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The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-27

NEW ORLEANS CATHOLIC TOTAL ABSr1-
NENCE ASSOCIA TON. In consequence of the
celebration of Father Mathews Day, October Hth
the regular monthly meeting of this Association viii
be held on the FIRST SUNDAY OF OCTOBER tthe
4thl, ESQ NJ, in tine Star Hall. Every member is
expected to be punetual Ia attendance.
Gentlemen wishing join the Association are invited
to attend. -
THOS. G. RAPIER, President
D. H. BUCKLEY, Secretary. se27 ct
ST. PETERS CATHOLIC TOTAL ABSTINENCE
SOCIETY.-A special meeting of this Society will be
held THIS Sunday EVENING, ut Il O'Clock, in the
Schoolhouse Mariguy street. between Greatmen and
Casacalvo Streets
Gentlemen wishing to join the Society invited to
attend. r. H hartley, President.
YOUNG MEMS CA lHoLIC TOTAL ABSTINENCE
ASSoCIATION.-An adjourned meeting of this Asso.
citation will be held in the Star Hall Poydras street.
corner of Camp, TO- DAY Sunday at o'clock Bust
of importance will be transacted at this meeting
Gentlemen between the ages of seventeen and thirty,
DESTROYS of becoming mem bers invited to attend.
II. j. HART. President.
T r. ADAMS Secretary. se27l
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The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-09-27

OFFICE OF NEW ORLEANS HOMESTEAD ASSOCIATION, }
iio Poydras street, corner Of Camp, :
September 25 1874.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22
The Labor Question.

There is probably no question which can IN
terest the Southern people, of greater moment
than the question of labor, present and to come
It is one with which our future prosperity as q
people is intimately associated. The general
public might think it one in which our farmers
alone are interested, but it has much deeper
and wider signfince. The prosperity OF every
branch of our industry is involved in its so!u-
ton, for everything is directly or indirectly in
yolyed in the success or failure OF the farmer
or planter. Under these circumstances it is
one which we approach with very great caution,
and vet it is one which our people would dc
we'll to consider.
Our farming system has been uprooted by the
results of the war, and yet many of our. best
farmers have endeavored to carry out the same
plans of agriculture which were characters
tic of Southern farming before the war This
was, among others, plan, so speak, tor devas-
tating the country by cutting down our forests,
wearing out the land, and allowing our worn
out fields to grow up into brambles and pines.
This we could afford under our old system OF
labor but under the changed system OF labor
all must be changed. =,
Labor is cheaper now than it was before the
war. but it is almost entirely uncomfortable
What we want is more labor, better labor, more
reliable labor. This can be properly regulated
through the Grange order, and if our Grangers
will take hold properly of this subject they will
be surprised at the readiness with whlch prop
er solution can be reached. When we have
time we will have something more to say on
this svbiect.- Charlotte Observer
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22
De Mailer, the Famous Pedestrian.

Many of our readers will remember De
Mailer, the most indefatigable walkist on the
face of the globe, who was in Anderson three
or four years ago, and whose adventures were
sketched in these columns at the time His
singular fancy seems not to have forsaken him,
as will appear by the following extract from
the St. Louis Democrat, giving an account of
his whereabouts, and touching upon prominent
points in the history of this wonderful adven-
turer:
He has passed Atlanta, Ca, and gone to To-
peka, Kansas-De Mahler-a man who has
travelled around the world and all over it on
foot. He walks fo- pleasure. Sometimes a
waroner on the road accosts him with,
'Stranger, want a lftY" He always replies,
''No rather walk" and some miles on he
passes the home Of the WAGNER, who by this
time has his wife and children out to look at
the man who had rather walk than ride. De
Mailer goes trudging on, like the Wandering
Jew. He has put 10000 miles behind him
since 1862 and has acquired such momentum
now that ne can't stop. He must walk to be
happy. Of course he stops sometimes for rest
and refreshment and sleep, but tits only halt.
An Atlanta editor took De Mailer to his house
and cot some particulars Of his walks in life
out of him.
De Mailer is virginian. He has estates
that yield him such an income as enables him
to go where he pleases and enjoy himself in
his own way. He was wounded in the begin
n;np ,,;1 20 Of our war; and when his wound healed
he vas bent nearly double and was totally un.
able to walk. He was rolled up almost like
that being which turns itself into ball and
wheels from place to place. He went to Paris
to get Strengthened out. The surgeons opera
ted upon him; after fair trial, they couldn't
make his head and feet stay at their respective
ends of the man. At length they told him
that nothing could effectually cure him but
walking, persistent walking. He resolved to
try it. He told his doctor that he was going
to walk out of Paris and leave France on foot.
His doctor told him he was crazy. lie, how
ever commenced the journey, and made only
1O4 yards from his lodgings the first day, with
the aid of a stick The doctor tended him two
weeks on his trip, that is, until he got out of
Paris. He had then begun to improve, and
was filled with a glorious hope. He put his
whole soul into his walk. in a month he was
on the sunny slopes of the Pyrenees, and had
begun to straighten up like man. He walked
on, and on, and on, and on. At length he was
entirely cured and strobe with firm tread.
Thus he walked along the world and across it,
and became intensely interested III his travels.
He sailed across the seas but walked the decks
of vessels in order to keep his foot in. On
land he seems to walk as naturally as the
winds blow and the streams flow, and now he
can't stop. He makes pencil sketches of the
best scenes, and remembers every place he has
been in, and the name of somebody he met and
talked to. He is thoroughly cured of his war
wounds, but many lazy people might think
that the cure is worse than the original infic-
ton.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22

The DUTY OF THE PRESENT TIME.-The
candidacy of Judge Green is matter of neces-
sity, and the propriety of every honest conser-
vative in the State, casting his vote for him,
follows as matter of course.
Let the people bear in mind one fact, that
every honest man who stays away from the
polls, and fails to give his vote for Green, does
in effect, throw the weight of his vote for
Chamberlain.
The issue is between honesty and dishonesty,
nothing more, nothing less The Conservative
party accept Green as the representative of
honesty. The Conservative party denounces
Chamberlain, as the representative of Bond
Ring, which means dishonesty.
Now let honest men decide which they shall
chose. # he stays athomae he closes not to oppose
dishonesty. Can any sensible, honest man do
that? The question Of Civil Rights has moth
ing To do with it. Will farmer refuse to
sow his wheat, because the rain may fall at
harvest time next summer He has present
duty to perform. Let him cast his vote, {; he
would sow his seed. God will take care of the
harvest season. GreenviNe Enterprise and
Mou1ataineer.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22
A Pennsylvania Romance.

Two farmers living on adjoining farms in Gil
rard township, Erie county, have for years been
unfriendly on account of the disagreement
about the line fences which separated their
lands both claiming the ten feet which was
formerly the lane running between the Two
places. Their children have grown up inheriting
their parents animosity, and their eldest sons
have several times been subpeuaed as witness
in lawsuits which have grown out of this diff
Guilty. Tie case had been, sort of suit IN
chancery, having run on from year to year, both
men spending their money in lawyers tees
without any legal conclusion.
Abont a year ago the two farmers awokc on
Monday morning to find that each had lost
child, one his youngest son, and the other his
only daughter Like the houses of Montague
and Capulet, in "Romeo and Juliet" the sci
ons of the two rival houses had secretly
cherished fondness for one another, and
knowing the feud between the families, with
out divuging their passions or intentions they
met clandestinely and carried into effect the
elopement -, -,
father of the runaway daughter was called on
to 90 to Erie and attend again to the everIast-
ing lawsuit. He went in early to the Office OF
the lawyer, and, taking up one of the weekly
Aio~ASS "
It was terrible blow, and he went out into
the yard to try and walk off his excitement.
All that passed through the old gentleman's
mind is not known, but there seemed to be
desperate struggle within, which resulted IN
his returning to the lawyers office and post
poning the business Then he drove directly
to his farm and had a long private interview
with his wife; then he did what he had not
done for twenty years--went over and called
on his enemy. He was found sick, having
been confined to his room since the abandon
ment of his favorte son. Both the two farm
ers met, and both for few minutes stood face
to face in profound silence. ,-
At length the father of Emma spoke; Il
have come to settle the dispute; let the child,
rem have the lot on either side of the lane, and
I will build them house"
"And l will funish it," So the rccreant
children were sent for and forgivcae land came
home to receive their parents blessing. And
now there are no more lawyers for the two
farmers, but each has faithfully fulfilled his
contract in regard to his house and furniture.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22
Incidents of an Aged Pilgrims Life-Bro.
Thomas Dawson.

Brother Dawson's great grandfather was a
member of Ashford Church, in Kent, England
the same to which Ann Aiken belonged, who
was burnt at the stake for being Baptist du-
ring the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Brother D. traces his lineage back hun
dred and fifty years, and can tell many Incl
dents of olden times He is the oldest Baptist
preacher in the State now, being eighty-five
wears of age. He belonged to Il British reg
iment that fought in the battle of Waterloo,
and was baptized by Daniel Mile in Portsea,
Hampshire, on the 1st of October, 1915. He
has seen the large fonts in which the English
church in ancient days immersed all infants
except those certified to be sick, and they were
poured. He came to New York in 1878 and
was soon afterward sent by the American
Triennial Convention, of whose Executive
Committee Luther Rice was then member,
as missionary to the Cherokee Indians. After
remaining several years with the red men, he
came to South Carolina, where he found
churches thinly located and the Baptists gen.
orally poor and illiterate. With them, howev-
er, he cast his lot, and has lived in various por-
tions of the State and been honored as Moder-
ator of several different Associations. He has
lived through several decades, and has seen all
the friends and associates of early years enter
the shadOwy columns CnaC marcn IN sOlemu
silence to the mystic shore, and the country
gradually filled with churches, and the once
feeble denomination reaching forth its arms of
influence until its mighty power has been es-
tablished over the land.
The present nor future generations will ever
appreciate the sacrifices and self-denals en-
dured by our forefathers in Israel in their tolls
to give an unadulterated Gospel to a cursed
world. AS an illustration of these sacrifices,
Brother Dawson labored for one church twelve
months and received three-fourths of yard of
woolen homespun for vest, one yard of blue
checked cotton homespun for his wife's apron
and silver half-dollar for his salary.
Brother Dawson seems to enjoy good health
and fine flow of spirits, and we trust will be
spared many years to linger on the earthly
shore and comfort and encourage his brethren.
-Working Christian.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22

the one place white labor is doing the bulk of
the work; in the other the black man. Time
will demonstrate whether, with such small
minority of labor, the whites, even with all
their agricultural advantages and all the profit
likely to accrue therefrom, can, without acces-
sions, maintain the crop at the present stan
dard. and establish basis of calculation on
which the capitalist and manufacturer may
safely count his gains.
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Where the ballots of the negro are thrown
without intelligence and under the influence
of false and wicked representations and where
the race can thus insensibly exercise control in
public affairs, it is impossible for a good gov
ernment to exist. A bad man from the North
may come here, proclaim himself a radical,
and in three months so far win the confidence
of these ignorant people as that they will fol-
low his advice blindy TO the pistol point. The
love for the old master is forgotten, all the
benefits of past or present life are ignored and
for no other reason than that this man is be-
lieved by them to represent what they call lib
erty, and, bad as he may be, they will obey his
voice as if he were an autocrat, and do his
bidding like slaves. 1t is for this reason that
the people of the South never have been able
to make political headway with the negroes,
and even as republicans have been thrown
aside for the carpet-bagger and thief. 1t IS
only little while ago that the race made de-
posits of their savings in the Freedman's Bank.
To-day it is said to be hopelessly insolvent
institution, and yet the poor dupe takes no
lesson, and even kisses the hand that gave the
cruel blow. 1t is a curious race. year or
two ago one of their number, a Northern negro,
named AIvah Peoria Bradley, went among
them and collected their poll taxes, amounting
to several hundred dollars, and decamped. He
is now back again seeking for Office or another
swindle, and it will not be astonishing if, for
no other reason than that he is a Boston radi-
cal, he succeeds in securing, under some plum
dering pretext, considerable share of their
years hard earnings. 1t is this class of people
to whom the whites refer, when they say, "Let
us alonep 1t is but fair to say, however, that
even if there were no radical party in the State
or Nation, the negro, as voter, would proba-
bly still be a political evil, for he would natu-
rally affiliate with that class of whites who ap-
proach him nearest in character and condition,
and who are base enough to cheat him out OF
his ballot for no other object than to put the
worst elements of society forward in the ad-
ministration of the government. If the col
ored man were less afflicted with political pref
udice there would be less danger of political
corruption, for the whites have the strongest
inducements to secure to him all of his rights
as citizen, and to promote mutual harmony
and prosperity. This they have sought in vain
to do ever since the close of the war, nor will
they succeed in the future until the chief dis.
organizing element of the country is removed
by moral force-I mean the carpet-bagger.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22
oood storu is told of q reporter,

"A good story is told of a reporter, who,
fearful that he mi ght not get the address which
was to be delivered at the funeral of prom-
nent citizen, knelt beside the preacher while While
he was praying, abstracted tho manuscript from
the latter's rear pocket, and forthwith carried
it off. The clergyman, thinking his paper had
been lost delivered himself extemporaneously,
but the next morning discovered his error, his
written address being printed in full in the
newspaper.
- In a recent action for breach of prom
ise of marriage, the defendants counsel asked
the plaintiff, "Did my client enter into pos
tive agreement to marry you?" Not exactly" "
she replied "but he courted me good deal,
and he told my sister that he intended to mar
nv into our family"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22

THE TAX UNIoN.-.In the anxiety concern
ing the nominations, which have been and are
vet to be made, the subject of Tax Unions
seems to be lost sight of to considerable eX-
tent. Too much Importance, it is true, cannot
be attached to the former, but while that is the
end the means should not be neglected. 1t is
to the Tax Union alone, we look for the ultl-
mate redemption of our government from the
hands of the robber gang. Failing IN this
movement the State is irretrievably lost. No
one can hope for reform, or to effect an honest
administration of affairs, at the hands of any
one who is likely to be placed in power from
the ranks of those whose declared object is rob-
berry and plunder. The cry of reform has been
too often sounded in our ears Immediately pre-
ceding elections Too we'll do we know the
meaning of it. If ever the state of affairs is
changed for the better in South Carolina, it
must and will be through and by the honest
white men of the State, who know and feel the
evils of misgovernment. They are willing to
reform. they are anxions to reform, but as long
as thew remain in that dsorganized condition in
which they have ever been, so long will they
fail in every effort, and find themselves con-
stautly growing less powerful to accomplish
the much coveted end. The Tax Union is I'M
uuestionably one of the most thorough, and
the most promising system of organization
ever instituted in this, or any other State, and
will, if properly pursued, eventuate in incalcu-
liable good to the people. What ever may be
the result of the approaching election, there is
q star of hope, for the tax payer, in the Tax
Union, which extends beyond, and whose light
should be kept constantly in view.--NariOn
Obsprrer
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22

GATHERING CoRN.-Corn left long in the
field after it is ripe, loses from depredations of
birds and other animals, and many ears rot
from water getting in the shuck or from their
lying on the ground. Whilst it is very impor-
tnt to pick cotton as soon as it opens it is poor
economy to neglect corn to do so. Ordlna,,
rily, however, the two crops can be gathered
without interfering with each other-damp
drizzly days unsuited to cotton pick
ing, being selected to gather corn. Pack
ing away in the shuck little damp, is re-
gardcd by many as The best preventive of the
dcpredations of the weavil. We prefer any
how l to put away corn in shuck it being more
convenient to shuck it in winter than at the
present busy season. 1t is good work for cold,
rainy days in winter Don't put off selecting
seed corn until spring; if you have not gone
over your field and made selections already,
have barrels convenient and throw into them
the best ears whilst shucking or feeding out
the corn.-,Southern CuliiuatOr.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22
After dinner one day, at a Liverpool table

After dinner one day, at Liverpool table
d'hote, young man was relating how he had
miraculously escaped from fearful shlpwreck.
EYES," said he, "ffteen of my friends were on
board. The vessel went down, and they were
all lost" "But how" asked listener,
manage to escapew "Oh," was the calm reply,
II was on board another vessel |"
- When man reminds you that you owe
him, Just make note of it. He will take more
interest in the matter if you humor him in
that way.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22

TURNING OVER LAND.-Whcnever the soil
is in order the poughs should be kept running
on stubbe and rested land-it will facilitate
work in the spring when everything is in a
push, and the weather is often very bad
Especially is this desirable on stiff clay lands
that the winter freezes may have an opportuni-
ty of melowing them. Whenever the turn
blow is run so as to bring up rao clay to the
surface, it should be done if possible in autumn
There is then less liability of the land baking
after the winter frcezes.-Southern Cultiuator
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22

"A lady who had been teaching her little
astounded by his running in and propound-
had three butterflies and each butterfly had
bug in his ear, how many butterflies would you
havew The mother is still at work on the
problem.
- The reason why Cashmere shawls are
said to be like deaf people is because we can
not make them here.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22

- "Fifteen cents per gal p' exclaimed Mrs.
Partington, looking over the price current
"Why bless me what is the world coming
to when the gals are valued at only fifteen
cents"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22
Present and Prospective Condition OF tne
Negro-Uncle Tom without CABIN.

A correspondent of the New York Herald
makes the annexed observations upon the con-
dition and prospects of the negro race In the
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-10-22

Il is NOT an argument against the idleness Of
the negro that the production of cotton has
been,go we'll maintained since the war. First
large and unusual amount of white labor has
been applied to the crop. Secondly, by the
use of fertilizers one acre has been made to
perform the work of three acres, and the crop
in northern sections has been thus hastened to
fruition in time to anticipate the early frost,
which before the war was almost annually de-
structive. The upper portions of Georgia,
South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina and
Virginia, through this means have been open
to cotton culture and utilized, and hence the
deficiency of other localities has been supplied.
As an illustration of the great changes that
have taken place within few years, the open
ing of the Air Line Railroad has led to an in
crease of cotton in the neighborhood through
which it passes thousandfold, while in the
great South belt-the home of the staple-the
decline amounts to forty or fifty per cert. In
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-02-10
EaCfOrlNA.

To the Editor Of The Dallas Herald:
The future of Dallas without factories,
to say the least, is certainly uncertain,
a fact which is well established by the
past experience of all cities situated as
she Is. With factories her prosperity
and greatness is assured beyond all
doubt, and her future is as bright as The
most sanguine could ask for. Indeed,
no city in these days of railroads is safe
without factories, for it is well-known
that the manufacturing interest is the
very backbone of any city Of promi-
nence and stability.
| believe our citizens are ripe to aid
in inaugerating manufacturing in
terests in Dallas. They see and feel
the great necessity for it every day.
They are only waiting for some one to
lead, and my main object in writing
this communication Is to urge upon
our business men the importance of
getting together and pass upon some
plan of action and submit it to our
citizens, and l am satisfied that any
feasible plan will meet with substantial
encouragement from all quarters. It
is only necessary for some one to lead,
and "start the ball in notion" Will
our business men and property owners
neglect such matter of vital i'm
portance to our young city? I hope
not PROGRESS.