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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-03

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IL .s 'aey keep a fine stock of goods
IN. e'efything at reasonable prices.
4hsW advertisement.
I'M saaAodiss Sunday School will pic
a1s Brook on next Saturday. The
saeas requests US to extend an
!" the other Sunday Schools of
Ss.0e present. Of course, every
!ss, ec'ed to bring their baskets.
'u a'e anticipating joyful day.
spn'ing young friend, Mr.. F. T.
sa ~ commenced the erection OF O
a n.nN na'antial dwelling house on bis
~ ane ~ street. just opposite the
Vnnrch. Frank is a whole.
S'essiVo ,s'' young man, snd all that
]ss o complete his happiness in
Spa partner to occupy the house
u, ~ aaffis, who lives on Mr.. ID. E.
Sst :. @ IN the Dark. Corner town.
SIN 70 m last Friday q specimen of
IS, ~, cotton crop. Mr.. Harris has
3a N ay up, and ready for tho plow
D IN, - ;, samples sent us have four
sah,, s'em. The majority of our
ss,ah,. not as yet finished planting,
epusa 0' them have not put a seed
;fs, insud, Rev. w. q. Neville. of
,as,inNa Preached two very interesting
Ana .. sermons in the Presbyterian
' city on last Sunday morning
8sal.s. Ar. Neville Ia q young man
Rsas..,,aa and treats his aubjects in q
hs,,s s.ai . manner. Ho has a prom.
3ta. p saa We predict that he win be
sasn, lung - ministers of his Church
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-10-27
THE THREE-CENT STAMP.

Goodbye, old stamp. It's nasty luck
That ends Our friendship So
When others failed you gamely stuck,
But now yOuus got to GO.
$50 here's a flood of honest tears,
And here's an honest sigh
Goodbye. old friend OF many years
Goodbye, old stamp, goodbye!
Your life has been varied one,
With curious phases fraught-
Sometimes check, sometimes dun,
Your daily coming brought;
Smiles to waiting lovers face,
Tears t, mothers eye,
Or joy or pain to every place
Goodbye, old stamp, good bye!
You bravely toiled, and better men
Will youch for what say:
Although you have been licked, twas when
Your face turned tother way;
Twas often in a box you got
(As you will not deny1--
For going through the mails, ] wot-
Good bye, old stamp, good byel
All in your last expiring breath!
The tale of years Is heard
The sound of voices hushed in death,
A mothers dying word,
A maiden's answer, soft and sweet,
A wife's regretful sigh,
The patter Of baby's feet
Goodbye, old stamp. goodbye!
What wonder, then, that at this time
When you and l must part,
/ should aspire to speak in rhyme
The promptinys of my heart.
Go bide with all those mem ries dear
That live when others die
You've nobiy served your purpose here
Goodbye, old stamp, gOod-bye!
Eugene j. Field, IN, Chicago Hetps.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-10-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Ex-senator Sharon confesses to
have an income of 100000 o month.
The famous pianist, DIR. Hans Won
lunatic asylum.
Mr.. Surgeons publisher is said to
have sold 100000 copies of "John
Ploughman's Talk
Mr. MacVeagh is going to write up
his six months experience in the Gar
field Cabinet. Philadelphia Press.
From the fact that she calls it
"dear America now, the Louisville
CouTier-Jour7aat infers that Mrs. Lang
try is learning to be a great actress.
Texas has little girl lecturer,
Jennie Scott by name, who is a prodigy.
She is seven years old, and speaks most
learnedly on many subjects. She has
never been to school, Chicago Herald.
Senator Bob Hart, the reformed
minstrel, hopes to make something out
of forthcoming autobiography, as
people seem to think that clergyman
can live on air and get fat by chewing
daylight. Detroit Post.
Miss Leslie Aver, daughter Of the
late James Aver, of patent medicine
celebrity, is the latest American target
for the aim of impecunious foreign
Counts. The young woman, with her
dot of S5,O00,000, receives much at
tention in the aristocratic circles OF
Paris.-M. Y. Herald.
There was a happy family reunion
in Polk County, Ore, few days ago,
Mrs. Nancy Liggett, of Missouri, hay
ing gone thither to meet her three sis
tiers, whom she had not seen for forty
five wears. She is seventv-five years
old, and her sisters are: Mrs. Kinseyr
aged seventy; Mrs. Clark, aged sixty
nine, and Mrs. Price, aged sixty-seven.
Chicago Journal.
Richard Whiteside, thirteen, and
Frank Haywood, eleven, belonging to
good families in Boston, started out to
kill the few remaining Indians in the
West. Whiteside stole sixty dollars
from his mother to defray expenses.
Haywood stole the money which White
side carried and the latter had the young
thief arrested at Lynn. The police
sent the boys home to their parents.
Boston Herald.
A Brahma missionary to England
gives this description of John Bright:
'.John Bright eats his breakfast like a
lion, and digests it, too; but he doesn't
drink. He is broad, middle-sized
man, with great soft hands and an
enormous appetite. I have seen him
finish off the plentiful morning meal
| with half jug of milk and good lump
of sugar, which he puts into his mouth
somewhat surreptitiously."
The widow of Rev. Elkanah Walker
is probably the sole survivor of the
women who rode across the plains to
Oregon on horseback in the early days.
| She resides at Forest Grove, in that
| State, and is still in good health. The
saddle on which she rode across the
plains forty-fve years ago is still in her
possession. Her son, q. I'll. Walker, the
oldest white person born in Oregon, was
with her in Portland on the day of the
recent railroad parade. N. 7. Post.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-10-27
HUMOROUS.

Dramatic garnet where liquor is
sold.-1he Judge.
-"One good turn deserves another"
as the tug-boat Captain said to the
bridge-tender.
How may vein be likened to dry
book? In its being opened only in
cases of extreme necessity.
An advertiser Of very cheap shoes
recently blurted out the real truth in
mistake-thus: IN. B. Ladies wish
ing those cheap shoes will do well to
call soon. as they will not last long. p
Detroit Post.
The widow of Scotch Duke is
about to be married to a New York ex-
editor. We are glad to see that the
nobility doesn't consider itself incapa-
BILE of improving its condition. Me4'-
chant Traveller
ga Georgia man has raised a peach
that weighs a pound. /" Ii Georgia
man can raise q peach weighing moro
than pound he must be pretty weak.
We have tifteen-y ear-old boys in this
vicinity who can s.raise" pumpkin
weighing one hundred pounds. Norris
toWn Herald.
--'You ought to be in our room
now,' said Amy; '.we have a teacher
that rules the roost.'' s.Well, !" replied
the High School girl, I'D be ashamed
of myself; you should say: governs
the horizontal perch on which the fowl
reposes, not rules the roost. OIL
city Derrick.
my son Willyim," said a fond
mother, .'uster be pretty wild as boy,
but since he went West he's sorter
turned over new leaf and got steady.
He's getting along well, to, for see his
name in the papers they say he's been
road agent doing large business.
and that his fellow citizens organized a
neck-tie sociable in his honor recently.
I am so glad that Willyim is getting
M in the world '--Rochester P0st-Ez-
press.
A little four-year was taken ON
8 visit to grandmamma in the country.
There, for the first time, he had a near
view of COW. He would stand and
look on while the man MIXED, and ask
all manner of questions. In this way
he learned that the long crooked
branches on the cows head were called
horns. Now the little fellow knew Of
only one kind of horn, and a few days
after obtaining this information, hear
ing strange kind Of believing noise in
the yard, he ran out to ascertain its
rause. In few minutes he returned,
with wonder and delight depicted on
| his countenanee, exclaiming: Nam
ma! mamma! Oh, do come out here!
The cows blowing her hornsn Har-
yer's BasaT.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-10-27

".To the other world says I, and
we came almighty near maxim the
trip
q We'll, you never see more CRATE
full set of men. Ehey made up purse
of five hundred dollars on the spot, and
when we got to Fabyan's they tele-
graphed the Super as how was to stay
with them during the excursion, and |
went to all the sights in Montreal with
'em just as though had been one OF the
regular party. Not content with that,
they gave me an elegant gold watch and
chain, the President of the road, who
happened to be among 'em, making
neat speech. I tell you peep into the
jaws of death will put rich and poor
men on the same level, nothing like it
to take the bigness out of them.
"'Well, the boys all made a lion OF
me when / got back to Portland, and
Nell never seemed SO glad to see me.
That nights work was the making Of
me, for the Super gave me good show
and finally l got this job. never told
the boys why | stopped the train, for J
knew they would laugh at me, and ]
don't know as told my wife for a long
time. One day, however, she came to
me and says:
.Bob,I had a queer dream about you,
the night of that affair at the Franken-
stein. l dreamed was on the engine
with you somewhere and we was agoin'
at frightful rate. Way in the distance
l saw what seemed to be big gulf, and
you thought by gettin' good Roadway
you could Jump it. l knew, of course,
you couldn't, SO when you started to
open the throttle l said: Not that one,
the braker then woke up
~ told her then the whole story, and
gentlemen whenever I hear a similar
yarn, and I've heard number Of 'en,
I don't turn up my nose and say non
sense! There's more in ones feelings
than most people think, for, leastwise,
minding my feelings saved my neck
that night on the Frankenstein trestle.
There comes the express; goodnight. "
f-Edward II. Crosby, n, Boston
Courier.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-10-27

What fruit is stream? The cur.
rant. Why? Because it has to ba
stemmed.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05
Mississippi's Share of Federal
PATRONAGE.

Judge Jeffords is the only
straight Republican that is IN
Congress from Mississippi, and
he has recently been on a mis-
sion to Washington to see II he
could not get a few of his breth-
rem pleced in comfortable posi-
tions. The party is in a hope
less minority in this state and
can expect no state offices and
very few county offices. Judge
Jeffords is kinds hearted man
and very naturally wishes to do
the best he can for his friends
who are out of Office and want
to, get in. He is giving them all
the assistance that he can, but
he evidently has tough job on
hand and will probably return
home a disappointed man. The
Republican leaders regart
Mississippi as hopelessly Demo
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05
What is an Ayrshire Z

The Ayrshire breed OF cattle
originated in the county of that
name in Scotland. They have
been brought to their present
high state of perfection princi-
paily tlrouhg careful selection
in breeding. They have now
been bred for more that q cen
tury with special regald to their
milking qualities. In color they
are generally red, or brown and
white, distinctly marked. They
are of medium size, compactly
built, and with such a perfect
set of digestive organs that
thew assimilate food with the
least possible waste, thus con.
verting into milk all the availa-
BILE portions of their food. In
disposition they are kind and
docile and are very appreclatlve
of kind treatment.
AYRSHIRE milk is pronounced
by analysts and physicians to be
a perfect food, and its compost
ton more nearly approaches to
the milk of the human race thar
that of any other breed of cat
tie. 1t is on that account quail
fed in the highest degree for
the growth aud nourshment OF
young children, and for the sus-
tenance of the adult. Being
rich in casein, it is particularly
adapted for the manufacture OF
cheese, giving larger returns for
the amount used than other
milks. Butter made from Ayr
shires milk is noted for its mild
delicate flavor, firm texture and
keeping qualities. Ayrshires
are not only large but rich milk
ers; they are industrious feed
ers, and hold out their flow O
milk well to the end of the sea
son. On account of their thrift.
makeup the heat and DIR,
weather does not effect thei
flow of milk in the some wa,
that it does cattle of the large
breeds. In fact they are pre-
eminently the poor mans Gov
and will give more milk an
make more butter for th
> amount of food consumed tina
l any other breed.-Nationa Fa
J. mer.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05

cratic, and are not disposed to
give Mississlppians office beyond
the limit of the State. They
seem disposed to give them the
Federal offices Ia the State, but
none out side of il
A special to the N. o. Times.
Democrat, gives the following
account of his mission
Mr.. Jeffords, the only Repub-
lican Congressman from Missis.
sippi, has been trying for sever
al days to get u number of his
constituents placed in the de-
partments. He finds that Mis-.
sissippi hasn't a representative
in the State and Navy Depart
ment, only Z in the War Depart
ment, "a In the Treasury, 20 in
the Interior, and in the Post
Office Department. This condi.
tion of affairs, he regards as q
shameless imposition on Missis
sippi. He had q long talk about
the matter with the President
to-day, and complained that the
heads of the departments did
not give his State a fair show.
Mr., Jeffords said he hoped the
President had some influence
with this administration. he.
cause he wanted his assistance
in getting some Mississippi Re-
publicans taken care of. The
President thought that Missis-
rippi would be taken care of in
good time. Mr.. Jefords intends
to make considerable noise un.
less some appointments are Civ.
en- him. He has undertaken a
harder task than he has any idea
of.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05
BIockades no Longer Possible.

According to an official report
lately published in the Marine
Feordnung's Blatt, it is the Opin.
ion of German naval authorizes
that for the future an effective
blockade has become impossible.
The reasons given are that a
fleet would always be obliged at
sunset to gain the open sea, and
to remain sufficiently far Off to
prevent torpedo boats issuing
from the harb Dor coming up to
the vessels in the darkness, and
not even single ship would be
left on guard in sight of the port
without the risk, almost amount
ing to certainty, of being sunk
during the night, while the port
would remain open not only to
light and speedy cruisers, bnt
to any ship whose entrance
might be desired. Under such
circumstances, the probability
of a few torpedo boats being
hidden along the coast, would
it is thought, be sufficient to par
alyze the action of the most
powerful squadron and prevent
the possibility of any serious
operations.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05
A Prediction as to Ohio.

The election or defeat of For.
aker will depend upon issues
that ark TO large extent, local
to Ohio and excite little interest
beyond her borders, but when
1t comes to 'sthe status Of the
State in the Presidential elec.
tion," we regard it as already
settled-it is as certain to 20
for the Republican nominee In
1884, as Iowa or Kansas, ard we
hope that our Democratic
friends In all parts of the conn.
try will take this view of the
case and thus avoid discour-
agelnent and disappointment.
The Democratic party would
gladly Welcome Ohio to it's col
umn in 1884, but II has no rea-
son 10 expect to be thus rem
forced, and Ohio is not at all
essential to its success.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05
The Fate Of the Cotton Planter
Is Decidsd IN the Corn Field.

Look to your corn fields con,
stantly and devotedly. There
question il TO he decided as to
whether you can make money
on cotton ut eight cents O pound.
II all depends upon the corn
crop, and fate of . corn crop Ia
. State where corn can often be
made when planted as late VI
July, is In the hands of the cot.
ton planters; they can win or
lose almost at will.
A heavy. corn crop here VIII
force the Western crop OF corp
into the Western hogs, and
make meat cheap For those who
look to the Western smoke!
houses for their supply ; and
cheap meat and home made
corn assure q reasonable profit
to the cotton planter In any
ordinary season, whether the
staple commands eight cents q
pound or eleven.-Aberdeen
Examiner.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05

In reference to the recent de
cision by the Supreme Court of
the United States in the
"Granger case" originating in
Illinois, the Philadelphia Times
says:
The recent decision of the
Supreme Court reafiirming the
power of States to regulate rail
ways was the first declaration
of this order based upon an APP
peal from the acts ofa Board of
Commissioners. This body in
Illinois made certain regulations
rrr@s.rftrr-wrrr1irrrc rcsrfusN&
company appealed to the State
Courts. The right or The com
missioners to..adopt and enforce
such rules was affirmed ana
the recent decision of the Su-
preme Court was only confirma.
tory of it. The right of control
has now been fixed from almost
every important standpoint and
is not likely to be seriously
questioned hereafter.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05

Nearly two hundred woman
of New York, wives of some OF
the best known citizens, have
petitioned the Board Of Educa.
ton to make the teaching OF
sewing to girls between ten and
twelve compulsory in tho pri-
mary schools. A plan OF teach
ing accompanies the petition,
and provides that after attain
ing a certain proficiency the
children may bring their own
| work. This is a step IN the
right direction. The tendency
of our modern education is too
often away from home; 1t trains
the brain, but does not make
housewives. But as these goodl
women point out sewing Is OF
much more Importance to the
mother of a poor family thai
arithmetic, or geography, OF
history.-N. Y. Tribune.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05

Another indictment against
Thomas j. Brady, cx-assistant
Postmaster General has been
found by the Grand Jury at
Washington City, for his con-
nection with the Star route
frauds. It's alleged that he ac-
cepted a bribe from one of the
bidders for awarding a mail con-
tract. 1t looks like he might
be convicted upon this charge
but we have very little idea that
he will. If he has able lawyers
and swift witnesses, he will es-
cape the clutches OF the law as
he did in his former trials.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05
Southern Inyestuienf.

1t seems that English capitals
lists appreciate the possibilities
Of the South q good deal better
than our Northern financiers,
for they are buying land in the
Southern States In great quaint.
ties. Their purchases in Flori.
da are literally immense; but
they have bought large tracts
in other Southern States az well,
and have their agents on the
lookout. They pick up planta-
tions, which can be bought for
a tritie of their value, aud seize,
upon large uncultivated proper
ties, to hold for future coloniz.
ing or clearing up. The Eng.
lish idea seems to be that q few
years hence the Southern States
will be the most attractive and
profitable in this country, and
they mean to take the occasion,
by the foretop and anticipate,
the inevitable. We have all
along urged our capitalists to
turn theil attention Southwark
and make investments, when,
from the nature of things there
will be the greatest growth
within the next twenty-five
years.-N. Y. Sun.
This is all very well, If these
foreign capitalists are buYipg
But # they are to be held uR
for speculative purposes, or to-
be used for transplanting the
landlord and tenant system in
operation in European coun-
tries, to ours, it may be quite q
different thing, Lord CARING
ton, q British statesman, In q
recent address before the Roy
al Bucks Agricultural associa-
ton of Aylesbury, England,
gave the following statistics:
Two-thirds of the land of
England is owned by 1O,2O6
persons.
Two-thirds of Scotland is
owned by $50 persons.
England alone in 1870 had L.
O79,000 paupers and over 20r
100000 of inhabitants, not One
of whom possessed in thelf own
right land enough in which to
bury their own bodies.
On the other hand, a few
thousand persons hold public
and private interest.bearing OBJ
legations amounting to $17, ,000,.
000, 900, and their annual income
from this source aggregate ovei
$500, 600, ,OO0.-Jackson Clarion.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05
DRINKING North and South.

It is estimated that there are
a, 900 drinking places in the city
of Chicago, and the rush for IL
cense to rln nine months before
the new high-license law goes
into effect, shows that the esti-
mate is not far out ofthe way.
There were $500 license issued
i'm two days, on the third day
8 900 had been issued, and it is
thought 1000 more will be grant
ed before the business is
wound up. Putting the popu-
lation of the city at $4,000 this
would give one licensed saloon
for every 1873 persons. AS all
these establishments manage to
make living, it will be seen
that there is an enormous
amount of drinding in that city.
1t has been asserted by citizens
of Chicago that there city il
governed by saloon keepers,
We do not know whether the
statement is true or not, but one
thing is certain, The saloon sta
tistics of Illinois, Ohio aud 9th
er Northern States ought to 81
lence forever the sneers OF the
Northern press at the liquor
drinking in the South. the
whole number of saloons, drug
stores and groceries in Missouri
at which spirits, wine and beer
are sold at retail is 4,527,. The
estimated number in Ohio is l6,-
OOO.-St Louis Republican.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05

A report from the records of
the courts of France upon the
relation between education and
crime describes results directly
opposed TO those obtained in
the Unacd States courts. OF
% 900 persons wholly illiterate,
five were criminals, Of the same
number able to read and write,
six were transgressors, and of
an equal number of persons of
instructions, fifteen
we're under the ban. Relapses
into crime were found much
more numerous among educated
people.-N. Y Herald.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05

Where weeds are too large
and stand too thick for good
work in the ordinary way with
.cultivators or shovel plows an
effective method is, to run q
stunning" plow along the rows
of corn, the bar side next to the
row, running as close AZ posi-.
BILE throwing a very shallow fur
row away from the corn. Then
clean out the hills with hoes or
by hand if necessary, and IN a
few days commence cultivating
in the regular way. The weeds
or the corn must be destroyed,
and we have known instances
where it was impossible to get
rid of weeds abont hills of corn
without using extra work.
Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1883-07-05

The opium dealers have been
laying in large stocks OF the
drug in view of the increase in
the duty ON July 1st, from 10 to
$40 a pound. 1t is estimated
that enough opium TO supply the
trade for five years is already
stored at San Francisco, and
large lots are received constant.
ly and will be until July 1st. A
San Francisco firm recently paid
49S,400 in duties on $246,0OO
worth of opium received on one
steamer.