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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-10
A Hatch Found For g Boston Quiz.

Two Boston gentlemen while tramping
through the White mountains the past
summer came across o lonely hut among
the bills from which the prospect was
particularly fine and extended. Tho
proprietor of tho establishment was hoe
ing in . small garden, and the travellers
began to quiz him. Said one: Il ar3s
You have an excellent view from
your house."
"Puhy fair,n replied the farmer. .ssss'
I, II suppose" continued the first
speaker, winking to. his companion, Hon
= fair day you can SEQ almost to Eu'
et'Kin see farther % that, ,prsturned the
man. SpireagSg ~ hss1t;l IS, 4;
aHow. .so2p was asked in snzpriss. s ES
"We don't think nothin' of seeir' 90
fur as the tnnne, p. Boston C6u.ssr. ~
A3lQf
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-10
Lest She Should Fall Dead.

Philip Guyer, of Paterson, lost largo
sum Of money by theft recently. He
suspected an old woman of the neighbor-
hood, but did not have sufficient evidence
to warrant his making g complaint
against her. What made it the more
suspicious WAS that tho woman called
every morning to apk Mr. Guyer If he
had got any trace of the thief. The
following story il told BY e Pssass0n po.
lice official: MIR. Guyer ascertained that
she WAS very superstitiouB, and the next
morning when she called and asked, as
usual, if there was nuy news of the thief,
he replied:
"No; but I expect 70 know who 1t
WAS tonight"
"How," asked the woman.
"Do you see those nails" said Mr..
Guyer, showing the woman three very
old end rusty nails. "Well, they came
from q coffin that had boon buried for O
hundred years."
Tho Virgin save us, said the woman,
crossing herself.
"And do you SEQ that paper 2"
II do"
We'll, that is prayer. which I just
got from the priest"
Auu Hhot use you BoAuB w Nv Will
those things 2"
"Well," answered Mr. Gnyer. slosls
aud ifnprossivs!y, looking :!ss wS@.s i;
the face, tonight at IL o'clock ! am
going into u certain yard where there is
q pear tree. am to nail that prayer to
the tree with these three nails. Every
time I drive nail I am to repeat that
prayer aloud. When I drive the last
nail and repeat the prayer for the lag!
time the person who stole the money viii
drop dead"
The woman turned pale and departed
without saying word. That evening
about 8 o'clock there was rap at hfl
front door. He won't 10 the door nuI
there was no one in sight, but on the sill
he found small package containing the
money that had been stolen.-Ne1o Yorl
Sun.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-10

said +: "We'must take tbem," at the same
time drawing, for the first time that day,
his Colts navy pistol. | said "Stay
there, III take them" BY this time we
were in twenty yards of the two behind
the tree and getting closer every moment.
| shouted: "If you fire, you'll be swept
to hell Our men are here surrender |"
When Gen. Hill was at my side calling
Surrender" now within, ,ten.yards Of the
men covering us with their muskets (lhe
upper one the general, ,.the lower one my.
SELF the lower soldier let the stock of
his gun down from his sholder, but recov.
cred quickly as his comrade spoke to him
Q'only.saw his. lips move and both fired.
Throwing out my right hand (he was on
that side] toward the General, ! caught
the bride of his horse, and wheeling'to
the left, turned in tho saddle and saw my
General on the ground, with his limbs
extended motionless.
REPORTING TO GEN. LEE.
Instantly retracing the ground, leading
bis horse, which gave me no trouble, |
entered the woods again where we had
left them, and realizing the Importance,
and of all things most desirous of obey.
ing my Generals last order, ito report to
Gen. Lee" changed to his horse, very
superior one aud quite fresh, and letting
mine free kept on az fast as the nature Of
the ground would permit But after
sighting and avoiding several parties of
Federal stragglers and skirmishers, felt
that it would be best to take to the open
country and run for it, After some dis.
tance Of this | made for the Malone di.
vision log hut winter quarters. which
were still full of tho enemy, upon the
principle of greater safety in running
through its narrow streets than taking
their leisurcly fire in the open. Emerg.
ing thence down hill to the branch, along
the north aide Of which Gen. Hill had
so shortly ridden in his most earnest en-
desver to reach our separated and shat.
tered right, and in q straight line for Gen.
Lees headquarters, came in sight of a
mounted party of our own people, who,
when the branch was crossed and the hill
risen, proved to be Lieut. Gen. Long
street and staff, just arrived from north
of the Appomattox. Meanwhile, moet-
ing Coils. Palmer and Wingate and 9TH
ers of Gen. Hills staff andlcouriers, and
halting moment to answer the kindly
expressed Inquiries of Gen. Longstreet,
we rode on and found Gen. Lee mounted
ut the Cox road in front Of army head.
quarters. l reported to him Gen. Hills
last order to me. Gen. Lee then asked
for details, receiving which and express.
ing bis sorrow, he directed me to accom-
panr Col. Palmer to Mrs. Hill. Gen.
Lee said: Colonel, break the news to
her as gently as possible"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-10

- Fifteen years ago an Alabama man
killed peddler. Ever since that time
his wife has held tie crime over him as
whip, obliging aim to split all the
wood, build the tira and rock the baby.
Rendered desperate by her treatment he
has given himself up to be hung.
= The Winter exodus from the North
to Florida is unusually large shis year;
About $50 people leave New York every
day for Jacksonville, and probably SOC
people arrive in the Liter city every day
from different parta of the country. The
number will continue increasing unit
February. A good many settlers arc 60
ing at present. A. majority of the sat
Tiers 60 to South Florida, 10 the neigh
borhood of Sanford. Great numbers art
going from New England, New Yorl
and Pennsylvania
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-10
Important Society Hints.

It 10 no longer considered en- regle to
kiss the bride at o wedding. Take it out
on the bridesmaids.
Both dress and demeanor should al
ways be appropriate to the occasion.
Even full suit of the deepest black will
not excuse joking with the sexton at q
funeral.
When making morning call carry
your hat with you to the parlor and hold
it in your hand until you depart. The
city is full of sneak thieves, and hat
racks are their favorite prey.
At dinner do not throw the bones un.
der the table. This rule may be relied
on, for IL was one Of those made by no
less parsonage than Queen Elizabeth
fo- the government os her court.
When invited to dinner accept or re
ject the invitation the same day. 1t ia
no longer considered 6 ,od form to sneak
around and ask your hosts cook what
the bill of fare is to be before replying
If you use tobacco do not put fresh
quid in your mouth just before entering
O strange house. Some parlors are moi
furnished with cuspidors, and frequently
raising the window interrupts conversa'
tion.
Never call on lady simply because
she asks you to "come again." Wait
for more urgent hint. "Come again.
is mere superAuous conventionality
like the word "obey" in the marriage
service.
A presentation to lady at q ball does
not authorize you to claim her acquaint.
ance afterward unless she frat shows
some desire to renew the intercourse
Such presentations are like summer.re.
sort-engagements, mere formalities.
At an evening party carefully note the
location and size of the house and the
probable value of the furniture and brio
a.brac. If there are evidences Of wealth
sud refinement on every side, devote
your attention to your hosts unmarried
daughter.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-10

- 1t appears to us that the dentists
game is always draw.
- In one district in Yucatan in fort.
night there were killed 10000 pounds OF
grasshoppers and over 1000 pounds
of locusts.
- The Turkish woman is marriageable
at the age of nine years. In this coun.
try girls don't even think of marriage
until they get to be over ten.
= The wretch has been arrested who
at social party said that young lady
playing the pianoIorte was like al ape
because her fingers were 'mopg keys.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-10
"oh v,l, be h,,e 90 ex,,.,,,sa I (,

2 -"Oh, will he bite 7n exclaitaed one
Of Middletown's ssVeetest giris, with ID
look of alarm, when she saw: one of tho
dancing bears ON tho etreet the hothe4
day. mo-" replied her escort, "he cha.
not bite-he Is muzzled; but. he can
hug" "Oh," she said, with distract.
ing smile, II don't mind that" ~
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-10

- The jewel Of assurance Is best kept
q the cabinet Of an huIable heart.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-10
A MAN WHO WAS SCALPED.

One.oY Custor'sysoIdiers Tells Graphic
storyIof s.Fisht With the Indians and
How. The WAS hutllated.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-10

We came into the field near its corner,
ct tho foot Of small declivity, rising
which could plainly see that the road
was full of troops of some kind. The
General, raising his field.glass, said !:
'They are there" Understood perfectly
that he meant the enemy, and asked :
(Which way now General7" He pointed
to that aide of the woods parallel to the
Bowdtoin plank road, about one hundred
yards down hill from where our horses
stood, saying: "We must keep on TO the
right" lspurred ahead and We sd made
two.thirsls of the distance and, coming
to walk looked intently into the woods,
at the immediate edgo Of which there
were several largo treos. ! saw what ap.
peared TO be six or eight Federals, two
of whom, being some distance In advance
of the rest who halted some forty or fifty
yards from the field, ran quickly forward
to tho cover Of ono Of tho large trees and,
one ebove the other on the same aide, lev.
eilfd their guns. .@.,
L looked around 70 Gen. Hill. He
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
FAR DISTANT ALASKA.

More Cod and Herring Than In All the
Eastern Seas-Greater and More Numer-
ous Glaciers Than Those OF Switzerland.
II the waters along the coast of Alaska are
only made use OF as they should be. writes
a correspondent of the Philadelphia Press
from Sitka, the disturbances sometimes
arising between Maine fishermen and
Canadians regarding the cod fisheries of
Newfoundland will soon become annoyances
of the past. IL we utilize all the cod that
there are in Alaska, we can afford to give
England undisturbed possession OF the
blanks" for the channels about which we
have been sailing are absolutely alive with
as fine specimen of the fish as one may wish
10 see There is but little attention given
the cod up to the present time, though 300
tons of dried and sailed homeless cod were
shipped last year from Kilisnoo herring
oil factory south of Chilkhat, and nearly due
east from Sitka. 1t is an unsavory resting
place, this Kilisnoo, for combined with the
oil factory is a phosphate or guano establish
ment, which emits an odor that is perceptl
BILE for miles around. III they cared to, the
Kilisnoo people could ship unlimited guam
titles OF cod. The water is filled with choice
varieties, averaging twenty-seven pounds in
weight each, and they can be caught far
more easily and at much less expense than
can those found in eastern waters. Say
what one pleases about Alaska Indians
the fact remains that they are excellent
workmen and expert fishers. AT Kilsnoo
as at Chlkhat, they are employed
in various capacities, and give gen.
eral satisfaction. At the beginning of each
season they purchase complete outfit of
clothes, rubber coats, gum boots and AL,
and live upon so little that at the end of
their work they have laid by considerable
sum. 1t is the opportunity to work pro-
vided by the white man that will do more
than anything else to enlighten and civilize
the Alaska Indians Missionary work may
accomplish a certain amount OF good bat
once inculcate the idea that il is good
thing to make money and live in q decent
house and the native will begin to enter
upon q life of which. as yet he has hardly a
glimpse.
Kiiisnoo is located on the southern banks
| of narrow channel that leads out OF Peril
Straits s-.d is believed to be in the very
center the best herring grounds in Alaska.
! The native ring here swarm in countless
| numbers and is a delicious morsel. The
Kilisnoo fishermen think nothing of bringing
| in from 800 to 800 fish day, in some of the
| inlets they do not use nets at all, but drag
| barbed sticks through the schools which
catch the fish by the hundreds. Herring
| are very oily, and early In the season often
| yield four gallons to the barrel. The aver.
| age weight is a half a pound, and
| the average yield OF oil to the barrel is
| two gallons. The season lasts from
| August to February. This year the
| KIlisnoo factory shipped SOP gallons of oil
| as product of one months work. The fish
are caught usually, in large nets Dying
| almost Immediately after being brought to
the surface of the water, they are dumped
into large fatrbottom barges, toved BY small
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
Happiness q Habit.
philadelphia Ledger.


Every permanent state of mind is largely
the effect of habit. Just as we can perform
an action so continually that it comes to be
habitual, so we can encourage conditions of
mind till they, too, come to be habits of
thinking and even of feeling. Every
thoughtful parent or teacher recognizes this
In the training of youth. The child con-
stantly thwarted or scolded or ridiculed has
constantly aroused within him feelings OF
resentment or encouragement or misery,
and these grow to be habItual, and charac-
ter for ill-temper or moroseness or despond-
ency is formed. On the other hand, the
child that is wisely treated. whose faculties
are brought into action, who is encourae ed
to do well, who is surrounded with cheerful
faces and orderly arrangements, becomes &C
customed to corresponding habits OF thought
and feeling. The exercise OF self-control, OF
truthfulRess, of honesty, and other essential
qualities, not only result in habitual actions
OF the same nature, but in habitual feelings
or states of mind that induce those actions.
So the condition which we call happiness is
likewise acquired to a considerable degree.
1t involves within it many things bat they
are not impossible to secure, and when we
have discovered them it rests with us to en-
courage or discourage them. Happiness is
not only privilege, but duty, not mere
outw ard good that may perhaps come to Us,
but an inward possession which we are
bound to attain. When we remember the
contagious character of happiness, the
strength, courage, and hope il excites by its
very pre sence and the power for good it ex-
erts in every direction, we can not doubt
our obligation to attain as much of 1T as pos
sible.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
News of the Victories

are almost daily received by its proprietors. For
over a third OF century it has been the theme OF
constant and grateful ACCOMPLISHMENTS from
those whom it has cured protected from disease,
from medical men who have watched its effects
and adopted 1t, and from host Of other sources.
A noticeable concurrence in this mass OF testi-
monY 10 the thOroughness of its effects is OBJ
servable. This point specially commends itself
90 the consideration OF persons afflicted with 0bsti-
nate forms OF maladies to which it is adapted,
8vslling. Fever and ague. chronic constipation
and dyspepsia long and Increasing debility, con-
hTmed bilfousness and rheuma ism, are among
the forms OF disease which most frequently defy
medication. ana TO the eradication oil these mala
dies the Bitters is specially suited, II Is pure
speedy and agreeable.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
BREwsTER'S HOUSE.
The Curious Mansion of the Attorney
General of the United States.


philadelphia Letter TO the Chicago Tribune.I
Attorney General Brewster, who recently
arrived from Newport, is still in town. He
will leave for Washington, however. next
week, and during the season will entertain
with his usual antique elegance. Brewster's
house-his home-here is enc of the queerest
and at the same time contest old mansions in
the city. 1t was in the fashionable part of the
town forty years ago, but fashion has tucked
up her skirts and left it. 1t is now in the
midst of the section of the city that is devo-
ted to lawyers offices, banks and beer sa-
looms. Mr. Brewster has always used the suite
of rooms on the first floor as his own offices.
Queer-looking old rooms they are, too, like
big square boxes, with high ceilings, quaint
holdings, unlooked-for recesses and heavy
wooden mantel-pieces, covered with carvings
of angels heads and punches of grapes. His
law library takes up nearly three sides OF the
rear room. He has been gathering it book by
book for years and years until il is one of the
best collections in the State. Over the door
torney Generals grandfather received
from the hands of the great Napoleon
when he followed the Little Cor
poral to Moscow and back. His Ii
brary of general literature occupies another
room. 1t contains everything probably that
our gTandfathers might, could, would, OF
should have read. The Attorney Generals
knowledge of the polite literature of the
DAYS OF knee breeches and frills is extraordi-
nary, and 1T is to that fact that much of the
reputation as a literary man that he has
with some people is due. Before he was ap.
pointed Attorney General his own were the
only offices in his house. After he had gone
into the Cabinet, however, and removed to
Washington, he rented out nearly all of the
rooms. 1t requires good deal of skill now
for him to stow away his household with its
retinue of servants whenever he is in town.
His valet used to sleep on bed nicely ar
ranged over the tub in the bathroom, so as
to be within call of his master. The valet
came home reprehensibly late one night, the
bed tumbled down, and, striking the spigDt,
the befuddled servant was almost drowned
before he was pulled out of the tub. Since
that time the valet sleeps over barber-shop
round the corner, and when the Attorney
General desires his services he hangs a silk
union-jack out of the rear window of his
sleeping chamber as a signal. Mrs. Brewster
has very little love for the musty antique,
and has for years been urging her husband
to move to q more fashionable part of the
city. Her desires apparently are about to
prevail, and when Mr.. Brewster leaves the
Cabinet he will, il ne shall not have caught
on to some other Office mean while, take q
residence near George w. Childs' marble
town house in the West End.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
Blaine's Conspiracy.
New York Herald

Blaine himself gives evidence that he is
the heart and soul of this conspiracy by the
following indecent appeal:
AUGUSTA, Nov. z.
To Chairman B. F. Jones, Of the Republican Ma
tioDal Committee:
am advised that there have been frauds COM
miEed in New York State. believe that the hOa-
est vote of the State gives Republican plurality,
and ask the committee to see that a fair
and honest count. ]. q. BLAINE.
The significance of this is that this same
Jones relegraphed Blaine that Cleveland had
carried this State. Blaine finding, therefore,
that his very tools were failing him-know.
ing that Jay Gould had slipped out aud as
cerisining that even his committee was
about to throw up the sponge, sent the
above as an indication of the position they
must take. This dispatch is. therefore,
analogous in nature to that famous letter to
Mr.. Fisher in which Blaine pointed out to
that gentleman what sort of letter he might
write in order to support Blaine in Congress
against the charge of corrupt conduct in
office.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
For the Sentinel.
WHO KILLED THE PLUMED KNIGHT ?
BY A GRAvE-DIGGER.

Who killed the Plumed Knight?
I cid, says Rev. Burchard. SO very contrite:
With my little speech, near the end OF the fight
1 killed the Plumed Knight
Who viii preach the funeral sermong
win, says Preacher Alabaster.
1 helped bring about the disaster;
I will preach the funeral sermon.
Who will the sorrowing mourners ber
We will, say Gould, Elkins and Dudley,
For we did all the skulduggery;
We will the sorrowing mourneB be-
Who will volunteer to dig his grsves
We, Independents, the job did crave,
To bury him deep. the country to save;
We some time ago dug his gravel
Who will tablet raise over him?
!, says Joy, viii place a slab on his grave.
Aud write on it, too; Here lies knaye!
L tablet over him
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
No. 1OO7.-A Numerical Enigma.

During the winter think you will find
articles made of 1, 3, 8, g. 10 and T. 2, Z, 9
very useful and 1, ., 3, 4, s. 6, Z, 8, o, 10, for
the weather is cold enough to nip your 6, s.,
L, 10 OFF. Old winter has Of late had the 8,
10, 3, 1, 2 of this part of the world, and has
oeen .; o. l. enough to tSke advantage OF 1t
1, A him. Every 8, p 10 has retired until the
stern cold holds 8, 2, /, 4 sway. The garden
ers are all frozen up, and have not even g.,
10, 3, 6 for 1, 3, 0, 2. The fishers do better,
as they still catch 10, 2, 9, and 1, 5, 8, 2, 4
Though the a, ?, 8 is dis
are not yet in, you can 4. .. 10 old Tom
ynnder with his s, g. 8, ? of finny prey on
his g. /, going to market, while his f. 5, 6,
who is as 9, 2, 3, as himself, stays at home
with the little 8, 3, 4, 1.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
No. IOO9.-Buried Animals.

HOW MANY CAN YOU DIG UP!
To Drama Reader: Mine Herr,-You be-
ing a bachelor of Oxford, l infer retarded
announcement of it, to squelch or secrete
famous effort. But 1, German that am,
can not be arbitrarily crushed by your bull
doze, but will seize brsvely my opportunity,
and Abel Kasson and Co. will produce my
musical farce, with scenic attractions, on the
Buckingham stage. All amateurs, able crit
les, here or DER the sea- love to applaud my
Indo-English artistic effects. My partner,
Lovejoy-a kiDsmap Of mine-emulating
Nueland, has sold in the boxes his wines
10, these many years. and each eve we as
elder brothers share the spoils,
MEADOW LARK.