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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-18

All Englsa is going to Brighton to
seq the rev;x of the volunteer militia.
HavanaEspatches state that seventy
sir insurents have surrendered at
Canano.
Great ritain and Russia have agreed
tC propse to Prussia general disarm-
mentI
Trops have been sent to different
pointin in France where there are spmn-
1Omsof strikes.
Napoleon has written letter in JUS
ti6cation of the plebiscet. Eight mil
lions Of this letter are to be printed
and circulated in France.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04

THEM GOOD OLD DAzE.-How do long
(once in while) for them good old daze.
Them daze when there waz more fun IN ~
cents than there IL now in dollars and quar-
ter.
Them daze when q man married 145 pounds
of woman, and less than pounds (awl told) OF
ennything else.
How l do long for them good daze when ed
ekashun konsisted in what men did we'll
Them daze when dekons were as austere az
hoss redish, and ministers preached to mems
souls instead of their pockets.
Them daze when politics was the exception
and honesty the roole.
Them daze when dorgs wunt known, and
when brown bread and baked goose made
good dinner.
Them daze when q man who wasn't bizzy
was watched, and when women spun yarn to
knit stockings.
How do long for the good old daze when
now and then gal baby was called Jerusha,
and boy wasn't split if he was named jerry
mier.
And We who have the fethers and fuss of life,
who have the Goldfish of wealth without sense
under yore noze, cum beneath this tree and
long an hour with me for the good old daze
when men were shamed to be fools, and women
fraid to be firts. JOSH BILLINGS.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04
KEEPING IRISH PorAroEs.-Dig mornings

KEEPING IRISH PoTAToEs.-Dig mornings
and evenings or on cloudy days, so as to avoid
the injurious influence effected by the sun in
this climate; spread on the dry ground under
the north side of a house where they may be
cool, have free circulation of air and be pro-
tected from moisture. Here they will remain
sound. Or they may be kept on floor of Stats
in barn or other convenient house, having
abundant openings for currents of air, and not
too near the south side of the roof where they
would become too warm. In any, case they
must not be in heaps, but single layer. |
keep them in this way the whole summer and
fall, even on a close floor, but with good ven
tilation, and they never rot. Some varieties,
however, are liable to rot in this climate, how
ever treated. All are apt to sprout in the fall f;
all sprouts should be rubbed off as soon as they
appear, or the potato will shriyel and become
inferior. AS the season advances and grows
cold put in barrels in close room and cover
with old carpets or bags or anything convenient,
or bulk them and cover with dry cotton seed.
1 have kept them also packed in barrels of dry
sand perfectly sound-but they they will sprout,
produce small potatoes and force the tops out
above the sand-C6r. Rural Carolinian.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04

BOXING EARs-A physiological journal
condemns thepractice of boxing childrcn's ears.
We had supposed, in this advanced age of civili-
zation, that such barbatous punishmcnts were
only remembered as relics of the darker ages.
But it appears that the practice is sufficiently
common in some sections of the country to call
forth decided remonstrance. Besides being a
brutal method of punishment, it is dangerous.
The passage of the ear is closed by thin
membne, especially adapted to be influenced lOs
but the air to support it internally. If any
one designed to break or overstretch the men,
brane he could scarcely devise more effective
means than to bring the hand suddenly and
forcibly down upon the passage of the ear, thus
driving the air violently before it, with no pos
sibility for its escape but by the membrane
giving way. Many children are made deaf in
this way.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04

A TEXAS EDITOR WHO COULD NOT APPRE-
c1ATE A CLEAN SHIRT Whenever anybody
does anything particularly absurd he is imme-
diately located in Texas, and if some person
WISHES to perpetrate joke, as to whose excel
lence he is somewhat in doubt he ascribcs it to
a Texas editor, thereby clearing his own skirts
of all responsibility in the premises. The
Texas editor is made to suffer in various WAYS,
and he is accordingly most convenient crea-
ture. Editors" we are told, for instance, by
some exceedingly droll writer, "have firstrate
time in Texas The ladies of town out there
have given to the editor of paper an embroid-
cred shirt which contains pictorial history of
Texas, including the war with Mexico, and
meeting of the first Legislature, and also PIC
lures of the fruits and cereals of the State, all
worked in red and worsted. The editor never
wore shirt in his life, and he thought it was
banner for the temperance procession which
was to come off the next week. So he made a
little speech of thanks, in which he said he
would fling it out forever to the breezes Of
heaven, that they might kiss its folds, and that,
until his hand palsied it should never be trailed
in the dust-never.' The ladies didn't under
stand him; and when he talked about its trail
ing they blushed, and said they were very sorry
they made it too long. But a committee man
took the editor aside and explained the shirt to
him in whisper, and the next day he appeared
at the Office with that shirt mounted over his
coat and wrote four columns of explanation for
his paper The shirt is much admired by the
boys of the town, and whenever the editor goes
out for walk they follow him in regiments,
studying the history of Texas and the fine arts
on the back of it."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04

EFFECT OF THE FooD OF Cows ON THEIR
MILK-It has lately been announced, as the
result of careful and long-continued inves-
tigarion, that the nature Of the food given to
COWS does not produce the slightest effect upon
the character or richness of their milk; the on
ly difference being a greater or less percentage
of water. The experiment was tried of feeding
the sanre animals succcssivcly with hay alone
then, successively, with hay mixed with starch,
oil rape-secd, clover, ETC., thus giving a great
ly varying proportion of nitrogenizcd food.
The milk was very carefully analvzed, after
each change of food without showing the
slightest variation in its chemical constitution.
The conclusion was, therefore arrived at that
the variation or improvement in the quality of
the milk is to be accomplished rather by care
full regard to the breed than to the food sup
piled to the animal
These remarks, of course, do not apply to
the peculiar taste impaired to milk in conse-
quence of the character of the food of the ami
NAL since it is well known that the milk of
COWS which have fed upon garlic very soon
furnishes evidence of that fact to the taste.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04

"A Pennsylvania poet who wrote in some
tender lines addressed to his love, ave will
hallow her grave with our tears was surprised
at call from Henrietta's brother next morning
armed with club, and who extended n stirring
invitation to him to come down and have his
head broken, which he declined. The local
paper had made the line read: owe will har-
row her grave with our steers"
= To any one who can say "Shoes and Socks
Shocks Susan" with rapidity and faultless pro-
nunciation, four times running, large reward
will be paid.
-"Adversity is a poultess," says Josh Bill
lings (Which reduces our vanity and strength
ems our virtew-even boy never feels half so
good. az when he haz been spanked and sot
away to coo1.''
"Don't leave the courtroom, witness"
said lawyer during the trial of Il case. 81
NAV want to question you farther" Fathers
dead" replied the witness, "and can't be ques-
toned !'
"A cotemporary says that in most cases of
fevers we have no doubt that the attack might
have been prevented and the patient we'll in
few days without a particle of medicine, by
rest, partial fasting and free use of lemons and
lemonade. The virtue of this article in bilious
attacks and incipent fevers has been tested with
thebest results, andwc recommend its use during
the heated term as a preventive of these dis
cases.
Charles Dickens said, there is nothing
beautiful and good that dies and is forgotten.
An infant, prattling child, a youth well
taught, will live again in the better thoughts of
those who loved it, and will play its part, though
its body be burned to ashes or drowned in the
deepest sea. There is not an angel added to
the hosts of heaven but does its blessed work
on earth in those that loved it here.
"A few days since a little ragged urchin
was sent by tradesman to collecta bill. He
began in the usual way, but becoming more
and more importunate at length, the gentle
mans patience being exhausted, he said to him :
"You need not dun me so sharply; I am not
going to run away" 'Idon't suppose you arc"
said the boy, scratching his head, "but my
master is, and he wants the money"
: Lady Franklin has just given the world a
touching instance of the love a devoted wife
bears for her husband. A San Francisco pa
per says her trip to Alaska and the far North
is said to have been undertaken for the purpose
of approaching as near as possible to the coun
try in which Sir John Franklin died. When
it was demonstrated beyond doubt that her
gallant husband had perished in the frozen re-
gions of the far North, she mourned in silence
for fifteen years, and then, at the ago of eighty,
went on journey of 10000 miles for the sole
purpose of coming near the country where he
died. This, if true makes the visit more
touching and heroic. There is nothing equal
to this in ancient or modern fiction.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04
THE BANKRUPT Acr.-The bankrupt act ha

THE BANKRUPT ACT.-The bankrupt act has
been changed by Congress, by the adoption OF
the following amendment: "Be it enacted, by
the Senate and House of Representatives ofthe
United States of America in Congress assem-
bled That the provisions of the second clause
of the thirty-thrd section of an Act to establish
a uniform system Of bankruptcy throughout the
United States, as amended by the first section Of
an act in amendment thereof, shall not apply
to those debts from which the bankrupt seeks 4
discharge, which were contracrcd prior to the
lst Of January, 1862"
Previous to this amendment, no person whose
estate would not pay fifty per cent of his in
debtedness, exclusive of his debts as surety,
could without the consent of q majority of his
creditors, avail himself of the benefits of the
bankrupt act The effect of this amendment is
to make the fifty per cent clause apply only to
debts contracted after the 1st of January, 1869.
Under the law as it how stands, any person can
apply for q release from all his. old debts,
whether his estate pays anything or not. He
is only required to pay fifty per cent of such of
his indiridual debts rs were contracted sub
sequent to January 1st, 1S69-YorkriNs En-
quirer-
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pulous murderers from Fort Benton have been
actively at work, and the most rigid scrutiny
will be observed at all times. Nota single robe
will be permitted to pass through Omaha, that
has not been examined by competent officer.
1t is thought by many that the recently visitation
of the pestilence to this city-which, thank
God, is now over--was caused in this manner,
and that the disease originated in the BURIAL
one year ago, Of solitary passenger, OH the
banks of the Missouri, hundreds of miles away.
Could the horrible consequences of that act De
computed, and the lives ithas taken tie enumer- e;
ated, the record would be frighttul, g1astly
one And now, in conclusion, we ask; what
shall be done with the authors OF this the
greatest crime that mortal ever committed Z,
viii thew be arrested, tried, convicted and
hung? Have they not committed enough
murders to have the laws most condign pun
ishment inflicted upon them? s'Whoso she'd
deth mans blood by man shall his blood be
sbed.'' Thus reads the Book which is the source
of all human laws. 1t is impossible to compute
the number of human beings these men have
murdered not alone Indians, but all over this
continent, wherever those death-infected robes
have been sent We trust that our government
will not only protect its people from further
danger, but cause the proper punishment OF
the demons who have, from mercenary motives,
spread broadcast over this land the most loath-
some disease that ever afflicted human being
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04
WHAT BREAKS DOWN YOUNG MEN.-Iti

WHAT BREAKS Down YOUNG MEN.-Itis a
commonly received notion that hard study is
the unhealthy element of college life. But from
tables of the mortality of Havard University,
collected by Professor Pierce, from the last
triennial catalogue. it is clearly demonstrated
that the excess of death for the first ten years
after graduation is found in that portion OF
each class of inferior scholarship. Every one
who has seen the curriculum knows that where
Eschylus and political economy injure one,
late hours and rum punches use up dozen
and that the two little fingers are heavier than
the lion of Euclid.
Dissipation is a sure destroyer, and every
young man who follows it is, as the early flow
err exposed to untimely frost. Those who have
been invcgled in the path of vice are named
Legion < few hours sleep each night, high
living, and plenty of "smashes," make war up
on every function of the body. The brain, the
heart, the lungs, the liver the spine, the limbs,
the bones, the flesh every part and faculty arc
overtaskcd and weakened by the terrific energy
of passion loosencd from restraint, until, like
dilapidated mansions, the earthly house OF
this tabernacle" falls into ruinous decay. Fast
young men, right about.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04

DExrn BY L1GHrNING.-Wc arc paincd to
learn that John Rufus Smyer Jr., third son of
Mr.. J. r. Smyer, Sr, was struck dead by light
ming, on Wednesday evening last, 2Oth instant,
about o'clock, during a severe thunder storm,
at his home, II miles below Greenyille. He
was killed outright, bruising him very much,
and setting fire to his clothing. An elder
brother was slightly affected who was standing
some fifteen yards from deceased His flesh
was much torn and in places crisped up, and
his brother on running up to him, said that a
stream Of fire poured out of his mouth. The
body of the unfortunate young man was imme-
diately placed in water in order to cndeavor to
revive him, but all to no purpose. A horse not
far distant was also slightly injured. The de-
ceased was only about fourteen years of age,
and was promising lad-GrccnciHe Enter
7lriSe
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04
GEORGE w. CARPENTERS
Compound Fluid Extract of Sarsa-
parilla.
GEORGE w. CARPENTERS
Compound Fluid Extract ofBuchu

THESE celebrated preparations, originally in
troduced by George W. Carpenter, under the pat
ronage of the medical faculty, have been so long
extensively used by Physicians and others, that
they are generally known for their intrinsic value
and can be relied on as being most valuable rem
edes in all cases where Sarsaparilla or Buchu are
applicable, and cannot be too highly recommend
ed They are prepared in highly concentrated
form, so rs TO render the dose small and conven-
lent. Orders by mail or otherwise will receive
prompt attention.
GEORGE W. CARPENTER, HENsZEY 6 CO.,
Wholesale Chemical Warehouse,
No. 737 Market street.; Phiadelphis.
For sale by Walters g. Baker and W. II. Nardin
5, Co., Anderson, S. C. Dowie & Noise, Whole
sale Agents, Charleston, S. G..
Oct 81, 1863 II
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- Watch-makers haven't any right to COM
plain about slow-paying patrons as there is a
good deal of "tick" in their own business.
= The Atlanta Latclfigcnccr says: perhaps
a more defective pcnitcntiary system than
Georgia's docs not exist in any State in the
Union" We have often noticed the very
glaring defects in that system, the chief Of
which is that it permits the Governor and leg
islators of the State to run at large.
"A Western paper, commenting on the
present high price of eggs, thinks that "hens
could make piles of money now by paying
strict attention to business"
An exchange says: Trying to do busi-
ness without advertising is like wnking
through pair Of green goggles. You may
know that you are doing it, but nobody else
docs"
A most singular will has Just been opened
in Venice a rich old bachelor has bequeath-
ed his entire fortune to distant relative, very
pretty young lady nineteen years of age, and
not left a shilling to all his nearer relations.
So far there is nothing singular about it. But
it happened that the testator had been endowed
by nature with fearful hump on his back and
clump foot. Now he puts the condition that
she must marry q man endowed with similar
ornaments if she wishes to touch the estate.
The rightful heirs are contesting the validity of
the will, saying that no sane man would put in
such condition.
A Cincinnati lady who has tried to inter-
est herself in foreign affairs writes: "In the
pending imbroglio understood the matter per-
fectly 1 saw that France was simply bent on
a row, whether there was any just cause for war
or not, when to my utter dismay some of the
foreign dispatches announce that the Schlcswig-
Holstcin question is somehow mixed up in the
disturbance. Now, Mr.. Editor, my tribulations
are beyond any sort of description or express
son. Many years ago 1 studied up the tnen
'Schleswig- -Holstein question and I could not
make head or tail of it. l never saw anybody
that could make head or tail of it l do not be-
lieve there is any head or tail to it. All can
say is if any European power should say
Schleswig- -Holstein to any other European
power think it would be justifable cause of
war"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04
THE PoLIcY-H0LDERs'
LIFE AND TONTINE ASSURANCE COMPANY
OF THE SOUTH,
OF THE SOUTH,

20 Broad Street, Charleston, s. c.,
VVAvING deposited $4,000 with the Comp.
troller General for the. protection of it's
policy holders, will issue the usual forms Of Life
and Endowment Policies.
It's the most liberal Company to the Assured IN
the World.
The Charter guarantees to the assured the cash
surrender value of his policy after one annual pre-
MUM has been paid, except in case of fraud.
1t is the only purely mutual Company in thS
South.
It has no Stockholders All surplus profits
must be divided cmong the policy-holders.
Hia thoroughly conservative.
Its investments are confined by charter to the
most solid securities and it is under management of
men of well established ability and integrity
Persons desiring any information will please
communicate with any of the officers.
VIM. MCBURNEY, President.
E. P. ALEXANDER, Vice Pres and Act.
GEO. e. BOGGS, Sec. and Gen. Agent.
JOHN T. DARBY, NJ. D., Med. Adviser.
JAMES A. HOYT, Local al'Agent for Anderson,
and DR.. THOS. A. EyINS, Medical Examiner.
April 81, 1870 43
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IL WE KNEW.

If we knew the cares and crosses,
Crowding round our neighbor's way,
If We knew the little losses
Sorely gricvous day by day,
Would we then so often chide him
For his lack of thrift and gain
Leaving on his heart shadow,
Leaving on our lives stain?
If we knew the clouds above us,
Held by gentle blessings there,
Would we turn away all trembling,
In our blind and weak despair
Would we shrink from little shadows,
Passing DER the dewy grass,
Whilst tits only birds of Eden,
Just in mercy flying past?
If we knew the silent story
Quivering through the heart Of pain,
Would our womanhood dare doom them
Back to haunts Of guilt again?
Life hath many tangled crossing,
JOY hath many break of woe,
And the cheeks, tear-washed, are whitest,
This the blessed angels know.
Let us reach in our bosoms
For the key to other lives,
And with love towards erring nature,
Cherish good that still survives;
So that when our disrobed spirits
Soar to realms Of light again,
We may say, dear Father judge US
AS we judge our fellow-men.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-04

The OBLIGATION TO PLANT FRUIT TREES.
What pity it is that people do not, as q
general thing, appreciate more fully than they
do the value of fruit. There are thousands of
farmers who do not grow enough fruit on their
own premises to supply the ordinary wants OF
their families, much less any for market. Now,
when the fact is taken into consideration that,
as an article of diet, fruit is not only wholesome
and healthful, but that it can be in many cases
substituted for other expensive articles Of food,
and more especially meats, it is surprising that
comparatively so little attention is paid to its
cultivation. We are not of those who believe
that every one is capable of becoming what is
generally termed a successful fruit-grower; by
which we mean, that to produce such speci--
mems as those usually shown at horticultural
exhibition requires more care and attention
than great many farmers are willing to be
able to give to the subject. But on the other
hand, no man who tills the ground, if he pos.
sesses even the most superficial knowledge OF
horticulture, need hesitate about setting out
fruit trees, and attempt the cultivation of
patch of strawberries or raspberries.
Nurseries abound now in almost every section
of the country, and the cost of young trees is so
trifing that the first expense of setting out a
small orchard cannot be urged as an objection,
and as the subsequent attention required by the
trees after planting is to be regarded as little
more than pleasant recreation, there is no rea-
sonable excuse that can be offered by farmers
for not giving more attention to the planting of
fruit trees.
There is nothing that we know of that pre-
sents an appearance more forbidding or desc
late than farm on which there are few or no
fruit, shade or ornamental trees, and yet there
are many such, and it may be set down, almost
as fixed fact, that farmer who will not cul-
tivate fruit trees, generally speaking, has few
or none of the ornamental or shade kind about
his house unless they were planted by other
hands than his own.
Fruit tree planting should be regarded as a
privilege and a duty, and the farmer who neg
fccts to exercise this privilege and discharge
the duty, is false to himself, his family and
posterity, for the cultivation of a bountiful
supply of good fruit is one of the strong claims
which the farmers family, and those who are
to follow, have upon every owner of piece OF
ground in the country.--Journal Of the Farm
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CURE FOR LocKJAw-A correspondent of
the Scientific american recommends turpentine
as a certain cure for lockjaw. He says:
"Lct any one who has an attack of lockjaw
take a small quantity of turpentinc, warm it
and pour it on the wound, no matter where the
wound is and what its nature is, and relief will
follow in less than one minute Nothing bet
ter can be applied to severe cut or bruise
than cold turpcntine it will give certain relief
almost instantly. Turpentine is also a sover-
eign remedy for Group. Saturate piece of
flannel with it and place the flannel on the
throat and chest, and i'll very severe case
three to five drops may be taken inwardly.
Every family should have bottle on, hand"
This remedy is simple, and can be easily
tested.