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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-08-25

Washington, North Carolina, to James.
vile, and is built part of the way on
tramways. 1t opens up vast acreage
adapted to truck-farming. 1t is to be
continued from the other side of the AL
bemarle sound, at about Edenton, on to
Norfolk. This road will haul great
quantities of vegetables and fruit. and
will enrich the section through which it
passes.
NOW, why can we not establish truck
farming as an industry about Atlanta,
and along the lines Of road that lead into
this city? Why can we not have truck
farms all through the State? We have
every advantage that could be asked.
With the new fecilites for shipping
swiftly and cheaply, and with the great
advantage of getting ready for market
two weeks earlier than Norfolk can, and
thus getting the cream Of prices-and
the other advantage Of having the west
ern markets at hand when the eastern
markets are dull, we should achieve Just
as flne results as are secured at Norfolk.
why cannot our farmers who raise cot
ton and corn give few acres to small
fruits and vegetables, and thus load UP
the refrigerator cars that are promised us
for next season?
close with quoting from Mr.. William
Dean, Of Wilmington, Del, practical
farmer, who visited the South OH tour
OF inspection. Said he:
"ii l was thirty years younger would
take $4,000 and go South and farm. In
ten years l would have 100000, so great
are the advantages Of the South in cheap
lands, early ripening, long summers, ETC.,
over the North"
If occasion offers l will have some.
thing to say in future article about
truck farming in cast Florida and south
Georgia. II Fulton county can only
strike ''mcan" between Florida and
Norfolk, as she can do, it will be all she
wants.
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A Curious Story.
AtcDOw.

The staff correspondent Of the Ne
YORK Tribune says in one cf E,s letters
Il have been strongly impressed by the
general hardness and unsympathetiC
feeling of Northern men living in the
South in regard to the negroes. Native
Southerners of character and position dc
not often appear to me to feel unkindly
towards the negroes, though, of course
they often regard contcmptuously and
fail to treat them as they ought. But
Northern men who have gone South
since the var almost universally (those
whom have seen) speak of the negro
with great harshness-kind Of cold
hatred, and what / should call cruelty
haye seen and heard so much ofthis tn al
you'd have appeared incredible before
that it gives me sometimes a kind o
nightmare fear that residence in the
South might transform the most philan.
throphic abolitioDist into a tyrant ol
merciless severity.
Near Vicksburg I found q young
planter from Minnesota, who works
many negroes. 1 asked him about thei.
quality as laborers, and he replied that
they ar almost worthless, "unless you
whip them we'll"
GLOW do you mean that you whip
them?" l asked. "Do you fight with
them and whip them because you are the
best man, rs white men fight in Mipne.
sota?"
"Oh, no." said he, contcmptuously
"go at them with club, or heavy
whip stock; knock them down and beat
them as you would mule"
"But l thought the day for that was
over in this country. l should think
they would leave you. Why do they
not 60 away, go to some other man, or
out OF this region :"
"Oh, well, they do 60 away to the
woods for day or two. but what
can they do? Their families are here
and they don't know where to go. Be
sides, l shouldn't let 'em go, If didn'
want to. The dogs would soon find
'em."
"Then,"I said, "I would kill YOU. ,
at this ne laughed snceringiy, and re-
"Mebbe you would, but you amt Q
when he has white man to drive him,
an they always need knockin' down oc'
casionally."
He went on to say that he had found
out that only the harsh shareholders
made money in the old times. can
that's the right way now; work 'em tC
death an git more. There's plenty O
'em."
On my expressing my adherence hi
said:
"You wouldn't be here year till yol
would say the same things All North
ern men talk just as You do when the,
first come down here. l did myself
My father was d hot abolitionist."
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THE LIEN LAW.
Some Reasons why Il should not be Re.
pealed.

The EdgeGcld Monitor says: "While
the lien law may conducc somewhat TO
extravaganza it works no compulsion.
II a man can arrange to obtain his sup
pines without giving lien so much the
better. but repeal the law and there arc
thousands of poor white people who, in
stead of being at the mercy of the mcr.
chants as under the lien system. would
DC at the mercy Of the few land owners
who might be able to furnish supplies for
such tenants as they might need. Re.
peal the lien law now and there are
thousands of land downers who would not
be able to obtain supplies with which
TO cultivate their own lands, for it must
be remembered that the homestead net
renders small farm valuclcSs as Il basis
OF credit. If q man is compelled to mort.
gage his farm to obtain supplies he is not
better Off than if he gave lien, but
rather lie is worse oil, inasmuch rs the
cost OF recordinga n mortgage is greater
than that Of lien While, therefore,
we cannot see how, under the circum.
stances, it would be practicable TO do
away with the lien law during the COM
ing year, yet we think there are some
notifications that might be made and
which would work advantageously to all
concerned We would have it modified
80 as to cover only actual necessaries-
corn, bacon and hay. Flour and molas.
scs, perhaps, should also be included
Whatever else the merchant might sell
the croppcr, let him understand that he
takes the risk without security. In this
way the supply bills would be considcra-
bly, lessened, for economy would become
a necessity, but all occasion for actual
suffering would be removed. Our posi-.
tlon then is that the continuance OF the
lien law for at least another year is an
absolute necessity, but let it be modified
in the manner we have suggested"
The Abbeville Press and Banner SAYS:
The farmers Of this county owe perhaps
half a million dollars on the present
crop and without that credit we would
have starved and now had almost no crop
ut all. Poor people and improYident
landowners are obliged to have credit,
and it is a mere waste of breath to talk
about denying it to them. Stop
their credit, and labor and values Of
every kind would be disturbed The re.
suit would be that hundreds Of our peo-
pie would be broke. and thousands would
be compelled to seek other homes"
The Abbeville Medium says: We
may look for an effort at the next Legis-
lature to abolish the law. The farmers
are in majority in that body and can
pass any law they may desire. They
will no doubt vote solidly OH this ques-
ton as they did once before. When they
shall have done so they will find that
this law has not been the source of all
their woes and that its repeal will not be
cure all for their troubles. If the law
is abolished it must be done gradually
and not at once or serious consequences
will follow. a little common sense will
be in place when action is taken on this
important question"
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CAPT. MILLS FARM.-We rode over
the wellcultivated farm of Capt. Mills,
of Greenville, recently, and were I'M
pressed with what can be accomplished
by energy, economy and judgment.
Capt. Mills owns the farm occupied for
years by the late Capt Brooks. The
latter owned large slave and real estate
interests in Alabama, and valued his
Greenville place more as n delightful
summer home than rs q farm, hardly
making enough on it to feed his horse
and fox hounds. Capt. Mills has made
almost n garden farm of it, having
ditched branch bottom on it, He has
over twenty acres on which nc will make
forty bushels of corn to the acre he has
fifty acres in cotton OH which will yield
from one thousand to fifteen hundred
pounds of seed cotton to the acre. Capt.
Mills is no strong advocate Of rotating
lands; he prefers, after harvesting his
wheat and oats, to plant peas and again
SOW in grain. He sows his cotton lands
at last plowing in rye, pastures his cattle
upon the rye during the winter months,
and in the spring there is sufficient RE
LETT to make handsome manure for Els
cotton, to which he also applies bono
dust, cotton seed ond lot scrapings.-
.Saiu,ta argus.
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The Early Fruit that Pleases the Crit
ical Taste-An Interesting aud Lus-
ciOus Subject Again Taken Up.

ATLANTA, August 13.-Touching the
fruit al.u vegetable business, Of which I
wrote few days since, have some in
teresting figures and facts on the truck
farms of Norfolk, Nansemond and New
Berne to offer.
1t may be promised that wherever tho
market gardener has lodged himself he
has prospered, and his kind has increased
about him. In "truck" farming All ex-
pertinent has always proved an argument.
In Norfolk county the fruit and vege..
table crop brings an annual income OF
over So 100000, and this has grown from
an inconsiderabc beginning.
Among the items shipped from Nor
folk in 1878 were S232, ,613 worth Of straw
berries, $3.50, ,166 worth of cabbage. 1878, !.
600 worth of Irish potatoes and S25O.OOO
worth of sweet potatoes. These arc but
few items of the shipments, and since
then the amount has increased.
In 1912 man by the name OF Bates
came from the North ana planted tho
first vegetables for Northern markets.
Two wears later Mr. Richard Cox came
from Burlington, New jersey, and bought
a few acres on credit. lie had no capl-
tal. but felt that he had good thing
ahead of him. He is still farming on
the western branch of Elizabeth River,
where he has farm of ono hundred "a
acres. on which he has realized Sl3,oO0
profit one year since the war, and from
which he gets all the time an indeepen-
dent income He has besides this home 4,
G:a. another quite as valuable. and all
the comforts Of life. Following COX
camo others slowly, the lack of proper
transportation delaying The growYtGn =, OIL o, Inc ne
grew rapidly until all the land on the
Western braach was occupied. Nansc-
mond couniy-so famous over yer. Ameried amer ca
for its sweet potatoes-was then invadea
by the market. gardener, and lard went
up in value to from 500 to S'5oG g,, an acre; acre;
at which price it is now held. The lana
hest adapted to vegetables is sandy
loan, with reu clay subsoil
As to tho profits of this sort OF farm
ing, Mr.. John It. Griffin, of Norfolk
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- a kind writer says "You can trust
a man who loves horse or q dog" A
livery stable man says he has tried it,
and finds there is no money in it.
: "Were you drunk?' asked Hi.
Honor at the Central Station of a pris
oner who had been found in q gutter
"Were l drunk?" Eyes" "Well, the
last thing l remember was seeing the
City Hall tower leaning over within q
foot OF my head, and squatted to ge
out of the way. If the tower is down
was sober if it's up there yet, I'll admit
that came awful near having an attach
of the vertigo"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-08-25
::Here's n nv in INV soup. wa

Here's fly in my soup. waiter ~
Yes, sir; very sorry, cir but you can
throw away the fly and eat the soup,
can't you?" "Of course 1 can; you
didn't expect me to throw away the soup
and eat the fly, did you2"
= When n woman burns her finger
she cries little over it, and keeps the
burn in good condition to show her hus.
band when he comes home, and get sym
pathy. A man in the same condition
will stick his digit in his mouth, kick
over the Office stool, swear at the boy md
forget all about it. One is the effect oi
love- the other Of business.
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"ABoLITIoN OF THE PRESIDENCY. )"
In the constitutional convention of
1877 Franklin, Randolph, Mason and
several Others took strong grounds
against siagle Executive or President,
advocating a Cabinet Executive in it's
place. Randolph said that "the Presi-
dent would be the fntus of king :"
Franklin said that "the Presidency would
end in monarchy )" and it was only
after four months contest in the con-
yention that the single Executive or
President was adopted, Washington pre-
siding and voting for it, and it is believed
except for his great Influence in its favor
that President never would have been
created. 1t is claimed by many that
Russian despotism caused the murder OF
Alexander the Liberator, who freed 22,-
600, 900 white slaves. If so, did Ameri-
can despotism cause the assassination OF
Ginooin aud the attempted assassination
of President Garfield? Taking these
facts as basis. pamphlet is about to be
published in This city with the title of
abolition of the Presidency" in which
change in the Constitution is advo-
Gated, creating council of State com.
posed OF the seven Secretaries or heads
of Departments, as the Executive, TO be
elected by Congress, like the Swiss Re-
public, which has no President to be
shot Washington Republican.
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OUR SPARE TRUCK.

A wonderful Advance Possible, and the
possibilities I'm Store for tho Farmers OF
the South.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-08-25

= The quickest way for man to prove
himself insane is to make n will that
doesn't suit his relatives.
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= No gentleman ever defiles a place
Of worship with tobacco.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-24

And We will entertain You as hos
pitabIy as in us lies" added 10, with Il
mischievous sparkle in her eyes.
Mr.. Marmaduke birmingham was
afteward heard to say that he never
spent 40 delightful an evening in his
life. He engaged board at the Dairy
Farm the next day, and instead Of fol
lowing his sister TO the city stayed
down among the glens and braes.
And when Josephine Frosts month of
vacation had expired she went back to
the city to resign her position in the
grammar school.
al nm going to he married, " she CON
fcssed, blushing very prcttily, when the
mistress asked the reason why.
So Miss Angela Frost went on alone
with her career in life, and Mrs. Marina
duke Framingham settled down for life
ut Ivy Glen.
For" said she, II think it is the
sweetest spot in oil the world"
$50 do | - said her young husband
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-24
What Il Water For.

Water ~ 40 common we hardly think
of it. TO begin with, water was Gods
builder Of the world, ns We see it. The
rocks were mud and sand made by
water and laid down by it. one kind on
the top Of another Coal, made of
plants, was covered mp by water, so tha
the rotting plants were kept there and
changed into coal Veins Of lead, cop
per, gold, silver, crystals, were cracks in
tho rocks, filled with water that had
these precious things dissolved in it.
And water, as lee (glacicr,l, ground up
rocks into earth, in which plants can
grow, the sea and streams help
ing to do the work Water builds
plants and animals, too. Three
quarters of what they are made Of is
watcr. When you pay twenty cents for
o peck OF potatoes you are really paying
fifteen Of the cents for the water in the
potatoes. 4 boy who weighs eighty
pounds, II perfectly dried mp, would
weigh only twenty pounds. And there
could bc no potato nor boy without
water. 1t must dissolve things 10 make
them over into new things; and il carries
them whore they are wanted To build
th" new thiugs 1t soficns food, aud then
a. watory blood carries the food 20 every
part Of the body TO make now flesh and
bones, that We may grow and have
strength. II carries the plants food,
also, mp into the plant And water
carries man and goods in boats, and, as
steam, drives his cars. 1t makes the
wheels 60 in his factories. 1t is great
worker, and We could not get along
without H. And it makes much Of the
beauty in the world Ask your friends
how it does tha; p -CgHregljouaiid
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erty amount To over $1,000 "A month.
Referring TO this property, she said: "If
j had not the greatest confidence in
Messrs. Bcttinger a EisendofTer. who
have care Of it for me, / would never
have come on East" After recital
Of many other interesting incidents.
not the least Of which was her battle
maintaining her claim, she said: "All
this, however, was neryed to do for
my daughter. She is now at school
here, preparatory to her entrance into
Nassar college. She'll soon be home.
Here comes my little ward"
In rushed the little Mexican waif
whom she picked mp at Robinsons Run.
"Ihs is my little Lizzie" she said
She il eight years old now, and is going
10 the school around the corner. love
the little thing and will do all can for
hcs.
The pride which shonc in her eyes as
the little girl replied TO the reporters
deed warm 10 the little one.
4 few moments aftcrward her daugh-
ter ontcrcd-n handsome miss Of six
teen. Noticing the reporter glarcc at
the silver medal she wore on her breast
she said ooh, that's a reward Of
mort. / won it to-day. was first in
all my studies" At the request Of her
mother she then played on the piano.
Grouped about her stood her mother
and the little waif 1t was a picture.
They, whose name and fame are known
IN every camp, mine and city Of the
rugged Rocky mountains, were practi-
cnlly lost in this great city.
Mrs Ray thinks sho will make her
rc,idcncchcrc permanent. In appear
ancc she is Of medium hight, Hou, and
rugged Her laughing blue eve and
brown hair sci off to advantage the face
which is yc, withou; a wrinkle. N@r
Iark Ear,.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-24
How Officials More Once Paid

II l-noi general known historical fact
that from l777 to 1854 the territory
now known as Tennessee formed part
Of North Carolina, and that in 17Sj the
Tcnnessecans, becoming dissatisfied
with their government. organized a
State government under the name
Of "Fmnklyn," winch was main
tanned for some wears. The organiza-
iion af,crward dishanded, and Tcrritor-
Ial Tennessee was again annexed TO
North Carolina. The following is among
the laws passed 10y the Legislature of
the State Of Fmnklyn. We copy as
found in a speech by Daniel Webster on
the currency in 1885:
BE IT enacted by the General As.
sembly of the State Of Franklyn. and
It is hereby enacted 10y the authority of
the same That from the firs; day Of
January, l779, the salaries Of the Off
GERS Of this Commonwealth be as fol
lows, to-wit:
His Exccllency the Governor. per
annum, 900 deer skins;
His Honor the Chief Justice, 300
deer skins; or, 500 raccoon skins:
The Treasurer Of the State, 4jO rae
coon skins;
Each County Clerk. 800 beaver
skins;
"Clerk Of the House OF Commons.
200 raccoon skins;
Member of Assembly, per diem,
three raccoon skins;
Justice fee for signing a warrant,
one muskrat skin;
TO the Constable for serving war
rant, one mink skin;
Entered into law the 18th day Of
October, 1879. under the great seal of
the State"
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Ill NOR0US.
Fon a1 C"Dpu4

The man who keeps his word
never speaks.
A down-East girl who is engaged 10
lumbcnnan says she las caught a feIler.
-Bogion Buiief,n.
The business Of a telegraph company
IS "spread from pole 10 pole" So is that
Of the washorwoman
The reason hurricanes are not re-
spccted is because they put on too many
airs Phaa'ielplid Chronicle.
A lady friend says that bachelor are
like batch of biscuits, good enough
afterthcy are mixed. Eos4o,l Transoript
4 lovely youug girl al Ton Pickers.
ou, day irel 20 capture s1me ohirIru..
one pe#ked her blue eye
And sho raid with .igh.
" Gr.a' Caar good gracious. the dickens 90
-iudrelrs Qvo5D
II would bc quite easy 70 pay the
national deb. by imposing a tax On
beauty. There isn't a woman living in
ihe country who would not demand 10
be- assessed SomariLe Josa,saL
Who ate the first oystery" is the
couundrum propoundod by New York
journal. Why. We thought tha; every
body knew that the first oyster was
eaten by swallow.-Nes H1re,, Reg
sasy.
One man said in the car: " You're
going down carly to-day, Charley"
Yes: TO tell you the truth I've been
married only two months and yet nv
wife has just taught me what a blizzard
is."-Ne,r Tuk H7-ah
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-03-24
The still Counirr.
10 the siill Ian,il

To the gtilI landl
aih, who shall losd uH oyery
Vlready o'cr us doth the evening h.yer
Aud cycrnora new wrecks drift Z, The strand.
Who leadeth us, with gentle hand.
SAFE oy'r. ah' safe over,
70 tlio still lauis
70 The s'ill lAndi
To sou, yc larger places
oi bpundlesr growth cOngeniAl spaces
For Youths high dreams fulGllmeut grand,
Who faithful ia li6's battle stand.
H"per blooming laurel grEoes
In The still landi
Al, land! ah. land.
10 all carth'z tenpes;-driven
fa'er Eindcs' messenger is given.
Ni'h torch inverted, bocll1ning bland
10 l"~ie'h us Nith gentle hand,
To the great dcad ia hcaveni
70 the Hll landl
Fr0m nl Gagaan.
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Dream. That Came Irnn.

4 belief in the truth Of dream warning
has fingered even III our own day. It Wa.
yet more prevalent in past centuries.
MAc4ulay has ridiculod Archbishop Iaud
for the care with which hc recorded his
dreams IN his diary, but the prclatc Wa,
no more suportitious IN this respect
than were many Of his contemporaries
The medieval historians generally note
some dream prophecy before ally great
event took place. Apious monk drcamt
81 the fatal accident, that should bcfall
the Rcd King. Henry ". Of France,
was oppressed by evil dreams tho night
preceding his assassination. It's an IN
disputed fact that, in the present cen
iUry, q murder was discovered from the
circumstance Of one of tho parents Of
the victim dreaming where the BODY
was concealed.
Bishop Hall relates a curious story Of
o cure effected by means Of a dream: a
cripple drcamt that he haihed in a
certain we'll IN Cornwall and was restored
to health. Acting ON this visionary pre-
scription he recovered the use Of his
limbs. The bishop attributes this dream
to "a good angel" Probably. a. Lord
Byron says Of prophecies, people note
the fulfllmcnts Of dreams and forget the
failures pass over the nineiy.uinc base
less visions but record the hnndrcdth
that happens TO bc verified.
Authors. artists and musicians have
carried on their work in their dreams.
sometimes with more success than in
their waking hours. Tartini an Italian
composer, drcamt that he heard a
fiond play an elaborate solo on the
violin. He attempted to reproduce it
when awake; nut, though the Devils
Sonata is ranked among his finest pro-
ductions, the composer declared that il
was so inferior to the music of his dream
than he could have broken his instru-
ment with vcxa,ion at his failure TO re-
produce that beautiful melody Con-
dorcet and Franklin worked out elaborate
calculations in their sleep, and rcmcm
bered them on waking. Lord Thurlow
is said to have composed part Of Latin
poem in dream; and Sir ]. Herschell
has left verse which occurred to him
in similar circumstances. Goethe records
that his dreams often assisted him in his
compositions s- London Globe.