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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04
The Fence Law.


A correspondent of the Columbia Ug;oa,
over the signature of Tenant" writing from
Hopkins Turn Out, in Richlapd county, says !:
! Every friend of agricultural progress will be
gratifed to see that the subject of fences has at
last been mooted in the Legislature.
Improved stock, improved implements and
improved culture may receive full share Of
our attention, but with all this, we will advance
but slowly as long as the "Fence Law" as is
now stands, remains stumbling block in cur
path. 70 e.-r..,
The great revolution in our agricultural sys-
tenn necessitates change also in this respect,
and it is demanded by that great principle on
which all good laws are based-the greatest
good to the greatest number. s1a
Let US take for instance plantation of eight
hundred acres cleared land. The true maxim
of "few acres we'll cultivated" requires about
half of this tract to be abandoned. Theowner
and tenants, or parties renting the same, select
the most fertile spots, but in order to protect
the crops the whole body must be fenced or
each tenant must enclose his own field. Would
it not be more rational to enclose pasture of
thirty or forty acres for the benefit of all par
ties on the plantation. Indeed it would, but
here is the dificulty-there is no guarantee
that the occupants Of the neighoring planta-
tion will act so wisely, and the whole eight
hundred acres must be enclosed to guard
against few scrub cattle which probably are
not worth one-fourth the cost of the fence.
Again, how many plantations in this State
are destitute of Grail timber" 1t is fact IA
miliar to all axemen, that every tree is not
suitable for rails. Many forests which still
have an abundance of timber, have been work
ed over and over again with the maui and
wedge.
A law requiring every man to enclose his
own stock will benefit the land owner, because
it will spare his limited supply of wood land.
It will benefit the tenant, because it will ne
quire less labor to enclose his few head of stock
than to keep "lawful fence" around his crop,
and he will not, as is now often the case, be
called from his plow to replace the fence
which some careless. "possum hunter" has
burned. His stock being under his eye always,
will be safe, and receive greater share of at
tention. And lastly, it will benefit all parties,
in the fact that it will abolish the most fruitful
cause of quarrel and contention that ever
cursed an agricultural community.
every man shall live by the sweat Of his
brow, but his cattle shall live by the sweat OF
his neighbors brow"
Thus virtually stands the law of South Caro-
linal Shall we change it? Shall we adopt
what other communities have proved to be
wise, just, and good laws Or shall We continue
in force one which is every year becoming
more oppressive, more unjust, and rendering
our beautiful land more unsightly. We are
told that we cannot get rid of the fence, be-
cause the "bottom rail is on top" but, Mr. Edi-
tor, that rail ought to be the first one to move
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04

To FARMERs.-Ofa all the dreary places, de-
liver us from the drcary farm houses, which so
many people call home. Bars for front gate;
chickens wallowing before the door; pig-peus
elbowing the house in the rear; scraggy trees
never cared for, or no trees at all no CHEEKY
shrubs; no neatness; no trimness. And yet, q
lawn, and trees, and neat walk, and a.pleas-
ant fence around it, don't cost great deal.
They can be secured little by little, at odd
times, and the expense hardly felt. And if the
time comes when it is best to sell the farm, ff-
ty dollars SO invested, will often bring back
FIVE hundred. For man is brute, who will
not insensibly yield to higher price for SUCH a
farm, when he thinks of the pleasant surround
ings it offers to his wife and children. Farmers,
beautify and adorn your farms; set out Or
chards, shrubbery, shade trees; lay off lawns !;
build good fences; put up good gates, and paint
or whitewash your outhouses and fences
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04

- Do not be above your business, no matter
what that calling may be, but strive to be the
best in that line. He who turns up his nose at
his work, quarrels with his bread and butter.
He is poor smith who quarrels with his own
sparks; there is no shame about any honest
calling; don't be afraid of soiling your hands (;
there is plenty of soap to be had. All trades
are good to traders. Above all things avoid Ia
ziness There is plenty to do in this world for
every pair of hands placed upon IL, and We
must 90 to work that the world will be richer
because of our having lived in it,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04

"A young lady having called out an ugly
gentleman to dance with her. he was astonish-
ed at the condescension, and believing that she
was in love with him desired to know why she
had selected him from the rest of the compa-
ny. Because, sir" replied the lady, my hus'
band commanded me to select such part
ner as would not give him cause TOR Jealou-
sy."
if you please yourself and believe you are right,
you will be happy, and make others DelleVe IN
YOU.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04
Patrick saw a bull paving in the ficl'

- Patrick saw bull paving in the field,
and thought what fun it would be to jump. over,
catch him by the horns, and rub his nose in the
dirt. The idea was SO funny that he laid down
and laughed to think of it. The more ne
thought of it the fonder it seemed, and ne de-
termined to do it. Bovus quickly tossed him
over the fence again: Somewhat bruised Pat
solatory seIa rejection, "Wcl, it's mighty fine
thing had my laugh foorst."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04

THE OLD-FAsHIoNED MoTHER.-Thank
God some of us have an old-fashioned mother.
Not woman of the period, enameled and pain
ted, with her great chignon, her curls and bus
tie, whose white jeweled hands, have never felt
the clasp of baby fingers, but a dear old-fash-
ioned, sweet-voiced mother, with eyes in whose
depths the love light shone, and brown hair
threaded with silver, lying smooth upon her
faded cheek. Those dear hands, worn with
toll, guided our tottering steps in childhood
and smoothed our pillow in sickness, even
reaching out to us in yearning tenderness when
her sweet spirit was baptized in the pearly epray
of tie river.
Blessed is the memory of an old-fashioned
mother. 1t floats to us now, like the beautiful
perfume of some wonderful blossoms. The mu-
sic of other voices may be lost, but the entran--
cling memory of hers will echo in our souls for
ever. Other faces will fade away and be for
gotten, but hers will shine on until the light
from Heavens portals shall glorify our own.
When in the ftful pauses of busy life, our
feet wander back to the old homestead, and;
crossing the well-worn Threshold, stand once
more in the low, quaint room, so hallowed BY
her presence, how the feeling of childish IN
nocence and dependence comes over US, and ne
kneel down in the mellow sunshine, streaming
through the western window-just where long
years ago we knelt by our mothers knee, lisp
ing "Our Father"
How many times, when the tempter lures us
on, has the memory of thoce sacred hours, that
mothers words, her faith and prayers, saved us
from plunging into the abyss of sin Years
have filled great riffs between her and US, bat;
they have not hidden from our sight the bright
glory of her pure and unselfsh love.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04
HARD TINES AND WHAT CAUSES THEM

HARD TIMES AND WHAT CAUSES Then
We are fast becoming nation of schemers to
live without genuine work. Our boys are not
learning trades; our farmers sons are crowd
ing into cities, looking for clerkships and Post
Offices; hardly one American girl in each hum
dred will do homework for wages, however ur-
gent her need SO we are sending to Europe
for workmen and buying of her artisans millions
worth of products that we ought to make for
ourselves. Though cur crop of rascals is heavy
we do not grow our own hemp; though we are
oyerrun with lads who deserve fagellation, we
import our willows. Our women unless de-
ceiyed) shine in European fabricks; our men
dress in foreign clothes; the toys which amuse
our Younger children have generally reached
US over the sea. We are like the farmer who
hires his neighbor's son to chop his wood, feed
his stock, and run his errands, while his own
boys lounge at the grog-shops, playing billiards,
and then wonders why, in spite of the best ef-
forts, he sinks annually deeper and deeper into
debt, till the Sheriff cleans him out, and ne
starts West to begin again.
We must turn O new leaf. Cur boys and
girls must be taught to love labor by qualify
ing themselves to do it efficiently. We must
turn out fewer professionals and more skilled
artisans, as we'll as food-growers. We must
grow and fabricate two hundred millions worth
per annum, that we now import, and SO reduce
the foreign debt that we have so long and 80
successfully augmented year by year., We
must qualify our clever boys to erect and run
factories, furnaces, rolling mills, tanneries, ma
chine shops, etc. to open and work mines, i'm
prove and fashion implements, and double the
present product of their fathers farm. So
Shall we stem the tide of debt that sets steadi-
ly against our shores, and cease to be visited
and annoyed by hard times-Erchangc.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04
A POWERFUL LETTER.


-. We find in last Thursdays issue of the New
:. York Eeamisers and Chronicle the following
strong letter from the Rev. DR.. E. T. Winkler,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04

"A great man is always willing to be lit
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-04

AuCliuiItS W
VIGILANCE COMMITTEES.
The persons who are now in bonds are not
conspirators against the National Government;
on the contrary, they have always, heretofore,
welcomed the United States soldier IS the con-
seryator of the public order. Nor are they Or
oanized to prevent the colored citizen from ex-
ercising his political franchise; on the contra
ry. his political equality is conceded, and they
have even offered to divide with him the offices
of the State. But they contend that, under the
nresent system of misrule and lawlessness, life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness were lett
in certain parts of the country without any
protection and that the communities thus i'm
perillcd were thrown back upon the inalienable
right of sclfprotection.
The facts. which they appeal to, arc notorl,
ous Nobody can deny that their cattle and
bogs o. were shot down in the fields that their
opening cotton bolls were picked by nightly
depred ators; that their gin-houses were burn
ed flat the "corner Shops" where cotton in
tha secd (sto,en cotton) was bought, grew rich,
While the heavily taxed and plundcred planter
sca ~n rcelw know where to get his bread; Il know
ono nf this class who expended ten thousand
dollars on his plantation, and at the end Oh the
season harvested just three bales OF COTTON, ana
lust corn enough to feed his horses ior hali ;, a
wear y that lab0rers were inflamed by lncendi-
nv speeches, and were also encouraged to break
their contracts; that colored men were armed
by the Governor in larger and larger numbers,
until at length they undertook to raid certain
parts of the State that the public debt was III
creasing, until at length it has been increased
by s8, 500 900 in a single year; that there
The Arizona sentinel., 1872-06-22
A Curious Monstrosity.

There has recently been born in
this city the semblance ola hui
man, being endowed with the
freaks of nature not often met
with in the annals of materia me-
dica. It is a female child of the
most horrid form and feature that
it is possible to imagine. Its face
is fat and inclined to be dish
shaped, although it is plump
and quite fieshy, and covered
with slight fuzZ or down. Its
eyes protrude beyond its large
flat nose, which, together,with a
large mouth and thick lips, give
it a hideous look, horrible to be-
hold. It's spine is malformed, be-
ing hunch- backed and the ver-
tebrse protrude from the flesh. It's
flesh has a most peculiar sensation
to the touch, and feels like so
much India rubber. But the most
wonderful part of the story is that
it has no brain, the entire back
portion Of the head being absent.
Back Of a line drawn from the
temporal bone, behind the ear,
and down to the spine, there is no
Uranium Or formation whatever,
and nothing but a thin men,
brance,in concave form, lines the
back Of the face, which is the only
part of the head the body pos
sesses. Its ears are small and
drawn up, and look like hens
ears.
STANCE to say, this mass of curl
Gus flesh and malformation was
born alive. Itlived, however, but
a few minutes. It weighed at
the time of its birth about four
pounds. 1t is preserved by one of
cur physicians, and is probably
one Of the most curious specimens
oflapsuS natur9 that was ever pro-
duced.-[ Oshkosh North western.
The Arizona sentinel., 1872-06-22
Newsboys.

Talk about the gamin os Paris or
the London street Arab as much
as you like, but you can't for a
moment shake your belief in the
American neWsboy. He is a model
CT energy and independence. He
is a natural outgrowth of our pecu-
liar system ofjournalism, and cries
his papers with more blatant voice
and reckless disregard for accuracy
because Of unlimited faith in
American rewspaperdom. He re-
veres everybody connected with
The Arizona sentinel., 1872-06-22
A Masonic Baptism.

The novel ceremony OF Masonic
baptism was performed at the
Masonic Temple in Washington,
last Tuesday night, by Albert
Pike, Esq, and other Scottish
Rite Masons, upon two children,
sons of DR.. Joseph w. Nairn and
Mr.. E. B. McGrotty. DIR. Nairn's
child, an infant, was borne on q
cushion covered with blue silk,
and the ceremony was made i'm
pressive by lighted candles, burn
ing incense, fOrmalities and para
phernalia of the exalted degrees
of the order, and there was a large
attendance. Praying, singing,
ETC., served as an Introductory.
when the children, their god
mothers and others were admitted.
Water, Oil and salt were used in
the ceremony, the left hands of
the children being dipped in a
bowl of perfumed water, rs sig
nal of dedication to the service Of
virtue and truth; a delta was made
of their foreheads with the finger
dipped in oil, as the symbol Of wis
dom, power and love OF God; and
salt was placed in their mouths,
as the seal Of the Arabic vow,
which sanctifies an enemy with
whom one has tasted salt. Finally,
the children were invested with
lambskin aprons and Masonic jew
els, and their Masonic Baptism
was pronounced complete.
The Arizona sentinel., 1872-06-22

the press, from the uncomfortable
incumbent of editorial honors to
the arbitrary and autocratical ge-
MUS who presides over the fold
ing and mailing room. He knows
by sight every newspaper man,
and believes religiously in the
one who last gave him a gallery
ticket to the theater. The news
boy is entirely wanting in respect
for anybody outside the newspa-
per profession; considers good
clothes fraud, and polite conven-
ti0nalities delusion. He esti-
mates every man by the number
ofpapers he buys, and every wo-
man by the magnitude of her
chignon and the extent of her
panier. His "diWine divinity"
is the leading lady at his favorite
theater, for whom he has chiv-
alric regard. But the newsboy is
in some respects model member
Of society. He is industrious,
generous and constant; a combina-
ton of characteristics that is often
wanting in people who wear bet
ter clothes.
The Arizona sentinel., 1872-06-22
UIDE FOR TRAVELLERS
Arizona City Postal Directory.

y
Mails for California (West) close
at s P. NJ. on Sundays and Tues
days, and 4 P. M. on FRIDAYS.
Mails for Tucson (east) close at q
PM. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat
urdays.
Mails from Tucson arrive about
5 P. NJ. on Tuesdays, Fridays and
Sundays.
Mails for La Paz (northl close at
s A. NJ. Mondays, land arrive about
4 P. NJ. on Saturdays.
Arizona Official Directory.
FEDERAL.
Congressional Delegate, r. C.
McCOrmick.... Governor, A.P.K.
Stafford, Tucson......T Territorial Sec
rotary, Coles Bash ford, Tucson.
Sup't of Indian Affairs, Herman
Bendell, Prescott .............. Chief
Justice, LIST Dist, John Titus. Tue
son......AssOciate, Cd Dist, Isham
Reavis, Arizona City; Sd Dist, C.
A. Tweed. Prescott. ...U.S Atty.
J. Il. Mccartney, Tucson. 49,.
q. S. Marshal, I. Q. Dick ason.
Prescott..-...U. S. Surveyor Gen'l,
John WATSON, Tucson. .....Regist'r
Land Office, H. A. Eastman. Pres
cott.-.. Receiver, George Lount,
Prescott......U. S. Collector Int.
Rev., Thomas Cords, Prescott.
U. S. Assessor, III. A. BigeIow.
Prescott. S. Sp'l Mail Ag't.
L. n. Dawley......Deputy Collector
af CsutOms, r. 3. Kelley. Arizona
City; Jas. e. Baker. Tucson.
TERRITORIAL.
Atty Gen'l, J. E. McCaffrey Tue
son......Treasurer, John B. Allen.
RECOMMENDATION, c.. H. Lord.
Adj'tGen'l. Samuel Hughes,
Tucson.
Yuma County.
Probate Judge, Thos J Bidwell
.........Dist Atty, Clarence Gray,
$500. Sheriff. George Tying.
Clerk Dist. Court, John w. Dor
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, j. S. Spann
Treasurer, J. Nj. Barney.
Supervisors: John Duff, George
Martin, Jose NJ. RodoAdo.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
Justices Of the Peace-Abram
Frank, II. B. Kelley, A A. Mix.
Arizona City Officers.
Mayor, a J Finlay.....Counc
men, VIM r Larkin, J Siebeck.
Hall Hanlon, J NJ Redondo.
Police Judge, r. B. KelIey......
City Marshal, o F Townsend 49,.
City Attorney. c.. ". G. RnMnu.
The Arizona sentinel., 1872-06-22
= l.. JONES beg leave to an

a. l.. JONES beg leave to an
We nounce TO his friends n |
former patrons that he has again
resumed business. The Saloon
heretofore occupied by ]. O'Hara
is now kept by the undersigned,
where the best of wines and Ii
Quors and cigars are always kept.
Mr.. Jones also wishes 10 inform
the public that he has still the
Corral, where hay and grain of
hrst quality is kept OIL hand for
the accommodation OF teamsters
and others.
ap27 2Tl @. l.. JONES.
The Arizona sentinel., 1872-06-22
A1izpna gentinel.
Published every Saturday, by
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Subscription, per year........S5 90
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Single OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES %
Advertising-One inch space, 1
time, 81 80; one month, 81. Con-
tracts. per year and quarter at re-
duced rates.
nsnG Fees for legal advertise
ments, in all cases, must be paid
in advance.
Currency received at par.
GsY%All orders by mail Or ex-
press must be addressed to
c. l.. MINOR,
Editor and Proprietor.
The Arizona sentinel., 1872-06-22

~ R. y. A. MIX
offers his professional SER
vices to the citizens OF Yuma
County. Office in Mrs. Jones'
building, Main street. C0nsulta-
ton for the poor, from to l0A.M.,
free, mchlG
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-06-27
The Games we Play.
From the Little Corporal,
STATUARN.

In this game, we convert the room
we occupy into an Art Gallery or a
Studio. One person is chosen as artist,
while a second represents a visitor to
the studio. In doing this he may per
senate any character that he may
choose, as a Yankee buyer, petro-
leum millionaire, or the art critic. The
other members OF the company repre-
seut statues. They are required to
preserve the impressive features of mar
bic statues, difficult thing for one to
do as he hears his nose criticised as be
ing to large, and his eye as having a
sQuiut. But the penalty of smile or
a witch is forfeit. Occasionally we
have made great efforts to get up an
artistic game Of "Statuary. We have
draped, and powdered, and grouped,
and attitudinized the figures, and had
the artist AMI visitor study their parts
beforehand But we like the improvis-
ed game just as well, and it involves no
trouble.
Wax Works " is a game very SINH
Jar to "Statury," the person represent
ing wax figures, instead of statues.
One evening we children made a
game which we named Library.
Each person represented cook. When
lis title was called, he was required to
use and recite something from said
volume The advantage is this that
almost the youngest child can take part
ID the play. We had recitations one
evening ranging from Shakespeare to
Mary had little lamb. This game
keeps rs on the qUi rice. The last time
We played it we had " turning down, ="
81 III q spelling class. If one failed to
give the required quotation, he was
turned down by another who could
give it. Lucy LELAND
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-06-27
A Long Trip.

The ship Blue Jacket was burned on
tie 9th of March, 1869, in about G3 de-
grees south latitude and 60 degrees
west longitude, between the Falkland
islands and Cape Horn, on her voyage
from New Zealand to England. The
figure head of the Blue Jacket was late
" picked up at the little island of Rott-
nest, near Fremantle, Western Austria
lin, distance of over 6, 900 miles from
the point of disaster, The time occu-
pied in traverslng the distance was
about two years and half, making a
mean rate of six miles and half a DAY.
This incident throws some hight on the
direction and speed of the ocean cur
rents between South America and the
Western coast OF Australia.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-06-27
skimmIng MILK for Cheese.

VIM Blanding~ays -" Does the Eng
lish cheese contain more butter than ours ?
On the contrary, our cheese, by analysis,
shows richer in butter than theirs. When
the American cheese reaches the other side
of the water, if poor in manufacture, ever
so porous and spongy, or ever so poor in
flavor, it is not poor IN butter, bnt is richer
in that quality than the goods we are striv-
ing to initiate or excel. This would seem
to indicate that the excess of butter might
be saved, and the quality secured by new
milk, careful manufacture and curing 1t
Is question with some, whether all the
cream will work into the cheese if il once
becomes separated from the milk. | have
had opportunity for some observation, by
working up the milk twice day, as com
pared with once, and have had as good re-
suits in both quality and quantity in the
latter case as the former, and in both cases
had, as far as | could see, an equal amount
of cream rise on the whey Yals.'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-06-27

When he stops and refuses to be coax
ed to 90, one should first determine by his
grit whether it can be whipped out of him.
If you whip him him, confine him as close
as possible by winding the lines round the
hub of the wagon Go at him with II
brush or limb. BE thorough, or it is of no
use, If that does not cure him, drive
down stake, put on strong halter, check
him up and chain his whifllree back to the
load take off the other horse and leave him
to consider his ways without food or drink
When you think he has resented, take the
other horse back, hitch on try him; if he
rebels, leave him until he will go. In all
cases be very sure not to oYertaX his
strength with too much load o. r. l..