The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-09-24

- 81. II. Burns has sued Houston,
Tex, for $25,O00 damages because he
caught case of smallpox in that city.
"A cloud burst in the vicinity of
Troy and Berlin, N. Y, caused severa!
deaths and destroyed s5OO,OO0 worth Of
property. sgs
- The Republican candidate for Gov.
ernor of Maryland has an idea as bril-
liant as 1t is original He proposes to
challenge his Democratic opponent to q
ploughing contest in ten-acre field to
decide for the benefit of the voters which
of them is the batter entitled to be con-
sidered the farmer candidate.
- 1.-TWO men," says Che Rutland, Yer.
mont, Herald, "are now hard at work cut
ting the Lcrd's Prayer in letters an inch
deep and sig inches high on the face OF q
big rock on the Bristol road. They are
hired by DR.. Green, of Buffalo, who pays
them $45 for the job. The rock is as big
as house and stands at sharp turn and
goes up a steep hill. It is about the
hardest place in Vermont for team, and
in the season when teamiDg is the liveli.
est there is more cussing there every day
than anywhere else in Vermont.
Congressman Catchings, of Mississip-
pi, speaking on the circular just issued
calling on the colored laborers in the
South to increase their demand for pick
Ling this years cotton crop, says: "That
tSissfhe work 3ofssa mischief-maker. The
hope, of course, is to embroil the labor
ers with the planters and make trouble.
The amount proposed for picking the
crop is excessive and unreasonable. 1t is
equal almost to one-sixth of the value Of
the cotton. The planters cannot afford to
pay any such wages to laborers and will
not do it. The threat of strike among
the farm hands is not lightly to be con-
sidered. Cotton is perishable crop.
When it is ripe for picking the picking
must be done promptly, or else there is a
heavy loss. l feel, however, that the
planters will be equal to the emergency.
About the beginning of the war 9
wealthy citizen of Lexington, KY, and
formerly q large slsve.owner, had been
frequently importuned by one of his ne.
gro men to allow him to buy himself.
The planter hesitsted on account of the
particular usefulness of the man. But
as the war wore on and the overthrow of
the Southern cause became merely q
question of time, he very naturally began
tothink more. favorably sof the snegro's s
proposition. $50 meeting him onthis wag.
onione day, he said: Solomon, Ibelieve
|:you'ye said something to me two;or;three
times about wanting to buy yourself, and
have been thinking over it and have
made up my mind to let you do 80"
"Yes, Marse William" returned Solo.
mon,"I did want to buy myself but
1 bin Sudden about it right smartly late
ly, sab, and T dun come to the 'cluslon
dat in desc times niger property is too
onsarteu. sab, to put any money In, o
doan' think I'll buy myself jist yit."
- The reports received from North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor.
ida, Alabama and from large part OF
Texas indicate that the cotton pickers OF
those States will pay little or no atten-
ton to Col. Humphreys i'll considered
order for strike on their part fer high
er wages. 1t is not at all probable that
"the movement" will be more successful
in Louisiana, and it is very safe to as
su,ne thatit will not move anywhere to
to any extent, or for any length Of time;
The issuance of his foolish order will
serve, however, to inform his alliance
men and his followers how dangerous it
is to invest a Aighty man with 50 large
powers, and will probably lead to his re-
moval from Office, or the reduction of his
authority to safer limits. The fact is
that Col. Humphrey chose the worst
time be could possibly have found to
try his experiment, and everybody knew
this except himself. 1t may be as well
after all, therefore, that he exposed his
weakness and want of discretion on such
an occasion rather than on one when he
might have made serious trouble.