The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, August 31, 1871, Image 4
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Senf the Little Ones Happy to Bed*
Send the little ones happy to bed,
"When, closes the troublesome day
Let no harsh invective be said.
To ruffle their mind while they pray.
Sore trials and troubles so soon
The sweet sleep of childhood will ban;
And let them lie joyfully down
And cherish bright dreams while they can,
Send the little ones happy to bed,
Though they may be mischievous and wild;
Nature seldom bestows a wise head
v ? Oil a rosy-cheeked, light-hearted child.
Then let their glad spirits have play,
And brighter and stronger they'll grow,
Liko a stream that runs free on its way,
And suffers no check in its flow.
Send the little ones happy to bed,
' You know not what ill may be near?
Ere the morning your pets may be dead
Then vain the regret or the tear.
So let them lie down- with delight,
And fail not to give or to take
A kiss when they prattle "good-night,"
And kiss in che morn when they wake.
An Exhausted Husband.
The following bit of cbarming unsophistica
tion, purporting to have been written by a
young wife in New York to her prime and
spectacled maiden aunt in Boston, will be read
with carious interest by the more enlightened
reader:?
My Dear Aunt.?Although you told me,
when I invited you to my wedding, that I was
too young to marry, and not capable of choos?
ing a mate for life properly, and with due con?
sideration, I know that you may now feel that
I was wiser than you thought. In selecting
dear Orlando I have gained a most affectionate
and attentive husband, and one who has neith?
er a fault nor a vice. Heavens! What must
a girl suffer who finds herself united to a dissi?
pated person, neglectful to her, and disposed
to seek the society of unworthy persons, who
drink, smoke, and do all sorts of dreadful
things!
Thank Heaven, Orlando is perfection I
To-day is mj eighteenth, birthday, and we
have been married- a year. We keep house now,
and I can make pretty good pie, only the under
crust will be damp. However, I think that
must be in the oveu. Once I put peppermint
is the pudding instead of lemon flavoring; but
then Orlando was trying to kiss me, right be?
fore the girl, who didn't much like either of us
going into the kitchen at all.
The flowers are coming up beautfully in the
back garden. We sowed a great many seed,
but hardly expected bo many plants. Among
the most numerous is one variety with a very
large leaf, that scratches one's fingers, and don't
smell nice. I wonder what it is. Orlando
frightens me by talking about weeds; but weeds
always come up, don't they ?
?Dear Orlando I I come back to him again?
so excellent, temperate, and true. Tell all the
Sirls to marry as soon as they can, if they can
nd a hnsbaud like mine.
I have but one trial?business takes him so
much from me. A lawyer must attend to busi?
ness, you know; and sometimes they carry on
the case until two at uigut. Ofteu and often
be has examined witnesses until half-past
twelve, and comes home perfectly exhausted.
And the nasty things will smoke, so that his
dear coat quite smells of it. And as it makes
him as ill as it does me, I have to air it, and
sprinkle the lining with cologne water before
he dares to put it on again.
I bad a terrible fright the other night?dread?
ful. Orlando had told me I hat business?I
think be said it was a case of life and death
would detain him late. So I sat up as usual,
with a book, and did not worry until one
o'clock. After that I was a little anxious, I
confess, and caught a cold in my head peeping
through the up-stairs window blinds ; for, dear
aunt, it was not until three o'clock that I heard
a cab driving up the street and saw it stop at
our door: then I thought I should faint, for I
was sure some dreadful accideut bad happened
to Orlando.
I ran down to open the door; a friend of Or?
lando's who is not I confess very much to my
taste?such a red faced, noisy man?was just
supporting my dear boy up the steps.
"Oh, what has happened ?" cried I.
"Don't be frightened, Mm. White!" said Mr.
Smith. "Nothing at all; only White is a little
exhausted. Application to business will ex?
haust a man, and I thought I would bring him
borne."
"All right Belle," said Orlando, "Smith tells
the truth?Fm exhausted."
And, dearest aunt, he was so much so that he
spoke quite thick, and couldn't stand up with
oat tottering. Mr. Smith was kind enough to
help' him op-stairs; and he lay upon the bed
so prostrated: that I thought he was going to
die. Then I remembered the French brandy
you gave me in case of sickness. I ran to get
it out
"Have a little brandy and water, dear?" I
? said.
"The very thing. Smith" is exhausted, too.
Give some to Smith," said he.
And so I reproach myself for not having
thought of it before Mr. Smith was gone. But
I gave a glass to Orlaudo, and, under Provi?
dence, I think it saved his life ; for, oh, how
bad he was 1
"Belle," said he, quite faltering in his speech,
uthe room is going round so fast that I can't
catch your eye. And besides there's two of
you, and I don't know which is which."
I knew these were dreadful svmptoms.
"Take a drink, dear." said L "and I'll try to
wake Mary, and send her for tue doctor."
"No," said he, "I'll be all right in the morn?
ing. I'm all right now. Here's your health.
You're a brick. I-" And over he fell,
fast asleep.
Oh, why do men think so much of money
making? Is not health better than anything
?it*.
Of course he had laid down in his hat, I took
that off first. And I managed to divest him of
his coat. But when it came to bis boots?dear?
est aunt did you ever take off a gentleman's
boots ? probably not, as you are a single lady j
?what a task 1 How do they ever get on 1 11
pulled and pulled, and shook and wriggled, and
gave it up. But it would not do to leave them
cm all night;; so-1 went at it again, and at hist
one came off so suddenly,, ana over I went on
the floor, and into his hat, which I had put
down there for a minute. I could have cried.
And the other came off in the same way, just
as hard and just as sudden at last Then I put
a soft blanket over Orlando, and sat in my sew?
ing chair all night Oh, how heavily he
breathed! And I had, as you may fancy, the
most dreadful fears. He might have killed
himself by his over-application to business, for
all that I knew. The perfect ones go first, it is
said.
Oh, how differently should I have felt had
anything happened to my beloved Orlando.
He has not had so exhausting a day since, and I
think he sees the folly of overwork; though if |
courts will keep, open so late, what can poor
lawyers do? I think it is very inconsiderate
of the judge. I wonder w.hethec he-hu? a wife
?the mean old thing I
? "I once dreamed," said; Patv "that I called
upon the President, and he axed me wud I
drink. I tottld him I didn't care if I tok a
drop of punch. 'Could or hot ?' axed the Pres?
ident 'Hot, yer excellency,' said I; and he
stepped dpwn in the kitchen for some bilin'
water; and before he got back, I woke strate i
; and now its distressin' mc that I didn't
t*h*> it ?*?/</." I
Stick to one Thing.
"Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel," is
the language of the Bible. Whoever expects
to succeed in any undertaking, must enter into
it with a hearty and earnest will to do his best.
When a trade or profession is chosen, obstacles,
be they large or small, must not be allowed to
stand in the way of mastering that trade or
profession.
However much we may deprecate the old
time custom of indenturing apprentice*,, the
system in its practical results operated almost
always for the lasting good of the apprentice.
Generally it insured to him a good trade and a
wholesome discipline that fitted him for success
in business.
At the present time, very many young men
undertake to acquire a trade, and after a brief
time abandon it, because there are unpleasant
duties to be performed and obstacles to be over?
come. They consider themselves accountable
to no one and go and come at the bidding of
caprice, or an unsettled, uneasy mind. The
result of this is to send out into the world
young men who have not ? half learned their
trades, of unstable character, who drift from
pillar to post, and who succeed in nothing, but
strolling along the highways of life melancholy
wrecks.
We would earnestly entreat every young man,
after be has chosen his vocation, to stick to it;
don't leave it because bard blows are to be
struck or disagreeable work performed. The
men who have worked their way up to wealth
and usefulness do not belong to the shiftless
and unstable class, but may be reckoned among
those who took off their coats, roiled up their
sleeves, conquered their prejudices against la?
bor, and manfully bore the heat and burden of
the day.
Whether upon the old, worn-out farm where
our fathers toiled, diligently striving to bring
back the soil to productiveness; in the machine
shop or factory, or in the thousand other busi?
ness places that invite honest toil and skill, let
the motto ever be: Perseverance and industry.
The baby training of the nursery was good in
its place, but won't answer all the demands of
an active life.
This is not a baby world. We must expect
to be jostled and knocked about in stern con?
flict, and get run over, if we are not on the
lookout and be prepared to meet the duties of
life with a purpose not to shirk them, but to
fulfill them.
A young man with a good trade or honorable
profession, as he goes forth into the world with
his mind made up to stick to his trade or pro?
fession is not obliged to ask for many favors.
He will hew his way to success, while the un?
stable and shiftless will grow tired, despair and
fail.
The Teller Dog.
From the Josh Billings Papers.
Dogs hav infested this world just about az
long az man haz, and will hang around it az
long az thare iz enny grizzle left on a bone.
We hav no reliable ackount ov the fust dog,
and probably shant hav ov the final one.
If Adam kept a tarrier, or Eve a poodle, the
laps of ages hav washed away the fakt.
If Noah had a pair ov each breed ov dogs on
board ov hiz vessell, and only one pair ov fleas,
he waz well out for dogs, and poor out for fleas.
But history iz dumb on this subjekt.
The yeller dog has no pedigree, the blood in
hiz veins iz az crude az petroleum, when it fust
comes pumping out of the earth, bitter thick
and fiery.
He iz long, and lazily put together, hiz ears
flop when he shackB along the dusty thorough?
fare, and hiz tale iz a burden.
Thare iz no animashun in a yeller dog's tail,
it is useless, the flies ain't even afraid ov it, it
iz wuss than a 10 per cent, mortgage tew the
rest ov hiz body.
Whi the yeller dog ain't born diskounted iz a
mistery tew me, but when i ask miself "Whare
would yu hitch the tin pan tew," then at once
the folly ov a bob-tailed yeller dog flashed on
mi mind.
Ever since this kontinent was found bi Chris?
topher Columbus, in 1492, and for what i kno,
much time previous tew that, the yeller dog haz
been a vagrant, traveling bi moon lite, and
hungry bi natur.
Wharc he comes from nobody seems to kno,
and if you speak a kind word tew him, he
thinks it a kite in disguise, and straddling hiz
tail with both hind legs, he goes suspicious, and
sidewavs, on hiz lonesum journey.
.Mankind have made him a vagabond, and
life tu him iz made up ovstarvashun, and brik
bats.
If he cums out ov hiz lurking place in the
hot ov August, he is a mad dog, and the Com-1
mon Council at once assemble, the riot act iz
read, 50 dollars reward, is offered, men cum pan?
ting into town crieing "mad dog," thare two
horse wagon was bit that morning bi a yeller
dog, the tury rages, old guns are kleancd up,
the cannon iz run out on the village green,
dames talk to dames ov the awful even-, men
look sober and defiant, boys pocket the: i mar?
bles in the midst of the game, pigs run squeal*
ing tew their hovels, and the whole body poli?
tic surges with horror.
The poor innocent whelp haz done hiz worst,
and while a whole village iz in extacys ov hy
dropobia, he has passed on, and may be seen
tugging away, in the suburbs, at the shin bone
ov a departed omnibus boss.
? The New York Sun says the sickness of
the President's colt about whose sore tail the
whole office-holding world was so greatly exer?
cised, was due, we learn, to the circumscribed
quarters devoted to the Presidential stable. To
guard against such mi?fortune jn future, Grant
is erecting a new palatial structure adjoining
the State Department, on Seventeenth street,
for the royal stud. This edifice is to be 60 by
80 feet, and three stories high. It is to be built
of pressed brick, with brown stone trimmings,
while the interior will be of hard wood, oiled
and finished in imperial style. The basement
floor is destined for the Presidential dairy stock,
the first floor for fifteen horses and equipages to
match, and the upper stories for provender and
residences for the liveried servants. The cost
of this imposing stable will be del rayed, not
from the Presidential privy purse, but from the
appropriation for the erection of the new State
Department.
? If the female who flirts and plays the co?
quette, could realize the detriment to her repu?
tation which is sure to follow upon her thought?
less levity, there would be les* cause for, and
less, actual repentance among the fair sex, than
one meets with at this time, in everyday life!
Could every lovely woman feel and believe how
differently the sensible of the opposite sex en?
joy the society and smile of the sound minded,
well informed female, as compared with the sil?
ly, giddy, heartless "belle" or the day, how dif?
ferent woaJd be the deportment of"thousands
in society who. are now reared only for display
and coquetry.
? The following appears as a leading edi?
torial in the Cleavland Herald: "We wiBh to
! give a simple remedy for chill and wish to. em?
phasize it by saying that it has to our certain
knowledge proved very efficacious. It is com?
mon salt. A teaspoonfull taken in water, and
a teasnoonfull deposited inside each stocking
next the foot just as the chill is coming on.
That's all there is of it; but, knowing that it
has been very efficacious in breaking up the
chill and perfecting a cure, we put it in our
editorial columns, where no humbug remedy
shall find a place, if wc know it."
? Here is a conundrum propounded by one
of the leading lady fashion writers, of New
York, Mn\ Croly: "What is the use of women
trying to disguise themselves by bustles and
busts and hips and calves that are hung at ev?
ery shop window; that are patent to every
man ana boy who walks the streets as to wo?
men themselves; that teach everybody a lesson
of distrust of his own mother before he has
learned to.have confidence in her?" We give
if up.
English Railroad Cars.
The editor of the Addison Advertiser thus
describes the railroad cars in England. He
says:
We took our seat, entering the side of the
car, and then we began to inspect the vehicle
in which we had been placed. It consisted of
a box, (this is all we can call it) about five feet
wide and seven feet long, in which were crow?
ded six persons. As we sat there we could not
help but compare such accommodations with
the magnificent and commodious accommoda?
tions for railroad travel furnished by the much
abused managers of the Erie Railway, and
then a longing came over us for the land of our
adoption?America?and the scenes we had
left behind. This railway passes throughsomc
of the finest counties in England, and the pas?
senger may well imagine himself as being waf?
ted through a garden the entire distance?
about 205 miles. This train made but three
stops, landing us in London a little after 2
o'clock, running a portion of the distance at
the rate of 70 miles an hour. We have made
up our minds that English know nothing about
comforts in railway traveling, while the Amer?
icans know nothing about rapidity upon the
rail, for no first-class train goes at a less rate of
speed than 60 miles per hour. The cars here
are about 16 feet long, and 7 feet wide, with
three apartments, each apartment seating 6 or
8 persons. Every railway official *br person in
in any way connected with the railway, is
dressed up in a liveried suit. At each station
yon have to show your ticket before taking a
seat in the car, and when you leave it, before
you can get out of the enclosure, you deliver
your ticket to a man at the gate, and then you
are allowed to pass out. The system ol tele?
graphing the departure of a train from one
station for the next, is very simple. The rail?
way signal wire is on little stakes by the
I side of the railway, which are about two
I feet above the ground; the many wires on high
poles, as in America, belong to the Government
and are not used by the railway company. At
I each station is erected a building about 12 feet
I square, called a signal station, and it is to this
I that notice is given that the train has left the
I next station and is on its way to that. As soon
I as the signal-man receives such information he
opens a door to his cage and rings a bell, to
I give the passengers notice that the train is
I coming. At points where the road has branches
I leading in other directions the same signal
I houses are erected with the addition of switch
I levers, so that if a train is on the main track
I running at full speed, it can be switched off in
I an entirely different direction without slacking
J the speed a particle. It seems singular to be
I riding along in a railway car at the rate of 60
j miles an hour up above the chimneys of the
I tallest houses. At Clapham Junction there are
I eight hundred trains leave daily. At London
I Bridge and Charing Cross there are about fifty
I different railway tracks, and it puzzles even the
j "oldest inhabitant" to know whether he is or
I he is not right. There are no such persons as
I conductors; but each train is accompanied by
I two guards, one on each end of the car. The
j habits and customs of the people are much dif
I ferent from that of America. Here every per
I son either riding or walking takes the left, bo
I also with the railway trains.
The Gauge of Railroads.
J The gauge of most of the United States
I roads is on the American Standard of four feet
I and eight and a half inches. The Railroad
Gazette, of Chicago, one of the best authorities,
I compiles some facts, showing that there are
about 41,000 miles of "standard," or four feet
eight and a half inch gauge in the country, and
J only 2,059 miles of the six feet guage,. The
standard gauge is used on all the roads center?
ing in Chicago, and all the main trunk lines
(with their branches) passing across the conti
j nent east and west, excepting the Erie and the
I Atlantic and Great Western, the Albany and
j Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Lacka
wanua, both of which are operated by the Erie,"
have the six feet guagc also; but the prospects
are that all these will reduce their gauge to the
I standard width before many years. There are
j also causes at work to induce a reduction on
the Lackawanua and the Delaware and Sus
I quchanna.
The change of the Great Western of Canada,
J from a broad to a narrow gauge, was efTected
j by degrees ; that is a third rail was laid down
I to accommodate the cars of other lines, while
I the rolling stock of the Great Western itself
I was kept at the broad standaid. Lately, how?
ever, the outside rail has been taken up alto
I gether, and the rolling stock of the company
] and gauge of its branch roads been altered to
I the medium standard.
I At the South, however, there is still a gen
I eral adherence to what may be denominated
I the Southern standard, viz, five feet the gauge
I of a majority of the roads, except some in the
I Southwest, which are five feet six inches. Al
I ready the standard of Northern gauge has pen?
etrated well into the Southern States and con
I ati- *fes the gauge of the following Virginia
I railroads: Richmond and Petersburg, 46 miles;
j Petersburg Railroad (Petersburg to Weldon),
82 miles; Seaboard and Roanoke (Norfolk to
Weldon), 80 miles; Wilmington and Weldon,
181 miles; the Raleigh and Gascon 97 miles;
I Atlantic and North Carolina (West by north to
I Goldsboro), 95 miles, and the North Carolina
Railroad (Goldsboro to Charlotte), 223 miles;
j in fact all the roads of any consequence in the
j State, except the Atlantic, Mississippi and
j Ohio, running from Norfolk westward.
The St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad
I of Missouri has the five foot gauge, and to that
I have several connecting lines in Arkansas, and
one (the Cairo and Fulton, partly built) in Il?
linois has been built to conform. The new
roads in Missouri and Arkansas, however, have
generally the standard gauge, and one impor?
tant Missouri railroad (the Missouri Pacific)
has been altered through all its 283 miles of
the track to conform to the national standard.
As to the extreme narrow gauge?by which
we designate the tracks of three feet, or less,
which are being laid on the Colorado and Rio
Grande, and one or two less extensive lines this
side of there?it is not likely to interfere seri?
ously with any of the trunk lines or other
roads whose economy is identified with a first
class service. It will be found very useful in
mountainous districts, where the curves and
grades are sharp, and where the business is
mostly in freight.
? The four seasons?mustard, salt, pepper
and vinegar.
? Happiness can be made quite as well out
of cheap materials as of dea r ones.
? What is the difference between a hungry
man aud a glutton ? One longs to eat, and the
other eats too long.
An Illinois agricultural society offers a
premium to the couple who will bring to the
lair grounds the largest number of children,
grand children and great ditto.
? A Brooklyn mother advised her daughter
to oil her hair, and fainted flat away when that
candid damsel replied, "Oh, no, ma; it spoils
the geutlemen's vests."
? No one should attempt to do more than
one thing at a time. When you have finished
slandering your neighbors, go and say your
prayers, but don't attempt to do both at once.
? A minister asked a tipsy fellow leaning
up against a fence where he expected to go to
1 when he died. "If I can't get along any better
than I do now," he- said, "I shan't go any
where."
J ? It has been decided by medical authori?
ties that "if a man has a good appetite, sleeps
well,.and feels buoyant in spirits after his meals,
he should let his health alone, whether he is as
big as a hogshead or as thin as a fence rail."
? During a fine star-light evening lately a
three-year-old philosopher, after a silent and
aud apparently profound scrutiny of the heav?
ens, asked his mother,, abruptly, were the stars
came from. Mamma replied: "I don't know,
Willie; I don't know where the stars came
from." Well, you bet I do. The vwon laid
'em J
Hovr to Save Manure at Home.
Mum. Editors Banner of the South and
Planters' Journal?There is no work that pays
me so well as making manure on my own plan?
tation, as I make it a business, and attend to it
as well as I do to chopping out my cotton, and
am at it all the time, and it pays me well. See?
ing the Dickson Fertilizer company of Augus?
ta have offered premiums equal to a thousand
dollars in cash, for upland crops made on home
made manure, it may be some young farmer
will care to know a good plan for saving and
using all the elements of manure that go to
waste on his own land, and I will give my plan,
with the remark that he will do well to follow
it till he finds a plan that is better. Home?
made manure is the best of all kinds, and the
average cost of it need not be over one dollar
per ton, ten tons being more than equal to one
ton of the best guano sold. I do consider,
however, the Dickson Company has done well
to put a premium to encourage this branch of
economy on the plantations, for the more one
makes at home, the more he finds, he needs,
and will buy. Nine-tenths of our people don't
know what rich land will do, and when they
find it out all sorts of manures will be proper?
ly appreciated. But to my plan.
I have an old mule and dump cart, and hire
an old darkey every year, whose only labor is
to haul manure and stuff to make it. I never
stop him to send to town for the mail, nor to
chop cotton, nor to pick cotton even. Every
day that old man hauls with his mule, and if
ever I have a spare hand from the crop I send
him to help in the same business. Leaves an
pine straw to fill my stalls and put under my
cow sheds, and the same mixed with rich dirt
from the woods to cover all my lot a foot or two
deep; sweepings from the yard, garbage from
the garden and droppings from stock outside
the lot and in the highways to put on the com?
post heap ; now and then a barrel of lime or
plaster from town to use in composting. All
these the cart gathers in from day to day. My
stables are cleaned out and littered as often as
the stalls get a little foul, and all the cleanings
go under the manure shed to rot "down thor?
oughly, and now and then a peck of plaster
thrown over it to save the ammonia. Or, if
the manure shed is full, then I haul to a con?
venient spot in the field where it is to be
used, and there make into a neat heap and
cover well with earth. If it is very damp and
strong, some dry earth mixed in with the pile
occasionally prevents evaporation and fire
fanging.
My noree lot or barn-yard is cleaned out but
once a year, the litter being put in gradually,
so each layer becomes well tramped. All my
cattle and hogs are turned in here every night,
and occasionally a little corn thrown to the
hogs on the litter, to set them to rooting and
turning it over, which makes it all the better.
In winter I can usually haul as much as 200 to
300 cart loads from this lot alone; but in doing
this all my teams and hands help, as it is the
biggest job of the kind in the year. Any time
after corn is gathered I begin to haul out and
bank up manure in the field in convenient piles
and cover over with dirt.
My compost heap is made altogether from
about the house and garden and wood pile.
All the rotted chips, cinders, ashes, yard swteep
ings and garbage go on this pile, with some?
times a little lime to decompose it thoroughly,
and strong soapsuds from the wash pot poured
on. This makes the finest and richest of all
mat*ure heaps; and while it costs least of all,
being built up almost entirely by house ser?
vants in cleaning about the yard and garden,
it will often prove equal to one-third its weight
in Peruvian Guano.
The hog pen, when I am fattening my hogs,
is a source of the best of all manures. My old
carter throws in a load of litter every day or
two, filling the pen a foot deep by the time the
hogs are killed, and I find this the,most dura?
ble in its effects of all the manures I have ever
used.
I do not know how many tons of all sorts of
manure I get every year. I think with all my
hauling back and forth, I get three cart loads
'on an average every day available for use,
counting, of course, all the help I put on the
hauling in the winter aud spring. This would
give nine hundred cart loads, equal certainly
to three hundred tons, and worth, at my calcu?
lation, $1,508 at least. And all this is, as I
may safely say, the yield from one man and
liis cart, with only such help as I can throw in
conveniently. I use my manure liberally as I
go, sometimes putting two hundred cart loads
to an acre, often one nundred, and when once
such a liberal dressing is plowed in, that land
will be rich for several years and works easy,
and does not suffer from drought so readily.
I consider the increased yield in one year,
from the manure saved the year previous, pays
liberally the cost of saving and applying it,
and leaves me the increased yield every subse?
quent year as net profits, equal to 75 per cen?
tum.
I find also, that on land well improved with
my home-made manure, a very small applica?
tion subsequently of commercial manures
makes a more wonderful yield than a thousand
pounds would do on land that has not had my
home composts on it. The richer my lands arc
with home-made manure, the better it pays me
to use guano on the same land.
Mr. Editor, I have had such success in the
practice of my plan that I want to see every
plantation doing the same way, or a better way.
The secret of my success is, that I make ma?
nure saving a special business, and never put it
aside to do anything else. On my farm, in the
fence corners, and in the woods and branch
bottoms, are millions of bushels of corn and
wheat, now in shape of dead leaves, rich dirt,
&c. I am saving it daily and converting it
into manure. It pays well. The same is true
on every plantation in Georgia. Let us not
ignore the fertility that lies at our door, and
reach out to buy to a ruinous extent abroad.
Yours truly,
Old Man.
? A Virginia editor, in noticing the state?
ment that tight-lacing saves the country S2,
000,000 annually in board alone, says it is a
villainous and habitual lie. He knows a girl
who laces so tight that his arm will go round
her and lap over clear to the elbow; and one
wouldn't think, to look at her, that she could
eat anything but soup, but she's got an appe?
tite like a cross-cut saw, and she mows a swath
at a table like a self-raking reaper.
? Why are young ladies so partial to sun?
set and twilight? Because they are daughters
of Eve.
? Greeley advises young men not to pur?
chase farms that abound in cold springs, be?
cause a cold spring is apt to ruin the crops.
The Temperance Advocate.
-o
ENLABGED, HIPBOVED AND ISSUED WEEKLY.
SHOULD BE IN EVEBY FAMILY. 1,600
SUBSCBIBEBS WANTED.
TWO DOLLARS PEE ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
-o
THE cause of Temperance has advanced so
rapidly in South Carolina, that it has be?
come necessary that there should be a live, ac
tivo and zealous oxponont of its principles.
We have, therefore, determined to publish the
ADVOCATE weekly, and to enlargo and im?
prove it in every respect. Whilst it will be do
votcd to total abstinence, it will, nevertheless,,
be made acceptable toevery fireside. The-read?
ing matter will bo of tho purest and most se?
lect character. Arrangements have been made
to get the most prominent temperance men in
the State to- make contributions to its columns.
It will also havo correspondents in every nor
tioo.of the State, who will keep our readers
fully informed as to tho progress of tho cause?
we have put the price of the Aovocate so
low that it way be in the roach of aLL
Only a limited and select nusmber of adver?
tisements, will be received.
To AoknuSv?A discount of ten percent, will I
be allowed on all new subscriptions. Address j
P. P. BEARD, Columbia, 8. C.
July 20, 187 1 3 I
DON'T
OVERLOOK THIS.
No Charge for Showing Goods.
npHE subscriber has just returned from New
I York, and is now receiving a large and
well-selected stock of Goods, which he is confi?
dent can
BE SOLD LOWER
Than any stock of Goods
ETEB BROUGHT TO THIS MARKET.
His st eck consists, in part, of
Calleoes, Cambrics, Lawns, Percales,
Muslins, Mozambique), Japanese Cloths,
Mohairs, Organdies, Delaines,
Alpaccas, Jaconets, Swiss, Nainsook,
Blea. & unblea. Shirting and Sheeting,
Plaid & Striped Homespuns, Bed Tickings,
And, in fact, everything else belonging
to the Dry Goods line.
I have also an unusually large and cheap stock of
Mens', Ladies, 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 and CASSIMERES.
My Gents' Furnishing Department
Is complete in everything usually kept in U> at line
Of Fancy Goods and Yankee Notions,
I have an endless variety.
All of the latest styles of?
Ladies' and Misses Hats and Bonnets,
Mens', Youths' and Boys' Hats and Caps,
Hosiery, Gloves, Collars, Cravats,
Toilet Soaps,
Ribbons, Laces, Gimps, Embroideries, &c.
GROCERIES, HARDWARE,
IRON, STEEL, HOLLOW-WARE,
SHOVELS, FORKS, SPADES, HOES,
AXES, HATCHETS, HAMMERS,
&c, &c, &c.
Be sure and examine my stock before purcha?
sing, for I am confident I can sell you goods.
A trial is all I ask.
M. LESSEE,
No. 3 Granite Row,
.Anderson C. EL, S. C.
April 6, 1871 40
SHARPE & TOWERS
Have lately be-sn receiving
Shoes and Boots, Dry Goods, &c.
Our stock in all the departments, viz:
Dry Goods, Shoes and Boots,
Hats, Clothing, Hardware,
Crockery and Glassware,
Leather, &c,
Groceries and Provisions, viz:
Bacon, Lard and Flour,
Is complete, and we are offering BARGAIN'S
to CASH BUYERS, and our old friends and
customers. We wish to reduce our stock by
the first of October. Please give us a call. We
charge nothing for showing our Goods. Our
motto is and shail be,
Quick Sales and Small Profits.
?gf Call at No. 7 Granite Row, Anderson
C. H., S. C.
SHARPE A TOWERS.
August 3, 1871 5
Greenville & ColnmMa Railroad.
Columbia, 8. C, March 1,1871.
ON and after thb date, the following Schedule will be
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 Bail road:
UP TRAIN.
Leave Columbia.7.00 a. m
" Alston.0.10 a. m.
" Newbcrry.?.11.15 a. m.
" Cokesbury.3.00 p. m.
" Belton_.- 5.00 p. m.
Arrive Anderson. 6.00 p. m.
" at GreonvUle..6.30 p. m.
DOWN TRAIN.
Leave Greenville.6.15 a.m.
Anderson-....-.-6.45 a. m.
Belton_............ 8.04 a. m.
Cokesbury.10.07 a. m.
Abbeville.-.8.15 a m.
Nowberry.- 1.50 p. m.
Alston.~.- 4.05 p. m.
Arrive Columbia_.~.? 6.55 p. uu
M. T. BARTLKTr, General Ticket Agent.
Marsh 2\ I&71 3?
SHARPE & TGWEHS,
Agents for the Brown Cotton Gin.
THESE GINS are highly recommended by
a number of men throughout the Cotton
States, and have taken more premiun s than
any other Gin during the same period. VewiH
have some of these Gins in store for exnibition
and sale in a few days. We would ask all who
are in want or a GOOD GIN to give us a calL
SHARPE & TOWERS.
July 13,1871 2
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. 8 Granite Row, up stairs, over
Watson & Bro's. Store, Anderson C. U.
Jan 6, 1871 27
Fresh Rock Lime!
JC. C. FEATHERSON has constantly on hand
a good supply of fresh ROCK LIME?
will sell by the barrel or bushel?cheaper than it
can be had from any one else. Apply to WAT?
SON & BRO., Anderson C. H.
June 1, 1871 48 3ra
Fruit Cans!
A NEW style of FRUIT CANS, made of Tin, and so ar
ft ranged that any person can seal them hermetically at
home, wiili little trouble. Price, forquart Cans, 12J-* cents
each, or per dosen. Kept constantly on hand, in
large quantities, at
6 DAWSON'S TIN SHOP,
? Depot Street.
Jim? 8, lflrti 40 an
Turnip Seed.
LANDRETH'S Early Flat Dutelh, PomeraK
niahi GJtobe, Large Norfolk, Yellow. Ruta
Baga and Seven Top> Turnip Seed, fresh and
jrenuine, for sale low by
SHARPE A TOWERS.
July 27. 1871 4
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,
common and ordinary, 6x3 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. 6 inches. 14 to IS
Head Stones, 3x1 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 160
No. 1 Heavy Paneled, with posts... 175 to 190
Lettering.3 cents a letter.
At our Shop we put up those ?250 Tomb?
at $160, and guarantee to furnish as good ma?
terial and heavier paneled work for The same.
Parties wishing Marble Work will find it to
their interest to call on us.
T. WILDMAN & CO.
May 25,1871 47
1871. SPRING TRADE. 187L
CE???ET.
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 GOODS,
GUNS AND PISTOLS OF
ALL KINDS and PRICES.
AMMUNITION,
SPORTSMEN'S GOODS.
Goods shipped to any part of the country per
express. The same careful attention given to or?
ders by mail as to personal purchases. Price*
for our goods based on gold at par.
POULTNEY, TRIMBLE & CO.,
2oO W, Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE, MD,
April 6, 1871 40 ly
IMPORTANT NOTICE
TO
CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS.
Al] Retail Orders amounting to $20 and
Over Delivered in a ny Part of the
Country
JEVee ol Express Cliarg-es.
HAMILTON EASTER & SONS,
OF BALTIMORE, MD.,
In order the better to meet the wants of their Retail Cus?
tomers at a distance, hare established a
SAMPLE BUREAU,
and will, upon application, promptly send by mrril fuIT lrhes>
of Samples of the Newest and most Fashionable Goods, of
FRENCH, ENGLISH and DOMESTIC MANUFACTURE,
guaranteeing at all times to sell as low, if not at less prices,
than any house in the country.
Buying our goods from the largest and most celebrated
manufacturers in the different parts of Europe, aud im?
porting the same by Steamers direct to Baltimore, our
stock is at all times promptly supplied with the novelties
of the London and Paris markets.
As we buy and sell only for cash, and make no bad debtrY
we are able"and willing ?o sell our goods at fkom Tes to
Fifteen Per Ckxt. Less Profit than if we gave credit.
In sending for samples specify the kind of goods desired.
We keep the best grades of every class of gootls, from the
lowest to the most costly.
Orders itnaccompanted by the cash trill be sent C. O. D.
FKOMPT-PAYING WHOLESALE BUYERS are inrl
ted to inspect the Stock in our Jobbing and Packing De?
partment. Address
HAMILTON EASTER Jb SONS,
107, KK>, 201 and 203 West Baltimore Street,
Baltimore, Md~.
Oct 2", 1S70 18 ly
WAVERLY HOUSE,
Anderson, S. C.
-*
JOHN A. MATES, Proprietor.
THE WAVERLY HOUSE has been repaired and
fitted up, and has now a magnificent ap
peatance. Mr Mayes is lately of Abbeville, and
is well known as a good Hotel keeper. The House
has been newly furnished, and has all the modem
improvements and com Torts, and will give the best
the country affords in way of fare, which will be
served up in the best of style.
Slop and see us, and you will be well treated,
March 23, 1S71 38
H. H. SCUDDAY, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
ANDERSON C. H., S. C,
RESPECTFULLY tenders his services to thr
citizens of Anderson Village and vicinity.
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 Obst erics, and dis?
eases of women and children.
When not professionally engaged, he can usu?
ally be seen at the Drug Store of Messrs. Simp?
son, Hill & Co., or at the residence formerly oc?
cupied by J. B. Sloan, deceased.
Marek 23, 1871 38 6m
m. goldsmith. p. kind?
GOLDSMITH & KIND,
F0UNDEBS & MACHINISTS,
(jrncEXix ibon woaxs,)
COLUMBIA, S. C.?
MANUFACTURERS of Steam Engines, of alt
sizes -T Horse Powers, Circula? and Muley
Saw Mills, Flour Mills, Grist and Sugar Can*
Mills, Ornamental House and Store Fronts, Cast
Iron Railings of every sort, including graveyards,
residences, Ste. Agricultural Implements, Braes
and Iron Castings of all kinds made to order od
. short notice; and on the most reasonable terms*.
Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses, &c.
May 18, 1871 46 It
[Water wheesl.
Mill Gearinf ,Shaftin|&PuHevs
.SEND FOR A ClBCULlfC^
Sept 16,IS70 12 ly
wm. nr.jiuv Tasscor.
w. w. U0XFHBBT8?
TRESC0T & HUMPHREYS,
Attorneys at Law,
WILL practice in the Courts of the Eighth
Circuit, and in the United Stales Court
Office in Broylos' building, opposite the Beasoa
House, Anderson C. H.
Fob 9, 1871 32