The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-09-18
NeWs Summary.

ING, fell and was killed, in Cincinnati, while
attempting to escape from the Police
Court room by means of the lightning
rod.
Hobbs, the man who gained such exten-
sive notoriety by picking locks at the
Great Exhibition in London in 1851, has
disposed of his establishment in that city
and is to return to Boston this fall
General Cass has recently presented a
methodist society Of Detroit, Michigan,
three lots of land, on which they will erect
church this season. The land is said to
"be worth $4,000.
a letter from Henderson, Texas, gives a
list of the sufferers by the recent fire there,
making clear loss Of upwards of 100000
over insurance.
One hundred and twenty bottles of
strychnine were found in possession of the
slaves.
1t is estimated that the reception Of His
Royal Highness, the Prince Of Wales, will
cost the Provincial Government OF the
Canadas no less sum than S1,OO0,OOO,
independent Of the vast amounts spent by
the different towns.
We notice, by our Northern exchanges,
that VIM. Gilmore Simms, Esq, our well
known novelist and poet, is ruralizing
near Yonkers, on the Hudson river.
The Rome (Ga.) Courier says that Hon.
David W. Lewis Of Hancock county, will
deliver the annual address before the Cass
County Agricultural Society, at the fair
grounds, on Monday, September 26th, at
eleven o'clock, A: N.
While Cooks circus was performing in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, last Mon
day, Mr.. Armstrong, in jumping over an
other man on horseback, fell to the ground
and broke his arm, which snapped like q
pipo-stem, and was heard by all the SYM
pathizing spectators.
The St, Louis (do.) Democrat says that
the potato crop has been unusually pro-
life and fine in quality in that vicinity:
and that some firms are sending off vast
quantities daily, not only to the parts OF
that State which have suffered from
drought, but to Kansas, New Mexico and
even to Utah.
The geological examination of Texas,
which is now going on, has revealed the
existence, in great abundance in that
State, of the finest clay, suitable for the
manufacture of Queens ware.
AS Gen. Pierce was riding in buggy,
on Thursday, at Concord, New Hamp-
shire, his horse took fright at load OF
barrels and turned around a corner,
throwing him out. He was stunned for
few moments, and slightly bruised in
the face, though not seriously.
James Faison was instantly killed in
Wake county, N. Co. on the lst instant,
by falling on steam saw which he was
tending.
The Montgomery Mall of the 4th, learns
that thirty-three negroes, belonging to
Mrs. Chambliss, whose plantation is a
mile or two from the city, left the field
yesterday where they We're at work, and
made for the wood. This is very unu-
sual season for negroes to run away. 1t
is, doubtless, the doings Of some vile Alb
clifton emissary.
A Lincoln pole was recently set up at
Martinsville, Ohio, and the flag to adorn
twas presented by thirty-three young
ladies. Sixteen of them were dressed in
white, sixteen in black The thirty
third was dressed in deep scarlet, with a
red liberty cap, to represent bleeding
Kansas" They all marched round the
pole in double file, black and white arm
in arm. The ''red one" followed on be-
hind, alone and weeping.
1t is said that thirty men have been
killed or wounded for life by thrashing
machines in Indiana during the present
season.
A man in the western part Of Pennsyl
vania last week, foOling with a rattle
snake, was bitten by the reptile, and, in
spite of copious doses Of whislley, died in
q few hours.
On Monday last, says the vergennes
(vt.) Citizen, the heavens were filled with
millions of grasshoppers, and those which
flew highest looked like thistle blows.