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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06
New Rendering Of an Old Song.

"What iu home without q mother?"
says the old and popular ballad. Truly,
what is home without heg. il she be
bright, sunny-faced woma. ,althful,
hopeful, happy, always look on bright
side of life, the beloved companion of her
children, sending her husband out into
the world every morning with cheerful
word of encouragement, and meeting
him at night with q welcoming kiss A
home is indeed made desolate by the loss
of such wife and mother. Many o
mother is not this "bright end shining"
home-light, less because of her disposi-
ton than because weakness and disease
have deranged body and brain, making
her irritable, peevish and faultfnding,
even to those whom she best loves. DIR.
Prices Favorite Prescription is never
failing remedy for female diseases. Hun
dreds of happy homes owe their bright
ness and attractiveness TO this remedy,
which transformed their wives and moth
ers from respondent, feeble invalids into
healthful, hopeful women.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

A PREACHERS IDEA OF THE FUTURE
OF THIS EARrH.-On Sunday night, at
the Cambria Philadelphia Methodist
Episcopal church, Rev. L. Hughes,
preached on the future ofthe earth. His
theory was that, at the lastjudgment, the
world, which, as the Scriptures say, is to
be destroyed by fire, will not be ami
hilated, but, rather that, under the ac-
ton of fire, its present form will merely
undergo change. He argued that the
language of prophecy and the whole
tenor of the Scripture pointed to this
idea, and that it was impossible to- be-
lieve that this earth, which God him
self declared to be good, and upon which
the Saviour lived and died, should be en-
tirly given over to the flames. The trans
formation of the old earth into new earth
would, so the preacher argued, take place
after the day of judgment. The new
earth will be as prim as the present one
and with the same heavenly dome spread
over it. Beauty would delight the eye,
music attract the ear, and there would
be blissful intercourse between man.
There would be green hills, majestic
mountains, fertile fields, fruit-bearing
trees, flowing streams, fragrant flowers
over a clear, bright sky, an ever-shin-
lug sun, with all the materialism which
sense.sees in the present, but without the
sensualties that sin creates and impress
es o. our present existence. In short, it
will be the present earth, so renewed and
rege elerated that it will appear in all the
graces of its first formation. "This said
the preacher, twill be Paradise Regained
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

BULLETS MEETING IN THE AIR.
The probability of bullets and other mis-
siles in their fight when shot from oppo-
site points in such numbers as they
would necessarily be in battle, is certainly
not by any means doubtful. The posi-
bility of such missiles being welded to-
gether by their contact, however, seems
no decidedly remote that such result
appears to us certainly phenomenal.
1t appears, however, from Forest and
Stream, that the New York shot manu-
facturers, Messrs. latham Brothers, oc-
casionally found bullets welded together
in the scrap-lead brought from the bat.
tle-felds of the American civil war, and
Lieut.. Col. John A. Mclaughlin recent
" forwarded two bullets to the Scicn-
tifc american so impacted in each other
which were also picked up on the same
fields. He says that at the time of the
retreat of tho Federal General N. P.
Banks, after his defeat, in attempting to
capture Shreveport, Louisiana, in the
summer of 1864, he (Lieut. Col. Nc
Laughlin) was in command of one Of the
retreating regiments. A portion of his
regiment was thrown forward on the
flank of the main body in skirmishing
order. These two bullets, he says, were
impacted in the air between his skir.
mishers and skirmishers of the enemy,
and fell like spent ball near the head
of the column of the main body. A
drum major, seeing the missile fall near
him, picked it up, thinking it to be a
spent bullet, but found the two bullets
welded together. He afterwards presen-
ted it to Lieut.. Col. Mclaughlin. One
of the bullets belonged to larger bore
rifle than the other, and the larger one
is stated to have belonged to the Confed-
crates, as it was of calibre then known
to be much used by them, and somewhat
larger in bore than the rifles used by the
Northerners. 1t is supposed that the
larger bullet had travelled shorter dis.
tance than the smaller at the instant OF
impact, and possibly had been propelled
by superior quality or quantity of pow
der. This, together with its weight, is
thought to have had the effect or driving
the smaller bullet back beyond the line
from which it was fired.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06
Hon. Gustaye Schleicher's First Nomi-
nation.

The district that the late Gustave
Schleicher represented in Congress was
the largest in the country. 1t took in
the whole southwestern part of Texas,
from the Mexican frontier half way
across the State away beyond San An
tonic. Delaware, Rhode Island and
New Jersey could have been packed
away in it without covering all the
ground. To hold convention in that
district was not the work Of a day or
week. When the convention was called
in 1874 there were two candidates in the
field whose strength was about equal.
The convention was called to meet at
Brownsville, and there were 125 dele
gates. The party from San Antonio e1-
pected a siege and made preparations.
They hired a good cook, laid in two or
three wagon-loads of supplies, the items
being ton of ice and two barrels of
whiskey, and started. 1t was almost
two-weeks' journey, and they took it
leisurely. On arriving at Brownsville
they pitched their tent, unlimbered the
barrels of whiskey and then they were
ready for the fight. Day after day the
balloting went on, always with the same
result, and the end apparently as far off
as ever. Finally the ice began to grow
beautifully less and even the whiskey
was low in the barrel. With the dissi-
patton of the ice and the failure of the
whiskey, it was evident that something
must be done. The thirteenth day Of
the convention was approaching, when
an old stage driver got up and, after
eulogizing the two candidates, said that
he wanted to make suggestion. There
was one man who knew the whole State
of Texas. 1t was big State, and there
was only one man who had tramped all
over it. That man was Gus. Schleicher.
He knew every foot of it as q surveyor.
Besides that, he was an honest man and
one whom all the boys could trust. He
did not want to say anything, but on the
next ballot he should give his vote for
Schleicher. No one has thought of it,
but the effect was electrical. The voting
had hardly begun when the end was
plain, and one of the candidates with
drew his name. Schleicher was nomina-
ted and the nomination made unanimous.
No one was more surprised than he. He
was speechless, and when they called
upon him he could not say word. He
had never thought Of the Office as one
that he could aspire to, for the competi-
ton was bitter, and between two popular
and able lawyers. He attempted to say
something, but burst out into tears and
sat down. The boys gave him another
round of cheers, and from that day to
this not a man in that convention ever
regretted the vote that he gave.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06
oueen Victoria leads q verv quiet.

Queen Victoria leads very quiet,
and yet busy life, and few great ladies
find time to compress so many occupa-
tions into a daytime as she does. She
breakfasts at 9, lunches at 2, and dimes
at 8. From 8 to 5 she generally drives or
walks out; but the remainder other hours
is devoted to State business, study, or
correspondence with members of her
widespread family. AL the Queens
private letters are written in English not
in German, as many think; and, in fact,
German, is so little spoken among the
royal family that even when the Grown
Prince of Germany comes over, he speaks
sEnglish at Court like his wife's relatives.
The Queen reads all the daily newspap-i
ers. The Queens devotion to State af-
fairs is we'll known, and her Intervention
in them, particularly when religious
questions are involved, is not at all half
hearted.
= North Carolina has two hundred
and sixty. one turpentine distillers. The
number of illicit liquor distilleries is not
as easily counted,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

- The Jewish Chronicle finds "a
prophecy fulfilled" in one of the results
of the new understanding between Great
Britain and Turkey, and thus speaks of
it: "The report that the. Porte has gran
ted concession to an English company
for the construction of the Euphrates
Valley Railroad, and to a French COM
pany for the Joffa- Jerusalem line, has
been very favorably received by the Jews
in Jerusalem, especially rs, according to
their belief, o prophecy in the Scrip
lures will thereby be fulfilled. The..E
pirates Railway, so it is proposed, will
intersect the former provinces of
Assyria and Babylonia, and will have
stations at Mossul aud Hiilel, in the
neighborhood of which towns are Assyri-
an and Babylonian ruins. 1t has been
suggested at Constantinople that eventu-
ally junction might be effected between
the Euphrates line and the Egyptian,
railways, which, if carried out, would
confirm the following prophecy of Isaiah,
xix, %: Tn that day there shall be a high
way out of Egypt to Assyria, and the
Assyrian shall come into Egypt and the
Egyptian into Assyria and the Egyptians
shall serve with the Assyrians."
The consumption ofbeer in the whole
German Empire last year was S41 ,05S,-
79S gallons, or nearly twenth gallons per
month of population.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

"A New York business man who
has made large fortune mainly through
the judicious use of "printers' ink" has
recently given the public the benefit Of
his experience. He holds that advertis.
ing should be included in the general
estimate of expense, as regularly as store
rent, clerk hire and insurance. 1t is Of
ten said that good stand at high rent
is better than poor one rent free. Ad-
vertising brings a man before the pub
lie in way that makes any "stand,' good.
The best stand you can have is to be in
the newspapers. These are facts brought
out in the experience of the fall trade.
Most of the large concerns are so extern
sively engaged in advertising that it is
made special department with q
"head" and his assistants. The leading
houses have q man skilled in the art of
writing and displaying their notices.
They study the various methods of reach
ing the public eye of every important
journal as an advertising medium.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

- We gather together only to have
our treasures scattered far and wide after
death. This is true of the great as we'll
as of the humble, and no better examples
of this fact can be found than in, the sale
of the valuables Of two men who only
twenty-five years ago were the most
marked figures in Europe. In three
chambers of the Vatican the possessions
of Pope Plus TX have been set out and
are being bought by people of foreign
countries, and of various forms ofreligion.
In a few days the china, plate, and table
linen of Louis Napoleon are to be sold
at auction, and the property of an EN-
peror is to 60 to the highest bidder.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

- Mrs. Williams, of Utah, was the
other.day before the Judicial Committee
Of g 7ngress praying that the recent
decision of the Supreme Court shall not
be enforced upon those living in bigamy,
as the surrender of all but one wife
would drive the others with their chill
dreninto state Of ofdestitution.
- -Four colored studenss have entered
The Protestant Episcopal Divinity School
nc West Philadelphia, who expect to
i5isngage ID missionary work IN Africa. &
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06
Henrv Ward Beecher is about to b

Henry Ward Beecher is about to be
sued for $4,000 damages, for arranging
to lecture at Maryland fair, and then
canceling the engagement, because it did
not promise to be profitable.
= Richmond, the Kearney County,
Neb., murderer, who is to be executed
the 26th of April, will experience the
novelty of being hung on Saturday. He
has sold his body to a medical college.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

EDUCATE THE NosE.--"To the 'un-
learned nose all odors are alike, but
when educated, no member of the body
is more sensitive" The nose is the gate
to the lungs, and when we'll tutored it
often proves life preserver. Educate
the nose, and the most sensitive will find
that DR.. Prices Unique Perfumes are
the gems of all odors.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

The anti-Polygamy Society in Salt
Lake City has passed resolution stating
that the Mormons are amost universally
determined to adhere to polygamy, and
that if Congress adjourns without action,
or grant amnesty, the Mormons would
regard it as a triumph ofthe Saints over
their enemies.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

PoPULAn.-So popular are DR.. Prices
Special Flavoring Extracts, that few
kitchens can be found where they are not
used and their introduction to any house
hold is the advent of new pleasures at the
table. DR. Price has succeeded in pro-
ducing fayoring peculiarly delicious.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-06

Bis Charming Roman Homo, Bis Poems,
Hio Statues and Bis Genius-A Life of
Noble Labor Deliberately Preferred to
ICnoble Ease.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18
a ROYAL Road to Learning.

San Francisco is so speculative that an
enterprising citizen has even been oper
ating, in a rather peculiar way, in the
school board there. The annual exami-
nation of teachers was lately to be made,
preparatory to their acceptance by the
board, and the examiners had prepared
and printed list of questions to be
asked. This is something always dread
ed by candidates, because may of those
are often so peculiar, so unexpected, as
to puzzle any ordinarily informed mind.
Full aware of this, the operator obtained
copies of the list, and sold them at 800
each to the expectant teachers, and also
charged from 500 to $500 for answering
the questions and get the required certi-
ficates from the board. He likewise put
them to no little expense by calling on
them when he chose, ordering costly
meals, and acting precisely as if he own
ed them. The exposure, which has pro-
duced considerable excitement in edu-
cational circles, shows how Unqualified
many persons who offer their services
are for the duties of teaching. The price
paid in that city is larger than usual
and consequently there is much anxiety
particularly in these hard times, to
secure the places controlled by the board
the matter of capacity or fitness being
the last thing thought of. No doubt 8
number of the regularly-installed teach
ers there have obtained positions by
Legitimate means. In all probability
the entire school system of San Francis
co needs investigation.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18

LIME has an important effect aside
from its action as plant-food. Freshly
burned lime (known as caustic lime
and "quicklime -" has strong affinity
for carbonic acid, SO that when it and
organic matter (Which always contains a
large proportion of carbonic acid) are
mixed together, the lime and carbonic
acid unite, promoting the decomposition
of the organic matter. Newly "slaked
lime (which is lime united with water
has an effect similar to quicklime,
though slower, and hence is better for
farm use. Fresh, undecomposed organic
substances, especially dung, contain the
most valuable ingredient of plant-food,
nitrogen, in its simple form; but it is
very soon changed into ammonia, which
in turn unites at once with carbOnic
acid. Then when lime Is brought in
contact with the mass, it at once COM
bines with the carbonic acid, and the
valuable ammonia escapes and is lost.
When, however, the lime is applied be-
fore the amonia is formed, the nitro
gen is oxydized to nitric acid, which
unites with the lime to produce nitrate
of lime, and the nitrogen is saved.
Therefore, lime may be used in stables
and house privies, or in composing
carcases of dead animals, to advantage
but if mixed with manure day or two
old, the result is loss of valuable ma
terial. The above also shows why, when
lime is put into compost, it has such
beneficial action in Fastening decom-
position, and why it is necessary to use
Il 70 l. Al
Gaping ammonia.-American AgricuItur-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18
The Excess of Books.

The excess of books is nearly as en-
barrassing to the men of the nineteenth
century as the deficiency was to those of
the ninth. The mass is over-mastering.
The very number of the volumes puts
it out of our power to read all. We are
driven to select. A few samples from
the best are positively all we are able to
open and examine; and even of this
selection we are able to make careful
study of only part The sight of a
great library would be absolutely dis
heartening did we not also know that
the mass of that knowledge is summa-
rized in a few small volumes. In any
such collection there are many stalks
and husks; the seed corn is found ia a
few golden ears. Turn over the husks
to the cattle; preserve the ripe ears
ZSOn's Herald.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18
Ringing the Bells.

Its harder to ring the peals than to
chime. 1t takes one man to each rope
to ring the peals. Its like playing an
instrument, you see, in ringing the
changes. Each man has to know his
part and keep his mind on it, for if he
makes the slightest mistake it put every
thing out of order and the bells all come
home and they have to 60 back and
begin over again. It's unlike any other
kind of music in that way. You play
on piano or organ and strike the wrong
key you can set yourself right again
without going back. But in change
ringing if a wrong stroke is made you
must go back and get right again, nc
matter if you've been ringing for an
hour. It's not easy work ringing the
changes. But it's harder or easier &C
cording to the greater or less number o.
bells. Some churches have more BELL
and some less. Seven bells with tenor
behind have 5,040 changes. To rims
them all, ringing twentyfour change
/ to the minute, takes three hours anC
thirty minutes. To ring the changes OF
twelve bells would take 81 years and 33t
days. The highest number of changes
that was ever rang on bells was 1906
ruRg by club of young gentlemen anna
teurs in London, and they had to fec
'em while they were doing it. "-Phito
] delpkta Times.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18

GEO. 2. RowELL & Co.'s American
Newspaper Directory for January, 1879, has
made its appearance, The total number of
periodical publications in the United States
is 1903 against S,275 one year ago. There
are % daily and 325 more weekly news
papers than were reported in the edition
for January, 1873. The total increase of all
sorts is 400, the largest in any year since
1878 The Centennial year, 1876, has been
the only one within the period covered by
the eleven annual issues of the Directory in
which the number of publications has not
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18

The WEEKLY WISCONSIN for Wednes-
day, November 9th, contained the first
chapters of this greatest OF Love Stories,
written by RIGHT HONORABLE BENJAMIN
DIsRAELI, Earl of Beaconsfeld, one of the
greatest statesmen and diplomats of this or
any other age. But in no field has his great
gifts and commanding genius won more dis
tinction than in the literature of the Eng
lish language. in this charming Love Story
of HENRIETTA TEMPLE, the great Pre-
mier has shown himself master of the finer
sentiments of the human heart.
This story will occupy about 100 columns
of the WEEKLY WISCONSIN, and will be
continued from week TO week for thirteen
weeks-commencing, as we have said, No
vember q. The back numbers will be fur
nished all new subscribers desiring them,
on notification at the time of making sub
scription.
Gas- Sample copies sent to any address
|
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18
CONCLUSION.


Although the limits to which have deemed
it expedient to cOn6ne myself in this commu-
nication, preclude any allusion to many topics
OF interest, and have necessitated the omission
of several paragraphs prepared for insertion
herein, / cannot forbear to congratulate You
that the United States has resumed its normal
relations to its own citizens and the world at
large, by paying on demand all its matured
obligations III money current wherever civillza-
ton extends; that this has been accomplished
without any unnatural contraction of the cur
rency, or, violent shock to the business inter
ests Of the people; that under the healthy
stimulus of assured stability in this respect,
trade and commerce are reyiving, with exports
largely III excess Of imports; and that we may
reasonably anticipate, from this time forward,
a substantial, healthy and renuneratlve de-
velopment OF all branches of business.
l also congratulate you that there Is grow
ing public sentiment which demands that suf-
frage shall be actually as well as nominally
free, IN every state, at every election precinct,
and that the ballots thus cast and only these
shall be counted-that intinidations before
and at elections, and frauds thereafter, shall
cease.
l regret as every good citizen must regret,
that there Is occasion for even q suspicion that
IN some OF the states recent elections have not
been SO conducted. Wisconsin will cheerfully
yield complete defereIce to the freely ex-
pressed and fairly ascertained will of the ma
jority, both in state and national affairs; but
her history is not without illustrations of her
Hnyielding demand for free ballot and fan
count | sincerely hope that returning sense
of honor and patriotism will lead to practices
IN the future, which shall give us results wor-
thy of complete confidence, to the end that we
may be in fact, as well as in name, a free, unit
ed ana happy people. WILLIAM L. SMITH.
MADISON, January, 1879.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18
Growing. 1873.

These staIistiGs' incomplete h as they are,
claimed for our agricultural interests, as
being the leading and by far most important
industry of the state, and indicate that the
money appropriated to the state and county
agricultural societies, which have done so
much to foster and develop our agriculture
resources has served a beneficial purpose.
| see no good reason why the usual appro-
priation to the state society hould not be
made permanent.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18

If you are satisfied to have a poor
organ, or run the risk of having a poor one,
take any organ that is offered you. But, il
you desire to be sure of having the very
best, insist on having a Mason & Hamlin,
and do not be pursuaded to take any other.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18

WHY does photographer in the ex-
ercise of his business always use a lblack
cloth? Why, of course, to make his
camera obscurer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-01-18

For upwards OF thirty years Mrs.
WINsLow's SOOTHING Syrup hss been
used for children with never-failing success.
It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves
wind collie, regulates the bowels, cures dys-
EMERY and darrhpa, whether arising from
teething or other causes. An old and well.
tried remedy, 25 cents bottle.