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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10
THE FARM AND HOME
OUR OLD SONG.
Yankee Doodle.

Father and went down to camp,
Along with Captain Goodwin,
And there we saw the men and boys,
As thick as hasty pudding.
CHORUS
Yankee doodle keep it up,
Yankee doodle dainty;
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be handy.
And there was Captain Washington,
Upon Shaping stallion,
A giving orders to his men,
/ guess there was million. CHo.
And then the feathers on his hat,
They looked so tarnal flney.
] wanted peskily to get,
To give to my Jemima, CHo.
And then they had a swapping gun,
As biz as log Of maple,
On deuced little cart
A load for fathers cattle. CHo.
And ev'ry time they fired it off
1t took horn of powder;
1t made a noise like fathers gun,
Only nation louder. CHo.
/ went as near TO it myself,
As Jacobs underpinnin',
And father went as near ag ain
tho't the deuce was in him. CHo.
Tt scared me so | ran the streets,
Nor stopped, as L remember,
Till got home. and safely locked
In granuy's little chamber. CHo.
And there / see a little keg,
Its heads were made Of leather;
They knocked upon it with little sticks,
To call the folks together. CHo
And there they'd fife away like fun,
And play OF cornstalk fiddles,
And some had ribbons red as blood,
All bound around their middles. CHo.
The troopers. too. would gallop up,
And fire right in our faces;
1t scared me almost half to death,
To see them run such races. CHo.
Uncle Sam came there to change
Some pancakes and some onions,
For lasses cake TO carry home
To give his wife and young ones 'CHo.
But can't tell you half see,
They kept up such q smother;
So l took my hat off, made bow,
And scampered home to mother. CHo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10
GOV. LUCE INAUGURATED.
He Commends the Passage of Local Option
Law.

LANSING, Mich, Jan. Governor Luce
was inaugurated at 2 o'clock this after
noon. A considerable portion of the
governors annual address was devoted &c
the temperance question. Upon this
subject, he says in part: Believing the
sentiment Of a large portion of state
is ripe and ready for it
commend to your consideration the
passage of q local option law if one can
be devised, free from constitutional OBJ
jections. If our constitution prohibit:
Us from securing efficient law for To-
caiities it does not prohibit a general
prohibitory law, aud if we are denied
other opportunities, no doubt in the
future this course will be resorted to-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10
YOUNG BLOOD TRlUMPHS.
Colorado Republicans Nominate E. o. W olcott
for Senator.

Tor Senator.
DENVER, COL, Jan. 2.-The republican
members of the legislature met in caucus
tonight, to nominate candidate for sue
cessor to Senator Bo oven. The first ballot
resulted as follows: E. o. Wolcott 45,
Thomas M. Bowen Is, and Fl. A. W.
Tabor /.
The nomination of Wolcott was then
made unanimous. The legislature will
ID Get In joint session TO formally choose
a senator on the 18th inst. The nomina-
ton of Wolcott is considered a great tri-
unpt for the young republicans of
the state, as he is but forty years
of age. He was fought bitterly by the
representatives of ex-senator Tabor, ex-
governor Evans, senator Bowen, con-
gressma- Symss, DR.. Moore and Judge
Ebert. In the fight, however, WoIco tt
had the friendship of senator Henry NJ.
Teller.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10

The county board of Marathon county
has created three new towns, naming them
Levi, Harrison and Morton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10
The People of British Honduras.

The lower classes of people in our
country are in better circumstances than
those of the corresponding class in this
country. 1 have just made trip down
the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to st.
Louis, and 1 fad people at nearly all
poinls living in miserable huts along the
river banks and in dirty novels built en-
fiat boats. Such things are not seen in
British Honduras. The working classes
make a comfortable living, apparently
without great exertiep. The principal
product of the coantrg now is the banana.
Formerly, Honduras was q great sugar
producing country, and large areas
of land were devoted to raising
sugar cane, bat owing to low prices
the crop became improbable and the
farmers nave nearly all turned their at
tention to the cultivation of bananas.
Plauts and cocoanuts also flourish there.
Lemons aEd orsnges are cultivated to &
very limited extent, and the Indians in
the interior of the country raise som q
cora.
The penans crop, however, is the ohief
source of revenue In the country, ano it
is g very profitable crop, The larger
number of inhabitants of British Hon
durss ere Scotch people, WHO have settled
there and are doing well. There are also
q mite a number Of Ameaioans and people
of other countries in the state. TIE prov
lpce is sraall Que and Is surrounded On
three sides by Spanish Honduras, Guate-
m ala and ucatan, which countries are
inhabited chiefly by the Spanish
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10

Fire destroyed eleven buildings on
La Fayetse street, Decatur, Ala. Loss,
$4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10
In the Streets of st Petersburg.

All the main streets are alive with
droschkies. Their horses are, as rule,
small; but they go fairly well, and they
are surprisingly cheap. Fares are al
ways settled by bargsip. Absolute free
trade prevails in this despotic land.
There is no tariff. Fares are fixed BY the
higgling of the market; SO beloved by
the political economist, and lively hig-
Cling it is, especially when you do not
understand word of Russian, end the
isvostchik is equally innocent of any
language but his own. l never found any
difficulty.
You make signal, and down swoop
u pom you ell the isvoatchiks within sight,
each eager fer your custom. Hol6in mp
the coin of the realm which you are will
ing TO give for the ride, you mention
your destination. 4 chorus of protests
burst out, Which presumably throw scorp
upon your offer, but to you it is as the
chatteriRg of crows. You then walk off,
followed by one or more isvotchicks, to
whom you renew your offer. Seeing you
are 3bdurate, one of them will cry "po-
jaiooyte," you jump in, and the bargain
IS complete. The driver sits on the
perch in front of you; you sit behind, on
seat which wiR hold two. As there is
ne support for the back the lady is sup
ported by the arm of her fellow traveller,
a custom which has very pretty effec
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10

Father and l went down to camp,
Along with Captain Goodwin,
And there we saw the men and boys,
As thick as hasty pudding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-01-10

swell, how did they manage to get you
out?" | asked. "Oh, that was not so
easy, but they managed if; some OF them
cut down sapliugs and made a sort of
ladder and Baeka came down With long
''lathee" and loosened the spunk" around
my body sufficient for me to do the rest
myself. Then they tied their "puggrees"
and "kummerbunds" together, and knot
ted these around m waist and under my
arm pits, and with that help, they tugging
away at the free end, and I managed to
chamber ont
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29
Twelve Months Cor q Gallon.

This week white man has been sent
from Houston county to serve twelve
months in the chaiDgang at Stevens pot
terry for stealing 8 jug containing a gallon
of whisky. On Wednesday of last week
the noon train from FJrt Valley contain.
ed passenger named J. D. Thompson,
who claimed to be piinter from Atlanta.
Dasher Station was his professed destina.
ton, but he got off short distance above
that point. He carried with him jug
containing gallon of mhisky. Upon ex.
aiming the express list, Conductor
Driggers discovered tfat jug of whisky
was missing. Arriving at Perry he
informed Sheriff Cooper of the theft, and
that efficient officer Immediately went
after the thief, and found him drunk in a
negro cabin. Thereupon lie was arrested,
brought to Perry, and lodged in jail, and
at subsequent trial ia Houston county
court the evidence wss direct, and Judge
Miller sentenced him 10 pay fine of $50
or serve twelve months in the chaingang.
In default of the money, Thompson was
sent to Stevens pottery this week.-Psny,
Ga. journal.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29

49, 8
sasrgs ehman, Durr & Co, prom
inent cotton factors, have issued circu-
m Rhiah they say: The general
scsotton cop pf che country the present
B $50, promises to be the largest ever
I produced inithe United States, but on
account of: :thsre being Of the stocks now
carried bysrinners 50 much poor cotton,
sszsY lthe spinners) will be compelled to
Is sxsnuY of tae first picking this year in order
A e1o gab 8 better grade with which to work
SoGthoir old stock, 50 that for q time at
Ssieask there. will besas good demand for
Esnswoctop and al high pvices. It looks
reasonable to uI that cotton will bring
highes =s,i prices from nov until the fret of
sDstobsr thans at any time during the
m snsSs sssason, and! il this be true then it
bshboosesst 81 the produ ducers to pick and to
Sret saarket eSery bale they can be.
EssfRsen this and the first of October in
ssGgsdsrt ayaiI { themselves Of tho high
ats,,,rices5:s liksly9 % prevail.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29
The Fight Against Jute.


RALEIGH, N. c., August 25.-Colonel
L. L. Polk, president of the Interstate
Farmers Association, returned here to.
day from the meetings of that body at
Montgomery. In answer TO az inquiry as
to the status of the fight between the
farmers and the jute oagging trust, the
colonel said: :.
at is approaching crisis. The ALI.
ance is encouraged by the friendly action
of the American cotton exchanges, by the
constant accession of fnills that are going
into the manufacture of cotton bagging
and by the unanimity and determination
of the farmers throughout the south to
fight it out to the bittrr end. The Inter.
State association Organization is solidly
against the jute trust. which has an &C.
tive, shrewd and jealous ally in the cotton
spectators or gamblers in futures. They
have sold large quantities of cotton to be
delivered in the early fall. They are
dreadfully alarmed tlat cotton is being
held back by the farmers, and the price
is advancing, and To-Day it is singular
fact that spot cotton il selling at higher
figures than their contract prices. These
men must have cotton, or they are hope.
lessly wrecked. they have sold, and
they must deliver, her ce they are putting
| forth powerful efforts 70 force the cotton
on the market. It is ludicrous to read
their dispatches, circulars and bogus let.
ters now crowding the columns of the
daily papers. They magnify the growing
crop and hold up the present prices, and
claim that they must decline. They pa.
rade the non action of the Liverpool
exchange, and iIely assert that it
will not recognize cotton bagging. If the
Liverpool exchange has go declared, /
have failed to see the official announce.
ment. We do not expect the co operation
of Liverpool until it IL forced. English
capital, English shipping and English
manufacturers and Liverpool spectators,
ofcourse, are all interes led in perpetuating
the use of iute, but all this commotion in
cotton circles in Amel lea is the work OF
gamblers in futures, u 10 have millions at
stake, and who are no" standing face to
face with financial ruin. They do not
care how cotton is wrs oped, for the terri.
BILE reality stares therl in the face that
they must have sufficient cotton to fill
their contracts and. they must have it
quick. So desperate tave the spectators
become that they already have agents
travelling from farm t, farm in the more
Southern States Offering to buy cotton
and advance the money. This is strug.
gle, not fer temporary triumph over the
bagging trust, but one for great princi.
ple, and we will not reinquish The fight.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29
"A correspondent of the Birmingham

"A correspondent of the Birmingham
Agc. Herald is in favor of Congress set.
ting aside q part of Alaska as place for
the colonization of convicts from "the
States." The suggestion is a good one,
and if it should be carried out would
afford great relief to certain parts OF the
United States. The cost of transporting
convicts to Alaska would be greater than
the cost of transporting them to the
,penitentiaries of the States, but, as the
correspondent alluded to says, "the secu.
rity that would result to society at large
by such action would be Of untold value,
and is not to be weighed by dollars and
cents" Heis particularly happy iu the
suggestion that such disposition of our
convict population would be of great
benefit to the working mep who, upon the
adoption ofthis measure, would neither
have to work longer side by side with
felons, nor compete with fettered labor"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29
Through Niagara Rapids.

NIAGARA FALLS, Aug 25.-The
announcement that Carlisle D. Graham
would go through the rapids and whirl
pool in his barrel to day attracted
thousands of people to the banks and
suspension bridge to witness the feat.
The barrel was let go at sixteen minutes
before o'clock, taking the worst possible
course, that in which Captain Webb lost
his life. 1t was tossed about in every
direction, going end over end, but passed
out of the rapids into the whirlpool in
FIVE minutes, aud arrived at Lewiston in
safety.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29

- Mr.. G. w. Fullington, of Pinehurst,
this county, has recently had his oat crop
tbreshed out. From one acre of land he
threshed 126 bushels fgood oats. We
dare say that not farmer iu this or any
OF our adjoining counties have gathered
more oats than these, from one acre of
land. Mr.. Fullington is 4 tip top farmer
and makes fine crops of everything that
he grows-Dooty, Ca, Nndicator.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29

The fourth tramp could find no purchase,
and he was returned ID Jail. Tie three
who were sold must SCI sc their purchasers
for four months
LOUISVILLE, KY. August 24.-At
Somerset o.day, while D. J. Sharp WAS
giving his testimony in Court; Miss
Goodman, who was interested in the
case, cried out upon some answer ol
Sharp's: "That'a 8 lis." Sharp sprang
up and struck her. Fer brother, Henry
Goodman, grappled with Sharp, and
after a short struggle stabbed him tt
death. Goodman escaped. A posse is
in n11rsiiit.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29

= On Monday two men came to Hart
we'll in search of Mr.. Matthew Knox.
Through them we learn that Mr.. Orr
King and Knox became involved in q
quarrel on Saturday evening about dark
near Fairplay, S. G. Knox became en-
ragged aud fired two shots from his pistol
at King. Failing to hit him, he drew
his knife and inflicted three frightful
wounds on King. one cash extending
from the top of the left shoulder Gown
to the collarboue, another cash from the
middle OF the back across the right arm,
and stab in the breast to the hollow.
Mr.. King was not expected to live.
Knox fed the country.-Hart,UeN San.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29
Georgia Farms for Sale.

0kn ACRES in Banks Co., Georgia.
OOO 200 acres cleared, 100 acres
creek bottom. Gray and red soil-medium
rolling. Improvements-one handsome
Groom dwelling, well finished, ceiled,
painted, cellar, &C., good outhouses, all
new, built in 1882; tenant houses, good
and new, with rock chimneys. A gin
house, gin and press in good order. A
SOW mill, corn mill, rock dam, DC, all in
good running order and splendid loca-
ton. Good community, convenient TO
church and school, finest water, healthiest
of places, and just l3 miles from Cornelia
on P. A. L. r. P. One OF the best farms
in Georgia. Price $500 for the entire
property. Terms-Cash, or one.half cash,
balance in one and two years at 8 per cent.
Titles perfect.
433 acres, adjoining the above and like it
-l60 acres cleared, 40 acres bottom land,
fresh and good. ImproYement-one g.
room dwelling like the above described, 4
good tenant houses, q store.house and post
of6ce-good location. Price So, $50. Cheap
place. Terms-one- half cash. balance in
one and two years at 8 per ct. Titles perfect.
Will divide these places into 8 tracts each
if desired. have besides these many good
farms in Hart County, from so to 1000 acres,
and ranging in price from S. to SIS per acre.
If you want anything of the kind let me
know it.
JEFF. D. TURNER,
Hartwell, Ga.
Aug 15, 1880 8 3m
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29
SMALL FARM
VINEYARD FOR SALE.

TN six miles of Anderson G. H., on Pen
u dleton Road, adjoining lands Of 7. r.
Simpson, Jeptha II arpe- and others.
About SO acres-fiYe or six acres Of good
creek bottom, twelve o.. fifteen acres good
cotton land, good tenant house, stables,
crib, &c. Good we'll of water, about 1900
Concord Grape Vines, all trelliscd with
wire, four and five year. old, on which We
have made 5i3 gallons Ct wine, that sold at
soc. a quart, and could Lave sold five times
rs much if L had ha0 it. Terms-thrce
equal annual nstallmc:lts. Good reasons
for selling. Enquire of
J. A. DANIELS.
Au1e % 1851
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29

Spring Lake reservoir, fifteen miles
from Providence, r, l., burst on Sundays
drowning three persous.
Tho caterpillar has attacked cotton
on the sea coast of cur State and the
planters are much alarmed IS the bolls
are just now in good way of growing.
- Mrs. Bonfeld went to the Baltimore
and Ohio depot of Zan esyille to see some
friends off on train. When the train
arrived she laid her baby down in the
gentlemen's waiting. room and went with
her friends to the platform. After the
train departed she entered the carriage
and drove away. She made several calls
and never discovered the loss of the baby
until she returned hore, an hour after
ward. She hastily returned to the depot
aud found the baby stfe and sound in
the arms of q hotel. runner, who had
discovered it and took care oft. During
her absence half dozen persons had
attempted to secure it lor adoption. She
was oyerjoyed at fnciDg it and wept
freely.
Speaking of wido-7s marrying made
me think of an incident that happened
near where / lived way back in the ffties.
1 lived next door to Dick Tolbot. He
had FIVE little brats. Dick went off hunt.
ing one day and shot his leg. It was
mighty bad weather, and at last the
doctors had to cut off lis leg to save his
life. He fingered along for several
months and then died at last. was
there the night he dieG. His wife took
on mighty bad. Some of the neig ghbors
went to console her, bit it did no good.
At last went to the seemingly heart.
broken wife and told her that poor Dick
was gone, and I told bar it did no. good
to stake on" so. II cent holp it," said
she, and continuing, pointing toward her
children, said: "Just think that these
poor children will have to come under
stepfather. It is more than can bear"
Chattanooga Times.
- One of the LATEST men in the coun-
try is John Curtis, whn is serving three
years sentence in tho State prison at
Salem, Oregon. Curtis worked in the
foundry, and about taree months ago
took off his boots, on the plea that they
hurt him, and then burned his foot so
severely that be was laid up. When the
burn was healing he put vinegar on it
and aggravated it to prevent its getting
well. The prison physician threatened
him and managed to cure the wound.
Curtis was set at work again. He work.
ed four daysand then, with hatehes,
cut off his left hand. It took two blows.
One cut through the teshy part Of the
hand the other clean through the wrist
Joint. He confessed that he did it to
avoid work
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29
A woman in Perry, Mo, adopt

"A woman in Perry, Mo-, adopted a
novel way of securing husband, but,
as she deserved, she kept him but short
time. There had been arobbery in the
town, and she knew who did it. She
sent for the young man, told him he was
guilty, and gave him the chance of mar
rying her or going to prison. He said
he would wed, and did so, but the honey
moon was short. In two weeks he tool
poison, leaving uote that said that he
had enough, and was sorry he had not
chosen the other alternative and gone to
prison.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29
Valuable Property for Sale

TN the City of Ar, .rson, on Whltner
| Street, one block f. o.n the Square, con-
tainiug one acre. God Livery Stable,
clearinghouse, newly painted and fixed
up, and very convenient, nice front and
back yard, good water, fine view. on the
North side, best of neigbbors. ANY one
wishing to purchase II: please call on
JOHN CATLETT,
Anderson. SC.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-08-29

sss Tkersiaa poRerfn movement through.
sont|t the State Of a ON ~ York in favor Of
SSsaboF oFiahil,g taxes % personal property
and fxipg them on real estate alone. a
c onmiitts tse:of the Legiilature and the
stata aassssorh have eported in favor Of
st6e movement. A strong reason in its
ss6asgr s.; he Ehe aimpo ossibility Of assessing
;sss sana COLI scttlg taxes on personal property.