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The Morning herald., 1875-12-31
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Iowa has 1866 Quakers, 4.465 male;
and 4, 400 females.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is in Paris
Two of her children speak German, bnt
not English.
George Smith, the Ninevah explorer, is
meeting with much difficulty in obtaining
a fireman for his second expedition.
Lord Henry Thyme, member for South
Wiltshire, will, it is said, succeed Earl
Percy as Treasurer Of Queen Vitoiia as
household.
At Vinalhaven, Me-, during the cold
snap last week, the residents cut with axes
over hundred bushels of herrings out OF
the ice in the harbor where they had been
frozen in.
Mr.. Tom Taylor's historical play, Anne
Boleyn, is now in rehersal, ard will be pro-
duced at the Huymarket Theatre on the
18th Of January. Miss Nelson, as the
heroine, is provided with strong part.
Bavard Taylor spent nearly the whole
of 1872 and 1877, in Germany, and there
collected vast amount of material for a
new combined biography of Goethe and
Schiller, upon which he is now engaged.
According TO a very ancient English
rhvmester, when Christmast falls on Satur-
day the winter shall be full of great tenn
pests, that shall slay both man and beast;
fruit and corn shall fail greatly, and many
old people perish.
Susan B. Anthony has been invited to
visit New York State that she may be sub
poenoed as witness in the Beecher-L Loader
case, but strange to say, she declines. 1t
is knee-dless to try to rope her neck lex
cept by force of arms into that scandal
noose-ance again.
Walpurgis, which is supposed to be
represented in the Twelve Temptations" "
il hag night, when all the witches. with
Hecate at their head and accompanied by
all the attendant evil spirits, are reported
to have jsmbcree in the Black Noun.
tains Of Germany. Goethe's Faust" de-
votes one scene to the subject.
The remains Of 'Ir. Z. A. Chatterton,
for many year, we'll known in English
theatrical circles, were consigned on De-
cember 9Th to the grave in Brompton Gem.
etery. The chief moarners were his three
sons, Mr.. Chatterton, lessee Of Drury Lane
Theatre; Mr.. Horace Chatterton, DR.. Percy
Chatterton, and his brother, Mr.. Frederick
Chatterton, the harpist.
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- the I'D had flown. Yesterday, how
evkr, theIDlice got track of him, and st
Shce placs6 him in durance vile in Ssn Fran
cisco, whsre he was capturE lntslligence
ofthis was at once sent 10 The Secretary q
tie War department, whos made hdste to
communicate the news to his brotner Secre
tary, in the following terms:
"Hon. Zachariah Chandler, Secretary oJ
the L,terios-Gapt. Jones, alias, Capt Mid
dlesex, alias Col. Smith, alias Major Bar
clay, alias Lieutenant Breze, shas
Lieutenant Dodge, alias your long lost
brother, has been captured In Ban
Francisco, and safely lodged in jail in that
place. Any fraternal or loving message or
words of coincidence you may wish TO for
ward, I shall take pleasure in having trans
mitted and communicated to him.
Tsigned1 "W. W. BELKNAP,
Secretary Of War" ,
The following brief reply was sent to the
note, closing for the present the correspond
ence on the subject:
Hon. ". W. Belknap, Secretary Of Var:
Please have the man of many aliases exam
ined, and if he has an unusually large
strawberry mark on his shoulder, have him
hung. If he is unmarked have him hung,
any way, for it is better TINT SO Innocent
men should be hung than that one gilt
edged man should escape. E
fSigned1 "ZACHARIAH CHANDLER,
Secretary of the Interior"
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REV HExRY BoEHM, who has just died
at Richmond, Staten Island, was justly
styled the patriarch of the Methodist
Church. He was the oldest clergyman in
the world, and at enc time preached in
this city at Asberry Chapel. He was born
in Conestoga, Lancaster county, Pa, in
1775, wmchwas one year before the decla-
ration Of independence and nine years be-
lore the Methodist Episcopal Church was
organized. He received a common school
education, his teacher being Hessian SOL
dier captured by Washington at the battle
of Trenton. At the age of fifteen he first
entered upon ministerial studies and in the
year 1900 began anitinerant lie at preach
ing on the Dorchester circuit, on the East
ern Shore of Maryland, and in the Phila-
de]phia Conference. In 1903 he travelled
through the Southern States with Bishop
Asberry, where he was always the advo-
cate of abolition, and was number of
times threatened with violence. He died
at the age Of one hundred and one year
after a long and very useful career.
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A Rom ance in Political Life.
[ From the Philadelphia BuNetin. I

l. WV 's' = H'"NN'Pfss" D"'e"t'
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-A day or two
since the Secretary of War received from
the commandant Of the Benicia Barracks,
near San Francisco, the following tele-
gram:
"Hon. ". ": Bclknap, Secretary of War:
A brother Of the Hon. Secretary Chandler is
here on inspection duty, and is anxious to
have arms furnished him. Shall provide
them"
The receipt Of this message somewhat
surprised Secretary Belknap, who could not
imagine what peculiar kind Of inspection
the
REPUTED BROTHER OF SECRETARY CHAND-
could he engaged in which would require
arms. He accordingly communicated with
the Secretary of the Interior, sending him
the following telegram:
"Hon. ZachayiM Chandler, Secretary Of
the Interior: A man, representing bimself to
be your brother, is at Bcnecia Barracks
Cal, on inspection duty, and desires to be
furnished with arms. Shall order him to
be providedf
''[Signel] w. W. BELKNAP,
Secretary of War;
1t was not many minutes before the fol-
lowing
CHARACTERISTIC REPLY
was received at the War Department:
"Hon. W. w. Belknap, Secretary Of the
War Department.: ! have no brother Ar
rest the scoundrel. Let no gilt-edged man
escape.
[Signed1 "ZAcHARIAH CHANDLER,
"Sccretary of the Interior
Upon the reception of this reply the Sec
rerary of War at once telegraphed to Cali
fornia to have the bogus brother arrested,
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THERE was time when the country
was stirred up to the very highest pitch of
excitement, by reported captures of the
kidnapped child, Charley Ross. But they
beclme so frequent, that it is now like the
cry of wolf when there is no wolf Ard
that is just precisely the way in which
the people regard the Charley Ross stories.
They give him up for gone, and await the
development of his discovery some day by
his father, from some eutaneous mark.
But now we have new actor upon the
scene. One WHO is as ubiquitous as
Charley Ross. He is captured in one
place to-day, and tomorrow the tele-
graphic wires bear the tidings that he has
been captured somewhere else thousand
miles away. This actor Is Ex-Boss
Tweed of the Tammany Ring. We read
almost everyday that big fat man, the
vay counterpart Of William Marcy
Tweed, has been taken in hand away ont
wet somewhere ard imprisoned day or
20. AID then the disappointing news
comes that it is not the Boss after all.
The man captured in Havana was near
enough to him to have been lis brother, if
his name had happened to be Tweed in
stead Of Brown or Smith. Aut unfortun-
ate'y it was not the man and the
country sits with folded hands
quietly awaiting the capture of some other
poor unSuspecting individual who is un-
fortunate enough to resemble Tweed both
abdominally and in facial appearance, who
is cast into dungeon, and then told thai,
he Is not the right man afier ALL
There is no reason for searching further
in this country fol him, for even if he
were here, and that we have many reasons
70 believe, he could not be captured. The
State of New York is in no way anxiors
Tor his capture. and the people regard
themselves as having cast off an ulcer at a
comparatively small price, There is no
doubt that Tweed should have been pun
ished for his bold plunderipg of the peo
pie, but nothing more than Imprisonment
could have been done with him. This
would have only banished him from
rocicty, and his escape accomplished pre-
cisey the same end. he has left the
country, he has done SO for the country's
good, and if he is still here he is banished
from all life.
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DMAMlrE isSlhe astest applied to
wiyss-because ~ afs1iab!e to send you
uSif YOU Asndla em h.rshk: La.
ONE Of the wealthiest men Of New York
began life IN buying up old barrels. He's
got on stayingly since.-Ex. Yes. bui
did he have any heads put on him?
New reading from Shakespeare, by the
Louisville Ledger" Page Ito Ulysses
=" My lord, the Duke Of Babcock is
taken" Ulysses" With Henderson,
head. So much for Babcock % Slow
music. u g. - 'es ..--. -..
GENERAL JOE LANE, at one time candi.
date for Presidential honors on the ticket
with Breckinridge. is farming in Oregon
It is a long lane that has ne turn. This
Joe has certainly found out in his walk
through the Presidential lane.
The Philadelphia "Times," with lantern
in hand, is trying to find an honest men,
ber in the City Councils of that city. So
far but one has been found, and he said he
would not take anything for working
through a job; unless it was unbeknown to
himself. -r ...
THE newspapers are stating that cold
winters are not productive good health
We are not physician enough to say any
thing on the subject, bit it is productive
Of quick action in getting up in the morn
ines when the thermometer stands about
80 below zero.
The health Of Speaker Kerr is very fee
bic and it is very much feared that it will
be necessary to choose speaker pro tem.
For this position L. @. c. Lamar, of Mis-
sissippi is very highly spoken of. Ger
tainly no ADLER man could be selected, nor
one in whom the members of the House
have greater confidence.
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y n. CRAWFORD, Manager oct2B-3m.
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THE HERALD.
WILMINGTON DECEMBER 81, 1875,

. "THE upkipdest GU. Of all y into MO TIE
quivering marrow of Bishop Haven,
comes from, Rev. Dr. Laferty, editor of
the leading Methodist paper in the South.
The Doctor calls the Bishop "a condensed
can-can in white cryvat.n Et tu Brute. {,
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IL DIronsALuOTr1NG

&ANlrE iSlhe ste.t applied to
wiyes-because tkey an liable to send you
qSif you Asndls bem harshk: s.,
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A tornado in Kentucky has wrought a
terrible havoc. A great deal of property
was destroyed and many lives sacrificed
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-09-09

DrsAGREEABLE HABITs.-Nearly all
the disagreeable habits which people take
up and come at first from mere accident
or want of thought. They might easily
be dropped, but they arc persisted in un,,
til they become second nature. Stop and
think before you allow yourself to iorrn
them. =,
There are disagrceab!e habits of body,
like scowling, winking, twisting the
mouth, biting the nails, continually pick
ing at something, twirling key or fum-
bling at chain, drumming with the nm
gers, screwing and twisting chair OF
whatever YOU lay your hands on. Don't
do any Of these things. Learn to sit
quietly like a-gentleman [ was going to
say, but am afraid even girls fall into
such tricks sometimes. There are much
worst habits than these, to be sure but
We are speaking orly ofthose little things
that are only annoying when they are
persisted III.
There are habits ofspeech also, such as
beginning every speech with YOU see,a.
orayou Know" "now-a," II don't care" "
"terlye what" "tcll ye now indistinct'
uttcranee, sharp, nasal tones; avoid them
all. Stop aud think what you are going to
say, and then let every word drop from
your lips just ~ perfect as a new silver
coin, have care about your way OF
| sitting and standing and walking. Be-
fore YOU know it you will find that your
habits hYe hardened in,o coat of mail
that YOU cannot get rid OF without ter
rible effort.-LiWe C0rpornh
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-09-09
Strange Story of an Ex.COnfed.

A travel-stained pedestrian, who gave
his name as Johnson, passed through this
place Friday last. He was badly Grip
Piled, and apparently in very INDECENT
circumstances. In response to certain IN
ouiries propounded by several persons,
whose charitable Offices he solicited; be
related a strange story, which, if true,
embraces sad personal experience, as
we'll as notable instance OF Official pre-
sumption. His narrative was, in sub
stance, as follows:
He was a member of John Morgan's
famous command in 1862, and in skir-
mish near Murfreesboro, in that year, was
badly wounded, and fell in the hands OF
the federal troops. Immediately after
his CAPTURE, he was sent to Rock Island,
a prison of bitter memory, where be re-
NAMED helpless cripple until the close
of the war, when, instead of being dis
charged, he was transferred to the Jeh'
Davis Hospital in Marion county, Ohio,
where he remained until a few weeks ago.
His detention in the latter place is the
strange part of the story. His wounds
were of such nature as to render him
entirely helpless, and being unable to
work, he was mere incumbrance to the
establishment. He claims, however, that
his detention was due to the fact that the
keeper of the hospital received liberal
stipend from the Government for his
board. and as there was quite number
of disabled Confederate soldiers quartered
in the Same establishment, under similar
circumstances, it was manifestly to the
interest of that officer to retain them.
During his confinement in the hospital,
he. in common with his fellow-prisoners,
was not allowed to communicate by wri-
ting or otherwise, with the outside world,
and his letters to friends and relatives
were invariably intercepted by the hos
pital authorities. A few weeks ago he
regained the use of his limbs, and the
first use he made of them was to leave the
hospital and strike ont for Tennessee
Having no money he was forced to travel
on foot, and trust to the charitable for
subsistence. He succeeded in reaching
this place without suffering for food, but
his general condition was anything but
enviable. He told his story in quiet,
earnest way, that enlisted the sympathy
of all who heard it, and as he gave an &C.
curate history of his command up 10 the
date of his capture, and displayed ia.
miliarity with the characters of several
who belonged to it, which must have
grown out ofa personal acquaintance, his
statements were received without the
fgurative grain of salt. He says that
two citizens of this county-Dayid Bag
gerly and Landess- at present
confined in the hospital mentioned, and
the latter claiming to be a son of Jesse
Landess. We do not pretend to say that
Johnson's story is worthy of credence,
but it is certainly plausible enough to
awaken investigation. At any rate, the
man. as we'll as his narrative, enlisted the
serious attention ofseveral of our promi-
neut citizens, and at their suggestion We
give publicity to both.-fsyettevi0c' 7s'o'',
Express.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-09-09

CAPTURING OsTRICHEs.-The. great.
est feat of an Arab hunter is to capure
an ostrich. 1t is the largest Of livilg
birds, and probably the swittest OF all
living animals. Being very shy and cau-
tious, and living on the sandy plains,
where there is little chance to take it by
surprise, it can only be captured by a
well-planned and long-continucd pursuit
with the swiftcst horses. The ostrich has
two curious habits in running when
alarmed. 1t always starts with outspread
wings, against the wind, SO that it can
scent the approach of an enemy. Its
sense of smell is so keen that it can de-
tect person at great distance, long
before one can be seen. The other Gu
rious habit is that of running in circle
Usually five or six ostrichcs are found IN
a COMPANY. When discovered, part of
the hunters, mounted on fleet horses, will
pursue the birds, while the other hunters
will gallop away at right angles to the
course the ostriches have taken. When
these hunters think they have gone tar
enough to cross the path the birds will
be likely to take, they watch upon some
rise of ground for their approach, If the
hunters hit the right place and see the
ostriches, they at once start in pursuit
with fresh horses, and sometimes over
take one or two of the birds, but often
two or three Of the feet horses fall, COM
pletely tired out with SO sharp chase,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-09-09

1874 and decreased it S5,000,000 in one
week of March, 1875. This aristocracy
in the money manufacture is an odious
monopoly, alien to our institutions and
harmful to our prosperity. What should
we say if 800 men, and such friends as
they chose were allowed to plant wheat
and mine iron while every one else was
forbidden?
Yet this is but another name for our
present bank system. Let us cease, then,
to have any plan either to enlarge or
contract the currency. Let the govern
ment stand ready to issue all the currency
any business man wishes and can give
GOOD security for, at low interest and con-
yertible into long bonds. If necessary,
in order to conciliate existing prejudice,
let the capital of these bonds, having
long terms to run, be payable in gold;
Make greenbacks legal tender for all
purposes, customs. and all government
dues included. There is every reason
why this should be done. History is re-
peating itself. England never knew
more prosperous years than from 1900 to
1872, during which she neither had gold,
nor wished to have it, nor promised, to
nav gold to any one whatever. All that
while she extended and contracted her
currency, without any regard whatever
to gold. Her enormous trade and ex-
penditures were ell paper, and only pa
Der. resting on credit and nothing else.
we had similar prosperity during the
war and after, on the same terms. In
1920, England. yielding to- theorists and
dreamers. tried to put this new wine into
OLD bottles, and dragged her business
back to methods a centnryold-to specie.
Bankruptcy, the very history of which
makes the blood cold to-day, bhghted
the Empire Tt took half generation
to recover from the mistake. No man
can to-day begin to show that such sui,
fering was necessary that it achieved
any good, or that it effected any changes
which could not have been as well made
without it. We entered that same valley
of the shadow of death when, in 1860,
McCulloch began contraction. We are
hurrying fast to England's 1920; proper
ty sunk to half its former value; the
streets crowded with unemployed men
fast rotting into criminals; grass growing
on the wharves, machinery rusting,
wealth alarmed, poverty starving. Woe
to the political party which the nation
shall finally pronounce responsible tor
this fatal mistake No previous merits its
will avail for its pardon. Its leaders ~, WI
be buried in curses, as men whom neither
b;ctorv nor thoir own experience could
make wise. :,
We lament, as we'll we may, the wide,
spread corruption of business men and
oif1ice-holders. But where such corrup-
ton in high places steals a dollar, con-
traction-this well meaning ignorance
of bullionists-robs the people of thou
sands. If this generation is ever bank
rupt, its bankruptcy will not be the work
of knaves, but of honest men following
jack O. lantern and dragging us to ruin
Yours,
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-09-09

RAILROAD ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
A railroad across the Atlantic is on the
list of possibilities for the future achieve.
ment Of science. Many years ago civil
engineer read paper before the French
Academy suggesting submarine railways;
His theory was that at certain depth OF
the ocean, hundred fathoms or more
far below any agitation from surface
storms, the water is of such density that
nothing in tubular form, whatever the
weight, can possibly sink. Having thus
made a foundation in the very bowels OF
old Neptune, he proposes to sink con-
tinuous line of immense iron tubes-atter
the manner of the recent cable laying
in which a double track railway could
be laid between Cape Clear, Ireland, and
Cape Race, Newfoundland, and thus
trains go booming through, to the con-
sternation of the sea serpent and the
mortal terror of the big and little fishes.
The only really serious objection to his
project that the engineer of this deep-sea
scheme could then see, was the sutlocat-
inc effects of the smoke from the locomo-
tiyes: and if this could be overcome then
the grand oceanic railway only required
the . necessary construction capital to
enter upon its career of successful cNpcri-
ment," which lie duly figured out upon
the profits of the ample traffic between
the two worlds. Now, the aforesaid
Scientific objection" has already disap-
peared in the understanding engine
of modern invention, to say nothing OF
the "Kccly Motor" Can this capital
question be as easily solved? Who will
form the company, and who will take the
shares.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-09-09

A PRACTICAL FoRMULA.-Commis-
sioner James, in answer to repeated in
quiries for formula for nlanuring wheat
and other crops, has recommended the
following formula
700 lbs. green cotton seed.
700 lbs. we'll sheltered stable or COW
manure.
500 lbs. acid or superphosphate.
40 lbs. murate of potash.
60 lbs. sulphate of ammonia.
Spread the cotton seed and manure IN
alternate layers under shelter, sprlnkilnlg
each layer with due proportion OF acid
phosphate and solution of potash and
amonia thoroughly dissolved in q suifi-
cient quantity of water, warm If conve-
nient, to hasten decomposition and pre-
vent excessive heat
After fermentation has so thoroughly
set III as to kill the germ OF the cotton
seed, cut down the mass vertically
through all the layers. Shovel it into a
heap and allow it to remain for week
or ten days, when it will be ready.
Sow broadcast at the rate of 400 pounds
pcr acre, and harrow in wheat. If ap-
plicd in drills one foot apart 300 pounds
Der acre will secure better results.
In the spring, when wheat is in the
boot, SOW broadcast i'll wet weather, 5O
pounds of nitrate of soda, well pulver-
izcd.
When the cotton seed or manure is
inaccessible, use 1,4OO pounds of the
other.
The land must be well prepared, and
this formula is adapted to small grain
and narrow bladed grass. This formula
il worthy Of trial.