The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-08-15
ANDERSON, S. O.. THURSDAY Z. AUGUST Is, 1878.

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of purs iron. The natives bring pure
gold from the interior 10. trade, and We
procured 90 ruby, picked up from The
ground. The Liberianc claim that there
arb diamonds also, but precious stones
seem ,tefy scarce. These things I do
not give as rumofs but as the result OF
diligent inquiries among different people
OF different times aud places, and Of
personal inspection. At Clay-Ashland,
as well as everywhere else in Liberia,
everybody is mad on the subject Of
coffee.
b THE COFFEE TREE
is beautiful one, generally growing,
when developed and under cultivation,
ffon, six to, ten feet high, with largo
dark green leaf there Ike everything
else an everg,een.) II isgenerally plant
ed by scions or slips, the little trees being
taken from the beds when we'll started,
| and trahsplanted. The coffee grows in.
thickly clustering bnnches along the
branches, and is green in color, until
ripe, when it turns red. a thick pod or
case envelopes the grains, which 10
beaten OFF when gathered and dried.
Tho grains are very large, and the coffee
itself, 10 delicious, TO ay TASTE fully
equalling, il not supassing, Mocha. The
! coffee trees are usually planted about
400 TO the acre, and begin to bear we'll
the third year. The trees yield from one
TO five pounds of coffeo &. Gins ,. essa11i.i, ss1ii
| which sell at 20 cents per pound, whole.
eale, at Monrovia. While on this sub
ject, may say that saw in the Court
| house yard In Monrovia q COFFEE tree full
| lyltwenty-fve feet high, from which from
i've to ten pounds of tho grain are
gathered every year. The contemplating
season Is over now, listing from February
to May. ] saw the trees growing wild
and uncared for in tks bush In one place
and about the yards and streets in Mon
rovla. Almost everybody near the land
inss along the st. Paul's has little store
under their dwelling where they carry
on o
| ~ TRAFFIC WITH THE NATIVES.
Exchanging calicoes, kettles, guns
beads. &C., for country clothes, palm
kernels, coffee and rice. The palm kerr
nels are the nuts gathered from the palm
tree, and, with the oil pressed from them
form ono ofthe chief articles of export, the
oil being extensively used for the man,
ufacture of fine paints and soaps. The
English and French manufacturers ex.
tract the oil from tho kernels, and press
che remainder into cakes, which Is said
to make IN excellent food for cattle
Almost everybody handles palm oil
nearly the whole of Liberia seems tc
smell of it, end the odor is not a par.
ticularly delightful one.
RICE
also grows in wild and half wild stats
and but little care seems 70 be devoted tc
its production. It is kept in the hnsl
until wanted for use, when the required
quantity is pnt in wooden mortar, ant
hammered on until it is cleaned, ant
: tolerably we'll broken up. It is agooG
article. to the taste, being richer thar
our fine white rice. The I.iberians CLAIM
that this effect 10 produced by keeping /
unhuiled. Notwithstanding its growth
ct their very doors, however, they impor
India rice for consumption. Althongl
~ The country with cattle all abort. ",
had English canned butter at Clay-Aeh
land. i only saw milk at two places il
. Liberia, and then it was in the coffee
They say that the COWS give 80 litti
milk that it's hardly worth while iced
ing them. believe, though, that tn
experiment of carefully feeding and q.
tending to milch cattle has not as We
becE tried. Ciay-Ashland Is like tn
,, other settlements, scattering far and Wild
over the country, with every vacant 10
!, densely oyergEoWn with underbrusb, ant
all the roads covered with grass. w,
left there early on Monday morning, con
tinuing our course up the river. The dal
was the one appointed for the opening O
the quarterly court at Monrovia, and a!
we went up we met quite number o
planters coming down to attend. They
make quito
4 LUXURIOUS CONvEYANCEs
| of the long "dug- -outs, ;" having cushioned
or covered and backed seats near the
stern, in which the "boss" reclines be-
meath the shade of his umbrella ana
smoked his pipe, or leisurely discusses q
lunch or bottle of wine, while the
seven, eight, nine or ten natives who
compose the crew paddle away singing
merrily. In one Of these craft noticed
TIE two "bosses," leaning comfortably
oack, facing each other, with little table
between them, from which they at.
breakfast. In several places, on eacf
| side of the river, email creeks flow iritt
It. These are generally bridged just a
the mouths by tlimsy foot bridges, sup
portad ON long, inSasure looking poles
These creeks are 'Do great resorts of thu
hippopotamus, (,iyer horse.)
II GAME
docs not seem very abundant. I saw bu
} few birds along the river. There ar,
several species OF deer, the principal on,
being apparently the water deer, q small
} animal, say0ry 10 the taste, and from
whose skins the natives make sho
pouches and other articles. Quite {
number of other der are, however, kill
; ed in "the Dush." Monkeys arc abund
ant, but saw none, those ancestors o
J ours having o constitutional objection
J 10, being wetted by the rain. Panther.
occasionally make themselves trouble
some by leaping the apologies for fence.
and killing cattle. Those interestint
} animals are, however, becoming scarcer
Pcrcupines, squirrels and similar smal
''varments" seem plentiful. I saw OF,
, large alligator. on rock. He seemed Il
J be rather lighter in color than his Amer
iCan 5Tos.:s==, ~. he SaqA avidancl
of eqnal afacrity in moving a
the whistle of q rifle bullet, and D
{ equal persistsney in refusing 60 give any
! tangible evidence of whether he wa
hit or not. There are no tigers or lion
hsreabout, but elephants there must bt
, not far in the interior, as the nativel
, bring considerable Numbers of thei
tusks in for sale and barter. Fish swarm
SO was told, in the rivers. I noticed
many traps along the banks.
A. B. WILLIAMS.
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, ARsENIc.-The Master of the Stat,
(, Grange has issued circular to the loca