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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-03-07

The NORTH CAROLINA DEsPERADoEs-The
Ku Klux hunters have entirely overlooked the
field where the best game is to be found, and
with all their solicitude to give coloring to the
report of their operations have failed even to
make mention of the black banditti of North
Carolina, the Lowrys, who are Ku Kluxes of
the deepest dye and the worst sort. They are
numerous in force, bloody i'll purpose and despc-
rate in action-thieves, murderers, villains of
the blackest kind. They are neither mythic-
al, imaginary nor fabulous body, of whose ex-
istence, or appearance in Satanic disguses or
performances, there is any uncertainty or
doubt; but tangible reality, which can be
distinctly defined. The Ku Klux experience
of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama affords
no criterion of what Ku Kluxism really is, or
Of the blood thirsty gang of Lowrys in North
Carolina. And yet that great campaign docu-
mcnt which constitutes the report of the Ku
Klux hunting Committee, who might readily
have learned that the black Ku KluX of North
Carolina have committed more murders and
robberies, and more devastation by fire and
terrible outrage, than any other Ku Klux body
in all the South, is silent as to the career, the
crimes and the very existence of the Lowrys.
Even while the committee were preparing
the contradictory testimony as to the doings OF
the Ku Klux in South Carolina at some period
so far back rs to be almost forgotten, the living,
active, present black band of Lowrys were per-
petrating their audacious crimes at place
called Lumberton, in Robson county, n. G..
That SO powerful and desperate gang of Ku
Klux as the black Lowrys, whose outrages
and prosecutions are directed exclusively to the
whites, and because they arc whites, should
carry on their depredations with impunity in
such State rs North Carolina, where the
country affords rare facilities for such crimes
should escape the notice of vigilant commit
tee, on the lookout for such events, is explain
able only upon the hypothesis that color re-
verses the nature Of crime, and that until after
| the Presidential election such awkward matters
as the proceedings of the black Lowrys had
better not be talked about.-Boston Post.
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IMPROVEMENT OF AMERICAN CoTToN.-Mr
S. G. Godfrey, of Cheraw, responds to some In
terrogations on this subject, from the Depart
ment of Agriculture, as follows:
The experiments of our cotton planters re-
Gently have all aimed at an increase of produc-
ton, without regard to the quality of staple,
and with success, rs is shown by crops of the
past few years, when, with our imperfect system
of labor we have been enabled to produce crops
which will compare favorably with the largest
crops made before the war, with most perfect
system of labor. 1 say without regard to
quality" because the most prolific variety OF
cotton with u.s. and the most popular 1.-THE Dick
sony is decidedly the shortest and coarsest sta
pie we have. have thought for some time
that it would be to our interest to turn our at
tenton more to the improvement of our staple,
in order to place our prominence over the for
eign staple on a surer foundation in the mar
kets of Europe. | am afraid that We cannot
look to the farmer to make the start in this
matter. So long as the Dickson cotton COM
mands as high prices in the market as the
Peeler and other improved varieties, the farm
er will plant the Dickson, because it has the
reputation of being the most productive. The
Southern cotton farmer is poor and cannot
afford to risk experiments besides, he is not a
speculator; be is accustomed to make his mon-
ey by hard labor. We cannot expect him to
20 to the expense and take the trouble to
change his seed unless he is paid for it. We
will have to look to the cotton deal lers. If
they would pay higher price for the improv'
ed cotton, 1 think the thing could be accom-,
plished. Let the improved variety be quoted
every day in the papers few cents per pound
higher than common uplands. The farmers
would soon see it, would get improved seed, and
in few years We would have staple as much
better than our present cotton as the latter is
now the superior of the Surats. The Peeler is
the only improved variety that am acquainted
with. / have tried it three years, and find that
it produces equally as much to the acre, and
natures as we'll as our ordinary variety. The
staple is finer, and at least one-third longer.
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For the anderson Intelligencer.
To Rebel Prisoner on JOhnson's Island

A captive on Lake-girt Isle,
Looks DER the waters sadly,
His thoughts on one whose blessed smile
Would welcome him so gladly;
But that beneath northern sky
A sky to him SO dreary-
He's doomed to pine and vain!y sigh
Away out on Lake Erie.
The winds that wait to others bliss,
But mock him with their tone;
The lips are pale they stoop to kiss,
With yearning for his home.
The waves that dash upon the beach,
Keep ceaseless guard and weary,
They chant of joys beyond the reach
Of him who looks on Erie.
They bear to him his wife's sweet tone,
His children's prattling song,
Until he longs to be alone,|
Far from that captive throng.
And when he lays him down to sleep,
With aching heart and weary,
The wind and waves his vigils keep,
Dear dreamer on Lake Erie.
But all who love him pray to God
To bless his precious life
With patience to endure the rod,
With faith to close the strife,
And look beyond the dreary now,
To brighter days and better, a.
When native winds shall fan his brow,
And only fond arms fetter.
NJ. T. D. B.
chz,L,nhus Ohio. Non. Q 1863.
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THE LONGEST SPEECH EVER MADE IN THE
WoRLD.-The opening argument of the Attor-
General of England, Sir John D. Cole
ridge, who appears for the defence IN the cele- q,
brated Tichborne case, has proved, perhaps, the
very longest speech ever heard Of 1t was be-
gun on the 14th of January, and at our last ac-
Counts it had not been concluded. However,
ten days after he began, neither Judge NOR nor jury
that day, he remarked that certain ingenious
persons who were ignorant of the facts had crit
icised him for not restricting himself to day
and half But it was necessary, inasmuch as
the iury was now to hear for the first time a
connected account of the case from its outset,
that he should still detain them. This, how
ever, he would not do one moment longer u than !
was absolutely necessary Both the Lord Chief
Justice and the jury at once expressed the
opinion that the Attorney. General had not
wasted single moment since he began to
speak.
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A Leaf from the Past History Of Brigham

The telegraph reports Brigham Young as
rapidly failing, and makes it quite likely that
his death cannot be long delayed. This extra
ordinary man was born at Nottingham, Yer
mont, on the 1st of June, 1901, and therefore
lacks but little of seventy-one years ago. His
father was farmer, who had been a soldier OF
the Revolution, and Brigham doubtless inher-
tied something of his daring and love of ex-
citement. His first connection with the mon.
strous hierarchy of Mormonism, of which he
has so long been the head and exponent, was
in 1882, when he announced himself as con-
vert, and making his way to Kirkland, Ohio,
the then headquarters of the new dispensation,
was ordained an elder and began to preach.
His talents, shrewdness, and especially his
wonderful quickness aud aptness in reading
men, attracted, the attention of the prophet
Joseph Smith, who soon ordained him as one
of the Twelve Apostles, then first constituted,
and sent him on proselyting tour through the
Eastern States. He was signally successful in
making converts, and at the death of Joseph
Smith, in 1914, secured the election to his va
can't position of first President over Sidney
Rigdon, Smiths original partner in the fraud,
who being "contumacious, naturally enough
at thus being thrown overheard, was solemnly
'scut off" cursed, and handed over to the devil
"to be bufeted in the flesh thousand years. -
In 1S47 Brigham removed to Salt Lake City,
the Mormons having been driven out of Nau-
VOC in 1915, and year later the faithful emi-
grated thither and founded the kingdom, which
they called Deseret. The course of Brigham
Young since that time, his repeated brow-beat-
ings Of the Territorial authorities, and his vir-
tually unopposed sway for so many years, are
fresh in the recolections of our readers. BY
his shrewdness, and the ignorance and super
stition of his followers, he has not only made
himself the spiritual and political he'd of the
community, but has contrived to lave the
handling of all the funds, and to have amassed
from the tithes and from private speculations
gigantic fortune which, from its varied and
widely scattered character, it would doubtless
be impossible to estimate closely. Of late it
has appeared as. though his course we're about
run, and that justice was at last to oyertake
him for his completely in many crimes of which
there can be no reasonable doubt. But if ri
vine Provideuce removes him from an earthly
to higher tribunal, doubtless his own people
will reverence him as q saint or god, while
the world will be none the worse for his alb
sence, and see in it no cause for regret.
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HORACE GREELEY ON NOMINATING Con-
yENTIoNs.--The New York tribune (anti-
Grant, intimates pretty clearly, in the follow
ing extract, that if Grant is nominated at
Philadelphia that it will bolt the nomination ::
When party lines are tightly drawn and great
principles or even interests are at stake, the
nominating convention or caucus will naturally
be acknowledgements when lull in
political controversy occurs, through the virtual
settlement or decadence of such issues, then the
masses will be likely to revolt as they did IN
1924. Nominations by delegated bodies are at
best an evil, sometimes to be endured in prefer
ence 10 the evils; thereby precluded. Had it
been possible to adhere to the design OF the
founders of the Republic, by choosing in each
State its proportion of the Presidential electors
from among its ablest, wisest, worthiest citizens,
and having them assemble, deliberate, compare
preferences, weigh each others Suggestions, and
then vote for the two httiest men residing in
different States whereof he who should receive
most votes throughout the Union should be
President, he who received next to the largest
number Vice President, that would have con-
tinued to have been all excellent system, as, in
the infancy of the Union, it proved. The
powcr which the Constitution intended to vest
in the electors has been transferred to caucuses
and nominating conventions, State and Federal
-unwisely, if you will, but it seems irrevoca-
bly. The best course open is, that OF indepen-
dent, earnest, manly criticism and revision by
the people of the acts and decisions of whatev-
er body or bodies shall henceforth assume to
proyidc them with ready-made candidates,
whether for Federal or for State offices. Treat
all nominations simply as suggestions, to be
followed or resisted as your own judgement
shall dictate. A caucus of members of Con-
gress formerly made lin effect both President
and Vice President; that power was abused,
and the people set their heel upon it. Nation
al Conventions will doubtless in good time
travel the same road and encounter kindred
fate. Meantime, hear and heed all proper
suggestions of candidates, then vote exactly as
xoilr own unfcttered judgement shall dictate!
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An editor whose subscribers were rcmi.

An editor whose subscribers were rcmiss
in payment lately published the following an
nounccmcnt in his paper: "To save our readers
the trouble of sending their subscription by
post, and to relieve two unfortunatcs, we will
send to each of our debtors, in the course of a
few days, two collectors, one of whom has
hardly recovered from the smallpox, and the
other has just taken the Itch The dclin.
quents did not wait to be called on, but paid
their dues promptly.
- Running accounts will run away with
a PERSONS credit more rapidly than anything
else.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-03-07

AN EXPENSIVE JoKE.--A Harvard student
recently called for doctor in great haste, di-
recting the servant where he should go. The
doctor came, but found his services unnecessary
and his call hoax. So far it was all very
well, but the servant recognized the caller, and
the next day the doctor called on him and
asked him whether he would rather pay twenty
dollars or be arrested. He said he thought so,
too, and paid tic twenty dollars.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-03-07

"A man having fallen into slough, an
1rishman standing by called to another for as
sistance. The latter, who was busiy engaged
in cutting log, leisurely inquired, "How deep
is he in p "Up to his ankles" "Then there
is plenty of time" "No, there is not" replied
the first. 81 forgot to tell you he's in head
first"
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Some married people always so to bed
quarrcllinS-yct they never fall out.
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Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 2, 1868.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-12-27

THE SPIDERS BRIDGE.-One chilly
day was left at home alone, and after
/ was tired of reading Robinson CrusOe
! caught a spider and brought him into
the house to play with. Funny kind of
playmate, wasn't it? Well, | took a
wash basin and fastened up a stick i'm it
like n liberty pole or vessels mast,
and then poured in water enough to
turn the mast into an island for my
spider, whom / named Crusoe, and put
on the mast. As soon rs he was fairly
cast away, he anXiously commenced
running round to find the road to the
mainland. He'd scamper down the
mast to the water stick out foot, get
it wet, shake it, run round the stick and
try the other side, and then run back up
to the top again. Pretty soon it became
serious matter with Mr.. Robinson,
and he sat down to think il over. As
in a moment he'acted as if lie wanted
to shout for a boat, and was afraid he
was going to be hungry, put a little
mOlasses on the stick. \ fly came, but
Crusoe wasn't hungry for flies just then.
He was hOmesick for his web in the
conner of the woodshed. He went
slowly down the pole to the water and
touched it all round, shaking his feet
! like pussy when she vets her stockings
in the grass, and suddenly a thought ap-
peared to strike him. Up he went like
rocket to the top and commenced
playing circus. He held one foot in the
air, then another, and turned round two
or three times. He got excited and
nearly stood on his head, before found
out what he knew, and that was this,
that the draught of air made by the fire
would carry a line ashore on which he
could escape from his desert island. He
pushed out web that went floating in
the air, until it caught on the table.
Then he hauled on the Toap until it was
| tight, struck it several times to see if il
was strong enough to hold him, and
walked ashore. thought he had earned
his liserty, so l put him back in his
woOdshed again.-Hcdh and Home.
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ANECDOTE OF DANIEL WEBSTER
Mr.. Webster was full of fun and humOr
at times, and when in company with a
few intimate friends he unbent, and eX-
hibited his wonderful versatility of tai
ent, to the delight of all listeners. He
had marvellous narrative powers, was a
capital mimic, and initiated broken
dialect to perfection. He was not an
unamiabIe man, and never said a ma
licious thing in his life; but when per-
turbed or uncomfortable, either from
indisposition or the effect of eXuberant
eonviviality, he was as inapproaehable
as n porcupine, and often indulged in
peevish exclamatiOns and satirical re-
marks.
once heard him describe a visit that
he made to the elder Adams, at Quincy,
n few months before his death. The
venerable sage, then ninety years of age,
received him with cOrdiality, thanking
him for his civilty in coming to see him.
He was lying i'm bed, supported by pill
lows, heavy, plethOric man, inclined
to dropsy, and drawing his breath with
much difficulty. lie seemed to pump
up his words, Mr.. Webster said, from
great depth, and spoke in short SEN
tences.
allow are you, Mr.. Adams?" inquired
his visitor.
"Feeble, and nearly worn out" was
the reply. "The old tenement is in q
state of dilapidatiOn, and from what
can judge of the intentions of the land
lord, he is not likely to lay anything
more out in repairs. ."-HIITeT's 1i"g"-
zine
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bridesmaid upon the event of my mar
riage, which I hope may prove hap
pier day than the one which brought so
much gloom to our hearts. II hare
something street. to tell you,' as the song
says. Clarence joins with me in wish
ing you to take up your abode with us
in our lovely southern home, which he
is now preparing. Think of that, dear
Blanche; we are not to be separated.n -
and she threw her arms lovingly around
her friend. "Come, now, you must not
say no. Your grandparents can spare
you since they are to have COrdelia re-
main with them. The baImy air will
soon restore you to perfect health, and
nothing shall be lacking that can be
done both by Clarence and myself to
render you as happy as happy can be,
for we both love you as a dear, sweet
sister,
Darling girl, your thoughtful kind
ness OverpOwers me and brings to mind
more forcibly the mean treachery 1
would have practiced upon you. You
have indeed 'heaped Goals of fire upon
my head 1t will give me the greatest
pleasure to spend my few remaining
days with the friend of my childhood,
and 1 gratefully accept your generous
offer and hope to make amends for the
past by contributing TO your future hap
piness."
Here they were interrupted by the
return Of Cordelia, carrying in her arms
her favorite eat. Dropping him care
fully upon a soft cushion, she drew out
little table, and seating herself beside
it, said:
"Now, girls, L am mistress of cere-
monies-at least so you have been try
ing to make me thinl-and want your
opinion about the trimmings, so come
sit up here and examine this box of
laces."
Here let us leave them for the rest of
the day. When Samp arrived at dark
with the carriage for his syoung mistress,
we find Blanche in quite gleeful spirits,
looking almost as cheerful as her. cousin,
upon whose heart care and trouble had
never left their impress.
TO be continued.
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Wedding Tnps.

The custom of taking q bridal trip
seems to have been derived from the
birds, though no improvement upon
their fashions, which is rather q court
ship tour than n wedding journey.
Theirs is not a lonely, dually, selfish
affair, but the joyous migration Of happy
hOcks, where the fluttering, eOquetting
young folks are matToniZed and patron
lied by the steady old couples, who keep
out an indulgent but ever-watehful eye,
to see that cOquetry shall not degenerate
into Irritation, and are ever ready to adj
minister an admOnitOry peck or flap to
any young scapegrace of either sex who
shall show disposition to trifie with
the affections of another. But when
cOurtship has given place to marriage,
there are no more frOlicsOme journeys,
but a general sitting down to the seri-
Gus concerns of life, anxious searchings
for and consultations about the location
of their future home. In these, Mr.
Robin gives it as his opinion that the
cherry tree, being excellent foraging-
ground would be the best spot for their
nest; but Mrs. Robin declares that cher
ries attract too many savage red squir-
rels to make it safe place of abode.
so they finally decide upon the heart of
the low, thick lilac bush, as being near
the house where crumbs are plenty, and
having neither fruit nor height TO tempt
those rampaging squirrels who have no
sort of conscience, and prefer pretty blue
eggs TO any other kind of diet, the
shameless things! Then follows the
happy nest-building, the wearisone sea-
son OF Matching, and the toilsOme time
of filling the ever-empty, craving
mouths of those ugly, rapacious young
sters, who will i'm time grow pretty and
venturesome, and must be taught to use
their weakly ambitious little wings.
And all this while the happy, loving
ways of Mr. and Mrs. Robin are most
delightful to see. But from the mating
day we do not find them talking of
aerial voyages, until after their children
are fairly launched in life; though
trip to Canada would cost them moth
] ing-no railroad tickets to buy, no eX-
tortionate haekmen to pay, nor long
hotel bills to frighten the feathers off
/ their pretty little heads.
| Now, out of thousands of newly-mar-
/ ried who will take the tyFannical Gus
/ tomary wedding trip this season, now
many will do so with a feeling of honest
| enjoyment How many are there who
will not secretly wish they were free to
go at once, quietly and unobserved, to
their nest-building CHristidn onion.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

NJ. VI. NJ, Salem: Your subscription
will expire with number 43.
Martha a. H.: Dress-making is over
done i'm this city. Try TO learn tele-
graphy, photography, or some other
light, remunerative business. We are
sick to death of this demand for situa-
tions as dress-makers.
Nancy G.: We know Of no situation
i'm that line. We don't know to whom
the Herald alluded in its account of the
woman who had gotten rich i'm Portland
in the real estate business. We rather
guess the item was sensational.
Harry: Certainly. If you can decide
about the terminus of the Northern Pa
cifie Railroad, go there at once. Fell q
tree and proceed to erect n habitation.
Sell corner lots and you'll make lots Of
money-lororided you don't get fooled
in your venture.
Hattie; Your handwriting is fair, but
your photography is abominable. The
idea that you can get such articles
printed, much less paid for, is absurd.
Susan: Don't fret for Susan b. An.
thOny. Depend upon it, she knows just
what she's doing.
Mrs. H.: Your dress goods is called
frougee. We can match it. You could
trim prettily with bias ruffles of black
silk, pinked at the edges, and sewed OF
with a very slight fullness.
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\ FATHERS ADVICE TO 4 CHILD
Said 4 young husband whose business
speculatiOns were unsuccessful. ''AIy
wife's silver tea-set, the bridal gift of
rich uncle, doomed me to financial ruin.
1t involved hundred unexpected eX-
penses, which, in trying to meet, make
me the bankrupt / am" His expert
ence is the experience of many others,
who, less wise, do not know what is the
goblin of the house, working its destruc-
tion. A sagaciOus father of great wealth
exceedingly mortified his daughter by
ordering to be printed on her wedding
cards, "No presents except those
adapted to an income of $1,000 Said
he, "Nou must not expect to begin life
in the style l am able, by many years of
labor, to indulge; and know of nothing
which will tempt you to try it more
than the well-intentioned, but pernici-
Gus gifts of rich friends Such advice to
a daughter is timely. If other parents
would follow the same plan, many
young men would be spared years OF IN
cessant toll and anxiety; they would not
find themselves on the downward road,
because their wives had worn all their
salary. or expended it on the appoint
ments of the house. Ihe Iate OF the
moor man who found linch-pin, and
feIt himself obliged to make carriage
TO fit il. is the fate of the husband who
finds his bride in the possession of gold
and silver valuables, and no large in
come to support the owners in gold and
silver style.