The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-29
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

MIR. Talmage lately prayed for all
who read his sermons. He is not entire
ly without feeling for the aflicted.-Ne,o
Orleans Republican.
- IT don't know much, about Mr..
Wheeler" said Governor Hayes, and
probably Mr.. Wheeler can say with equal
truthfulness, "I don't know much about
Governor Hayes"
The eldest daughter of General
Robert G. Schenck, United States Minis
ter to England, is to be married in Ohio
next September to an English gentleman
whom she met in London.
The Congaree is slowly getting back
into its banks. Tile river fell several feet
yesterday. Many bridges in the up
country must have been washed away, as
several of them have foated down the
river, past Neagle's Bridge.
The Connecticut House of Repre-
sentatives has passed, by vote of LOS
yeas to 70 nays, bill favorably reported
from the female suffrage committee, ex-
tending the ballot to women in certain
cases.
Neagle's famous bridge is in no
danger as yet, and its owner remarks that
he has no fears for its safety from the at
tacks of its natural enemy, as it is weighed
down with mortgages enough to hold it
in the face of second deluge.
- Indiana Grand Lodge of Masons
has reinstated the clause in its regula-
tions against Masons using or selling
spirituous liquors, and has forbidden SUBJ
ordinate lodges to receive into member
ship those addicted to their use.
= Aiken expects to be represented at
the Centennial exhibition by mocking-
birds singing by note-taught by Profess
sor Brown, Of that town. The birds have
already mastered the bars of yankee
Doodle" and "Star Spangled Banner"
The New Orleans Picayune records
that Gov. Hayes was born in Vermont,
fought very well during the war, was
made Brigadier General, and in that
capacity was whipped and captured by
the Confederate General Harry T..
Hays.
The Catawba river is said to be
booming the adjacent bottom lands
are several feet under water. 1t was high
er than it was ever known to be before.
A mill house, intact, was seen floating
down the stream early Monday morning,
but was completely wrecked when it
struck the shoals at Landsford.
= a correspondent of the Wilmington
Journal who has visited Marion, Darling
ton, Sumter, Richland, York and Fair
field Counties, reports that the crops in
all these counties were very fine, and al
though much rain has fallen during the
past week, it is thought that the crops
were notinjured.
"A colored man in Sumter pro-
nounced the late execution of Aleck
Lowry one of the "fnest hangings that
ever took place in Sumter County," On
being asked for his reasons, the citizen
replied, "Why, sir, he give out two
psalms, raised de tunes hisself, preached
his own funal, and wasunt scared g bit"
- A book agent who has retired from
active labor, upon the hard-earned accu-
mutation of a life of industrious cheek,
says that the great secret of his success
was, when he went to a house where the
female head of the family presented her.
self, he always opened by saying, 81 beg
your pardon, Miss, but it was your moth
er 1 wanted to see. That always used to
get 'em. They not only subscribed for
my books themselves, but told me where
/ could find more customers"
"A Brooklyn girl having been visited
for some months by an exceedingly bash
full gentleman brought on the wished-for
climax by the following ruse: He made
an afternoon call, and, after few min
utes waiting, she rushed into the parlor
equipped for the street, and said hastily
'1 am in great hurry-have an engage
ment with a lady friend, and if you came
for the purpose of proposing marriage
you must be quick about it." Wedding
early in the fall.
= Saturday terrible cyclone origina-
ted near Pee Dee Bridge, in Marion
County and passed by the bridge and on
north of that place with great force. At
the railroad bridge it tore up the plat
form planks, which are two inches thick
and spiked down and stove them through
the framing of the bridge. The support
ing posts were twisted off like pipe stems,
and whirled through the air. MIR. Sess-
ions and two negroes grabbed the railroad
iron, but were about to be blown away,
and rolled down the embankment and
seized the body of a tree for mainstay
Several houses were blown down in the
vicinity of the bridge, and two or three
negroes crippled, and one killed.