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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-05
NOTICE..

A IL persons are hereby forewarned not
"a to purchase or trade for negotiable
Note, past due, given by John g. Hall, and
endorsed by Mrs. M. J. Hall and M. Lesser,
as the said Note is without consideration,
and will not be paid by the maker or first
endorser. It is now in the hands of J. C. G.
Featherston, Esq, Assignee of NJ. Lesser.
JOHN G. HALL.
March %. 1877 36
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-05
TIE INETLIIGENCER.
LOCAL MATTERS.
POMONA GRANGE.

We are requested to announce that the
regular quarterly meeting Of Pomona Grange
WIN be held in Temperance Hall at this
place ON next Saturday, the 7th day Of April,
at 10 o'clock q. m. Delegates are requested
to meet promptly. as business of Importance
will be laid before the Grange.
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MANTUA-MAKING.

MFRS. n. ]. WEIGH wishes to inform
V1 her friends and the public generally
that she is still doing Ladies' and Children's
Work in the very latest style, cheaper than
any one else in town, and all orders prompt
ly executed. Give her call before going
elsewhere. Location on west side Main
Street, next to railroad bridge.
Jan Is, 1877 81 f= 6m
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-05
Insure. i. Your, Property.

r HAVE the honor. to represent the fol-
i lowing substantial Companies:
Underwriters Agency, New York.,
assets.
Niagara, N. Y, assets."..."...:,."..1, 10000
Continental, n. Y. assets. ...:..,... 100000
Georgia Home, Columbus, assets. '624,40
Mobile Underwriters Mobile, Ala! 100000
=, i :. III = ~ :>"'.7t> iii -4----
Total assets.s..".".......... ......!.$9, l27,3 346
These Companies are all reliable, and if
burnt, your policy will be paid. ), Do not de-
Law, but get policy in one of the above
Companies on your property before 1t is too
late. Delays are dangerous. = -
~, To-, A. B. TOWERS,
Insurance Agent, Anderson, g. Q.
Dec q, 1876 q -
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TO THE PUBLIC.
CARPENTERING,,

II HAVE opened my shopo Main Street,
Il and am prepared with new and com;
plete tools and machinery to do contract and
custom Carpenter Work at reasonable pri-
ces, and guarantee satisfaction: Having 9
good Lathe, will make wood-tuIning a
specially. A. w. iOOU.
J, March %, 1877 ;g 36 i I'm
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NOTICE; TO CREDITORS.
IN All persons having demands against
the Estate of jeremiah Moore, deceased, are
notified to present them to the undersigned,
properly proven, within thestiine prescribed
by law, and all indebted to make paymen
at once.
March %, 1877 81 .;
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
IN All persons having demands against
the Estate of Madison Palmer, deceased,
are hereby notified to present them to the
undersigned, properly proven. within the
time prescribed by law, and all indebted to
make payment ut once.
N. o. FARMER, Admir-.
March Is, IS 8"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05
The Story OF One Roast Pig.

Jerry Foster was an exceedingly parsi-
monious man, while he was a most tre-
mendous feeder. He was a native of
New Jersey, living some thirty miles east
of Philadelphia, and attended market in
that city. In person he was a great
lanky-built fellow, and where all the pro-
visions he devoured at one sitting went
to it would require a medical board to
determine. Well, one day Jerry started
with his wagon to the city. His load
consisted of butter, eggs, potatoes and
few infant swine, handsomely dressed
for the table. All of his marketing was
disposed of early in the morning but one
pig, and then the farmer drove round to
4 small tavern on Second street, where
he proposed stopping for dinner, the
price thereof, in those cheap times, be-
ing twenty-five cents. He sold the rooster
to Mr. Randolph, the tavern keeper, for
seventy-tive cents. About two o'clock
Jerry appeared for his meal. There
happened that day to be no guest at the
table but him. The dinner was brought
in. The rooster sold Randolph in the
morning, all crisp and brown, stood be-
fore his former owner. Just as the trio
were proceeding to work Mr.. and Mrs.
r. were suddenly called away to care for
one of the children taken ill., The land
lord, on departing, told Jerry to go
ahead and eat his dinner. Jerry "waded
in" Piece after piece of the porker was
devoured, with cranberries, potatoes, tur-
nlps and bread and butter ad libitum.
In probably three-quarters of an hour
Mr.. and Mrs. r. returned. There was
the table, there was Jerry, but where
were the provisions-where especially
the pig? The Jerseyman was leaning
back in his chair complacently picking
his teeth. The pair surveyed him with
an expression of indignant establishment
At length Randolph spoke: =" Why
well, stranger, should say you were
unusually fond of roast pig" " Yes,
yes, may say am; and areal fat, good
sized one makes me, with trimmins, just
a fair meal" said Jerry, heaving sigh
Randolph was out fifty cents on the pig
alone, and maybe as much more on the
other provisions consumed by the Jersey
man, but you may be sure Foster ate no
more dinners at Randolph's for quarter.
". Y. Mercury.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05
A Cash Transaction.

A GENTLEMAN living on Dufficld street
yesterday hired boy to walk home be-
side him and carry bundle, having first
agreed to pay the lad fifteen cents.
Reaching the house the man found he
had no smaller change than quarter,
and he said: .r
If you will call at my Office at two
o'clock will have the change"
But it was to be cash down." pro-
tested the boy.
Z" So it was; but haven't the change,
you see. You'll have to call at my Of
fee" U....
"Pll CALL" growled the boy, as he
turned away, but know just how it
will work. When knock on the door a
cross.eyed clerk will yank it open, ask
me what want, and when tell him he
will yell out: That man went into bank
ruptcy last September, and now you gitr
That's the way they allus play it on me,
sir, and | druther lose the fifteen cents
than to call the clerk dodo and have
to dodge coal.scuttles all the way down.
stairs" t...
The gentleman walked with him to the
nearest grocery and made change.--De-
troit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05
AnecdOte Of President Lincoln.

The following original and character
istic anecdote of President Lincoln comes
to US from Western correspondents:
| am reminded very forcibly of an in
terview which once had with the martyr
President by what one of your CORE
spondent relates in regard to a similar
interview. l called upon Mr.. Lincoln
soon after he was first installed in the
White House. In the room where Mr.
L. granted interviews, ETC., were several
persons who were waiting their turn to
speak to him. l listened to the requests
of several men and women, and l saw
that very few were granted what they
solicited. had q seat at or near one
end of long table. Mr.. Lincoln sat at
the other end Soon after was seated,
in walked several officers in the Spanish
navy to pay their compliments to Mr.. L.
By some means they were directed to-
ward my end of the table, and / saw they
took me for the President Mr.. L. saw
the same thing, and hastily signaled me
to go ahead" as he expressed it, and
receive them. | rose, shook hands with
each officer, and exchanged few words
with them, which would have been,
suppose, appropriate had indeed been
President. The moment their backs
were turned looked toward Mr.. L. He
was shaking WITH laughter l thought
now had paved the way to win the posi-
ton l had come to ask. l made up my
mind to address the President in a new
way, and thus add to the hold l already
had upon him So, when my time came,
l stepped up to Mr., L. and said:
Sir, have seen the annoyance TO
which you are subjected by so many and
oft-repeated requests for innumerable
positions, etc. Now if you will permit
me to shake hands, l Twill try and smother
my desire for certain position which 1
had come to ask from you"
Mr.. L. jumped up, and, grasping my
hand, said:
"Sir, you are one man in a thousand.
I am dOuJly indebted to you. You have
the means of conveying to those Spanish
officers that the President Of the United
States is very handsome man, and then
you do not even ask an office. But" he
added, "hurry home. You mag repent"
1t is sufficient to add that hurried
Editors Draoer, Harper's Magazine for
May.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05

They are worse than ever. Baby's re
sponses come near drowning the prayer.
Charley finds pin, and is about to stick
it into baby's leg when l restrain MIN.
Then they both stand upon their crickets
and make Simultaneous dive for the
depths of my easy chair, nearly knocking
me into the fire. Next they pull off their
fathers slippers, and are about to com
nit assault and battery on him. Just
then he says: "Our Father which art in
heaven" They recognize that phrase
las the beginning of the end" and the
transformation is wonderful. Little heads
are bent and hands folded decorously,
and in that attitude they remain for a
full minute after we are on our feet, as
proof positive that they have been
good" We hold a family council as
to the degree of badness that merits a
whipping, and end with giving them
solemn lecture and free pardon.
We entertained minister, not long
since, for week. OF course he con-
Quoted prayers, and l said, apologetical-
ly, that hoped the children did not dis
turb him. Poor mani Like George w,
he could not tell lie. So he blushed
and said they did distract him little,
but he hoped he should be able not to
notice it.
Cannot anyone who reads this tale of
woe suggest a remedy? appeal to those
who have no children-their theories
are always best-to tell me what to do. :
CIergymGn's Wife, IN Christian Union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05
Chinese Compliments.

THE Boston AdUert5ser prints as fol-
lows translation of letter recently
written by Chinese official to Hon. j.
c. A. Wingate, of New Hampshire, who
was for twelve years United States Con-
sui at Swallow. The translation was
made by Rev. S. B. Partridge, of the
American Baptist Mission at Swallow,
who says that he finds it difficult to
translate the language of etiquette.
The letter reads:
To the Hon. Mr. WINGATE. formerly United
States Consul at Swallow. China. Years since
separated but often remembered:
A kind friend coming to this city
brought your delightful letter, together
with a photograph of yourself, which to
the sight were as fragrant flowers.
rejoiced often to look upon them, and
carefully will preserve them. think
of you as happy in your beautiful vii
lage, rejoicing in its groves and bub-
bling springs, moving on smoothly, as in
a skiff floating with the current.
Your official career here in China was
as Towering shrub, year by year in
creasing in size and fragrance. During
your brief stay here we each held the
other in mutual esteem, and the events
of that time seem but yesterday. But
now that ten thousand Ii separate us, in
my thoughts of you three years would
scarce measure the seeming length of
single cay. Could l but be led to the
threshold of your door, with instru-
ments of music would / praise you in
loftier strains.
Some years since l went to Picking and
saw the face of the Emperor, and after
ward returned to Kwan Tung Province
as Governor, for more than year, of
Nam Kiong and Sio Chin. Then, by
command of the Emperor, returned to
Tie Chin. Although thus officiating in
the North and in the South, am I'M
worthy of the honor. The insubordina.
ton in this department is gradually
being overcome, and the disposition of
the people is better than in former
years. The Middle Kingdom is at peace
with other nations, and there is no &C.
casion for war, on account of which |
comfort my heart and greatly rejoice.
As cloud upon the distant mountain
do you seem, and my heart is sad as l
think; but knowing that you think of me
my thoughts of you are continuous.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05
Character Shown in the Hand.

DIR. A. B. CROSBY lectured recently in
New York on 1.-THE Human Hand" He
said it was the most perfect and express
i've part of the body. A long palm and
short fingers, with small thumb, indi-
cate british instincts. Warmth, silky
feeling and color, show youth and health.
The tips of the fingers are spatulous,
square or conical. The spatulous or
parabolic represent everything useful;
honest work, mechanical labor, but little
poetic or spiritual feeling. Persons
whose fingers are of the square type act
on the square. They are methodical
workers, and are governed by defined
rules. Conical tips indicate an artistic
and impulsive temperament. They show
a love of painting, architecture, sculpture
and song. The thumb governs the hand
and seems to sympathize with the brain.
In idiots and epileptics the thumb con-
ceals itself in the palm beneath the fin
gers. With returning sanity it resumes
its position on the outside. In the
agonies Of death it also conceals itself,
thus in these cases showing that it
recognized the lack of governing power
in the mind. A large thumb indicates
strong will, a small thin thumb preju-
dice. Short fingers show hasty judg-
ment, bold execution and high results.
Long fingers show detail and minuteness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05
4 Story Of Thad. Stevens.

PIERCE NJ. B. YOUNG, recent Repre-
sentative in Congress from Mississippi,
was Confederate General, and grad
uate of West Point. He came to Wash
ington soon after the war, seeking to
have his disabilities removed. He is q
fine, manly fellow, and seems to have
accepted the results of the war in good
faith He went TO Thad., and Thsd. be-
gan to play with him, as he sometimes
did with those whom he intended to
make his victims. He said:
You are graduate of West Point,
believer"
Yes, sir"
Educated at the expense of the
United States, l believe, which you
swore faithfully to forever defendS"
Yes, sir"
"You went into the service of the in
fernal rebellion?"
Yes, sir"
You were brigade commander in
the raid into Pennsylvania, which de-
stroyed the property of so many of my
constituents"
"Yes, sir"
1T was squad of men under your
direct charge, and under your personal
command, that burned my rolling-mill?"
Young thought he was gone, but see
ing that the old veteran had come into
possession of the last fact, which Young
did not dream he knew,.it was impossi-
BILE to deny the truth of his question.
Thad roared OUT Well, like your
impudence. / will see that your disa-
bilities are removed. Good morning"
The next day the bill passed the
House. Washington Cor. Troy IN. ~
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05
" That Leetle Tim"

THE boy with the basket of apples
was half an hour late yesterday, for the
first time in six months, and when he
came in he was without his basket, and
his eyes were red and swollen. He's
been such a straight, square boy that he
has many friends on this corner, and he
was at once asked if the boot blacks had
been cobbing him.
"No, not that" he said, "but don't
you remember that 'Leetle Tim who
came here once in while with me?"
Little TIM! Yes-he is your brother"
That's what he was, and was break
ing him in to sell apples and make change.
Well, leete Tim is dead?'
"No?"
Eyes. When woke up at daylight
this morning he was cuddled up to my
back, cold and dead! The Lord took
him in the night, sir, and wasn't it awful,
sir, that wasn't awake to put my arms
over him and hug his little head up under
my CHM"
cts too bad-too bad"
&c It's awful on US all, sir. Fathers
sitting in the corner, crying like child;
mothers weeping and wailing, and the
children are smoothing leetle Tins curls
and calling on him to wake up! That's
why haven't brought the apples, sir,
and that's why / won't be here for two
or three days. We've got to bury leetle
Tim, we have, and don't see how we
can ever gather around the stove again
of an evening and he lying in the grave
yard! Pm big, sir, but can't help cry
ing, and father can't help but cry, and I
wish-I-"
And may the Lord seat little Tim at
His right hand and give him a crown of
glory. Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05

"A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph writes: melon and cucum-
Der bugs like radish leaves better than
any other kind. / SOW few radish
seeds in each hill, and never lose plant.
Earth-worms, cut-worms, white grubs,
and, in fact, all soft bodied worms are
easily driven out by salt sown broadcast.
You can do no harm with ten bushels to
the acre; but halfbushel is ample.
Dry. Stacked lime is also etiectual."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05

AT recent meeting of the Trustees
of Ande sons Institution, Elgin, Scot
land, the Governor stated that neither
the boys nor the girls in the institution
were provided with knives and forks;
they conveyed their food to their mouths
with their fingers. This scandalous
omission has lasted for forty years. A
supply of knives and forks has been Or
dered
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05

"A small boy died at Bennington,
VT, from swallowing screw, which,
becoming lodged in his throat, caused
his death by suffocation. The same boy
but week before his death swallowed
a twocent piece, and the day preceding
was caught in the act of endeavoring
to get nail down his throat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05

Therefore do write this worthless epis-
tie, desiring that you may receive innu-
merable blessings, and that your light
may never be extinguished.
CHANG, Prefectural Governor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-05-05

SOME people can't endure ringing sem
sation in the ear, while most ladies take
very naturally to earrings.
, 1877-12-27

our villages arl cities, mil ~ a.c iaborinE 10
ri-c nut nf the Eanks NJ rncrc tsnantry; and, ~e
venture to ahy, wouIl hall the t'ay when their
wages alnul,l be- "rrt tntr'' as tllcy were before
silver ~as .ticmonrttzed, when there WIS a d.
rrni for ld5or, mud tut Of their earnings they
were as,1e tn make an annual payment br saEinE.
The iahoEfng men arc directly interested In
the rcseuc If the debtor from the calarnitlrs OF
the present hour, AMI this nttempt to array
nal!y fall.
lt1. tni. speciouA argument + most .!4nihcant
IN this: that Il bears with It the admission on
the part nt these proponents that the rcmon-
etizatton Of silver Will "cnt fnton the creditor
class. AYE, THERE'S the rub" Th,h return 10
tho strict letter Of the contract will cut" short
Wethank you for that word What prohtaa Ger
tatnly only those growing out Of tho tIemonctlz-
Ing act. Not one tnstn2 that may be aacribel
To tho Fc1attye appreciation Of our legal-tender
Of just'cc and humanity. the creditor can be cn
titled to. MT one farthlHR that would 70 to
advance The average wages Of the IabortnR man,
wtirh, under the prcasure Of th!a hame policy
81 thc gold ,ntfl. has been forced from, one de-
cline to another, necessarily as the values nre
| reduced Of nil tho productions Ut 1atlor.
Then surely that which vas the .(rne gin Of
LEGISLATION to tbe ever prospcrn,: crcflitornlone,
legislation may rghtful1y withhold. And, III
that withholding, whatever is "cut" freua tho
undue prnflts OF The creditor must 70 to the
benefit Of tho dehtor rho.c cause ID, ID the
main. ever measurable from that Of tho poor
and tho oppressed.
Thus. III the attempt to set the laborer against
The ietJtor, the arortd prqab Of this transaction
arc brought to Hight. ..
There Is no longer doubt. They ali admit
! this restrictive policy to be agalnst the debtor
| class.
sha'l. then, leRisiation favor tho fen princes
| Of wealth whose Investments arc in bonls and
other securities bearInR intcrest,-who stand
| upon An ctntmcncc Rboye the reach Of want Or
embarrassment ,-or shall II rather protect tho
| toiinE m:lIinns who carry forward the product
I've industries Of The country, and whote ihrcst-
ments arc In 5artns, md sflope, and factories,
\ and shipping. mud tho various appliances and
productions Of their several h.stncssesl
Ths former "to!l mt. neither do they spn ~;
nor do they tnycst In labor; tic id!ir, by ven
lures anil bY dnt Of application, tnako certain
ncenmuattons on which arc based The con11cnce
| aal credit Ut business. Out Of the operations
! II these are evolved all material growth and
| prOsuerfty.
| The accumulatfons OF tho former arc but
transferred from the hard eaznngs Of the latte.
bJ system of accommodation. the prime and
proper obie't OF which Il to quicken, nut not to
| absorb nnl dcstroy--to give life to, rot to par
alyze, tho the arm Of industry.
| VINO can doubt tho trua purpose OF govern.
! nient IN ttis regardf a. h. DTcKMAN.
, 1877-12-27
THE MERCURfAlsrIRe-ArhRM,

Cu1oAao, Dee. 9}, 1s77.-lIatsra EIsttre ikaa-
nJucturtug ComEaaa1t}ESTLEnEs: W. arc
pleased to state that VIZ were Eaycd from sestuus
loss from hre Inst ayeniuR through tho agency
Of yous Mervurial Ftre-Alasua. A fro originated
upon the third floor Of our building FROM Pumc
cause uukncwn to lls, aud tcfort It was we'll
under hcatway .your alarm sounded st the pa
troll station on Era,lklia strut, anu the patrol,
with Capt BulixInkls, was Immediately directed
to the place Of danger. Capt. Ballwlnkla was
the first to arrive, but on hts arrival s1e1e was
no siEu Of Tire Or smoke 10 bo seen from the
street. The nsrcurial Indicator, however,
pointed to "1fAsd floor, rcar," and the patrols
men bsuks through = ttxht Of Klaas. aud go'ag
to thu spot iudicated found the tire. Thcu, by
ordcr VI Cspt. Builwlukle, the city slsrn waa
sounded, aud By sha joint efforts OF TIE patrol
aud Department the fro wss vxtIuguishcd with
only tTItlu9 loss. Whilo from the location and
extent Vi tle tre it II certain that tbs loss would
have been sevvral hundred thousand dollars II
II bad not BEEN for ths prompt aud petfccs setlou
OF YOUR atarM.
We cauaot pzsiso tho Mazm too highly, aud