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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06

- Senator Hampton is not expected in
Washington until after tt e holidays as he
is in Mississippi settling up the estate of
his son, who died recently.
- The correspondent of the Philadel.
phia Ledger, writing from New York on
the 10th instant, says that the ousting of
Kelly was the joint work of Samuel J.
Tilden and Roscoe Conkliug.
-Four colored vagrants were put up
and their services sold for limited time
by public auction near Liberty, Va, on
the 14th instant, under an old vagrant
act. The men brought four dollars
apiece.
- Yellow Jack may prove to have
been the best friend Memphis ever had.
That the city is now one ofthe best drained
on the continent is the opinion of many
sanitarians. This thorough sanitary rev.
oution will decrease the mortality rate,
and the city may get the reputation of
being not only the cleanest but the
heallhiest inithe country.
- Mr.. S. J. Fell, immigration Agent
representing North Carolina in England,
writes to the Raleigh Neps. Observer on
the 2O;h ult.: "On the 11th of December
a ship sails which will bring to North
Carolina fromsthirty to forty souls, all
of the solid, practical, working farmer
class. Some from Lincolnshire, strong,
hardy, intelligent men and women, who
know how to work, and know also good
deal of the refnements of liie."
= Lord Lausdownc, a prominent Eng.
lish nobleman, has achieved unenviable
notoriety in connection with Irish affairs.
1t has come out that he exercised the
most complete feudal supervision over
his tenants. His despotism forbade mar
riage; it forbade his tenants to harbor
peasants who set at defiance bis claims to
say when they should mate it punished
those under him who even sheltered in
an clubhouse an unhappy couple. He
pleaded that in thus welding n master
ship which was, if not illegal, beyond all
that law ever contemplates, he was be-
nevolent. He was preventing IMPROVE
dent matches, which arc the curse OF
Ireland, and providing against the settle
ment of too many people on estates
wkich cannot bear additional burden.
But it comes out that while thus taking
care that the tenancies shall not be over.
burdencd, additional weight upon them,
in the shape of increased rents, has been
his object. Three times in q quarter of
century have his rents been raised
once by rs per cent. at leap, and this
at the very time when he was trying, as
he says, to prevent poverty by preventing
undue multiplication. Furthermore, it
appears that he has re-let toi his tenants
at per cent. the money loaned at 81
per cent. by the government to landlords
Tor the improvement of their lands. He
thus makes money out Of q beneW!else.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06
"Luck" in Agriculture.

In all agricultural communities we
find certain class of men who arc unsuc.
lul in all they undertake. Their lands
are as good as their neighbor's, they nave
the same markets, the same facilities for
obtaining supplies, the same sun shines
upon them, and the same rain refreshes,
but they have no luck.
OF course the apology, as it may be
called, for non success cannot be accep-
ted. There is reason for their continu-
Gus failure. Luck is word applicable
only to games of chance, where reason
has no place or where the want OF pre-.
dominates.
If we investigate the subject, we inva-
riably find that these luckless tillers of
the soil are men of little stability of char.
acter. They are men who do not think,
who do not study. They are weather.
cocks, who change with every changing
wind. They cannot "stick" to plan
long enough for its development. They
plants crop, and fail 10 cultivate it They
do not consider whether certain crop
is suited 10 given portion OF land or not.
They apply fertilizers, (if they use them
Mt all J without regard to their adspta'
bilty to the soil to be enriched or the
crop 10 be grown. In gambling parlance,
"they 90 it blind"
As q necessary consequence, such men
are "unlucky"-a word synonymous with
unsuccessful, in their opinion. But there
is no luck aboutit. Anybody could have
foretold what would result from such ac-
ton. The consequences follow the cause
with unerring certainty. The earth
brings forth literally when properly dealt
with, but she refuses accustomed yield TO
The idle, shiftless, ar1ignorant. 1t is in
accordance with tic eternal fitness of
things that thrift should follow industry
and intelligence that poverty be the
result of idleness and ignorance.
In this progressive age the man who is
not fully alive to everything that pertains
to his vocation, no matter what it may be,
soon finds himself far behind his fellows
in every way. II he neglects to improve
his stock by judicious crossing, he
awakes, some day, to realize that his
scrnb herd and flock are next to worthless,
while his ncighbor's are eagerly sought
for at renumerative prices. Ii ne uses
the antiQua,ed tools OF the last century,
he finds that he, cannot grow cotton,
cane, corn, or anything else, at a profit,
while his neighbor, who uses all the i'm
provements of the age, gets rich at the
same business.
We have too many "unlucky" tillers
of the soil. We have too few progressive
There should be general movement
looking to reformation in this directi on:
Books and papers should be multiplied
and studied, and the character Of the soil
and the requirements of the several crops
also. The most ignorant man can do
much by using his reason and experience
ifhe will only concentrate them upon the
subject to be treated. Much, very much,
may be done without the aid of modern
helps-as books aud papers; but the man
who persistently ignores these has a
"hard road to travel"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06

THE DIFFICULTIES OF AN ED1ToR.-
The London Sporting Times pthily states
the difficulties under which editors labor {:
eff an editor omits anything he is lazy.
If he speaks of things as they are people
get aogry. If he CLOSES over or smonths
down tho rough points he is bribcd. Ifhe
calls things by :heir proper names he Is
unfit for The position ofan editor. If he
does not furnish readers with jokes he is
an idiot. If lie does he is a rattle head,
lacking stability. II he condemns the
wrong he is a good fellow but lacks discre'
tion. II he lets wrongs and injuries 90
unmcntioued he is coward. Ii nc eX.
poses public man he does it to crafty
spite, is the tool of clique, or belongs
to the outs Ifhe indulges in personal
tiles he is black guard. If he does not
his paper is dull and insipid."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06

- Sarah Bernhardt and her managers
have abundant reason to be satisfied with
the financial result of her engagement in
New York. The total receipts during
her four weeks performances were in
uund figures S99,OOO, making an average
Of about :s25, 600, per weak.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06

- Mr.. Robert Barton, one of the Pa.
ci6c coast milionaires, has picked up bed
and baggage and left San Francisco in
disgust. He announces that he is going
TO dispose of every dollars worth of prop.
ty owned by him in California and take
the money to some place where rich men
are not made the target for Sand-lot dem
az ,gues and legislative robbers" He
proposes to take up his residence in New
York.
- 1t is thou b. that .ae prosecution Of
the Irish Mnl Leaguers will cost over
SGoDC0.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06

- The first American city to light
its streets wholly by electricity is Ogden,
Utah.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06
The New America-A Noble Letter.

Whenever. the generous and lofty sen.
timsnts which, animate the writer Of the
sni,ioined noble letter shall be the rule
Of private thought and tlicguida of pub
lie aciion, the days of bitterness and un.
rest will be numbered in the land:
80 ST. JAMES PLACE,
PpoorrvN NJ
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21
Pon,,lar Songs.

A good many different persons have written
the popular songs for the last fifty years, and
in nearly every case they have lived 10 see
their songs quickly forgotten by the tickle pub
lic With only few exceptions the songs that
have had the widest success lived but few
years at the most. OF course there are some
songs that will be sung by generation after gen
Grafton, as Home, Sweet Home, Old Folks at
Home, Sweet BY and BY, and few others
that have become household melodies. Yet
there are hundreds of others of equal merit
that won universal popularity and passed away
with the people who sang them. Some songs
of the slightest merit have had undeserved
popularity made their authors or publishers
rich and quietly dropped into oblivion.
Shoe Fly, sung ten years ago from one end
of the Union TO the other, had sale oi oO,OUO
copies, and is now forgotten. Ii was certainly
the most worthless musical absurdlty ever
written, and its success was largely owing 10
its being alluded to by Gen. Butler In Congress
in the course of a political wraDgle with lei
low member. It Detted the fortunate publish
ers several thousand dollars.
Old Folks at Horne was written by Stenhen
G. Foster, thirty years ago, VINO solo u 70
Christy, OF minstrel fame, for S5, and leceiyed
a bonus of So more for the privilege OF having
his (Christy'sl name on the utle page as author,
and after the piece 4d made him rich he gem
erously gave Foster r5O more, which was All ne
ever received for the song. But it served to
make the author famous and to sell all bis
other songs; yet he died poor man. bCr
while the piece wRned in public favor, until II
was sung by Mile. Nilsson at her concerts,
when it took new start, and al this present
time it is one of the best selling songs Ia the
market. The numerous transcriPtons from its
melody, by upwards of twenty different COM
posers, serve TO keep il popular. IL IS really
worthy companion TO Sweet Home, aud viii
probably De sung for hundred years OF more.
During the war several songs Published at
the time had remarkable success Weeping,
Sad aud Lonely, had a sale OF upward Of SuO,-
900. When Johnny Comes Marching Home,
renting on the Oid Camp Ground (sung by the
hutchinson family, John Browns Body Lies
a MOuldering in tue Grave, each had very
large sale aud enriched their publishers, aud III
one or two cases their authors. But unly one
of these has remained rom oblviOn-Ieutlug
On the Old Camp Ground-whieh Is being sung
by the daughters OF those whose memories 70
back to the sad scenes when they tented on
the old camp ground.-Boston Transcript.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21
Boston Traveller, Sept. I9.l
Disgraceful Journalism.
washington Correspondence Boston Herald. Sept.

Washington Correspondence Boston Herald, Sept.
181
II is the prayers Of the stalwarts and not the
prayeFs of tbs b Have Seen open and fervert.
The prayers of the stalwaFts have been secret, but
no less earnest. Their confidence has been greater
than thai of the mer and women who have prayed
been counting on the incoming of their man, who
win make admini- tTation ia which the M tJority
of the Republican party Will have small share.
A more brazenly impudent, slanderous, and
shameful paragraph than the above, which we
cut from a Washington letter published in the
Sunday Herald of yesterday, was ntver pub
lished in the columns of an American news
paper, within the pale of decent journalism.
It is difficult to comment without passion upon
such pitiful exhibition of malice. If there
has been one ray of hight in these dark hours
of our national sorrow and anxiety it has oeen
afforded by the patriotic bearing of all classes
and conditions of our people; the complete
subordination for the moment of political feel
ing; the wiping out not only of factional but
even of party lines Throughout the Union. We
have realized in these eleven anxious weeks
that aspiration which has seemed heretofore so
poetic, but so impractical and known no North,
no South, no East, no West, but only one COM
mon country, anxiously watching and praying
for the recovery OF its wounded Chiel Magis-
trate.
And at the hour when the last hope seems
Pickering away, and deeper hush is falling
upon the nation that has borne itself so grand
ly throughout, in expectation of the end, this
contemplate fellow steps forward, in the true
spirit of the assassin, and stahs at the cbarac-
ter of a large class Of the American people.
His villanous libel is assassin-llke, aimed in
the dark, and is wholesale in its infamous
calumniation. "rhe prayers Of the Stall
warts" The scoundrel dares not name one.
There are hundreds OF thousands OF cis zens
who are proud to call themselves Stalwarts;
General Grant is one; General John A. Logan
is another; General Simon Cameron is anoth r;
General Chester A. Arthur IS yet another; our
own Ex-Governor Boutwell, is one more; in the
Cabinet there are Postmaster James, Secretary
Window, and Secretary LAncoln--all Stalwarts.
Which of these men, many OF them men
whose names and flames are cherished by every
camp fire OF the Grand Army of the Republic,
and whose services to their country will DO
among the most sacred memories OF our latest
posterity; which of them, we demand OF the
Herald has been praying for the death of
President Garfield? IL is a sweeping slander;
as brutal and as dastardly in spirit as the act
of the assassin Guiteau himself. A public
print that, at such moment, would give cir
culation TO such foul and monstrous calumny,
deserves the execraIion Of every honest,
patriotic, right-miuded man.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

THE enormous magnitude of the popula-
ton of British India is again rendered man
ifest by the census just taken, showing, as it
does, very decided increase, notwithstand-
ing the ravages of repeated famines in va
rious parts.of the interior of that empire.
This increase affords striking proof of the
prosperity of the country under the perma-
nent peace and internal order secured by
the vceregal government under the direc-
tion of the British ministry. 1t bids fair
in the course of time to equal in volume the
entire population of Europe, as it already
exceeds that of the whole continent of Afri-
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

CINCINNATI Commercial: DR.. Thomas
saa asr esi hrlt la ;ss.-A s'y,ei
Methodist. His doctrines don't tally with
those Of his Church, and it was mistake to
cling to the Church while lowering its STAN
dards. Dr.. Toomas may be right and the
standards wrong. That was not the issue
in the recent trial. Was he orthodox on
points of Methodist doctrine? And the re-
sponse of the jury is that he was not.
Therefore his suspension from the functions
of Methodist minister The result could
not have been un expected.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21
Worldwide Sympathy.

The loss the country has sustained by the
death of President Garfield is not to be
measured by words But the messages of
grief from all parts of the land and from
far-away nations indicate the profound ad-
miration in which he was everywhere held
and the strong hold he had upon the affec-
ton and respect of the world. This coun
try has reason to be proud of ruler whose
character commanded so great esteem,
whose danger provoked so general solicitude,
and whose death occasions universal regret.
The tributes of respect to the memory of the
late President are tributes also to the sagac-
tty of the American people in the choice of
its ruler. The sympathetic messages that
have come from other lands will be pecu-
liarly grateful to us in our afiiiction.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

CocoANUT growing is becoming an impor-
tant industry in Florida. Charles Maloney
has plantation of several thousand trees
on Stock Island; J. V. Harris OF Key West,
has about 1000 trees, e. o. Lock about TO-
600. and Lieutenant Governor Bethel is hav-
ing an extensive grove of coeoanut trees
PLANTED.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

A CONSIDERABLE number of the business
men of Chicago have within few days been
invited to pay $40 each to the Post Office
authorities because of petty tricks in viola
ton of the postal laws, in putting written
matter in circulars, bills, receipts and orders,
and other devices calculated to defraud the
United States of cent or two of postage.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

A NEW medical college is shortly to be
established in Baltimore by several medical
gentlemen of that city. The new college
will be distinguished for several new feat
ures, among others being the rule that only
believers in the Christian religion can become
members of the faculty.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

IT is understood that the Treasurer of the
United States will require re examination
and revision to be made of the accounts of
the national banks, similar to the revision
now progressing by direction of the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue as to the
books of private bankers, etc. The re-ex-
animation. it is said, will extend as far back
as July, 1866.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

MINISTER White, who visited the electric
exhibition in Paris, and has seen the cleo
trio railways in operation in Berlil and that
city, says the electric motor of the street
cars is a small affair under the vehicle
which can be stopped and started as easily
as horse cars, and that cars so propelled go
20 miles an hour.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21


CHARLES LAME KENNEY. son of James
Kenney aud godson of Charles Lamb, is
dead in England at the age of IS. In his
time he was associated with many men of
eminence in England and elsewhere. He
began life as journalist, but afterward de-
voted himself, under NJ. de Lesseps, to the
formation of the Suez Canal scheme, and un-
der Sir Joseph Paxton to the organization of
the transport service of the Crimean War.
He devoted some portion of his after life to
literary undertakings, writing The Gates of
the East, biography of Balfe, and the Life
and Letters of Balzac. He aided the intro
duction into England of modern French
opera bouffe, having written the libretti Of
the Grand Duchess, the Princess of Trebi-
zonde, and La Belle Helene.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

SELAH CHAMBERLAIN, the largest holder
Of Minnesota ailway bonds has renewed his
offer to COMPROMISE with the State at so per
cent of the face of the debt on new thirty
five year security, and it is probable the
Governor will call special session of the
Legislature to pass upon the proposition in
harmony with the recent decision of the
Supreme Court of the State.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

New YORK Banker and Broker: The per-
feet confidence of the country that the COM
ing of General Arthur to the Presidency of
the United States will in no wise impair our
condition, is shown in the strong market of
yesterday while the bulletins were practical
lY announcing the Presidents death The
sad weeks of suspense since President Gar
field was shot have given the people full op-
portunity to see General Arthur under a cal
cium light. Never was a man put under
more crucial test, nor so long, and the re-
suit is that the country believes never was a
President so deserving of universal con-
fidence as General Arthur will be in case of
General Garfield's death.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

steamer South America, who heroically went
down with his vessel, after providing for the
safety of the women and children. His widow
received gold medal from Congress in recog-
milton Of his bravery Mrs Arthur died In
January Ieao isSeI % IN 1@rneh , ~ large CIR
Allan Arthur, aged 10, and Ellen Herndon
Arthur aged 8 wears,
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

About 5000 letters claiming the 5000
prize for the first discovery of a comet hav-
ing zen receiv ID at the Rochester observa
tory, Prof. Swift says it is. impossible to de-
eide which is which, and will cut the Cord
ian knot by giving it to nobody.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

ANOTHER rise in rents is recorded in New
York, the advanc being very decided over
the price asked for houses last Spring, the
increase being all the way from 10 TO 20 per
cent, In attractive localities.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for pubca-
ton but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or pres We com
muncations that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, SEPT. 21.

EVERY regular attache Of the PRESS is furnishe
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon us by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent journal.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

II is complained that the women of New
York State, who have right to vote at
elections fos school directors, are generally
neglecting to register themselves, and
thereby folfeiting their suffrages.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

DE PARvILLB, the French Vennor. gives
1882 over 10 the drought, 1888 to showers
and 1884 to drenching rain.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

ACCORDING to the Vicksburg Herald SEN
ator Lamar is capturing every county in
Mississippi and his reelection is assured
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

THE New York Herald is dissatisfied with
the park area of that city and demands more
breathing space for it's inhabitants.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21

STAR ROUTE reductions go on at an aver
age Of $4,000 day.
The Portland daily press., 1881-09-21
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