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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30

- The increase in the growth of cot
ton has been remarkable. In 1867, we
marketed two million bales; in 1870,
three millions; in 1874, four millions |;
in 1879, five millions. The crop marketed
for the year ending August 81, 1880, is
5,76O,161 bales, and it is considered that
the crop now being picked will exceed
six millions. In the fifteen years since
the war we have increased the crop
threefold. And thus it is that the South
is rising from the ashes Of desolation,
and is making such rapid strides to
power and opulcnce. Prior to the war,
the crop never reached four million
bales except during the year 1860, when
it ran up to 4,66TS,770 bales.
DO not allow worms to cheat your
children out of their living. Shriner's
Indian Vermifugc will destroy these mis-
erable pests, and give the little fellows
new armors for the battle of life.
In general cultivation an arcc can
be made to yied three hundred bushels of
potatoes. Less that two hundred bushels
would not be profitable crop in many
localities.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30
Fancy Farming.

In back number of the Scientific
Farmer we find very sensible article on
what is now quite generally termed Gan
cy Farming" which consists of some
rich man, not farmer by practice set
tling in rural neighborhood and devot-
ing his energies to culture of the soil.
The writer holds to the idea that such
farmers are of great advantage. They
buy a subcrban or more remote farm,
bring to it of their wealth, remodel the old
house or build anew, tear down or improve
the old barns, and build from designs of
a city architect who understands more of
harmonies than uses, stock with improved
breeds of cattle, the latest style of i'm.
plements in endless variety, and the most
EXPENSIVE novelties from the seed stores,
anil spend, perhaps without hope, GER
toinly without prospect, of adequate re.
turns. Wherever fancy farms abound
there may be observed continues i'm
provcment in their vicinity. They serve
to change the habits of the life of the far
mer and his family. The old inconven-
lent methods of housekeeping give place
to n more convenient system. The waters
from the well is brought to the house
instead of being fetched in pail from
the distant we'll or spring; the woodpile
is placed under a shed or into compact
pile instead of being heaped in the door
yard the surroundings to the buildings
are "slicked up;" flowers appear perhaps
in the door yard; the cattle are better
fed, the fences better repaired, new crops
and new markets are sought, and expen-
ditures are increased as the income grows
larger and is derived from more varied
sources. All this comes from the in
Auence of the examples of the finely
but expensively maintained farm,
whcreon neither expense nor income is
much considered, and which, judged
from q business standpoint, must be
considered q failured judged from in
fuences on others, is to be looked upon
as public .benefaction. There is too
prevalent feeling of jealousy towards
the fancy farmer, and too little appre-
citation of the benefits which may be and
are derived from his progress which re-
suits from unrest, abundance of means,
and strong enthusiasm towards a pur-
suit. This man can experiment, when
the poorer cannot afford to depart from
the beaten rut until better results from
departure become demonstrated. This
class encourages inventors and dealers
by furnishing opportunities for the trial
of new things which promise we'll, and
when, through costly failure, an improve
ment is secured, the working farmer can
secure the perfected article. This class
import foreign cattle and test their adap-
tation to ourneeds. They introduce new
fruits and improved vegetables, which,
if found deserving, soon find: distribution
throughout the neighborhood. They
extend knowledge of the arts of culture,
and tend to distribute a practical knowl-
edge of hot bed and forced crops; and
in addition to these more obvious benefits,
contribute largely, through h taxation, to
the public necessities, and relieve in
this way The burdens on others.
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cash dividend, which, together with the
price OF the stock aud interest, left
balance of 1929. This SUM was paid over
to Mr.. Garfield by a check on the SER
geant. alarms, and Mr.. Garfield then un.
derstood this sum aoas the balance Of divi.
dends after paying for the stock"
From the resolutions passed by Re.
publicnn Convention in the Nineteenth
Ohio District, September z, 1876:
RESOLVED, That we arraign and de.
nounce Jas. A. Garfield for his corrupt
connection with the Credit Mobilier, for
his false denials thereof before his constit-
uents, for his perjured denial there
before committee of his peers in Con-
gress, for fraud upon his constituents in
Circulating among them a pamphlet pur-
porting to set forth the finding of said
committee and the evidence against him,
when in fact material portions thereof
we're omitted and garbled."
Hence it would appear that "the deter.
mined efforts" from which the Republi-
can candidates. now suffering, originated
either in testimony submitted to courts
and investigating committees, or in
charges made over and over again in
Republican papers. While the De Col.
yer and Credit Mobilier business was still
fresh in the public mind we believe that
every respectable Republican paper in
the land, without a single exception de-
nounced Garfield with more or less sever
ity. He was literally lashed from one
end of the country to the other with whips
welded by his own political associates.
Democrats then did little except look on
and applaud the merited punishment.
They do nothing snow but repeat what
Republicans once said about Garfield.
They find in the files OF Republican jour-
mails more ammunition that they can con-
veniently use and they use what they
want of it on the justifable assumption
that what was true of Garfield when he
was not candidate for the Presidency,
cannot be false now that he is. The par
ty which nominated candidate whom
it had thus pilloried must pay the
penalty of its. own forgetfulness or fol-
ly.-Me,ps and Courier.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30
A Child Fascinating Birds in Ohio.

We learn from a correspondent that
there resides in the vicinity of Harrisburg,
in an out-of.the-way place in Hancock
County, about three miles west of Mount
Blanchard, very remarkable child, only
FIVE years old, who seems to have the
power to charm birds at will.
Her mother first noticed the strange
fascination that the child possesses about
q year ago. The little girl was playing
in the dooryard among bevy of snow
birds, and when she spoke to them they
would come and light upon her, twitter-
ing with glee. On taking them in her
hands and stroking them, the birds in
stead of trying to get away from their
fair captor, seemed to be highly pleased,
and when let loose would fly away short
distance and Immediately return to the
child again. She took several of them
into the house to show her mother, who
thinking she might hurt them, put them
out of doors, but no sooner was the door
opened than the birds flew into the room
again, and lit upon the girls head and
began to chirp.
The birds remained about the pre- .lises
all winter, flying to the little girl when
ever the door was opened. The parents
of the child became alarmed, believing
that this strange power was an i'll omen,
and that the much-dreaded visitor,
death, was about to visit their house.
But death did not come, and during last
summer the child has had numerous pets
among the birds.
The child handles the birds so gently
that humming bird, once in her hands,
does not fail to return. This winter a
bevy of birds have kept her company,
and she plays with them for hours at a
time. Every morning the birds fly to
her window, and leave only when the sun
sinks in the west. The parents of this
girl are poor, superstitious people, and
have been reticent about the matter until
lately, fearing that some great calamity
was about to befall them.-Forest and
Stream.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30
Love that Glorifles the Humblest Man.

There is nothing in the world so sad
as human nature, and the tears come into
my eyes now as I think of the pitiful
story Tom told me as he smoked his af.
ter-supper pipe last night. The other
day, just before I came home Tom had
occasion 10 60 back over the lake. On
his way back, and when the train stopped
at the bay, he noticed man getting into
the car in front of him with little baby
in his arms. The baby seemed young,
and the man hushed it in his arms with
a gentle, rocking motion, bending over
it now and then to kiss its white face.
AS the train got under way conductor
came to Tom and said: Come with
me; want to show you the saddest,
stral.gest sight you ever saw in your
life" and he led the way into the next
car. "Do you see that man over
there" said he, and there sat the
man whom Tom noticed with the
baby. His precious little bundle lay
quiet on the seat in front of him, and, as
these other two men watched, he leaned
over, looked long and earnestly;,;in the
little flower face, and then kissed the frail
finger tips he held so gently in his hand.
"That baby's dead" said the conductor.
ut died this morning at the bay. He
couldn't bear to put it in coffin, because
then it would have to 60 without him in
the baggage car, and so he is just carrying
it home to New Orleans in his arms"
And the car ratified on; the boy called
his stale slices of sponge cake and cigars
through the car; the passengers laughed
and smoked, and fought mosquitoes and
he stricken to the hearts core, sat there
quiet and unheeding, watching lover his
dead baby, kissing the fingers that would
never again clasp his, looking down upon
the white lids that had closed over the
bright eyes as the petals of sensitive
flower close at nighttime over its delicate
heart-and the world was nothing to him
N. o. Times.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30

Kansas is the geographical centre
of the United States, 208 miles in width
and 404 miles in length, containing ST.
600, 900 acres, or is larger than the whole
of New England.
1t is curious that some people think
q newspaper should entertain the same
political opinions as themselves. They
claim the right to think as they please,
but deny this right to the other man.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30
Kings Mountain Centennial Celebra.
ti0n.

The following programme has been
adopted by the Kings Mountain Centen-
nial Association for the celebration of
the one hundredth anniversary of the
battle of Kings Mountain, on the 5th,
9th, 9TH and 9Th of October, 1880:
REUNION DAY-ocroDER 9TH.
Salvos of artillery, and assembly at the
Grand Stand, at 1l.30 o'clock 4. M.
Reunion Of the States.
Prayer, by Rev. Ellison Capers.
Addresses by the representatives of
South Carolin, North Carolina, Virginia
and Tennessee, in the order named.
BATTLE DAY-oCToBER 9TH.
Illustration of the plan of the battle
beginning at - o'clock m. The troops
participating will repair to the points
designated, at II 80 a. IN.
CENTENNIAL DAY-oCToBER 7TH.
National salute, at sunrise.
Review of all troops, at 10 a. IN.
Procession to Grand Stand, at 11.30
q. m.
Prayer, by Rev. William Martin.
Singing of the Lyric. Written for the
occasion by Mrs. Clara Dargan Mclean,
of Yorkville, S. G.
Reading Of the Ode. Written for the
occasion by Paul H. Hayne, of Augusta,
Ga.
Grafton, by Hon. John W. Daniel, Of
Lynchburg, Va.
Procession to Monument.
dwelling Monument, with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
Dress parade, at 5 p. m.
Pyrotechnic display, at 8 p. M.
MILITARY DAY-oCroBER Sth.
Prize drill, beginning at 10 O'Clock
q. m.
Award of Centennial Medal to success
full Company.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30
The Agony Of Getting Up. J..

"The greatest trial in the life of a
Southern fasmer boy is getting up sum-
mer mornings" remarked gentleman
as he sat with. party of friends. "When
I was boy the voice of my father, call.
ing me mornings, struck terror to the
core of my heart. Just about daylight,
in that hazy time of day when you can
gap into listless bliss and stretch into
paradise, the old gentleman would step
to the foot of the stairs and CALI
"John, oh john"
"Ye.e.s, sir."
"Get up. Broad daylight. Get up
and feed the horses while your mothers
gettin' a bite to eat. Hurry up. We
must finish that corn before it rains.
Are you comings"
No answer.
%John."
"Ye-es, sir |"
care you coming?"
"Yes, sir"
"Who could get up at such a time 7
Who could break o spell born of
heaven ? Another stretch. The refresh
ing air comes through the window. How
delightful. A winEipg struggle between
consciousness and delightful oblivion.
A gentle doze. I dream that I am up.
L go out to the stable and begin putting
the gear upon my horse. In tying the
ham.string I lift the horse from the
ground. He goes up in the air, and
catching hold Of the ham.string I float
with the animal out of. the door and
around the lot. ~
"Git out of this bed, sir" and my
father grabs me.
I'll thought I.was up. I'll get up"
"Get right up here" and he hands me
my pants. / take hold of them. My
eyes are so heavy that l can't see. Ifeel
strange. 1 seem to be coming from the
spring with bucket of water.
"Put on them breeches, I tell you.
Well, if he hasn't gone to sleep trying to
put on his clothes p
Finally, I put on the pants aud reach
for the jacket. Hurry up says the old
gentleman, turning from the door to see
how we'll the work is progressing. sit
on the side Of the he'd and begin putting
on my socks. The old gentleman has
gone down. Ipull on one sock and lean
my head against the bed.post. lose all
presence of mind. Again I doze."
"Whack, whack. whack."
"I'm up. Oh, dog-gon it, Pm up. I
won't do it any more. Oh, DOUGH-"
"Come on, this minute, sir.'
Everything is clear. an wide
awake. 1 hear the steaming tea.kettle
as I pass the kitchen door, and even
whistle rs I cut oats for the horses. l
suppose that nearly every Southern boy
whose parents were not wealthy has gone
through a similar experience.-Little
Rock (Ark.) Gazette.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30

BEAUTIFIERs.-Ladies, you cannot
make fair skin, rosy cheeks and sparkling
eyes with all the cosmetics of France, or
beautifers of the world, while in poor
health, and nothing will give you such
good health, strength, buoyant spirits
and beauty as Hop Bitters. A trial is
certain proof. See another column
Telegraph.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30

1t cost about s5 100000 to sustain
the 4S9 churches and chapels in New
York city; and s60,000,O0O to sustain
the 10000 liquor shops.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30

The acreage for wheat in the Unit
ed States aggregates 30,000,000.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-09-30

Yes, your great orators famous words
are surely ful6lled-"Union and free
dom, now and forever, one and indivi-
sible."
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-04

The debate on the Kellogg case in the
Senate has thrown additional light on II
and impaired new interest 10 il. The
question has been regarded a. inyolv-
ing simply Kellogg's right to the seat
which the Senate three years ago adj
mitted him to; but the speeches of
Senators Vest and Hill bring another
element into the case-the right ~ the
State Of Louisiana to be represented in
the Senate BY two Senator'S fairly chosen
hy is Legislature. Mr.. Carpenter and
all the Republican Senators with him
take the ground that the question was
adjudicated and settled three years ago
by admitting Kellogg. and that il can
not be re-opened now. any more than a
decided case in court Of law: that if
the Senate may reopen the Kellogg case
il may reopen the que stion Of any Sena-
tors right to his seat. which would
place it in the power Of partisan ma
jority in the Senate to 20 back and re-
adiudicate the admission Of any MEM
bcr Of the opposite side. Vested
wrongs are as sacred rs vested rights
says Senator Carpenter; the Kellogg
Ease Is settled forever. even though IL
was settled wrong. When Senator
ha- been elected he has personal right
~ his scat. Can il be claimed that
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-04

choice when making purchases
IN the time II Lord kames. that
no one harrow. whatever lis construc-
tisn may be. can be- suitable for every
sort II soil. or adapted for fitting the
land for. or leaving Il after every kind
of crop. There must be different inn
plemenfs If afier-culture 1--WE mean
those which follow the plow) for the
various crops and uses. and for this
reason number Of harrows are needed
on every farm Of considerable size.
There must be- heavy harrows for break
ing and pulverixing: medium ones for
preparation Of the soil. for covering
manure and grass seed. and lighter har-
rows for finishing of the surface. or a
in case Of some. for actually wedding
the crop. This last operation was for
merly performed with the primitive
:. bush harrow" made in half an hour
from brad piece and half-dozen
small white birch bushes very com
mon KIND Of smoothing harrow years
aga. but now almost entirely suppressed
ca by some form Of ievcling. smoothing
or wedding harrow This last imple-
ment seems To DC one Of far greater use
.ulness than would At first appear. For
wedding growing corn. or dressing a
fallow. there i no implement 80 well
fitted for the work a this: aud 80 far a.
we can learn from those who have used
il. every year confirms the good opinion
expressed in its behalf when first intro
duced--N e. Farmer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-04

FRENCH industry and Sagacity take
the lead of the world in little things.
If nothing more. Toad culture = a
regular business there with economic
people and the demand for loads Is
great and increasing. The useful little
animals are employed a insect
desrroyers. not only in the gardens Of
that country. but thousands Of them
are packed down in baskets Of damp
moss. and sent 70 the other countries 70
be sold 70 gardeners The most obzerv-
ing horticuiturists and f0ricnlturists
have long been aware II their value as
insect de>troyers. and have utilized
them 20 a greater or less extent And
il j. not much 10 the credit III Ameri-
can gardeners and farmers tina, they
nave never recognized the services If
this helpful and innocent little reptile.
Nature conducts her operation BY re-
ciprocal means. and If she gives u the
The hurtful insects 10 eat mp our crops.
she also gives u the birds. roads. etc.
To eat up the insects. The farmer
should keep close eye on nature. and
seek - make her manifold operations
helpful. instead Of casting hindrance in
in the way destroying her agents. The
successful farmer has great need 70 be
good economic naturalist. Many things.
a. loath<ome looking as the toad. are
the farmer friend -RurH Messenger.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-04
Use Or the Harrow.

We are inclined 70 attach far greater
Importance 70 the harrow and It's par
ticular Office in farm practice than i
usually given IT, No farmer should re-
gard his set Of implements As at all ap-
preaching completeness unless he has
II least three. four would be better.
Larrows- cultivat0rs. horse hoes. or
similar implements " securing fine
tillage. and no farmer should be con-
telt with single or even with two
borrowings previous 70 putting seed Of
any kind into the ground. Time spent
in narrowing j. well employed. a. II Is
impossir e that soil can bc too finely or
well prepared A. seed bed. As to the
implements themselves. il i curious 70
observe the improvements. modifica-
tions and adaptations 10 uses which the
harrow has undergone from the days Of
the old A shaped and square harrow Of
twenty years AFRO. 10 the pulverizing.
coulter and smoothing harrows Of the
present The only objection We have
to them Il that which obtains in refer
ence 70 many classes II our farm nipple
ments: that In many instances they
have been multiplied beyond the actual
necessities Of the case. - that frequent
~ farmers have really more implements
Of one kind than they actually need. or
are unnecessarily bewildered in their
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-06-04

The 81. Louis Gistc- Democrat.
which, II - needless To say. ii "A Grant
paper, remarks: IF Zach Chandler
We're alive now. little Genie Hale
would take the prccaution To put iron
plates in his pantaloons before talking
against Grant. The old man wouldn't
stand any nonsense"
The Republican Convention az
Florida, the same body that sent a solid
Grant delegation. has distinguished it,
self BY nominating ex-senator Conovcr
for Governor by reclamation. Como
ycr's career rs a senator. and its dis
graceful ending. Is still fresh in the
memory Of the public. and TO our e.
tcemcd Republican contemporaries. is
left the delightful task Of eulogizing him.
- Elmira OK ID Ga-etic.
The action Of the House Of Rcrre-
sentatiyes. under Democratic control.
in refusing to unseat Yocum, prompts
the Washington correspondent Of the
New York Hernid 10 say that the Dem
ocr:its are not a unscrupuous rs the
Republicans used 10 be when they had
the majority. and when the rule was
laid down by the late Thaddcus Stevens.
who. being asked on one occasion how
he was going TO vote. replied: (which
is our rascal In vote 10 seat him, Of
course ~ DctroH Free Press.
- When few weeks ago in some
Of the southern States. Republican
Conventions were marked BY brawls
and BY other disgraccful proceedings,
the general tone Of the press and OF the
country was apologize. But when the
tactics and conduct Of the ignorant col
orcd men of the South were transferred
TO Chicago. and the Cook County Re
publican Convention was conducted in
manner that indicated a mixture Of
Ignorance. boorishncss, childish folly
and domineering dogmati~m. there was
nothing 10 relieve the affair and its
proceedings from bald disgrace. or the
participants therein from the charge Of
outrageous folly.
MIR. Blaine declines the second
place on the Grant ticket. even in al
vance Of any olier ~ il t. him. We are
sorry for the gifted boomer OF Maine,
but since the indications in the Western
States that Sherman and Grant are co n
bining against him we have feared that
he might take some such dscouraging
view Of the prospects Of his party And
yet he would do well to think twice
about il. A e-Pre>idential nomna-
ton in the hand is worth two Presiden-
tial nominations in the bush: and il is
much better to be beaten on Vice
Presidential than on Presidential
nomina;ion.-N " World.
- At the conference Of the colored
Methodist Episcopal Church in st.
Louis recently. DIR. Turner. the editor
Of a newspaper for colorcd readers.
printed At Philadelphia. said in the
course Of speech The negro will
not be satisfied till he j. invited into
the parlor instead Of the kitchen Of the
white man. when he j. his equal in in
telligence and in wealth. Poverty il
not the equal Of wealth. nor ignorance
the equal OF intelligence; but when the
poor man grows rich aud the ignorant
man intelligent. then all barriers 10
social equality on account Of color
should give way. and social equality be
between those in wealth
and Intelligence equal n DR. Turner'S
remarks were loudly applaudcd.