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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23
Wanted-A Man.

An esteemed contemporary asserts
that young lady graduate at Meadyille,
this State, selected as the subject of her
essay, "Wanted-A Man." and though of
course she only expressed the sentiment
of every girl in the graduating class and
every girl in the universe, for that mat
ter, the confession appears to be creating
some surprise.
Of course the young lady graduate
went on to say that it was not any sort
of man that she waited It vas not q
dude, with smooth hair, nor mere dash
ing beau in good clothes, much less a
spendthrift, loud but would.be respecta.
bic scamp, who would first ruin his wife's
life and then mortgage her silver. The
young lady graduate, of course, wanted
q man that amounted to something, that
was somebody and could do mans part
in the household and the world.
In this, too, she expressed the univer-
sal yearning of all the girl graduates
and the other girls, too. But, bless their
dear hearts, did it ever occur to them to
ask of what earthly use the average girl
graduate could be to such man. Will
she paint plaques for him; fling little
chips of French in his ears; drum on
the piano and wrack his nerves; dress
fine for the street and be dowd at home ;
neglect her body and her mind and think
that her only mission is to be cared for 7?
Of course she wants man needs one
badly. But suppose she begins to query
what she will do with him or for him
when he is found.-Ph;ladelphia Times.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23
Turn Over a New Leaf.

Rest time, after the crop is finished,
will soon come. While you are taking
things easy, suppose you do 9 little think
ing and figuring. Go carefully over your
corn and note how many barren stalks
there are. Count the nubbins also.
Take large ear, with about a thousand
grains on it, and you will see that it is
equal to about sixteen little wormy nub-
bins. Now if you, or any of your neigh.
bors have a field planted, say 6x4, or
7x3, examine that and see what the pros
pect is. You may conclude that you
will give corn more distance next year.
Then when it comes to cotton, watch
that carefully. See whether ten acres of
badly worked cotton will yield as much
as FIVE that have never lacked for work a
single day. The fact is, I am afraid that
you planted your crop with the expecta..
ton of doing six full days work every
week. You worked as much as was pos:
sible, but it is most difficult job for
ten.acre hand to work fifteen acres.
That is what is the matter with your
cotton. Suppose you run full one
horse farm, planting 1S acres in cotton
and - in corn. A fair crop would be 6
bales and 120 bushels of corn. Suppose
you would nse a little more manure,
prepare the land by deep plowing, and
plant - acres in cotton and s in corn
and make 10 bales of cotton and 160
bushels of corn. With this latter acre.
age you can work it like q garden almost.
You will not be run to death and dream
of the grass growing in at doors and win.
dows and crawling in bed with you.
Again we say do little thinking and
figuring in your rest days, and make up
your mind that you will turn over new
leaf next year.-Sspartan6urg Spartan.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23
He Still breaches.

Two or three months ago Detroit
LAWYER was in the northern counties on
business, and one night while he was
staying at farm. house two or three OF
the reighbors dropped in and one of
them explained:
"You see, we heard you was q lawyer,
and perhaps you wouldn't mind giving
us little advice. We want to get rid OF
our preacher"
"What ails him?"
"Well, he's good and kind and q true
Christian, but he's no preacher. Fact is
he's too slow for the times"
''HaYe you thrown out any hints ?"
"Lot of 'em, but he still sticks"
CHOW much of salary does he get?"
"Well, about 5000 per year."
"Reduce it to $50"
The advice was declared to be sound,
and in the course of three days the min.
lister was notified that his salary would
be reduced to the figures named. When
Sunday came he read the notice from the
pulpit, and added:
"My dear friends, this step was rem.
dered necessary by the continued hard
times I cheerfully accept the reduction,
and in case it is found necessary to
make further reduction of S25 don't
hesitate on my account. I am here to
serve thc Lord, and I can do it on one
meal day !"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23
Money in Pecan Culture.

4 short time ago noticed an article
in the Valdosta, Ga, Neacs, entitled
"Prosperous Pecans," which was copied
in several papers. The writer states that
gentleman of that county Lowndes)
has q ten acre grove of pecan trees, in a
hourishing condition, just beginning to
beal. He further states that there is one
large tree in the town of Valdosta from
which the owner sells each year $25 to
$50 worth of nuts.
From other statements in the article
referred to it seems that the people Of
that county are satisfied from practical
tests that there is q bonanza in pecans.
From this article and from letters re-
ceived from reliable persons who have
bearing trees in Georgia and other States,
I, too, am convinced that there is big
bonanza in pecan culture in the entire
South and in many of the Northern
States.
The most intelligent horticulturists of
Texlw who thoroughly understand the
nature and requirements of the pecan,
which is natural growth in their State,
say that it will flourish admirably in
Georgia; but that there are many differ
ent varieties, some being of far better
quality and coming into bearing much
earlier than others.
The conclusion which I draw from
numerous letters is that the pecan will
succeed wherever the hickory grows.
Mi. A. @. Daniel, of Crawford, Ca,
an enthusiastic cultiYator of the pecan,
has q bearing grove, and in 1883, from
one tree, he sold eleven and one-half
bushels of nuts in Athens, Ga, for forty
five dollars. He usually gets five dollars
per bushel. In the same county, at
Winterville, there are bearing trees from
which the owner receives quite q nice
income. There are, doubtless, many
such trees scattered over the South, but
these are sufficient to convince me that
large profits may be derived from the
pecan, and it is my intention to plant q
grove, next Fall. If I had five hundred
trees like Nj. Daniels, would not ex-
change them for the finest orange grove
in Florida. Nv advice to all is to plant
grove at once. The young trees will
not cost much, and in few years they
will prove to be the most profitable in
vestnlent you ever Correspondence
Convs's Solid South.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23
. The smallest specimen of horse

The smallest specimen of horse
flesh ever seen here is the colt at George
l.. Clark's stable, in Meriden, Conn. 1t
is out of one of Mr.. Clark's ponies, and
sired by the famous pony stallion "Tom,"
of the pair "Tom and jerry" which
were formerly the property of Ferdinand
Ward, of the late firm of Grant & Ward,
financiers. The colt is about foot and
n half high.
"A man may be loaded to the eye.
brows with philosophy, and yet become
as helpless as a child when he tries to
get the last word with woman.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23
Watching the Convict Camps.
DR.. Pope returned on Saturday from
the Twiggs camp, and has submitted the
following report of bis inspection to the


DR.. Pope returned on Saturday from
the Twiggs camp, and has submitted the
following report of his inspection to the
Superintendent of the Penitentisry:
COLUMBIA, S. c., July 10, 1885.
Colonel T. j. Lipscomb, Superintendent
South Carolina Psnitentiary-S1R: Act.
ing under instructions, I left Columbia
Tuesday and visited the convict camp of
MIR. A. ]. Twiggs, on the Savannah Val.
10y Railroad. 1 reached the camp about
8 o'clock Tuesday evening and remained
during the night and until about 8
O'Clock next noon. I made careful
inspection of the convicts, their sleeping
quarters and rations, &c. The location
and arrangements of the camp are the
same as at my last inspection.
There are ninety.nine convicts under
the control of MI. O. NJ. Carroll, who is
in charge of the works, and of the num-
bar, ninety.two were out at work; five
ware at the camp as cooks, washers, &C.,
and two were on the sick list, Henry
Porter and Frank Sunley. Henry Porter,
the convict who was so severely whipped
before the last inspection, was still at the
camp, but his general health had i'm
proved and his wound was healing
kindly.
examined the person Of each convict
and questioned each one separately. I
found only one single scar which had
been made since the last inspection.
The only complaint I heard Was that the
walk to and from work was too long.
These hands are worked in ten squads
the first and second squads are one mile
from camp; the fourth and third are
about one and quarter miles; the fifth
and sixth are about one and half miles /;
the seventh, eighth and ninth are about
two miles, and the tenth is about two and
half miles.
The night spent at camp enabled me
to see exactly at what time the hands
reached the stockade at night, and what
tirae they turned out in the morning.
By the city of Columbia time, it was $50
o'clock when the first squad reached the
camp last Tuesday night, and ten min.
utes before when they left next morn.
Ing.
ETATEM8NT OF CAPTAIN CARROLL.
On Friday, the 10th to-day, no squad
will have longer walk than mile and
q lalf, and by the middle of next week
the camp will be moved, and at no time
after this, except for short time in
about six weeks, will the walk be longer
than mile aud half. BE states posi-.
lively that he is not working longer than
eleven hours each day, at the outside,
allowing two hours each day for going
and coming, and claiming up and un.
claiming, and from two hours and half
to three hours noon rest. And on &C.
count of the difficulty of finding spring
properly located, it is hard matter to
locate his camp exactly as he desires it
each time.
Owing to the nature of the country
through which lie is passing now, it is
impossible to work the men to advantage
in squads of more than ten, hence the
length of the line over which the men
are scattered. All of which is respect
fully submitted.
D. S. POPE, M. D.,
Physician S. G. Penitentiary.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23

A one horse farmer in Barnwell
County offered the other day to bet his
crop that no one could find in his cotton
fields enough grass to make sparrow's
nest.
= The annual reunionlof the serviyors
of Company 3, 9Th South Carolina Cav
airy, will be held at Edge6eH on July
Is.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23

- Mime. Aunie Lamont, an ironjawed-
woman, at Coney Island, recently slid
down an iron cable, distance of three
hundred and fifty feet, by means of
pulley attached to strap that she held
between her teeth. The upper elevation
of the cable was one hundred feet and
its length five hundred feet. The
American girl made the longest and
highest fight on record, the best prior
feat in this line having been accomplished
by Emma Juta in the Paris hippodrone.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23

"A poetess sings, II have found what
silence H." Her friends, It's understood,
are not so fortunate.
"A. rich vein of gold has been open.
ed on The plantation of Mrs. Mary Nor.
gan, near Modoc, Edgefeld County.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-23

- In some of the New York skating
rinks novel feature is the presence of
boy, dressed in female attire. Young
America is cute. He soon learns that it
is more comfortable to sit down on
hustle than on pair of dude pants.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12

1t will be a surprise to many to
learn that during the late heated term
at the North on no day did the Their
mometer at New Orleans register SO
high as in New York, Cincinnati, St.,
Louis or St. Paul. This prompts the
New Orleans Picayune to remark:
s'New Orleans is a cooler summer city
than many places situated far to the
northward, and while the people of St.
Louis and Cincinnati and other
Northern centres are sweltering with
excessive heat and fallingin the streets
from its effects the people of New Or
leans are enjoying q mild and salubri
Gus climate and are following their
usual avocations without discomfort
and with no risk of death from sun.
stroke. Indeed, cases ofsunstroke are
so exceptionally rare at the South as
to be almost unknown, and although
the continuous and long pro tracted
warm weather is somewhat" wearing, .
there are no such excessively hot days
as are experienced in the north.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12

Matthew Turnbull, Of Chicago, has
an article in the current number OF a
London magazine, called the Nine
tenth Century, bevailing the increas,
ing power of American aristocracy
He says it is idle to deny the existence
Of such a body, for it is ingrained the
very system Of American Government.
1t is not only legal but it is clearly es-
tablished in the Constitution OF the
United States. A Senator in The
American Congress has twenty times
the political power OF an English peer,
and the Senate is the main source OF
American aristocracy. The only way
to check the growth OF the system is
to stop the supplies Of that fountain
head of aristocrats, the American Sen.
ate,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12
ate.

The absorption OF the West Shore
Railroad OF New York by the Central,
is regarded as great misfortune by
the people along these lines, as it re-
moves. all hope of vigorous competi-
ton, and virtually annihilates $685.
100000 Of invested capital. Brad.
streets journal says: The moral to be
drawn from this can be found in the
tendency towards the unlimited con-
solidation of corporate enterprise,
and, unrestrained by law or some
other powerful influence, it is quite
possible for nine or ten or even less OF
the powerful railroads corporations
Of the country, controlled by a few
men, to combine and by the Same
methods as were applied to the West
Shore to absorb the entire railroad
system Of the country.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12

The South has done a great deal
towards putting itself in accord
with the North, by paying honor to
the memory OF General Grant. 1t
recognizes his merits as a soldier; it
remembers his magnanimity at Apo
mattox. In the words Of the New
Orleans Times-Democrat: "Yanquish-
ed as was the South by his arms, in his
chivalric kindness wewere doublYvan-
pushed at Appomattox." The pas
5ions engendered by civil war are the
deepest and least irradicable of all
antagonisns, save perhaps those Of
religious animosity, and therefore it is
a pleasure to know that it has not
taken but twenty years to heal the
breach between the North and South.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12

The Chicago Journal has of late re-
tceived a great massof alleged poetry"
on General Grant, but it has too pro-
found respect for the dead General
to insult his memory by publishing
such mawkish nonsense in his honor
And of all the absurd caricatures
published in someaof the newspapers
as pictures of General earaaas, the Jour-
nal says: ''The most of them bear no
likeness whatever to the dead hero and
patriot. There is no resemblance be-
tween the features in these pictures
and those (Which they purport to rep.
resent
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12

To rid the state Of q troublesome
pest two years ago, the New Hamp-
shire legislature passed a law granting
ten cents a tail on woodchucks, pro-
vided none were killed on Sunday. AS
a consequence nearly every farmer
went into woodchuck raising. Since
then $4,000 bounties have been paid
and 10000 more remain to be adj
justed, and the tax payers are calling
a halt on thewoodchuck business. An
other case OF over-production, under
the stimulus Of a. bounty.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12

"Photophone" lis the name of "a new
Invention by Prof. Bell, which will send
pictures by wire. He hopes to reap
greater wealth from the photophone
than from the telephone. Many peo-
pie think the Professor should perfect
his telephone before attending to any
new invention. The telephone is
unanimously voted a wonderful con-
venience and also nuisance, that is
accountable for a great deal of pro-
family on account of it's imperfect
working.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12


The congressional committees and other
officials from Washington were distinguished
by broad white sashes Speaker Carlisle and
ex-Speaker Randall rode with Congressman
Hlscock OF New York and Reed of Maine
One carriage held Congressman John belong
OF Massachusetts,, Randolph Tucker Of vir-
ginia, Ben Butterworth of Chic and Gen.
King of Louisiana The senatorial delega-
tion paired off as follows, the senators rid
ing IN twos:
Senators Merrill Of Vermont and Cockrell Of
missouri. Sherman Of Ohio and Ransom of
North Carolina, ingalls, OF Kansas and Harris of
of New York, Wade Hampton Of South Carolina
and Henderson of Nebraska. Eustis of Louisiana
and Blaire of New Hampshire, Brown of Georgia
and Eyarts of New York
Congressman Bush of Brooklyn. and Ward
of Chicago, rode together, and Gen. Bing
ham of Pennsylvania, Wheeler OF Alabama
and Lowrey of Indiana were III one coach.
One OF the carriages containing members of
Gen. Grants military staff carried Generals
Horace Porter, Rufus Ingalls,, c. B. Com
stock and William Henry Smith In another
rode Gen. Parker, Grants military secretary
during the war, who was present at the
meeting between Generals Grant and Lee at
Apponlattox, and still has in his possession
the original draft of the terms Of the
surrender in Grants handwriting. It was
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12

SIOuuu were many ueSiSuS Ill OVER Gue ClCy
A broken pillar, cross, sword and pen,
sheoves of wheat nd sickles and gates ajar
were most favored Anotations Fl ON Grants
famous sayings, in white letters upon black.
were frequent, and poetry worked in the
same manner were almost as abundant Let
one of these quotations serve to end this
description:
And the night dew that falls, though in silence
it Weeps,
Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he
sleeps;
And the tear that we shed, though in secret it
rolls,
Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
THE BODY ENToNfBED.
New YORK, Special Telegram. Aug. 8.-Col
Fred Grant stood at the head of the coffin
and his brothers and the ladies of the family
stood close behind him, all clad in the uni
form of mourning. Senator Eyarts' strong
face was solemn rather than cynical Sena-
tor Miller appeared impressed with the i'm
portance of the occasion. and President
Cleveland. who had come up with Secretary
Bayard and had been formally re-
ceived by Gen. Hancock, seemed a little
surprised He had shown a prompt
appreciation of the loss the nation had sus-
tanned and yet he seemed to stand as if he
was part rather than voluntary partici-
pant Looking down on the mass OF heads
it was interesting to see that all were i'm
pressed not only with the solemnity of the
occasion but with sincere personal interest
Events here followed as rapidly as the
mourners had gathered around the coffin
which had been deposited in front of the
tomb. It was lifted from the catafalque by
the same faithful guard from Grant pos
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-09-04
KNIGHTS ANDFARMERS
A TEXAS MOVE THAT WILL BE
HEARD FROM.
nhights OF Labor and Changers Fuse for
Mutual Beneft-Mob at Ironton,
Ohio-Crime in the Name
of Labor.

DALLAS, Tex, Sept 4-The Knights of
Labor have perfected the organization of
he grand assembly by electing
tull set OF officers, with Henry
Golden, of Galveston, as master work
man. 1t became known during the
day that the assembly was waited up n by
a committee of five from the Farmers union,
headed by President Dunlap, with a propo-
sition to fuse with the latter, which was
accepted. A comparison of notes
showed that the Knights Of Labor,
who only organized in Texas i'll last
March, have since increased their member
ship to almost 10 900, while the Farmer
union has already membership of nearly
$4,000 In Texas, with the prospect of CON
trolling So per cent of the farm
ers in short time. The hsr
mony existing been agriculture and
labor is said to have been proved by a prop
osition from the farmers to back the Knights
OF Labor with as much as $40, 900 a week to
secure the successful conduct of the strike,
The fusion rests on the unders landing that
parties aud politicians are to be ignored in
@ united effort to save labor and pro-
duction by the subordination of corpora
tions and the destruction of syndicateS,
rings. corners, and other aids to the
accumulation of great wealth. All
classes are admissible to mem
bership except bankers, lawyers,
saloon keepers, gamblers, and profess
sional politicians 1t i, claimed by the del
egates that the aim of the assembly is not
to promote strikes, hut to prevent them by
arbitra ton, to which emu committee with
con- ing powers over local assem-
blies wi! TO creatsl. Who're the work of
the arbitrator appointed from the oppos
ing interests is not satisfactory. disinter.
a tod partie' arc to be called in whose decis-
ion must DO accepted; but should corpora
tons refuse their consent to arhitrate, then
strikes may b, insugurated as last re-
sort Leaning member, of the organiza-
ton say there will be no fusion with either
tho Prohibtioni>ts OF Anti Pruhibitionists,
and that the rapid growth of the order
preclG US the probability If a co,.uSiun
with any of the existing great parties,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-09-04

| have been treated by DR.. Mrs. Keck and the
benefits | have received from her advice and
treatment are ondefful; had suffered from ca
nostrlls so | could not breathe through my nose ;
these she removed by medicine moi having per
formed any operation, can now breathe freely
through my nose. My sense of smell is now re
turning, which left me twenty years ago; she ha-
done more toward removing my c0tarrh than all
the physicians | ever bod; my brain was diseased
and had been insane; was at Independence asy-
mm for light months, and feel sure | would be
there now If il were not for the benefits | receiv
ed from her; | do not now have the asthma that /
have suffered with for four years; neither do
suffer with the misery snd pain in my left side
and spleen. NY kidneys were badly diseased;
was boat aud my liver waf affected; coughcd
IA great de j End now those symptoms have mostly
disappeared; ! en- highly recommend this Lady
a. Il hysiuiHn. WILLIAM ". FUNK.
Webster CITY, May % 1855.