The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, July 20, 1871, Image 4
Jntetfn Intclltgeiiar.
"Home Again."?A Beautiful Sketch.
This touching incident, narrated by a corres?
pondent of the Capital, is said to have occurred
upon a recent trip over the Boston and Albany
ltailroad. Its simplicity and natural expres?
sion, makes one think ol Dickeiis' style' of toil?
ing these every-day incidents so charmingly :
I ran across w hat first struck 1110 as a very
singular genius on my road from Springfield to
Boston. This was a stout, black whiskered man,
who indulged, from time to time, in the most
strange and unaccountable manoeuvres. Every
now and then he would get up and hurry away
to the narrow .'passage which leads to the door
in these drawing-room cars, and when he
thought himself secure from observation, would
fall to laughing in the most violent manner
aud continue the healthful exercise uutil he
was as red in the face as a lobster. As we
neared Boston these demonstrations increased
in violence, save that the stranger no longer
ran away to laugh, but kept his scat and chuck?
led to himself, with his chin deep down in his
shirt collar. But the changes that those port?
manteaus underwent. He moved them here,
there, everywhere; he put them behind him,
in front of him, on each side of him. He was
evidently getting ready to leave, but as we
were yet twenty-five miles from Boston, the
idea of such early preparations was ridiculous.
If we had entered the city then the mystery
would have remained unsolved, but the 'stran?
ger at last became so much excited that he
could keep his seat no longer. Some one must
help him, and as I was the ucarest, he selected
me. Suddenly turning, as if I had asked a
question, he said, rocking himself to and fro in
his chair the meantime, and slapping his legs,
.and breathing hard: "Been gone three years I"
"Ah 1" "Yes, been in Europe. Folks don't ex?
pect mc for six months yet, but I got through
and started. I telegraphed them at the last
station ; they've got it by this time." As he
said this he rubbed his hands and changed the
portmanteau on his left to the right, and the
one on the right to the left again. "Got a wife?"
said I. "Yes, and three children," he returned,
and he got up and folded his overcoat anew,
and hung it over the back of the seat. "You
are pretty nervous over the matter, ain't you?"
I said, watching his fidgety movements. "Well,
I should think I was," he replied ; "I hain't
slept soundly tor a week. Aud do you know,"
he went on, glancing around at the passengers
and speaking in a lower toue, "I am almost
certain this train will run off the track and
break my neck bet?re I get to Boston. Well,
the fact is, I have had too much good luck for
oue man lately. The thing can't last; 'taint
natural that it should, you know; I've watched
it. First it rains,.then it shines, then it rains
again ; it rains so hard you think it's never
going to stop; then it shines so bright you
think it's always going to shine; and just as
you are settled in either belief, you are knocked
over by a change, to show you that you know
nothing about^it." "Well, according to the
philosophy," says I, "you will continue to
nave sunshine because you are expecting a
storm."
"It's curious," he returned, after a pause,
"but tWe only thing which make* mc think
I'll get through sate, is because I think I
won't." "Well, that is curious," said I.?
"Lord, yes," he replied. "I'm a machinist?
made a "discovery?nobody believed it, spent
all my money trying to bring it out?mortgaged
my home?all went. Everybody but my wife
?spunky little woman?said she would work
her fingers off before I should give it up. Went
to. England?no better there; came within an
ace of jumping off London Bridge. Went into
a shop to cam money enough to come home
with ; there met the man I wanted. To make
a long story short, I've brought thirty thonsaud
pounds hoine with me." "Good for you," L
exclaimed. "Yes," said he, "thirty thousand
pounds; and the best of it is she doesn't know
anything abomViti? 1*ve~foofcd? ? her so*oftenj
and disappointed her so much that I just .con?
cluded I would say nothing about this. 1 When
I got my money, though, you better believe
struck a bee line for home." "And now you
will make her happy," said I. "Happy I", he
replied, "Why you don't know anything" about
it. She's worked like a dog while I have been
Soue. trying to support herself and the children
ecently. They paid her thirteen cents apiece
for making coarso shirts ; and that's the way
she lived ludf ^he, time,, She'll come, down
there to the' depot to meet me in a'girfghain
dress and a shawl a hundred years old, and
she'll think she's dressed up. Oh, she won't
have no clothes after this?oh, no, I guess not,"
and with these words, which implied that his
wife's wardrobe would soon rival that of Queen
Victoria's, the stranger tore down the passage
way again, and getting in his old corner, where
he thought himself out of sight, went through
the strangest pantomime, laughing, putting his
mouth into the drollest shapes, and then swing?
ing himself backward and forward in the lim?
ited space, as if it were walking down Bro?J
way a full rigged metropolitan swell. And so
on until we rolled into the depot, and I placed
myself on the other car, opposite the stranger,
who, with a portmanteau iu each hand, had
descended, aivd was standing on the lower step,
xeady to jump to the platform. I looked from
his face to the faces of the people before us,
but saw no. Mgn of recognition. Suddenly he
cried: "There they are," and laoghed out-right,
but in a hysterical sort of a way, as he looked
over the crowd. I followed his eyes, and some
distance back, as if crowded out and shoulder?
ed away by the well dressed and elbowing
throng, a little woman in a faded dress and a
well-worn hat, with a face almost painful in its
intense, but hopeful expression, glancing rapid?
ly from window to window as the coaches
glided in. She had not yet seen the stranger,
ut a moment after she caught his eye, and in
another instant he had jumped to the platform
with his two portmanteaus, and making a hole
in the crowd, pushing one here and there, and
running one of his bundles plump into the
well-developed stomach of a venerable-looking
old gentleman in spectacles, he rushed toward
the place where she was standing.
I think I never saw a face assume so many
different expressions in so short a time as did
that of the little woman while her husband
was on his way to her. She didn't look pretty.
On the contrary, she looked very plain, but
someway 1 felt a big lump rise m my throat as
I watched her. She was trying to laugh. God
bless her, how completely she failed in the at?
tempt! Her mouth got into that position, but
it never moved after that, save to draw down at
the corners and quiver, while she blinks her
eye? so hist that I suspect she only caught oc?
casional glimpses of the broad shouldered fel?
low who elbowed his way so rapidly toward
her. And then, as he drew close and dropped
those everlasting portmanteaus, she just turned
Completely around, with her back Inward him,
and covered her face with her hands. And
thus she was when the strong man gathered her
up in his arms as if she had been a baby, and
held her sobbing to his breast. There was
enough gaping at them, heaven knows, and 1
turned my eyes away a moment, and then 1
saw two boys in threadbare roundabouts stand?
ing near, wiping their red eyes and noses on
their little coat sleeves, and bursting out anew
at every fresh demonstration on the part of
their mother, who seemed as if the pent up
tears of n'l those weary months of waiting were
streaming through her eyes.
? Mr. Buster is an opponent of free schools
from "principle." He goes "agin education,''
not because of its unconstitutionally, but be?
cause it's unnatual. Ignorance is "natur',"
he says. We arc born ignorant, and ought to
be kept so.
? To destroy ants, the best plan is, proba?
bly, to catch the ant with a pair of tweezer-;
and hit him wjuare on the head with a sledge?
hammer.
A Mag Discourses Ol" (Juccn Elizabeth.
Here is the latest outbreak of eccentric hu?
mor:
Queen Elizabeth is dead. It doesn't make
any matter how we got the information. This
is none of our fight?this quarrel between tiie
Associated Press and its rival. We've received
the news, and that's enough. .She died two
hundred and sixty-eight years ;'.go, the 21th of
last month. She survived until the vital spark J
had (Tod, find then she saw it was of no use re?
sisting the inscrutable decree of fate, and v>
her fettered soul took its flight into the mystc
rious void, and settled down in that bourne
from which no traveler returns, unless he has
a mission to jerk chairs around and rap on ta?
bles for the benefit of mediums and other long- i
haired, wild-eyed lunatics.
Queen Elizabeth was :i virgin?a vcrgin' on I
seventy ; and yet the fire gleamed as brightly i
as ever in her cream-colored eye, and the doli- j
I catc sheen of her finely-tinted maroon nose j
contrasted as forcibly as in her youth with the
' alabaster of her brow; and the plugs in her
teeth were just as valuable as vvhen gold wa3
at 15G.
She had no small vices. She did not smoke
or chew, or belong to the society for promo?
tion of cruelty to animals. And when sho
swore she never descended to the vulgarity of
Horace Grceley?Queen Elizabeth didn't?
When she used profanity she gave it with a
finish, an elegance, a delicate, airy grace, and
infused into it a luxurious abandon, and
rounded it off carefully at the corners, and
dressed it up with well selected poetical adjec?
tives, so that it sounded like a strain from
some sweet singer, like some sweet singer
straining himself, in fact. And she had red
hair.
Her chignon was burglar proof. And often,
in the dim twilight of evening, when the sun
had sunk to rest, when the western sky was
filled with tender radiance and lambent light,
and the bulbul wooed the rose in the back?
yard, sho would play a few notes upon her
harpsichord or write a" Latin hymn or an essay
upon the Harrison boiler. She was supposed
to be the author of "Rock Me to Sleep, Moth?
er," and "Beautiful Snow," and "Five O'clock
in the Morning." But, nevertheless, she was
a very estimable woman, and with all her faults
we love her still?better, indeed, than if she
were still fooling around.
Queen Elizabeth was not proud. She al?
ways insisted upon cleaning her own teeth,
even if she was a queen ; and she always did
it once a week, every Sunday morning, with
her own tooth brush. What a lesson does it
toach to those who are haughty and vain, and
belong to the bon ton ! She never forgot that
she was perishable dust, and that the sheep
and the sill: worm wore her fine clothes long
before she got them. She read every Sunday
school book that taught these facts; and once
she trod on Sir Walter Raleigh's cloak to re?
mind him of them, because he was so set up
with his new fancy cassimeres. She said upon
her death bed, that Lydia Thompson need not
learn this lesson, because it had no moral for
those who browsed around in nature's simple
garb.
Queen Elizabeth was not sorry to die. She
saw that George ?. Train was coming to Eng?
land, and said to her physician that she would
prefer the enduring peace of the cold and si?
lent grave to three weeks of George and the
Alabama claim's controversy and the Schleswig
Holstein question all at the same time. Her
last words were, "Kill Horace Grceley before
he has a chance to write 'What I Know About
Fanning.' " There was not a dry eye in that
second story front room. Everybody Wlfcs
thinking how impossible to fullfil her request
and to escape so much misery.
But she has now gone ; sho hns left us; we
shall see her no more. Perhaps it is for the
best She was a vigorous woman, and if she
had lived she might have come to America, and
we might have given her an olfcncc, ami sh?;
might have pranced around here and Hogged us
iike the very nation. For she was a woman
who followed closely in all the prevailing fash?
ions. And so wc are glaiinhe-is "dead, nnd-rras
four, tons of marble to hold her down.
Rest in peace, old girl! Rest in pieces !
A True Woman's Love.?Ah ! Tom Twin?
kle, is there a cracking among the dry ?bones,
and arc you, in behalf of your sex, awakened to
the necessity of love beyond all earthly goods?
Then let me give you, for the benefit of all, a
few good hints as to the best way of securing
this inestimable boon. Firstly, my dear friend,
mako yourselves worthy of it Believe me, ev?
ery womanly woman desires to be looked up to
with pride?depended upon, with perfect reli?
ance?by the man who is her husband. But do
young men nowadays think half as much of
the shaping their own characters, with refer?
ence to the inspiring the sincere respect and af?
fection which is the foundation of abiding love,
as of the shape of their coats, boots and gloves?
Arc many of them worthy of such love as you
crave ? And do not expect such love from girls
who arc devoted to chignons, panicrs, etc.?
Don't expect love from an unloving nature
But if you are the least bit of a physiognomist,
you will find somewhere sincere, true eyes; a
frank, sweet mouth ; a face of genuine sincer?
ity of expression. Be very thankful to find it,
and don't ask for every thing else?paincrs,
puffs, and a father with a brown-stone mansion.
You must decend a little, perhaps, from your
so-called level, and you will find working girls
?girls who have minds enough to employ
whatever talent they may possess, and who aro
independent enough to work, rather than mar?
ry for mere subsistence?girls with an idol in
their hearts?and you have no idea of how
much ideality they will lavish upon you, if you
arc in any way worthy of it. Iherc arc true,
warm-hearted, sincere women in the world yet,
but how are they (generally) so badly mated ?
Why cannot somo one invent a patent process
for acquainting the right people with each oth?
er? I believe in loving a man well enough to
goto Kamschatka with him, if necessary? to
wear calico dresses and linen collars all ono's
life, if ho cannot afford silk (although private?
ly I have a nice appreciation of dainty cloth?
ing ;) and to take as much pains to look pretty
in callico for him as if it were velvet. Your
having given such love to a man, should he not
endeavor to keep it ? There's the trouble, too
?you value it in the abstract, but life is like a
mosaic, made up of such little bites; if it is
only a warm, kind '/lance from the eyes wc
love, a pressure of the hand, a word of appre?
ciation now and then, they make up the beau?
tiful whole.
Tin: Girls.?Ule-s the dear girls! I love
them all; (I couldn't help it if I would;) 1
love the short, I love the tall ; (1 wouldn't help
it if I coidd.) I love the girls with sunny hair,
with the bright or laughing clear blue eyes,
with skin transparent, white and fair, and
cheeks that with the red rose vies.
And then I love ihc dark brunette, with glos?
sy curls like raven's wing; with teeth like jot
? I love to hear their laughter ring. Oh ! yes,
the roguish dark brunettes will bring our hearts
into our throats, they laugh at all our woes;
but yet I say?bless all the petticoats.
Oh ! Woman, what would this world be with?
out thy kind and gentle -way? for till we have
we owe to thee ; how can wc e'er thy love re?
pay? for don't you sew our buttons on? and
darn our socks and mend our clothes and spend
our stamps 'liil they're all gone ? but can't tell
how the money goes.
Oh ! yes, I love all womankind ; they're gen?
tle, loving, good, and true; some may not quite
just suit my mind, but what is that to me or
you? I love the darling, loving girls; love
them as hard as e'er 1 can ; that is, in a gener?
al way, you know?for, bless you?I'm a mar?
ried man !
? The cowardly and the inactive lie in the
ditch where they fall, or under the ruins that
crush them. But the hopeful and energetic
me upon their feet again, moving once more
toward the goal of success, and more cautiously
than before
Absence of Mind.
Macaulay remarks that absent-mindedness is
the mark of cither a genius or a fool. Wo
think that Lord Maeualay was a little on one
of its sides. A man's mind may be so intense?
ly occupied with lofty intuitions and inspira?
tions, that his senses,' seemingly, arc scarcely
[ awake to the realities of the tangible world.
A certain Scottish professor was not more rc
J markablc for his writing on political economy
I than Iiis frequent unconsciousness of what
passed before him. His absence of mind was
j so remarkable that his wife once wagered that
she would accost him in the street, inquire af?
ter the health of herself and family, and he
would not recognize her. She actually won the
the wager.- The professor once took a solitary
walk on the banks of a canal, into which, in
his abstraction, he walked. When within a
a yard of the centre, an honest woman, wash?
ing clothes behind him, bawled out, "Conic
oot, come oot, fule body, or ye'll be droont't."
These warning sounds, invading the tympanum
of his professional ear, had the effect of mak?
ing him turn right about, and forthwith recov?
er the dry land. The good woman, concluding
he was an idiot, sympathetically exclaimed,
"Puir body, atweel they hao muckle to answer
for that lets ye gang yer lane."
A young fellow employed in a store on River
street, was one day sent into the collar to draw
a gallon of sperm oil. While waiting he
snatched up a piece of chalk, and in a minute
was absorbed in sketching the proprietor's pro?
file. The profile on the hogshead was capital,
but while the young artist was absorbed in its
pursuit, the oil pursued its way over the cellar
floor. He was informed he would not do for a
merchant, but just now he is a first-rate New
York artist.
It is said of Sir Isaac Newton that he often
forgot to eat his dinner, which his housekeeper
was accustomed to leave in a closet near his
study door. His head was too much in the
heavens to mind the earth ; so a friend know?
ing his peculiarity, one day slipped his dinner
out of the basket and ate it up. When at last
the philosopher came out and greeted his
friend, he asked to be excused till he tool: his
lunch. On looking into the basket and find?
ing it gone, he simply exclaimed, mtida to his
friend's amusement, "Uh, I forgot I had eaten
my dinner."
An absent-minded man, Mr. A-, of Troy,
receives a letter; he know? the handwriting;
he strikes a light, tears a paper and lights a
lamp ; but the ietter is gone?he has used it to
light the lamp.
There is a late striking instance given of]
Pere Gratry, who had just been nominated Di?
rector of the Academy in Paris. One day when
going to Sorbonne, where he lectured on the?
ology, he imagined he had forgotten his watch,
and took it out of his pocket to see if he had
time to go home and fetch it.
It is said of Neader, the lecturer and eccle?
siastical historian of Germany, that his sister
had to watch him daily to see that he did not
start to the University with his night-cap on,
or with his study-gown and slippers, and it was
not uncommon for him when moving aside
from the jostling crowd in the street, to step
into the gutter, where he walked on and on,
seeiniugly uuconsciotis where he was stepping.
Swedish Immigration.?The Savannah
Kcic? has an article on this subject from which
we extract the following:
The Swede possesses traits which neither. Cuf
fce nor the heathen Chinee can rival. He is
modest, industrious and easily satisfied. He is
quite gentlemanly and honest. He is frugal,
careful and vigilant. He is hearty, strong and
willing. He is sober, steady and quick witted.
He is intelligent, thoughtful and educated.?
Above all he is a Christian. He brings to? his
work that aptitude and intelligence which are
quite equal to the most pains-taking appren?
ticeship?and he is no politician.
This estimate of the character of the Swede
we have from the general verdict of those who
haye given him a trial. Iu several counties of |
Florida, he has passed through a patient pro?
bation of more than twelve months, and those
who have seen the result, arc enthusiastic in his
favor. A general movement has been inaugu?
rated in that State for the purpose of inviting
Swedish immigration. Agricultural associa?
tion have resolved themselves, for the time be?
ing, into immigration societies; subscription
hooks have boon opened, in which planters who
desire intelligent labor may register their
names and the number of immigrants they will
employ ; agents have been appointed lo visit
Sweden, and the movement seems to lack no
requisite of success but final accomplishment
In Georgia where th* need of honest, indus
tri-'ijs and steady laborers is quite as great as
in Florida, the Swedish movement is met with
growing favor, and it is likely in a few months
to develop into something like the ?enthusiasm
which that State, feels iu the matter. The
Swede has succeeded in ingratiating himself |
into the good graces of the planters of Jones
County, and the result is that they are prepar?
ing to invite immigration on a large scale.?
Putnam, Jasper, Morgan, Monroe and Butts
counties have made a simultaneous move, and
agents from these sections are preparing to
visit Sweden at an early day. The movement,
we have no doubt, will ultimately Bpread all
over the whole South.
Slander.?There is no man or woman who
holds a more despicable position in the com?
munity' than the common slanderer, and yet
there is none who receives less punishment
from an indignant people. They seem to en?
joy a kind of immunity in their conduct and
claim an intuitive right to slander all who may
have incurred their ill will and hatred. Occa?
sionally, a jury can be empaneled which impo?
ses vindictive damages in rare cases, but the
majority of these vipers escape the punish?
ment they so justly deserve. And yet the
crime of which they arc guilty, properly con?
sidered, is one of the highest known to law.
There is no offense more destructive of the
best interest of society. It poisons, to a grea?
ter or less extent, every fountain of public
health and prosperity. It nssails everv class
in the community, youth with its warm blushes
and buoyant heart; manhood with its high im?
pulses and bounding energies, and old age with
its wrinkled brow and palsied hands. None are
exempt from its malicious and vindictive at?
tacks. It enters the bowels of beauty, and
plucks the roses from its cheek. It looks in
upon the door of innocence, and flowers which
grow upon its threshold wither and die at its
approach, it is sin abhorrent lo man aud con?
demned or' heaven. It stands arrayed against
the eternal canon of the Almighty, delivered
amid the flames and thunders of Alt Sinai,
"thou shalt not hear false witness against thy
neighbor." Cod protect the pure and virtuous
from the advances of the.se insidious fiends!
It is sufficient that their poison should be ?vas
ted upon the low and profligate.?Ex.
Little Womex.?Three little girls were
playing among the poppies and sage-brush of
of the back yard. Two of them were'"making
believe'' keep house, a little way apart, sis near
neighbors might. At last one was overheard
saying to the youngest of the lot, "There, now,
Nelly, you go over to Sarah's house and stop
there a little while, and talk as fast as ever you
can, and then you come hack and tell mcwhat
she says about mc, and then I'll talk about
her; and then you will go and tell her all I say,
and then we'll get as mad as hornets anil won't
speak when we meet, just as our mothers do,
you know; and that'll be such fun, won't it?"
Hadn't these little mischiefs lived to some pur?
pose; and were they not close observers ami apt
scholars, charmingly trained for the chiefbusi
uess o? life in a small neighborhood?
? "What are you about, my dear?" said his
grandmother to a little boy who was idling
about the room, and casting furtive glances at a
gentleman who was paying a visit "J am try?
ing to steal papa's hat out of the room without
letting the gentleman see it, i'?>r |>apa wants
him lo think heV out."
Agriculture axd War.?The Washington
Chronicle lias received I'rom the examiner of
agricultural implements in the Patent Oliicc
the following statement: It is not generally
known that during the third year of the war,
with half a million of men taken from the in?
dustrial pursuits of a peaceful agricultural life,
there w:is a greater number of acres of land
under cultivation, and a greater harvest gath?
ered in the free States than ever before known.
This resulted from the use of machinery in the
cultivation of the soil, and which supplied the
place-of human muscle in the field. This re?
markable result of the influence of machinery
in cultivation, promoting in so high a degree
the prosperity of the country, led me to inves?
tigate the subject from another standpoint.
An examination of the record of tiie patent
office from 18-30 to ISoO, inclusive, shows that
nearly ninety-eight per cent, of applications
for patents for improvements in agricultural
implements were from the free States, and but
a fraction over two per cent, was from the slave
States. Since the close of the war the planters
of the South have been thrown upon their own
resources for the cultivation of the soil, and
free hired labor or machinery, or both com?
bined, must be relied upon to tako the place of
slave labor. But it was found, upon trial, that
few of the machines for cultivating the North?
ern" crops were perfectly adapted to Southern
culture; for example, a corn planter could not
be used for planting cotton seed, and the same
was found true in regard to cultivators. This
was also true of many others that might be
named.
These men, making virtue a necessity, set
about the work of improvement in earnest, and
the records of the last two years show Uie most
gratifying result. The applications for patents
l'rom the former slave States have risen from a
fraction over two per cent, to about thirty per
cent, of all the cases filed, and it is reported
that the cotton crop has been greater under the
improved mode of culture than ever before
known. But the end is not yet. The South
have only begun to reap the benefits of their
new position, and with the future improve?
ments of their implements of agriculture they
will reap a corresponding increase of product.
Dead heads.?An exchange says: "It is
an extraordinary fact in this world that every
man or woman that wants something done for
nothing, goes straightway to the publisher of a
newspaper. He is the free bridge over which
merit and demerit proposes to pass over the
stream of trouble. lie is the free horse that
every man proposes to ride into the green pas?
tures of prosperity and ease."
Exactly the case. An editor is expected to
please everybody and accept the suggestions of
all, however contradictory they may~be. "Do
you sec that mud-hole?" says one. ''Well,
why don't you pitch into the authorities about
it?" "Why, my dear sir," we answer, "wc
don't care to bother about such matters ; but
if you will write an article on the subject, and
sign your name to it, we will publish it with
pleasure" "Ah ! but then I am not an editor,"
answers our good friend. And so it is with
many. . Others shake their sage heads and say,
"O, if I was only the editor of a newspaper, I
would wake up things." No doubt of that?
no doubt of that in the world; but perhaps,
gentle sirs, the awakening would not be so
pleasant, cither to you or the proprietors of
the journal. "Discretion is the better part of
valor," remember, both in war and editing a
newspaper. An editor is the vehicle of popu?
lar, but not the exponent of each individual
sentiment.
? A Hibernian orator, speaking of suicide,
said : The only way to stop it is to make it a
capital offence punishable with death.
?'Many a child sings "I want to be an an?
gel," who would bo more satisfactory if he
wanted to he a good boy.
? Carlyle says: " Make yourself a good
man, and then you may be suro that there is
ono rascal less in the world."
? He that studies books alone will know
how things ought to be ; aud he that 3tudics men
will know how things are.
? A Oeorgia man incurred the derision of
his townsmen by shooting at his wife twenty
seven limes without hitting her.
? A Wisconsin postmaster has written to
Washington for "some eternal reventi stomps,"
saying he has "several cols for them."
? A kiss is the alma which enriches him
who receives without impoverishing her who
gives.
jj .? It is unjust to blame a man who doesn't
advertise because his prices are high. He has
to make them high because his sales are so
small.
? Young ladies should bear in mind that
Diana, Duchess of Xalentinois, a celebrated
beauty in an age of beauties, preserved her
good looks by washing her face in rain water,
and taking outdoor exercise in the morning be?
fore the dew had left the ground.
? A remarkable preacher was that who
called upon his congregation to be thankful
that Providence should have placed death at
the end of life and not in the middle, so that
we might have all possible time to prepare for
it.
? A Dutchman was relating his marvellous
escape from drowning, when theirteen of his
companion? were lost by the upsetting of a
boat, and he alone escaped. "And how did
you escape their fate ?" asked one of his hear?
ers. "I did not go in te pote," was the Dutch?
man's placid reply.
? A story is going the rounds of an old col?
ored man who was left in charge of a telegraph
oflice in New Orleans, while the operator
"went out to see a man." A "call" came over
the wires, and Uncle Pete shouted at the in?
strument as loud as he could, "l)c operator
isn't yer?" The wire ceased instanter.
? The Cincinnati Gazette thinks that the
great need of the country is not schools of the
fine arts, but of the mechanic arts ; schools to
train boys and girls to earn a living. The
great educational problem is how to direct
school education to the great necessity of labor.
And one of the greatest labor problems, is,
how shall the rising generation learn the trades
they must follow for a living?
? The Newborn (X. C.) Republican is au?
thority for the statement that one Edward
Brown, of Pitt County, was lately found in a
settlement made by himself in a dense thicket
near a river, whither he had lied during the
rebellion, fearing that he would he drafted into
the army. The party which caught him chased
him to his hiding-place, when he showed light
and swore that he would not enter the army.
When told, however, that the war was over he
consented to go to town with his captors, who
undoubtedly were Ku Kluxof the high-handed
sort. During the eight years of his hermit life
he had forgotton much of his mother tongue,
hardly retaining more of it than to swear
with.
? In a recent speech at the Cooper Union,
in New York, Mr. L'etcr Cooper, its founder,
gave expression to some sound ideas about the
accumulation of property, which we com?
menced to the attention of our readers, lie
said that he had learned the lesson that "the
hand of the diligent inakcth rich." atul pro?
ceeded to ascribe the possession of the wealth
he owned primarily to the habits of patient in?
dustry which he had formed at the outset of
his career, from Iiis early youth lie had avoid?
ed, he affirmed, alcoholic liquors and the incur?
ring of debt, and he had always made it a rule
to endeavor to keep a little ready money on
haiuL In addition he had essayed to advance
himself in knowledge, and asserted that it was
in the efforts that he was compel led'to make in
this direction in his youth that he formed the
resolution to found an instituton at which the
young people of the working class could ac?
quire that acquaintance with their business and
with science which is absolutely indispensable
to success in life, lie paid an exceedingly
Mann tribute to his wife. who. he said, had been
industrious, diligent, wise, faithful and afl'ec
tionate
? A gentleman wits praising the beautiful
hair of a lady, when one of these terrible chil?
dren, whom Providence seems to have sent on
earth as scourges of bypocricy and falsehood,
exclaimed : "My hair would he as handsome as
mamma's if she'd let me take as much care of
it as she takes of hers. Mamma never sleeps
in her hair, but always puts it away in the ward?
robe before she goes to bed."
? The bloom of youth will fade away, the
brightness of the eye will grow dim with age,
but a miserable little corn will never pass
away.
? ? They say now that Horace Greeley won't
run for President unless he is nominated.
D?NT
OVERLOOK THIS.
No Charge for Showim? Goods.
THE subscriber has just returned from New
York, and is now receiving a large and
well-selected stock of Goods, which ho is confi?
dent can
BE SOLD LOWER
Than any stock of Goods
EVER BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET.
His stock consists, in part, of
Calicoes, Cambrics, Lawns, Percales,
Muslins, Mozarabiqucs, Japanese Cloths,
Moiiairs, Organdies, DcLaines,
Alpaccas, Jaconcis, Swiss, Nainsook,
Blea. & unblea. Shirting and Sheeting,
Haid & Striped Homespuns, Led Tickings,
And, in fact, everything else belonging
to the Dry Goods line.
I have also an unusually large ami cheap stock of
Mens', Lad'cs, Boys and Misses
BOOTS and SHOES.
My stock of Mens', Youths' and Boys'
CLOTHING and CLOTHS,
Embraces everything in that line, from Cot?
ton and Linen TWEEDS to the finest
CLOTHS aud CASSIMERES.
My Gents' Furnishing Department
Is complete in everything usually kept in tJ? at line
Of Fancy Goods and Yankee Notions,
I have an endless variety.
All of the latest styles of? *
Ladies' and Misses Hat? and Bonnets,
Mens', Youths' and Boys' Hats and Caps,
Hosiery, Gloves, Collars, Cravats,
Toilet Soaps,
Eibbons, Laces. Gimps, Embroideries, &c.
GROCERIES, HARDWARE,
IRON, STEEL, HOLLOW-WARE,
SHOVELS, FORKS, STADES, HOES,
AXES, HATCHETS, HAMMERS,
&c., &c, &c.
Be sure and examine my stock beforo purcha?
sing, for I am confident I can sell you goods.
A trial is all I ask.
M. LESSEE,
No. 3 Granite Row,
^Vndorson C. II., S. C.
April li, 1871 40
MARBLE WORKS.
LOCATION,
Main St., near Railroad Bridge.
WE WILL FURNISH MARBLE WORK AS
LOW AS CAN BE BOUGHT ELSE?
WHERE. Below is our Price List:
Tomb Tops, of Vermont Marble,
Comm?n and ordinary, 0x3 feet...$ 35 to 40
Good Quality. 45 to 47
No. 1 and Statuary. 50 to 65
Italian, of same. 50 to 55
Head Stones, 4x1 ft. G inches. 14 to 1G
Head Stones, lixl ft. 2 inches, and
3x1 feet. 8 to 9
Monuments, Monumental Head
Stones at same rates.
Box Tombs, plain.115 to 125
Paneled, good quality. 135 to 100
No. 1 Heavy Paneled, with posts... 175 to 100
Lettering.3 and 3$ cents a letter.
At our Shop wo put up those S250 Tombs
at $160, and guarantee to furnish as good ma?
terial aud heavier paneled work for the same.
Parties wishing Marble Work will find it to
their interest to ca'J on us.
T. WILDMAN & CO.
May 25,1S71 47
Greenville & Columbia Railroad.
Columbia, s. c, March i, 1871.
ON and after this date, the following Schedule will bo
run daily, Sundays excepted, connecting with Night
Trains on South Carolina Road, up and down, also with
Trains going North and South on Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Kail road:
UP TRAIN.
Leave Columbia.".no a. m
11 Alston.U.10 a. in.
' Kewberry.11.15 a.m.
' Cnkcsbury.S.OO p. in.
" Helton ...".5.00 p. m.
Arrive Anderson.Coo j>. in.
" at Greenville.C.:>0 p. ni.
DOWN TRAIN.
LeaveGrecnvillo.C.15 a.m.
" Anderson.fi.-l3a.rn.
1 Hol ion.S.O-I a. in.
* Cukcsbury.l".u; a. m.
" Abbeville. $.13 a. m.
1 Kewberry. 1.50 \>. in.
" Alston..... 1.0.1 jt. in.
Arrive Columbia.ii."> j?. in.
M. T. RAKTUiTT. General t icket Agent.
March 0,1S71 3?
131 (M Manufactory
AT PENDl.ISTOX, S. C.
ALL orders for TINWARE from country mer?
chants and village stores promptly filled at
low cash prices. Old lia vessels, lamps, guns,
pistols, sewing machines, etc.. repaired. Rags,
beeswax, Tallow, &c., taken in exchange.
Any one wishing anything in (lie above line
will do well to give mc an early call. PAR?
LOR and COOKING STOVES always on hand.
GEO. D. BARR,
Pcndlelon, S. C.
Feh IG, 1871 33
J. C. C. FEATHERSTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WILL practice in the Courts of Anderson, Abbe?
ville and surrounding Counties, and in
the United States Courts.
Office?No. S Granite Row, up stairs, over
Watson & Bro's. Store, Anderson C. H.
Jan 5, 1871 'J7
86*" OLD NEWSPAPE5S for calc at this OfSce
by the Hundred or Thousasi
Juu. 1, 1871 .}
1S71. SPRING TRADE. 1871.
CROQUET.
Complete sets from $3 to $20 per set;
BASE BALLS.
All the different kinds at reduced prices.
FISHING- TACKLE.
Of every description.
TRAVELING BAGS.
For ladies and gentlemen.
FOREIGN FANCY GOOD*,
GUNS AND PISTOLS OF
ALL KINDS and PRICES.
AMMUNITION,
SPORTSMEN'S GOODS,
Goods shipped to any part of the country per
express. The same care'ul attention given to or?
ders by mail as to personal purchases. Prices
for our goods based on gold at par.
POULTISEY, TRIMBLE & CO.,
200 VV. Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE, hd*
April 6, 1871 _40_If
i3iportant notice
TO
CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS.
All Retail Orders amounting to $20 and
Over Delivered in any Part of the
Country
Free ot Exr rc-^s CliarrgGSd
HAMILTON EASTER & SONS,
OF BALTIMORE, MD.,
In order the- better to meet the wants of their Retail Cus?
tomers at a distance, have established a
SAMPLE BUREAU,
and will, upon application, j>ro?p//y tend by mail full line*
of Samples "t" the Newest and most Fashionable Goods, of
FRENCH, ENGLISH and DOMESTIC MANUFACTURE,
guaranteeing at all times t<> .-fit at lote, if not at test priest,
than any bouse in tin: country.
Haying our goods from the largest and most celebrated
manufacturers in the different jarts of Europe, and taw
porting the same by Steamers direct to llaliimore, our
DtockiV at all times promptly supplied with the noveltle*
of the London and Paris markets.
As we buy ami sell only v>r rush, and make no bad debit/
we are able and willing to sell our goods at kkom Ten to
FlFTKKN I'kk cent. Lkss Pkokit than if we gave credit.
In sending ./V samples specify tlic hind of goods desired.
We keep the i?'-t grades of every class of 50003, from the
lowest t i Iho noist costly.
Orders umiceomiMtntt it l>i the cash will be cnt C. 0. D.
PROMPT-FAYING WHOLESALE liUYERS are IbtF1
ted to inspect the Stock in our Joulring and Pttdttajr. De-r
partmcnt. Address
HAMILTON EASTER Jc SONS,
197, 109, 201 and 203 West Halt huore Street,
Baltimore, Md.
Oct 27,1S70 IS ly
WAVERLY HOUSE,
Anderson, S. C.
JOHN A. MATES, Proprietor.
npHE WAVERLY HOUSE has been repaired arid
fitted up, and has no^v a magnificent ap
pcaiancc. Mr Maycs is lately of Abbeville, and
is well known as a good Hotel keeper. The Home
has been newly famished, and has all the modern
improvements and comforts, and will give the best
the country affords in way of fare, which will be
served up in the best of style
Stop ami see us, and you will be well treated.
March 23, 1871 38
II. H. SCUDDAY, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
ANDERSON C. H., S. C, '
RESPECTFULLY tenders his sendees to Iii?
citizens of Anderson Village and v/eiffiiy.
With an experience of sixteen years in all forms
of disease peculiar to this climate, he hopes to
meet the expectations of all patients committed
to his care.
Special attention given to Obsterics, and dis?
eases of women and children.
When not professionally engaged, he can usu?
ally he seen at the Drug Store of Messrs. Simp?
son, Hill & Co., or at the residence formerly oc?
cupied by J. 13. Sloan, deceased.
March 23, 1871 38 6m
M. COLUSMITII. P. KIND.
GOLDSMITH & KIND,
FOUNDERS & MACHINISTS,
(PlICEXIX IRON WOUKS,)
colij3iu i a, s. c,
MANUFACTURERS of Steam Engines, of all
sizes : Horse. Powers, Circular and Muley
Saw Mills, Flour Mills, Grist and Sugar Cane
Mills. Ornamental House and Store Fronts, Cast
Iren Railings of every sor', including graveyards,
residence?, kc. Agricultural Implements, Brass
and Iron Castings of all kinds made to order on
short notice, and on the most, reasonable terra?.
Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses, &c
May 18, 1871 46 It
HENRY BISCHOFF & CO.,
Wholesale Grocers,
AND DEALERS IX
WINES, LIQUORS,
CIGARS, TOBACCO, &C.>
No. 19? East Bay,
IT. BT.'CIIOFF,)
Vu^A] Charleston, S. C,
Fob 23, 1871 34 6m
MCQUEEN & SIECKE,
WHOLESALE
Produce & Provision Dealers,
Have constantly on hand and receiving, Ba?
con, Dry Salted Meats, Pork, Lard,
Flour, Sugar, Molasses. Sc., kc.
Purchasers are requested to examine their stock %M
21 and 23 VENDUE RANGE,
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA,.
Fob 23, 1S71 34 Cm>
WM. HENRY TRESCOT. W. W. HOtrURETS.
TItESCOT & UIjIPUREYS,
Attorneys at Law,.
~WJ~ILL practice in the Courts of the Eighth
Circuit, nud in the Uuited States Court
Office in Uvoyles' building, opposite the Hensea
llutisc. Anderson t' !!
l'cb'J, 1S7J 32