1
Cold dress silks at Haddons, , <
Just In at Haddons l case 50 capes.
< 1 bale 88 Inches wide sea Island at Haddons.
I 1 bale 88 Inch shirting at Haddon's.
1 bale plaid Jbomsptw at Haddons. .
1 oase bleach homspttns at Haddons.
1 ease ontings and ginghams at Haddons.
1 oase flannels^ repellent, broad cloth at :
Haddons. J
Stamped linens foj fancy work at HaddonsJ
Embrolderysilks at Haddons. J
5 Embroidery oottonaf Haddons,
School claims wanted cash or trade at Haddon's.
Oar line staple goods kept np all the year at
Haddon's.
W. r. cms' Locals.
New citron at 16 oenU per pound.
5 Good raisins at 8 pounds for 25 cents. i
Large raisins, S poands for 25 cents.
Candy, 20 oents per poand,8 poands for 85c.
Dellcloas pickeis, grated and sliced pine- ,
apple, 90 cents per can. ,
8 pound tomatoes at 10 oents. ' *
Salmon at' 10 cents per can.
Best cream cheese at 16 cents per poand. '
Large auanllty at reduced prlra
A nice line candy for Christmas.
I 1 W. F. CROSS. 1
Abbeville Supply Ce.'i Locals.
Bargains in flour. Come and Bee as for
prices on one to ten barrels. Abbeville Supply
Co.
Best cream cheese, 15 cents a pound.
Balsons 8 poands for 85 cen te.
French candy 8 poands for 25 cents.
j Best mixed outs 10 oents a pound. . \
1 Almonds and walnuts fresh.
I Big lot stick candy fresh.
' Plumes large and fine 10 cents a pound.
1 Low prices on" dried fruits.
> Gome and see us and get ready for Christ
mas. Abbeville Supply Co. ,
Wanted.
> A regular correspondent from Greenwood
wiju will uihc nnkijr loyuiib ilii iuc jt ion
i and Banner. For such service a fair price
' will be paid In caub. i. .
?
1
i If Ton Want'
To rent a boose, apply to "W. G. Cbaptman.
' He can salt you in price and locality.
i mow is tbe time to bay your Ingialn car.
pets, at Haddon'a.
! Table linens, all grades, at Haddon's.
C. P. Hammond A Co.'a Loeali.
; Call aDd see oar line of toilet slippers for
' Christmas.
Ladles over gaiters. Prices from 85 cents to
> "
See oar line of shoes.
C. P. Hammond A Co.
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| Pianos and Organs Will b$ Closed
i oat Cbeap for Ctub,
Hill & Cocbran have changed their baje .
1 and can now be found at the "Rosenberg
Hall" on the corner near the Episcopal church
' where they will be glad to serve the public.
Call on Mr. Jas. A. Hill at A. M. Hill a 8ons
' or Mr. Jas. 3. Cocbran with R. W. Cannon
and you will be supplied In the "masloal
, line/' }
Chenellle pertlern for window or hall, at
j Haddon's.
If you wish a useful Christmas present get '
an Ingrain carpet from Haddon's.
: DENTAL NOTICE.
! 8. F. KiUingsworth, j
No. 4 Seal Block, Abbeville, 3. C. <
]
Stolen Mare. !
CSTOLEN from me a bay mare on Thursday
O night, the 12th. It was a red bay mare
' with a blaze in her face and a soar on her
nose, hind feet white, and she Is very crabbed
and a pacer. ROBERT McADA.MS,
, Deo. 18/1895,? Dae West,B.C.
NOTICE.
Nlnety-8lx, 8. C.. Dee. 11.1895.?
l rflHE FIRM OP PHILLIPS BROS. & RICE
L has this day been dissolved by mutual
consent, M. LTRloe retiring from the flrm.
J. P, PHILLiro,
B. D. PHILLIPS, ,
M. L. RICE.
]
1
We have this day bought the interest of M.
L. RICE In the flrm or PHILLIPS BROS. A '
t RICE, aDd we aHome all liabilities of said <
E flrm. All parties owing the flrm of Phillips
? Broe. <fc Rice will please make payment to
PHILLIPS BROS., who are ftatborlzed to coileotsame.
PHILLlrS bboh.
Deo. 18,1895, tf
DENTAL NOTICE.
4 Dr. S.nO. Thomson,
OFFICE (JP-STAIBS ON MoILWAIN
Corner, Abbeville, a C. rJ
Dr. L. J. WHITE,
nxarxiiKC. p
i v ' ; ' '/ ' . - . t .
*a,OFFICE: Wo. 2 WHITE'S BLOCK.
March 6,1896, tf
1
Restaurant. ?
f 09
T would announce to my friends and cu*tomere
t'oat I bare moved my BESTATJ- m
RANT to Ootbran'a Block, on Washington pi
Street, where I will be glad ro serve the ptlb- jD
llo with as good meals as the provisions of
the market will aftbrd. w
HARRIET E. ADAMS.
Oct 1,1896, Cms. .
NOTICE! NOTICE I |
A Lb persons having claims against the e*
tate of Oapt B. w, LITES, deceased, late
of Abbeville county. South Carolina, will pre- ?
sent the. same to the undersigned, properly
vonched for, and those Indebted to the said
en tate will make settleinent of the same at
once. ? J. N. DENDY, Agent,
for Legatees. w
Troy, S. C., Oct. 6,1896. 8
House and Lot for Sale. |
1 OFFER MY HOUSE AND LOT in the
town of Abbeville for sale. The lot contains
two acres, the bonse eight rooms,and al
the premises in perfect repair. Every lm*
provement and easy terms. G
Apply to W. 0. MoGOWAN,
Dec. 12,1854, tf > Abbeville, B. 0.
Desirable Place for Sale,
\Jf7E offer our homeplaoe at Cokertbury for
?v sale or exchange. Premises In fine re- I
pair. 88 acres offlrstclus land. Land well "2
adapted to fruit and all crops. Pare cold w?- H
ler and perfectly healthy location. 10
wyatt Aiken, Abbeville,8.0. ) .
J. 8. Aiken, Cokesbury, 8. C. pl
Sept. 3d, *96. tf. k<
E. F. GILLIAM), j
K
m A TT AT? * ?
J XJL X JJ V/ XV 9
O AS moved, and occupied the room recent* m
13 \y occupied by J, L. Clark, tho gun* 0c
imltb, and la now. prepared to do all kinds of
repairing;and cleaning of gentlemen1* cloth ea
jn abort notice.
Sample* of anil* always on hand. Charge*
reasonable
bnssT?
and want LOW BATES to St. Louis, Mem- d
phis, New Orleana, Clnclnnatti. Louisville
[jblcago, or point* in Arkanaa^Teiaa.Miaworl,
Kansas, Colorado, Oregon, Washington,
(California, or any point Weat, IT WILL PAY ..
ZQfU to write to or nun. Excursion and J
3pec1al Ratel flrom time to tltoe, Choice of
Routes. No txoable to anawer questions. -Pi
Rate* and tnapa furnished free. Address Bt
Pbkd D. Bush, JMft. Paaa. Agent, L.4N.R. .
B.. 861-2 Wall Street, Atlanta, Ga.
July 24,1896. flm
KTICE a"
PHOTOGRAPHS!"
? al
All Sizes ^ ' ?
" ^ All Prices.
F LATEST STYLES OF FINISH. Also
copying and enlarging done atrauontble
rates. hi
I have GALLAGHER'S negatives and will
make photograph* from them.
M. V. LOMAX.
Over HADDON'S store.
School Books |
AT COST FOB CASE f
* ^ ; . i \
? ?The
Days When the Sohool Com- ?
missioner Will be in his
Offioe.
TTOE COUNTY BOARD of Examiners have A,
-- - ? ?-? ??i~ orrtJAAT
* oqngnt ior Anuovine wuut; ov/uwju
TEXT BOOKS and placed them In the care of
3cbool Commissioner who will sell them AT
DOST FOR 0A8H.
I will be In the School Commissioner's office Al
lorln^ the next scholastic year as heretofore
3N EACH SATURDAY OF THE MONTH, T
Bzcept the 1st Saturday. Also on all Sale x
Days or other pnbtic days, for the purpose of
transacting all official business; and selling or<
school books that are purchased by the Coon- ga
iy Board during the year. / T;
In order to accommodate the people every 41
lay in the week, I have made arrangements tl<
with Dr. S. F. Killlnfcsworth who may be id<
ODDd at falsoffloeln "No. 4 SEAL BLOCK" to
ittend to sale of books for me, daring the ptl
Jmes that I am absent from the office. All Dj
looks will be sold for CASH.' th
W. T. MILFORD, 7,
Oct. 28th, 189S?tf. School Com. A. C. in
THREE VALUABLE r
HI for Si {
[OFFER FOR SALE THREE TRACTS OF
extra fine farming lands of aboat
Twenty-Five Acres
jach, lying In the Incorporate limits of the
town of Abbeville, on Branoh street running O
ap to within a quarter of a mile of the Court
Hpuse and in a high state of cultivation.
Most of the lands recently clared, and well
idapted to the production of cotton, oorn, n
small grain and grapes, and especially suited
for truck farming to supply vegetables for
jperatlves or the Cotton Factory, Railroad
Macbine Shops and citizens of Abbeville
Court House. O
These tracts of land lie east of Abbeville
Dourt House, on depot branch and Carllle
oranob, and are of the best quality of np
land with ten acres of fine bottom lands. ?
I am offering these valuable farms for sale 1
because I am unable to attend to the cultivation
of them. On account of old age, and
loss of health. *
I also offer for sale a tract of
2du Acres
jf land oear Mount Carmell and Calbouu r
Mills on Bellots creeks, formerly belonging to
Si. 0. Talman. Terms favorable and prices
low.
Titles perfeot. Persons wishing to pniohase
would do well to examine these Tots or tracts
>f land, and for further Information apply to J
J. W. W. MABSHALL, Magazine
Hill, Abbeville, S. C. '
Sept. 25, 1895. pr
/
-to- ;,
PAXPAYEHS ! '
? ::'*M
? :. -*> * y^-jjjV' ; -V ^;C S < . ;rV . -7 O
ay Commutation Tax if You Do
Not Want to Work the
Boads.
^HE COUNTY TREASURER IS, EMFO Wed
to receipt for two TWO DOLLARS, oomntatlon
tax, In lieu of all road duty, wbl?h
aat be paid wten other taxes are paid, or
lor to tbe let of March. Thone not expectg
to do six day'i ftlthfal work woold
elltopay the tax.
JOHN LYON,
I
VAliUABLE ^ |
lix Hundred Acres HiM
Cokesbury Township. W
?
WILL offer for private tale a farm of SIX .
UNDBE1) ACRES iu Ooke?bnry, iowniMp , ,:r^
a fine state of caltliatlon. Tie whole
ace was sown In oow peas tbla year. Tar- H
IT creek ran* through the lan<^ ^ep)aee
id a good 'well of water. It la within on?
lie of Walnnt Gro?e Baptlat charch. Good , -'M
hool? near. Within fire mOwr of rMlroed '
immnnlcatlon. ^3
Will be aold on terms of three yeaw with' : :
ortgage of the premieea and otherwise *e
. MBS. SARAH A. AffiOW, '
n.u il
lown aa thev m|
Wilson Watkiri's Place, J
?d belonging to tbe Mtate of W. K- Bradley.
>lendid land, very good boa* tharecm, Mood ~r vl
ell, out bouses and other convenience*. J
1 that tract or parcel of land near MU Oar-'
el, known as the McCelvey Place, contain- |
262 Aores,
ore or lem.. Land In Rood condition and - ym
ghly productive. 9
TERMS-EASY. M
For any information apply to I
W. T. BBADLEY, Agent. 9
Troy, S. 0. I
NO*. 6.16S6. tf . " M
NOTICE I
itate of South Carolina, 1
County of Abbeville. 9
, W. Kay, as Receiver, Ac., and Mm. U. A.
Kay ? , Geo. L. Wilson. I
[so, Note and Mortgage Geo. L. Wilson to Jfl
Kay? Baker. ffl
VIRTUE OF WARRANTS TO SEIZE
ops unaer uen ana anaer ? novo hhi mwir
ge to me directed, in the above statedjwSes, |
rill sell to the highest bidder at publio aao* *
)D, within the legal boar* of safest the rm- a
Bnce of Geo. L. Wilson, known u the Kay cl
tee, in Diamond Hill township, on TUE&, B
VY, the 31st day of DECEMBER, 1806, all J
e right, title and interest of Qeo. L, Wilson '-i-iSM
the following described property, to wit; ' ,
oar Bales of Cotton, ]
HO Hundred and Filly Bushels i
Corn, more or lets. '
hree Thousand Bandies of Fodder*
more or less.
wo Hundred Bnsbeli or Cotton
Seed* more or less.
ALSO,
ie Black Mare Mole Based Kit, 7
years old,
ne Bine Male about four yean old I
named M9llie, - J|
ne Two Horse Wagon, Thimble JB
Skelp, and Harness,
ne Dooble Seated Phaeton and H|
Harness,
hree Milk Cows and increase,
also, h
11 his Crops of Corn and Cotton^
raised on the Kay place. |fl
CERMS?Caih.
F. W. B. NANCE, 9
Dec. 14,1896,8t Sheriff. Bj
When you want good stuff at moderate HI
Ices go to Haddon's. OH