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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-28
A Soldiers Dream.

Just before the battle of Cedar Creek q
camp sentinel who was off duty tempora.
rily and trying to put in little sleep
dreamed that he was out on scout
A mile to the right of the camp he
came upon log barn, and as il
began to rain just then, he sought
shelter, or was about to, when be
heard voices and discovered that the
place was already occupied. After o lit.
tie investigation he discovered scouts had
taken up their quarters for the night in
the place, and he therefore moved away.
The sentinel awoke with sach vivid re.
membrance of the details that he asked
permission to go over and confer with one
of the scouts. When the log barn was
described to this man he located it at
once, having passed it dozen times
The dreamer described the highway ex-
actly as it was, giving every hill and turn
and the scout put such faith in the re-
mainder of the dream that he took four
soldiers, one of whom was the dreamer,
and set out for the place. Three Con-
federate scouts were asleep in the straw
and were taken without shot being
fired.
Three days before the affair at Reeley's
Ford corporal in the Sixth !Michi.
gan Cavalry dreamed that brother OF
his, who was sergeant in another COM
pany, would have his horse killed in
action, and wonld almost Immediately
noun. dark bay horse with white
nose. Within FIVE minutes both horse
and rider would be killed by she'll.
This dream was related to more than q
score of comrades full two days
before the fight. Early in the fight
the sergeant's horse was struck
square in the forehead by bullet and
dropped dead in his tracks. 1t was
scarcely three minutes before a white
nosed horse, carrying blood-stained
saddle galloped up to the sergeant and
halted. He remembered the dream and
refused to mount the animal, and soon
after picked up black horse. The
white nosed animal was mounted by a
second corporal in another regiment and
the horse and rider were torn to fragments
by shell, in full sight of four companies
the Sixth.-Mew York Commercial i'd
1,ertiser.
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A Fable-How the Coon Presided.

Once upon time there was a general
assemblage of fowls and animals, called
together to discuss the question of re-
form. The Tiger shed tears over the
wickedness of the Rabbits, the Hyena
wept at the rapacity of the Vultures and
the wild Cat pressed his paws to bis ach-
ing heart and sighed over the villanies
perpetrated by the Rats and Mice. A
venerable old Coon was made chairman
of the meeting, and after clearing his
voice he began:
my friends, there is great need Of re-.
form. We are drifting down to perdi-
ton at race.horse speed. Speak, BROTH
ers, speak, and let us have full and
frank expression"
ri am for REFORM" said the Tiger as
he rose up. III see the Coons out every
night, stealing corn ond raising old Ned
generally, and hope they may be
brought to see the error of their ways"
"Reform is my watch.word," began
the Buffalo as he secured the floor, and I
hope the Tigers will commence the good
work in their midst. The Tiger who
just addressed you has the blood of my
slain calf still on his lips"
ut is my opinion" began veteran
old Hyena, "that reform is most needed
among the Vultures. They have become
80 bold that I hardly stand show nova
days to find carcass for myself"
"And since men have taken to carrying
guns and swords / hesitate to attack
them," said q Wolf. II move you, Mr..
Chairman, that it is the sense of this
meeting that men no longer go armed"
Clear what have to say" pleaded
the Wild Cat. ri move that the Pan
ther be censured for eating flesh"
"And my friend the Cow should be
forced to let grass Alone" observed an
Elephant"
"ln order to get the sense of the meet
ing I move that we no longer eat flesh" /"
observed Deer.
~ move to amend by substituting
the word grass" promptly responded a
Wolf.
Amendments and resolutions were
coming in like the Pacific Express, when
the old Coon in the chair called for order
and said.
"My friends, let us begin our reform
by routing out the Serpents."
"No! mop no protested a Fox" I
lease my cave to family of fSerpents at
excellent cash figures Let's drive the
Worms out of the country"
"But we feed on Worms," chirped q
hundred Birds. "Drive them out and
we'd starve |"
Thus they continued, each one anxious
to preserve whatever was good for him
self and sacrifices whatever was good
for his neighbor, until the Coon cut the
discussion short by saying:
"Orderl Order Now then any bird or
fowl who is willing to begin this reform
campaign by sacrificing personal gains
please stand up"
Everything continued to sit.
swell, then, any one willing to begin
the reform at home and under his own
hat please stand up.
No one stood up.
II think we have bitten of more than
we can chew" said the Coon as he laid
down his gavel. "This is very wicked
world, and there is great need of reform,
but when Tigers set out to reform Hye-
mas and Wild Cats find fault with the
doings of Wolves it's time to dismiss the
meeting.
MORAL.
Charity may begin next door, but re.
form should commence at home.
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CHARACrERIsTICs.-There is little
incident connected with Mahone's career
during the late war which is worth re-
lating. On one occasion Malone had
fight with General Wilson's division near
Petersburg, and Wilson captured a
whole regiment of Mahone's men. Fits
Hugh Lee subsequently gave Wilson a
sound drubbing, and recaptured Ma
homes lost regiment and twelve or four:
teen of Wilson's cannon. Malone had
the pieces hauled to his quarters, and
sent dispatch to the Richmond papers
announcing that he had whipped Wilson
and captured his artillery. In the mean
time he had the guns placed in conspic-
uous positions around his headquarters
as trophies of war. Fitz Hugh Lee,
hearing of this scurvy trick, went to Ma
homes camp at o'clock in the morning
and demanded the guns. Malone i'm
pudently refused to give them up. Fitz
Hugh Lee went back to his camp and or
dered his men to prepare to take the
guns. General r. e. Lee, hearing of the
difficulty, interfered, and Malone deliv.
cred the guns to him, refusing to hand
them over to Fitz Hugh Lee, who had
taken them from the enemy and saved
Mahone's captured regiment. In his
magnanimity Fitz Hugh Lee did not
report to General Lee that Malone had
lost his regiment, but the little b:igadier
gave him no thanks, and meanly stuck to
it that he had gained victory and cap.
tured the guns. The incident is sug.
gestiye of the character of the man.
Courier Journal.
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HARD TO DIGEsT.-A most remarka.
blestory comes from Middletown, Orange
county. A maiden lady of that place on
the 5th of January, 1869, swallowed q
new set of false teeth, which became
separated from the rubber mould in which
they had been set while masticating her
food. Before she could eject the food
from her mouth the teeth had gone down
into her stomach. The family physician
was summoned, but all efforts were un.
availing. The teeth caused her no dis
comfort and in short time the matter
was entirely forgotten. A few days ago
Miss Cole felt a sharp pain near her left
shoulder, and upon examining the spot
found what appeard like wen under the
skin. With the aid of q pen knife she
extracted hard substance, which proved
to be tooth. She was at a loss to
know how the tooth came to be in such
an unusual spot till she suddenly recol-
lected that she had, twelve years ago,
swallowed her set of teeth. During
the past four days the lady has
been cutting teeth all over he
body, and had, at last accounts, recover
ed twelve of the fourteen teeth that
had formerly constituted her full set.
She is anxiously awaiting the arrival
of the other two. She has placed the
teeth in glass case and will keep them
as mementoes.
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Whisky Drinking in Dry Climate.

The effect of alcohol on the Indians OF
the high, dry plains, even when taken in
small quantities, is TO almost instantly
drive them crazy. The craze is evinced by
bloodthirsty savageness and utter reck-
lessness. The frequent assaults that
have been made by mounted Indians
armed with bows an arrows, on Western
trading posts defended by American
ri6emen, sharply indicate the effect of
alcohol in men Of highly nervous temper.
ament, natives of a dry country where
the light atmosphere is highly charged
with electricity.
So it is with white men. The murder.
GUS acts of the "cow boys" when under
the influence of liquor, are well known.
When sober, more hospitable and kind.
er.hearted class does not exist. When
drunk, they exhibit all the characteris-
tics of the Indians. They are transform.
ed into bowling, bloodthirsty fiends.
They shoot and stab each other, as well
as unofending strangers, with the saw
ageness of Cheyennes or Sioux. Most Of
these men are residents of Western Tex
as.
Almost all of them have lived on the
plains for term of years. The country
they inhabit is arid and of an altitude of
from 1900 to 5000 feet above the sea.
Throughout the pastoral region the
atmosphere is surcharged with electrici.
ty that expends its force in terrific thun.
der storms, in tornadoes and in tho
dreaded dry waterspouts. Throughout
the pastoral region the fact that man
who has become acclimated can not
safely stimulate himself with alcohol is
we'll known, and has long been admitted
by all thinking men.
In Kansas, above all other Western
States, has the attempt to settle the Arid
Belt with agriculturists been made. Liv-
ing in this belt are thousands of voters,
and it was the ballots of these men that
accomplished the adoption of the consti-
tutional amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of Alcoholic liquors
in the State. Unconsciously they, by
their ballots, recognized the conditions
of the climate in which they live. The
adoption was q measure of self.defense.
Democrats and Republicans, irrespective
of party, voted for the measure.--Neao
York Sun.
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A Host of Contestants.

Testimony in the following contested
elections for Representatives has been
filed pursuant to Law with the clerk of the
House of Representatives: Horatio Bis.
bee, Republican, VS.. Jesse ]. Finley
Democrat, second district of Florida
William M. Lowe, Greenback Democrat
vs.. Joseph Wheeler, eighth district Of
Alabama Robert Smalls, Republican
vs. George D. Tillman, Democrat, fifth
district Of South Carolina; John T. Sto.
vail, Democrat, vs. George G. Cabell,
Democrat, fifth district of Virginia
Samuel Lee, Republican, vs.. John S,
Richardson, Democrat, First district oi
South Carolina George M. Buchanan,
Republican, vs. Van 81. Manning, Demo.
crat, Second district of Mississippi; John
R. Lynch, Republican. vs.. James r.
Chalmers, Democrat, Sixth district OF
Mississippi; J. G. Cook vs.. Madison E.
Cults, Sixth district Of Iowa; Alex.
Smith, Republican, VS.. E. w. Robertson,
Democrat, Sixth district of Louisiana
James G. Smith, Republican, vs.. Jane.
NJ. Shelley, Democrat, Fourth district of
Alabama, and Samuel J. Anderson,
Democrat vs. Thomas B. Reed, Repub.
can, First District of Maine.
In addition to the above it is under
stood that the seats of the following Dem
ocratic Representatives in the Forty.
seventh Congress will be contested: NJ.
P. O'Connor, Second District D.. Wyatt
Aiken, Third District, and John Fl. Evans
Fourth District of South Carolina.
Thomas Fl. Herndon. First District,
Hileary A. Herbert, Second District, and
William G. Oates, Third District of Ala
bama. Henry L. Muldrow, First Dis
trict; Otho R. Singleton, Fourth Dis
trict, and Charles E. Hooker, fifth Dis.
trict of Mississippi. The seat of Gen.
Hooker is claimed by Mr.. Deason, and
that of Mr.. Muldrow by Mr. L. Morphis
who, because of his duties rs United
States marshal, will claim additional
time for taking testimony in this case, J.
Floyd King, Fifth District Of Louisi.
ana, and R. G. Frost, Third District of
Missouri.
Mr.. John Lynch, the colored contes-
tant, says that he will be able to estab.
lish his own title to the seat now
claimed by General Chalmers.
Mr.. Van FL. Manning, of the Second
Mississippi district, says that admitting
as true ali the evidence submitted by his
opponent, Mr.. Buchanan, the latter still
lacks over four thousand votes necessary
to equalize his undisputed majority.
It is believed that the above list en-
brace all the seats likely to be contested
during she Forty Congress. 1t
will thus be seen that the House commit
tee on elections in the Forty seventh
Congress will be not only an important
but an overworked committee, the Re.
publican members of which will be glad
to serve their party in carrying out the
programme, already announced in these
dispatches, of ordering new elections in
contests where there is any evidence Of
fraud on the part of the Democrats.
The minority Democrats will be
equally jealous in defending the fame
of their brethren whose seats are to be
so warmly contested, and the work Of the
committee on the whole will make po-
litical compaign of no mean Importance.
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Tie SPIDERS Apparatus.

Few things are more wonderful than
the spinning apparatus ofthe spider. On
the under side Of the creatures body are
placed four or six little knobs, each not
larger than the point of pin. These
are outlets of certain receptacles within
the abdomen, where the silk is prepared.
When the spider wishes to spin thread
it presses the knobs or spinerets, with
one ofits legs, and forthwith there issues
from each, not one, but q thousand
fibcrs, of such exquisite fneness that it
is only when all the products OF
all the spinerets are united that
they become visible to the naked
eye. The "thread" of the spider is
thus tiny rope of four or six thousand
strands. The twisting of the fbers into
one cord IS performed by the hindmost
pair of legs, which, like the rest, are fur.
nished with three claws apiece. Using
these claws as fingers, the little ropemaker
twists her groups of thread into one with
surprising rapidity.
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A Hatching Cat.
BROOKLYN. Anril Is,

DROUhbIN, AprIl Id.
A cat owned by Thomas Leonard, a
south Brooklyn mason, and which is now
sitting upon nest of eggs, on Thursday
afternoon hatched out two chickens,
making the twenty-frst brood that she
has hatched. The cat is brindle, and
is about three.years old. She had one litter
of kittens before she began to hatch
chickens, but since she has usurped the
place Of hen she has refused the COM
pauy of all other cats. About two years
ago the cat, which is christened Tibby,
found warm resting-place in the nest of
sitting hen, when the hen had gone to
hunt food, and became so fond of it that
it refused to surrender it. There was
fight when the hen returned, and the
cat was the victor, the hen retiring from
the contest with one eye scratched out.
The cat warmed the eggs every day,
faithfully leaving the nest only for
meal, anu soon hatched out the chickens.
From all of the twenty broods, number
ing about fifty chickens, the cathas raised
about twenty one. The maternal care
the animal exhibited for the chickens
was a constant surprise. She followed
with her eyes the movements of every
chick, and when it strayed too far she
stepped softly after it, picked it up by
the back of the neck and returned it to
the company of the others. In her frol-
les she turned upon her back, took a
chicken between her paws and played
with it. AS soon as one brood of chick
ems was born she seemed restless until
new nest of eggs was provided for her.
At the same time she kept an eye upon the
last brood, which she warmed beneath her
fur at night in the same nest with the eggs.
The chickens recognized the cat as
their mother, and when she lett the
cage in which she was kept they ran
chirping after her. The cat defended
them against another cat, and especially
against hen. Her grown up chickens
Tibby never failed TO recognize, and the
memory of their feline mother did not
seem to desert the pullets. She played
with one of her chickens until it was
three or four months old and always
seemed to welcome it when it came
where she was kept. In the hatch.
hing process she seems morose until
she hears the first peep or feels the first
throb of life in the shell. Then she
draws the quickened egg to point in
the nest where she can both warm and
set, and if the chick in pecking its way
through the shell needs any assistance
she helps break its covering with her
teeth. She has now two chicks day old
and two that are about week old. She
hugs them about her in her nest and if
one hops out she steps after it, bears it
down with her foot, grasps its neck
between her teeth and carries it gently
back. The cat has been the source of
considerable income to Leonard. 1t is
now on exhibition in museum.
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A. T.. Stewards Body.
New YORK, April Is

NEW 1Ohh, apIll LIZ.
Many persons in Garden City and
Hampstead believe that the body of A.
r. Stewart now lies in the crypt of the
Stewart memorial cathedral at Garden
City. 1t Is said that about two weeks
ago two large slabs of blue stone were
brought up on q freight train. They
were SO heavy that special appliances
had to be brought into requisition to take
them from the car and carry them to the
cathedral. In each corner of these slabs
there were eye-holes for the insertion of
heavy bolts. 1t is supposed that one of
the slabs was designed to lie beneath the
coffin, and the other on top of it, and
that they were to be bolted together.
Next, the story has it that about twelve
days ago special train arrived at Gar.
den City at midnight, consisting of an
engine, baggage.car and passenger
car. That Mr.. Hilton, Mrs. Stewart and
about half dozen others got off the train
and went directly to the cathedral, while
from the baggage car was taken a coffin
which was also taken to the cathedral.
The party was there long time; the
cathedral being lighted and the doors
locked. 1t is further said that the body
was put in the crypt in the basement of
the cathedral beneath the chancel, and
that masons then laid the stones, bolted
them, poured lead around the bolts in
the eyeholes, and sealed the masonry
with cement. 1t is further said that cleo
tricians skillfully led wires from various
parts Of the masonry and of the crypt
up to the chime of bells in the steeple in
such manner that if any person should
attempt an entrance every bell in the
steeple would ring. It is further related
that the cathedral has been lighted up
frequently since that time, and much
work has been going on in it. Formerly
there was watchman il the daytime,
but now it is said there are two at night.
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"A wedding party got SO drunk at
Waupaca, Wis, that the object of the
gathering was forgotten by all, including
the bride, bridegroom and minister, and
the marriage did not take place until
next day.
=. Some remarkable revelations coll
cerning the adulteration of food are made
in the annual report, just published, of
the inspector of vinegar for the City of
Boston. The total amount of the liquor
sold and used in Boston each year under
the name of vinegar is estimated at about
100000 gallons. Ofthis, the inspector
declares, less than one.tenth is pureapple.
juice, the first being villanous decoc-
ton of molasses, glucose, acid sour ole,
lager beer distillery slops, &C., made for
about halfthe lowest possible cost ofpure
cider vinegar. Nor is this all, nor even
the worst view of the case. Such sub
stances as oil of vitriol and other mineral
acids are brought into requisitior. One
cents worth of sulphuric acid is sufficient
for the manufacture of four gallons Divine
gar, and when disguised by other ingre.
uleDtS us presence cannot be detected
by taste alone Much of this wretchcd
stuff, it is believed, has been sold in the
Boston market as "Pure Apple Vinegar"
Fifteen hundred barrels of it in a single
cargo were seized by the officers, and
captured in warehouse and shipped
back to the former owners. The extent
to which this illegal and inhuman busi-
ness is carried on is shown by the fact
that the wholesale price Of vinegar in
Be ston averages 9 cents per gallon,
much of it being sold as low as 6 cents,
while the genuine article cannot be man.
ufactured for less than about 12l cents
per gallon. 1t is only natural that the
inspector, in concluding his report, should
attribute the high death-ratc of the city
largely to the consumption of these de.
leteriOus compounds
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Some idea of how much the Amel

Some idea of how much the Amer
ican people are willing to pay for amuse-
ments may be gathered from the fact that
there have been taken in at the perform
ances already given by Sarah Bernhard
between $3.50, 900 and $40, 900. This is
an enormous sum to be expended upon
one entertainment alone, and when the
other successful organizations are taken
into consideration, and the money they
have received, it can readily be seen how
strongly the theater- going passion is de-
veloped in our people. Mile. Bernhardt
will take back with her, as her share of
the seasons work, somewhere in the
neighborhood of 100000. No wonder
the foreign singers and actors regard
America as a gold mine, the working of
which brings profit aud pleasure.
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in Edgefeld 415,243 bushels, and of
wheat 1O7,6OS bushels in Abbeville
County. The greatest yield of cotton
per acre is in Marlboro the temperance
county, where it is S57 pounds; of corn
the largest yield is 1873 bushels in Ker.
shaw County; of oats 1872 bushels. in
Georgetown County, and of wheat IL
bushels in Charleston County, the result
of experimental farming.
The figures, considered in the light of
the past, are very gratifying as showing
an improvement not only in the extent
of land under cultivation but also in the
manner of cultivating, but in the light
of what can be done and is done else
where by improved systems of farming
they leave much yet to be desired.
Cotton.
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81 used to be an odd job Christian,
but 1 am now working full time," was
the remark OF a laboring man who had
been remiss in his duties, but had been
through revival.
= Henry Ward Beecher announced
from the Plymouth Church pulpit Sun
day morning his belief that baptism was
a non essential ordinance of the church.
1t was pleasant enough and useful enough,
but if a man died trusting in Christ it
made no difference whether he had been
sprinkled or immersed, or both or nei-
ther.
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. Secretary Blaine b(

= Secretary Blaine begins work vigo-
rously by note to the British Minister,
calling attention to the misrepresenta-
tions of the British Consul at Philadel-
phia, in relation to the hog cholera in the
West, and desiring thatimmediate steps be
taken to correct the injury which the
report is likely to do to American trade.
Secretary Evarts intimated the move for
q correction by note on the 9TH OF
March.
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Modesty is q guard to virtue.
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Charity may begin next door, but re
form should commence at home.