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f TheAbbcville Press and Banner.1 BY HUGH 'ILS0N- aBBEILLEVS, C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1896. ESTABLISHED 1844 ?j| ______ ^ \ \ ? WARRENTON'S I>P?fh * >11 ? VWIo TLV,? ?J Blow Hi ?nse Bftll?j'ieii/pT iladel, S... jff?. C., June 29. ISJ Oupfnrmo VVarren? cheerful a sain. K'?od rar tfKfore'"1^n?n? ?"<! crops |jam bti"nuSTbe,terMDC"e 1,Ce h! \rV a r At /of our farmers, has I iDlornie'd ii? t?SCi'^aler,l,elon!<' an'1 we K'lad to hear a! fjF? lm* beeu w?*??ng "itev.0 ||apxien^ul,15lin. of Sharon, pas.' through town'?* vvee'? 011 hi? way to Ant v'"e. .. T- . -Messrs firs' , '\eonedy, lorn Milfo ll trrv si'mP: Penney. K. B. and J. ... "tiit nstung on Little River It 'iieat nam y^nd cauuht about forty pouiK I ^n'Bloa out time tlsh fry. anunaa a-, Lawson spent Saturday wi / i7..r v'ilsou anil family Fondvtlle. * w^Vi'jS Allen and family, of Pondvlli v.'Jf. "H f Jenas In town last Wednesday. \<r i->oaedy Watson, ol Mi. Ortnei, spei ulgbt with Mr. J. E. Cheatham, wTavojust been informed ol the deji 1 nr?yice owen. He was a sjood citizen an rlnu^whose death all reurets to hear. H iVitfes a lame family. Jr. P. A. Koche and family spent a day an -"*??Wfsrht with Mrs. S. K Cheatham last week. Warrentnn again victorious. Tins time tb scores stood 3 to 0 in our favor over Lebanot The "Boys in Black" played a good game i they di'l have three of Abbeville's cracl players, Russell, Hammond and Kord, tw of Monterey's heavy hitters aud four of th best Lebanon could put on the diamond t play against. The special feature of the garni was the fair, decisive and correct decisiou o 1 tie umpire, Mr. Willie Bass. We heard sev eral, capable of Judging, speak in the highes terms of his rulings, and the ladles have ask ed that he be elected permanent umpire. Th* game was witnessed by about 175 people What has become of Troy. Antreviile, Mount Carmel and Abbeville? We want a game oi ball from each, so let us hear from you. Don't forget the picnic ou the 18th of July. Candidates and ail are Invited, and lull baskets. too. Speeches, dancing, tennis and a game of base ball at 4 p. m. to entertain the crowd. "Ino," ol the Medium, says In Its last issue, that Clio hus gotten into a hornet's nest on account of what was said regarding the Citadel. So far we have only criticised some things done there. We can make some state merits that would startle any citizen, aud we may do It though several have advised me not to do it, hut let it rest as I am now not connected with the institution, and rather than create a heated controversy with the authorities, think it is better to let it sink into oblivion, but! can say If au iuvestlgaliou Is made some things would very probably be revealed that would be hard for some of the Faculty and tiuarter-M ister to explain. What aooui cQarglug one hundred auu thirtyflue Cadets twenty-live cents eacii for a bath room when the Quarter-Master is required Ui Jurnlsh a bath room? Is that right? What about charging one hundred and thirty-live Cadets Jo cents each to get washing done at laundry and then allowing clothes to he missed without requiring laundry man to produce them, also when money was appropriated by the State to pay fpr washing and a bath room ? Think over it candidates for the Legislature and let us hear from you during the campaign. Clu^ | DUE WEST, ft Personal*? Keniovinir nn Vi(| i.ihmIin n r k?P1 sourc^rfC.. July <i. MM. amusement with la,,iWiRd eentle^2#of the town Is tennis. Hy the time thff>otice appear the historic old Lindsay ball wijl^be in the course of de Birucuon. uu muuuii) .iui) u, jo;?u, n? ueBtructlou was commenced. Erwin Brown lee, after a long spell of sickness, Ik again able to be out. Mr. Cruz is looking alter the Female College at present. Mrs. Steward and children are at Dr. Cain's. Mr. L. M. Pratt was up from Greenwood Monday to see his friends. Rev. H. C. Buckoby, of Chester, has been agisting Mr. Brown In a series of meetings thiR last week. .Mr. Buckoby is an earnest and ready speaker. Two accessions. W. K. Ellis, of Donalds, attended services Wednesday. The game of ball irt Piedmont Saturday morning betweeu Due West and Piedmont resulted in a shutout for Due West against 15 for Piedmont, Kverythlng Is now completed for the remodeling of the Euphemiau hall, aud will cemmence immediately. Miss Eunice Todd is teaching a summer 6chool at Annie, S. C. Messrs. Keitt, Bowden, Wideman and Latimer, candidates lor Congress, have been about and near Due West, loving the dear people for all they are worth. (jeo. E. Prince, Esq , of Anderson, has been perambulating, among his friends in Due West. Married, July 5tb, Mr. Joe Wright, of Due West, and Miss Hall of Donalds. Rev. J. A. Brown preached Id Lowndcsvllle Sabbath day. A. A. Pearson aDd S. J. Todd will soon take a irip to lbp springs on bicycles. Joseph L. Keltt, of Newberry, a classmatc of ours, was around losee us last week. He is a candidate for congress from tbls district. An abler man for the position cannot be found In the district. Kev. O. Y. Bouuer preached at Sunny Slop Sabbatb evening. J. O. C. Flemmlng, of I,aureus, is visiting friends here. We hope the mud will all give out by the time the mud slinuers reach Abbeville. The picnic at Greenville church has been changed from the fourth Saturday lu July to the third Saturday. The picnic on Saturday. July 4th Inst., near Mr. Robert Pratt's, of Level Land, was quite a success. A large crowd was present, and of course ihe candidates were there In full force. The picnic was of a threefold naiure, social, political and educational. Speeches on educational subjects were made by Rev. O. Y. Bonner, of Due West, Rt-v. C. E. Hurts, of Honea Path, and Mr. James Mann, of Oxford, Ga.; and on political subjects by Messrs. Prince, Shuinan, Latimer. Keitt, Gary, Magill, Lomax, Rowden and othe s, and ptople themselves oxred for the social part of It. All were In good humor and seemed to enjoy themselves. CliriNtiaii KiMleiivorcrN! Are you goinc to the Washington Convention, July 7th to loth ? You should know that the Seaboard Air Line makes the quickest time fo VVauhlntftnTi Thnt. thi> Kcuhouril A i ? l.inc operates the llnest double dally service iu the Southern States to day. That the Seaboard Air Line with Its famous "Atlanta special" hold* the palm for the most Comfortable aDd Luxurious, Vestibule Limited Train, running solid, without change from Atlanta to Washington. That the Seaboard Air Line will carry you through the most interesting and picturesque section of the South, passing through Atlanta, Athens, Elbertou. Greenwood, Chester, Clinton. Monroe, Charlotte, Hamlet,Southern Pines. Kalelgh, Henderson, Weldon, Petersburg. Richmond, Fredericksburg. Alexandria. That the Seaboard Air Line oilers you what no other through line can oiler The choice of routes, via Richmond or via Norfolk. Old Point Comfort and Chesapeake Kay, either route possessing attractions for the sightseer not approached by less fortunate Iiu<s. And don't forget that the Seahoard Air Line will make you a half rate to Washington and return, Irotn all points in the Southern States. Apply early for tickets, Sleepers and information to Agent Seaboard Air Line or write to T..I. Anderson. Ueu'l Pass'r Agent, Portsmouth. Va. To be always intending to live a new life; but never to find to set about it. This is as if a man should put ofl eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. A word spoken in season has served to arrest the mad career of one hastening on to ruin. A single smile has been to a darkened heart like a beam of sunshine in a closed room. A single wanton leer has lured a man 10 crime and sbame. A single idle word or innocent jest may be the seed of a harvest of shame, sin, and blasphemy Cool rain water and soda will remove machine grease from washable fabric. !. SPLENDID INSTITUTION. rs- The ]>uc West Female <'olIejje. the In another column will In* seen an adi tiseruent of the Due West Female College, will be noticed that this Institution, wh lC. has done so much for the county and Stt A asks for patronage solely on the ground are merit. As will he seen from Its catalogui ive has a corps of fifteen teachers?among tlx such men as J. I. Mct'aln, I'll. I)., P. L Gri UKt K. L. Iteitl and .1. L. Pressiy and others equ arc l.v as competent. In the mutual deparunt lor Miss J. M. Edwards, Miss V.G.Atkins a Miss Pressiy, all fine musicians and expi sed ienced teachers. Miss Wallace, of Kentuck re. has charge of the Art Department, and t art exhibit at the recent commencetnet rd, I which it is said. "Would have reflected creci k! on one of the masters." is a sufficient guara ist ' tee for her ability to teach. jSi j In every department the College will I .i.u.<iuaui.i ?-i|uifu>eu, ana 11 does seem to' Hi that the citizen of Abbeville County, reus,. less of oreed, ought to investigate the mi, |ei of this home institution before sending ?n daughters elsewhere. This 1m not, as is'P* at posed by many, a denomiri.itionai colleu.i'; is positively Ciiristian, butuon-secUiria ^ ?l) are told that there were pupils in the!1,00 ,1 last year representing almost every Ch, an. e denomination. Why go to the exp"? , sending your daughters away, when s,u j vantages are otl'ered you at home? \ T XT A T\nmn k IV A WJL'B. 4 0 >. j School Cloning?Finn C'ron ot/^,,ou 0 1 ?Other Items. / Iva, S. C., Jul**2- ls:'cl The health of this community ivery good - at this time. J Our country has been blessec ^*1 B0O(1 . rains and crops are looking flr> The past I few days of clear weather was Kr?l,J' eDjoyed I ??y our farmers. .< blackberries are eetting ripe/ i>,eB wi" be the order of the day now. It was our pood fortune to/-<tend 1,1 e clos" ins exercises of Prof. J. F. H: .??r'8 school on Tuesday, .June !), lS'.iC. and ard a nice address by Gen. M. L. Boiihar' >!' Anderson. Crops are looking fine. Ate oats are a failure. Those that were 8' /n early, and also the wheat crops are fair./'l'he fruit crop is not as was thought weeks a J. Peaches are falling oir from soite pailfc.' , Mr. John Kvals, formerly of near here, died at Bordeaux, Sunday, June 13,1S9u, anil was Onried next day at GTeenvllle church. Aged about 80 years. Mr. W. M. Stewart has completed his storehouse at this place. Messrs. j. I,. Jackson and It H. Newell attended Court at Anderson last week. HAPPX YOUNG PEOPLE, / Picnic t\h It rooks* Mlll-Tlie "Swell" Avvcnl oi tlic Season. Wednesday a number of tlie young PeoMfTenjoyed a picnic and a day's outing at "rH?ks' mill. The picnic was given by the youfci# men jn honor of Mips Alma Turblvllle. i ^Iacon, G?.. and Ml*s Adeline Clayton, ot |\^rantn, Oa. The chaperones were Mrs. Wallace and Miss Jennie Corrle. All enjoyed themselves. The following were preseuf: Miss Alma Turbiville, Miss Adeline Clayton, Miss Ollie Hill, Miss Plevna Seal. Miss Bessie Jones, Miss Alma Corrle. and Messrs. Albert Henry, Perrin Quarles, Kobert Jones, Bradley Hesse, Will White, Less Smith aud Julian Corrle. DIED IN TEXAS, Cione Where (lie Good I>i?rkieN Cio. Editor Press and Banner: Please allow space in your columns to say to our many old friends?white and colored? of Abbeville that llev. John Teames, Sr., a former teacher and preacher of your county, but wno, some years ago, caine west, passed away on June 7th at 5:80 p. m. iu full triumph of Christian faith. He was a former slave ol Prof. David Duncan, of Spartanburg, S. C. He leaves a wife, six grown children and many grandchildren to mourn his loss. John F. Teames. Salt lor Fruit Trees. In your Fruit Grower, a correspondent asks in regard to salt for pears and other kinds of trees. Let me tell of a sea captain who always had beautiful pears, while his neighbors could not raise any: on being questioned in regard to the matter replied : "I salt 'em." Salt is one of the best fertilisers known. I have used it many years on all kinds of trees and on my garden. Put it on so thick that it looks like a fall of snow. I have just salted my trees and currents. Twenty years ago I planted pear trees, and one Baitlett would blossom full a perfect mass of white, but no fruit for four years, and then I applied the salt, four quarts spaded iu, and since then it has been an enormous bearer. The best fertilizer for peach trees is urine. The best place for a peach tree is plauted by a sink drain or pear tree. I have the early and late Crawford each side of my drain, twenty.five feet high, that can't be beaten for fruit. IJ,se salt liberally, and you kill thousands of insects and the white grubs which are so destructive to the strawberry plant. Many farmers here use tons of salt on their fields with great results. It is cheap, easily applied and no danger in the use. It i? a great retainer of moisture. I apply it bountifully among my Cuthbert raspberries, it keeps the ground moist and does not produce weed seeds. Port Royal and Western Carolina R. R. Augusta aud Ashevillc Short Line. J. B. CLEVELAND, Receiver. Schedule in Etfi-ct June 21,1S9G. Eastern Time. Lv Augusta 9 40 urn 0 :!0 am Ar Greenwood 12 17 pm 9 08 am Ar Anderson 7 SO pin Ar Laurens 1 15 j?m 10 08 atn Ar Greenville 2 55 j>m Ar Glenn Serines 4 05 jnn A r Spartanburg 3 00 put II 20 pin Ar Saluda 4 38 pin 1 15 pin Ar llemlersonville 5 r>1 jnn 1 15 pm Ar Ashevillo C 15 pm 2 40 pin Ar Hut Springs? 4 03 pm Ar Waynesville 4 32 pm Ar Morrlstown C (HI pm Ar Knoxvllle 7 25 pm Ar (;incinnattl 7 15 am Ar Louisville 7 00 am Lv Louisville S 15 pin Lv Cinrinmitti S Oil pm Lv Knoxville 7 :!0 am Lv Morristowti 9 55 am Lv WayneKvillo Ill 20 am Lv Hot Springs... 11 58 am Lv Asheville S 20 am :! 15 am Lv llendersonvillo 9 15 am 3 ?7 pm Lv Saluda 9 45 am 4 20 pin Lv Spartanburg 11 45 ain 0 20 jnn Lv Glenn Splines 9 00 am Lv Greenville 11 55 ain 4 00 pm Lv Laurens 1 IV) pm 7 55 pm Lv Anderson 1" 25 am Lv Greenwood 2 2S pin S 50 pin Ar Augusta 5 05 jnn 11 10 am Ar Savannah 6 30 am 7 SO am Ar Jacksonville 11 50 nm Lv Greenwood 5 SO pin 2 15 ain Ar Italeigh 1 80 nm 11 35 tun Ar Norfolk 7 SO am 5 50 pm A r Piitunjkiipir Kllftnin ** .ft l.lil Ar Richmond 6 40 urn <i 45 put Cose connections at Greenwood for nil points on S. A. L. audi!. Si G. Railways, and at Atlanta to the West. l'ullman Sleeping < ars between Charleston, So, vannah and Spartan hurt:. For Kates and Schedules, apply to W. .T. CRAIO. Gen. Pass. Agent. AueuRta, Ga. Cohen's spring stock has begun to come In and it will pay you to see them before buying I \ N ,* Uic Way Through." . "Tiit ^ooc*a1^ l'ie way t'1"." a liff 1# oro b?y to me one asV( oflere l)a9ket apples for sale. \ 'er- jr.ioughts flew at once to Queen ieh Eli/1*1'8 remar^> when she felt sc ne. the difference between the oi , promise of her counsellors and su\ m"^ers ?^ta^e *n tbe beginning, and er, tjiailureand disappointment in the a,-L: ''Like a basket of apples, fair |ti beautiful on top, but withered and ei- ten on me Dottom." ine mue ney. jo's word?, "All the way through," a good motto to live by. lit A grocer, initating a new clerk into 'he mysteries of his trade, seeing him 'on the first day of work tilling a peck measure for a customer with potatoes of fair size from bottom to lop, said : "See here, that won't do; we keep two sizes of potatoes! Fill the measure half way from the barrel of small potatoes, and finish from the one containing the large ones; the bigpotatoes sell better than the small ones." "I prefer," said the young man, "to fill my measures with the same quality all the way through." His honesty lost him liis place, but not his reputation, which gained him a better. Elsewhere it was argued that the integrity which considered the customer's interest, would hold good with the employer. Two boys competed at school for a prize offered for tbe best original essay on a given subject. One studied tbe subject with all tbe ability of whicb he was capable, and then wrote the best essay possible for him. Tbe other cribbed paragrnphs and pages from encyclopedias and other authorities, and strung them together with his own words. The wise old professor, when the verdict was given in favor of the former supplemented it by saying: "It is bv no means the best essav. but it is honest all the way through." The other is not the production of the boy who presents it, but a mixture of his own and other people's writing. It cannot compete as an original essav." Two farmers in the South sent bales of cotton to market to be sold. The cotton of one was sampled, and classed siood all the way through. It brought its owner a price that gladdened his heart, and repaid him for his toil. The other had hid away in a coating of fair cotton an inferior article, which brought the whole down to its own valuation. We know of nothing the Almighty has made which shows a precious outside to hide fraud within. The earth has buried in her bosom richer treasures than the shows upon the surface. The ocean, so bare and cold above, covers goodliest treasures beneath. The lesson is a good one for us to learn ; for when the superficial stratum of good is exhausted: there is nothing left but rottenness within. ? ? m m ? "Awful." The school girl's use of "lovely'' to express all the varied emotions of the human heart is proverbial. The u*e by matron, maid, and child of "awful" and ''awfully" may not yet have been tnade proverbial by general newspaper comment, but it is none the less one of the commonest cases of assault and battery against the English language. We corrected the children when they said : "It was awful hot in the schoolhouse to-day;" "Johnnie Barnes cheated awfully at marbles," "The teacher read an awful funny story this afternoon ;" and they pleaded in excuse, "Everybody says awful." We kept a partial record one day. The neighbor who came to return a sample of borrowed coffee, said, "It was awfully good." And she was a former school mistress, too ! Another neighbor came to see if we wauted one of her kittens, "They were too awfully cunning to drown." A caller said, "Did you notice the mistake the choir made last Suuday ? Wasn't it awful ?" Another cailer told us that the streets were "awfully dusty," and that "Mrs. Brown, the new milliner, had some awfully stylish new hats." The servant girl thought the steak looked as if it would be "awful tough." And so it went on through the whole day. At supper-time the big dictionary was brought out and the definitions of the obnoxious words were read and explained. Then, by common consent, a system of fines and rewards was inaugurated as an incentive to reform. "Eternal vigilance" proved to be indeed "the price of success," but wofnlifnlnoaa wnn tho vintArv anH "awful" and "awfully" were soon successfully boycotted. The children found little difficulty in supplying appropriate adjectives and adverbs In place of the objectionable ones. But what was the consternation of mater familias, the chief reformer, constantly to come upon "awful" and "awfully" in the bedtime stories chosen from the children's pages of dilterent religious papers and in the first-class youth's periodicals as well. Marking the words for several weeks in different children's stories in papers and books proved that the use of "awful" and "awfully" is well-nigh as common in print as the record-keeping day had shown them to be in general conversation. The question arises, then, Does common misuse make that misuse allowable in spite of Webster? Do these story writers for children who use the words put them in to follow the realistic rule of the modern school, "to portray lifejust as it is"? And if so are they right in assuming that all sorts and conditions of children (as tlie stories would indicate) do say "awful" and "awfully" with such lluency oiwl 9 rf otlioi* ivmtlwivu <iru instituting reforms in conversation 'should not writers for children assist them by not allowing their characters to use adjectives so indiscriminately. Or, if realism demands that some of the characters must do so, can the au? thors not invent a child character who will correct the little language iconoclasts, not in a priggish way, but as real children in real life, often do correct one another's mistake ? J know nothing can make up for such a loss ns vours. Hut vou will still have love on earth all around you, ami his love is not dead. It lives still in the next world for you, and perhaps with you. For why should not those who are gone, if they are gone to their Lord, be actually nearer us, not farther from us, in the heavenly world? Servant of Small Things. . \ There is no more helpful person in \ ai^y household than the one who does ' the little things; the one who "picks v up'\and puts things to rights generally ; tiae one who has an eye to neatness I knd ontjer, and who takes hundreds of ! steps every day, doing the small things of We. \ I^aave ii*. mind a girl of twelve years | who\is the\weet and helpful servant of smtyl thii'igs in her own family. There are several disorderly brothers? and brothers are apt to be disorderly and not very efficient when it comes to picking upvthings.X No servant is keplUn the family and this little Rioter doeS, so many small things- She gbes abou'fc^every morning with a broom iuid sweeps up scraps of paper, twine, thread, or anything that may be littering the floor, \ She arranges books and magazines neatly on the sitting room table. \?>he hanfes up garments in closets or wherever they should be hung. Sl^ closes ^ureau drawers and arranges things neafciy on the bureau or dressing c&se. She j>uts away any article that may be out of place. She dusts mantels and rutins downstairs to get the morUing paper for father, and upsfairs to g;et something for mother. Her feet are almost continually running about in t1?e service of others, and her hands are continually doing small things?small but necessary things that some one must do or there will be disorder and discomfort in that household. \ I sometimes think that these servant^ of small things are the most useful servants in the.world, aud that they are but half appreciated. Think of the confusion that would prevail if their work were left undone. There'are 90 many small things to be done in the service of God, and there are so many good people who are singularly blind regarding the necessity and the utility of tbese small things. There are hundreds of little words to be spoken and little deeds to be done. The servauts of small things have a h inrh r\ I o no on/1 o Kinli irulna in SMrtrl'a ui^u aiiu a ui^u *aiuu iu vjv/u a sight. His way of measuring the true value of their services is not our way. The spirit in which we do God's work counts for more than anything else in God's sight. If we are filled with his Spirit, we will gladly and cheerfully be servants of small things. -- SnviuK Power of Marriage. I have noticed that a married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because bis spirits are soothed and relieved by domestic endearments, and self-respect kept alive by finding that, although abroad be darknews and humiliation, yet there is still a little world of love at home, of which he is monarch. Whereas a single man is apt to run to waste and selfueglert?to fall to ruins, like some deserted mansions, for want of inhabi LULIIM. X uavc U1LCU UttU UUt'OOIUli IU mark the fortitude with which womeu sustain the almost overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character that at times it approaches sublimity. "Oh, doctor, I have sent for you, certainly. Still I must confess that I have not the slightest faith in modem medical science." "Oh, that doesn't matter in the least. You see, a mule has no faith iu the veterinary surgeon, aud yet he cures him all the same." THE TELEPHONES. ? - Growing Popularity of This Important Institution. The list, of subscribers to the telephone shows Its Increasing popularity with our people. It Is only a question ot a little t'roe when nearly everybody will be In close touch with all tbelr neighbors. It Is certain that no one who uses the telephone for a while will ever be without It. These are the subscribers: Aiken, Wyatt, residence 22 ADoevme Lumoer \jo., otoce & Abbeville Supply Co.. store 8 Bailey, B. F., residence 42 Barnwell, B. S., residence 23 Bank, National 31 Bank, Farmers 87 Bemau, R. C., store 7 Brown, C. D , residence 28 Cohen, A., store H5 Cohen, A., residence 39 Cotlmin, W. S., residence <> City Council Chamber 41 DeBruhl, M. P., residence 14 DeBruhl & Lyon, office Ellis, J. C., residence 21 Gary, E. B.. residence Graydon, E. G., residence Haddon, R. M Hammond, C. P. ?fc Co., store 47 Harden. J. M., residence Harris House, hotel 9 Harrison & Game, store 4 Harrison, Dr. F. E., residence 5 Hemphill, R. R., residence Hill, Dr. L. T., residence 33 Hill, Dr. L. T.. Speed's 13 Hill & Sons, A. M., stable 30 Hotel, McCants KI ugh, J. C.. residence 44 I^iwsoii, J. M., store 45 Link, R S 27 Livingston ic Perrin, Ntore 1 Lyon, .1. Fuller, residence 24 Maxwell, J. L., market 32 McDi 11 & Lyon, store 28 McDUl <& Lyon, residence 24 McGowan, W. C., residence Mill, Cotton 15 Mill, (Ml 49 Morse, A. B., store Morse. A. B., residence 7\3 nn fl'or I?r fi A rnttlrintwu IP. 1 l'arker & McGowan, office Parker, \V. H., residence Press and Banner, ollice 10 Post Ollice 27 tj,uark'8, T. P., oflice 40 <.?uarlc8,T. P., residence 51 Reader, A. B., store SO Reese, H. D., residence ' ltoseuberg, P. A Co., store 88 Rosenberg, P., residence 23 Seaboard Air Line, depot 50 Seaboard AW Line,shops Southern, depot 19 Sign, J. \V., shop 4U Sign, J. W.. residence Smitii, A. W.. store 3 Smith, A. W., residence !H Smith, J. Alien, residence 415 Smith & Sons, W. Joel, store 29 Smith, W. Joel, residence 1" Speed, I'. B., drun store 18 Speed, P. R., residence Staik, J. S., stable 32 i Templeton, K. A.,store 12 Templeton, E. A., residence ViRauska, G. A., resldeuce 25 i White, Goo., store S White, Geo.. residence White, L. W., store 48 White, L. W., residence Williams, K. W.. College 2(1 Younger, J. C., market 11 Younirer. J. (J., residence Abbeville I.ituiber Co. The Abbeville Lumber Co. haR just received I a car loud of sash, doors and blluds, which , they will sell at bottom prices. All kinds of dressed lumber at lowest prUe3 Now Is the time to put up your blinds. Call and buy them from the Abbeville Lumber Co. MAY BE 6INGING FISHES. A Phenomenon of the Sea Which la Interesting and Mysterious. Here is an account of a phenomenon of the Pascagoula river in Mississippi, to which, although it is not generally known, the attention of naturalists has been called on account of its mystery. At times very remarkable sounds are heard at the mouth of this river. The local fishermen say that it is "the spirits singing under the water." It is a murmuring sound, which rises gradually and then falls to a lower tone. The music ceases when the waters are disturbed, and when they are quiet it begins again. Several explanations have been offered as to the origin and cause of the myste rious sounds of the Pascagoula. The most satisfactory theory is that#the sounds are produced by a species of fish in some unknown way. Professor G. Brown Goode, who is an authority on fishes and fish life, thinks that the drumfish may cause the sounds in question. Instances of peculiar sounds being heard at sea and ascribed to fishes are JJUU UJiUUJLUJLUUU) an DUO JLUiJlUTTiXig p'Jes will show: Ip 1824, when Lieutenant White of the Amerioan navy was at the mouth of a river in Cambodia, he and his crew were surprised by unusual sojmds. He described the noises as a mixture of the bass of an organ, the ringing of bells, the guttural cries of a large frog and the 'tjones of an immense harp. The natives said that the sounds were produced by a sch-pol of a certaip kind of fish. DV. Buist, 1847', reported that a party of pepple in a boat\on the waters near Bombay heard strange sounds, which the natives held to be caused by fish. The well'known English traveler, Sir J. Emerson Tennent, heard similar sounds from the lake of Batticaloa in Ceylon, and here again the natives claimed that fishes made til? sounas. aeve.rai correspondents of newspapers have reported having heard sotinds which were produced by fishes. One writer in the London Field, 1867, avers that in the harbor at Greytown, Nicaragua, he was haunted at night by these mysterious sounds. Another in the same paper tells of musical sounds which he heard in the Tavoy river. Other instances of more recent date might be mentioned. From all the accounts given we may draw some interesting conclusions. Thus it seems that the sounds are almost always heard on shipboard, though Charles Kingsley once heard them at Trinidad from the shore; that they are usually heard in tropical regions; that they are more often heard at night than at any other time; that they are commonly heard at the mouth of rivers, as at the mouth of the Pascagoula, and that they have been reported from far distant places in America, Europe and Asia.?Our Animal Friends. Pralsea the Bicycle. It seems to be coming?scientific approval?in all directions. Dr. Champoniere, member of the Academy of Medicine, has made observations on Frenchwomen who have used the wheel, and he finds they are better performers than men, learning more easily and with less purposeless expenditure of force. He finds a marked increase in the amount of muscle developed all over the trunk of the body, especially about the torso. The lung capacity is increased, fnii honlthv n/rtinn nf the heart is re stored and the deposition of-fat is avoided. The doctor asserts that he oan detect infallibly the woman who uses the wheel from her sisters when they oross the streets. One proceeds with self confidence and ease when the other dodges and invites disaster. He then examines the mental discipline afforded by the bicycle, and thence dednces his most striking conclusions. He finds that the woman's powers of attention and observation are awakened in an extraordinary degree, or rather that these powers, with which all human beings are endowed at birth, are saved from atrophy, whioh in both sexes is one of the most marked defects produced by civilization. The wheelwomen move with something of the freedom and dignity observed in some of the higher uncivilized races. The doctor disclaims any intention to theorize, bnt at the close of his article permits himself to dream of a new Frenchwoman as the product of the bicycle. Pigeon Kooita Fifty Tears Ago. Pigeon Roost, Scott county, Ind., received its name from its being the nightly rendezvous of the passenger or wild pigeon. These pigeons usually selected some heavily wooded or elevated locality foK their roosting, bordering on their feeding grounds, which might be several hundred miles in extent. The pigeons usually commenced to arrive before sunset and continued in increasing numbers until after midnight. At daybreak the birds would begin to leave the roost, ? j . ana Oil SW1U wing UtjpuiLjuji iuoh loouing grounds, miles away, returning at night, as stated. It may safely be said that these birds ranged the forests of Indiana from the Wabash to the Ohio, and extending far into Kentucky. So large were their roosts that they became localities of great interest. None was more famous than the one in Finley township, Scott oounty, Ind.; hence the name of the settlement early established there?the Pigeon Roost.?Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Drop Forging*. The machinery for drop forging is ponderous and expensive. The plates that stamp out the forgings are in two sections, one of which fits into the bed of the machine, and the other is fastened to the arm. Together these two nlatfis have an oneninc the shape of the desired forging. The descent of the arm on a piece of tool steel stamps ont a piece of the requisite shape. After leaving the forging maohine the metal is in a rough state and has to be turned down on a lathe and bored out, each of which operations has to bo carefully done, as the finished article has to be exaot in every partiomlar.?Chicago Timea-Herald. Wliat To Feeil. Sunflower seed, it. is well knowi is a good egg pronucing food for chicl ens; it is also a fine food to give tt plumage a glossy appearance for e: hibition purposes. The russian sui flower if very productive and may t planted in fence corners or out of tt way places. When flesh is the desin ble object to be obtained, feed tt grains which contain tbe elements thi make fat. Indian corn contains 7 p< cent, of fat producing elements, whi oats contain only 6 per cent. But if thrifty condition Is most desirable, fee largely with oats, because oats contai 2 per cent, more of the albuminoid or muscle producing elements tha corn. Wheat bran and skim milk ai each chemically considered quite cloj in resemblance to the white of an eg{ which fact suggests their use in tb food of laying hens. House and Lot for Sale. OVER 50 fine fruit trees, six kind of plumi grapes, scuppernongs and raspberrlei Good water. Price $1,500. Mrs. M. J. LYTHGOE, April 1,1S9C, 3m Abbeville, S. C. Surveying and Platting Land and Town Lots. Also Terracing, Le ellng and Grading. Accurate work dom wbere local attraction makes n Compass ut reliable. T. C. ANDERSON, Feb. 5, 1890, ly Ninety-Six, 8. C. Found. Y*7'ELBORN HUNTER, of Diamond Hll township, exhibits a pocket book, Cta papers in whlcu indicate tnat it Deiongs to ui G. Walter Sherard. Hunter la ready tosui render It to the proper owner. . WELBORN HUNTER, June 22, 1880, 3t Antrevllle, S. O Milk Cows. For Sale or to Exchange foi Other Cattle. I HAVE SEVERAL GOOD MILK COWf and young calves to sell for cash, or to ex change for other cattle on advantageoui Iprms. Annlv tn T). H. HOWARD. Verderv or at the Press and Banner office. ?iilii7 DAVIDSON, N, C. Sixtieth Year begins SEPT, 10th Eton Professors aM Instructors, Three Courses for Dopes, Ample Calioets ani Laboratories. Location BealMul and Beautiful Gymnasium Complete.: Terms Reasonable. Send for a catalogue. J. B. SHEARER, President.. June 32, 1890, tf ^umncu DOUBLE DAIIY SERVICE BETWEEN New York, Washington, Norfolk ?and? Atlanta, New Orleans, Southwest Schedule In effect April 5th, 1890. SOUTHBOUND. " No. 403. No. 41. Lv. New York, via Penn. K. K. *3 20 p m *9 00 pm " Philadelphia, " " 5 15 p m 12 05 npl " Bttltlniore, " 7 31 p m 2 55 am Washington, " " 8 40 p m 4 30 am " Richmond, " " 12 36 pm 9 05 aui Lv. Norfolk, via 8. A. hZ ?lT8(Ta:m !? 00 a5 Portsmouth, " 12 01 n'gt 9 15 am CvT Wrldon, via 8. A. L *5 05 a m *11 55 aui Ar. Henderson, via' 4 32a m *1 39 pir Ar. Raleigh, via 8. A. L *5 55 a in *3 34 pm " Sanford, " 7 14 " 4 58 " " Sonthern Pines, 14 8 00 " 5 49 " " Hamlet, ' S 50 " 6 55 ' " Wadesboro, " 9 52 " 8 01 " " Monroe, u? 10 40 " 8 55 " Lv. Charlotte, via 8. A. L. *5 25 " 8 22 pm Lv. Chester, via 8. A. L 12 08 p in 10 32 pui Clinton, " 1 20 " 11 58 a " Greenwood, " 2 33 " 1 00 pm " ABBEVILLE " 3 00 u 1 32 " " Elherton, " 4 00 " 2 3G " " Athens, " 3 10 - 3 88 " " Winder, " 5 53 " 4 21 " Atlanta, (Union I). Cent. T) C 45 " 5 20 " NORTHBOUND^ NtiT401 No. 88. Lv. Atlanta,viaS.A.L.(Ccnt. T.)*ll 45 a in *S 10 pm " Athens, " 2 55 p m 11 40 " " Elberton, " 4 00 " 12 45 am " Abbeville, " 5 00 " 1 47 " " Greenwood, " 5 30 " 2 15 " ' Clinton, ' 6 25 " 3 13 " " Chester, " 7 39 " 4 13 " Ar. Charlotte, via A. L ?10 20 p m *11 35 " Lv. Monroe, via S. A. L. 9 15 p in (J 13 atn " Hamlet " 10 3") " 8 15 ' " Southern Pines, " 11 21 " 9 15 " " Raleigh, ' _ ?1 20 a in ?11 31 " Ar. Weld on. "" 4 05 *3 00 ?" " Richmond, " 6 40 " 0 40 " .. lCn.lilnr.lni, vln UP 111 jR >< 11 111 " " BnuiimOTT'*'""V12 MM. 12 is ngt " Philadelphia, " 2 20 p in 3 45 pin " New York. " *1 SI " *t! 53 " Ar. Portsmouth, " 7 .'fo " 5 50 pin " Norfolk, " *7 50 " 6 00 " Daily. fDaily, except Sunday. Nos. 403 and 402, "Tin- Atlanta Special.'' Solid Vestibnled Train," with Buffelt Sleepers and Day Coaches between Washington and Atlanta. Parlor and Dining Cars, New York to Washing torn. Pullman Sleepers, Uichmond to Charlotte, also Portsmouth to Monroe (open at Uichmond and Portsmouth !? p. m.) Connection at Atlanta for ami from Macon. Florida, Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis, Texas, California and the West. Nos 41 and .'iS, "The S. A. L. Express," Solid Train of Pullman Sleepers and Day Coaches between Portsmouth, Wcldon and Atlanta, also New York to | Weldon and Cape Charles. Connecting at Atlanta lor [and Irom Montgomery. New Orleans, Texes, Mexico, I Florida; at Portsmouth with Bay Line and coastwise steamers and rail routes to the north and east. NO KXTBA FA UK ON ANY TUA1N. ! For Tickets, Sleepers, and Information, apply to Ticket Agents, or to i 1>. A. NEWLAND, General Agent, Wm B. CLEMKNTS, Trav. Pass. Agent, 0 Kimball llouso, Atlanta, Ga. K. St. ?IOIIN. Vice-I'res. and Gen'l, Mgr. V. E. McBKE, Gen'l. Superintendent. II. W*. B. GLOVEK, TraiUc Manager. T. J. ANDEBSON, Gen'l. Pass. Agent. I King up phone No. 2 and tell the Abbeville Lam her Co. to send you 1000 ft of bedded ceil' ino for ?l(1 ,ub v RUNAWAY BOY. 1 OEVIER DANSBY, aged fifteen years, left ram i- O the Colored College at Greenwood about ;'jl ie three weeks ago. He Is of a glngercak color, ? thick foot, wears a number eight shoo, is slow ' JjB to speak. He wore a brown suit of clothes 3- when he left. His parents live at White Hall, "ISj >e and will give a liberal reward for his recovie ery. For further particulars apply to E. Z. SEYMO0R, it Greenwood, S. C. ;r Jane 10,1890,3t * ' n "Wofford College, 1 e Spartanburg, S. C. j r, JAS. H. CARLISLE, LL. D., - - President jMJ Seven departments. Two courses leading to r A. B. A new and well equipped Gymna- ASM slum and competent director. ^ b tTTAiTPnTin TiTmmTiTfl onnnni vvurxunu riiiiim OUCLUUJJ, ^ A. G. REMBERT, A. M., Head Master. The Fitting School has been moved to tbe /M Aluranl Hall. The Second Master. A. Mason ? : DuPre. a. M., and the Matron live 10 the $ building. Several of the College Pro feasor* $ p teach In the School and tbe students receive :.i ? Instructions In the Gymnasium. Session be- - ^ gins October 1. For catalogue, address J. A. GAMEWELL, i l8% Secretary of Faculty, v 1 isiifli 13 3 =5"?j, f'iHr:" Old Certificates of Eegistration * ;t|3 are Yoid?Everybody Must Register Again, The County Board of Registration has been organized and the office of Registration la '.V* now open In accordance with law, the main * provisions of wblob are as follows: Tbe Books of Registration shall be opened by the Boards on the flrst Monday in April. 1690, at tbe Court House in eacb County, ana, kept open for at least six consecutive weeks. ( IUCJ- ouuu ucu^oucutt^ttiuttt iiie^uurniuuue on the first Mondays In June, July, August, and September, A. D. 1896, and kept open oontlnuaily for at least one week In eaob of said months. They shall be closed thirty days be- .' fore the general election In 1896. After general election In 1896, the Books of Registration * ' shall be opened on the first Monday of each month at the Court House and kept open for three successive days in each month until thirty days before tbe election In 1898, when they shall be closed until tbe said general elec' tlon shall have taken place. Tbe offices and books must be kept open from 9 o'clock In tbe forenoon until3jrciock in the afternoon. The Board or Registration is the Judge of tbe qualifications of all applicant for registration up to January 1st, 1898. Up to January 1st, 1S98, every male citizen of this State i and of tbe United States, twenty-one yeara of age, who is not an Idiot, Is not Insane, fs not a pauper supported at tbe public expense, and In not confined in any public prison, and who has not been convicted of burglary, ,'\Z arson, obtaining goods or money under false pretenses, perjury, forgery, robbery, bribe^jv^*^^ J adultery, wire beating, bouse breaking, receiving stolen goods, breach of trust Wlt/U iiOUUUlCUb lUMJI^ iUl UlMtblUU, DUUVUJJ y incest, assault with intent to ravish, mlscegl-, nut'on, larceny, or crimes against tbe election' laws, and who shall have been a resident Id ibis t^tate two years, (except ministers In charge of organized churches and teachers of public schools, and they after six months residence in the ytate.)a resident in theCounty lor six moaUia,and in the polling preclnt four months, and who can read any Section In the Constitution of 1S95, or can understand and explain any section of said Constitution when read to him by the registration officer or officers; shall be entitled to registration and become an elector upon^application forsuchregistration. If any petson has been convicted of any of the crimes above mentioned, a pardon of tbe Governor removes the disqualification. In case any minor who will become twea ty-one yearn-of axe after tbe closing of tbe ~ Books or Registration and before tbe election, A uud is otherwise qualified to register, makes application under oath showing he Is quail tied to register, tbe Boards shall register suoh applicant before tbe closing of the books, Any nerson whose qualltlcutlons as an elec. tor will be completed after -tbeMloslng of the Registration Books but before the lion, shall have tbe right to apply. cure a registration certificate at wltbin sixty days immediately preoed^^^^^V closing of the Registration Books, up^HMB application under oath to the facts en him to sueb registration. The registration of voters must be by Ing precinct*. Tbere must be a Book of Reg~ istratlon for each polling precinct, tbat Is for each township, or parish, or city, or town of less'than liv$ thousand inhabitants, or warn of cltleeof more than live thousand lnhabl- BH tants. Kach elector must vote In the polling precinct In which he resides. If there is i,jqB 1 more than one voting place In tbe polling precinct, the elector may vote at any voting EMM place designated oo tbe registration certiflcate. The Boards mast designate In tbe regis- QH tratlon certificate the voting place iu the polling precinct at whlctt the elector is to vote. i If there is more than ome votiDg place in tbe polling precinct, tbe Boards shall designate on the certificate the voting place selected by ?! the elector. Old certificates of registration are void. Evi ery man who may desire to exercise the right to vote must apply for Registration. To Visit the Different ^ POLLING PRECINCTS. 'J'o further the registration of the qualified elector!] of Abbeville County, la accordance with Inw, the Board of Registration wf^l at tend the precincts on the following data* la the month of June: \ Donalds, 8th. Monday. \ ^Kfl Hodges, 9th, Tuesday. Greenwood, lUtb, Wednesday. Greenwood, 11th, Thursday. Ninety-Six, 12th, Friday. Verdery, Bradley, 15th, Monday. Troy, ICth, Tuesday. McCormlck, 17tb, Wednesday. Mt. Carrnel, ISth,Thursday. 19th, Friday. I.owndi'svllle. '20th. Saturday. Autreville, 22Dd, Monday. B|^H| Due West, 23rd, Tuesday. Douglass' Mill, 24th, Wednesday. Abbeville, 2.3th, Thursday. Clatworthys X Roads, 2Cth, Friday. J. D. OAR WILE, 8. S. BOLES, KLLIS, Board of Supervisors of Registration. McDill&Lyon have received their shinmmt of hnbv carralses. thev baveV^^^^^^^^^Hf upholstered In till colons and can body. You will save money and thins stylish by patronizing them. (Sterling and plated stick pins at all > and designs. Also sterling belt pins. the Jeweler. Huyler's candy Just in. Speed.