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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-06-17

THE TRUE WoMAN.--The time has 1een
passed when women must he pale ana delicate
to be called intefesting-when she must be to-
tally ignorant of all practical knowledge to be
called refined and high-bred-when she must
know nothing of the current political news OF
the day, or be called masculine or strong
ed. It is not a sign of high birth or refinement
to be sickly and ignorant. Those who affect
ANYTHING of the kind are behind the times, and
mist shake up and air themselves mentally and
physically or drop under the firm strides of
common ideas, and be crushed into utter insig-
nifcance. In these days, All active, rosy faced
girl, with brain quick and clear, warm, light
heart, temper quickly heated at intended in
suits or injury, and just as quick to forgive !;
whose feet can run as fast as her tongue and
not put her out of breath who is not afraid of
freckles, or to breathe the pure air of heaven,
,nrestrancd by the drawn curtains of close
carriage; and above all, who can speak her
mind and give her opinion on important topics
which interest Intelligent people, is the true
girl who will make good woman. This is the
girl who wins in these days. Even fops and
dandies, who strongly oppose woman's rights,
like woman who can talk we'll, even if she is
not handsome. They weary of the most beau
tiful creature if she is fool. They say, cav,
yaa-s, she is beauty and no mistake, but she
won't do for me-lacks brains," of which COM
modify it would seem she could have little use
in her association with him. However, to
please even an empty headed fop, woman
must know something.
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Dcfaulting Officials.

Within the past few months there has been
a general stirring up Of County and State Off
cials and ex-oticials. The current of corrup-
ton which all run one way for long time, has
been turned, and is leaving exposed in its old
channel many that used to luxuriate in what
they believed would be perpetual stream.
The political jackals who have been living off
the carcass of this poor old State since the
close of the war, are getting short of food.
The game of addition, division and silence
is not now played so successfully as in times
past. 1t is not so profitable as it once was.
Money jobs are scarce, and the vultures who
formerly divided their pelf without any disa-
greement, are now in state of turmoil because
there is not enough to satisfy the cravings of
their Unsuitable appetites. Those of the cor
morants that were sharp enough to keep their
share of the proceeds of the game of "addi-
ton, division and silence" and still flourish,
excite the envy and jealousy of their more un-
make them desperate The consequence is,
that every now and then stupendous frauds
against the Counties and State are exposed in
retaliation for some old grudge. Then we hear
great deal of gossip and newspaper specula-
tion about conviction, punishment, sc. The
people are worked up to the very tiptoe of ex-
pectation in their belief that their wrongs and
grievances are to be redressed. But when the
time arrives for the trial of these defaulting
officials, something to prevent the prosecution
of the charges against them is almost invaria-
bly, in the way. The trial is postponed. We
are strongly impressed with the conviction that
that same old game of addition, division and
silence" is played again, and successfully, too,
in many cases. There is potency about the
old familiar game that is hard to resist by
those who have been accustomed to participate
in it. The attempt to punish the guilty has
been smothered to death in several instances in
this State by its influence, within the last year
or two
Indictments have collapsed as suddenly as
they originated, under the charms of party
fealty, renewed by former agencies. The per-
petrators of the most bare-faced stealing are
allowed to escape unwhipt of justice. Then if
the people or the press show any signs of i'm
patience or distrust in the matter, they are
considered impertinent and oficious. 1t is
natural for the people to feel anxious and in
terested about the trial of the men who have
been pilfering them for so long time. Any
thing that looks the least like favoring these
criminals by the officers of the law, excites
suspicion that there is double-dealing going on
among them. The case of Niles G. Parker,
Ex-Treasurer of State, is an illustration of this
feeling He is an old sinner against the peo-
pie of this State, and has eluded them for a
long while He has been apprehended, and
the people demand thorough and searching
investigation of the charges against him. His
case is being closely watched. Give him and
the people Justice. .-GreenviNe Enterprise and
Mountaineer.
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The Cotton States Congress.

This body will meet in Raleigh, N. c., on
Tuesday, 18th of July, 1875. All the State
and subordinate agricultural societies in the
Cotton States are authorized to appoint dole
gates. Correspondents from every State in the
Union are invited to be present, and are hereby
assured of a cordial welcome.
The representatives from the Cotton States,
heretofore assembled, were men who think and
toll in the peaceful pursuits of agriculture and
its kindred Industries. The calamities common
to every section of the Cotton States gave
bearing to the Congress, and the continued
depression in, and disastrous results to our
farmers trade and commerce preserves its ex-
istence The great object in view, is the re-
covery of our national interests from their de-
preston no matter from what cause this has
been produced, and to liberate them from the
dependence under which they now suffer, by
honest and persistent efforts, and by the intel
ligent use of the means we SO abundantly
possess.
This session of the Congress will be COM
bination of intelligent power, exerted by men
who know how to devise and to execute such
plans as are best for the common good. In
the spirit of patriotism-an ardent devotion to
the interests of the husbandman to domestic
economy to the happiness of our homes and
the hope of returning prosperity; to our fields,
workshops, trades and commerce-this session
of 1875 will convene and deliberate
It is fortunate that meeting is to be in North
Carolina. Every delegate and correspondent
will bring in spirit centennial offering, to lay
upon the altar of his country; he will conse-
crate himself anew to her service, and with
sublime devotion, pledge his life and sacred
honor to peace and prosperity.
D. E. BUTLER, President.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-06-17

TYRANICAL FAsHIoN.-Probably NO charac-
teristic of the female mind is better developed
than the docilty with which women accept the
fashions of the day. Be they beautiful or hid
eous, becoming or unbecoming, comfortable or
torturing, they are the "fashion," and must be
worn. Take for example, the hair. This,
"the crowuing glory" Of woman, can be worn
as she pleases, and what work many make of
it! Now coiffure called the "Grecian knot"
is coming into fashion. Of it a recent woman
writer says: About one woman out of twenty
FIVE has a head and features of the shape neces-
sary to make this style becoming; given a
broad half-hign white foreheod, rather straight
nose well-roundcd face and throat, and the
careless knot of hair low in the nape of the
neck, with pure white part in the centre of
the head, from which the hair rippes naturally
over the temples and ears is beautiful, making
the wearer Greek goddess at once or, what is
better nowadays, charming American woman.
But to take the remaining twenty-four women,
who have have all kinds of foreheads and fea-
lures, and who are stately with their hair mass
ed on the very top of their heads, or braided
and banded smoothly neither high nor low, or
bewitchingly coquetish and girlish with a
Chatelaine braid and curl or two, finger pufs
above the forehead and little rings falling over
it; put the severe Greek knots low down on
these heads, draw the hair over the pretty pink
ears, narrow the temples and cheeks by almost
obscuring them, and what is the result? The
stately woman looks prim and beitted, the
bright coquettish one is ten years older, and in
many cases startling defects of features or odd
expressions never before noticed by those who
knew them BEST and to whom they were once
pretty, are developed by the change.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-06-17

WILL He Do IT?-"Whatever may be the
Presidents reservations, the Republicans will
gladly relieve themselves of the dead weight
that has been hanging upon them for two years
by accepting his letter as a positive withdr@
from the canvass as candidate for re-nor
ton. This being the case, why will not
dent Grant mark the closing portion of his to-.
by a grand and noble policy of justice toward
the South by rallying around him as his ad-
visers men of strong minds and honest hearts !;
by cleansing the Government of its hideous
corruptions: and by general patriotic and wise
policy? He has yet time to do much for the
nation and to hand down his name to posterity
in connection with those Of the best of the
American Presidents. Will he be equal to the
task ?"-N Y Herald.
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- The New Orleans Bulletin is getting
thoroughly walked up and alarmed. 1t says:
ssNewspapers are constantly receiving and be-
ing importuned to publish che most subtle and
dangerous assaults upon the great truths of the
Bible, and the fact is becoming more and more
apparent that we need our missionaries at home.
The clergy will have to bucks on their armor
and prepare to do battle for the faith for which
so many glorious men have suffered martyrdom
in the past"
The death of Gen. Breckenridge leaves
but four gentlemen living who have been elect
ed to the second highest Office in the United
States. They are Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew
johnson, Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson.
The mortality among Vice Presidents does not
seem to be as great as that among the Presi-
dents. Mr. johnson is the only ex-P:csident
now living, and he was not elected to that Of
fee by the people.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-06-17

THE NECESSITY OF GRASS CULTURE.-The
cultivation of grasses aud forage plants is an
indispensable attribute of prosperity. Why
are the lands of Kentucky and Ohio so much
more valuable than those Of the cotton States,
when we can produce a commercial article Of
prime necessity worth twice as much per acre
as their products? 1t is because we disregard
rotation, exclude every other crop but cotton,
and base all our chances of success upon sim
gle card. In an agricultural point of view,
grass is the greatest boon ever donated to man.
It grows increasingly day and night, wet and
dry, cold and hot, and furnishes the cheapest
stock feed extant. have had hogs from seven
to nine months old, weighing 250 pounds, and
yet they had never tasted anything but grass.
The land should be we'll drained, and if not
sufficiently rolling to drain naturally, it must
be done artiicially. Water must, under no
circumstances, be permitted to stand on land
devoted to grass culture, else. the grasses sown
will be destroyed in such places, and ''wire
grass will furnish substitute as Improbable
as it is undesirable.
The proper preparation of the land is of
turning pow, running at depth of three to
four inches, follow with subsol as deep as
the best double team could draw the same,
harrow we'll aud thoroughly pulverize the soil
by rolling or dragging as may be necessary in
order that the surface may be smooth and
adapted to the use of the mower. This prepa-
ration is not altogether necessary; in fact,
clover sown in the fall or early winter is more
certain to catch when sown on stubble, the
trash serving to protect it while young, yet
this is not neat farming, and should only be
practiced in cases of emergency. Occasionally
we have wet weather in August and September,
and grass can then be sown in corn or cotton,
and by Christmas a good pasture will be OBJ
tained, provided the ground is not too wet for
pasturage at that time. The most preferable
method is, however, to thoroughly prepare the
land as above described; the exceptions to the
general rule should only be used when better
preparation cannot be obtained.-Southere
Farmer.
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The Treatment of Sheep.

I beg leave briefly to communicate to the
farmers and sheep-growers of your section some
facts of interest to them, as they have lost 7al
liable property in sheep and wool by skin dis
eases and yermin pests, in their hocks. For
the past ten years I have been treating sheep
for this trouble. 1 used variety of prepara-
tions, and made up solutions and ontments,
which were applied with little or no permanent
good effect
About year ago was called to examine a
flock in Connecticut, badly afflicted with scab
and ticks. I told the owner I hardly knew
what to advise as I had nothing at hand to
use, especially where the animals were in such
bad condition AS we were talking over the
matter, he drew my attention to an article in
| Glem1n's Rura1 World, St. Louis, written by
a gentleman who was for long time engaged
in raising sheep on the Pacific coast, where the
skin diseases and vermin among the domestic
animals were very prevalent. He spoke of the
efficiency of preparations he had used in very
extensive way, which only afforded temporary
relief but he recommended an article called
"Kennedy's Hemlock Sheep Dip" which he
had used with great success in the treatment Of
scab and destroying ticks. The statement be-
ing made by so reliable a paper, gave US conf
dence to try it, Not knowing the manufactur
er, went to the great medicine house of John
F. Henry & Co., who kindly gave me the ad-
dress of Mr. Kennedy, from whom I bought
five gallons at three dollars gallon, :
used it I diluted each gallon in fro o
eighty gallons of water, to make tn r
degree Of strength for use This wash l.
in large tank, in which I saturated the ~ni-
NAL about one minute The next day the sheep
were examined, and not live tick could be
found and all soreness and irritation of the
skin had ceased, and the flock in short time
were much improved With this [ was salts
fed, as it killed the vetmin, and left the skin
in clean and healthy condition, imparting a
silky softness and lustre to the wool such as
never before saw, and The owner tells me that
the sheep will produce quarter more wool this
year than they did last. Knowing, as do,
farmers who are interested, take the opportu-
nifty to report the case and name the treatment.
From the satisfactory results have had from
its use in this and other cases, am anxious to
call the attention of farmers to it as cheap
and valuable means Of curing sheep afflicted
in this way.
Very respectfully,
Fl. E. BOOMER, " S.,
SSth st. and Third ave., New York.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-06-17

PUTTING THINGS AWAY.-Do women ever
think how much time they spend in picking up
and putting away? Of course we do not mean
to intimate that it is wasted, or that all this
work is done unnecessarily. Women have a
vast amount of such work to perform, and few
men realize its extent or its necessity until
some accident or circumstances brings it home
to them.
A married man said once, that he never
realized the amount of work done in bringing
things out and putting them away, until he
happened to sit idly watching the operation of
setting the table-"gettng tea" as it was called,
at neighbor's house, washing the dishes and
clearing them away. 1t struck him, for the
first time, how much real labor had to be
in lifting and carrying between table and pan
try and he determined to lessen such labor in
his house as much as possible by construct
ing kitchen in his house with every facility
and convenience. He thought, with sort of
consternation,, if one "tea )" requires that
amount of labor, what must the work of q
house for lifetime amount to-? A very pret-
ty problem which we should like to have an
swered.
1t is fact however, that putting things
away" becomes sort of mania with some
neat housewives, and not only gives them a
vast amount of trouble but sours their temper,
and is a source of annoyance to every member
of the family. From a habit probably of be-
ing upon one spot all the time, eternally seeing
aud doing the same things, it becomes a sort
of mania, and is in fact symptom of disease:
We think good plan, in such a case, would
be, for the husband to insist on his wife ia
king journey, making visit home, or spend
ing cdsSle of weeks at a watering place.
The change of scene, the breaking up of the
monotony of life would do her world of good.
Her ideas would become enlarged; her
thoughts travel out of their accustomed
routine, and when she returned she would take
up life less as burden, aud more as basket
Of flowers, from which it is possible to extract
beauty and fragrance.
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SSth st. and Third ave., New York
A lady conversing with some friends the

"A lady conversing with some friends the
other day advanced the idea that young man
should not get married without capital of
$4,000, and one of the party, who was some
what of the bachelor persuasion, took excep-
ton, saying that he thought if a young lady
had that amount it would not be necessary for
the young man to have any capital-just so it
was in the family it would be sufficient.
"A lawyer of Louisville, a few days ago,
found that book full of valuable promissory
notes which had been slowed away for some
years had been so gnawed by rats that the sig
natures had all been destroyed, while the re-
manning parts remained uniniured.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-06-17
VOLUME X..---NO. 48.
The Abstracted Bonds of the Gfeenville and
Columbia Railroad Company.

1t came to our knowledge, about two weeks
ago, in a roundabout way, that number of
railroad bonds had been distracted from the
ptroler-Generals Office by j. L. Neagle,
while Comptroller General. The facts in
brief, were these; After the war the State
Legislature authorized bonds of the Greenville
and Columbia Railroad, endorsed by the State,
to be issued by the Comptroller General in ex.
change for similarly endorsed bonds of that
Company, which were headed, confederate
States of America" 1t was made the duty of
the Comptroller to put the State guaranty on
the new bonds, date them, and issue them
when the old bonds we're surrendered to him.
The process of exchange went on until only
S91 900 of old bonds remained unexchanged.
Some of the remaining old bonds were presen-
ted for exchange at the Comptroller. Generals
office, after the expiration of Neagle's term,
and after, we believe, the installation of Capt.
Dunn. 1t was then found that the SOL 900 of
new bonds which should have been in the Office
were not there. Comptroller Hoge had not
receipted to Neagle, his predecessor, for any
such bonds, and they lad evidently been issued
or abstracted by Eeagle. This was plain
case of fraud, aud we demanded that proceed
ings be taken against Neagle at once
The attention of Comptroller Dunn was now
brought to the alleged theft of the S91, 900 Of
bonds, and he Immediately notified Neagle that,
if the bonds were not replaced, he would be in
stantly prosecuted. Neagle asserted that S10,-
600 of the missing s9l, 600 had been lawfully
exchanged, and promised to return the rest.
This has been done. On Saturday most of the
sS1, 900 of bonds were surrendered by Neagle
to Comptroller Dunn, and the remaining bonds
are, also, virtually in his possession. The ques.
tion whether $4,000 of the bonds were legally
issued remains to be determined; but the $751;.
900 are safe.
The restitution of the stolen bonds, for stolen
they we're, is satisfactory, no doubt, to the
Greenyille and Columbia Railroad Company,
but it is not enough for the public Neagle's
offence is not atoned for by the surrender of
the bonds. The crime was committed and by
giving up the bonds Neagle acknowledges his
guilt. This is a proper case, therefore, for such
a prosecution and conviction as will teach
public officers that, in the long run, honesty
pays better than Parker's Hauls and the like.
Such case will give the Attorney General an
excellent opportunity of airing his patriotic
rhetoric. The facts are before him What
will he do about it 7-Neaos and Courier.
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A tramp entered hotel in Wheatlant

"A tramp entered hotel IN WheatIand,
CAL, sat down at the breakfast table, and speed
lily demolished hearty meal. He then Or
dered another beef steak, and on its being
nasal organ with his hands and started for the
door, apparently taken with bleeding at the
nose. He passed through the hotel and across
the street to pump, from whence he soon
bolted down the track and made of.
- He held the old shirt up by the neck be-
fore discarding it forever, but he wasn't mourn
ing for the garment. He only said thlisly:
ri wish l had all the drinks again that
have gone through that old neckband."
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It has been demonstrated that farming

1t has been demonstrated that farming
has paid since the war, and mere planting. has
not. Men who have farmed correctly have
lived we'll and have money in the banks; those
who have merely planted have lost money
There is a vast distinction between farmer
and planter in the Southern country One
makes his place self-sustaining, and the other
borroWs money To- buy corn 10 raise cotton
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- Ben Butler said to reporter the other
day who tried to interview him about the third
term, that he would not discuss the matter nor
talk on politics in any shape. 81 renounce the
devil and all his works." declared the Essex
statesman This is the m ,st marvellous con-
version of modern times but it IA hard on the
devil, who will be at lis wits end to supply
Bcn's place.
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"A lump of gold was found buried in the
earth, about eight miles above Camden, a few
days ago, by Mr.. Judson Young. Its weight is
about twelve ounces, and has the appearance
of pure gold. Its value is estimated at over
5000
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Elk President Davis on Gen. Shermain's Sian
i-.-- derSa

The st. Louis Times publishes the following
letter from Mr.. Jefferson Davis, addressed to
Col. W. F. Mellen, former Confederate 9th,
Ger, concerning certain allegations contained
in Gen, Shermans memoirs: