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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-04-13

SOMETHING OF INTEREST TO PLAN
TERs.-If the following described ma.
chine will do what is claimed for it, it is
bound to work revolution in the cotton
growing region. which will add i'm
mensely to the profits of producers of the
staple. The Augusta Chronicle and Sen
tineI says that Mr.. William H. Howard,
Of Augusta, has received letter from
Mr.. V. NJ. Barnes, of Clay Hill, Lin
coin county, which asks his support of a
new enterprise. The enterprise of which
he writes is the elements attachment"
"a machine by means of which seed
cotton, as it comes from the field, can be
converted into yarn better than any ex-
cept handmade. The machine is at
tached to a common card stand, and
gently frees the cotton lint from seed,
dirt and notes, and delivers it in roll to
the spindle. It has a capacity of one
hundred and fifty bales year, and costs,
with royalty included, only two hundred
and fifty dollars. The inventor claims
that it will make thread thirty-three
and one-third per cent. better in strength
and evenness than any yarn that can be
made from ginned cotton. He says that
its use saves the costly and dangerous
picker rooms, saves tapping and double
tapping, fve-sixths of the carding and
other machinery, besides the cost of gin
ming, bagging, ties, COMPRISING, etc.
There is a mill containing four Of these
machines in operation in Corinth, Mis-
sissippi, and the owner writes that he re-
Gently manufactured yarn from a very in
ferior lot of cotton, costing from II to 2
cents per pound in the seed, which sold
rs cents per pound; some of it was
ginned and the yarn from this sold for
only five cents per pound. Mr.. Barnes
is confident that yarn from middling cot
ton made by this machine will bring 25
cents, when middling in the bale sells
for 10 cents. Mr.. Barnes wishes to start
an establishment with these machines at
Raysville, with 1900 spindles, giving
capacity of six hundred bales of cotton
per annum, which can be readily OBJ
tained in the neighborhood. He is con-
fident that such a mill will pay very
large profit, and he is anxious to get few
gentleman of Augusta to take stock in
the enterprise.-Eyfaula Times.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-04-13

"MUsT TINK RoscHILEs AM PLAYIN'
DIS GAME."-Some darkies, it is said,
started faro bank somewhere in town
short time since, on small scale
Their funds were limited, and no one
was allowed to bet over ten cents at a
time. A man from Allen County was in
the city seeing what he could see, and in
his rambles came upon the darkey faro
bank. He pulled out five dollar bill,
bought its worth in chips and put them
on the jack. The dealer was busy, and
at first did not see the big pile OF chips,
aud commenced dealing. He all at once
looked up, saw Allen County's pile, and
inquired: "Who's dat got dat peeamid
on dat iackw Allen County, not know
ing the rules of the game, very sterniy
remarked, "That's mine" The dealer
gazed at him for moment and replied {:
"Pull her down from dar; you must tink
Roschiles am playin' dis game" Allen
County "pulled her down from dar," but
we do not know whether he thought ne
was in "Roschiles" presence or not
Bowling Green Ky Democrat.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-04-13

- The latest discovery in the vegeta-
BILE world is an incombustible tree found on
an island of New Caledonia, and called
by the natives the niaouli. If this trop-
ical tree exist in sufficient quantities, or
will propagate in our Southern States, it
is likely to prove an invaluable addition
to our present building materials. Chica-
20 and Boston have proved to their sorrow
That iron, stone and bricks are no proof
against great fires; iron columns bend
with heat, marble cracks, and bricks
crumble. A wood that really is incom-
bustible, such as is promised from the
newly-found tree, would seem to meet
the case. -,
"A North Carolina negro thought he
could outrun locomotive the other day
on the Air Line Road, and when he
picked himself up, after being thrown
twenty feet and landing on his head, ne
said: eyer don't ketch dis yer chile
doin' dat agin. It's a right smart won
der I didn't tear desc britches clean
off,"
Why is mad bull an animal Of a
convivial disposition? Because he offers
horn to every one he meets.
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9ublishers 3 9rineers

Can buy direct Of the Manuf'r on favorable terms.
1.-THE ANsoN HARDY CUTTING MACHINES
are the best and cheapest low priced machine made
and have national reputation for utility and du-
rabity"IThs EIeetrO,tyPss Ghleag1e GYS.rrp :. hv
far the best machine which can be obtained for q
less price than one hundred dollars. 1t Is OF great
strength.
"T6ese machines have always taken the highest
stand tits the only machine to which Is applied
the patent Movable Cutting Board This device has
reputation of itself by 1t, the cutting board can
be Instantly and accurately moved, so that aperfect
cut is insured This is avery important point In
this machine, and one that is possessed by no other
1t greatly reduces the labor of preparation IN work.
ing theIaper backward and forward. WecanRoA
too strongly recommend the advantages OF this paS-
ent movable board. 1t is worth the price OF this
machine, and purchasers SHOULD fully undeTstanai
how highly 1t is to be valued: d:mE(Rowelps Co.'s
Monthly Reporter and Printers GazetteJ
The LATEST IMPROVED HARDY CARD
CUTTER is pronounced the MOST DESIRABLE CARD
GUTTER in the market for the general uses OF 81
printing office. rs..-- {
The well-known RUGGLEs CARD CUTTER.
with my latest improvements, Is still preferred by
many printers and holds its fayorittsm over othsf
machines az .t. ~ 81 So. .-.t.;.
RI- None genuine but these having my full ad--
dress lettered in the castings.
Ga Newspapers in want of advertising, froms
first parties, should send for my circular proposal.
ANS0N HARDY, AUBURNDALE, MASS.
I will buy Of those that buy Of me.
Feb 10, 1876 80 om
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MORE CAPITAL TO THE ACRE.-It is
obvious to all who give the subject any
consideration that in order to make
farm profitable, it must be run to its full
capacity. To do this requires definite
amount of capital to the acre, just as
much as the space within the factory
walls needs to be fully occupied with the
most improved machinery. Capital on
Western farms is found to be the most
productive, as general rule, when in
vested in stock. Exceptional cases are
common where surrounding circumstan-
ces show that grain raising is the most
profitable. In some localities butter
making has been found to pay best. In
these, it will justify the farmer to either
sell off a portion of his land to increase
his working capital or hire capital and
keep more COWS. In another locality,
remote from market, a flock of Merino
sheep may prove a better investment
than cash invested in a large area of land.
At all events, whether the farmers capi-
tai be in the land or stock, he should
make full use of it. AS rule, stock
farms, especially dairy farms, are better
adapted to the constant employment of
every day in the year than are grain
farms. To make farming successful, Ell
ther on grain or on stock farms or on
both combined, the plans for conduct
ing them should be so we'll arranged that
no one about the place-either employer
or the hired laborers-should at any time
be without something to do that will be
profitable during the entire year. The
speculative tendency should be checked;
the holding of large areas of land with
view to making large profit in its in
creased value in the future. This is too
common. Taxes and interest on bor-
rowed money are more than match for
constant labor. Better to sell portion
of the land to raise money to properly
stock the remainder. All land that is
not used is an incubus on the farmers
prosperity, and some kind of return,
either in the farm of grain, stock or other
products, should be exacted from each
acre of land owned. To make the farm
pay, sufficient capital to the acre must
be used to work the farm up to its full
capacity of productiveness.--Rural
World.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-04-13

This beautiful poem originally appeared
in the Salem IN. c. Press. 1t is one of the
most beautiful gems that We have encoun-
tered in many days:
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-04-13
The Sun AS A CURATIVE AGENCY.

The Sun AS A CURATIVE AGENCY
DR.. Ponza, director of the Lunatic Asy-
lum at Alessandria (Piedmont), having
conceived the idea that the solar rays
might have some curative power in dis
eases of the brain, communicated his
views to Father Secchi, of Rome, who
replied: "The idea of studying the dis
turbed state of lunatics in connection
With magnetic porturbations, and with the
colored, especially violet light ofthe sun,
is of remarkable importance" Such
light is easily obtained by filter.
ing the solar rays through glass of
that color. "Violet," adds Father Secchi,
"has something melancholy and depress-
i've about it, which, physiologically, cau-
ses low spirits; hence, no doubt, poets
have draped melancholy in violet gar
ments. Perhaps. violet light may calm
the nervous excitement Of unfortunate
maniacs." He then, in the letter, ad-
vises DR.. Ponza to perform his expert
ments in rooms the walls of which are
painted of the same color as the glass
panes in the windows, which should be
as numerous as possible, in order to favor
the action of solar light, so that it may
be admissible at any hour of the day.
The patients should pass the night in
rooms oriented to the east and south,
and painted and glazed as above.
DR.. Ponza, following the instructions of
the learned Jesuit, prepared several
rooms in the manner described, and
kept several patients there under OBJ
servation. One of them, affected with
morbid taciturnity, became gay and atfa-
BILE after three hours stay in red cham.
ber; another, a maniac who refused all
food, asked for some breakfast after hav-
ing stayed twenty-four hours in the
same red chamber. In a blue one, a
highly excited madman with strait
waistcoat on was kept all day; an hour
after he appeared much calmer. The
action of blue light is very intense on
the optic nerve, and seems to cause a
sort of oppression. A patient was made
to pass the night in a violet chamber; on
the following day he begged DR.. Ponza
to send him home, because he felt him.
self cured; and indeed he has been we'll
ever since. DR.. Ponza's conclusions
from his experiments are these: "The
violet rays are, of all others, those that
possess the most intense electro-chemical
power; the red light is also very rich in
calorifc rays; blue light, on the contra
ry, is quite devoid of them as we'll as of
chemical and electric ones. 1t benefi-
cent influence is hard to explain; as it
is absolute negation of all excitement, it
succeeds admirably in calming the flu
rious excitement of maniacs."
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Too MUCH CorToN.-Bishop Pierce,
in letter to the Southern Christian Ad-
vocate, offers the following rational advice
to his countrymen:
Verify King Cotton, like other kings,
is consuming the substance of the peo-
pie. Prosperity in this article of produc-
tion, it seems "tendeth to poverty" A
very heavy crop has been made, and yet
the people are on the ragged edge" of
insolvency. The more we talk the poorer
we grow. And yet the desperate bet is
laid on another crop, in the face of ten
years unbroken uniformity of the results.
The heather adage, "Whom the gods
mean to destroy they first make mad"
is being actualized. No soil, no fertili-
zer, no seasons, will save the country on
the line of its present agricultural policy.
The result is just as disastrous on the
virgin soil of Texas as on the wasted
lands of Georgia. The man who loses
money in making ten bags of cotton, will
lose yet more in the production OF hum
dred. This is the fact in experience, in
spite of theory and figuring. Forgive
this episode, for I am really distressed at
the prospects of the country, financially.
Bad government may destroy US and our
property, but no legislation can lift US :,
out of the present Slough of despond," :"
without home supplies. Bread and meat
must be made, not bought. The great
burden of expense lies right there. The
stomach costs more than the back. Make
bread, raise meat, live at home, be self
supporting. Neither imitation, nor con-
traction, nor the financial plank in the
coming platform, will save us. Help
must come out of the ground, in bread
stufs. You may go to Texas-all cotton
will swamp you; you may stay in Geor-
gia and grow fat and rich on peas, pota-
toes, wheat and corn. Let us fill our gar
ners with all manner of store; then our
oxen will be strong to labor, our sheep
will bring forth thousands; then there
will "be no breaking in nor going out"
in quest of food-plenty and peace will
hush complaining in our Streets" and
we shall be happier and better people
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Anaegsua gntslligsnses.
UNDER THE SNOW.
BY JOHN H. BOSER.

This beautiful poem originally appeared
in the Salem IN. c. Press. 1t is one OF the
most beautiful gems that We have encoun-
tered in many days:
The brown old earth lies quiet and still
Under the snow:
The furrows are hid on the broken hill
Under the snow
Every twig is fringed with mossy pearl,
The dropping cedars bend to the ground,
The rose bush is drifted into the mound,
And still from the silent sky to the
ground
The white flakes noiselessly whirl.
The roads and fields are buried deep
Under the snow;
The hedges lie in tangled heap
Under the snow;
And the little gray rabbits under them
creep,
While the twittering sparrows cunningiy
From the sheltering briers and cozily sleep,
Under the snow.
The rough old barn and sheds near by,
The mounded straws of the wheat and rye,
Are covered with snow
The struggling fences are softened with
down,
Every part is white, with beautiful crown
Of drifted snow.
And I think, as T sit in the cleaning here,
Watching the objects disappear.
How many things are folded low
Under the drift of the falling snow!
There are hearts that once were full OF love
Under the snow;
There are eyes that glowed with the soul OF
Under the snow;
There are faded tresses of golden hair
And locks that were bleached with the frost
of care
There are lips that once were like the rose,
There are bosoms that were stung with
woes
There are breasts that once were true and
strong,
There are forms that once were praised in
song,
o, there's strange and mighty throng
Under the snow
Another mound will once lie deep
Under the snow
And I will with the pale ones sleep
Under the snow.
o, God, transform my soul with grace
That in the lovelight of thy face
may stand pure when death shall place,
My pulseless heart and body low
Under the snow.
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CAUSES OF FAILURE.-A prize was
once offered in large college to the one
who should give the best answer to this
question: "What was the secret of sue
cess ?" The student who bore off the
palm merely wrote one word: "Determi-
nation" This was the whole thing in a
nutshell. The lack of determination will
as surely lead to failure as determination
will insure success. We often know
what is right, and feel desire to do it,
and still fail in the resolution to begin
work. We sometimes begin the work,
and then drop it for the want of deter
mination and perseverance. Then we
have failure to chronicle. Not only a
failure, but a fearful inroad has been
made into perfect, strong character.
The world is teeming with full grown
men and women who lack frmness, de-
termination, executive power, and will.
No moral culture is complete that does
not give this kind of strength to charac.
ter. The world is teeming with full
grown men and women who lack firm
ness, determination, executive power, and
will. No moral culture is complete that
does not give this kind of strength to
character. Parents should see that their
children are not forming the habit of
beginning things, and then laying them
aside before they are completed. Set
them an example of courage and deter
minatien to begin work and 60 through
it resolutely. Measure their capacity,
and induce them to work up to it. Spare
no time or pains to incalculate. habits of
perseverance, pains to teach them to
have confidence in their own powers. A
child has great service done him when
he is induced to read the biography of a
good and great man. Such biographies
should be numerous in every family
Children will rise from the reading of
them with more admiration for noble
deeds, and greater desire to do them.
Parents often grieve over child who
has strong will, but they should be
thankful for it. IT'S true strong will in
a child may put parents and teachers
who do not know how to control it to
some inconvenience; but it is a nobler
gift than the gift of genius. We live in a a
wonderfully progressive age. Such would
not be the case were it not for men and
women of strong will-of determination.
Success and the highest virtues are unat-
tainable without it.
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Statistics show that the world is in
debt several billions of dollars. The
young man who says it owes him living,
would do we'll to look after his claim, or
he may lose it.
The daily gazette., 1876-08-07

To SUFFERING LADIEs.-"Dr. Rogerson's 8
Female Hydrastin Powders. for all female
complaints. By mail, 81. Address. Or
Rogerson, P.O. BOX. 256s n. 7. City.
The daily gazette., 1876-08-07
A Search for a Grass Widower.

A day or two ago Mr. Alex.
De Menil, as attorney, filed petl-
tion in the name of Mrs. Lentz,
praying for a divorce from her
husband, P. Lentz. A deputy
sheriff undertook to serve the no.
tice on the defendant. He found
Mr.lLentz in little grocery store
in the Ninth Ward, and read the
document to him.
"wh hats that" said Lentz. ga
divorce is it? Well, now, that's
queer. And for desertion, too!
Here. Biddy, when did l desart
you, as this paper says! You
want divorce, do your
Futher inquiry satisfied the fiji
Ger that hewas on the wrong track
and after consulting the City Di-
retory he stated for the house of
another P. Lentz. This one hap
pened to be German who had
been recently married, and was
fresh from Fatherland. On being
mape acquainted with the contents
of the paper he turned pale, and
holding up his hands, exclaimed;
"Mein Gott. Is bin no more as
dwo monts in dees koondry, and
dey dakes mine frau away. l kits
not up; 1 goes back to Yarmany.'
The deputy assured the Ger
man that he mad no intention Of
of taking his wife from him, and
explained that tho notice was tor
some other man of the same name
Thenext p. Lentz he found laughed
heartily when he learned the er-
rand ofthe officer.
"You say my wife wants a di-
vorce, do you!"
yes, so this document says.
DWELL she is welcome to it,
The fact is, my friend, | have
no wife; times are too hard.
Besides, i have an oath not to mar
ry until Tilden is elected, and that
will be next fall
The officer made one more at
tempt, and at last struck the right
man. He looked somewhat sor-
rowful and cast down, and ac-
konledged that he was the man
whose domestic relations were not
as pleasant as on the first month
of his marriage.
The daily gazette., 1876-08-07
Chemistry Of the Fattening Pro-
CaGg

A lean COW or OK is in a very
different condition, chemically
considered, from fat animals of
the same kind. In the first place
the poor animal consists of about
two thirds water, the fat one of
only half, that is in total weight.
A fat animal is in dry condition,
a poor animal is like some of our
bog meadows, very wet. When
the fattening process begins water
commences to disappear,and fat or
sues takes it's place; and the in
crease in bulk duringthe process
is largely of adipose matter. 1t is
curious circumstance that during
fattening, the proteids, or nitroge-
nous compounds, increase only
about seven per cent, ,and thebone
material or inorganic substances
only one and halfper cent.
The cost of fattening an OK is
much greater at the close of the
process than at thecommencement
that is, increase in bulk or dry
weight at that period is much
more costly. If it cost three cents
pound for bulk for the month af'
ter poor animal is put in the fat
tening stall, twill cost five cents
in the last month. If, then, far
mer consults his interests, he will
not carry the increas in fat beyond
a certain point, provided he can
turn his partially ly-fatted animals
to fair advantage. Farmers have,
perhaps, learned this fact from
| experience and observation, and
hence comparati veIy lean beef a
| bounds in our markets: while this
is of advantage to the farmer,it
is very disadvantageous to consul
mers of the beet, for the flesh of a
fat animal in every case is much
richer in fixed nourishing material
than that of tho lean, and it is
never good economy to purchase
lean beef. 1t is better to purchase
the poorest parSs of fat animal
than the best of n lean one. The
best piece OF fat OK (theloin) con-
tains from twenty-one to twenty
eight percent, more fixed mater
ial than the corresponding piece
in lean one, and curiously the
| worst piece in the lean animal
the neck) is the richest in nour-
ishing material. The flesh of the
neck improves very little in fattcn-
ing, hence, economy considered, it
is the best portion to purchase, las
Its value is in a measure Il fixed
one.
Horse flesh is as nutricious, con-
sidered as 4 food, as that Of the OK
or cow. The relation of nitrogen
GUS to fixed material is rather
higher in a horse than in an OK,
and the amount of water is less.
There is no good reason why horse
flesh should not be used as food.
1t is prejudice alone which pre-
vents it's employment. 1t is reg
ular article of sale in the meat mar.
kets of Paris at the present time
Journ0t of Chemistry.
The daily gazette., 1876-08-07

IOlHI, II jIJ0 IIIIsj HI OAsH...., OVV,UUU
PRICES OF TICKETS:
Whole tickets, Sl2; Halves, So: Quarters,
So tickets, 500; 27l5 tickets. $500; 461:
tickets,sN,O 9534 tickets 81 .0Oj ICE 900 tickets
at Si2 each:
Hon: Z. IL. Taylor, Mayor of Frankfort,
the entire hoard Of City Couucilme., Hon.
Alvin DuNall, late Chief Justice Of Ken
tucky, and other distinguished citizens. 10
sether with such disinterested persons as the
ticket holders present may designate will
superintend the drawing,
n Remittances can be made by Express. Draft.
Post Office Money Order or Registered Let
yer made nayable to KENTUCKY CASH
DISTRIBUTION COMPANY.
anu application for Agencies should be ad-
dressed to
HON. THOs. p. PORTER
General Manager. frankfort. Ky.
uiyl5-2tawlm
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Fashionable Furniture.
J. & J. ". HARTMAN,
No. 40 Kin 6tresr

WILMINGTON, DEL,
~SHRU We respectfully inform. tho am.
rens Of Wilmington and the snr-
IL rounding country that we continue
TO manufacture and keep on hand al
our large and long established warerooms
Furniture Of every variety and styie. eon,
sisting of Mahogany, Rosew ood and Vain,
Furniture suitable for psrlor .dining-room
and chamber uses. 0oAN
Our assortment of Furniture 8 larger and
more varied than can be found in Delaware
and all articles sold atour establishment are
warranted as represented.
VenitiaE Blinds Of the mos fashion able
designs made to order and kept constantiS
on hand. We aiso manufacture and CO astaat-
ly keep largeasortment of Spring III.
v Noss and H1sk Mattresses
J. ~. N. HARMAN,
4l0oKing street. Wlningto:
The daily gazette., 1876-08-07

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