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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-02-29

THE OLD SroRY.-The latest tale of mans
unfaithfulnsss to man comes from Selma, Ala.
On the first of January, 1871, a syndicate of
young men was formed, one of whom, the most
trustworthy of them all, was appointed treasu-
rer They then signed temperance pledge
and agreed to deposit on the first day of each
month $40 each, to be divided at the end of the
year among those members who remained faith
ful to their obligations. One by one they faint
ed and fell until at the expiration of the speci-
fed time, there was only one who had not
yielded to the liquid temptation. He repaired
at the hour of noon on New Years day to the
appointed place of rendezvous to receive the
81 ,44O which he had so nobly earned. But the
other eleven were not there; so full Of fiery
thirst, he hastened to neighboring saloon to
to take his first nip for twelve-month. He
had partially swallowed it when ten of his col
leagues entered and revealed to him the horri-
fying fact that his watch WAS twenty minutes
too fast. He, too, had fallen, and this vision
of well-flled pocket vanished. The eleven
then repaired to the office of the treasurer, only
to learn that he had lost all the money playing
draw poker with one of the church trustees
An effort is now being made to keep the story
out of the newspapers.
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A railroad conductor, being asked why
they locked the stove, replied that it was "te
prevent the fire from going out" - =
- One cannot learn everything: the objects
of knowledge have multiplied beyond the pow
ers of the strongest mind to keep pace with
them all.
"A young lady at Fond du Lac was mar
ried without shoes or stockings on, the other
day, in accordance with an old whim that such
m act would bring good luck.
= Mr. Speckles says the best vegetable pill
yet invented is an apple dumpling: for destroy
ing gnawing in the stomach, it is pill which
may always be relied on.
"A Democratic editor says: eve are liv-
ing at this moment under an absolute des-
polism." We suspect he married the wrong
woman.
= He who thinks better of his neighbors
than they deserve, cannot be bad man, for
the standard by which his judgment is formed
is the goodness of his own heart.
SO necessary is fun to the mind, that q
late philosopher said if you should build
schools without play grounds, nobody would
get beyond short division in lifetime.
"A little girl was told to spell ferment, and
give its meaning, with sentence in which it
was used. The following was literally her an
swer: "Ferment, verb, signifying to work.
love to ferment in the garden"
"A very happy retort was that of bad
gered witnessed to lawyer named Missing,
who was tormenting him. The lawyer was de-
Tending prisoner charged with stealing dom
key. The prosecutor had left the animal tied
up to gate, and when he returned it was gone.
Missing was very severe in his examination of
the witness "Do you mean to say the donkey
was stolen from that gate?" 81 mean to say,
sir" giving the judge and then the jury sly
look, "the ass was Missing"
- Two ladies in Cincinnati found them
selves in very awkward position the other
day. Entering large dry goods store, their
attention was attracted by a handsome lay fig
ure near the door, "What handsome velvet
cloak that is |" said one of the ladies. eyes,"
the other, show natural those curls
arep And with that the lady raised her par
asol, and gave the handsome figure little poke
in the back. The pretty curls began to culver,
and the supposed image turned its head, cas-
ting from two bright eyes look of amazement
upon the two ladies, whose astonishmcnt was
so intense that they hastily disappeared with
out word of apology for their ludicrous mis-
take
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a MorHER,s WoRK-Manv a discourage,

A MOTHERS WoRK.-Many discouraged
mother folds her tired hands at night, and feels
as if she had, after all, done nothing, although
she has not spent an idle moment since she
rose. 1t is nothing that your little helpless
children have had some one to come to. with
all their childish griefs and joys? Is it Moth
ing that your husband feels "safe" when he is
away to his business, because your careful hand
directs every thing at home? Is it nothing,
when his business is over, that he has the
blessed refuge of home, which you have that
day done your best to brighten and reine7 o,
weary and faithful mother! you little know
your power when you say 'T have done moth
ing" There is a book in which fairer re-
cord than this is written over against your
name.
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INTERESTING FOR UGLY NosEs.-A grea

INTERESTING FOR UGLY NosEs.-A great
many people of either sex are dissatisfied with
their noses, which are either too small or too
large, or too much turned up, or snub, or in
some way not to the taste of the involuntary
wearers. Science, it seems, has come to the re-
lief of such sufferers. Alexander Ross, of High
Holborn, London, advertises a nose machine,
"by which the soft cartilage of the nose may be
pressed into any desired shape simply by wear
ing the instrument an hour daily for a short
time" There have been old maids and equal
ly old bachelors, with pug noses, who always
slept with the nose bandaged down, in the fond
hope of securing graceful droop, and for the
convenience of such unfashionably made-up
people, Mr.. Alex. Ross machine will be pos
itively invaluable.
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TERRIBLE RETRIBUTIoN.-Ihe truth OF tne
following narrative is vouched for by several
respectable citizens of Rutherford county, len
nessee:
Some five or six years ago Mr.. F., in connec--
tion with two other Northern gentlemen, rented
a cotton farm near Murfreesboro, employed ne
proes to cultivate the ground. for wages, which
they never paid them. The prospect for on
abundant crop was very hattering in the early
part of the season, and expectations were excl
ted to the highest pitch. The growing season
so fondly anticipated was soon changed by the
severe drouth and the crop seriously damaged,
and his cherished expectations sadly disappolnt-
ed. Mr. F., instead of gracefully submitting to
the ordering of Providence, became exasperated
with his Creator, and remarked repeatedly to
the family with whom he lived, that "God was
dishonest, unjust and had deceived him." Such
impious expressions he used with oaths, saying
again that "for the future he did not intend to
regard His laws in any way whatever; that
there was no particular Providence, and that
he would in the future not rely upon gener-
GUS Providence; and that he would look to his
own interest, and if God was too busy with his
own affairs to send him rain in due season, he
guessed He would be too busy to notice his
(F.'s) actions, and he intended to be master Of
his own time" "Now," said he, "this is Sum
day; am resolved not to lose another Sunday:
cannot afford it. intend to run my gin all
day next Sunday, and every Sunday until gil,
my CROP" saying, "God has cheated me, and
I intend to avenge myself" :,
The last time F. repeated these impious and
defiant remarks was on Sunday morning, and
was taken violently ill the following Tuesday,
with what was thought to be epileptic. fits,
wildly calling for absent persons and things,
sometimes raving and cursing the negroes, and
telling them to "drive that gin faster" Then
he would gaze awhile at some apparent object,
whose approach he dreaded, and imagined that
it was about to pounce upon him, when he
would scream piteously for help to wrestle with
terrible foe; struggling convulsively and
biting his tongue till the bloody. foam issued
from his mouth, and SO rolled and strained his
eyeballs till they actually burst. His counte-
nance all the time was horrible and ghastly be-
yond description.
The preceding Sabbath he had vowed with
an oath that the next Sunday be would run his
gin, and so forth. But on Tuesday ne was taken
i'll, and SO became worse and worse, until Fri.
day following, when he expired, and his mortal
remains were on the Sunday, as above, on the
way to his home at the North for interment.
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The Lone Sentry.

The following beautiful lines were indited by
Mr.. James R. Randall upon the death of Gen.
T. J. Jackson. The circumstances which occa-
stoned the poem were these: General Jacksons
troops after long and weary march, were so
much fatigued, that when halt was ordered,
almost nearly every man was asleep. The no.
BILE old Hero guarded the camp alone that night.
'Twas in the dying of the day,
The darkness grew so still,
The drowsy pipe of evening birds
Was hushed upon the hill.
Athwart the shadows of the vale
Slumbered the men of might, q
AS one lone sentry paced his round
To guard the camp that night.
A grave and solemn man was he,
With deep and sombre brow,
Whose dreadful eyes seemed boarding up
Some unaccomplished vow.
His wistful glance peered DER the plain
Beneath the starry Light
AS with the murmured name OF 6ou
He watched the camp that night.
The future opened unto him
Its grand and awful scroll,
Manassas and the Valley march,
Come heaving DER his soul.
Richmond and Sharpsburg thundered by,
With that tremendous fight
Which gave him to the angel Hosts
Who watched the camp that night.
We mourn for him who died for us
With one resistless mourn,
While up the Valley of the Lord,
He marches to the throne.
He kept the faith of men and saints,
Sublime, and pure. and bright,
He sleeps, and all is well with him
Who watched the camp that night.
Brothers, the midnight of the cause
Is shrouded in our fate,
The demon Goths pollute our soil
With fire, and lust, and hate. :
Be strong, be valiant, be assured,
Strike home for Heaven and right,
The soul of Jackson stalks abroad
And guards our camp tonight.
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GUANOS.

WE have in store and for sale, the follow
w ing standard Fertilizers:
CAROLINA FERTILIZER, cash. $54. On
time, payable 1st November, with per cent.
interest, $50.
SOLUBLE PACIFIC, cash, S54.
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHTE, cash, s34.
PHOENIX GUANo, cash, $56.4o. On time,
payable 1st November, $3.50.
Wilcox, Gibbcs & Co.'S MANIPULATED
GUANO, 500. On time, payable 1st November,
$40.
ACID PHOSPHATE, cash, SOS. On time,
payable lst November, with per cent. inter-
est, $2S.
SHARPE d TOWERS.
Jan ii, 1872 q
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s-"I wish,' said Lord Bacon, "every man
knew enough about law, as would enable him
to keep himself out Of il"
"A sermon in four words on the vanity of
worldly possessions" "Shrouds have no pock-
ets."
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Lumber J. Lumber

A NY person wishing to purchase good
N Lumber Mt the lowest prices can obtain
the same through our agents, b. F. Crayton &
Sons, Anderson c. H.. or by order sent direct
ly to the Mill.
KAUFMAN E HOLLEMAN,
Walhalla, S. C.
Nov 80, 1871 % 3m
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One by One.
BY ADELAIDE A. PROCTOR.

BY ADELAIDE A. PROCTOR. a..
One by one the sands are flowing
One by one. the mountains fall:
Some are coming, some are going;
Do not strive to grasp them all.
One by one thy duties wait thee,
Let thy whole strength go to each;
Let no future dreams elate thee,
Learn those first what these can teach
One by one, Cbright gifts from Heaven,
JOYS are sent thee here below:
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go.
One by one thy griefs shall meet thee,
Do not fear an armed band;
One will fade as others greet thee.
Shadows passing through the land.
Do not look at life's long sorrow,
See how small each moments pain
God will help thee for tomorrow,
SO each day begin again.
Every hour that fleets 80 slowly,
Has its task to do OF bear;
Luminous the crown and holy,
When each gem is set with care.
Do not linger with regreSting,
Or for passing hours despond;
Nor, the daily toll forgetting,
o0Iy oonar1u haunnd
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Hours are golden links, Gods token,
Reaching heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken,
Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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Do not linger with regretting,
Or for passing hours despond;
Nor, the daily toll forgetting,
Look too eagerly beyond.
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Pacific Guano Company's
COMPOUND
ACID PHOSPHATE OF LIME,
For Composing with Cotton Seed.
Price $25 Cash, with usual advance for Time.
TTlHIS article is prepared under the superin-
tendence of DR.. ST. JULIEN RAvBNBL,
expressly for composing with Cotton Seed.
1t was introduced by this Company two years
ago, and its use has fully attested its value.
200 to 25O pounds of this article per acre, prop
erly composted with the same weight Of Cotton
Seed, furnishes the planter with a FERTIL-
IZER of the highest excellence at the smallest
cost. A compost prepared with this article, as
by printed directions furnished, contains all
the clements Of fertility that can enter into a
first-class FERTILIZER, while its economy
must commend its liberal use to planters.
For supplies and printed directions for COM
posting apply to =;
Agent Pacific Guano Company,
No. 6S East Bay and Nos. q Atlantic Wharf,
JNo. S. REESE & CO., Gen. Agents.
Nov 30, 1871 --..-- - ---22----.---->.--.-- 3m-
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1871. FALL TRADE. 1871.
GUNS. GUNS. GUNS.
nOUBLE aIid Single Barrel Guns,
~ Breechloading and Muzzleloading Guns,
Of English, French and German manufacture,
At all Prices.
Single Guns at $3.50, S4OO, $500, $500, $12Oo 10
$1,000 each. Double Guns from 500
to $4,000 each.
Pistols, Pistols. Pistols.
Smith & wesson, Colts Aliens, sharp's and
all the popular and approved kinds
Ammunition for Guns, Pistols
and Rifles.
Sportsman's Goods Of Great Va
riety. J5.J
BEST QUALITY and AT LOWEST PRICES.
Country Merchants and Sportsmen are invi-
ted to call and examine our largo and well Sc
lected stock of the above Goods, which we'im-
port direct and buy from the manufacturers.
We guarantee quality equal to, and prices as
low as any responsible house in this country.
Orders by mail filled promptly, and sent by
express, c. o. ID.
POULTNEY, TRIMBLE & CO.,
200 w. Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE, MD.
Sept J, 1871 40 1y
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-10-24
EUREKA.

Whom I crown with love is royal;
Matters not her blood or birth;
She is queen, and l am loyal
To the nOblest of the earth.
Neither place, nor wealth, nor title,
Lacks the man my friendship owns;
His distinction, true and vital,
Shines supreme DER crowns anC
thrones.
Where true love bestows its sweetness,
Where true friendship lays its hand,
Dwells all greatness, all completeness,
Al / the wealth of every land.
Man Is greater than condition,
And where man himself bestows,
He begets, and gives position
To the gentlest that he knows.
Neither miracle nor fable
Is the water changed to wine;
Lords and ladies at my table
PI owe loves simplest fair divine.
And if these accept my duty,
If the loved my homage own,
have won all worth and beauty,
! have found the magic stone.
Dir. j. q. Holland.
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CHANGE OF SENTIMENT. The priests in
Rome have ascrlbed the neglect of the thea
tres in that city to the sadness of the people
since the Pope was displaced from power.
They, however, seem to be entirely mistaken,
Tor though they were poorly attended when
the old fashioned plays and comedies were
presented, since the managers have introduc.
ed plays based upon the misdeeds of the Ro
the inquisition, and on the modern atrocities
of the Jesuits, the theatres have been cram
med, and the popular detestation has beer
enthusiastically expressed.
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ON THE RIGHT.

On the Right Kulmswe stood,
Lovely Floribel and /,
While the mornings crimson food
Streamed along the eastern sky,
Redeemed every mountain peak
Into rose, from twilight dun;
But the blush upon her cheek
Was not lighted by the sun!
On the Right Kuhn we sat, 9a
Lovely Floribel and l,
PluckiGg blue-bells for her hat
From a mound that blossomed nigh.
eve are near to heaven" she sighed,
While her raven lashes fell.
"Nearer," softly replied,
ethan the mountains heart may tell.
Down the Rights side we sped.
Lovely Floribel and /,
But her morning blush had fed,
And the blue-bells all were dry.
OF the height the dream was born;
OF the lower air it died;
And the passion Of the morn
Flagged and fell at eVentlde.
From the breast Of blue Lucsrne,
Lovely Floribel and ],
Saw the brand of sunset burn
On the R!ghi Kuhn, and die.
And we wondered, gazing thus,
four dream would still remain
On the height, and wait for us
TIL we climb to heaven again.
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III
But when October comes.

But Wnen october comes,
And poplars drift their LEAKAGE down in
fakes of gold below,
And beeches turn like twilight fires that
used to tell of snow,
And naples bursting into flame set all the
hills afire,
And summer from her evergreens sees para
disc draw higher
A thousand sunsets all It once distill like
Hermon's dew,
And linger on the waiting woods and stain
them through and through,
AS If all earth had blossome6 out, one grand
Corinthian flower,
TO crown Times graceful capital for just one
gorgeous hour!
They strike their colors to the king Of all the
stately throng-
He comes in pomp, October! And to him all
times be long;
The frost is on his sandals, but the flush is on
his cheeks,
September sheaves ara In his arms, June
voices when he speaks
The elms lit braYely like torch within a
Grecian hand,
See where they light The monarch on through
all The splendid land
The sun puts on human look behind the ha-
zy fold,
The mid-year moon Of silver is all struck
anew in gold,
In honor of tho very day that Moses saw of
old;
For in the burning bush that blazed as
quenchless as a sword,
The old lieutenant fret beheld October and
the Lord
All, then, October let it be-
I'll claim my dying day from thee
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BY BENJAMIN F. TAYLOR.


I would not die in May:
When orchards drift with blooms of white,
like pillows on he deep,
And whispers from the lilac bush across my
senses sweep:
That minds me of girl knew when life
was always May,
Who filled my nights with starry hopes that
faded out by day
When time is full of wedding-days, and nests
of robins brim,
Till overflows their wicker sides the old IA
miliar hymn
The window brightens like the eye, the cot
tage door swings wide,
The boys come homeward, one by one, and
bring smiling bride,
The FREELY shows her signal light, the part
ridge beats his drum,
And all the world gives promises of some
thing sweet to come
All, who would die on such day?
All, who would die in May?
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little girl, who had been much exercised in
mind in regard to steam boiler explosions, has hit
upon good plan for preventing them in the fu-
ture to wit: "Fill the boiler with iced water and
set 1t in cool place,
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would not die in June

! would not die in June:
When, looking up with faces quaint, the pan
kies grace the sod, ....
And, looking down, the willows see their
doubles in the flood
When, blessing God, we breathe again the
roses in the air,
And lilies light the fields along with their
Immortal wear,
AS once they lit the sermon of the Savior on
the Mount,
And glorifed the story which they evermore
recount
Through pastures blue the focks of God go
troOping one by one,
And turn their golden feeces round to dry
them in the cum
When calm as Galllee the grain is ripping in
the wind,
And nothing dying anywhere but somsthing
that has sinned-
All, who would die in life's own Don {?
All, who would die in June?
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Men never love women whom they gdosnot
understand, and women never love men
whom they do understand.
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Thirty years ago the wooden industries
were nearly all located east of the Allega-
MES, but at the present time they are scat
tered throughout the entire country. The
total number of mills is 2, 1872, and the sets of
cards SAG PAnnsylvania takes the lead in
the number of mills, having All ; but Massa-
chusetts, which has lS3 mills, has 1,41S sets
OF cards, being trifle more than is credited
to that State. New York has 247 mills and
1874 sets of car, 8. These figures do not in
clude hosiery md carpet mills. Owing to
the higher rel tive price Of raw material than
manufacturing. the business for the past two
years has been unsatisfactory on the whole.
--~-O~- saee
WASTE AMI CRIMB.--During the year end
ing September Is, the internal revenue on
whiskey, beet I'd tobacco, paid in Chicago,
amounted to ST. 362, SOL. 1t is estimated that
of least tifteennillion dollars were sunk in
that city in thee and other vicious and ruin
Gus indulgences With this comes the pre-
sentiment of the grand jury, who in reporting
over 200 indictments say, 'tIn almost every
case the crime ef murder, so often repeated
and which has &artledgthe community, has
been directly due to intoxlcation."
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1871 IL was IL
The last year it was less than half what
it was in 1860 on every 800. On the 4th
Of March, 1869, when Grant was inaugu-
rated, there were in the employ Of the
office Of internal revenue 6,277 persons,
and the cost Of asserting and collecting
this branch of the revenue for the pre-
ceediug twelve months had been $685.
47772. On the lst Of January, 1872, or
in less than three years from his Inaugural
ton, the number o6employeeS in the SER
vive had been reduced from 6,277 to O.
1874 (; and, by the act of June last, this
number will be reduced to 80 per cent.
between the 1st of October and the close
Of the year. Compare the fidelity with
which taxes were collected under johnson
with that under Grant. Collectors under
Johnson collected and paid into the
Treasury IN three years tob eco tax from
the State of Virginia, $l,50O,00O. Col
lectors under Grant in three years collect.
ed and paid into the Treasury from tobac-
co in the same State $13,000,00O. The
total amount collected from tobacco in
the same time under johnson, sos, 1913, 784,
and under Grant, $94,749,079. The total
revenue from spirits during the last three
wears of Johnson's administration was
! $03, 494,054 During the three years OF
| Grants administration, with tax reduced
from So to so cents, it was $l57 1872. 6lS
Search for the defaulters and you will
find in the internal revenue bureau that
!. Of all the internal taxes assessed since
!, General Grant came into power charged
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-10-17

The county Of Augusta, il Virginia,
ouce embraced the States Of Ohio, keu.
lucky, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. =
When Virginia was named after Elizabeth.
daughter Of Anne BoIeyn aud Henry VII
he Of the many wives--it was the proud
boast Of her then few inhabitants that her
territorial limits extended from tue Allan.
tic to the Pacific and up aud down to each
pole. When battling for American iada-
peadence with handful Of hungry, ill.,
clad and worse armed patriots against the
disciplined legioas Of the British hiag, il
was, in case Of being oyerpowered, 70 The
mountains Of Augusta that George Wash.
Layton proposed TO retreat to make last
stand for elderly and the rights Q! man.
Virginia, though she gave away an empire
aud vas dcspolled Of bali her territory By
legislation, has no reason to be cast down
nor is she. "Tbcrc is life in the old land
yet."-Richmoac. Wig,