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! ,s ,'V- - ' f''" r f ' 1 The Abbeville Press and Banlfl BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1896. ESTABLISHED T1 Tn! u* * pr S?*@ SSwM lliilfJ J1& 6?*$ B Wl S mi J || m, \J T Also This sale ber this is a ( n m. 11. rAimutt, rresiaent. \ JULIUS H. DuPI The Farmers' Banl DEPOSITS S< JL Does general banking business, bu Hons. A Savings Department has been est wards. Interest at 4 per cent, payable quarterly,Increase rapidly. P. II SI To +VlQ PI O no +/1 Qrtf A -n TT< i.O VUU 11UUO WV VIQU XLIIJ I 1U WJ Orders by Mail atte GEO. WHITE, Proprietor. WE ARE HERE! Encouraged by our success first class all nronnd stock. We are In tbe ring I bargains In something to eat. In FROUIt we lead LBADBK and. . Wo will keep a full stock of Flour, Meal, Bacor kinds, Cbeese, Maccaronl, Dried Fruits, Prunes, H Some special bargains In White and Checked 1AUo In SboeR of all kinds. A few bargains all Plows, Gearing, etc., all complete. Come and t save you money. Come and give us a chance whe I Bills' Fresli 0 -SOLD J \ H. W. LAW! dj We have just received a large W All kinds that are used i $ H. W. Law ?%%%%% %%%%> % )R T Te will s 'ERCC i a K to begin at DASH SAL] A. TV, SMITH, Tice Presldei IE, Cashier. i of Atoevillf DLIOITEIX $75,00 6,50' ys and sellR Exchange and makes Coi ablishod. Amounts received of ?1 and i -January, April, July, October. Small ss . JJJUJL7 KJ ;hing in the Line of 1111(11 nded to at once. W. D, BARKSDALE, Manager, flu i X" JT "?/ ^ 1896. i in our attempts to please the public ii n GROCERIES, and can oirer some spec with our two special brands BXCBLSIOR. >, Sugar. Coffee, Hams. Canned Goods of MisiU, Hurveys I'uro Leaf Lard, Oottolei lomespunn and Drillings. Panls, Jeans. <J around our store. Our Plow stocks, I). ;ee our stoclt and be convinced that we c in wanting anything. Garden M i ( BY- ( son & co.; ( stock of SCHOOL BOOKS. < n the public schools. 1 son & Co.! I AND ell at PRI )ATS i r T" - i ice i-ii once to make r S and at Prime it. RAILROAD WRECK, Two Freight Trains Meet, With DIs- a HtttrOIIM ItCSIllU. ip| S Last Wednesday morning two frieght trains lucl tm met on the track of the G., C. & N. Kail- wee way, some three miles from the city of ma; Abbeville. The engineR and several freight cars were badly smashed. Mr. Jake T< 0 Collet, the eng'nccr, was so badly scalded Dis that he died *iva.t night. The flagman, Mr. D Joe Black, received Injuries In the spine gar 0 which seem to be serious, though it Is hoped Uv< that, he may entirely recover. W. The accident, it is said, occurred because of He fault ot the telegraph operator at Elberton. livi When Mr. Collet's train was ready to start bon the operator at the shops asked him if the mei Northbound freight had passed. He replied, Spr "no," and Captain Collett pulled out on the gag main line. Before going more than three pon miles the trains ran together with great force, afte The deep cut prevented either from seeing in t the other until they were very close together. (Mc The wreck was a fearful one. The engines con were run together and the box cars piled up ma! on one anoiber. unc The body of the unfortunate man was taken ami In charge by McDlll Js Lyon, and when it nev was carried to the depot their fine hearse abo led the way and a great multitude of and our people went 10 the station. Besides the has brothers of the deceased, the following named has persons accompanied the corpse to Thomas- bis ville, N. C., namely : Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar, we Mrs. J. P. Garrison and daughter, Miss May last Harris, M. T. Coleman, Thomas Harris, H. E. and K. Berry, Charles Hagter aud J. Hayne Mc- plu: Dill. den The burial took place at Thomasvllle on cha Saturday evening in the presence of a great as g many people. bin The casket was beautifully ornamented to < with flowers that had been contributed by lltt: loving friends. seh The body bad been embalmed by Mr. Me- thli Dill, and notwithstanding the long delay It bro was in a perfect Btate of preservation when it ly, i = was buried. yet The Press and Banner had not a personal do 1 acquaintance with Mr. Collet, but he is spok- con en of by those who knew him as a most ex- If l cellent young man. He was correct In his hire morals and economical In his expenditures, ly j Although quite a young man, he had saved ing considerable money. One of the touching in- givi cldents connected with his tragic death was exe 3 the fact of his matrimoual engagement. He- in j port bus it that he was soon to wed a hand- has some j oung lady of North Carolina to whom hla he had only a few weeks ago sent an engage- Abl rnent diamond ring. abo When the track was cleared of the wreck ten the Northbound train proceeded on its jour- ed t liey. When within sixty miles of Richmond , j It niet?ariother train when two of the trainmen were killed. The horses, about twenty in number, were also killed. The Seaboard Air Line, lor a long time has been singular fortunate until within the last lew days That road, although It is said to rJ all have carried more passengers to the exposl- eaa ne. tlon than any other road, had no accident or ^ fco. delay in transporting a quarter of a million lUV 15. of passengers. Some days there were great we an . numbers of extra trains. au( rea 'A NOTABLE CONSOLIDATION, '"t" f> . a8' r i rea ^ The Copartnership Between Messrs. del r David Ileiitscliiier and J11I M. VI. is I 4# suiisku. be ^ i News and Courier. CUl 0 I A notable consolidation between two well- to 1 known Charleston business firms takes place ?re, rffk {today, or rather It goes into operation this . W | morning tor tne luci tnai tlie consolidation LU<: X I bad been made was announced In The News trei and Courier several weeks ago. Thecopart- 0f ^ ] nersbip referred to Is that which tias been . , ^ I formed between Messrs. Jul M. Vlsanska and ut 1 W David Bentchner. Mr. Visanska came to th ^ Charleston some years ago and opened a ten- eiw lleman'K furnishing establishment on King ^ I street opposite to Hasell. His ever courteous me treatment ut his customers, his excellent bus- ma ^ I lness abilities and his strict determination to as ^ i cater to none but the bent trade and lo carry V j none but the best goods have made for him a j wide circle of business acquaintances and 0B I friends and gained lor him much esteem and ^ | respect. Mr. Bentschner has lor many years ' conducted a clothing business at the corner I i of King and Hasell streets, and he and his g(a j house are known and respected throughout A I the city, The copartnership which goes into :"ol ^ operation today will doubtless prove to theispt A ! mutual advantage of tlie contracting parlies.! (ja] ^ ! The new ilrtn will establish ltsell in Mr. Bent- . a. ! schner's old stand at the corner of Klngi, 1 Hr | and Hasell streets, and it is announced 1 fro ^ that they will carry a large stock of the most aea I Vlindprn Jltlfl Kl.Vliuh irnndw nnmhln/llndo I wk era! clothing business Willi gentlemen's fur- a,n' Dishing goud.s. till INT] EXT ME CO! VND ne of oom for oui Cost. .. C WILLIAM COBB MOORE. Lelter of Enqnlry From Floritli he Clerk of our Court, Colonel W. It. Bu k, banded us the following letter lai ik, and we publish It In the hope that v be of Interest to somebody : Anclote, Fla., Jan. 27tb, 1890. 3 the Clerk of Court* Abbeville, Abbevll trlct, S. C.: ear Sir:?I write you for Information r ding the whereabouts of the nearest rel 5 there Is in your dlctrlct or state, of JM A. Cobb. He was bora In your count; Is si;venty-elgbt years old, and has bee ng here nearly thirty years, and Is a lorable citizen, and was one of the charU mbers of the MasoDic Lodge of Tarpo lags, a small town near us. He wa% ei ed in carrying the mall from here to Ta i, a distance of about two miles; and Jui t starting back home with the mall, earl he morning, just one week ago yesterda inday) he was stricken with craze or ui sciousness, and friends sent him and tb 11 on down, and he has remained In th oqbcIous state ever since: only at ver ill Intervals, Is he the least conscious, an er enough to give us any lnformatlo ut his relatives. He Is a very sick mai . he may not recover; yet he may, as b had a most wonderful consltution. H Dever had fever to amount to anythlni greatest trouble being his stomach, an Infer, that his head pains him. For tt two days he has spit up a little blooi : we think It has run into pneumonli rlsy or some bronchial Irouble. He ev tly CAunot stay at what he now Is?mui nge someway. He is now as comfortab entle hands urd Kind friends can mas i, but'he is constantly wanting some ot some, still cannot make it known. Oi le community has promptly stirred then fes to aid him in every possible way, but ]k it would be well, if be has a slste ther or near relative, to come Immedlati for when we do all we can in our powe it is not like a loving sister or brother, ixiret the old gentleman may yet regal sclousness enough to tell us somethin: I, Is our Heavenly Father's will to tak 1 now. at this spell, I do feel that be is fu prepared to go. He is very sick and sufle greatly but his appetite is good and ma 3 bUn strenght to pull through. Plefct rt every effort to find the nearest relath ?our district. From what we can learn, 1: a sister living and a nephew who beai name, (William Cobb Moore) Abbevill aevllle District, S. C. Any lnformatio ut his relatives, or anything that woul d to his comfort will be thankfully recel' it your very earliest conveuience by Yours truly, Mrs. S. B. Hope. Hillboro Co., Anclote, Fla. Wiiliiut Trees. .'lie tree for which $30 was paid i n some ume ago seni stauas ui <Ji yba river up at Bridgewater. Whs wrote about was advice to farmei 1 land owners to plant walnuts an r walnut trees. We took oecasio write something on the same lin >ut two years ago. We say no\ tin, poor land can be made rich b ring walnut trees on it Look ue any walnut tree and see if the so: lot rich. Aswesaid,lGO trees cai planted on each acre and the lan tivated with profit and also benefi the trees. Wesaidthatin 20 yeai es could thus be grown which woul m be worth $7i' or even more pe e. We now say furthermore, tha tlie 160 trees planted on each acr least 100 of them should arrive a : stage of maturity without interfei tlio pmnu iinrl nn nplnul nr.rii'l nt of the soil; and also, that if th u will study the nature of each tre it grows he can train them to cui 1 also probably to produce v. hurl. ? ^ lere is the way an exchange undei nds the new game law: Boo ;nts may be killed from August 1 ing poets from March to July; seal l-mongers from January 1 to Decen 1, inclusive; umbrella borrowei m February 1 to November 1; ope ,son all the year round on life insu ce agents and fellows who borro i neighbor's paper." mc\ ST our en A UNDE ? lM7vl"K LARGE SPI YOURS TRULY, RANDALL'S VIEWS. i. ? Tillman's Remarkable Speech Creates 11 a Great Sensation. le e. HE WILL NOT LIKELY BE POPULAR BUT a- DREADED. [r. y ? The Pitchfork Mercilessly Wielded ir by the Prophet of Storm and Revoa ). lnllon. ^ Augusta. Chronicle. y Washington, Jan. 29.?The cnrloslty to y hear Senator Tillman speak was so great that the galleries were crowded and the Senate floor thronged. Instead of deserting Ir the Chamber, as ordinarily happens, senators y on both sides remained in their seats, with d few exceptions. One of the notable absentees n was Senator Sherman, who may have bad u, private reasons for loitering home. At first >e Senator Tillman started to speak at his desk, te which is in the rear, but he accepted a front g. place on the invitation of Senator Cockrell. d His exordium was slowly spoken, and it was ie devoted to measured but pungent criticism of [I. senatorial dignity, freezing processes and the a, custom of reading compositions to empty 1* benches. He was visibly Impressed with the 3t vast gathering of people and thanked" senale tors lor the uncommon distinction accorded :e hlm. For about half an hour be spoke with ie slowness, occasionally glancing at a small ir slip ot paper with notes upon it. His reJ uiarkable frankness and grlui humor, as be I brushed the way for the body of bis remarks, r, awakened Interest as to wiiat this strangeand e- terrible farmer, who had "forced his way to I vernacular. Having expressed freely bis n opinion ol senalorlal dignity and explained g. that he was a con of the soil without a learned :e profession and used to open air combat, he 1- pulled from the desk a roll of manuscript and r- raised quite a laugh when he said that as he y was just a little frightened, be would read an <e essay himself. He then delivered himself, ta with alternate impromptu bursts of wit, ie sarcasm and denunciation, of one of the most rs wonderful addresses ever heard on the floor e, of the Senate. He scored both parties wiih n merciless severity, and with what somebody d lias called "brutal candor." What thousands v- of men have In their own fashion, thought or privately uttered, he spoke "right out in meeting," to the manifest amazement of not a lew senators, who were, directly or Indirectly, the subjects of excoriation. When he dealt with the President and Cabinet his "pitchfork." was in full and tremendous action. The President was up the river shootn lng ducks,and possibly meditating Armenj. lan or Cuban messages, but he may, on his re iuru, peruke auc v-uugiciraiuuiu xveuoru uiiu it behold in type what this South Carolina man 8 of the new time thinks of him and his career. As senator Vilas Is to speak tomorrow, we ' may look for extravagant eulogy of iMr. ' n Cleveland as an offset to Tillman's vitriolic 1 e attack. Only one senator ventured to Interv rupt the South Carolina farmer-statesman and It woula have been better perhaps if he y had remained silent. The venerable Senator l- Hoar, of Massachusetts, who can be quite Si peppery himself, disclaimed an lnterpretat^ion put upon some words of his about Southern men, but Tillman answered him so tartcl ly that the old gentleman, though he refrainit ed from pushing the encounter, was visibly 11 confused and wrathful. Something like an s awful hush, broken only by the slabbing d language of the speaker, fell upon the whole audience when he solemnly warned the "gold ! conplrators and millionaires" to beware of it; the wrath to come unless they took their grip e from the throats o* the people. The orator, t with flushed brow and vehement gesture, grew into a prophet of storm and revolution, r- what his brother said in Augusta and repeats I- at Clark's Hills to his neighbors. Ben Tillp man disclosed upon the floor of the Senate! e and predicted that the people would right ] e their wrongs with the ballot or the bullet.1, el unless legislators and Presidents, who had [ habitually betrayed them, turned back in! 1 their desolating work. No doubt, he will be ] I u?u?uicu, nuicuieu, ana launicu Dy some |, metropolitan papers anil the bondboldlng or j moneyed classes, but no matter what may be j r-1 thought ot his utterances. I am of opinion | k | that it is just as well somebody, in Congress, . disclosed the truth or what seems to many j ' thousands the truth, and so cleaned the at-J1 1- mosphere of fog and mystery. Go back to | 1- our earlier history and you will see that what , Calhoun. John Randolph, Thos. Jeilerson, ' Patrick Heniy and other mighty spirits fear-i U ed is no less apprehensive today, and that j P Tillman is announcing in unconventional, possibly uncharitable, plainness what they i w proclaimed In more stately or classic phrase, j II must liavo made the old goldbug aboil iJm DAT tire line oJ / RWEAI ITOSH" I tlNG STOCK" cxsiv 9 tionlsts wince when Tillman charged that they bad freed 4,000,000 negro slaves only to' reduce 60,000,000 w.hlte freemen to bondage, and he made a palapable hit when he wither* 'I113 ed Mr. Frye's eloquence by telling him that "the Armenians were at his doors," paraph- nam rasing Randolph's celebrated reply about the 801VI Greeks. Another "palpable hit'r was when be sent to the Clerk's desk and had read the _ following letters written by Senator Sherman, found in a book published by one of the faml- maK ly in 1894: Senate Chamber, May 10, 1862.?Page 150.? 1,0 "Even under terrible financial pressure and ? drain of active war, the country Is flourish- 1 ing. Much of this may be Induced by infla- J tion of paper money, but gold is abundant, foreign importations active, and foreigners VV are making investments here heavily. In my experience In public affairs I have never Pa,r known times more easy." aaaI May 7,1863. Page 284 - "Nearly every man is ter a paying off his debt. The inflation of currency and rise of property make this easy. Un- _ luckily lor me, most of my money is or was ae' in "bills receivable." Thesf* ar? naid. or will ' be, and so I find myself with plenty of mon- a_ ey, bat can't buy anything at reasonable prices. This Is the general rule of creditors I*| and perhaps It Is better so for the community, 1 as the creditor class can more easily bear the loss of Inflation." Nov. 4,1868, Page 915.?"The wonderful prosperity of all classes, especially of laborers, has a tendency to secure acquiescence in all measures demanded to carry on the war. MJ And this is not shown simply by inflated s"i, pricey, but by Increased production, new man- reDa ufac-.uring establishments, new railroads, onF8| houses, etc. Indeed every branch of business g-, isactiveand hopeful. This is not a mere tem- reafi( porary inflation caused by paper money, but is a stf"H v progress, and almost entirely upon , actual pltai. The people are prospering. T itt Taxes are paid cheerfully." Ill V Jan. 20,18W Page 223.?The general prosperity of the country is so marked that I am afraid of a reaction, or a collapse. The cur- tt< renoy is awfully Inflated, and our ability to JlL borrow and pay Interest has a limit. Still, T , we have a sure foundation of public credit, a JjlV great country and large and active population." r T\ Nov. 10, 1805, Page 259.?"The truth Is the A ? uiumc ui iuo wtti witu uui icauuaca UUIUI^UU* ed, slves an elevation, a scope to ideas of leadlDg capitalists far higher than anything ever undertaken In this country before. They Thi talk of millions as confidently as formerly of past, thousands. No doubt the contraction that must soon come will explode merely visionary schemes, but many vast undertakings will be executed. Among them will be the Pacific Railway, etc. But I need not proceed In this review. A very clever synopsis may have already been made ol the speech by telegraph and the ^ whole oration will soon be given to the couu- r 1 try. Suffice to say, that at one bound, Sena tor Tillman has gone to the front of the Senate and he will never want for an audience when he;is announced to speak. He will be A1 formidable In debate. It Is very likely that he will not be popular, so to speak, on either side of the Chamber, for he evidently mistrusts both great parties, but he will be dreaded. As a last word I may slate that his speech tjj Is couveyed in generally excellent, nervous, X c< epigrammatic Eng'lsh, and that its argument rates els well as Its Invective, is clean-cut, logical I h; and precise. James R. Raudall. make - No maD who owns a row can afford ^ to have her afraid of hiin. It is a loss ^ to the owner every time she is frighten3d. To run a cow to pasture is throwing money away. The cow is a milkmaking machine, and should be kept in the best working condition.?one of -juiet. A cow inanyway worried, will not do her best. Make pets of the 30W8 and thev will make money for The the owner. The milk of a frightened 3r abused cow is poisonous. The Spartanburg Herald says, some hph men try advertising as the Indian J tried feathers. He took one font hop ----- - f? * , | ?5CIH)( laid it on a board and slept on it all COST niirht. In the morning he remarked, 1 ^ "White man say feathers heap soft ;]$>[{; white man heap big fool." Some j excei business men invest a quarter or fifty j I>?y? cents in advertising and the becausej^boo they do not at once realize a greatly Bo increase of business declare that!*",! advertising does not pay. wljfu I lound When a Christian goes wrong, he i tiroes makes it that much harder for some booki sinner to go right. 0ct / / / A iE! ING. 4 its,. i ES. j Rememr ' , i J'f'l . . .- , *^}.._ ::;m r vm ; >3 Dissolution. [E partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned under the firm Xv e of LIPFORD <* DUNN is this day dla- I ed by mataal consent. - '"-Sffl B. L. LIPFORD, ' -rr"M W. R. DUNN. m rties Indebted to the firm will please ' ;e prompt payment to W. R. DUNN. > W. R. DUNN. maids, S. C., Jan. 1, 1896,3t ' 13 . i jk desirable Place for Sale, "E offer our homeplace at Cokesbury for sale or exchange. Premises In fine re- i"? . 93 acres offirstclass land. Land well H )ted to fruit and all crops. Pure cold waind perfectly healthy location. Wyatt Aiken, Abbeville, 8. C. 1 J. S. Aiken, Cokesbnry, 8. C. pt. 3d. '95. tf. . F. MILLIARD, '.TAILOE, .VI &.S moved, and occupies the room recent* ly occupied by J. L. Clark, the gonb. and Is now prepared to do all kinds of lrlng and cleaning of gentlemen's clothes - ;:i iort notice. mples of salts always on hand. Charges >nable ery, Feet aii Sals Slate . "1 , >. ' . >; &.VING BOUGHT THE INTEREST OP \V. 8. Cotbran In the arv. and Salo StahlflH. ? Fill Continue Business at1 I the Old Stand. 4 anklng my friends for the support injttae I I solicit a continuance of tbe same. fl J. S. STABK. ~NIOE :M HOTOGHAPHS! ah 9 -ah rriucs. LATEST STYLES OF FINISH. Also.' jpylng and enlarging done at reasonable H ave GALLAGHER'S negatives and will 5 photographs from them. M. V. LOMAX. "Ov<jr HADDON'S store. B chool Books M AT COST FOR CASH- I Days When the School Com- ^ missioner Will be in his ] E COUNTY BOARD of Examiners have J nought for Abbeville County SCHOOL 9 T BOOKS and placed them In the care of )i commissioner wno will sell mem AT 1 FOR CASH. < V 111 be In the School Commissioner's office ~ ik the next scholastic year as heretofore :ACH SATURDAY OK THE MONTH, |R >i the 1st Saturday. Also on all Sale or other public days, for the purpose of acting all official business; and selling >1 books that are purchased by the Coun- BH ard during the year. artier to accommodate the people every n the week, I have made arrangements Dr. S. F. KIlllnKSwortb who may be I at his office in "No. -1 SEAL BLOCK" to JDB d to sale yf books for me, during the that I am absent from the office. All ) will be sold for CASH. W. T. MILFORD, * , IMtli, 1895?tf. 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