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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Mr.. D. C. Flynn, one of Anderson's live
tend the auction sales. He will be absent
about two weeks, but in the meantime his
new Spring goods will be coming in on
every train. He expects to secure some
fine bargains at the auction sales, and his
customers will get the benefit of them.
When he returns our readers will hear
from, him
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Our young friend, W. A. Clement, of
Bolton, frightened our sanctum with his
presence for short while last Monday.
He reports business good, and says he has
about made up his mind that he would be
happier were he to enter matrimony.
Some one Of our fair readers in or around
Bolton should make him proposition.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Il. Tribble, Esq, will conduct the
afternoon meeting of the Y. M. G. A. in
the Opera House next Sunday afternoon,
Subject: "How can we show that we are
Gods children ?''-John Is, l to 10. These
meetings are interesting, and each and
every young man and boy in the city
should attend them.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Married, in Macon, Ca, on Wednesday
evening, March 25, 1891, by Rev. ". B.
Jennings, Mr. Archer Reid and Miss May
j. Artope, both of Macon. The groom is
the eldest son Of Mr.. H. N. Reid, of Au-
gusta, and has many friends and relatives
in Anderson who will join US in extend
ing congratulations.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Westminster Banner. sMr. Thos. P.
Hobson, son Of our neighbor who lives
near Westminster, was in town last week
for the first time in twelve years. Mr..
Hobson moved to Anderson County, near
Sandy Springs, about that time and en-.
gsged in farm, and, as all of his family
before him have done, made success of
it, not finding time to even pay his old
home and friends visit"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

+ A small cottage was burned at Liberty
Hill, negro settlement just outside of the
Eastern limits of the city, last Tuesday
afternoon. The house was occupied by
Pink. Wallace and family, who were away
Trombone at the time. The house and all
of its contents were destroyed. Wallace
saYs it was the work of an incendiarY.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Our young friend, Clarence McFall, has
just finished his course in the State Phar-
macy College at Baltimore and returned
to his old position in one of the leading
drug stores at Danville, Va. A few days
ago lie went to Richmond to stand his
examination before the State Board of
Pharmacy and passed most creditable
examination. lie is now thoroughly pre-
pared for all the duties of his profession.
Last fall Mr.. McFall went to Baltimore,
and. securing position in drug store,
worked during the day and at night pur-
sued his studies in the College. This
plan was rather a heavy task upon our
young friend but it enabled him to get
through his course at very little expense,
and is very commendable in him. We
extend our congratulations to Clarence.
who is worthy, model young man, and
wish him eli the success attainable in this
life.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Walhalla Courier .From the Press and
Banner we learn that preliminary survey
of the Cumberland Gap Road between
Edgefeld and Abbeville is being made by
Engineer Whitman. Mr.. Whitman is to
report to Mr.. Potts who built the road
from Aiken to Edgefeld. We hope to see
this road completed to Anderson at an
early day."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Mr.. j. NJ. Jones. who travels for the
wholesale tobacco house of w. a. Russell
& Co., Atlanta, Ga. spent Sunday in the
city. Mr.. Jones is most clever, Christian
gentleman, and has host of friends In
Anderson who are always glad to meet
him
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Our young friend, Oswald Breazeale,
eldest son of Hon. J. E. Breazeale, Of this
city, has gone to Kansas City, Mo-, to ac-
cept position as bookkeeper with lead
ing firm of that city. The IETELL1GEN.
GER wishes him a pleasant sojourn in his
new home.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

One of the brightest pages in frank Les.
lies Illustrated Newspaper this week is the
foreign page, with nine pictures of striking
The first page will please the ladies. II
represents scene on Fifth Avenue, New
York, after the Easter morning service.
Other pictures include that of the queen of
the New Orleans Mardi Gras Festival,
scenes connected with the recent outbreak
in New Orleans, a full page of particularly
attractive amateur photographs (repro-
duced), the spring floods in the Mississippi
River, views in Oak Cliff, Tex, a striking
full page OF a bull.fght on the plains, and
the old French Market in New Orleans
(four pictures). Frank Leslie's is printed
both in German and English.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

mittance. 25 cents; reserved seats, 40
cents. No half price tickets.
Our Piercetown correspondent mentions
the death of Mr.. John v. Mayfield, which
occurred at his home in Williamson
Township last Sunday morning. His
Illness was of short duration. About a
week preceding his death be ran splinter
under his finger nail. The finger began to
swell and soon extended to his body,
when blood poisoning set in causing his
death. Mr.. Mayfeld was about:43 years
of age, and was highly esteemed by his
friends and neighbors. A wife and several
children are left to cherish his memory.
Young men, beware how you shake
| hands with your unmarried lady acquain-
tances There is fad among the girls to
try different schemes in order to learn
who their future husband will be. One
of the tricks by which they imagine they
can gaze into the future and discern their
lord and master, is to count nine stars nine
nights, and the first unmarried man that
shakes hands with them after the perfor.
nance, is supposed to be the future part:
ner Of their joys and sorrows. It would
| be too bad to destroy the rosy visions such
| schemes bring to merry lassies, and 1t
would be still worse to refuse to fulfill the
part the stars assigned you. So, boys,
beware.
The Greenville Nelvs, Of the 2Gth ult.,
under the caption, "The Champion Hon
est Man" says: "Persons who would not
defraud fellow-man of cent sometimes
takes pleasure in beating railroad.
Somehow railroad is regarded as legit-
innate prey, but there is man in Ander-
son who would not wrongfully take FIVE
cents even from great railroad corpora.
ton. The ticket agent at the Richmond
& DsnvilIe road received the following
letter yesterday: Kindly inform me on
the enclosed postal card what was the fare
from Greenrile to Central last August
! 18th. On that day passed over the road
and did not pay my iare.' It is supposed
that the wriler has been thinking over his
free ride and came to the conclusion that
it was wrong to withhold the payment OF
] his fare.''
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Our young friend, A. G. Tribb1e, who
has been attending Medical College in
Philadelphia for the past six months, re-
turned home last Friday. From his ap.
appearance, Philadelphia's climate has
certainly agreed with Gus.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

Barnwell People: Joshua ". Ashley,
of Anderson County, is real reformer,
even if he was defeated in bis race for Leg
islative honors last fall. He is an exten-
sive planter and has just passed law that
none of the tenants or laborers on his
lands shalp carry concealed weapons. If
any are caught SO offending he will report
them to the officers of the law and see to
it that they receive their just. deserts"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

The writer regrets that circumstances
prevented him from meeting with Pierce
town Division Sons of Temperance, in
their public meeting at Beaverdam church
last Saturday night. He hopes that in the
near future be will have another opportu-
nifty of meeting with the Division.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

a young couple recently went riding
out in the country, and. while passing a
barnyard 10 which were two small calves,
the young lady observed, "Oh, see those
two little cowlets," !" "You are mistaken, .
remarked the young man, they are not
cowlets, but bullets.'
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02
WASH GOODS SPECIAL.

One Case Indigo Blue Calicoes at SC, worth 7c. O
Sc, worth Tc One Case Solid Chambrays and Fancy
them elsewhere for less than 10c if you
Look at our lovely Challies, French Ginghams Pe
solid color exquisite designs and coor This sto
very large variety of new novelties in figured wash goo
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-04-02

The Ohio Grape Protector Company, Of
Ironton, Ohio, have introduced weather
proof paper bag, with instantaneous at
tachment, for covering grapes, which pro-
tects them from blight, birds and insects,
and prevents mildew and rot. Prices
very low. See their advertisement.
, 1891-09-03

Charley Jenkins was an engineer on
fhe Baltimore and Ohio for many years,
and ne had many hairbreadth escapes.
His run was between Garrett, Ind, and
Chicago Junction, o., and nearly every
body along the route came to know him
personally. His friends could tell his
engine every time by the peculiar ''toot,"
and whenever the engine was in sight
there would be a wave of the hand as a
recognition of friendship. His engine,
the 72O, was the best on the division, and
if a fast run was to be made Jenkins and
the 720 were sure to be on the call board
for it.
One day the old engineer was taken
i'll, and for weeks he fingered on his bed,
when it seemed that only a thread held
him on to life. He was sadly missed
along the route, and the peculiar 'toot"
of the whistle was heard no more, for,
although old 100 was kept running, there
were other hands at the throttle.
The crisis of his illness came. The
family surrounded the bed and watched
with breathless eagerness for any sign Of
a change.
The stiffness of the room was Cypress
i've. Nothing could be heard ave the
regular, heavy breathing OF the sick en-
gineer.
Suddenly he arose on his elbow. he
stared wildly around, and his eyes looked
like a madman's. Then he sat up in bed,
clutched an imaginary sheet of paper.
and gasped:
''Tiffin; train five; engine SEVENTEEN
ty; prepare to meet thy God"
He sank back exhausted and fell into
a quiet, easy sleep. When he awoke he
was on a fair way to recovery, but by
that time the news had reached the place
that n terrible accident had happened;
that No. o had collided with a freight;
that engine 100 was a wreck, and that
the engineer and fireman were dead.
Charley Jenkins insists that he had a
presentiment from heaven Cleveland
World.
, 1891-09-03

There seems to be an orderly in
stinct in roots that cannot be accounted
for. When the seed sprouts and the
stem starts upward to make the trunk,
one bud pushes down into the earth to
form a toproot. What it is hat gives
the order for one to push up and one to
push down is incomprehensible. But.
more than this, while the top root is de
scending deep into the ground, as if to
anchor the tree securely against wind
and storm, other roots start to grow hori-
zontally just beneath the surface of the
ground. These surface roots are Mt first
but mere fbers. When the autumn ar
rives, and the leaves fall, most of these
fbers die also, leaving only a few to live
over, and these become permanent sur
face roots.
We know why some live to become
permanent roots, a against the thou
sands which die. We say they are gifted
with greater vital power. They were
able to get more nutrition thar the 9TH
ers, and nutrition to some extent means
vigorous hfe-but in what way this or
dering of some roots to go down as an
chors, and the others to spread out near
the surface where food is, to act as feed
ers, is just as deep an unsolved problem
as it was hundreds of years a~go.-Thom-
as Meehan in Philadelphia Ledger.
, 1891-09-03

Speaking of Englishmen in New York
suggests the recent plant of a very well
to do Britisher of the female sex now in
this city. you know there are now no
distinctive resorts for English people
abroad" said she. 1--WE used to go to
Scotland, but the rich Americans over
ran the country and gobbled up every
available estate. Then we tried Brigh-
there now won't look at an Englishman
where he conflicts with an American.
They next drove us out of every fashion
able resort on the continent, lastly the
Riviera, our especial stronghold. We
have no longer the exclusive social sway
anywhere outside of England.
at used to be that the Swiss and Ger
man watering place hotels were run
chiefly in the interests of the English
traveller. Now the American has it all
his own way. There are now more
Americans living in villas about Flor
ence, Como, Rome, Dresden, Lucerne
and the German spas than Englishmen.
Even Paris is getting to be dominated
by your countrymen. Now, l put it to
you, what are we going to dor
Come to America" said |.
Here, at least, the American is small
potatoes and few in a hill Here An
glomania RACES worse than the pleuro-
pneumonia. Come to America, unhap-
ply, outlawed, dethroned people of an
etfete civilization, and come with conf
dence and cash-especially cash. Here
you'll find a newer growth in New York
to fall down and worship you".-New
York Herald.
, 1891-09-03
No Obstructive Wires In Paris.

No Obstructive wires In FArlA
1t should be noted that the question
low to dispose of wires-a question that
Ilakes so vast and so continually recur-
ring an agitation in all American cities
never comes up at all in Paris, and is
seldom mentioned in any European city.
There are absolutely no obstructive wires
in Paris. The government has purchased
the telephone as well as the telegraph
system, and all the wires for these ser
vices are placed in the subways Of
sewers. The wires of the electric COM
panies are buried under the sidewalks
Armored cables are laid in simple con-
duits, or even in the bare soil, without
the slightest difficulty from any point of
view.
In crossing streets it is forbidden to
break the paving, and underground con-
nection is made from the manholes of
the sewers. The whole city Of Paris will
have been laid with a network Of cleo
trio lighting cables a few months hence,
and traffic on the sidewalks and in the
streets will have suffered a minimum Of
obstruction, while no injury whatsoever
will nave been done to pavements. All
these minor questions of practical mu-
nicipal engineering hat we in u cities
are attacking in a fumbling, rude, orig
inal way, needless even of the experience
Of our neares neighbors, while densely
and ~contentedly ignorant of the expert
ence of foreign cities, have been thor
oughly solved in Europe.-Dr. Albert
Shaw in Century.
, 1891-09-03

"They tell me, parson, that you've
consented to umpire the ball game this
afternoon between the Squash Hollow
Baptists and the Zion Brotherhood. Is
that SOP"
Oats de Gospel trufe, sahI" 4
sit strikes me that's rather a precari-
u position for one of your calling,
isn't it?"
Now, locker yer, Mister Mani l
hain't 10 prize fighter, ter be sho', needer
| hain't nuvver wukked in no quarry an
got mix up wild a BIAS; but a CENTER
man err my perfession OATS rumpired fo'.
teen chu'ch ~'lections, whar de ar was
dat bris'lin' wild razors dat de ve'y wuds
dat yo' done spesserfy got chop up inter
sillybubs TO dey git half out de mouf,
femme tell yo' dat kline O. chap hain't
gwine tremble bout rumpirin' ober desc
yer ebbyday baseball e~rfa'rs, deed he
hain't, sahr'-Boston Courier.
, 1891-09-03

Clerk Bird in the orphans court yes
terday granted marriage licenses to two
pretty girls. who are sisters and who are
going to marry two brothers. The par
ties are Amelia Louisa Wilke, aged nine
teen, who will wed John Somershoe,
aged twenty-five. This couple are resi-
dents of Olney. The other pair are Ag-
mes Theresa Wilke. aged seventeen, who
will become the wife of Alexander
Somershoe, aged twenty-six, a resident
of Franklinville. The young ladies were
accompanied by their mother, who, with
IA beaming smile on her c-ountenance at
the prospective happiness of her chill
dren, gave her consent to the coming
nuptials.
The clerk said that the nearest ap-
proach to an incident of this kind was
some time ago,w when n man came in and
got a license and shortly afterward
another man came in giving exactly the
name and getting a license to
marry n woman of nearly the game name
as the other. Mr.. Bird asked a few
questions and discovered that the appli-
cants were father and son, and that
neither of them had been aware that
they were counting sisters until they
found 1t out at the license office.-Phil-
adelphia North American.
, 1891-09-03

Dog s~tealers in Paris nave two prin-
cipal means of getting hold of the ami
nal they want. First of all they find
out the dogs habits, the liberty he is al
lowed, the hours that he takes an airing
either alone or with a servant, and make
their arrangements accordingly. They
sometimes prowl around a house for a
week before obtaining all the informa-
ton they need. When they learn where
they can meet the animal, they attract
him by some sort of bait, or make him
follow a bitch, which they lead with a
string.
In n narrow street it is easy to approach
the dog and pat him. If he is not very
savage, the offer of something to eat rem
ders him confiding; the thief, who has a
slipnoose ready, passes it around the
dogs neck, and the game is bagged. On
the boulevards and in the public parks,
where dogs usually follow their masters
or mistresses without being held by a
cord, the thieves always use a second
animal, and as soon as the dog comes
neal enough to the decoy brute the lassc
is thrown and the gallant captured
Cor. New York Epoch.
, 1891-09-03

Captain Porter's determination to treat
as counterfeit money all money that is
gilded and made into scarf pins or any
kind of ornament has reused the ire Of
jewelers. generally. Several dealers
called at the secret service Office and
protested against Captain Porter's strict
Interpretation of the law, and the editor
Of a journal devoted to the interests Of
the trade gave him a scoring. Captain
Porter said his views had not changed a
particle. and he straightway swore out a
warrant for the arrest of Charles Korup.
Korup has a place at 345 Clark street,
and he was caught with some gilded
nickels in his possession the edges of
which were milled. Korup was held in
$500 bail by Commissioner Hoyne.
Captain Porter says he will continue to
arrest all jewelers. having this class of
goods in their possession Chicago Trib-
Y,na
, 1891-09-03

a Live Package In the Dead Letter ONCE.
Is it to be expected hat an ordinary
clerk, without special remuneration,
shall expose himself to the dangers incl
dent to the opening of the m~ultitudinous
and mysterious packages that are left as
metaphorical foundlings upon the fgura-
tive doorstep of the postmaster general?
Lest these perils be deemed imaginary, it
may be appropriate to refer to seventeen
snakes that arrived together on one oc-
casion in a parcel of the sort described,
although they were all very much alive,
especially a RATHER, eight feet in length
and one of the biggest ever captured,
that ratified its nine rattles and showed
its fangs to the unaffected dismay of the
young gentleman who undid the bundle.
So great was his embarrassment that
he failed at the moment to keep accu-
rate count of the reptilian consignment,
and three weeks later the entire office
was set in a stir by the unexpected ap-
pearance from beneath his desk of a
three foot adder speckled in yellow and
black. Owing to the fact that adders of
other than the arithmetical variety are
discouraged in government offices, this
particular serpent is now enjoying a
perennial spree in a bottle of alcohol on
a shelf in the postoffice department.
Washington Letter.
, 1891-09-03

A writer in the Glasgow Engineer, in
pointing out some of the most practical
BILE data in testing iron and steel, lays
down n simple rule to start w~ith-name-
ly, that in any case where a fracture of
iron gives long, silky fbers of a leaden
hue, the fibers cohering and twisting to-
gether before breaking, it may be CON
sidered a tough, soft iron. Further, a
medium, even grain, mixed with fbers,
is a good sign, while a short and black
ish fiber indicates badly refined iron, a
very fine grain also denoting a hard and
steely iron, which is apt to be cold short
and hard to work with the file. Again,
coarse grain with n brilliant crystallized
fracture and yellow or brown spots, de-
notes n brittle iron, cold short, working
easily when heated and welding well.
Nitric acid will produce Il black spot
on steel-the darker the spot the harder
the steel-while iron, on the contrary,
remains bright if touched with that acid.
Good steel in its soft state has a curved
fracture and a uniform gray lustre, but
in its hard state a dull, silvery, uniform
white; again, good steel will bear a
white neat without falling to pieces, and
will crumble under the hammer at a
bright heat, while at n middling heat it
may be drawn out under the hammer to
a fine point
, 1891-09-03
Truth Cost Him His Pulpit.

Rev. DR.. Lucas was seated among a
email assemblage Of friends in Postmas-
ter Thompson's room, making an honest
effort to forget that the thermometer
was hugging the nineties. He said, al
once knew a minister to lose his pulpit
by telling the truth" Being asked to
explain he said: while stationed in
Iowa / became acquainted with a min.
lister who was a forcible speaker, but
was deficient in education, and occa-
sionally committed some grave INSIDE
meanors against the kings English. One
Sunday evening, while speaking rapidly,
he committed u gross assault OF Lindley
Murray.
mo sooner had the sentence escaped
his lips than he stopped and said: Il am
aware that my education is deficient. 1
regret that l did not have the advantage
of good schools while a boy. If ! had
been more fortunate in that regard 1
would nov be preaching to a more in
tclligent congregation The minister
told the truth, but that was the last time
he preached in that church ."-Indianap-
oils News.
, 1891-09-03

A practice was common about fifty
years ago of rubbing the eye in a peculiar
way from the outer to the inner corner,
the result being, as was supposed, to
strengthen the sight. The practice orig
mated with President John Quincy
Adams, who had what is called "a
weeping eye" disease having caused the
closing of some of the ducts, so that he
was forced to wipe away the overlooking
moisture about once in every five min
utes. He always wiped his eye from the
outer to the inner corner, and some n
noticing this peculiar action. and know
ing also that, although he had passed his
eightieth year, he used ~spectacles,
connected the two facts and started the
theory that rubbing the eye in the way
indicated prevented the changes insep-
arabic from advancing years. For a time
all the old people in the country spent
half their time rubbing their eyes, but
the fad soon died out, and is now scarce
ly remembered, saw by some old man
who saw people practicing it when he
was a boy. Interview in st. Louis
Globe Democrat.