The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-10-12

- IcStifnSnY ulllefS tS 10 luc i3CllIs5 Oh
tho soldier on going into fight, and tho
many experiences related during the re-
cont oncampment Of Grand Army mon to
their always willing listeners showed
that in their war histories there was no
uniformity of either fear or daring Tho
major Of a New Hampshire regiment
said: II always felt timid when tho shot
began to reach us, but as soon rs we got
into action l was carried :way by excite
ment. T am not usually q prOiano man,
and I havo no recollection Of talking
roughly to my troops, yet good many
OF them have assured mo that all through
q fight would swear like-well, liko a
trooper" Another man, colonel, said {:
ut is all nonsense to say that a man
doesn't feel afraid at the beginning. of
fight and all through it. Ofconrse he does.
He has reason. Sherman said of Gen.
Sumner that he was tho only man who
grew bolder rs he grew older, but the only
man I ever saw who really wanted to
fight. and to enjoy it after ho was in it,
was Custer
- At Barwick, near Warc, England,
stand the premises of the Smokeless
Powder Company, tho only works of the
kind in tho kingdom. These works COW
erno fewer than l2G acres ofground; and
largo company assembled there recent
lY to watch the entire process of manu-
facture from tho raw material to the finish
ed explosive. This new compound diff
fers from tho old black gunpowder not
only in its freedom from smoke when
ignited, but also in the circumstance that
it is unaffected by damp or extremes Of
temperature. Aitor tho works had been
inspected the quality of the new pow
der was tried with various weapons by
expert marksmen, and excellent prac-
tice was mado. The exhibition conclu-
ded with tho firing Of 500 rounds from q
Maxim gun, when it was shown that far
less smoke was produced than with ten
shots fired with the old fashioned gun
poTder.--Lond0n Letter.
DR.. \. T. Pierson, of Philadelphia,
who has been spoken Of as Spurgeon's s
successor, says that he is not a candidate
for the place. He is going to London to
preach to Mr.. Spurgoon's people for q
short season only. "How long it may
last" he says, 81 cannot say. I am
going to disturbed congregation. The
devil is at work among them. He has
attempted to disintegrate tho church. In
this he has been, I am sorry to say, as
sisted by some of the so-callod religious
papers, which have printed numerous
anonymous letters on the subject. This
seditious faction is but small part, how
ever, of tho congregation. Tho great
mass are still earnest God-fearing men
and women"
= Mr.. S. G. NIay1eld, Barnwell, s.
c., farmer, planted this year 33 acres in
tobacco. From these IS acres he has gath
cred from 200 to 1,750 pounds per acre,
and has sold it at an average Of Is cents
per pound, receiving for some of it as high
MS 26 cents per pound. Mr.. Mayfield ayers
that the growing and housing of his crop
has cost him less than $50 per acre, yield
ing him gross $3.50 per acre. Putting the
cost of shipping and marketing at $50 per
acre Mr.. Mayfield claims that he has
cleared SlO0 for each ofthe 80 acres that he
planted last spring. OF course the result
Of this experiment has enthused the
farmers Of Barnwell and they arc
going pell nell into the culture Of tobac-
ca.
DR.. Young J. Allen, formerly of
China, is on visit to his old homo. DR..
Allen is the only foreigner who has ever
been made mandarin by the -ainese
Government. He went out to China as a
missionary of the Southern Methodist
Church. but he has DOW obtained high
post under the Chinese Government as
superintendent OF public schools. He
is still hard worker in the cause Of
Christianity and for his own church, but
he draws no money from any missionary
society. as he supports himself entirely
by his literary labors. He will spend
several months in the United States.
DR.. W. Fl. Scott, for ten years presi-
dent of the Ohio State University and q
copal Church, has addressed a letter to
the Ohio Conference returning his certif-
icate of ordination and Withdrawing from
the ministry and membership. He says
he takes the step for the sake Of truth
and conscience, convinced that he ought
to enter freer and larger religious life.
: Mr.. D. Meyers, of Charleston, bought
some clothing in Liverpool fow weeks
ago for $20.26, which has just been receiv-
cd after payment of customs charges to
the amount of 1920. We should like to
ask the Boston Journal, for instance ifit
thinks tho man who made and sold these
goods paid the duties on them? Because
he didn't. They were paid here in Char
lesion, and we cant prove it. That set
ties one issue of the cam mpaign, at least
NegS and Courier.
- If the boundaries Of Custer county,
Mon, have not been recently changed
they still surround $4,000 square miles
of territory, making that one county
larger than tho five states of Vermont,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut Delaware and
Rhode Island.