The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-05-30

August next. 1t ! hoped that Major
Mcclure will accept, and q rousing well
come will be given him by his old friends
and comrades.
A merchant in Charleston, who had
rheumatism in one leg, was advised to
carry an Irish potato in each breeches
pocket. He did SO, though having no
faith in the remedy. In short while he
was well. Taking the potatoes out of his
pockets he found the one in the pocket
next to the afflicted limb had shriveled
up to half IT'S former size and was as
black as coal, while the other was still
of its natural size and color.
- The legal adviser of Mr.. James An
derson, late supervisor of elections in
East Feliciana, Louisiana, admits that
his principal has letter from Honest
John Sherman relative to the proper
method of holding elections down there,
"the purport of which might not be in
accordance with good morals" but that
"under the rule that all is fair in poll
tics, it was such document as q sharp
politician might write" Sharpness and
rascality mean about the same thing in
John Sherman's dictionary.
"A party of immigrants from Ham,
burg to New York were swindled out of
$1,000 in gold by receiving counterfeit
greenbacks therefor, from pretended
hotel keeper and immigrant agent in
New York. They purchased twenty
tickets for Nebraska with part of the
money, and The counterfeit was so good
that the ticket agent did not detect it
until they were gone. The party was
stopped at Pittsburg, Pa, in consequence
of the discovery. The perpetrator of the
swindle has not been found.
JEFF David, who was to hav. been
hung at Abbeville on Friday, the llth
inst, received reprieve until the 14th
of June after he was on the gallows, and
after the farewell prayer had been made.
He protested throughout innocence of
the franklin murder and entire ignor-
ance of its perpetrators. When the re-
prieve was read to him, with eyes lifted
to heaven and streaming with tears, he
said: "Thank God for that. Thank God
I've got to stay here little while longer.
I'm just as innocent as I can be. T don't
know nothing about it. God bless all
the people. God bless everybody, white
and black"
In the debate in the House on the
bill to reduce the number of the army
last week, Mr.. Ellis, of Louisiana, said
that he had been informed on good au-
thority that some twenty districts have
been selected for the tread of the soldier
for campaign purposes in the next elec-
ton, of which there are three in Missis-
sippi, two in Louisiana, two in South
Carolina, and che others in other States.
Gen. Banks asked the speaker for his
authority, and Mr.. Ellis replied: II will
not tell the gentleman now, but he will
hear shortly, and when he does hear he
will think an earthquake has broken
around his ears"
Peter Fair, of Orangeburg, convict
in the penitentiary under sentence of ten
years imprisonment, four years of which
time had expired, was at work on the
capitol grounds last week, when his three
companions overpowered the guard and
made their escape. Peter, like "the boy
that stood on the burning deck" refused
to go when the others fed. The Cover
nor, hearing Of his conduct, sent for
Peter few days after, when he told
Peter in recognition of good conduct and
of his good example, he would be re-
leased. The three who escaped have
been caught and remanded to imprison-
ment. Here is moral.
"A recent dispatch to the Cincinnati
Commercial, Radical sheet of great in
fiuence, gives an insight into the plans
for the coming campaigns, upon which
these desperate men are bent. 1t says:
"The Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee intend to make thor
ough canvass of ten or fifteen districts of
the Southern States which are undoubted-
ly Republican, but have been for the last
few years allowed to go by default
Northern men Of prominence will be
sent into these districts to speak, and
money will be used to bring out votes
and to employ men to watch the polls to
prevent ballot box stuffing and the count
ing out process"
- During the late war some of Gov.
Hampton's men captured field glass
from Gen. Custer, of tho United States
Army, and presented 1t to the Governor,
who was then their General. Last win
ter while Senator Christiancy was in
South Carolina as a member of the Sen-
ate Investigating Committee, he called
on the Governor, and during the conyer-
sation the massacre of Custer and his
men was spoken of, and Gov. Hampton
told him of the incident about the glass,
and asked if Mrs. Custer would like it,
to which, after being communicated with,
she replied that she would prize it doubly
because it had been the property of two
brave men. Gov. Hampton has accord
ingly forwarded the relic to her.
- The Charleston Ne,rs and Courier says
that Mr.. Louis Dunnenann, the Chair
man of the Board of County Commits
sioners, while in an Clubhouse on his
premises, at the corner of Line and King
streets, on Thursday, was stung by either
a snake or virulent spider, and was
yesterday considered by his physician to
be in very critical condition. Upon
first feeling the sting Mr.. Dunnemann
proceeded rapidly to his residence, but,
before he could reach his room, he fell in
an insensible state, and began immedi-
ately to swell to an alarming degree.
DR.. c. L. Meyer was called in, and by
prompt and vigorous antidotes succeed
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