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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

PLANT CoRN-We insist upon singing this
old tune again. 1t is perfectly disgusting, no
doubt, to our friends, the planters, who know
their own business so much better than we do,
but we like to be nuisance occasionally, and
so we sing, "Plant corn," by way of variety.
What we know about farming can be put in
one very short chapter, but it is long enough to
teach us that he who buys corn to make cotton
finds himself in the vocative when settling day
comes. Brethren, we have been there and
know whereof we affirm. We can tell man
who has corn enough to last him till fall from
one who hasn't, half a mile Of. The corn man
cocks his hat on one side and swings along
with free and easy stride-theres courage in
his steps and hope in his eye. The no corn
man has his hat pulled over his eyes and sham.
bles along with slouching gait and sidelong
look, as if he expected every minute somebody
would sing out: 81 know what ails you. You
haven't corn enough to last till May" He
takes the bray of any casual or lonesome mule
as a personal reflection, and can't look the
critter in the face.
We don't know any man who has gone to
pot since the war through planting too much
corn, but we do know many who have travelled
that road through an overdose of cotton. If
there is any stronger argument on the corn
side of the subject, we haven't been introduced
to it, as yet.-7slegraph and Messenger.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

Sand of the best quality for the manufac.
ture of glass exists in abundance in the Gulf
States. and several preliminary efforts have
been mede to start glass factories, particularly
in Southern Mississippi, but these attempts
have 30 far been of no avail for want of capital.
It would prove great thing for the s! South
could this industry be successfully established
in her yarious States, for the cultivation of
fruit for canning and preserving in large guam
titles has become SO general in some sections
that glass jars and glassware generally, arc
greatly in demand. Having the fruits and the
sugar, the South only needs her own glassware
to obtain monopoly of the trade in preserved
fruits.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

A. DREADFUL DEATH.-A man named Jen-
kins met terrible death in the great storm of
two weeks ago while journeyiDg from Sibley,
Mimi, to Rock Rapids, Ia. He set out with
mail. carrier at ten o'clock in the morning be-
fore the. storm began. 1t was not long, how
ever, before the binding snow fell thick and
fast and when thirteen miles had been travers-
ed the two lost their road and their horses were
houndering in drifts. They attempted to urge
them forward, but it was of no avail; and
finally despairing of making further progress,
they blanketed the horses, and after making
them as comfortable as possible crawled back
themselves into the hack. Their clothes were
covered with snow and their hands and feet
were benumbed with the biting cold. In this
way they passed the terrible night When
daylight came, the horses were found to be
frozen dead. The storm, far from abating, was
increasing in violence every minute. Leaving
the carriage was certain death, and suffering
all the pangs of cold and hunger the unfortu-
nate men remained within their contracted
quarters, fully concious of the terrible peril
they were in. Thursday morning found them
alive. The mail-carrier turned to his compan-
ion and found him maniac. The fearful
suffering and anxiety of those two days had
robbed him of his reason. The day wore on,
and Friday morning came. The storm had
partially abated, and travelling was practicable
Two men passing along the road in sleigh
preceived the stage, and drove to it. A horri-
Bile spectacle met them. A few feet from the
hack lay the stiffened and lifeless body of Jen-
kins, his feet and hands terribly bruised from
the endeavors to keep his blood circulating.
The carrier was found within the carriage,
mufled in robes and furs, and apparently
dead also. But as he was touched he awoke
from the almost fatal drowsiness. He was
conveyed to place of safety, but it was feared
man jenkins who met so awful fate was we'll
known throughout that part of the country,
and was an agent of the Ohio Bridge Compa-
nv
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

The FRANKINa PR1v1LEGE-It actually
looks as if that longived abuse, the franking
privilege, were doomed at last. The House
passed bill for its abolition at the last session
of Congress now the Senate, which has been
ruefully looking at the matter for many months,
has enacted that bill with some important
amendments. If it were not for these addi-
tions to the bill by the Senate, the death of the
franking privilege would be to-day an accom-
plished fact. AS it is, the House is likely to
concur; at any rate, it does not seem likely
that the two branches of Congress will disagree
on any point which would be fatal to the final
passage of the bill. This seems great victory
for reform and economy. But we have been
disappointed too to- often-we DO not mean to
TI.jbnne
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

throughout the Southern States. In North
Carolina there are numbers of persons yet held
for trial, mostly young men, who had been
persuaded into Joining the Ku Klux, being ut
terly ignorant of the objects of the order:
These young men, the District Attorney of
North Carolina is of the opinion, shonld not
be punished further than they have already
been by confinement in the jails of the State
At present the clerks of the United States
District Courts seems to be almost entirely in
dependent of the department of justice, they
being appointees of the district judges, and
only give bond in the sum of $1,000. This
bond is filed in their respective Offices and no
account of it sent to headquarters here. They
also disregard the law relative to reporting the
amount Of their fees to the department here
The Attorney General recommends that bonds
of such clerks be increased from two to ten
thousand dollars, with such conditions that will
compel them to comply with the above men
toned law, and that duly certified copies of
bonds be filed in the department here. The
case of the clerk of the eighth Illinois district
is instanced, the present clerk having held the
appointment for eight years, and up to this
time has failed to report the amount OF his
fees. The report further recommends the build
ing of o penitentiary in connection with the
new Jail, which is now being erected in this
district, to which not only the persons convic-
ted in the courts here may be sent, but those
convicted in the United States Courts within
convenient distance, and where there are no
suitable places for their confinement. The de-
fciency in the department of appropriations
is, as has already been stated, 100000, for
which an appropriation is asked. This amount
was incurred in expenses of attorneys, mar
sbals and other officers in prosecutions under
the law of Congress, principally in the South
ern States.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

STRANGE CAPTURE OF A MURDERER.-The
power of conscience and the unbearable weight
of guilt could not be better shown than in the
case of the man Caldwell, of Coldwater, Miss,
who murdered his employer, johnson, and
robbed him of 81 100, and escaped, leaving no
traces behind him. Last Saturday, DIR. Ritchie,
who lives at small interior town thirteen
miles from Codwater, known as Thyataia, was
on spree, and the murder at Coldwater being
fresh in his mind, he accused every one nc met,
in jocular way, of being the man who had
committed the murder. Finally, he met q
stranger, and, just being tipssy enough not to
care what he said, addressed the stranger in
the same manner: "Yes-you-you are the
man who murdered Johnson at Coldwater."
A look of guilt overspread the mans face, and
simultaneously he ran his hand in his bosom
as if to draw weapon. DR.. Richie collared
him with his left hand, and with his right
drew dirk from his pocket, and told him if he
attempted to draw weapon he would plunge
that knife to his heart in second. He then
commanded the man to withdraw his hand,
which was speedily obeyed, when, instead of q
weapon, he drew out the sum of 81, 100, which
he dropped on the ground at his feet. Mean
while 8 crowd had gathered around the doctor
and his prisoner, and the evidence OF the mans
guilt was by this time so palpable that he was
placed under arrest and securely tied. The
next morning the suspected man was taken to
the residence of Mrs. Johnson by, his captors.
She at once became frantic, and begged to be
allowed to treat Caldwell in the same manner
that lie had treated her husband, and it was
with difficulty that she could be restrained
from doing the prisoner harm. On the way to
fernando. Caldwell confessed to both the
murder and the robbery but gave no other ex-
cuse for the crime than the desire for the 81 100
which he had seen paid to Mr.. johnson and
deposited in the trunk.
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SINGULAR MonrAL1rY.-The Rev. D

SINGULAR mORTALII1.-1u uo AeC'' III
Amaza Converse, editor of the Louisville, KY,
and Richmond, Va, Cristian Observer, and
formerly IF Philadelphia, died at Louisville on
the 9th of December last, after four days
illness. The intelligence of his death reached
a relative of his in Richmond on the 10th, and
she communicated it by letter to another rela-
tive, Gov. Converse, of Vermont, then at
Woodstock in that State, on the same day
The letter reached him on the 18th, on which
day his wife, who was standing by his side,
after reading the letter, suddenly fell dead On
the floor, no previous intimation OF disease
having been given. The Governors niece,
Miss Luna E. Edison, who had lived for many
wears in his house, was absent at the time, be-
ing on visit at Burlington, Vermont.
A telegraphic dispatch was sent to the lady
whom she was visiting, so that the news might
be broken 80 her gently, but, although this was
done, in the kindest manner, the young lady
was so overcome by the shock that she became
unable to swallow anything or to Sleep She
could not start for Woodstock that evening, as
the last train had departed; but next morning
the lady escorted Miss Edison, by rail, to Wood
stock, the latter taking violent chill on the
road. Miss Edison, on her arrival at her un-
cles, was just able to kiss the lifeless features
of her aunt and retire to bed, where she lay,
gradually sinking, until the 9th OF December,
When she died Her mother, who was sister to
Mrs. Converse, ard had long lived with her,
worn cut with watching and grief. thereupon
took to her bed, and died on the 1st of Janua-
ry. ,
beloved ard respected, has been bereaved OF
his entire family. He has no children. de
was elected Governor of Vermont by Repub,,
lican majority of twenty thousand.-h'chn'ond
Enquirer.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

An old gentleman in Almanance County,
N. c., knows something about the blessings of
home and family. He has had four wives,
eight daughters and one son, seventy-three
grand children, four hundred great-grand chill
dren, fifty great-great-grand children, fifteen
great-great.great-grand children, and nine
great-great- -great-great-grand children. And
he thinks of marrying again.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

In Coffee County, Georgia, several gentle
men have gone into the stock and sheep rails
ing business. One man owns flock of sheep
four thousand in number; another has three
thousand, and several others have smaller focks
that are still larger than any previously known
in our section. The pastoral occupation is
noble one and can be made profitable in the
South
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06
People who are always complaining 9

- People who are always complaining of
their bad luck are generally those VINO have
done nothing to deserve any better. They
dawdle away years in the hope of making a
fortune asome day." by single lucky stroke,
and find, when it is too late, that the "'some
day" never comes. Patient enduring industry
wins more of the worlds prizes than the spas
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

- An old topper, who lately attended the
Polytechnic, where the learned professor caused
several explosions to take place from gases un'
der the water, said: "You don't catch me put,
ting much water in my whiskey after this. 1
had no idea before that water was SO dangerous,
though never use much Of it,"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

= The art of saying appropriate words in
kindly way is one that never goes out OF fash.
ion, never ceases to please, and is in reach OF
the humblest
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

- Because horses are used to reins, it does
not follow that they are Indifferent to wet
weather.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

WASdlNGlON, W. S'j O<]nu@iJ oo'
The Attorney General yesterday presented
his annual report to Congress. The report, is
voluminous, covering all the work of the de-
partment in all sections of the country during
the past year. The statistics of course are not
given on account of inability to obtain them
In such form and with sufficient accuracy to
render them valuable. On this subject the
Attorney General recommends such legislation
as will enable the department to make proper
and necessary arrangements for an annual re-
port of criminal cases coming within its juris-
dicticn. The suits lost and gained by the
government against individuals and corpora
tions together with amounts, damages, &C., &C.,
recovered, are given in full. Accompanying
the report of the Attorney General are reports
of ths District Attorneys in North Carolina,
south Carolina and other Southern States
whers the Ku Klux have existed, relative to
operstions of the Ku Klux and enforcement
acts. They all agree that prosecution under
both these acts has been vigorously enforced
durirg the past year, and think the passage of
these acts by Congress and the prompt prosecu-
ton of those who have been violating their
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-22

The Portland Advertiser Of Thursday even
ing says; Judge Virgin declined to modify the
Injunction yesterday afternoon, but upon con.
sultation with the counsel for the Boston and
Maine road by the Vice President, Superin-
tendent, and counsel of the Maine Central
railroad, it was agreed by the counsel for the
Boston and Maine that train number seven
teen Of the Maine Central, containing passen-
gers for the Eastern railroad only, might pass
the junction in this city to day without stop
ping, provided that train number three over
the Maine Central should convey the passen-
gers for the Boston and Maine, and that such
passengers should receive due notification of
the fact. Also that the Maine Central notice,
published in the papers, to the effect that the
Maine Central trains would not wait for Bos-
ton and Maine passengers should be with
drawn, and that Superintendent Lincoln of
the Maine Central, and Superintendent Fur
bur of the Boston and Maine should hold
consultation in this city tomorrow, in refer
ence to arranging details for the running of
trains.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-22

Appearances indicate that prices of bread
stuffs are not likely to fall much below their
present range until after the growing crop of
winter wheat is assured to be full average.
The severity of the past winter has worked a
disadvantage to American wheat shippers. In
Europe the winter has been unusually mild.
The Danube has been open all winter, and
there has been no close of navigation at Odes-
sa. The stocks of wheat in the interior rep.
resented by Odessa and the ports along the
Danube have been depleted by constant ship
ments to English ports, thus forestaling to a
considerable extent the demand for American
breadstuffs. In regard to future American
shipments of wheat it now looks as though
the prospective immense crops of California
will enable San Francisco to be successful
competitor in supplying European markets,
to the detriment of New York city, and this
condition of things may react upon Chicago
and the Northwest Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-22
Church DIRECTORY.

ORTHODOX CONGREGAT1ONAL.-G Oh.
State ST., between Bridge and Oak streets. Rev.
a. NJ. Evening service at O'Clock. Preaching
tomorrow by the pastor
SITS. Rev. A. V. Tilton, pastor; residence VIM
throp street, next house east of church. Morning
service 1890 A. NJ. Evening z. NJ. Preach
FREE BAPTIST street. north of Bridge.
q. f. Penney, pastor; residence summer street.
Morning service 1890 A. N. Evening 7 P. M
METHODIST EPIsCOPAL,-tresn street, east OF
State. L. Martin, pastor; residence at the par
vice foso A. NJ Afternoon $50 p NJ. Evening
IN I'M. Preaching tomorrow by the pastor
PROTESTANT EPIsCoPAL,.,state ST. between
Morning service 1880 A. NJ. Evening service I
Pm. Preaching to morrow by the rector.
mon Gaze oss"r Red sna ON M.ne
street. east side. Morning service at 1890. Sab
bath School at IL M. Evening service at o'clk.
Preaching tomorrow by the pastor.
UNITARIAN, Christ church, Cor. Oak and State
SITS. No pastor. Preaching tomorrow by Rev.
Mr.; Guild of Cambridge, Mass.
CAT1OLIC,-State st., north OF Bridge. Rev. MIR
OBrien, priest; residence near the church.
Preaching tomorrow by the priest.
Regular weekly prayer meeting every Monday
and Thursday evening at ~ O'clock. Mission
Sunday School every Sabbath morning at 9
O'Clock. Religious exercises every Sunday at
ternoon at O'clock. Rooms open to all.
The Congregational, First Baptist, Free win
BaptlSt ana MetnOuSt CnuIcneS nolu SOCIAL con-
ference meetings in their vestries every Wednes.
day evening, at IA O'Clock.
NORTH AUGUSTA,-M. L. CHURCn.-Rev. F.
W. Smith, pastor; residence at the pasonage, next
door north of the church. Preaching every Sab
bath at 1890 A. NJ. sabbath School at IL NJ.
Prayer meeting at ~ PM. Preaching tomorrow
by the pastor.
SOUTH PARISH CONGREGATIONAL, HALO
WELL.-Rcv. c. q. McCully, pastor; morning
service 1890; afternoon service at $50; Sunday
School lis p. NJ.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL, HALLOWELL.-Rev
q. NJ. Cousens, pastor; residence opposite church.
Morning service, 1880; Afternoon service, $50
Sabbath School at quarter past one p. NJ. Preach
ing tomorrow by the pastor.
BAPTIST CHURCH, IALLOWELL.-Rev.A A. r.
Crane, pastor. Morning service 1870. Preach
ingto-morrow by the pastor.
FREE BAPTIST CHURCH, HALLOWELL.-Rev.
Mr.. Heath, pastor. Services at usual hours.
UNIVERSAL1ST, HALLOWELL.-Rev. w. w.
Nutting, pastor. Morning service $50; Sunday
School $50 p. NJ. PRAYER meeting O'Clock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-22

The CENTAUR LINIMENT-has cured-does
cure, and will cure more cases of Rheuma-
tsm-stif joints, swellings and lameness up
on man and beast in one day, than all other
articles have in hundred years. One says:
81 have not held pen in seven months
now am all right" Another, that, "Cen-
taur Liniment cured a frightful burn without
a scar ;"-another. "It restored to use hope
lessly lame horse, worth four hundred dol
lars" etc. Try it once. It's a wonderful
thing.
CHILDREN CRY-for Pitchers Castora.
1t regulates the stomach, cures wind collie and
causes natural sleep. 1t is a substitute for
castor oil. mar1t-1w
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-22
GENERAL NEWS.

The leading belle and prettest lady in Bal
timore is the daughter of car conductor.
The practicability Of ship canal through
Nicaragua has been settled by the labors of
the present United States surveying party.
James L. Orr, the new Minister to Russia,
has been received by the Gar.
Washington has educated Japanese law
yer, who is going home to get up lawsuits be-
tween old neighbors.
The First Baptist church, of San Francisco,
wants the Rev. DR.. Lorimer, of Boston, to
become its pastor.
Mr.. Smith of Camden, after winding his
clock regularly every night for fifteen years,
has just discovered it is an eight-day one.
Vermont forgets all the hardships of the East
winter in jubilation over its maple-sugar sea-
son, and cheertully asks, what's the odds SO
long as it's sappy?
An immense shoe factory, with a capital of
$50 900, will be opened at Ripsn, Wis, by
stock company.
Sturgeon dislikes the prefix Crew." and
has informed his friends that he will send to
the deadletter office all letters to himself
having it in the address.
The unchecked spread of the small pox in
Salt Lake City, caused by the want of proper
sanitary regulations, is creating much alarm
St. Paul, Mimi, is rejoicing over its first
thunder storm of the season, which the Press
calls genuine, healthful, hopeful thunder; as
if Minnesota had any better thunder than any
other States!
The Chicago Tribune of Saturday says that
the Legislature of Illinois has been in session
eleven weeks and passed two bills, one of
which was adopted to enable the other one to
go into effect.
| A Maryland Court has decided that life
insurance policy is void if the insured dies of
delirium tremens, or from other causes pro-
duced by drinking.
The city of Boston has for thirty three
years supported its own insane, and now pro-
poses to save about lOO, 900 dollars year by
calling on the State, just as is done by all the
other cities and towns of the Commonwealth
A Louisville girl swallowed q horseshoe
nail, few days ago, and now she is allowed
to stay out of school, have pie between meals,
and situp late evenings.
Appearances indicate that the American
exodus to Europe this year will be beyond all
precedent, and will be limited only by the
carrying capacity of the ocean steamers. The
inducements to seek foreign scenes and climes
are at present very strong. Statistics show
az -.
TITLE cheaper than to remain at home, SO far
az people with plenty Of money are concerned
| sis Mike McCloskey in the ranks?" asked
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-22

The death in that city Of the oldest robin
on record Is announced by Troy newspaper.
He vas taken from the nest In June. 1867,
and 80 was nearly sixteen years old. For
ten year, be sang ceaselessly from morning
until evening. Then his pipe began to show
signs Of being put out. For four years he has
had ne feathers on his head or neck. and for
one year be has been totally blind, not being
able to .sse his perch, and remaining, poo,
bird, igsomiaiously ia the bottom Of his cage
He has always resided in the same cage il
= hich be was first confined.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-22

the commander.in-c chief, as the army stood
in line of battle. "Here, Gineral." said Mike
stepping forward. "Then let the engage
ment begin," said the General. That is the
way Mike tells the story
The attendant in the gentleman's dressing
room where frst-cass party was given re-
Gently, at New York, discovered that almost
every overcoat in his charge had loaded re-
vOlver in the pocket.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-22

Don't all speak at once. Tennessee sends
out word that she wants to hire a State Super
intendent of public instruction. He is to be
we'll paid, and the best man is wanted. The
Nashville Banner throws out the following
enticing invitation: "All hail, Mr.. Superin-
tendent! Tennessee stands waiting to receive
you. She extends her arms to embrace you.
Come and sit at our table and take salt with
us, and be the welcome guest of our Com