The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-02-11

- The fastest railroad time ever made in
America was by train which carried party
of officials from Rochester to Syracuse, eighty
one miles, in si1ty-one minutes.
Gen. Eaton, United States commissioner
of education, estimates the 'child population
between the ages of six and sixteen, in the
thirty-seven States and eleven Territories at
about 10, ,2S9O 900. An army of three hundred
thousand teachers is needed to educate this
host of future freemen.
Thomas Sturgeon, conductor on the
Pittsburg, Washington and Baltimore Railroad,
was instantly killed in Pittsburg the other
evening. While running ahead of his train to
turn switch his foot caught in frog, throw
ing him to the ground, and before he could ex-
tricate himself tho train struck him, instantly
killing and mangling him in terrible man
ner.
Salt Lake dispatches mention deadly
snow-slides in the Big Cottonwood canyon,
near the Richmond mine, which have de-
stroyed many lives. The bodies of six per-
sons killed by snow-slide in the Alto, have
been recovered. Many more are supposed to
have perished. Five were carried away by the
snow-slides in Big Cottonwood.
x Gen. Gordon, the best natural orator
from the Southern states, is Christian states
man, q mixture of David and Jacob. He has
very little business ability, but figures at At
lsnta as life insurance president, etc. 1t is
predicted that he will be the democratic can
candidate for vice. president, with Sam Tilden
for his coleague-the two Empire States set
together, New York and Georgia.
The Commerce (Mo.) Dispatch gives an
account of a desperate affair in Mississippi
county, in the Southeastern part of that State.
1t appears that a young man named Henson,
was suspected of robbery, and james Carr and
a posse of FIVE men were sent to arrest him.
During the, pursuit Henson shot Carr, killing
him. and the chase was abandoned. The fol-
lowing day Sheriff Twank, of Mississippi coun-
/ ". with posse, renewed the pursuit, which re-
suited in the killing of one of his posse, the
wounding of another, and the capture of Hen
son, after mortally wounding him.
"A hermit, about thirty-two years old, has
been found in dense forest on a mountain
near Wilksbarre, Pa, who will not give his
name, but says that, being South Caroliniann,
he went through the war as Confederate SOL
dier and that his father and two brothers were
killed in the same service. He has travelled
through the country for several months, but,
being unable to get employment, has retired to
the forest to live on crackers and dried beet, at
cost of fifteen cents day, rather than beg.
He expects to leave tho forest in the spring if
he lives through such "snifters" as the recent
polar wave.
- A duel recently took place in the suburbs
of San Francisco, between Paul Zecchi, an e1.
Confederate officer, and Ives, Northern man,
and resident of Georgia. The cause was that
zecchi, during the war, was Instrumental in
of ives. On the first fire Zecchi hit Ives in tho
shoulder, and the latter fired in the air. Zecchi
demanded another shot, but Ives refused.
Zecchi attempted to shoot himself, but was dis
armed by the seconds.