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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-03-19
An .ImDortant Decision.

The Charleston Ne,cs and Courier reports
an important decision in the United States
Court on Tuesday, 10th inst. In the case of
T. NJ Friday, a bankrupt, upon the application
of a creditor claiming under an agricultural
lien and creditors claiming under judgments
obtained prior to the amendment of the bank
rupt act of March, 1873, it was held by Judge
Bryan that the bankrupt was not entitled to
his homestead exemption against said claims.
II. NJ Thompson, Esq, Of Barnwell County,
on motion, was admitted to practice in the Dis
trict Court of the United States, and made a
philosophical and able argument in favor of
the bankrupss right Of homestead under the
amended bankrupt law. Judge Bryan, while
expressing bis appreciation and admiration for
the argument of Mr.. Thompson, decided in
accordance with his previous rulings, against
the homestead exemption.
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IN BANKRUPTCY.

In the District Court of the United States for the
District of South Carolina.
In the matter of J. W. Harrison, Bankrupt, by
whom a petition for adjudication of bank
ruptcy was filed on the 10th day of January,
A. D. 1874, in said Court
NNHIS is to give notice that on the 5th day
j. of March, 1874, a warrant in bankruptcy
was issued against the Estate of J. w. Harrison,
OF Anderson, in the District of Anderson and
State of South Carolina, who has been adjudged
a bankrupt on his own petition; that the pay
ment of any debts, and the delivery of any
property belonging to said bankrupt to him or
for his use, and the transfer of any property by
him, are forbidden by law; that a meeting of
the creditors of said bankrupt, to prove their
debts and choose one or moro Assignees Of his
estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy
to be holden at Newberry, S. c., before G. G.
jaeger, ESQ.,, Register, on the 31st day of March,
A. D. 1874, at o'clock p. m.
r. M. WALLACE,
US. Marshal as Messenger.
Per A. P. P1FER, Dep. Mess.
March 10, 1874 36
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Cheap Lands for Immigrants.

The tide of immigration is not confined to
farm laborers and mechanics, who are unable
to pay their expenses to this State. These are
valuable and important to the development
of the country, and meet pressing necessity
in supplying the demand for skilled and reia-
BILE labor. But the greatest results are to be
achieved in making the immigrant a perma-
nent resident of the State, which can be done
with every one brought here by the land own
ers, if proper means are used to make them
contented and welcome. Yet, there is another
class of immigrants greatly to be desired, and
which can be procured without much trouble.
We refer to those having means of their own,
now seeking homes in this broad land, and who
are waiting proper encouragement to cast their
fortunes in the South, where lands are cheap
and productive. The annexed paragraph from
the Charleston Ne,cs and Courier shows that
this class are making an investigation of the
facts, and are ready to act promptly, if there
is any disposition to offer sufficient induce
ments to them. This matter rests with the
owners of real estate, and we think they should
lose no time in giving abundant assurances
that lands can be purchased at low figures:
The interest that has been aroused through
out the State in the immigration cause is at
once remarkable and gratifying. But if our
people are in earnest in this matter, they must
not be content with helping the immigrants to
get here and welcoming them when they come.
Steps must be taken to anchor the newcomers
to the soil of South Carolina. In every county
of the State there is plenty of uncultivated
land, the value of which might be quadrupled
by offering alternate sections of it as gift to
thrifty and hardworking immigrants. At all
events, it is certainly sound policy to offer
small farms at a price that will enable every
immigrant family to establish permanent
home in our State A letter was received yes
terday by Maj Melchers from the Rev. Mr..
Neumann, stating that thirty families are now
in New York, ready to come to South Carolina
to buy land, if it be offered at price within
their means. Shall they be disappointed?
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For the Anderson Mteldgencer.
a Word 10 Tax-PaVerS.

Mr.. EDITOR: Please allow me small space
in your valuable paper to call the attention OF
all taxpayers, white or colored, to the fact
that the universal dissatisfaction which is pre-
vailing in reference to our taxes being so much
higher this year than they were last is mostly
owing to the acts of some of our County Off
cials. If I am not wrongly informed, our
taxes were (including the large per cent. I'M
posed by our County COMMISSIONER only one
half mill higher this year than last, which very
little difference we would scarcely have felt.
The question, then, is generally asked how it is
that our taxes are so much higher, in some
cases twenty-five per cent. and in others nearly
fifty per cent higher than they were last year,
on the same amount of property, and at this
time property selling lower than it did then.
These questions are readily answered by stating
that it is, in many cases, a very great over-val-
uation of our property, and that we are in
debted to our County Auditor, County Treasu-
rer and County Commissioners, who constitute
what is called our Board of Equalization, for
this very great piece Of kindness. In very
many cases this Honorable Board has seen tit
to change the high and liberal valuation which
was made on oath by our best men, and, of
course, better acquainted with the value of our
property than any of this Board, and have
raised it to the present outrageous figures, and
by so doing have taken, in many cases, almost
the last cent out of our pockets, and have de-
prived our poor wives and children, who have
toiled so faithfully to help make this money,
of the comforts and necessaries of life.
respect these men personally as gentlemen,
but feel that it is the duty of myself and every
other man in the County to hold up these Of
fetal acts to the public gaze in their true light,
giving them credit for all their good deeds and
stamping their bad ones with universal con-
demnation.
The law only requires that our property
should be valued at the cash selling price at
the time and place valued. expect to ask
public attention to some particular cases in my
next showing the inequality and unfairness OF
some of the acts of this Honorable Board, and
how far I think they have transcended the
proper limits of their official duties, and then
to leave it to the voters of Anderson County to
decide on the merits of these official acts, in
case any of them should ever be candidates
.osin. A TAXPAYER.
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The Palmetto Orphans Home.

Dr.J. W. Parker, the Superintendent of the
Palmetto Orphans Home, located in Columbia,
reports abundant encouragement to persevere
in the good work in which he is so deeply In
terested, and urges that a more general interest
should be awakened in this charity. It is GER
tainly meritorious and praiseworthy EFFORT to
provide for destitute orphans, and we'll worthy
the attention of every benevo@ent citizen of
the State. The high character and eminent
qualifications Of Dr.. Parker for the position
he now occupies are too we'll known to require
comment, and offer . positive guarantee that
all donations to the Palmetto Orphans Home
will be yightly expended. We will take pleas
use M forwarding contributions at any time,
ansf respectfully invite an earnest considera-
ton of the merits of this useful and benevo-
lent enterprise.
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- As the telegraph tells us that Senator
Sumner died from angina pectoris, there is a
general curiosity to know the nature and char
acter of this unfamiliar malady. 1t is form
of neuralgia affecting the heart Its name is
simply descriptive of its one formidable mani
festation-a terribly acute pain in the breast !;
but generally it occurs in that particular part
of the breast over the heart 1t is symptom
rather than a disease essentially; often a
symptom of disease in some distant organ, and
in those Subject to it" it is very apt to be ex-
cited by intellectual exertions.
- The death of Millard Fillmore leaves
Andrew Johnson as the only ex-President
of the United States now living. Both
reached the goal of their ambition by the
death of their predecessors.
Hon. John Ingis, one of the Chancellors
under the old regime in South Carolina and
widely esteemed both as jurist and citizen,
has been appointed and installed as judge of
the orphans court in the city OF Baltimore
- R. R. Bridgers, an experienced and sue
cessful railroad man, has been appointed
director vice president and general manager
of the Southern Security Company.
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APPROVED BY THE GovERNoR.-Amor

APPROVED BY THE GovERNoR.-Among
the acts ratified and approved during the past
week, we note the following:
An act to raise supplies for the fiscal year
commencing November l, 1874.
An act to amend an act entitled ian act to
renew and amend the charter Of the town of
Anderson"
An act to provide fence law for Anderson
County.
An act to amend an act entitled "an act to
charter the Anderson, Aiken, Port Royal and
Charleston Railroad Company"
An act to constitute the County Commission
era of Anderson as commissioners of health
and drainage, and to define their powers and
duties therein.
An act to renew the charter of bridge
across the Seneca River, in Anderson County,
known as Earle's Bridge.
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Meeting of the Cotton States Agricultu-
raj ConqreSS.

At the session Of the Cotton States Agricul-
taral Congress held in Atlanta last November,
ea motion of Mr.. Berry, of Mississippi, the
following resolutions were adopted:
Resotvsa, That this Convention, when it
adiourns, will adjourn to meet under the call
of the President on sixty days notice, through
the newspapers of the Cotton States, at such
time and place as he may designate. Delegates
composing said meeting shall be appointed by
the State Oranges when in session or in vaca-
ton by the Master Each State shall be enti-
tied to one delegate for each Representative
and Senator they are emitted to in the United
States Congress and the Masters of the State
Oranges, and that the State Agricultural So
ciety of the Southern States be requested to
send delegates to said Convention,
Resolved, That in view of making our farms
self-sustaining by sowing down one:third OF
the available lands in small grain and grasses,
and plant one-third in corn and one-thlrd in
cotton, we hereby recommend the Masters OF
the respective Cotton State Oranges to submit
this policy to the subordinate Oranges for tneir
adoption, and that the Masters of subordinate
Oranges be requested to urge the voluntary
pledges thereto, and report result to the Mas
ters of their State Oranges, who Will tnen
report to the President of this Convention the
number of subordinate Oranges in each state
that have pledged themselves to this policy,
and such information will be diiused through
the public press by the President
In accordance with the first resolution, the
President of the Convention has given notice
that the representatives designated will meet
in the city of Atlanta, Ca, on the 3rd of June
next, and the organizations named are urged
to appoint the delegates to which they are en-
titled. 1t is expected that this meeting will
result in much good to the farmer and the
agricultural interests of the South generally.
The crops planted will then be we'll in hand,
and the information as to the acreage of each
will prove valuable and interesting. The bar
ley, rye, oats and wheat will be nearly ready
for the harvest, and reports of the probable
yield will be of general advantage. Besides,
the progress already made in the culture OF
corn and cotton will not be less important to
the farming community. 1t is passing strange
that every class of industry exercises more
pains to ascertain the condition and prospects
of the growing crops than the people who till
the soil and can more readily secure this in
formation by concerted effort. The prime
object of the Agricultural Congress is to awake
more general interest among the farmers and
planters of the South, and bring about gen.
eral cooperation among the producers of our
great staple, whereby the highest good and
most certain profit will be realized from its
cultivation. Surely, this desirable object will
meet with the earnest endorsement of all.
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New Hampshire Election.

The election of State officers in New Hamp-
shire occurred on Tuesday, 10th inst, and re-
suited in victory for the Democrats. Owing
to the strength of the prohibition candidate,
who received nearly 1000 votes, there is no
election for Governor by the popular vote-a
majority of the whole number being requisite.
Ex-Gov. Weston, the Democratic candidate,
received majority of 1900 over the Republi-
can nominee Gen. McCutchins, but the vote
received by the temperance candidate causes
the election to be sent to the Legislature. The
Democrats have majority in the House, while
the Senate is tie, which will insure the choice
of Gov. Weston. Of course, the Republican
newspapers are attempting to belitte the i'm
portance of this victory, or seek to throw the
blame of this defeat upon the administration
at Washington. Some of them maintain an
omiuous silence at the result. The comments
of the different journals, regardless of party
affiliations, are piquant and interesting. The
New York Herald says the victory is au unu-
sual and noteworthy event, no matter how
small the majority, and that the authority of
the administration is diminishing in New Eng
land The New York Post thinks the Repub-
lican party is rapidly going to the dogs on
account of the unscrupulous character of its
holders. The Boston Globe wants new
and genuine reform party, though it thinks the
Republican party might yet be saved, were it
possessed of sufficient vigor and honesty. The
New York Tribune says the only effect of the
election upon national politics will be to set
people thinking. The Boston Post thinks the
result glorious victory, and the Boston Aduer-
tiser declares that it shows the waning power
of once popular leaders, and the unwillingness
of large classes of intelligent vLcers to own ale-
glance to party which fails to keep its prom
ises.
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- Mr.. Gaines, of the Palmetto State
Immigration Agency, has started the ball in
motion both ways. He is not only sending
scores of select families into this State out has
also arranged to send select colored persons to
the North to fill orders.
Gen. A. c.. Darlington, of Atlanta, Ga, has
been chosen by the students of Woford College
to deliver the Annual Address before the
Literary Societies at Commencement. 1t is q
good selection. Gen. Darlington is finished
Scholar and one of the most eloquent orators in
the South.
- The Vanderbilt University at Nashville
is said to be progressing satisfactorily. The
corner stone is to be laid on the 9th April.
DR.. Wightman, of Charleston, is to deliver the
address. The building is to cost 100000, and
it is expected that the University will be opened
for students by the first of next year.
- The executive committee Of the National
Grange of the Patrons of HusbandTy are ma
turing plan for the formation of q statistical
bureau in connection with the National Grange
for the collection and dissemination of infor-
nation throughout the country in regard to
the condition of the crops. The new bureau
will be located at Washington, D. c., and in
charge of Mr.. D. w. Aiken, Secretary of the
State Grange of South Carolina, who, as gen
eral deputy of the order, has been instrumental
in promoting its growth in many Southern
States. Subordinate oranges will report direct
to the State Grange all information of interest
relating to the crops. The different State
Oranges will report by telegraph to the statis-
tical bureau of the order at Washington. The
bureau will compile and summarize these re-
ports into monthly report of the crops of all
sections of the country, and will simultaneous
to all State oranges, which in turn will furnish
it to every subordinate grange within their
Jurisdiction. This information will not be
furnished to the press for publication, it being
intended exclusively for the benefit of members
of the order
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Sudden Death of Hon. Charles Sumner.


Another distinguished and eminent citizen
has been suddenly called from earth's scenes.
Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, closed
an eventful life and history at his residence in
Washington on Wednesday, 11th inst, in the
64sh year of his age, after brief illness He
was at bis place in the Senate on Tuesday
morning, but was forced to retire from the
chamber by reason of his illness.
We shall not attempt to delineate the life
and character of the deceased Senator, whose
record is part of the history of the strange,
eventful times in which we live. His early
and constant adherence to anti-slavery doc
trines made him widely known in the inception
Of the political struggle which eliminated in
civil war. He was faithful, tenacious and un-
eeasing in the advocacy of freedom for the
negroes, and was always looked upon as the
political enemy of the Southern people.
The epmity and rancor of the past, however,
deserves to remain hid behind the curtain of
death, which has closed forever over his mortal
remains. In the later years of his life, while
not abating the ardor of his attachment for
Republican doctrines, Senator Sumner has re-
linquished an offensive attitude towards the
sonth, and in the last campaign advocated the
cause of reconciliation and good feeling be-
tween the sections, in supporting his lifelong
friend and ally for the Presidency, who was ac
ceptsd by a majority of the Southern whites
as their standard-bearer.
His course since the war, however, has not
given evidence of any marked fitness as
leader of public opinion, and his advocacy Of
Greeley carried with it no great weight among
the masses. Besides, Sumner was never pop
ular favorite. Except in vigorous expression
of honest convictions and fanatical ideas, he
lad no sympathy with the populace.
Of course, his death is sincerely lamented
over tho whole country, and great honors are
paid to his memory. Massachusetts will deplore
the loss of Sumner in beftting manner. As
the successor of Daniel Webster, he has re-
tanned his place in the Senate for twenty-three
years, serving uninterruptedly through that
period.
The funeral obsequies took place in Boston
ON Tuesday last, and the immense gathering
from the surrounding country attested the high
estimation of Summers career and services by
the people of New England.
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BIue RIDGE Railroad.

The assignees in bankruptcy have advertised
the sale of the Blue Ridge Railroad, together
with its appertenances, to take place in Charles
ton on Thursday, l4th of May next, under an
order from Judge Bryan, of the United States
District Court. It is rumored that bill has
been filed to set aside the order of sale, which
will bring the matter before Judge Bond at the
next sitting of the Circuit Court.
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ns- R. R. Hemphill, of the Abbeville Me-

ns| R. R. Hemphill, of the Abbeville Me-
dium is an aspirant for military honors. In
the last number, he says: "We would under
take to manage the military branch of our
government for our victuals and clothes, and
twenty-five cents day" Let us have an
election for Adjutant and Inspector General at
once, and fill the vacancy with patriotic "Bob''
Hemphill, the commandant of Fort Pickens.
He is equal to the emergency, and will render
the State valiant service, in cutting down ex-
penses and cashiering incompetent officers.
Hurrah for Bob!
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Over-Exertion, either of body or mind, pro-
is to take some stimulant, the effect of which is
the same as giving a tired horse the whip in
stead of oats. The true way is to fortify the
system with permanent tonic like the Peru
Wan Syrup, Ia protoxide of Iron,) which gives
strength and vigor to the whole system.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

ms~ One of the first business principles to
act upon, is to make all purchases direct from
the manufacturers, thus saving large sums OF
money. For this reason we advise our readers
to purchase their Windows, Doors, Blinds,
&C., from Messrs. I. ii. HALL 81 Co., Charles
ton, S. c., who have at the Factories, combined
benefits derived from materials in first hands,
skilled workmen, latest improved machinery,
and thorough systematic management. All
windows glazed with good clear glass. They
are also Agents for Asbestos Roofing Felt.
Try it and you will be pleased with its dura-
biity. Send for price list, circulars, &c.
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sHERIFF'S SALE

BY virtue of an Execution to me directed.
will expose to sale on the FIRST MONDAY
in APRIL next, at Anderson G. f.,
ONE TRACT OF LAND,
Containing 127 Acres, more or less, situate in
Anderson County, on the line of the Blue
Ridge Railroad, bounding lands of Mrs. Nc
Murtry, Thos. L. Reed and others, levied on
as the property of II. l.. McGill, at the suit of
Thomas B Palmer.
Terms Cash-purchaser to pay for papers.
VIM. McGUKIN, Sheriff.
March 10, 1874 IS
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To J. 81. MARTIN, Defendant in this action:
VOU are hereby summoned and required to
L answer the complaint in this action, which
is filed in the Office of the Clerk of the Court Of
Common Pleas for the said County, and to
serve copy of your answer on the subscribers
at their office, at Anderson Court House, with
in twenty days after the service of this sum-
mons on you, exclusive of the day of service.
If you fail to answer this complaint within
the time aforesaid, the plaintiff will take judg-
ment against you for the sum of One Hundred
and Fifty Dollars, with interest at the rate Of
seven per cent. per annum from the 2sth day
of December. one thousand eight hundred and
seventy, and costs.
Dated, February 2Sth, 1874.
REED & ORR,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.