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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04
Feeding and Fattening Animals.

Every farmer, who makes the feeding of an
imals IN important part of his business, ought
to know that their unremitting growth is the
only true and successful way Of treating them.
This is the course which the most successful
pork-ralsers pursue in feeding their hogs regu.
larly through winter and simmer, till they are
sufficiently fat in the autumn.
Many intelligent persons are accustomed to
suppose that poor animals may, in short time,
be changed into fat ones by stufihg them with
rich food. The more food they can make them
take in day or week, the quicker, they sup
pose, they will become fat and fit for market.
But this is false opinion, as experiments
clearly show. The overlooking is always waste
full for after all the animals gain but little
fat, and the owners begin to think that the
fattening of them for market is an Improbable
business
An owner may withhold the proper quantity
of food from his hogs and cattle, and ersh
half starve them for months, and then may
change his mode of treating them, and glut
them with excessive food, and thus hope rap
idly to put them in fat condition; but the at
tempt will prove abortive, as the growth of the
animals from the earliest period of their exis-
tence, and their increasing in fat and flesh,
must continue on without interruption till they
are marketable. Careful observations prove
that the profits of raising and fattening cattle
and hogs are realized only when they are reg
ularly fed from day to day, with neither too
seant or heavy feeding. Some object to this
mode of treating their animals. They wish to
finish the fattening process in two or three
months, ard think it is too expensive to con-
tinue it for two or three years. This would be
the case if their way of feeding was the correct
one; but it is not, for heavy feeding is not re-
quisite to keep up the continued growing con-
dition of the animals.
We have in mind an observing farmer who
carefully weighed all the animals be was fat
tening every week. To a fine steer he gave
daily four quarts of barley meal, and he found
the increase in its weight to be ten pounds per
week. He then tried the experiment of gy-
ing it eight quarts per day, and he found the
weekly increase of weight was less than when
four quarts were given. Twelve quarts were
now given daily, and at the end of the week
there was no gain of flesh.
These facts teach all persons who feed do
nestle animals that there is such thing as
feeding their stock so largely or heavily that
the profits will be less than if the stock were
to receive smaller allowances. When por-
tion of the feed passes away without having
been digested, it is a reliable indication that
the food is not consumed as proftably as it
should be.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04
Suicide and Life Insurance.

Life insurance policies usually contain @
clause providing that if the insured shall die
by his own hand the policy shall become void
An important case has Just been concluded in
the United States Circuit Court of Iowa
Charles L. Hogan, whose life was insured by
the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York, killed himself in 1871, and the company
declined to pay, on the ground that Hogan had
died by his own hand, within the meaning OF
the exception stated in the policy. Hogan's
administrator consequently brought suit, ad-
mitting the suicide, but declaring that the act
had been committed whilst Hogan vas ITEM
porarily insane" Upon the insanity issue the
trial took place before a jury, there being first
excluded from the jury-box, however, all jurors
who chad the preconceived opinion that man
was conclusvcly insane merely because ne
committed suicide" Upon the side of the ad-
ministrator evidence was produced to show that
Hogan had, in the latter part Of mis- life,
changed from an afFectionate husband and
father to one who was irritable and morose;
that he complained of pains in the head;
treated his wife and children harshly but after
wards denied all remembrance of such conduct;
and that, in the opinion of several physicians,
who testified rs experts, he was really insane.
Upon the side of the insurance company, this
change in his conduct was admitted, but they
declared that it was produced by a different
cause than insanity. They showed that his
family relations were unpleasant; that he got
into severe pecuniary embarrassment; was
defaulter to the express company by which he
was employed, and had embezzed five hun
dred dollar money package, which the com
pany was engaged Just before his death in
tracing out. Exposure being imminent be
Intellectually tried to borrow the money neces-
sary to make good his deficit, and finally the
superintendent of the express company uneX-
pecledly appeared in Hogun's office to inyestl-
gate his accounts, and on the same day Hogan
Shot himself: The jury, after an hours delib-
Grafton, gave verdict for the insurance com
pany, and declared, in a special hnding, 1:n tna'
Hogan voluntarily took his own life. A mo-
ton IS subsequently made for a new trial was
overruled. This case has an important bear
ing upon life insurance in connection with
suicide.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04
ssMore Bread and Less Cottoa.n
The Athens Watchman has the following
,nlIant advice IN the farmers:

The Athens Watchn,an has the following
excellent advice to the farmers: an.
Let this, in the future, be the watchwordi OF
Southern planters If our people now had
their corn :cribs; barns and smoke-houses we'll
filled, and had saved their domestic manure
(which, for want Of attention, was suffered to
run to waste) instead of creating liens to pur-
chase guano, they could snap their fingers in
the face of Monsieur Panic. 49,.
The great desideratum with planters has al
ways been plan by which to secure high prices
for cotton. Many expedients have been sug'-
gested-many learned essays have been written
many impracticable plans suggested. Not
withstanding all these failures, there is plan
30 simple, so certain and eficacious, that it is
absolutely amazing that it has not been adopted
long ago. 1t will secure the object sought,
beyond all peradventure-it cannot possibly
fail.
Let Southern planters raise their owt1 .sur:
plies of bread, meat and domestic animals, anu
let manufactures of all the common necessarles
of life be established in our midst and no
cotton sold for less than % cents! Planters
have the remedy in their own hands-it is
simple, safe and certain-as simple rs the
prophets prescription for the cure of Naaman's
ieprosy. Why vii! they not adopt it? Is it
because, like Naaman, they desire to DO some
"'great thing. ....... ....-.'o
So long as cotton has to pay for corn, bacon,
-four, horses, mules, clothing, agricultural im.-
plements, furniture, groceries, and even man
ure, it will require all the cotton we can make
to purchase these supplies-and under the In
exorable laws of supply and demand, the lar,
ger our crops are the lower will be the price OF
the commodity.
What profit is it to the planter to make
hundred bales of cotton, if it requires one hun
dred and ten bales to pay for his family sup
plies, including guano? Is it not infinitely
better to make but twenty-five bales, at Is cents
per pound; and his own supplies Whatever
the cotton brings will be clear profit. The
planter will then have capital to invest in mall
ufactures or otherwise.
This is no empty theory. 1t is we'll estab-
lished fact. Let any planter look around him
and inquire who has been compelled to borrow
money to carry on farming operations. 1t is
the cotton planter who goes "the whole hog
on cotton. From whom does he borrow
From the man who raises, first, his own pro-
visions, and afterwards, what cotton ne can
make Is not this always true7 No one will
pretend to dispute it. What is good for one
individual, is good for the whole community:
Let our Southern planters adopt the policy
recommended, and, instead of being "hewers
of wood and drawers of water" they will be-
come the most prosperous agricultural people
the sun ever shone upon.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04

The CorToN TAx.-During the approaching
session of Congress another effort will be made
to ret the cotton tax refunded It will be re-
membered that an equally divided Court re-
fused to declare the law levying the tax uncon-
stitutional, and that this decision has brought
the question before Congress-the only body
which now has the power to do the South jus
tice. We sincerely hope that the tax may be
refunded and we believe it will be if the
friends of the measure will work as they ought
to do. There is nothing which would benefit
the people of the South more, which would
afford them greater and more lasting relief.
The tax was harsh and cruel war measure.
Embittered by the struggle in which they had
been engaged with the South, the North i'm
posed this tax as q punishment--in order to
make the "rebels" pay some of the expenses
of the war. So soon as passion began to yield
to reason the tax was removed-but not until
it mad worked US great mischief. 1t is now
time that reparation was made complete by a
return of the money to the people from whom
it was illegally collected Let the Southern
members present an unbroken front and they
will get allies enough from the West to carry
the bill through both Houses Wilmington
journal.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04
Defaulting County Treasurers.

The following communicationj which ex.
plains itself, has been forwarded to the General
Assembly, and shows delectable condition OF
the fiscal affairs of this State -,r..,
" COLUMBIA, Nov. 25, 1878. u,
N the Honorable the Senate and House of
REPRESENTATIVES have the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your concurrent resolution
of this date, requesting information az to the
cause of Indebtedness of the present county
treasurers and ex-treasurers, Us shown IN my
annual report, and why they have not been
held accountable therefor. Most county treas
urers who appear on my books as debtors to
the State, are debtors, not by default, but by
n:settlement with the acknowledgements.
This, in many instances, is very difficult to be-
had. principally on account OF the treasurers
being charged with nulla 6o'sas, polls, uncoi-
lected taxes, from the loss or destroyal OF pa
pers BY fire, robbery and other similar causes:
In some instances it occurs from proper ana
correct accounts not having been rendered
by the county auditors, aud IN others where
treasurers have been charged Win railroad
taxes which they have been unable to COL
lsct % But this information is known only
bv the comptroller general; who has the set
tiament of their accounts and from whom,
and from the treasurers' monthly reports,
can only learn what treasurers are detaulters.
During the past summer months investigated
th,. accounts of those treasurers whom found
argc debtors to the State upon taking charge
of The books of the office, and requested each
Of them to settle with the comptroller general.
When no efforts were made by them to make
settlement ~ iI have placed their cases in the
hond. of the Attorney General and the solici-
tors torso Of their respective circuits. The subject
of sett,ements with county treasurers, however,
Ie,onos M to the Comptroller Generals depart
meut mems and as he informed me personally, you
viii receive from him full Information concern
ing it in his annual report;
Very respectfully, &c,
F. l.. CARDozA.
r...,,... c.t,.e South 10 ro1iua
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04

WHY TIE SOUTH rs PooR.-The Columbus
ENQUIRER says the South is p,.or, not because
we have less thrift or intelligence than other
sections, but because we do not wisely use our
gifts. The profits of our labor 60 to enrich
Europe, and the North and West. Though
cur cotton money amounts annually to hun
dreds of millions it rlust 60 abroad to pay for
almost everything we eat and wear Perhaps
hundred millions go to Europe, France and
Germany, for exLravagant dressing and fancy
goods, twice much more to the West to pay
for provisions, furniture, etc. Our agrlcultu-
raj implements are nearly all made abroad;
How much goes to Cincinnati for whiskey !
How much to Tennessee and other States for
guano, hay, dressed poultry, pork and Bologna
sausage? Why cannot our farmers raise poul-
try, and why not our butchers make as good
sausage as Tennessee or any other State
Thus in thousands of ways our profits are
borne away, and we are left without money,
completely at the mercy of those upon whom
we are dependent 1t is time our people we're
rejecting seriously upon their vassalage, and
turning their attention to ways and means to
prevent the outflow of money from our midst.
Let us encourage home production in every
possible way, for only by so doing can we hope
to regain our former position OF wealth and
independence.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04

IMM1GRANTs-It is a good time now to in
troduce immigrants into the State. The de-
mand for them in the Northwest is not so
active as it was. considerable number of
Germans, recently brought over, have just re-
turned to their native shores. The stringency
of the times in the North has thrown large
number of persons out of employment: They
are drifting Southwa .dly, attracted by the more
genial winter climate, and by the hope of find
ing the means of living here. Several have
gone up to Newberry and the Districts above,
and orders have been given to bring on more.
Yesterday, two German youths reported at the
Office of Messrs. Moore & Faber, and through
their recommendation, secured situations with
with Messrs. Monteith, McMaster & Co., in
their stave and shingle factory, on the Con.
garee. They were salesmen in dry goods and
hardware stores in their own country, but have
checrfuily gone to different work in this.
Eight Italian immigrants farm hands, also
turned up on the streets, seeking employment
They have not found it at time of writing this,
but are in negotiation, we understand, with the
same firm and with other parties. We ought
to have an immigration society or we'll
equipped agency at this point, to facilitate bus
mess communications between those having
employment to give and those in search of il.
-Ph0uir,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04
Mutton IS. Bacon for the South.

Could we not kill two birds with one stone
raise our own meat and improve our lands, if
we were to raise sheep upon our farms more
than we do?
know that mutton is not favorite article
of food with our people, but believe if they
would eat more of it and less of fat bacon they
would be stronger, healthier, and less liable to
inhammatory diseases.
can understand how a people living in a
cold climate prefer very fat meat, because it is
necessary to supply the carbon to maintain in
ternal heat. We know the Laplanders drink
train oil, and Russians will eat tallow candles
with relish, but cannot understand people
living in a warm climate making fat bacon
their principal animal food. Mutton is the
cheapest, most nutritious, and consequently the
most wholesome food We can eat l think it is
Liebig who says in animal chemistry, that the
prize fighters in England when in training for
their barbarous encounter, use mutton almost
exclusively never allowing the use of pork or
bacon. 1t is not necessary to present at any
length the other ideration-namely, the
value of sheep as renovators of worn land.
That is not denied, I suppose, by any intelli-
gent farmer.
Taking into account the small cost of keep
ing sheep, and the value of the wool aud
manure, the meat is evidently the cheapest an
imal food we can raise.
We cannot expect to see mutton introduced
at once as substitute for pork, but we may
hope to see it used instead of a portion of the
pork which we eat What I want is to mix
mutton with our hog and hominy-to find a
fine, fat, juicy leg Of Southdown or Cotswold
mutton on farmers table now and then in
stead of the inevitable fat bacon swimming in
its own grease. Then, the economy being con-
:eded, the sanitary advantages come in.
If we were to eat more mutton and less pork
we should be less liable to infammatory dis
eases, and less liable to dyspepsia.-Southcrn
H0,ne
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04
ASEcporE OF ABRAHAM L1NcoLN.-When

ANEcpoTE OF ABRAHAM LINCoLN.-When
the late President Lincoln was practicing law
at Springfield, Ill.,, he and the judge once got
to bantering one another about trading horses,
and it was agreed that the next morning :. at
nine o'clock they should make trade, the
horses to be unseen up to that hour, anu ; no
backing out under a forfeiture OF twenty-five
dollars. At the hour appointed, the Judge
came up, leading the sorriest'looklng specimen
of horse ever seen i'll those parts. In Jew
with wooden saw-horse on his shoulder
Great were the shouts and the laughter of the
crowd, and both were greatly increased when
Mr.. Lincoln, on surveying the Judges animal,
set down his saw-horse ard exclaimed: swell,
Judge, this is the first time ever got the worst
Of it in horse-trade."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04
Treasurer Sta e South Carolina

A NEW CLAss1FICAr1oN- gentleman who
has planting interest and who is distinguished
for his punctuaity in settling bills called the
other day on a merchant of this city, to whom
he was indebted and asked him to have some
cotton co weighed -remarking that he wished to
pay him of, as he understood ne 1e was allowing
is cents per pound on debts. 10 MS surprise
the merchant refused the M COTTON; AN eSplanaa- pa
ton being demanded, the merchant 1!s remarked, .,
beareetofore-middling, ordinary and inferior.
We now classify the producers instead of the
cotton. and the inferior article brings the high
est price Not belonging to that grade, sir, VIC
cannot allow you Is cents. ."-Athens Watch
man,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04

Low-NEcKED DRESSES. Roundabout" OF
the New Orleans Times, having attacked low
necked dresses, correspondent defends them
in this extraordinary fashion
Mr.. ROUNDABOUT Why is it that some
people will "sling ink" against, and seem
shocked ut the low-necked dresses OF our mod
ern bellies? Those "qull drivers" ought to
crawl into pillow-case and have ashes poured
upon their heads. If were husband or
father, or both I might so far sympathize with
them as to enter feeble protest against the
prevailing mode, but being only an unaccom-
panied p stray waf in this wicked, weary world,
+ am willing to admit-snner rs l ana pen
chant for dresses cut short at both ends. BE-
sides. the fashion is always accompanied with
the holy and tender associations OF infancy
As the countryman said when asked, after
leaving very fashionable party, if ne had
ever seen such sight before: "No," was the
emphatic reply, mot since was wcaned."
Yours, A.
Under which "Roundabout" "caves," and
saws "if low-necked dresses really do remind
the hardened sinner of his childhood, and
flood his sinful heart with memories OF lnno-
cence and home and mother-%hy, perhaps,
they're entitled to more respect than we nave
heretofore imagined"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04

The COUNTY PApER.--The ''little county
paper'' is the best read paper in the world. No
other contains the marriages and deaths. to
saw nothing of divorces and births; no other
relates the accidents happening before the
doors of the Villagers no other gives the time
for the next ball. pic mic or political meeting !;
no other discusses the affairs of the town and
county, the arrival of new goods on the mer-
chants counters, or of new hat on the editors
desk. Without paper, a town that has ever
enjoyed we'll managed ono feels indeed lost
-Erchdnge.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04

- The star life insurance agent of tho coun-
try is said to live in St. Louis. He is in the
habit of getting himself on to juries in doubt
full cases when business in his line is dull:
Then he "hangs" the jury until every man OF
the eleven Las insured in his company.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-12-04

-lS- s~--1. COLUMBIA, November 25.
The regular session of the General Assembly
commenced to-day It was mere tormallty,
of course, but the ordinary routine in the or
ganization of the two houses was gone through
With. The Senate sent to the House, and the
House 10 the Senate. a notification that the
respective bodies were organized and ready to
proceed to business. ]. P. Moore, J. D: Bos-
ton Simkins and Rivers were appointed as a
Committee on the part of the House, and
Whittemore, Smalls and Swails on the part OF
the Senate to notify The Governor that the
General Assembly was organized and ready to
receive any communication from his Exee!lency
that he might see proper to make: His Ex-
cellency replied that he GOULD not give his
regular annual message until the heads OF the
different executive departments made their
reports to him, and that he did not believe that
the said reports could be had until at least the
I'd of the next month, or ten days from the
present time. Thereupon both houses agreed
TO take recess until Tuesday next, the "a IN
One can understand how the House might
take recess, for that body has passed the bill
20 raise supplies and the bill to adjust the pub
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-10-04

The New York Herald, as an independent
paper, has no motive to give the farmers sin
lister advice, yet it says
If we are to have this desirable thing OF
cheap transportation 1t must come from con
grcss; for Congress only has the power to
regulate commerce with foreign nations and
among the several States, If the oranges
then, really mean business in their organiza.
ton against railroad mOnopolies, eXtortion
and frauds they will hesitate no longer in
bringing their batteries to bear upon Con,
gress. 1t is absurd for these farmers to talk
Of keeping out of politics. If they desire to
recover any great public right denied them
they must take it into the political forum and
demand an action upon it. They are strong
enough on this transportation question to
command hearing from Congress and they
should do it with the meeting Of the two
Houses in December next
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-10-04


The following patent, were issued from the
[. s. Patent Office to citizens of the State OF
Illinois for the week ending Sept. 8, 1873
Reported for the FREE TRADER by Alexander
& Mason, solicitors of patents, COS Seventh
street, Washington, d. c.:
Cutter Head for Modmg Machne-Johu
Alloway, Decatur
Bed BottOm-Pcter Anderson, Chicago.
Device for Sharpening Nccdles--Russcl ;
Barnum and Harry G.. Goodrich, Chicago
Fircproof Standardization Gottlict, Chi
CagO.
End Gate for Wagon-F Grundy Morrison
Vile.
Fire Machinc-Calvin j. Merrill, Upper
Alton.
Machine for Mining Coal-F. NJ. W. Price
Danvile
Railroad Cattle Guard-Isaac c. Tension
Roadhousc and Andrew Reeve, Pike Comfy.
Machine for Dressing Wood Rails-H, c.
Angle, Chicago.
Powder Fask-Matias Cilik, Chicago.
Sled Brake--Pcter Gable, Elizabeth.
Tire Tightener-Milot Jacobs, WinnebagO
Water Mcter-Fred T. ProsScr, Chicago
Joint Connection for Hollow Railway
Rails-Rufus 5. Sanborn, Rockford,
Cutter Head-Edwn Benjamin, Chicago,
Blind Stat Fastcner-G. W. Brook, Bloom,
ngton.
Cigar Mould-Napolcon DuBoul, Chicago.
Stencil Trap-James Semplc, Chicago.
Washing Machinc-Charles W. Shercr Chi.
'CagO.