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Newspaper
The Abbeville Banner
Location
Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1850
Page
3
Fragmentary prose extols sermons while detailing Charleston Bridge plans and United States Bank history. It praises A H McLeno’s bridge model, critiques bank mismanagement, and urges honoring local leaders Benj Y Martin Thomas Thomson Joel Smith GW Cressley and Edward Noble for legislative candidacy.
Southern Senators met in Washington to shape amendments by Jefferson Davis and Clemens to a consprouise bill. The amendments would protect slaveholder property and redraw boundaries for a large New Mexico territory, provoking cross-examination and partisan sparring in the Senate before an executive session. The debate signals trouble for the compromise as northern and southern blocs argue over passage. The report also recounts a scathing New York Globe account of Fred Douglass, alleged impudence, and a violent street incident in Broadway involving a punishment administered to a Black man.
A Lawisbury correspondent reports from Lawisbury that a suspected servile insurrection plot has alarmed Monto county. Free blacks and slaves are implicated. a Saturday revelation halted the plan. A thunderstorm and heavy rain hindered the conspirators, and on Sunday authorities arrested a dozen ringleaders who are jailed.
Receipt notice records numerous names and places including AL Wilkinson New Market Ded 1 Barratt Sam L ITdl Lowndusville IL Armstrous Abbeville Bright Dill Hon J F Marchal Alex Stevenson W Siith Ny Fla Roney Dilton Ga Sf Cuflilian Duce West HM Prince Temple of Heath GT Waller Woodville RM White and others for subscription.
The obituary notes the life of Suripo Ning, infant daughter of Bartet and Sarai Cheathai, aged one year and three months. It includes a short devotional verse lamenting the loss, expressing trust in divine will and eternal rest for the child.
The notice details limited wagon sales and price quotes from Hamburg on May 2, noting offerings by Snowden and Shear in Augusta and Abbeville merchants. It lists a vast assortment of dress goods, lace, muslin, ribbons, hats, linens, and ready made clothing, with prices and a call to inspect the stock at local offices and stores.
After returning from major eastern cities, M Strauss Corerbury extends a broad assortment of spring and summer fabrics and garments at lower prices. Paris silk velvets, muslins, gauze, lawn, lawn cambric, and batiste join trims, ready-made garments, household linens, and infant wear. Strong emphasis on linen, cottons, and light silks, with prices and selections highlighted for men, women, and children.
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