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All Sorts of Paragraphs.
? A very few people in this life know
the advantage of keeping troubles to
themselves.
? It is said that one-eighth of the wine
produced in California last year came from
a single vineyard.
? Umbrellas are now made of paper in
France. They are made waterproof by
gelatined bichromate of potassium.
? When a Frenchman marries, under
the law he becomes responsible for the
support of his wife's father and mother.
? The crops are on the move, and it is
a grand sigDU uuriug August mo 10ceipts
in Chicago amounted to 7,900,000
bushels of wheat, against 1,095,000 bushels
In 1690.
? An egg, the shape of a small clay
jug, with mouth and handle all complete,
has been received at the office of the Atlanta
Constitution.
? The national committee of the
World's Fair have arrived In New York.
They report that every country in Europe,
with the exception of Italy, will be
represented.
? Caterpillars;from ten to twelve Inohes
long are said not to be uncommon in
Australia, while species which vary in
length from six to eight inches are stated
to be numerous.
? A curious story from Oregon relates
that a yonng child in Eugene City is
growing faster on one side than on the
other without any apparent cause.
? At Aden, in Arabia, rain has fallen
only twloo in twenty-nine years. Besides
fVio otpahqI rtrnn trhfc. thft nlnofl Is known
as one of the hottest in the world.
? "We return thanks," writes a Georgia
editor, "for a box of paper collars;
but as we hare no shirt to woar with
them, we are now offering them cheap for
cash. Call earlj and avoid the rush."
x? The question of drunkenness and its
cure is one of absorbing interest that
seems to concern the press of the North
and West. It is one that applies itself to
good morals and Bound government everywhere.
? One of thequeerest names for a street
is that borne by a public thoroughfare In
the annexed district of Now York called
Featherbed lane. It is supposed to have
been so christened because it is full of
rocks. The name occurs in the city directory.
? The dry goods trade of the United
States has mere money invested in it than
any other Interest in the country?estimated
at the enormous sum of $20,000,000,000,
while the next In order, the railroads,
has only between $10,000,000,000
and $12,000,000,000.
TKo PinKmrvn/1 Tov?a?n nnn at fhfl
oldest landmarks in Augusta, is to be
torn down. Th6 date of its erection is not
within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
Many interesting incidents are associated
with the old hostlery that was
very popular in its day.
? The largest oil well struck in this
country was opened last week 18 miles
west of Pittsburg. The well started off
at the rate of 500 barrels an hour, and is
now estimated to be doing 10,000 barrels
a day. The well is owned by Greenlee
and Forst.
? "Of course it hurts, Josiah," said
Mrs. Chugwater, as she applied the liniment
and rubbed it in vigorously.
"Rheumatism always hurts. You must
mtn an/1 KoipU " T'm willlnff tn hoar
it, Samantha," groaned Mr. Chugwater,
"bat darn ine if I'm going to arrln."
? In the cemetery: I'Pa, some of these
people who are bnried here liavent gone
to heaven." "HuBb, Tommy! how do
you know they liavent?" "Because I
read it on the tombstones." "Read what
on the tombstones ?" "On ever so many
of them I read, 'Peace to bis ashes.'
There ain't any ashes except where it is
very hot, is there?"
? The official physicians in charge of
the executions by electricity at Auburn,
N. Y., prison on July 7th, have j ust made
their report to the press. They say that
death came painlessly to the four
aan^nmnfl/1 man fKat. fhorA ivqq nA
burning, and that everything went off
smoothly.
? A young man, recently married,
suggested to bis wife that they should argue
some question frankly and fully
every morning. The first question happened
to be "whether a woman could be
expected to get along without a hat." He
took the affirmative, and when last seen
he had climbed into the hayloit and was
pulling the ladder after him.
?"Whar yer goin' wid dat man?"
(yjked a negro of his daughter, "He air
not to ooi^p'ny^ yer.(< flGjwme ter de
Bhow," theg|rlreplied, ".pat'sallright,
fought yer was going to church. A
loman ken go wid most any man ter a
show, but she's got ter be mighty pertic'lar
who goes ter Church wid her."
cr "W^y, how ft f ^m?
U crying Very Iwtfj g#ye yot*' ye been
pinching him and pushing him aH aroqnd
the yard." "Well, mamma, X should
think I had good cause." "Pray, what
was that?" "Why, be said that he liked
you a great deal better than I did ; and I
liked you two years before he was ever
thought of."
rt Crops this year have been made at
greasy redttofctf expenses, ' prices" for
foodstuffs aro good! Mow money will go
into the hands of farmers this winter
than ever before. Next year will be a
great debt-paying year in the United
States. The release of money from Inyestnjent
}n fijrm mortgages will have an
immpQSfc mflue^qo qpb# fye qiar^et yaf:
UP of securities.
The wonderful crops and the abundance
of general products in the United
States this year, BayB the New York Sun,
seem to be a family blessing, bestowed
without regard to where the individual
members may be located, from the Arctic
Circle to the gulf, and covering b^lf the
tyorltf in longitude, Q-his is r&aily noteworthy,'considering
th<^ hard time afflicting
the rest of the world with equal impartiality.
? At Birmingham, Ala., some boys
saturated a cat with coal oil, set fire to it
and turned it loose. The cat ran into the Tl
residenco of a man named Lindsay, and on v
set fire to that, the house being burned to Mai<
the ground. A. M. Rydol's house caught n
and that was burned too. The total loss
was about tlirco thousand dollars. tivel
? Jim Murphy, an old line whig, famil- lniqi
iarly known as "Big Foot Jim," livingon j9
Bridge Creek, in Colquitt County, is cer- ,
tainly the biggest and strongest man in
Georgia. He weighs zsu pounus ; Nutuu? ??. ...
seven feet high in his stockings, and imp<
wears a number fifteen shoe. His strength 8j|v_
is almost phenomenal.
? A marvelous illustration of the pa- met
tience of the Chinese is found in the salt the ]
mines In Central China. Holes about six 80tU(
feet in diameter are bored in the rock by f
means of a primitive form of iron drill
and sometimes a period of forty years ed w
elapses before the coveted brine is reach- to w
ed, so that the work is carried on from jecte
one generation to another. 4<r
? The phrase, "Worth its weight in A
f old," no longer expresses the idea which ?Pen
t was intended to convey. For there Pres<
are at least twenty substances worth more moP
than gold. Berylium, for instance, is RarCj
worth ten times its weight in pure gold, .wor'
and venadium is five times as costly as lDS
the precious metal. Iridium, also, is ??'ni
more than twice as costly as gold. The inYu
text books used to say that platinum was 8Plei
the only metal more valuable than gold, r?r?
but it now costs about the same. e~ "
? There is now a bright prospect of the
establishment at Washington of a great Dr^j
University that shall be all that the name
implies, of which the chief promotor is gorr,,
Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist Episcopal Dr
Churcn. Ten million dollars will bo
needed, and an appeal has been made to
the Church to subscribe that amount. 0fa
Bishop Hurafc expresses confidence that vinc,
the sum can be obtained without difflcul- rea]j
ty,and when the large numerical strengiu Rep,
of the Church 1b considered, the faith of from
the Bishop appears to be well founded. coui(
? S. V. White, who failed in Wall conn
Street the other any, came near being weal
successful in his attempt to corner corn, adde
A Chicago paper states that if he tad had in at
sufficient mouey to purchase" 500,000 Ht
bushels more, ho would have had the stag<
whole visible supply of corn in the coun- met!
try, and could have dictated his own high
price for it. He held 7,000,000 bushels, pure
for which he paid 54,200,000. The com- The
paratively small sum of ?200,000 more be$3
would have made him master of the Bit- by t
uation, and enabled him to add several was
million dollars to his fortune. For the char;
want of that amount the price dropped, that
and his fortune was swept away. duty
? Rock Hill has set an example that
every town and city in South Carolina did i
could follow with great advantago. The
enterprising people of that progressive Last
little city are determined to have the plate
trade of country friends if good roads will good
bring it. The roads loading out of town 'ber<
in all directions will be thoroughly ma- mor<
cadamized for four miles at the expense
of the town, then the county commis- lish i
sioners will take hold and continue the Pay I
work for six miles more. Rock crush- Chic
era have been bought and the work is ^8?
now in progress. It is one of the most butt<
important movements that has been stated
in this State, and it will be watched with ?Y?r
keen interest by all the towns that want Did I
the trade of the farmers. No town can $300C
spend money to betteradvautage than in butt<
the improvement of its roadways.
? An unknown negro man was killed
near Seneca river last Saturday night. " t
He was stealing a ride on the North
bound Air Line passenger train, having
got on at Seneca as the conductor, W. T. , A? "
RIooney, supposed. He was found on "?u
the platform by tho conductor just after ".P0?
leaving Seneca, who asked, him to come
in the coach and pay his fare. The con- |J?
ductor passed on through the car, and on {on.?'
returning to the platform he found one
shoe but the negro was gone. It is supposed
that be either trieato climb on top .?,
the coach and fell, or jumped olF. The 1 s
train was running fast makiug about for- SL a
ty miles an hour, and he was hurled KePl
headlong to the ground. When found
his head was crushed and one log broke. ta*,e
Part or his skull was found imbedded in
the end of a cross-tie which was struck by rr .
his head. An inquest was held over tho
body by Coroner Craig and a jury, the reSy
verdict being death by misadventure in J
falling from tho train.? Walhalla Courier.
? The Supreme Court of Minnesota jq jia
has filed a decision finding the dealings Ther
in grain futures illegal and void. The told
finding is one of ultra importance, as two \yor
of the largest boards of trade in the coun- xis^i
try are now located at Minneapolis and was,
Duluth, the operators of which may now the
repudiate their contracts with impunity ba(jg
when on the wrong side of the market caiif
unless they deal in real wheat, oats, and ~
other commodities. The case is that of
Oscar Mohr and Anton Meisen, dealers of I
on the Milwaukee board. The Supreme syst<
Court finds as follows : "Contracts for DOO
the sale and delivery of grain or other f
commodities to bo delivered at a future tabh
day are not per se unlawful when parties men
in good faith intend to perform them ac- than
coraing to their terms. Butcontraots in tj
form ftr future delivery not intended to p
represent actual |transactlona,but merely Tb
to pay and receiye the difference be- j seivi
tween the agreed price and the market ery
price at a future price of the commodity,
are void." 80Ur
? Mrs. R. J. Gaines had a very pecul- "ena
iar experience at her home below Roop- tous
ville, Ga., the other night. She said that peop
she had noticed a cat's peculiar actions
around a certain bureau all the afternoon,
and she thought that a mouse was in the
bureau and that was the reason the cat
kept a continual watch at the bureau. A
Just about dusk Mrs. Gaines had occasion
to go into $e bqreau and opened a * . ,
drawer. Just as she did this ghethqught r^m
of the cat's str&flge'actlons and, being like ?d h
all ladies, having a deadly dread for a ??J
mouse, she went for a lamp and looked <tj
into the bureau drawer, and to her astonishment
there lay a la^e rattlesnake
coiled up fo draper sleeping as sweet- yest
ly as a queen. Mrs. Qaines says if she just
had put'her hand into the drawer, and
she woulcl hay'e dqi}e sq h^4 8^9 flot }
thought q( the pflt'a actions that evening, yest
it would nave hit the rough snake the
first thing. The question is how that ije?s
snake got in the bureau. It must have
crawled in when the drawer was open for can
it could not have got in otherwise. han<
? ing
New Farmer?' Moxemect. shal
- ' eho\
S, C., October 9.? cite<
Another movement among the farmers, saw
this time in the right direotlon, we be- i?j
lleve. One of the prominent men this in
time is Col. Lewis E. Campbell, of Ander- jjim
son (one of the twenty-one conference.) hun
Another one is Capt. S. J. Duckworth, of
Williamston. The movement on foot is wa8
to bring their land up to such a high state wa3
of cultivation that tney cap niiakd a living witj
on'a fe^' acres.' Colonel Campbell will e(j ?
get this year a very largo yield of cotton an(j
and corn. (Japtam Duckworth will cet at huu
least twenty-live bushels or corn per acre
from the same land where be raised fifteen
bushels of wheat per acre. Hurrah ?
for this movement. If the people gener- ing
ally would fall into line with this move- wal
ment it would do more good than all the an <
"Tillman ahd ?olk movement?.'' Their nut,
raoyement i3 for individuals.' Tho Camp gun
bell and Puckworth -movement would be gar*
fo^ the benefit bf alt the tieople. Fall into groi
line, gentlemen, and let us all move on thai
to prosperity.?Correspondence Greenville mai
Wwt, I at o
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN. ?;
10 campaign in Ohio is being carried
igorously. Governor Campbell and ~
>r McKinley are ideal exponents of
locracy and Republicanism, respec- m
y. Gov. Campbell insists that the v
aitous tariff law, of which McKinley te:
ithor, is the overshadowing question as
ocn the parties. Major McKinley
ches off to a side issue (though an ^
irtant one) and prefers to discuss the 1
ir question. These two champions
in joint debate on last Thursday, and
Democratic leader gave his opponent
s hard nuts to crack. We will quote c?
f of his utterances, which were greet- ?
ith applause, showing to some extent
hat enormous taxation we are sub- 0r
d on nearly every article we use: ^
regret," said Governor Campbell, in ..
ing, "that I have not time to properly
3nt the indictment of that overgrown Pe
ster, which, masquerading in the M
of protection, subsists on the wageter
and agriculturist. Yearlv, farmis
growing more unprofitable, our Wi
merce is swept from the seas and that of
stry is abandoned. Under protection,
idid palaces of protected manufactuare
crowning the hills, while import[uns,
Italians and Bohemians are disng
American citizens. We are rap- si(
reaching the condition which was ha
icted by Abraham Lincoln when he gt
ed these words, 'As a result of war-, . .
orations.have been enthroned, an era 101
igh prices will follow, the money th
ar will endeavor to prolong its reigu eo
i all wealth is aggregated in the hands b0
few and the republic is lost.' To cone
you that that prediction is being 861
zed, I cite you to the utterance of a N<
iblican Congressman (Butterworth)
i Ohio, who Rflid in f!nni?rf?Hs that he i
3, upon ten fingers of his hands,
,t men who had added more to their
th in the last ten years than had been of
d to the wealth of all the agriculturists ga
ly State of the Union. tQ
sre a board was hoisted upon the .
>, upon which was demonstrated by or
lods of bookkeeping the injustice of M
tariff. A man goes to England and 6v
hases goods to the amount of $5000. 0
average duty on these goods would
000, making J8000 the total sum paid w
he importer. Here another board N:
hoisted on which the $3000 was ac
ged up to profit and loss, indicating
if the importers did not charge the ,
to the consumers he would lose the
I paid in duties. Thus the foreigner so
lot nay that tax. . la:
he duty on plate-glass is 140 per cent. m,
year we imported $160,000 worth of '
i-glass. That was the value of the *rJ
s in England; yet upon that glass tic
) was paid $223,000 duties, or 963,000 co
3 than the cost of the glass in Eng- ,
. Who paid that tax? Did the Eng- nL
manufacturers give us the glass and va
J63,000 beside to get us to take it ? A p?
ago paper says that last week a Chi- be
firm received ?1400 worth of pearl
>ns from Austria, and the duty on ut
} buttons was just ?3000, or a trifle tai
200 per cent. Who paid that duty ? ex
the foreign manufacturer pay nearly r
I for the privilege of sending pearl
jnstous? na
here were manufactured in this counast
year $5,500,000,000 worth of goods. <
e tariff on dutiable goods is 60 per
it is fair to presume, taking pro- m'
A An/) in/ltiafvSoa fAr?nHi_ f/\
u QUU uupvkoi/wu iUUUOliICO bUKQbU1'
lat at least J of that sum is paid in f0j
of duties to manufacturers at home
i the American product. It is said I"
his is done for the upbuilding and So
itonance of manufacturers! 'How thi
, O Lord, how long, shall this upling
and maintenance go on ?
he Major has not pointed out one tu
iworker, as I requested him, in all wi
broad land, who had his wages raised an
ccount of the McKinloy bill. The ot]
lblican song this year is s "With
r and tin we are sure to win." They ac*
the tariff off sugar to make it cheap m
they put a tariff on tin to make it pu
p! But no acrobat was ever yet able
ie two horses going in different di- 101
ons without failing to the ground. W
3 are paying about $16,000,000 duty cri
l tin, an increase of jl,000,000 under
dcKinley bill. Finally, they claim
ive established the industry in Piqua. co
o is a man in this audience who was wl
by the proprietor of the Piqua Iron W(
ks that he had spent ?100 in estabDg
that industry. The one hundred
3pent in establishing the industry in
purchase of a stamp to make this br
;e inscribed, 'Made out of steel and ?t
ornia tin.' "
d0
iv. Campbell fairly exposoa the evils
tepublican protection. Under this
3m the rich become richer and the ^
poorer. Under a normal and eqai)
condition of affairs, how could ten
accumulate in ten years more wealth w.
all the farmers of any State .
together?
ie facts and figures quoted abovo de- 1
b closo study, and must prove to evthinklng
man that the tariff iB the ?
ce of the most of our heaviest buri,
and therefore is the most momen- ?
subject confronting the American
Ie to-day. a3
sa
an
He Lored His Teacher. vi
schoolboy, about 10 yeay-a old, was 00
id Ihe other day by a benevolent
Jed citizen on Second street, and ask- ^
lm if ho likorl fn em onliool ?
fo, sir," was the prompt reply,
hep yop dop't loye your teacher?"
fo?yes, sjr. <phat is, I didn't until j"
erday \ bpt now I do. I think she is
tally," ?
Vhy have you only loved her since
srday ?" M
Veil, you know Jack Cain? Well, jVj
the worst fighter in our room. Ho
lick me and two other boys with ope V
I tied behind him. Well, he was go- jl
to lick me last pight, and he was
:ing his fist at me in school, and "r
ving his teeth qnd getting mo all ex1
When the teacher turned round and 80
him. p{
)id, eh?" M
fou bet she did, and the way she took oi
out of that and wollopoa him, and ^
ibled him down, made mo feel as if f
were a mother to me. Whep school K
opt, Jack d*se$t tqocp anybody.' He g>
wilted do^n, and whep I Ip1 It
1 abuniH of dlrt'hB payor even lookiroupd
l X guess I'm try
ljcl( him beTore he gets over feeling P1
ableDetroit Free Press. a*
? t?
Tho old Southern black gum is com- ol
into favor as a substitute for hlaok fa
nut. It cap ho |Q stained that only
jjfpev.t can detect it from the real wal- 1
. Our Carolina swamps is fUll or.blacjc C
n tioes that have hitherto ' been reied
as piere epcumbrapce3 oi the
and. Farmers should romember i.
ithey will soonhavo a well defined
rket value and be slow in selling them "
ord wood prices. ft
XTRACTS FROM THE ANDERSON
INTELLIGENCER.
The South has never oncountorcd a
ore trying period in its industrial dodopment
than that of the last nine or
n month?, but she has suffered as little
any other section.
In addition to the other requirements
the rocent Constitution, the November
action in Mississippi will bo held under
e Australian ballot sj'stem, and the
icretary of Stale is now sending out
pies of the ordinance to the election
Beers of the various counties.
Charles Stewart Parnoll, the Irish teadand
statesman, died suddenly at his
>me on Tuesday evening of last week,
t one time he was the idol of the Irish
!ople, but by his infamous conduct with
rs. O'Shea he lost the respect and confimce
of many of his old friends. lie
*s buried last Sabbath in the presence
a largo crowd of friends and admirers.
It is said that there will bo an extra
ssion of the Legislature called to con3er
the report of Judge Maher, who
s charge of the revision of the General
atutes of the State. This revision
kos place every ten years, and it is
ought that three or four weeks will be
nsumed in the reading of Judge Mar's
report. If there is to be an extra
ssion it will likely bo called early in
Dvember.
rhe Ecumenical Methodist Council
et in Washington City on Wednesday
last week with a large number of deletes
present. There has been much talk
the sessions of the distinguished body
uuiwy uuu tu*upciuuuu amuui; an iuu
ethodist Churches, and the idea .has
idently been popular in the Council,
lr loved and honored Dr. Carlisle, of
ofiford College, and Dr. Coke Smith, of
ashville, have both been prominent and
tive members of the Council.
The Executive Committee of the Clemn
College Trustees have issued a circur
stating that it has been determined to
ake exhibits of the products and induses
of the State at the Augusta Exposi>n.
The committee asks the earnest
-operation of our farmers toward furshina
the agricultural exhibits. The
lue of such exhibits depends upon the
irity and quality of the article J?nd its
ing displayed in aliberal way. Contribors
are requested to notify the Secrery
of State at once. If the article to be
hibited is bought, only the name of the
>unty will appear. If contributed, the
,me of the donor will bo placed upon it.
Giov. Tillman has called a convention to
eet in Columbia during tho State fair
devise a plan for securing an exhibit
r South Carolina at the World's Fair in
licago in '93. Such action is timely,
uth Carolina should have an exhibit at
is great fair that will show to the na.
>ns of the world the wealth and magni
de of her natural resources, together
ith a grand display of her agricultural
d manufacturing products ana sucu
her exhibits as will give evidenco of the
vancoment and prosperity of the faous
Palm etto State in all the useful
irsnits and occupations and industries
at may be found within her borders,
e insist that we should have a full and
aditable display at this inter-national
r, or that South Carolina should be
nspicuous only by her absence from
lat promises to be the grandest fair tho
jrld has ever witnessed.
The Michigan Alliance has mado a bad
eak. It has passed a resolution saying,
Ve are unyielding in favor of indepennt
political action as outlined in tho
ncinnati Conference," (the third party
nvention.) If this Alliance expects to
id allies among tho Alliances of tho
mthern States, it has surely reckoned
ithout its hosts. The Southorn people
every walk in life have an abiding
ith In the integrity and usefulness of the
smocratic party, and will not desert its
ne honored principles for the ignis fans
of a third party. A few may allow
emselves to bo misguided, but the men
this State who wore the red shirts in
3 and their sons stand as ready to-day
then to risk life and property for the
ke of the Democracy?for home rule
id economy and integrity and the alleating
of the burdens laid upon us by
rrupt and extravagant Republican
imJnofiAn Cnnfh ^oivkUna will n nf
<UlIUai>4Vil| UV/UbU M
>sert the ranka of solid Southern Deocracy,
Mark that.
Tho Charleston Daily World suspended
ablication on Wednesday of last woek,
iving beon in existence about three and
half years at the time of its collapse,
he paper was not paying expenses and
t. F. S. Rodgers, who owned tho paper,
id furnished money to decided
iat he was pqyiqg t(*0 ^oar for bis whists
so, ^llo^yed to. suspend publication,
be World espoused tho causo of Captain
illman during his campaign of last year,
id ^s said to have mado somo money bj
ils{ diroke. However, this friendshii
on turned into bitter hatrod, and th(
iper has beon on the decline ever since.
'.r. Octavus Cohen was managing oditoj
' the paper. The IFcWd wJH hardly be
lissed from Siouth Carolina journalism
aritnover seemed to comprehend ant
;asp the possibilities that surrounded it,
, did po^ pursue a settled and well defmi
policy that so much commends a paor
to tho public, but seemed ready tc
lopt any course that promised ovei:
imporary favor with some party or class
f people, U'o one at this distance, tin
illuro of the World seems due to Its maufjement,
for sqrely tharo \s room ir
harloston for two first^cluss dally papers
Tho wldesprcading influence of vicious
jgislation, says tho St. Louis Republic, is
jrcibly illustrated in tho effects of lh<
tcKinley tariff directly upon the cottor
trade and indircctlv upon other branches
of business. By increasing the tax upon
foreign cotton goods brought to this
country, and by helping to unsettle business
in Europe, one of the first cflccts of
the new tariff was to start a decline in cotton
that has only lately been arrested.
The protected manufacturers, in faco of
the decline in tho price of raw cotton, advanced
the prices of staplo bleached and
unbleached cotton goods proportionately
with the increased protection. But tho
.Southerners being short of money, reduced
their purchases, not only of ootton
goods, but of all other manufactured articles
; and it is a fact of the business situation
to-day in St. Louis, continues the
Republic, and every other commercial
centre, that sales to tho South aro markedly
smaller than in ordinary seasons.
The vicious economic legislation of the
Billion Dollar Congress, as it aficcts cotton,
therofore, hurts not only the South,
but the manufacturing and business interests
of the whole country.
III. HI M?MClggrMWO
flonca rath.
The people of Honea Path spent a very
pleasant evening at the Academy on Monday
of last week. The Pierian Literary
Society, instead of a debate, bad toasts and
responses, and invited the people to attend.
Tbe exercises were as follows :
Reading?P. A Rico.
Declamation?S. A. Guy.
Declamation?J. C. Harper.
t. v \f
UlttUWII JUT. X. UiUVIC.
Toast?The United Stat^i, the greatest
nation in the world. Responded to by
W. L. Taylor.
Toast?South Carolina, (he best State in
the Union. Responded to by J. D. Culbertson.
Toast?Anderson, the best County in the
State. Responded to by M. A. McGee.
Toast?Honea Path, the best Town in
the County. Responded to by B. Y. Culbertson.
The exercises of the Society were followed
by an address from the Rev. A. CStepp.
Several former students of the Honea
Path High School have been on a visit
here recently, viz: Misses ICittie Thomas,
Clatie McDaniel, Mertie Culbertson, and
Messrs. J. L. Eskew, B. M. Cheatham, W.
R. Earle and Dr. C. L. West.
Dr. J. F. Wilson has arranged everything
for tho successful practice of his profession.
He has a sitting-room nicely furnished,
a ladies' toilet-room, an operating
room and a labratory. He has games for
children and for visitors. That in which
children are most interested is a railroad
track, with an engine and a train of cars.
He says he is going to stay in Honea Path,
and do such work a3 will deserve custom
and will bring it.
T. H. Brock and J. C. Milford have been
paying as much for cotton tho last week
as it has been bringing anywhere in the
upper part oT the State.
T. J. Clatworthy has opened a racket
ana grocery store ai w. a. omrieya oiu
stand.
% The merchants of Honea Path are selling
goods cheapor than ever before.
Mr. J. M. Dunlap had two of his fingers
badly cnt in a cotton gin last week.
Mrs. Dr. Shirley and the baby are visiting
at her father's this week.
Miss Mary J. Erwin, after several months
visit in Ireland, and a few days visit in
New York and Boston, has returned home.
Mr. W. P. Culbertsou gave us a short
visit last Saturday.
Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Seneca, who has
been elected pastor of the Presbyterian
Church here, will prcacli here tb?fourih
Sunday in this month, morning and night.
The weather has been cloudy and cold
for several days, and cotton is opening
very slowly. Unless we have some days
of warm sunshine before long the cotton
crop will be almost a failure.
Rev. A. C. Stepp has been attending the
North Greenville Association at Marietta.
?Correspondence Anderson Intelligencer.
A Word From an Old Carolinian.
Winnsboro, Texas, Oct. 7th, 1891.
Mb. Editor : Being a constant reador
of your valuable paper, and seeing you
V)?pa cpworn! nnrrpsrinnrlpnfs T thrmrrhfc it
not amiss to give you a few dots from the
"Lone Star State." Wo havo line crop3
out here of every kind?wheat, oats, corn,
cotton, ribbon cane and potatoes?in fact,
nearly everything that can be raised by
the farmer is good. Now is the time to
come to Texas, everything is plentiful
and cheap, health is good, and weather
fine. I might tell you of several mairiages
and accidents, but it would not interest
your readers, as all are strangers.
I notice with particular interest your correspondents
from HoneaPath and lielton,
as I have many relatives and old schoolmates
at and around those places. I was
born in South Carolina, and raised in Abbeville
and Anderson Counties (then Districts);
got my little education mostly in
Anderson, south of Belton three or lour
miles, and when I was back in the old
State las6 winter I met many that I never
expected to see again, which was a great
pleasure to me. I visited your city ou
1 Salesday in January last, and I must say
i I was surprised. I saw more pistols sold
that day tban I ever saw in Texas all put
together. I began to think that wo wero
more oivilized than you were in that good
nlH Skatn T think thfire wp.ro Lwo or
; tl**e thousand people there that day, and
half of them were black. I am glad to
note you have good crops, and that you
are having some good revival meetings. I
am also glad to see that Gov. Tiljman is
[ standing square to the Democrats and
down on the sub-Treasirty.
Mr. Editors, I might write more but I
1 will wait and see what becomes of this.
Texas.
t Shook the Earth,
^ Butte, Mont., October 3.?A terriblo
explosion of giant powder occurred at 7
. o'clock last evening in tho shaft house of
i the grand squirrel mine. About 500
pounds of tho stuff went off. It was stor1
ed in tho houso and an incipient lire,
which was being extinguished at the
i time, exploded it. All tho buildings,
( boilers, hoisting machinery, etc., about
the iniuo woro completely wrecked and
all houses in tho vicinity, which nreoccu"
pled by tho laboring classes, were more
j or less damaged. Tho shock produced
an effect like that of an earthquake, stop|
ping clocks, closing doors, and was lblt
' all over tho city. That any one about the
. mine or near tho explosion escaped with
. their lives seems miraculous. MikoiScpt, j
a miner at work in tho bottom of tho
shaft, 170 feet, was struck by tho buckct
' which fell from tho surface and sustained
\ probably fatal injuries. Mrs. Dovish \va3
hurt about the head and hori;;-months-?!d
babe was also struck by tho llying wreck5
age. Miko Smith .suffered a concussion j
of tUo brain from tho shock.
? On cach ballot to bo cast. according !
to tho provisions of tho now elertion law
3 in Ohio, are to bo these distinguishing
, devices that havo been adopted by tlio
parties ; Republican, caglo ; Democr.itio,
3 rooster; Prohibition, rose; People's,
t plough and hammer. ' j
TIio Gospel of Good Eating-.
Since eating is the only eubjcct on
earth, or in the heavens above the earth,
or in the water3 under the earth, which
engeges tho thought of every human
being, daily at least, it is not surprising
that wise men havo said many notable
things about it. Robert B. Roosevelt,
es-Minister to the Hague, who is known
a3 the successor of Sam Ward, the most
famo?3 bon vivant of America, i3 perhaps
as notable an example as can be
nUpfl (o dftv r.f fh? nnirl-pninfr. enneroua
- - ? j O
impulses which good living gives to a
broad nature. H9 has said :
"More divorcc-i are due to an ill-regalated
kitchen, when the trouble arises
with ths ma:;, thnn from an ill regulated
morality. No husband ever abused
or deserted a wife who always gave him
a perfcct dinner unless driven to it by
dire force. Good cookiDg is at the
foundation of all happiness, for there
can be none without it, and it should
be taught in our public schools before
oven the'three RV"
Jay Gould says: "I do not myself believe
that any man can stand the strain
of a large business unless he lives on
the simplest food he can get." But Richard
A. McCurdy, President of the
Mutual Life Iusurancc Company, declares
emphatically in favor of French
cookery, and says: "An American
salad to a person just home from the
other side looks absolutely naked. It
is almost indecent."
E. B. Harper says: "The gospel of good
living is the most important of all things
earthly."
Dr. Talmage s3ys: "No man can be
a christian if his stomach is out of order."
And again : "One great cause of
evil m tius wonu is irrcgmuruy ui
meals."
Henry Ward Beecher before he bad dis*
pepsia himself spoke in a similar straio,
denouncing sickness as criminal.
Dr. Robert Collyer said : "I think the
American people, take them all in all,.
are the bast livers of any people in the
world. I waa only too glad when I got
to a land where I could live twice ?S
well a31 couid in my native country."
Charles A. Dana was_ seventy-two
years old last week. When he was asked
some time ago how he preserved his
youthful vigor as marvellously as he haa
done, he said : "I live well and takerational
exercise. I have no hobbies
about plain and simple food, but eat
everything that I can get that is good
aud that I know by experience agrees
with me. Theories about eating are all
nonsense. Experience mu3t govern
every sensible man's selection of hi*
food."
Such savings could be quoted by col
umnn and would only emphasize the importance
which every intelligent man appreciates,
if he steps to think of it, of
care and discrimination in the use of food.
It was almost for a century a standing
reproach to this nation that its people,
richer in food than any other people on
earth, were almost tbe worst cooks, and
altogether the most foolish feeders in tbe
world. It is lo the iufinite credit cf
the present generation that 6uch a thing
can ro longer he justly said.
Babies in China.
Among tha sweltering millions cf
China there ia c. practico which seems to
have a curious result. The mother carries
her infant in a kind of bag or pan
nier on her back, aad not?as in other
counties .vhcre the dorsal carriage is
sfleeted?with the face tur..ed outwards,
but?a?, probably, we onght to .expect in
(Jijinr-, wf.ere everyunng rectus logo ai;u
come by tbe rule of contraries?with the
f?.ca turr.cil inwards. Tho result of that
13 that the baby'd uose is of necessity
pressed against its mothers back,
whence, no doubt, say the teamed if;
these matters, has beeij <-v.:lved, ia th?*
the course of age3, the peculiarly flat
toned or blunted uoso, characteristic
tho Chinaman. Furthermoie, Chines*
girls, even when allowed to iive, are litH<>
tVinnohf nf Tn thfl f'unilv irenerai'r.'
they-bear no names; they are known as
Number One and Number Two. like
convicts, and they are no mure reokontd
members of the family than the cat or
the dog. So when a Chinaman ia asked
i what family he has, he counts on!y hi.-*
boy*. And a boy is treated with great
i honor and ceremony by the women.
When he h four months old he ia set for
the firot tii?is in a chair, and his mother'#
mother sends or brings him many presents.
notably among which is sugar
candy. The candy is emblematic of the
sweet things of life, and it is sduck to this
chair to signify the hope that he may
never lack such things. Mis first birthday
u his sreund j-ro.it day of rejoicing.
He ii then si5! upon n table in front of
n,i;:iy things, >u?:h as ink, bo.jLs. too!-,
etc., and whiyhovor ho by* bis hand o.<.
doc hie- hi' future i-ccupatiou.
? Thfj Alliance farmers r.f Karcs?-i
::r.V: no'. tsLcn advice that was <?i7p;i
to iYpu.iia'o t'.uir mortgage iadobtedt:*-*-*
but a-o pay log it r.p rs test as they can
get tha int-ruy for iht-ir crops. The sta
ti-:ics )tftv:.liy cnlhc'.ed on ill? stsbjw*
art- encouraging ! >' all hohhra of farm
tn irlgsgo*, and pva-'?ing to c veryborl-.why
beivv-H in th<- hnin-sty and ho?,n:,of
of :L; c> il:.:ry. f? ;4
svj.'.d p?:ii-v t .Mii v.'.! IC fariis-;
arc pursuing in tni* re-sjioct, and ic wi:i
redound to their advanlag-? one? and
hereafter.