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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-10-19

An aged peasant learns that the
village doctor, to whom he had advanced
some small sums. has just passed away,
leaving nothing but debts. ''There l''
says he to his wife, with q delighted
chuckle, "if hadn't had the good luck
to have that fit Of infammatory rheuma.
tism two months ago, where would my
money be 2"
Ex-Governor Reuben E. Fenton is
now numbered among the prominent Re.
nounced that the Republican State ticket
caunot be elected. He was in New York
City last week, and he told several of his
friends that Cleveland would sweep the
western part of the State. From the re.
marks made by Mr.. Fenton it is taken
for granted that he will declare his oppo.
sition to Secretary Folger before election
day. Ex-Speaker Sloan, ex.Assembly-
man Duguid and Thurlow Weed Barnes
are also against the Saratoga ticket.
They cay that there is no possible chance
Of its being elected.
= Hubbel is visiting New York TO a.,
certain how much will be required from
the two per cent. fund TO convince New
York Republicans that ticket noElina.
ted by forgery and bribery is deserving
of their support. In addition to what be
is to advance from the congressional fund
be is to furnish the State committee with
q list of all New York Office. holders and
their respective salaries, upon which the
State committee proposes to levy "vol.
untary" contribution of two and one half
per cent. and the country organizations
like sum. BY the time the campaign is
over the postmasters and clerks will be.
gin to wonder what is to be left them to
live on. But the voluntary contributions
will be required all the same to assist Jay
Gould to make the experiment of buying
State Government which the people
don't want.
= Elk. Attorney. General Lear, who
presided over the Republican Convention
which put Gen. Beaver in nomination
for Governor of Pennsylvania, has writ
ten lengthy letter giving his reasons
for refusing TO support the nominees Of
that Convention. He says the campaign
is being conducted without the slightest
regard TO the pledges contained in the
platform adopted, and that "party with.
out principle has no claim upon the suf.
frages Of intelligent men," He also con-
demns the the levying Of compulsory as.
sessments by the Cameron leaders, which,
by its amount, he contends ''cAn be re-.
auired only TO corrupt the very source of
political power" Mr.. Lear says all the
omens indicate as a result Of the Iude-
pendent Republican movement in Penn.
sylvania "the wreck OF Senator Came.
ron, the defeat of his ticket, and the
! salvation of tho Republican party"
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Here again we find that it costs only
20 cents bale more to carry it to Rich
mond, or so cents a bale more to carry it
to Norfolk, than to bring it TO Charleston,
though in the one case the distance is
twice as great, and in the other nearly
three times as great.
II. The Greenvile and Columbia Rail-
road, with its connections 10 Waihaiia,
Abbeville and Laurens.
We take first the rates from Newberry,
s. G., one Of our largest interior cotton
markets:
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Here it costs from As cents 10 80 cents
bale moro to send it to Charleston. a
much shorter distance, than TO send It
either to Wilmington, or Richmond, or
Norfolk.
The other roads controlled in this State
by this same corporation are the Will.
mington, Columbia and Augusta Rail-
road, and its connections, the Northeast
ern Railroad and tie Cheraw and OAR
lington roads, and the same spirit Of dis.
elimination against Charleston is mani
tested in its management, Us We are pre-.
pared to prove. But we have shown
enough TO prove that this complete
network OF railroads, covering nearly the
entire State of South Carolina, is now
being worked against the very interests
for which they were built. For while
apparently Offering low rates Of freight
on cotton and other produce going north.
ward from our interior markets, this same
corporation has taken advantage Of such
towns as Spartanburg, GreenviIle, Able.
vile, Anderson, and many other points
where, since they have leased all the
railroads, there is now no competition,
and are charging the merchants aud
planters exorbitGnt freights on all ingo-
ing goods and produce.
We deem it of vital importance to our
city that this discriminating policy
against US shall be controlled In it's very
beginning, and believing that the Legis.
lature can and will check this growing
evil, as it has done in other States, we
urge this Convention to charge upon the
Senators and Representatives that they
are now about to nominate for the Dem.
ocratic party Of Charleston County, that
they give the subject their careful and
prompt attention as soon as the Legisla-
ture convenes, and in their wisdom devise
for US remedy.
After some discussion, in which the
Importance of the matter was heartily
advocated by Mes.rs. Jos. w. Barnwell,
Henry Buist and +. w. Dawson, the
Hon. r. N. Gourdin introduced the fol-
lowing resolution, which was unanimous.
ly adopted:
Resohed by this Convention, That the
Senators and Representatives from
Charleston are hereby requested to bring
] before the Legislature at the next session,
and at the earliest moment, tie whole
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A little lady of two-snd.a.half years
had picked up Il cane in the corner of
the room and was playing with it-a
plain stick bent at the end. Papa asked,
"What are you doing with the cane7"
ut isn't cane" "What is it, then 2"
cts an umbrella without any clothes on
it."
We like st. Jacobs Oil, and observe
too that the Rt. Rev. Biahop Gilmour in.
doses the remedy.-BaQinlsre (Ad.)
CdthoHc Mirror.
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ing evil complained of.
THE LEGISLATIVE TICKET.
The Convention then proceeded to the
election Of twelve members Of the Lower
House of the General Assembly. After
number Of ballots the following candi-
dates were elected:
G. H. Simonton, Edw. McCrady Jr.,
James .Simons, a. II. DuPre, W. II.
Brawley, John Gonzales, C. A. McIugh.
Geo. NJ. Mears, john +. Ficken, NJ. F.
Kennedy. Chas. Inglesby and J. Francis
Britton.
Capt. +. w. Dawson introduced the
following resolutions, which we're adopt.
ed unanimously:
Resoired, That! ,the'.. Democracy of
Charleston County, i'll County Conveu.
ton assembled, do hereby ratify and en-.
dorse the candidates for State offices nom.
mated by the State Convention, and the
candidate for Congress nominated by the
Convention for. this District; and ratify
and endorse the platform of principles
declared and adopted by the State Con-
vention.
Resoired, That the Democracy OF
Charleston County will devote themselves
henceforth until election day to the glo.
rious work of proving that this is solid.
ly Democratic County, which can be re.
lied on Mt all times for S,raightout
Democratic majority for the Straightou,
Democratic ticket.
On motion Of DR.. Horlbeck the thanks
of the Convention were rendered TO Mr..
J. Ancrum Simons, chairman, aud Nlt.
Z. +. Gleason, secretary, for the able aud
impartial manner in which they mad dis
charged the duties Of their offices, and
the Convention then adjourned.
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or, in other words, it cost fifteen cents
bale more to bring bale Of cotton
600 lbs. to Charleston, about 225 miles,
than to carry it to Richmond, distance
Of about 800 miles, aud only 10 cents a
bale more TO carry it to Norfolk, dis
tance Of about 800 miles.
Then take Winnsboro', S. c., OH the
same road
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OF, u VIII cost only twenty. i've cents a
bale more to carry bale of cotton 900
lbs) to Richmond, distance of about
$40 miles, or fifty cents bale more to
carry it to Norfolk, distance Of about
i20 miles, than taking it to Charleston, a
distance of only about l70 miles.
Also, Ridgeway, S. c., on the same
railroad
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Here We find again that bale Of cot.
ton can be carried to Norfolk, distance
of about ATS miles, for fifty cents bale
more, and TO Richmond, distance Of
about 440 miles, for only thirty.fv cents
bale more than to Charleston, dis.
tance of only 175 miles. Take Abbeville,
S. c., on the same road
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Here again the same discrimination
exists. for bale of cotton is carried to
Norfolk for 40 cents bale more, and to
Richmond for Is cents bale more than
to Charleston, though the distances are
over twice as great. Take BeIton, S. c.,
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Averaging a bale at 500 lbs. the freight
to Charleston is $3.l5 bale, distance
of about 265 miles, against $500 bale
to Richmond, over twice the distance, or
1885 bale to Norfolk, nearly twice and
half times the distance, 80 it costs so
cents a bale more to bring it to Charles.
ton.
III. The Spartanburg and Union Rail
road. Take Union, S. c.:
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THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION.

nen,ocrntic Ticket Eominated-An In.
.eres'ihs Exhibit of Freight Discrlminn-
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Here it COSTS thirty cents bale less to
carry it to Norfolk, distance OF 46S
miles. or ten cents baie less to carry il
to Baltimore, distance of 588 miles,
:!::a;: SC bring :: 70 ChhaIi5a;ou, u distance
of only 2S5 miles.
Bowman's Depot, Georgia, astation on
the Elberton Air Line Road, also leased
and controlled by the Richmond and
nanuilla Cnm hin afinn.
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ANDERSON, s. c., THURSDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 49, 1889

question 8 Of C railroad determinations
against the interests Of this State and
city, and that they support such legisla-
ton as will remedy the great and.grow.
ing evil complained Of
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To New York. .....79c
Sbht lcotVii.. ..OOC
Here the same discrimination against
Charleston prevails, and bale of cotton
is carried to Richmond for only Is cents
the increased rates Of freight we're put
into effect this season the rates 10 North
ern points from Union we're increased
only cents per 100 lbs., while to Charles
ton they we're increased 10 cents per 100
lbs.
Nv. The Air Line Railroad running
from Charlotte, n. G., through the upper
part Of South Carolina to Atlanta, Ga.
NU, ~,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02
A Montreal Hotel.

Joe Beef hotel is unique. 1t is four-stor
ystone building on the river front
of Montreal, and its customers are chiefly
boatmen. On the first floor is a bar
room, decorated with human skulls (the
proprietor says they are the heads of his
relatives), and on one end of the counter,
for free lunch. always lies huge piece
of raw beef, with knife for hacking of
pieces. The second floor is a cheap res
taurant, and above are lodging rooms,
at ten cents night. There IS also q
concert hall. But the strangest feature
Of the concern is q row Of cells in the
cellar, where Joe locks up his guests
when they become boisterously drunk.
IL won't have any policeman around
my place." he said to Boston Herald
correspondent; I'm my own police,
Judge and jury, and keeps my own
Jail" His followers submit to his sys-
tenn. because they escape the fines that
would be imposed If they fell into the
hands of the police, M Y. Sun,
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The following curious observations OF
sound have been carefully verified by an
extended series of experiments: The
whistle OF locomotive is heard $500
yards; the noise Of q railroad train, g.
800; the report of musket and the
bark of dog, 1900; an orchestra, or
the roll of drum, 1000; the human
voice reaches to 4 distance Of 900; the
croaking of frogs, 900; the chipping OF
chickens, 800. Distinct speaking is
heard in the air from below up to q dis.
lance of COO yards !; from above it is only
understood to range of 100 yards
downward. 1t has been ascertained
that an echo is well reflected from the
surface Of smooth water only when the
voice comes from an elevation. Other
similar phenomena connected with the
transmission of sound have been OBJ
served, but the results disagree, either
from inaccuracy in the observations or
from the varying nature of the circum-
stances affecting the numbers obtained.
Such variations occur to an extent of ten
to twenty per cent, and even more
The weather being cold and dry, or
warm and wet, are the chief influencing
causes. In the first case the sound goes
to q greater, and in the second to less
err distance.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02
Nohammedan sensitIvsness.

Mohammedan religious susceptible
ties are being tenderly cared for just
now in India. Apart from the arrest
and imprisonment of the Salvationists,
the authorities have now prohibit.
ed the sale of certain fancy dresses
which Madras milliner received from
Paris, and on which were print
ed Arabic verses of the Koran. To pre-
vent them falling into infidel hands, a
Mulvie, who happened to hear of the
garments, purchased one, and then laid
a complaint before the Commissioner Of
Police, on the ground that the sale Of
the dress was calculated to hurt the re-
ligious feelings Of the followers of Mo-
manned, and also telegraphed to the
Governor to the same effect. The police
at once took measures to stop the sale
of such.a sacriIegious costume. and the
Governor az once replied that stringent
measures would be taken to prevent .
repetition of the offense. ~s9 ~ :
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-12-02

A rRUANr officer noticing groupof people
watching the actions Of an old man who was
looking about In the stores near Grand and
Fourth streets, Willismsburgh, inquired the
object Of the old mans search. "Ae's look
ing for his boy" they said. "Ah, don't 20
to school, suppose. I'll see about it." Dis
playing his shield he approached the old gem
tleman and asked: '.Whars the matter, my
good mani" 'pm looking for my boy"
"Give me his name and I'll sttend to his
case" 'His name Is the same as my own,
Alexander Anderson He lives with me down
near Third street." when did he last at
tend school?n '.School He does not go to
school" Then he'll have to go, or else I'll
send him to the Truant Home" "Hold on:
say, who are YOUR inquired the old man. ~
am the truant officer. Don't you want your
son to go TO schooli'' "My boy to go to
school!' queried the old man. "No. want
him to go and register" "How old is your
boyp stammered the truant officer as the
crowd broke into laughter. "Why, he's fifty
elk years old, :" said the old many Y. Sun.
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Exercise and Malaria.

DIR. Pinkham writes in the Samaritan
regarding the tendency nowadays to
assign malarial poison as cause for all
kinds Of physical disturbances. This
fashion. rs it may now be called, of as
signing Eaalarial poison as a cause for all
kinds of physical disturbance, came
about, / think, somewhat in this way:
Quininc became recognized as aspecific
for malaria when to this agency were
referred only the periodic fevers. These
levers, intermittent and remittent, were
sound>to leave behind, after the fever
proper had taken its departure, certain
morbid conditions, especially of the liver
and spleen, which conditions produced a
variety of obscure symptoms. all of which
we're helped by the same remedy which
cured the fever, and, being given for
these obscure troubles, it was soon given
for all obscure troubles resembling them,
and it was found to be of service in all;
hence, reasoning from effect to cause, it
was inferred that all were of malarial
origin. A person eats heartily and exer-
cises little; he soon finds himself ill; he
has headache, pain in his side, languor
and variety OF Uncomfortable sensations.
Quinine is tonic, and aids digestion;
he takes it, and is better. What more
natural conclusion than that his symp-
toms are due to malaria, being relieved
as they are by the great anti-malarial
remedy Thus quinine became, as it is
to-day, an Ingredient of nearly all pre-
scriptions-the great cure-all. 1t also
became great aid in diagnosis, and in
many cases settled the question, con-
vincing the prepossessed patient and the
wavering physician that malaria was
the great bottom fact in the case in hand.
Now, believe more than half the all
ments which are in this off-hand way
ascribed to malaria are due to some-
thing else, and largely to lack of phvs-
ical exercise. There are other causes Of
diseases which we do not overlook
oyereating and drinking and smoking,
improper clothing and exposure to cold
and heat, worry and care, idleness
and overwork. over-excitement and
all kinds of excess, work destruc-
ton, as they did before malaria was in
vented. Lack of exercise produces de-
rangements of the liver. spleen, nerves,
brain and every organ in the body. 1t
produces multitude Of symptoms sim
liar to those produced by malaria. Let
exercise be supplied and the occasion
for quinine in these cases will no longer
exjSt.n t
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FARM AND PRESIDE.

When cow stops chewing her cud
she is sick. Do not listen to any talk
about lost cud. When the animal Is
better she will recommence chewing hel
cud. Give pound of EPSON salts, with
two ounces each of sweet nitre and gen.
tian.--N y Herald.
A farmer in the Old Dominion has
raised 100 barrels of sweet potatoes to
the acre on very poor land with no fer.
tilizer except heavy coating of leaf.
mold. Wood-mold and wood-pile dirt
are found to be good dressing for land
planted with this vegetable.
1T is better to have all the ground in
an orchard occupied with vegetables that
can be eaten than to allow any part of il
to grow up with weeds. Edible plants
do not injure the soil any more than
weeds do, and if the first are not planted
the last will be sure to grow unless the
hoe is frequently used. A better plan
will be to use the pillow and the hoe and
let the orchard be the sole occupant.
The sweet chestnut (Castanea resca)
is a large and handsome tree, and very
profitable when grown upon suitable
soil. The timber is valuable and dura-
BILE. and the fruit brings good price.
1t is related that farmer in Canada
who had grove near his house, made
as much from the trees as he did from
the rest of his farm of fifty acres.-N Y.
Examiner.
"A veterinary professor SAYS that
''the great majority of ringbones in
young horses come from the failure to
shorten the toes.' To this may be added
that ringbone is apt to be formed if colts
are allowed to stand on plank floor, or
anywhere else where the footingis hard,
during the first eighteen months of their
age. Whether in stable or yard during
this period, let them have earth for
standing or walking free from stone or
gravel. Rural NeW Yorker. 8R
Healthy animals will eat more food
in cold than in warm weather. When
the cool nights of autumn come the
skillful feeder profits by this fact by
giving an extra allowance of food to his
stock. He is abundantly rewarded by
hearing the grunts arising from that
comfortable pain which comes of a
stuffed stomach, and by seeing his ami
mails thrive even though the grass has
lost its tempting succulence. Cattle,
swine and sheep are profitable only as
machines for turning food into flesh and
fat, and like other machines when they
are idle they are a drain upon the re-
sources of their owner. The hopper
should be kept well filed with grain if a
good grist is expected. Chicago Trt6.
ut1e
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Nachcs, the Pinte chief. informs us
that courier who left Camp Bidwell re-
Gently. reported old Winnemncca alive,
but speechless and liable to die at any
moment His young wife, whom he
married last July, ran away. but was
followed by Winnemucca's friends and
taken back to his camp. She escaped a
second time and was again caught, when
Ochoho's Indians. numbering about
sixty braves, held council and decided
70 kill her. They took the woman and
her year-old chiid--bya husband who
died some months before she married
old Winnemucca--to . rocky bluff and
stoned her to death. Naches says that
1t has been customary with the tribe to
sacrifice squaws who are suspected of
bewitching men and making them sick,
by stoning them to death, but the ex-
cuse which Ochoho' men give for killing
this woman and child 10, that she threat
ened to burn . white mans house.
Neradd Siirer State.
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Along the great sandy beaches of the
New England coast at the present time.
especially on the more northern por-
tons. may be seen numbers of persons
engaged in gathering or accommodating"
moss-ors sea weed-to be used, as we are
informed, in the production of ..'blue
monge" in the neighboring towns and
cities After an easterly gale the beaches
are lined with various plants or their
equivalents of the sea, all of more or lees
value to the fisherman and the seaside
farmer. Along York beach l have seen
the Carrageen or ChoBdrus moss, used
in the manufacture of various jellies,
washed up by bushels, and its collection
forms an important industry, giving en-
ployment to hundreds of persons who
dry and ship it to all parts Of the world.
Even the kelps that come ashore on the
Name beaches are utilized on the farms
and valued for their nutritive properties.
The softer kinds are packed in great
heaps around the cellars to keep out the
winter blasts, while the more delicate
and ornamental varieties are selected by
tasteful hands, pressed and sold during
the summer season to the curiosity deal
er, VINO labels the more striking forms
Japan the next grade africa" and
so on, grading down the extent of their
geographical distribution as they grow
palmer, the common forms being labeled
sscoast of Maine.' In other countries sea
weed is much more in demand, however,
as the fishermen are, as class, extremely
poor, while those of the New England
States are the backbone and sinew Of the
land. and as a class well-to-do. The
Scotch make much of their dulse, red
sea-weed. The Irish also have it, men,
women and children collecting it, and
to many it is luxury. They call it
dillesk; while the currageen is so called
from an Irish town of the name where it
isfound in unusual quantities. The term
is applied to two species, both edible,
and used mostly in producing blanc
mango. BY putting the fronds in warm
water, the starch they secrete is forced
out, and when allowed to cool forms a
jelly so well known by the above term.
In the extreme northern countries of
Europe the favorite weed is tangle. and
dulse and tangle are hawked about in
the streets of Edinburgh as are shrimps
and crabs here. In Chill favorite
delicacy among the native epicures,
is the weed known as UUrvillea
uiiis-one of the largest and most mag
niicent productions of the sea. Itgrows
in the surf off the coast, also at the Falk-
land Islands, and forms gigantic cables,
hundreds of feet long, larger than the
human body, resembling q huge snake,
and requiring forty or fifty men to drag
one plant upon the shore. The appear
ance of these monster vines, beating and
writhing TO and fro amid the waves, is
remarkable, looking like mass of huge
marine snakes. and forming formi-
dable obstacle to the progress of boats,
often upsetting them York Me- Cor.
". r. Post. W