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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-04-18
Practical Religion.

There is religious revival at Calhoun,
Ky., and Sheriff White of Mclean County
has been among the converts. He is a
convert of the right kind, for as soon as
he got religion be began to put it into
practical shape. He confessed that he
had stolen thousand dollars from the
County treasury thirteen years ago, and
after telling of the crime he had perpetra.
ted and SO long concealed, he proceeded
to show his repentance. He also thought
that something else than repentance was
necessary. He did not rest satisfied with
bewailing his guilt, or shedding tears
over It, OF asking Divine pardon for it, or
warning the brethren against following
his example, or promising that he would
never again do wrong. The Sheriff of
Mclean County took another way of
showing the genuineness ofhis repentance
and conversion. He restored to the
treasury of the County the thousand dol.
lars of which he had defrauded it in 1879.
That was the thing for him to do. That
looks like practical religion, in accordance
with the Scriptures. The case is worthy
of consideration by any convert who has
ever been guilty of a deed like his without
pursuing the course that he adopted after
repentance. ce.-Neao. York Sun.
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Married, or not Married.

A remarkable case is on docket in our
Court. 1t is suit for maintainance,
brought by Mrs. Black, formerly Mrs.
Dawes, of this city, against her alleged
husband. About Christmas, it seems
chat Mr.. Black, reputable man from
Union came here and stopped at Mrs.
Dawes boarding house on Church street.
He had known Miss Dawes in Union be-
fore they moved here. While here he
proposed matrimony to Mrs. Dawes, and
they went to Mr.. Derieux and were duly
married. After few days Mr.. Black re-
turned to Union and refused to live with
his bride. he says he is not married to
her, and if he was he was so drunk that
he did not know what he was doing. Mr..
Derieux says that if he was at all intoxi.
Gated he did not discover it. In the
mean time the girl, against whom no
word of slander is spoken, is in an EN-.
barrassing position. married, or not
married." that is the question. If she is
married and can't marry anyone else, she
thinks that her husband should contribute
to her support, as other husbands do
Spartanburg Spartan.
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Made Rich by Molasses.

Maria Bivins, we'll known colored
woman residing near this town, is dead.
She was fifty six years old, and for more
than thirty years she has been engaged
in making and selling molasses cakes
from which she accumulated comforta-
BILE little fortune. Both she and her hus-
band we're born in slavery as were sever
al of their children. She had accumula.
ted enough money before the war to
purchase the liberty OF herself and hus.
band, and during the war she made
enough money out of the federal soldiers
qusrtered here to purchase her children.
After the war she bought 2 farm near this
town, on which she employed her hus-
band, paying him seventy FIVE cents a
day during the spring and summer
months, and fifty cents during the winter
She used two barrels Of flour every month
in the manufacture of cakes, always
making $500 cakes out of each barrel.
During the long period she was engaged
in this business, it was estimated that
she had made nearly 100000 of cakes.
She was an honest, industrious woman,
and enjoyed the respect of all who knew
her. Onacock, Ka., Special.
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Free and Full Pardon for the PlckenS
Lynchars.

COLUMBIA, S. c., April 15.-The Gov
ernor to-day granted full and free par
don to William G. Williams and Harrison
Hayward, the two colored men convicted
Of participation in the lynching of Manse
Waldrop at Pickens and sentenced to be
hanged therefor. Some fifty petitions
for their pardon were filed signed BY many
white persons and in addition the Governor
received many letters from prominent
citizens of various parts of the State, urg-
ing clemency. The chief grounds for
pardon are announced to be that the par
ties are ignorant negroes that this is the
first case of conviction for the crime of
lynching and white men have committed
same ofense in the past without punish
ment. But for these facts the Governor
would not have been 80 lenient. The
Governor has also commuted to life i'm.
prisonmept the death sentences in two
cases as follows Thos. Wright, convicted
OF murder at the June term OF Court for
Charleston County and sentenced to be
hanged on April Goth; Ned Cross, con.
victed of the murder of E. Holdenburg
at the March term last for Charleston
County and sentenced to be hanged on
Friday next.-Special to GreenuiHe Ne,os.
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S. The Roilvay Age presents table show.
ling that 666 new lines, with an aggregate
contemplated mileage of53, ,436 miles,baye
been projected since January last; that
on;these lines 1888 miles are under
construction or contract, 9,617 are sur.
sveyed, snd 29,O01 are incorpor ated or
projected. The article continues: "The
sFfact that in the first three months of the
& year new lines representing over $4,000
miles have been brought to public notice,
#and that their construction is urged and
Ito q large extent probable, is impressive
s.eyidence of the enormous field for rail.
+ road enterprises which the United States
still affords. The mileage proposed in
these three months is equivalent to al
j most one.third of the entire railway mile.
age The county now in operation, and
yet the projection and Inauguration of
@otherlines is still going on at an equally
rapid rate, and the prospects is that the
sifOsds projected and in various stages of
development during 1889 will exceed in
aggregate mileage our entire present
completed Bystem."
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The Maidstone a Faith Cure Remedy.

The New York Sun recently interview
ed DIR: Hamilton and DIR. Spitzaka, two
eminent medical experts, on the curative
powers of the maidstone.
The doctors agreed with the great ma
iority of their profession that there is no
more virtue in the maidstone than there
is in sponge or any other porous sub.
stance.
It is admitted that there is no older
and stronger superstition than the popular
belief in the maidstone. In the earliest
ages in China, India and Rome people
believed in it. In almost every commu.
nifty may be found q maidstone credited
with having performed wonderful cures,
vouched for by persons funimpeachable
veracity.
Still the doctors shake their beads.
DR.. H Amilton aud DR.. Spitska say that
few physicians will claim to have seen q
genuine case of hydrophobia in man, and
DR.. Spitzka boldly asserts that real ra.
biea, trausmissible from dog to man by a
bite Of the dog only, has not yet been
demonstrated. In most cases it is purely
an imaginary disease, and in others
blood poisoning or lock jaw will furnish
the explanation.
But people suffer and die, and they are
believed to have been the victims of mad
dogs. The explanation given by the ply.
clans is that they die from fright. The
fear of hydrophobia may produce nervous
maladies, and the imagination is capable
Of creating what seems to be q genuine
case of rabies. The disease being imagi-
nary, of course an imaginary cure will DO
as well as any other, and the patient VINO
has firm faith in maidstone will get we'll
The true remedial sgent, says the San, in
its comments upon the testimony OF the
doctors, is not the stone. It is the faith
alone. The wonder-working power of the
human imagination will do almost any
thing.
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If drank I'll destroy"
Honea Path is real good place, but T
reckon it must be sickly, for hear some
of the citizens say that it takes an immense
amount ofwhiskey to do the people-al1 for
medicine.
Last Saturday afternoon, while cload
was passing over, lightning struck the
barn on the premises of Rev. D. W. Hiott,
tearing up the building considerably.
Two pigs near by were killed. Some
chickens under the house were killed. A
buggy in the hallway was very much dam
aged. The building was set on fire, but
timely assistance soon put it out. Mr..
Hiott had only few moments before sent
his horse up town for some purpose. If
he had been in the stall, be would, in all
probability, been killed. A cow and calf
in the lot were unharmed.
Last Saturday the Baptist Church receiv-
ed by letter seven valuable additions to the
membership.
There are three bran new buggiesin town,
all bought from Mr.. J.. s. Fowler, Of An
derson. Two of them owned by bachelors,
very encouraging sign they don't mean
to be alone in the world. One ofthe bache.
lors, after getting his buggy in Anderson,
thought the best way back was by Bolton.
suppose he wanted one of his best girls TO
try his new buggy. That looks like business.
Mr.. A. W. Humphreys, the photograph
or, has done fine business here for several
weeks, and has given general satisfaction.
He goes from here 10 Princeton, so the
people on the other side of the Saluda can
get their pictures taken.
DR., r. f. Diver Of Anderson was in
town last week. We are always glad to
meet the DR.. MESSENGER.
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The Atlanta Consultation has opened
subscription with the view OF raising
$50, 900 to found home for the needy
and disabled Confederate soldiers of that
State. About $4,000 was subscribed
within twenty-four hours after opening
of the subscription lists, of which Mr.
George T. G. White, of New York, con.
tributed $1,000. 1t is expected to secure
the desired $50, 600 within ten days, after
which it ia proposed to build model
home with, perhaps, three thousand acres
of land, with an allowance of ten arres
and cottage for every dependent Con.
federate. The Constitution takes the
ground that the efforts now being made
in the North to secure funds to build
Confederate home should be abandoned,
and that each State should at once inau-
gurate measures for caring for it's disabled
and needy Confederate veterans. Gov.
Gordon has endorsed the movement in
an earnest appeal to his old soldiers to
do all in their power for the relief of
their destitute fellow soldiers. Generous
responses are coming in every day.
The Rose Fenwick is q callapsible
or crush bonnet. 1t was invented by
Miss Rose Fenwick, the daughter of an
admiral, and is now taken up by
the Paris milliners. Play. .goers who
frequent the pit will have reason to bless
the inventor, if it prove to be the coming
bonnet. It shuts up like crush hat, and
when in its collapsed state looks like q
fan or faDshaped reticule. It can be
made to serve as such, hooked on to a
girdle. When open it is like any other
bonnet of the "Fanchon" form, but pret-
tier. One of virtues is that it does not
require big bandbox. Indeed one
might thrust it into glove box.
The mormon elders continue to
carry on their work of proselytism in
those parts of the Southern States where
there is great illiteracy. Itis stated there
are now 200 Of them at work-100 in
Alabama and 100 in parts of Georgia and
Tennessee.
The four. months old infant of Mrs.
Nettie Roach, who lives in the black.
Jacks, was burned to death last Saturday.
It's mother left it wrapped up in rocking
chair in front Of the FIRE and went off q
short distance to q neighbor's to get some
milk, and when she returned she found
the clothing siire and the baby badly
burned, from which it soon died.-Rock
HiU Herald.
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Escaping Epidemic Prevalent Among
the COnYicts on the Canal.

1t would really seem that there are
other things besides disease and crime
that are likely, under certain circumstan.
ces, to become epidemic, and that at.
tempts to escapes among convicts are
included in the possibility suggested.
On Wednesday convict named Wes.
lev Kester, from Greenville County, EN-.
ployed on the canal, while being whipped
snatched away the strap, and running TO
the river jumped in. BE was fired on, o
bullet passed through his groin, and he
now lies at the point of death in the pen.
itentiary.
Thursday forenoon another convict,
William Nettles, employed in Rice &
Coleman's gang, near the quarry on the
Columbia & GieenVille Railroad, made
break for liberty and was shot by the
guard and captured, not being seriously
injured, however.
Yesterday, keeping up the record OF
one day, Jasper Partlow, who arrived
at the penitentiary only last Saturday,
was drowned in the river, while attempt
ing to escape.
Partlow vas convicted at the recent
term of court at Yorkville of the larceny
of live stock and sentenced By Judge
Fraser to FIVE years in the penitentiary.
This was his second term, as he was in
the penitentiary in 1873, escaped there.
from and was at large some eight years
before he was recaptured, but was later
pardoned by Gov. Richardson.
There is something extraordinary about
the recklessneBs of Partlow's attempt to
escape, if such an attempt it was.
Without any apparent cause or provoca-
tion, he of sudden dropped the wheel
barrow he was trundlipg, and, heavily
shackled as he was, made straight for the
river, which was but few yards distant,
aud jumped in. Six shots were fired, but
none struck him. The body was recover.
ed by dragging several hours later, and
was found about thirty. five feet from the
saore.
Coroner Roach vas notified and an
inquest was held. The jury rendered a
verdict to the effect that the deceased
came 70 his death By drowning while at
tempting to escape from the penitentiary
guerds.-Colun,bia Register.
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dispatch from Washington says there

81
dispatch from ashington says there
ass a.rumored movement to exclude the
sIouisiana Lottery company from the
mails !; also, the fur New Orleans banks
ssnLelested in it. "A prominent Louisiana
man is at the head of the movement, and
sW6en4 he spproac ached Harrison and Wan
ssmaker,Who are well known church
Smsmbers on the subject, it is said they
sst once: agreed to tiff a Law could be
sound on which to base action. Attorney
sSGsneral Mi Miller, another religious member
softaes cabinet, is expected to supply or
and suitable law Strong arguments
shgYe! been made to Wanamaker on the
|bnbjeet and he has promised all the a5sis-
lance his power.
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q H The old SAN; S Curses, like chickens,
come home:to roost, is for tue american
pablicmost painfully illustrated in the
case Of onr lard products. First, Great
Britain took alarm, and passed very
srigid sinspection of all lard products
simpprted into the united kingdom.
France followed suit. Next came Canada,
and quickly treadiDg in the wake Of fthe
sgannck authorities the government Of
sour Southern neighbor, Mexico, took up
@the cry against American lard adultera-
tion initbe form Of an extremely string
cent enactment. Finally, it is now an
#nonnced that the German government
will prohibit all imports of lard not
absolutely pure.
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Texas is lively State. Even some
OF the ministers practice the Christianity
of the cowboys and Comanches. A
special dated Navasota, Texas, 9Th April,
gives this account, which is really some.
What startling: Rev. ]. NJ. Lawson killed
q negro Sunday, named Louis Mcleod,
who had stolen several articles 1rom MIN.
At Yarbrough Station, Rev: Hall Miller
was conducting Sunday school, the same
day, and while praying, man named
Purchard, intoxicated. entered the school
and disturbed the meeting. Rev. Mr.
Miller left for home and returned with
his gun and put the contents OF buck and
turkey shot into the left side OF Pnrch;
ards head. The dead man WAS possessed
of great bodily strength, was very brutal
and aggressive in his manner"
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Resolutions o. Thanks.

at a regular meeting of Orr Lodge, No.
s, A. o. U. W., held April 10, 1889, the
following resolutions were adopted:
Rsolved That the thanks of Orr Lodge,
No. s, A. o. U. w., are due and are
hereby rendered to the ladies Of Anderson
and vicinity for their liberal and appro.
pirate contributions to our first anniyer-
ssry supper on the 26th of March, 1889.
Resolved, That we especially thank the
Auxiliary Committee Of ladies who, BY
their untiring and unselfsh efforts, made
the entertainment for ourself and guests
one of the most pleasant occasions Of the
kind ever held in Anderson.
Resolusd, That these resolutions be pub
lished in the Anderson INTELL1aENcER
and journal.
A true copy from the minutes.
]. 3. LEWIS, Recorder.
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The New York correspondent of the

The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger, writing on April
II, says: "Aremarkable financial achieve.
ment is the placing by the City of New
York ofupwards ofs7, 100000 neS bonds,
issued to pay for the new park lands in
the annexed district. Not over 100000
of these bonds will be issued, and to-day
bids were opened by the comptroller for
81, ,457 900 worth, at prices ranging from
par to 1O11. What makes this achieve
ment so remarkable is the low rate of
interest that the bonds bear. They will
pay the investors at par only q per cent
per year, which is said to be less than the
interest on any other Government bonds
issued anywhere in the world. 1t is Ger.
tainly less than the interest of any other
bonds issued in this country. That all
but million and half of the total pos
sible to issue should be subscribed for at
par and over speaks volumes, not only
for the high credit of the city, but also
for the cheapness of money. That capi.
talists should be willing tc make an
investment that gives return of only p
per cent year, shows that there is plenty
of capital seeking safe investment, and
willing to accept the most moderate rates,
provided only that the security be of the
best. 1t is not very many years ago when
6 and Z per cent had to be offered in order
to tempt investors. When the Federal
Government place its bonds at 4 per
cent it was regarded as notable piece of
fuanciering Each year, however, has
been accompanied with gradual zeduc-
tion in the rate of interest, and to day
New York is able to float big loan at q
lower rate than even the United States is
paying
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Monopoly.

The eloquent Patrick henry said, Eve
can only judge the future by the past.
Look at the past
When Egypt went down, three per
cent tof her population owned ninety seven
per cent of the wealth. The people we're
starved to death.
When Babylon went down, two per
cent of the population owned all the
wealth. The people vert starved to
death.
When Persia vent down, one per cent
of the population owned the land.
When Rome went down, 300 men
owned all the known world.
For the past twenty years the United
States has rapidly followed in the steps
of these old nations. Here are the
figures
In 1850, capitalists owned thirty seven
and half per cent of the nations wealth.
In 1870, they owned sixty.three Fer
cent.-4Boston Progress.
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Notes From Townviile.

There is much sickness among the chill
dren around here just now.
J. P. Todd, an industrious young black
smith, has sold his house and lot here and
removed with his family to Anderson, s. G..
Justice FAINT united Elias Brown and
Nancy Gilbert in matrimonial bonds last
week.
The Townville Alliance is steadily in-
creasing in membership. W. F. NJ. FAINT,
Esq, is President, and b. ]. Tribble, Sec
retary.
Friendship Church, of the ToWnyille
Circuit, Rev. T. P. Phillips pastor, is to
be dedicated early in June by Rev. A..
Coke Smith, d. D., of Wofford College,
Spartanburg.
Rev. T. G. Ligon and J. L. McCarley
represented the Church here in Presbytery
at Edgefeld last week.
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The Senate now stands 80 Republicans
sso.3Sz Demo ocrats. If Montana goes DEM
sSacrat next fall and the other three new
States sRepnb nblican, the upper branch of
SS,oDgrsss will have 45 Republicans to 80
mocrats. The House Of Represents
siyss, according to- theroll as made up
che clerk Of the last House, promises
81 consist of 164 Republicans
Democrats from the exis-
thirty eight States, and the new
States on the basis above indicated, would
ssyell the strength Of the two parties to
l68Repub ublicans and 1852 Democrats.
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Mr.. 8. e. Helton, of near Curtis, tells
us of novel way he has of catching rats.
He fills washtub two thirds full of water,
covers the water with cotton seed and
sprinkles handful of meal on the seed.
The rat comes, jumps into the pot and is
drowned before it can get out. Mr..
Helton says he has caught at least Is in
the past ten days, having got fifteen in =
one night. Rats are great pest and all
farmers should try this method of catch.
jpr TRANSPORTATION, Ga, Times.
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LOCAL NEW g,
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
RecollectIons OF the s'Forl" Country-Five
Revolutionary Soldiers.

Recollections OF the "Eorlk' Country-F1vo
Revolutionary Soldiers.
EDITORS INTELLIeENcER The earliest
rscollections of the Fork country, by the
writer, was in 1885. Among the first of
its residents attracting his attention were
tie Revolutionary Soldiers.
ADAM LooNEY
was the subject of early inquiry. because
of his wooden leg. The natural one, thus
supplied, was honorably lost in battle.
He died about the year l843. That
wooden leg created dreadful impression
of the horrors of war.
JOHN DAY,
another Revolutionary Patriot, lived
with his son, Reuben Day, near Town
vile, on the place now owned by Wm. s.
Woolbright.. he died about the year
1s41, and was buried about one mile
Northwest Of Townville, in an old pine
field then owned by Charles Hunt. It
was country burying ground in 0conee
County, then Pickens District. One of
your correspondents some years ago
stated that William Day was q Reyolu-
tionary Soldier. This was mistake.
DIR. JOHN HARRIS.
lived on Seneca River, three miles east Of
ToWnville He had one peculiar eye, the
result of a gun shot wound honorably re-
ceived in battle. He was an eminent
physician, and married daughter of
General Pickens, OF Revolutionary fame.
He was member of the Constitutional
Convention, which framed the Constitu-
ton of this State, adopted June 8, 1880.
Dr.. Harris was long time Ordinary Of
Pendleton District, and also of Anderson
after the division. He was popular, and
loved by ali children. He died in April,
1845.
WILLIAM GRANT
lived on Conneross Greek, on the line Of
Anderson s!nd Pickens. He was an OFF,
Ger, perhaps Lieutenant, and served under
General Pickens. He was of austere dis
position, or strong prejudices, and doubt
less terror to the Tories. BE died in
1851, and was buried On the line Of An
derson and Pickens Districts, on the old
homestead. A large gathering was had
at his grave shortly afterwards, and the
late Gov. J.. L. Orr and Gen. Vim. K.
Easley delivered eulogies on the life and
eminent services of the old soldier.
JOHN BURNS
removed from Laurens to this section in
1885. His place adjoined DR.. Harris, and
was near Mr.. Grants. He was quite deaf.
and difficult to converse with, and died
aboat the year 1914. He.took great inter
est in religious matters, and by reason of
deafness always occupied a prominent
position with the preacher.
These old patriots all lived beyond their
four score years, and retained strong
hatred to the Tories in their old age. They
were much respected by all classes of fpeo.
pie, and the memory Of their names well
deserve to be perpetuated. B.