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The Press and Banner. TTrrrr(A\T til HUliJU. WILBUR. Ten !Pa^es. ABBEVILLE, S. C. j fSrPublished every Wednesday at I ?2 a year in advance. Wednesday, April 14,1897. * Tbe Governor rihI His Horse. An interesting account of the trouble oe- j tween Mr. B. B. Evans and Governor Ellerbe is to be found in our columns. The matter Is a mixed up. We can reconcile the statements of the parties to the suit on the ground that they misunderstood each other. Nearly everybody says "I'll bet" so and so, with no idea of really betting anything. We I presume it was in this way that theGover-! nor spoke. But it 6eems that Mr. Evans was In dead earnest. And so it was a misunderstanding. According to the lights before us, it looks as if the Governor had better give up the horse, and charge the animal to the expense account of bought wisdom. We learn that the old mare is "sprinted"? (whatever that is)?and "stove up"?If you ! kuow what that is?and Ih not of much account on general principles. The Governor of the State can hardly afford I to go into Court to settle little differences as to such a bet on the election. Nearly everybody bets on elections, or takes chances on the rise or fall of the prices of cotton, corn, meat, or other produce. The time has passed when a man need go into Court to prove that be did or that he did not bet?we're all done v It?and many of us have lost more than the price of an old stove-up mare. Tbe Pre<tn Association and the School Books. We are under the impression that the Executive Committee of tbe South Carolina State Press Association in their meeting to arrange a program, bad named General Hemphill, of the Abbeville Medium, as one of the speakers at toe Annual jieeuug u< mp Press Association in Newberry next month. He chose as bis subject, the "School Books" which are now in use. The program has been announced, but the ? name of General Hemphill and the subject of J School Books do no* appear. While it is true that School Books are not | strictly in the line of printing, yet it is true that the editors and the people of the State ^ cannot be more interested in any other sub- J Ject than the placing of proper histories luto the hands of our children. We take it for granted that the Executive Committee had no objection to looking into the School Books question of itself, but ruled "??1 Uomnh 11! off the track because of n ucuciai the Bupposed irrelevancy of the subject. m < Important Xotice. ! Messrs. Bell, Ellis <& Co. have a notice which * Is important to you. They propose to give you some good bargains In stylish goods. I CHANGES IN NINE YEARS, i The Abbeville of Today is Xot the Abbeville of a l>eca<le Afro. xne eauor oi imnawauu uauuv. ... .u ceipt of a very pleasant letter from Mr. J. R. Cunningham, formerly of this place, but now of Chapel Hill, Hinds County, Mississippi. He ptates that he has been away from Abbeville for nine years, and that he has Just celebrated bis seventy-fifth anniversary, and is In ?ood health. / If Mr. Cunningham were to come back to n Abbeville he would hardly recognize this city as the Abbeville which he left nine years ago. The Georgia, Carolina and Northern road was constructed after he left, and now many trains pass this place every day and night. The Railroad Shops were built, and the erection of many bouses on the Wardlaw land and other lots has been accomplished. Tha Dlace which was then in forest trees is now a thickly settled portion of the town and a hundred vacant lots in other parts of town i now have houses on them. \ The cotton mill was not thought of until after Mr. Cunningham left. Eighty acres of what was then a waste expanse Is now covered with houses, railroad tracks, lakes, and lowering smoke stacks which will run mighty engines and turn flying wheels that will give employment to an Industrious multitude. We have built, since Mr. Cunningham left ns, the finest school house In upper South Carolina, and Its graceful proportions and handsome architecture, take the place of the old academy which stood so long as an eyeBore. c The Associate Reformed Presbyterians have 7 I K/vnoa ii-nn-hln onii tha Bh auueu t% UCaUbUUl uuuoc Vi nviouip, auu ?uw m Methodists have doubled the size of their ' Bplendid temple. On the old Dendy corner a magnificent range of iron and glass front stores takes the place of the old wooden rookery that stood there so long. Since Mr. Cunningham left us the bar-rooms T bave been closed, and their places on the A North-eastern side of the Public Square have been filled by general merchandise, furniture and jewelry. One of the stores on the barroom side of the Public Square Is now occuSied by one of the finest Jewelry stores in oath Carolina. In that building where drinks were once soia, aoa wmcn was men frequented by the average aggregation of ram-suckers is now to be found diamonds. Jewelry, watches, sterling silver, china, etc., and that place is frequented by ladles and all others who want the nicest goods to be had in _ the magnificent display which R. C. Bernau j makes. That side of the street which was ooce I shuDned by that class of people who patron lze a Jewelry store is now a resort for the nicest and best of people. 1 Since Mr. Cunningham left us, we have I built many store rooms on the PubllcSquare, ?* as well as on the side streets?and every place Is filled by respectable stores. Washington f" street now has as good men on it as there are to be found in town?and every store is occu pled. But If Mr. Cunningham were to come back to Abbeville even amid his amazement at the f;reat work which has been done within the ast nine years, be would, amid all the evidences of rush ana growth, surrounded by all the scenes of push and prosperity?find reason for sorrow. He would have occasion when his heart would be filled with emotion, even if his eyes did not over-run. Since be 1a(? tha U nnnroH on/1 ???? IClt US lilttUJ' Ul IUC uuuuiw ?UU IU?CU UUCB of our number have gone from amongst us. Life has departed from their bodies and i their souls have gone out in the darkness, to ^ that undiscovered country?to that land to which we are all hastening. He would miss bis good old friends W. A i Lee and James D. Chatmers. ft His kinsfolk: Mrs. Jane L. Cater, Mrs. J. " T. KobertBon. Miss Eliza Cater, Miss Lizzie Cater, Mrs. John L. Miller, Mrs. James M. Giles, James A. Reid, are no more. Major Andrew Wardlaw. Mrs. K. C. Perrin, Capt. J. Wardlaw Perrin, Mrs. Fanny Lawson, A. M. Hill, Dr. ThoB. J. Mabry, John Knox, and many other honored and beloved citizens have gone to their reward. Among those to whom we all looked for guidance and for leadership in former years, and who are still living but who are not with ^ us, we might mention that Judge Cothran Is now a citizen ol Greenville, and his former d places in the church, in the law offices, und in the town of Abbeville know him no more. Judge Benet aud Mrs. Benet have left us. ? They now live in Charleston, and their pre- I sence is missed from amongst us. ? Two of our best young men?Lewis W. Parker and Thomas P. Cothran?are now / nrosperous and successful lawyers In the city of Greenville. Hon. W. P. Calhoun is no longer with us. He is now a busy lawyer in the city of Atlanta. Dr. Sam Vlsanska and Lawyer Walter Visanska are active and talented professional men in the Gate City. If Mr. Cunningham were to pass around our Public Square he would know scarcely half the men whom he would meet. New men and new faces crowd our busy streets, and new factors in politics, and new men In business have appeared on the scene. The Abbeville of today Is no longer the Abbeville of former years, but the Scriptures admonish us not to say that the former days were better than these. See our line of ladles tan slippers and oxford. C. P. Hammond &. Co. Our slipper stock la complete, call aud see us for spring, C.P. Hammond & Co. Harness cheap at C. P.Haminond & Co. The Leader of Style, IB Quality WtJ j Low Price. Our SUi Everyone Kno mis, i mis, * [f you want a Spring Suit dont't fail 1 Dur styles are beyond criticism.. Rich Lelled prices. A Gathering of ' The Stock being so lar Little. The brightest, newe ins: Establishment in the U] Granites, Homespuns, Cass we defy anyone to beat. In Boys' and Childrens m HATS We ha vet he largest an 3ity. All the shapes and s] And the prices are as 1 STRAW HATS BY THE ] NECKWK MPrPTAfi "E,nTT'R_TlV_l-T AIVIIS. TEUKS. WIN XJX^XIJLKJ) X V rwj ? y - - ?SHRTS! Negligee Shirts, "Corkers aundried and unlanndried. rhe Biggest Lot of sural ind the best and cheapest e DTHER FIXINGS In HOS] Mens' Odd Pants. Regula noney can buy. A line of 'BED ROCK" PRICES. ^Vll Groocis as R Call 'I3hone 35. ' erino* fi-nnHa An ws tliat COHEN is tlie Acknowledged L GEM' ffiilSHI II ;o visit my store. See my stock; it is the resull . qualities, ultra patterns, choice colorings, ner ? mm / / A Spring Goods that Commands J ge, we can fit anyone?Long, S st and most stylish garments m aited States. All the colors and c liners. Viciinas and Clav Wor ' Suits and Knee Pants we have i 1 ? TTiiffl SI I 9 JL_H_Ut UkJI JLA_?. d most up-to-date line of HATS hades in . AlKi?l AMI ?' ^ Vxgy 'v ^t53S<>' ,'HH25aanS?33 ^ tSSSEf -*C?5fxssa<TW ow as the lowest. CTTTTVrT^"DT?T^ You can get any Style and the pi CXU v UjLKjJhD have tliem in Mens', Youths, boy (LR, ALL STYLES AND BEAU! DSORS, DRESS BOWS, and CLUB HOUSE, fresh am Shirts! Shirts! "?prettiest patterns from 50c. \ /? M /> -d -4 y-v Sizes from to i? i-&. MER UNDERWE ver shown in this city. Handkerehiefs?colored Borders, Plain whit and sleeve buttons. Garters, suspenders,! ERY Our Line is COMPI irs, Stouts, Extra Longs?as st; Extra Fine Trunks and Valise Remember we are Headquarters J epresentecl or Your Mone Yours to Please. caxxEi - - \ mh 1 eem*. 1 I i rr*t t j 11 u jLuaucr g | Style, | I Gluality^^ 1 ! ' Low Price. ~j \ .- ! ... ^ * ; -*?88 ) \ . % 3 In. ^ leader in I ... MVW . VllllLV il i mm $ oiium | t of great care and preparation > feet fit, exquisite finish, unparalXttention. ihort, Thin, Fat, Big or .ade by the best Tailoruts in Chevoits, Serges, sted and at prices that lever had so many. \ i ever brought to this f ?9 ill 4-/\ ivlnnoA ITAtl Wo Will UtD SUi'tJ tU piCtdiOU tyuu? ? v/ s' and a beautiful line for Little Ones. ?IFUL I up-to-date, from 10 cents to $1.25. fTTTn [Tallin ip. 1 i AR e and cuff holders, collar Shouldj^praces. ylisj?|fand as good as s t]?|t you can buy a for (pjildrens Clothing. >y pfefuncied.