10 Apr 1879
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1879
Page
1
Fragmented OCR text references advertising contracts, legal notices, and advertising authority. Mentions Dolob for advertising and Coop Leas, with unclear names and dates. Contains garbled phrases about contracts, religious terms, and potential street names, offering little coherent event.
In a lengthy session the House weighs extending the Blade and Mathies patents linked to the McKay sewing machine. Proponents argue continued royalties fund innovation and factory jobs, while critics claim the extension creates a monopoly burdening shoe makers and the public. The discussion cites cost, production gains, and the machines’ impact on wages and prices.
The Charleston and Washington dispatches quote Mr. Davis discussing the Civil War and the postwar South. He argues abolition aided whites, predicts greater southern self-sufficiency, and contends the negro vote will gain political power. He notes dangers from extremists and urges calm and qualified leadership.
A Circuit Court ruling discusses a challenge to a 1873 attempted exemption expansion for personal property from execution. The opinion analyzes constitutional limits on legislative power to create exemptions, home stead protections, and the scope of articles enabling such exemptions, debating whether the later act contravenes the Constitution and if the agricultural laborer exemption remains valid.
Supreme Court Justice Field writes that taxation is a legislative and implied municipal duty to pay debts from bonds issued by cities. The City of New Orleans must levy taxes to satisfy judgments against it for the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern railway line. Writs of mandamus directed authorities to levy taxes to cover public obligations. Also includes a lengthy anecdote comparing judgments and duties with a fable about an African chief and a treasure dowry, and brief modern asides on art and perfumes.
A thrifty New York woman discovers her idle husband can carve at dinner parties. She hires him out for a fixed fee, keeps the money, and sues to recover the seven dollars paid for his work. The court rules the wife entitled to the earnings, establishing that a husband can be kept for hire.
Advertising notice from RGAE outlines paid advertising access by advertisers and editors. It details submission rules including manuscript handling and no return of unaccepted manuscripts. The text references communications, costs, and editorial processes in a damaged OCR fragment from an old Carolina area notice.
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