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

bers. IIe was chased by the pages in ell
directions, but escaped by hiding undcr
the seats of one or the delegations. His
bravery IN facing so many Methodist
preachers was awarded by general admi-
ration.-Aadntd Constitution.
= The Abbeyille Medium says that the
City authorities OF Greenville locked Col.
Edward s.. Stokes UP in the guard house
last week because he was making a
speech from the Court House steps. fit
.is crime for man TO speak IN the
mountain city, 1t will soon be considered
good place to get away from instead of
good place at which to live.
= The Survivors Association of the
old Sixth Regiment has tender ed an in
vitation to Major e. G. McLure, Of Dal-
Las, Texas, to deliver the oretion before
the Association at its annC:i meeting in
Charleston OH tho first Thursday in
August next. 1t Is hoped that Major
McLure will accept, and rousing well
come will be given him hy his old friends
and comrades.
= A merchant IN Charleston, who had
rheumatism in one leg, was advised to
carry an Irish potato In each brooches
pocket. lie did 30, 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 az
black as coal, while the othor was still
of it's 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 q letter from Honest
John Sherman relative to the proper
method OF holding elections dow,;. 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, 1t was such document as a sharp
politician might write" Sharpness and
rascality mean about the same thing in
John Sherman's dictionary.
A party of immigrants from Ham,
burg 10 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 have been
hung at Abbeville on Friday, the Ilth
inst, received a 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 entiro ignor-
ance of its perpetrators. When the re-
prieve was read to him, with eyes lifted
to heaven end 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 ds can be. don't
know nothing about it. God bless all
the people. God bless everybody, white
| ard 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 gooc au-
thority that some twenty districts have
| De ,n selected for the tread of the soldier
for campaign purposes in the next elec.
ton, of which there are three in N!issis-
sippi, two in Louisiana, two in South
Carolina, and the others in other States
Gen. Banks asked the speaker for his
authority, and Mr. Ellis replied: ~ will
not tell the gentleman now, but he will
hear shortly, and when he does hear he
| will think an earthquake hes broken
around his ears"
Peter Fair, Of Orangeburg, o 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 dsck," 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 Tho three who escaped have
beeu caught and reEnanded 70 iinprison-
ment. Here Is moral.
= A recent dispatch to the Cincinnati
Commercial, Radical sheet of great in
fuence, gives an insight into the plans
for the coming campaigns, upon which
tHose desperate men are bent. IL says:
1.-THE Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee intend TO make o thur
ough canvass of ten or fifteen districts CT
the Southern States which are undoubted-
ly Republican, bHt have been for the last
fow gears allowed to go by Default
Northern men OF prominence will be
sent into these districts to speak, and
money will bo used to bring out votes
and to employ men to wa n the polls to
prevent hallot box stuffing and the count
ing out process" ri,
- During the late war some Of Gov.
Hampton's men captured o field glass
from Gen. Custer, OF the United States
Army, and presented it to the Governor,
who was then their General. Last win
ter while Senator Christiancy was ip
South Carolina as member of the Sem
ate Investigating Committee, he called
on the Governor, and during the CONVEX
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 aha wonld prize I. lcshh,;-