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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-08-20

- The youngest member of congress
next winter will be Mr. Bailey, of Texas,
who is not yet 80 years old.
- My homeless friend with the chro-
malic nose, while you are stirring up the
sugar in ten cent glass of gin, let me
give you a fact to wash down with it.
You may say you have longed for years
for the free, Independent life of a farmer,
but have never been able to get enough
money together to buy farm. But this
is just where you are mistaken. For sew
eral years you have been drinking a
good improved farm at the rate Of one
hundred square feet at the gulp. If you
doubt this statement, figure it out your
self. An acre of land contains 43,360
square feet. Estimating for convenience
the land at S4S.98 per acre you will see
that it brings the land to just one mill
per square foot. Now pour down the
fiery dose and imagine you are swallow
ing a strawberry patch. Call in FIVE Of
your friends and have them help you
gulp down that 609-foot garden. Get on
8 prolonged spree some day and see how
long time it required to swallow pas
ture large enoug b to feed COW. Put
down that glass Of gin; there's dirt in it
3G per acre.-R. BM2eN.
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carolina school commlssloners.

At meeting of the school commission
ers in attendance on the State Teachers
Association it was unanimously agreed to
call convention of the school commits
sioners of the State to meet in Colum-
bia, on the 26th and 9th of August, 1891,
for the consideration Of matters pertain
ing to the success, progress and develop
meut of the common schools of the State.
Among other things, the following sub
jects will be discussed: ,.
Should the State adopt list of School
books, and compel their use in the COM
mon schools?
Should the State have anything to do
with the school book question? II 80,
what, and in what way?
How can the present high price OF
school books be reduced?
Should school commissioners recognize
and endorse certificates from other coun-
ties without examination?
Should certificates be issued on diplo-
mas? IF so, in what instances?
The use Of charts, globes, &c., and how
to get them.
The best method of running the. 5lic
schools.
Should teachers be paid according to
average attendance or a fixed salary?
What amendments should be made in
the school law as it now stands?
What Is tho duty Of school commits
sioner while visiting the schools
These, with such other topics as may be
suggested, will be considered.
Every school commissioner in the State
is most earnestly urged to be present,
prepared for the discussion Of the ques-
tions that may be considered.
The friends of the cause Of education
are also invited to meet with the commits
sioners and give their aid and counsel.
The meeting will convene at . o'clock
a. m., on the 2Gth Of August.
The above call is issued by me at tho
request Of my fellow school commission
ers, =. WARDEAW,
School Commissioner Anderson County,
s G.
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David Jacobs and Mrs. Mary johnson
Here sentenced to be hung in Chester
) feld. on August 18th for numbering Mrs.
Johnson's husband. At the time set they
sWers taken to the scafold and the ropes
around their necks. In few
oments, apparently, they would have
been dangling between heaven and earth.
J Inst before the trap Vas sprung, however,
the Governors private secretary handed
mp reprieye, staying the execution un-
stil Sept. 4th. The Governor had had the
matter under consideration for some time,
sAnd seems to have resorted to trick in
5the hopes Of forcing a confession from
1.-THE wretches. His secretary had been
present during the whole proceeding,
With the reprieyein in his pocket. and hand
sseds il to the Sheriff at the moment the
miserable prisoners expected to be land
ed into eternity. The accused asserted.
their innocence to the last, though it is
ssaid theY knew the reprieve was in wait.
ling for them. The Governor should
leave tito the judge and jury to determine
the guilt OF innocence of 3 prisoner, and
snot feel it his duty to resort to such dsvi.
;;sea TO help him form his conclusions.
Since the above was written the Gov
ernor has commuted the death sentence
sof the condemned to imprisonment for.
saafe.s His test must have failed. These
persons we're guilty or innocent. and
there should have been no middle ground.
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= The idea of having law to prohibit
the sale of liquors is not at all new. We
read that prohibitory liquor laws we're
made in China three thousand years ago
by Emperor Buo, and that he punished
with death any who broke them. These
laws we're afterward taken to Japan, and
were enforced nearly two thousand years,
but passed away long ago, greatly to the
injury of the country.
- Mr.. Jacob Butler, prosperous farm.
er of Oconee County, Ga, has one cotton
row that is exactly eleven miles long by
actual measurement. BE laid offthe row
just like watch spring, the circles de-
creasing until they stop at the centre.
he has had it measured, and it measures
eleven miles in length. MI. Butler says
it is very fine cotton and that on this one
row he expects to make at least six bales
of cotton, with an average weight of FIVE
hundred pounds each.
= The high tariff people need be eau
toned that the more they talk about the
benefcepce of free sugar the greater the
danger that there will be a popular de-
mand for other things to be free which
are now made costly by tariff taxes. The
average person is so densely ignorant that
he cannot see why, if it is a blessing to
the poor man to have cheap sugar, it
would not be good for him to have cheap
clothing, cheap provisions, and cheap
everything else.
Il. T. Malone, an educated Southern
negro, who has been travelling in the
North, teati6es that, according to his OBJ.
serYation, negroes have q better chance
to ply their trades in the South than in
the North. II saw" he says, "work
usually done in Northern cities by the
Irish that is here divided between the
negro aud white man. Here we have
no trouble in that respect; We work at
the various arts and trades, we labor side
by side with our white brother, contract
and conduct all kinds of business"
The New York World says: "The
detention of prisoners awaiting trial is a
crying evil to this country, and it appears
that it also exists in England. In that
country Lord Coleridge, the chief justice,
as he recently went over his circuit, sharp.
ly called the attention of the magistrates
to this matter, and he has applied q novel
and effective remedy where he has found
an instance of neglect of this character.
In Birmingham the other day he dis
charged all prisoners awaiting trial upon
their own recognizances because he found
that their trials would not be held till
October. he holds justly that it is wrong
to an accused man to punish him before
he has been proved guilty of an offence.
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wHY WHEAT GOES UP.

The Gar of Russia has issued an ukase
against the expectation of rye from that
country. Russia usually exports about
5O,O0O.O00 bushels annually. AS rye
bread is the bread of the masses of
Europe, necessarily great demand will
be made for other grains. American
grain fields are attracting the eyes of all
the world in this emergency. Whether
the ukase was issued to make bread scarce
In European countries hostile to Russia,
or whether it was done to avert famine
there, the fact remains that the western
farmer will get an advanced price for his
wheat. On Saturday wheat rose cents
q bushel in very short while in the
produce exchanges.
As Editor Williams, of the Greenyille
Neus, says, this furnishes practical les
son. The Law of supply and demand
has raised the price. An effort is being
made in Germany to raise the import
duty against American grain. Whether
this is done or not, Germany will be
obliged to have bread, and that will cause
a demand for American grain. It is this
demand, or probable demand, that has
raised the price of wheat. It is not be-
cause money is more plentiful, or people
are better able to buy.
just so as to the cotton market. When
more is made than needed, the price goes
down. As was the case last year, which
seems likely to be repeated this year, the
price paid was low, because the supply
was greater than the demand. Should
the opposite prove true, prices would raj
.ly Immediately, and, as formerly, cotton
raising would be profitable.
We believe the country needs more
money. But the facts given above prove
that there are number of contingencies
which may affect prices. The underlying
principle of the whole, however, vii! be
the Law of supply and demand.
As we have before said, he only is tru-
ly an independent independent of
the manipulations Of Wall street as we'll
of the ukase of the Gar of Russia-who
raises what he needs on his own farm.
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lStss =
Jsmea Russell Lowell, the distinguish
sed scholar and: poet, and at one time the
ressntatiye Of this country at the
agliah Court, died at Cambridge, Mass,
SonW ednesdsy morning, August L. Mr..
Lowell early developed as 4 bright and
pleasant writer. The South has lost no
friend inS hin, however. In what was
called The Biglow Papers" he wrote Bit.
ssterly against slavery in the South, and
Ssgain, during the late war, he wrote a,
satire, under the above caption, against
England for the neutral position she as
ssnmed toward the South and North. He
WAS born ii 1919.
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Where Leo Surrendered.

PARIS, Tex, Aug. l2.-The house at
Appomattox, Va, in which Gen. Lee sur.
rendered to Gen. Grant, was sold few
days ago for $4,000. 1t was the prop
erty Of the Ragland heirs, three of
whom live in this city, The parties pur-
chasing, it is said, are representatives of
the Grand Army of the Republic, and it
is believed that organization expects TO
hold on annual encampment at the his
toric school, as several hundred aces Of
land in tho vicinity have been purchased
by the same parties that bought the
house,
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he Edgefeld Monitor is pleased to
sksar that the Hon. George D. Tillman
:sii stand for another term in Congress
mt the election, and ,adds that 'just at
,6his time, when political tricksters and
interruptions demagogucs are trying to
3 sfun; tbs people wild over some fanciful
seheme, i is refreshing to know that
{6cIe George will be in the field to exert
= RerfaI influence for the right"
kan has been talking right out
( ling recently at q rats that has
mzdB his competitors for CoDgressonal
ssshonors very dizzy.
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CINCINNATI, Aug. 15.-Annie Hawkes.,
aged % years, an aronaut and paraclu-
tist, professionally known as frankie
Layell, was instantly killed by falling
from her trapeze at Coney Island, 8 sum-
mer resort twenty miles above this city,
about 5 o'clock this evening.
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81 Mr.. George Jones, editor Of the New
York Tines, died on " Wednesday morning
50 last week. he and Horace Greeley
Started life as printers devilsin the same
country Office, and each founded great
metropolitan daily They were close
friends as long as:they lived.
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DAYTON, OHIO, Aug. 15.-During
the past three or four days stranger
who claimed Chattanooga, Tenn, as his
home has been playing faro at the gam.
bling rooms attached to Wagner's Pala.
tial saloon, 10 South Main street, and lost
large sum of money. Ab"ut noon yes
terday he entered the rooms. Steve and
Bill Lecompte, we'll known gamblers, and
s. Wagner, Sr., were the only occupants
of the room. Pulling out his revolver,
he ordered Wagner to hand over the
bank roll or II will kill two of you and
then shoot myself" grimly said the rob-
Der. The roll, amounting to $l96 was
handed out, and he cooily made his
escape, presenting his revolver at several
persons who attempted to detain him.
No trace of him has yet been found.
He had called on Wagner early to-day
asking for $40 to help him get out of
town. This money was given to him,
and he signed the name of E. E. Paling
to the receipt, and said he was from
Chattanooga, Tenn, where his business
had burned out and the money be lost
playing faro yesterday was part of the
insurance money he had received. The
sensation has temporarily caused the
closing of all the gambling houses in the
city. There will probably be no great
effort TO. arrest the man.
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RGsI ma Co.'S .Keekly ReuisD Of
a5adsfor st:weekis highly encouraging
sAp n@groWers of the West, but
doeaSno fling much encouragement to
sthssSoe .ern farmers. It says The
'sproh ibihon Of exports Of rye by Russia,
8becanse ofs the official declaration chat
stamineis impending, has suddenly affect.
ssed the grain markets Of the whole world.
sRnssia usually exports about $4,000, 600
s:bnahels Of rye, and msn reason that other
grain SO: large quantities will be required.
Scrip prospects grow brighter every day,
sAnd With the assurance that the country
sHill not only have enormous supplies Of
ggrain, hut q market for it at q good price.
Business ais improving throughout the
North The movement begins close to
.sthafarmsd Country merchants are buying
more freely, and their purchases are felt
ssby Wholesalers and manufacturers. In the
sSoush, the great surplus Of cotton last
ssyearsand the prospect Of an equally large
crop this year threatena lower price than
sprodnee1 CAM stand, and trade and coll
sslactions are both poor in that section.
There is 8 distinct improvement in the
demand for cotton goods, which the mills
scan:now produce at profit at lower prices
than ever.,,.
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Gov. Tillman made speech at the
Red Springs IN. C.l Fair last week, in
which: he dealt in Democracy pure and
saimpl Much that he said has been
repeated dly uttered in these columns, and
sia worthy of; continual repetition SO long
asd disloyalty to Sthe Democratic party is
sprob obahle.
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We are Getting Rich.

New YORK, August 16.-The farm
profits will yield one billion dollars more
this year in the United States than they
have been during recent years of depres.
sion. At least this is the estimate put
forward by the american Agriculturist in
its annual review of the harYests to be
published in the forthcoming September
issue of that magazine.
On the basis of the present prospects
this authority estimates the corn crop for
1891 at 1000, 600, 900 bushels, wheat at
500, 100000 bushels, and oats 622, 900, 900
bushels, against ], $50, 600, 900, 400. 100000
and 524, 600, 600 bushels respectively in
1890, and 1,7O0, ,0O0, 900, 445,OOO,000 and
$4,000, 900 bushels as the average for the
preceding eleven years. This makes the
total prospective crop of corn, wheat and
oats 3,122,000,000 bushels or 28.8 per
cent. greater than last year, and 14.7 per
cent.'over the average of the preceding
eleven years.
The AHiculturist believes that unless
unexpected influences wholly change the
current of events the value of corn on the
farms will average in December fully fif.
ty cents q bushel, wheat one dollar per
.bushel and oats at least forty cents. On
this basis the value of the corn crop to
the farmers will be one billion dollars,
wheat $500, ,000, 900 and oats $3.50, 600, 900,
or total Of 81, ,750, 100000. This is four
hundred and fifty millipn dollars more
than the value of the crops in 1890, and
six hundred and twenty-five million more
than the value of the average of these
crops from 1880 to 1890, inclusive.
Cotton and rice will command better
prices than last season. Cattle are worth
one third more than eighteen months
ago, with other live stock in proportion.
Tobacco is advancing heavily for cigar
leaf, contracts being made for the crop
in Che field at an advance of 1850 per
cent. over last year. Hops are firm at
good prices. Winter fruit will command
large values, and all vegetables are yield.
ing fairly, with very"fndication of remu-
neratiye markets. The export outlook
was never better; immensely increased
sums will be sent to us for our produce.
Ulterior influence may, Of course, inter
fere with this brilliant prospect, but We
confess we are beginning to share more
fully the hopes of certain well informed,
but conservative agriculturists who pre-.
dict better profits for farmers of the Uni.
ted States during the next five years than
ever before.
The american Agricuyurist says there
will be no return to "war prices" but
money received above expenses will 60
further and enable the farmer to get
moro value out of his profits than at any
previous period.
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-
Sarah Poll; widow of the late
B james =. Poll; who: was president Of the
4 Emitted States from. 1914 to 1s4s, died at
fher home Il Nashville; Tenn, last FRI
ssdsy morning. She had lived to the ripe
sElold gssof foIr r-score and eight years.
ashs Wassal noble Christian lady, and mas
hose with whom she was 1850
:isiatsd SO snniyersally was she esteemed
stliat o1 announcer Of her death the
fag on the State capital was placed at
half mast resolnti ntions Of respect for her
gasmo.y were adopted By the State ALI
5yanee then "a annual session, and by the
ennessea Historic Association, and
{ other oiganizat ions. Mrs. Polk Was mis-.
lsSttresso o the White House during an i'm
s ssporsant period Of our history. It was
;sdnsing her husband 3 administration that
annexatio of Texas took place and
ths exican: war was fought. It was
I: during his administration, also, that the
5sgold mines of California we're discovered,
hich gave rise; to such rush Of eager,
ekless, ndaunted fortune seekers, as
.ssNss never before known ID history. HRS.
sPolk5uiIIst . 'Yburied by the side Of her.
shusband:at eli! home in Nashville.
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FOR SALE.
FARM FOR SALE.

r AM now prepared to offer great bar.
/ gain in Farm about six miles from
Anderson, containing about 27O acres.
Good pasture, well timbered, we'll watered,
in woods, and balance fresh farm land. For
further information call and see me.
also have one or two small Farms near
the city. Terms reasonable.
G. WARDLAW,
Real Estate Agent, Anderson, s. G.
Aug 6, 1891 8 EYa
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SCHOOL
For Young Ladies', Girls,
And Small Bows.

MISS MAGGIE EVANS, Principal.
MISS LUCILLE NARDIN, Assistant
in Literary Department
MISS VIRGINIA EVANS, Instructor
in Piano, Organ and Harmony.
Careful instruction in all English branch
es. Latin, French and German taught
without extra charge.
First Term begins Tuesday, September
l, 1891.
Good board can be secured in private
families. For further particulars apply to
Principal.
Aug 90. 1891
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HOME SCHOOL.

Miss Lenora G. Hubbard, Principal.
NINTH scholastic year begins MON
IN DAY, SEPT. 7th.
Boys under fourteen years of age will be
received. Send for catalogue.
Aug 20, 1891 2
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ll1r. friend the editor Of The Abbeville
ssAssdi4ns, 81 5persiste a crimson clover
'adyocate btless this clover is an
sexeelIent variety and makes good! pastu-.
srsge Did our friend ever feed his COWS:
sha yellow milo tby;t the way, proper!
pronounced meel: :yo) maize Does
sshe know that an acre Of ground, veil fer
tilized, Will produce 10 Or 16 tons Of. for.
sageif planted So this maiza !? Does he
think crimson clover will beat that re-
cord Try q patch Of it, General, and
yon viii dnd the yield prodigious.
allowed to mature. each stalk will
mike head worth q good nubbin Of
iscorn: ripes patch Of it is a beautiful
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WoFFoRD COLLEGE.

JAS. n. CARLISLE, LID, President.
Founded 1851.
VEIOFFORD COLLEGE offers to stu.
w dents in the four college classes two
parallel courses Of study, each leading to
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in one of
which Modern Languages are substituted
for Greek.
EXPENsEs-Board, tuition. matricula.
ton, washing, lights, fuel, books and sta
tionery, the necessary College expenses for
the year, can be met with One Hundred
and Fifty Dollars. The advantages offered
by Wightman and Alumni Halls, enable
students to meet their college expenses
with this very small amount.
The next session begins the 1st day of
October, 1881,
J. A. GAMEWELL,
Secretary of Faculty.
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Patrick Military Institute,

A SELECT Boarding School for Boys
IL and Young Men. Nine Instructors
-one an Army Officer. Boys over ten
years old received, but not required to
drill under fourteen years of age. Next
session opens September 18th. For terms
apply to COL. JOHN B. PATRICK,
Principal.
Aug 20, 1891 7