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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-11-18

GOVERNOR SCOTT AS AN INoENDIARY.-
Governor Scott has made the burning OF
one or two country stores in Sumter
County the occasion of q characteristic
proclamation. He dwells at length on
the enormity Of the outrage, and denoun.
ces the use of the torch with vigor and
earnestness that seems passing strange,
coming from an official who already, in
the brief period of his administration, has
turned loose upon the community more
robbers incendiares and cutthroats than
were ever before pardoned by all the Gov
ernors that have figured in the history of
South Carolina. And lest, pcrchance,
these precious graduates of the pcniten-
tiarv, upon whose help the political hopes
of our ambitious Governor and his motley
crew so largely depend, might innocently
imagine that some of the sharp words
used were meant for them, the following
saving clause is dcxtcrously interlarded
between the falsifcations and threats
which mako up the burden of the procla-
nation:
eff those who pretend to possess the
wealth, the intellg gence, and the morality
of the community, resort to it Che torch)
under the pretencc of enforcing law, or
furnishing dishonesty, they must not DO
surprised if others, not so favored, smart
ing under sense of injustice and wrong,
by which, perhaps, they have been dc.
frauded of tho hard earned proceeds OF
their labor, and their families deprived OF
food, clothing and shelter, (and such cases
are not unfrequcnt,) should resort to the
samo summary process for redress"
This is the language Of the man to
whose keeping Radicalism has entrusted
the peace and prosperity of South Caro-
lina.-Charleston Ne'cs.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-11-18
THE GREATEST BLEsslNa.--There is no

THE GREATEST BLEsslNa.--There is no
greater blessing for man than to have
acquired that healthy and happy instinct
which leads linn to take delight in his
work for his works sake, not slurring it
over, not thinking how soon it will be
done and got rid off, not troubling himself
greatly about what men say of it when it
is done, but putting his whole heart and
mind into it, feeling that he is master OF it,
feeling the thing that he has turned out,
be it legal argument, book, picture,
or anything else, is conscientiously and
honestly perfected to the best OF his pow
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-11-18

my .feet
1 begged her to rise and be seated, and
I then inquired her fathers name. She
said il was John Linton, l then asked her
if she remembered the old widow and her
son, who used to live in cabin on the
forest road near Linton Hall.
She replied with some surprise that she
did.
Then l stood up.
"That boy" said /, "wretched, home
less, outcast that he was, now stands be-
fore you"
She turned an ashen white, arose and
staggered towards the door. told her
to stop, as had something to say to her.
"Let me 60" said she, II showed you
no mercy, and expect none in return"
Then my heart was touched.
"Mrs. St. john" said l, II will pardon
your husband on one condition only. 1t is
tbis-that you will teach your children
the folly and evil consequences of pride :
that YOU will guard them against it's
wicked and nefarious influences through
life, and that your husband shall now re-
form and lead different life"
She readily assented to my require
ments, and in few minutes was on her
way home, bearing joyful tidings to her
little children.
She and her husband moved 10 dis
tant land, whore he reformed, and became
q useful and respectable citizen, and often
speaks of me, understand, with pro-
found gratitude.
1 am bachelor yet and there's but one
woman to whose memory ever drop a
tear-and that, to the memory of my
mother.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-11-18

"A mans religion is not n thing al!
made in Heaven, and then let down and
showed into him. 1t is his own conduct
and life. A man has no more religion than
he acts out in his life.
An Irishman is never at peace but
when he is fighting; Scotchman is never
at home but when he is abroad an Eng
lishman is never happy but when he is
miserable.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-11-18

ON FEMALE EDUcATIoN.-The follow
ing sensible views comes from source
we least expected, for the reason, that fe-
male education in the city of New York
for some years past has been more of
fashionable, than an instructive, or useful
characterize point most desirable 10 at
tain it seems to have been and still Is, TO
make Girls more fitted Tor ornaments in
society than for use. We are pleased to
see therefore that the evil effects of such
an education, is beginning to be felt there,
and that at least one OF the presses Of
that city, the Star deems it necessary to
call public attention TO, and dcnounces,
the manner of modern female education
there. 1t says:
"Time, which used to DO and should be
still, given t. acquiringa thorough knowl-
edge of household work and home duties,
the writer says, is FILTERED away in get
ting smattcring of useful accomplish
ments; and in the routine of what is call
ed society. Mothers are greatly TO blame
in this matter. That their girls hands
may bo soft and white and shapcly, they
are not allowed to perform the household
duties. which every woman, rich or poor,
should be able to do. To save trouble, and
to give her daughter more time forprome-
made and social visits, mothers hire sew
inc done which should DO done at home,
or to do it themselves, and the children
who are saved this trouble grow up and
go out into the world, not knowing how
to make or cut tho simplest garment.
We do not pretend to define any limits to
the employment of woman. She should
hc allowed to enter any department Of
labor for which her capacity or constitu-
,ion fit her. We do insist, however, that
every woman should be trained 10 those
occupations which most obviously lie in
her path, and be instructed thoroughlyin in
some trade or calling by which she can
support herself, if necessity or choice de-
mand it. Let it once become respectable
for girls to learn trades and work at them,
and the humber classes will speedily be
taught"
The South, too, has been seriously at
fected by this ''modcrn system" of cduca-
tinr riris. Indeed it is not uncommon TO
ace Southern parents sending their daugh-
tiers to the North: to be fashionably educa-
ted. Did they know, OF feel, to what
such an education tends, they would sure.
Iv act otherwise. We commend to all
such parents, the advice of tho "Star."
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- Have hope in dispair, confidence
amid surrounding dangers, and the cheer
ing hope Of glorious immortality, while
the dark night of the grave rests upon the
horizon of earth.
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ANECDOTES OF DUELING.-The history
of dueling has it's comic and romantic as
pect as we'll as it's tragic and its diaboli-
cal. Some of the excuses given for not
fighting arc droll enough Franklin re-
lates the following anecdote: A gentle
man in q coffee house desired another to
sit further from him. "Why so?" said
the person thus addressed. because, sir,
YOU smell" "rhat, sir, is an affront, and
you must fight me-" Il will fight you if
you insist upon it; but 1 don't see how
that will mend the matter, for if you kill
me, I shall smell too; and if kill you,
you will smell worse, if possible than you
do at present" Amadeus V. of Savoy,
sent challenge to Humbert II. of the
same duchy. The latter replied to the
bearer of the challenge: "That the virtue
of prince did not consist in strength OF
body; and that if his principal boasted OF
his strength, there was not bull which
was not stronger and more viz o .ous than
he could possibly be; and therefore, if he
liked, one should be sent to him to try"
The French poet Voiture was a noted du-
elist, but he would not always fight. On
one occasion, having been cha l.nged by a
gentleman on whom he had exercised his
wit, ho replied: "The gamo is no. equal !;
you arc big, / am little; you are brave, |
am coward; however, if you want to
kill mo, I will consider myself dead"
Among the duels which deserve to be
recorded is that between tho celebrated
Irish barrsters, John Philpot Curran and
John Eagan, nicknamcd "Bully Eagan."
The latter was man Of immense size,
while Curran was slim and short. The
chances of being hit were, therefore, in
favor of the former, for Gas Curran said)
it was like firing at haystack. Curran
therefore proposed 70 equalze the chances
by chalking lines on Eagan's body, so as
to mark out his (Curran's) size thereon,
and by agreeing that no shot should count
which took effect outside of these lines.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-11-18

- SANDER not others who SANDER you.
Bite not the reptile because be bites
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-26
Playing with Edge Tools.

On Wednesday, a lady named Robert
child, little boy about years old, play
ing in one of the rooms of her house and
went to a house several rods distant. After
half an hours absence she returned, and
on entering the house she beheld sight
that nearly made her heart cease to beat
There on the floor sat the little boy Harry,
his face, hands and clothing covered with
blood, and bleeding profusely from num-
Der of deep and gaping wounds In his
hands he held an open razor, which he
showed to his mother on her entering the
room, and said, Mamma, I've dot papas'
shaver" 1t seems that the boy had, by
means of chair, climbed on the table and
from there had reached his fathers razor,
which was in its accustomed place on a
shelf The nearly distracted mother seized
her child in her arms, and rushing to the
door screamed at the top of her voice for
help. She then laid him down on the bed
and ran to the nearest house, and soon re-
turned with number of neighbors. A
surgeon was sent for, and on arriving
found that little Harry had inflicted
wounds that will distigure him for life.
There was a wound about three inches long
on one of his cheeks, another deep cash in
the neck, several slight cuts on the face
and hands, and five or six long and deep
wounds on each of the fOrearms For
tunately no large arteries were cut.-.San
Francisco Times.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-26
Embroidery Extraordinary.

A REMARKABLE fine piece of wOrsted
embroidery on canvas, representing
MARY of Scotland Mourning Over the Dy-
ing Douglas" has been on exhibition dur
ing the past week in a show window on
Broadway, New York.
1t was worked by Mrs. James Bennett,
of Brooklyn, lady of unusual taste and
artistic ability, who has devoted to it the
principal part of her time during the last
eight months. Its dimensions are 36 by
% inches, and it contains 6S6,0O0 stitches,
and 16S different colOrs. Fifteen richly
dressed human figures, two horses, dog
II group of trees, and Il castle, are the
principal features of the picture, which is
worked in what is called quarter stitch"
that IS the stitches are only One-fourth of
the usual length; the best judges, among
the many who have lately examined and
admired this work, suppose that it must
have been done in Europe, inasmuch as
very few American ladies possess the skill
or the leisure necessary to produce with
the needle so spirited and perfect picture
The Whittenidre Brothers pronounce it
by far the most meritorious of the more
than five hundred works of the kind
framed by them, and consider it undoubt-
edly one of the finest pieces of embroidery
ever produced in America. 1t is valued
at 81 800, the sum refused by gentleman
on Twentieth street for larger, but much
more coarsely embroidered, copy of the
same scene.-Nep York Tribune
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-26
How the Greatness and Wealth of the
LabOuchercS Was Created.

A RATHER apocryphal account is given
as to how the greatness and wealth of the
LabOucheres was created. The father OF
the late Lord Taunton, clever Young
clerk, by an innocent stratagem cot rich
wife and partnership in the then first
banking house in the world. Being clerk
to the Hopes, of Amsterdam, he was sent
over on a confidential mission to the house
of Barring, in London. Being plentifulv
supplied with quality which the vulgar
call check" he asked the great Mr. Bar
ing for the hand of his daughter in mar
riage The millionaire wasdumbfoundcd at
the youths assurance, and when he had
recovered his breath he asked him how he
could think of a daughter of the Barings
marrying penniless young clerk. Young
Labouchere, nothing daunted, said: "But
suppose l was a partner in the house,"
"Oh," replied Mr. Barring, that would be
a very different matter" The aspiring
youth posted off to Amsterdam, and inn
mediately asked the author of "AnastaSi" "
for share in his business "What,' said
the great man, "youa young clerk of only
two years standing, to be made partner
of Hopes, of Amsterdam, Nonsense"
" But" said young Labouchere "suppose
l could get Miss Barring for wife ?" "In
that case" replied Mr.. Hope, 1.-The thing
might be practicable" And in that way
it was practicable as, by thus playing the
two great men, one against the other, the
young clerk got rich wife and share in
the great bank, and thus was founded the
noble house of Taunton
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-26
Effects of Candy on Children

AS the town cnlarges and the confcc-
tiOnery shops increase, ! see more and
more the i'll effects of candies on child
rem.
my child is so restless and thirsty at
night" said Mrs. B. what can be
the matter with her stomach?"
"Do you allow her to eat candy?" l
questioned,
90 dear! yes" was the reply. Il
wouldn't deprive her of the happiness of
anticipating and receiving the package of
candy which Grandpa brings every night,
for any thing. She is so fond of candy
that she often prefers it to her dinner. But
you wouldn't believe how much water she
drinks at night / always place large
pitchcrful by my bed, and sometimes she
will drink it all before morning And then
this thirst makes her SO restless and wake
ful, that we are all disturbed by her
Can't YOU give her some medicine for her
thrst?"
The subject of this appeal was Il slender,
waXen faced little girl, with thin, sharp
features; dusky yellow halfcircle under
her eyes; hands SO thin as to be translu-
cent, the blue veins standing prominently
out the tongue of an angry red color,
showing an inflamed stomach; pulse rri-
table, weak and quick tenderness over
the stomach bowels tumid-the group of
symptoms indicating sub-acute infhm-
nation of stomach, excited by indigcstible
substances (candics i'm her case), and fol
lowed Unnecessarily by loss ofappetite, thirst,
and an impoverished condition of blood
have SO frequently had to advise in
this class of cases latterly, that have
learned that success is not to be attained
by direct attack upon the candy, but by
a more general rgument-thus: "You
know that the stomach of a child is very
delicate very sensitive-quite as much SO
as the eye it will bear milk, and SO will
the eye; but if you add to the milk, pep
per the eye becomcs red, and SO does the
stomach. Cold water is grateful to the eye,
TO relieve this inflammation, and II IL
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-26

equally so to the stomach. Now, candy is
but little less irritating than pepper; it
creates the same redness, the same grade
of Inflammation, and there is the same de-
mand Tor water to quench the ineXtinguish-
able flame. In such a stomach, healthy
digestion ceases; the appetite fails; the
blood becomes poor and watery, and the
tissues are all impoverished. 1t is not the
sugar that does the harm, for pure sugar
is healthy it forms part of the milk of
the infant, and enters largely into many
of our best vegetables. 1t is the sugar
mixed with various other articles, often
poisonous and the process of manufacture
that render candy so injurious.
"1ou mean to do well by your child, but
you are slowly and certainly eficcting her
ruin. At this critical period of her life,
when, for proper development and growth,
she needs large supply of nourishing and
easily digested food, you give her these de-
tcstablc compounds of burnt sugar and
poisons, which not only slowly poison her
system, but, worst of all, deprive her of
appetite and even of the power of diges-
ton. If you persist in this course, it is
not difficult to predict the result; the
chances that your child will reach woman
hood will be diminished tcn-fold; if she
reach adult years, it will not prove adult
life in her case, but rather dwarfed and
imbecie maturity. Her certain inheritance
will be dyspepsia, morbid appetite for
crude and indigestible articles, and chronic
and incurable diseases which will render
her irritable and peevish, and lead to pre-
mature old age and death in mid-life.
"The cure is certain, and the remedy is
at hand: remove the particle of dust from
an inflamed eye, and the redness soon dis
appears; so cease to apply to the surface
of this inflamed stomach the foreign sub
stance which irritates it, and it will re-
cover; the thirst will subside; her appe-
tite will be restored; her lips and cheeks
will become red, and she will regain the
flesh which belongs to her-An Eminent
Physician, IN Hearth and Home.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-26
Spectrum Analysis.

BEYOND all comparison, the most bril-
liant and startling conquest which the
human mind has yet made over the domain
of nature, consists of that group of dis
coveries which is described by the term
Spectrum dndlysis. 1t provokcs amaze
ment in every aspect. In the first place,
the developments have been made with Il
rapidity that is almost astounding; the
whole thing has been done in ten years.
Dr. Wollaston discovered, in the year 1902,
that by looking carefully at the solar spec
trum with spy glass, dark lines could be
seen crossing it. In 1873, FraunhOfer, a
German Optician, rcdiscovercd and made
Il map of several hundreds of them, and
from that time they were called, after him,
Frauahof1's tines. But few supposed that
there was the slightest possible signifi-
canoe in them; they were regarded as
mere optical curiOsities, having no higher
use than to serve as landmarks for meas
uring the spaces of the cOlOred spectrum.
But, in 1859, the two German chemists,
Kirchoff and Bunsen, made the capital dis
covery that each chemical element, when
burning in flame, gave out light that
had its peculiar marks or lines, SO that
these lines could become means of de-
tecting the element. A totally new mode
of chemical analysis was thus hit upon,
far more delicate than anything hitherto
known, and Il method, moreover, which
was capable Of becoming a reUelatOr Of the
constitutions Of tie uniUerse. Chemistry, at
Il single stroke, was fused with astronomy,
and the universal agent of light became
the powerful servant of the laboratory.
At the very first step, several new ele-
ments were discovered, the existence OF
which had never before been suspected.
Examining with the spectrum the ash OF
some mineral waters, Prof. Bunson thought
he saw some lines which did not belong to
the substances already known. He then
boiled down forty-foGr tons of Durkheim
spring water, and got couple of hundred
grains of residue, from which he extracted
Two new metals, Cesium and Rubidium,
which resemble potassium. This Rubl-
dunn has since been found i'm the ash of
oak, of beet-root, of tobacco, coffee, tea,
and cocoa.
The spectrum analysis, however, is not
n mere instrument of original chemical
research it has a practical applicability.
The Besscmer process, as it is called, is
method of converting cast iron directly
into steel Cast iron contains more carbon
than steel, and it is converted into steel by
burning this carbon out of the molten
white-hot mass by blast of atmospheric
air. In this operation five tons OF cast
iron are converted in twenty minutes into
five tons of cast steel. But the success of
the process depends upon being able to
stop il at just the right time. If contin-
ued ten seconds too long, or stopped ten
seconds too quickly, the batch Is spoiled.
The flame. OF course, IL ~ index OF the
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-26
A Fighting Editor.

THE proprietors of the Boston Saturday
Eceaing Express have recently engaged
the services, rs a permanent fixture of
their establishment, of a fighting editor.
They thus announce the fact:
1--WE have the sublime pleasure to an
nounce to the deputy State constables,
and all others interested, that we have en-
gagged at an immense salary, one of the in
dispensable adjuncts to an Independent
newspaper establishment, to vita fight
ing editor. This course has been taken by
us in order that we may have an equal
show with all belligerents who desire to
get proper satisfaction for anything we
may say. The gentleman engaged for this
purpose informs us that he has been i'm the
business for some fifteen years, and that he
Is fully competent 10 attend to all the du,
ties required IT him. Az o reecnamends,
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-08-26

ton, he informs us that during his career
as fighting editor of various newspapers he
has succeeded in biting off some sixteen
noses and twenty ears, and gouged out
nearly forty eyes, having them now all
nicely preserved in glass bottle, which he
is willing to exhibit to any one who de-
sires it, He also informs us that, besides
being a good bitter, he has broken several
arms and legs of his numerous antagonists.
He has also killed six men by throwing
them out of the editorial window. and has
broken three spinal columns by knocking
the owners thereof down several flights of
stairs. He is an infidel, and has no fears
of a hereafter
"Aggrieved parties who desire a settle
ment are hereby notified to apply to him
at our Office at any time, and they will lie
accommodated. Our associate is a little
over seven feet high; his age is thirty-five,
and he weighs one hundred and sixty
pounds. He lives on raw beef exclusively
and is never fed enough at any one time
to take away his appetite for more He
was born in Fighting Hollow, Gougc
county, Arkansas, and never had a
brother.
"He proposes to conduct his department
on the BARRIERS plan: first come, first
served. All orders will be promptly exc
cuted, and gentlemen can examine IA map
OF Mount Auburn Cemetery while waiting
for their turn. State Constables served
first suckers next, after which indignant
members of the dramatic profession will
be attended to- Weapons constantly on
hand, for which there will be no charge.
He will not undertake to give explana-
tiOns after the first interview, for the rea-
son that they will not be required, Lost
noses, ears, &c, will be properly labeled
and put carefully away for future reference
of friends. Dead bodies properly buried at
relatives expense.
=" His department is elegantly and sub
stantially fitted up, and is now open for
business, both wholesale and retail
"P. S. When not fully engaged at our
office, contracts can be made with him for
any other newspaper that may require his
services"