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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-09-01
Bill Arp on Life Insurance.

"Bill Arp" the famous no Georgia h7!umorist, 7!r
has been interviewed" by several life insu-
rance agents, and favors the public, in his own
inimitable style, with his experience:
A friend u suppose he was a friend) found
me and said he wanted to see me partiklarly.
He took me away back and hauled out sum
little thumb papers full of figures, and said
he wanted me to insure my life. That skeered
me worse than anything, for it looked like
was in danger, and he had just found it out.
I axed him if he thought there would be a
fight. He explained things to me, and felt
relieved, and declined to insure for the pres
see the necessity. At the next corner met
another friend, who seemed glad to see me ex-
ceedingly. He held my hand in his several
moments. He axed me if my life was insured.
He said he was agent for the very best compa-
ny in the world. axed him how long man
would live under his company. He then ex-
planned to me that man might die at any
time; that they didn't undertake to keep a
man from dying. So declined, but expressed
my gratitude for his interest in my welfare, and
promised to buy policy as soon as I got right
sick. Just as | left him l heard him call some
feller dam phool. When got to the hotel
there was feller waitin' for me on the same
business He talked to me for an hour about
the uncertainty of life and the certainty of
death. thought, perhaps, he was missiona-
ry. He seemed much concerned about my wife
and children, and once or twice wiped his eyes
with white pocket handkerchief. knowed
he was a friend, and told him would reflect
seriously about the matter.
believe that company is purely philan-
thropic institution and would lend a poor fel-
low few dollars if he was suffering. think
I will try to borrow little from their agents
tomorrow This morning the first one come
to see me agin and I concluded was looking
nifty bad, and axed him to excuse me as was
not feelin well. Iwent to DR.. Alexander, and
got dose of salts. He axed me if was sick
[ told him supposed I was and the reason
why. He then told me all about it and said
there was about 100 of them fellers in town,
and they bored about half an inch at the first
interview and an inch at the second in the
same hole, and so on until they got to the hol-
low, and the patient give in and took policy.
l don't know about that, but | will say they
are the friendliest, most sympathizen and kind
hearted men l ever struck; only l don't like
so much talk about cofins and graveyards. I
dident take the salts.
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ANDERSON O. H. S 9, THURSDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 1870

and die with her husband. With wonderful
fortitude and devotion, and in spite of his ear
nest entreaties, she chose the latter. Another
man, one Keisburg, was also too weak to be re-
fornia. In the following April another small
chance either of those left behind yet survived.
They found Keisburgh living, he having SUBJ
sisted for several weeks upon the body Of Mrs.
Donner, who had died soon after her husband.
The story is almost too shocking to be repeated,
but as g remarkable and trustworthy instance
of the behavior of mankind, under the most
trying circumstances of which it is possible to
conceive, the narrative has an interest and i'm
portance thatustify its recital and preservation.
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GOSSIP AND SCANDAL.-Gossip and scandal
are two different things. Mere gossip is talk
ing about neighbors' affairs, without any ma
lcious motive. But scandal is repeating story
that you know is damaging. Sometimes the
story is true but generally it is grossly exag-
gerated, if not entirely without foundation.
Very rarely, indeed, when an unfortunate affair
of any kind occurs in family, do strangers
know the whole truth. If it is a wrong that
has been done, the provocation is overlooked; if
it is mere indiscretion, the mitigating circum-
stances are disregarded Persons frequently
repeat tales of scandal without any evil inten-
tion. But many, alas delight in them, and
are only too glad to find something to say
against their neighbor.
There is class of people, for instance, who
secretly envy others their successes, and who
therefore, are always ready to give such rivals a
stab in the dark. Sometimes they have an idea
they have been slighted by these persons.
This is particularly the case where an old ac-
quaintancc has got rich. They cannot forgive
that these more fortunate individuals should
have finer houses or more elegant furniture
than themselves, and hence they never omit an
opportunity to say something disparaging, or
when this cannot be done, at least to sneer.
Such people are the pests of society. Their
unhappy organization makes tneni Curse "
themselves and to everybody elese They are
your scandalmongers. They go about like rag
rpickers raking in the dirt, but looking not for
gems but for mud to throw at others.
Less faulty, but still censurable, are your
gossips pure and simple. These talk solely to
hear themselves talk They chatter like so
many silly magpies about this and that neigh
bor not intending to do harm, but simply be-
cause they are impertinent busybodies. Yet
they often work great mischief. Many friend
has been alienatcd, many a family circle torn
by dissensions, in consequence of the idle and
unfounded stories which these gossips have set
agoing. Truly has Scripture said that the
"tongue is an unruly member" Take our ad-
vice. Never speak of the affairs of others un-
less it becomes your duty, and then in the kind.
est spirit. In plain words, both in speech and
in conduct: do unto others as you would wish
to be done unto.
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HENRY CLEws & Cove take occasion to
mention another very remarkable success of
the above firm. They have lately taken on the
banking of several important railway compa-
nies, and somehow new business Of the first
class seems daily drifting to the house Mr.,
Clews, though Of our younger bankers, has
nevertheless been good while in business, and
has long enjoyed national reputation in his
profession. Quiet, urbane, never oppressed
with care or grave under the weight of heavy
affairs in Wall street or in society," at his bank,
at the dinner table, or at the scientific meetings;
always easy, and though ipsouciant, as the
French have it, yet never pushing himself or
his views, he Lardly prepares us for the sur
prises which, in the social or the banking world,
he takes OCCASION so often to enact. These
quiet achievements import character beyond
mere talent and this is witnessed also by the
large list of clients of the best sort who hold
to and believe in him, while new ones of the
same kind are constantly resorting to his house.
The London firm is Clews, Habicht & Co., No.
Lothbury street.-The Stakeholder.
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GET TU BRUTE."-This was the unkindest
cut of all. That Judge Orr, identified with US
by birth and interest, and having so otter en-
joyed the confidence andsupporto OF our peoplein
his aspirations for responsible and honorable po-
sitions, should strive to cripple an effort fraught
with interest to the people of the entire State,
is more than ungrateful. That, forgetting his
calling and position, he should enter the politi-
cal;arena, and, by false premises and fallacious
reasoning, strive to entice away the colored ac-
cessions to the Reform party, is unworthy his
past record. That he should assert, as truths,
what he knew to be false, and by arguments
based on them deceive and mislead the negro to
blind support of the radical party, which he
admits to be corrupt is step lower than the
enemies of Orr would have conceived for him.
He knows the Radical party never waged war
for the freedom of the negro. President Lin
coin and Congress time and again affirmed that
they did not design to interfere with slavery.
The negro knows this, and shall we excuse an
ez-Congressman through ignorance. The polit-
ical somersaults of Orr have been by-word
since 1850, but his enemies never gave him
credit for that want of moral character his own
letter afixes to him. Should his conclusions
prove correct, and Scott and Ransier be elected,
can our people forget that letter. which, with
view to self-defence, abounds in low appeals to
the negro and poor white men? The question:
is not who made this or that law, but is the
ruling party incompetent, corrupt and extrava-
CANT? Judge Orr says, yes. Are the rights of
the negro equally secure in either party? He
says, politically, there is no distinction in the
parties, so far as the rights of the colored man
are concerned. Then is it not to the interest
of the colored man to have an honest, econom-
ical and wise government, and if SO why can
he not be induced, by legitimate argument, to
i yem t1e ReBes sBB @ua rah mas nor % neg por ogo
furnishes key to his Honor's position. Math-
ematics is the man.-Reoa0ee Courier.
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A wedding in Bridgeport, Conn, was in
terrupted for moment, the other day, by an
apparently sane gentleman, who stepped up to
the bridegroom at the altar, tapped him on the
shoulder, and said, in an audible whisper, "Be-
fore this little affair goes any further, l would
fires ?"
A little boy, three years old, who has a
brother of three months, gave as reason for
tears, because he doesn't drink water, and be
can't cry milk"
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"A man in Wisconsin has made remsrs-
able exhibition of ingenious work. From
piece of pine board twenty-five inches long,
four inches wide, and seven-eighths of an inch
in thickness, he has whitfield seven pairs of
dentists forceps, three pairs of pliers, six pairs
of blacksmiths' tongs, one pair Of horse shoe
pinchers, one twisted link chain with swivel
one straight link chain, horse in a stall, "r'i
two balls in box-in all forty-seven distinct
joints, all of which are connected ana play
this singular piece of work is the size Of the
board above described; but when open orspread
out for exhibition, it covers space about two
feet square. He was occupied upon the work
rix weeks,
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IN Boston, early on the morning of Inde-

In Boston, early on the morning of Inde-
pendence Day, the neighbors heard prodii-
gious rumpus in a house occupied by child
less old couple and on going to sse rda found the
He explained as follows 3hS LGo6 ad here ue
nigh onto forty years, and she has been hen
pecken' of me all the time; and now, this be-
ing the Fourth of July, by thunder, I've de-
elared nv independence"
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From the Columbia Phenir.

The lesson recently taught by North Caro-
lima should have healthy and re-assuring eff
feet upon the Conservative party of South Caro-
lima Upon the eve of the late election the old
North State was seemingly not less certainly
doomed to radicalism than is our own to-day {;
yet the result of the election has been an over
whelming defeat to the carpet-bag hordes, fore
shadowing their downfall throughout the South,
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. In the
many safeguards with which the radicals have
endeavored to prop up their party, such as the
enforcement bill, the militia bill, ETC., they
haze invented weapons, which are double-edged,
equally as dangerous to themselves as to
their political foes. Besides this, general
disgust of carpet-baggery is rapidly spreading
through the negro ranks. They have been de-
luded so long with unfulflled promises, they
find themselves so invariably cheated out OF
their aspirations, discover themselves always in
the attitude of mere tools for the elevation of
strange adventures, that they now pause, and
ask what is to be gained by cultivating un-
friendly relations with the white people OF
their section, with whose interest theirs must
always be identical. 1t needed but this pause
in the fiood-tide of madness to set in the ebb,
and it dashed through the ballot boxes of North
Carolina, sweeping away every vestige OF radl-
cal power and influence: So will it soon sweep
across our own cane and cotton fields, leaving
South Carolina regenerated State. Now,
therefore, is the proper time for the exercise of
the utmost caution and judgment by the Con-
scryativcparty in selecting candidates. All old,
wornout, fossilized politicians must be repudia-
ted. None but young, active, capable men, free
from all entangling political alliances, must be
put in nomination, and thus political victory
in the fall elections may be assured
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-03-16
Dtnner Ina Chinese Inn.

We entered, and sitting at a rough
deal table, ordered our dinner of the
( ChanghWeite, or, as Able Hue calls him,
''the inspector Ofthechest.u There were
/ stewed mutton, and fried mutton, and
beef, and poultry, chi-tang-chaU'e er fried
| eggs, lau-ping and man-tau, or fried
cakes and steamed bread, and vermicel-
Ii. There were also pork in various shapes
but our knowledge of the Chinese Dig
and rs habits e.isinclined us from paEta-
king of its flesh.
Excluding this, we ordered Hltle
of everything else, aud the cooking Of
our dinner began under our eyes We
heard the chickens sgueaI, and in a few
minutes they were thrown through the
window tO the cook who had them
dressed and brOiling an incredibly short
time: the breadmaker put the Jumps Of
man-tau into the steamer, and then bus
led himself with the laU-ping. Taking
Il large piece of WCll-kneaded dough,
and making il into stick a yarl long,
he drew, threw, pulled and twisted ii
until 1t assumed the Dimensions of a
girls skipping-rOpe, and then doubling
and twisting and pulling it again and
again, producing a double stub and twist
texture, he cut it into small pieces.
which, after a good deal of tapping and
pattmg, became respectable disks; as he /
each Of these he uttered a shout I
and with a well directed aim tossed it (
some twenty OF thirty feet across the /
room to the cook.
In the meantime, another man was
manufacturing the yermicelli. Seated .
Oh a machine, three or four feet above the
this man worked long
lever, which moved piston in cylin-
der with perforated bottom; at every
stroke the long white strings descended /
into a boiling pot beneath, until the
cook, Judging that the quantity was
equal to the demands of our appetite,
cut off the material flush with the cyIin-
der, giving the man on the lever time
TO curl up the narrow board and smoke
MS pipe till another customer should
need his services.
While waiting for dinner the traveller
passes his time in drinking large uuan-
titles Of tea, but during the meal the
beverage consists of the strong rich
brandy, sometimes favored with rose
caves and always taken hot Prof.
POUlDCiiY OF ,fdylQIl and China.
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-03-16
a SCHOOL BOYS COMPOSITION ON
THE EDITOR


The editor is one of the most happiest
animals in the world especially if some
Of his subscribers won't pay. He can
60 TO the circus, afternoon and evening,
without paying a cent-that is, if he will
do great deal of printing for few tick
cts; he can also go to inquestS and hang
ings. He has free tickets to picBiCs and
strawberry festivals, If he is troubled
with the 'big head, and has more brass
than brains. Gets wedding cakes sent
to him, and sometimes gets a licking,
but not often, for he can take things
back in his next issue, which he general
~ does. ] never knew but one editor
to get licked. His paper hust6d that dav
and he couldn't take anything back
While others have to go to bed early, the
editor can sit up late every hight and
see what is going on. The b'hOys think
it is a grand thing TO hang on till ten
o'clock; that is, if they are once tight.
When ] am man lmean to he a cIInF.
so ! can stay out late uf nights. Then
that will 10 t,Ully, The editor don't have
to saw wood or do any chOpping, exeept
with his scissors. Railroads get up eS
cTsiOns for him, knOwidg it they didn't
I'd make them get up aud gIt In DO
lltlcs ne dOn'{ .AEe much which he goes
for IL they're OH his side. If thev amt
he goes for them anyway, 80 it amounts
to nearly the same thing, even If some
'soithead' stops taking his paper
There IS "a great many trying to De edi-
tors who can't, and some of them have
been in the profession for years. III
were asked il ! had rather have am edu-
cation OF bc Il eireJs rider. ] should
say, LetmC he an editor. Il is fun tO
he owindled hy seape-goAt subscriber,
Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-03-16
4 New safety Lock.

Duve and Lemair, two young mech
aniclans IN Paris, have invented a new
kind Of safety lock. The KEY OPENS the
lock without nOise;but ifa false kew be
introduced, Jimmy or any piece of
metal, bells are set agOingas long as the
piece IS applied This is effected by the
disposal Of several tUmblers with regard
to small lever, which completes the
battery circuit when elevated. When
all the tumRleTs are lifted simultaneous
lyI as by the master KEY, the lever f4
not raised, and no alarm is given: but ir
one, two, or three be lifted, the alarm
lever is raised and the ringing take
place. If the bUrgIcr, knowing tHc
mechanism of the lock, tries to force the
lock plate by amy of the usual burglars
instruments, as SOON aS the metal Is al
tempted TO be wedged In, the ringiBr
commences, The safety lock can bC an
Piled to all the doors or fasteuings with
out distinction. The acting agent Of
alarm is a feeble current of electricity
produced by a small battery Of two ele-
mentS.
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WHOLE NUMBER ll4.

geographical and commercial position,
as well as by its live stock, agricultural,
horticultural, mechanical. and other 10
cal industries, would be largely benefited
by It regular exhibition of all these, the
NOrthean Ohio Fair Association extends
the hand Of fellowship to all and several
of the peoples and like industrial AssO-
Citations, within and without the bounds
of our organization, and invoke their
good will and hearty cooperation in the
common cause Of industrial and social
progress.
In this work we disclaim all feelings
Of sectional jealousy or petty rivalry,
and taking our stand upon the broad
platform of good will to all, We throw
down the gage of honorable competition
to all who may enter our lists to strive
for the crown of excellence, i'm which the
success Of one is alike the triumph Of all.
The Northern Ohio Fair Association Is
q legally Charactered institution under
the laws of Ohio, with capital stock of
$500, 900, divided into shares of $50 each,
to bring the pTOpTietOrship within the
reach of all who feel an interest i'm the
success Of the enterprise, and to enlist
the greatest number Of persons i'm the
ranks of its stockholders. On this capi-
tai stock, ten per cent. must be paid
down, and it is supposed that future i'll
stallments need not exceed twenty-five
per cent, more which will be ample for
all expenses of putting the Fair upon
safe basis for successful operation, and il
is not anticipated that any further i'll
stallment upon the capital stock will
ever be required while, with iudiciOus
management, q fair dividend may be re-
turned to the stockholders, besides the
untold benefit, not to be estimated by
dollars and cents, which will annually
accrue from permanent and we'll Or
dered exhibition of our products of our
skill and industry, and the happy results
of the social and friendly intercourse Of
our whole people, under such favorable
auspices. y business Office has been
opened at l5I Superior street, WeddeIl
House Block, opposite the American
House, where books are open for sub
sCHptiOn to the capital stock, and liberal
subscriptions are already made. Ii is
also proposed TO Cstablise local agencies
for this purpose in the several counties
of Northern Ohio, for which, and TO af-
ford an opportunity for taking of stock
outside Of the City of Cleveland, CORES
providence is solicited from any persons
who desire 10 cooperate with us
BO order Of the Stock Subscription
Committee.
:. d. HARRIS, Secretary.
CORPOATORS.-WO Worthy s. StreatOr,
Sullivan d. Harris, Azariah Everett,
Amos Townsend, William Bingham,
Henry Nottingham, David 4. Dangler,
William Collins, Oscar \ Childs, Lester
i. HiCkOX, Oliver H Payne, Alton Pope
and Walter \. Fish.
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Advertisements will he inserted at lhe
Printing in California.

4 review Of the progress of the print
ing business in California is given bv the
San Francisco Bulletin. At the time OF
the gold discovery i'm lS4S but one small
weekly newspaper was published in
California, the editor of which was
his own printer. In the winter Of 1S4g--
80 three daily newspapers and three job
printing offices, employing about forty
printers at wages of $50 a week each,
were established in San Francisco. In
the spring and summer Of 1850 daily
journals began to spring up over the
State, and the iOurncymen printers nut
up wages to $50 q week. and then to s.
per 1000 ems; which rates generally
ruled until 1856, when they were fixed
at IS cents per 1000 for piece work, and
$50 per week for day work, which rates
have been maintained to the present
time.
Six dailies, two semi-weeklies, three
tri-weeklies, twenty weeklies and
monthlies and one bi-mOnthly are now
published in San Francisco, giving em-
ployment to about 900 printers. There
are now thirty-fOur book and job print
ing establishments, eleven of them us
ing steam-pOweT in their press-rUOms.
The total labor bill for one Of the most
extensive job offices amounts to So, 900
gold per annum lOnly gold rates are Civ
en- in this artiClel, and ut least two news
papers are paying printers at the rate Of
more than S55,O0O each year.
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\ Mountain Of salt.

In the Phrunaga district, i'm the South
western part of the State of Nevada.
distance from Austin estimated at 1SO
miles, l. a remarkable mountain of salt,
about ~ miles South of the mines. IL
is reported To he about 20 miles South Of
the mines. Il is reported To be about
five miles in length aud 6DOfeCt i'm hight.
The body of salt is of unknown depth,
Ii is chemically pure and crystalline,
and does not deliguiCse on exposure to
the atmosphere. Like rock, it requires
blasting from the mine, whence il is ta-
ken i'm large blocks and is as transparent
rs glass This would afford an abundant
supply tO the world, could it he cheaply
mined and transported but it now
stands i'm the wilderness, an object for
the admiution ofthe curious and the in
spcctiOn of the scientific. It is believ-
ed that there is but one other place on
the globe where exists i'm such 20 o. q
pUriR i'm workable quaint
Is at CroCrOW. Poland