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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28
A Remarkable Character.

NEW ORLEANS, January lS.-1n
Mansfield yesterday was held the funeral
of we'll. known and remarkable charac.
ter. Levy Carnine, seventy-six years old,
died after long illness, and bis funeral
was conducted by veteran soldiers of the
Confederate army. Old Levy Carnine
was negro, and his life had been an
eventlul one. He belonged to the Hogan
family in Alabama, and when the Flori-
da Indian war broke out in 1887, al
though mere boy, ho followed his
young master to the field of action in
the capacity of cook and general wait
ing boy. During one of the battles he
saw his master killed by an Indian bullet,
and laid him away in soldiers grave
amid the everglades of Florida. He
remained with cousin Of his deceased
master until the close of the war. He
was present at General Jessup's camp
when Osceola, the famous Indian chief,
was, as Levy always claimed, treach-
erously captured by that officer.
He returned to his home and was
a faithful house servant until the
breaking out of the late war, when he
again went to the army as the servant Of
young DR.. Hogan of Mansfield Place,
who was member of the De Soto Peli-
can Rifles, Second Louisiana Infantry.
This famous company, from first to last,
contained Isl men, and old Levy helped
to bury about 100 of them. DR.. Hogan
was killed at the Wilderness, but old
Levy remained with tho company and
cooked for the we'll and nursed the sick
until the last year of the war, when he
returned home TO join another young
master, who had become old enough to
enter the army. Of the Pelican Rifles
only thirty returned home, including old
Levy, and all of them but one were
wounded. After the war this black
Confederate became a Democrat and
labored earnestly for the overthrow of
Republican government in Louisiana.
Nothing except his birth and color pre-
vented him from being master among
men. The surviving members of the
Pelican Rifles, only FIVE or six in num-
ber, arranged for the funeral of their old
friend.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28
The Carolina and Cumberland Gap.

The meeting Of the stockholders ofthe
Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago
Railroad was held at Aiken on Wednes.
day of last week, the meeting of the
directors having been held at the same
place on the previous day. Gen. John
son Hagood resigned the Office of presi-
dent and Col. R. E. Bowen, Of Pickeus,
was made president pro TEN. Col. AL:
drich, of Aiken, acted as secretary.
Mr.. Schofeld, the financial agent,
being present, made report of his oper.
atious in trying to place the bonds of
the road with the capitalists of Europe.
He read cablegram, just received. from
number of English bankers, stating
tha' they were prepared to take $780,
900 of the bonds of the road if The sum
of S2,5OO,000 could be placed in this
country, and Mr. Schofeld expressed
himself as being confident that he could
raise the required $2,5OO,0OO.
In regard to the contract with Childs
& Oliver, an effort was made to cancel
this contract, but as it was impracticable
TO do so proposition from them was
accepted which released the stockholders
of the Carolina division from the first
mortgage held by them to the extent of
$4,000 mile 1t will be remembered
that the mortgage on the road bed in
favor of Childs & Oliver is $4,000 of
first mortgage bonds and $4,000 of in
come bonds per mile, and it is this mort
gage, as we understand it, that has been
released to the extent of $4,000 a mile
in favor of the Carolina directors. -
The proceedings of the meeting were
not of very interesting character, and
we regret to say that We see nothing in
what was done to justify more hopeful
view of this great enterprise. Every.
thing still depends on what Mr.. Scho.
field may do in placing the bonds of the
road, and whilst we believe that Mr..
Schofeld is and has been doing all that
he can, the fact remains that as yet he
has done notbing.-Eigefed Chronicle.
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Miss Dayard's Death.

WASHINGTON, January 1S.-Dr. Gard
ner, the family physician OF Secretary
Bayard, was asked as to the condition of
the family. He said to a correspondent:
"They are bearing up under their ter.
rible afiliction with unexpected fortitude.
Mrs. Bayard is doing much better than l
could have hoped" The doctor said
there was no truth in the statement that
an electric battery had been used in an
effort to resuscitate Miss Bayard.
"When l arrived" he said, "there were
evidences that if Miss Bayard was dead
she had been dead only short time. Of
course the members OF the family were
very anxious that everything should be
done as long q, there was a possibility
that she was still alive. Accordingly, |
returned to my house for battery. By
the time 1 arrived at tie Bayard mansion
again there was no longer any doubt that
the young lady was dead aud no efforts at
resuscitation were made"
The doctor also denied the possibility
that Miss Bayard's death was the result
of an overdose of chloral or morphine.
"If such had been the case," said he,
"there would have been evidences of it.
If Miss Bayard had died of an overdose
of morphine the remains would have
shown traces Of opium poisoning. Miss
Bayard has never used choral to my
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28
Winter Care of Bees.

Before the hard cold weather the
apiarisis at the North have duly put their
bees in Winter quarters to escape the
rigors of their climate. Various plans
are adopted for their protection. Some
hives are removed to warm cellar, kept
at certain temperature by artificial
heat. Some have excavations on the
sunny side of hill in which to put
them. Sometimes they are showed in
for the Winter and are kept warm by
this protection. Yet, with all this care,
many apiarists lose great part of their
bees. In our sunny cline, we have no
such trouble, and 1 fear it is true, that
the more nature does for us, the less we
are inclined to help ourselves. Southern
people love larger industries and that
which comes with less care. With bees
some care in our favored climate is nec-
essary. Although we may leave our
colonies just where they arc for Winter,
they should be examined before cold
weather No leaky creyices should be
allowed, or places where the wind may
whistle through, although they need
some ventilation. Bees do not, like
toads or reptiles, assume dormant state
through Winter. A bee once chilled is
chilled forever. They cluster together
on few combs in the centre of the hive
and thus keep up their heat. Hence
the necessity of having a large colony
They fly out occasionally in warm sunny
weather during Winter. No hive should
begin Winter with less than twenty five
pounds of honey and these stores shoulc
be near the brood chamber, 80 as to give
them as little travel as possible. A thick
coarse clcth should be placed over the
frames in the top story. This they glue
down closely, and it saves them from
much cold. They should not De inter
rup.ed through Winter, as they have
closed up every crevice possible agains
the cold.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28
Ex-Governor D. +. Perry.
In a recent review of "reminiscences
Public Men," by x.Goyernor B. F.

In a recent review of "reminiscences
of Public Men," by Ex-Governor 3. F.
Perry, the Baltimore Amcricaa says:
Governor Perry is of the same lineage
with Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry,
aud was born in Pendleton County C.,
in 1905. He is still very eminent
member of the South Carolina Bar, but
has been still more eminent and dislin.
guished for the ability, frmness and gal.
!antry with which be resisted the disunion
movement in this State from.the begin.
ming to the disastrous end. In minor
sectional issue, when he was State Sena-
tor, he was in the minority of one, and
told the Senate that this fact carried no
terrors to his mind while in the consci-
entious discharge of his duty. South
Carolina had been for many years a
disunion State, and in 1850 the secession
and disunion feeling rose so high that it
was said the State was unit for breaking
up the Government and forming new
confederacy. Mr.. Perry, however, re-
mained "laith(ul among the faith!ess,"
ard boldly proclaimed his opposition to
secession and disunion as destructive of
liberty and the very Institutions Of the
South, for the preservation of which it
was $, ught to dissolve the Union. Like
Lord Mansfield, be never "mistook the
shouts ofa mob for the trumpet of lame"
When, in 1860, an election was ordered
for members of the State Convention to
dissolve the Union, because Abraham
Lincoln had been elected President,
Governor Perry, almost alone in the State,
publicly contended that this was no rea-
son for breaking up the Government, and
tha. the Southern people still had a
majority in both Houses of Congress and
in the Supreme Court. He warned the
people, too, that they were about to
plunge the country into bloody civil
war, 1hich would result in the defeat of
the South and the loss of their slave
property. But such was the temper of
the times that he was nowhere needed.
After the States had seeded, he was
asked what his course would be. He
replied: II have been trying to prevent
this sad issue for thirty years. You are
all going TO the devil, and 1 will go with
you" He consequently urged his Union
friends to stand by the Stat e:and volun-
teer in her defence, and his son and all
young friends did so, serving faithfully
to the end. After the close of the war,
he was appointed Provisional Governor
by President johnson, without any solic-
itation or knowledge on his part or on
the part of his friends. His administra-
ton of the Office is spoken of as mon
ument of the magnanimity of his nature
and unsefsh patriotism. There was not
semblance of mere personal ends, his
only object being the restoration to
ruined commonwealth of order, prosper
ity and coutentment.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28
Book.Buycrs in the National Capital.

An old Washington bookseller says:
"Gen. Lewis Cass was a famous book
byer. used to have his standing order.
for every work that was published on
political economy. Mr.. Seward also
bought a great many books. His
purchases were mostly of the higher
order of literature. Chief Justice Chase
was very fond of the Latin poets. His
family were great book. buyers.
"AIrs. Kate Chase Sprague was a great
reader of the highest class of French
literature. She also read a geat many
works women don't usually care for.
But her sister, who is now Mrs. Hoyt,
was the reader Of the Chase family.
Being rather nearsighted, she lacked
acute powers of observation and seemed
to live only with good books. All of the
Chase family loved reading and were
very intelligent. You would hardly
think it, but Edwin ii. Stanton was
great reader; even during war times,
when he was overburdened with the
cares of his Office, he would read all the
better class ofnovels that were published.
Judge Jerry Black, although he never
had much money to buy books, read a
great deal. AS rule, most of the
country did not purchase much for their
library, aud the everage member of the
national legislature has no taste for
study or the better class of publications. y
= Washington Letter.
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May Children go Barefoot Without
Injnry.

This question is every now and again
proposed for discussion, and when it is
so, we are compelled 10 give the same
answer. On physiological grounds it is
nanfestly sound practice to accustom
children to develop the circulatory and
muscular systems of the lower extremi-
Lies, precisely as those of the hand are
developed, by free use aud exposures.
1t is not supposed to be either necessary
or desirable that children should wear
gloves for hrgieric purposes. When the
hands of little folks are thus decorated,
the parental idea is confessedly to give
them what is conventionally regarded as
genteel appearance. No one thinks
child ought to be protected from the
weather so far as its hands are concerned.
On the contrary, it is recognized that the
upper extremilies should be kept warm
by exercise and habitual exposure. Pre-
cisely the same view holds good with re.
gard to the lower extremities. Contact
with bodies that abstract heat even more
than the earth abstracts it, is an almost
constant condition of child-life. In
snort. it is entirely in Difference to fash
ion to wear foot coverings. There is
much TO be said in favor of more
natural practice. The foot is an organ
of wondrous complexity, regarded as
bony and muscular apparatus 1t is,
moreover, provided with nerves and
blood vessels of especial intricacy. The
softest and most flexible shoe to very
great extent, and a boot almost entirely,
reduces this organ to the character of
ioin,ed block with little self movement.
Obviously this reduction must detract,
not only from the efficiency of the foot,
but of The organism as whole. If the
blood vessels Of the foot and leg are fully
developed, as they only can be when the
foot is habitually exposed, tine quantity
of blood which the lower extremities can
be made to receive, and, if need be,
attract for lime, is very considerable.
We can only say tha! children who are
allowed 10 20 barefootcd enjoy almost
perfect immunity from the danger of
"cold" by accidental chilling Of the feet,
and they are altogether healthier and
happier than those who, in obedience to
the usages of social life, have their lower
cx!remities permanently invalided, and,
SO to say, carefully swathed and utaway
in rigid cases.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28
Tobacco Culture.

The Board Of Agriculture has appro.
priated $500 for the purpose of en-.
couragipg practical experiment in the
culture OF tobacco in this State $50 TO
be given to one farmer in each county,
selected by committee ofthree practical
farmers, and a premium ofSl0O to the
farmer reporting the best results.
The Board has issued a circular con-
tanning the following conditions, which
must be complied with
"One acre of land must be cultivated
in tobacco. A correct record must be
kept, showing the date of seeding aud
setting plants, the variety of seed used,
the character of the soil, the quantity
and kind of fertilizer applied, the daily
condition Of the weather during the sea-
son Temperature and rainfall), the cost
of producing the crop, including every
item of expense connected Herewith,
the number Of days work given II the
crop, kind and cost of labor, date of
cutting and curing the same, and total
yield in pounds of marketable tobacco.
A statement of area and yield must be
certified to in manner to be prescribed
hereafter.
"You will be required to send state.
ment of the average temperature and
rainfall Compiled from your daily record)
and the condition of the crop, to the
Commissioner of Agriculture. on the
first day of each month, and to send
sample of the tobacco when cured to the
Department of Agriculture, weighing
not less than ten pounds.
"Seed for planting, blanks for reports
and thermometers and rain gauges will
be furnished free by the Department of
Agriculture, the thermometers and
gauges to be returned if called for.
The fifty dollars given will be paid
after the crop has been cured and ready
for market, and samples, with reports
prescribed, have been sent to the Com.
missioner of Agriculture, provided all
the requirements made by the depart.
ment have been complied with. The one
hundread dollar premium will be awarded
by the Board of Agriculture after all of
the reports of results and the samples
have been received.
"You will be allowed to retain all the
proceeds derived from the sales of the
crop, exclusive of the samples sent to the
department"
No committees have yet been appoint
ed for the counties Of Anderson and
Edgefeld Columbia Register.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28
Where Great Men Come From.

1t is curious that the great majority oi
our more prominent public men como
from the smaller cities and towns, while,
on the other hand, the number of those
born in the larger cities of the North
west who have written their names high
on the roll of political and military fame
will scarcely reach round dozen.
Charles Summer was resident of Boston,
but his great colleague in the Senate,
Henry Wilson, came from the insignifi-
cant village of Natick, while Ben Butler,
Gen. Banks, and Senators Dawes and
Hoar are natives of places but little
more important in point of population.
Tilden and Arthur are New York city
men, but nearly every other New Yorker
ofpromiuence-like President Cleveland,
Daniel Manning, Horatio Seymour,
Conkling, Seward, Greeley, and Herman
had their birth and training in the
interior cities. "Sunset" Cox claims
New York city as his home, but he made
his reputation in Congress as raconteur
aud wit before he removed to the metrop-
oils. and while resident of the sleepy
old town of GAINESVILLE, Ohio. Sam
Randall is the only congressman from
the city of Philadelphia in twenty years
who is known outside of his State. The
other famous Pennsylvanians, Cameron,
Curtin, Thad!Stephens, Buchanan, Mead,
and Hancock, for example, all hailed
from the provinces.
In Ohio the contrast is still more
sharply defined. Ben Wade, Chase,
Stanton, Garfield Hayes, Gen. and Sen
a,or Sherman, Giddings, Thurman, Sher-
-idan, and William Allen were, in every
instance, citizens Of obscure little towns
that are known only to the world as the
homes of these great men. Cincinnati,
as an Offset to this, has furnished to the
country but two men of national promi.
nence since the war, ex-Attorney Gener-
al Taft and Senator George II. Pendleton.
Chicago has done but little better. Since
Douglass time she has sent but one man,
Lyman Trumbull, of first-rate ability to
either branch of Congress. Grant, Lin
colu, Logan, Cullom, Yates, Morrison,
and Springer, the best known names in
Illinois politics, laid the foundation of
their greatness in the smaller cities and
towns of the State.
The list might he extended Indefinitely,
but enough is here given to establish the
truth of the proposition that the great
men of the nation are of country birth
and brecdipg.- Washington Correspondent
Chicago Ne,cs.
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1t is we'll for every student to have IN
his possession stimulant, so that, when
ever he becomes tired of books, or
wearied from laborious study, ne may
take an ounce or two, and thereby gain
new energy. There is no stimulant more
healthful to boy than a desire to be-
come a good citizen, If student has a
thirst for knowledge, thirst so great
that nothing but the requirement OF 1t
will satisfy, then one of the very oest
stimulants is operating upon him. A
desire to elevate by his life and character
the tone of society is, also, a very good
stimulant to students. But best OF ali
stimulauts is the thoug ht that if he
studies diligently, studies nature as well
as books, his mind will lie developed,
enabling him to enjoy the beauties OF
nature as we'll as the pleasures of life;
and if he studies to know the will of
God, the Holy Spirit will reveal unto
him that which is necessary to his hap
niness. A STUDENT.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28

= The biggest issue in Maryland just
at present is the fight over the price OF
marriage licenses. At the last session of
the Legislature bill reducing the price
to one dollar was lost by Democratic
votes. The Comptroller favors the one
dollar figure, and new bill has been
introduced, making the fee fifty cents.
The licenses at present cost $3.50. The
Baltimore american thinks this altogeth.
er too high, as it is the policy of the
State to encourage marriages. 1t is
wrong to tax poor people too heavily for
9 step which tends to the building up OF
homes and the encouragement of morality.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28

"A peddler in Derby, Conn, fell into
the water the other day and would have
drowned but for the timely assistance of
two young men. Glowing with gratitude,
the peddler opened his pack and give to
each lead pacil. That was his modest
self lfvauation.
- "How do you do, Mary: Eve been
trying to catch up with you for half an
hour. l knew you just as soon as set
eyes on that bonnet. I've known it as
long as can remember" 1t is such re-
marks as this that fill the female heart
with bitterness.
= A novel case, showing some OF the
peculiarities of rural life in Ohio, came
TO light at Akron on Saturday. a bill of
sale was shown where man had sold his
wife to ncighbor for five cents. The
wife was willing party to the sale.
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knowledge, and I am very positive that
would have known if she had. There ia
no doubt whatever that her death wes
the result of heart disease. When I
was called to see her about a week ago, ]
had no idea that she would be able tr
leave her bed for several days, but sha
was downstairs the next day receiving
visitors. II WAS her indomitable Will" J
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-28
She Was Engaged.

The scarcity of young women in
Yakima County, w. T., has not only
caused considerable ill-feeling among the
marriageable young men, but is certainly
proving all obstacle to education. Just
as soon as young lady is installed as
teacher of school, scores of young
fellows, upon matrimony intent, vie with
each other to act as her escor! to her
boarding house; and it occasionally
happens that one of them will demon.
strate his right to act as her gay cavalier
by knocking out" the others, should
they persist in their attentions to the
new teacher.
Two or three weeks courtship, under
such circumstances, is usually enough to
convince a young lady that "a school
teachers life is not a happy one," and
that of wife is far preferable. Then
the primitive university is shut up until
q new teacher is found, and the young
sters, having no lessons to learn, devote
their entire time to pleasure, and are as
happy as the young husband who stole
away their teacher.
a member of the school committee,
who had been empowered to secure a
teacher for a school temporarily closed
because the former incumbent had been
persuaded to desert her pupils in the
manner described above, had introduced
decidedly original resolution in the
School Board. 1t was to the effect that
no "lady shall hereafter be engaged un-
less she signs paper declaring that she
will not get married until a year has ex-
pired after the time of her installation as
teacher" This, it was thought, would
prove settler to the young men who
were ever on the alert to cause the deser.
ton of the teachers from their posts of
duty.
MIR. Beebc, the author of the resolu.
ton, after much correspondence, engaged
lady to ofliciatc as teacher She came
from distance, and he went to the rail-
road station to meet her. There for the
first time, he delicately sounded her re-
garding her Willingness to sign a docu-
ment promising to continue single for a
year. She cmphatically refused, and
declared that rather than agree to such
ultimatum she would return. Mr.. Beebe
saw that she was in earnest.
She was not only intelligent, but
pretty aud amiabe, therefore he did
not want to lose her; and on the spot,
Notwithstanding the resolution, he
engaged her-!o marry him Chicago