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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-08-21

A LONG AND DESPERATE BATTLE BETWEEN
A MAN AND MoCCAsIN.-A correspondent of
the New York World, writing from Sumter, S.
c., gives the following particulars of desperate
fight between asman and highland moccasin,
which took place in that vicinity short time
since:
A most exciting battle took place few miles
from this town few days since between we'll
to-do farmer and snake, described by the
gentleman as moccasin, perhaps of the high
land species. The gentleman, who is well
known to me, and for whose accuracy and
truthfulness can safely vouch, was returning
home from town with his wife and child in a
buggy drawn by two spirited horses, when his
horses stopped in evident alright at the sight
of monster snake lying across the track some
distance in front of them. Giving the reins to
his wife the gentleman left the buggy, and Sc.
lecting piece of fence-rail advanced and
struck the snake one blow, when the rail un-
fortunately broke and left him defenceless-
The snake Immediately dashed at him and ran
him fercely, until finding he was about to be
overtaken the gentleman made for his buggy,
which he barely reached in time, the snake
springing up with great force against the wheel
as he jumped in alongside his wife. In mo-
ment the gentleman had his buggy whip in
hand, and with the butt of it had desperate
fight with the monster, which continued its
determined efforts to effect an entrance to the
buggy. The horses becoming uneasy and the
wife dreadfully alarmed, the lines in her hands
were somewhat relaxed, and the team made a
squirt which at once carried the party hum
dred yards from the scene of conflict, Looking
back and finding that his enemy held the field
and showed no disposition to run, the gentle
man again left his buggy, and securing stout
and reliable club, returned and renewed the
fight. As he. advanced, and when within few
feet, the snake sprung at him with distended
jaws, when well-directed blow laid him on
the ground, where he was soon despatched:
The snake was five inches in diameter and
nearly nine feet long. Although the dog.days
are considered as infusing more than ordinary
venom and nalignity into the serpent tribe, yet
this furnishes one of the very few and certain
ly the most remarkable of instances in this
section of snake attacking and engaging in
a persistent and continuous fight with man,
and showing no signs of retreat, but acting on
the offensive. throughout, and fighting to the
death.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-08-21

THE SUMNER DEATH RATE AMONG Chill
DREN.-Our opinion upon the pre-eminent
value of a supply Of pure, fresh air as means
for the reduction of the terrible summer death
rate, is strikingly borne out by the advice con-
tanned in pamphlet published in Philadelphia,
addressed to mothers on this very subject. The
directions are drawn up by committee of the
Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia, compris-
ing men who stand highest in their profession
in the treatment of children. The rules are
simple, as all hygienic precepts are, and are
therefore more apt to be disregardcd. Some of
them, indeed, are so commonplace that one
would hardly think they would need to be
grayely laid down by a committee of medical
men, bat yet experience shows that it is just in
regard to these commonplace matters that the
greatess carelessness exists. These directions
may be summarized as follows:
/. Perfect cleanliness is enjoined in every
minute particular; the change of night and
day clothing clean with each change.
2. A bed or cot, apart from its mother, for
the child.
3. Plenty of fresh air. The baby should be
taken to the park, the boats that ply up and
down the rivers, the shady side of broad streets
or public squares it should be kept carefully
out of the room where cooking or washing is
going ON, and given plenty of ice water to
drink.
4. TIE house should be kept scrupulously
clean; walls white-washed; shops and garbage
promptly removed, and the air purified by car
bolic acid or quick-lime.
5. The child, if sick, must be kept to the
mother, milk alone, or if that proves insufi-
cient, to goats or cows milk. There is no safe
substitute for milk to infants who have not cut
their front teeth. No child should be weaned,
as rule, until after its second summer. The
food which nature has provided will often save
the life of child when everything else fails.
6. Without the advice of physician. no
child should be given spirits, cordials, carmina-
tives, or soothing syrups of any kind. Thou
sands of children, the physicians add, die every
year from the use of these poisons.
In other words, they need pure surroundings,
pure food and pure air-the last greater than
all-for when it is had, the former may be
redily ottained.-AAanta Constitution.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-08-21

BALKY HoRsEs-Balky horses are of two
kinds, those which want to go too much, and
those which don't want to 80 at all. The first
is the nervous balky horse, the second the sulky
balky hcrse. A good way to manage the first
is to untitch at the first manifestation of the
evil spirit. and without any clustering or whip
ping, get on him and run him about three
miles at the top of his speed nine times in
ten horse will, after this treatment, when put
in the wagon again, pull as steadily as the
most sot,er-minded cart horse in the world.
The best way to manage the second kind-in
worldly-minded point of VIEWS to trade him
off. A favorite, but not successful plan, pur-
sued with horses of either of these types is to
pound them over the head with the butt of the
whip or with the singletree.. This is useless,
but perfectly natural. There is nothing in an
imated nature that can develop bad bile in a
man to such an extent as can an animal of this
kind
once heard of a man who got livery horse
and went out to drive. The horse baked; the
man lighted his cigar, and took out lis news
paper settled himself back into the cushions,
and read Two hours and forty-fve minutes by
the watch, until that horse got ready to CO.
The horse never baked after that.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-08-21

WHAT Is HoNEY.--D. L. Adair says ::
'There is no distinct substance that can be
called honey. Bees gather anything that has
enough sugar in it to give it q decided sweet
taste. Three kinds of sugar are recognized
fruit sugar, grape sugar, and cane sugar. They
are all vegetable secretions and differ but
slightly in their constituent elements. They
Only vary in the amount of hydrogen and oxy-
gen (which are the elements Of water,) and are
convertible into each other AS ordinarily
gathered from flowers, honey is mixture of
sugar anG other secretions of plants, and it
frequently differs widely in its comparison,
depending on the source from which it is OBJ
tained. The peculiar scent and flavor of the
honey is impaired to it in the hive by the abb
evaporation from @ the bodies of bees, scent
that all bee keepers will recognize who have
opened hive or walked among them of calm
evening"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-08-21

Poor Richard says: "I never knew an
oft removed trce nor yet an oft removed family,
that throve SO well as those that settled be-"
If young ladies were born with those hor-
rible busties ON their backs, they would be
running all over the country hunting skillful
surgeons to cut them oil.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-08-21
Notice of Annual Meeting.

TNHE ANNUAL MEETING of the Board
Il of County Commissioners of Anderson
County will be hold on tho FIRST TUESDAY
in SEPTEMBER next, and all persons having
bills against the County are hereby notified to
deposit the same with the Clerk of the Board
on or before the FIRST DAY Of September
next, and in default thereof, such bills will not
be audited at said Annual Meeting.
w. w. HUMPHREYS,
Clerk County Commissioners.
August Z 1873 )
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inner 70 AnprrilsemenIs.

MIsSMBNrs-Sspsnh 9e5th and 6in cou aa and Al
BASNGSG AND FINASCIAI,-Ninth Pags-lst' "a ana ."
oOlunns ,,,n tac. eth col
BASKING HOUSES AND BANAEfo-'"'"' NV w.
BOARD AND noows-Sersnh Pa0e-2d and 81 columns
BuSiHKss NOTICES Fourth PdQe-ist COhiiun, -.
1',.~c.s Nm EIsISEss MEN--Iht0 Page- 9th column
DASC1EG hCsDESfrrs-Sirth PuOc-5th column.
DENTISTRY Seventh Page-2d column.
DI,qDEND NOTICES-AgHM rage -bth ooiuhh'
nay GO0Ds-Thiid PdOe-6-h column. 80 49,,
Ti ECTIoS NoTIcEs-Tem Page-lst I'd. Sd IN 5th ana
FSRoPFGS ADvERr1sEMESTs- Third PsOe-Ith,5th aud
p, SsS Pages and 9th columns
FURNITURF-Scccnth Pd0e-6th column. =, - -.
HoRsEs, CARRIAGES. HARNESS. &c.--Serenh Page-lst
HEIP WANTED, MALES AND FEMALEs-Sepenb Page-Ith
HoTELS-Third PaOe-eth column.
ICR CREAN-Sercnh Pd0e-2d column. ,.
INsTRUCuOH-SiTh PqQe-4th, SIN and 8 Ii Columns
LAW SCHOOLs-SLrtt PGGe--5th counn
LECTURES AND MEErINGs-ScpeRM PdGc-Gth column
LOAN OFFICEs-Tenh Pa0e-6th column
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs-FGtth Pdge-6th column
MIsCEILA NEOUs-Se Seventh Pdge-lst column; BighW rage
--ith 9TH. and 9Th columns.
MrsIctC INsTRIMT yTs-S epenh Pd5e-Gth column
MN PUBLICATIoSs-Sr Page-1st, ID, sd, aud Atm col
REMGIoUs NoIICEs-Sevenh Page-lst and I'd columns.
EtAI ESTATE FOR SALE CITY-Ihird Pdqe-Sd colunni
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7htrd P,iOc-3d column; CoUNTRY-IHrd rae -oi
column AT AUCTiON-Ihtrd F0ge--1tn anu o'H WI
SAIFs BY AUCTION-SeDenh PG1e-1st column.
SAVINGS lANKs-Ninh PdGe-6tb column. -,
colnmns; FEMALEs-SeUenhs Page-4th column.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-25
lilly REFORMS iEAiL.

The dissolution of the Committee of Seventy
without having accomplished anything more
than a spasmodic and temporary reform is but
another illustration of the habit of our people
to rush wildly into halfway measures and
content themselves with them instead of
thoughtfully devising radical remedies and
patiently pursuing them. Municipal reform
has been treated as an expedient instead Of a
principle. Our reformers have done good
work enough so far as they have gone the
community owes them hearty thanks for the
service they have done and the sacrifices they
have made for the public welfare, but truth
compels the statement that their measures are
only temporary aud their remedies. entire
ly inadequate Tweed, Connolly, and
Sweeny have been their objective points.
They have routed and put them to fight. But
they have treated them az individual offenders !:
as though they were an unusual and unnatural
growth, and not the legitimate offspring of
systems and methods. The great offenders
have been, if not punished, at least driven
out, and the Treasury rescued from their
clutches; but the system that made them
what they were, that gave them their oppor-
tunities and protected them in their crimes.
has hardly been touched. The fruitful vine
that grows Tweeds and Connollys has not
been cut down or even girdled. There are
plenty more Tweeds in bud and blossom. and
now that the spasmOdic reform has been viz
tually abandoned, we may shortly expect lust
such another crop, against which we shall be
more powerless from the Encouragement that
comes of this experience. The reasoning of
the people will be that II 30 supreme an effort
ms this has been to throw OF the rule of
thieves is 80 ephemeral in its Results, and the
city so soon falls back into the hands of its
plunderers, it hardly pays TO make it. It will
be long time, and after worse reoin,e if
possible than that just passed, before another
such popular uprising will be seen.
1t may DO too late 10 make anything moro
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-25

Of this Reform movement than has been made
already. Partisanship and self-seeking have
had their wicked way; the Reform, such az Ut
is, has been checked, and the indications are
that we are just poised on the reaction. We
have driven out gang of thieves and left the
Treasury door open behind them. Bnt IT is
not too late 10 profit in the larger field OF
national politics by the lesson of this COM
parative failure in municipal reform. Tho
events of the past twelve months-needless to
repeat them in detail now, but notably the
exposures in the Credit Mobilier affair and the
action of Congress in tho infamous Salary
Grab have aroused in tho people of the whole
country the same feeling of indignation and
the same demand for change which but a
little while ago agitated this city, giving rise
to the Committee of Seventy, and imparting
the impulse of Reform. The people call for
higher standards of morality and integrity in
their legislators, for reform in administration
and purity in legislation. and for general
uprooting of corruption in all departments.
The time is ripe for just such and so
general movement. But what shall be
| it's aim and its scopef Shall this fine i'm
pulse. of honesty and reform be expended,
as some of the gushing political teachers
advise, in simply "clecting honest men
"to Ufiicep Shall that be the end of 1t 7
That appears to be about all that has been
accomplished by our municipal refOrmers.
They ousted few thieves and put In their
places honest men, and that was all. Surely
the people will not let Congress repeat the
blunder. The reform demanded in national
affars is not merely the ousting of Back Pay
| Grabbers and Credit Mobiler statesmen, and
the putting of other men in their places
to be exposed to the same temptations
and very likely fall before them. II Is, a.
THE tribune has often declared, to take away
! from all public servants the temptation to be
dishonest. The disclosures of the last year
teach us not merely that we have been de-
ceiyed by those whom we have trusted, but
chat we have made the mistake of leaving
open the opportunities for cheating rs. The
discovery we have made is Of systematic de-
fects, not merely of individual derelictiOns.
| To punish the offenders by Withdrawing con
fidence from them is the duty of the people ;
to establish checks and safeguards against
possible repetition of the Oilense ia the work
of craftsmanship. The passionate impulse for
reform which sways the popular mind to-
day may do much to spur Congress to salu-
tary legislation but such task requires de-
liberatior, patience, wise and sagacious states
msnship, and the judicial mind
The danger is not that the popular clamor
will be ignored and no reform undertaken,
but rather that Congress will putter and
tinker with hasty halfway measures which
when the storm has passed will leave the
country just where municipal reform has left
New-Y York, with only temporary relief and no
permanent and substantial good effected. The
people will look out for the men; let Con-
eress take care of the methods aud make
effective thorough work of it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-25
THE ADDRESS or THE BAR ASSOCIATIONS.

THE ADDRESS or THE BAR ASSOCIATIONS
The Bar Association has issued an address
TO the voters of New-York on the proposed
reform in the judiciary. 1t comes OppOr-
timely, when the last OF the quaTelngs and
bargainings of the rival caucuses over the
judiciary nominations has just been settled
The Democrats of Apollo Hall, after taking their
wagon load of strikers all about the city, with
tho ermine trailing in the mud behind it,
have made trade with the CUstOm-hOuse,
and snapped candidates for the one office
which, more than all others, ought to be far
removed from the contamination of faction
and political chicanery. How, after all these
disgusting proceedings, the three parties have
managed among them to place in the field
such good candidates as Judge Fancher, MIR.
Lawrence, and few others, passes compre-
hension. 1t is merciful dispensatiOn of Prov
idence that the caucus dares not always in
dulge its natural propensities.
We must warn the friends of reform how
ever in New-York City that they will need to
work hard to obtain the desired change. In
the country districts the average character of
the bench has been pretty fair. Bamards and
McCunns are products of the metropolis
which have never been appreciated out of
town. The interior consequently has not felt
the Importance of change so strongly as we
have and ITS vote on the amendment will
probably be light. The struggle will be here.
The professional politicians will put forth all
their strength to prevent reform which takes
from them large share of the spOils of
Office and the people can only beat them by
a great effort.
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WITH SUPPLEMENT.

Il ia reported that the Count de Chambord will not
attempt to renstae the Pope in his temporal power
the Left the French Assembly viii vote for NJ Grevy
for President OF that body - great mass meeting
~ 70 DO held at Dublin in favor Of amnesty for Fenan
prisoners Much interest is excited in Canada in
regard to the proceedings of Parliament the Pacific
Railway affair
The National Board Of Trade at Chicago discussed
transportation issues adopted resolutions favoriDg
trade ships and reciprocity with Canada and received
d series OF financial propositions. GO Gov. Shepherd
informs anxious inquirer in Germany that
tho interest the District OF Columbia bonds
will surely be paid. %= Yellow fever still
prevails at Memphis, and has appeared at
cambridge, GA. - Ex-President johnson declares
mat he saved money Bis salary OF $4,000 year.
-=-s The UuIted States Treasury will soon begin pay
aug out silver coin. 80 The Crow and I &c elegatons
1T Washington had interview with President Giant
5000 The Philadelphia authorizes trying TO find out
why the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad pays dlyi-
dends
.Wall-st. flooded with rumors ana q heavy decline
IN stocks followed by quick reaction. The
r,fn0red cefalcaton in Lake Shore contrsdicted
commodore Vanderbilt settled with the Union Trust
Company; and the EewJersey Southern Railroad Com
paDy was said TO be insovent === union effected
between the Republicans aud Apollo Hail. John McCool
was nominated for Sheriff; for County Clerk, Jacob
Patterson: for Justices OF the Supreme Court Z L.
Faueher and Charles Ii. Van Brunt; for Judges
OF the superior Court, Alexander spaulding and
Isaac DAYTON. 60 Andrew i. Roberts and Valentine
Gleason the great bond forgers, committed for
trial I- stokes was cross-examned great length.
- ship broker has been arrested in Brooklyn be-
ing charged by bis servant girl with systematic
attempt TO murder his wife. - The Kelsey case was
given 20 the Jury. s== The Union League Club heard
remarks from Dorman b. Eaton on "The Judiciary
Question" - Gold, 1854, 1854, 1885. - Thermome-
LEI, 50. $50. $50. "a - - ST CT
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-25

Great teachers cannot be too guarded in their
congratulations. Prudhomme said that property
was theft and good many philosophers of imper-
feet lights have concluded from this dictum. that
theft was proper The broad statement that haste
makes waste is taken by the constitutionally de-
liberate as justification for never doing anything
until the day after tomorrow, while many a youth
full suggard on hearing that the early bird catches
the worm has nstnctivey put himself in the place of
the early nvertebrate and prolonged his morning nap
Butall these instances of decentralization nothing
compared with the effect produced on the Scandna-
Wan mind by an epigram which has wandered from
Plymouth pulpit to the hyperborean regions. The
Corlshamns 4iekGRdG in recent issue says unblush
Ingly: "Fins Diet ingenting hogre lara an pastor
Beecher's trosdogn, The accumulation ofaereen-
backs is she chief denof existence" We are thank
full at least that this dreadful aphorism of greed
was mutilated in its passage. BY the time it gets
into the journals of Kamtschatka it will be COM
parativoly harmless.