29 Apr 1896
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1896
Page
1
The dealer claims sales have more than doubled this year and Easter trade surpassed expectations. He emphasizes fair dealing, good goods, superb fits, low prices, and a money back guarantee. Readily available suits priced from five to twenty dollars plus straw hats and men’s furnishings.
Sarge Plunkett laments shrinking birds in Georgia and advocates a five year prohibition on hunting. He recalls abundant wildlife, warns of dwindling songbirds, and recalls politics, liberty poles, and Know Nothing episodes as part of a reflective, candid column.
A South Carolina analysis of the United States Department of Agriculture cotton report shows SC totals for September 1895 to February 1896 at 698 965 bales, with SC leading in mill purchases at 220 078 bales. Georgia, North Carolina, Mississippi and Texas follow with smaller totals. The piece notes SC’s strong performance despite national low business mood and compares 1854-95 and 1895-96 periods, highlighting SC’s dominant purchasing and growing manufacturing activity.
The article details Miss Brelin Leal, an Englishwoman described as the cleverest marriage swindler of modern times. Over three years she faked engagements with many men, extracting jewelry and gifts, then disappearing and repeating the scheme with new victims. She is currently housed and funded by the French state for eighteen months after magistrate guidance.
The Rev EB Bomar at the Baptist Church presented a forceful sermon against lynching drawn from Exodus and Romans. He argued lynching is never justifiable, lists five reasons including legal harm, danger, folly, lawlessness, and murder, and urges adherence to justice and state law.
Dr John A Wyeth, an Alabama born surgeon and admirer of Forrest, writes that he is drafting a history of Nathan Bedford Forrest. He has circulated skeleton sheets to officers for notes, praising Forrest's bold tactics and relentless pursuit, while noting the cavalry leader’s varied units and enduring legacy among veterans.
A Baltimore Sun piece extols how early achievement marks many leaders across politics and war. It cites Washington and Clay as young leaders, notes Napoleon and Alexander the Great as prodigies, and references Grant Columbus and Pitt among others as rising figures before age 40.
Captain John A. Duble recalls a Mississippi river tale of a cotton broker Weed who, after a lucrative trip to Cairo, boarded his steamboat with a locked crate. Weed claimed it held crisp greenbacks but by downstream his fortune vanished, leaving him as cheerful as ever about the loss.
In Amauta Georgia April 7 a crowd of Baptists demands Diaz release. The Cuban evangelist, American citizen and former revolutionary figure, was imprisoned by Weyler. Southern Baptist Convention official Tichy nov urges funds to defend Diaz and support his family as Baptists press for U.S. State Department intervention.
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