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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
Prosperous Carolina.

A Reporter for the NeWs and Courier
finding Capt. John II Devereux at his
desk in the new Post flee Saturday,
made inquiry about his recent trip out OF
town. The Colonel said: ''Yes they keep
me on the wing pretty steadily. rhe Last
trip ca rried me to Columbus, Ca, Atlanta,
Savannah, and all about in fact. Every
bndy seems to be In hurry In spite OF
all the talk about nothing to do. The
fact is there is on this Continent 20 or 80
millions OF the most nervous, busy people
iD the world. IF man finds he can
make and cell anything to advantage be
gn at it with vim and before be knows
where he is, be has made moro o! biz
article of supply than he can sell, no
matter what it is. Bicycles or bread, it's
all the same, all overdone. In Charleston
it used to be considered good work to dis
charge ships ca'go in week, now 1t is
done in day. You ask what is the ex-
planation Of the falling off in exports OF
cotton from here? Flow can you expect
to ship the cotton. and spin it too. From
a calculation have made it appears that
in seven years we will be buying cotton
to supply our mills, unless the acreage is
increased. Why, look for minute at
the picture presented on entering South
Carolina from August. Talk about New
England, there il nothing on the line OF
avel there that will compare with Bath,
Langley, Graniteville, Aiken, Bsmberg,
Denmark. All along the line not fields,
but beautiful gardens, for miles and
of cotton, corn, hay, vegetables OF every
kind and in abundance.
"At Bath the mills, the dwellings, the
exquisite town, neatly kept with the
white fences no more lob.sided and
broken panels to be seen, but alandscape
hat will compare with the best parks in
the North. Look at Graniteville's stately
buildings and rich surroundings, while
Aiken is fairy scene, her hills dotted
with lovely cottages and her fields groan-
ing under the generous yield to the in
0ustry and thrift OF her farmers. Then
inter the State from the mountains.
What panorama is spread out before
you. Leaving 'Tryon the lands com mence
to undulate, lifting their smiling cheeks
to the happy husbandmap, and you say
to yourself is this South Carolina the
miserable, the home Of strife, of hatred, of
ill-will between men, then, indeed, Is
there another Paradise lost, for Paradise,
indeed, is our beloved State when COM
pared with the rugged hills and sterile
looking soil around her.
"But of all the changes that ever glad
ened the heart, look at the approach into
our state from Wilmington. Talk about
cultivation, after seeing the tobacco fields
extending for mile after mile as you near
Florence, the Magic City. Why it only
seems the other day when I was sent by
the Northeastern Railroad Company to
build the first houses in Florence, and
now in this dead Sta'e, where there Is
nothing but grumbling and fighting, and
everybod worse off than his neighbor, q
cily has sprung up IN The woods"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
An Important Halter.

Below will be found an extract from a
leading editorial in the Piedmont Head
lioht of this week, which brings tO the:
front rumor that Commissioner Trax-5
ler's books were doctored in order to-
make them balance before that official.
turned over the disrensary to commis,.
sioner Mixson. The rumor Is something
new about Columbia, though Mr.. CAN'T
says it has been goirg about that city !;
but, be that as it may, it seems TO be q
matter for the searching investigation to!
deal with:
when the legislature convenes in JAM.
nary the FIRST and most important duty
of that body will be- to investigate the.
management of our State dispensary from
top to bottom, and from the day thatit
was first opened to the present time.
"Sr'ious charges have been made against
the management of this branch Of the:
public service, and last week: the people,
by their votes. expressed dissatisfaction
over the disclosures N ade.
'sIt is charged, and the tact Is confessed,
that certain parties have been receiving
commissions from liquor dealers, aud;
there is a stror suspicion of general
crookedpess in ..e management of the
dispensary The State has lost large.
sums by the defalcatlon of county dis
pensors and no effort has BEEN made, So
far as is known, to collect the money.
from securities. It is also whispered in
Columbia that the books of ex-Commis-5
sioner Trax ler either failed tcl balance or,
had to be 'doctored' to make them
balancen syzi ss5
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
After two Days Burial.

LEXINGTON, KY, Sept. 1s.-One Of the
most remarkable performances in the
history OF hypnotism has just been com :
rleted here. Edwin H. boone, Paris
iK,.) boy, on Wednesday. hypnotized
John Lawrence Douglass before COM
mittee of cItizeus. and buried him,
through Undertaken Milwood in the Lex
ington baseball park. The interment
was made at $50 and at 4:30 this afternoon
the subject was taken up in the presence
$4,000 people.
The excitement was intense and the
police were unable to manage the crowd
After the dirt had been taken off and the
air-tub bing removed, the crowd became 80
excited that the undertakers came near
being pushed into the grave. Clods OF
dirt. trash and dust poured into the grave,
covering the face of-Douglass, who lay ap-
parently lifeless.
When the lid was taken off the coffin
there were no signs of any movement
having been made. the blanket in which
be had been wrapped remaining jus. as
1t was placed. His arms were just as
they had been left, the Impressions show
ing that the body had not moved in the
least.
Before the dirt was removed u ther-
mometer lowered into the grave registered
90 degrees. The face Of the subject was
warm, the extremities almost cold. The
heart beat very slowly and the pulse was
weak.
Boone claimed that Douglass was in the
sixth stage Of hypnotism, and quickly
changed him into the cataleptic state
when he was dressed, lifted out and taken
to the street car on the coffin top. Reach
ing the city, physicians examined Doug.
lass. Boone ran his heart beat down to
45 and then up to 120.
He left him ut o'clock in what he
termed the fourth stage of hypnotism.
The muscles would move, but still the
subject was unconscious
At 8 o'clock he awakened the subject In
the presence of a large audience In the
opera house. Boone will bury Douglass
seven day in Cincinnati, and If success
ful, will try ten days. burial in New
York.
Douglass says he remembers nothing
that he is not hungry or thirsty, but that
he feels very weak.
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the angel will say to lifelong invalid:
"Did you ever breathe air like this'
Such balml Such tonicl Such immortal
life in every respirationl Did you ever
have any climate on earth like this
climate Of heaven?" And the soul says:
This is the first time in many long
year have been freed from pain. AS I
passed through the river by that gate
the last ache left me, and am well,
gloriously we'll, everlastingly well. I
have swallowed the last bitter draft.
have felt the last cut of the knife. I
I have passed the last sleepless night,
and now I realize the beauty Of what
st. John said in Revelation, There
shall be no more pain" And then the
martyrs and the prophets and The apos-
ties will take up the chorus, and all the
recovered invalids from earth will join
in the triumphant refrain thai surges
to and fro from east gate Of heaven to
west gate. Chorus, "No more pain, no
more pain, no more pain, no more
pain!"
My hearers, it will be great heaven
for all who get through, but the best
heaven for those who had on earth
nothing but struggle Blessed I'll those
who before they entered the gate Of
pearl passed through the gate Of car.|
bunclel
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
Early Explosives and Guns.

There can be little doubt that the
Greek fire Of naphtha mentioned by ear
ly writers, European and Arabian, re-
fers to composition containing inter,
sulphur and charcoal and it is certain
that Marcus Gracus, who, according
to nidot and the Geographic Univer-
selle" wrote in the tenth century, al
though Mr.. Guttmann considers that
the method Of purifying The saltpeter
described by him was unknown till the
thirteenth, gives q composition for
charging rockets and crackers closely
approaching to that Of modern blasting
powder.
This recipe is quoted by Albertus
Magnus, and Roger Bacon gives
vaguer one, complicated by an insolu-
BILE anagram supposed to stand for car
bonum pulvere. But all those writers
and many others who mention such
mixtures are absolutely silent as to the
use of any such substance for the pro-
lection of missiles from tubes. On the
contrary, they describe crackers and
bombs, or maroons, and say that these
were discharged into towns from bal
liste or catapults or mangonels purely
for incendiary purposes. Mr. Guttmann
has, however, found in the Wardrobe
Accounts of Edward ILL.," between Dec.
30, 1a45, and Jan. 81, 1349, the follow
ing entry in Latin:
"To the same Thomas of Roldeston
for the kings work for his guns 9ls
pounds of saltpeter and $50 pounds OF
live sulphur. y
This certainly confirms the tradition
as to the use of guns by the English at
Cressy in 1346. A considerable body OF
tradition ascribes the invention of guns
to Berthold Schwartz, but the state
ments of the chronicles vary in date
very greatly, aud the most authentic
put it very much later than Cressy-i.
e., in 1853 and 1893 Curiously enough,
MIR. Guttmann decides in favor Of
Schwartz, but against the chronicles,
that tho date must have been about
1918, one which is difficult to reconcile
with the date Of Schwartz's death,
given by the Geographic Universelle'
as 1884 4-Athen@um,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
We're Found Dead and Dying.

CHARLESTON, S. c., September 1S.-The
family of William Woodsides, of this
city, was discovered to-day in dreadful
state The wife, Kate Woodsides, was
cold in death. B Y her side was her sew
en-. year-old son, sitting Oh the floor, star
ing i"to his mothers face.
The child was crazy from suffering.
Out in the yard the father lay with just
a spark of life He was unconscious and
on the brink of death.
The family was in the direst poverty,
and it was thought that starvation was
the cause of the suffering, but there are
symptoms of typhoid fever. Tho father
and son are not expected to live through
the night An investigation is now in
progress. 1t may be that they were pois-
Oued
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
TilIman Howled Down.

READING, Pa, September Is Senator
TilIman, OF South Carolina, arrived in
Reading this afternoon from Pittston and:
after brief rest was cricen to the Berke
County Agricultural Society ground. AZ
platform had been especially erected from
which he was 10 speak, but he insisted on
going into the judges stand in frontof
the main pavilion. After he had gat
started be denounced President Cleve-i
land, and the large audience took excep-j
tione to it and hooted and yelled. BE
was then conducted to another stand.
some distance away, where he completed:
bis address in the presence of about 800
people He left here to. night for Phila-
delphia. y. = - =
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
HoW's This.

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any
case cf Catarrh that cannot be cured Dy HAIRS
Catarrh Cure. o,
We, the undersigned have known F.J. cheney
for the last Is years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and hnan
cially able to carry out any obligations made by
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O..
W.LplSG. KISHAS & MARVIN, Wholesale Drug
IIa,i,s Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system. Ieslimonials Sent nee. r1lce ''c'
per bottle Sold by all druggists,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
Steamboats, Rest On Dry Land.

SELMA, ALA, September 1z.This,
country has never before experienced
such a droutb as now prevails. The Afa-s
bama river Is forty two inches below low
water mark and is still falling. {
The hull Of the old river steamer, Mag.
nolia, blown up by the union army DUR.
ing the war and sunk two miles below
the city, is entirely out of water for the;
first time since the war.
The government boat, Coosada, which
several days ago went to the assistance Of
the steamer Carrier, imprisoned between.
shoals fifty miles below the city hasg given
up the plans 10 release her and she VIII
have to lay until rise comes. Z
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
Puma's Flesh as Food.

Heretofore the killing of mountain
lions has been done in the interest of
stockmen who sought by the payment
Of given sum to rid the country Of O
lot of predatory brutes, whose fondness
for colts, calves and fat shotes too fire.
cuently led them to impigne on the
purse strings Of the rancher. AS an arti-
Gle of food the genus felis has never
held high place in the cuisine Of civili-
zation, except at such times when Tab
by and Tom incidentally found their
way out of the small end Of a sausage
machine. 1t is known, however, that
Mexican hunters never leave the car
casses Of dead lions to coyotes and buzz
zards, but use the flesh for food. 9th
ers who have tried it report it not only
palatable, but really good.
The Hon. Zack Vail, who recently
visited his ranch in the Santa Catali-
mis-, reports having lived for whole
week on the flesh Of lions killed there.
about. On reaching the ranch it was
nightfall, and when supper had been
prepared he was asked if he would have
q plate Of stewed venison. He would
and did. Later, when colnplimenting
tho cook on the delicate and toothsome
flavor Of the venison, he was told that
he had Jared sumptuously on the flesh
Of q mountain lion which had been
killed on the preceding day. He was a
little disconnected at first, but in the
morning the pleasant memories OF the
night before still fingered, and felis con-
color steak went the way of the stew.
For dinner steaming pot roast graced
the board and met q like fat'e with equal
relish.
In the opinion Of Mr.. Vail the flesh
of a young lion is sweet and palaFable
and the equal of that Of any deer ever
killed. There is nothing of the strong,
garay favor that characterizes the flesh
of the bear and even the smaller Of the
manmalia.-Tueson Citizen.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30

- The largest steam hammer in France
is that at the works Of Marrel Freres, at
Rines- -Gier. It is of a hundred tons
weight and works on an anvil which
weighs GOO tons. The face of this anvil is
a solid block OF cast steel weighing 125
tons.
- Hailstorms seldom occur in we'll
wooded districts.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
Suffariup For Others.

Suffering For Others.
What IN odd thing it is, think some,
this idea of vicarious suffering or suffer-
ing for others. Not at all. The world
has seen vicarious suffering millions Of
times before Christ came anu demon
strated it OH scale that eclipsed all
that went before and all that shall come
after. Rachel lived only long enough
after tho birth Of her son to give him
name. In faint whisper she said, Gall
him Ben-oni," which means son Of
my pain," and all modern travellers on
the road from Jerusalem to Bethel un-
cover their heads and stand reverently
at the tomb of Rachel who died for her
boy. But in all ages how many mothers
die for their children, and in many
cases grown up children, who by recre-
ancy stab clear through the mothers
heart. Suffering for others? Why, the
world is full of it "Jump!' said the
engineer to the fireman on the locomo-
tive. Zone of us is enough to die.
Jumpl" And 80 the engineer died at
his post, trying to save the train. When
this summer the two trains crashed into
each other near Atlantic City, among
the ~ who lost their lives the engineer
was found dead with one hand on the
throttle of the locomotive and the other
on the brake. Aye, there are hundreds
here today suffering for others. You
know and God knows that it is vicari-
GUS sacrifice. But on one limestone hill
about twice the height Of this church,
five minutes walk from the gates OF
Jerusalem, was the sublimest case Of
suffering fer others that the world ever
saw or ever will see. Christ the victim,
human and satanic raalevolence the exc
cntioner, the whole human race having
an overwhelming interest in the specta-
Gle. To open way for US sinful men
ani sinful women into glorious pardon
and high hope and eternal ezaltation,
Christ, with hand dripping with the
rush Of opened arteries, swung back the
gate, and behold! it is red gate, q
gate of deepest hue. gate Of carbuncle.
What is true in spirituals is true III
temporals. There are young men and
older men who hope, through the right
settlement Of this ac1id controversy be-
tween silver and gold. or the bimetalllo
quarrel, that it will become easy to
make a living That time will never
come. 1t never has been easy to make
living. The men who have it very easy
now went through hardships and self
denials to which most young men would
never consent. Unless they got it by inr
heritance yen cannot mention 20 men
who have come to honorable fortune
that did not fight their way inch by
inch and against fearful odds that again
and again almost destroyed them. For
some good reason God has arranged it
for all the centuries that the only way
for most people to get livelihood for
themselves and their families is with
both hands and all the allied forces OF
body, mind and soul to push back and
push open the red gate, the gate of car
buncle For the benefit of all young
men, if I had the time, 1 would call
the roll Of those who overcame obstacle
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30

Rev. DR.. Talmage Shows How Earthly
Trial ComeB Before Heavenly Satisfac-
tion-A Sermon Appropriate to Indi-
viduaI and National Circumstances.
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A friend told me the other day of q
shoemaker in q Russian city whose
bench was in the basement Of build
ing and so far underground that he could
see Only the feet of those who went by
on the sidewalk. Seated on his bench,
he often looked up, and there went the
swift and skipping feet of children, and
then the slow and uniform step of the
aged, and then feet with shoes old and
worn out, and then crippled feet, and
he resolved he would do kindness to
each enc who needed it. So when the
foot with the old and worn out shoe
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Angel, tell me, is this an unbroken
rest? Can it be that there are no sick
children to take care Of? My head was
SO tired planning for the household on
small means my eyes werc so tired
with sewing and knitting; my back
ached with doing work that made me
stoop for so many hours. There was
nothing in the universe I 60 much need
ed as rest. Now I have it. Blessed
Jesusl Blessed heaven! Blessed rest!"
Then the welcoming angel will say to
some Christian that on Garth was deaf
and had not heard voice of song or voice
of friendship, clark now to the choirs
in white as they are about to join in
tho opening piece of tho temple wor-
Ship" and as the baton swings and as
the deft fingers begin to feel the pulses
of the harp and lips Of martyrs breathe
on the soft lutes Of praise hear the
surprised soul just entered heaven say
ing: "Music! Why, that is the first I
ever heard. Will it keep on? Tell them
not to stop. What is the name of that
anthem! Mhy, never leard anything
like that. I never heard anything at
ALL"
And littlo child, long 20 in heaven,
pulls at tho white robo anG lys, Moth
er!" And she turns arc .nd, saying:
my child, for the first time l hear
your voice. On earth I saw your smile
and felt the coil of your blond curls on
your childish brow, but never heard
your voice: even in play or prattle, and
l am confused to know which is the
best music-that which tho angels Of
God render OF tho voice Of you, my
darling. Musicl I read about it and
saw tho notes in the music book, and l
saw the fingers of pianists and organists
run up and down the snowbanks of tho
keyboard, but never thought it would
be anything Like this. MusicP' Then
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-01-24
The INSANE ASYLUM.


At this distance from the seat of
war, the particular results Of the in-
vesLlgatiOn now going on ut James
Town are hard to judge.
ltseems pretty evident that there
is considerable politics mixed up In
the matter, and II looks further as II
the true inwardness will not be made
public by the investigation itself, hut
from the quatreling goisxpn between
the members Of fAtle 61afd dftsslf, the
charges of bribery, The summary dis
missal Of Superintendent Archibald
by three Of the members. and the re-
fusal Of the other two and the super
intendent to abide by that action, 1t
looks as II the matter may get to a
tribunal where we are supposed to get
"the truth, tho whole truth and moth
ing but the TRUTH"
s One good thing however appears
from the testimony 80 far TO be un-
d6uotedly true, that, II perhaps the
Superintendent treated his lady
allanuensls and bis visitors aud
guests q little too we'll. while neglect.
Ing his own wife, yet, the stories all
agree, that the patients are we'll
treated; aud this being true, 1t is u
pity That any reason should exist for
q change in management.
3 ! Z - - J. ss4-- Z +. u :
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-01-24
THE sHER.Fc.

1t will be seen by the proceedings
printed In this issue that the commits
>lOners have decided to 20 to the ex-
Lrenle and take legal measures t a
waras dep,sing Sheriff McCabe from
utiice because Of his rendering exOr.
i,itant aud fraudulent fee bills. As
we said last week this is u very scri-
GUS matter. Last Saturday utter
nOtin The commissioners asked Sheriff
McCabe for explanations. Cases were
mentioned where he served criminal
pr,cess on two or three parties In
Walhalla on the same day aud charg-
ed mileage to the county seplrately
for eacil case. His reply was tina the
went aud looked ut his predecessors
bills for the same kind OF work and
made his bills accordingly C,.inmis-
sIoner Otteu suggested, that the bet
ter way would have been tn have
turned to the law aud made his bills
from that.
In relation to some other over.
charges, the sheriff refused to pro-
duce amy itemized book OF record tor
fees earned, and said to the board eli
there is anything IN my bills that you
think am not entitled tu cut it out.
I will be satitied." To this, however,
the board expressed their dissatisfac.
tion, intlmating that a sworn bill
from public official ought to be cor
rect aud should not need such super
Vision and correction by the board.
and that they were tired Of doing
that very thing.
or course what the final result Of
this action will be, c,cannuL be rorctold.
The board are determined aud united
in their feeling, and it is pretty GER
tain at least that fully itenlized bills
will lie the only ones passed by this
board hereafter.
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s4cusA.

BY despat tches this week 1t looks as
II President Cleveland aud Congress
we're seriously intending to acknOw-
ledge belligcrcnt rights tD the rebel
forces In. Cuba. To some who may
not understand the effect Of such re-.
cognition, we may explain that up TO
this time the Cuban revoluttOnists
have bsen considered by all outside
nations. simply assrebels against their
established government, and noOut-
side nation could or would afford them
any rights or privileges, or treat with
them ss bt,dy, as any such act would
be construed to be q direct act Of war
against Spain. But when rebellions
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