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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-09-17

Es- We beg leave, respectfully, to nomi-
nate JOSEPH COX, Esq, as suitable candi-
date for the House of Representatives.
BELTON,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13
Items of Interest.

Vanderbilt says he'd give 10000, 900
to be set back to thirty years of age
again.
A Minnesota man set fire to his barn
to drive out the mosquitoes, but he
hadn't time to get out his three horses.
The city tax of fifteen dollars per
quarter on all Chinese laundrymen in
San Francisco has been declared uncon-
stitutional.
An old gentleman died recently at
Allentown, Pa, who had been married
| four times, the ceremonies having taken
place on his fortieth, fiftieth, sixtieth,
and seventieth birthdays.
Frederick the Great kept an aid-de-
camp who had foot the same size as
his own, to wear the royal boots until
the were "broke in" Some times
when he wore them too long he got
kicked for his pains.
The great East river bridge Is still
going upward-at least the towers are.
The Brooklyn tower has reached an
elevation of over 220 feet above high
water mark. The New York tower is
1923 feet high.
A man who drove through camp Of
grasshoppers near Fort Dodge, Iowa,
recently, declares that they covered a
square half-mile of ground, and formed
living, squirming, wiggling mass,
over three inches thick on the average.
Wherever they camp vegetation is to-
tally DESTROYED.
Give me the boy who rouses when he
is praised, who profits VIII en- he is en-
rod onI rrha r,-I,a L. &c do
feated. Such boy will be fired by
ambition; he will be stung by reproach,
and animated by preference never
shall I apprehend any bad conse-
quences from idleness in such boy
Quintillian.
A deposit of one dollar per week in
savings bank will accumulate in five
years to $780, "a; in ten years. to S703.
95; in twenty years, to 81, ,974 S2-or
nearly 50, 900. How many parents, who
never saved cent, might have put by
a dollar a week to give their child
good start in life on attaining twenty
one years of age.
They tell of landlord in Newport,
r. l., who lately, wishing to get rid of
a sick tenant, threw several pals of
water upon the floor of room above,
and allowed it to run through upon the
poor consumptive's bed. Afterward,
when tie tenant had been removed, he
hoisted flag upon the premises by way
of rejoicing and to show his disregard
of public opinion. The tenant has since
died.
A good advertisement in q good
newspaper is the best of all possible
statesmen. 1t is salesman who never
sleeps. and is never weary who goes
after business early and late who ac-
costs the merchant in his shop, the
scholar in his study, the lawyer in his
office, the lady at her tea table, who can
be seen in a thousand places at once,
and speaks to million of people every
day, saying to each one the best thing
in the best manner.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13

thought sprang full-born into my mind,
and L returned from the door to Bed
ford's desk. He was SO miserable.
Bedford" l shouted, "what was
her first name? ?"
go, Agnes-Oh, Agnes" he gnashed
between his clenched teeth.
laughed outright in the face of his
misery. I squared myself in front of
the fallen man and plunged my fists
deep into my pockets. He did not no.
tice me.
"Ho, no, ho," I laughed again in his
ear.
"What do you mean, fool p he ex-
claimed.
"My wife's name is Laura"
"What2" Bedford jumped over two
office tables at leap and fell fainting
into the arms of my wife. She had
been waiting an hour in my office-next
hall door-and had heard my voice as l
opened the door to go out moment
before.
She jumped back, and the postman
entered the Office.
Bedford woke up speedily. The let
ter received that afternoon told him
why "her" letters had been scant
His blide.elect had been my sylph's
companion | Bedford is happy hus-
band, too, and SO a small romance is
concluded.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13
Rear Views of Pretty Villages,

The CongregationaliSt contains an
editorial article treating popularity
of American villages. People who
travel much by railroad are in the habit
of asserting that country towns are
all backyard" The CongregationaliSt
says
1t used to be the habit in the coun-
try, when paint was dearer than it is
now, and the ways of the people were
more thoughtful as to petty expenditure,
to paint the back side of the house-if
it were not left wholly untouched by
the brush--red, when the front and the
ends were white, because red was less
longer. Take the prettiest and best
kept villages of New England, and we
doubt if tenth part of even the most
pretentious mansions, and the most
ornate cottages, will bear examination
in the rear. Instead of being nicely
finished in all their petty domestic de-
tails and conveniences, and kept snug
and trim, with trim grassplots; with
all the subordinate avenues and garden
approaches well graveled, clean swept
and free of refuse, and everything
wholesome and orderly, theae is apt to
be look of general untidiness, as if
all the residual rubbish of years had
been dumped therein. Not unfre-
quently a railroad runs it's tracks in
such manner as to expose the rear of
plenty of houses to the eye of the tray
eler over it-whose sense of neatness
is offended by square rods of backyard
numbered up with every conceivable
variety of secondhand, damaged, and
invaded articles known to domestic
use, from horsecart disabled by bro
ken thills and wrecked wheels to the
ghost of the baby carriage which sur
wives two generations of children in
terspersed with smashed crockery, rusty
and condemned tinware, old boots, sar-
dine boxes, disabled junk bottles, hoop
skirts which would have outlived all
usefulness if they had ever had any,
chips, burdock, MULLEN, ashes, half
burned Jumps of wasted coal, and all
imaginable litter, trash, debris, and
dirt.
Were the traveller to alight at the
next station and take carriage to any
one of these habitations, he would
doubtless be charmed with the neatness
of the front approaches, and the " on
exhibition portions of these very
homes. the slatternliness of whose por-
tion not thus consciously on public
view had Just disguised him.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13
Cape Cod.

Everybody knows, says Boston pa
per, where Cape Cod ends, but where
it begins is almost as uncertain as the
birthplace of Homer. The boundary
line seems to be an ever-recedipg point.
Sandwich is commonly considered as
constituting the line of demarcation,
but arrived there you will hear the
people speak of going down to the Cape.
At Barnstable the cry is still onward.
The best way is to press on to Prov
incetown, and there you are certain of
having really reached Cape Cod. The
beautiful bay in which the village of
Mashpee is situated affords excellent
facilities for sailing. 1t is here that
the Crosby brothers build their famous
pleasure boats, and they or others
skilled in sailing are always on hand to
accompany you on excursions. Cotuit
is on the bay, few miles off pleasant
village, where several gentlemen have
summer residences.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13
How to Find Water,


Mr.. George Macy, of Ghent, was in
Hudson, the Star says, few days ago
for the purpose of finding streams of
water Gf possible) on the Joel 7. Simp-
son farm, this gentleman having re-
Gently erected several dwelling houses
on the farm, and being desirous of To-
eating wells for the use of his tenants.
Mr.. Macy brought to his aid the fork
or two united branches of peach tree,
the ends of which he clasped tightly in
each hand, and thus walked about the
premises in search of water. When q
stream was crossed the peach tree rod
would bend forward until tho butt was
perpendicular, and when Mr.. Macy
took a step over the stream the end
would quickly return to it's original po-
sltion. 1t was quite an interesting
sight to us to see the rod work in Mr..
Macy's hands, as it was the first time
we had ever seen this kind of mani
festations. The gentleman informed
us that he had found hundreds of
streams in various parts of this county
and in the State by the use of this rod.
and had never been disappointed with
the result of his discoveries of streams
of water, as in every case good wells
had been secured. The rod will not
work in every persons hand indeed,
there are but few who are gifted with
sufficient electric action to have the rod
designate where streams of water are
located. Mr.. Macy relates many in.
stances where he has been tested Sc
verely, but in every case he has con-
vinced skeptics that they were not toe
old to learn the fact that there are O
great many mysterious things in the
world, and that simple peach tree
possesses astonishing powers.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13
Product of CarbOnic Acid,

A French writer thus estimates the
amount of carbonic acid annually thrown
into the atmosphere. He calculates
the yearly consumption of coal through
out the world at 13, 900, 900 tons, con-
tanning about 98, 000,0 900 tons of carbon,
which he assumes is converted into
356, 900, 900 tons of carbonic acid. He
calculates the other fuels and illumi-
mating substances to yield about one
fifth of that from the coal, making in
all about 427, 900, 900 tons annually, to
which he adds weight of gas no less
than ten times greater, as the product
of volcanic craters and fissures, whence
he says it pours in torrents. If we take
into consideration the amount OF oxy-
gen abstracted from the atmosphere by
the respiration of animals, and also that
which goes to form The carbonic acid
above mentioned, it would certainly
seem that in parts containing little or
no vegetation we ought all to be poi.
soned. Fortunately, however, we have
winds and plenty of plants to dispose
OF far more carbonic acid than is here
calculated.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13
A Desperate Act.

A stone ginger-beer bottle. loaded
with gunpowder and nails, and with
lighted fusee attached, was thrown
lately into the bedroom of five brick
makers in a lodging house at Miles
Plating, near Manchester, England. A
loud explosion followed, the force of
which threw two men out of bed. The
bed, which was overturned, was set on
fire, but the flames were soon put out.
The only lodger injured was a lad
named Lines, who was rather badly
scorched. The five men who were in
the room are brickmakers employed in
turning out machine made bricks under
contract for the Lancashire and York
shire Railroad Company, and their
doing so is known to have given great
offense to the hand brickmakers in th q
neighborhood.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13
Shadows.

Did you ever look at your shadow
Stretched out before the sun,
And think what a fine straight fellow
You were when all was done,
And torment some slender shadow
By blotting the two in one?
Did you say, with jest and laughter,
80, love, it still must be;
The wife in her husbands shadow
Should hide entirely,
AS thing flung out of the sunlight.
Too sacred for men to see ?"
Did the lesser shadow resent it,
Or closelier press with thine.
AS often sweet little shadow
Has swept along with mine'
Now the shadows have faded together,
And the sun has ceased to shine.
New suns will rise in the heavens.
And shed as bright a ray;
But tho shadow that with my shadow
Had glded day by day
Is the shade of cross in the churchyard.
And it shadows all my way
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13
FlOOred,

A religious society in one of the
towns in Connecticut was afflicted, as
many other societies have been and are,
inasmuch as the pew owners had a real
estate right in the property. Some OF
them would not give up their right, nor
sell it, nor consent to any action by the
parish which could be legally resisted.
Here was case of tyranny. In free
republic oligarchy ruled the majority.
But invention is the offspring of neces-
sity, and Connecticut is its home. AT
a parish meeting of the society it was
voted to floor over the tops of the pews
and build anew. The real estate re,
mained peaceably intact below. and the
unyielding owners found themselves
literally Jloored.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13

letters were torn in two, and each half
placed in the stove, and watched until
it was entirely consumed. He receives
q great many letters which he also de-
stroys as soon as they have been read.
No one will ever know who his corre-
spondents are, nor what they have had
to say to him. He carefully studies
each letter he writes, after he has fin.
ished it.
His summer suit consists of an alpaca
coat, black pants, white cravat, and
straw hat with a black band. He
changes his linen every day. He no
longer wears the great diamond which
is generally associated with him. He
carries an open-faced cold watch
guarded with black chain wears plain
gold studs and black rubber sleeve
buttons. A plain gold ring is on the
little finger of his left hand. He has
"larceny" prison suit which he keeps
carefully hidden under the bed. He
has worn it just four times since his in
generation. The first occasion was
when be was visited by the Grand Jury;
the second when Sir Lambton Lor-
raine was expected to visit the prison !;
the third was when the Prison Inspec-
tors examined the prison and the
fourth was when the full Board of Com
missioners of Charities and Correction
visited the prison several months ago
during q time of considerable public
excitement on the subject of his prison
life.
Over each cell in the prison and over
each bed in the hospital is suspended
the occupants "tally." 1t is a record
OF his crime, name, age, nativity, re-
ligious belief, occupation, date of con-
viction, and his sentence. Over the
head of Mr.. Tweed's bed in the hospital
was tackled card bearing the following
inscription:
Conviction. by the verdict
of jury, of Misdemeanor.
"P." New York, ''-- '- = ArO' Statesman.
IL years and
November %, 1873 si2. 800 fine.
'''' ......,..
The "P." indicates that he is q
Protestant. In conclusion Mr.. Donohue
says that Mr.. Tweed has always kind
word for everybody, both prisoners and
keepers. and better-loved prisoner is
not on the island. On the other hand,
he insists that he is surrounded by all
the comforts that go to make life happy.
He does nothing but what he pleases,
and there are many men-Mr. Donohue
thinks, after his eighteen months ex-
perience-who would readily exchange
his freedom for such confinement as
Mr.. Tweed suffers. He goes where he
pleases and returns when he pleases,
and if he wished he could escape at any
time, and would be absent for hours be-
fore he would be missed by the prison
authorities.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-13
Personal,

George Ellis. the genial and popular, Of
literary dispensation. of smiling counter
ance and afable manners, ief: yesterday
evening on an extended tour through the
Northern and Eastern States.
For years and years Mr.. Ellis has been
established in this city in the news dealing
business. He knows our people, their lit
erary taste. He keeps the best of every.
thing, and sells at the cheapest rates. From
time to time he has reduced his prices, until
now his-rates are the cheapest of the cheap.
During his absence the business will be
conducted by Mr.. James A. Pierce and Mr..
Nicholas D. Hughes. These young gentle.
men have hosts of friends, and have the
experience of good school. They have
been with Mr.. Ellis for long time, and
have earned the confidence Of their en-
ployerc and the entire public. Before his
departure MI. Ellis gave instructions to his
representatives to sell newspapers, periodi-
Gals, books, station cry and all articles in
that line at the cheapest and most favorable
terms to suit the times. New York and
Western dailies five cents eachs All Illus
trated papers delivered at subscription
rates, but even cheaper and more promptly.
See No. Z Old Levee street, opposite She
Postofice, and No. 80 Camp street.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-13

Kepublican Central Clubs Of the Parish
ofcers Of the Central Ward Republican, Clubs IL u
this parish, and their time of meeting, recognized
by the Parish Executive Committee:
Norcross, secretary; meets at the corner Of White
and Melpomene streets Monday night.
second ward-C. + Glaudin, PRESIDENT: 4. freloe;
Baronne streets, Tuesday night.
Third ward-C. P. Ladd. president; ). ?. 7uilsu,
Fourth ward-R N. j. Kenrer, president; meets
on Derbigny street Monday night.
Fifth ward-J Lanabere presidents o. P Tesnan;
dez secretary; meets at the corner of Orleans and
Claiborne streets Thursday night.
Sixth ward-B. F. Joubert. president; Z. lama
and e trsanes l streets ss' Msdnesdsy night
., Seventh wald-C. J. Adolphe; president; y; 4
Perault, secreta.y; meets at ire cornes"s Osu'
Eighth ward-F Burns, president; william IN.
mis-. secretary. meets ss V1quhsft strest "eduss-
Ninth ward-Tom Carey, president; ). 6landin.
secretary; meets at the corner Of Mazant and
Dauphine streets Thursday night
Vile secretary meets On First street. near LhsE-
ty, Tuesday night
J. Mallsng secretary meets at the corner Of sixth
and St. Patrick ssxeets Monday night.
Twelfth ward-A. Anderson, PRESIDENT E. B.
Falls, secretary: meets 1t jefferson Hall friday
Thirteenth ward--A. Dejoie, president; {. ). Aa-
loney. secretary; meets on Cadiz, between Chest
Fourteenth ward-E1i Johnston. president H.
Powell, secretary: meets on Broadway street
Tuesday night.
Fifteenth ward-A. Dumon., president: Charles
HILL secretary; meets on vslette street. pear
Bounv Monday night.
Sixteenth wad-J. T. Claiborne, presidents
Aacray, secretary; meets at the corner OF Adams
and Anthony streets.
Seventeenth wald-T. E. Stamps, PRESIDENT F.
Deivel. secretary; meets at the corner OF Camp
and BaIth streets.
-. JAMES LEWIS, President.
3. ID. QcK1R, Secretary. ,iylA
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-13

A Paris letter says tina: N. Gnizos has
fully recovered his health again. He in
tends remaining at his county seat until
the end Of October. when he will take up
his residence as usual in Paris. He mani
tests very little interest in present politics.
The above paragraph was published -
editorial in the Peayune Of yesterday
morning. and We have no doubts Of its
originality, AS it speaks unresesvedly on
the position the subject o: the paragraph
takes in ''presens politics" Tho cable
statement Of NJ. Guizot's death 10 conse-
quently no: true. and the very elaborate
and well written obituary Of Monsieur,
found in the New York Times Of the ninth
instant, must be considered as premature.
if we accept the later intelligence given by
the PcOuuup
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-13
Yellow Fever in Pensacola
A Pensacola letter of the tliirtieth instant

1ChV" ECSCH Au CuS0COlAO
. a Pensacola letter of the tLirtieth instant
TO the New York ST." says:
Four cases of yellow fever. officially Re-
ported IN Pensacola within the last few
days. not counting the case of DR.. Cary, the
new quarantine physician. which has not
terminated. On the fourteenth instant l
had written to the SIN letter stating GER
tain facts. but believing that their publica.
ton might create an alarm which subse.
quent events might prove to have been
grOundless. withheld them. Among them
were the following: On the Monday pre-
vious three stevedOres escaped from quaran-
tine, came to the city, and were secreted
by their friends. On the thirteenth instant
one OF them died in a house near The main
plaza in the heart Of the town. I was in.
formed positively. but not officially, that he
died Of yellow fever. One case, however,
d0re, who, escaping from the German bark
while jill with the fever. died at Clevelands
Mills, about half a mile outside of town. l
was informed by the president of the Board
OF Health that there had been. up to August
ID, thirty cases Of yellow fever and seven
deaths. The number Of cases of death has
since been augmented.
The president Of the Board Of Health
has made startling, if not valuable dis
CoSOiys AC Gays tu0G WQe0 q p8tl0ut UlcS
OF yellow fever his 1.-THE patients, not the
president's) nails and teeth turn black! As
this assertion does not coincide with the
views OF some very high authorities on the
subject, this wonderful phenomenon may
be peculiar to the people Of Pensacola. At
any rate, you will learn by this that
the president Of our Board Of Health is
something of scientist, and how safe we
may all feel under his enlightened care. IL
is sincerely hoped that no more cases will
occur, but tour or five days of the hot
weather We are now having will tell the
story.
By telegram from Key West sent TO New
Orleans and thence by mail here, learn
the following: Four cases of yellow fever
occurred on the twenty.seventh instant on
board the United States frigate Ticonderoga,
in the harbor of Key West. Application
was made for their admission to the United
States marine hospital on shore, which was
refused Dy the collector of the port, where
upon the Admiral, Mullany, landed an
Al med force, took forcible possession Of the
hospital, arrested the attending surgeon,
DR.. Murray. and placed the sick men in tho
hospital where they now are. The Ticon-
der0ga put to sea last night. The army
surgeon at the barracks has inspected the
cases and pronounced them Enthusiastically
yellow fever: one of them has the black
vomit.
Strangers from Mobile report cases in that
town Likewise. but up to date none is re-
ported in New Orleans.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-13
Fred, Del BondiOs

"Of the dead nothing should be spoken
but good" need not have been written. were
all men like this honcred citizen who died
at nine o'clock last evening.
Mr.. Del Bondio was man Just and con.
slant to truth: bred in school OF honesty,
he ignored present pelf and population. At
the early age of forty.six years he has been
gathered to his Maker. His acts on this
earth lead us not to mourn SO much his
taking away, as to rejoice at his eternal
gain.
Deceased had filled many important
trusts; he had been the president Of the
German Orphan Asylum. the president Of
the Germania Insurance Company. and
president of the Germania National Bank.
In all positions he showed himself true,
just and correct man. A gentleman, he
scorned cant; philanthropist. he denied
no man his rights: man. he sleeps. we
trust. whence he came. in
1.-THE bosom Of his Father and his Cod"
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-13
SPECIAL NOTICES.


No!ice.-Office American Mutual Insurance As.
seciation New Orleans August IS, lS74.-At 1neet.
ing Of the Board Of Trustees. held On the above
dare. it was resolved that call Of FIVE PER
CENT on the capital stock Of this Association be
and is hereby made. in conformity with the charter
and it was further resolved that . meeting of the
stockholders be convened August 81. 1874. St.6:30
P. NJ. for proposed amendments.
BY order Of the Board of Trustees
A. L. BARNETT. Secretary.
P. J. SULLIVAN. Acting. au16 I'M
NOtice.-From and after this date Mr. JERE.
MIAH =. HOGAN has our full power Of attorney.
We solicit continuation of business Sav0rs.
sell 30 KEEP, GAILWEY L co.
Citizens Bunk of i.oufsiaNn.-Ata regular
meeting of the Board held Friday. the twenty
eighth instant. Mr.. JAMES J. TARLEToN was
unanimously elected Cashier. in place Of Mr.. J. i.
Delery, removed.
JOHN g. GAINES. President
Few Orleans, August 90, 1874 au3O I'm