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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1869
Page
2
Mr B F Starter of Greenville shares a method for growing large watermelons. He digs two foot holes eighteen inches deep and twelve feet apart, fills with stable manure and forest mould mixed with road sand, adds charcoal dust and sometimes guano, then plants seeds without disturbing vines or allowing weeds. Fruits reach twenty five to forty five pounds.
A Davidson College notice invites a local reader to attend the Ugly Club and Philosophropic and Lumonean Society events on June 24. The piece laments state legislation and argues white-only institutions like Davidson will flourish while Carolina universities decline under miscegenation fears.
A newspaper note urged white voters in Anderson County to back the Democratic ticket for School Commissioner and Coroner next Tuesday 26th instant. It warned that party division could cost years to recover power and urged unity against independents and defections while stressing qualified regular nominees.
A colonial era quarrel بین publisher of the Anderson Intelligencer and Columbia Phoenix over endorsements of Governor Scorr's appointments is aired. The piece asserts improprieties in authorship and aims to “awake capital,” while noting adjustments to the Fourth of July holiday and a Supreme Court ruling on the 1861 act regarding interest on open judgments.
The regular term of Court begins Monday with Judge Onn presiding and Judge Camexron slated to replace after sessions. Maj. J. M. Adams’s residence five miles west of Pendleton burned last Friday. family escaped with little clothing. Crop reports show wet weather delaying planting. wheat looks promising, cotton damaged by cold. Notices praise Mr. Ronson of Charleston and advertises Bravpy & Co Tipware and cooking stoves. Advertisements promote lager beer by Mr. John C. Scheens of Columbia and W. D. Love’s new stock in the Columbia Hotel. A picnic at Williamston is announced with speakers and a band. Warrens & Baton advertise drugs and sundries but send a box to the Intelligencer instead. Reader letters discuss reviving the South Carolina Agricultural Society and the role of life members. The Washington Intelligencer’s racial remarks are noted, with commentary on Loyal Leagues and Black political subordination.
A Washington correspondent argues the Grant cabinet shows nonuniform policy and hints at a broad reorganization. The piece cites appointments as driven by personal connections rather than institutional practice and notes disputes over finance, Cuba policy, and foreign ties, with criticism of Sumner and Wilson influenced selections.
A compilation of items notes appoints and contracts from 1870 era. Sickles to Spain is ministerial, 200 Lutheran ministers meet Grant, Air Line Railroad link Atlanta Gainesville planned, Virginia election July 6 proclaimed. Charleston Savannah rail link by January, river steamers by October. Frog Level rail survey toward Leesville. Episcopal convention adjourned to Abbeville in May. Admiral Tucker arrives in Petersburg. Grand Jury indictments for perjury in Richmond. Mrs Pettigrew King reinstated as postal money system clerk in Washington. Edgar P Williams of Yorkville patents a quick churn. A Tennessee mother of twenty three children cited. Moros moving south from Danville. tobacco factories follow. Boone centennial celebration planned for June 7. Greenville docket clears at term with lenient judgements.
By order of Judge Bryan I will sell at Anderson Court House on a June day the property of Thomas J. Pickens including a piano two pistols a gold watch two mules an old buggy four horse wagon one horse wagon a shotgun a note on Willis Robertson for 100 and a note on T W Harris for 59 as part of the matter of the bankruptcy case Mapkrupt.
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