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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1869
Page
4
The notice states rates of one dollar per square of twelve lines for the first insertion and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Liberal deductions offered to yearly advertisers and advance payments are mentioned. A candidate is being announced with a five dollar fee indicated.
The article argues that despite political and Reconstruction troubles, the Southern states show improving prosperity through growing inland trade, farming, and immigration. It notes Grant’s stated peace, doubts universal negro suffrage, and predicts Southern resilience if capital and reform proceed without further conflict. It warns of political risk from reconstruction policies and forecasts cautious optimism for agricultural and commercial revival.
A partial Detroit Free Press fragment discusses future prosperity and influence. It warns against actions that recreate prejudice or alarm, urging restraint unless one intervenes to counter bias.
A Charleston letter from January 1869 details a nine acre cotton crop with rich fertilization and careful cultivation. The field averaged 2,030 pounds per acre seed cotton across a surveyed plot of 867-100 acres yielding 9,652 pounds. One area produced as high as 4,000 pounds per acre, while poorer land barely reached one bag per acre. The writer notes varied soil, rough terrain, and old fruit trees as factors, praising land quality, deep plowing, pure fertilizers, and steady cultivation.
A row of wry observations and quick quips run through a lively street scene. A three year old questions if God made a drunk man as a neighbor reflects, a sportsman jokes about coveys and cues, and others pivot on punchlines about debt, cred, and hats.
STAVING offers two phosphate based fertilizers to Southern planters. Eriwan No 1 Soluble Phosphate at fifty dollars per ton and Eriwan No 2 Peruvian Superphosphate at seventy dollars per ton. Discounts of ten percent for cash, payment on acceptance. Agents WM. C. BER & CO with C. G. Mewmiseen as president. January 28, 1869.
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