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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-09-05
-Four Mormon Elders Whipped.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, August 25.-
News reached this city tonight of the
whipping of four Mormon elders by
White Caps in Marion County on Friday
night. The scene of the whipping is
about eight miles West of this city.
Three Mormon elders, whose names are
Taylor, Engel and Laired, have been
proselyting in that County for several
months. They have made a number OF
converts, mostly women, and had grown
very bold in their work. Some time ago
they made converts oftwo young married
women, who left their husbands to fol.
low the elders and aid them in their
work. On Thursday night band OF
twenty men, disguised by white masks,
called at the house where the elders and
the two women were stopping and left
the following written notice, directed to
all Mormon elders in Marion County:
Ifyou are in the County tomorrow
night you will be in hell next day.
WHITE Gaps.
The elders decided to remain, and
their converts in the neigbborhood agreed
to protect them. On Friday night 8
band of 100 men, all wearing white caps
took the three elders into the woods and
suspended them to limb by their thumbs
They then gave each one fifty lashe'
with heavy switches, and warned then
to leave the County at once under penal
ty of death. Elder Taylor tainted from
the effects ofthe punishment, and wa
almost dead when released. The twt
women were warned that unless the!
returned to their husbands at once the.
would be dealt with in similar manner
The better class of citizens in the Count,
denounce the whipping as an outrage
They have no sympathy with Mormons
but believe in upholding the law ant
oppose violence.
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BILL ARP.

An old preacher, after service one
Sunday, announced his reading for the
following Sunday. During the week
some mischievous boys obtained bis Bi-
bic and pasted two Of the leaves together
right where he was to read. Sunday
morning coming, the aged divine opened
his book and read as follows: "And Noah
took unto himself wife who was"-and
here he turned the leaf" "forty cubits
broad, one hundred and forty cubits
long" With look of establishment, he
wiped his glasses, reread and verified the
passage, and then said "My friends,
although I haze read the Bible many
times, this is the first time have ever
seen this passage, but I take it as anoth-
er evidence of the fact that man is most
fearfully and wonderfully made"
sawdust is being used by some build.
ers instead of sand. It is said to answer
we'll, as it is one.half lighter than sand,
and can be very advantageously used on
ceilings. Mortar made of quicklimo and
sawdust, mixed with cement, does we'll
for brick or stone work.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-09-05
A Bold Scientist.

Somewhere out in Texas there is
certain Prot. Tracy, who has just come
to the front with theory which he
thinks will revolutionize the world.
The Professor believes that through
the agency of electricity he will be able
to produce rain at will even in the dryest
deserts. He says that all rain clouds are
generated by electrical forces and that
by discharging electrical currents
through the air by suitable appliances,
producing detonations similar to thunder,
be will be able to precipitate the latent
moisture in the form Of rain.
The scheme sounds like crazy one, but
few years ago almost any prediction of
some of the now accomplished facts Of
electricity would have been regarded as
equally crazy. Still, very few will be
prepared TO believe that any human
device can control the weather, and it is
safe to say that the Texas Professor will
be disappointed.
However, the matter is interesting as
serving to show the increasing popular
interest in electricity, and the general
disposition on the part of even scientific
men to believe in the almost unbounded
potentiaIities of this mysterious force
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-09-05
Four Lives Saved.

Editor National Tribune: On the night
of May "a, 1865, at the foot Of the Ssluda
Mountains, in South Carolina, 25 miles
from Greenvilh, our pickets captured
four Confederate soldiers. a short time
previous to this number of our sick and
wounded soldiers had been sent back
to Knoxville, Tenn, overland, and in
passing through this same section of
country they were mis.reated by Confed-
crate bushwhackers, besides being robbed
of clothing, blankets, provisions, ETC.,
which caused great suffering among them.
This information WAS given to our brig.
ade commander by come Union people
in the neighborhood, which so enraged
him that he ordered me to have the four
Oonlederates shot the next morning after
their capture, as soon as the brigade had
moved out of camp (Co. @, 18th Tenn.
Cav. being rear r-guard). The Surgeon
and Assistant Surgeon were requested to
be present at the shooting. The compa.
ny was dismounted and drawn up in line
some 20 feet in front of the prisoners, the
prisoners being placed in line also.
They were informed of the order and
given 10 minutes in which to prepare to
meet their God. I had passed through
many battles and trials, but this was
the most trying ordeal Of my life. The
utter despair depicted on their counten'
ances, while great rivers of perspiration
ran down over their pallid faces, makes
me shudder yet when I think of how
near four INNOCENT men we're to being
murdered by the command "6re" given
from my lips. When all but two Of the
10 minutes had expired, I noticed one of
the Confederates make sign. I did
dot know the meaning Of it then, but
the Surgeon did, and he approached the
soldier giving it. After few hurried
words, the Surgeon appealed to me not
to shoot them, as it would be cold blood.
ed murder, for they had not participated
in the mistreatment of our sick and
wounded; that they had been in the
regular Confederate service all the time
and had just returned to their homes !;
that some of Whseler's cavalry had stolen
their horses, and that they were in pur.
suit of them when captured. They could
establish these facts by their Union
neighbors. I gave them the opportunity,
and they made satisfactory proof I
disobeyed orders, turned them over to
the brigade commander at noon with a
full statement of what had occurred, and
he discharged them. They were happy,
but 1 cannot believe that they were more
so than was. A Masonic sign saved
their lives, and, no doubt, saved me from
great remorse. If those four ex.Confed-
crates, OF any of them, are Lying, |
would be very happy indeed to hear
from them. At the time of this occur.
rance We were on the Stoneman raid,
having started from Knoxville, Tenn,
and were in the heart of the Confedera.
cy about rs days, seeing no other Federal
soldiers during the entire time.-IsAAc
A. TAYLOR, Captain 20. B., 18Th Tenn.
Cav. and d. A. 4. G., Hartford, Kan.
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Wonderful Watches.

John Huntington and his son, VT.
R. Huntington, Of Cleveland, own two Of
the best watches in the world. They are
duplicates and were ordered by the senior
Huntington in 1881, in Geneva, switzer-
land. He agreed to pay $4,000 in gold
for two watches that would combine every
movement then known to watch. making.
a description of one answers for both.
The case is of pure gold; the work num-
bers four hundred pieces. On the large
dials appear four smaller dials. The one
at the top shows by diagram of the sky
the changes Of the moon, the frmamens
being lapsis lazuli, studded with golden
stars. The next dial to the right shows
the leap year, the tiny hand moving
around the circle once in four years, and
an auxiliary hand shows each month.
On the dial at the bottom is hand
marking the quarter seconds, and one
showing the day of the month. at the
lett, on the fourth miniature dial, is a
hand pointing out The day of the week,
and another the tide as it ebbs ane f ows.
Around the large dial, besides Tie usual
hour and minute hand, moves second
hand and an extra horse timer, go ar
ranged that the distance between two
horses at the finish is accurately noted in
quarter seconds. By pressing button the
past hour is struck on a deep. toned bell,
one of a chime; the quarters are more
silvery note, and o rapidly tinkling com.
panion gives the minutes. The watch is
a stem winder, and one spring furnishes
the motive power. Where there is frie.
tion the pivots are set in rubiea.-Neao
York Sun.
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How 70 Woo to Win.

II gave her rose and gave her ring,
and I asked her to marry me then; but
she sent them all back, the insensib!e
thing, and said she'd no notion Of men.
l told her I'd oceans Of money and goods
tried to frighten her with a growl, but
she said she wasn't brought up in the
woods to bs scared by the screech of
an owl. J. called her coquette and every
thing bad. I sighted her features and
form; till at length I succeeded in get
ting her mad. and she ragged like sea III
q storm. And then in q moment I
turned ard smiled, and called. her my
angel and dear, she fell in my arms like
wearisome child, and exclaimed, we
will marry this year 7 !"
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3 - l4s
,Iiquidl.

- 49, u .s . l-
gYEs have sold this valuable Prepara-
tionsfor several. years, and take great pleas
anre in! offering: it again this season. The
Z fruit crop having been short for several
syears, We advise our friends to take adyan-
\ tage Of the abundant crop in prospect this
season, and sproyid for what may be a
short crop next.
One Dollars worth of the sPrepa-
ration, aud a agreat deal less trouble than
the old-fashioned way OF, canning, ypu can
save enough to do = large. family the
whole Winter, and: you can open and use
snnt of The jar from time. to time without
e Of course it suits some people to run
:Sthis Preparation down. because 1t inter-
sferes with their business, but ask T. d.
Sloan; ;lof this city, and q thousand Others
throughout the County EAo have tried 1t
with success, and you will very soon see
there IS, no humbug about it.
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1 got disgusted with that sort Of talk In

the fifties.
III sincerely wish that the farmers can
do er great sight mors than they are
doing, and I believe they will. Theit
Alliance is er good thing, but they must
keep their eyes skin't on impracticable
things-it takes practicable work and
solid thinking TO accomplish great re-
forms.
ut will be glorious day when the
farmers are so that the holding of their
cotton will be possible and practicable.
It would be getting back to old times.
We uster could do it, and I wish the
same old days were here ergin. Every
farmer had his corn; and meat and wheat
then; he didn't need no money. His
blacksmith shop; his shoe shop; his
wagon shop, was at the cross roads. The
farmets helped these workmen aud the
workmen gave the farmer market at his
door. Corn, wheat and meat Was as
good as money TO these brawny work.
men. The farmer could pile his cotton
up under the ginhouse, and hold it there,
and prosperity resigned, and the world
was happier and better. Progress has
driven these workmen into the manufac.
turing centers; the pale cooped up chill
dren of the factories and workshops are
in sad contrast to the blooming ones
brought up a. the countfy cross roads all
over Georgia. These workmen can't
raise their families in the country now.
The farmer gets er new plow now for less
than it costs 10 have an old one relaid.
He can buy new shoes cheaper than he
can have the old cnes repaired. He can
get a new wagon cheaper than he can
mend the old one, and yet its harder
times and the world is not 80 good. The
closer the workman lives 10 the farmer
the better it is for both. These cheap
prices are deceitfnl. When Europe foods
our land with her cheap products 1 hope
it will be better, but L doubt it-Atlanta
Constitution.
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A Touching Scene.

We need not ask the Journals venera-
BILE readers if they remember the prayer
of their childhood, taught them by their
now sainted mother, for it is 8 memory
that goes with US to our graves. The
greatest men of earth, in their dying hours,
have recalled that prayer of childhood,
and the sweet memories of the dear
mother who taught their infant lips to
repeat it at her knee before going to bed.
Ofall the sacred memories of childhood,
perhaps this is the strongest and the most
potent. A recent touching scene shows
its remarkable power In another direc-
tion-that of the mother herself. The
venerable and beloved widow Of the Ia.
mented Bishop George F. LAY on her
death bed at her home in Sparta, Ga.
Writing of her last hours to the Welseyan
Christian ADVOCATE, of Macon, her son
says:
son Monday before her death, about l
o'clock in the morning, she was very
restless, and I had helped her to change
her position to one she thought comfor-
table, and said to her: Mother, do you
remember the little prayer you taught
me to say when T was little fellow, and
you had prepared me for bed? Say that,
now, and go to Sleep Said she: you
say it, She fixed her bands in clasp
upward, and I repeated:
Now lay me down TO sleep,
pray the Lord my soul to keep;
And if die before I wake,
pray the Lord my soul to take
"When I had finished she bowed her
head, and went into wha. seemed sweet
quiet sleep, and never changed her posi-
tion again. X = : The sweet spirit,
worn and weary with the long struggle,
had found rest. God gave her long life,
and she served her generation according
to His will.
How many of the mothers who read
the Journal are training their little ones
to hold in their heart years to come
such sacred memories We fear that
the oldtime way of putting children to
bed has fallen into disuse. The poet
Cowper, as we'll AS many other eminent
men, has left on record his tender tribute
to sainted mother whose nightly visits
to his chamber made" were the richest
treasure in his memories. Few mothers
realize in this age of rapid progress what
| a blessed privilege it is to put their little
ones to bed themselves, and after hearing
| them repeat the sweet prayer ofchildhood,
leave them to their sleep with fond
| mothers kiss, the memory of which will
live in their hearts through all life's
| chances, and comfort them in many a
dark hour, especially as they go down
into the valley of the shadow of death
| atlanta Evening Journal.
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It is a curious fact that there are
100000 peoplcin the United States who
have artificial legs or hands. This mum.
ber does not include the veterans of the
Union or the Confederate army. In New
York City and vicinity there are about
5000 men and women who have supplied
the place of lost kaibs with the mauufac.
tnred article.
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To DIspe1 Colds,

Headaches and Fe7ers, to cleanse the
system efectually, yet gently, when cos
tive or bilious, or when the blood is.
impure elpggish, to permanently cure
habitual constipation, to awaken tho;
kidneys and liver to a healthy activity:
without irritating or weakening them,
use Syrup Of Figs. IS
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At Williford's Store we found MI.
Charlip Barrett at work. We csms on
him unaware in the midst Of recitation
on tho Reading Chart by about dozen
little ores, and it was q pleasure to Wit
ness tsls ssgerness and readiness of the
little Goes. they did themselves credit
snd their teacher, too, for it eVinced care
and painsteking on the part of the
teacher. Charlie is getting to be ret.
eran il the ranks of the profession, and
it spesss we'll for him that those who
have known him from boyhood appreci-
ate him.
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Young men should beware of rash
entanglements this year. Owing to the
failure of the beet root crop in Europe,
and the sugar trust, the price of bonbons
is going up so that it will cost fortune
to keep ones best girl in candy, saying
nothing of all the rest.
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It was a relief to pass from the Wilson
colored school to the Ridge Spring
school, taught by Miss Lizzie Shirley.
Here we found an orderly, well.kept
school,, With teacher and pupils all in
place st the proper time, and everything
in smooth running order. This is the
maide1 effort Of this feather, but Judging
by WHIST We saw and heard, she steers the
craft yell, and having had good training
at Wi.aiamston, NE think she is going to
make !. successful teacher.
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Rock Mills decided last winter that
they would suspend the public schools
until summer, 80 as to partly catch up
and get sheir District on cash basis.
They now have two white and two col.
ored schools in full blast.
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! 4 ::1lNEz1.A.6l:HERs'GoLUMN.

-ess All communications intended for
this Column should be addressed to D. n.
RUSSELL, School Commissioner, Ander.
son, 8. G..
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4
The following essay was read by Miss
Lou Drake at the last meeting of the
Teachers Association of this County.
We comnend it to the teachers of the
County:
Though. my remarks on my chosen
subject may be but the echo of what has
already been said many times, yet we
can neyek say too much in its favor.
That these meetings and places of in
structior ere means of unquestionable
profit, is proven by the advanced position
of other ytates and nationalities where
they are more strictly patronized, and
this behoo7es us to use more diligence
and fidelity In this cause which involves
the intel s-s of the youth of our land.
To speak of few advantages, I would
mention first the inspiration received to
rise above our present standing; make
US less satisfied with our present status,
and more determined to 6t ourselves for
the exalted, yet humble position, which
we fill. This age requires our best labor
and efforts. and no place is so aptly
ftted.to cultivate q desire for the above
attributes end to improve our faculties
for the same. At these places we are
taught the best methods land there is no
talent greater than method) of various
branches By able instructors who wisely
direct US to more exalted standards, and
since all civilization depends on some.
thing higher, the more enlightened the
teacher the greater results. Our wisest
decision Is to grasp every available
opportunity to enrich the mind. The
social intercourse at these meetings is
feature which merits our highest regard.
Who is it that does not feel a stronger
relationships and more united sympathy
for those engaged in similar calling,
after having enjoyed their mpauion.
ship for while? And after hearing
and knowing how others do, we are better
equipped fer the requirements incum-
bent upon rs. We csu readily perceive
the steps forward, made even in the last
decade, and if We respect and attend
these institutions, the future alone can
reveal the worth of our efforts.
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The eolored school at Springfield is
under The care Of Lizzie Green, 8 teacher
who doubtless possesses qualifications as
to books, but lacks judgment as regards
classifying hes pupils. We found two
Of her papils studying Maury's Revised
Manual who could not define Latitude
and Longitude. This teacher has no
facilities for teaching, with practically
no house and no equipments in it, and it
would neS be wise to put any equipments
in chat house if they had them. The
colored E,atrons there must bestir them.
selves ana do some work if they wish to
have q sahool that Is worthy Of the name.
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The rice crop in this State will be a
heavy one.
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We spent a pleasant night with the
family Of our genial friend, Croft Gilmer,
and at - early hour the next morning
wended cur way to the colored school at
Wilson, taught by Frances Williams. We
were frss on the ground, and shortly
after the teacher put in an appearance,
but had 70 wait some time after the hour
for opeajng before any of her pupils
came ia; aud from that on they came
struggling in by twos and threes as long
as We remained. This school is not
doing any good for several reasons. In
the first place the parents are not inter.
ested abort it or they would have the chill
dren these on time. In the second place
they:: ARE Naching -lctically out Of doors,
aud in che last place the teacher lacks
governing power. Something must bs
done by these people before they can
have sny more school there, as it is a
waste Of public money to 60 on in the
present shape.
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s. returned to Columbus, where he
remained until 1853 when he moved to
this city, where he has since resided.
Alabama, at the time, was inhabited by
Indians; the duel was fought there, SO
the Georgia authorities were powerless to
prosecute the duelists.
Mr.. s. is very reluctant to speak
about the affair, and in talking to your
correspondent on that subject yesterday
evening said: Yes, I've lived in this
world for eighty.six years now and have
always tried to mind my own affairs, but
when man runs against my person or
enters the sanctity ofmy home, it arolses
the lion in me"
Columbus furnished the material for
two other duels during the same
year. They were Kemp Woolfork, in
which Woolfork was killed, and Lamar
Woodson, in which Woodson was killed.
all occurred just over the State line in
Alabama.-AHanta Constitution.
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PIANOS A'.n'p0RGANS.
GRAND SUMMER SALE


For: August,
S. September and
October. 49,: 4.
Buy Now and Pay when Cotton Is Sold.
sPOTsCAsH PRICES, and just a little
cash down 10 bind the bargain. Only
s little. Sex?
81 PIANOS, $25 Cash and balance
Decelnber y, $50.
S.. S.. ORGANS, $40 Cash and balance
{ SDeeelnber, I, 'S9.
We wait your order andtWill do our best
for! you. Write or call on
Z. HAYNIE a&s DAUGHTER,/
u. ~ 3Ssf fWestfeld Street, g 80
GREENVILLE, 8. c..
Aug 1, 1889 "a
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I never did believe that; but now here
is new theory which says thai too many
are drinking deep, and the professions
are all crowded 10 an alarming extent.
Is it possible that knowledge is coming
to a discount, and much learning is
making people mad I? Is it fact that
the number of graduates in the universi-
ties ought to be limited, for fear of
endangering the safety of the govern
ment. Has young man less stability
and less patriotism because he has been
through the diversity? Germany has
boasted of % best educational system
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The old Man has Lively Taik with Brown.

"It would be er terrible fool that would
wish anything but good for farmers" said
Plunkett, as he threw the paper aside
be was reading and put his specks in his