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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1877
Page
1
Rates of subscription and advertising are outlined for newspaper readers. Subscriptions cost two dollars for six months, with discounts for longer terms. Advertising charges include one dollar per square inch for first insertion and extra charges for subsequent insertions. Notices for deaths or marriages are excluded from certain classifications.
A long, mixed narrative fragment recounts Governor Chamberlain of South Carolina calling for discontinuing a political struggle and condemning the President's actions amid Federal intervention. It includes references to Hayes, Reconstruction era tensions, and Southern political distress as a backdrop for the governor's stance. The document also contains letters and brief anecdotes from other regional figures and a short moral anecdote.
Judge Mackey of the Chester Circuit in South Carolina recounts remarkable cases from his semi statutory court. He describes a tragic tale of a husband murderer and a courtroom verdict where a boy killed his mother’s abuser to avenge past wrongs, delivered with rigid legal form.
The London Court Circular extols the Aylesbury dairy firm supplying 6 000 families with milk daily and operating Swindon and Bourton factories with vast capacity to meet London demand. The piece contrasts bustling modern dairy commerce with Pennsylvania funeral feast customs where feasts for 300 to 600 guests are common, noting the shift away from such lavish rites. It also mentions a Connecticut girl ending a courtship after sixty dollars worth of gifts and a quack doctor boasting painless cures.
A Columbia letter notes the federal occupation in the South Carolina Governor's offices, contrasts Hampton and Chamberlain administrations, and details tax collection, salaries, and court actions. It adds extended observations on Indian death songs, Chinese society, and civic guidance columns.
A damaged OCR passage mentions notices and rates for inserts, with unclear references to money and locations. It notes directives for authors to use their real names and addresses, and references postage stamps and response obligations. The fragmentary text lacks coherent facts or identifiable entities.
An old Tennessee tale recounts three Patterson brothers murdered in 1794 while hunting land near Panther Springs. A hidden fortune, said to be $20,000 to $50,000 in Mexican coins, lay buried in Grindstone Hollow cave. Recent snow enabled John Lambert to locate a cavern mouth, descend about 100 feet, and discover gold spread on a rock under a decayed Mexican saddle blanket with six stirrups nearby. Witnesses report a human skeleton near the cache and a long history of failed treasure hunts lasting a century.
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