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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-18
AGRICULTURE.

Docs AND EP.-Dogs are the most
expensive domestic animals kept In
the country. A dog will devour more
food In the course of year than
pig, and it must necessarily be Of a
better quality. 1t will injure more
gardens, destroy more birds, and do
more mischief than any animal, for
eign or domestic, wild or tame. The
average dog as found in this country
has more vices and fewer virtues than
the town goat. In most parts Of the
country sheep cannot be kept with any
assurance Of safety on account OF the
villainous h ra, ter nd el ormol 8 nu m-
ber Of dogs. In some regions the dogs
are more numerous Than all the other
kinds Of animals put together. They
are evor-present pests. They have no
respect for any person or any thing
No state dog law has ever been framed
that offered any protection to sheep.
The legal status Of a dog is no better
defined than that Of an Indian. 1t Is
found to be impracticable to diminish
the number Of dogs by imposing tax
on them. The only dogs the assessor
finds to tax are those which do nc
mischief, but which are ornaments to
the race. A traveller will find more
dogs about the shanty of one squatter
an entire township. The dog nui-
sance will never be abated till there
are State statutes similar to the ordi-
nanccs Of large cities, and provisions
made to execute them by competent
authorities. When all dogs are shot
that do not wear collars, showing that
their masters have taken out licenses,
the number will be diminished. Dogs
wearing no collars should be regarded
as wild beasts and public enemies,
and bounties offered tor their scalps,
They are in reality more injurious
than their natural cousins, tho wolves
and should be treated in the same
way.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-18

LLEN'S nrNfn Food cures Nrrvons DO
"A hiiity ana Weakness oi Gnnrraiive Organs tSa-
all drmggists. Send for circular to Aliens Shar.
macy, 33 First Avenue N. Y.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-18
Railways Regulating Pills

RorfoSt PurGatives, Soothing AperisntA
Aat Without Pain, Always Reliable
and Natural In their Operation.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-18
NNLY rs Cont, for q White Handled Two Bladed
~ Knife. Min Battery Co.,, Phllad a, Pa.

MIRTHFUL MORSELS, Hplondil Humorous
wi Paper on trial months for3c. Miniature But
terry Co., Philnda. Pa.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-18
RUPIURE J

relieved and cured without tho injury trusses
~ Dr. J. A. SHERMAN'S System. once, 2g
broadway, New York. u Is book with photog pisffv
kenesses Of bad cases before and aftor cure, fed
for l0o Beware of fraudulent imitators,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-10
VOLUME XvI.---NO. 81.

especially in connection with straw, woot
aud jdte stock, and its use in paper !.
genera in Europe as well an in America
A SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISE, AND WHY
Until 1868 little had been done "a
utilize tie South Carolina ciays outside
the Siute. /. was in that year that Mr.
Il. McNamee, of New York, engaged
with simple capital in this clay enterprise,
and nom that time to the present he has
given 10 it his energetic serviccs, and to
him is largely due the credit of bringing
South Carolina clay prominently to tho
front and OF creating q large demand for
Mr. McNamee began with the purchas
or forty acres in 1868. He continued h,s
purchases from year to year, and now in
leS0 bis firm holds nearly eighteen hun
dred acres Of clay lands around Kaoin,
as y centre.
In addition TO the beds above mention
ed, there nre several others in successful
operation in the State, the largest being
those owned and controlled by Col. j.
Davies, on Beech Island, in Aiken Coun
~, and j. j. w. Huckabee, ut Granite.
vile, Oh the South Carolina Railroad, in
the same county. From these beds clay
OF very superior quality is taken, and
they have high reputation in the markets
OF The world. -lionfhiy Report of S. c.
agricultural Department.
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were not in order. Mr. Sullivan shook
his fist at Mr.. Gladstone, and eaid he
thanked Goo that the rules Of the House
were not in Mr.. Gladutone's hands. Mr.
Mitchell Henry said he considered that
the Irish members had taken an unten.
able position that they mis:epreSented
the opinion OF the country and sacrificed
the rights of the people. 5.r. Henry
was interrupted by MT. Phillip Callan
and other members, WHO accused him of
aItributing falsehood to Mr.. Parnell.
G30 p. m.-The debate continues.
The Irish members up to 5.55 r. m. con-
tinued their obstructive motions. AS
the House rises at G o'clock p. m.,
Wednesday, they will doubtless be auc.
ceasful in preventing Mr. Forster from
moving the second reading of his bill
and making tho usual explanatory state.
ment on doing SO, though he has urged
the convenience of that course. The
speeches of the Irish me 1bers show
much heat and Indignation. Mr.. O'Don.
nell maintained that the House should
adjourn, as otherwise Mr.. Forster would
have all opportunity to make an inham-
mat0ry statement. which would 60 forth
without contradiction. After the motion
to adjourn had been negatived. the Irish
members, to prevent Mr. Forster from
making his statement. objected to every
bill upon the order of the day, thus occu-
pying tho time until the House WA
obliged to adjourn, just previous TO which
Mr. Redmond, new member for New
Ross, took his seat.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-10
A Great Mulo Market.

st. Louis, Mo-, is tue great mule mar.
ket of the country, the central point from,
which this species of stock is distributed
all over the Union. A reporter for the
Republican .ecently visited one of the
large dealers and gathered the following
faclu regarding the mule trade the present
seasun:
The mule season has fairly begun
but b. IT,, Is .'o. far h from being as as active
several drawbacks. Cotton planters have
not commenced to ges ready for their
ploughiug. The cold weather prevailing
has set them back, and besides they
bought largely last year and will not
need 90 induy this JeaT. The export de-
nand is very small. The demand from
the East and North is not very large.
Speculators made good deal .,f money
the first three months Of the year 1886,
and their profits the balance Of the wear
wsTs also .a's0. ca s.i ;aas;7 =en;u co
they uiado iiiouoy, PTives HePt un al divGhc
ing and the demand was very urgent,
and this made spectators somewhai
reckless. Last summer they began buy.
ing and contracting for January and
February of 1881, and paid pretty good
prices. NOW country ehipperS and spec.
ulatofs find that their anticipali0ns NE
not being realized, and from the present
outlunk it IL not unlikely that they will
lose money. One prominent mule ship.
per, who has over u thnnsand head cor.
rallied up in an interior county in Nilsson
ri, remarked TO the reporter, ~ have q
large bunch, aud if anybody will pay me
first cost and the feed, will let him have
the mules and take off $3 600 besides, aud
know others who will take off ptrcen
tage il they can get back their money
only" Mr. William p. CrosWhite, d
well known feeder, was also interviewed
by the reporter and asked why had the
receipts fallen off here. The total
receipts OF horaes and mules from Janu.
ary to the 10, inclusive, were only g.
6l2 head. while for the corresponding
nineteen days in 1880 the receipt were G.,
618 head. or nearly three times rs many
as In 1881. "Well, you see," said 'Mr
Croswhite, "the demand for mules |.
small snd prices auciuating and not very
high at that, and thus Keep back thu
supply. Were the demand as large al
ls-t January, the receipts would be o.
liberal"
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Tale oe a Mermaid,

An incident was related tho other day
by an old sea captain, who swore to ite
authenticity in the most vehement man.
ner. He was speaking Of the famine
which occurred somc years ago in the
Azores. and other ncighboring Islands
and in Maderia also, and Of the straits 70
which the inhabitants were reduced for
want of food
You see," said he, II was laying of
Funchal with a cargo Of hardware
vine shenrs, cultivators and such like.
I sailed the brig Skylark from New
York. Well, our provisions gin out, and
calculated to lay in q auppIy at Fun
chal, but there want none there"
What" said we, "none ?"
No, none. The cattle had nil died.
consequently there warn't no beef:
sheep hnd all died, and there wnrn't
no muttun; hogs ali got The measles so
there waru't no pork; chickens all eaten
UP by foxes, SO there warn't no fri
cassees.
That's rathet n dismal picture" was
our reply; "hos did the people procure
Food; we'll, they kind O. lived on
YARDS and roots; stole mulcs-the opiy
thing that didn't die-and eat them.h
How abou. fish-couldn't they take
fish as usual ?"
Marry A4h the fish all went out O.
them nr latiiudes. There warn'. sharks
leit,. let alone anything worth catch.
ing."
why. that WINS strange"
Yes; the only thing lefs in the har.
tor was mermaids, and they were nigh
unto starvation too
The what?" we asked in surprise.
The mermaids? Can't you hear p
yelled the captain, angry at even u hint
OF skepticism.
"What do you believe there are such
creatures rs merMaids?" 2"
"Do believe il? No, 1 don't be.
liese it; know il! Ireckon, Ltranger,
I've seen dozen ofem ut time, n tuna
lin in the surf like lot of mCnkeys
amung the riggin? ?"
"Indeed and what do they feed
upon ?"
well, l reckon, principally fi.h.
I've seen 'em catch herrin', stranger,
and eat 'em up raw, rs fust as q Dutch
baby ken eat pickles."
"H"w did they get along at the time
you speak of?" we inquired, cndeavoring
to assume an appearance of credulity.
"f"u said the fish had entirely disap.
pearcd."
Il did, and the poor mermaids suffered
badly. Why one night, as was cUmin'
down from the town to the quarry
where the briggs boat was tied up, I seed
! fire burning on the beach. l reckoned
first it was lot Of drunken sailors maxim
punch. Well, I bore up towards it, and
what dye think it was7"
OScourse we gave 1t up.
well, I'll tell you, and then you can
see the state of starvation folks was in.
Stranger" and hers the captain pulled
| O solemn face, "it was mermaid settin'
over fire, cooktn' her oton tail for sup
per.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-10

- Church dc cot.raiser Kimball has Wis.
tied one hundred and sixty churches and
raised, directly or indirectly, some eleven
p,illinn dollars from church memhens.
= A telegram from ST. Louis, January
26, says: Lieut.. Charles Gibson, of the
United States Army died here yesterday
OF Inflammation of the brain, believed To
DO the result of circumstances which oc-
Cured while he was Al West Point. One
day, while ON parade, spider got into one
of his ears. BY the rules he was not al
lowed to raise his hand, and stood in tho
ranks more than an hour. while the api-
der worked its way IN the ear. When
dismissed, his ear was full OF bloud, aud
the insect could not be removed fur two
days. This caused corrosion ofthe bone
mex. to the brain, and gave him good
deal OF trouble. He went 10 his Tegj
ment in Northern Dakota, and. after
performing considerable service and sur.
iering from severe attack ofsickness he
came home, expecting to,resign, but, as
IL prored, only to df9
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-10

How SHE Cor INro THE DEPART.
MENT.- Washington, January 25.-One
bright morning last Spring the iion.
john Sherman was sitting in his office
when suddenly o bright haired, pretty
girl dashed into his presence. She was
apparently Ii, and had about her an air
of business which even the cuo gaze of
the Ohio statesman could not trims.
inrm into maiden fright or furry. De.
iIosrateIy tuking seat, the girl said /:
"Mr. Sherman, l haze como here to get a
place" There are nono vacant" was
the reply. ~ know ycu can give me q
place IT you want to, and think am
as much entitled to it as anybody. MY
tuther spent his life in the United States
army, aud when he died he left nothing.
The responsibility of the family is on
me. and think have got IN good u
claim as any one else on the government. i"
What kind Of place do you want ?''
don't care what it is, but / must have
work Mt once" MFR. Sherman assured
her that ll,rre were ten applicants &C..
every one place, and there was very little
chance. She very deliberately told him
that such an answer wouldn't do, and
declared ;ha; IS he would ALLOW her she
would come up egery day and black his
shoes: if he cnnidn't dn heifar for hnr
The Secretary ~;.ss si::.Hccss .77;::. !ha1 deter
miiaiion and charmed by her bright
face and her sprightly manner. He told
her To- come buck. In less than week
she had good place in the Treasury.
which she still holds. Every morning
she walks to the department with the
step of business little wun,an who is
proud that her delicate hands can be the
support of others. She receives 800 d
month and supports in comfort her
mother and sister. This brave, bright
young woman is Miss Mary Macauley
formerly of Atlantis. Her father WIS a
lieutenant in the Eighteenth Infantry
Cor. atlanta (GG.) Republican.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-10

Christian faitl-and who hope TO die at
last, in the same trust and peace that
moved the dying wisest,
sweetest mind ever clothed in mortal
6esh--when he said:
y commend my soul into the hands OF
God, my creator, hoping and assnredly
believing through the only merits of Je.
sus Christ, my Savior, TO be made par
taker of life everlasting" II. w. G..
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soil and climate TO ll,e growth Of Tho
grape. Maj. Melchers has been in cor.
respondence with these people for over a
year. and the indications for their early
coming are quite encouraging.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-10

= The Raleigh Farmer and Mechanic
says: Strange a, II may seem, there have
BEEN more Than 40 persons burned 20
deuh in North Carolina within the thr 0
m ,aths past, including tho ten wLo
w5re burEed On tks rcikOASis.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-10
THE ATaEIsTIc TIDE.

Tho Threatened Destruction OF the Simple
Faith os tie FatsieT5 by die Vain Deeeits OF
Modern rhiloaoplsars--Ani Attack Chris
tinns MuBt Meet.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-12
An Eccentric Landlord.

Gen. McMackie, who died recently,
was well known all through Mississippi
as hotel keeper. He was a perfect
character in his way, and had acquired
as much reputation from his peculiari-
ties as from his we'll known country ho-
tel. He, had a.profound contempt for the
Mississippi state legislature, from the
fact that he had once wanted an Office III
the gift of the legislature and they had
given it to some one else. A prominent
southern politician who stopped at Gen.
McMackie's hotel a short time before
his death, said that he was much sur
prised on going down to dinner to hear
loud voice from the dining-room, call
ing: "Oh, here's your nice mock-tur
soup! Oh, here's your nice mock-turtle
sou p!" The gentleman, on entering the
dining-room, found that it was Gen.
McMackie himself, who WAS thus an
nouncing his bill offare. AS each course
was brought on the general announced
it in the same way, and in rhyme when
ever practicable. Like this, for instance:
s'Here's your lamb and ham, your jelly
and jam !" After dinner the politician
entered into conversation with the gen.
eral, and asked him during the course Of
it why he called his bill of fare out that
way, instead of having it printed.
"Wel," replied the General, "the fact
is it is for the benefit of the members
of the Mississippi state legislature. A
good many of them come here from time
to time, and as 80 few of them can read
I have found that my easiest way was to
announce my bill of fare as you have
heard mo -
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-12
Getting it Out Of Him.
from the Burlington Hawkeye. !

lETOu1 tno burlington 0AWA6ye.J
They had just the loveliest sleighing
in Philadelphia all last week, and young
Keepitup was out enjoying it all one af-
ternoon. When he drovei into the stable,
oh, but the man was mad. He roared
when he looked at the horse and danced
around, and as Uncle Remus says, she
Gust, he did,. ,. -;
"Look at that hoss," he walled, "look
at that t,hoss! Amt dry hair on him,
an he's, nigh ready to drop. That's a
pretty lookin' way to bring in q hoss.
Nice man, you are, to let q good hoss
tor ''4s,s,.., ...a .,;s q -. ~
j.. Young Keepitup was fairly astonished.
"Man alive he yelled, picturing his
amazement in his voice, 9 and what did
you expect when I hired him? When q
horse is costing me an even IS an hour;
he 9 got to keep moving you understand.
When I'm paying out more than eight
cents every minute, l can't afford to let
no horse lean up against an ice box willis
he figures out the oat crop Of the United
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-12
Old English Country Towns.

The designers of old allowed more
space to the streets of a country town
than to those of walled city. The
land which was inclosed asmore secure
and valuable, and consequently it was
more closely packed with houses. In
some streets the houses approach so
closely than an ordinary man can almost
touch each dwelling, as at Shrewsbury
and Newark, and some parts Of Chester
there are singularly narrow streets. The
Shambles at York are very good exam
pie of an ancient street that has under
gone alteration, and the great central
tower OF the cathedral, rising in vast
pale gray at the fur thest end, has a very
noble appearance. The house ON the
left, with projecting stories, is Of high
antiquity. Stories were. built: to. pro.
ject, in order to make more of the land
on which the houses were crowded to-
sethar
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-12
=. The Orange Tree.

;: In the midst of the large court yard
stood an enormous orange tree, it's luxu-
RANT foliage crowning stout and come
~ stem. For countless generations this
beautiful tree had been q well-spring of
delight to the family. Tie last head of
the house used to declare that it dated
from the expulsion of the Moors! The
women made tonics and cosmetics from
the leaves, the young girlsadorned them
selves with the flowers, the little ones
regaled themselves with the fruit, the
birds had their abode among the branch
es, singing a Thousand joyous songs,
while it's owners, who had grown up nn-
der it's shadow, watered it unfaggingly
in summer, and in winter removed the
dead branches, as we tenderly remove
the first gray hairs of a parent we can
not permit to grow old.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-12
THE SILENT No. 81
THE EASY RUNNING No. 8.
THE No. s for FAMILY SEWING

Or all modern improvements and
inventions in Sewing Machines, the
New:Wheeler s Wilson, "The Silent
Number 81 is the greatest success.
Wherever it has come in competition
before competent judges with other
machines, it has universally come off
triumphant.
< .":WE declare 1T the best in the
world. ."-.7aMlges Anaerica,s Institute,
N y. >s''4 70. TX !.1 d q. b'f,. .4r,s
AWARDED the only. grand prize for
Sewing Machines, at the Paris Expo.
sition,- 1878, oversee competitors.
-. I@ AGENTS WANTED. ~.'vZ 20
ooate1e -z3t2s2 q E;4I1ll,, ri lsg ant zsliq AL
WHEELER & WILSON MFG loo.,sa
l55 State Street, .2:;* :o"CHICAao.
W. L BROWN, Agent, Austin, MINI.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-12
Fair PAGE.

Here is strange fact. It may seem
to many men, in revising their ex-
perience, that they have no fairer page
in their life's book than the delicious
memory of some passages wherein af-
fection contrived to give witcheraft to
a parcel of accidental and trivial circum-
stances. No man can forget the visi-
tations of that power which was the
dawn in him of music, poetry aud art;
when the youth became watcher of
windows, and studious of glove, a veil,
ribbon, or the wheels Of a carriage;
when the day was not long enough, but
the night must be consumed in keen
recollections. The time when the
moonlight was poem, the clouds we're
faces, and the stars were letters the
flowers articulate, the air was coined in
to song; when all business seemed al
impertinence; and all the men and wo-
men running to and fro in the streets
mere pictures. .-Enaerson.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-12

A LADY stood upon the steps OF all
omnibus in Paris, every seat being ill-
ed.l A gentleman, seeing her embarass-
ment, rose and gave her his place, he re-
firing to the step. A few minutes later
the rain began to fall in. torrents.
Noticing that the lady had an umbrella,
by means of conductor, begged her to
lendeit to him. "Sayto that monsieur, !"
replied the lady, "that I never lend my
umbrella to person whom Z do not
know"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-12
Business Wfeclkss

~AA3OSS
f. Julius Cohn, varnish manufactured, Hunters
Point, n. Y; has assigned with liabilities of
Brown, Bayley & Dixon, iron manufacturers
Of Of Sheffield 81 England, have failed; liabilities.
Signor Co., dealers in coffee, spices; etc., st.
100000. '5'a ~! - ct5:i ID Tz':I 7HI.;S.
The clothing house of NJ. stefie 4 Co., doing
business in Ottawa, Streater and Joliet, in tho
state Of Illinois,, have made IAN assignment
Liabilities $59, ,000s assets S61, ZOO. Extensive
grain speculation is said to have been the cause
of the failure. -: S.|;"s, ,:Gi5>: j :,,.~s3, -
The Dixon Crucible company, of jersey City,
s1 sas o61 6s15spsndea 1s the liabilities being about
taned sgainst t last 5une e F1 WconsooRe Ge
company, Tof Rhode Island, has made an assign-
ment It's total liabilities are $3.50, 600, and it's
assessment for taxes is on basis Of &192, 900.
Bowman & ,Bleyer, liquor merchants, If ST.
Louis. have made an assignment to their
creditors. Their Liabilities are S13O, ,000. :.
FoHler, Champion Co., Of New York, en-
gagged in the importation of chemicals, have
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-01-12
Minor Casualties,

Matthew Cannon, foreman of q packing
house at Sabula, Iowa, got caught on a shaft
on the 9Th inst, and was stripped OF his cloth
ing and dropped dead to the floor.
Seth w. Kip. keeper of the Southwest Pass
Lightship, gulf of Mexico, is supposed to have
been lost in a recent gale.
John Hanly, a hose-cart driver was thrown
from his seat while responding to alarm
at Chicago, on the 5th inst, and killed.
Matthias Schenler went into an oil tank al
Bradford, Pa, Oh the 5th inst, to recover an
auger and was suffocated.
VIM: Duffy, q railroad conductor was killed
by falling under the wheels near Peoria, ILL.,,
on The Sd inst. '.
While engaged in dancing, at Addison, Mich,
Mrs. Garfield fell to the floor, and her hand
was SO lacerated by her husbands boot-hee
that she died in twelve hours. -. =,
A hungry farmer named John, Gamagher,
was choked to death BY piece of roast beei
IN restaurant at Oxford. Iowa, on the Sd inst.
!. A thief who had robbed house on Benson
street, Brooklyn, Of some wedding gifts, was
found on the 4th inst, on the parlor floor OF
an unoccupied house adjoining, having fallen
through a skylight. His injuries proved fatal,
Richard Breed, an old resident Of Massillon,
O., was killed on the Sd inst. while walking on
the railway. He was too deaf to hear the
whistle. '.>.'>> = i,
John Mcdonald and Bernard Gafney. min,
ers, were instantly killed at Carbondale, Pa, on
the Sd inst, by fall of top coal in mine
CHAMBER ,',.- ,-n ;,.,..,.~s