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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-31
Stick to one Thing.

"IJnstable as water, thou shalt not excel" is
the language of the Bible. Whoever expects
to succeed In any undertaking, must enter into
II with hearty and earnest will to do his best.
When trade or profession is chosen, obstacles,
be they large or small, must not be allowed to
| stand in the way of mastering that trade or
profession. :,
However much we may deprecate the old
time custom of indenturing apprentices, the
system in its practical results operated almost
always for the lasting good of the apprentice
Generally it insured to him good trade and
wholesome discipline that fitted him tor success
| in business.
At the present time, very many young men
undertake to acquire trade, and after brief
I time abandon it, because there are unpleasant
duties to be performed and obstacles to be over
come. They consider themselves accountable
| to no one and go and come at the bidding OF
caprice, or an unsettled, uneasy mind. The
result of this is to send out into the world
| young men who have not half learned their
trades, of unstable character who drift from
pillar to post, and who succeed in nothing, but
strolling along the highways of life melancholy
wrecks.
We would earnestly entreat every young man,
after he has chosen his vocation, to stick to it;
don't leave it because hard blows are to be
struck or dlSagreeaOle Wolk perioTheu. tuo
men who have worked their way up to wealth
and usefulness do not belong to the shiftless
and unstable class, but may be reckoned among
those who took off their coats, rolled up their
sleeves, conquered their preudices against la.
Dor, and manfully bore the heat and burden OF
the day.
Whether upon the old, worn-out farm where
our fathers toiled, diligently striving to bring
back the soil to Productiveness in the machine
shop or factory, or in the thousand other bust
ness places that invite honest toll and SKILL let
the motto ever be Perseverance and industry
The baby training of the nursery was good in
its place, but won't answer all the demands Of
an active life.
This is not baby world We must expect
to be iostled and knocked about in stern con-
Aict, and get run over, if we are not on the
lookout and be prepared to meet the duties Of
life with purpose not to shirk them, but tc
fulfill them.
A young man with good trade or honorable
profession, as he goes forth into the world with
| his mind made up to stick to his trade or pro-
fession is not obliged to ask for many favors
He will hew his way to success, while the un:
stable and shiftless will grow tired, despair anc
| fail
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-31

The four seasons-mustard, salt, pepper
and vinegar. :,
- Happiness can be made quite as we'll out
of cheap materials as of dear ones.
- What is the difference between hungry
man and glutton? One longs TO eat, and the
other eats too long.
An Illinois agricultural society offers
premium to the couple who will bring to the
fair grounds the largest number of children
grand children and great ditto.
"A Brooklyn mother advised her daughter
to oil her hair, and tainted fiat away when that
candid damsel replied, "Oh, no, ma; it spoils
the gentlemens vests"
= No one should attempt to do more thar
one thing at q time When you have finished
slandering your neighbors, 90 and say your
PRAYERS, but don't attempt to do both at once.
"A minister asked a tipsy fellow leaning
up against fence where he expected to 60 to
when he died. eff can't get along any better
than l do now" he said, II shan't 60 any
where"
= It has been decided by medical authori-
ties that "if man has a good appetite, sleeps
we'll, and feels buOyant in spirits after his meals,
ne should let his health alone, whether he is as
big as hogshead or as thin as fence rail-"
During fine starlight evening lately a
thrce-ycar-old philosopher, after o silent and
and apparently profound scrutiny OF the heav-
ems, asked his mother, abruptly, were the stars
came from. Mamma replied: II don't know,
Willie; I don't know where the stars came
from" Well, you bet l do. The moon laid
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-31

"A Virginia editor, in noticing the state
ment that tight-lacing saves the country ST.
100000 annually in board alone, says it is a
villainous and habitual lie. He knows a girl
who laces so tight that his arm will 60 round
her and lap over clear to the elbow; and one
wouldn't think, to look at her, that she could
eat anything but soup, but she's got an appe-
tite like cross-cut saw, and she mows a swath
at table like selfraking reaper.
Why are young ladies so partial to SUM-
set and twilight? Because they are daughters
of Eve.
Greeley advises young men not to pur-
chase farms that abound in cold springs, be-
cause cold spring is apt to ruin the crops.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-31
Anatrsor, Jnte'ligtnter,
Send the Little Ones Happy to Bed.

Send the little ones happy to bed,
When closes the troublesome day
Let no harsh invective be SAID,
To ruffie their mind while they pray
Sore trials and troubles so soon
The sweet sleep Of childhood VIII ban;
And let them lie joyfully down
And cherish bright dreams while they can
Send the little ones happy TO bed,
Though they may be mischievous and Wild
Nature seldom bestows wise head
p. On rosy-cheeked, ight-hearted child.
Then let their glad spirits have play,
And brighter and stronger they IL grow
,iIdko stream that runs free on its way,
. And suffers no check in its flow.
Send the little ones happy to bed,
- You know not what til may be near
Ere the morning your pets may be dead
Then vain the regret or the tear.
So let them lie down with delight,
And fail not to give or to take
A kiss when they prattle goodnight"
And kiss in the morn when they wake.
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The Yeller Dog.
FROM THE JOSH BILLINGS PAPERS

Dogs hav infested this world just about a.
long az man haz, and will hang around it az
long az thare il emmy grizzle left on bone
We hav no reliable ackount ov the fust dog
and probably shant hav ov the final one.
If Adam kept tarrier, or Eve poodle, the
laps of ages hav washed away the fakt.
If Noah had pair ov each breed ov dogs on
board ov hiz vessell, and only one pair oy teas
he waz we'll out for dogs, and poor out for feas
But history il dumb on this subjekt.
The yeller dog has no pedigree, the blood in
hiz veins il az crude az petroleum, when it fust
comes pumping out of the earth, bitter thick
and fiery.
He il long, and lazily put together, hiz ears
flop when he shacks along the dusty thorough
fare, and hiz tale IL burden.
Thare il no animashun in yeller dogs tail
it is useless the flies amt even afraid ov it, 1t
il wuss than 10 per cent. mortgage tew the
rest ov hiz body.
Viii the yeller dog amt born discounted liz a
mistery tew me, but when ask miself "Whare
would yu hitch the tin pan tew," then at once
the folly ov bob-tailed yeller dog flashed on
mi mind.
Ever since this kontinent was found bi Chris
topher Columbus, in 1892, and for what kno
much time previous tew that, the yeller dog haz
been vagrant, travelling bi moon lite, and
hungry bi natur.
WHARF he comes from nobody seems to kno
and if you speak kind word tew him, he
thinks it a kite in disguise, and straddling hi2
tail with both hind legs, he goes suspicious, and
sideways, on hiz lonesum journey.
Mankind have made him yagabond, and
life tu him il made up ov vstaryashun, and brik-
bats.
If he Gums out ov hiz lurking place in the
hot ov August, he is a mad dog, and the Com
mon Council at once assemble, the riot act IL
read, so dollars reward is offered, men cum pan
ting into town crieing mad dog" thare two
horse wagon was bit that morning bi yeller
dog, the fury RACES, old guns are kleaned up,
the cannon il run out on the village green,
danes talk to danes ov the awful even. men
look sober and defiant, boys pocket their mar
bles in the midst of the game, pigs run sqneal-
ing tew their novels, and the whole body poll
tic surges with horror.
The poor innocent whelp haz done hiz worst
and while whole village il in eextacys, ov ny.
dropobia, be has passed on, and may be seen
tugging away, in the suburbs, at the shin bone
ov a departed omnibus boss.
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Greenville 6 Columbia Railroad.

COLUMBIA, s. c.. March /, 1871.
ON and after this date the following Schedule will be
run daily, Sundays excepted, connecting with Night
Trains on South Carolina Road up and down. also with
Trains going North and South Charlotte Columbia and
Augusta Railroad:
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-31

- The New York Sun says the sickness OF
the Presidents colt about whose sore tail the
whole ofice-holding world was so greatly exer.
cised, was due, We learn, to the circumscribed
quarters devoted to the Presidential stable. To
guard against such misfortune in future, Grant
is erecting new palatiai structure adjoining
the State Department, on Seventeenth street,
for the royal stud. This ediice is to be 60 by
80 feet, and three stories high. 1t is to be built
of pressed brick, with brown stone trimmings,
while the interior will be of hard wood, oiled
and finished in imperial style. The basement
floor is destined for the Presidential dairy stock,
the first floor for fifteen horses and equipages TO
match, and the upper stories for provender and
residences for the liveried servants. The cost
of this imposing stable will be betrayed, not
from the Presidential privy purse, but from the
appropriation for the erection of the new State
Department..
IF the female who ffirts and plays the CO.
quette, could realize the detriment to her repu-
tation which is sure to follow upon her thought
less levity, there would be less cause for, and
less actual repentance among the fair sex, than
one meets with at this time, in everyday life |
Could every lovely woman feel and believe how
differently the sensible of Che opposite sex en-
Joy the society and smile of the sound minded,
ly, giddy, heartless "belle" of the day, how diff
ferent would be the department of thousands
in society who are now reared only for display
and coquetry.
- The following appears as leading edi-
torial in the Cleavland Herald: ave wish to
give simple remedy for chill and wish to. EN-
phasize it by saying that it has to our certain
knowledge proved very eficacious. 1t is COM
mon salt A teaspoonfull taken in water, and
a teaspoonfull deposited inside each stocking
next the foot just as the chill is coming on.
That's all there is of it; but, knowing that it
has been very eficacious in breaking up the
chill and perfecting cure, we put it in our
editorial columns, where no humbug remedy
shall find place, if we know it."
= Here is conundrum propounded by one
of the leading lady fashion writers Of New
York, Mrs. Crolv: "What is the nse of women
trying to disguise themselves by bustles and
brsts and hips and calves that are hung at ev-
cry shop window; that are patent to every
man and boy who walks the streets as to wo-
men themselves; that teach everybody lesson
of dstrust of his own mother before he has
learned to- have confidence in her2" We give
II up
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-'I once dreamed" said Pat, "that called
upon the President and he a4ed me wud l
drink. ] tonld him ! didn't care II ! TUX a
drop of punch Could or hotr d a1eq tne ed res ho
ident. tHot, yer excellency said l ; and ne
stepped down in the kitchen tor some nllln
water and before he 60. back Two WOKE d;dn s5iae
to h ii eosl9"
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III. HI. sCUDDAY, NJ. d.,
Physician and Surgeon.
ANDERSON c. H.. S. C..

ID ESPECTFULLY tenders his services to the
III citizens of Anderson Village and vicinity.
With an experience of sixteen years in all forms
of disease peculiar to this climate, he hopes to,
meet the expectations of all patients committed
to his care.
Special attention given to Obstetrics, and dis
eases of women and children.
When not professionally engaged, he can usu-
ally be seen at the Drug Store of Messrs. Simp-
son, Hill s Co., or at the residence formerly oc-
cupied by ]. B. Sloan deceased.
March 90, 1871 38 6m
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-03-28
Political Notes.

Election in Connecticut next Monday.
Gov. Alcorn of Mississippi, is making many
removals of dishonest and corrupt officials.
Gov. Lindsay, of Alabama, has been in
Washington and assured the President and
Senator Sumner that there is no truth in the
statements of Ku Klux outrages in that State
"A Washington correspondent of Western
paper represents that leading New York Dem.
us'a'' samuel j. Tilden, as saying that "the
Democrals mad about concluded not TO at
'enp' .he election of any man identified
WIN IIeir party, but to nominate for xxt
President such man as Trumhnn
ocratic MEMBER OF Congress, Also is renorted
as taking the same view, adding that s,,,o w.
Southern fellows want to have the war 49,.
again, and they must be put down. II 49,.
has to be done we want it to be done bv . po
publican, and not by Democrat
At the approaching election in Rhode
Island three amendments to the constitution
will be voted upon, the first of which r. :
moves the property qualifications SO far as
concerns voting for general officers, although
It retains the provision that "no person shall
at any time be allowed 10 vote upon any
proposition to impose tax or for the expend-
iiure OF money In any town or city, or upon
zoe election of the city council for the city of
riovidence, unless he shall have paid a tax
WYNN year preceding upon his property
", m.n.n Tue Town or city where he shall offer
, ~ sete, valued at least 1T one hundred and
;;Iha.y-isur dollars" The second article abol.
, na tne registry tax, which heretofore every
us Wan ,d must pay in order to vote, and which
the t inquired only of those who did vote; and
denomiu u aitcle provides that no sectarian or
GIVE any aid or support from the snSl re- e.
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state ~ ews.
ANDRoscoGGIN COUNTY.

The Lewiston Machine Company is doing q
good business. Orders are coming in from
New York for bag looms, and an order has JUS,
been received for one hundred fancy looms fol
checks
John Read, esq, of Lewiston, has prepared
plans for new and substantial lattice bridge
to replace the one recently carried off by the
ice at Llvermore Falls and the plan has peep
accepted. The bridge is about $50 feet long
and will cost nearly $4,000
Steps have been taken to establish a school
for medical instruction in Lewiston, and the
following officers have been elected from the
BOARD of corporators: President, AloDzo Garce-
100, n. D.. Vice President, Henry E. Hill, M.
~ Secretary, j. w. Beede, M. d.. Treasur-
III, Ell Edgecomb M. D.; Standing Comm. T.
NJ M. y. Wedgewood, III. D., B. +. Sturgis,
ARoosTOoK COUNTY
nne Sanrlse says Carbon has the honor of
having the ONLY band in Northern A roostook
it to any elsewhere. 1''' III S'erhng mer-
we iealh from the Sunrise that fancy and
on the 10th inst, and notwithstand;nq ue Isle
voraoIe weather and poor travelling was omia.
q success. was quite
Abiding to the effect upon real estate f,o,,
the prospect OF railroad into the Aroosto"I
region, the Presque Isle Sunrise Remarks thot
Mr.. j. Bliss Goss has sold bis farm which two
years ago would hardly have brought $1,000,
for $1,000.
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
Brunswick elected yesterday for selectmen
Henry Carville, Capt Bates and L. e. Smith,
all Republicans. There were four tickets in
the field.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-03-28

ANOTHER OUTRAGE IN MIssIPPI.-The
outrage upon Col. Allen p. Higgins by Ku
KluA Khan in Mississippi, because he was a
school teacher" has been reported by tele-
graph. Col. Higgins is now in Washington,
and gives the Chronicle narrative of the in
dgnities received, which we copy below. Col
e. is an assistant assessor in the third district
of Mississippi; he served four years in the
army and at the close of the war held the
rank of Colonel. In 1865 he went to Mis-
slssippi as planter, was subsequently in the
Freedmen's Bureau, and is now in the civil
service of the government; but was never
school teacher, as reported. His version of
the affair is as follows:
On the 9th instant he was attending to his
official duties, ten miles from Aberdeen. That
night, about ten O'Clock, alter he had retired
to rest, party of disguised men, numbering,
be thinks, at least one hundred and twenty.
five, took him out OF bed and carried him to
the woods. Here he was stripped of coat
and vest, and asked to promise that he would
leave the country within ten days and never
return. This he refused to do. They then
took of stirrup strap, and one man gave
him ten lashes with it on the back, and at
every live or ten blows fresh hand took the
strap, and each time he was asked to prom
Use to leave the county. After about seven
ty strokes. he was told that if he did not
leave within ten days they would take his
life il they had to do it in his Office at Jack
son. Keowlng from what had transpired in
that locality before that they would put their
threat into execution, he obeyed the order as
soon as he was able to move, and is now in
this city.
The only ofense they charged upon Col
| Huggins was that he was collecting money
TO support Cd Radical government, and
that they would submit to no laws except of
their own making"
The attacking party was not made up of
dru nken loafers, but undoubtedly of the So
| called most respectable citizens. They were
all mounted and uniformed in dress and
masks; one of the party, when be refused to
promise to leave, applied to him some harsh
epitbet, when the captain of the band order
ed him to desist; that Col. Higgins was a
| gentleman, and they only wanted bin to
leave" Col. HIGGINS is endorsed as man Of
respectable standing by large number of the
State officers, the Mississippi delegation in
| Congress, and is in good standing at the
Treasury Department. His connection with
the negroes has been the same as that of ev-
cry Republican in Washington and else.
where at the South
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-03-28

HERE'S A CATcH!-An English princess
sets her cap for Yankee Doodle. On Tuesday
evening, the Travellers Club, composed of
some of the fast youths of New York CITY. en-.
tertained Lord Campbell, who SAID that the
Princess Beatrice, on hearing OF Louise's en-
gasement, cried, "Oh mother, / am so glad
that Louise is going to marry subject; Isup-
pose now can marry an American" Where
at the turnkey, telegraph takes up the won
drous tale, and say there is aldeal of gossip a.
bout it; and young James Gordon Bennett
induced the agent of the Associated Press to
telegraph bis name as the lucky dog. He
says he must be the one obscurely alluded to
by Beatrice, because when he was in England
he twas introduced to her mother!' Lord
Campbell is nobleman, as titles 60, and is
still in his callow days. He came by steamer,
and the cable has outstripped him; Tor it in
formed us week ago that, as soon as the
young lady, who, by the way, is only fourteen,
made the lndiscreet remark, her griffin Of a
mother went right off and engaged her to
Lotus, the Irish Marquis of Ely. IT'S cruel
that such things can be-Chicaoo Post.
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News by Lalest MaIis.

Forester, the Nathan murderer, was re cent.
ly seen in Memphis, Tenn, the telegraph saws
but the people didn't know he was wanted and
he escaped.
Judge Barnard of New York, has dismissed
without costs the suit of the Erie railroad to
recover one million dollars from Commodore
Vanderbilt on account of alleged frauds in
stock transactions involved in the settlement
Of suits against Erie. The Judge says that the
majority of the directors having voted for the
settlement there was no fraud, and it was le-
gal and proper.
The store-ship Relief will sail for Philadel.
phia Tuesday and there take a cargo of pro.
visions for the relief OF The French.
The United States ship Shawmut, which
makes an official trial trip this week, will be
supplied with improved torpedo apparatus,
which fact leads many to believe that she may
be ordered to join the Asiatic fleet under Rear
Admiral John Rodgers, whose squadron will
probably in few weeks form az expedition to
take the ir itatory steps to open the Corea to
commerce and to demand satisfaction for the
murder of the crew which ran ashore on tho
Peninsular in August, 1866.
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The Mactias Republican. which, until re-
gently. reached us on Saturday, now does not
arrive until Monday, in consequence OF being
sent from Bangor by thePortland & Kennebec
route, and therefore, laying over in the Au-
gusta Office from Saturday till Monday Five
days from Machias is rather slow, especially
when 1913 miles Of the distance is by railroad
We get ST. John n. B. papers quicker than
that