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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-23
The DRAINAGE Question.

, a. public meeting of citizens is requested at
this, place on Tuesday, November 4th, for the
purpose, Of considering the paramount question
of the day, namely, the drainage of swamp
and bottom lands, with view to the restora-
tive of the public health. The call emanates
from citizens of the Shutdown neighborhood,
which has suffered greatly from malarial dis
ease for several years, and the movers design
.etfecting the general object by securing the
passage of wise, salutary and efficient laws,
which will afford adequate remedies, on an
equitable basis, for the evils resulting from the
present condition of undrained lands. Other
neighborhoods, and in truth the people gsner-
ally, are vitality interested in the objects OF the
proposed meeting, and there should be a full
attendance from every portion of the County.
The preservation of the lives and health of the
people is u consideration of the first impor-
tance, and we are obliged to think that temper
ate and sensible recommendations to the Leg
islature must command prompt and decisive
action.
The owners of swamp and bottom lands
along Generostee Creek held meeting on Sat-
urday last, pursuant to the notice published in
our last issue, and agreed to clear out the bed
of the stream for eight or ten miles, with
view to the more efectual drainage of these
lands. Messrs B. F. Crayton, A. R. Broyles
and John G. WhiteGeld were appointed Com
missioners to supervise the work, and these
gentlemen have promptly entered upon the
discharge of their duties by making an exam
ination of the stream in its present condition.
The work is divided, under an arrangement
between the parties directly interested, and
the stream will be thoroughly cleaned out and
all distractions removed forthwith.
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GUANO NOTICE.

THE FIRST of NOVEMBER is near at
hand and to those that are owing me for
PHOSPHATE, I must urge PROMPT SET
ELEMENT, square up at once, as no extern
sion can be allowed on your Notes when due,
and the low price of Cotton WILL NOT BE
TAKEN AS AN EXCUSE for your holding
back. The money is due, and AM COM
PEELED TO HAVE 1T. So come up without
delay, as you will savo unnecessary costs and
trouble by so doing.
Respectfully,
G.. A. REED.
Oct 23. 1873 l6
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BsF The relatives of John Gilstrap, IA
member of one of the South Carolina regi-
ments, who was killed at the battle of Fair
Oaks or Seven Pines, can obtain valuable in
formation by corresponding with Rev. Nathan
B. Durell, Box 255, Norristown, Montgomery
county, Pa, or with J. S. NJ. Smith, Timmons-
vile, S. c. If we remember correctly, the
deceased hailed from Pickens county, and YVES
a member of the Fourth Regiment, S. G. Vols.
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IN BANKRUPTCY.

United States of america, District Of South
Carolina.
In the matter of E. G. EVANS, Bankrupt
DY order of the Honorable the District Court
D of the United States, sitting in Bank
ruptcy, all persons claiming that they hold
liens on the Estate of E. G. Evans, must ex-
hibit proof of the same, made in accordance
with the rules of the Court of Bankruptcy, on
or before the 18th day of November next, to
me at Pendleton, S. G.
w. II. D. GAILLARD,
Assignee.
Oct %, 1873 16 8
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The Great Atlantic Coast
FREIGHT LINE,
VIA
Columbia, Wilmington and Portsmouth.

T1HIs line is prepared with ample equipment
il to move with 10 delay whatever, all Cot
ton offering for Charleston, Baltimore, Phila,
all New England towns. The capacity and
regularity Of connecting Steamships at Ports
mouth is unequallcd.
Through rates given, and guaranteed Bills
Lading returned to shippers by agent W. G. O.
a. r. r., Columbia. S. G.
Consign all Cotton to him.
Claims for loss, damage, overcharges, and
irregularity in freghts, via this line, promptly
attended to and rectifed by addressing the un-
dersigned at Columbia.
A.. POPE,
General Freight Agent.
Oct %, 1873 16 I'm
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rha Southern Historical Society,"

The Southern Historical Society is soliciting
contTibutions to its archives and library un-
der twentyspecifc divisions, which are classified
and arranged in excellent order. The object
is to obtain truthful and impartial data from
every available source, so as to make perfect
record of the incidents and history of the late
war between the States. The headquarters
of the Society are at Richmond, Va, and it is
proposed to extend its membership and estab-
ljsh branches in all the Southern States. Gen.
Jubal A. Early is the President; R. NJ. T.
Hunter, Vice-President, and COL George W.
Munford is the Secretary and Treasurer.
Besides the officers named, there ia a Vice
President for every State, who is authorized to
appoint Secretary, whose duty it will be to
collect and classify information, including all
facts and incidents tending to throw light
upon the causes and the conduct of the war.
Gen. NJ. c. Butler is the Vice President for
South Carolina, and we notice that he has
recently appointed DR.. M. LaBorde as the
Secretary for this State. The selection is q
good one, and we shall look for an industrious
collection of facts and intelligent arrangement
of the part borne by South Carolina in the
great struggle. a vast deal of the pretended
history already published does great injustice
to many of our troops, and it is time that q
truthful narrative of their heroic deeds be
placed on permanent record, which can only
be obtained by careful research and pains
taking investigation, supplemented by the
active efforts and cooperation of the leaders
and participants yet living Every year the
ranks are decimated, and one after another of
those possessing valuable information is called
hence, which increases the difficulties of OBJ
tanning accurate history rs time passes away.
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asg- The proceedings of the Railroad Con-

pa The proceedings of the Railroad Con-
vention, recently held in the city of Chicago,
will be found in this issue, to which we invite
the attention of our readers. We will defer
comments on this subject until next week,
when we will publish an admirable letter from
Gen. J. w. Harrison, one of the delegates from
Anderson, which was addressed to the editor
of the Chicago Tribune and published in that
Journal soon after the Convention adjourned.
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THE MARKETS.

ANDERSON, Oct. %, 1873.
Cotton market quiet for past few days, with
downward tendency in prices, owing to decline
in Northern markets-one centin New York
since our last issue. Sales of 300 bales Mt
IA to ii! cents.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 20.
Cotton quiot-sales 200 bales-middlings 15s.
AUGUSTA, Oct. 20.
Cotton quiet and stcady-middling Is.
New YORK, Oct. 20.
Cotton dnll sales ISL bales at l6} to liz.
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pa The Due West Female College opened
on the 9Th inst, with larger numberof pupils
than in any previous year..
TO the Editors of Newspapers.

On behalf of the Anderson Farmers and
Mechanics Association, we extend cordial
invitation to the editors of newspapers in
South Carolina to attend the sixth annual Fair
of this Association, which will begin on We'd
nesday next, lasting three days. Brethren OF
the press will be furnished with tickets OF
admission to the Fair Grounds, OF application
to the Secretary, and we wil be pleased to
welcome all who may find it convenient to
be present.
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The Macon and Cincinnati Railroad.

The Macon and Cincinnati Railroad.
The Knoxville Press and Herald has the fol-
lowing item of news, which is very important
to the friends of the Blue Ridge route, looking
to Western connection:
sMr. Campbell, of Murphy, N. c., informs
rs that Mr.. Cowles, Superintendent of the
Macon and Knoxville Railroad, writes that he
has purchased the road from Knoxville to
MarysvilIe, intending to make it part of his
road. which is now known as the Macon and
Cincinnati Road. Mr.. Cowles has also ordered
q survey to be made through Cherokee county,
N. c., for the line of this road, intending to
use Coopers Gap as the throughfare and out
Let into Tennessee"
The link between Knoxville and Marysville
is that part of the Blue Ridge Roilroad lying
in the State of Tennessee, which has been sold
several times since the war, to satisfy the
mortgage of the State, but the terms of sale
vere not complied with. AS we understand
the situation, the road has been in the hands
of Commissioners, appointed by the Legislature
of Tennessee, and its recent purchase by the
Macon and Cincinnati Railroad indicates a
nnrnose to divert this link from its original
object, and make IL part OF tne ne" line pro-
iected by the people of Macon, Ga, to form
q connection directly with Cincinnati. The
completion of this project involves an absorp-
sion of the connecting lines beyond Knoxville,
intended to be made by the Blue Ridge Rail
road, and the control of the road between
Marysville and Knoxville, which has been in
operation for number of years. would seem
to be highly important for the friends OF the
Blue Ridge route. We are not aware as to the
complications and difficulties likely to arise by
the recent purchase of this valuable link in
Western connection, and would be pleased to
hear from any one conversant with the matter,
in regard to the probable effect of the purchase
by the Macon and Cincinnati Railroad.
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Mrs Virginia L. Minor, formerly Presi,
dent of the Missouri Womans Suffrage Asso-
citation, has notified the Board of Assessors Of
St. Louis that she will not make them a return of
her property subject to taxation, on the ground
that, under the decision of the Supreme Court
of Missouri, she cannot own money wherewith
to pay taxes thereon, aud because she thinks
that taxation without representation the sum
of all tyranny.
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BsT The Augusta ConstitutionnEst appears
in new dress, and presents handsome ex-
terror, while the racy and spirited editorials of
Bro. Randall give solidty and strength to its
contents, placing it among the most readable
of our exchanges.
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- There are now in operation in the United
States, fifteen narrow gauge railroads, with g.
total of 700 miles of track. The twenty roads
in course of construction will increase the
number of miles to 1850. The average cost
of narrow gauge roads, with the rolling stock
complete, is $40, 900 per mile.
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Look after your Land Titles!

IF they are not at home, perhaps you will
| find them at the Clerks Office, who is in
need of that little you are due him, for Re-
cording them.
JOHN W. DANIELS, c.c.P.
Oct %, 1873 16 Pm
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HYMENEAL.

MARRIED, on the 18th Instant, at the resi-
donce of the brides father, by Rev; J; IL, II. Nc;
Mullan, Mr.. WILLIE NJ: BURRisS and
Miss L. AMERICA SNIPES, al OF ANDERSON
County. ~. Printers fee received.
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ANNUAL REPORT

OF " II. NARDLN, Secretary aid Treasurer
Of the T0aon Council of anderson, shouting the
amount Of moneys received and paid out for
the gear ending Sept. %, 1873.
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Notice..

A Ill persous indebted to DR.. II. c. Cooley,
IN deceased, arc hereby notified to make
payment to the undersigned without delay ;
and those having demands against his Estate
are requested to present them.
HORTENSE c. COOLEY, Adm'x.
Oct % 1873 16
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Taxes ! Taxes f!

A LII persons knowing themselves indebted
IN to the Town of Anderson for Town Tax
es for the years 1870, 1871, 1872 and 1873 are
hereby notified that unless the same be paid on
or before the 1st November next, Executions
will he issued forthwith for the collection of
the same.
BY order of the Council.
SAM'L. CRAWFORD,
Clerk and Treasurer.
Oct %, 1873 l6
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
COUNTY OF ANDERSON
IN THE COURT OF PROBATE.
Mrs. MARY WAKEFIELD. widow of 1obr
Wakefield, deceased, having applied to mo for
the benefit of the Homestead in the Real and
Personal Estate of her late husband, all credi
tors, or other persons interested, will take
notice, that her application will be heard in
my office at Anderson Court House, on tho
Twenty-tifth day OF November next, at 10
o'clock, a. nj.
W. ". HUMPHREYS,
Judge of Probate.
Oct %, 1878 1G S
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To amount cash hand last report.....-....S 1873 90
To cash from Mrs. N " Dawsons Liccnse....- 2s5 00
To cash from T. J. Leaks License. 33s 50
TO cash from NJ D. Kenncdy's Lcense......... 800 90
To cash from Byrum McGrah's Liccnse-...... 200 90
To cash from julius Poppe's License. so 90
To cash from fines on Cattle in streets. 25 0o
To cash from License for various Shows...... 43 90
To cash from sundry fines ~ so
To cash from Osborne & McCully for pump...... 90
To cash from General Taxes for 2C20 II
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Any of the persons named on the above
Committees who propose exhibiting in the De-
partments to which they have been assigned,
will be relieved upon their giving notice to
the President.
JAMES A. HOYT, Secretary.
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MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES.
C0u,nnttee-J. N. Brown, N. K. Sullivan
John A. Reeves, B. D. Dean and John B
Mnorn
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-07
The diovernor,s nIessuae.


Most of the Governor's Message, read to the
Legislature this afternoon, we are enabled tc
PRINT in this edition of the COMMERCIAL, it being
forwarded to us by our correspondent at Dover
Tie Governor dilates upon various subjects
OF greater or less interest. entering at some
gth into a question repeatedly argued by his
predecessor in office-the origin Of the debt.
He knows OF no State where taxation
q lower, and thinks no material change Ia
practicable in the revenue laws. He re.
csmmends that commissioners be appointed
10 adjust the questions now pending in dis
pute with New Jersey that the law authorizing
the issue of attachments against incorporated
companies be repealed that all attachments Of
wages be repealed that an act Of incorporation,
(f asked for be granted the Ship Canal Com
pany aud that the State Treasurer's salary be
raised. Better accommodation should be pro-
vided for the State Library, and Secretary of
State, and an appropriation should be made to
p tut the Revised Statutes.
The prosecution Of the Levy Court officials, in
this county, engages the Governments attention.
and his allusion to them is somewhat extended
One sentence thus reads
''Until recently, the officers retired to have
"had no apprehension of punishment, il their
"duties in this regard were fairly discharged"
Upon which we truthfully declare that they
never need have. 1t was the deliberate disre
Of these duties, and the resolute endeavor not to
fairly discharge" them which compelled resort
to the United States. The Go vernon may revise
his conclusion, according to this fact.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-07
PERSONAL AID PARTICULARS.

-Wanted-The Peoples National Telegraph
System.
Captain Sutter. who discovered sold in Cali
fornia, is now in Washington.
Send in your petitions for Equal Represen-
tation. Keep the Legislature stirred up.
Nearly 100, 900 deaths from cholera have oc-
CURED in the Bengal Presidency during this year's
epidemic.
More than five hundred and fifty millions
sterling are invested in railways in Great Britain
and Ireland.
"A self-taught colored man named Alex.
munster, is winning favor AS a sculptor in Ports
mouth. Ohio.
Joaquin Miller has reached London. He
has new novel on the stocks, which will soon
afford fun for the critics.
Massachusetts made clear profit above ali
expenses of over $14 900 out OF its State Prison
at Charlestown last year.
Senator Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois. will
resume the practice OF law after the Sd of March,
the day ON which his Senatorial term expires.
An expedition to exylore the land of Basban
and Moab, under the command OF Lieutenant
Steever, United States Army, will set out from
New York next autumn to ascertain if Jordan
be really such hard road to travel as is popular
ly believed.
George Page, inventor of the circular saw,
and prominent citizen OF Baltimore, is dead.
The trial of Mrs. Wharton, on the charge Of
attempting to poison Eugene Van Ness, began
yesterday, at Annapolis.
Yesterday, the 9Th Of January, Stokes was
sentenced to be hanged. Yesterday, year ago,
exactly, Stokes shot Fisk. Judge Boardmarl
fixed February 2Sth for the execution. He
won't be hung, then.
--Ex-Mayor Hall, of New York, slipped and
broke his ankle bone last night.
Father Burke arrived in New Orleans on
Saturday, and on Sunday was escorted to st.
Patrick's church, by 10000 Catholics.
Missouri and Kansas were visited on FRI
day and Saturday by the ''seyerest Snow storm
known for twenty years"
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-07

| asVessed, and by the payment of taxes become
| entitled to vote Tho performance of the duties
| imposed upon the members Of the Levy Courts
and assessors, is enforced by official bonds, and
the assessors and collectors are respectively LA
bic to penalties for the neglect of their duties,
Experience. however, for years, has proved that
notwithstanding the greatest vigilance on the
part OF theee officers, the names Of persons will
sometimes be Omitted from the assessments,
and that persons having no property can defeat
| the efforts Of collectors 10 obtain the taxes as-
sessed upon their poll This is especially true
| of the negroes of the State, many OF whom
| have no fixed place OF abode, and from that
fact are liable to be omitted from the ASSESS
ment, or il assessed, are frequently unknown
TO the collector and can easily escape the pay
ment OF taxes against them. lliIHUf. .
Until recently the officers referred TO have had
no apprehension OF punishment II their duties
in this regard were fairly discharged. Our laws
prescribe their duties and enforce their per-
formance by adequate remedies. Aud here II
would seem their liabilities should rest. The
Congress of the United States, however, by an
assumption of power unwarranted by prece-
dent in the previous history Of the country, and
certainly dangerous to the liberties of the peo-
pie as well as the rights OF the States, has by
an act rendered these local officers amenable
TO Federal authority for the manner in which
they discharge their duties prescribed by State
law, and punishable by severe Judgments, IL
consieted in the Federal courts, for the neglect
or omission of those duties.
Court aud some of the Collectors Of New Castle
county, have been indicted in q, Federal court,
and one of the collectors tried and convicted.
These officers are necessary parts of our system
of government, and sseniial to the proper ad-
ministration of public affairs in this State but
it may be well imagined with what reluctance
persons qualified to fill them will consent to
enter upon the duties they impose If they are to
be held liable under Federal as we'll as State law
for the manner in which they discharge them.
1t is not stating the case too strongly to say
that persons aotuated by partisan feeling, may.
under this law, procure the indictment and
conviction, upon testimony Of doubtful charac-
ter, OF every officer connected with the ASSESS
ment and collection of taxes in any county in
the State. 1t may thus be the means of inter
rupting for time at least, our local institutions
to the serious detriment Of public affairs in the
State. That have overestmated the possible
consequences that may result, Il need only refer
to what has already transpired in New CASTLE
county. 1t is not my purpose to critioise the
proceedings referred to in the Federal Court,
or to question the motives of those connected
Herewith. My object is simply to call attention
to their possible effect upon our local
The Message here breaks off, incom-
plete. The remainder, (about half as much
more,) win be given in our issue of to-mor-
rnu
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-07
Philadelphia TopIca.


The number OF deaths last week was 371,
an increase of 145 over those Of the previous
week. or these, over 100 were from consumption
and lung diseases.
Both branches OF Council organized, yester-
day. VIM. T.. LittetOn WAS elected President OF
the Select Branch, aud A Wilson Henszey Of the
Common Branch. The new Board Of Education
also organized.
The Constitutional Convention roassembles
to-day, in Philadelphia
Washington Butcher, Esq, has been selected
as President of the American Steamship Compa-
ny. A good selection.
--Governor Geary has appointed J. Alexander
Simpson. Esq, Bank Inspsctor, in place OF
lhomaa s. Reed, Esq, resigned.
The pardon of the three men who were SEN
need to imprisonment for 80 yoars, for outrage
IN Miss Jarvis, on South Broad street, in 1870.
asked, and it is alleged that her story was all
"a put up job" between herself and Cardus
AloOrby. The latter was her escort, at the time,
sld WAS well known in Wilmington. Since the
outrage" case he was convicted of receiving
AtOCu pOOls
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-01-07
A Horrible Affair.

DRUNKEN WOMEN ROASTED AIIvE-HER HUSBAND
Is CARRIED HOME To HIS wIFE's CORPSE DRUNK
The Bel Air (Harford county, Md 4Egis says :
On Saturday night, about 91S o'clock, Mrs Nc
Connel left the house of neighbor to go to her
home. which was located in the yard of the Har-
ford house. She made her way there with some
difficulty having been indulging too freely in drink
Finally however, she managed to enter the door
and was seen no more alive. At the same time
her husband David Mcconnell was spending his
weeks wages with some boon companions In a
tavern close by. About ten o'clock ne was car
ried home drunk, by his friends, who found the
door locked on the inside, and no response was
to their urgent knocking. On looking in ct the
window the room appeared to be on fire, and an
alarm was raised, the door broken open, when a
horrible sight was witnessed.
The room was filed with smoke Of q sickening
odor, and on chair near the stove, the door of
which was open, charred and still burning re-
mains of the unfortunate woman. Her clothing
was nearly entirely consumed, and even the chair
upon which she had seated herself was in a light
blaze. Her limbs were burned to a crisp, and
from one of her arms the flesh was almost en-
tirely consumed. Her face was burned and
blackened almost beyond recognition, Upon
moving the chair from the stove, the dead body
rolled to the tloor-a mass Of charred and burn
ed flesh. The fire was speedily extinguished.