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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-10-20

The French army has several women sur
geons, and it is said they take off limb so
nicely that man enjoys it after he gets accus-
toned to it. No man who has ever had a cou-
pie of legs cut off by woman will ever after
wards allow man to cut leg off for him, if
he can help it.
Six young men, boarders at a Chicago
boarding house, collected several hundred bed
bugs, pinned them on a sheet of paper in di-
visions and regiments, and labeled the paper
Operations on the Rhine" and left the seat of
war to be studied by the landlady.
A little boy embodied his thoughts and
theology in words thus "I don't see how the
devil came to turn out so when there was no
other devil to put him up to it."
"A child is the beginning of what he will
be; an old man the remains of what he has
been.
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A Nopru nAno11NA "sraA1aHr DR1NK.o-

A NORTH CAROLINA STRAIGHT DRINK."-
One year since, when they were buildin' the
locks on Coal River, was over thar at Pay
tona, an stopt in at DR.. Kellun's who ply
sieked people in that quarter at that time.
Thar was famine just then, and great suf-
ferin' among men, women and children for
want of the necessaries of life.
Least wise it was about the same thing
Thar was plenty of meat, an abundance oi
corn, and no skercity of chickens; but the NV
ers were dry, an whisky run entirely short
Some prudent people had lain in sufficient
stock, but most had not. How to bring up q
family 'thout red eye was puzzler, and the
suffering was enormous.
DR.. Kellum was in trouble, too-he sympa.
thized with his neighbors; but he had half.
barrel of ninety-fve per cent. alcohol in his Of
fee, and as he was consarned, he managed to
fix it up with sugar an water, an ether, an
sich truck, until he made purity fair drink
Seem / was friend of his he invited me to
sample it. Well, it kinder filled the room with
the smell, an just then man from Mud River
country came in, on his way to Raleigh cote
house. He smelt the smell, an says, 'Ive
been nigh two weeks from home, an I'm al
most starved"
co." says Kellum, pintin' to the cask, CHATS
it. Help yourself"
This chap frightened up, an he drawed a
leyel tumberful Of that alcohol, an afore you
could say, "scat, you beastp down it went.
Kellum he turned pale.
Says the man: 1'm much obliged to you
That's scarchin',' an he turned an walked out
Kellum set as if he'd bin shot, an then
jumped up. ,,r, :.
pizen crowd. Call him back an give him an
emetic."
We both went to the door. he wasn't in
sight. run up the krick, an Kellum he run
up the road: but it wasn't no use.
'I shouldn't WONDER" says Kellum, "ef that
chap hasn't gone an died somewhar by him.
self. Thar'lI be corpse found directly, an a
kawner's inkwitch, and lots of trouble"
Well, we sot thar for about an hour talkin'
about the poor cuss's melancholy fate, when all
to wonst in walked the chap hisself, as pert as
wild cat.
doctor" says he, ''I'm gwine long way up
the river, an liquors skeerce, an if it's all the
same to you, could you spar me another tum.
blerful? It's the most satisfyin'est liquor
ever drunk"
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RATES OF ADVERTISING. i,

THE HoRRess OF WAR.-The following is a
translation of the text Of the Duke of Fitz-
James' letter on the burning of Bazeilles, ad-
dressed to the London Times in French. The
Duke of Fitz-.Tames, it may be observed, is
neither Napoleonist nor a Republican. he
is the head of the semi-royal family OF the t!tz-
Jameses. descendants of the great Marshal
Duke of Berwick, the son of James Ii, OF Eng
land:
SR-I have come from Sedan. Since we left
Chalops have not Quilted our courageous
fhough unfortunate army. Charged, in compa-
nv with the Prince of Sagan, with the duty OF
placing the ambulances of the International So
cciety for aiding the wounded wherever they
might best render the services which entitled
them to general gratitude, I have seen every
field of battle from Beaumont to Sedan, upon
which our soldiers, crushed by numbers, have
fallen gloriously for France. l might, sir, give
q long mournful recital of all that have seen;
but in the face of the new dangers which mem
ace my country, I will only speak OF what took
place at Bazeilles. wish to utter but one cry
of Indignation. Bazeilles is near the Meuse,
about eighteen Elometers from Sedan. On the
evening of August 81, the brave villagers, seeing
the enemy arrive, assumed their uniforms as
National Guards, and aided the army IN their
defense against Bavarian corps and against
LQ6 OUFlSlOAcOu6ciCI VI IiAdApj Va WV
CORDS of the Prussian Reserve. The French
army was repulsed. The enemy entered Ba-
zeilles, and then began scenes of horror and OF
excess without name, which stain forever those
who commit them. The Bavarians and Pr1s-
SLAMS, to punish the inhabitants for defending
themselves, set fire to the village. The greater
portion of the National Guards were killed; the
population had taken refuge in the cellars; wo-
men and children all were burned; OF two
thousand souls, scarcely three hundred are left,
who tell how they saw Bayarians pushing whole
families into the flames and shooting women
who ran away. saw with mine own eyes the
smoking ruins Of this wretched village; there
is not single house standing. A stencil OF
burnt human flesh makes the stomach revolt.
Ihaye seen the bodies of the inhabitants cal
cined on the door steps. This, Mr.: Editor,
cannot allow to remain unknown. War has Its
rigors, but it also has Its rules based on the laws
of honor and humanity. Those laws, you Ba-
yarians, you Prussians who were at Bazellles,
have been violated by you. You have dis
graced your victory. appeal to the world, to
history, to Judge you. I ask whether you have
the right to lay down principle that you may
slaughter the women and children of a village
whose inhabitants, seeing you arrive, defend
their homes and their country. In every case
the National Guard is a regular troop, as regu-
lar as the fourth and fifth ban of your Land
wher.
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TRUTHFULAND "Charliei Char
liep Clear and sweet as note struck from a
silver bell, the voice rippled over the common.
"That's mother" cried one of the boys, and
he instantly threw down his bat, and picked up
ms pont }aenS' go upg yet sIp Have it out "Finsb
this game!P '"Try it again I' cried the players,
in noisy chorus.
'I must go-right off-this very minute. ]
told her I'd come whenever she called"
"Make believe you didn't hearp they all ex-
claimed.
'But did hearw
"She don't know you did"
''But know it, and"
'tLet him CO." said bystander. You can't
do anything with him. He's tied to his
mothers apron-strings."
''That's so p said Charlie; "and it's to what
every boy ought to be tied (; and in hard knot,
too."
'But wouldn't be such baby as to run the
minute she called" said one.
'T don't call it babyish to keep ones word
to his mother" answered the obedient boy, a
beautiful light glowing in his blue eyes. II
call that manly and the boy who don't keep
his word to her will never keep it to any else
you see if he doesp and he hurried away to his
cottage home.
Thirty years have passed since those boys
played on the common. Charles Grey is now q
prosperous business man in great city, and his
mercantile friends say of him that ''his word is
as good as bond"
We asked him how he acquired such repu-
tation:
AI never broke my word when boy, no mat
ter how great the temptation, and the habit
formed then clung to me through life."
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TOBACCO IN THE WAR.-The London Ian
Get says of tobacco as an army ration: If there
be one fact that has been more frequently stated
than another, it is that the soldiers engaged In
this war-well or wounded-seek the solace OF
tobacco. The inhabitants of every nation man
ifest similar instincts, and one of the strongest
Is this desire to seek out some substance the use
of which may stimulate or soothe the nervous
system. There is no privation which the ha-i
bitnal although not excessive smoker feels So
much as the loss of tobacco; and soldiers of
all nations, especially the French and German
nations, smoke it. 1t was standing injuetiont
of the first Napoleon that his troops should
have tobacco, and they found il of the greatest
advantage in the retreat from Moscow. We
have been accustomed to look upon the Ger
man as fond of hard intellectual toll for its own
sake and men of abstraction andimaginatiOn,
if we may Judge from the prevalence Of the.
practice Of smoking among them, unquestlon-
ably appear to find an aid in tobacco. But the
manhood of Germany has risen like giantre--
freshed to undergo any physical e4ertlon and
hardship that may be required, and this war
has taxed the physical energies of the strongest.
The soldier, wearied with long marches and un-
certain rest, obtaining his food how and when
he can, with his nervous system always in
state of tension from the dangers and excite
ment he encounters, finds that his cigars or pipe
enable him to sustain hunger or fatigue with
comparative equanimity. Explain it as we may,
this is physiologically true; and medical Off.
GERS who would not be sorry to see the issue of
a spirit ration" discontinued, are compelled
to allow that the moderate use of tobacco by
soldiers in the field has several advantages,
For the wounded it is probable that tobacco has
slight anodyne and narcotic properties that en-
abfe the sufferer to sustain pain better during
the day, and to obtain sleep during the night.
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EXPLOITS OF A DRUNKEN ENGINEER-The

EXPLOITS OF A DRUNKEN ENGINEER
Tallahassee Sentinel relates the following Incl
dent:
The engineer of the freight train on the
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad
going west on Wednesday morning last-a man
named Drew-was so much under the influence
of liquor by the time he reached Baldwin that
the conductor, Mr.. Tuten, did not consider II
safe to allow him to- proceed further, and there
fore procured the services of another engineer !;
Drew, however, remaining On the engine
When the train arrived at Sanderson, the acting
engineer left the engine for some purpose, when
Drew, still drunk, cut loose from the train and
put out with the engine at lightning speed,
leaving engineer, fireman, conductor and all
behind. As he neared Lake City, the section
hands working on the road scattered pell-mell
into the woods. frightened out of their wits at
The agent at Lake City, when asked about it,
said the engine was running about one hundred
miles an hour, and there was man aboard, but
he was certainly crazyl
Further west gentleman saw the engine
pass, but could discover no one on her, and said
he was very much alarmed, but presently he
saw hand 90 up, and then he knew there was
some kind Of human Oh board. Drew thun-
dered along at this dangerous speed until he
reached Ellaville, where he came near colliding
with an eastward bound freight train. The
master machinist Mr.. Kennedy, happened to be
here, and ejecting the maniac engineer from the
engine took charge of it himself.
Fortunately for Mr.. Tuten, he found another
engine at Sanderson, with which he came
through to Ellayille. At or near Olustee the
body of man was discovered lying on the
track, but too late to prevent the train from
passing over it, and crushing it to pieces. The
body proved to be that of Mr.. Brannon, who,
when last seen, was vending his way homeward
with sack of -four on his shoulder. The
front of Drew's engine is said to have been
covered with -four, and it is thought he must
have run over Brannon, but how the body got
back on the track in the position it was when
run over the second time, is a mystery not yet
solved.
Drew was promptly discharged by the officials
here, and has left for parts unknown.
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MISS c. C. DANIELS having recently re-
wi turned from New York, offers to the La
dies of Anderson and surrounding country, q
select and fashionable assortment of Millinery,
Fancy and Dress Goods. The latest styles of
Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, Ribbons, Beads,
Chignons, Curs, Ladies' Collars and Cuffs, Soaps,
Perfumery, Lilly White and Notions Of all sorts.
Dress Making attended to as usual. No. II Brick
Ranee-one door above the Post Office,
Sept 26, 1870 IA 3m
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MILITARY EXECUTION. Charles Harth, a
Lieutenant III the Prussian army, convicted in
Paris, by a court-martial, of being spy, was
shot on the 9th ult. A Paris letter says:
Six o'clock a. m. precisely was the hour fixed
for the shooting. The prisoner had yet fifteen
minutes to live. He was led into an angle of
the court yard, where the troop horses are usu-
ally shod, and which forms quiet corner to
itself. Here he was placed close to the wall,
and in front of squad of twelve men of the
Forty-second regiment of the line, namely, two
sergeants, four corporals and half dozen pri-
Yates. The firing party stood in two ranks.
keys of the military prison, whose duty it was
to tie his hands behind his back, he shrunk
back and said, "No! wish to die like a SOL
dier." But on representations being made to
him that there was no exception to rule, he
yielded. His eyes were then bandaged, when
he expressed wish to be allowed to give the
word ''Fire." Adjutant Codont, who had acted
as register to the court-martial came forward
and read the sentence amid an lmp. .essive
silence. At the pause at one of the paragraphs
in the document, the prisoner, fancying the
reading had been finished, cried, "1iues, CO.
quins, ct ne me n,anquez pas" "Fire, you las
calls, and mind you don't miss p But the
squad did not stir; it was waiting another sig
nal.
AS the last syllable died away on the adju-
tant's lips, the officer commanding the firing
party drew his sword, the soldiers raised their
chassepots to their shoulders and took aim, the
sword was lowered, and dozen shots went off
like one, with sudden, startling detonation.
Before the report of the discharge had smitten
the straining ears of those who looked on, the
prisoner fell forward with an inclination to his
right side. Over his left breast, in the region
of the heart, his shirt was torn in jagged
hole, where the bullets had entered. AS he
lay motionless on the ground one of the ser.
geants in the rear of the firing party advanced
through the little cloud of smoke and dis
charged his piece into the dead mans brain.
Dead man, I say, for Harth must have died be-
fore he reached the ground in his fall. The
troops were marched past the body, which was
then lifted, limp and warm, and put, dressed as
it was, into coffin, and trotted of to the Gem.
etery of Mont Parnasse, where it was dropped
into a grave which had been opened to receive
it, and hastily hidden from view.
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Some Western towns are employing female
clergymen in self-defence, as they never run
away with the girls in the congregation. But
it is well enough to look out for 'em, or the men
may get eloped with.
Meteorological query-When is the worst
weather for rats and mice? When it rains cats
and dogs.
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"A correspondent asks: "What in the world
has become of Mark Twain?" He is busily
engaged just now, we believe, in inheriting a
quarter of million of dollars from his de-
ceased father-in-law-a work of art which few
newspaper men can achieve.
"A chap who was told by a clergyman to
remember Lots wife," replied, "that he had
trouble enough with his own, without remem-
bering other mems wives"
-aYoung man do you believe in future
state?" "In course I duz; and what's more,
mean to enter it as soon as Betsy gets her things
ready"
-"Do you call this trunk?" growled de:
jected porter. "It only needs lightning rod
to be mistaken for boarding house"
Why are country girls cheeks like French
calico? Because they are warranted to wash
and retain their color.
= SANDER issuing from red and beautiful
lips are like spiders crawling from the heart of
a rose
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
~ COUNTY OF OCONEE.
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Summons on Sealed Note.
James E. Hagood, Guardian, vs.. Burrel Broom.
To Burrel Broom, the Defendant in the abovs sta
ted case.
X7OU arc hereby summoned and required to
I answer the complaint in this action, which
is filed in the Office of the Clerk of Common Pleas
for Oconee County, and State of South Carolina,
and serve copy Of your answer on the subsori-
Der at his office in Walhalla, in the county and
State aforesaid, within twenty days after the ser
vice of this summons on you, exclusive of the
day of service.
If you fail to answer the complaint within that
time, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in the complaint.
NORTON,
Plaintiffs Attorney,
Walhalla, s. C.
Oct 6, 1870 Is 6
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Farm for Sale !!

A NY person wishing to purchase desirable
" FARM, containing $50 acres, mure or less,
with comfortable dwelling of seven rooms, and
all necessary outbuildings, located within three
miles of Anderson G. H., will do we'll to apply
Immediately to the editor Of ths'Anderson Lntelli-
gencer.
July 81, 1870
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SCROEULA.

This Is q tafnt or infection of the human organ
ism, and probably no one is wholly free from il.
It exhibits itself in various shapes-as Ulcers and
Sores, Decayed Bones, Diseased Scalp, Sore Eyes.
Weak and Diseased Joints, St. Vitus' Dance, Foul
Discharges from the Nostrils, Eruptioas, Giandn-
lar Swellings, Throat Affections, Rheumatism,
Heart Affections, Nervous Disorders, Bmrenness,
Disorders Of the Womb. Dropsy, Syphihtic Afec-
tions, Liver Complaint, Salt Rheuw, Dyspepsia,
Neuralgia, Loss Of Manhood and General Debility.
1t has been the custom to treat these diseases
with Mercury and other Mineral substances,
which, though Sometimes producing a cure, often
prove injurious and entails misery in after life,
The long known injurious properties Of these So
called alternatives and purifiers has led the Phian.
thropical man of science to explore the srena Of
nature the result of which has been the discovery
of vegetable products which possess the power Of
eradicating these Taints from the Blood.
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WILL 1T PAY TO RAISE SHEEP.-From an
article in the Western Rural, on sheep raising,
we extract the following:
'That sheep won't pay is generally the fault
of the man who handles them. They may not
be suited either in number or kind to surround
ing circumstances. The heavy mutton breeds
cannot be made to pay on sterile hill sides, ex-
posed to wet and cold; but where opposite con-
ditions are afforded, we are acquainted with no
instances of failure to render fair profit
The circumstances surrounding many farmers
are such that though fair remuneration would
be received from flock Of 100 or 200 sheep, for
him to keep 500 or 1000 would entail certain
loss or bankruptcy. If he finds flock, if 100
too large, let him keep only 30. This is for the
farmers in thickly settled neighborhoods. S.
Those who aspire to count their hocks by the
thousands, will find full scope for their ambi-
ton, and we believe fair pay for their enter
prise, in regions west of the Missouri river,
where boundless plains of grass annually wave
their silent welcome.
The certainty of q still further shortened sup
ply of homegrown wool is beginning to have
its effect in a strengthened market. Manufac-
turers are beginning to realize the alternative
to which they ale fast tending-to pay better
price for American grown woods, or to DO with
out them. They will not be long in deciding
to accept the latter.
The high price of beef is occasioned by q
short supply, and in ratio with this shortened
supply is the demand for mutton increasing.
The number of sheep consumed in the princi-
pal markets of the country for the week ending
with 9Th, we find to be as follows In New
York, $4,000; Boston, 1922; Philadelphia,
$4,000; Chicago, $500. The figures indicate
an annual consumption for New York of about
100000; for Boston near 100000; Philadel-
phia 7000 10000; and Chicago, 950,OO0; and for
the whole country not less than 5000, ,OOO-
more than one-fourth the entire number p
With these facts before him, who can doubt
that judicious handling of sheep will pay2"
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THESE celebrated preparations, originally ia
troduoed by George ". 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 Bucha are
applicable, and cannot be too highly recommend
ed. They are prepared in highly concentrated
form, so as TO render the dose email and conyen-
lent. Orders by mail or otherwise will receive
prompt attention. ,o no
Wholesale Chemical Warehouse,
No. 1877 Market street, Philadelphia,
For sale by Walters 8 Baker and ": h MardiA
h Co. Anderson, s. C. Dowie 3 Noise, Rhele-
sale Agents, Charleston, SC.
Oct 81, 1859 IL
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BAD BLOOD
''The Life Is the Blood"

THRDM it we derive our strength, beauty end
IL mental capabilities. tits the centre Of our
being, around which reyolyes all that makes exis-
tenSe happy When this source is corrupted tbs
painful effects are yisibisin many shapes, -promi-
nent among which is
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COTTON GINS, &C., &c.
Gullett's Patent Steel Brush Cotton Gins.

celebrated Gin ma be seen Dat. at wst in
saw.
Browns Georgia Pattern Cotton Gin. Price,
$4 per saw.
Halls Patent Cotton Gin Feeders prevent any
hard substance entering the gin, protecting the
saws from injury and the lint from fire. Price,
$1.50 per saw to size of gin.
Bearings Cotton Press. Price, S275.
Peabody's Cotton Seed Hullers. Price, S75.
Hutchinson's Cider Mills. Price, $25.
Cahoon's Patent Broadcast Seed Sowers-for
wheat and small grain. Price, $40, and all kinds
of Agricultural implements for sale low.
C. GRAVELEY,
81 East Bay Street, south Of the Old Post Office,
Charleston, S. G.
August IL, 1870 3m
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LADIEs' STORE 7.

Oct 6, 1870
The Shasta courier., 1870-10-01

COLUMBIA River Salmon, which added to our
~ well ass, rted and large stock of Flour, Bacon,
Lard, Rice Candles, Soaps, Teas, Saleratus To
bscco's. Yeast Powders, &C., makes our House the
most desirable to purchase from of any north of
Sacramento City.
C. C. BUSH CO., Main Street.
Shasta, April 26th, 1879,
The Shasta courier., 1870-10-01

n INNER & Breakfast Plates. Platters, Bakers,
~ Bowls. Tea Coffee Cups, Stone Jugs, /
and Gallon. Tumblers, Goblets, Eastern Crooks,
], 2, g. 4 a Gallon. fine Ware.