The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-05-20

People in the vicinity of Wayerly Hall,
Harris County, Ga, are preparing for the next
cyclone by digging pits in the earth. Some
nineteen or twenty holes in the ground are
ready for use in the next tornado. This is the
neighborhood where four or five cyclones visit
ed during sixty days time.
-"Col. Fred. Grant," says Washington
correspondent, "has become one Of our youth
full landed proprietors He has ordered the
erection of block of houses in the city, and
expects to make Washington his home after he
leaves the army in the coming autumn" Not
many soldiers could have made their fortunes
so quick.
- James Maloney and James W. Hayward,
who were indicted for personating revenue off,
GERS, have been found guilty in the United
States District Court. These men are notori-
GUS characters in Newberry and Laurens, and
are meeting with just punishment for their mis-
deeds. 1t is truly bad year for thieves and
scoundrels generally.
- The Harrisburg Patriot says: Grant has
thrown away all chance of getting third term
Endorsement in Pennsylvania Taking another
member of his cabinet from New York, and
sighting the State which was carried for him
by most expensive and elaborate fraud in
1872, is a measure of ingratitude which the
profoundest loyalty cannot overlook.
A new cotton factory is to be built at
Greenville at once, with a capitol stock ot
S250,0OO. Sampson, Hall & Co., are the prin-
cipal parties, and the capital will be chiefly
from Boston. This firm has already in success.
full operation cotton factory in the town OF
Greenyille, which yields large profits, and
which encourages them to make further in.
vestments.
- Ez-Treasurer J. P F. Camp, Of Spartan.
burg, has been arrested on q charge of failure
to turn over certain funds collected by him to
his successor in Office. He could not give the
required bail of ten thousand dollars, and was
committed to Jail. 1t is stated that one of his
bondsmen manipulated the funds of the Treas
urers office, and that Camp is only suffering
the penalty of being made the tool of shrewdel
man.
- An important surgical operation was per.
formed upon Gen. John G. Breckenridge, at hi:
home in Lexington, KY, on Tuesday, by DR.
Gross, of Philadelphia and DR.. Sayre, of New
York. His chest was penetrated by tubes in
serted between his ribs and some relief was af
forded. The physicians are of the opinion tina
the Generals liver was injured by blow re-
ceived during the war from fragment of shell
and that his present suffering is due entirely tt
that cause. The physicians entertain hopes
that the operation will prove Of permanent ad
vantange to the patient.
- Col. James B. McCreary, the Democratic
nominee for Governor of Kentucky, is thus de-
scribed by the Louisville Courier Journal
"He is a young man of irreproachable private
character, whose experience of public life has
been had in our State Legislature, over the low
er house Of which he has presided during two
sessions. He was an officer in the Confederate
service, and is nephew of the Hon. Thomas
G. McCreary, one of our United States Senators
A gentleman of excellent understanding ano
intelligence, thoroughly informed as to our do
mestic situation, MIR. McCreary cannot fail te
make us good Governor. There is also lib
eral possibility Of development in him, and, on
the whole, his nomination will give general sat-
isfaction."