The Abbeville banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, September 24, 1857, Image 4
Air HOtTR S 8TBUUOLX WITH POtSOlT.
1 was B|>cndlng some d iya, not many
years ago, in a beautiful little country
village, and i?> n family tlmt had moro
tiinn common attractions to one who loves
domestic life ns well as myself. The little
circle had in it more of real interest than I
have often Been develo(>ed in the same
number of persons.
Tlio father of tlie family?almost loo
young to feel yet tliat ho was entitled to
that honorable appellation, was a fine frankhearted
young mechanic with a wide world
of life bounding in his veins, an energy
flint, ivhen fully aroused, drove everything
viulenty before him, and a warmth of disposition
that won him more friendship than it
had then giveu him the goods of this
world.
His.wife, to whom he had hecn married
home four years, was 'singularly beautiful.
They had two children, the one a laughing
brown-eyed and brown-haired little fairy ol
three years. I lor name was Eveleen. The
necond was a crowing, laughing, blue-eyed,
plump little beauty of less than a year,
promising to have all tho charms of the
older at her age.
I waB sitting ouc afternoon in a quiel
little room with my feet upon two chairs
reading a pleasant little book, in a stat<
between asleep and awake?my host away
at his shop, a hundred yards off, and my
pretty little hostess engaged in her household
labors?when I was thrown out of my
jndolcncc by'a scream that brought me to
my feet like an electric shock. It was :
woman's voice, and had in it an excess o
agony that cannot be indicated in words
bo loud that it ran# over that nuiet little
village, and brought every one forth to as
certain tlio cause.
1 sprang to the door that scperated tin
sitting-room from tho dining apartments
aud saw tho whole at a glance. Th<
young mother stood at the door with lie
first born ?our darling Eveleen?in he
arms dying. A brief and hurried wor<
from the servant told me the sad story.?
Tho little girl had accompanied a chili
uncle up stairs, and while the attention c
the older child was for a moment turnc
away, she seized a bottle of corrosive sub
limato in alcohol, and had taken enough t
have taken away twenty such lives. Th
littlo thing had tottered down siairs, an
the mother bad met her at the landing wit
the empty bottle in her hand, and th
poison oozing from her mouth, and tli
child all unconscious of the fearful thin
she had done. Was it any wouder that
terrible shriek rang out over the qui
village, and that already the occupants <
every house near were rushing towards tl
spot where the mother stood.
But a few moments could possibly ha'
elapsed since the poison was taken, and y
the effect was already fearful. After tl
first shriek of terror, the mother bad qi
tted to a calm despair for the moment, ai
stood with the child in her arms, raakii
110 effort for its relief, and indeed it seem
hopeless, for already tlie subtle pois
6eemed diffused through the frame; t
brown eyes had lost their lustre, the ft
was blackened as in after death, and 1
teeth were tight set in a convulsive spa
that evidently would not pass away. 11
amined the little lost darling for a inome
saw that it was hopeless, and then turr
away, unable to bear that mother's agoi
The little door was alrcndy half filled w
-ill ?.1 -_t-_ 1 l 1
villagers, tuiu sous, auu muaiib ?uiu it?iu<
tations over the fate of llie dying cl
wore beard in every direction, ming
with quick and hurried questions, as to
manner of its occurence, and vain attem
at answering, which added an oppress
confusion to the sadness of the scene.
The little play fellow's un* 'e, who 1
been up stairs with the child, bad run
slantly to call tuo father, and but a
moments elapsed before he sprang into
middle of the group, lie had been tolc
and asked no questions. I bad time t<
mark that his eye was very 6tern and
his lip was very firmly compressed. Oil
too, remarked it, and I knew afterw
that a murmur ran round the circle of
strange it wa3 tbat be betrayed no
iug.
He reached out Lis Lands and took
child from its mother. Ita eyes were
dosed, and a white ooze coming from
tween the blackened lips. Was ever <3
more assured ?. I saw hiui open tLe
lids, and heard liim give a sign of t
lie told me afterwards tliat the eye wa
shrunken, and so death had not begi
lie then 'Attempted to open the mouth
the teeth were tight set, and they ret
his efforts. But with a force that se<
almost brutal he wrenched the teeth i
and opened the mouth.
u Shame," cried one of the bystanik
. * The Cither did not heed them but
turned to a neighbor to take the chi!
his arms. He did so.
u Bring me tlie egg basket," be i
very sternly, almost without opening
teetli, to the servant.
u What do you want of it!" M
con yon do with it?" "He*s crazy,1
iniiny such remarks followed, bat the 1
was there in a moment.
He seized one of the eggs, broke i
aerted his fingers again between the
and wrenched them open by force, tl
they shot With so convulsive a moti
to tear the flesh from his fingers, and f
the albumen into the throat. Ther
a alight struggle, nothing more, an
spectator* were tiomnea m toe action
* Don't,1the child is dying f laid o
44 Flense don't hurt the little thii
can't live!" the mother found voice t
laying her hand upon his arm.
"Mary b? still!""he answered m
while his teeth were relaxing from
clenching, and his faoe as hard as if hi
entering a battle; "and 5Jon't any o
Uieddle with me; keep off J"
Tlio bystander* involuntarily obeyed,
with many harsh remarks u|>on liis cruelly
?l>ut lie did not heed them, mid wont on. I
Another and another egg was broken, and
still thcro was no sign of Iifo. Then the
whole body of bystanders broke out into a
loud murmur, and cries af "tlio brute!"?
"Let the child die in peace I" "He is crazy
?take the child away from him !" were
heard around him.
lie desisted for a moment from his efforts,
and turned with a fierceness which had be
fore been altogether foreign to his nature,
but no one who saw him afterwards forgot
it. M Fools" ho hissed, " mind your own
business and leave me to mine! Take her
away will you! Try it 1" and he went on
emptying egg after egg down the apparently
lifeless throat.
The mother could stand this no longer.
Iler first born was being tortured to death
. bofore her eyes and she imploringly flung
herself 011 her knees before her husband's
father, who had that moment arrived.
' " O, father, do slop him !" she gasped ;
' "he will obey you; do stop him. lie is
torturing that poor, dying child."
, The grandfather started forward a step to
interfere, for he, too, thought tho proceed|
ing an outrageous one; but he stopped and
said, "Mary, let liiin alone. The child will
die if he does not go on. It cannot dc
more thau die if ho docs. I would not say
a word to him for the world. The child is
his; let him uso it at his pleasure.
There was a silence then. In a momcnl
j. more there was a quiver of the eye-lids, r
convulsive movement of tho chest, and th<
teeth lost their tension. The father seizec
his child, luj|pd her face downward, anc
the poison began to flow from her mouth,
, Again and again, as tlio rotehing ceased
; he repeated the experiment?the life return
> ing slill more, and Hie face losing its blanl
r color every instant. More than twenty
r times albumen had been administered, am
] more than half those times followed by ill
_ expulsion of the poison, when the ej'c
i nrtnnnd tlio tlifl litflil sill
>f fercr lay just alive in bis arms, exhausted
j its little life terribly shattered, but saved
Then?when the necessity for exertio
0 and determination was over?when th
0 physician had been summoned, and the
d knew that darling little Eveleen might liv<
1, after many weeks of struggle between lil
e and death ; when the relieved friends ha<
t0 acknowledged that they had wronged hit
? first; when the beautiful and sorrowful wil
a had blessed him through her kisses ar.
tears; and all knew that under God onl
0f such an almost fierce determination coul
)0 have saved the child?then the father si
down, unnerved, and wept like a child.
Not as in " Little Sister Evelyn" did tl
| poison do its fearful ofiice. Eveleen is air
I to-day, and her brown eyes are openi
upon a womanhood. But there is no ho
in my life that brings so thrilling a rec<
lection as that of tho young father's stru
ed S'e ^or ^'8 cliild.
on EXTRAVAGANCE.
be Extravagance marks almoet all class
ice high and low. Diiven by the common ii
be pulse, the rich and poor are alike on a <
sm reer of reckless prodigality. Disdaini
ex- the sobriety of former times, when a I
!l,t? gaudy and conceited s'ylo prevailed, I
*ed society of our day runs with precipiti
ny- haste after native and imported extravng)
itb ce3 in habitations, personal apparel, enl
?11* tainmeuts and amusements, whose cliief
commendation is their exorbitant pri
led whose principal charm is novelty, and wh
fruit is first a paltry boast, and after t
P18 dissatisfaction and disgust. The ostentat
*,n? of 41 high living" is thus found in close f
ance with "mean thinking." "Wealth
sought with iutcnse covetousness, for
m* indulgence of the lower propensities ; i
few whcn it is acquired often by resorting
tbe ^ase expedients, it is profusely lavishct
I nil gratify a depraved appetite for costly It
>re_ ries, and an uncultivated taste for
^13t things. Hence the rage foj foreign w<
,er8i of art, foroign fashions, and foreign n
ards nerg. Rncj with those iinnorlntionn nr<
',ow evitably joined the introduction of for
^oc'" morals loo?llio exccrablo vices of tb
centious capitals of Europe?to demon
^,0 American society, under tbe color of re
now ment at>d civilization. Nameless abore
1 tions arc tbere which must need be sp<
leatli 0f in a foreign dialect to make them ex<
e)'e* itely polite and captivating.
elief. Undor such combined fascinations,
s not virtuou8 simplicity of former days is ri
In* ly giving place to an artificial life w
^ut permits no restraints upon its demands,
jisted jayS a|j resources under contribution,
eined takes-labor and taxes canital to tbe uti
ipart, jt drains the country of its products,
then fails at the rata of millions to bal
!r8* the account with our foreign trade.
ra0* exportation of bullion to Enrope is <m
Id in on a]mo8t without intermission to paj
luxuries and fancy goods, imported in
spoke fusion to satisfy the imperious demam
\ ^is 0f vanity and lust. We are the laug
stock of Europeans. Any thing will e
What America, if it has a novel style lio
* a?d garish, and a foreign label however n
>asket Me. Genuine refinement is smot
amid chemical perfumes, good taste i
t, in- to the blush upon a pyramid of furb
teeth and flowers. Civility plays attendance
lough French cooks and dancing masters
on as chastity dwells among nude status
toured Lindiley.
e was
A tlio A farmer told a friend of his. wh<
l." oorae to (own on a few days' shooting
ne. lie once had so excellent a gun, that il
,g?,t off immediately upon a thief cominj
o say, the room, although not charged. "
derfal gun, indeed,9 said the sport
ternly, " hot how the deuce did it happentheir
been* PutcfcgunV ?Voi ?
e were said the. former, ?the thief aad it wt
f you together, and before I had time to c
h?uj with it." A regular "sell.''
From iht AVw York Journal of Commtree.
ONLY ONE PAOX OF A L2D0ER.
The experience of our moiipy market for
the lust fortnight Iim boon severe enough
to burn in some useful lessons on the memory
; and yet, judging from tlio past, those
will probably bo forgotten as soon rt9 we
are onco more oot of the breakers. It is
well, therefore, while our calamities are soro
upon us, that wo should follow the advice
of Captain Cuttle, and mako notes of thorn.
If our merchants should devote a single
page of the ledger to the posting up of the
errors and burdens of which they are now
so sensible, they might find it at some future
day to be the most profitable account
in the whole alphabet.
"Auyust '57.?Refused discounts
at bank. Uouldn t raise money io pay initios,
and obliged to warehouse a valuable
importation of goods. Cashier snys come
again next offering dev. 21st.?Went and
saw matters ton times worse. Saw the
President, who told me I deserved to be
pinched for importing so heavily, and tliat
I needn't come there again for six weeks.?
Couldn't discount a dollar. Concluded to
call on 13. and borrow a few thousands.?
Found note on my desk from 15. hogging
me to lend him some money or he would
break. Tried C. Same luck. 22d.?Pitched
i out at another bank. Customers in, want
ing to see that fresh imp rtatiou. Spenl
i three hours trying to borrow enough to paj
the duties. No success. 24th.?Ohio Lift
I and Trust Company failed. Tried to sol
\ paper in the street at three per cent, f
) month. No buyers. Fortunate remittanc<
I , from the West?know tho post-mark?
[ Jones is a good fellow. Draft fivo tliou
sand dollars?on the Trust Company !?
, 25th.?Nolo on collaterals due at the bank
- Couldn't get it renewed for a dollar. Mad<
c temporary loan. Stocks down 20 per cent
f Best securities unsaleable at half price.?
] 2Glh.?Loan called in. Begin to feel chc
e ky in the throat. No appetite. Tried t
s sell out my importation of dry goods n
[- twenty per cent. less. Nobody any mone
I, to buy. Went home sick. 27th.?Resolve
/ never to put myself in the power of tli
n banks again. Miserable institutions. Spei
o the whole day trying to borrow, nnd barel
y escaped protest. My own notes sunk i
3t my face at three per cent, a month. Ove
;e heard broker say, "You're a gone man,
J you can't take your own paper at th;
n price." Feel very much so, but got to kec
fo a stiff upper lip. 28th?Four bnnkc
d failed. Times worse than in 1837. Fe
|y 6ore with running about to raise money.Id
Can't collect a dollar from the country.
at Everybody out on the snmu business?r
borrowers no lenders. Desk full of bills r
ic ceivable, perfectly useless. Specie line
i-e tbe banks down to $9,000,000. Wish I
ed never seen a piece of foreign dry good3.ur
Would Lave been as easy as an old shoe
>1- I bad not imported. 1 bad no business
g. buiid that new house ; tbe old one was goi
enough. Ought to have been content wi
the moderate things, and lived on half t
money. Store rent too high. Obliged
es' spend out too much on credit to pay t
m" penses. 29th.?Neighbor failed. Ua
:a" failed. Friends call to ask if the rumor
"S my failure was true. Air black with f<
? rcporis. nan-past iwo r. ju., accoi
',0 overdrawn and notes unpaid f" Willi
page like this occasionally to fall open
*n" fore him, as he looks over his ledger, a m
er' might become a more prudent dealer, 8
rc" learn to give up the ambition of display
ce> the sake of moderate success, an oai>y dig
ose tion and sound sleep, lie might learn f
lint to trace his misfortune to their real soui
,on instead of charging them on l>&uks;
happily, a man may govern his own aff
19 successfully, in spite of the faults of tt
the administration.
and -? ?
; to Lady-Like Amusement.?A late num
1 to of the Glasgow Herald tells us, under
ixu* head of " Ladies on the Moors," that 1
fine Baird, of Cambusdoon, and party, bag
)rks on the 15th and 17 th of August, 10
lAn- bftbe on Ury Moors ; and on tae 20th
) in. 21st, 33 brace on Auchmeddin. The bi
eign >t adds, were generally strong on the w
e li- and very wild. This is probably a g
ilize illustration of life that would be'rec
fine- mended to American ladies, by those
una- ters who are continually scolding their
>ken bad habits, and holding up for their in
juis- tion the example of English and Scotc
dies. Those articles in American pa;
the complaining of physical weakness, tbe
?pid- nese, tho rudeness, and tho general it
hicli cin-ncy of American won-en, are usi
It written by tho refugees of the Enj
It newspaper press, who lmve fled for
nost. good rea?ons from London, Manoh(
and Birmingham, Liverpool, Edingurgh
lance Dublin, and have hired their clevernese
The their experience, at a rather cheap raf
irried the proprietors of Nesr York daily
j far weoklv Dancrs. Most nf Am Irnnv
i pro- Httle about American ladies, except su
]s of they see in Broadway, very few of w
liing- we are glad to say, are types of the
^11 ;n American lady, in N*.w York or any*
tvever else. They doubtless admire such lad
ttera- this Mrs. Bnh-d, pf Cnrobusdoon, an
bered party, who, in a few days' shooting 01
s put Ury Moors, bagged some fifty ' bm
elows grouse. The next thing will be to ?
upon mend the Indies of tbp United Stal
, and go grouse shooting on- ?.be prairies o
ir? nois and Wisconsin, or deer bnntit
northern Pennsylvania, or to sugrt
them to go out to tbe Rock Mountain
bag a few brace of buffaloes. -It is a
> bad fortable tiling to know thai American
r,tbat ?-even the most otroTicwttinded and
l a
, weOl ourwug >u?ui Ultt JMX
. j t a taste for these very lady-Hke mitini
L. They have their domeatie duties to a
Won* to, and they leave eh ooting lor tit*
wan, wx. By the way, the Glasgow ed^t
-mutt to tell us where were Mr. Baitd* of
t *11," buadoon, aad the W*nds
??rg? iapr houtf* and attending to fNaHS
PfiiL Bulletin.
the medical profession by one who
KNEW IT.
Tlio Ainoricnn Medical Gnzolto of Juno,
gives a reinnrkably interesting litter (Vom
ail American medical student iu Paris.?
Tlio writer Hays that ho orce heard Magen<lie,
tLo colebrated French physician nnd
physiologist, open n lecture somewhat in
the following manner:
Gentlemen : Medicine is n great humhug.
I know it is called a science?science,
indocd ! It is nothingdike science. Doctors
arc mere empirics, when they are not
charlatans. We aro as ignorant as men
can be. Who Knows anything about
medicine? Gentlemen, you have dono mc
the honor to come here to attend my lee
turcs, ana i must ion you irniiKiy now, hi
llic beginning, that 1 know nothing in the
world about medicine, and I don't know
anybody that does know anything about it.
Don't think for a moment that I haven't
read the bills advertising the course of lectures
at the medical school; I know that
this man teaches anatomy, that man teaches
pathology, another man physiology, such a
one threapeutics, such another materia
medica?Kh bien cl opres ? What's known
about all that? Why gentlemen, at the
school of Montpelier, (God knows it was famous
enough in its day!) they discarded
. the study of anatomy, and taught nothing
i but the dispensary; and doctors educate*.
, there knew as much, and were quite as sue
; ccssful as any others. I repeat it, nobodj
I knows anything about medicine. Trw
t enough, we are gathering facts every day
3 Wo can produce typhus fever, for example
by injecting certain substances into th<
. veins of ft/log?that's something. We cm
_ alleviate diabetes, and I see distinctly, w
are fast approaching the day when phthisi
e can be cured as easily as any desease.
We are collecting facts in the right spii
- it, and I dare say in a century or so the a<
i- cumulation of facts may enable otirsuccci
o sors to form a medical science ; but I ri
it peat it to you, there is no such a medics
v science now. Who can tell how to cui
d tho headache? or the gout? or disease <
o the heart? Nobody. Oh 1 j'ou tell me do
it tors cure people. I grant you people ai
y cured. 15ul how aro they cured ? Gentl
ii men, nature do-js a great deal. Doctors i
r- ?but little?when they don't do harm.
if Let me tell }*ou, generally what I did win
lit I was llie head physician al Hotel Dieii.>p
Some three or four thousand patients passi
rs through my hands every year. I dividi
et ihe patients into two classes with one I ft
? lowed the dispensary, and gave them tl
? usual medicines without having the le:i
ill idea why or wherefore; to the other I ga<
e bread pills and colored water, without,
of course, letting them know anything alio
'd it?and occasionally, gentlemen 1 won
? create a third division, to whom I ga
if nothing whatever. These last would fi
to n g?0<^ deal, they would feel they were nc
3lj I lected, (sick people always feel they s
th neglected unless they are well drugged
j(0 lea imbecilcs /) and they would irrit;
themselves until they got really sick, I
,x. nature invariably enme to the rescue, a
nk all the persons in the third class got wi
0f There was a little mortality among tin
,u| who recived but bread pills and coloi
,?t water, and the mortality wms great
, yj amongst those who were carefully drugs
be. according to the dyspensnry.
lan ~
111(j Coroner Conner*/ Outdone.?l'helndi
for nP?I>s Journal is publishing a series
res. sketches of early trials and occurrences
1U0 I"<hana, some of which are particuh
^ rich. The following, entitled, "Coro
for, Connery Outdone," is " one of 'em
ttjre a man was lounu ueau one cold morn
lejr with his skull broken, lying in the wo
IIo had been been the night befoie con
erably intoxicated. The body was fro
iber An inquest was held before noon of
the same day, before Coroner Clifford,
klrs. jury formed a hollow square?the bodi
ged the centre. Coroner Clifford?" Gcntlei
1-2 of the inquest, there are three th
And to be considered when a man commits
irds, cide by killing his neighbor. Fiwt,
ing, life come lo his death by incidence ?
;ood cond, Did he come to his death by i
om- dence ? Third, Did he come to his d
wn- I by the hands of tbo incendiary ? Ijoc
i for that body, gentlemen, and return your
nita- diet." Tlio jury counselled nearly
h la- minutes. " Wo, the jury, find that th<
pers, ceased came to his death by incidence,
Iflzi* ing put too much water in his wh
jeffi causing bim to freeze last night."
jally * ?
glisb A lady was recently teaching a b(
very spec!. The boy 6pelled c-o-l-d, but <
sster, not pronounce it. In vain his teacher
and ed him to think, and try.. At last she
i and ed him :
e, to "What do you get when you go
and upon the wet sidewalk on a rainy day,
very wet your feet ?"
oh aa *?l gets a licking."
bom, -? -
TV- TT J T *
truu ?? ugu ?jr# xi mm ii?wj'?r a
rbere were walking arm in arm, a wag ohs<
ioe aa to a friend-v'Those two are just equ
il'lier one highwayman." " Why t" asked
\ the other. ** Because," replied the wag, '
jo of a lawyer and a doctpr?yonr mom
ksoto- your life."
Lea to
f IIH- Tliough we Beem grieved at the shoi
tg in of life in general, we are wishing erei
^ riod of it at an end. Tbe miner lonj
com- k? ?* n8e; and then to be a man of
ladies neM *? tl)e" to take tip an estate; to
abl* to honors; then io retire.?Aditon.
l?*ed .
"entj 14 You have broken the Sabbath, A!
1J5JJ <kO aaid a good man to bit aoa.
5m Y^WJ*M* ?Mer, "and ,
band 4*4 baart, H do$an*$ follow that
quality b to be ^dnjired iq l<e; head.
WHITS FISH. ^
This species of flail seems to bo taking
tho place, in a measure, of mnckerel, shad,
cod, and other mnrketnl 1o varieties. Wo
enjoy the luxuries of a white fish dinner VI
occasionally, and until quite recently had T
Iho impression that wo were oating something
almost as rare as delicious. Tho fact,
| however, is tho rerorse, or may bo very
which we learned from n gentleman en- j;
gaged in the fisheries at Wellington IJeacb, ?i
in Canada. n
Ho informs us that the white fish in I>
Lake Ontario are increasing beyond all en- "
timate, and that the past summer " hauls"
in his vicinity had been without precedent j
since the casting in of the net in our >
Saviour's time. His fisliing ground on '
Wellington Beach embraces an area of t
about 220 square rods, secured to hiin by f
act of Parliament, for which he paid 1,000. ?
In his employ are from twelvo to fifteen f
men, and for fishing purposes he uses a 1
seine 222 rods long and about 29 feet deep, 1
covering an area of four acres.
On the I Otli of July, atone haul, 15,700 j
1 white fish were brought to the beach. In j
! ninn ntlior linul^ /liirinfr nc timtiv i*niKopti. i
live days?for tl cy make but one haul a
' day?110 single haul brought to the beach
; I less than 18,000 white fish. This was but
1 I 0110 of many fisheries along the shores of
- I tho lake, diligently engaged during the
>' month of July, and all very successful.?
2 The great haul of the lGtli of July was the
' "miracle" which astonished tlio oldest fishcrmun.
Of tlio truth of the story there is
e no doubt. Most of the fish are now on
11 sale in Oswego.
0 Our informant said his grounds would j
0 ; yield him a profit this year of from two to !
I .1 . . II .-v . 1 /? I
three thousand Qoiiavs, n me uctouer n?n -
I ing was anything like ordinary, lie bar;
| rels tlic fish and packs them with Onondaga i
s. j salt, which ho prefers to any other kind.? j
2- | They arc put up at an average of one hun- |
!i| ; drcd and thirty to the barrel, and his first
rc lot in market was sold al a fraction less
af than seven dollars the barrel. A larger
c- | rice, however, is demanded, and from the
rc popular favor with which they are received
e- in market there is 110 doubt that a much
lo higher figure will be paid for them.
? If our Canadian neighbors have discov211
ered a mint of money in the white fish
? trade along the north shore of Lake Ontaad
rio. we see no reason why the American
i>d shore should not be just as successfully oc;l
cupied in the taking and sailing of while
li<> fish. The lake evident!v abounds with the
j *
ist species, and when properly prepared for
k-o market they arc quite desirable ami equally
of valuable as any of the popular salted fish
ut now offered to the public.? Ulica Ifcrulii.
^ W. 1'. Davis,
Attorney at Law and Solictor in Equity
Adukvjlle, S. C.
O
iro Will promptly attend to all ImihWipss p?truntr<] |<
h p care. He can l>o round at the office of tlu
? AlilievilleBanner" July 28 10
ut GH0CERIES, PR0VISI0NS, HARD
,,d WARE, CUTLERY,
Plantation Implements, &c.,
,S0 linnd, in Htore, with large additions ever
i U W i. r ... r? a tin u?. .
reii ? ?. ?<" ?i ?v?,j .v...
60 Bbls C Yellow SUGARS,
es^ 5 " Crushed and Powdered SUGARS,
red 2 IIIhIh. Muscovado do.
' 50 Bags Rio. Old Gov. Java nnd Mocha CofTc(
5 Hilda. Trinidad and W. I. MOLASSES,
30bcxcsS|>en?. Adamantine&Tullow Cauillci
A large slock of FANCY GROCERIES, such t
Pickles, Syrups. Preserves and Jellies,
of Sauces, Spices, Tuble Suit, &c.,
Muccaroni and Starch.
Fig Blue, Indigo, Slc.
irlv Th? very best CHEWING TOBACCO,
10,000 finest selection Rio Hondo SUGARS,
Ixick, Tongne, Fifili aad Log Chains,
100 Pairs Trace Chains, (assorted,)
100 Kegs NAILS, do.
Tea Kettles, Boilers and Grid Irons,
Dtls. Well Buckets, Sifters, Wuflle and Wafer Iron
Blue Stone, Copperas and Madder,
Buckets, Tubs and Detnijons,
Z0I1. Broad Ax en, Foot AdzcB, and Collins' Axes,
^jJ0 Some best Plain Pocket Cutlery.
Also, just received, fresh from the Brewery
The Scotland,
? jn 12 Bbls. Glasgow ALF, a very superior articl
' Agency for the South Carolina White Loi
men Company, a:id on hand,
in<*? 4,000 Lbs. S. C. White Lead, pure, (bcautifu
"'r%? a l\r\r\ I. 1 . :r..l rf. * _ 1 / l.!l
~ ^uuu UCHUHIUl XJIIIV Ut'UU, ^Jturc Will Li
8U1- and a great many other articles ut the low?
Did Pr>ce3 for CASH, or ou short tiino to prom
customers. II. S. K Kit It.
??" Abbeville C. II., March 12, 1857. 4C-ly
acci
entli To Mechanics, Inventors, ant
-k at Manufacturers.
ver- TN ANNOUNCING the THIRTEENTH A
? X nuul Volnme of the SCIENTIFIC AMEI
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3 tie- l'c tlnit in order to increase uud stimulate t
, formation of clu'ne, lliey propose to offer C
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isky, um* f?r ,',e fifteen largest lists of subscribi
sent in by the 1st of January, 1858 ; said prei
ums to bo distributed as follows:?
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:ould $35; 18th, $30; 14th, $25 ; 16th, $20.
nab. Names of subscribers can be sent in at diff
" ent times and from different I'ost Offices. 'I
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00(1 will please to remit Twenty-six cents extra
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ies, for Six Months, $8; Ten Copies for Twe
erved Months, $16; Tweuty Copies, for TwelveMont
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per with new type.
y or The general character ?f the Scutxnno Ami
can is well known, and,heretofore, it will
chiefly devoted to promulgation of informat
relating to the various Mechanical and 'Chemi
rtness Arte, Manufacture*, Agriculture, Patent* Jnt
tion*, Engineering, Mill Work, and all in ten
y P?" which the light of Practical Science l? cmlealm
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hnaS binding; it .pontaina Annually from 500 to I
* finely executed Engravings and Notioee of An
arrive loon and European Improvement*, together ?
an Official LM of American Patent Claims p
Uahed weekly-ia advanceef all otker papeta.
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linn. AxRfotN to pMMt all eaMeet* diacneaed in
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wdl alas endeavor to maintain a candid fear
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No. Ii8 Fultou street, New Vi
[|)c QV b b cut lie Banner,|]
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'. O. DAVIS Editor
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T 33 n 3VX S :
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uiited nt the time of subscribing, will be conjured
as indefinite, and will bo continued until
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bl</ be iiccoinpanicd with the Ciixft.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
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'nilcpcudent Pre**, have estahliidied the follow
lilj rules 01 nuTcmniiig u> im; enargeu lit uoili
in | vein:
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linn three months, will be churned liy the iiiBi-rion
at One Dollar per Square (If inch?the
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Advertisinir an L'strav, Two Dollars, to be
paid by the Magistrate.
Advertisements inserted for three months, or
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will ho charged in proportion to the space the;
occupy, at One Dollar per line space.
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Fifty per Cent, extra will be added to th
above rates.
DAVIS ?fc CHEWS,
For Ilmntcr ;
I.KE ?fc \V11 .SON,
Fur J'rr.tx.
PltlRTTI]sro.
rpilR Proprietors of tlio Aiuskvili.k Haxxi
J. would respectfully inform tlio public th
they arc prepared to execute all kinds of Jo
Work with neatness and dispatch, llavii
incurred considerable expense Tor printing mnt
rial?, they have no hc.Vitancy in Baying that th'
are as well prepared, and can do as neat wo
as any other establishment in the up-country
South Carolina.
' They will also keep on hand a complete i
sortmrnt of
BliAKHELS,
* of which wo have now on hand the follow i
List, to which wo shall contiimo to add un
we get a complete assortment:
Sum. I'io ; Fi. Fa. on Sum. Pro.; Cn. Sa.
Mini. I iii; Mil). Wriis; r>uij. 1 ickcts in l^u'
Sub. TieUets in Kquitv ; l'i. I'n.; Co. Sh ; Cu. !
in Case; Copy Writ In Cuse ; Deeds of Coiivi
alloc; Deelaration on Nmc; Commission to 1
amiiiu Witnesses; Judgment by Confession
y Assumpsit; Jtidg. on Writ of Enquiry, Duma;
Assessed by Clerk?-I)el>t or Assumpsit, Ju
by Confession in Debt, on Simple Hill ; Judgim
on Writ of Enquiry, Damages Assessed by Jin
Judgment iti Assumpsit ut Issue. I'lea Wi
?, drawn; Poslm Judgment 011 Issue Tried, Verd
for Plaintiff; Mortgage for Personal Properl
s. Mortgage of Ileal Kstato: Magistrates'Suinmo
13 Do. Executions ; Do. Keci>gtii.ianec ; Summon
Defaulting.) nrorv.
May 28, 1857
BOOTS AND mom
jf FOR O^lSS. ^
1,000 PAIR MEN'S BEST KIP BIIOGA]
1,000 pair Men's 2d quality Brogans.
a, 1,000 pair Men's 3d quality Brogans.
1,000 pair Women's Pegged Bootees.
1,000 pair Women's Pegged (2d quality) Boot
500 ]>air Roy's best Kip Brogans
r?0o pair Boy's 2d quality Brogans.
in 500 pair Youth's Broganf-, various qualities.
fiOo pair Ladies' Gaiters, from $1.25 to J$2.5<
le. f)0o pair Ladies' Slippers an J Ties, f'nj &0c. to f>l
.A rlid??ir MLcu'?.>J r<liil.lr.>.'uv:|ln<ui <-,n? Inil
4V4 ,#w? j?..n .oova ??..? v/"l',,,la> uvv. w v,
luO pair (reiitB fino Calf Jioots.
I,) 100 pair Gents' fine Cloth (Jailers.
i?,) 200 pair Women's Goa;. Ilootees.
>st 2,000 pair Negro Ilrognns.
pt 1,01)0 lloutjc Servant's Shoes.
Together with nil other kinds of Shoes uau
to lie found in u Shoe Store. Call and see.
? Just received and for sale by
, W. S. WOOD,
* 185 Richardson Street, Columbii
March 24. 1857. <18^ ly
u! The State of South. Carolim
ib- ABBEVILLE l)jWiiICT.
'ie In the Commo^phfis.
ni- William Willaon, )
?ra vs. > Foreign Attachment.
nj_ Jas. A. Liddcll. S Thomson Si. Fuir, Attorn
WHEREAS the Plaintiff did, on the elev<
day of April, eighteen'hundred and fi
>0; seven,file his declflftttiou against the Defend
th, who, ilkenid, is absent m>tn and wiihont
liinita of this State; and has neither wife
er- attorney bnowH within Uie Mime, upon who
'he cony of the said declaration might be serve
full It is therefore ordered, that the aaid De
try dunt do appear and plead to the-?0^| dedarat
on or before tho twelfth day of April, fcigh
rill hundred and fifty-eight, otherwise final and
era solute judgment will .then be given and awai
on Against him.,
MATTNEW MoDONALD, c.c.
ar, Clerkl Office, April 11%1867 S??1
M; dissolution.
?p rf^IIE Firm of WIEIt A MILLER war
Ive JL day dissolved by mutual consent, the
h?, iiptian of the Partnership having expired. -
n?rne 01 me rirm win w useu in me cio?in|
rly of>tlio bugiueis, by eilher one of us.
All pflrsoitb indebted to us by Note or Hecf
>? will please coine forward and pay up ftsaud
convenient, a* it in very desirable thai the'
ro- uesa should be oloeed as early aa possible,
be JOHN A. WIBR
ion G. McD. MILLE
cal August 83, 186? 19 tt
ten- ?
SS PERRIN & COTHRAN
3f^r Attorneys it Law and Solicitors in Eq
>er- Office, the one formerly occupied
r,? BY McGOWAH ?fc FERR1N
LAW RANGE.
Jab. M. Praam, Jab. 8. Cotub
LL_ Jan- 1. 1857. 87 t
""j :
and WM. K. BLAKE,
^ Attorney at Zjai
5u? AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY\
" Will praetiff. in the Coarta of Abbeville,
any reiw ?ad Newberry.
nU 0FFICJE AT HEWBKEKY C. B
ork! Oct. 14, 1856. 26 " ^ J
NEW DRUG STORE!
AT GREENWOOD.
rMlllP. uudernignod, UntfTRint mid Apothecary,
JL linn just received u very complete stock of
Drugs and Medioines,
*?lected with tho (ficntent car? for llii* market.
His ntoek rmmiMtHof every variety usually found;
in City Apothf-cury Shopt
RxlrsictN of nil the vegetable preparation*
from the lieat Chemists.
TiiKinrcs prepared from the crude mate- .
rial, Hiid warranted to be of the strength, lain
down in the Uniled .Stales Plinrmuceopa.
I* Ik t? lit UIwItcillCM, direct from tho
manufactory, us cheap as they liuve ever been
sold in this place.
A very tuipciior urtielc of ISrniKly, for
medicinal jjitr/wxc* only. Fine Old Porte, Mfrdeirn,
and Sherry "\V i im'S, Scheidain Schnapps. I
<fcc., Ac.
He will keep constantly a fine assortment of - |
Confectioneries, Tobacco and Segan.
It woulil he unnecessary to enumerate all the i
articles. To P/ij/nieiann, he pledges himself to
fill their orders with us good Medicines as can
be obtained elsewhere ; and to his friends, he
I pledges like satisfaction ns to the Goodfe and
I terms, (.'all at the Store formerly occupied a?
tlie Post Office. JAS. II. RILEY.
( rcenwood, S. C., Nov. 1, 18it. 29-lf
ATTENTION, PLANTERS t
Economy and Utility! \
rFMIE unilernuiiifd having purchased the Right
1 of Warlick's PLOW. Patented April
3d, 1865, will sill Plantation Rights, per
Plow $1.00 |
Stocks delivered at (irTi: wood Depot, or >
residence of \V. P. HiH 4.60 i
With sinall Scooter 6.00
With Turning Shovel, for from ?t'>.UO to 6.50
This Plow, from its simple structure, durability,
lightness of draught, ease of management,
adaptation to the dilferent Shares used in tlx* -
cultivation of the farm, and consequent cheapness,
is commending iuelf to general use as a
Superior l-'urntiinj Imiilcmcnt wherever tried.
HILL &l ANDREWS.
(.ireeuwood, S. C., Oct. 0, 185G. 26-ly
v We, the undersigned, having examined ond
i tried the Warlick Plow, coucnr in the above
i commendations. JAMES CUESWELI>,
, JOHNSON SALE,
i R. M. WHITE,
I i SAM'I, M.fiOWAV
? LARKIX REYNOLDS,
, ROUT \V. L1TES,
i A. WIDE.MAN.
1 i " (Ikxts : I have usi d the Plough you sent mo
' j and urn much pleased wirli it. I thruk it tlx*
1 best Plough 1 liuve ever used. It combiae?tt?oa1
01113- and utility in u high degree. It breaks trp
1 the soil well and to a good depth, with one mule.
> I am ho well pleased with it, tliut I want raor*
) of them. ?? **?
') ' Very respectfully yours,
) "TIIOS. C. PERRIN."
L AM DW ARRANTST"
. An Unlimited Number Wanted.
r|"MlE undersigned is still in the market for
^ JL Land Warrants. Prices, however, at pre?nt.<.
...Mai. . (I v- 1 :ll _1--J
. w. , u.u\igu lie mil p?euge
- himself to pay as much as can be had for them
e in any market. Remittances made at their highest
market vnlm?, by Sight Drafts on New York "*
or Charleston, for all Warrants sent to mo by
mail.
Address W. C. DAYIS.
Abbeville C. II., S". Ci.
Sept. 8,1356. 20 If
A. EC. MILLS,
?? IOWA, WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA
'* LAND OFFICE,
2 AT DUBUftUE, IOWA.
?sy PARTICULAR attention paid to the locating
'"k JL of hand Warrants Cur persona South, on
ol the finest selected Timber and Prairie Lands.
Warrants loaned to settlers oil one year's time at
,3* 40 per cent. Interest, charging $1.25 per Acra
for Wr.rrant. Tuxes paid, Collodions mad# and
remitted for in Sight Exehnnge. Money loaned
"g ut high rates of Interest. Investments made.?
til Uncttrrent money liotijjht, &c.
(D" Refers to Wa. C. Davis, Esq., AbberLUbi
on C. H., S. C.
; SCpt. 3, 1S5G. 20 tf
Sa.
T T11E STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
in Abbeville District ?In the Common Pleat.
hps Amos Clark, jr., } Attachment.
Ig- vs. VMcOowim & Perrin
But James A. Liddell. ) l'lft 's Att'ys.
J' ' 117" IIEREAS, the riaintilF did, on the thirty!?
*' ?lay October, 185t>, file bis declnra
| lion against the Defendant, who (as it is said) is
? ; absent from and without the limits of this Stat?v
1,8' and has neither wife nor attorney known within
sl? the suine, upou whom a copy of the said decla-*
rution might he served. It is therefore ordered*
that the said Defendant do appear and plead to ''
? the said declaration, on or before the first day of
i | November, which will be in the year of our Lord
' Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Seven, otherwise fi^
nal and absolute Judgment will thou be given and
B awarded against him.
MATTIIEW McDONALD, o. c. r.
Nb- Clerk's Ofiice, Oct. 30, 1856. 29 ly
The State of South Carolina*
ee8- Abbeville District.?In the Common Pleat*
James T. Buskin, 1 Attaobmoat.
vs. > Buskin, PMTb Attorney.
-) James A. Liddell. J
.50. VUIIEREAS the PlnintifF did, on the eigh.25.
* V tocuth day of October, eighteen buudred and
fifty-six, file his declaration against the Defendant,
who, (it is said,) is absent from and without
the limits of this State, and has neither wife nor
attorney known within the same, upon whom a
copy of the said declaration might be ttrred;
ally It is therefore ordered, that the Raid*-X>Qfendant
do appear and plead to tho said declaration, on
or before the nineteenth day of October eigbteta
hundred aud fifty-seven, otherwise final and ab->
ii. Holate judgment will then be giveu and awarded
against him.
? MATTHEW McI)O?ALf?,c.0.r.
a> Clerk's OBice, Oct. 18, ltfB6 07 1 y
8. McQOWAN,^ ^ "
Attorney at Xiaw^
Office in Law Range,. " ...
oyt. (JVexl Door Ho Th&maon d: Fair,}
nth AB8BVTLLK C, H" >
fty- ' Jan. 8, 1857. .8*. . >: .>
ant, ZJi , ' 1 %l 1 ' '4* j
'en- s 'All SS^SSSSlS^P^-^
CHAMBERS k MARSHAM**
f?" March 18, 1657. '47- ' J* ?t*.
? > 11Jt
CA H DI yA TIB^'^
y can* e friendiiof fOS^ff.t^QOKB
" upeetfulty (MMVQur>c?^h1ro a Of 11 liilsii^p
At llie ensuing election. "*ja[s4? i^5j5|Sfc>
ft :
^ Up for Sheriff of J^aRrilJe ele^'"
W J0T The Men* of MATTIf^ lBBklifs
w M "^LD, ?nnotknoe lita Ckndlaale fat re-ele?ti?*
?*? ftr Clerk, at the e^niing elec|0t>a% *
CSTThe>friends of.C. H. ALLEN annom4*
11 him as a Candidate for Clerk of tk?. CQAli?*t
the ensuiug elrction. - ..
I O* The friends of MMRO& McCOKD
'9 speetfully announce him as to Candidal* for Sherflity.
iff at the ensuing Election.
. a ff i jy
The numerous friends of CW? |(DB
Aius reepecnuiiy inuomiM mm a i^ioaiotM
' for Stiffiff wt the Mit election. * ? _
|TT1i? friende of D. W. HAW^hWn
4N* respectfully announce him e Candidal* far Sliert
iff if Abbeville Distridt, it tho neattfetftffcr,
' r' ' MANY FBIXtfDS
My *?185g- MT?V
QT The frien<^? of \y. W. qftlFfIN, r?
epeotfally' annonnee bim u ? :?au^Mfir
L?u. bberiffat the enaaing election. Xu;
IS" The friend* of JAMF8 11. COBB anu
now nee hiin its a Candidate for SheAffat the?n?u
jy : ing election.