The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-06-28

the hands of market gardener. 1t may
be attractive as the former residence of
a great editor, but it is we'll known that
the inland towns of Westchcstcr county
are inferior in point of social rank to
those on the banks of the Hudson.
- Ex-Republican Congressman and
Presidential Elector Sheldon, of Lou
isiana, says: We have peace, order, con-
fidencc, more tolerance of opinion than
ever before, and, so far as can see, bet
ter protection to life, liberty, property
and all legal rights. l believe Nichols
to be good man, and that he will faith
fully and effectively perform his duties.
The race issue in politics, with all the
attending prejudices, is passing away.
1t looks as if intelligence and integrity
would now dominate without regard to
color. l believe we arc in better con-
dition to have q republican party which
will do honor to the nation and carry the
State than if Packard had been sustained.
- Whether there was any anteccdcnt
arrangement for it or not in the Louisi-
ana commissions pacification, Gen. But
ler's attempt to bulldozc President Hayes
out Of the appointment of Col. Jack
Wharton as United States Marshal for
that State, in place of his friend Pitkin,
has failed. The change has probably
even been more promptly made because
of the Butler correspondence. Wharton
was an old rebel, but has been a Repub-
lican since the war, and belonged to War
moths gang of political operators and
rcvolutionists, which had given him a
somewhat unsavory reputation. He is
| probably no worse man than Pitkin;
but we fear he is not much better, and
his appointment represents the supposed
cxigencies of party politics rather than
the principles of civil-service reform.
= Professor Vile, perhaps the best
agricultural authority known, says that
phosphorus, nitro, lime and ammonia arc
the essential elements Of plants, and fur
nishcs the following formula for COM
pounding Il perfect food for the respcc
tive grains mentioned: Wheat per acre,
acid phosphate Of lime, $50 pounds; nj
trate of potassa, l75 pounds; sulphatc of
ammonia, 220 pounds; sulphatc of lime,
300 pounds. This will cost about S25.
Barley, oats, rye or grasses, acid phos-
phate of lime, It's pounds; nitrate of
potassa, pounds; sulphatc of ammonia,
10 pounds; sulphatc Of lime, 154 pounds.
This will cost about $3.50. Potatoes,
acid phosphate of lime, $50 pounds nj
tratc of potassa, 265 pounds, sulphatc Of
lime 265 pounds. This will cost about
$21. Grape vines and small trees, acid
phosphate of lime, 525 pounds; nitrate
of potassa, no pounds; sulphatc of lime,
$50 pounds. This will cost about $40.
- The divorce lawyer has evidently,
and happily, seen his best days. We
have recently chronicled the decisions of
both Indiana and Minnesota courts that
the Utah divorces which Chicago shys-
tiers have been getting people, without
their even entering the territory, arc Ut
terly worthless, and now st. Louis
Judge has struck another blow at the un-
savory business. The bar association of
that city brought an action to disbar one
Beal, who had solicited divorce business
by the common device of promising to
obtain DEGREES without publicity, and the
court granted it, on the broad ground
that such advertisements reflect inju-
riously upon the courts and the profess
sion, and to bring both into disrepute.
The last Illinois Legislature passed a
law forbidding the publication of advcr-
tiscmcnts of this sort, and, with the added
penalty of suspension from practice for
engaging in the business, the divorce
lawyer seems at last in fair way to be
suppressed.
- There is colony of Britishcrs in
Virginia who have had al anniversary
celebration at Petersburg. Before this
association one of the members recently
delivered an address, which if it came
from his heart would induce one to be-
licvc there is no country on earth like
"old Virginny." This orator said that
last year he lost his tobacco crop, and the
last week in July on tobacco land plant
cd one acre in Golden Nlillet. In Octo-
Der he harvested four tons of we'll cured
hay This same acre, without manure,
has the best wheat on it he ever saw in
Virginia. On two acres of his tobacco
land he drilled corn for fodder, and har-
vested 2l0 stocks, weighing 100 lbs. each
when dry, or over five tons to the acre.
After comparing Virginia with all other
States Of this Union, and extolling her
climate, soil and people beyond compari
son to almost any other spot or peoples
on earth, this eloquent Britishcr con-
cludcs his oratorical effort, which we sec
published in the Rural Messenger, thus
II do not expect to end my days in Vir-
ginia, for amidst all that is bri ght and
beautiful here, there is i land beyond
the seas, my native England, that is TO
me more beautiful" Is this not the key
upon which John Chinaman tunes his
harp-makc all you can out of American
soil, but take it home to enjoy it. If
this be immi grafton, we doubt its dcsira-
blcncss.
- The new administration pushes its
financial cxpcdicnts with such bcwildcr-
ing vigor that the President himself is
some Of the time in doubt whether he is
"in step" Or not, and the country at large
is slow to catch up. Among the points
on which Secretary Sherman has posi-
tive policy would seem to be the contrac-
ton of the small bills, which are almost
entirely of greenbacks. The withdrawal
of some ten millions of these bills from
circulation, by omitting to issue new
prints, discloscs the need of such q cur
rcncy in this country. Newspaper pub
fishers at the West, and other people
who send or receive small remittanccs,
complain of the scarcity of the 81 and -
grecnbacks. In no other civilized coun-
try does the sum total Of small rcmittan-
ccs equal that of America. The news
paper business is still largely conducted
1y sD191ptG tn 'FGugn earec ne Ia o m
co%pancs c and private eort steadily adj en-,
croaching on the mail distribution. The
book business is largely conducted by
mail, and small parcels in various
branches of merchandise are constantly
passing to and fro and being remitted for.
The fractional currency was handy for
this purpose, but can be dispensed with.
The American paper dollar, however, is
indispensable for this purpose, to al cX-