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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-18

CAPTAIN HALLS ARCTIC EXPEDITION
Captain G. F. Hall, of the Arctic Exploring
Expedition, will sail early next May. The ex-
pedition will be planned solely with view to
the promotion of science and general knowl-
edge. Explorations will be extended from the
eighty-second parallel to as near the North
Pole as possible. He will make it point to
hunt for relics of the famous expedition of Sir
John Franklin, whose venerable widow, nearly
eighty years of age, has recently visited Captain
Hall in this city, to thank him for his past eff
forts and wish him still greater success in the
future The American people will watch with
s[Sst w d hs bsm ssns bu Of tes brrs sIPS]a ] 'hGus
our public service could be had at similar
rate the national debt might be paid off within
five or six years Cincinnatti Times.
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All! It's so-while thousands fall by
clashing swords, ten thousand fall BY corset
boards yet giddy females (thoughtless train y
for sake of fashion yield to pain.
Words are little things. but they strike
hard We WELD them so easily that we are
ant to forget their hidden power. Fifty spoken,
tbey fall like the sunshine, the dew and tfe
drilling rain; but when unftly, like the frost,
the hail and the desolating tempest.
-Politencss almost invariably requires a
gentleman to agree with lady; but when she
Speaks of the great beauty Of some other lady,
il is always safe for the gentleman to say there
are other STYLES of female loveliness that he ad-
-'. He who assumes airs of importance, e1-
hibits his credentials of insignifcance.
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A "D1ABoL1cAL" INvENT1oN.-The New
- YI;,,os hoe +hie yoropraoh

A "D1ABoLIcAL" INvENTIoN.-The New
York Times has this paragraph:
"Among our European mail news will be
found statement from French source, charg-
ing Prussia with reviving the use of that most
barbarous of oil known missiles-the explosive
ball. 1t may be remembered that at the con-
vention held last year at st. Petersburg, tor the
purpose of taking measures to alleviate the hor-
rors of war, the governments OF both France
and Prussia gave their adhesion to resolution
whereby the use of explosive balls was express
" disallowed in warfare. But it appears that
the Grand Duchy of Baden refused to sign this
article of the Convention, and its soldiers being
now in the field with Prussia, and in possession
of the missiles in question, France has been
compelled TO resort in her turn, to their manu-
facture. and the ghastly catalogue of slaughter
is therefore, in fair way to be largely increased
This statement is also repeated by the cores
poudent of the Independence Beige, and Prussia
certainly owes it to the civilized world to see
thai an invention so purely diaboical as the
explosive ball should not, by any fault OF hers'
be brought to swell the horrors of war"
1t appears that the explosive bullet, whlc9
both France and Prussia condemned as opposed
to Christian civilization, and which the New
York Times denounces as the most oaroarous
OF all Known missiles, MaS "e.oa.iJ ~.
the Yankees in their war upon brethren OF the
same race and nation few years ago. A writer
in nth the St. St. Louis Rspu6Acan confirms fact well
with Md"a the 81 army in Virginia He says AT the the
battle of Williamsburg, in the spring OF leoz,
these balls were used with some effect by the
ISa1 Tedsra I' forces. Seven men belonging to the
Fist, Seventh, Eleventh and Seventeenth vir;
ginia Infantry, were killed by these internal
missiles /, myself, saw some of them strike
trees and saplings, tearing out holes nearly as
large as mans fist, and exploding with a re- re,
port like that of pistol They ,:, were hieS rec
from rihed muskets OF a large calore' wlioa liioa
sBelrium muskets.' After the battle of VIII
liamsburg, however, these bullets gradually
ceased to be used, more because they were
found to be inexpedient, and not on the score OK
sentiment as was supposed"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-18

KEEPING ACCOUNTS WITH FREEDMEN
of the most fruitful sources of trouble with the
employer of freedmen, says the Rural Caro-
l;niaan, is the want of understanding on the
part of the latter of book accounts. The freed
man sets in on the 1st of January, for the year,
at so much per month The employer must
necessarily open a running account with him,
in which he charges him stipulated amount
for every day, or fraction of a day, lost, as
we'll as goods, supplies and cash advanced
giving him credit with the stipulated amount
of his monthly wages The bookkeeping in
wolves, of necessity, upon the employer. AT
the expiration of the engagement the balances Is
in favor of the freedman almost invariably fall
short Of his expectation. He has lost more
than he has any remembrance of-his expenses
have been largely more than he calculated, with
lively suspicious of unfair dealing on the part
of his employer, he goes away, sullen an dis
contented; all, perhaps, for no other reason
than that he was unable TO keep an account for
himself
A plan has been suggested which we think is
calculated to obviatc this difficulty, and is, at
the same time, simple and convenient Let
the employer provide himself with checks or
tickets, representing the price of days work
say fifty cents-with fractions of this sum, and
at the end of every day pay to the laborer, in
these checks, the amount due him. If he has
done full days work, give him check for the
amount due if he has done but half days
work pay him accordingly. When the laborer
wants supplies let him pay for them in these
checks. In short, whatever transactions may
be had between the employer and the freedman,
let the settlement be made at at the time, with
these checks, as representative OF cash.
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The Coming Railway.

The Coming man. has 80 long absorbed
public attention, that coming events, though
they cast their shadows before, appear to be
unheeded The remarkable success which has
attended the narrow gauge railway in Wales,
so much talked of few months ago, affords a
subject for speculation, or suggests, in fact, the
possibility of q revolution in railway construc-
tion. The length of this road, from Port Ma.
doc to Festiniog, is fourteen miles, the linz of
route being rugged mountain, one with a
succession of sharp curves and continuous
rise by gradients averaging about 1 in S5. It
was built cheaply, is worked at a singul1ly
low cost. and yet is found quite as effective for
local traffic and travel as roads Of wider gauge
and infinitely more costly construction. The
gauge, to be exact, is one foot eleven and a
half inches, and the locomotives used weigh
about ten tons coaled and watered, with ZEN
dcrs whose avoirdupois but slightly overrun a
ton The passenger cars are proportionately
light and diminutive, though SO arranged as to
afford accommodations as ample and comforta-
BILE as the enormous carriages upon ordinary
roads, and are in strange contrast with them
in the proportion of dead weight to each pas
senger. A few weeks ago, at trial of the ell
gines on this road the Little Wonder" hauled
a train of 125 trucks and seven passenger car
riages, weighing nearly lis tons. 1t glided
with perfect smoothness round the constantly
recurring sharp curves of the mountain, over
came grades with perfect ease, and made the
distance of IA miles within fifty minutes. This
experimental line has been for. several years
in active operation, and carries daily consid-
erable number of passengers to and from Port
Madoc, and large amount Of heavy. freight
the latter consisting principally of valuable
slate and building stone from the Festiniog
quarries. The cheapness with which it was
built, the peculiar Lis ghtness Of its equipment
and the handsome profits it has paid to its
stockholders-not less than fifty per centum
annually-have led to the construction of SIM
lar roads in other parts of Wales The atten-
ton of large numbers of capitalists and civil
engineers has also been strongly attracted to
the subject Here, then, we have railway
which may be constructed for few thousand
dollars mile, the cost of whose equipment is
mere trihe As local road connecting with
a main line it can be built more cheaply than
a common plank road, and from the lightness
of its rolling stock is subject to very little wear
and tear. Such a road might be built by
neighborhood corporation anywhere. 1t would
cheaper the cost of transportation to market;
it would largely enhance the value of the lands
through which it passed; and, if properly
managed, would pay to the stockholders from
the very outset handsome profit on their in
vestment Why may we not see the expert
mcnt tried here? There are plenty of isolated
interior localities for which it would be just
the thing.-Railroad Mcws.
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A New POWER IN MEcHANIcs.-A couple
of young machinists have working model Of
an engine on exhibition in one of the rooms OF
the bank building on Third-street, which. if
successful in operation on large, or working
scale, is destined to produce as radical change
in motive power as steam effected i'll its day and
generation. A patent was secured for the
present invention few months ago, but even
Since then certain improvements are claimed,
and it is proposed to offer the perfected model
to the inspection of the public in, the course Of
q week at the farthest.
A furnace at one end of heavy iron tube,
which acts as a fue; is expanded by the heat.
The expansion acts upon lever of heavier
metal than the tube, and as the letter becomes
heated, the lever moves slowly but powerfully
backwards and forwards; and this motion, once
secured is repeated at will by the application
of cogwheels. The supply of heat to the tuoe
is regulated by side flues which carry oif super
Auous heat or leaves all the furnace produces for
application to the generating tube, at Will OF
the operator.
tied and that it can be supplied at a cost which
viii throw caloric engines and steam engines
completely Ct ON into the shade.-Cfncinnati Com
7,1eTcllL.
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LoNaEv1rY.-The Piedmont Virginian says
there is living in the upper end Of Orange
county Mrs Pratt, who will be ninety-nine
wears old in November next. Her mind, men,
ory and hearing are almost as good as ever
She can walk about the house, yard and garden
without help of any kind. She cards and spins
every day for amusement. She was born in
Culpepper, raised in Madison and married in
Orange ,,
The Hillsboro IN. C.) Recorder says: "Mrs.
Shanklin, who resides six miles from town, IS
one hundred and eleven years old, and mas
daughter living with her who is eighty and odd.
war; and remembers CORVALLIS when he had
his headquarters in this town. Mrs. S. is as
active now as some Of our parlor- ornament girls
of thirty years.
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Three little girls were playing among the

: Three little girls were playing among the
poppies and the sage bushes of the back yard.
Two, of them were making believe keep house,
little way apart, as near neighbors might
At last one of them was overheard saying to
the youngest of the lot: "There, now, Nellie,
YOU 60 over to Sarahs house, and stop there q
little while and talk as fast as you can,, and
then come back and tell me what she said about
me, and then I'll talk about her; and then you
20 and tell her all say, and then we'll get as
mad rs hornets, and won't speak when we
meet, just as our mothers do, you know; and
that'l be such fun-won't it?"
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a STRANGE CREATURE.--A correspondent
of the New Orleans Picayane relates the fol-
lowing story: a.
During a recent sojourn in the Lone Star
State my attention was called to a curiosity or
freak of nature more wonderful than the
three-horned OK, and harder dose for skeptics
than the fact Of a hog playing seven-up.
About six miles from Chappell Hill, Wash
ington county, Texas, there is negro, about
twenty-five years of age, who can truly be
called woman-man, being physically a man,
with the nature, disposition and temperament
of woman. He was born in Washington
county, is now in the employ of Judge Landes,
and was formerly employed By Mr.. NJ. Mont
gomery, of the same county.
While youth he always had a desire to wear
girls clothes and did such work as fine sewing,
quilting, knitting, cooking, &c, as naturally as
would a girl. In fact, from the age of twelve,
he did all his mothers sewing, and continually
protested against wearing mems clothes. The
work of woman was more natural to him than
that of man, and he would always show his
feminine disposition in such little actions as
riding side-saddles &c. He would beg to be
called Dixie, or by any girls name, instead OF
Dick.
The most wonderful part of the history of
this strange being is, that the very moment he
was free he adopted the full garb of a woman
and the name of Lizzie. BY those with whom
he was raised he is called Lizzie-Dick, but is
most generally known by the name of Lizzie,
and is now universally recognized as d woman
by both the whites and blacks of the county.
His bedroom is always kept in the very neatest
order, and in his dress he displays rare taste
seldom seen among negroes, and often found
wanting" in the fashionable belle of society.
He evinces no disposition to talk of his situa-
ton, but simply says he is woman, and con-
siders it non-debatable question.
know the reader will say, as did the writer
on first hearing of this wonderful being, that
the negro is hermaphroditical, demented, luna
tic or a monomaniac on this one subject, but
the above two gentlemen will corroborate the
statement that the former is not the case, and
that there is not brighter or more intelligent
negro in the county, This is probably another
case of man turning to woman as was going the
rounds of the press few years ago; but, my
object being simply to give the above facts, l
will leave the "whys and wherefores" for wiser
heads than that of your friend.
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A member of the Pennsylvania Legisl.a-,
ture, in defending mothers-in- law, said: Il
know 'em, Mr. Speaker. Have had several,
They're good and useful class, and yet-and
yet-with the best of them there may be trou'
ble."
The man who sat down on paper Of tacks
said they reminded him of the income tax
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A cabbage leaf worn in the hat and on
the chest, next to the skin, will keep man
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-18

Saratoga has an afluent Chinese merchant,
who filings eight-ounce diamonds at the walters
when his baked rat is not well done.
, 1870-07-09

D1sABu1TY ELL
oa motion Of Ar. MccREERY, the bill rcltey-
EentucEfan8 was taken un
naiioas nl3 nItsGs9ns were made By Mcssrs. HOW
MI. McClsEEnY explained that ufty-three of
the names had been reported upou fayora,1T Nv
the &c commltasg 1n9E % e. p!sallli1isa e'' -
tarus " Smith, formerly Street Commison ~ @us Is
New Iore, which apIearcd tn the bill, e1pfessed ID
surprise that man stlncated and nuS;arcd 77lt at
public cost, who had drawn Its sword against tl1e
country which gave 1t to him, Should Come here
50 hastily Y sssk canionemcnt for his offences.
~. AcCREERI rSrltcd that Smith had done less
to forward the rebellion than LonG5unet
Hi. CAMERON recognized u difference between
the TWO cases in the furt tha. when Smith went
south he had boastet Of 3 sacrifice for The reDrl
cause tn abandoning lucrative ONCE, As to
Longstteet he never 1uglt TO receive the position
he now holds His appointment was wrong to the
tuund to consult thu feelings Of the relatives Of
the slain Of the var on this side Of the line. The
na1nes Of Gustaras ". Smith aud Basil ". Duke
were stricken from the bltl.
The discussion continued upon the proptietv OF
striking out twcntr nanes which had not received
the sanction Of the Committee on Disabilities The
titi relieving the political disabilities p{ some 900
PERSONS, reported from the committee, Was moved
as an amendment, but subsequently Withdrawn.
Nj. DnAkE moved 70 e5esP. az who held Fed
Amendment Reicc;ed-Eeas 10: nays, 81
The bM then passed by q two-tnlrd vote-5cas,
N' NEW FORT OF DELIVERY.
Mi. CQRBEIT, from the Committee on Com
Derce, reported the House bill making ST. Joseph,
Ao., q port of delivery. Pissed
TIE ARMY I'LL
Mr. WILSON gave notice that he would, On
Saturday, move to take up the Army Approprta-
ton bill. and offer as an amendment the substance
Of the Army Dill tabled Last night, omtttlnx The
objectionable part.
ARMY RELIEF ELL PASSED.
Inc Conference Committee reported on the bill
CURED IN.
THE GENERAL pIsAa1llT1Es ELL, .
relieving TIT political di=ahilirez Of at5ou: s. G31
, 1870-07-09

Fort Dodge. Iowa. gises depot grounds,
f1ent OF way, and S27 ,000 to secure tho Des
Moines Valley Railroad, which she ia to ret
sitter al, and the Fort Dodge L Minnesota
Railroad goes under.
We learn from tho Eau Claire Frcc Press
that the spikes, which have delayed work on
the West Wisconsin Railroad, lave reached
Augusta, and work has been resumed, Nate
tial enough has been accumulated to complete
the road to Eau Claire.
There are four miles Of track to be laid
TO close the gap in the Iowa Falls i Sioux civ
Railroad. Tho men just now arc lying idle at
both ends Of tho track waiting for iron.
The Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad
has issued "a, ,000, 600 Of new stock for the pnr-
pose Of .eqnipping the Decatur 4; East St.
Louis Hallway Company, which has just been
opened for business.
Tho Quincy Whig OF tho 7th SAYS: "Gen-
eIa Gfidley, President Of tho Lafayette.
bloomington l. Mississippi Railroad Com
pany, and Judge McClun, Of Bloomington.
ILL.,, were in the city yesterday, for the puT.
pose Of comforting With onr railroad men and
capitalists IN reference to the proposed extern
zion Of their road to this city. Their road is
in process ct construction, and Will be finished.
few months hence, from Lafayette, Ind. to
Bloomington, and line viii also soon be
completed from Lafayette to Iuncy.
Ind: giving : direct connection east.
ward. It is now proposed to construct Inns
ltc2 uelaTac by nay Of Ear7c1, OF Ie3m 70
, 1870-07-09
NOTICE.
INSURANCE

stray J3 cow came into ,oy enclosure on tle 7.,,
OF May which the owner have s,y IN, .r stty
an ~ nsE5ns cnarge',, JOHN c. FIEtD-
, 1870-07-09
Fires.

PONTIAC, Ill, July s.-Pontlac Was visited by
the most severe arc experienced here, last night,
Thirteen buildings were burned In the heart oi
1he town. The total loss Is not far from <5 000 az
1olloHs: J; y. Herbert, store, 1900, insured fos
500; C. L. Herbert stock 8, 600, insurance 900;
Odd Fellows building, loss :, 700, insured 70!
$4,000, and occupied LIZ Naierg i kirkhcad,
Wnosesale merchants, whose loss OF stock fs f20,
coo; insured for 10000; City Hotel, $500, oWn-
"a e., ny Harding 4 Payne. no insurance: loss Of
aace: A. G. Goodspeeds store, $500, no
insurance m stock not ascertaIncd; c. Ress, store,
S,svo' insured for 81 500; EtO:6 Of L. Miller, IN
fare ees e covered By insurance; Judge D11, two
fnn i.nii-,., ifivu, No insurance; johnson i Norton,
!!oqs parties In same consjsrahIy damarctl: ",
z Hyo1; tHo stofes, loss 1850 insurance $500;
ateIs building anl stock, 800 Ioss $3.50
an"a q I'm Aal1saotn's Store $as 000 i1suE-
surance. Scre1.l occupants az thnaa f.,I!,,naV sr
not enumerated have suffered losses INN sinn n
S0oo. No explanation Of the tIre can ~ ~ n;rn ~
other than incenliiaFy. e'a oe siscA
MANCHESTER, y. H., June 6.-This moroIno q
IRE broke out u building In the ry:r ~ ;ha
Merchants Exchange, swept through un,;n uso
1ulidinEs in thai section, and soon enreron1
ne2fly all the locality between Elm and Chcs,nut
s1.ef'e, Snh "a and a. between Hanover street and the
anu Mer1iniac on the south. The area burned
over Is from i've to Elk acres. The amount nj
r!onclfy destroyed Is 3250, ,0o0 on which there is
about slsa 600 insurance. Two hundred families
ana no one seriously injured. Hon. E. II. Hs7.
ftngson Is probably the la1gest individual loser by
the afe: The Masonic Temple, owned By him ana
y. =. ". Jones, Wa8 worth $4,000; insured for
tN5U9. Harrington d Iohnaons loss Is about
*9o9o *99@ Partially insured ]. g. a. Aargcnts loss
E!ietn! OF Inc Daily Mirror, whose ottlce was pat-
uai5 destroyed, estimates bis loks 1t &3G,0o1 with
, 1870-07-09

FROM Inc lafayette {fAd.} JOURNAL
The safe in Thomas Woods banking house
opposite the Labr House, was robbed, on Mon
day afternoon. Of two boxes, containing notes
mortgages and other papers Of the value of ont
hundred thousand dollars. Tho suppostion il
that the thief gained access to the office by 20
ing up tho front stairway leading to the Dispatcl
othce. and tlen passing down back stairway Il
tho rear, while the persons connected with the
cstab1ish hmcnt wero quietly seated in the shade
In 'front.' The cafe door standing open, OF
course, naade it an easy matter for the thief
to secure the two boxes, Which he doubtless
supposed to contain money. One of tho box
es contained the priEste papers Of II. s. Scud-
der, inc!snding, We understand, some 7-:so
bonds: The contents OF the other boz belong
ed to Mr. Wood, whose loss, however, will be
small, as they were mostly notes secured bT
mortgage, duly recorded. He offers . reward
Of slo0 for the boxes and contents, aud will
ask no questions. The robbery was not dis-
covered until yesterday morning on opening
tho safe at tho commencement of business
Several parties are on tho lookout Tor tho
, 1870-07-09
RECOVERY OF STOLEN GooD1.

An individual named jamea Stratton, ala;
bufns, las been living in house on Centre are,
huc, near Catherine street, for about six mouths
rasr. Although not very old man, there were
four men frequently seen In the building, who
represented themselves to be his sons stratton
sa saaa ne was cattle dealer, and WAS frequently
1an1 haa 9s 'nc. place sna II t-a,g 5lew iez
of crimlnatlns character, received day Of two
slncs, concluded to pay him visit and learn, If
FoSS!pe, Nhy the shutters were always closed
aaid tas house presented an uninhablted aspect.
aG,g,o5oiug,y t,,,t segeants Garrity and Mcdonald,
win several policemen, called there early 5eater.
day m9nE;ntng and after obtaining admission, we're
agEeeshlT surprised. Numerous trunks and boxes
meEe dlaeosered, which, upon being broken open,
@ Rese 1onnd 70 contain variety Of articles which
have been, without doubt, stolen. They also
reeosered 1lge silver Eatcaes, seyen hunting s-case
Wa.enes tniis5.sx geld rtnga silver cake basket
occupants Of sns honse. including stratton, ali
locked up In the Twelfth Street sub-stst1on. AZ
soon as ne property ta identified they VIII Be a.
yF!gncf for examination at the rolice Court. 1na
to:.t vcsae ot the gocts Il MT fss tssp 31,oA,