12 May 1887
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1887
Page
1
A May 5 draft previews a Bolton teachers association meeting with aims to report next week. It notes attendance expectations, teaching challenges from disease, and promises a fuller account of proceedings and exhibitions.
A discussion, voiced by JHK in the Southern Christian Advocate, defines the scholar as a thorough, fact based seeker of truth. It contrasts effective teaching with rote methods, urges mastery of one’s subject, and highlights libraries as essential for true research and advancing human knowledge. Collaboration between pedagogy and investigation is urged to prevent shallow schooling and promote deep understanding.
James McLyes recounts Henry Willie of St Thomas seeking his girls Alice and Mabel, taken years earlier by Lola the actress. The sisters traveled under stage names The Little Pearl and Mille Lola, with Mabel later placed in the House of Refuge and Alice eventually found by her father after Lola’s company voyage and a shipwreck. The piece also covers Washington notes on Gen Pickett’s widow and a temperance letter from McLyes defending moderation and prohibitions amid public debate.
A middled-aged man testifies at a religious meeting that his son’s devotion saved him from alcohol. After days away from home and a drunken return, the boy cried out to his mother and then to God, prompting the father’s repentance and vow to reform. The speaker credits temperance work with children for lasting impact.
May 3 report recalls Cornelius Grinwold wealthy rancher who died by suicide after a sensational old rumor involving his first wife. The tale claims she blinded him with a hatchet to enforce an oath not to remarry, then died peacefully next day. Grinwold later wed the second wife and left an estate of about $40,000.
A Galveston dispatch notes drought and scant rainfall across central and southern Texas. Datelines from Spartanburg, May 2, describe a meeting of the Interstate Farmers Summer Encampment to be held August 24-6 in Spartanburg, organized to promote agriculture and southern development with exhibits, geological surveys, and invitations to capitalists and agricultural groups.
The late Henry Ward Beecher writes in his Brooklyn Magazine piece on youth excess and its long reach into old age. He warns against immoderate passions and late hours, lauds temperance, dancing in moderation, and the discipline of body and will under divine law.
A mother’s deception about medicine and a girl’s observation of store samples illustrate how practice shapes moral character more than preaching. The boy distrusts his mother after being given bitter medicine: he feels betrayed when told it cures him. The story argues that real ethics stem from consistent action, not mere advice.
General Lilley recalls a Civil War battle near Citter's Farm in 1862 where a rattlesnake halted his injury, then a nearby soldier killed it to save him. The piece then shifts to reminiscences on motherhood, weathered homes, and praise for Southern planters as described by Mr. Lamar and echoed in memories of plantation life, slave labor, and pioneer travel in Mississippi and Walker County.
Mim Childers of Trenton faces a loud scene as a young man from a nearby village circulates damaging reports about her. She borrows a shotgun, confronts him in a store, and fires a warning at his head before insisting he admit the slander. He complies, and she departs with an admiring crowd.
Be kind to those in the autumn of life for they endure unseen suffering. Do not be harsh when they are querulous or unreasoning. Help cheerfully and remember you may need similar aid in turn. Do all that is needed for the old with willingness, for aging may one day seal your own fate.
The New York World argues that small village papers offer strong ad returns, citing Chicago Tribune and New York Herald and The New York Times rates. It notes higher city rates and questions why rural papers are underutilized, urging readers to seek broader ad exposure.
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