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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-18
ANDERSON G. H. S. c. THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 49, 1870
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 q few months ago, affords
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 line of
route being a rugged mountain, one with a
succession of sharp curves and continuous
rise by gradients averaging about in S5. It
was built cheaply, is worked at singularly
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 ten
ders whose avoirdupois but slightly overrun a
ton. The passenger cars are proportionately
light and diminutive, though 80 arranged as to
afford accommodations as ample and comtorta-
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 en-
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 lightness 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-
tion 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
a mere trihe As local road connecting with
a main line it can be built more chcaply than
a common plank road, and from the lightness
of its rolling stock is subject to very little wear
and tear Such road might be built by
neighborhood corporation anywhere. 1t would
cheaper the cost of transportation to a 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
ment tried here? There are plenty of isolated
interior localities for which it would be just
the thing-Raihoad Ncus.
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All! It's so-While thousands fall by
clashiug 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
apt to forget their hidden power. Fifty spoken,
tbey fall like the sunshine, the dew and ire
drilling rain; but when unitly, like the frest.
the hail and the desolating tempest.
-Politepess almost invariably requires a
gentleman to agree with lady, but when she 1
ssneaks of the great beauty Of some other lady,
i is always safe for the gentleman to say there
are other STYLES of female loveliness that he ad-
mires much more.
III. He who assumes airs Of importance, e1-
bibits his credentials of insigniticance.
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A STRANGE CREATUEE.--A correspondent
of the New Orleans Picayune relates the fol-
lowing story ~.
State my attention was called to curiosity or
q 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 desire to wear
girls Clothes and did such work as fine sewing,
quilting, knitting, cooking, &C., as naturally as
would 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
LnlS SlT;illSe ucluS -, lIidI tLc tciy noiohV n0
was free he adopted the full garb of q 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 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 a woman, and con-
siders it a non-debatable question.
1 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, |
will leave the "whys and wherefores" for wiser
heads than that of your friend.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-18

KEEPING ACCOUNTS WITH HFREEDMEN.-One
of the most fruitful sources of trouble with the
employer of freedmen, says the Rural Caro-
linian 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 running account with him,
in which he charges him a stipulated amount
for every day, or fraction of 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
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 obviate 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 fiftv 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 a full days work, give him check for the
amount due if he las done but half days
work paw him accordingly. When the laborer
wants supplies let hir, 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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LoNeEv1rY.-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
Culpeppcr, raised in Madison and married in
Orange.
The Hillsboro IN. C.) Recorder says "Mrs.
Shanklin, who resides six miles from town, Is
daughter living with her who is eighty and odd.
The old lady was grown in the revolutionary
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 go over to Sarah's house, and stop there
little while and talk as fast as you can, and
then come back and tell me what she said about
me, and then III talk about her; and then you
go and tell her all say, and then we'll get as
mad as hornets, and won't speak when we
meet, just as our mothers do, you know; and
that'H be such fun-wont it?"
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"A member of the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture, in defending mothers-in-law, said: IL
know 'em, Mr. Speaker. Have had several
They're good and useful class, and yet-and
yetcwith the best of them there may be trou-
BILE"
- 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
cool and comfortable on the hottest day.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-08-18

= Saratoga has an afuent Chinese merchant,
who fings eight-ounce diamonds at the walters
when his baked rat is not well done.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-07

POLICE CoURT, WEDNEsDAY-JoSephJ j.
White (Police .Just'ce) prcsiding.-Tobias
Eacho, charged with IN assault upon VIII
liam nj. Eaeho and breaking into the store
of the said William M. Eacho. Dismissed.
August Williams, striking Charlotte Nit
chell and resisting Policeman Poiteaux.
Fined s. and discharged.
Jack Blumer and Paul Scott (colored),
throwing stones in the street and stealing
chickens from some person unknown.
Fined 81 each. =. -.
+ Frank Smith, drunk and lying on the
sidewalk. Sent to Jail in default of security.
Lucy johnson (colored), drunk and dis
orderly in the market-house. Discharged.
Mary E. Lucas, drunk and disorderiy.
Let off at the interccssion OF her husband.
John Mum, assauiting Robert II. uard-
grove. Discharged on payment OF costs.
Elizabeth johnson and Elvie Gailiii"ay
(coIored), stealing six dollars worth oil
wearing apparel from Catharlne Cumber.
John j. Phelps, feloniously cutting w.
l.. Davis. Discharged. -
william S. Goode, unlawfulIy taking and
carving away shrubbery and rOse-bnshes
from Shockoe Hill Cemetery. Discharged.
Lemliel Wingfield, assauting aud beat
ing Lewis Terry. Fined So. .sE
Patrick OSuilivan, threatening the life
OF Mary Casey and her children. Case con-
tiAued until the 11th instant. Ii:
ii Luke Casey and Mike Burkes charged
with assaulting Jim Smith tcploredb were
fined % each, Isl tss 46 III ttt.3 ~.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-07

MoRTUARY REPORT.-The following is the
mortuary report for the week ending Satur:
(i:lv, July 2, 1870, compiled from sections
returns received at the office Of the Board
Of Health: r-..-g
Whole number of deaths in tho city, 40 ;
in addition. 3 stiIl-born were reported. Sex :
Males, %; females. is. Color: White
males, 10; white females, 6; colorcd males,
II; coloTcd females, u. Condition Single,
q married, g.; widowers, 2; widows, l ;
unknown, q. Nativity: United States, IS ;
Germany, / !; Russia, 1. Locality: City at
large, 3; Marshall Ward, 2; Jefferson Ward,
s; Madison Ward, $; Monroe Ward, 10 +;
Clay Ward, 4; Almshouse, 5. Age: One
day to thirty, q; one month to six, 5;
six months to twelve, 10; one year to
three. ,; five years to ten, 9; ten years to
twenty, 3; twenty years to thirty, B; thirty
years. to. forty, 2; forty years to fifty, J;
fifty years to sixty, 5; sixty years to Sc
yenty, !; seventy years to eighty, 3; ninety
wears to ono hundred, I; unknown, /. BY
whom certified Regular practitioners, 2 |;
irregular practitioners, l.; coroner, 9;
Board of Health, o. Causes of death :
Asthma, /; brain disease, ! cholera in
fantum, 4; cholera mnrbus. 1 conslmp-
tion, 5 e whites, s colored) convnlsionss,
/; diarrhtra lacute), 8; diarrhUa (chronic),
1; diphbheria, l :; dropsy, L; epilepsy, l ;
heart disease, l !; inflammation OF brain, !:
inflammation of bowels, 1 infanticide (by
drowning), 2; marasmls, 1; paralysis, 3;
pneumonia, 1; pcritonitis, | premature
birth, /; Scrofula, 1; tccthing, 2; womb
disease, 1 unknown, A. :,TfrG..'
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TCOMMUNICATED.l
What is in-Tfac wind /?

The following resolutions have been sub
mitted by some member OF the Council,
and so fur acted OH as to be ordered to be
printed. Under whose patronage and for
whose benefit this scheme is gotten up is
not known. One thing, however, is GER
tain-thcre is no power or authority in the
Council to convert, by resolutions or ordi-
nances, "MUnroc Square" into " a suitable
conservatory or greenhouse" This matter
had as well be c0mprehendcd at once. Here
are the resolutions. They show their own
object, and disclose to every taxpayer their
innoyatinS and obtrusivc character:
" RESOLUTIONS IN RELATION TO MONROE
SQUARE.
81. Pesoloed, That the Committee on
Public Grounds and Buildings are hereby
authorized to erect in Monroe Square n
suitable conservatory or greenhouse, and
rent the same to u suitable tenant, who will
take charge OF said square and preserve
and improve it., on such terms and c0ndl-
tions rs the Committee on Public Grounds
and Buildings may think proper. And the
said committee are hereby authorized to
enter into contract and require security
from such person..
~2. Res6lced, That the Auditor be, and
hereby il, authorized and directed to issue
Tile DOuuS vi IlC Slts, W IilC hh'oaiio -.
four thousand dollars, to the CommIile Lee on
Public Grounds and Buildings, to be eX-
pended by them rs above provided"
From what source are the powers exer-
ciscd by the Council, or rather sought to be
exercised, derived? A public square to be
converted into . pIUatc "conservatory OF
greenhouse" Four thousand dollars oi
the peoples money expended for the ex'
press purpose OF erecting o private source
of income to some enterprising florist, who
can, under these resolutions, dipcst the
rights of the public in such parts OF the
"squarc" rs be may find it to his interests
to convert into deep pits, cooered 0oer 'c't'
qlass, and underneath filled NTH eucryrcens
and tio,cers. II the Council can rent or
lease out this square for one purpose it can
for another. How would a fashionable
livery stable, with surrounding shrnbbefy
and attendant saloons, comport with the
uses Of "Monroe Square" =
1t is to be hoped that these resolutions
will BE withdrawn or defeated, and the
four Thousand dollars otherwise and legally
appropriated. .s.s..-s CLAY WARD.
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AUCTION sAEEs THIS BAY.

GRUBBS u WILLIAMS will scll at la Az. yalra-
bic real estate on tlc north side or Cary street
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth.
". REEsEE will cell at 10 A. M. an
assortment OF furniture, &c.
GIUEBs & WILLIAMS will sell at G p. NJ. the
suburban farm called Poplar Hill, near the
Mechancsyille Turnpike t0ll-gatc.
LEE Il GODDIN will sell at 6 L. bI. a lot on st.
james and Coutts streets.
LEE & GODDIN will sell at half-pnst r. NJ.
: two building lots on Wall street extended. be-
tween Broad and Franklin streets.
LYME Il BROTHER Will sell at p. NJ four
building lots on the north side of Main and
Twenty-fifth streets. - .. ..v -
LYME 6 BROTHER will sell at lialf-past n. NJ.
two new brick stores OH Broad street near the
corner Of Twenty fifth street.
PANNILL, Petersburg, will sell Mt S
II. NJ, for the trustee, sylvanus Johnson's in
terest in valuable property and water power,
&c. s.... s
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RIcHLAND, STAFFORD COUNTY, VA,
June Ii, 1870.

R1cHLAND. STAFFORD COUNTY, VA.,}
June Ii, 1870. )
Hon. John Letcher: ,...- .-.- :.
My Dear Sir,-Having occasion to COM
muncato with the editors OF the Richmond
Dispatch not very long since on some pri-
vaic business l took the occasion to say that
I thought an editorial (Which l. had just
pcrrsed in their paper) concerning the late
General George Ii. Thomas was in better
taste than some articles ! had read COM
mcnting rather harshly upon his being 4
Virsinian fighting against Virginia. T.
A part of my letter was published. 4on
may have seen it. Attention was called to
the fact that 1T the outbreak Of The war
General Thomas's sympathics were with
his southern brethren. inndccntly Thought
tiIe State of his birth might recall his
memory in after years with some respect IT
it was shown that it had cost him struggle
to separate himself from her and his Kim
dred; that he did not CoLDLY remain with
those who were TO invade the one and desc
late the homes of the other, and that his
first and natural impulses were with them.
Indeed, | knew the South would deem
hs wavcring between his love for the State
Of his nativity and affection for his relatives
on the ono hand, and his obligations to the
3" Union" on the other, q "feathcr in his
cap'-the size Of said feather being in d.
rect proportion to the amount of warering
done. t,. IS. s--'..- g..
The spirit of my letter has been miscon-
strucd at the North. Numerous paragraphs
from the "trooly loiI ~. papers have been
sent me denying the truth of my statement,
charactcrizing it as q desire to blast the
reputation of the finest officer in the Union
army" Ne, sc.
My attention has also been called to q
statement Of a Captain and Brcvct Colonel
A. l.. iioueh, former aid-dc-eamp to
Thomas. .WhoHsays that in virtue of his Po-
silion the privilege was accorded him Of
comvcrSing with the General, and alSO of
Immediately making notes Of such conyer-
Sations; hence he is enabled to reproduce
them. which he does and which convcr-
Siltions / sincerely hope, for the sake Of the
Elte General Thomas consistency, Captain
and Brcyet Colonel A. l.. IOuyh has mis-
apprcheTdcd. &c., ~
But life is too short, Governor, to trouble
you on account of any of the above
statements, and had not recent mails
brought letters from former comrades in the
United States army asking for the facts
upon which my statement was based this
would not have been written. ..... .-...
therefore ask you, as Governor Of Nir-
ginia ut the breaking out of the late war, for
any evidence vou may have going TO show q
desire ut that time on The part of the late
General George II. Thomas TO take service
with his State and to leave that Of the
United States Government.
am, Governor, very truly yours,
FITZHUGH LEE.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-07

Corn AND FLOUR EyCHAEGg-M LETTING op
THE NEW BOARD OF FDIRECToRs-A meeting
OF the new Board of Directors of this Asso-
citation was held last evening in the Corn
Exchange rooms. Present: L. ID. Crcn.
shaw, president; Edwin Workman, second
vicc-presidert; and T. w. McCancc, DIV.
Moore, S. Maceubbin, W. Il. Staples, j. E..
Tompkins, r. III. Gum, Il. H.P. Robinson,
and s. IIirsh, directors.
The Board went into an election of Off
GERS, and the following were unanimously
elected: Secretary, p. e. Coghlan Trcasn-
rer, E. 7. James. Erccnttrc Committee ::
" 4. Staples, S. Maccubbin, and r. HIP
Ko6Inson. Arbitration Committees. A.. I.
stokes, ueorge S. Palmer, James H. Wise,
=. 1. W orttam, and d. w. Moore.
After the transaction of some further bu-
siness the Beard adjourned, =.
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STATE BANK OF VnGIEA.-This bank,
located in Prices building. on Main street
near the corner of Eleventh, is now ready
for the transaction of business. We APP
pend a list of the officers President, Viii
liam Ii. Macfarland; Cashier, John NJ.
Goddin. Directors Joseph T.. Anderson,
r. Z. Haxall, John L. Bacon, William f.
Tanner, w. S. Donnan, p. w. Grubbs,
Alexander Cameron, Charles n. Wallace,
Albert Ordway. JaIhcs B. Dupuy, George
s. Palmer, and p J. Wright. The other
officers are rs follows: Paying and Rcceiv-
ing Teller, William Il. Teller; General
Book-Kecper, ". !. Blgclow; Runner, p.
r. Moore -1>'eT{|ti'. ,''";..' E
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R1CHLANp, STAFFORD COUNTY, EA.,S
IIlIu 1SIn

Editors Dispatch: Gcntle1nen,-I send
you a correspondence between Governor
Lctchcr and myself upon the very unim-
portant matter of the late General George
II. Thomas's original loyalty TO the one side
or to the other. Having published my first
letter, and many parties being clamorous
for proofs OF what was then stated, perhaps
il is due to me that thoy should have them.
They are therefore given with a sincere re-
gret Mt re0pcning such q subject.
Very respectfully, ,a;-a
Your Obcdient servant, ~.
FtTzHUGH ZEE.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-07-07

I understand that r. A. Gray, Esq, has
announced his intention to run for Congress
1T the November elections. Mr.. Gray with
drew from the contest last July in favor OF
the present ncumbcnt.--H HasTssonbuTg let
tcr-Bdltimore Sun.
a company has been organized i'm New
Orleans for the application of condensed air
as !. motive power for street railways. Yhe
cylinders arc to be Of paper and placed on
top of the cars. Atrial has been made with
this method, and q car with twenty-eight
passengcrs was driven three miles and o
Lals in seven and d quarter minutes. -