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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-28
The Lion and the Jackals-A Fable.

One day troop Of Jackals we're aston
ished beyond measure at the appearance
of g Lion in their midst, and their sur
prise could not be imagined when his
countenance assumed pleasant expires.
sion, and he remarked:
Friends, I have come to settle among
you and be neighbor. I want to be
friendly with each and every one and
think we'll of all, and I trust we shall
dwell together in harmony"
"Hooray for the Lion! Hurrah for
the old man-killer !" cheered the Jack.
ais, and they were tickled to death at
their good luck.
But the Lion had hardly got his den
in order when one Of the Jackals came
sneaking in and began:
I-I-that is-delicate subject, you
know--embarrassed, you see-ah-
hum"
"My friend, if you have anything to
say to me, be at your ease," replied the
Lion.
"Well, / simply want to drop you q
hint. Don't be LOO sweet on John Jack.
al. His great grandfather was banished
for cause, and his wife's second cousin is
a wall.eyed villain"
The Lion received the information
without remarks, and the caller went
away, chuckling over the idea that he
had sowed good seed. Next day sec.
ond Jackal appeared, beat around the
bush for a while, and then observed:
II feel it my duty to warn you against
Joe Jackal, who lives over the creek.
He beats his wife, cheats his neighbors,
and is o double back.action hypocrite by
the watch"
Soon another appeared with a similar
story about some one else in the commu-
nifty, and in the course of q fortnight the
Lion felt it his duty to call public
meeting. When the Jackals had gather.
ed around him he said:
II find by your own statements, thatyou
are community of thieves, liars, dead.
beats and swindlers, and henceforth you
can fight your own battles and hunt your
own bones. Sneaks, skulks and vaga-
bonds, farewellp p
MoRAL.-He who tries to climb up by
pulling his neighbor down makes poor
headway.-Detron Free Press.
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AN IND1AN BArrLE.r1ELD REVEALED.

AN INDIAN battlefield REVEALED.
MIR. Frank Terry, who resides on the
Coosa River, near the green Foster place,
was in the city yesterday. AS is known
the Foster farm lies in bend of the
river. Mr.. Terry says that during the
late freshet the Coosa flooded this place,
and the current that swept over it was 80
strong that in some places it washed off
the surface to the extent of five acres
down to the clay. In one of fthese washes
buried Indian battlefield was exposed
to view. The ground VAS strevn with
bones. Not a human bone that one could
think OF but was to be seen on this long
hidden field of battle that the Coosa had,
as it we're, so suddenly lifted up into
broad day. In addition to the bones q
large number of Indian beads, varying
in size from an average hickory nut to a
small pea, were also found. In one place
an Indian pipe, carved into the shape Of
human face, was picked up. As there
are great many logs, so lying one on the
other as to indicate that they once con-
stituted a forti6cation, it is supposed that
these bones are indications of q stubborn
Indian battle having been fought on this
spot in the unknown past. Who can
decipher these hieroglyphical records of
Indian history Rome Ga.) Bulletin.
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The tables given below are the first of
the kind made up by the United States
Census Bureau, from the returns of last
year, for any State, and were furnished
in advance by special request to our in
defatigable Commissioner of Agriculture,
Col. A. P. Butler.
1t will be seen that the total number
of acres cultivated in cotton, corn aud
small grain is 5000, ,972, which is S0,442
acres more than all the improved land"
in the State in 1870. The product of
cotton is SIG, 400 bales, against 224, 500 in
1870, gain of about 130 per cent. In
corn the increase is from 7,6l4,2O7 bush.
els in 1870 to 11,763,729 bushels in 1880,
or more than so per cent. In oats the
tables shows 2,715, ,443 bushels against
613,593 bushels in 1870, or, in other
words, the oat product of the State has
multiplied more than fourfold in ten
years. In wheat the increase is from
1850 bushels in 1870 to 962,431 bush
els in 1880, or nearly 20 per cent.
The United States Agricultural Report,
for 1879, shows that the average yield of
cotton per acre for all the cotton States
in that year was 1873 pounds. The small
est yield in any county of this State for
1880 is in Beaufort, where it is reported
at 1862, and that, it must be remembered,
is long staple cotton. The average yield
of corn per acre in the United States in
1879 was 29 bushels; the average yield
in this State for 1880 is only bushels
per acre, which shows how much room
there is for improvement in our methods
of cultivation. The average yield OF
wheat for 1879 was 1873 bushels the
average yield in this State for 1880 is
given at Sc bushels. The average OF
oats is given at 13 bushels as against 2S.7
bushels average per acre in the United
States in 1879.
The greatest aggregate yield of cotton,
81, ,907 bales, is in Edgefeld County; of
corn, in York 626,305 bushels; of oats,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-28
A Fable-How the Coon Presided.

Once upon time there was general
assemblage of fowls and animals, called
together to discuss ::he question of re.
form. The Tiger shed tears over the
wickedness of the Rabbits, the Hyena
wept at the rapacity of the Vulturos and
the wild Cat pressed his paws to his 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 bis
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"
II am for REFORM" said the Tiger as
he rose up. II see the Coons out every
night, stealing corn and raising old Ned
generally, and I 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 l
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
so bold that I hardly stand a show nova
days to find carcass for myself"
"And since men have taken to carrying
guns and swords I hesitate to attack
them," said Wolf. "I move you, Mr..
Chairman. that it is the sense of this
meeting tnat men no longer go armed"
"Hear what have to say" pleaded
the Wild Cat. II move that the Pan
ther be censured for eating fesh."
"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.
II 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 mol" 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 starvep
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:
"Order! 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.
"Well, then, any one willing to begin
the reform at home and under his own
hat please stand up.
No one stood up.
ri think we have bitten off more than
we can chew" said the Coon as be laid
down his gavel. ;This is very wicked
world, and there is great need of reform,
but when Tigers set cut 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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A Host of Contestants.

Testimony in the following contested
elections for Representatives has been
filed pursuant to law with the clerk ofthe
House of Representatives: Horatio Bis.
bee, Republican, vs.. Jesse J. Finley,
Democrat, second district of Florida
William NJ. 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 OF
South Carolina George N. Buchanan,
Republican, vs.. Van Fl. Manning, Demo.
crat, Second district of Mississippi; John
R. Lynch, Republican. VS.. James R.
Chalmers, Democrat, Sixth district Of
Mississippi; ]. 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.. James
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: M.
P. O'Connor, Second District D.. Wyatt
Aiken, Third District, and John H. 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.. j. L. Morphis
who, because of his duties Us 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 II. Manning, of the Second
Mississippi district, says that admitting
as true all 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-seventh Congress. It
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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A Hatching Cat.
BROOKLYN, April Is.

BROOKLYN, april I'D.
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 a 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
pany of all other cats. About two years
ago the cat, which is christened Tibby,
found warm resting-place in the nest of
a sitting hen, when the hen had gone to
hunt food, and became so fond of it that
it refused to surrender it. There was q
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 tho nest only for a
meal, anu soon Matched out the chickens.
From all of the twenty broods, number
ing about fifty chickens, the athas 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.
Atthe 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 cb; ks a day old
and two that are about w-k 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. r.. Stewards Body.
New YORK, April

NEW YORK, April Is.
Many persons in Garden City and
Hampstead believe that the body of A.
T. Stewart now lies in the crypt of the
Stewart memorial cathedral at Garden
City. It Is said that about two weeks
ago two large slabs of blue stone were
brought up on a 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 we're eye.holes for the insertion of
heavy bolts. It is supposed that one of
the slabs vas 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, a 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 Luggage car was taken q 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 elec-
tricians skillfully led wires from various
parts Of the masonry and of the crypt
up to the chime Of bells i'll the steeple in
such manner that if any person should
attempt an entrance every bell in the
steeple would ring. 1t 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 a watchman in 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 COLI
cerning the aduteration 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 ale,
lager beer distillery slops, &C., made for
about half the lowest possible cost ofpure
cider vinegar. Nor is this all, nor even
the worst view of the case. Such SUBJ
stances as oil of vitriol and other mineral
acids are brought into requisitioH. One
cents worth of sulphuric acid is sufficient
for the manufacture of fourgallons of vine.
gar, and when disguised by other ingre-
QleDtS ltS presence CaunOt De QcleCteQ
by taste alone. Much of this wretchcd
stuff, it is believed, has been sold in the
Boston marketas "Pure Apple Vinegar"
Fifteen hundred barrels of it in single
cargo were seized by the officers, and
captured in warehouse and ship ed
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
Boston averages 9 cents per gallon,
much of it being sold as low as cents,
while the genuine article cannot be man.
ufactured for less than about IL! 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 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 Bernhardt
between $3.50, 900 and $4,000. 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 gold mine, the working of
which brings profit aud pleasure.
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-"I 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 Be- announced
from the Plymouth Church pulpit Sun
day morning his belief that baptism was
non essential ordinance of the church.
It was pleasant enough and useful enough,
but if man died trusting ir Christ it
made no difference whether he had been
sprinkled or immersed, or both or nei-
ther.
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in Edgefeld 415,243 bushels, and of
wheat 107,608 bushels in Abbeville
County. The gr.atest 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 u
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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Secretary Blaine begins work yigo

= Secretary Blaine beglns Work ylgo-
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 a note on the 7th Of
March.
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PUSHING THE PLOUGH.

The Agricultural Progress of the State
Figures from the Census Bureau Show
ing the Greatly Increased Production of
South Carolina.
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. Modesty is a guard to virtue.
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MORAL.

Charity may begin next door, but re-
form should commence at home.
, 1881-08-09
LIVE STOCK.


CA1TLE-Nccefved during Sunday and Monday,
haW samo t!mo Inst week. LEO. Total last woek AuM
and 1Tt; cnlvos, shipped Inst naok, 1Al76 For fat
caeto thcra was rrctty good demand On Eastern and
export account, nnd with worry few suitable lots On
sale ho!den wcro In position 10 cloae out promptly
and n stronger prices Males Of coed 10 beat Grndea
plalnly indicating Nh ADVANCE OF 5a1Qc. Thero woso
humher of bunchcs ot guSd cattle for which &7S&Am
Hns obtained, but OF aricty rst-cnss there hui
anRtu drove 1t embraced AB hend, which for quall
~ and general nlhh havu hal supariorh herc fos
many day. They woso fed and shipped BY Eikcn<
barry T. Co.. Clnstsun, IL, snd were sold by Conovar
Hall 10 nu exporter Common nnd medium quail
tloh woro ns dull NJ baf0se, and prices, II not my
iorsr certainly wors n0 butter. Te1ss 9r.as-catt!e
nnd rninaiun Itn ria s r ~
c.oegI9m was .s loilnrs, "Kecepe 81 cattle II III
tho paat week, 6uu head. There wne fxisy ncttye
III hi1hcr tliat qtUtatIons oT oHS Woek aEo. Hest
hsaes cnttle seitlIx y ae nnd clocP Canadians nt
s snes sassa Msa y ssa9on Y psace H.:
1Gc. common to medium Ssutts cattle, N8i2Gh -