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Blasphemy in Georgia.

SAVANNAH, July 24.-Tnis afternoon
Sheriff Smith, of Liberty County, with 8
posse of fifteen well.armed and determin.
ed men, began an effort to put stop to
the scandalous proceedings that have dis
graced that section for some time and
relieve the peaceable citizens of the feal
they now entertain ofviclent proceeding
on the part of the followers of Edward
James, the negro pseudo Christ. Yester.
day a number of the leaders of the new
sect were arrested, making fifteen in all
that have been taken into custody. Il
to.day's movement does not succeed 8
vigilance committee will be organized al
once and hemp brought into requisition
to rid the county of the nuisance.
The corouer's jury in the case of An.
drew Roberts, the baby who was offered
as sacrifice yesterday, returned verdict
finding Laura Roberts, the child's aunt
guilty of murder. The woman was out
of her mind at one time, but recovered
and was apparently perfectly sound till
James began his meeting.
At the meeting on Sunday afternoon
tuS Nllc VI SudSs bahCl Uoo unNAg !pJ0
ed. She is large woman and was in the
crowd near James, who was preaching.
Stopping suddenly he pointed to her and
exclaimed "She has devils in her,
pound them out, pound them cut" A
dozen men seized her, threw her on q
rough table and began to beat her with
clubs, Her jaw was broken and her body
badly bruised before the evil demons
were persuaded to leave her.
On Monday James saw devils moving
in Eugene Richards, sober and indus.
trious colored man. who had gone to the
meeting from curiosity. He resisted
when the disciples set on him, and he was
beaten almost into insensibility. He
received serious internal injuries and will
probably die.
The county is becoming more and
more excited, and the whites are dreading
that James will influence his followers to
attack them. If the sherif's force does
not succeed in dispensing the mob, the
consequences, it is feared, will be disas-
irons
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Father Knows.

A gentleman was one day opening q
box CT goods. His little son was stand,
ing near, and as his father took the pack.
ages from the boz he laid them upon the
arm of the boy.
A young friend and playmate Of the
merchants son was standing by look.
ing on. AS parcel after parcel was laid
upon the arm of the boy, his friend
began to fear his load was becoming too
heavy, and said
Johnny, don't you think you've got as
much as you can bear?'
"Never mind" answered Johnny, In q
happy tone; "father knows how much ]
can carry"
Brave, trustful little fellow He
did notgrow reetless or inpatient under
the burden. There was no danger, he
felt, his father would lay too heavy Q
load on him. His father knew his
strength, or rather the weakness of thai
little arm, and would not overtask it
More than all, his father loved him, and
therefore would not harm him. 1t il
such a spirit of loving trust in Him thai
God desires all His children to possess
Home Jom nal
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Competition Races.

According to their spokesman at
Chickering Hall, the colored people are
suffering practically from the discrimi-
nation in New York.
Hssays that, under all circumstances,
they do their best to put on the appear
ance of prosperity, but that, in fact, they
are steadily falling behind in the compe,
tition with the white race. Fashion is
doing away with the colored coachman,
the colored barber has disappeared from
New York, the Euglishman wears the
walters apron in the hotel dining rooms,
the Irishman has seized the whitewash
brush, and the almondeyed Mougolian
peeps over the washtub where once the
darky 8 face was seen."
This is undoubtedly true. In the days
when Dickens and Thackeray visited the
United States they were struck by the
novelty of encountering everywhere
negro servants: In all hotels and res.
taurants the walters were colored men, !,
and the few coachmen employed by pri.
vate families we're of that race.
Now the negro waiter is the exception,
and negro coachmen are no longer com
mon. The colored whitewasher survives
almost wholly in the imagination of
negro minstrelsy, and the colored barber
is becoming rapidly an historic function.
airy il New York. Their places have
been taken by Irishmen, Epglishmeu,
Swiss, Germans, and Italians, while the
Cinnamon have secured what is sub.
stantial monopoly ofthe laundry busi.
ness, few as they are in numbers actually
and comparatively to the negroes.
But the change cannot have been
brought about by capricious fashion, as
the colored preacher at Chickering Hall
supposes. It must mean that the negro
has been beaten in the competition with
the white man; that he does not do go
good work. Under slavery he was pro.
tected from competition With others not
his raoe, but under freedom he must
take his chances with the rest; and the
rest have become very many In this coun
try since the days when be held a
substantial monopoly of the employment
spoken Of. The colored people must
devote themselves with redoubled efforts
to their own improvement if they would
keep up in the contest.
In the old slave days some Of the most
admirable servants possible we're colored,
and possibly, for time, those who main.
tanned their prestige in the North we're
relics, direct Of that bygone time. Now
that those old traditions have worn out,
the negro Of to day must start afreah and
equip himself with the learning and quail
tiles which are required Of others if he
wants to succeed. Skill and trustworthi-
ness are the two indispensable qualities
tions for occupation of all sorts, and
ose;must'be attained and cultivated in
the first degree if he would stand the
competition that is constantly being
made keener and brought to q higher
standard Of required excellence.-New
York Sun,
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Provided Well Tor Her Pets.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 2l.--The
most extraordinary will ever made was
probsted here yesterday. Mrs. Mary Ann
sonaub, an aged German lady who lived
in Nashville for sixty years, died at her
home in the northern suburbs of the
city, where she had lived for nearly half
a a.ceutury. She had no kin in the world
of whom any one knows, and had sur
rounded herself by number of dogs and
cats. She had accumulated handsome
property valued at $4,000, and this she
leaves in trust for two Of her favorite dogs
The animals are of the commonest breed.
She provides that sufficient sum shall
be reserved from her personally to
maintain these dogs In comfort as long
as they live, and especially orders one
bed and clothing for their occupacy. A
young lady who she adopted some years
ago is made secondary beneficiary upon
the condition that she will live in the
house and care for these dogs for peri.
Cd of eight years. If at the end of this
term her task has been duEifully perform.
ed she shall come into possession of the
entire property.
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= The hip knapsack, which transfers
the soldiers burden from the shoulders to
the hips, has 80 favorably impressed the
authorities of the war department. that
they have ordered the manufacture oftwo
thousand of them for use in the army. 1t
is said that the invention was suggested
by the hustle. If this be 80, no one can
saw that the latter had not a mission to
perform. But it is to be observed by the
war department that dress reformers
insist on the transfer of weights from the
hips to the shoulders.
The New York Journal has shown
up the misery of crowd of mon and
women in that city who make knee
breeches at sixty cents dozen, and work
sixteen hours day. It is not safe to
force people to work for starvation wages.
Sooner or later the devil in turn will get
on top, and they will give their employ.
ers trouble. The oppression of the poor
causes discomfort, bad work, drunkenness:
desperation and bloodshed.
Apache County, in Arizona, is lar
ger than the State of Massachusetts,, yet
1t has not a single doctor within it's Dor.
dera,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-08
Tries to Escape! in a Barrel.

JACKSON, Mich, July 2C.-David W
Palmer, sent to prison for life for the
murder of his wife, has Deen an ezem.
plary prisoner and was given more than
usual liberties. This morning he was
filling large cask with scraps when an
idea struck him. He put false head in
the cask about midway of its length, and
then placed citizens clothes, hammer
and chisel in the barrel and gotin him
self. Another head was put to the cask
by Palmer's fellow conyicts and the cask
was taken to the freight Office. AS it
was being loaded in a car the freight
handlers heard a wild appeal for pity,
which they could not at first understand.
Finally one of the men opened the cask
and Grew the prisoner out more dead
than alive. Palmer was turned over TO
the authorities. He declares he would
rather stay in prison for life than under.
20 again such torture as he experienced
during the three hours be spent in the
cask,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-08
New York Weekly Herald.

It is and will continue to be the greatest
and cheapest family journal in the Uni
ted States.
The coming year promises to be crowded
with stirring events
In the United States the entrance of new
issues into the political arena has been fol-
loved by a change of Administration. But
the great economic question on which the
campaign turned is still unsettled, and its
solution is now committed to Congress
almost equally divided between the two
great parties.
Europe is vast camp. Army corps pa.
troll the frontiers,' and millions Of mon
await the signal Tor the most titantic war
the world has ever seen.
The HERALD's news-gathering machine
ry is unequalled. Its correspondents dot
the habitable globe. Nothing can escape
their vigilance, and no expense is spared in
spreading the results Of their efforts before
the HERALD's readers.
All the news of America will be found
each week in the HERALD, While its for
eign department. will contain panorama
of the Old World, flashed under the sea
over the commercial cables.
Special features: Practical Farming and
Gardening, Progress in Science, Woman's g
Work, Stories by our Best Authors. Lite.
rature and Art Choice Flashes Of Wit and
Humor, Exclusive News for Veterans.
Information on all subjects.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
New YORK HERALD,
New York City.
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Born that Way.

Two or three days ago Station House
Keeper John Joiner was sitting out in
front ofthe guard house when an old
negro man and little negro child came
by. The child's thin black legs were
bent after the fashion of pot hooks, and
nine people out Of ten that saw the
child would stop to stare at its bow
legs.
"That your child, uncle7" asked the
station house keeper.
"Yesser Leas' hit oughter to be-"
. Mighty bow.legged."
"Y esser," admitted the old man, "hit
does look sorter dat way, boss.
Natural deformity %
"No, sab" quickly, "he vas jest born
dat way."-AAanta Consultation.
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OF late there have been two cs

= Of late there have been two cases
reported of sacrifices made on religious
grounds, one in the northwest and the
other in Georgia. We are reminded by
these incidents that the fBt American
novel, Charles Brockden Brown being
the author, was founded on similar
delusion. A man in Pennsylvania,
thinking himself directed from heaven,
from time to time took the lives Of six
children and finally of his wife. The
name of the book, it seem to Us, was
Weyland perhaps Ormond.-Raletgh
Neys.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-08
Bucklen's Arnica Salye

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe.
yer Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chill.
blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give per.
feet satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
Hill Bros.
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: Black diptheria has broken out i

= Black diptheria has broken out in
Albany, MINI. Over one hundred
families are stricken with it.
= Governor Ross, formerly of Kansas
and one of the United Stasers Senators
who stood by Andrew johnson in the
impeachmentprecedings is now employed
as printer in the Office of the Santa Fe
New Merican
There is an Indiana mar in Washing.
ton, an old friend of President Harrison
and Attorney General Miller, who is said
to have made good living since March
4 introducing oficeseekers to them at $40
for Harrison and So for Miller.
- Since the establishment of the mon
ey order system funds to the amount
s1,7O0,O00 having accumulated for which
orders were issued, but never presented
for payment. The postal authorities are
now taking steps to return money not
called for to rightful owners, but over
81 1,OO0,00 yet remains unclaimed.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-08
An Arkansas Shaker.

"Wall, old feller, what's the matter7"
"Only little augur, stranger, but l
thought would shake myself out CT my
hide"
"I've had 'enl myself, friend; | TUX
Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic and ]
never have shake
Good advice to the friend who wae
shaking is implied in the friends reply
No case of malaria has ever been found
which batfled its curative powers, and
one physician has used it successfully in
the treatment of typhoid fever. Buy il
of your druggist.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-08

One of the sad things connected
with the hard times in Persia is the fact
that many men With from fifteen to TWEEN.
ty wives have had to reduce the number
to three or four.
- Mr.. Thos. G. Lee, proprietor Of the
Lee Hotel, Arkadelphia, Ark, says that
Swift's Specific has so strengthened his
wife for her labors as hostess that he can
recommend and emphasize the assertion
that as tonic for ladies and children s.
S. s. has no equal.
- 4 milk white horse that was ridden
by Gen. Grant during the var is now
owned by D. B. Flint, of Boston. The
animal is twenty nine years old aud is
frequently used by Mr.. Flint
= Mr.. B. F. Whatley is prominent
merchant of Ruston, La. He says that
be has sold Swift's Specific to many
persons, and knows Of some wonderful
cases of blood diseases, and has never
heard of failure to cure. Several cases
of contagious blood poison we're cured
after all the doctors and all other reme-
dies had failed.
- California sent 100000 pounds of
honey to Europe last year.
-Ia am of the opinion s. s. s. should
stand at the head Of the list of blood
remedies. I arrived at the conclusion
from the testimony of scores of persons
who have told me of the good results from
it's use. have been selling S. S. S. for
years, and it has won large sale.
G. a. GRIFFITH,
MayHower, Ark.
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Over 4s, 600, 900 copies Of Moody and
Sankey Gospel hymn books have been
issued in this country and Eogland. This
almost equals the record of WebSter's
spelling book.
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eyes ~

"You shouldn't fight. Brute strength
does not settle principle
"It don't, eh Well you just bet it did
in this case. There was feller who
said my mother was as homely as mon.
key, and licked him until he owned up
that she was twice as handsome as
Mrs. Langtry. Now don't it settle that
my mother is away ahead ?"--Detroa Free
Droce
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Secrets are like the meas!es--they
take easy aud spread easy.
= Mercury and Potash mixtures dry
up tbs secretions of the body, cause mer.
curial rheumatism and dyspepsia, and
finally run the system down to such a
condition that other diseases are induced.
Swift's Specific builds up the patient from
tho first dose, aud gives life and vigor to
The whole buulaa frame,
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In this Case It Did.

"Boy, you have been fighting" said q
pedestrian to lad on Croghan street who
had bloody nose
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-02-10

Without crDorrat Cause lie was seen 10 rs.
u1on tie thirl and fourth pair Of lc7s: hi
l-roe chols, wcr, thrown aln7e bis head will
Ito claws open end Their point. touching ir
Tie rildlo la.. hi 9th pair Of feet trep
bg'l horizontally behind. and Lis body Der
penalcuiar To tls floor OF D. aqusrnrl. or n-
reht aGcl.s % fhe mo-. llal position. Th.
GESTURE was ludicrous. and. when fD this %
stloa "a. beran slowly r., e-yr,te bls move
oaYts and a>f,-pI, wore tbe capse Of rpuel
,,..rl,r,rt i.,o, I'm. uor- If tbs srao-oto,e
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-02-10
INTERESTING GUESSING MATCH.
A rew simple Tcsts Which illustrate Com
mon hrror. of Judgment.

mon hrror. of Judgment.
A crank who isnn occasional visitor 20 n
down town Olive entere.i che place the other
day when nobody appeared to DO very busy
Some one was telling story in which he
made mention o. some object about tho size
Of a silver dollar" when thecrank interrupted
The speaker with the remark
"lll hot e. there isn't man In this Office
who can ten without measuring what tho
exact sge of silver dollar is"
The trt ga. u0t taken. Tor nobody knew
Tho crank wcntnn.
~ avn also wiling 80 give s. 20 the man
uho viii take iis pen or pencil and draw a
line which SHALL represent; the exact diameter
OF silver dollar
Upon this al hands made tic attempt \
piece az paper YVES taken, and each took bis
tIiu at drawing line upon o. When all
bad finished tho crans io0s . dollnr from biz
plc.,t ana placed il s1eca lively over carh
oi Che marks -ome.of thom wore too BONG
by h.ii au iach. and Some lacked almost that
nurh in lrnrih There wasn't ono which was
ut o.. much as az eighth Of an inch out @.
tha way The ccce.'r.c visitor saI:
Tor men wlo haadic as mich money As
You DO. 90 IS strange sou are not more "a.
miliar with ifs shape and appearance Now
iat me test your Judgment iu another matter
Here is q lonr sheet of wh.to paper. which
wl place upright against tas wall back Of
this Table Sow take your pencils and mark
on Gre paper what you think Is the height q
On ordinary siis bat somsof you have a silk
tat lne ] suppose"
"n.u9 is n The other room.n answered one
% tie clerks
"WclI, l-t 90 stay there until We want il
Vow Try 10 gaes bow tall TIE hat is, ami
fnark the 1aper accordingly
The ctinato5 AFFORDED % curious illustra.
ion o. the way meas opinions wll difr
even about q snan matter Between the
shortat and the long tmasS thero was dif.
ference oi nearly four inches. Wien the bat
was brought cut aai set upon the table
against the paper. oD the mars, with two exc
cep;io1s were from one % three inches too
long The ueereN guess was made by a man
who made Il mark cbout thrs-uuarteIs or az
ilch too snort. Then size crank asked for az
e-timatc Of the difference in The height Of his
derby and the s.is hat Tho -tiessels didn't
come as near as before
THAT is ths way it IS. said the crank
People have on i'el tlnt high hat Is ever
80 much hishei ;-au o. commou one, set SOP +
VII tnd 10 you measuIs both that the differ
encs Is very htds. Tlscye that is not trained T
in measuring distances VIII lead So poaessor /
into sons sri5u' errors Of Judgment - .
VttsbTg Dispatch
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hav, frequently been a4sei how j. IS q
grost Lotel can entertain somany guests sitl
50 hllo dead beating by Strangers To ~,
30 seems simple enough, though whcn ] give
tho matter thought outside q business hour
! can really understand Why the question L.
asked Thoro are many now iacescvay day
and not fai7 guests come % tLe hotel with
cur baggage 10 would 10 easy enough
lor such 90 partalc % meal o. so. or even
occupy room. and leave without paying
But the guest must register While he J.
writing his name you can gauge him, and
law exPrianeei hotel clerks often make O
mistake ia their mn. Again. the law Is S.
stringent. AID detection So certain, that fev
rorlos care 20 tke tho risks involved, anI
dining the year there is very little loss be
that direction u the first class hotel Til
worthless check racket is tLrcadhare ana
randy Attempted There was Time when
chets was looked upon as being as good as
gecnback but that day has long since passed
and hotel is now as careful as a bank 81
cashIng o. check OF draft We get left coca
s.0nally. but its very cold weather when w3
do-Ilotei Man ia So. Louis Globo-Democrat
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A REPVBLIcAN caucus Of Senators 10
tsrmined the other day 10 push al Ak
gresiye Southern policy.
OF course tais means firing the North
err heart 10 divert tho public attention
from the bad works and barren policy oi
the Republican party, its fostering Of
pc; monopolies, and its acknowledged
plan Of defeating the popular will by the
use Of money subscribed by the aforesaid
pet monopolists, who srs granted roysI
bounsies on condition that part Of the
proats 20 10 the Republican Doodle
fund
II has been said that in 1877 Republi'
eau leaders Of the WI liam Z. Chandler
stripe acquiescod IN President Hayes
policy OF abandoning State Governments
In toe South TO Democratic control be-
cause they believed that solid Demo
cratic South would produce solid Re-
publican North, or a sufficient approx.
nation 10 1t 10 assure control OF The
National Government by their party.
But the radical wing Of the Republican
party now think that blood-curdling
nsaiion. worked up by the Southern
outrage bureauY, is the thing with which
they must stile the reason OF the tari1
issus aud throttle q majority, by assert
Ing that negro majority in the census
report must prove Republican majority
in any election that Is held In the South.
The Republican party has held the
Northwest by the sectional issue when
the tariff issue would have enlisted that
section under the Democratic banner,
but this thing cannot 20 on four years
longer and as soon az the younger gen
Grafton makes It's power felt the RepubN
can party will have nothing but this sec.
tlonsl hatred, which the younger genera.
ton will sit down on